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  1. Re:And 60% of college students are female on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Why is that critical? You have the same argument about women going into STEM. If women aren't interested in technical fields, why force them? If men aren't interested in going to college, why force them?

    What you're not seeing are valid equivalent organizations towards advancing the male agenda. And that won't happen until the pendulum reaches the other side.

    [John]

  2. Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows · · Score: 1

    The Corsair CMPSU-750TX got really good reviews back when I was looking at building my own system. What would you suggest would be a better PSU for a system where I'm not using the higher end video cards for gaming?

    [John]

  3. Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows · · Score: 1

    Yea, fuck you too monkey boy.

    [John]

  4. Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows · · Score: 2

    Corsair 750W.

    [John]

  5. Re:Always struggling with a Dodgy NVS mobile... on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Catching Up To and Beating Windows · · Score: 2

    Well, 2008 anyway. My AMD 4870's blue screen'd Windows XP and then Windows 7 on boot pretty regularly (and yes, I sent them back for testing but all appeared okay per DiamondMM). I finally replaced them with a pair of nVidia boards which just has the driver bail every once in a while and killed Firefox until I disabled the hardware acceleration option in Firefox.

    [John]

  6. Re:Fine! on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy with a text version of Word Perfect actually.

    [John]

  7. Re:Tablets age well on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 1

    Yep. I have a first gen iPad and it still works for what I use it for. Forum participation, checking amazon for reviews, recipes when I'm cooking, reading books, browsing gaming pdfs, email, listening to music, and some simpler games. The browser crashes if I hit a youtube heavy thread on a forum or news article but it restarts and works afterwards. I think I just need to back off my apps and stuff again and reinstall the last OS for a clean install.

    [John]

  8. Re:Oh no! on Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In · · Score: 0

    At least from my girlfriend's perspective this is true. The Indian developers ignore anything she says until it's said by a guy on her team. Frustrates the hell out of her. And she's told her daughter not go to into programming.

    [John]

  9. Re:Old Guys? on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    Sadly hitting 7 on my desk phone says "invalid option" and restarts the recording.

    [John]

  10. Re:No, No it doesnt. on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the problem is we men don't have legitimate male organizations that advocate for the boys and men. Women will naturally advocate for their benefit. Alternately the total nut-jobs have made having a male advocate so toxic that we can't have nice things.

    [John]

  11. Re:Risk = Reward on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 1

    Hah! I was working as a programmer at one place writing surveying software (to read data from a Surveying instrument and write it back out to an HP plotter) but I also went out on surveying jobs and one time had to chase cows back to the farm because the owners were also farmers raising cows, chickens, and corn. This was back in 84/85.

    [John]

  12. Re:Risk = Reward on Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford · · Score: 1

    I am doing similar stuff at home. I'm taking a break right now from writing code for a work application I wrote and it's Christmas Eve. I spent hours yesterday gaming and today just want to be in solitude thinking over what I'm writing and working on my project.

    [John]

  13. Old Guys? on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 2

    I've always hated talking on the phone and will ignore my red light on the phone for several days or even weeks. Heck, 95% of the time the "voice" message is *beeeeep* (a hangup vs leaving a message). As to the phone, probably half of the callers are from outside the company ("can I send you a white paper from symantec?"). I always prefer an email or text message at home and just email at work. I leave my IM off at work typically just because of the number of "drive by" IMs. If I bring IM up for a problem where I'm working with others, I'll have 4 or 5 other popups asking me about this or that.

    And I'm 57.

    [John]

  14. Re:Story is BS. Make it Right cards aren't that bi on Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait · · Score: 2

    You wouldn't like it. Sometimes the guys don't shave. :D

    [John]

  15. Re: Simple answer... on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has Tinkerbell been fucking bunnies [b]again[/b]! Honestly you'd think she'd learn after last time. (Bunnies with wings :rolleyes: )

    [John]

  16. Wrote My Own on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Tagging, Tag cloud, organizing by event, upload capable from portable devices as well as computers. Written on a LAMP system (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). I have a special tag to identify pictures I want to rotate through the main page. It's still not quite where I want it to be but my stuff generally is a work in progress.

    Write it yourself. You'll learn quite a lot and invest time into your photos :)

    [John]

  17. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Don't know about ultra-wide but syslog entries can be pretty long same with the output of ps.

    I do try to break up my code lines so they're readable but sometimes there's not a good place to use a line break.

    And of course I'm not going full screen so it's good to have space on either side to overlap screens vs having to flip back and forth.

    Carl

  18. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    I have asked if I can though. Still waiting on whether they'll let me do so. We'll see :)

    [John]

  19. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    It's above the other one. See the pic in the link:

    http://schelin.org/jpgshow.php...

    [John]

  20. Re:View angles on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 2

    That you say all monitors completely suck when used in Portrait mode when you should have said the monitors you've used completely suck in Portrait mode. My Acer monitors work just fine in Portrait and rotated 180* with no distortion.

    [John]

  21. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    The bad part are the Linux drivers. With this setup, the monitors are in two domains. When I move the domains to overlap, I can move my mouse pointer into various monitors however I can't get back, I have to go counter clockwise to get the pointer back to the center monitor. So I can move from center to top but not top to center without going to the left monitor first.

    [John]

  22. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    I've spread my graphics programs across all four monitors when I have a large image. You get the bezels in the way but it seems to work well enough for my low-key usage.

    [John]

  23. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Upside down? Flipped? Rotated 180*? :)

    [John]

  24. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Two video cards that support two monitors each.

    But at work I have a laptop with an attached monitor and two Linux systems using Synergy to let me use the laptop mouse and keyboard on all three. It's a bit wonky though as the Mac version of Synergy isn't bug free yet.

    [John]

  25. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    And I custom built my own wooden stand using TV wall mounts for the monitors.

    [John]