He's still dead. Or are you looking for the Humanities at MIT article from yesterday?
If people still remember the current era of Silicon Valley over 3000 years from now, it would be a miracle. If people care about it so much they restore some of the monuments, it would be a greater miracle.
Yes, the statue of Ozymandias -- Ramses II -- that Shelley referred to has been restored and re-erected. Not bad for a king dead for millenia. And that's not the only surviving statue.
Software is art. It's primary purpose is aesthetic appeal. The age of dorky nerds running computerland is over -- computers are beautiful things for beautiful people. If you are an ugly person and refuse to embrace the lovingly crafted minimalistic design choices of the brilliant UX designers, then feel free to go back to Netscape 6.
The majority of people in the U.S. do not necessarily believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Best I can tell, "Climategate" pretty much broke the back of any public outcry for anti-Global Warming measures.
Anyway, it's no surprise the public is sometimes in "outraged opposition to climate action". The climate warriors want to take away their cars (uses too much energy, produces too much CO2), take away their houses (too big, wastes too much energy), take away their heat and air conditioning (wasteful wasteful wasteful), take away their lighting (here, use these CFL... and it's blown), take away their entertainment (that plasma TV and cable box use too much electricity. And so does that gaming PC), and even take away their food (meat produces too much methane and CO2)
The first is that she is at MIT. She makes the point that MIT has already "drunk the kool aid" of the importance of the humanities and that even in a highly "STEM" institution like that, Humanities are considered crucial. In fact MIT has only 6 "schools", and Humanities is one of them on par with Engineering and Science.
MIT has a Humanities department to maintain their accreditation.
Indeed. Note conversely that while most STEM majors take a lot of humanities classes, humanities majors rarely must take more than a couple of STEM classes.
Or, well, ANY. As a CS major, I took the same English, Philosophy, and Film (OK, that one was a walk) classes that majors in those fields took. To fulfill their math and science credits, most humanities majors would take special watered down "X for non-X majors" classes.
We also had "Physics for Engineering Majors", which was actually HARDER than the classes for the Physics majors. Same concepts, they just didn't use round numbers as much.
Nothing for taking the joy out of something like making it mandatory. So in my waning years I'll still be able to work and not compete with those young whippersnappers with their fancy new programming languages.
Yes, and that beautiful, elegant, purely functional code will even be efficient... as long as the compiler/interpreter designer has done all the work for your particular case.
So about 1 in five CD graduates is a women, and the two workplaces mentioned above there are no women at all. Something doesn't add up.
Sure it does; it's only 2 workplaces. The percentage of women in computing jobs overall roughly matches the percentage of CS graduates, but the women are not uniformly distributed.
Look at it another way, if it were white kids living in a poor neighbourhood we say they were disadvantaged and thus unlikely to earn a good wage in later life. Not because of "poor white culture", just because they are poor.
Mostly we don't talk about them at all. But indeed "poor white culture" is often blamed; terms used are "white trash", "redneck", "hillbilly" and sometimes "tweaker". Compare to "ghetto trash", various racial slurs, and "crackhead".
Nope. Most countries, including the US, the UK and probably France have what's called an "anti-avoidance" clause which says basically:
The US does not have an anti-avoidance clause in the sense you mean. The US has a rule which says that you cannot arrange your affairs on paper as to avoid taxes, while the reality is different.
We are reaching a state in our society where there simply is not enough work for everyone to maintain a middle class livelihood. Maintaining the status of the middle class will require a radical shift where the value of jobs currently seen as low value (such as a store clerk) goes up.
The iron law of economics -- supply and demand -- says that ain't going to happen. You can push and prod and legislate but supply and demand will always bite you in the ass one way or another.
You and the GP seem to live in countries (the US?) where you have an extreme problem with a lack of women in software engineering.
Elsewhere you've indicated you're in the UK. Where it's no different. Less than 18% of CS undergraduate degrees in 2011 were awarded to women, and it appears employment rates are similar.
Try this on for size for US science and engineering degrees by gender. Here's the short version for bachelors degrees:
Agricultural sciences: slightly female Biological sciences: strongly female Atmospheric sciences: strongly male (but very small overall) Earth and ocean sciences: strongly male Computer sciences: strongly male Mathematics: slightly male Astronomy: strongly male (very small overall) Chemistry: Parity. The parity persists through masters degrees but doctorates are strongly male. There has been rough parity in the Bachelor's degree since 2001. Physics: Strongly male Psychology: Strongly female -- and an extremely large number of recipients Economics: Strongly male Political science: Slightly female Sociology: Strongly female Engineering (each and every subfield): Strongly male Health: Strongly female, huge number of recipients.
Except mathematics, chemistry, agriculture, and political science, all science and engineering degrees show a gender skew.
There's a LOT of injustice in this world, so it's a good bet that everyone who isn't the sorriest bastard in the worst North Korean concentration camp is benefitting from some of it, whether they like it or not.
But when there's a focus on the injustices only as they apply to a certain group, and a movement to right those injustices by restricting, punishing, or discriminating against another group which is deemed to be benefiting from those, and furthermore any injustices against that latter group are ignored or dismissed... chances are this will create more net injustice, not less.
The truth is, for a number of self-interested male reasons the IT of the last couple decades has drifted toward misogyny rather than away from it, like the rest of corporate culture. Why? Well, brogrammers, aspies and hustlers, for a start, each for their own reasons, don't like collaborating with women, out of fear of conflict, or the risk of feeling humiliated if shown up. They need to man up, but as long as the industry at large permits them to have their little male-only clubhouses they won't make any effiort to change
Ah, a merger of the "smelly nerd" hypothesis and the "misogynistic nerd" hypothesis.
First: brogrammers. They're a hoax. They've always been a hoax. And an obvious one; the image is in fact diametrically opposed to the smelly basement-dwelling neckbearded geek stereotype, which is kind of the point. So if you are blaming brogramming for the lack of women in tech, you're either completely ignorant or your agenda matters more than the facts.
As for the asocial nerd stereotype, it has somewhat more to back it up, though it's an exaggeration as all sterotypes are. But it's so much that asocial nerds don't like women.... it's that women don't like asocial nerds.
Oh I'm sure they think it's just as senseless, but if they don't restrict it, then Hollywood won't let them use their IP as cheaply as otherwise (or at all).
Hulu IS Hollywood. They're not so much a streaming-media company as a PR move so Hollywood can say "See, look, we even have Hulu and these freetards still pirate! You need to pass the Ban Computers And Throw Everyone In Pound Me In The Ass Federal Prison Act NOW!"
Could it be that maybe a lot of people in the software world think like you? So in a system that isn't as corrupt as the country's government wouldn't it be likely to end up with a board on the association that actually does what you want?
Have you ever dealt with small-time politics? Professional associations, homeowners associations, clubs, etc? They're exactly as petty and corrupt as a country's government, they're just less sophisticated about it.
Clearly a professional association isn't the place for you. Prison maybe?
If the skills are so marketable, why is unemployment in the trades so dismal? It's still at around 10% for plumbers and electricians. I think the much hyped tradesman shortage is as imaginary as the STEM shortage. It's not that there aren't enough, it's that wages are too high for the bosses' taste.
For machinists at least, I've heard they play the same purple squirrel game they play in IT. "Oh, I'm sorry, you've got 5 years working on Fujitsu equipment? We only use Hitachi here? The Hitachi Model 100? Sorry, you'll need 10 years on the Hitachi 220, never mind that they only released it last year".
Suppose there is one antenna on the roof of a building. At any given time, this antenna is being rented out and a work received on it transmitted to one subscriber. Is that a public performance?
Now suppose there are 100 antennas on that building, each owned by a different entity and at any given time a work received on each one is transmitted to one subscriber (per antenna). Any public performances here?
Now suppose a holding company buys each of those 100 antenna lessors. Does that make it a public performance?
These associations are formed by members of the discipline and staffed and lead by people of those disciplines. A manager can't become an Engineering Fellow and can't be elected to a board, so why would you let some media cronies run your life? This isn't a US government election and *YOU* have the chance to help write the rules for how it would work.
No, not me. Those members of the profession who are good at schmoozing and politicking. They may have written code once; they're probably managers or worse now.
Of note is that no other professional association in the world has their code of ethics cover any technical stuff and DRM would be no exception.
The ACM has "respect copyright and patent" as one of the line items in one of their codes of ethics.
It's also typical of ethics codes to incorporate the entirety of the law by reference, making following the law an ethical obligation rather than a matter of acquiescence to superior force.
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He's still dead. Or are you looking for the Humanities at MIT article from yesterday?
If people still remember the current era of Silicon Valley over 3000 years from now, it would be a miracle. If people care about it so much they restore some of the monuments, it would be a greater miracle.
Yes, the statue of Ozymandias -- Ramses II -- that Shelley referred to has been restored and re-erected. Not bad for a king dead for millenia. And that's not the only surviving statue.
Neither 1 Infinite Loop nor 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway nor 1 Hacker Way were on the list.
Goddammit, Poe's Law!
Best I can tell, "Climategate" pretty much broke the back of any public outcry for anti-Global Warming measures.
Anyway, it's no surprise the public is sometimes in "outraged opposition to climate action". The climate warriors want to take away their cars (uses too much energy, produces too much CO2), take away their houses (too big, wastes too much energy), take away their heat and air conditioning (wasteful wasteful wasteful), take away their lighting (here, use these CFL... and it's blown), take away their entertainment (that plasma TV and cable box use too much electricity. And so does that gaming PC), and even take away their food (meat produces too much methane and CO2)
Do you WANT to create a shadow banking system? Because this is how you do it.
MIT has a Humanities department to maintain their accreditation.
Or, well, ANY. As a CS major, I took the same English, Philosophy, and Film (OK, that one was a walk) classes that majors in those fields took. To fulfill their math and science credits, most humanities majors would take special watered down "X for non-X majors" classes.
We also had "Physics for Engineering Majors", which was actually HARDER than the classes for the Physics majors. Same concepts, they just didn't use round numbers as much.
Nothing for taking the joy out of something like making it mandatory. So in my waning years I'll still be able to work and not compete with those young whippersnappers with their fancy new programming languages.
Yes, and that beautiful, elegant, purely functional code will even be efficient... as long as the compiler/interpreter designer has done all the work for your particular case.
Sure it does; it's only 2 workplaces. The percentage of women in computing jobs overall roughly matches the percentage of CS graduates, but the women are not uniformly distributed.
Mostly we don't talk about them at all. But indeed "poor white culture" is often blamed; terms used are "white trash", "redneck", "hillbilly" and sometimes "tweaker". Compare to "ghetto trash", various racial slurs, and "crackhead".
The US does not have an anti-avoidance clause in the sense you mean. The US has a rule which says that you cannot arrange your affairs on paper as to avoid taxes, while the reality is different.
...for the first 10,000 miles or so. Damage will accumulate and after a while it'll work as well as an old nonstick frying pan.
The iron law of economics -- supply and demand -- says that ain't going to happen. You can push and prod and legislate but supply and demand will always bite you in the ass one way or another.
Microsoft.
Elsewhere you've indicated you're in the UK. Where it's no different. Less than 18% of CS undergraduate degrees in 2011 were awarded to women, and it appears employment rates are similar.
Try this on for size for US science and engineering degrees by gender. Here's the short version for bachelors degrees:
Agricultural sciences: slightly female
Biological sciences: strongly female
Atmospheric sciences: strongly male (but very small overall)
Earth and ocean sciences: strongly male
Computer sciences: strongly male
Mathematics: slightly male
Astronomy: strongly male (very small overall)
Chemistry: Parity. The parity persists through masters degrees but doctorates are strongly male. There has been rough parity in the Bachelor's degree since 2001.
Physics: Strongly male
Psychology: Strongly female -- and an extremely large number of recipients
Economics: Strongly male
Political science: Slightly female
Sociology: Strongly female
Engineering (each and every subfield): Strongly male
Health: Strongly female, huge number of recipients.
Except mathematics, chemistry, agriculture, and political science, all science and engineering degrees show a gender skew.
There's a LOT of injustice in this world, so it's a good bet that everyone who isn't the sorriest bastard in the worst North Korean concentration camp is benefitting from some of it, whether they like it or not.
But when there's a focus on the injustices only as they apply to a certain group, and a movement to right those injustices by restricting, punishing, or discriminating against another group which is deemed to be benefiting from those, and furthermore any injustices against that latter group are ignored or dismissed... chances are this will create more net injustice, not less.
Ah, a merger of the "smelly nerd" hypothesis and the "misogynistic nerd" hypothesis.
First: brogrammers. They're a hoax. They've always been a hoax. And an obvious one; the image is in fact diametrically opposed to the smelly basement-dwelling neckbearded geek stereotype, which is kind of the point. So if you are blaming brogramming for the lack of women in tech, you're either completely ignorant or your agenda matters more than the facts.
As for the asocial nerd stereotype, it has somewhat more to back it up, though it's an exaggeration as all sterotypes are. But it's so much that asocial nerds don't like women.... it's that women don't like asocial nerds.
Hulu IS Hollywood. They're not so much a streaming-media company as a PR move so Hollywood can say "See, look, we even have Hulu and these freetards still pirate! You need to pass the Ban Computers And Throw Everyone In Pound Me In The Ass Federal Prison Act NOW!"
Have you ever dealt with small-time politics? Professional associations, homeowners associations, clubs, etc? They're exactly as petty and corrupt as a country's government, they're just less sophisticated about it.
Thank you for making my point.
For machinists at least, I've heard they play the same purple squirrel game they play in IT. "Oh, I'm sorry, you've got 5 years working on Fujitsu equipment? We only use Hitachi here? The Hitachi Model 100? Sorry, you'll need 10 years on the Hitachi 220, never mind that they only released it last year".
To the NYPD, "community outreach" means a longer baton.
Suppose there is one antenna on the roof of a building. At any given time, this antenna is being rented out and a work received on it transmitted to one subscriber. Is that a public performance?
Now suppose there are 100 antennas on that building, each owned by a different entity and at any given time a work received on each one is transmitted to one subscriber (per antenna). Any public performances here?
Now suppose a holding company buys each of those 100 antenna lessors. Does that make it a public performance?
No, not me. Those members of the profession who are good at schmoozing and politicking. They may have written code once; they're probably managers or worse now.
The ACM has "respect copyright and patent" as one of the line items in one of their codes of ethics.
It's also typical of ethics codes to incorporate the entirety of the law by reference, making following the law an ethical obligation rather than a matter of acquiescence to superior force.