For years, people in the IT world have bemoaned the fact that there aren't enough women in IT, YET, when a bunch of women do something about it, the only thing most of/. people who can be bothered to comment say are derogatory - either about the women or about the project overall.
WHO gives a flying rat's rear end if there are sweet looking pictures on the front page? This simply attracts the younger generation. (Young girls are - like young boys - less intimidated by something that appears friendly and that they relate to.) I can imagine a lot of 11-15 yo finding this appealing. (Maybe some will be even younger, who knows?) They've also sprinkled their pages with funny cartoons to keep them reading!
WHY in the nederworld does it matter if the programming paradigm isn't everyone's favourite? Getting young women into the field is the desired outcome. They'll figure out for themselves that there are other things in this area. They just need a way to get started. (And for those retractors, yes, there will be a number of women who don't want or need this type of support.) Like it or not, getting a foot into the door with whatever programming language that is *easy* (how many of you started with basic? HUH?) keeps the interest level up. As the person learns, they move onto more complex structures.
Really, for those who've posted these - you ought to hang your heads in shame. I bet a lot of you didn't even look past the home page...
We own a lovely 4 cylinder Renaut Grand Scenic - diesel, manual, has seven seats. Extremely comfortable to both drive and be a passenger in.
Average consumption on highway - about 6 l/100 km == 47 MPG, though we've gotten it down to 5l/100 km (56 MPG) (below specs) with careful driving at the sweet spot. (Around town it's a bit more like 6.5 l/100km.) This is a 2006 model, so newer ones will be even better in fuel economy.
There is no problem with either acceleration or towing and it's a good and safe family car.
I highly recommend this for your family. There are other models in existence too, if you car to look around. They're just not made by GM or Ford...
Until all these professions earn equal pay - we may never know.
A fairly well educated guess is, however, that if nursing (for example) paid twice as much as doing CS, I would guarantee we'd see many more men in that field.
... the 409 parliamentarians who voted YES to this bill should be voted out of office. (Does anyone have a list?) That would be the ideal, though sadly, the majority of people don't seem to care how these decisions affect them.
I stopped flying to the states ages ago. Now I will revise how often I fly within the EU. Not sure if my job will be happy, but we can also do VC.
Hah! I lived in the states for a number of years, and travelled reasonably often by car across the eastern and mid west states, and often enough on the toll roads. The state of those roads was deplorable!
Oh, sorry - my mistake - those were PRIVATE toll roads.... You really think your politicians are going to earmark Tolls for upgrading the infrastructure?
What I'm saying is: if we're already half way there, where are the effects we should be seeing today? Where are the droughts and famines and floods that everyone is talking about? Is there some reason to believe that there's a threshold value, and once we cross it the problems will begin. It seems to me that if the CO2 if trapping heat, we should see the temperature rise with CO2. That would mean that we can expect another 1/2 degree rise at the most in the next 50 years. Droughts: You ask any Australian, and particularly, Melbournians, if they've had any drought!
Famine: Well, there's a lot of Africans who still don't get enough to eat.
Floods: Might as well include storms, so think about the number of hurricanes in the last couple of years, and many people in Europe have been experiencing SOME flooding.
Rising water: that's a really slow effect. Mind you, eroding shore lines are a sure sign of this phenomena.
Just because you don't see it happen instanteously doesn't mean its not happening.
AND you should be GLAD its not happening instanteously!
From the story line -
"ISV Super Gal, as persistent as ever, studied and was eventually able to find a way to turn matter into energy
and then back again via an Ultra-Mobile PC running Windows Vista. Shortly there after she left and headed back to main society to continue her studies.
When her friends found out about the device she had created they were amazed as could be."
Yeap - I'm sure many of us would be amazed that she was able to produce anything! (The bold emphasising is mine.)
Still, my kids are NOT going to even know about this - and we love LEGO.
Kids are pretty smart. When I was at high school our physics teacher believed that the earth was only 6000 years old, so... we used to get him to talk about it so we could all have a good laugh. Despite the fact that he wasn't a great teacher, I still really liked the subject. I suppose the low level (secondary school) physics didn't conflict too much with his beliefs, plus, he would probably have gotten the sack.
Anyway, at $20 a head, this really sounds like another get rich quick scheme.... and the creationists are the suckers who are going to fund them.
Science IS the big winner here. The market may not be as large as home use PCs but physicists everywhere are screaming for faster and more efficient processors, the more the merrier. My husband would absolutely LOVE to have something that has 5120 processors to run his matrix calculations, but so far only big companies like SGI and IBM have the architecture for large multiprocessor machines. AND those are damn expensive for today's University departmental budget.
Just my 2 euro cents worth.
They actually sell cars with this sort of *mileage* - better even. Check out www.skoda.uk.co for one of the best mileages for a station wagon. (Of course, we're talking diesel here - and as other posts have pointed out, bio diesel has been around for a bit.)
But, then the US consumer market is being duped by the cry for BIG POWERFUL *SAFE* cars (== gas-guzzling) - so its no wonder that this mileage is seen as amazing.
On the plus - its great to see kids who've had no direction doing something really positive.:) Now, if only the rest of the US could catch up with the idea of demanding more fuel efficient cars!
You really have to admire and respect Stallman's stance and philosphy on this matter. People like him have gained a high regard in the computing community. I probably wouldn't have delved into computers if it wasn't for them.
Gates, on the other hand, is generally only admired because he made so much money - his software is generally regarded as sloppy.
Yeap, I'd love to have a ton of money, but I'd rather be in the league of Stallman and the like (though sadly, I'm not even close - sigh), as then my principles let me sleep at night.
Yeap, you're right on the mark here. People who are (often) uneducated on the realities of the nuclear industry are very quick to damn new nuclear energy production sites. Unfortunately for our world, these people often have loud voices and large purses, and so other uninformed populaces believe them. I used to work at Oak Ridge, and frankly, the radiation levels I worked around were often less than the standard background radiation (I was working at the accelerator lab too:) I saw more human rubbish on the roads than anything affected by adverse radiation levels.
I happily live in another country nowadays, which has just recently made the very smart and informed decision to commission a new nuclear power plant to meet the needs of industry here. More power to this country, because not only do they protect the environment by reducing the amount of coal fired plants needed (and thereby reduce the amount of acid rain produced) but they also protect one of their prime industries: forestry!
As for using microbes to *eat* up our nuclear wastes - I don't have as much training on biology as I do physics, so if the people who are into this area can give some constructive criticism, I would be very happy to throw in my view point. My expertise is nuclear physics - and there I can make some value judgements. That is - its safe, clean, and modern technologies make it that way - not the technologies of the 50's and 60's (where in some cases we are still haveto pay the price of cleaning up that era's messes!)
Our department is happily buying Fujitsu Siemens laptops WITHOUT any OS! They also ship a Suse demo disk!
There's a range to choose from, though you might find that for gaming, you'll pay too much.
Good luck!
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Comments in this thread are - just - plain - sad.
For years, people in the IT world have bemoaned the fact that there aren't enough women in IT, /. people who can
YET, when a bunch of women do something about it, the only thing most of
be bothered to comment say are derogatory - either about the women or about the project overall.
WHO gives a flying rat's rear end if there are sweet looking pictures on the front page? This simply
attracts the younger generation. (Young girls are - like young boys - less intimidated by something
that appears friendly and that they relate to.) I can imagine a lot of 11-15 yo finding this appealing.
(Maybe some will be even younger, who knows?) They've also sprinkled their pages with funny
cartoons to keep them reading!
WHY in the nederworld does it matter if the programming paradigm isn't everyone's favourite?
Getting young women into the field is the desired outcome. They'll figure out for themselves
that there are other things in this area. They just need a way to get started. (And for those
retractors, yes, there will be a number of women who don't want or need this type of support.)
Like it or not, getting a foot into the door with whatever programming language that is *easy*
(how many of you started with basic? HUH?) keeps the interest level up. As the person
learns, they move onto more complex structures.
Really, for those who've posted these - you ought to hang your heads in shame. I bet a lot of ...
you didn't even look past the home page
We own a lovely 4 cylinder Renaut Grand Scenic - diesel, manual, has seven seats.
Extremely comfortable to both drive and be a passenger in.
Average consumption on highway - about 6 l/100 km == 47 MPG, though we've gotten
it down to 5l/100 km (56 MPG) (below specs) with careful driving at the sweet spot.
(Around town it's a bit more like 6.5 l/100km.) This is a 2006 model, so newer ones
will be even better in fuel economy.
There is no problem with either acceleration or towing and it's a good and safe family car.
I highly recommend this for your family. There are other models in existence too, ...
if you car to look around. They're just not made by GM or Ford
Until all these professions earn equal pay - we may never know.
A fairly well educated guess is, however, that if nursing (for example) paid twice as much as doing CS, I would
guarantee we'd see many more men in that field.
just my 2 euro cents worth ...
... the 409 parliamentarians who voted YES to this bill should be voted out of office.
(Does anyone have a list?)
That would be the ideal, though sadly, the majority of people don't
seem to care how these decisions affect them.
I stopped flying to the states ages ago. Now I will revise how often I fly within the EU.
Not sure if my job will be happy, but we can also do VC.
Hah! I lived in the states for a number of years,
and travelled reasonably often by car across the eastern and mid west states, and often enough
on the toll roads. The state of those roads was
deplorable!
Oh, sorry - my mistake - those were PRIVATE toll .... You really think your politicians are going to earmark Tolls for upgrading the infrastructure?
roads
Famine: Well, there's a lot of Africans who still don't get enough to eat.
Floods: Might as well include storms, so think about the number of hurricanes in the last couple of years, and many people in Europe have been experiencing SOME flooding.
Rising water: that's a really slow effect. Mind you, eroding shore lines are a sure sign of this phenomena.
Just because you don't see it happen instanteously doesn't mean its not happening.
AND you should be GLAD its not happening instanteously!
So, is this open letter a taste of what the new standard word processed documents will look like? ROTFLOL!
From the story line -
"ISV Super Gal, as persistent as ever, studied and was eventually able to find a way to turn matter into energy
and then back again via an Ultra-Mobile PC running Windows Vista. Shortly there after she left and headed back to main society to continue her studies.
When her friends found out about the device she had created they were amazed as could be."
Yeap - I'm sure many of us would be amazed that she was able to produce anything! (The bold emphasising is mine.)
Still, my kids are NOT going to even know about this - and we love LEGO.
Kids are pretty smart. When I was at high school our physics teacher believed that the earth was only 6000 years old, so ... we used to get him to talk about it so we could all have a good laugh. Despite the fact that he wasn't a great teacher, I still really liked the subject. I suppose the low level (secondary school) physics didn't conflict too much with his beliefs, plus, he would probably have gotten the sack.
Anyway, at $20 a head, this really sounds like another get rich quick scheme .... and the creationists are the suckers who are going to fund them.
Just to set the record straight.
Actually, the "25 shortcomings" article is from CRN - not CERN.
I don't know who this Frank J. Ohlhorst dude is though.
Science IS the big winner here. The market may not be as large as home use PCs but physicists everywhere are screaming for faster and more efficient processors, the more the merrier. My husband would absolutely LOVE to have something that has 5120 processors to run his matrix calculations, but so far only big companies like SGI and IBM have the architecture for large multiprocessor machines. AND those are damn expensive for today's University departmental budget. Just my 2 euro cents worth.
overthrow those tyrants currently *ruling* the US?
They actually sell cars with this sort of *mileage* - better even.
:) Now, if only the rest of the US could
Check out www.skoda.uk.co for one of the best mileages for a station
wagon. (Of course, we're talking diesel here - and as other posts
have pointed out, bio diesel has been around for a bit.)
But, then the US consumer market is being duped by the cry for
BIG POWERFUL *SAFE* cars (== gas-guzzling) - so its no wonder
that this mileage is seen as amazing.
On the plus - its great to see kids who've had no direction doing
something really positive.
catch up with the idea of demanding more fuel efficient cars!
You really have to admire and respect Stallman's stance and philosphy on this matter. People like him have gained a high regard in the computing community. I probably wouldn't have delved into computers if it wasn't for them.
Gates, on the other hand, is generally only admired because he made so much money - his software is generally regarded as sloppy.
Yeap, I'd love to have a ton of money, but I'd rather be in the league of Stallman and the like (though sadly, I'm not even close - sigh), as then my principles let me sleep at night.
So, that just means that I won't buy or even consider DELL for my company!
Their loss! Some one else's gain!
1.5 million mph is equivalent to 416.7 miles per second. And for the correct SI units, its about
671000 m/s
or 2.4 million km / hour
So, its less than 3 times as fast as our sun's journey through space.
Don't you just love it when people amaze you by adjusting the units! Nevertheless, its an interesting phenomenan. Its still got a hefty pace.
Why is it Americans insist on shortening mathematics to math?
Yeap, you're right on the mark here. People who are (often) uneducated on the realities of the nuclear industry are very quick to damn new nuclear energy production sites. Unfortunately for our world, these people often have loud voices and large purses, and so other uninformed populaces believe them. I used to work at Oak Ridge, and frankly, the radiation levels I worked around were often less than the standard background radiation (I was working at the accelerator lab too :) I saw more human rubbish on the roads than anything affected by adverse radiation levels.
I happily live in another country nowadays, which has just recently made the very smart and informed decision to commission a new nuclear power plant to meet the needs of industry here. More power to this country, because not only do they protect the environment by reducing the amount of coal fired plants needed (and thereby reduce the amount of acid rain produced) but they also protect one of their prime industries: forestry!
As for using microbes to *eat* up our nuclear wastes - I don't have as much training on biology as I do physics, so if the people who are into this area can give some constructive criticism, I would be very happy to throw in my view point. My expertise is nuclear physics - and there I can make some value judgements. That is - its safe, clean, and modern technologies make it that way - not the technologies of the 50's and 60's (where in some cases we are still haveto pay the price of cleaning up that era's messes!)
Our department is happily buying Fujitsu Siemens laptops WITHOUT any OS! They also ship a Suse demo disk! There's a range to choose from, though you might find that for gaming, you'll pay too much. Good luck!