That was a very stupid question. She didn't say anything about qualifications, because that's not the issue. As another female in a male dominated field, I can tell you that there are as many disadvantages as advantages to being a reasonably good-looking woman, because the men spend much more time looking at you than listening to you, and what you say get's mostly ignored till it's repeated by someone a foot taller with a voice two octaves lower. It's only now that I'm approaching fifty that I get the respect that men several years younger have been getting for years, because I will no longer put up with being patronized and minimized, and I have the experience and demonstrated skills to back up my attitude. What do you suggest that she should do? Should she stop bathing, or wear a false mustache?
What about all the gay people who are NOT savants?
I find it pathetic that your reaction to an article on the fascinating subject of the workings of the human brain focuses on the entirely irrelevant subject of the guy's sex life. It seems to me that if you were getting any you wouldn't care what others were doing. Maybe you are just jealous.
I am past 40, have already raised my son on my own, pay taxes and a mortgage, never had the time to incur student loans, and I love Jon Stewart. I also cried when Bush won and I'm not any more sanguine about the situation now. Maybe I'm not a typical slashdotter because I'm older than most, but I don't see that your post really says anything. I would classify myself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. This means not letting the government go deep into debt because you want to give breaks to your rich buddies and be a war leader, and keeping the government out of my private life as long as I'm not hurting anyone else.
The problem with the rich getting richer and dragging everybody else up is the simple fact that money=power, and it's the relative distribution of power that matters, not the fact that someone has more money than they used to.
For people who aren't addicted already, yes they can get "jitters". The only math test I ever flunked (calculus) was taken after having three cups of coffee at lunch. The next test I aced, after having three beers. The coffee got me so hyper I couldn't think.
But the other piece of the puzzle is the weakening of the North Atlantic Conveyor, and the probable slowing or redirection southward of the Gulf Stream.
I'm wondering what kind of weather patterns we'll get out of a cooling of the North Atlantic combined with warming in the south.
Holy Shit! I thought it was bad a couple of years ago when they were controlling the local printers from a remote server in Denver and they had to send me home with an IOU for a license because the server was down. Now they've made the IOU a routine thing? That's breathtakingly idiotic. At least the next time I renew I should be able to do it by mail, and I'll just have to remember to do it early enough, and hope they've got the sytem sort of working again.
They need access just to PRINT the licenses. The printers are all run from one server in Denver, apparently. I stood in line for a couple of hours and got sent home and told to come back in a couple of weeks a couple of years ago just because they couldn't print, as the central server was down.
I don't know what they're using now, but a couple of years ago I stood in line for renewal for two hours before they sent us all home with an IOU for our licenses becaused the computer that controlled the printers from the central office in Denver was down. I thought it was idiotic to set things up so everything could be done to update things in the system and you still couldn't get the things printed because control for that came from somewhere else. Someone's never heard of K.I.S.S.
As long as you're not too quick to shoot without finding out what's going on. I had a drunken college student wander into my place about 5:30 A.M. once. I'm very glad I didn't panic and shoot him, as he was just to drunk to know where he was. I led him back to the front door and yelled at his friends to keep a better eye on him.
I think you are correct in that the teaching profession would tend to attract "liberals", those who are interested in improving the lot of their fellow humans whether they want to be improved or not, but I think the most important thing would be to encourage the students to find their own facts, and to evaluate evidence and consider the motives of their sources. If that could be made a requirement, it would be ideal, but I don't see how you could make a standardized test for it, so it probably won't happen.
Well I have actually lived through the last forty years and I can tell you that without #2, I would very likely not have ended up with the job I currently hold and do quite well at, thank you. When I was a child girls were only supposed to grow up to be moms, teachers, nurses, or "stewardesses", and not much else. I was better at math than nearly all the boys in my high school, but I got very little encouragement from anyone around me for the idea of actually wanting to be a scientist or an engineer. I did end up going back to school and taking electronics, but I never did get an engineering degree. It took me many years working as an electronic tech to earn the respect that many with half as much experience receive apparently simply because they are a few inches taller and their voices are a couple of octaves lower. I identify pretty strongly with Alice in the Dilbert cartoons these days, but I have to say that many more doors are open to girls now than when I was younger, and I only expect things to get better.
Then how about this: You are far more likely to be killed on the road by a drunk driver. I don't see cops with breath-alyzers standing outside of bars to stop people with blood alcohol levels over the limit from driving.
For those on a 56K dialup that tends to get disconnected frequently, it can be amazingly difficult to update. There's also the fact that while they are getting the updates they are getting infected, as they have to use IE to do it, with its known and unpatched vulnerability, and the firewall has up until SP2 been turned off by default.
You're very welcome. I have a few words I always have trouble with, but many times other peoples errors are confusing and distractinng for me, because I have to stop and think about what they meant. I figure the sp? thing people do means they want to get it right but don't want to lose their train of thought while looking it up, so I hope people don't think I'm being a spelling nazi when I try to help.
Not to mention the preference some of us have for operating systems that don't give us cause to swear at them when they make decisions for us, or make it difficult to do anything connected to the internet with any feeling of security or privacy.
My score was -1.5 -4.5, and I think that's about where I really am, in comparison to people around me. Of course, I live in a "red" state with a fairly large fundamentalist (authoritarian) population.
But your sample is biased, as you don't have a random sampling of the entire population of the country or of the world, but only that small subset that might be found in a college ethics class.
Sure you can modify it! You just have to provide the source code for your modifications if you distribute it. I'm not a programmer and even I know that. Or are you just trolling?
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That was a very stupid question. She didn't say anything about qualifications, because that's not the issue. As another female in a male dominated field, I can tell you that there are as many disadvantages as advantages to being a reasonably good-looking woman, because the men spend much more time looking at you than listening to you, and what you say get's mostly ignored till it's repeated by someone a foot taller with a voice two octaves lower. It's only now that I'm approaching fifty that I get the respect that men several years younger have been getting for years, because I will no longer put up with being patronized and minimized, and I have the experience and demonstrated skills to back up my attitude. What do you suggest that she should do? Should she stop bathing, or wear a false mustache?
What about all the gay people who are NOT savants?
I find it pathetic that your reaction to an article on the fascinating subject of the workings of the human brain focuses on the entirely irrelevant subject of the guy's sex life. It seems to me that if you were getting any you wouldn't care what others were doing. Maybe you are just jealous.
I am past 40, have already raised my son on my own, pay taxes and a mortgage, never had the time to incur student loans, and I love Jon Stewart. I also cried when Bush won and I'm not any more sanguine about the situation now. Maybe I'm not a typical slashdotter because I'm older than most, but I don't see that your post really says anything. I would classify myself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal. This means not letting the government go deep into debt because you want to give breaks to your rich buddies and be a war leader, and keeping the government out of my private life as long as I'm not hurting anyone else.
The problem with the rich getting richer and dragging everybody else up is the simple fact that money=power, and it's the relative distribution of power that matters, not the fact that someone has more money than they used to.
The patent is for the computer responding to "unstructured input" with an instructional response.
"It looks like you're trying to..."
Sounds like a pretty good description of our current involvement in Iraq.
For people who aren't addicted already, yes they can get "jitters". The only math test I ever flunked (calculus) was taken after having three cups of coffee at lunch. The next test I aced, after having three beers. The coffee got me so hyper I couldn't think.
But the other piece of the puzzle is the weakening of the North Atlantic Conveyor, and the probable slowing or redirection southward of the Gulf Stream. I'm wondering what kind of weather patterns we'll get out of a cooling of the North Atlantic combined with warming in the south.
Holy Shit! I thought it was bad a couple of years ago when they were controlling the local printers from a remote server in Denver and they had to send me home with an IOU for a license because the server was down. Now they've made the IOU a routine thing? That's breathtakingly idiotic. At least the next time I renew I should be able to do it by mail, and I'll just have to remember to do it early enough, and hope they've got the sytem sort of working again.
They need access just to PRINT the licenses. The printers are all run from one server in Denver, apparently. I stood in line for a couple of hours and got sent home and told to come back in a couple of weeks a couple of years ago just because they couldn't print, as the central server was down.
I don't know what they're using now, but a couple of years ago I stood in line for renewal for two hours before they sent us all home with an IOU for our licenses becaused the computer that controlled the printers from the central office in Denver was down. I thought it was idiotic to set things up so everything could be done to update things in the system and you still couldn't get the things printed because control for that came from somewhere else. Someone's never heard of K.I.S.S.
The Trend Micro report says it also installs a keylogger.
As long as you're not too quick to shoot without finding out what's going on. I had a drunken college student wander into my place about 5:30 A.M. once. I'm very glad I didn't panic and shoot him, as he was just to drunk to know where he was. I led him back to the front door and yelled at his friends to keep a better eye on him.
I think you are correct in that the teaching profession would tend to attract "liberals", those who are interested in improving the lot of their fellow humans whether they want to be improved or not, but I think the most important thing would be to encourage the students to find their own facts, and to evaluate evidence and consider the motives of their sources. If that could be made a requirement, it would be ideal, but I don't see how you could make a standardized test for it, so it probably won't happen.
Well I have actually lived through the last forty years and I can tell you that without #2, I would very likely not have ended up with the job I currently hold and do quite well at, thank you. When I was a child girls were only supposed to grow up to be moms, teachers, nurses, or "stewardesses", and not much else. I was better at math than nearly all the boys in my high school, but I got very little encouragement from anyone around me for the idea of actually wanting to be a scientist or an engineer. I did end up going back to school and taking electronics, but I never did get an engineering degree. It took me many years working as an electronic tech to earn the respect that many with half as much experience receive apparently simply because they are a few inches taller and their voices are a couple of octaves lower. I identify pretty strongly with Alice in the Dilbert cartoons these days, but I have to say that many more doors are open to girls now than when I was younger, and I only expect things to get better.
Then how about this: You are far more likely to be killed on the road by a drunk driver. I don't see cops with breath-alyzers standing outside of bars to stop people with blood alcohol levels over the limit from driving.
For those on a 56K dialup that tends to get disconnected frequently, it can be amazingly difficult to update. There's also the fact that while they are getting the updates they are getting infected, as they have to use IE to do it, with its known and unpatched vulnerability, and the firewall has up until SP2 been turned off by default.
And here I go with the typos again. "distractinng?!" I looked at it, too.
You're very welcome. I have a few words I always have trouble with, but many times other peoples errors are confusing and distractinng for me, because I have to stop and think about what they meant. I figure the sp? thing people do means they want to get it right but don't want to lose their train of thought while looking it up, so I hope people don't think I'm being a spelling nazi when I try to help.
Thank you for asking, it's spelled 'populace'.
How is it pirating to tweak the performance of a game you bought?
Not to mention the preference some of us have for operating systems that don't give us cause to swear at them when they make decisions for us, or make it difficult to do anything connected to the internet with any feeling of security or privacy.
My score was -1.5 -4.5, and I think that's about where I really am, in comparison to people around me. Of course, I live in a "red" state with a fairly large fundamentalist (authoritarian) population.
But your sample is biased, as you don't have a random sampling of the entire population of the country or of the world, but only that small subset that might be found in a college ethics class.
Sure you can modify it! You just have to provide the source code for your modifications if you distribute it. I'm not a programmer and even I know that. Or are you just trolling?