Sure, the writer isn't put upon, it's the teenage boy who doesn't get into his CS class even though he's passionate about it so that a girl that may or may not even want to go down that path can. But we don't care about him so much, as he's part of that big bad demographic that has had so many benefits for so long. Poor him, he can pay for the transgressions of his gender.
Instead of trying to see why girls aren't going into IT and to find ways to get them interested in it, this instead is just spending money to cram girls into the field. How about we say that any woman in an IT job automatically makes 20% more then the men in the same position? Just give them enough money that whether they enjoy the work or not, they'll do it. Then we'll have all of these women in IT and everything will be great!
"incendiary or hateful speech is prohibited by any number of state and local ordinances"
So then why are KKK members allowed to have marches down streets and publish papers that most would consider "hateful speech"? I had no idea that I could be arrested for walking up to a Native American and using a racial slur and stating I was happy for what happened to their people in the past.
If this is true, why aren't we arresting all of those rappers who sing about killing cops and beating up women? All of these prohibitions you speak of, who is using them to stop all of this hateful and incendiary speech that is out there?
There are laws that restrict speech which can be deemed a direct threat, or the "yelling fire in the theater" sort of stuff. Those are a far cry from incendiary or hateful speech. Prohibitions of "hateful" speech are routinely overturned because of the right to "free speech".
Imagine if this was a matter of corruption at a company like Microsoft, and the government got wind of the deleted emails. Politicians would be calling for people to be fired, for new laws and regulations to be drummed up, it would be a veritable hell storm of activity.
It's a collective effort of many people across many administrations and congresses.
If everyone else was jumping off a cliff little Johnny, would you do it too? We've been pumping CO2 into the air for generations, but something tells me that I can do more to change that than my Great Great Grandfather. And if I stick to the status quo, It's "my" problem... not his. After all, he's not around anymore.
Problem is, no matter what kind of high ideas and grand changes you have in mind, when it gets down to it, it is oh so much easier to just follow the status quo. Or even improve (read: make worse) upon it. Real change is hard. And in politics, hard is generally avoided.
And on Slashdot, Anonymous Cowards can lie, distort and misrepresent everything. Because to them, they are ABOVE IT ALL!
Come on... this is hardly the realm of just Anonymous Cowards. People lie, distort and misrepresent regardless. They'll do it standing in front of a packed crowd while being video-taped, and the certainly do it behind a slashdot moniker.
Seattle is the first city to implement a living wage for its lowest earners.
Whether or not it's a "livable" wage aside... it hasn't been implemented yet. Rather than actually implement a $15 an hour minimum wage, they made it a slow and laborious process. The "livable" wage being spoken of will not "implement" for years.
I wish I could get all the credit at my job for implementing something by saying I will and agreeing to do it 10 years from now. Only in the government...
I might just be cynical [har har har], but there is something about a group saying "hey, if you don't just trust what people are telling you, you will one day become crazy". I would rather end up a little crazy in my later life than become too optimistic. A little bit of cynicism keeps you from being taken advantage of too much.
It's like the government funding a study that finds that if you question what the government says or does, you're more likely to end up with Alzheimers. So you better stop complaining and believe everything we say.
Every week I find out a new horrible thing I am and things that I didn't know I believed. As a man, I hate women. As a Caucasian, I hate minorities. As someone with a job, I hate those without jobs. As middle class, I hate the poor.
There must be groups out there that I can give my money to or a bunch of canned statements I can make to minimize the horrible things I'm learning about my self, right?
Forgot one! By posting this, I'm ignorant, unwilling to change and I have just amplified all of the things above, regardless of anything else I have ever said or done. I really need to start accepting the evil that is me deep within...
I fail to see how the "features" discussed would make for a Kindle Killer. They sound like features that would cater to a niche of the population but little more than that. A Kindle Killer would need to find some sort of feature that when added to a book, makes it amazingly better. Not to mention, you've got to be able to do it for a price that makes it worthwhile.
If note taking in books was such a massively popular thing, we'd see more books with large margins for doing just that. Reading is a largely relaxing activity... talking to your book to get it to do anything isn't likely to improve that.
What is being described here is more of a "goto E-reader" for research and/or students. Those aren't features I need when reading the latest novel. The notes or highlights I do take are minimal enough that I don't need anything too special, and certainly nothing that makes this the central aspect of my E-reader. Amazon did a pretty good job of understanding that people (the majority of readers at least) didn't want or need a ton of bells and whistles out of an e-reader. They needed something as similar to a book as possible. The book has been around for centuries and done a pretty good job, after all.
"if you add a few hundred million Chinese users, and only a few of them develop some universally useful GPL'd software, or contribute back to the kernel, it's still a net win"
And if a few of them also decide to make a minor modification, close the source and then sell it to a few million of those hundred million for a tidy profit? Still a net win?
I would urge you to find work, if for any reason to start to understand how work contrasts with school, but it's one of those things you need to be careful about giving you too much focus.
One of the benefits of your college program is the ability to try out many different things, even within the confines of computer science, and grow a breadth of knowledge. With a job in programming, it would become all too easy to have your focus be on that which will help you with the job you have at the moment and pay less attention to learning anything else. It already appears like you've allowed yourself to get focused into a corner already in your freshmen year, and that's dangerous enough.
And if you have trouble finding a job in the area you want, and trust me, you will, just join some open source projects or create something that gives you visibility, however minor it might be. Don't forget that you're competing with a bunch of people that already have degrees AND work experience who don't have a mountain of coursework to compete with the job. You'll have plenty of time to stress out about a job your senior year. Just find something if you can, but work on side projects in the meantime that highlight your skills.
By transparency, he meant only AFTER the opaque wall is broken down, and then only in the areas where you are directed, and only until you forget about the entire fiasco. At which point, we can turn off the transparencies and go back to business as usual.
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Sure, the writer isn't put upon, it's the teenage boy who doesn't get into his CS class even though he's passionate about it so that a girl that may or may not even want to go down that path can. But we don't care about him so much, as he's part of that big bad demographic that has had so many benefits for so long. Poor him, he can pay for the transgressions of his gender.
Instead of trying to see why girls aren't going into IT and to find ways to get them interested in it, this instead is just spending money to cram girls into the field. How about we say that any woman in an IT job automatically makes 20% more then the men in the same position? Just give them enough money that whether they enjoy the work or not, they'll do it. Then we'll have all of these women in IT and everything will be great!
"incendiary or hateful speech is prohibited by any number of state and local ordinances"
So then why are KKK members allowed to have marches down streets and publish papers that most would consider "hateful speech"? I had no idea that I could be arrested for walking up to a Native American and using a racial slur and stating I was happy for what happened to their people in the past.
If this is true, why aren't we arresting all of those rappers who sing about killing cops and beating up women? All of these prohibitions you speak of, who is using them to stop all of this hateful and incendiary speech that is out there?
There are laws that restrict speech which can be deemed a direct threat, or the "yelling fire in the theater" sort of stuff. Those are a far cry from incendiary or hateful speech. Prohibitions of "hateful" speech are routinely overturned because of the right to "free speech".
Imagine if this was a matter of corruption at a company like Microsoft, and the government got wind of the deleted emails. Politicians would be calling for people to be fired, for new laws and regulations to be drummed up, it would be a veritable hell storm of activity.
Someone should show them the "Food Plate", formerly known as the "Food Pyramid" then, shouldn't they?
Or are we prepping an argument about how it's nearly impossible to eat "properly" when you're poor?
It's a collective effort of many people across many administrations and congresses.
... not his. After all, he's not around anymore.
If everyone else was jumping off a cliff little Johnny, would you do it too? We've been pumping CO2 into the air for generations, but something tells me that I can do more to change that than my Great Great Grandfather. And if I stick to the status quo, It's "my" problem
Problem is, no matter what kind of high ideas and grand changes you have in mind, when it gets down to it, it is oh so much easier to just follow the status quo. Or even improve (read: make worse) upon it. Real change is hard. And in politics, hard is generally avoided.
And on Slashdot, Anonymous Cowards can lie, distort and misrepresent everything. Because to them, they are ABOVE IT ALL!
... this is hardly the realm of just Anonymous Cowards. People lie, distort and misrepresent regardless. They'll do it standing in front of a packed crowd while being video-taped, and the certainly do it behind a slashdot moniker.
Come on
Seattle is the first city to implement a living wage for its lowest earners.
... it hasn't been implemented yet. Rather than actually implement a $15 an hour minimum wage, they made it a slow and laborious process. The "livable" wage being spoken of will not "implement" for years.
...
Whether or not it's a "livable" wage aside
I wish I could get all the credit at my job for implementing something by saying I will and agreeing to do it 10 years from now. Only in the government
I might just be cynical [har har har], but there is something about a group saying "hey, if you don't just trust what people are telling you, you will one day become crazy". I would rather end up a little crazy in my later life than become too optimistic. A little bit of cynicism keeps you from being taken advantage of too much.
It's like the government funding a study that finds that if you question what the government says or does, you're more likely to end up with Alzheimers. So you better stop complaining and believe everything we say.
Every week I find out a new horrible thing I am and things that I didn't know I believed. As a man, I hate women. As a Caucasian, I hate minorities. As someone with a job, I hate those without jobs. As middle class, I hate the poor.
...
There must be groups out there that I can give my money to or a bunch of canned statements I can make to minimize the horrible things I'm learning about my self, right?
Forgot one! By posting this, I'm ignorant, unwilling to change and I have just amplified all of the things above, regardless of anything else I have ever said or done. I really need to start accepting the evil that is me deep within
I fail to see how the "features" discussed would make for a Kindle Killer. They sound like features that would cater to a niche of the population but little more than that. A Kindle Killer would need to find some sort of feature that when added to a book, makes it amazingly better. Not to mention, you've got to be able to do it for a price that makes it worthwhile.
... talking to your book to get it to do anything isn't likely to improve that.
If note taking in books was such a massively popular thing, we'd see more books with large margins for doing just that. Reading is a largely relaxing activity
What is being described here is more of a "goto E-reader" for research and/or students. Those aren't features I need when reading the latest novel. The notes or highlights I do take are minimal enough that I don't need anything too special, and certainly nothing that makes this the central aspect of my E-reader. Amazon did a pretty good job of understanding that people (the majority of readers at least) didn't want or need a ton of bells and whistles out of an e-reader. They needed something as similar to a book as possible. The book has been around for centuries and done a pretty good job, after all.
"if you add a few hundred million Chinese users, and only a few of them develop some universally useful GPL'd software, or contribute back to the kernel, it's still a net win" And if a few of them also decide to make a minor modification, close the source and then sell it to a few million of those hundred million for a tidy profit? Still a net win?
I would urge you to find work, if for any reason to start to understand how work contrasts with school, but it's one of those things you need to be careful about giving you too much focus. One of the benefits of your college program is the ability to try out many different things, even within the confines of computer science, and grow a breadth of knowledge. With a job in programming, it would become all too easy to have your focus be on that which will help you with the job you have at the moment and pay less attention to learning anything else. It already appears like you've allowed yourself to get focused into a corner already in your freshmen year, and that's dangerous enough. And if you have trouble finding a job in the area you want, and trust me, you will, just join some open source projects or create something that gives you visibility, however minor it might be. Don't forget that you're competing with a bunch of people that already have degrees AND work experience who don't have a mountain of coursework to compete with the job. You'll have plenty of time to stress out about a job your senior year. Just find something if you can, but work on side projects in the meantime that highlight your skills.
By transparency, he meant only AFTER the opaque wall is broken down, and then only in the areas where you are directed, and only until you forget about the entire fiasco. At which point, we can turn off the transparencies and go back to business as usual.