I think Sony actually had a good idea with adding a chip to the early PS3's for backwards compatibility. I think that current-gen would do better if this concept continued.
And that was one of the reason the PS3 deluxe launch model cost $599! Don't you remember all the complaints about the price, and how they should have left backwards compatibility out because people buy a new console to play new games, not old ones? Saw that right here on Slashdot.
shoving it out the door, and telling the PC community to just throw more hardware at it.
Hasn't that been standard procedure for ALL PC games, not just the ports? And now that we've got developers who were formerly x86-Windows only doing console games, they're doing the same thing to we console gamers.
So yes, this is something that perhaps ought to be looked into. But considering that bodies can have variant intersex conditions, why couldn't the brain be "intersexed" sometimes.
Welcome to newspeak, where you can have a penis but still be a "woman." One is sex (the penis part) the other is "gender" according to our new "politically correct" overlords.
It's not "newspeak" or "politically correct", it's how things actually are. Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld figured that out almost a century ago.
Sex is what parts you have, Gender is how you feel about yourself (and how you feel about the parts).
Maybe in a large city...maybe if your work is close to your bank. But that's probably not the case everywhere else. Sometimes lunch breaks are a half-hour, which would not be long enough for someone to walk to some of the banks in town from various workplaces.
Take it any way you want it; if it's pejorative, you've earned more than a few pejoratives thrown your way.
And how long has there been misogny in women in IT discussion on slashdot? How long have guys like you been throwing around "social justice warrior" as an epithet? And I'm the bad guy for throwing a few curses around?
Ah, but you're not; you're striving for social justice that puts the heterosexual white man down.
No, I'm not.
I'm aware you think that's because we have unearned advantage that you'd like to take away,
Is taking away something from you that you stole and giving it back stealing? No, because you didn't earn it in the first place. You might think you did, but you didn't.
but even if that's so, it's still not bettering us all.
In the long term it is. Because then you will HAVE to earn what you get fairly against real competition without "cheating" Let me use a gaming example? Isn't it more rewarding to beat a game without cheats, than with? Beat it on "Normal" and not "easy"?
You know the term "white knight" comes from modern feminism, right?
I don't think so, I've not seen any feminist use it, but I sure have seen a lot of anti-feminist men do so here on Slashdot.
As for your anger at a perceived "locker room mentality" (which is pretty ridiculous, considering the traditional divide between geeks and jocks),
Modern Slashdotters in their 20's have more in common with jocks than old style geeks/nerds. You've seen the term "brogrammer" bandied around. They may be a programmer, but they watch ESPN and drink brewskis with the bros rather than put on spock ears, go to a con and play Battletech. Besides, being a geek doesn't mean you can't engage in "locker room style" misogyny even if you're a geek.
Ah, but that's just the thing; you have neither consensus on what "the program" is nor the power to impose it on those who don't agree. You're skipping the step of demonstrating that your "program" is in fact the right thing, and getting angry when everyone won't just fall into line.
The "program" is simple, it's: "Don't be a misogynist/racist/etc, and we need to remedy past and present discrimination" What part of that is controversial? We learned the value of that years ago.
Hey, I know this is off topic, but why is it that you social justice warriors tend to be some of the nastiest posters around?
I consider the term "social justice warrior" perjorative. Shouldn't we all be striving for social justice that betters us all? And when I talk about social justice it's something I believe in. I've identified strongly as a feminist since about 1991. I consider myself "Third wave" by the way.
The overuse of that term (and others like "White knight") over the past few months of the various minorities in computing discussions on Slashdot has made me rather angry at what I perceive as the overly privileged locker room mentality here. Normally I'm rather easy going and don't participate in the women in IT discussions in part because I find the misogyny in them disgusting....but I've had enough of what I think of as overly selfish jerks on Slashdot. It's 2014, it's time for those people to get with the program. I'm tired of being "nice".
And in particular why so free with insults related to reproductive parts, such as "dick" and "twat", the sorts of things you'd find horribly offensive from the rest of us?
The thing is, I'm usually not so free with them. I'm just getting tired of the "dickishness" from people who claim to be so smart and superior that they should be running things. Meaning the average politician-bashing "sheeple-bashing" slashdotter
But basically my response is the same as whistlingtony's
We try posting rationally, but get disgusted by the ugly comments. Then we post emotionally. We're human.
I would call white males receiving preferential treatment in society ever since the US was created, "when". They still do, to a certain extent, though it is better than it was.
I am well aware of that, but the surgery helps for documentation in some states doesn't it. And most non-trans consider the surgery the "test of realness"
So the surgery still matters, even if it shouldn't.
Look, I understand how you feel, and posted similar things in the other recent discussions on this...but all you'll get is a bunch of overprivileged twats working together to flame you to oblivion and pulling out various "it isn't a problem" "It's not my problem" or "citation needed" on you.
They simply don't understand that they've been privileged, they don't see their lives as that way. They have no experience dealing with people who aren't like them. It's like how Google and Facebook is full of ivy leaguers, or how there seems to be a fairly significatn number of aspie-ish guys with beards in open source. They hire/work with others like themselves. To them it's not discrimination it's just that "These other people whose backgrounds are like mine and who look like me are the best for the job.."
It's bigotry wearing a respectable suit and tie, the hardest kind to fight.
No it's not.....well maybe if you use one of those cut-rate docs in Thailand and do the recovery in a hotel. Even in the US you spend a day or so at a hospital, then you go to a "recovery clinic" or hotel. Though I've heard the more expensive docs in Thailand are starting to do the US model.
This doesn't include any breast augmentation or FFS (facial feminization surgery) or electrolysis or laser (which can cost MORE than the actual surgery)
The actual rich pay no taxes on the majority of their income, because they have purchased tax laws which say that their classes of income (like capital gains) are taxed differently, and they can evade those taxes through a variety of means.
The rich have lower tax rates now than they ever did and they STILL think they're paying too much. If you ever watch mad men you'll remember Harry talking about the top rate being over 90 percent (which even left-wing me thinks was excessive) But then again we had an economic boom, not withstanding the various social inequalities going on. Kennedy dropped that to the high 60's (67% IIRC) which is what I think it should be now..and isn't...what is it, 35%?
INteresting, I'm not sure I agree without, but that is very interesting. You do know, of course, that Richard Nixon was in favor of a National Minimal Income...though IIRC you had to work to get it. Basically what we now call EIC was the pilot program....never fully implemented.
Oddly enough, there is some anecdotal evidence that relatively-small doses of partial opioid agonists can *dramatically* reverse severe treatment-resistent depression,
I don't buy the smoking/drugs thing because hundreds of years ago (much less thousands) they didn't have pills or pot. And they didn't chew on mushrooms, either.
Google "laudanum"...people have been using various botanical based recreational drugs for millenia.
Khat in the middle east, Coca in South America, Opium, Marijuana, alcohol. They've been around a looong time.
People SHOULD drink less alcohol. There is one good that came out of prohibition...Americans still consume less alcohol per capita than they did before. Really, Americans drink less than they did before prohibition. Alcohol consumption was totally insane before prohibition. Prohibition finally got it through everyone's heads that drinking too much was socially unacceptable.
The Prohibition and Suffrage movements were also closely aligned. Both Susan B Anthony and Elisabeth Cady Stanton were pro-temperance. Prohibition was basically women using their new power and influence (thanks to WWI) to reduce a serious social problem. Note that until relatively recently alcoholism was MUCH more prevalent in men. in fact the first AA book was titled: "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism"
Notice the "Men" part. Men still drink more than they ought...in part that's because most alcohol advertising is aimed at men so drinking is considered more of a part of "The Rite of Being a Man". Women ARE starting to drink more..that's not a good thing.
People are dicks, and sometimes you don't know someone is going to be a serious dick until they do something. So sometimes it's better to make doing dickish things much harder by regulating what tools a dick needs to be a dick. That saves lives.
The statistics also completely ignore poverty, 6 of the states for high firearm ownership in this "study" are in the top 10 for poverty, none in the low firearm ownership category are. Three of the states with low firearm ownership rates are in the top 10 for the least amount of poverty, only 1 (again out of 15 comparables) has such low poverty.
Perhaps poor folks in certain regions when they feel they lack "control or power" are more likely to cling to guns as "power"? In other words it's correlated to an extent.
Based on this if you want to stop suicide by firearm, focus on the decent paying jobs.
Yes, that has been known for years. You'll also end up with fewer guns because the people won't feel a "need" for them because they feel less anxiety/fear. Did you know that it used to be custom in some of those places to take guns to church? Really! Guns to the place of "Thou Shalt Not Kill".
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I think Sony actually had a good idea with adding a chip to the early PS3's for backwards compatibility. I think that current-gen would do better if this concept continued.
And that was one of the reason the PS3 deluxe launch model cost $599! Don't you remember all the complaints about the price, and how they should have left backwards compatibility out because people buy a new console to play new games, not old ones? Saw that right here on Slashdot.
And shitty PC to console ports, Half-Life 2, I'm looking at you.
because the Xbone and PS4 are not next Gen consoles. They are at best last gen.5
I don't agree. The PS3 has a single core hyperthreaded CPU with 6 SPU's tacked on. The PS4 has an 8 core CPU
The PS3 has 256MB of RAM and 256MB of VRAM, the PS4 has 8 GB of unified ram, 16X as much.
The PS4 is a great a leap over the PS3 as the PS2 was over the PS1 or the PS3 over the PS2.
shoving it out the door, and telling the PC community to just throw more hardware at it.
Hasn't that been standard procedure for ALL PC games, not just the ports? And now that we've got developers who were formerly x86-Windows only doing console games, they're doing the same thing to we console gamers.
Do you have even one brain scan show neural dimorphism in the "wrong" body?
The only evidence that I've seen that anyone has done have been LeVay's brain studies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
So yes, this is something that perhaps ought to be looked into. But considering that bodies can have variant intersex conditions, why couldn't the brain be "intersexed" sometimes.
Welcome to newspeak, where you can have a penis but still be a "woman." One is sex (the penis part) the other is "gender" according to our new "politically correct" overlords.
It's not "newspeak" or "politically correct", it's how things actually are. Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld figured that out almost a century ago.
Sex is what parts you have, Gender is how you feel about yourself (and how you feel about the parts).
Or just walk to the bank during your lunch break.
Maybe in a large city...maybe if your work is close to your bank. But that's probably not the case everywhere else. Sometimes lunch breaks are a half-hour, which would not be long enough for someone to walk to some of the banks in town from various workplaces.
American cities and towns are more "spread out"
Take it any way you want it; if it's pejorative, you've earned more than a few pejoratives thrown your way.
And how long has there been misogny in women in IT discussion on slashdot? How long have guys like you been throwing around "social justice warrior" as an epithet? And I'm the bad guy for throwing a few curses around?
Ah, but you're not; you're striving for social justice that puts the heterosexual white man down.
No, I'm not.
I'm aware you think that's because we have unearned advantage that you'd like to take away,
Is taking away something from you that you stole and giving it back stealing? No, because you didn't earn it in the first place. You might think you did, but you didn't.
but even if that's so, it's still not bettering us all.
In the long term it is. Because then you will HAVE to earn what you get fairly against real competition without "cheating"
Let me use a gaming example? Isn't it more rewarding to beat a game without cheats, than with? Beat it on "Normal" and not "easy"?
You know the term "white knight" comes from modern feminism, right?
I don't think so, I've not seen any feminist use it, but I sure have seen a lot of anti-feminist men do so here on Slashdot.
As for your anger at a perceived "locker room mentality" (which is pretty ridiculous, considering the traditional divide between geeks and jocks),
Modern Slashdotters in their 20's have more in common with jocks than old style geeks/nerds. You've seen the term "brogrammer" bandied around. They may be a programmer, but they watch ESPN and drink brewskis with the bros rather than put on spock ears, go to a con and play Battletech. Besides, being a geek doesn't mean you can't engage in "locker room style" misogyny even if you're a geek.
Ah, but that's just the thing; you have neither consensus on what "the program" is nor the power to impose it on those who don't agree. You're skipping the step of demonstrating that your "program" is in fact the right thing, and getting angry when everyone won't just fall into line.
The "program" is simple, it's: "Don't be a misogynist/racist/etc, and we need to remedy past and present discrimination" What part of that is controversial? We learned the value of that years ago.
Hey, I know this is off topic, but why is it that you social justice warriors tend to be some of the nastiest posters around?
I consider the term "social justice warrior" perjorative. Shouldn't we all be striving for social justice that betters us all? And when I talk about social justice it's something I believe in. I've identified strongly as a feminist since about 1991. I consider myself "Third wave" by the way.
The overuse of that term (and others like "White knight") over the past few months of the various minorities in computing discussions on Slashdot has made me rather angry at what I perceive as the overly privileged locker room mentality here. Normally I'm rather easy going and don't participate in the women in IT discussions in part because I find the misogyny in them disgusting....but I've had enough of what I think of as overly selfish jerks on Slashdot. It's 2014, it's time for those people to get with the program. I'm tired of being "nice".
And in particular why so free with insults related to reproductive parts, such as "dick" and "twat", the sorts of things you'd find horribly offensive from the rest of us?
The thing is, I'm usually not so free with them. I'm just getting tired of the "dickishness" from people who claim to be so smart and superior that they should be running things. Meaning the average politician-bashing "sheeple-bashing" slashdotter
But basically my response is the same as whistlingtony's
We try posting rationally, but get disgusted by the ugly comments. Then we post emotionally. We're human.
The current remedies aren't racism themselves, though I am aware that certain people, like yourself, consider them so.
If you don't like those remedies, then what do you want society to do?
I would call white males receiving preferential treatment in society ever since the US was created, "when". They still do, to a certain extent, though it is better than it was.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/201...
I am well aware of that, but the surgery helps for documentation in some states doesn't it. And most non-trans consider the surgery the "test of realness"
So the surgery still matters, even if it shouldn't.
Look, I understand how you feel, and posted similar things in the other recent discussions on this...but all you'll get is a bunch of overprivileged twats working together to flame you to oblivion and pulling out various "it isn't a problem" "It's not my problem" or "citation needed" on you.
They simply don't understand that they've been privileged, they don't see their lives as that way. They have no experience dealing with people who aren't like them. It's like how Google and Facebook is full of ivy leaguers, or how there seems to be a fairly significatn number of aspie-ish guys with beards in open source. They hire/work with others like themselves. To them it's not discrimination it's just that "These other people whose backgrounds are like mine and who look like me are the best for the job.."
It's bigotry wearing a respectable suit and tie, the hardest kind to fight.
If someone offered something like that for white males only,
They essentially did, the fallout from that is why we have the problems they're trying to fix.
No it's not.....well maybe if you use one of those cut-rate docs in Thailand and do the recovery in a hotel. Even in the US you spend a day or so at a hospital, then you go to a "recovery clinic" or hotel. Though I've heard the more expensive docs in Thailand are starting to do the US model.
This doesn't include any breast augmentation or FFS (facial feminization surgery) or electrolysis or laser (which can cost MORE than the actual surgery)
Break out of that retarded Sheldon Cooper impersonation and become a real person.
That would make a great sig....but there are too many Sheldon's on Slashdot.
The actual rich pay no taxes on the majority of their income, because they have purchased tax laws which say that their classes of income (like capital gains) are taxed differently, and they can evade those taxes through a variety of means.
The rich have lower tax rates now than they ever did and they STILL think they're paying too much. If you ever watch mad men you'll remember Harry talking about the top rate being over 90 percent (which even left-wing me thinks was excessive) But then again we had an economic boom, not withstanding the various social inequalities going on. Kennedy dropped that to the high 60's (67% IIRC) which is what I think it should be now..and isn't...what is it, 35%?
INteresting, I'm not sure I agree without, but that is very interesting. You do know, of course, that Richard Nixon was in favor of a National Minimal Income...though IIRC you had to work to get it. Basically what we now call EIC was the pilot program....never fully implemented.
Oddly enough, there is some anecdotal evidence that relatively-small doses of partial opioid agonists can *dramatically* reverse severe treatment-resistent depression,
Oh? which ones?
I don't buy the smoking/drugs thing because hundreds of years ago (much less thousands) they didn't have pills or pot. And they didn't chew on mushrooms, either.
Google "laudanum"...people have been using various botanical based recreational drugs for millenia.
Khat in the middle east, Coca in South America, Opium, Marijuana, alcohol. They've been around a looong time.
People SHOULD drink less alcohol. There is one good that came out of prohibition...Americans still consume less alcohol per capita than they did before. Really, Americans drink less than they did before prohibition. Alcohol consumption was totally insane before prohibition. Prohibition finally got it through everyone's heads that drinking too much was socially unacceptable.
The Prohibition and Suffrage movements were also closely aligned. Both Susan B Anthony and Elisabeth Cady Stanton were pro-temperance. Prohibition was basically women using their new power and influence (thanks to WWI) to reduce a serious social problem. Note that until relatively recently alcoholism was MUCH more prevalent in men. in fact the first AA book was titled: "Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism"
Notice the "Men" part. Men still drink more than they ought...in part that's because most alcohol advertising is aimed at men so drinking is considered more of a part of "The Rite of Being a Man". Women ARE starting to drink more..that's not a good thing.
I would consider it immoral to demand that someone live against their own will.
That could be used to justify some pretty awful behavior, just so you know.
People are dicks, and sometimes you don't know someone is going to be a serious dick until they do something. So sometimes it's better to make doing dickish things much harder by regulating what tools a dick needs to be a dick. That saves lives.
The statistics also completely ignore poverty, 6 of the states for high firearm ownership in this "study" are in the top 10 for poverty, none in the low firearm ownership category are. Three of the states with low firearm ownership rates are in the top 10 for the least amount of poverty, only 1 (again out of 15 comparables) has such low poverty.
Perhaps poor folks in certain regions when they feel they lack "control or power" are more likely to cling to guns as "power"? In other words it's correlated to an extent.
Based on this if you want to stop suicide by firearm, focus on the decent paying jobs.
Yes, that has been known for years. You'll also end up with fewer guns because the people won't feel a "need" for them because they feel less anxiety/fear. Did you know that it used to be custom in some of those places to take guns to church? Really! Guns to the place of "Thou Shalt Not Kill".
but it would move some numbers from the "suicide" column to the "attempted suicide" column, and at least some people see that as desirable.
It would do the same for murder as well, making many murders, "attempted murders"