Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't it required by law that you have your driver's license with you at all times when driving a car?
I believe the same is true for a motorcycle, but I don't have any first-hand experience there. This might only be specific to a couple of states, too, but I believe that in South Dakota, you can be fined for not having your license with you.
I'm surely going to be marked flaimbait or troll for this post, but by large, it's true.
These are 9th grade girls. These problems will be more real with women than with men because women are more social, but in particularly in this age demographic is prey to it because they're just getting started. Smart girls will divorce themselves from the stupid social herds which are popular with most women.
IT is a very non-social job. You don't get to routinely gab with your "friends" (ie, coworkers) about this or that, because you invariably need to be concentrating on a monitor if, indeed, you're, well - working.
Task-oriented things don't appeal to women for the most part. IT is very task-oriented.
What kind of woman would want to work in a male-centric field? Much less a self-confident, opinionated, and intelligent female? Most males are pigs, and by the time a girl is 14 (if she's not physically hideous) she's already learned what men are interested in, by and large: getting their poles slicked, one way or the other.
It takes a special breed of woman to be interested in IT or engineering. I imagine the male equivilant of such a breed would be a man that would be interest in interior design.
But, this really begs the question: why would MS be so interested in women joining the IT sector (and be willing to lie to these young girls on top of that)? I suspect it's for three reasons: 1) women are, in general, better at multi-tasking. This would make them ideal for tasks such as project management. 2) Morale. Women in the office would keep some men more interested in coming to work when they would normally not be so inclined. I imagine that some men grow desperate about getting laid before they die, and such a female in the office would help further their disillusional fantasy. 3) Women communicate "better". If you're a female trying to communicate with another of your kind, at least (IMO). I think this is beneficial somehow, but how it would help in a male-centric work environment is beyond me. Technical people (non-idiots, at least) seem to be fairly conceise with their language and don't have much of a grunt-grunt problem.
Another reason they might have a hard time getting women into IT is because women are, in general, not encouraged to tinker when they're younger. In essence, this leads to their inability to think critically and compartmentalize things, which isn't terribly conductive for scientific work in general. Not to say that women can't do it, they're just not trained to think. (On the flip side, many men tend to have the difficulty of seeing the whole picture as they're focused on a smaller part.)
Sadly, I'd have to say I agree with his overall premise.
Most of the people I know that are 'fanatical' to any degree are outright idiots - liberal, conservative, or otherwise. Much of the slashdot-type croud consists of such people of the liberal persuasion with strong beliefs that are pro-First Amendment, anti-2nd Amendment, and very socialist. It's my experience that many of these people (at least in my real-life dealings) result to nothing more than pure emotionalist appeals, often having little comprehension of actual facts or statistics. They're a mob of sound-byte fanatics that feed on their own fear.
Sorry if this comes across as flamebait. It's really quite unfortunate, and something I try to help change daily.
Grandparent: How long has it been since he started on D17? Three years? Four?
You: If you think it's taking too long, help out. Else, wait patiently.
Problem is, that's not going to work. I've got two friends that worked on E16 and early E17 work (IE, the EFM stuff mostly). Neither of them develop E, even though they both enjoyed the actual work. Why, you ask?
Because rasterman is a prick, in essence. He's a scatter-brained elitist who disregards the input of others, makes bad decisions (such as "let's throw out two years of hard, inventive work and start over because of a couple bugs!"), and generally doesn't accept other people's code unless you're one of his close "friends". In essence, he's an embodyment of the XFree86 team but with a little actual talent and a lot of vision.
I should dig that up. It'd run blazingly fast on my "modern" systems which are somewhere in the order of 20 times as fast as the systems I used to play SC2K on...
it'd have been a real bitch if the temperature jumped up above freezing (or even near it), like it has been this year in many/most parts of the country.
And you honestly think things would have been different under Kerry?
I've got news for you. They might not have been friends, but Bush and Kerry are both part of the same elitist segment of society which has so much money there is little perspective on actual worth or value. The common man (that is, anyone that needs to work for a living, at all) is looked down on as simple and gullible, weak-spined and someone to be led.
Hollywood (overall) thinks this way. Washington thinks this way. While their presented political views might varry as to what they want the public eye to see, their goals are the same: tell the public things the public wants to hear, so that they themselves can shape society to be more befitting to their way of life and that of their progeny.
Bill G might not be a bad choice as "CIO" of the federal government. Why? Because then he might (-might-) be more likely to actually be out for our interests.
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if Bill G decided to one day run for president. He's still fairly young, hasn't made too many overt political stances that would conceiveably harm him, is a "great humanitarian" and is quite world conscious. That, and he'd probably be more likely to help balance the budget and bring us back into the black than the current breed of politician. Only time will tell...
Remember those meteor fragments from years ago that supposedly came from mars, space - something like that - which demonstrated that life developed outside earth's atmosphere?
Turned out that they probably originated from a meteor impact which blew earth chunks out into space. Why couldn't mars have been populated in such a fashion as well?
That's not even marginally impressive - for a 4-way Operteron. I'd be quite unsatisfied.
I did a build on an IBM x306 about a month ago, from a fresh tarball, in 2 minutes and 28 seconds. The system was in RAID-1 setup (with SATA, of course). This model had (I think) a 3.2GHz P4.
what would be the point of that? it's needless redundancy. It'd make more sense to allow the system to recognize it as actual memory, removing that 'extra layer'. If indeed that's how the OS treats it, at least.
A year from now, would I (theoretically) be able to purchase one of these batteries and have it work in an existing laptop (provided they made the proper model battery, yadda yadda), or is the technology too fundamentally different? Maybe if I had an external charger?
It'd really be nice to increase the battery life of my thinkpad x30 from roughly 3 hours to 9 hours. That would remove the only barrier I see in laptops becoming true mobile computing devices.
More like infamy - at least to anyone that's followed E's development for any significant period of time.
Get something working, then throw it out and start over. Repeat constantly until any semblance to the original working copy is destroyed and all their dedicated beta (alpha/cvs) users are alienated to the point of not even using the "stable" (beta) E release.
That said, the Enlightenment team has turned out some amazing work (imlib2, etc.), and it's a shame to see the recycling destruction that takes place. If they were to be lest "artistic" and concentrate more on getting something working for the masses "out the door", E would still be an incredible and highly-advanced wm. We'd likely also have a slew of 3rd party apps built with imlib2 (et al), all on top of technology which would blow away gtk and qt. It's really too bad nobody forked the project and took what was good from E as they went along to create something perminant.
Why would the US relinquish power over something and simply give it away to the UN?
As it sits, the US has a large say in the to-do of the Internet infrastructural stuff (if it is merely through a board of foot draggers). Why would anyone want to give another nation more power while surrendering its own power?
The US is the most Internet-centric country in the world. It makes business sense for the Internet's core functions to be controlled by us: we made it, we do more on it, and its in our best interest to do so.
Why would we care what Uganda or S. Somoa (or wherever) says on the matter? Let them get clean water first.
This would be useful, if indeed Wikipedia was anywhere near complete. I too was researching an older era recently (the "Viking" era of the nordic lands - around 700 - 1100, give or take), and I found more pertinent information on various sites than I did on wikipedia. Wikipedia, while having some more encyclopedic information (a couple maps, mainly), there wasn't much there at all that wasn't - at best - cursory.
Why were they not using battery backup on their database servers (IE, their critical servers)? That way the servers would have the necessary 10 minutes (or whatever) so that they can shut down the DBs and power off the systems.
This is a negligible cost for something as integral as an active sync with the work that people have performed - for free.
Why is this not seen as important? "The wiki users will just recreate the material"? That's somewhat presumptuous.
Now, livejournal I can understand not doing this (as there are many clients which allow people to sync with their online journals and the material is fairly culturally worthless), but wikipedia? It's one of the better things on the Internet.
If some people were to be aware of the wonders of the universe and their own self insignificance they would turn away from violence and seek greater ends.
Why would they, exactly? Because the grandois nature of hte universe makes them realize there's a God? That's the only possible explanation for such a change in my mind. Otherwise, it would just make them feel small and insignificant, as if everything they do does indeed have no meaning, and thus they can do whatever the fuck they want.
I remember the absolutely atrocious low-frequency ringtones which would set me on edge every time someone's phone would ring (at least the new 'personalized' ringtones have a fuller frequency). I remember the shitty quality signals and the battery life which required the phone to be recharged after about 8 hours of in-pocket use and maybe 20 minutes of talk time. I remember having to cart around a huge brick which took horribly grainy photos if I wanted to use a digital camera. I remember having to wear a watch around in addition to carrying my phone if I wanted to tell the time. I remember not having voice mail, so that when my phone was off I'd not recieve calls. I remember having only 20 slots to store my friends' and family members' addresses.
Now, granted, there's something to be said for simplicity. I don't think I'd want this "phone" but I sure as hell don't want to go back to the irritation of old technology. I would like a simple, durable phone with just basic phone/clock/alarm features, though.
If you don't like the extra features, just don't use them or turn them off. That's still a possibility.
If you don't already understand the whole "Linux" appeal, I doubt you'd find anything particularly appealing about a Linux-powered phone.
For the most part, I think the appeal is the ability to tinker with it, add software that wouldn't be intended, and various other 'geeky' things that most consumers wouldn't give a damn about. It would give the sysadmin type a great deal of mobile administration ability. If you don't grok grep and pine for sed, there's not a perl of wisdom I can give you which would likely make you see the significance.
Additionally, since it uses Opie, there's a lot of available software out there for the device already. Much of it is 'geeky' software, but as a for instance: you'd be able to emulate PalmOS without any problems, provided you had the ROMs. I don't know if this is possible with WinCE, though, so it might not be all that 'special'.
This particular device looks fairly useful to me, and that's saying a lot, as I tend to thing such things are just trendy toys. The existence of the SD slot is definately nice, as it'd allow you to use this device for quite a few things, including a portable MP3 player. It's got a built-in keyboard which - while not full-size, is a hell of a lot bigger than those on other chick-key keyboards.
The tribesmen in India didn't have a "6th sense". They had a folk history that told them that when the water went down, it would soon some back in a much larger quantity and that it was a good idea to head for the hills. This was talked about in the news.
I imagine this "6th sense" might be so allusive to westerners because we as a whole don't pay attention to our surroundings. We're distracted. I personally enjoy just sitting somewhere (a park, etc.) and watching people. Or on a bench on a busy street where people are walking. They'll have dozens of people walking aorund them, and yet they're painfully preoccupied with themselves: they don't even notice when people steal their wallets, bump into them, or anything like that.
Or take the behavior of your average westerner if he or she is out in the woods. They're not "aware" of their surroundings, even though they're uncommon surroundings for them. They'll hear birds, but they won't notice things like the moss on the southern exposure of a tree or rock outcropping, animal tracks, the sudden hushing of animals (birds, etc.) as a person approaches, and various other things that people that spend time in the outdoors with nature notice almost without thinking about it.
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Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't it required by law that you have your driver's license with you at all times when driving a car?
I believe the same is true for a motorcycle, but I don't have any first-hand experience there. This might only be specific to a couple of states, too, but I believe that in South Dakota, you can be fined for not having your license with you.
I'm surely going to be marked flaimbait or troll for this post, but by large, it's true.
These are 9th grade girls. These problems will be more real with women than with men because women are more social, but in particularly in this age demographic is prey to it because they're just getting started. Smart girls will divorce themselves from the stupid social herds which are popular with most women.
IT is a very non-social job. You don't get to routinely gab with your "friends" (ie, coworkers) about this or that, because you invariably need to be concentrating on a monitor if, indeed, you're, well - working.
Task-oriented things don't appeal to women for the most part. IT is very task-oriented.
What kind of woman would want to work in a male-centric field? Much less a self-confident, opinionated, and intelligent female? Most males are pigs, and by the time a girl is 14 (if she's not physically hideous) she's already learned what men are interested in, by and large: getting their poles slicked, one way or the other.
It takes a special breed of woman to be interested in IT or engineering. I imagine the male equivilant of such a breed would be a man that would be interest in interior design.
But, this really begs the question: why would MS be so interested in women joining the IT sector (and be willing to lie to these young girls on top of that)? I suspect it's for three reasons:
1) women are, in general, better at multi-tasking. This would make them ideal for tasks such as project management.
2) Morale. Women in the office would keep some men more interested in coming to work when they would normally not be so inclined. I imagine that some men grow desperate about getting laid before they die, and such a female in the office would help further their disillusional fantasy.
3) Women communicate "better". If you're a female trying to communicate with another of your kind, at least (IMO). I think this is beneficial somehow, but how it would help in a male-centric work environment is beyond me. Technical people (non-idiots, at least) seem to be fairly conceise with their language and don't have much of a grunt-grunt problem.
Another reason they might have a hard time getting women into IT is because women are, in general, not encouraged to tinker when they're younger. In essence, this leads to their inability to think critically and compartmentalize things, which isn't terribly conductive for scientific work in general. Not to say that women can't do it, they're just not trained to think. (On the flip side, many men tend to have the difficulty of seeing the whole picture as they're focused on a smaller part.)
Sadly, I'd have to say I agree with his overall premise.
Most of the people I know that are 'fanatical' to any degree are outright idiots - liberal, conservative, or otherwise. Much of the slashdot-type croud consists of such people of the liberal persuasion with strong beliefs that are pro-First Amendment, anti-2nd Amendment, and very socialist. It's my experience that many of these people (at least in my real-life dealings) result to nothing more than pure emotionalist appeals, often having little comprehension of actual facts or statistics. They're a mob of sound-byte fanatics that feed on their own fear.
Sorry if this comes across as flamebait. It's really quite unfortunate, and something I try to help change daily.
I vote for 'floaters'. It's an accurate description on many different levels and covers the full field of various characteristics of these ads.
It just goes to show you: the Internet wants to be free.
Grandparent: How long has it been since he started on D17? Three years? Four?
You: If you think it's taking too long, help out. Else, wait patiently.
Problem is, that's not going to work. I've got two friends that worked on E16 and early E17 work (IE, the EFM stuff mostly). Neither of them develop E, even though they both enjoyed the actual work. Why, you ask?
Because rasterman is a prick, in essence. He's a scatter-brained elitist who disregards the input of others, makes bad decisions (such as "let's throw out two years of hard, inventive work and start over because of a couple bugs!"), and generally doesn't accept other people's code unless you're one of his close "friends". In essence, he's an embodyment of the XFree86 team but with a little actual talent and a lot of vision.
Classic reference. :)
I should dig that up. It'd run blazingly fast on my "modern" systems which are somewhere in the order of 20 times as fast as the systems I used to play SC2K on...
Wow, that's a lot of time in a short period.
it'd have been a real bitch if the temperature jumped up above freezing (or even near it), like it has been this year in many/most parts of the country.
And you honestly think things would have been different under Kerry?
I've got news for you. They might not have been friends, but Bush and Kerry are both part of the same elitist segment of society which has so much money there is little perspective on actual worth or value. The common man (that is, anyone that needs to work for a living, at all) is looked down on as simple and gullible, weak-spined and someone to be led.
Hollywood (overall) thinks this way. Washington thinks this way. While their presented political views might varry as to what they want the public eye to see, their goals are the same: tell the public things the public wants to hear, so that they themselves can shape society to be more befitting to their way of life and that of their progeny.
Bill G might not be a bad choice as "CIO" of the federal government. Why? Because then he might (-might-) be more likely to actually be out for our interests.
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if Bill G decided to one day run for president. He's still fairly young, hasn't made too many overt political stances that would conceiveably harm him, is a "great humanitarian" and is quite world conscious. That, and he'd probably be more likely to help balance the budget and bring us back into the black than the current breed of politician. Only time will tell...
Yes, you're right. Please don't sneeze - you'll be removing all those bacterial organisms from your lungs, which those poor things depend on for life!
Idiot.
Remember those meteor fragments from years ago that supposedly came from mars, space - something like that - which demonstrated that life developed outside earth's atmosphere?
Turned out that they probably originated from a meteor impact which blew earth chunks out into space. Why couldn't mars have been populated in such a fashion as well?
That's not even marginally impressive - for a 4-way Operteron. I'd be quite unsatisfied.
I did a build on an IBM x306 about a month ago, from a fresh tarball, in 2 minutes and 28 seconds. The system was in RAID-1 setup (with SATA, of course). This model had (I think) a 3.2GHz P4.
Why is this supposed to be impressive?
if the industry were to move to vector-based audio, we might see more sound card action in the market...
what would be the point of that? it's needless redundancy. It'd make more sense to allow the system to recognize it as actual memory, removing that 'extra layer'. If indeed that's how the OS treats it, at least.
A year from now, would I (theoretically) be able to purchase one of these batteries and have it work in an existing laptop (provided they made the proper model battery, yadda yadda), or is the technology too fundamentally different? Maybe if I had an external charger?
It'd really be nice to increase the battery life of my thinkpad x30 from roughly 3 hours to 9 hours. That would remove the only barrier I see in laptops becoming true mobile computing devices.
More like infamy - at least to anyone that's followed E's development for any significant period of time.
Get something working, then throw it out and start over. Repeat constantly until any semblance to the original working copy is destroyed and all their dedicated beta (alpha/cvs) users are alienated to the point of not even using the "stable" (beta) E release.
That said, the Enlightenment team has turned out some amazing work (imlib2, etc.), and it's a shame to see the recycling destruction that takes place. If they were to be lest "artistic" and concentrate more on getting something working for the masses "out the door", E would still be an incredible and highly-advanced wm. We'd likely also have a slew of 3rd party apps built with imlib2 (et al), all on top of technology which would blow away gtk and qt. It's really too bad nobody forked the project and took what was good from E as they went along to create something perminant.
Why would the US relinquish power over something and simply give it away to the UN?
As it sits, the US has a large say in the to-do of the Internet infrastructural stuff (if it is merely through a board of foot draggers). Why would anyone want to give another nation more power while surrendering its own power?
The US is the most Internet-centric country in the world. It makes business sense for the Internet's core functions to be controlled by us: we made it, we do more on it, and its in our best interest to do so.
Why would we care what Uganda or S. Somoa (or wherever) says on the matter? Let them get clean water first.
This would be useful, if indeed Wikipedia was anywhere near complete. I too was researching an older era recently (the "Viking" era of the nordic lands - around 700 - 1100, give or take), and I found more pertinent information on various sites than I did on wikipedia. Wikipedia, while having some more encyclopedic information (a couple maps, mainly), there wasn't much there at all that wasn't - at best - cursory.
Why were they not using battery backup on their database servers (IE, their critical servers)? That way the servers would have the necessary 10 minutes (or whatever) so that they can shut down the DBs and power off the systems.
This is a negligible cost for something as integral as an active sync with the work that people have performed - for free.
Why is this not seen as important? "The wiki users will just recreate the material"? That's somewhat presumptuous.
Now, livejournal I can understand not doing this (as there are many clients which allow people to sync with their online journals and the material is fairly culturally worthless), but wikipedia? It's one of the better things on the Internet.
RTF? Why would you block an RTF file?
I like the sig... very appropriate. I don't understand how so many liberals don't understand this.
If some people were to be aware of the wonders of the universe and their own self insignificance they would turn away from violence and seek greater ends.
Why would they, exactly? Because the grandois nature of hte universe makes them realize there's a God? That's the only possible explanation for such a change in my mind. Otherwise, it would just make them feel small and insignificant, as if everything they do does indeed have no meaning, and thus they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Yeah, I remember those times.
I remember the absolutely atrocious low-frequency ringtones which would set me on edge every time someone's phone would ring (at least the new 'personalized' ringtones have a fuller frequency). I remember the shitty quality signals and the battery life which required the phone to be recharged after about 8 hours of in-pocket use and maybe 20 minutes of talk time. I remember having to cart around a huge brick which took horribly grainy photos if I wanted to use a digital camera. I remember having to wear a watch around in addition to carrying my phone if I wanted to tell the time. I remember not having voice mail, so that when my phone was off I'd not recieve calls. I remember having only 20 slots to store my friends' and family members' addresses.
Now, granted, there's something to be said for simplicity. I don't think I'd want this "phone" but I sure as hell don't want to go back to the irritation of old technology. I would like a simple, durable phone with just basic phone/clock/alarm features, though.
If you don't like the extra features, just don't use them or turn them off. That's still a possibility.
I'll probably get modded troll for this :(
If you don't already understand the whole "Linux" appeal, I doubt you'd find anything particularly appealing about a Linux-powered phone.
For the most part, I think the appeal is the ability to tinker with it, add software that wouldn't be intended, and various other 'geeky' things that most consumers wouldn't give a damn about. It would give the sysadmin type a great deal of mobile administration ability. If you don't grok grep and pine for sed, there's not a perl of wisdom I can give you which would likely make you see the significance.
Additionally, since it uses Opie, there's a lot of available software out there for the device already. Much of it is 'geeky' software, but as a for instance: you'd be able to emulate PalmOS without any problems, provided you had the ROMs. I don't know if this is possible with WinCE, though, so it might not be all that 'special'.
This particular device looks fairly useful to me, and that's saying a lot, as I tend to thing such things are just trendy toys. The existence of the SD slot is definately nice, as it'd allow you to use this device for quite a few things, including a portable MP3 player. It's got a built-in keyboard which - while not full-size, is a hell of a lot bigger than those on other chick-key keyboards.
The tribesmen in India didn't have a "6th sense". They had a folk history that told them that when the water went down, it would soon some back in a much larger quantity and that it was a good idea to head for the hills. This was talked about in the news.
I imagine this "6th sense" might be so allusive to westerners because we as a whole don't pay attention to our surroundings. We're distracted. I personally enjoy just sitting somewhere (a park, etc.) and watching people. Or on a bench on a busy street where people are walking. They'll have dozens of people walking aorund them, and yet they're painfully preoccupied with themselves: they don't even notice when people steal their wallets, bump into them, or anything like that.
Or take the behavior of your average westerner if he or she is out in the woods. They're not "aware" of their surroundings, even though they're uncommon surroundings for them. They'll hear birds, but they won't notice things like the moss on the southern exposure of a tree or rock outcropping, animal tracks, the sudden hushing of animals (birds, etc.) as a person approaches, and various other things that people that spend time in the outdoors with nature notice almost without thinking about it.