You're forgetting the FirefoxOS Panasonic Smart TV that was announced earlier this year that's going to leave Panasonic with egg on the face.
My theory is that Mozilla and Canonical were trying to copy each others tactics because they saw the media buzz that was being generated when one of them made an announcement. Phones, Tablets, and TVs were the "canonical" (pun intended) examples.
Pretty much everyone saw this coming....and nothing of value was lost, except the money spent on the salaries of the people in charge promoting this stupidity, instead of investing in their core product. History will continue to repeat itself until the money runs out.
"ways to surface the best content" - yet another piece of market-speak. Hint - if you have to resort to market-speak, you're doing a sh*tty job somewhere along the line.
Between Ye Olde in-person purchases, catalogs, and the internet; who is buying from what is basically a stream of infomercials? Especially modestly expensive gear like guns; surely you do a little looking around, rather than just impulse-buying whatever happens to be in front of you?
They'll make the same deal as with the Russians - we'll contract to buy $X amount of product (where $X is a huge number), and you don't sell to anyone else. Both parties end up with more money in their pockets.
Heh, that's my current challenge. I have no family. They didn't have a daughter, therefore they didn't have me, therefore I have no family, hence I have an ex-mother and ex-father, but no current mother and father. I wish that could be reflected legally. I don't want that bunch of Christian fundamentalists, Baptists, and American Reformed as family either. The feeling is mutual.
I have 4 younger sisters who all STILL absolutely refuse to to accept it - and not one is religious. One of my brother-in-laws is also my pharmacist, and he doesn't accept it. The universal theme is "Why couldn't you just be gay? That we could accept." After being (very very) upset for several years, I had what I guess you could call an epiphany - I want them to accept who I am, but I was refusing to accept who they are. Kind of hypocritical, so I got back in contact with them, and while they still call me the wrong name and gender (even when in public or at a family get-together with guests I don't know, ugh!), I just roll my eyes and tell the newcomers "they still can't accept the idea of a sex change." If they can't accept it, it's because they're scared that they'll have to do a bit of introspection and maybe change their stance - but if you insist on it, they'll just dig in their heels.
There are fundie christians who DO accept us (just like there are pastors who have gone through the change - not always with great enthusiasm from their congregants, but they just move on to another church, no big deal. The student I'm renting my spare bedroom out to had a minister who joined our ranks recently - like always, it was the old farts who were the millstones. This is his last month before returning to Ontario, so I let him in to my little secret a couple of weeks ago:-).
Since I was further publicly outed in 2013, I tell people to tell everyone they want, because it's not something I should be ashamed of (after a while, it became a non-issue, so nobody talks about it much any more unless they need advice on that topic). The reaction (especially from other women) has been great. You can always make new friends. Worse case scenario is to just move to a new neighborhood (avoid anything like the gay village part of town - you don't want to be stereotyped). If you have a dog and some of your neighbors do too, offer to walk them at the same time you take yours out (I've got two neighbor's dogs sitting here with me right now).
My parents are dead (they would have had absolute sh*t hemorrhages over this), so that's one problem less. After I transitioned, I got out of programming for a while (got a job as a secretary/receptionist of all things) and had an absolute blast, before returning to programming. It was so funny - my sisters absolutely refused to believe it for the longest time. It was hard for them to understand that people who have never met be before only see what they expect to see - not my appearance overlaid over my old appearance. Once you internalize that, life becomes much easier. Until then, there's always that nagging fear at the back of the mind... but experience and practice make it go away.
I guess that all I'm saying on this can be summed up with "don't give up on them." There's no reason why you can't just be a normal dysfunctional family:-) And as for friends, if it's a problem, the problem is definitely with them and not you, so screw 'em, they weren't really "your" friends, just friends of a non-existent cover persona. Friends are not that hard to make nowadays, even for nerds and geeks.
. I wonder what the local hospital would do with an assigned male bleeding out in their parking lot, all because he couldn't stand his circumcision or assigned gender any more and found a practical solution to "religious objection!"?
I came so close to that... I had already told my friends, and with one exception, no problem (and boy, was that an ugly scene), and was
There are way more diamonds available than an open market will support (as anyone who bought "investment grade" diamonds found out to their chagrin when they tried to cash in 10 years later and can't even get the price they paid). The only way for deBeers to continue to maintain the cartel is to do the same they did when the Russians threatened to flood the market - make a deal.
Any advice on what to look for when trying to judge how trans-unfriendly different big cities are?
Perhaps instead of dealing first with shrinks, see an endocrinologist and ask for a referral to someone who deals with transsexuals. That's what I did, and it turns out he has quite the practice with us:-) I explained the situation, walked out with a prescription for estrogen.
The problem is that too many psychiatrists who specialize in us really do see their role as being highly restrictive gatekeepers. Other psychiatrists think they're being obtuse. Basically, give a series of psychological tests, see that there's no pathology, and then work with the patient to achieve their goals would be a lot less stressful for everyone (and fewer suicides).
When you've got someone who's already transitioned, working in their new identity at a new job, friends and family all know, why would you need a year of weekly sessions for "therapy to help you adjust", and twice-monthly group therapy? "You have to follow our program for a year before you can go on hormones." "No I don't - I'll find my own way." All legal, too.
They're going to have to modify they way they work since they can no longer act as gatekeepers, and let's face it - it's easy to transition on your own - anyone can read and follow the SoC. All it takes is either to be so desperate that you HAVE to transition NOW OR ELSE (./waves hands) or courage.
Most Java devs use an IDE. When creating a new class, the IDE names the file with the same case as the class name. This has never caused a cross platform issue for me. I've developed Java on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris.
You say most do. [citation required]. I don't, but that is competely irrelevant to the point I was making - that file systems that are not case sensitive (such as under windows) can not run all java programs that can be created on case-sensitive platforms. Handy if you want to restrict your software to non-windows systems, or if, as pointed out, you want to use different file names that only differ in case for things that you would normally use header files for in c/c++. Eg: foo.java and FOO.java instead of foo.c and foo.h. This wouldn't be an issue if windows was case-sensitive instead of just case-preserving.
>> a runtime that runs 100% the same on all platforms
(spits out milk through nose)
It's easy enough to write java programs that work on *nix and not on windows. Create two class files that are case-significant, such as MyClassFile (for the class itself) and MYCLASSFILE (for final variables) in the same directory. Copying these files to windows fails, as one overwrites the other.
Yep, I'll be living as a woman in 10 years, unless I die homeless in a gutter. There really is discrimination out there. It's just that it comes from management. But blame me! Sure, that's done a lot of good to fix the problem!
I will not be programming, at least not professionally. The gender insanity will continue in tech. I can't change the gender I was assigned at birth. That's a matter of public records
The requirements for changing the gender marker on birth certs, etc., has gotten a lot easier since the turn of the century. It's in recognition of several facts:
There are those who, due to health problems, cannot risk gender-affirming surgery.
Expense is a huge barrier.
F2M surgery is way behind M2F surgery, as well as being about 3x the cost.
Having to wait until after surgery to change the marker creates huge problems with jobs, etc.
Recognition that it's what's between the ears, not the legs, that counts.
And of course there's this. Genes don't count for everything - but we already knew that:-)
I don't need to look forward to a future about arguing about whether I'm a "real" woman or just an invader with a woman-suit who's "really" just a cit het white male shitlord underneath, keeping "real" women from getting programming jobs in some vast, insane conspiracy.
... but you WILL be able to help any employer check off a few boxes in terms of diversity... vive la difference! We have been dealt a double helping of problems, might as well take advantage of them where we can.
And most people don't really care. The TERFs (eg: Germaine Greer) are so ancient history ("what, you mean she's still alive???") that the only people who pay them attention are other TERFs and people looking for click-bait. They can go screw themselves because nobody sane would. want to.
As for Briana Wu - nobody wants to be pretty much universally known as an ID-10-T.
We actually have examples of sentient hives - humans have something like 10x the bacteria that they do cells. The bacteria are required to keep humans healthy, so...
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Oh wow, you're like really smart and clairvoyant too.
No need for clairvoyance
Or a crystal ball (or two)
Firefox OS jumped the shark
Simply failed to make a mark
It's an outdated bag of poo!
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You're forgetting the FirefoxOS Panasonic Smart TV that was announced earlier this year that's going to leave Panasonic with egg on the face.
My theory is that Mozilla and Canonical were trying to copy each others tactics because they saw the media buzz that was being generated when one of them made an announcement. Phones, Tablets, and TVs were the "canonical" (pun intended) examples.
What IS their core product?
Memory - Hogging Bugs?
They should have sold out to / merged with Yahoo before Yahoo ended up going down the tubes.
Good products speak for themselves. No amount of market-speak can fix a bad product.
Pretty much everyone saw this coming ....and nothing of value was lost, except the money spent on the salaries of the people in charge promoting this stupidity, instead of investing in their core product. History will continue to repeat itself until the money runs out.
"ways to surface the best content" - yet another piece of market-speak. Hint - if you have to resort to market-speak, you're doing a sh*tty job somewhere along the line.
I can see how bullets are gun-related. Same with holsters and other accessories. But why two-way radios?
So you can better live out your "I'm a cop" fantasy. You need all the gear ...
Between Ye Olde in-person purchases, catalogs, and the internet; who is buying from what is basically a stream of infomercials? Especially modestly expensive gear like guns; surely you do a little looking around, rather than just impulse-buying whatever happens to be in front of you?
Lonely people. Sad, lonely people.
They'll make the same deal as with the Russians - we'll contract to buy $X amount of product (where $X is a huge number), and you don't sell to anyone else. Both parties end up with more money in their pockets.
Heh, that's my current challenge. I have no family. They didn't have a daughter, therefore they didn't have me, therefore I have no family, hence I have an ex-mother and ex-father, but no current mother and father. I wish that could be reflected legally. I don't want that bunch of Christian fundamentalists, Baptists, and American Reformed as family either. The feeling is mutual.
I have 4 younger sisters who all STILL absolutely refuse to to accept it - and not one is religious. One of my brother-in-laws is also my pharmacist, and he doesn't accept it. The universal theme is "Why couldn't you just be gay? That we could accept." After being (very very) upset for several years, I had what I guess you could call an epiphany - I want them to accept who I am, but I was refusing to accept who they are. Kind of hypocritical, so I got back in contact with them, and while they still call me the wrong name and gender (even when in public or at a family get-together with guests I don't know, ugh!), I just roll my eyes and tell the newcomers "they still can't accept the idea of a sex change." If they can't accept it, it's because they're scared that they'll have to do a bit of introspection and maybe change their stance - but if you insist on it, they'll just dig in their heels.
There are fundie christians who DO accept us (just like there are pastors who have gone through the change - not always with great enthusiasm from their congregants, but they just move on to another church, no big deal. The student I'm renting my spare bedroom out to had a minister who joined our ranks recently - like always, it was the old farts who were the millstones. This is his last month before returning to Ontario, so I let him in to my little secret a couple of weeks ago :-).
Since I was further publicly outed in 2013, I tell people to tell everyone they want, because it's not something I should be ashamed of (after a while, it became a non-issue, so nobody talks about it much any more unless they need advice on that topic). The reaction (especially from other women) has been great. You can always make new friends. Worse case scenario is to just move to a new neighborhood (avoid anything like the gay village part of town - you don't want to be stereotyped). If you have a dog and some of your neighbors do too, offer to walk them at the same time you take yours out (I've got two neighbor's dogs sitting here with me right now).
My parents are dead (they would have had absolute sh*t hemorrhages over this), so that's one problem less. After I transitioned, I got out of programming for a while (got a job as a secretary/receptionist of all things) and had an absolute blast, before returning to programming. It was so funny - my sisters absolutely refused to believe it for the longest time. It was hard for them to understand that people who have never met be before only see what they expect to see - not my appearance overlaid over my old appearance. Once you internalize that, life becomes much easier. Until then, there's always that nagging fear at the back of the mind ... but experience and practice make it go away.
I guess that all I'm saying on this can be summed up with "don't give up on them." There's no reason why you can't just be a normal dysfunctional family :-) And as for friends, if it's a problem, the problem is definitely with them and not you, so screw 'em, they weren't really "your" friends, just friends of a non-existent cover persona. Friends are not that hard to make nowadays, even for nerds and geeks.
. I wonder what the local hospital would do with an assigned male bleeding out in their parking lot, all because he couldn't stand his circumcision or assigned gender any more and found a practical solution to "religious objection!"?
I came so close to that ... I had already told my friends, and with one exception, no problem (and boy, was that an ugly scene), and was
There are way more diamonds available than an open market will support (as anyone who bought "investment grade" diamonds found out to their chagrin when they tried to cash in 10 years later and can't even get the price they paid). The only way for deBeers to continue to maintain the cartel is to do the same they did when the Russians threatened to flood the market - make a deal.
Any advice on what to look for when trying to judge how trans-unfriendly different big cities are?
Perhaps instead of dealing first with shrinks, see an endocrinologist and ask for a referral to someone who deals with transsexuals. That's what I did, and it turns out he has quite the practice with us :-) I explained the situation, walked out with a prescription for estrogen.
The problem is that too many psychiatrists who specialize in us really do see their role as being highly restrictive gatekeepers. Other psychiatrists think they're being obtuse. Basically, give a series of psychological tests, see that there's no pathology, and then work with the patient to achieve their goals would be a lot less stressful for everyone (and fewer suicides).
When you've got someone who's already transitioned, working in their new identity at a new job, friends and family all know, why would you need a year of weekly sessions for "therapy to help you adjust", and twice-monthly group therapy? "You have to follow our program for a year before you can go on hormones." "No I don't - I'll find my own way." All legal, too.
They're going to have to modify they way they work since they can no longer act as gatekeepers, and let's face it - it's easy to transition on your own - anyone can read and follow the SoC. All it takes is either to be so desperate that you HAVE to transition NOW OR ELSE (./waves hands) or courage.
Most Java devs use an IDE. When creating a new class, the IDE names the file with the same case as the class name. This has never caused a cross platform issue for me. I've developed Java on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris.
You say most do. [citation required]. I don't, but that is competely irrelevant to the point I was making - that file systems that are not case sensitive (such as under windows) can not run all java programs that can be created on case-sensitive platforms. Handy if you want to restrict your software to non-windows systems, or if, as pointed out, you want to use different file names that only differ in case for things that you would normally use header files for in c/c++. Eg: foo.java and FOO.java instead of foo.c and foo.h. This wouldn't be an issue if windows was case-sensitive instead of just case-preserving.
He's still not the responsible party. The outside contractor screwed up, and as soon as it came to his attention, he acted.
Open the trunk of your electric car, and there's a small ICE chugging away.
Those are hybrids, not all-electrics. No internal combustion engine in a Tesla, not even in the trunk.
Just at the power plant supplying the electricity to charge it.
Hydro power up here - no coal plants.
Venus isn't livable, though. A livable (or, survivable) planet with near-uniform climate? Crazy.
Remember - the planet is supposed to have an alien environment - Venus is pretty alien.
>> a runtime that runs 100% the same on all platforms
(spits out milk through nose)
It's easy enough to write java programs that work on *nix and not on windows. Create two class files that are case-significant, such as MyClassFile (for the class itself) and MYCLASSFILE (for final variables) in the same directory. Copying these files to windows fails, as one overwrites the other.
I use a specially trained butterfly that flaps its wings just right...
Oops, I stepped on your butterfly - there goes the future !
Using DEBUG.COM, entering the individual characters in hex, then setting cx to the number of bytes and writing it out to disk.
No debug? Copy CON to the file you want, then control-z to end it.
Lol.
Yep, I'll be living as a woman in 10 years, unless I die homeless in a gutter. There really is discrimination out there. It's just that it comes from management. But blame me! Sure, that's done a lot of good to fix the problem!
I will not be programming, at least not professionally. The gender insanity will continue in tech. I can't change the gender I was assigned at birth. That's a matter of public records
The requirements for changing the gender marker on birth certs, etc., has gotten a lot easier since the turn of the century. It's in recognition of several facts:
And of course there's this. Genes don't count for everything - but we already knew that :-)
I don't need to look forward to a future about arguing about whether I'm a "real" woman or just an invader with a woman-suit who's "really" just a cit het white male shitlord underneath, keeping "real" women from getting programming jobs in some vast, insane conspiracy.
... but you WILL be able to help any employer check off a few boxes in terms of diversity ... vive la difference! We have been dealt a double helping of problems, might as well take advantage of them where we can.
And most people don't really care. The TERFs (eg: Germaine Greer) are so ancient history ("what, you mean she's still alive???") that the only people who pay them attention are other TERFs and people looking for click-bait. They can go screw themselves because nobody sane would. want to.
As for Briana Wu - nobody wants to be pretty much universally known as an ID-10-T.
They are infected with Republican Base disease.
Microsoft seems to have a fetish for making licensing complicated.
I suppose since they practically invented the concept it makes sense. But damn, how far can it go?
They didn't invent the concept. They're just following in the footsteps of Oracle, IBM, etc.
Open the trunk of your electric car, and there's a small ICE chugging away.
Those are hybrids, not all-electrics. No internal combustion engine in a Tesla, not even in the trunk.
We actually have examples of sentient hives - humans have something like 10x the bacteria that they do cells. The bacteria are required to keep humans healthy, so ...