My wife is a doctor, and I have read studies on the influence of women in medicine. The basic conclusion is that after the male dominated culture makes allowances for women's differences (by not forcing them to act as males) that having women as doctors not only improves care for the women's patients, but when working in teams seems to make the male doctors better doctors as well. The difficulty is the initial effort to overcome the medical culture that has been created by men.
I'm sure you wife is a fine doctor. But if I had to blindly choose between a male and a female surgeon to operate on my spinal cord (I've had this), I would choose a male.
Why? Thousands of years of evolution. You see men were selectively breed for qualities like throwing spears so that people could eat. Women were selectively breed for qualities like being a good mother and gathering fruits and vegetables.
If so then we both agree that afirmative action/quotas are bad.
No. Slavery was bad. Affirmative action/quotas were compensation for that bad behavior. It had its place. No one that is entering the workforce today even has parents that were directly affected by the BS by our population and government before the civil rites laws in the 1960s.
It is my belief that most fortune 500 companies want to appear like they care about "diversity" but when it comes down to it they will put those hires in departments they don't think much about (I.T.).
Pretty much, the goal of any company is to make money. Fortune 500 companies tend to be pretty good at it. It also appears as though they have other functions in society as well. Go figure.
Unfortunately, by and large, the vast majority of people who promote the "men are better than A", "women are better at B" discussions are those who want to back their preference for discriminatory behaviour.
If your a man, do you discriminate against men when you ask someone out on a date?
Give me a break. To recognize differences does not equal discrimination. If that were the case, your average conversation with your boss would start "Now you little minion that is below me..."
The problem is that people still say that there are differences between men and women.
They are. Biochemically and physically, can't you tell the difference between the two?
How many feminist think that most of the worlds problems are because men are running things?
I guess you haven't studied much feminism over the years. Basically there are two camps of feminist -- one that basically want to be equal men the other that want to be women. I've heard a feminist argument against abortion that argued that aborting a child is manlike; a women should be nurturing and caring towards their child, not making an executive decision to end their own child's life. I've heard a feminist argument for abortion that have a more masculine point of view "It's my body, I'll do what I want with it, its my choice!"
I'm sick of the myth that "every (wo)man is created equal". Its bullshit. Some people are born leaders, some inquisitive and introspective, some good looking, some popular, etc. It is very uncommon that _anyone_ is exceptional in many fields. In all my life, I cannot say I have ever met or really heard of a woman that is a born leader. Margaret Thatcher comes to mind as an exception, but I don't know much about her. Now there are some aggressive manlike women that fall into this equal myth, and they totally repulse me. I wouldn't know what to find underneath their panties. Look at many of the big female newscasters in their padded suit jackets, and look at their posture and mannerisms and language. They are basically men that look like a woman. Look at the divorce statistics. Most are initiated by women. They are divorcing their lifelong mates and taking the children and the family home. This is a very manlike behavior, and I find it repulsive.
I believe a simple example of the differences between women and men can be found in rock-n-roll. For the most part, both women and men want a man on stage. Yes there are exceptions, there always will be. Take Janis Joplin for example. She was phenomenal, but she was not a woman-man. A little more harsh and raw than most women, but definitely a woman. My point in the rock-n-roll thing is that I cannot think of a physical reason why a woman cannot do what a man does on stage. Play a guitar, sing, how physically demanding is that? (Maybe drums) But I hope my point is clear.
I've worked with COM and DCOM a while back and am somewhat familiar with RPC on UNIX boxes.
I've never programmed in RPC directly, but I do know that it has been a horrible nightmare in terms of security for both the MS and UNIX platforms for many years.
Its not something that brings a pleasant thought to my mind.
Microsoft's COM (also known as DCOM)
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought there was a difference between the two. COM was Component Object Model while DCOM was Distributed COM (COM on another box). I worked with DCOM to remotely control hardware on another box.
Anyone who can't see what Asia, especially China is going to become is blind.
yeah, my momma always told me that if I keep masturbating...
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Although the document is getting slashdotted and its kinda void of info the "Status of Women" URL talks about women equality and whatnot.
I know I'm going to piss of many a geek girl and probably a majority of guys, but here we go...
Background. I'm a single male never married, but in a few long term relationships, one of almost 9 years, and didn't have the best of relationship with my mother, but I like her OK, better than my father.
It talks about equality of income and whatnot. Yeah, it says in the constitution that "all men are created equal" which is taken to mean women too, but I believe that is BS. A salary is completely supply and demand, and _everyone_ gets paid what they are valued in that society. I'm not equating money/salary with goodness or anything like that, purely money. There are people that get paid an exorbitant amount of money to kick a ball, or to throw it into a hoop, or similar tricks. No matter how much I try, I will never be anywhere successful in such an activity, nor do I make any ballpark of what they do, nor will I.
Women get paid less than men for a reason. A man will not ever, ever get pregnant and take off a good chunk of time for work. One example. The emotional aspect of women vs men is another factor. And so on. When it comes to leadership qualities and things that get the job done, I believe, and I believe it has been demonstrated that women are clearly inferior to men in this regard, and this is why they are paid less, and why they will _always_ get paid less.
There are always going to be exceptions, but I strongly believe this to be true as well as empirically to be demonstrated.
I am not saying that I am that great of a male. I'm not. But I will say that men and women are not equal, and that many of women qualities are excellent, but will not typically be rewarded with pay (except for the already known exceptions).
that in 15 years they will find the WMDs that were there all along in Iraq, but gave up on a few days ago.
Sorry, but I don't hold too much credibility for these guys after completely imagining (along with British "intelligence") significant and substantial evidence of WMDs.
Many companies hire their chief executives based on their ability to run a business, regardless of their inability to actually understand anything that business does.
Just out of curiosity, can anyone cite where a CEO has really had a significant positive or negative impact on an existing company?
This is purely from ignorance, I have only worked at 2 non edu places in my lifetime, but to me it seems as though a CEO gets paid a bunch, I mean a bunch of money where an organization will pretty much run on its own merits and inertia. I mean these guys have clauses in their contracts for up to $150 mil severance pay if they get fired. I've heard some stats of something like it used to be that CEOs used to make something like 10 to 20x of what a "normal" person made, and now its more like 100x to 1000x.
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about a CEO that starts a company, but rather one of these hired on guys to run a company.
Oh come on. Don't you miss those "Always nimble and ready to rumble" commercials?
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Thanks. Very informative. I've looked up the definition of epidemic before, but it did not mention the exponential growth part. However, being that something like 3 cases of smallpox can be considered an epidemic or even 850 in the case of SARS, this classification for a disease does not seem too terribly descriptive for most people. Lets say that we have a "bad" epidemic of smallpox with 8 or so cases, WTF am I to do with this info? I'm at least 10x more likely to die gathering up my friends and family in a car to take them to somewhere that they will not contract the disease as they are to get and die from the disease itself.
My point being, is that the topic of this article is very interesting. By what method or standard can the media go by in order to provide the public with _significant_ data? Or should more people just be like me and avoid mass media? I regularly check my local paper's website and CNN's website for trivia and current events, but I rarely if ever consider the content news or at least significant news. I happened to watch the local news this morning because my roommate left the TV on and left the room. It had been a while before I saw the "random death sequence" before. That is the part of the local news where they rapidly bounce from "story" to "story" about how person X was murdered by person Y, or person X was hit and killed in a car by person Y (I think people know the drill here). That kind of stuff really turns me off.
Centrino is an Intel marketing term for "a bunch of cool mobile stuff" to include the Pentium M processor as well as wireless and other junk.
My hat's off to IBM and Apple (I still think this is an extreeemly ironic partnership) if they can do a G5 notebook. Every time I walk past the back of my coworkers dual G5 while it is idle and the fans are at a low RPM I feel the heat.
All p2p applications have to do is use a data processing system using substantially similar identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the different identifiers.
Come on. Using unique identifiers to uniquely differentiate one item from another, bah, thats so 20th century. Think about how easy but unnecessary it would be to steal one's identity once we all have the same social security number.
Damn, then money will all have the same numbers on it too, so a penny would equal a 1,000,000 bill and vice versa. This could be much more fun!
Tell that to somebody who has spent years developing a new algorithm for something like facial recognition.
I know this is totally anti/. thinking here, but you know, if I had spent years developing a new algorithm for something like facial recognition I probably would not put it in an open source application.
There are such things as trade secrets.
Plus, after developing a new algorithm for facial recognition and spending all of one's money on developing such item and then patenting that item you would still be shit out of luck if you then didn't have the money left over to sue every person that was using said patented item.
A patent is simply a gift to the government that says you have the right to sue somebody (if you want to) in order to defend such patent. And you are not guaranteed to win either.
A simple legal contract that says "don't use my algorithm unless you pay me and don't distribute my algorithm unless you pay me" is more than sufficient.
Nothing can be proven. Science is a method, a progression where a theory exists and some believe it some don't, yet that theory maintains support until disproved. Science is dependent on negation.
If evolution could be proven, then the sticker is wrong. It would say "Evolution is a fact, not a theory".
To my knowledge, Descartes' "Cognito ergo sum" is the only fact. Without a shadow of a doubt I know that I am a thinking thing. What I think about and what I believe is always subject to change, and error before and after.
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have read (sorry, cannot cite source) that the claim that 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq is based on a statistical survey that says somewhere between 5,000 and 100,000 civilians had been killed.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ has a pretty thorough min and max based on cited sources if your interested in the real numbers.
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I've heard through the grapevine that the mods to the linux kernel have stability issues.
I am someone who might be in the market for a SGI Altix or XD1, but a very parallel broken box does not scale that well in my opinion.
The noun is breed the verb is bred. /me hides
My wife is a doctor, and I have read studies on the influence of women in medicine. The basic conclusion is that after the male dominated culture makes allowances for women's differences (by not forcing them to act as males) that having women as doctors not only improves care for the women's patients, but when working in teams seems to make the male doctors better doctors as well. The difficulty is the initial effort to overcome the medical culture that has been created by men.
I'm sure you wife is a fine doctor. But if I had to blindly choose between a male and a female surgeon to operate on my spinal cord (I've had this), I would choose a male.
Why? Thousands of years of evolution. You see men were selectively breed for qualities like throwing spears so that people could eat. Women were selectively breed for qualities like being a good mother and gathering fruits and vegetables.
If so then we both agree that afirmative action/quotas are bad.
No. Slavery was bad. Affirmative action/quotas were compensation for that bad behavior. It had its place. No one that is entering the workforce today even has parents that were directly affected by the BS by our population and government before the civil rites laws in the 1960s.
It is my belief that most fortune 500 companies want to appear like they care about "diversity" but when it comes down to it they will put those hires in departments they don't think much about (I.T.).
Pretty much, the goal of any company is to make money. Fortune 500 companies tend to be pretty good at it. It also appears as though they have other functions in society as well. Go figure.
Unfortunately, by and large, the vast majority of people who promote the "men are better than A", "women are better at B" discussions are those who want to back their preference for discriminatory behaviour.
If your a man, do you discriminate against men when you ask someone out on a date?
Give me a break. To recognize differences does not equal discrimination. If that were the case, your average conversation with your boss would start "Now you little minion that is below me..."
Insightful huh?
The problem is that people still say that there are differences between men and women.
3 &cid=11367878 about the status of women in 2020 and their "equality of salary", and that immediately got modded as troll. Whatever.
They are. Biochemically and physically, can't you tell the difference between the two?
How many feminist think that most of the worlds problems are because men are running things?
I guess you haven't studied much feminism over the years. Basically there are two camps of feminist -- one that basically want to be equal men the other that want to be women. I've heard a feminist argument against abortion that argued that aborting a child is manlike; a women should be nurturing and caring towards their child, not making an executive decision to end their own child's life. I've heard a feminist argument for abortion that have a more masculine point of view "It's my body, I'll do what I want with it, its my choice!"
I'm sick of the myth that "every (wo)man is created equal". Its bullshit. Some people are born leaders, some inquisitive and introspective, some good looking, some popular, etc. It is very uncommon that _anyone_ is exceptional in many fields. In all my life, I cannot say I have ever met or really heard of a woman that is a born leader. Margaret Thatcher comes to mind as an exception, but I don't know much about her. Now there are some aggressive manlike women that fall into this equal myth, and they totally repulse me. I wouldn't know what to find underneath their panties. Look at many of the big female newscasters in their padded suit jackets, and look at their posture and mannerisms and language. They are basically men that look like a woman. Look at the divorce statistics. Most are initiated by women. They are divorcing their lifelong mates and taking the children and the family home. This is a very manlike behavior, and I find it repulsive.
I posted an argument recently http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13610
I believe a simple example of the differences between women and men can be found in rock-n-roll. For the most part, both women and men want a man on stage. Yes there are exceptions, there always will be. Take Janis Joplin for example. She was phenomenal, but she was not a woman-man. A little more harsh and raw than most women, but definitely a woman. My point in the rock-n-roll thing is that I cannot think of a physical reason why a woman cannot do what a man does on stage. Play a guitar, sing, how physically demanding is that? (Maybe drums) But I hope my point is clear.
Try this -- MS
Try this -- Solaris
Preview exists for a reason, doh!
You can't make an open ended statement like that and not provide an explaination.
I though it was common knowledge and I didn't want to beat a soar wound.
For MS try
For Solaris try
I'm not too familiar with MS products, but a few years back we had about 60 Solaris boxes broken into via an RPC exploit (fortunately not mine).
I've worked with COM and DCOM a while back and am somewhat familiar with RPC on UNIX boxes.
I've never programmed in RPC directly, but I do know that it has been a horrible nightmare in terms of security for both the MS and UNIX platforms for many years.
Its not something that brings a pleasant thought to my mind.
Microsoft's COM (also known as DCOM)
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought there was a difference between the two. COM was Component Object Model while DCOM was Distributed COM (COM on another box). I worked with DCOM to remotely control hardware on another box.
Anyone who can't see what Asia, especially China is going to become is blind.
yeah, my momma always told me that if I keep masturbating...
Although the document is getting slashdotted and its kinda void of info the "Status of Women" URL talks about women equality and whatnot.
I know I'm going to piss of many a geek girl and probably a majority of guys, but here we go...
Background. I'm a single male never married, but in a few long term relationships, one of almost 9 years, and didn't have the best of relationship with my mother, but I like her OK, better than my father.
It talks about equality of income and whatnot. Yeah, it says in the constitution that "all men are created equal" which is taken to mean women too, but I believe that is BS. A salary is completely supply and demand, and _everyone_ gets paid what they are valued in that society. I'm not equating money/salary with goodness or anything like that, purely money. There are people that get paid an exorbitant amount of money to kick a ball, or to throw it into a hoop, or similar tricks. No matter how much I try, I will never be anywhere successful in such an activity, nor do I make any ballpark of what they do, nor will I.
Women get paid less than men for a reason. A man will not ever, ever get pregnant and take off a good chunk of time for work. One example. The emotional aspect of women vs men is another factor. And so on. When it comes to leadership qualities and things that get the job done, I believe, and I believe it has been demonstrated that women are clearly inferior to men in this regard, and this is why they are paid less, and why they will _always_ get paid less.
There are always going to be exceptions, but I strongly believe this to be true as well as empirically to be demonstrated.
I am not saying that I am that great of a male. I'm not. But I will say that men and women are not equal, and that many of women qualities are excellent, but will not typically be rewarded with pay (except for the already known exceptions).
that in 15 years they will find the WMDs that were there all along in Iraq, but gave up on a few days ago.
Sorry, but I don't hold too much credibility for these guys after completely imagining (along with British "intelligence") significant and substantial evidence of WMDs.
Many companies hire their chief executives based on their ability to run a business, regardless of their inability to actually understand anything that business does.
Just out of curiosity, can anyone cite where a CEO has really had a significant positive or negative impact on an existing company?
This is purely from ignorance, I have only worked at 2 non edu places in my lifetime, but to me it seems as though a CEO gets paid a bunch, I mean a bunch of money where an organization will pretty much run on its own merits and inertia. I mean these guys have clauses in their contracts for up to $150 mil severance pay if they get fired. I've heard some stats of something like it used to be that CEOs used to make something like 10 to 20x of what a "normal" person made, and now its more like 100x to 1000x.
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about a CEO that starts a company, but rather one of these hired on guys to run a company.
Why should they advertise?
Oh come on. Don't you miss those "Always nimble and ready to rumble" commercials?
Thanks. Very informative. I've looked up the definition of epidemic before, but it did not mention the exponential growth part. However, being that something like 3 cases of smallpox can be considered an epidemic or even 850 in the case of SARS, this classification for a disease does not seem too terribly descriptive for most people. Lets say that we have a "bad" epidemic of smallpox with 8 or so cases, WTF am I to do with this info? I'm at least 10x more likely to die gathering up my friends and family in a car to take them to somewhere that they will not contract the disease as they are to get and die from the disease itself.
My point being, is that the topic of this article is very interesting. By what method or standard can the media go by in order to provide the public with _significant_ data? Or should more people just be like me and avoid mass media? I regularly check my local paper's website and CNN's website for trivia and current events, but I rarely if ever consider the content news or at least significant news. I happened to watch the local news this morning because my roommate left the TV on and left the room. It had been a while before I saw the "random death sequence" before. That is the part of the local news where they rapidly bounce from "story" to "story" about how person X was murdered by person Y, or person X was hit and killed in a car by person Y (I think people know the drill here). That kind of stuff really turns me off.
Not in Texas, the population here is about 50% white, 35% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% all others.
I don't live in Texas, I was just going by the latest census bureau (2000) info found here . I guess the data is outdated.
Look at the Pentium M or centrino for an example
Centrino is an Intel marketing term for "a bunch of cool mobile stuff" to include the Pentium M processor as well as wireless and other junk.
My hat's off to IBM and Apple (I still think this is an extreeemly ironic partnership) if they can do a G5 notebook. Every time I walk past the back of my coworkers dual G5 while it is idle and the fans are at a low RPM I feel the heat.
So 33% on death row are white, but 71% of the population is white. Seems like a representative sample.
No, it's a real patent.
Its also a real mistake to be patented.
prior art -- HA!
All p2p applications have to do is use a data processing system using substantially similar identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the different identifiers.
Come on. Using unique identifiers to uniquely differentiate one item from another, bah, thats so 20th century. Think about how easy but unnecessary it would be to steal one's identity once we all have the same social security number.
Damn, then money will all have the same numbers on it too, so a penny would equal a 1,000,000 bill and vice versa. This could be much more fun!
Tell that to somebody who has spent years developing a new algorithm for something like facial recognition.
/. thinking here, but you know, if I had spent years developing a new algorithm for something like facial recognition I probably would not put it in an open source application.
I know this is totally anti
There are such things as trade secrets.
Plus, after developing a new algorithm for facial recognition and spending all of one's money on developing such item and then patenting that item you would still be shit out of luck if you then didn't have the money left over to sue every person that was using said patented item.
A patent is simply a gift to the government that says you have the right to sue somebody (if you want to) in order to defend such patent. And you are not guaranteed to win either.
A simple legal contract that says "don't use my algorithm unless you pay me and don't distribute my algorithm unless you pay me" is more than sufficient.
End of story, the patent office may close now.
Remember what happened to Galileo?
The Catholic church forgave him 400 years later, so its all good now.
I just wonder if Galileo is as forgiving.
Evolution can be proven
Nothing can be proven. Science is a method, a progression where a theory exists and some believe it some don't, yet that theory maintains support until disproved. Science is dependent on negation.
If evolution could be proven, then the sticker is wrong. It would say "Evolution is a fact, not a theory".
To my knowledge, Descartes' "Cognito ergo sum" is the only fact. Without a shadow of a doubt I know that I am a thinking thing. What I think about and what I believe is always subject to change, and error before and after.
have read (sorry, cannot cite source) that the claim that 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq is based on a statistical survey that says somewhere between 5,000 and 100,000 civilians had been killed.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ has a pretty thorough min and max based on cited sources if your interested in the real numbers.
He was a bittorrent freeloader so he's only responsible for uploading 0.013 copies. That's... what? 83 bucks? I think he'll be fine.
The article is kinda void of information, but if he _seeded_ these files then he shared or uploaded at least one copy of each of these movies.