Do you really believe that men and woman have vastly different "basic philosophies." Even if they did, it would not be relevant.
CS is a science because there are methods one can use to determine which OS implementation for example will work best.
Woman can program just as well as men, but they're not as likely to get into it, because computers were still considered geeky when us college students were still growing up. This of course also caused by the societal pressure against women to study math in primary education.
I think your REAL problem with the field being mostly male, is that you don't know where else you can meet woman.
I completely agree. I don't understand why people are so resistant to having the ability to catch criminals. What they concerned them is the vigilance required to ensure that the laws that one can be punished for remain reasonable.
The internet is public domain. If we obviously want the cops to patrol the streets, shouldn't we want them to protect people on the net as well?
A private conversation on the street is comparable to using PGP and neither is outlawed. However, an illegal verbal act (threatening someone for example) is illegal to do on the street, and should likewise be illegal in a public chatroom.
What are the "slipery slope" issues that I'm missing here? I don't mind if my web traffic is monitored, as long as the info is not used commercially.
What no one has pointed out yet is that using diagrams is crucial for note taking or just writing down ideas of any kind. This product is the best I've seen so far for doing this. You can enter text by keyboard and then directly draw-in whatever pictures you need with the touch-screen. For note taking, this sceen is more useful than the palm just by the scheer size of the screen. However, without good software, either product is useless for recording notes or ideas.
The title "up up down down" reminded me of the Uncle Moshie lyric:
"Up, Up, Down, Down, Here, There, and Everywhere, that's where He (God) can be found."
Any Relation?
I agree that if one does not understand the issues he should leave the decisions to more capable hands, but the overall system would undoubtedly be better off if representation were higher and the uninformed did not vote.
As far as I can tell from your response, you would not only prefer to be the only one to vote, you would also prefer to be the only one to exist.
What I meant before was that if you don't value opinions besides your own you might be happier in a fascist state.
'If you don't agree with me, I don't want your sorry ass voting. Don't vote. Stay home!'
So basically you're in support of FASCISM...
The encouragment is not for people to vote stupidly but rather to consider the issues most important to them and vote in spite of the general attitude that a single vote won't change anything.
The more proportional the representation is, the better the system works. While the general
public may not be well educated, as a whole, their votes are the best available measure to minimize the extent to which government agents act on their own behalfs.
Katz is writing an article to make the book sound interesting. Of course the average slashdot reader won't get all excited about a non-techie book. The average slashdot reader + word skill could probably write the book. To that many of you would probably say, "Then why did he even bother to post?"
It's arguable, but I'm glad he did. Books that explain computers to the rest of the world are important for cultural development. Ten years from now I don't want people still saying about me, "He does computers, he's a genious!" Without books like these, computers will never be commonplace for the common man.
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Do you really believe that men and woman have vastly different "basic philosophies." Even if they did, it would not be relevant.
CS is a science because there are methods one can use to determine which OS implementation for example will work best.
Woman can program just as well as men, but they're not as likely to get into it, because computers were still considered geeky when us college students were still growing up. This of course also caused by the societal pressure against women to study math in primary education.
I think your REAL problem with the field being mostly male, is that you don't know where else you can meet woman.
I completely agree. I don't understand why people are so resistant to having the ability to catch criminals. What they concerned them is the vigilance required to ensure that the laws that one can be punished for remain reasonable.
The internet is public domain. If we obviously want the cops to patrol the streets, shouldn't we want them to protect people on the net as well?
A private conversation on the street is comparable to using PGP and neither is outlawed. However, an illegal verbal act (threatening someone for example) is illegal to do on the street, and should likewise be illegal in a public chatroom.
What are the "slipery slope" issues that I'm missing here? I don't mind if my web traffic is monitored, as long as the info is not used commercially.
-Avi
The GAWD search does not offer any information about Michigan or 35 other states.
Jerzy Kosinski, the author of The Painted Bird, would do this with the lead plates used by his publisher to print his books.
What no one has pointed out yet is that using diagrams is crucial for note taking or just writing down ideas of any kind. This product is the best I've seen so far for doing this. You can enter text by keyboard and then directly draw-in whatever pictures you need with the touch-screen. For note taking, this sceen is more useful than the palm just by the scheer size of the screen. However, without good software, either product is useless for recording notes or ideas.
The title "up up down down" reminded me of the Uncle Moshie lyric: "Up, Up, Down, Down, Here, There, and Everywhere, that's where He (God) can be found." Any Relation?
Perhaps the CAPS were a bit much.
I agree that if one does not understand the issues he should leave the decisions to more capable hands, but the overall system would undoubtedly be better off if representation were higher and the uninformed did not vote.
As far as I can tell from your response, you would not only prefer to be the only one to vote, you would also prefer to be the only one to exist.
What I meant before was that if you don't value opinions besides your own you might be happier in a fascist state.
'If you don't agree with me, I don't want your sorry ass voting. Don't vote. Stay home!'
So basically you're in support of FASCISM...
The encouragment is not for people to vote stupidly but rather to consider the issues most important to them and vote in spite of the general attitude that a single vote won't change anything.
The more proportional the representation is, the better the system works. While the general
public may not be well educated, as a whole, their votes are the best available measure to minimize the extent to which government agents act on their own behalfs.
Avi
Katz is writing an article to make the book sound interesting. Of course the average slashdot reader won't get all excited about a non-techie book. The average slashdot reader + word skill could probably write the book. To that many of you would probably say, "Then why did he even bother to post?"
It's arguable, but I'm glad he did. Books that explain computers to the rest of the world are important for cultural development. Ten years from now I don't want people still saying about me, "He does computers, he's a genious!" Without books like these, computers will never be commonplace for the common man.