Agreed. It's not advertising's fault, it's not anybody's fault. There is nothing for which there is fault to be assigned. "The number of women coders today" is as irrelevant to actual scientific data as saying there is something wrong with my fork-full of spaghetti because of the lack of meat-balls in this bite when there will be plenty of meat-balls in the next bite. Don't decry an unbalanced demographic based on "right now" because "right now" will be different tomorrow.
No profession is going to have equal numbers of men, women, and an even mix of ethnicities. How many men go into careers as aestheticians?
Here's the STFU statistic: In 2007, "Women accounted for 51% of persons employed in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations." http://www.dol.gov/wb/factshee...
So why aren't there more women coders? The greatest likelihood is that it's just not the current trend. There is no conspiracy to keep women out of software. What are you going to do? Start telling girls that they HAVE to go into software dev just because there aren't enough women in the field? It isn't as if it's the highest paying field out there. Are we sure there is even a problem here? I can say with confidence, being in the field, that if more women choose CS and IT in college then there will be more women working in CS and IT. It's an organic situation that will change in 10-20 years naturally, and I do know it's going to change naturally. I recently gave a career day presentation on jobs in CS - it was mostly girls who showed interest. Just be patient, after they get through school, we'll be talking about men having trouble holding their own in IT.
"I wanna be the CEO of some company that sells stuff I know nothing about," said no kid ever. If you work in IT, chances are you're just money-making livestock for some CEO who couldn't do your job is the fate of the world depended on it. This is an upside-down economy, and I wonder how long it can possibly last.
A British pound is the unit of force with which the upper class "pound" the working classes to submit to voting for the same lackeys time and time again. A US pound is very similar but may also relate to the amount of pressure exerted on one's hind quarters whilst consuming a triple big mac with a large fry and 42 oz fountain drink that contains enough sugar to give a hippo diabetes.
The big question is: what will stop your cable-providing-ISP from capping bandwidth when you stream HBO?
To get around that, they need to go the BBC iPlayer route and allow time-bombed downloads. Of course you can dis-arm the 'feature' by simply renaming the file.
Last year, NZ abolished patents for basic software, bringing it in line with Britain and Europe by acknowledging that 20th-century patent law is ridiculous when applied to software. What will it take for the USA to join in? Is the US gov't too far gone (pwned by corps) to even consider it?
Honestly, where do they find these numbers? I don't now a single couple who spent more than $10,000 on their wedding, and I'm a musician who performs at weddings. Most people in this country earn less than $60k/year. I can't imagine "The average" being more than half what the average household income is. If that's really true, then we deserve economic collapse.
My own wedding: about $5,000 split evenly between the bride's & groom's families - and that was at a big church, out of state, with a big cake, big gown, 6 rented kilts for groom's men, 200+ guests, and Disney honeymoon. People are ridiculous.
Why do we care about "at least one security researcher," when MOST security researchers (i.e. many many more than one) show actual data on how picking phrases, e.g. three random words, is as good as password protection can be?
My experience is that Gmail has better spam filters than any other email service I've ever used.
The OP probably subscribes to everything and uses "Sign-in with Google" on blog sites and then wonders why he get's so much junk email.
I'm of the opinion the Windows min spec is not modest enough. An operating system *Should* have a very modest minimum system spec. This gives software more opportunity to take advantage of that which is left available by the OS... because LINUX!
While true, this is pretty useless complaining. I think I heard some baristas having this same conversation last week at Starbucks. So how's that screenplay coming along?
A moral hacker would not have done this. Yes, that person is a total jerk. However, a moral business would have taken security more seriously. Your bank is responsible for your money, and it's a crime to leave the vault open and unattended. Having bad security practices is no different.
Not everything can be had from Google or Amazon. For doing academic research three things are absolutely required of a library: JSTOR, ILLiad/OCLC, and somebody who can help people use them. I regularly use ILLiad at my public library to borrow books from Universities and bigger libs in other states (sometimes other countries!). Libraries that participate in ILLiad can boast of having the largest collection in the world.
For library operations, look into overhead-cutting software like Evergreen.
If magnet and charter schools were used as proving grounds for all the new educational techniques (that are FAAAR better than standard ideas) in such a way as to shift the 'traditional' (code word for Obsolete) schools to the new pedagogy, then everyone would see the benefits. At present, the existing public schools are shooting themselves in the feet by providing these alternative schools, and then not fixing anything at the regular schools.
Fact: If you have a kid in public school in the city, the first thing you realise is how bad the public schools are in the cities. At ours, the alternatives are enthusiastically encouraged by the same administrators who run the obsolete schools.
I could see how games like CoD, Wolfenstien, Doom, Diablo, even side quests in D&D-style games like WoW and DDO could be generated by an AI. Go back through gaming history, though, and you'll find titles with stories SOOOO far out there that it's amazing that even a human though of it: Ultima 5,6,7,& 7 part 2, Starflight, some of the Sierra titles - specifically, Kings Quest III & IV, the Space Quest and Hero's Quest in which sarcasm and style plays an important role in the story-telling. I think an AI will have trouble with style and sarcasm. Baldur's Gate could have had an AI helping with side quests, but the main story-arc and back-story would be a stretch for AI.
Religion describes the framework of how people and worship deity and interact with each other. Worship is any act that proclaims or recognises the worth of something.
You can almost literally call it religion.
What if somebody were to develop an FOSS operating system that's free to download, will be supported for indefinite years to come and runs most XP software or equivalent applications? That'd be great!
Oh, yeah, that's Linux.
Linux professionals are far too professional to put up with the kind of rudeness that is all too common in the kernel community. Linuz and friends, clean up the act or get booted aside by your own minions.
Q: With over 100 contractors building the web site, of those thousands of people what is the likelihood that at least one individual (if not the contracting company) wants, for whatever reason they heard on Fox News, for the Affordable Care Act to fail?
A: Pretty damn likely.
"Traditional libraries are not the future. The dead tree archives will here after be a curiosity."
I don't think there is evidence for this; it assumes nothing catastrophic could happen to the internet. I like ePubs as much as anyone, but it's an unstable medium; is possible that books published only as ebooks will be unreadable in 50 years due to data corruption and changes in popular file formats. Furthermore, there is currently no storage medium that is expected to be reliable after a few decades. Physical books and film are the longest-term archival mediums we have.
Finally - Libraries are the best places to meet smart girls. Your argument is invalid.
An economy based on people having jobs is doomed to collapse for two reason: 1- People keep replacing themselves with more children than their parents had. 2- Only a finite number of workers are needed to produce enough to match demand, and that number is shrinking.
This jobs-based first world economy must be replaced by something that isn't dependent on everyone working for someone else to prove that they deserve more than basic human needs.
"on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need"—and we're just distributing it wrong, and "we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff."
http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/douglas-rushkoff-why-do-we-want-jobs-anyway
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Most Christians are embarrassed to be associated with these people.
So writing a mystery novel qualifies one as an expert on biology and genetics?
Agreed. It's not advertising's fault, it's not anybody's fault. There is nothing for which there is fault to be assigned. "The number of women coders today" is as irrelevant to actual scientific data as saying there is something wrong with my fork-full of spaghetti because of the lack of meat-balls in this bite when there will be plenty of meat-balls in the next bite. Don't decry an unbalanced demographic based on "right now" because "right now" will be different tomorrow. No profession is going to have equal numbers of men, women, and an even mix of ethnicities. How many men go into careers as aestheticians? Here's the STFU statistic: In 2007, "Women accounted for 51% of persons employed in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations." http://www.dol.gov/wb/factshee... So why aren't there more women coders? The greatest likelihood is that it's just not the current trend. There is no conspiracy to keep women out of software. What are you going to do? Start telling girls that they HAVE to go into software dev just because there aren't enough women in the field? It isn't as if it's the highest paying field out there. Are we sure there is even a problem here? I can say with confidence, being in the field, that if more women choose CS and IT in college then there will be more women working in CS and IT. It's an organic situation that will change in 10-20 years naturally, and I do know it's going to change naturally. I recently gave a career day presentation on jobs in CS - it was mostly girls who showed interest. Just be patient, after they get through school, we'll be talking about men having trouble holding their own in IT.
"I wanna be the CEO of some company that sells stuff I know nothing about," said no kid ever. If you work in IT, chances are you're just money-making livestock for some CEO who couldn't do your job is the fate of the world depended on it. This is an upside-down economy, and I wonder how long it can possibly last.
A British pound is the unit of force with which the upper class "pound" the working classes to submit to voting for the same lackeys time and time again. A US pound is very similar but may also relate to the amount of pressure exerted on one's hind quarters whilst consuming a triple big mac with a large fry and 42 oz fountain drink that contains enough sugar to give a hippo diabetes.
The big question is: what will stop your cable-providing-ISP from capping bandwidth when you stream HBO? To get around that, they need to go the BBC iPlayer route and allow time-bombed downloads. Of course you can dis-arm the 'feature' by simply renaming the file.
Last year, NZ abolished patents for basic software, bringing it in line with Britain and Europe by acknowledging that 20th-century patent law is ridiculous when applied to software. What will it take for the USA to join in? Is the US gov't too far gone (pwned by corps) to even consider it?
... I heard they plan to blow it up. That usually works in 'Murica.
Honestly, where do they find these numbers? I don't now a single couple who spent more than $10,000 on their wedding, and I'm a musician who performs at weddings. Most people in this country earn less than $60k/year. I can't imagine "The average" being more than half what the average household income is. If that's really true, then we deserve economic collapse. My own wedding: about $5,000 split evenly between the bride's & groom's families - and that was at a big church, out of state, with a big cake, big gown, 6 rented kilts for groom's men, 200+ guests, and Disney honeymoon. People are ridiculous.
Why do we care about "at least one security researcher," when MOST security researchers (i.e. many many more than one) show actual data on how picking phrases, e.g. three random words, is as good as password protection can be?
My experience is that Gmail has better spam filters than any other email service I've ever used. The OP probably subscribes to everything and uses "Sign-in with Google" on blog sites and then wonders why he get's so much junk email.
I'm of the opinion the Windows min spec is not modest enough. An operating system *Should* have a very modest minimum system spec. This gives software more opportunity to take advantage of that which is left available by the OS... because LINUX!
While true, this is pretty useless complaining. I think I heard some baristas having this same conversation last week at Starbucks. So how's that screenplay coming along?
A moral hacker would not have done this. Yes, that person is a total jerk. However, a moral business would have taken security more seriously. Your bank is responsible for your money, and it's a crime to leave the vault open and unattended. Having bad security practices is no different.
Not everything can be had from Google or Amazon. For doing academic research three things are absolutely required of a library: JSTOR, ILLiad/OCLC, and somebody who can help people use them. I regularly use ILLiad at my public library to borrow books from Universities and bigger libs in other states (sometimes other countries!). Libraries that participate in ILLiad can boast of having the largest collection in the world. For library operations, look into overhead-cutting software like Evergreen.
If magnet and charter schools were used as proving grounds for all the new educational techniques (that are FAAAR better than standard ideas) in such a way as to shift the 'traditional' (code word for Obsolete) schools to the new pedagogy, then everyone would see the benefits. At present, the existing public schools are shooting themselves in the feet by providing these alternative schools, and then not fixing anything at the regular schools. Fact: If you have a kid in public school in the city, the first thing you realise is how bad the public schools are in the cities. At ours, the alternatives are enthusiastically encouraged by the same administrators who run the obsolete schools.
Same price, but from a source that doesn't screw up the planet. Still a win.
I could see how games like CoD, Wolfenstien, Doom, Diablo, even side quests in D&D-style games like WoW and DDO could be generated by an AI. Go back through gaming history, though, and you'll find titles with stories SOOOO far out there that it's amazing that even a human though of it: Ultima 5,6,7,& 7 part 2, Starflight, some of the Sierra titles - specifically, Kings Quest III & IV, the Space Quest and Hero's Quest in which sarcasm and style plays an important role in the story-telling. I think an AI will have trouble with style and sarcasm. Baldur's Gate could have had an AI helping with side quests, but the main story-arc and back-story would be a stretch for AI.
But... Linux!
Religion describes the framework of how people and worship deity and interact with each other. Worship is any act that proclaims or recognises the worth of something. You can almost literally call it religion.
What if somebody were to develop an FOSS operating system that's free to download, will be supported for indefinite years to come and runs most XP software or equivalent applications? That'd be great! Oh, yeah, that's Linux.
Linux professionals are far too professional to put up with the kind of rudeness that is all too common in the kernel community. Linuz and friends, clean up the act or get booted aside by your own minions.
Q: With over 100 contractors building the web site, of those thousands of people what is the likelihood that at least one individual (if not the contracting company) wants, for whatever reason they heard on Fox News, for the Affordable Care Act to fail? A: Pretty damn likely.
"Traditional libraries are not the future. The dead tree archives will here after be a curiosity." I don't think there is evidence for this; it assumes nothing catastrophic could happen to the internet. I like ePubs as much as anyone, but it's an unstable medium; is possible that books published only as ebooks will be unreadable in 50 years due to data corruption and changes in popular file formats. Furthermore, there is currently no storage medium that is expected to be reliable after a few decades. Physical books and film are the longest-term archival mediums we have. Finally - Libraries are the best places to meet smart girls. Your argument is invalid.
An economy based on people having jobs is doomed to collapse for two reason: 1- People keep replacing themselves with more children than their parents had. 2- Only a finite number of workers are needed to produce enough to match demand, and that number is shrinking. This jobs-based first world economy must be replaced by something that isn't dependent on everyone working for someone else to prove that they deserve more than basic human needs. "on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need"—and we're just distributing it wrong, and "we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff." http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/douglas-rushkoff-why-do-we-want-jobs-anyway