Still, my point was this: no one here said anything about being angry with women for taking men's jobs (at least prior to your post, I haven't read most of the later ones yet). It isn't very good to attack people by tacking on things you remember from elsewhere. While I agree with you for the most part, I think your arguments should probably be saved for those that say it. As for my comment about hunting for female programmers, it was just a reference to affirmative action. I was just pointing out the flip side to what you said about less competent people deserving a job in some mystical way. I could just imagine a guy being turned down for a job. "I'm sorry, we dont have 25% female employees yet, we can only hire a woman, even if she's less qualified than you are."
I'm not trying to say women are less qualified, but that this thing goes both ways. And I feel that a person's character has a lot to do with this discussion. I don't see how it couldn't. And I based my opnion off of what I seen: you belittling several posters for not only something they said, but for an almost similar thing someone else said in 1992. That didn't seem right to me and I voiced my opinion as such.
It's much better to go out hunting for female progammers in order to have some certain percentage filled. Seriously thoughy, no one said anything about females taking programming jobs away from males. It was my understanding that there is a shortage in the field and employers are taking all they can get. You just made that thing about women taking jobs and guys being annoyed about it up. While I dont doubt similar things have been said by people in the past, it wasn't mentioned here and it doesn't speak highly of your character for bringing it up without a valid reason. Perhaps you just like to argue. Anyhow, happy random flaming. If you feel like shooting some my way, feel free to make stuff up and throw a few words in my mouth here and there. I'm sure I'll live
Nuts. Just when I thought everyone stopped whining about the womenfolk and their not liking computer stuff enough, some other people dig this idea's rotting corpse up, offer no nothing new -- no real insight at all, and even widen the gender gap by taking extra steps to get women. People do what they want to. Women aren't dumb. I'm sure they are well aware computers exist, and if they want to use them, I'm sure they know the steps to take to find them. Programs like this make me want to vomit.
Why do half of his articles seem like they are against movie hype? What is so evil about a bunch of magazines saying a movie is good? It's certainly not enough that it requires this kind of attention. He sounds like some wiener that likes to go around and say things like "I saw that movie before it was popular so I'm cool." or some such nonsence. This is the most inane thing I've read since, well, probably since Katz's last article.
This was the first time I've ever been there. I went and looked around and read all the articles. They didn't seem very geeky nor was there anything I feel was newsworthy. Just when I thought Slashdot was going downhill, places like this come along and make me remember how great it really is.
I already have to pay insane shipping charges for items purchased online, now I have to pay this too? This is insane. The advantage of buying stuff on the internet was you could find stuff cheap. These extra charges just counteract it.
I certainly don't feel I'm ripping George Lucas off. I've seen the movie in the theater seven times at $7 a pop. Each time, I brought my girlfriend. Sometimes I would bring other friends along too. I always payed. This adds up to over $100 for his movie. I plan on getting the dvd and vhs movies when they come out. I've spent an assload of money on merchandise. Also, the movie isn't even in the theater here anymore so if I want to see it, this is pretty much the only way unless I'm in the mood for driving for a few hours.
...I'm spoiled by new hardware, but when I ran Office on my old system (pentium 100, 24 mb ram) "nicely" wasn't ever a word that entered my mind. Windows 98 wouldn't even run "nicely" by itself. It was usable, but rather sluggish. Way to continue advocating Microsoft on a generally *nix site and come off not looking like a troll, though. Takes some talent, and I'm sure you've fooled a lot of people. I look forward to reading more of your out of place posts.
Dude, while you seem highly intelligent, I guess the obvious just went over your head. Don't worry about it. It happens. Anyhow, it seems fairly clear that he likes Linux, as do a lot of people here at Slashdot. Linux runs on a wide variety of platforms. A new one comes out, a Linux fan asks if it will run on it, and this surprises/annoys you? You're an odd little man. Dude.
It's high time we had more people blindly following rules, and less people judging a situation based on whether it's right or wrong and raising a protest if they don't agree.
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Though he didn't say exactly, I'm pretty sure he meant an empty toilet that wasn't currently in use. At least, that's what I had assumed...
Still, my point was this: no one here said anything about being angry with women for taking men's jobs (at least prior to your post, I haven't read most of the later ones yet). It isn't very good to attack people by tacking on things you remember from elsewhere. While I agree with you for the most part, I think your arguments should probably be saved for those that say it. As for my comment about hunting for female programmers, it was just a reference to affirmative action. I was just pointing out the flip side to what you said about less competent people deserving a job in some mystical way. I could just imagine a guy being turned down for a job. "I'm sorry, we dont have 25% female employees yet, we can only hire a woman, even if she's less qualified than you are."
I'm not trying to say women are less qualified, but that this thing goes both ways. And I feel that a person's character has a lot to do with this discussion. I don't see how it couldn't. And I based my opnion off of what I seen: you belittling several posters for not only something they said, but for an almost similar thing someone else said in 1992. That didn't seem right to me and I voiced my opinion as such.
It's much better to go out hunting for female progammers in order to have some certain percentage filled. Seriously thoughy, no one said anything about females taking programming jobs away from males. It was my understanding that there is a shortage in the field and employers are taking all they can get. You just made that thing about women taking jobs and guys being annoyed about it up. While I dont doubt similar things have been said by people in the past, it wasn't mentioned here and it doesn't speak highly of your character for bringing it up without a valid reason. Perhaps you just like to argue. Anyhow, happy random flaming. If you feel like shooting some my way, feel free to make stuff up and throw a few words in my mouth here and there. I'm sure I'll live
way to not read your post before sending it! Anyhow, I meant "offer nothing new." I had a mysterious "no" in there.
Nuts. Just when I thought everyone stopped whining about the womenfolk and their not liking computer stuff enough, some other people dig this idea's rotting corpse up, offer no nothing new -- no real insight at all, and even widen the gender gap by taking extra steps to get women. People do what they want to. Women aren't dumb. I'm sure they are well aware computers exist, and if they want to use them, I'm sure they know the steps to take to find them. Programs like this make me want to vomit.
The web is a part of the net. The net also has other aspects like usenet, email, irc, etc.
Why do half of his articles seem like they are against movie hype? What is so evil about a bunch of magazines saying a movie is good? It's certainly not enough that it requires this kind of attention. He sounds like some wiener that likes to go around and say things like "I saw that movie before it was popular so I'm cool." or some such nonsence. This is the most inane thing I've read since, well, probably since Katz's last article.
This was the first time I've ever been there. I went and looked around and read all the articles. They didn't seem very geeky nor was there anything I feel was newsworthy. Just when I thought Slashdot was going downhill, places like this come along and make me remember how great it really is.
I already have to pay insane shipping charges for items purchased online, now I have to pay this too? This is insane. The advantage of buying stuff on the internet was you could find stuff cheap. These extra charges just counteract it.
I certainly don't feel I'm ripping George Lucas off. I've seen the movie in the theater seven times at $7 a pop. Each time, I brought my girlfriend. Sometimes I would bring other friends along too. I always payed. This adds up to over $100 for his movie. I plan on getting the dvd and vhs movies when they come out. I've spent an assload of money on merchandise. Also, the movie isn't even in the theater here anymore so if I want to see it, this is pretty much the only way unless I'm in the mood for driving for a few hours.
...I'm spoiled by new hardware, but when I ran Office on my old system (pentium 100, 24 mb ram) "nicely" wasn't ever a word that entered my mind. Windows 98 wouldn't even run "nicely" by itself. It was usable, but rather sluggish. Way to continue advocating Microsoft on a generally *nix site and come off not looking like a troll, though. Takes some talent, and I'm sure you've fooled a lot of people. I look forward to reading more of your out of place posts.
Dude, while you seem highly intelligent, I guess the obvious just went over your head. Don't worry about it. It happens. Anyhow, it seems fairly clear that he likes Linux, as do a lot of people here at Slashdot. Linux runs on a wide variety of platforms. A new one comes out, a Linux fan asks if it will run on it, and this surprises/annoys you? You're an odd little man. Dude.
It's high time we had more people blindly following rules, and less people judging a situation based on whether it's right or wrong and raising a protest if they don't agree.