I don't think of this so much as being PC as I think of it as being sexist, and I think that the race/womens movement would agree that sexism/racism is bad.
What reason could you have for running a huge study on the intellectual limits of one sex or another, or one race or another, but to use that information to exclude that race or sex on the basis of their supposed lack of ability?
Seriously. I'm not a PC guy, but when I see crap like this, I can only really see one reason for it. He's making a case that Harvard needen't worry about having a balanced enrollment in math or science, because females are too stupid to be in those courses of study. He doesn't cite any studies, he doesn't seem to have any facts except for crap about his freaking 5 year old.
It doesn't matter if you have facts to back up an assertion like that, you're still going to pay a price in suffering that makes it far better to just shut the hell up.
You'd think the president of freaking Harvard would know better.
I always thought the Lexmark case was one of the worst abuses of the DMCA ever. They might as well be trying to make proprietary PAPER. And frankly, those damn ink cartridges cost a mint.
Hopefully we'll see some high quality knock offs and the price will go down.
This is my 666th post. Too much/., too much by far.
Yea, but Wal-Mart is EVIL. They do this crap to everyone, including small companies which end up selling products almost at a loss. Thye exploit immagrants, and women.
If we're lucky they'll go to war, fight it out, and niether will survive.
If I am a gaming "addict" and I game 2 hours a day, every day, at times that don't interfere with some other part of my life, who the hell cares?
If someone smokes 3 cigarettes a day, who the hell cares? That guy is smoking less than a pack a week! I get more secondhand smoke than that!
So no, my argument is NOT faulty. Time and quantity is the heart of the whole issue. If your "addiction" doesn't interfere with your life, your job, or alienate your family, then its not a big deal, and YOU should get to worrying about something that actually matters, rather than spending your dissaproval on a moderate and in control habit.
Makes me sick. I've seen alcoholics that can take a quart of vodka A DAY, or a pack of cigarettes at ONE MEAL, and you talk about fiddling nothing habits? Addicts don't stop. Thats practically the definition. A smoker doesn't HAVE three cigarettes if he's addicted.
If you can't drag someone from his computer, if he gets the shakes when the power goes out or freaks out when the cable dies, yea, get him some counsiling, but just because he games 6 hours a day, that means NOTHING.
So spare me your moralistic babble. If I read 12 hours a day, which I do sometimes, you'd think it was great, but I've had a hell of a lot more trouble putting down a book than I've ever had turning off a damn computer.
I play MMORPGS occasionally. The thing is, I can't handle the stupid part, if I don't have decent people to talk to. For me, it's like IRC where I can kill junk at the same time. If they're cool people to talk to (I know, hard to imagine) I can play pretty often, and tolerate eternal bug killing for a good long while. Too much camping always makes me quit though. Sure I'll run around and kill, but I am not gonna goddamn virtually SIT AROUND waiting for something.
I have known people who were seriously addicted to everquest...We're talking a big home network dedicated to everquest, and the ability to play two characters AT MINIMUM all the time. Missing work, being late to work...Doesn't help that he smokes a lot of pot too, but still.
He plays...*gasp*..."sometimes up to six hours a day."
Amateur.
Joking aside, if he spent six hours a day watching tv it would be considered no big deal. If he spent six hours a day reading slashdot, it would be...okay it would be pretty freaking weird...but still it would be considered no big deal.
But no, he plays games, which, as we all know, are the devil. They have warped his fragile mind. He needs psychological help! Yadda yadda yadda.
Like the violence on TV is different from the violence on a game, and like...seeing...violence makes you an evil monster.
Hell I've been to LAN games that started on friday and didn't end until Sunday around five o'clock. Went to work the next day, did fine. Is it an addicition? No, because I didn't bust down the walls trying to get my fix at any time during the work week. I don't do it often. It's a hobby. It's fun.
God forbid you're not a vapid consumer of "Friends" and "Will and Grace". Games'll rot your mind, you know.
Some early artificial hearts were powered that way as well.
"During the same period, Los Alamos developed a medical-grade fuel for use in cardiac pacemakers and early artificial hearts. The fuel in the artificial hearts was made of 90 percent enriched plutonium-238 and provided up to 50 watts of power. Some of the early pacemakers are still in use; some have been returned to Los Alamos' Plutonium Facility for recovery. " Link
Since alpha rads don't penetrate the skin, it's safe, as long as it doesn't fragment and get carried through the body. Still pretty scary though.
Sure, it's radioactive, just like fission, but hey antimatter is cheap at $62.5 trillion per gram, and it's 10-100 times more powerful!
Not sure what the point would be in antimatter weapons, besides serious coolness. Nukes are at least stable at room temperature, and if you drop a ball of plutonium on your foot, all you get is broken toes. Wouldn't want to have a power failure anywhere NEAR antimatter.
If you'd read what I said, you'd know that all they need to do is read office documents.
To be able to do that, and for free, makes it far superior. Slow startup doesn't apply because it's a seldomly used application---total time spent would be negligible on a weekly basis.
Most newspapers don't use an office suite for actual wordprocessing. The stuff they need from a word processor is so specific, that office doesn't really help them.
On the other hand, they get office documents ALL THE TIME in the mail. At the paper where my wife works, they actually have to share Office installs, because there is no budget for a mostly useless office suite for every computer.
When the Phbs in management there realize that there is a free alternative that, since they DON'T ACTUALLY NEED TO PRODUCE CONTENT ON IT, is FAR superior to MS Office, you're going to see an OO.o boom in an important market sector.
I've actually pitched it a few times, but the buerocracy is so monolithic. Everythign has to go to corporate.
What, you think the success of the first private space venture in the history of our planet is more worthy for discussion than OPENOFFICE? What the hell are you thinking?
This is Slashdot, where the 1000th rehash of "OpenOffice is SOOOO much better than MS Office" trumps any actual news. Besides, nerds don't care about space.
If ever there was a series that needed mocking, it's the new starwars series. Anyone who's willing to throw a pie at lucas and his giant ego has got my vote.
That article in no way shows Suncomm to be a success at anything but pumping its stock prices. Their parent company was actually BANNED from selling stock by the SEC, so they bought up a company that sells floppy disks (in 2001!), except the company doesn't ACTUALLY sell floppy disks, they just have all the equipment, so they could if they wanted to. They were, however publicly traded, yadda yadda.
It's a big joke. Think the poster may have gotten a bit overzealous.
It's a good point. Most states have laws now that say the electoral college has to vote with the will of the people. Some states...
Okay I looked it up...24 states have no restriction (including, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Texas), and 26 states have restrictions, usually amounting to a fine and replacement of the offending elector if you vote against the people.
I would have sworn there was a state that allowed their votes to be split, but I can't find it.
Slashdot Mirror
So you think women are stupid at MAth and Science?
You got any facts, or you just pissed you can't get a date?
I don't think of this so much as being PC as I think of it as being sexist, and I think that the race/womens movement would agree that sexism/racism is bad.
What reason could you have for running a huge study on the intellectual limits of one sex or another, or one race or another, but to use that information to exclude that race or sex on the basis of their supposed lack of ability?
Seriously. I'm not a PC guy, but when I see crap like this, I can only really see one reason for it. He's making a case that Harvard needen't worry about having a balanced enrollment in math or science, because females are too stupid to be in those courses of study. He doesn't cite any studies, he doesn't seem to have any facts except for crap about his freaking 5 year old.
He deserves to be roasted.
You must be thinking of some other country, because here we never use crap science to prop up political ideology or stereotypes.
It doesn't matter if you have facts to back up an assertion like that, you're still going to pay a price in suffering that makes it far better to just shut the hell up.
You'd think the president of freaking Harvard would know better.
Hear hear.
My Id is very imaginative, though fortunately not terribly powerful.
A big statement would be:
"We will indemnify customers against time lost due to exploits found in our own code."
Until they have that clause, I'm not holding my breath.
I always thought the Lexmark case was one of the worst abuses of the DMCA ever. They might as well be trying to make proprietary PAPER. And frankly, those damn ink cartridges cost a mint.
/., too much by far.
Hopefully we'll see some high quality knock offs and the price will go down.
This is my 666th post. Too much
Yea, but Wal-Mart is EVIL. They do this crap to everyone, including small companies which end up selling products almost at a loss. Thye exploit immagrants, and women.
If we're lucky they'll go to war, fight it out, and niether will survive.
"Croquet Project previously has been slashdotted."
And since we hate the bastards, lets do it to 'em again!
Seriously. Ouch.
If I am a gaming "addict" and I game 2 hours a day, every day, at times that don't interfere with some other part of my life, who the hell cares?
If someone smokes 3 cigarettes a day, who the hell cares? That guy is smoking less than a pack a week! I get more secondhand smoke than that!
So no, my argument is NOT faulty. Time and quantity is the heart of the whole issue. If your "addiction" doesn't interfere with your life, your job, or alienate your family, then its not a big deal, and YOU should get to worrying about something that actually matters, rather than spending your dissaproval on a moderate and in control habit.
Makes me sick. I've seen alcoholics that can take a quart of vodka A DAY, or a pack of cigarettes at ONE MEAL, and you talk about fiddling nothing habits? Addicts don't stop. Thats practically the definition. A smoker doesn't HAVE three cigarettes if he's addicted.
If you can't drag someone from his computer, if he gets the shakes when the power goes out or freaks out when the cable dies, yea, get him some counsiling, but just because he games 6 hours a day, that means NOTHING.
So spare me your moralistic babble. If I read 12 hours a day, which I do sometimes, you'd think it was great, but I've had a hell of a lot more trouble putting down a book than I've ever had turning off a damn computer.
I agree sorta.
I play MMORPGS occasionally. The thing is, I can't handle the stupid part, if I don't have decent people to talk to. For me, it's like IRC where I can kill junk at the same time. If they're cool people to talk to (I know, hard to imagine) I can play pretty often, and tolerate eternal bug killing for a good long while. Too much camping always makes me quit though. Sure I'll run around and kill, but I am not gonna goddamn virtually SIT AROUND waiting for something.
I have known people who were seriously addicted to everquest...We're talking a big home network dedicated to everquest, and the ability to play two characters AT MINIMUM all the time. Missing work, being late to work...Doesn't help that he smokes a lot of pot too, but still.
He plays...*gasp*..."sometimes up to six hours a day."
Amateur.
Joking aside, if he spent six hours a day watching tv it would be considered no big deal. If he spent six hours a day reading slashdot, it would be...okay it would be pretty freaking weird...but still it would be considered no big deal.
But no, he plays games, which, as we all know, are the devil. They have warped his fragile mind. He needs psychological help! Yadda yadda yadda.
Like the violence on TV is different from the violence on a game, and like...seeing...violence makes you an evil monster.
Hell I've been to LAN games that started on friday and didn't end until Sunday around five o'clock. Went to work the next day, did fine. Is it an addicition? No, because I didn't bust down the walls trying to get my fix at any time during the work week. I don't do it often. It's a hobby. It's fun.
God forbid you're not a vapid consumer of "Friends" and "Will and Grace". Games'll rot your mind, you know.
Now go watch some damn TV.
Some early artificial hearts were powered that way as well.
"During the same period, Los Alamos developed a medical-grade fuel for use in cardiac pacemakers and early artificial hearts. The fuel in the artificial hearts was made of 90 percent enriched plutonium-238 and provided up to 50 watts of power. Some of the early pacemakers are still in use; some have been returned to Los Alamos' Plutonium Facility for recovery. " Link
Since alpha rads don't penetrate the skin, it's safe, as long as it doesn't fragment and get carried through the body. Still pretty scary though.
When they come in contact they turn to energy in the form of heat, light, and gamma radiation.
So yea, woo hoo anti-matter power!
Sure, it's radioactive, just like fission, but hey antimatter is cheap at $62.5 trillion per gram, and it's 10-100 times more powerful!
Not sure what the point would be in antimatter weapons, besides serious coolness. Nukes are at least stable at room temperature, and if you drop a ball of plutonium on your foot, all you get is broken toes. Wouldn't want to have a power failure anywhere NEAR antimatter.
Yet they both beat the snot out of /. on this article.
I used to read this site to learn things, but it seems like I only come here now so I can babble about crap I've already read about elsewhere.
If you'd read what I said, you'd know that all they need to do is read office documents.
To be able to do that, and for free, makes it far superior. Slow startup doesn't apply because it's a seldomly used application---total time spent would be negligible on a weekly basis.
Yea yea, I read about it on fark at 9:30, and followed it live on CNN until it was over at around 11:15.
Most news organizations try to keep up.
Most newspapers don't use an office suite for actual wordprocessing. The stuff they need from a word processor is so specific, that office doesn't really help them.
On the other hand, they get office documents ALL THE TIME in the mail. At the paper where my wife works, they actually have to share Office installs, because there is no budget for a mostly useless office suite for every computer.
When the Phbs in management there realize that there is a free alternative that, since they DON'T ACTUALLY NEED TO PRODUCE CONTENT ON IT, is FAR superior to MS Office, you're going to see an OO.o boom in an important market sector.
I've actually pitched it a few times, but the buerocracy is so monolithic. Everythign has to go to corporate.
What, you think the success of the first private space venture in the history of our planet is more worthy for discussion than OPENOFFICE? What the hell are you thinking?
This is Slashdot, where the 1000th rehash of "OpenOffice is SOOOO much better than MS Office" trumps any actual news. Besides, nerds don't care about space.
If ever there was a series that needed mocking, it's the new starwars series. Anyone who's willing to throw a pie at lucas and his giant ego has got my vote.
That article in no way shows Suncomm to be a success at anything but pumping its stock prices. Their parent company was actually BANNED from selling stock by the SEC, so they bought up a company that sells floppy disks (in 2001!), except the company doesn't ACTUALLY sell floppy disks, they just have all the equipment, so they could if they wanted to. They were, however publicly traded, yadda yadda.
It's a big joke. Think the poster may have gotten a bit overzealous.
It's a good point. Most states have laws now that say the electoral college has to vote with the will of the people. Some states...
Okay I looked it up...24 states have no restriction (including, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Texas), and 26 states have restrictions, usually amounting to a fine and replacement of the offending elector if you vote against the people.
I would have sworn there was a state that allowed their votes to be split, but I can't find it.
That's ALL I use it for, and I'd gladly use another mail client if they'd allow it.
I've (obviously) got a gmail account, but I've got a couple of hotmail accounts I've had since, jesus, since before Microsoft bought them out.
Time to let go.
This is pretty much the death knell for hotmail for me. If I can't automatically download the crap in my mailbox once a month, that's all she wrote.