Your argument doesn't make sense and is a bit insulting to boot.
"If you're a gaming girl who's reading the book, essentially you're being complimented by the author as being intelligent."
Because the implication is, as the original quote made clear, that reading a book is something boys do, or intelligent girls. Notice it does not say "intelligent boys" So boys - generic, as in all boys, It's a "guy thing."
But the original article is also wrong about gamers, and falls into the trap of sexism by assuming that the original gamers were more than 99% males, because D*amp;D attracted that audience.
The original gamers go back before D&D was invented. Games such as Risk (1957) and Monopoly (1933) were (and still are) played by both sexes quite avidly. Then there are checkers and chess, card games, etc. The idea that "Women Became Gamers Through D&D" is totally bogus on it's face. The numbers are simply not there. D&D is a rounding error in comparison, and to argue that "real gamers played D&D" is a "No real Scotsman" fallacy.
Sounds like a reasonable explanation, until you add in "and books." Like girls were not intelligent enough to read? "Little Women", for example, was published in 1868-1869.
Of course they're giving a 6-year transition period. It was the most they could get away with, after the pressure from other countries to either do something or they would unilaterally close these loopholes a lot quicker.
It describes SOME girls - the ones who are "the more intelligent sort" as being the ones who would like "boys games and books."
The point of the description is to describe a set of people. It's not making claims about people outside the set.
Or, as you put it, a subset of girls are intelligent enough to be equal to the boys.
How about putting it into modern-day context: "the more intelligent sort of woman who likes mens stuff such as programming and video games."
It doesn't pass the smell test. The "description" is an implicit putdown that girls, on average, are less intelligent than boys. After all, only "the more intelligent sort" "likes boys games and books." Intelligence is the purported criteria being selected for here, and it's certainly disdainful on its' face.
Let;'s turn it on it's head:
"the more intelligent sort of boy, the one who likes girl's games and books"
overturning a sixty-year-old dogma that was born when Wells's Little Wars first assumed the "disdain" of women for gaming.
The quote is "for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books." Nothing about disdain.
Well, it is a put-down for the average girl, since "the more intelligent sort of girl" would be the one who likes "boy's games and books."
My guess is that they were just looking for a quote to back up their bogus thesis. After all, quotes are like statistics - you can find one to prove anything:-)
This is the same thing that happens at the end of any "Gold Rush" cycle.
Remember the days when you had tons of stores from which you could purchase a computer, almost all owned by mom-and-pop operators? Each sold a few boxes and made a living. Standardization and hugely lower margins killed them. Same thing with the App Store. Everyone cashed in at first since there wasn't much competition. Now? Not just competition from other iThingee devs, but also from Android. Both the App Store and the Android ecosystem are experiencing the bust that follows the boom.
Heck, you know App development is in trouble when Florian Mueller says he's switching from paid shill to developing "an Android and iPhone" project. The bottom feeders have arrived. Or as at the end of Spaceballs, "Oh sh*t, there goes the neighborhood."
We notice these articles because they're in our field of interest. The general public? They're more aware of Apples latest problems because they have iThingees.
The article makes the claim with absolutely no statistics to back it up. The public knows more about Kim Kardasian and Ebola than open source security flaws. Sounds like the writer has been taking lessons from Florida Muttonhead.
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The number of pixels is going up, but my retinas are not - quite the opposite.
I'll probably be happy with a 100" tv at 1080p in a decade if I can still see. Hopefully by then they'll be really really cheap because everyone will be buying 16k tvs.
He was never an expert. He claimed to be one, and stupid people took him at his word. Some of them then began referring to him as a patent lawyer, assuming he must be one, and he never even tried to set the record straight at the height of the whole mess. He was a paid shill, and when I went checking his background, I found his official resume was seriously padded. Like in Celine Dion to Dolly Parton padded.
It must be ironic that he can't find any more gigs, and has to try to develop an Android "project" (you know, Florian, Android - the one that you said Android infringed on Oracle's Java patents???? Even though Android doesn't even run Java.)
So who would be sponsoring him developing something in Android? Probably nobody. He's trying to reinvent himself, and I smell the odor of desperation. This "project" probably doesn't even involve software at this point. Just a concept while he sets the stage to trawl for some $$$.
and for the rest of you flamers and trolls, this is a Q&A thread not a thread to personally attack another person. Take the insults elsewhere.
Since this is a Q and A thread, it IS about what WE decide it's about. He has done more than his share of harm, and some of us won't oblige by ignoring it.
We have questions - serious questions - for a known paid shill. It's entirely appropriate, on a tech news site, to ask a shill why he shilled for companies with an antagonistic view towards open software development.
[_] Thanksgiving is coming and we're gonna roast this turkey!
[_] We just discovered they mayan calendar was only off by a few years...
[_] Birth control pills in the water supply.
[_] Hallowe'en is coming... get out your shills for patent trolls
[_] He wants to replace The MoGTroll.
[_] Slashdot wants to give their new profanity filter a real workout.
[_] He applied for a job with Dice, and slashdot's editors suggested that he do a Q and A "to help break the ice." (cue evil laughter).
[_] Click-bait - everyone loves to watch a train wreck in action.
[_] There's nothing as sweet as the smell of burning karma in the morning.
[_] More proof (as if we needed any) that hypocrisy knows no shame.
[_] Florian Mueller developing an Android App is actually a plot to get more people to switch to Microsoft's Windows Phone out of fear of contagion.
[_] Makes Ebola seem almost beneficent.
[_] CowboyNeil wasn't available.
Options: Pick all that apply, and/or suggest your own. Vote early, vote often.
This is the same guy who supported Oracle in the whole Oracle vs Google "Android infringes Oracle's Java Patents" BS. And now he wants to develop an Android app? Oh, the irony. Oh, the hilarity. Oh, how we have been waiting for this:-)
Doesn't change the fact that you for years let people believe you were a patent lawyer when you were never a lawyer, and even encouraged such misperceptions.
Doesn't change the fact that you shilled for years, pushing all sorts of bogus "patent claims by microsoft that threaten linux" when they never existed.
Doesn't change the fact that you simply are not perceived as being even half-way honest by those who have been around the block a few times - with reason.
We've had this discussion before. You were caught misrepresenting yourself and your history too many times. And now you must be getting desperate, delusional, or both, because for some reason you believe that doing a Q and A on slashdot won't once more expose your BS to the light. Wow. You're google-bombing yourself. Again. Payback is a b*tch.
Transgender is a mental condition in the age of lazy psychologists, a consumer biased patient population, and abuse of for-profit medical solutions.
There is no such thing as a transgendered person; just people with gender identity disorder who are placated with drugs and operations. Then a large number of idiots who buy into all the crap and shame anybody who dares poitn out the truth.
Only partially right, and for all the wrong reasons. The is no longer anything called "gender identity disorder". The real "disorder" is societies failure to accept this as a treatable medical condition for some people, corrected with hormones and a sex change. The American Psychiatric Association has this to say about gender dysphoria.
DSM-5 aims to avoid stigma and ensure clinical care for individuals who see and feel themselves to be a different gender than their assigned gender. It replaces the diagnostic name “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria,” as well as makes other important clarifications in the criteria. It is important to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.
... and that stress in large part comes from people who are either ignorant or actively haters. But that's becoming less of a problem as more of us speak out.
I've found that, for me, when I'm finally able to admit it's time to help them on, they really do need my help for that, because as much as they want to stay with me, they're also in a bad way. Cancer is not pretty when it spreads and leaves a once-proud friend a hurting shadow of themselves, just skin and bones and fur.
I've stayed with every one while the needle went in, and in every case I was losing a best friend, a family member, and (because they were/are all instrumental in helping me deal with ptsd on a daily basis), real life-savers. And writing this makes me cry again, because I know that there is no way that I deserved such good dogs, no matter how much I tell myself that they turned out good because of the way I treated them. They're special, and I'll always remember them.
They do NOT need to take care of 30,000 animals year-round. Most adoption centers place their animals as quickly as possible. They use their networks of contacts, TV and radio, the internet, the newspapers, to place animals.
The local SPCA takes in 14,000 animals a year, and places 90% of them. They're not the only shelter in the area either. Now when you consider that PETA takes in just over that nation-wide, there's a problem.
So, the facts say otherwise. PETA is there for the benefit of PETA, first, last, whatever.
No. Taking the worst of the worst shelter practices is a bogus argument. Passing laws against animal cruelty (both in shelters, breeders, and owners), along with enforcement, is the proper way to fix the problem. Not "OMG look at how bad THEY are" when PETA is just as bad in it's own way.
Did you even READ the links on the Times story? How perfectly healthy animals are euthanized? How a government inspection found that 90% of all animals are euthanized within less than 24 hours? That's not even time enough to do an evaluation.
To PETA, "somehow unadoptable" translates into "Oh, we can't sell this mutt or this mixed-breed cat to a pet store for big bucks like we could with a pure-bred, so put it down."
We euthanized the dog because we don't know for sure. In such cases, it's NOT an over-abundance of caution.
We don't know for sure that fruit bats are the reservoir. "All research points to various species of fruit bats native to West Africa, which have been implicated in Marburg and Ebola outbreaks in the past" is not the same as "We know that fruit bats serve as the reservoir." So, again, we don't know.
Even the government has admitted that temperature screening is next to useless, wouldn't have caught Thomas Duncan (whereas passport screening would have), and has been roundly criticized as security theatre. And at least one airline (El Al) does passport screening, in response to bombers. When's the last time El Al had a hijacking? The first and last time was in 1968.
It's not what you know, it's what you "know" that ain't so, that will bite you in the rear. So, until we know for sure...
As for who pays for the 23-day quarantine? Simple - you want to come here, you pay all the costs, same as any visitor, unless you're an aid worker sent to alleviate the problem.
By now, everyone with a clue knows he was never a patent lawyer, just a blogger who tried to intermediate himself into paid gigs (which he succeeded in doing with Oracle and Microsoft) by promoting the impression that he had expertise that he clearly lacked.
It's funny, I leave for a few years, and when I come back EVERYTHING is still the same. Florian Mueller is still whoring himself out as some sort of "expert", Canonical is still coming up with "this product will be the one!!!" every so often, my personal troll still tracks me down to post junk, and Slashdot still can't handle smart quotes in pasted articles. Ahhh, it's good to be back:-)
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"If you're a gaming girl who's reading the book, essentially you're being complimented by the author as being intelligent."
Because the implication is, as the original quote made clear, that reading a book is something boys do, or intelligent girls. Notice it does not say "intelligent boys" So boys - generic, as in all boys, It's a "guy thing."
But the original article is also wrong about gamers, and falls into the trap of sexism by assuming that the original gamers were more than 99% males, because D*amp;D attracted that audience.
The original gamers go back before D&D was invented. Games such as Risk (1957) and Monopoly (1933) were (and still are) played by both sexes quite avidly. Then there are checkers and chess, card games, etc. The idea that "Women Became Gamers Through D&D" is totally bogus on it's face. The numbers are simply not there. D&D is a rounding error in comparison, and to argue that "real gamers played D&D" is a "No real Scotsman" fallacy.
Sounds like a reasonable explanation, until you add in "and books." Like girls were not intelligent enough to read? "Little Women", for example, was published in 1868-1869.
Of course they're giving a 6-year transition period. It was the most they could get away with, after the pressure from other countries to either do something or they would unilaterally close these loopholes a lot quicker.
even by the falling statanrds of journalism generally, blatant conflicts of interests are uncool.
Someone should have told that to the editors.
Florian Mueller
doing Ask Slashdot
save your ire for
the clickbait whore
journalism it's not.
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The point of the description is to describe a set of people. It's not making claims about people outside the set.
Or, as you put it, a subset of girls are intelligent enough to be equal to the boys.
How about putting it into modern-day context: "the more intelligent sort of woman who likes mens stuff such as programming and video games."
It doesn't pass the smell test. The "description" is an implicit putdown that girls, on average, are less intelligent than boys. After all, only "the more intelligent sort" "likes boys games and books." Intelligence is the purported criteria being selected for here, and it's certainly disdainful on its' face.
Let;'s turn it on it's head:
"the more intelligent sort of boy, the one who likes girl's games and books"
overturning a sixty-year-old dogma that was born when Wells's Little Wars first assumed the "disdain" of women for gaming.
The quote is "for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books." Nothing about disdain.
Well, it is a put-down for the average girl, since "the more intelligent sort of girl" would be the one who likes "boy's games and books."
My guess is that they were just looking for a quote to back up their bogus thesis. After all, quotes are like statistics - you can find one to prove anything :-)
Atari consoles
Were the hit
An entire generation
Of girls loved that sh*t
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Remember the days when you had tons of stores from which you could purchase a computer, almost all owned by mom-and-pop operators? Each sold a few boxes and made a living. Standardization and hugely lower margins killed them. Same thing with the App Store. Everyone cashed in at first since there wasn't much competition. Now? Not just competition from other iThingee devs, but also from Android. Both the App Store and the Android ecosystem are experiencing the bust that follows the boom.
Heck, you know App development is in trouble when Florian Mueller says he's switching from paid shill to developing "an Android and iPhone" project. The bottom feeders have arrived. Or as at the end of Spaceballs, "Oh sh*t, there goes the neighborhood."
We notice these articles because they're in our field of interest. The general public? They're more aware of Apples latest problems because they have iThingees.
The article makes the claim with absolutely no statistics to back it up. The public knows more about Kim Kardasian and Ebola than open source security flaws. Sounds like the writer has been taking lessons from Florida Muttonhead. Ã
I'll probably be happy with a 100" tv at 1080p in a decade if I can still see. Hopefully by then they'll be really really cheap because everyone will be buying 16k tvs.
He was never an expert. He claimed to be one, and stupid people took him at his word. Some of them then began referring to him as a patent lawyer, assuming he must be one, and he never even tried to set the record straight at the height of the whole mess. He was a paid shill, and when I went checking his background, I found his official resume was seriously padded. Like in Celine Dion to Dolly Parton padded.
It must be ironic that he can't find any more gigs, and has to try to develop an Android "project" (you know, Florian, Android - the one that you said Android infringed on Oracle's Java patents???? Even though Android doesn't even run Java.)
So who would be sponsoring him developing something in Android? Probably nobody. He's trying to reinvent himself, and I smell the odor of desperation. This "project" probably doesn't even involve software at this point. Just a concept while he sets the stage to trawl for some $$$.
Dear Florian,
What can we do to make you go away?
Stop feeding him, same as any other troll.
Or better yet, get him to say something bad about APK's HOSTS file and pop some popcorn.
and for the rest of you flamers and trolls, this is a Q&A thread not a thread to personally attack another person. Take the insults elsewhere.
Since this is a Q and A thread, it IS about what WE decide it's about. He has done more than his share of harm, and some of us won't oblige by ignoring it.
We have questions - serious questions - for a known paid shill. It's entirely appropriate, on a tech news site, to ask a shill why he shilled for companies with an antagonistic view towards open software development.
[_] Thanksgiving is coming and we're gonna roast this turkey! ...
... get out your shills for patent trolls
[_] We just discovered they mayan calendar was only off by a few years
[_] Birth control pills in the water supply.
[_] Hallowe'en is coming
[_] He wants to replace The MoGTroll.
[_] Slashdot wants to give their new profanity filter a real workout.
[_] He applied for a job with Dice, and slashdot's editors suggested that he do a Q and A "to help break the ice." (cue evil laughter).
[_] Click-bait - everyone loves to watch a train wreck in action.
[_] There's nothing as sweet as the smell of burning karma in the morning.
[_] More proof (as if we needed any) that hypocrisy knows no shame.
[_] Florian Mueller developing an Android App is actually a plot to get more people to switch to Microsoft's Windows Phone out of fear of contagion.
[_] Makes Ebola seem almost beneficent.
[_] CowboyNeil wasn't available.
Options: Pick all that apply, and/or suggest your own. Vote early, vote often.
This is the same guy who supported Oracle in the whole Oracle vs Google "Android infringes Oracle's Java Patents" BS. And now he wants to develop an Android app? Oh, the irony. Oh, the hilarity. Oh, how we have been waiting for this :-)
Doesn't change the fact that you for years let people believe you were a patent lawyer when you were never a lawyer, and even encouraged such misperceptions.
Doesn't change the fact that you shilled for years, pushing all sorts of bogus "patent claims by microsoft that threaten linux" when they never existed.
Doesn't change the fact that you simply are not perceived as being even half-way honest by those who have been around the block a few times - with reason.
We've had this discussion before. You were caught misrepresenting yourself and your history too many times. And now you must be getting desperate, delusional, or both, because for some reason you believe that doing a Q and A on slashdot won't once more expose your BS to the light. Wow. You're google-bombing yourself. Again. Payback is a b*tch.
Transgender is a mental condition in the age of lazy psychologists, a consumer biased patient population, and abuse of for-profit medical solutions.
There is no such thing as a transgendered person; just people with gender identity disorder who are placated with drugs and operations. Then a large number of idiots who buy into all the crap and shame anybody who dares poitn out the truth.
Only partially right, and for all the wrong reasons. The is no longer anything called "gender identity disorder". The real "disorder" is societies failure to accept this as a treatable medical condition for some people, corrected with hormones and a sex change. The American Psychiatric Association has this to say about gender dysphoria.
DSM-5 aims to avoid stigma and ensure clinical care for individuals who see and feel themselves to be a different gender than their assigned gender. It replaces the diagnostic name “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria,” as well as makes other important clarifications in the criteria. It is important to note that gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder. The critical element of gender dysphoria is the presence of clinically significant distress associated with the condition.
... and that stress in large part comes from people who are either ignorant or actively haters. But that's becoming less of a problem as more of us speak out.
Hormone replacement therapy is still in use, though available to fewer women, because so many women have risk factors such as smoking.
I've found that, for me, when I'm finally able to admit it's time to help them on, they really do need my help for that, because as much as they want to stay with me, they're also in a bad way. Cancer is not pretty when it spreads and leaves a once-proud friend a hurting shadow of themselves, just skin and bones and fur.
I've stayed with every one while the needle went in, and in every case I was losing a best friend, a family member, and (because they were/are all instrumental in helping me deal with ptsd on a daily basis), real life-savers. And writing this makes me cry again, because I know that there is no way that I deserved such good dogs, no matter how much I tell myself that they turned out good because of the way I treated them. They're special, and I'll always remember them.
They do NOT need to take care of 30,000 animals year-round. Most adoption centers place their animals as quickly as possible. They use their networks of contacts, TV and radio, the internet, the newspapers, to place animals.
The local SPCA takes in 14,000 animals a year, and places 90% of them. They're not the only shelter in the area either. Now when you consider that PETA takes in just over that nation-wide, there's a problem.
So, the facts say otherwise. PETA is there for the benefit of PETA, first, last, whatever.
No. Taking the worst of the worst shelter practices is a bogus argument. Passing laws against animal cruelty (both in shelters, breeders, and owners), along with enforcement, is the proper way to fix the problem. Not "OMG look at how bad THEY are" when PETA is just as bad in it's own way.
To PETA, "somehow unadoptable" translates into "Oh, we can't sell this mutt or this mixed-breed cat to a pet store for big bucks like we could with a pure-bred, so put it down."
We euthanized the dog because we don't know for sure. In such cases, it's NOT an over-abundance of caution.
We don't know for sure that fruit bats are the reservoir. "All research points to various species of fruit bats native to West Africa, which have been implicated in Marburg and Ebola outbreaks in the past" is not the same as "We know that fruit bats serve as the reservoir." So, again, we don't know.
Even the government has admitted that temperature screening is next to useless, wouldn't have caught Thomas Duncan (whereas passport screening would have), and has been roundly criticized as security theatre. And at least one airline (El Al) does passport screening, in response to bombers. When's the last time El Al had a hijacking? The first and last time was in 1968.
It's not what you know, it's what you "know" that ain't so, that will bite you in the rear. So, until we know for sure ...
As for who pays for the 23-day quarantine? Simple - you want to come here, you pay all the costs, same as any visitor, unless you're an aid worker sent to alleviate the problem.
It's funny, I leave for a few years, and when I come back EVERYTHING is still the same. Florian Mueller is still whoring himself out as some sort of "expert", Canonical is still coming up with "this product will be the one!!!" every so often, my personal troll still tracks me down to post junk, and Slashdot still can't handle smart quotes in pasted articles. Ahhh, it's good to be back :-)
So much for the web moving on "Internet Time."