Sorry, but any job category that has an actual 1:1 male:female ratio is a statistical fluke. Period.
If women want better representation in a given field, the jobs are there. They simply need to have the qualifications to earn them.
And "has a penis" isn't among the qualifications.
Women have equality of opportunity in this country. But that's not enough for some. They want equality of outcome. Regardless of how stupid the idea is.
In short, anyone, man, woman, any of the umpty-zillion and one self-defined whatevers, if they believe in equality of outcome over equality of opportunity, please do humanity a favor and make sure these people never breed.
The human race is already collectively stupid enough as it is...
These companies keep coming out and closing down their IM services or replacing them with non-open services. And having to run multiple different nasty, intrusive IM clients just to stay connected is straight-up BULLSHIT.
If their services aren't integrated into universal IM clients like Trillian, Adium or Pidgin, DON'T FUCKING USE THEM. Simple. Because if you do, you're basically committing yourself to a technological ghetto scene.
Sounds like a profound "SKIP THE FUCK OUT OF IT!" to me.
Seriously, what kind of product (OF ANY SORT) says "don't use this anywhere near anything else or it may stop functioning"?
Time for Nintendo to go back to the drawing board and design a real product. These flaky $300 kiddie efforts are just a waste of everyone's time and money.
Unfortunately, it looks like the web is going to have to wait TBL's generation of old developers to simply die off before it can be reworked on a platform of truly open standards.
Like one of those "Come here and we'll offer you a high-stress job for well below the going rate because you don't know what cost-of-living is out here!
Games are second-order products of the tech industry.
Graphical engines, encryption, security products, etc, are all first-order products. And that's generally what's meant when talking about the technology industry.
I understand that about the permitting and approvals process.
The grid tie and permitting for install will ALWAYS be the boat anchor in the solar scenario.
I just anticipate the installation and setup process to grow more and more idiot proof. Most of the people doing installs for themselves do some research. The rest have solar sold to them as "bling" and they're essentially just given an "idiot meter" to show them "SAVINGS!" What we're likely to see more of are more of the "blingers" trying DIY or DIY upgrades and doing something to put themselves in competition for a Darwin.
Up until a few years ago, gaming cons were like that too. But as these things grow, that sort of thing falls away and the audience gets more diverse.
Now we have creepy stalker-types coming in too as they think it's a target-rich environment.
One of our demo agents (who could definitely fit the description of "babe") has had an especially annoying stalker pestering her at several conventions. As a result, we generally have several large and/or burly security types hanging out to offer assistance if necessary.
Now this isn't to say gaming industry cons are rapefests or anything. But any growth in a convention tends to lead to diversification of attendees. And not all of said attendees are well socialized...
No. Because it's a general gaming/geek culture convention. And not just for computers or focusing on the actual, underlying technology products in said games.
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Next you need to ask me how many shits I have to give...
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, teach gym.
Need I elaborate further?
Shouldn't both sexes want the same things?
Not to put too fine a point on it, no.
Maybe because the sample size simply isn't anywhere near large enough compared to the plethora of choices available.
Sorry, but any job category that has an actual 1:1 male:female ratio is a statistical fluke. Period.
If women want better representation in a given field, the jobs are there. They simply need to have the qualifications to earn them.
And "has a penis" isn't among the qualifications.
Women have equality of opportunity in this country.
But that's not enough for some. They want equality of outcome. Regardless of how stupid the idea is.
In short, anyone, man, woman, any of the umpty-zillion and one self-defined whatevers, if they believe in equality of outcome over equality of opportunity, please do humanity a favor and make sure these people never breed.
The human race is already collectively stupid enough as it is...
Seriously.
These companies keep coming out and closing down their IM services or replacing them with non-open services.
And having to run multiple different nasty, intrusive IM clients just to stay connected is straight-up BULLSHIT.
If their services aren't integrated into universal IM clients like Trillian, Adium or Pidgin, DON'T FUCKING USE THEM. Simple.
Because if you do, you're basically committing yourself to a technological ghetto scene.
DRM, in any way, shape or form is a direct threat to the open, and archival nature of the web.
Seriously. Go back to any of these services that used any sort of DRM and later closed.
Now go ahead and access their content....
Oh wait!
"was once".
I took a shit once. And I valued it at INFINITY DOLLARS.
Unfortunately the real world took its toll and the pricing collapsed .
Some kill-crazy sonofabitch off the chain and looking for body count.
How does one PROJECT this sort of thing without actually getting lost in it?
In essence, making the other dumb sonofabitch crap themselves for their country and not want to actually fight and die?
Scary naming conventions.
Like the SEC was EVER going to approve that.
A derivative of a totally unregulated virtual commodity that's created out of thin air?
Pfft. Keep smokin' that good shit!
Bullshit.
Good middlemen can learn how to middleman ANYTHING.
Hey. Be happy you're the Graceland of Grunge and the Capital Of Crappy Coffee.
Don't be greedy!
Sounds like a profound "SKIP THE FUCK OUT OF IT!" to me.
Seriously, what kind of product (OF ANY SORT) says "don't use this anywhere near anything else or it may stop functioning"?
Time for Nintendo to go back to the drawing board and design a real product. These flaky $300 kiddie efforts are just a waste of everyone's time and money.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Unfortunately, it looks like the web is going to have to wait TBL's generation of old developers to simply die off before it can be reworked on a platform of truly open standards.
So 20-30 more years of this crap...
*sigh*
Seriously.
Your neglect of quality control has been there for the entirety of your company.
If you're going to be selling computers worth hundreds or thousands of dollars, you NEED Q&A.
Otherwise, don't even bother.
Yes. But it's possible for Twitter to still censor, even when the stuff being censored meets its criteria for acceptable content.
Simply because they're a private company doesn't mean they can't also be censorious outside of their AUP.
Like one of those "Come here and we'll offer you a high-stress job for well below the going rate because you don't know what cost-of-living is out here!
Apparently you have no clue what censorship is.
Nobody's saying you have freedom of speech on Twitter.
That doesn't mean you still can't have issues with censorship.
And Twitter most definitely DOES.
Because, unlike a console, the card will stay relevant longer.
If you're making it generally available across multiple content providers, cool.
If it's going to be on a proprietary platform per-studio, or some abomination like Hulu? Fuck no.
Games are second-order products of the tech industry.
Graphical engines, encryption, security products, etc, are all first-order products. And that's generally what's meant when talking about the technology industry.
I understand that about the permitting and approvals process.
The grid tie and permitting for install will ALWAYS be the boat anchor in the solar scenario.
I just anticipate the installation and setup process to grow more and more idiot proof.
Most of the people doing installs for themselves do some research. The rest have solar sold to them as "bling" and they're essentially just given an "idiot meter" to show them "SAVINGS!"
What we're likely to see more of are more of the "blingers" trying DIY or DIY upgrades and doing something to put themselves in competition for a Darwin.
It depends.
Up until a few years ago, gaming cons were like that too. But as these things grow, that sort of thing falls away and the audience gets more diverse.
Now we have creepy stalker-types coming in too as they think it's a target-rich environment.
One of our demo agents (who could definitely fit the description of "babe") has had an especially annoying stalker pestering her at several conventions. As a result, we generally have several large and/or burly security types hanging out to offer assistance if necessary.
Now this isn't to say gaming industry cons are rapefests or anything. But any growth in a convention tends to lead to diversification of attendees. And not all of said attendees are well socialized...
No. Because it's a general gaming/geek culture convention. And not just for computers or focusing on the actual, underlying technology products in said games.
What you look of as a "kit" is still little more than a bunch of components with the barest integration done.
In the future we're going to see stuff that you simply unfold, place, hook up a couple wires and power on. Minimal actual "assembly".