But they don't give the men less respect BECAUSE they are men, do they? You are the one who missed the point entirely.
I have had the same experience in my life as a female electronic technician, so I know what she's talking about. We do get treated with less respect by some people right from the beginning, until we show them what we can do. Then they either treat us with some respect or they hate us for being smarter than they think we should be, depending on whether they are introspective enough to be capable of re-examining their initial assumptions or not. Younger men seem to have more trouble with that because life hasn't taught them enough lessons.
It does help to develop a thicker skin and learn to tell when they are serious and when they're just trying to bait you because they are bored, and to learn how to respond in kind in the latter situation.
You know, that sounds pretty ironic to me, when the thing most likely to get me swearing at my Windows computer at work is when it keeps defaulting to doing things in ways I don't want to do them because the programmers apparently think they know better than I do what I want, so they try to do too much for me and I have to backtrack and figure out how to do what I really want. I like simplicity, and I want the computer to do what I told it to do, no more, no less.
I am not a programmer, I'm an electronic technician. From that perspective I have to say that the more complicated you make things, the more likely thay are to break, and the more modular they are, the easier they are to fix.
If you think that's bad you should consider how it is for those of us who use Macs at home having to figure out how to do things in Windows, especially since the computers where I work have four different versions of Windows on them. Ah, legacy applications. Gotta love 'em.
>Now imagine that a press photographer comes along - well, that's a completely different story. Now >I know whatever I do could be put on the front cover of a mass circulation publication and >literally millions of people would see it and read it.
Then you would be completely within your rights to leave the party. You have no right to prevent someone who is allowed in by the host from taking pictures and printing them, and if you would be ashamed to have your presence or your actions in that place publicized perhaps you shouldn't be there.
Simple to make, maybe not as simple to play. Some may require more active use of the mind than those twitch games that attract more of the guys. The bigger difference I see is that these flash games Don't cost any money and you don't have to make a time commitment, but they do leave you open to receiving a lot of spam and possibly getting malware installed by some sites. I think many women haven't made that connection because they are running I.E without anything like noscript and they don't have their browser prompting them about cookies as I do. Or maybe they let someone else take care of keeping the computer cleaned up.
I kind of like the idea of tagging posts just like articles. I'd be amused to see how many posts would end up with "fud, notfud, shill, macfanboy" appended at the bottom.
Okay, this makes me feel that I'm shooting myself in the foot when metamod "insightful" mods on posts I disagree with as "fair", or just don't metamod them at all if I can't be objective. Well, I hope there are people in the opposite camp that are just as stubborn about being fair as I am, because I don't intend to change the way I do it.
The sad thing is, Most shows that claim to be news shows aren't anymore. It's all horrific accidents and sensational crimes locally and fear and scandal mongering nationally, with very little international coverage outside of the daily bombing death toll in Baghdad. TV is way behind the internet for news these days, and it has always been way behind the newspapers.
I'm female, and I don't get this clique thing either. That's probably part of the reason I went into a male dominated industry in the first place, because other women confuse me.
Movie theaters charge so much because (a) They typically don't get a cut of the admission price until the movie has made over a certain amount, usually after it's been in the theater for maybe a month, and (b) People will pay it.
Like them, the guy has to make money, or he can't stay in business. If he discounts the price on the food he may have to raise what he charges for gaming. It's a tricky thing to balance, and depends a lot on the affluence, or lack of it, of his target clientele, and the availabilty of alternatives for both entertainment and food and drink.
In my experience it's been S&M that pulls the numbers out of their asses, trying to make the sale, then management does their best to live up to it, pushing everyone under them for overtime work and scrambling to expedite delivery of materials where they're needed. I'm in the hardware end of things, but I expect things work the same way in software.
But I was enjoying the thought of an upgrade in Barrens chat. I do hate having to stop what I'm doing and put entire groups of people on ignore just so I can spot it if something I AM interested in comes up in the message box.
Companies have been doing the same thing with manufacturing jobs for years. The company I work for did it last year, moving all of the higher volume lines to China. The people who were being laid off had to help in that project.
I'm sorry but I have difficulty beleving you have a chemistry degree and you still manage to conflate sulfanilamide and sulfur. The ingredients in shampoos and soaps are sulfates, containing sulfur, not the antibiotic. I am genuinely allergic to sulfa, but I can use most shampoos with no ill effect, except those with certain perfumes or dyes, which have other chemicals that I happen to be allergic to. Sodium laurel sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate are in most shampoos that I DO use.
When I went to Germany I was pleasantly surprised to find that Volvic tastes very much like the tap water at home here in Colorado. Good thing, too, as I was warned not to drink the tap water there. I hate the fizzy stuff, didn't realize before I went that I just needed to look for mineralvasser ohne gasse.
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But they don't give the men less respect BECAUSE they are men, do they? You are the one who missed the point entirely.
I have had the same experience in my life as a female electronic technician, so I know what she's talking about. We do get treated with less respect by some people right from the beginning, until we show them what we can do. Then they either treat us with some respect or they hate us for being smarter than they think we should be, depending on whether they are introspective enough to be capable of re-examining their initial assumptions or not. Younger men seem to have more trouble with that because life hasn't taught them enough lessons.
It does help to develop a thicker skin and learn to tell when they are serious and when they're just trying to bait you because they are bored, and to learn how to respond in kind in the latter situation.
You know, that sounds pretty ironic to me, when the thing most likely to get me swearing at my Windows computer at work is when it keeps defaulting to doing things in ways I don't want to do them because the programmers apparently think they know better than I do what I want, so they try to do too much for me and I have to backtrack and figure out how to do what I really want. I like simplicity, and I want the computer to do what I told it to do, no more, no less.
I am not a programmer, I'm an electronic technician. From that perspective I have to say that the more complicated you make things, the more likely thay are to break, and the more modular they are, the easier they are to fix.
If you think that's bad you should consider how it is for those of us who use Macs at home having to figure out how to do things in Windows, especially since the computers where I work have four different versions of Windows on them. Ah, legacy applications. Gotta love 'em.
Thank you very much!
Congratulations, that's one of the silliest analogies I've ever heard of.
Is there a way to set the default to text? I'd like to protect me from myself.
>Now imagine that a press photographer comes along - well, that's a completely different story. Now >I know whatever I do could be put on the front cover of a mass circulation publication and >literally millions of people would see it and read it. Then you would be completely within your rights to leave the party. You have no right to prevent someone who is allowed in by the host from taking pictures and printing them, and if you would be ashamed to have your presence or your actions in that place publicized perhaps you shouldn't be there.
As a 50 year old woman who plays WoW, I'd have to say we probably all have you on ignore.
Simple to make, maybe not as simple to play. Some may require more active use of the mind than those twitch games that attract more of the guys. The bigger difference I see is that these flash games Don't cost any money and you don't have to make a time commitment, but they do leave you open to receiving a lot of spam and possibly getting malware installed by some sites.
I think many women haven't made that connection because they are running I.E without anything like noscript and they don't have their browser prompting them about cookies as I do. Or maybe they let someone else take care of keeping the computer cleaned up.
I kind of like the idea of tagging posts just like articles. I'd be amused to see how many posts would end up with "fud, notfud, shill, macfanboy" appended at the bottom.
Okay, this makes me feel that I'm shooting myself in the foot when metamod "insightful" mods on posts I disagree with as "fair", or just don't metamod them at all if I can't be objective. Well, I hope there are people in the opposite camp that are just as stubborn about being fair as I am, because I don't intend to change the way I do it.
Nowadays, they troll Slashdot.
The sad thing is, Most shows that claim to be news shows aren't anymore. It's all horrific accidents and sensational crimes locally and fear and scandal mongering nationally, with very little international coverage outside of the daily bombing death toll in Baghdad. TV is way behind the internet for news these days, and it has always been way behind the newspapers.
Actually, they do pay near that.
click on the interactive tax map link here.
INTP, actually, Never thought much about that, though.
I'm female, and I don't get this clique thing either. That's probably part of the reason I went into a male dominated industry in the first place, because other women confuse me.
Actually, for me, that kind of thing DOES work. Showing the guys I can laugh at the same things they do is a big icebreaker at work.
Movie theaters charge so much because (a) They typically don't get a cut of the admission price until the movie has made over a certain amount, usually after it's been in the theater for maybe a month, and (b) People will pay it.
Like them, the guy has to make money, or he can't stay in business. If he discounts the price on the food he may have to raise what he charges for gaming. It's a tricky thing to balance, and depends a lot on the affluence, or lack of it, of his target clientele, and the availabilty of alternatives for both entertainment and food and drink.
In my experience it's been S&M that pulls the numbers out of their asses, trying to make the sale, then management does their best to live up to it, pushing everyone under them for overtime work and scrambling to expedite delivery of materials where they're needed. I'm in the hardware end of things, but I expect things work the same way in software.
But I was enjoying the thought of an upgrade in Barrens chat. I do hate having to stop what I'm doing and put entire groups of people on ignore just so I can spot it if something I AM interested in comes up in the message box.
Just as long as it's not "Planets of Starcraft".
The higher percentage of women is due to their lower total numbers, and is not attributable to either sex lying about it.
Companies have been doing the same thing with manufacturing jobs for years. The company I work for did it last year, moving all of the higher volume lines to China. The people who were being laid off had to help in that project.
I'm sorry but I have difficulty beleving you have a chemistry degree and you still manage to conflate sulfanilamide and sulfur. The ingredients in shampoos and soaps are sulfates, containing sulfur, not the antibiotic. I am genuinely allergic to sulfa, but I can use most shampoos with no ill effect, except those with certain perfumes or dyes, which have other chemicals that I happen to be allergic to. Sodium laurel sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate are in most shampoos that I DO use.
When I went to Germany I was pleasantly surprised to find that Volvic tastes very much like the tap water at home here in Colorado. Good thing, too, as I was warned not to drink the tap water there. I hate the fizzy stuff, didn't realize before I went that I just needed to look for mineralvasser ohne gasse.