Lessee..as of 1AM Saturday, eastern time, the school, the Law Office and the City Services pages are all down. I think I'll just keep checking until that boy is let out of jail.
Know what I wish? That someone would add networking capability like Open Canvas's earlier versions. There's a whole irc channel (conceptart on thundercity) that loves it with a passion, but the program itself is buggy and weak.
Interesting..I suspect Congress has just handed the entire recording industry to Garageband.com, and created a healthy, thriving black market in bootlegs...
Nobody I know buys music they haven't downloaded first.
We pretty much have a society, now, where women and men *cannot* be discriminated against when going for jobs and whatnot.
Not true..they can and do discriminate. They just hide it better. I have tons of technical training, yet just went for nearly 3 years without finding a steady job. All the men I know in the same fields with much less training found jobs. Explain that, you sexist jerk.
Women are attracted to computer jobs, but the prospects of getting hired for them are extremely poor.
All they have to do to discriminate is not hire you. There's really no way to prove anything. I have been in technical fields for my entire life. It's what I love to do. I know other women who wanted to, but were driven into other fields because they could find no company that would let them in. Over the years, I accumulated skills in many different technical fields by working for peanuts for failing companies that couldn't find male techs that would work that cheap. I've finally found a company in desperate need of a jack-of-all-trades that couldn't find a male that had those skills and is able to pay what they're worth. But it's too bad I had to wait until I was 50 to get it.
I am a woman that loved programming, computers and electronics for pretty much my entire life. Try to get a job doing those things. The only companies that will 'take a chance' on 'nonstandard' employees are those that are desperate...usually meaning on the verge of failure.
I just got a job that uses the full extent of my skills for the first time in my life..at the age of 50! I'm in heaven...but it's been a very long, rough road. Men don't hire women for tech jobs if they can find men to do the job instead. Pure and simple.
Not true. People I know are buying more cd's than ever because they're finally hearing music they like again. I quit buying music back in the 70's because I got burned too many times. Now I'm buying again, because I can download the entire album first. I know one guy who downloads mega-gigs of music..but also now spends about $200/month on cd's. Music sales are the highest now that they've been in years.
Artists are also making more, and cutting the recording industry out. That's their *real* beef!
Like the spare car I dug out of the snow tonight when the main car wouldn't start. This lil' ol' lady filled the tires, unstuck it and drove it all over town with manual shift and shot power-steering pump. I've always driven manuals, I like 'em. I'm a self-taught electronics and pc tech that homeschooled 5 kids while running a business.
Discrimination? Yeah. I've fought it all my life. My teachers told my parents not to worry about my math problems--I would never need math. Bastids.
Sorry, it's not innate. My teachers told my parents not to worry about my math problems because "I would never need math." In school, the teachers would answer the boys' questions while ignoring me. As an adult, I taught myself math and electronics. I love science, and would have been very good at it if I'd had the chance. However, bad math scores in school pretty much scotches your chances of being accepted in university science programs.
I have faced discrimination as a female tech all my life. Men don't believe you can do it, so they don't take a chance on you. Girls in all-girl schools show no innate disability in math and science.
I suspect the RIAA and MPAA's real agenda is to suppress alternative methods of distribution.
Musicians are making hay on filesharing out there, without going through the 'establishment.' That's the only real threat to the RIAA, considering since music is selling like hotcakes now because of filesharing.
As a life-long atheist who has never believed "might makes right", I stand as a counterexample.
I don't need a god to help me figure out how to interact with people in a mutually-beneficial manner. That's about the silliest assertion by the anti-realists I think I've encountered in a while.
Like ants, curries are monomaniacal about tiny tasks - they copy and move files from place to place - but together they form a force so powerful that it threatens to displace the traditional forms of media distribution. In fact, Forest believes the scene will eventually go legit, and he's even started a company, called Jun Group, that uses the topsites to promote movies, musicians, and TV shows. "The topsites don't care where their files come from, as long as no one else has them," he says. Last summer Jun Group dropped a collection of live videos and MP3s from Steve Winwood on the topsites. "We got 2.9 million downloads," says Forest, **"and album sales took off."**
If you can find a way to make a *copy* of my eggs, you're welcome to them. I seriously doubt i'll be able to sell a lot of copied eggs, but getting the samples out there will do my egg business a world of good, as then people will want to buy my real eggs.
When I was in school, I was just like her, tho that was way before computers became available. Actually, I wanted an Altair so bad I could taste it, when I was..10? Somewhere around there. As a female farm kid in the late 60's I simply could not find a way to accumulate the hundred bucks.
In school I scored a 99% on mechanical ability and abstract reasoning on aptitude tests,yet they made me take shorthand and typing and bookkeeping...even though I scored a 2% on "clerical speed and accuracy" on those same tests.
I finally got to take a a year of drafting--after I mentioned "Title 9" to the counselors. I missed a lot of it tho, because I wasn't allowed to take it before. I was not allowed to take physics or chemistry either, because of math scores. They'd told my mother when I first started having trouble with it (when they changed back from "new math" to "old math") that I'd never need it because I was a girl. I corrected those deficiencies as quickly as I could as an adult, but by then the usual survival stuff took up all of my time. It was too late.
My son, however, also was nearly destroyed by the education system. They kept confiscating his "RadioElectronics" magazines in first grade. Then in 4th, his teacher told me he was retarded because he became totally unresponsive in class. He'd just 'go away'.
I pulled him from school and let him do what he pleased from then on. He's an electronics engineer and inventor now, and is doing very well.
And he's not the only homeschooled kid I know that's done things like that. Schools destroy more motivation and creativity than they ever foster. Kids need *time* and access to information, and they'll do the rest all by themselves. Locking them up in institutions wastes their time and limits their access to knowledge.
Kids are wired to learn. What they learn should be their choice, not some institution's. No matter what they choose, they'll be passionate experts in it, and that's a skill that's in very short supply.
I suspect that university tends to lock people down creatively. Cripes, you *can't* force 'creative thought'!
My son, who is now 25, has been designing circuits and programming microproprocessors for years now. He hasn't been in any school since 4th grade. He has never once questioned whether he could do something he wanted to do, he just did it. His latest invention is going to manufacturing now with the support of several VC's, who also have had no problem with the idea that he's 'uneducated'. The fact that he's designed and built working prototypes of a very novel and complex design is proof enough.
Like Jeri--passion and interest--and knowing that you can--is all you need.
What really gets old is that none of the guys have the slightest interest in talking tech with us. All they're actually interested in is getting laid. A girl with geek cred adds points, evidently, but you guys really don't give a rats about her or her gadget.
The reason girls don't do tech? Because there's no one to freakin' talk to, that's why! Millions of guys who do the same thing, and they'll all talk to each other endlessly about it. But not to girl techs. What *we* get is "do you like to..." fill in a whole bunch of blanks about sex.
Actually, as a girl (more or less) I do a bit of both. Something very complex (like C++) I'll read up on it some first, then get in and break it. I break Linux distros regularly.
It did take me awhile to get over a childhood of being yelled at for messing with stuff my brother always got to play with.
Leave girls alone and give 'em tools, and they'll break stuff too!
After my son's first 4th-grade teacher told me he was retarded, I definitely lost respect. Some of my teachers thought the same thing. My son was reading RadioElectronics magazine and building circuits before he started school. I ended up homeschooling. None of my kids got anything from school but a dislike of learning. They got over that when they no longer had to go.
And a lousy choice it was. If they didn't sign, they didn't get heard. Now, they can get heard easily, by simply releasing their music on the net. Royalties are a small price to pay to retain artistic control--and cd sales. *Many* bands are making it *because* of file-sharing today. I heard a Porcupine Tree song on the radio the other day for the first time..I found them through file sharing a couple years ago, and bought their cd's! They weren't 'discovered' by record companies..they were discovered by file-sharers.
Laws stifling any political speech skews perception about it..and gives it a kind of 'martyr' status. Here we have both nazi and ku klux klan, and the media doesn't hesitate to cover their activities..if there isn't something more interesting going on!
Coverage of civil rights battles, coverage of *everything* has led to change repeatedly. The Klan and the Nazis simply look stupid to most people now.
If speech about them was suppressed, everyone would wonder what the government was hiding and start to defend them.
Heh, you've been lucky. I've dealt with everything from one box where no 3d game would run, to lost CDROM and DVD players and burners. Removing SP2 cures the problems instantly, and also generally speeds the whole system up dramatically.
I always turn off XP's firewall and run my own. Tweaking it doesn't do a thing for driver problems and DirectX incompatibilities. With decent (and free) firewalls and virus checkers, and good ol' firefox, I haven't seen a single invasion of any box I've set up without it yet.
Y'know, the whole piracy debate never seems to jive with what I see in real life. My son just bought a retail copy of HL2. He's a pirate of long standing, and a capable hacker. He now writes embedded software for a(very good) living. He buys all his games now, because he can afford them. He has absolutely no moral objection to "piracy". When he was pirating, he had no money anyway, and could not have purchased them. He also buys lots of books and cd's he previously pirated from libraries. (No, he didn't keep them; and he didn't keep any of the games he pirated either, once he was done with them.)
My other son "pirated" all of Modest Mouse's music. Then he purchased all their CDs, because he liked it so much he wanted originals. I discovered Porcupine Tree through file-sharing, and have bought several of their CD's. *After* collecting all the MP3's I could find. I *won't* buy music any other way now. I've been screwed too often by it in the past. They have an awesome website, too--and you can hear tons of their music there for free.
The kids who pirate now because they have no money buy later when they do. If they never played games they couldn't afford, there would be very few gamers. Those things take *practice*..
Free stuff sells. Musicians are learning it now...www.garageband.com, for example. Writers have known it for a long time www.baen.com/library/
It pretty much cured my kids' swearing when I pointed out to them that using those words in the vicinity of certain nice old ladies would be sure to cut off their pop-and-cookie supply from those old ladies. They became a good deal more judicious with it at the very least. Was good enough for me, since that's about all we ask of adults.
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Lessee..as of 1AM Saturday, eastern time, the school, the Law Office and the City Services pages are all down. I think I'll just keep checking until that boy is let out of jail.
Know what I wish? That someone would add networking capability like Open Canvas's earlier versions. There's a whole irc channel (conceptart on thundercity) that loves it with a passion, but the program itself is buggy and weak.
Interesting..I suspect Congress has just handed the entire recording industry to Garageband.com, and created a healthy, thriving black market in bootlegs...
Nobody I know buys music they haven't downloaded first.
We pretty much have a society, now, where women and men *cannot* be discriminated against when going for jobs and whatnot.
Not true..they can and do discriminate. They just hide it better. I have tons of technical training, yet just went for nearly 3 years without finding a steady job. All the men I know in the same fields with much less training found jobs. Explain that, you sexist jerk.
Women are attracted to computer jobs, but the prospects of getting hired for them are extremely poor.
All they have to do to discriminate is not hire you. There's really no way to prove anything. I have been in technical fields for my entire life. It's what I love to do. I know other women who wanted to, but were driven into other fields because they could find no company that would let them in. Over the years, I accumulated skills in many different technical fields by working for peanuts for failing companies that couldn't find male techs that would work that cheap. I've finally found a company in desperate need of a jack-of-all-trades that couldn't find a male that had those skills and is able to pay what they're worth. But it's too bad I had to wait until I was 50 to get it.
Retirement is gonna suck.
I am a woman that loved programming, computers and electronics for pretty much my entire life. Try to get a job doing those things. The only companies that will 'take a chance' on 'nonstandard' employees are those that are desperate...usually meaning on the verge of failure.
I just got a job that uses the full extent of my skills for the first time in my life..at the age of 50! I'm in heaven...but it's been a very long, rough road. Men don't hire women for tech jobs if they can find men to do the job instead. Pure and simple.
And that's *all* it is.
Not true. People I know are buying more cd's than ever because they're finally hearing music they like again. I quit buying music back in the 70's because I got burned too many times. Now I'm buying again, because I can download the entire album first. I know one guy who downloads mega-gigs of music..but also now spends about $200/month on cd's. Music sales are the highest now that they've been in years.
Artists are also making more, and cutting the recording industry out. That's their *real* beef!
Like the spare car I dug out of the snow tonight when the main car wouldn't start. This lil' ol' lady filled the tires, unstuck it and drove it all over town with manual shift and shot power-steering pump.
I've always driven manuals, I like 'em. I'm a self-taught electronics and pc tech that homeschooled 5 kids while running a business.
Discrimination? Yeah. I've fought it all my life. My teachers told my parents not to worry about my math problems--I would never need math. Bastids.
Sorry, it's not innate. My teachers told my parents not to worry about my math problems because "I would never need math." In school, the teachers would answer the boys' questions while ignoring me. As an adult, I taught myself math and electronics. I love science, and would have been very good at it if I'd had the chance. However, bad math scores in school pretty much scotches your chances of being accepted in university science programs.
I have faced discrimination as a female tech all my life. Men don't believe you can do it, so they don't take a chance on you. Girls in all-girl schools show no innate disability in math and science.
I suspect the RIAA and MPAA's real agenda is to suppress alternative methods of distribution.
Musicians are making hay on filesharing out there, without going through the 'establishment.' That's the only real threat to the RIAA, considering since music is selling like hotcakes now because of filesharing.
As a life-long atheist who has never believed "might makes right", I stand as a counterexample.
I don't need a god to help me figure out how to interact with people in a mutually-beneficial manner. That's about the silliest assertion by the anti-realists I think I've encountered in a while.
This is what really bugs me:
Like ants, curries are monomaniacal about tiny tasks - they copy and move files from place to place - but together they form a force so powerful that it threatens to displace the traditional forms of media distribution. In fact, Forest believes the scene will eventually go legit, and he's even started a company, called Jun Group, that uses the topsites to promote movies, musicians, and TV shows. "The topsites don't care where their files come from, as long as no one else has them," he says. Last summer Jun Group dropped a collection of live videos and MP3s from Steve Winwood on the topsites. "We got 2.9 million downloads," says Forest, **"and album sales took off."**
WTF is their beef?? It *increases their sales!*
If you can find a way to make a *copy* of my eggs, you're welcome to them. I seriously doubt i'll be able to sell a lot of copied eggs, but getting the samples out there will do my egg business a world of good, as then people will want to buy my real eggs.
The education system is actively destructive.
When I was in school, I was just like her, tho that was way before computers became available. Actually, I wanted an Altair so bad I could taste it, when I was..10? Somewhere around there. As a female farm kid in the late 60's I simply could not find a way to accumulate the hundred bucks.
In school I scored a 99% on mechanical ability and abstract reasoning on aptitude tests,yet they made me take shorthand and typing and bookkeeping...even though I scored a 2% on "clerical speed and accuracy" on those same tests.
I finally got to take a a year of drafting--after I mentioned "Title 9" to the counselors. I missed a lot of it tho, because I wasn't allowed to take it before. I was not allowed to take physics or chemistry either, because of math scores. They'd told my mother when I first started having trouble with it (when they changed back from "new math" to "old math") that I'd never need it because I was a girl. I corrected those deficiencies as quickly as I could as an adult, but by then the usual survival stuff took up all of my time. It was too late.
My son, however, also was nearly destroyed by the education system. They kept confiscating his "RadioElectronics" magazines in first grade. Then in 4th, his teacher told me he was retarded because he became totally unresponsive in class. He'd just 'go away'.
I pulled him from school and let him do what he pleased from then on. He's an electronics engineer and inventor now, and is doing very well.
And he's not the only homeschooled kid I know that's done things like that. Schools destroy more motivation and creativity than they ever foster. Kids need *time* and access to information, and they'll do the rest all by themselves. Locking them up in institutions wastes their time and limits their access to knowledge.
Kids are wired to learn. What they learn should be their choice, not some institution's. No matter what they choose, they'll be passionate experts in it, and that's a skill that's in very short supply.
I suspect that university tends to lock people down creatively. Cripes, you *can't* force 'creative thought'!
My son, who is now 25, has been designing circuits and programming microproprocessors for years now. He hasn't been in any school since 4th grade. He has never once questioned whether he could do something he wanted to do, he just did it. His latest invention is going to manufacturing now with the support of several VC's, who also have had no problem with the idea that he's 'uneducated'. The fact that he's designed and built working prototypes of a very novel and complex design is proof enough.
Like Jeri--passion and interest--and knowing that you can--is all you need.
What really gets old is that none of the guys have the slightest interest in talking tech with us. All they're actually interested in is getting laid. A girl with geek cred adds points, evidently, but you guys really don't give a rats about her or her gadget.
The reason girls don't do tech? Because there's no one to freakin' talk to, that's why! Millions of guys who do the same thing, and they'll all talk to each other endlessly about it. But not to girl techs. What *we* get is "do you like to..." fill in a whole bunch of blanks about sex.
Frankly, about the 1000th time, it gets boring.
Actually, as a girl (more or less) I do a bit of both. Something very complex (like C++) I'll read up on it some first, then get in and break it. I break Linux distros regularly.
It did take me awhile to get over a childhood of being yelled at for messing with stuff my brother always got to play with.
Leave girls alone and give 'em tools, and they'll break stuff too!
ooohhhh...solar-powered roto-beanie!
At least science is useful...
After my son's first 4th-grade teacher told me he was retarded, I definitely lost respect. Some of my teachers thought the same thing. My son was reading RadioElectronics magazine and building circuits before he started school. I ended up homeschooling. None of my kids got anything from school but a dislike of learning. They got over that when they no longer had to go.
LOL..yer ADD, man. Classic symptoms.
Untreated ADD'ers tend to run on adrenalin, caffeine and sugar, and quite often nicotine. All stimulants.
Panic treats it quite nicely, tho the side-effects really suck.
Been there, am that.
And a lousy choice it was. If they didn't sign, they didn't get heard. Now, they can get heard easily, by simply releasing their music on the net. Royalties are a small price to pay to retain artistic control--and cd sales. *Many* bands are making it *because* of file-sharing today. I heard a Porcupine Tree song on the radio the other day for the first time..I found them through file sharing a couple years ago, and bought their cd's! They weren't 'discovered' by record companies..they were discovered by file-sharers.
Laws stifling any political speech skews perception about it..and gives it a kind of 'martyr' status. Here we have both nazi and ku klux klan, and the media doesn't hesitate to cover their activities..if there isn't something more interesting going on! Coverage of civil rights battles, coverage of *everything* has led to change repeatedly. The Klan and the Nazis simply look stupid to most people now. If speech about them was suppressed, everyone would wonder what the government was hiding and start to defend them.
Heh, you've been lucky. I've dealt with everything from one box where no 3d game would run, to lost CDROM and DVD players and burners. Removing SP2 cures the problems instantly, and also generally speeds the whole system up dramatically.
I always turn off XP's firewall and run my own. Tweaking it doesn't do a thing for driver problems and DirectX incompatibilities. With decent (and free) firewalls and virus checkers, and good ol' firefox, I haven't seen a single invasion of any box I've set up without it yet.
"Update" is just another backdoor.
Y'know, the whole piracy debate never seems to jive with what I see in real life. My son just bought a retail copy of HL2. He's a pirate of long standing, and a capable hacker. He now writes embedded software for a(very good) living. He buys all his games now, because he can afford them. He has absolutely no moral objection to "piracy". When he was pirating, he had no money anyway, and could not have purchased them. He also buys lots of books and cd's he previously pirated from libraries. (No, he didn't keep them; and he didn't keep any of the games he pirated either, once he was done with them.)
My other son "pirated" all of Modest Mouse's music. Then he purchased all their CDs, because he liked it so much he wanted originals. I discovered Porcupine Tree through file-sharing, and have bought several of their CD's. *After* collecting all the MP3's I could find. I *won't* buy music any other way now. I've been screwed too often by it in the past. They have an awesome website, too--and you can hear tons of their music there for free.
The kids who pirate now because they have no money buy later when they do. If they never played games they couldn't afford, there would be very few gamers. Those things take *practice*..
Free stuff sells. Musicians are learning it now...www.garageband.com, for example. Writers have known it for a long time www.baen.com/library/
It pretty much cured my kids' swearing when I pointed out to them that using those words in the vicinity of certain nice old ladies would be sure to cut off their pop-and-cookie supply from those old ladies. They became a good deal more judicious with it at the very least. Was good enough for me, since that's about all we ask of adults.