When there start to be 45% females in the attendance the situation will change.
Which is in turn not likely to happen when the show itself is effectively hanging out a "No girlz alloud" sign.
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly
like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
And just as safe for a woman to step into without a guard.
I'd say the show knows its audience very well.
When you screen the audience, that's hardly surprising. Care to drag up the pictures of the audiences at E3 from before it was taken over by adolescents of various ages?
The question for any marketing plan should never be, "how do we appeal to our current customers?" but "How do we turn non-customers into customers without turning even more customers into non-customers?"
Yup, and it won't improve unless we challenge it every now and then.
It takes more than now and then -- you can see here the defense mechanisms people have developed to avoid confronting the fact that they act like asses.
Men and women who spend enormous amounts of time living vicariously through a video screen.
Grown up? Not my any definition I know of.
Fun as it can be to talk smack about/.ers, the reality is that there are plenty of adult (as in, actually socially functional, with families, outside social relationships, etc.) gamers.
Which is one reason why this kind of "marketing" is pretty damned stupid. When a fair bit of your target market is people who have the incomes to support a hobby like gaming that takes a fair bit of money -- especially if you're supporting your spouse, children, and even grandchildren doing it -- it's incredibly dumb to piss them off because they're not boys too young to vote (if they ever were!)
Just cause it's a problem to you doesn't mean it's a problem to everyone else.
Or alternately, just because it's fine with you doesn't mean that it's cool with others. I notice that you're stuck speculating because apparenlty you've never actually, like, talked with (or more to the point, listented to) women on the subject. Hmmmmm.
E3 exists to show off games and try to get people into the idea of buying them, not to pander to feminist sensibilities.
It so absolutely makes business sense to repel half of your target market (and more than that of your potential target market) in order to pursue a small marginal edge in your existing customer base.
Well, that or maybe the corporate management are indulging themselves at the expense of the business itself. But we know that that never happens.
ok, I'm thinking about it. Are you saying the oceans, which are all connected, are as much as a constant 4" different in level, say, between NYC and, oh, Denmark or Japan? How would such a difference be created or maintained? Difference in gravity?
How about difference in density? New York, being much closer to the melting ice of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland, has reduced salinity by a greater amount than the saltier water of the Caribbean or the South Pacific.
For actual work and play I use windows. Everything works best on it.
You might be able to make a pretty nice business on consulting -- I know my employer, and as far as I can tell the rest of the semiconductor industry, are still using Linux for all of the design flow. Our corporate masters would love to move us to Windows, though, if you can show them how.
The skeleton staff working on weekends might be to blame
Yeah, but what if it isn't an orthopaedic surgery?
If we're talking about small rural or local hospitals, sure -- in part because these hospitals are at most feeders that stabilize patients before sending them to major hospitals. There's a world of difference between the rural hospital that's close to the mountain where I ski patrol and a Level 1 trauma (or cardiac, or stroke) center. The local hospital (which bills itself as a "regional medical center") doesn't even have an orthopaedic surgeon on duty on weekends. In contrast, less than 200 miles away are four cities with Level 1 trauma centers (altogether more than seven hospitals) including Barrows Neurological Hospital, Mayo Hospital, two university hospitals, and a top-notch limb reattachment hospital.
Having been married to a nurse who worked at most of the big ones, I can tell y'all that the staffing doesn't thin out on weekends.
the energy density [usc.edu] this supercap has is on par with batteries: 20Wh/kg
The grandparent quotes a battery capacity of 10 Wh. That's not remotely a 500 grams stuck into a corner of a cellphone. For comparison, my cellphone battery is 1650 mAh and 33 grams. That's 185 Wh/kg. I wouldn't call 185 and 20 "on par."
... that they can incorporate the inductor and capacitors for a 90 W switchmode regulator onto silicon. This is a breakthrough in physics, not just in semiconductor processing.
Take a consumer SSD and put it in a deep freeze to -50C look it still works!
See what the data retention is like after it's been parked for a few years in Arizona.
$EMPLOYER builds chips for the auto trade (and not just under the hood.) As a matter of fact, I design chips for the auto trade. And they are serious as death about data retention across temperature and have the hard data to show why. Those HDR (high data retention) chips cost more, and if there's one thing I've learned in almost 40 years of making semiconductors for the auto industry, they never spend a penny more than they have to. As far as they're concerned, every penny they spend has to be surgically removed from the CEO's nutsack.
Like in particular, breaking access for devices based on Linux. People were observing that Amazon's business isn't in controlling access -- but if they're going into doing their own boxes (like Kindle) then coming up with ways to limit competitive access is very much their business.
That sounds mighty suspicious to me: I challenge you to offer any credible example where having maths is a liability.
In its simplest form, the hypothesis "X is caused by Y" (think peptic ulcers) is a simple concept exercise -- trying to express it in math is a distraction.
Testing the hypothesis -- even at the preliminary "does this pass the laugh test" stage -- is where the math becomes essential.
That's due to epidemiologists and sanitation engineers, not social scientists.
And guess what? If you check out your random epidemiologist, there's a good chance that she's a sociologist. Which might suggest something regarding the two disciplines.
I have to admit, though, that I've never run into one who discovered a good delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter. Or anything else more than trivially complex.
there are plenty of interesting areas of study that don't require Calculus+ areas of math proficiency (sociobiology being one).
Good luck passing the quals in sociology without a boatload of statistics that engineers never see, including formal design of experiments. Biology, at least according to the biologists I know, is much the same.
Math is not necessary -- in fact it can be a serious liability -- in formulating hypotheses. For instance, much of sociobiology. On the other hand, it's indispensable for testing those hypotheses and sorting the valuable ideas from the attractive bullshit.
Which category holds much of sociobiology is a question beyond my own skills.
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When there start to be 45% females in the attendance the situation will change.
Which is in turn not likely to happen when the show itself is effectively hanging out a "No girlz alloud" sign.
All you need do is fire up Google image search and look for E3 show floor images and you will find it looks surprisingly like a Muslim street scene, with hardly any women in sight.
And just as safe for a woman to step into without a guard.
I'd say the show knows its audience very well.
When you screen the audience, that's hardly surprising. Care to drag up the pictures of the audiences at E3 from before it was taken over by adolescents of various ages?
The question for any marketing plan should never be, "how do we appeal to our current customers?" but "How do we turn non-customers into customers without turning even more customers into non-customers?"
Yup, and it won't improve unless we challenge it every now and then.
It takes more than now and then -- you can see here the defense mechanisms people have developed to avoid confronting the fact that they act like asses.
Once again Poe's Law gets a field test.
Men and women who spend enormous amounts of time living vicariously through a video screen. Grown up? Not my any definition I know of.
Fun as it can be to talk smack about /.ers, the reality is that there are plenty of adult (as in, actually socially functional, with families, outside social relationships, etc.) gamers.
Which is one reason why this kind of "marketing" is pretty damned stupid. When a fair bit of your target market is people who have the incomes to support a hobby like gaming that takes a fair bit of money -- especially if you're supporting your spouse, children, and even grandchildren doing it -- it's incredibly dumb to piss them off because they're not boys too young to vote (if they ever were!)
Just cause it's a problem to you doesn't mean it's a problem to everyone else.
Or alternately, just because it's fine with you doesn't mean that it's cool with others. I notice that you're stuck speculating because apparenlty you've never actually, like, talked with (or more to the point, listented to) women on the subject. Hmmmmm.
Or maybe you're scrambling to make up facts to avoid challenging your own prejudices?
E3 exists to show off games and try to get people into the idea of buying them, not to pander to feminist sensibilities.
It so absolutely makes business sense to repel half of your target market (and more than that of your potential target market) in order to pursue a small marginal edge in your existing customer base.
Well, that or maybe the corporate management are indulging themselves at the expense of the business itself. But we know that that never happens.
ok, I'm thinking about it. Are you saying the oceans, which are all connected, are as much as a constant 4" different in level, say, between NYC and, oh, Denmark or Japan? How would such a difference be created or maintained? Difference in gravity?
How about difference in density? New York, being much closer to the melting ice of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland, has reduced salinity by a greater amount than the saltier water of the Caribbean or the South Pacific.
What do you do when some other developer writes total shit and puts your name on it?
As one might imagine, this is not hypothetical.
For actual work and play I use windows. Everything works best on it.
You might be able to make a pretty nice business on consulting -- I know my employer, and as far as I can tell the rest of the semiconductor industry, are still using Linux for all of the design flow. Our corporate masters would love to move us to Windows, though, if you can show them how.
The skeleton staff working on weekends might be to blame
Yeah, but what if it isn't an orthopaedic surgery?
If we're talking about small rural or local hospitals, sure -- in part because these hospitals are at most feeders that stabilize patients before sending them to major hospitals. There's a world of difference between the rural hospital that's close to the mountain where I ski patrol and a Level 1 trauma (or cardiac, or stroke) center. The local hospital (which bills itself as a "regional medical center") doesn't even have an orthopaedic surgeon on duty on weekends. In contrast, less than 200 miles away are four cities with Level 1 trauma centers (altogether more than seven hospitals) including Barrows Neurological Hospital, Mayo Hospital, two university hospitals, and a top-notch limb reattachment hospital.
Having been married to a nurse who worked at most of the big ones, I can tell y'all that the staffing doesn't thin out on weekends.
the energy density [usc.edu] this supercap has is on par with batteries: 20Wh/kg
The grandparent quotes a battery capacity of 10 Wh. That's not remotely a 500 grams stuck into a corner of a cellphone. For comparison, my cellphone battery is 1650 mAh and 33 grams. That's 185 Wh/kg. I wouldn't call 185 and 20 "on par."
... that they can incorporate the inductor and capacitors for a 90 W switchmode regulator onto silicon. This is a breakthrough in physics, not just in semiconductor processing.
Take a consumer SSD and put it in a deep freeze to -50C look it still works!
See what the data retention is like after it's been parked for a few years in Arizona.
$EMPLOYER builds chips for the auto trade (and not just under the hood.) As a matter of fact, I design chips for the auto trade. And they are serious as death about data retention across temperature and have the hard data to show why. Those HDR (high data retention) chips cost more, and if there's one thing I've learned in almost 40 years of making semiconductors for the auto industry, they never spend a penny more than they have to. As far as they're concerned, every penny they spend has to be surgically removed from the CEO's nutsack.
Hell, I'd be happy to have a car where you can replace the freaking radio without crippling essential systems.
Whose idea was it, anyway, to put the freaking CAN hub in the <expletive> radio????
Otherwise, your blood sugar drops and you wind up eating to make up the calories.
If you're lucky. Sometimes someone gets unlucky and goes into insulin shock. If they're lucky, someone gets some sugar into them stat.
Sometimes they're unlucky and a cop tries smacking them around for driving (or walking, or sitting) drunk. This doesn't end well.
Like in particular, breaking access for devices based on Linux. People were observing that Amazon's business isn't in controlling access -- but if they're going into doing their own boxes (like Kindle) then coming up with ways to limit competitive access is very much their business.
That sounds mighty suspicious to me: I challenge you to offer any credible example where having maths is a liability.
In its simplest form, the hypothesis "X is caused by Y" (think peptic ulcers) is a simple concept exercise -- trying to express it in math is a distraction.
Testing the hypothesis -- even at the preliminary "does this pass the laugh test" stage -- is where the math becomes essential.
That's due to epidemiologists and sanitation engineers, not social scientists.
And guess what? If you check out your random epidemiologist, there's a good chance that she's a sociologist. Which might suggest something regarding the two disciplines.
They go into the lab and discover circuits.
I have to admit, though, that I've never run into one who discovered a good delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter. Or anything else more than trivially complex.
there are plenty of interesting areas of study that don't require Calculus+ areas of math proficiency (sociobiology being one).
Good luck passing the quals in sociology without a boatload of statistics that engineers never see, including formal design of experiments. Biology, at least according to the biologists I know, is much the same.
If it has "socio" in it, it's bullshit. It doesn't matter who says it. It's "science" for people who don't know what real science is about.
Maybe that's why the CDC hires so many sociologists to study disease transmission.
(Yup. Got one in the family.)
Math is not necessary -- in fact it can be a serious liability -- in formulating hypotheses. For instance, much of sociobiology. On the other hand, it's indispensable for testing those hypotheses and sorting the valuable ideas from the attractive bullshit.
Which category holds much of sociobiology is a question beyond my own skills.
What is this "Windows" of which you speak?
The preferred term is "geoexchange" precisely to avoid this confusion.