Well, Title IX is being used to ensure colleges actually follow up on rape accusations vs sweeping them under the rug or performing a delaying action until the case times out (180 days). There have been a few fakes that I've found in searching. But I do also find it astounding (in my reading) that a woman can say she agreed to the sex, (went back to his place, said 'yes', etc) but felt that she was under duress and can call it rape. Makes you want to just avoid contact with women entirely.
There are others who like writing docs. I brought that to my team. I do it as a matter of defence. When the guys come to me with a question, I point them to the docs. So I get bothered less for little things. We do get more questions from other teams because we better understand how things work at the company.
Title IX of course. Since there aren't as many women and girls in Video Gaming, once they're 'Sports', Title IX can be used to "encourage" girls to play. Then there'll be more girls in Video gaming!
It's just like real sports where Title IX has brought the participation of women up to close what mens participation is (like 45/55 I think was the last stat I read).
I've also heard Title IX is being examined to apply to STEM courses as well to ensure more women are represented in STEM courses.
Really? I have a 1st Gen iPad and see no reason to replace it with a 2, 3, or 4. I browse websites, use it when working on the bike or car to look stuff up, listen to music (plugged in to external speakers of course), check my mail, play games (Plants vs Zombies but not PvZ2 since it requires an iPad 2).
I did finally replace my iPhone 3GS with an iPhone 5 though. It is a lot better than the 3GS.
Yea, I have a 1st Gen iPad and it still works fine. If I have too many videos on a thread in a forum it'll crash the browser but restart the browser and 99% of the time it loads the page without a problem. I have no reason to replace it. All I'm doing is reading books, listening to music, browsing the web, and occasionally logged in to my server for one reason or another.
Text messages aren't necessarily free in the USA either. I'm paying $20 a month because my girlfriend is on a different service (I'm on AT&T, she's on Verizon I think). My ex wife and I are both on AT&T and both use iPhones (girlfriend has an Android) so my ex and I can text for free. Back in November my girlfriend and I started dating and texting. Within a couple of weeks I received an AT&T alert indicating I'd hit $50 in text charges and I should consider going with one of the texting plans.
It's likely I was coding before you were a twinkle in your father's eye. I've done my share of programming in the past. As a sysadmin I find I can code to my heart's content without having some project manager or manager breathing over my neck to get some buggy code out. If you had actual systems admin skills, you'd understand that we need to work together to get your code out to production as seamlessly as possible. That means working within the constraints of the environment your project is destined for. What that doesn't mean is that you can pull some Linux distro of the week out of your ass and expect it to be deployed into production without issue or complaint. Depending on the urgency of the requirement, you might get it deployed, but I guarantee you, you will be working on the next version with a supported operating system.
If you can't understand that dev, qa, and ops are a team, then perhaps you should come out of your mom's basement and check out the real world.
Humorously I am doing my job. My job is to ensure all the servers are patched appropriately and that the environment runs smoothly. This means regular patches, resolving hardware and software issues, working on projects to deploy new systems or apply new versions to existing systems, and of course the numerous meetings to discuss important issues.
I patch our lab environment before patching anything else to ensure production isn't adversely affected by the patches. Of course the lab can't exactly match production but we do our best. Next up is QA so incoming applications can be tested on a production like server. Next is Production once both areas are patched and standardized and no issues discovered. Finally, assuming the developers are willing to be patched, the dev servers are patched.
Now I don't always get to patch development servers in part because you're working on something or other and can't be bothered. And unfortunately there are times when you're done with a package and you present it to QA only to discover it doesn't work there. A few times because of a patch. Which means I have to break out of what I'm doing if possible (you're not my priority by the way) and patch your system so you can identify and fix the problem.
Seriously? You want to be involved in the patching process of all the servers? I appreciate that, but damn dude, talk about a waste of time. After a bit, getting e-mails on the patching of our 1,000 Unix systems might get a bit tedious. Especially when something breaks in production and it's traced to a patch that you signed off on. Do you really have that much free time?
See, I have no idea if a patch that appears to be necessary on my server will affect your application. So you'll get to see all the patches that I'm intending on applying. And since your environment needs to match mine... Well because your software will eventually be deployed into my environment. So I will insist your environment be as close as possible so you experience the problems before it gets into my hands. That way I'm not trying to figure out why your software isn't working or worse yet, the application guys aren't in an incident trying to figure out why the timing is off which will affect 17,000,000 users forcing a report to the FCC and an urgent change request is sent to you and your group to be worked 24x7 until the code works again.
Wouldn't you rather your server work like a production server? So when you're done with your code, you _know_ it works in production and you can move on to the next project without having to worry about being dragged back in to fix some problem?
Honestly that's what I was thinking. Study Physics. Even if I don't get a degree, it might be a lot of interesting and fun stuff. It seems that I'd need to really attend College to do that though vs night courses or the local CC.
Yea, no degree and I'm a Sr Unix Admin. I am investigating pursuing a degree, more for personal education than career advancement though. At this point, I can't see how a degree would improve my chances of keeping my job or getting a different one should this one fail:)
We need an 'Anonymous Idiot' user for some folks apparently.
Post the links to proof or STFU.
Google search showed 81 people killed by vaccines in a year but hundreds of thousands are killed by Malaria in a year. Polio killed thousands of people a year. The Spanish Flu killed about 30,000,000 people.
Herd Immunity: When the English and Spanish came to 'The New World', the native populations were wiped out by Small Pox laden blankets.
As someone up thread said, if your model depends on ad revenue (in app ads), then Android. If it's app purchase revenue, then Apple.
Which also makes your statement true. If you're not buying apps for the Android, you have nothing tying you to the platform. If something new comes along, you'll jump to the new sparkly because you have no money invested. With Apple, you're buying apps. So you're throwing away the money you've paid.
I have quite a few apps on my iPhone that I would have more of a problem bailing on because I've paid for them vs my Android phone that I'd punt in a hot second and without a second thought. Same as the Blackberry I used to have. The benefit was the physical keyboard but other than that, no reason to keep the BB around once I got the iPhone.
I lost a good 30 lbs when I went to Athens for a month to work (270+/- to 241). The change in timezones messed up my feeding time so I wasn't hungry during meal times. Plus hiking all over or taking metro in my off hours. Add in the number of folks who smoked (which also kept my appetite down) and it's not hard to lose a few lbs.
A previous girlfriend of mine had bailed on her ex when she caught him chasing the neighborhood 15yo girls. She took her kids and cat (Morgan) and moved in with her sister. But she couldn't have cats in the house so she left Morgan with her other sister. Unfortunately she left Morgan on the back porch for a year. Never brought her in and being a dog person, never paid any attention to her. When we went to get her, she had pulled tufts of fur from about half way down her back to the end of her tail (she was a longer hair tuxedo cat). We took her to the vet to have her checked and nothing was found wrong with her. After having her at my place with the other cats I already had (my daughters both bailed on their cats when they moved out so I had three, then four with Morgan), she recovered however was pretty looney for the rest of her life (the awesome kind of looney; old lady looney:D ).
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Just to add a vote here, I don't use Netflix. Certainly I don't count as 'a lot' but I am part of a group :)
[John]
Maybe you should change brands of popcorn o_O
[John]
Well, Title IX is being used to ensure colleges actually follow up on rape accusations vs sweeping them under the rug or performing a delaying action until the case times out (180 days). There have been a few fakes that I've found in searching. But I do also find it astounding (in my reading) that a woman can say she agreed to the sex, (went back to his place, said 'yes', etc) but felt that she was under duress and can call it rape. Makes you want to just avoid contact with women entirely.
[John]
There are others who like writing docs. I brought that to my team. I do it as a matter of defence. When the guys come to me with a question, I point them to the docs. So I get bothered less for little things. We do get more questions from other teams because we better understand how things work at the company.
[John]
Title IX of course. Since there aren't as many women and girls in Video Gaming, once they're 'Sports', Title IX can be used to "encourage" girls to play. Then there'll be more girls in Video gaming!
It's just like real sports where Title IX has brought the participation of women up to close what mens participation is (like 45/55 I think was the last stat I read).
I've also heard Title IX is being examined to apply to STEM courses as well to ensure more women are represented in STEM courses.
http://www.dailyherald.com/art...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
[John]
There are ads on youtube?
[John]
You can't see the magazine pictures in the dark.
[John]
Technically the link was with antiperspirants and not deodorants and was debunked years ago.
Jesus, using Snopes on Slashdot. What's the world coming to?
http://www.snopes.com/medical/...
http://www.webmd.com/skin-prob...
[John]
That's fine actually. When I get to that point, I'll look into upgrading. But for now it works just fine.
[John]
Really? I have a 1st Gen iPad and see no reason to replace it with a 2, 3, or 4. I browse websites, use it when working on the bike or car to look stuff up, listen to music (plugged in to external speakers of course), check my mail, play games (Plants vs Zombies but not PvZ2 since it requires an iPad 2).
I did finally replace my iPhone 3GS with an iPhone 5 though. It is a lot better than the 3GS.
I'm good with what I have :)
[John]
Yea, I have a 1st Gen iPad and it still works fine. If I have too many videos on a thread in a forum it'll crash the browser but restart the browser and 99% of the time it loads the page without a problem. I have no reason to replace it. All I'm doing is reading books, listening to music, browsing the web, and occasionally logged in to my server for one reason or another.
[John]
Text messages aren't necessarily free in the USA either. I'm paying $20 a month because my girlfriend is on a different service (I'm on AT&T, she's on Verizon I think). My ex wife and I are both on AT&T and both use iPhones (girlfriend has an Android) so my ex and I can text for free. Back in November my girlfriend and I started dating and texting. Within a couple of weeks I received an AT&T alert indicating I'd hit $50 in text charges and I should consider going with one of the texting plans.
So no, texting isn't free everywhere.
[John]
It's likely I was coding before you were a twinkle in your father's eye. I've done my share of programming in the past. As a sysadmin I find I can code to my heart's content without having some project manager or manager breathing over my neck to get some buggy code out. If you had actual systems admin skills, you'd understand that we need to work together to get your code out to production as seamlessly as possible. That means working within the constraints of the environment your project is destined for. What that doesn't mean is that you can pull some Linux distro of the week out of your ass and expect it to be deployed into production without issue or complaint. Depending on the urgency of the requirement, you might get it deployed, but I guarantee you, you will be working on the next version with a supported operating system.
If you can't understand that dev, qa, and ops are a team, then perhaps you should come out of your mom's basement and check out the real world.
[John]
Humorously I am doing my job. My job is to ensure all the servers are patched appropriately and that the environment runs smoothly. This means regular patches, resolving hardware and software issues, working on projects to deploy new systems or apply new versions to existing systems, and of course the numerous meetings to discuss important issues.
I patch our lab environment before patching anything else to ensure production isn't adversely affected by the patches. Of course the lab can't exactly match production but we do our best. Next up is QA so incoming applications can be tested on a production like server. Next is Production once both areas are patched and standardized and no issues discovered. Finally, assuming the developers are willing to be patched, the dev servers are patched.
Now I don't always get to patch development servers in part because you're working on something or other and can't be bothered. And unfortunately there are times when you're done with a package and you present it to QA only to discover it doesn't work there. A few times because of a patch. Which means I have to break out of what I'm doing if possible (you're not my priority by the way) and patch your system so you can identify and fix the problem.
So I am doing my job.
[John]
Seriously? You want to be involved in the patching process of all the servers? I appreciate that, but damn dude, talk about a waste of time. After a bit, getting e-mails on the patching of our 1,000 Unix systems might get a bit tedious. Especially when something breaks in production and it's traced to a patch that you signed off on. Do you really have that much free time?
See, I have no idea if a patch that appears to be necessary on my server will affect your application. So you'll get to see all the patches that I'm intending on applying. And since your environment needs to match mine... Well because your software will eventually be deployed into my environment. So I will insist your environment be as close as possible so you experience the problems before it gets into my hands. That way I'm not trying to figure out why your software isn't working or worse yet, the application guys aren't in an incident trying to figure out why the timing is off which will affect 17,000,000 users forcing a report to the FCC and an urgent change request is sent to you and your group to be worked 24x7 until the code works again.
Wouldn't you rather your server work like a production server? So when you're done with your code, you _know_ it works in production and you can move on to the next project without having to worry about being dragged back in to fix some problem?
[John]
Honestly that's what I was thinking. Study Physics. Even if I don't get a degree, it might be a lot of interesting and fun stuff. It seems that I'd need to really attend College to do that though vs night courses or the local CC.
[John]
Yea, no degree and I'm a Sr Unix Admin. I am investigating pursuing a degree, more for personal education than career advancement though. At this point, I can't see how a degree would improve my chances of keeping my job or getting a different one should this one fail :)
[John]
We need an 'Anonymous Idiot' user for some folks apparently.
Post the links to proof or STFU.
Google search showed 81 people killed by vaccines in a year but hundreds of thousands are killed by Malaria in a year. Polio killed thousands of people a year. The Spanish Flu killed about 30,000,000 people.
Herd Immunity: When the English and Spanish came to 'The New World', the native populations were wiped out by Small Pox laden blankets.
Honestly, just STFU.
[John]
Or engineering or development.
[John]
Hey just as long as you are considered part of the Majority you are perfectly fine to be discriminated against.
Sorry, but women are 51% of the US population. They're the Majority. Unless you're talking about IT of course :)
[John]
As someone up thread said, if your model depends on ad revenue (in app ads), then Android. If it's app purchase revenue, then Apple.
Which also makes your statement true. If you're not buying apps for the Android, you have nothing tying you to the platform. If something new comes along, you'll jump to the new sparkly because you have no money invested. With Apple, you're buying apps. So you're throwing away the money you've paid.
I have quite a few apps on my iPhone that I would have more of a problem bailing on because I've paid for them vs my Android phone that I'd punt in a hot second and without a second thought. Same as the Blackberry I used to have. The benefit was the physical keyboard but other than that, no reason to keep the BB around once I got the iPhone.
[John]
Yea, my volume is now off on my laptop. Where's the checkbox to disable it?
[John]
You need to stop watching Big Bang Theory :D
[John]
I lost a good 30 lbs when I went to Athens for a month to work (270+/- to 241). The change in timezones messed up my feeding time so I wasn't hungry during meal times. Plus hiking all over or taking metro in my off hours. Add in the number of folks who smoked (which also kept my appetite down) and it's not hard to lose a few lbs.
[John]
A previous girlfriend of mine had bailed on her ex when she caught him chasing the neighborhood 15yo girls. She took her kids and cat (Morgan) and moved in with her sister. But she couldn't have cats in the house so she left Morgan with her other sister. Unfortunately she left Morgan on the back porch for a year. Never brought her in and being a dog person, never paid any attention to her. When we went to get her, she had pulled tufts of fur from about half way down her back to the end of her tail (she was a longer hair tuxedo cat). We took her to the vet to have her checked and nothing was found wrong with her. After having her at my place with the other cats I already had (my daughters both bailed on their cats when they moved out so I had three, then four with Morgan), she recovered however was pretty looney for the rest of her life (the awesome kind of looney; old lady looney :D ).
[John]