Asian and middle eastern cultures value engineering and think of it as a prestigious career; black and Hispanic cultures simply do not.
A more likely explanation is that they have teachers who think exactly like you do, and that is why black and hispanic children are treated differently. Sometimes it's conscious decisions adults around them make, sometimes it's subconscious, but if they are thinking like you, it's pretty evident that they will be treated differently than their asian, middle eastern and white peers.
This problem is pretty complex. It's not as simple as "Johnny didn't get a CS degree" you have to go back further and find out if Johnny was ever put on a path where he could have received a CS degree. Sure he may have attended the same elementary, Jr. High and High School as some children who did eventually get CS degrees, but even within the same school their paths may have been laid out differently due to expectations by the adults they came into contact with. Perhaps Johnny was exceptionally tall, and he was encouraged to spend all of his time playing basketball rather than study math. Every year that went by the possibility that Johnny could successfully enter a math intensive program like a CS program in college became more unlikely, even if it would have been something he'd have done well at had he received the same preparation as the kids who were encouraged to study math rather than perfecting throwing balls into a net.
Combat Apple Pay? To what end? Either you have an Android phone or an Apple phone. They aren't competition for each other, in fact, they can help each other out by increasing the userbase to a point where NFC payments are demanded by consumers at all locations.
P.S. those who talk about speed being an issue, if you've ever used Apple Pay it is by far the fastest payment method (about 3-5 seconds tops.)
So, I looked up the author of this particular book, and it appears she lives in San Francisco, and used to work for Microsoft doing exactly the type of work (software product design) that Barbie was doing in the book. I suspect the author wrote a book called "Barbie: I can be a Software Designer" but that the editor, being clueless about job titles in the software industry, decided to change the name to something more marketable. After all, authors aren't the ones who name their books, the marketing team/editors do.
Coming out is actually one of the strategies gays and lesbians have used to achieve legal equality, and social acceptance.
It is "proud" as in the opposite of "ashamed.
The Stonewall riots in NYC is often marked as the beginning of the gay civil rights movement It took place in 1969, a mere 7 years after this documentary film titled "Boys Beware" about the dangers of homosexuals lurking in your midst.
That film contains the line: "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick, a sickness that was not visible like small pox, but no less dangerous and contagious, a sickness of the mind, you see, Ralph was a homosexual."
You could tell lies like that in 1961 because people who were gay didn't come out, nobody thought they knew any gay people, today though it is unlikely that you could make that claim, especially if you live in a city. Gays are everywhere, and it is that visibility that has made it impossible for the right to continue falsely claiming that gays are mentally ill child rapists.
Things have changed a lot, and "proud" may eventually go into the dustbin as more and more people feel they have achieved equality.
Sorry that you don't understand how science works. If your brain is capable of it, you should examine how that lack of understanding of how science works has allowed you to believe in magical beings.
I suspect part of the reason why women, Latino-Americans and African-Americans aren't well represented in the science classrooms is because of an over subscription by women, Latino-Americans, and African-Americans to sociology majors like women's studies, Chicano/Latin-American Studies and African-American studies. While these are completely legitimate courses of study, I suspect they are leading women, Latino-Americans and Afirican-Americans away from the more employment friendly science majors.
You'd think they'd actually save money if they just hard wired the LED into the camera's power source. If the camera has power, the LED is on. I'm sure that would cost them less, not more.
Might I recommend the book "Stasiland" about the East German secret police, spying on it's own citizens, which due to their spying were able to prevent any politician from countering them because of the black mail material they had on every person (including the politicians and their families.)
BTW, if you get a chance, the opinion and the dissenting opinion are worth reading. It is amazing how incompetent our Supreme Court is in interpreting something as basic and straight forward as the 4th and 5th Amendments.
[IANAL:] Unfortunately you're wrong about this. In Caballes v. Illinois the Supreme Court found that a dog can be run around any vehicle during a traffic stop. If the dog signals, the officer then has probably cause to search a vehicle. The only limitation on this is that if the dog is not on the scene at the time of the stop, that the stop cannot be prolonged to wait for the dog to arrive. They can only hold you for as long as it would reasonably take to conduct the business of a traffic stop.
As a former Cisco employee (quit for a better job, although Cisco was a company I liked working for) I'll tell you that Cisco has a bottom 5% policy that every year the bottom 5% are let go.
But... it never seems to be enforced. So year over year there are more and more bottom 5%ers accumulate, and then Cisco has a layoff like this...
Japan can pre-warn about earthquakes by as much as 30 seconds to a couple minutes. Enough time to seek shelter. Unlike our system, I believe their system is automated and goes off when their computers detect the impending quake.
Did you get this Amber Alert? On the iPhone the klaxon was something like the Star Trek red alert, or an air raid siren, or a hybrid of the two. It was VERY loud. I had no idea what the fuck it was. My phone was in another room, and I thought something in my home had caught fire, or the AC had failed and was delivering some sort of catastrophic failure sound that I didn't know it was capable of making.
I disagree. This message could have easily been implemented for Smartphones to include photos of the kids/kidnapper, and stock photos of a blue NIssan Versa. (Or at the least, include a link to a page with those things on it.)
The other problem with this of course is that the kidnapper ALSO got the Amber Alert and is now aware he needs to change vehicles. The second he does that the Amber Alert is useless, and if he thought to do it BEFORE the Amber Alert when out then it is doubly useless. With a photo of the suspect and children? He is going to have to stop for gas at some point, regardless of what vehicle he is in.
There's this thing called rounding, and you would round 557 to 600, and sorry I didn't bother to google mapping directions from SF to Boulevard for pin point accuracy. The point is, it is very far away from where I live, and therefore most likely completely irrelevant.
The message was completely irrelevant for those of us 600+ miles away. I don't even own a car, I live in an urban area. I literally have NO idea what a Nissan Versa looks like. Literally NONE. I NEVER look at license plates on vehicles while I'm walking. NEVER.
These messages have ZERO relevance. Send me a pic of the kids or the kidnapper. I don't give a shit about the fucking make/model of a car that is 600 miles away (the distance from Washington DC to Florida btw).
I can only imagine what people in the far Northern side of the state in Shasta or Humboldt thought of it all. 900 miles away something happened and they are also getting this message.
I live in San Francisco, which is 600 miles from San Diego where this alert originated from. For you east coasters that is the equivalent of an Amber Alert in Florida being sent to everybody all the way to Washington DC.
I quickly researched how to turn off Amber Alerts on my phone, I won't be bothered by them ever again. (On an iphone Settings > Notifications, scroll to very bottom where you find Government Alerts, turn off Amber Alerts, leave on Emergency Alerts since that might actually carry important info.) And that of course is the real issue, by sending such an irrelevant and incredible annoying/distracting message they are inviting large swaths of the population to turn them off. Rules should be established around relevancy (ie, does somebody 600+ miles away need to be a recipient?) in order to keep the system useful.
Americans are the largest group of English speakers on the planet. You can hold onto whatever piddly rules you want, but we are the majority of the spoken language. Sorry you lost the war sweet cheeks.
Look, I think we would have been more than okay with you entering the phone and tablet market with your unique take on UI design for touch screen devices. You could have put all sorts of money into it, pushing it and it would have been everywhere. And if you just could have left desktop computers ALONE, you would have actually created a much better buzz. "What's this? Microsoft trying something new? Sure, I'll give that a go..." But no. Instead of making people curious and interested, you want to change your whole ecosystem from developers to business to consumers.
I think at this point Microsoft has developed a reputation for failing at new things. When I think "Microsoft" and "New" I get immediately skeptical. So I suspect at this point Microsoft trying something new that requires consumers shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars is a red flag for the consumer to either "wait and see" or "avoid avoid avoid".
I mean how many loyal customers can be left who have a Zune, a Windows phone, a Kin phone, a Windows Millenium, Windows Vista, and now Windows RT device collecting dust in their home? Considering that this represents more than half of new products microsoft has released in the last 15 years and it is really clear that it does not pay to be an early adopter.
In the case of the Mac there are pre-installed Apple made applications, but they are applications that have tight integration with the OS for handling certain types of media, and generally these apps are not loaded on startup. There are no third party trial bloatware installs.
As for Linux, I suppose every distribution includes different applications and it is your job to clean up and keep or get rid of the things you don't want.
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Asian and middle eastern cultures value engineering and think of it as a prestigious career; black and Hispanic cultures simply do not.
A more likely explanation is that they have teachers who think exactly like you do, and that is why black and hispanic children are treated differently. Sometimes it's conscious decisions adults around them make, sometimes it's subconscious, but if they are thinking like you, it's pretty evident that they will be treated differently than their asian, middle eastern and white peers.
This problem is pretty complex. It's not as simple as "Johnny didn't get a CS degree" you have to go back further and find out if Johnny was ever put on a path where he could have received a CS degree. Sure he may have attended the same elementary, Jr. High and High School as some children who did eventually get CS degrees, but even within the same school their paths may have been laid out differently due to expectations by the adults they came into contact with. Perhaps Johnny was exceptionally tall, and he was encouraged to spend all of his time playing basketball rather than study math. Every year that went by the possibility that Johnny could successfully enter a math intensive program like a CS program in college became more unlikely, even if it would have been something he'd have done well at had he received the same preparation as the kids who were encouraged to study math rather than perfecting throwing balls into a net.
Combat Apple Pay? To what end? Either you have an Android phone or an Apple phone. They aren't competition for each other, in fact, they can help each other out by increasing the userbase to a point where NFC payments are demanded by consumers at all locations.
P.S. those who talk about speed being an issue, if you've ever used Apple Pay it is by far the fastest payment method (about 3-5 seconds tops.)
So, I looked up the author of this particular book, and it appears she lives in San Francisco, and used to work for Microsoft doing exactly the type of work (software product design) that Barbie was doing in the book. I suspect the author wrote a book called "Barbie: I can be a Software Designer" but that the editor, being clueless about job titles in the software industry, decided to change the name to something more marketable. After all, authors aren't the ones who name their books, the marketing team/editors do.
Coming out is actually one of the strategies gays and lesbians have used to achieve legal equality, and social acceptance.
It is "proud" as in the opposite of "ashamed.
The Stonewall riots in NYC is often marked as the beginning of the gay civil rights movement It took place in 1969, a mere 7 years after this documentary film titled "Boys Beware" about the dangers of homosexuals lurking in your midst.
That film contains the line: "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick, a sickness that was not visible like small pox, but no less dangerous and contagious, a sickness of the mind, you see, Ralph was a homosexual."
You could tell lies like that in 1961 because people who were gay didn't come out, nobody thought they knew any gay people, today though it is unlikely that you could make that claim, especially if you live in a city. Gays are everywhere, and it is that visibility that has made it impossible for the right to continue falsely claiming that gays are mentally ill child rapists.
Things have changed a lot, and "proud" may eventually go into the dustbin as more and more people feel they have achieved equality.
I feel like Nintendo and Apple would make a really great team with similar attention to detail and customer experience.
In the case of all these other OS's though the cost of upgrading is trivial. Even Mac OSX only costs $20-40 vs. Microsott's $100+ pricetag
Sorry that you don't understand how science works. If your brain is capable of it, you should examine how that lack of understanding of how science works has allowed you to believe in magical beings.
I suspect part of the reason why women, Latino-Americans and African-Americans aren't well represented in the science classrooms is because of an over subscription by women, Latino-Americans, and African-Americans to sociology majors like women's studies, Chicano/Latin-American Studies and African-American studies. While these are completely legitimate courses of study, I suspect they are leading women, Latino-Americans and Afirican-Americans away from the more employment friendly science majors.
You'd think they'd actually save money if they just hard wired the LED into the camera's power source. If the camera has power, the LED is on. I'm sure that would cost them less, not more.
Might I recommend the book "Stasiland" about the East German secret police, spying on it's own citizens, which due to their spying were able to prevent any politician from countering them because of the black mail material they had on every person (including the politicians and their families.)
BTW, if you get a chance, the opinion and the dissenting opinion are worth reading. It is amazing how incompetent our Supreme Court is in interpreting something as basic and straight forward as the 4th and 5th Amendments.
[IANAL:] Unfortunately you're wrong about this. In Caballes v. Illinois the Supreme Court found that a dog can be run around any vehicle during a traffic stop. If the dog signals, the officer then has probably cause to search a vehicle. The only limitation on this is that if the dog is not on the scene at the time of the stop, that the stop cannot be prolonged to wait for the dog to arrive. They can only hold you for as long as it would reasonably take to conduct the business of a traffic stop.
"NSA decides it doesn't care what the constitution says and keeps on doing what it wants."
As a former Cisco employee (quit for a better job, although Cisco was a company I liked working for) I'll tell you that Cisco has a bottom 5% policy that every year the bottom 5% are let go.
But... it never seems to be enforced. So year over year there are more and more bottom 5%ers accumulate, and then Cisco has a layoff like this...
Isn't their range only like 100 miles? He'd have to plug in, and I can only imagine that would draw even more attention.
Japan can pre-warn about earthquakes by as much as 30 seconds to a couple minutes. Enough time to seek shelter. Unlike our system, I believe their system is automated and goes off when their computers detect the impending quake.
Did you get this Amber Alert? On the iPhone the klaxon was something like the Star Trek red alert, or an air raid siren, or a hybrid of the two. It was VERY loud. I had no idea what the fuck it was. My phone was in another room, and I thought something in my home had caught fire, or the AC had failed and was delivering some sort of catastrophic failure sound that I didn't know it was capable of making.
It really was that bad.
I disagree. This message could have easily been implemented for Smartphones to include photos of the kids/kidnapper, and stock photos of a blue NIssan Versa. (Or at the least, include a link to a page with those things on it.)
The other problem with this of course is that the kidnapper ALSO got the Amber Alert and is now aware he needs to change vehicles. The second he does that the Amber Alert is useless, and if he thought to do it BEFORE the Amber Alert when out then it is doubly useless. With a photo of the suspect and children? He is going to have to stop for gas at some point, regardless of what vehicle he is in.
There's this thing called rounding, and you would round 557 to 600, and sorry I didn't bother to google mapping directions from SF to Boulevard for pin point accuracy. The point is, it is very far away from where I live, and therefore most likely completely irrelevant.
The message was completely irrelevant for those of us 600+ miles away. I don't even own a car, I live in an urban area. I literally have NO idea what a Nissan Versa looks like. Literally NONE. I NEVER look at license plates on vehicles while I'm walking. NEVER.
These messages have ZERO relevance. Send me a pic of the kids or the kidnapper. I don't give a shit about the fucking make/model of a car that is 600 miles away (the distance from Washington DC to Florida btw).
I can only imagine what people in the far Northern side of the state in Shasta or Humboldt thought of it all. 900 miles away something happened and they are also getting this message.
I live in San Francisco, which is 600 miles from San Diego where this alert originated from. For you east coasters that is the equivalent of an Amber Alert in Florida being sent to everybody all the way to Washington DC.
I quickly researched how to turn off Amber Alerts on my phone, I won't be bothered by them ever again. (On an iphone Settings > Notifications, scroll to very bottom where you find Government Alerts, turn off Amber Alerts, leave on Emergency Alerts since that might actually carry important info.) And that of course is the real issue, by sending such an irrelevant and incredible annoying/distracting message they are inviting large swaths of the population to turn them off. Rules should be established around relevancy (ie, does somebody 600+ miles away need to be a recipient?) in order to keep the system useful.
Americans are the largest group of English speakers on the planet. You can hold onto whatever piddly rules you want, but we are the majority of the spoken language. Sorry you lost the war sweet cheeks.
Look, I think we would have been more than okay with you entering the phone and tablet market with your unique take on UI design for touch screen devices. You could have put all sorts of money into it, pushing it and it would have been everywhere. And if you just could have left desktop computers ALONE, you would have actually created a much better buzz. "What's this? Microsoft trying something new? Sure, I'll give that a go..." But no. Instead of making people curious and interested, you want to change your whole ecosystem from developers to business to consumers.
I think at this point Microsoft has developed a reputation for failing at new things. When I think "Microsoft" and "New" I get immediately skeptical. So I suspect at this point Microsoft trying something new that requires consumers shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars is a red flag for the consumer to either "wait and see" or "avoid avoid avoid".
I mean how many loyal customers can be left who have a Zune, a Windows phone, a Kin phone, a Windows Millenium, Windows Vista, and now Windows RT device collecting dust in their home? Considering that this represents more than half of new products microsoft has released in the last 15 years and it is really clear that it does not pay to be an early adopter.
I don't agree.
In the case of the Mac there are pre-installed Apple made applications, but they are applications that have tight integration with the OS for handling certain types of media, and generally these apps are not loaded on startup. There are no third party trial bloatware installs.
As for Linux, I suppose every distribution includes different applications and it is your job to clean up and keep or get rid of the things you don't want.