Yeah, I do that too. I do it with phone numbers too, which is a bit of a pain in the arse. Whenever someone asks for my number I have to start frantically tapping out a sequence in the air before I can tell them.
Oh, and never talk about geek stuff to a girl unless she is a fellow geek. Just use lamer words to talk about computer stuff. Be very vague.
Oh come on, this hardly applies just to women. I have to do that with all my non-techie friends, male or female.
If you're gonna hang around with non-techies you'll have to modify your behaviour to suit them. If you're uncomfortable with this then why the hell would you want to go out with one of these people?
Hmmm... Any idea to what extent you would alter someones personality by minutely adjusting the signal to the brain? If what you say is right and altering the signal alters the contents and by extension the personality of someone then you could potentially 'adjust' anyone away from 'undesirable' behaviour with a simple voltage regulator type implant device... Unless the results are unpredictable. I wonder if the government has tried this one on an unsuspecting populace yet?
Each neuron in the brain is linked to hundreds of other neurons, and each of those links are of different strenghts and can be excitatory or inhibitory. Thus if neuron A has an excitatory connection to neuron C, while neuron B has an inhibitory connection. The energy level of C will be (very roughly)=
(energy level of A x connection strength between A and C) - (energy level of B x connection strength between B and C)
In reality C will get inputs from lots more connections and it will also affect loads of other neurons. This means that a small change to the energy level of one neuron can have pretty unpredictable results.
In order to accurately predict what effect your changes would have you'd really need a map of the interconnections currently existing between the neurons. Of course the pattern of interconnections is quite different for different people, so a generic map probably wouldn't work.
Of course face-to-face interaction with an expert is better than just reading material on-line, but if you look at the article you'll see that this was a distance learning course anyway.
In a distance learning course any on-line activity is only going to increase the amount of interaction you get with lecturers, tutors and your fellow classmates.
I'm currently studying via distance learning and pretty much the only interaction I have with my tutor and classmates is via a mailing list.
While online teaching methods can't currently compete with traditional methods, they're a huge improvement over what currently passes for distance ed.
OK sure that could be a problem. However the moment you requested an image of a 'sensitive' area you would be reported to the NSA or Secret Service or whoever is in charge of the nation security of whatever country you were looking at. Assuming the operators of the satillite are reputable (and haveing the resources and cash to put up a satillite they had better be).
Ok, lets look at who'd have the resources to put a satellite up there: Microsoft, The American Government,... I don't think 'reputable' is quite the word I'd use. Whoever controlled the satellite would presumeably make sure that it wasn't used to spy on them or their allies, but it could still be used to infringe on the privacy of normal people. Celebrities look out! The paparazzi can see you from space now...
Google rates sites depending on how many links back they get from other sites. If your site isn't listed it may not be because google hasn't indexed that part of the web yet, but simply because your site isn't referenced from anywhere else.
I've found that in situations where you're looking for a site that you know isn't popular and won't have many links to it you're better off using AltaVista or something (I remember when AltaVista was a good search-engine!). Usually I want to find a good, authoratative site though, and in those cases google's yer only man.
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I suppose it's probably settled down by now and there's some interesting topics on it. I just got really pissed off because of the amount of crappy mails I had to go through at the start so I unsubscribed.
I don't think I'd dare subscribe again now after posting that last message, so I'll just have to take your word for it that it's improved...
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Yup that sounds pretty sexist, but then again, I'm inclined to agree with you. I'm female but I'm not even slightly interested in talking about girlie topics, however the majority of females I know are and it bores the crap out of me.
I do have a number of intelligent female friends though who are capable of going to the toilet on their own and who don't talk about makeup or weddings (my workmates favourite topics) all day long.
I'm sick of being asked when I go for interviews how I feel about working in a mostly male environment. It makes absoloutely no difference to me whether I'm working with males or females. If they're intelligent and have something interesting to say then I'll get on well with them, if they're assholes then I won't. Gender doesn't enter into it.
>OTOH it would be interesting for Linux to be able >to incorporate different personalities in the UI >to accomodate for the differences in the way >males and females use computers.
That assumes an awful lot about the differences between males & females. I would argue that most of these 'differences' are just due to the fact that guys have more exposure to computers from a younger age. If that's the case then to modify the UI depending on whether the user is male or female is going to entrench those differences and do more harm than good.
If you want to try to customise the UI depending on how people use computers then the system should record data about how each user uses the computer and use that as the basis of any modifications. You can't just base it on something like their gender. Everyone uses computers differently anyway, I don't believe that gender has that much to do with it.
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Those choice messages included things like a discussion about whether the linux chix or their boyfriends did the housework, some 18 year old guy going on about wanting to 'give one' to one of the female list members, an announcement of one girls engagement to her boyfriend and his fiance... need I go on?
There's plenty of room for those kinds of discussions on the web, but a linux mailing list id not the place for them. Any other mailing list I'm on would have banned a good half of the posters to that list.
Amazingly enough I think I must have been the only one who found the discussions off-topic. Nobody else complained once, infact the polygamous marriage announcement was met with congratulations and supportive messages from other polygamous people and the replies to the 18 year old on the pull consisted mainly of the phrase "hehe:)".
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Yeah, I do that too. I do it with phone numbers too, which is a bit of a pain in the arse. Whenever someone asks for my number I have to start frantically tapping out a sequence in the air before I can tell them.
Oh come on, this hardly applies just to women. I have to do that with all my non-techie friends, male or female.
If you're gonna hang around with non-techies you'll have to modify your behaviour to suit them. If you're uncomfortable with this then why the hell would you want to go out with one of these people?
Oh great, so we'd end up with heaps of sugar up our noses instead of snot. Hhmmm, how about they make it into cocaine?
Each neuron in the brain is linked to hundreds of other neurons, and each of those links are of different strenghts and can be excitatory or inhibitory. Thus if neuron A has an excitatory connection to neuron C, while neuron B has an inhibitory connection. The energy level of C will be (very roughly)=
(energy level of A x connection strength between A and C) - (energy level of B x connection strength between B and C)
In reality C will get inputs from lots more connections and it will also affect loads of other neurons. This means that a small change to the energy level of one neuron can have pretty unpredictable results.
In order to accurately predict what effect your changes would have you'd really need a map of the interconnections currently existing between the neurons. Of course the pattern of interconnections is quite different for different people, so a generic map probably wouldn't work.
Ah well, back to the old drawing board...
Of course face-to-face interaction with an expert is better than just reading material on-line, but if you look at the article you'll see that this was a distance learning course anyway.
In a distance learning course any on-line activity is only going to increase the amount of interaction you get with lecturers, tutors and your fellow classmates.
I'm currently studying via distance learning and pretty much the only interaction I have with my tutor and classmates is via a mailing list.
While online teaching methods can't currently compete with traditional methods, they're a huge improvement over what currently passes for distance ed.
Google rates sites depending on how many links back they get from other sites. If your site isn't listed it may not be because google hasn't indexed that part of the web yet, but simply because your site isn't referenced from anywhere else.
I've found that in situations where you're looking for a site that you know isn't popular and won't have many links to it you're better off using AltaVista or something (I remember when AltaVista was a good search-engine!). Usually I want to find a good, authoratative site though, and in those cases google's yer only man.
I suppose it's probably settled down by now and there's some interesting topics on it. I just got really pissed off because of the amount of crappy mails I had to go through at the start so I unsubscribed.
I don't think I'd dare subscribe again now after posting that last message, so I'll just have to take your word for it that it's improved...
Yup that sounds pretty sexist, but then again, I'm inclined to agree with you. I'm female but I'm not even slightly interested in talking about girlie topics, however the majority of females I know are and it bores the crap out of me.
I do have a number of intelligent female friends though who are capable of going to the toilet on their own and who don't talk about makeup or weddings (my workmates favourite topics) all day long.
I'm sick of being asked when I go for interviews how I feel about working in a mostly male environment. It makes absoloutely no difference to me whether I'm working with males or females. If they're intelligent and have something interesting to say then I'll get on well with them, if they're assholes then I won't. Gender doesn't enter into it.
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>OTOH it would be interesting for Linux to be able >to incorporate different personalities in the UI >to accomodate for the differences in the way >males and females use computers.
That assumes an awful lot about the differences between males & females. I would argue that most of these 'differences' are just due to the fact that guys have more exposure to computers from a younger age. If that's the case then to modify the UI depending on whether the user is male or female is going to entrench those differences and do more harm than good.
If you want to try to customise the UI depending on how people use computers then the system should record data about how each user uses the computer and use that as the basis of any modifications. You can't just base it on something like their gender. Everyone uses computers differently anyway, I don't believe that gender has that much to do with it.
me.
Those choice messages included things like a discussion about whether the linux chix or their boyfriends did the housework, some 18 year old guy going on about wanting to 'give one' to one of the female list members, an announcement of one girls engagement to her boyfriend and his fiance... need I go on?
:)".
There's plenty of room for those kinds of discussions on the web, but a linux mailing list id not the place for them. Any other mailing list I'm on would have banned a good half of the posters to that list.
Amazingly enough I think I must have been the only one who found the discussions off-topic. Nobody else complained once, infact the polygamous marriage announcement was met with congratulations and supportive messages from other polygamous people and the replies to the 18 year old on the pull consisted mainly of the phrase "hehe
Ggrrrr....
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