As an intelligent, witty, charming, gorgeous, graceful, friendly female gamer myself... I have to admit that there is a certain amount of an ego boost that goes with the knowledge that guys are attracted to me. And I'm married with kids.
Heck, you can play with me and it won't cost you more than an EVE subscription. I even PVP and live in 0.0 (If you don't play EVE that won't mean a thing to you.)
Now... for "cyber"... that'll cost you 1 billion ISK per half hour of my time and proof of age.;)
Oh come now people... can we really expect 11th circuit court judges to be able to distinguish between the pronouns "by" and "to"?
Let's do a quick poll among intelligent slashdotters: Question: Is there a legal distinction between "email sent to an ISP" versus "email sent by an ISP"? Answer choice are: a) Yes b) No c) It depends on what the definition of "is" is. d) You didn't say "simon says".
OK, think about it. When "we" were teenagers, the only way to play a computer game was to invent one. I know, because that is exactly what we did on the TRS-80 Model III's that made up the computer lab in high school. There was no internet, no free games to download, no cable TV. We had to create our own entertainment. Nowadays, who needs to program when you can just find one someone else wrote on the 'net and download it for free? Or get the 'rents to buy you the latest gadget that comes installed with all the entertaining gizmos one's little heart could desire.
The point here is that we need to find a way to make programming seem a little less like work and more fun. Try Alice. http://www.alice.org/ Java programming in 3D as an introduction to programming. This will help, and if more of us "tech geeks" take the time to inspire our youth to figure out how the magic works, their little creative minds may go in the direction of CS for the fun of it. Not because it is tedious work.
Interesting that among all of pundits willing to weigh in on this issue, the one thing missing is that none of you seem at all concerned that today's teenagers are very much into exploiting computer technology for their needs, but so few want to figure out how it works. My question to y'all is... what will you do the next time you are standing before "the great and powerful Oz" with your own kid or a neighbor's? Will you encourage him or her to look behind the curtain?
In answer to the "opinion" part of your question,
go look out your window (if you have a street-facing one). See all the cars people are driving?
Like the ones that go from 0 to 60 mph in 4.2 seconds? Or the ones that have a GPS device, and
8-speaker stereo with Bose audio in them?
Had Henry Ford made the basic design of his automobile "open source", and companies came along and decided to sell their own cars "at cost" with all their employees getting salaries
based upon "the going rate" instead of how well
the company was profitting... we'd all still be
driving Model T's. IMHO
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As an intelligent, witty, charming, gorgeous, graceful, friendly female gamer myself... I have to admit that there is a certain amount of an ego boost that goes with the knowledge that guys are attracted to me. And I'm married with kids.
Heck, you can play with me and it won't cost you more than an EVE subscription. I even PVP and live in 0.0 (If you don't play EVE that won't mean a thing to you.)
Now... for "cyber"... that'll cost you 1 billion ISK per half hour of my time and proof of age. ;)
Oh come now people... can we really expect 11th circuit court judges to be able to distinguish between the pronouns "by" and "to"?
Let's do a quick poll among intelligent slashdotters:
Question: Is there a legal distinction between "email sent to an ISP" versus "email sent by an ISP"? Answer choice are:
a) Yes
b) No
c) It depends on what the definition of "is" is.
d) You didn't say "simon says".
OK, think about it. When "we" were teenagers, the only way to play a computer game was to invent one. I know, because that is exactly what we did on the TRS-80 Model III's that made up the computer lab in high school. There was no internet, no free games to download, no cable TV. We had to create our own entertainment.
Nowadays, who needs to program when you can just find one someone else wrote on the 'net and download it for free? Or get the 'rents to buy you the latest gadget that comes installed with all the entertaining gizmos one's little heart could desire.
The point here is that we need to find a way to make programming seem a little less like work and more fun. Try Alice. http://www.alice.org/ Java programming in 3D as an introduction to programming. This will help, and if more of us "tech geeks" take the time to inspire our youth to figure out how the magic works, their little creative minds may go in the direction of CS for the fun of it. Not because it is tedious work.
Interesting that among all of pundits willing to weigh in on this issue, the one thing missing is that none of you seem at all concerned that today's teenagers are very much into exploiting computer technology for their needs, but so few want to figure out how it works. My question to y'all is... what will you do the next time you are standing before "the great and powerful Oz" with your own kid or a neighbor's? Will you encourage him or her to look behind the curtain?
Had Henry Ford made the basic design of his automobile "open source", and companies came along and decided to sell their own cars "at cost" with all their employees getting salaries based upon "the going rate" instead of how well the company was profitting... we'd all still be driving Model T's. IMHO