And yes boys, if you want to find a date, respecting the object of your affections may be a good place to start!
Well, "with respect" that is little more than a cheap stereotyped gibe and does nothing to bolster your argument.
This isn't about the ability to compete. The problem is that females didn't even try to compete.
No, the problem is that people see it as a problem. Is there some evidence that there are vast (or even small) numbers of women that secretly wanted to compete, but were intimidated by the alleged all male nature of coding? Or have you personally decided that it was unacceptable? Maybe they are not interested? Maybe you should leave them alone. Maybe they have better things do do during the summer.
By all means make sure that the program was advertised sufficiently to women, but don't treat them as needing special discrimination so as to be able to have the ability to participate.
I have worked with many women colleagues during 10 years of employment in the software industry, and 4 years of compsci at university. Some were excellent, some were good and some were not. Same as for men. The main problem is with people who are not interested. I don't see discriminatory schemes as doing anything other than increasing that problem.
This is why all the explanations of "why" are so poor and amount to nothing more than word games & personal philosophies.
Asking why existance exists, while seeming like it might be something profound we ought to know, is not a question that has any real meaning. We can only find out what "is".
Well, that has very little to do with iTunes and very much to do with the contract he signed with his record label. There are 65c there for the taking. If he's getting 9c, it's really his own dumb fault. I appreciate that he probably has some kind of "standard recording contract", but just because the standard is to rip off artists and burden them with debt doesn't mean he should have signed it.
There was a kind of industrial saw featured on slashdot a few years ago that cuts through pretty much anything except... human fingers (and sausages). It that a waste? Should people just be more careful?
Of course you need to be honest with your evaluation of yourself and your skills too. Being your own boss doesn't necessarily guarentee you won't be working for an incompetent slave driver:)
Well maybe the gp phrased it badly, but it's obvious the meaning is the right to be taken seriously when you complain rather than some facist attempt to curtail your constitutionaly defended freedom of speech.
There's several Slashot users that one can count on only seeing when there's some bad Apple news to spin.
I'm curious. How can you possibly tell? I've been reading slashdot for a few years, and the number of non-editor users I can recognise I can count half the fingers of one hand. Slashdot's design doesn't lend itself towards user recognition.
Well, they have to charge, because the advertising doesn't cover the price they paid for the rights. The companies have no interest in football or building a football fanbase. They have an interest in making a profit. Of course for less popular games, they might offer it for free, but the world cup is the big payday. It's as guarenteed an audience as they are going to get.
The public domain is a kind of bin where the old stuff doesn't end up. That's the problem. It's still under copyright long after it should have been in the public domain.
I appreciate your desire to have people fairly rewareded, the thing is, can you come up with a legal framework for copyright protection in a digital age that doesn't involve draconian laws? I think it would be very hard to do so effectively. The main thing preventing (even more) rampant piracy is still just bandwidth, and for literature, a good portable e-reader. To counter that inherent piratability effectively, the laws have to be very severe. So severe as to make murder look begin to look like a misdemeanour in comarison. (well, I exaggerate). Is a comfortable life for (insert person of genuine artistic merit here) worth the kinds of laws that are currently being passed? Laws that lest we forget, limit intellectual freedom.
True up to a point, but at a certain stage market forces come into play, and companies willing to take the risk of being "peanut free" (or more likely "child friendly", since that's a much bigger market) will make products to serve that market because of the profits that exist in doing so. Course it sucks if you are a small market, but I think your claim that video games will all be adult only is particularly exaggerated. Everything containing peanuts is significantly more likely.
You may be "technically correct" but you are "actually wrong". People, judges included, aren't monumentally stupid you know? It's only numbers argument is just pedanticism. You may as well say images are just a bunch of colored dots. Or music lyrics just vibrations in the air. Things have a context and people can interpret the context. People[*], once they know the facts, are not a computer program that you can decieve with stupid tricks or simple word games.
(you are right of course) However what's interesting is how obvious the internet makes it that most mainstream journalism is just recycled press releases and anonymous AP/Reuters articles. There is very very little independant reporting going on. You can see it for consumer electronics too. Our marketing announced the product that we have been developing for the past 18 months. We are a big company, so this was a fairly heavily covered announcement, but the vast majority of the coverage out there is just recycling of our press release & marketing material. It's dissappointing in a way. After 18 months, we would like to know what people really think! Instead if you search for reaction, you mostly see hundreds of variations on our press pack, with 3 or 4 independant opinions (and those recycled endlessly in the "blogosphere" also).
I'm more concerned about the recycled arguments that people copied from some tv pundit I see on websites from people that are insecure about unamerican sports existing and being more popular.
But logic is a tool for the study of philosophy. It's usefulness might say something about some peoples skill as toolmakers or the universality of tools. It says nothing about philosophy as a discipline, since logic is an incidental side effect rather than the main thrust.
In theory, but much of philosophy gets along fine without reference to anything other than itself, or at best the imaginings of it's practitioners. Natural Philosophy did well to go it alone and seek the name change. Also having an impact on and being grounded in, the real world, are seperate matters entirely as philosophers have demonstrated time and again to the misfortune of society.
I disagree with the "stop using their products" line. In relation to media companies, what it boils down to is saying is "stop participating in the shared culture of your contemporaries". It is by and large an unreasonable request to make of a fellow human. Like it or not, culture is different to generic product X.
I agree with this. Almost all of the entried listed in the journal break with larger than default font sizes. I have font size set to minimum 18 (due to high resolution setting on the monitor) and slashdot itself is fine with this. Most of the redesigns are not. Crap and all as the original is there were very few of the redesigns I'd even consider, let alone regard as superior. Anyway, here were two that don't break with my font selection, and look reasonably good to me:
Well, as someone who had to use a DEC Alpha running *spit* Digital Unix, I say good riddance.
As a server maybe they are fine, but really as a workstation they had nothing to recommend them. It's no accident that they lost all their market to Windows, buggy and all as it was.
Well, I have to disagree. I need to fix kernel bugs all the time as part of my job (not in Linux), and it's no big deal, even though I am far from being a kernel developer. There is nothing magical about kernels. They are just C with little bits of assembler thrown in here and there. Of course there is easy to read code and hard to read code, but that is largely unrelated to whether something is in a kernel or not.
Tcl syntax is not nice (and I say this as someone motivated enough to learn it myself purely out of interest). Sure it has it's fans, but by and large only among people with degrees in computer science. It is pretty unsuited as an easy to use language for the average "curious" computer owner. There are a few nice ideas in and around wish, but the fact that it uses tcl is not one of them.
MS Windows if it lived up to it's name would allow you to right click -> new window and let you start programming the window there and then (in something nicer than Tcl:)
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No, the problem is that people see it as a problem. Is there some evidence that there are vast (or even small) numbers of women that secretly wanted to compete, but were intimidated by the alleged all male nature of coding? Or have you personally decided that it was unacceptable? Maybe they are not interested? Maybe you should leave them alone. Maybe they have better things do do during the summer.
By all means make sure that the program was advertised sufficiently to women, but don't treat them as needing special discrimination so as to be able to have the ability to participate.
I have worked with many women colleagues during 10 years of employment in the software industry, and 4 years of compsci at university. Some were excellent, some were good and some were not. Same as for men. The main problem is with people who are not interested. I don't see discriminatory schemes as doing anything other than increasing that problem.
There is no "why". There just "is".
This is why all the explanations of "why" are so poor and amount to nothing more than word games & personal philosophies.
Asking why existance exists, while seeming like it might be something profound we ought to know, is not a question that has any real meaning. We can only find out what "is".
Well, that has very little to do with iTunes and very much to do with the contract he signed with his record label. There are 65c there for the taking. If he's getting 9c, it's really his own dumb fault. I appreciate that he probably has some kind of "standard recording contract", but just because the standard is to rip off artists and burden them with debt doesn't mean he should have signed it.
There was a kind of industrial saw featured on slashdot a few years ago that cuts through pretty much anything except ... human fingers (and sausages). It that a waste? Should people just be more careful?
Of course you need to be honest with your evaluation of yourself and your skills too. :)
Being your own boss doesn't necessarily guarentee you won't be working for an incompetent slave driver
Well maybe the gp phrased it badly, but it's obvious the meaning is the right to be taken seriously when you complain rather than some facist attempt to curtail your constitutionaly defended freedom of speech.
Well, they have to charge, because the advertising doesn't cover the price they paid for the rights. The companies have no interest in football or building a football fanbase. They have an interest in making a profit. Of course for less popular games, they might offer it for free, but the world cup is the big payday. It's as guarenteed an audience as they are going to get.
The public domain is a kind of bin where the old stuff doesn't end up. That's the problem. It's still under copyright long after it should have been in the public domain.
I appreciate your desire to have people fairly rewareded, the thing is, can you come up with a legal framework for copyright protection in a digital age that doesn't involve draconian laws? I think it would be very hard to do so effectively. The main thing preventing (even more) rampant piracy is still just bandwidth, and for literature, a good portable e-reader. To counter that inherent piratability effectively, the laws have to be very severe. So severe as to make murder look begin to look like a misdemeanour in comarison. (well, I exaggerate). Is a comfortable life for (insert person of genuine artistic merit here) worth the kinds of laws that are currently being passed? Laws that lest we forget, limit intellectual freedom.
True up to a point, but at a certain stage market forces come into play, and companies willing to take the risk of being "peanut free" (or more likely "child friendly", since that's a much bigger market) will make products to serve that market because of the profits that exist in doing so. Course it sucks if you are a small market, but I think your claim that video games will all be adult only is particularly exaggerated. Everything containing peanuts is significantly more likely.
You may be "technically correct" but you are "actually wrong". People, judges included, aren't monumentally stupid you know? It's only numbers argument is just pedanticism. You may as well say images are just a bunch of colored dots. Or music lyrics just vibrations in the air. Things have a context and people can interpret the context. People[*], once they know the facts, are not a computer program that you can decieve with stupid tricks or simple word games.
[*] well, most people[**]
[**] some anyway
(you are right of course) However what's interesting is how obvious the internet makes it that most mainstream journalism is just recycled press releases and anonymous AP/Reuters articles. There is very very little independant reporting going on. You can see it for consumer electronics too. Our marketing announced the product that we have been developing for the past 18 months. We are a big company, so this was a fairly heavily covered announcement, but the vast majority of the coverage out there is just recycling of our press release & marketing material. It's dissappointing in a way. After 18 months, we would like to know what people really think! Instead if you search for reaction, you mostly see hundreds of variations on our press pack, with 3 or 4 independant opinions (and those recycled endlessly in the "blogosphere" also).
I'm more concerned about the recycled arguments that people copied from some tv pundit I see on websites from people that are insecure about unamerican sports existing and being more popular.
Do you also knock on people's doors and then run away?
But logic is a tool for the study of philosophy. It's usefulness might say something about some peoples skill as toolmakers or the universality of tools. It says nothing about philosophy as a discipline, since logic is an incidental side effect rather than the main thrust.
In theory, but much of philosophy gets along fine without reference to anything other than itself, or at best the imaginings of it's practitioners. Natural Philosophy did well to go it alone and seek the name change. Also having an impact on and being grounded in, the real world, are seperate matters entirely as philosophers have demonstrated time and again to the misfortune of society.
I disagree with the "stop using their products" line. In relation to media companies, what it boils down to is saying is "stop participating in the shared culture of your contemporaries". It is by and large an unreasonable request to make of a fellow human. Like it or not, culture is different to generic product X.
I agree with this. Almost all of the entried listed in the journal break with larger than default font sizes. I have font size set to minimum 18 (due to high resolution setting on the monitor) and slashdot itself is fine with this. Most of the redesigns are not. Crap and all as the original is there were very few of the redesigns I'd even consider, let alone regard as superior. Anyway, here were two that don't break with my font selection, and look reasonably good to me:
http://slaser.com/slashdot/draft2
http://mofus.com/slashdot/HomePage.html
Well, as someone who had to use a DEC Alpha running *spit* Digital Unix, I say good riddance.
As a server maybe they are fine, but really as a workstation they had nothing to recommend them. It's no accident that they lost all their market to Windows, buggy and all as it was.
Well, I have to disagree. I need to fix kernel bugs all the time as part of my job (not in Linux), and it's no big deal, even though I am far from being a kernel developer. There is nothing magical about kernels. They are just C with little bits of assembler thrown in here and there. Of course there is easy to read code and hard to read code, but that is largely unrelated to whether something is in a kernel or not.
He'll notice when it kills his firefox, which Java still does far too often.
Tcl syntax is not nice (and I say this as someone motivated enough to learn it myself purely out of interest). Sure it has it's fans, but by and large only among people with degrees in computer science. It is pretty unsuited as an easy to use language for the average "curious" computer owner. There are a few nice ideas in and around wish, but the fact that it uses tcl is not one of them.
:)
MS Windows if it lived up to it's name would allow you to right click -> new window and let you start programming the window there and then (in something nicer than Tcl
That's not the Virgin Mary, that's Bette Davis.
p.s. there are no gods