What about tapping into the market of free online games? Of course not all games can work this way, but if it can, you have a great opportunity to gain attention.
Through viral marketing and word of mouth you can earn a lot of money with advertising. Once you have your own 'fan base' you should have enough weight behind you to take it further if that's what you desire.
At least that's my hope, as that's what I'm planning on doing:)
I think the internet is the main test of the "when no one is looking" principle, simply due to its innate anonymity. If you know that no one is ever going to look, will this feeling of security override your ethics?
Personally I have no real interest in reading others emails and the like, but in an era of big brother and outed voyeurism... well I have no doubt that this form of ethics will be put to the test. After all, ethics is normally defined by what is socially acceptable.
Because the computer is being programmed by someone who probably drinks, smokes pot, definitely gets tired, inattentive, has wife (or lack of)/husband/kid problems, financial problems and almost definitely mental ones after trying to get the computer working to the strict demands for the program.
Apparently this is actually a turn off, whenever I mention to guys that I use vim I get given the eclipse or emacs argument. Luckily my husband is also a vi user, so I'm set.
I think we've got this thread one-upped though. Screw the command line upbringing. We've already decided that we're going to raise our kids to count in binary. They are going to rock at counting in prep school, just think what they can count up to on their fingers:)
Man, our kids are gonna be sooo screwed, luckily they'll have good looking genes to make up for their social inadequacies;)
Probably not actually my first, but definitely one of the most memorable. I was about 14, and it taught me so many valuable lessons like how to avoiding getting STDs from prostitutes, and how to hook up with chicks at night clubs (but never go back to a hotel with them).
Unfortunately I'm female, and heterosexual at that.. so I've never been able to properly tune the skills the game taught me;)
Agreed, the food in the USA is definitely overly sweet. I'm not American, but have visited a few times, and from my perspective I found the food there to be "objectively disgusting". Everything was so processed and sweet. I thought I would be safe with muesli and milk, but the muesli was sugared and even the milk tastes sweet! It was awful.
I actually found it difficult to get something that was to my tastes at all without spending a fortune on buying the separate components to make myself. However, at least by doing that I could get something that wasn't about 10 times the size of my stomach, which seems to be the standard serving size there. Personally I consider "bang for my buck" to be food that I will enjoy every bite of until I am full, not getting more average quality food then I could possible ever handle:P
Maybe there would be more men interested in doing beauty school if they weren't going to be labeled 'gay' as soon as they showed an interest.
I love my job, am a good computer scientist and love programming. I would also find my job a lot more comfortable if I wasn't the only female to have done my undergrad course, the only female at the conferences I attend etc. If I wasn't as passionate about my job, I definitely wouldn't be doing it... but I wonder how many guys in CS given the same odds, the same stares when they walk into a room, how many of them would still be attending their CS courses too. Probably about as many as there are in beauty school.
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What about tapping into the market of free online games? Of course not all games can work this way, but if it can, you have a great opportunity to gain attention.
:)
Through viral marketing and word of mouth you can earn a lot of money with advertising. Once you have your own 'fan base' you should have enough weight behind you to take it further if that's what you desire.
At least that's my hope, as that's what I'm planning on doing
I think the internet is the main test of the "when no one is looking" principle, simply due to its innate anonymity. If you know that no one is ever going to look, will this feeling of security override your ethics?
Personally I have no real interest in reading others emails and the like, but in an era of big brother and outed voyeurism... well I have no doubt that this form of ethics will be put to the test. After all, ethics is normally defined by what is socially acceptable.
Because the computer is being programmed by someone who probably drinks, smokes pot, definitely gets tired, inattentive, has wife (or lack of)/husband/kid problems, financial problems and almost definitely mental ones after trying to get the computer working to the strict demands for the program.
Computers make mistakes, because people do.
Apparently this is actually a turn off, whenever I mention to guys that I use vim I get given the eclipse or emacs argument. Luckily my husband is also a vi user, so I'm set.
I think we've got this thread one-upped though. Screw the command line upbringing. We've already decided that we're going to raise our kids to count in binary. They are going to rock at counting in prep school, just think what they can count up to on their fingers :)
Man, our kids are gonna be sooo screwed, luckily they'll have good looking genes to make up for their social inadequacies ;)
Probably not actually my first, but definitely one of the most memorable. I was about 14, and it taught me so many valuable lessons like how to avoiding getting STDs from prostitutes, and how to hook up with chicks at night clubs (but never go back to a hotel with them).
Unfortunately I'm female, and heterosexual at that.. so I've never been able to properly tune the skills the game taught meAgreed, the food in the USA is definitely overly sweet. I'm not American, but have visited a few times, and from my perspective I found the food there to be "objectively disgusting". Everything was so processed and sweet. I thought I would be safe with muesli and milk, but the muesli was sugared and even the milk tastes sweet! It was awful.
:P
I actually found it difficult to get something that was to my tastes at all without spending a fortune on buying the separate components to make myself. However, at least by doing that I could get something that wasn't about 10 times the size of my stomach, which seems to be the standard serving size there. Personally I consider "bang for my buck" to be food that I will enjoy every bite of until I am full, not getting more average quality food then I could possible ever handle
Maybe there would be more men interested in doing beauty school if they weren't going to be labeled 'gay' as soon as they showed an interest.
I love my job, am a good computer scientist and love programming. I would also find my job a lot more comfortable if I wasn't the only female to have done my undergrad course, the only female at the conferences I attend etc. If I wasn't as passionate about my job, I definitely wouldn't be doing it... but I wonder how many guys in CS given the same odds, the same stares when they walk into a room, how many of them would still be attending their CS courses too. Probably about as many as there are in beauty school.