Thank you, slashdot, for posting those kinds of comments on the front page. As a female engineer I really don't need this first thing in the morning. I am rewriting my hosts file right now.
I can't understand why this is moderated funny, except that the moderators aren't taking it seriously. Which only shows the truth of this post since it was most likely written by a woman.
Fine; let us say there is a "deeper" reason that women aren't in computer science.
Let us postulate aggressiveness. Chess, like these other activities you mentioned (competitive weightlifting, hand-to-hand combat) are obviously competitive activities.
I think there may be an aggressive/competitive culture in computer science; IE too many people trying to bolster their egos. It is almost a sign of status to do something incredibly complicated, even if there was a really easy way to do it that would have taken 1/4th of the time.
I believe it would help if more people acted cooperatively and didn't diss others for not knowing how to do something they considered basic knowledge. In terms of women, a lot of women aren't brought up with computers like men are and have a lot farther to come when they first get into college.
People can form an addiction to probably pretty much bloody anything that has some sort of short-term gratification. I've seen ebay addiction and it isn't pretty. I can attest to people accumulating thousands of dollars of debt.
No shit. I have seriously been thinking about getting my masters in design from a school like the institute of design at IIT (http://www.id.iit.edu/) because I've got the technical background and I'd love to be able to make a lot of programs actually worthwhile, and not many engineers are willing to go that route. I think usability is probably a huge factor in adopting software, probably more so than reliability (which is a reason I believe windows was popular even when it was crash-prone.) If you want to see your stuff get popular you have to be willing to cater to the non-technical crowd.
It is possible to meet people from the internet in real life. Many organizations are set up to facilitate. I use things like Orkut to find people geographically near me; I consider this to be its main feature, not the friends of friends thing.
It's irritating to have a thread that's originally in English and then have it taken over by non-english speakers. I can choose to not read posts that are not in English but when the title is english and someone responds in a different language, causing the rest of the thread to be in a different language, I don't know before starting to read it.
There were around 72 million baby-boomers('45-'64 or so), who can expect a longer life than their forbears due to current medical technology. There were only around 18 million Gen-X's('60's-'70's) and there were about 60 million Gen-Y's ('79-'94 or so.) So that makes around 78 million people capable of caring for around 72 million people. Do you think we won't need technology to help?
source: wordIQ
Researchers at UW have been working on a long-term project to keep track of what a patient with alzheimers is doing and remind them if they forget, so that they can continue living in their home.
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My grandfather learned to use a computer at 88 or so. He died this year at 91. He mostly used the computer to read his home town newspaper online and write emails, though I imagine he did some other websurfing. I offered to do stuff like play cards online with him but he never took me up on the offer. Of course I think my uncle gave him some equipment that was kinda unreliable so he was offline on a more frequent basis than normal.
One of his big problems was that he was pretty much perfectly sound of mind of mind but that there wasn't much of anyone to talk to at the facilities except the nurses because most of the other residents weren't "fully there" anymore.
The loss of reading might have to due with a shortened attention span due to movies,tv, the internet.... I personally can read a book in about twice the time it takes me to watch a movie, but I read really fast and I skim a lot. A lot of people read much slower, and I imagine some people may be discouraged by the amount of time it takes to read a book. Plus it is not a social activity unlike movies or TV. Even fooling around online can be a social activity. I believe our society frowns on solitary activities such as reading, for the most part.
I guess that video games can take just as long as reading but the social/interactive features probably add to the appeal. Some good games also tell just as much of a story as a novel would.
I won't believe in the effectiveness of these programs without more evidence that they actually do anything. I can't remember much beyond a shoe bomb offhand.
I am not sure what training and indoctrination police officers go through about use of personal information. If this information must be used I'd rather have a trained individual from outside whose butt is on the line if the info is found to be misused.
Why not log all DB queries and force the user to provide an explanation of the need for the info?
Being able to only carry around one file is pretty limited. Why not add some extra information, like contextual (pr0n may go to the home computer but not to the main screen projector) or another sort of intuitive action, such as assigning a name or symbol to the file and drawing it when I get to the place to drop the file off. Maybe if I can't remember the name I'll write a question mark and the UI if it exists will bring up a list of available files for me to choose.
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Or just send them all to go and flash-mob the local butchers.
Isn't that a flash-stampede?
If you want to play DDR but aren't otherwise a big console gamer (and don't care about song variety), why not just get an old PS1 and one of the older games... I'm playing on a dreamcast I got for free but it's more of an effort to scare up the necessary items to play on a dreamcast.
A computer's entire state is (or is supposed to be) determinate. Because of this, we do not imbibe computers with a sense of intelligence even though they exhibit complex behavior.
I recall in a story by Isaac Asimov that a robot turned artist was actually malfunctioning. Once the robot was fixed it could no longer produce art.
Perhaps a little randomness would be good now and then if it is moderated by other subsystems. Females are supposed to be more intuitive, so a robot with this behavior should be female.
This assumes that the artists know they are owed money. If the artists were contacted on a semi-regular basis about payments and the companies occasionally "forgot" about some money it may not be obvious for the artists to ask for the money. IE a check for $2500 could be only half of what they owe but the artist don't know any better since the artist hasn't asked exactly what their debt is; they just know they're owed something.
Of course as things usually are on/. this is wild speculation.
Are guys who socialize behind a computer screen always plain or fat?
I would say a lot of them are just shy. While I'm sure it's difficult for you to conceive that there are attractive women out there who have little social confidence, they do exist.
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Thank you, slashdot, for posting those kinds of comments on the front page. As a female engineer I really don't need this first thing in the morning. I am rewriting my hosts file right now.
I can't understand why this is moderated funny, except that the moderators aren't taking it seriously. Which only shows the truth of this post since it was most likely written by a woman.
I misread this as "If breakfast is cold you can eat the console without feeling guilty."
Let us postulate aggressiveness. Chess, like these other activities you mentioned (competitive weightlifting, hand-to-hand combat) are obviously competitive activities.
I think there may be an aggressive/competitive culture in computer science; IE too many people trying to bolster their egos. It is almost a sign of status to do something incredibly complicated, even if there was a really easy way to do it that would have taken 1/4th of the time.
I believe it would help if more people acted cooperatively and didn't diss others for not knowing how to do something they considered basic knowledge. In terms of women, a lot of women aren't brought up with computers like men are and have a lot farther to come when they first get into college.
People can form an addiction to probably pretty much bloody anything that has some sort of short-term gratification. I've seen ebay addiction and it isn't pretty. I can attest to people accumulating thousands of dollars of debt.
The people who knew what they were doing wouldn't want to work at Walmart.
No shit. I have seriously been thinking about getting my masters in design from a school like the institute of design at IIT (http://www.id.iit.edu/) because I've got the technical background and I'd love to be able to make a lot of programs actually worthwhile, and not many engineers are willing to go that route. I think usability is probably a huge factor in adopting software, probably more so than reliability (which is a reason I believe windows was popular even when it was crash-prone.) If you want to see your stuff get popular you have to be willing to cater to the non-technical crowd.
It is possible to meet people from the internet in real life. Many organizations are set up to facilitate. I use things like Orkut to find people geographically near me; I consider this to be its main feature, not the friends of friends thing.
It's irritating to have a thread that's originally in English and then have it taken over by non-english speakers. I can choose to not read posts that are not in English but when the title is english and someone responds in a different language, causing the rest of the thread to be in a different language, I don't know before starting to read it.
Damn! Stole my idea.
There were around 72 million baby-boomers('45-'64 or so), who can expect a longer life than their forbears due to current medical technology. There were only around 18 million Gen-X's('60's-'70's) and there were about 60 million Gen-Y's ('79-'94 or so.) So that makes around 78 million people capable of caring for around 72 million people. Do you think we won't need technology to help? source: wordIQ
Researchers at UW have been working on a long-term project to keep track of what a patient with alzheimers is doing and remind them if they forget, so that they can continue living in their home. linkage
My grandfather learned to use a computer at 88 or so. He died this year at 91. He mostly used the computer to read his home town newspaper online and write emails, though I imagine he did some other websurfing. I offered to do stuff like play cards online with him but he never took me up on the offer. Of course I think my uncle gave him some equipment that was kinda unreliable so he was offline on a more frequent basis than normal. One of his big problems was that he was pretty much perfectly sound of mind of mind but that there wasn't much of anyone to talk to at the facilities except the nurses because most of the other residents weren't "fully there" anymore.
The loss of reading might have to due with a shortened attention span due to movies,tv, the internet.... I personally can read a book in about twice the time it takes me to watch a movie, but I read really fast and I skim a lot. A lot of people read much slower, and I imagine some people may be discouraged by the amount of time it takes to read a book. Plus it is not a social activity unlike movies or TV. Even fooling around online can be a social activity. I believe our society frowns on solitary activities such as reading, for the most part.
I guess that video games can take just as long as reading but the social/interactive features probably add to the appeal. Some good games also tell just as much of a story as a novel would.
I won't believe in the effectiveness of these programs without more evidence that they actually do anything. I can't remember much beyond a shoe bomb offhand.
I am not sure what training and indoctrination police officers go through about use of personal information. If this information must be used I'd rather have a trained individual from outside whose butt is on the line if the info is found to be misused.
Why not log all DB queries and force the user to provide an explanation of the need for the info?
In cases like this there is often subtle (or not so subtle) social pressure.
Being able to only carry around one file is pretty limited. Why not add some extra information, like contextual (pr0n may go to the home computer but not to the main screen projector) or another sort of intuitive action, such as assigning a name or symbol to the file and drawing it when I get to the place to drop the file off. Maybe if I can't remember the name I'll write a question mark and the UI if it exists will bring up a list of available files for me to choose.
Or just send them all to go and flash-mob the local butchers.
Isn't that a flash-stampede?
If you want to play DDR but aren't otherwise a big console gamer (and don't care about song variety), why not just get an old PS1 and one of the older games... I'm playing on a dreamcast I got for free but it's more of an effort to scare up the necessary items to play on a dreamcast.
That's what the rechargable battery is for.
A computer's entire state is (or is supposed to be) determinate. Because of this, we do not imbibe computers with a sense of intelligence even though they exhibit complex behavior. I recall in a story by Isaac Asimov that a robot turned artist was actually malfunctioning. Once the robot was fixed it could no longer produce art. Perhaps a little randomness would be good now and then if it is moderated by other subsystems. Females are supposed to be more intuitive, so a robot with this behavior should be female.
This assumes that the artists know they are owed money. If the artists were contacted on a semi-regular basis about payments and the companies occasionally "forgot" about some money it may not be obvious for the artists to ask for the money. IE a check for $2500 could be only half of what they owe but the artist don't know any better since the artist hasn't asked exactly what their debt is; they just know they're owed something.
/. this is wild speculation.
Of course as things usually are on
You can't really avoid being photographed considering that almost everyone needs some kind of drivers license or ID.
Assuming the complexity of adding on extra computers doesn't overpower their added speed.
Are guys who socialize behind a computer screen always plain or fat?
I would say a lot of them are just shy. While I'm sure it's difficult for you to conceive that there are attractive women out there who have little social confidence, they do exist.