Men like programming computers because they enjoy forcing a machine to do their will, telling it how it's going to act. Women don't take pleasure in this. It's the same reason there are so few female gamers, in general.
I'm not sure about it. I am a woman and that's exactly why I started programming twenty years ago and why I am still enjoying it today. If I have been a man, I'm not sure I will still have the same pleasure of doing it. As I see male computing professionals around me, I guess I would have quickly wished to leave the keyboard to others and become more of a planner. I don't care much about planning, I much prefer coding. I really love telling my machine what to do. But I have never met a girl enjoying it as I do, so I feel lonely. However, I have met quite a few women interested in learning the skills but mostly through women organizations and mostly for practical purposes, not just for fun. As for video games, if they represent for me a totally alien universe, my daughter is very good at them.
Not 'Christopher Lloyed' but 'Christopher Lloyd' or 'Chris Lloyd'. I am glad you mentioned him. I love the way he wildly throws his eyes and his neck one way or the other. Remember him in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'? Not always a scientist but always mad.
RTFA http://iht.com/articles/2006/04/28/yourmoney/msft. php: "Sun Microsystems settled with Microsoft for $1.6 billion in April 2004, while Novell settled in November 2004 for $536 million. RealNetworks dropped out in October 2005 after settling for $761 million."
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt."
What kind of life do we got after 50 even if we can walk and swim?
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I'm not sure about it. I am a woman and that's exactly why I started programming twenty years ago and why I am still enjoying it today. If I have been a man, I'm not sure I will still have the same pleasure of doing it. As I see male computing professionals around me, I guess I would have quickly wished to leave the keyboard to others and become more of a planner. I don't care much about planning, I much prefer coding. I really love telling my machine what to do. But I have never met a girl enjoying it as I do, so I feel lonely. However, I have met quite a few women interested in learning the skills but mostly through women organizations and mostly for practical purposes, not just for fun. As for video games, if they represent for me a totally alien universe, my daughter is very good at them.
I agree with that.
Forty years of psychic manipulation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Mabuse
Not 'Christopher Lloyed' but 'Christopher Lloyd' or 'Chris Lloyd'. I am glad you mentioned him. I love the way he wildly throws his eyes and his neck one way or the other. Remember him in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'? Not always a scientist but always mad.
Do not call users names.
Love the user, make better software.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
RTFA http://iht.com/articles/2006/04/28/yourmoney/msft. php: "Sun Microsystems settled with Microsoft for $1.6 billion in April 2004, while Novell settled in November 2004 for $536 million. RealNetworks dropped out in October 2005 after settling for $761 million."
Et pendant ce temps la, the European Trade Commissioner was drinking champagne with Paul Allen... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1580 068,00.html
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 22/1550217
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt." What kind of life do we got after 50 even if we can walk and swim?