In such a male dominated field women feel like they have to get qualifications in order to be seen as competent by any potential employers. Whereas men are just assumed to be competent. In one of my previous jobs I'd answer the tech support line only to be asked "Can I speak to someone technical?" whereas when my male colleague answered he never got questioned.
Consider a telcom I worked for... In the mid-80s a memo was circulated admonishing IT for the "underutilized" women. An IT policy was thus implemented picking women from myriad other jobs (call centers, anywhere!). These women were given free training, often at universities and were given 6 weeks and more to be trained. Most of these women were looking at more than a doubling in salary, all they had to do was "participate"...
Even with that policy, we could not even approach fifty percent of women in the IT work force. You probably would have gotten the same results if you tried to hire non-females from other roles, these people aren't suited to IT in the first place and unless your picking from the people who troubleshoot rather than read from a script it is unlikely they will have the desire to constantly learn that is required for the field.
If doctors got: patients that repeatedly contracted food poisoning from eating rotten food and then... walked into the hospital expecting to be seen first despite many other patients being in more need and... patients that blamed their illness on the incompetence of the medical profession
They'd curse and swear and be cranky in public too.
just what is the whole big deal with online banking anyway?
There are exactly two reasons, and two reasons alone, why I ever visit a bank. One, the rare one, is to pay in some money or a cheque through the hole-in-the-wall machine. The other one, the common one, is to draw out money through the hole-in-the-wall machine.
1) Not everyone uses cash, a lot of people pay by card 2) Some people have multiple bank accounts, they like to have just enough in their day-to-day account and the rest in a higher interest savings account. 3) People are lazy, why go to the bank when you can do everything you need from home?
"Software vendors are in the best position to improve software security; they have the capability. But, unfortunately, they don't have much interest."
The article argues that the onus for dealing with insecurities should lie with the entity which has the capability to deal with them. With proprietary software this would fall on the vendor but with Open Source and Free Software anyone that owns a copy has the capability to improve security. There is no reason why the liability should fall solely on the vendor in the case of Open Source and Free Software.
"Kryten: It's indescribable, Spare Head Two. True, I'm having a few problems coping with the human emotions, and there's no zoom, the nipples don't work and I could show you a snapshot of something that would make your eyes spin like fruit machines! But that apart, it's all going well."
If you want "chicks" go to a bar. There are plenty of them willing to spread their legs for the price of a few drinks (though maybe not for you being as you post on Slashdot).
However if you are interested in meeting women that are interested in Linux you are more likely to find them there than by picking a random one off the street. However note that a Linux user group is not a place to chat women up they probably come there because they are interested in Linux (rather than trying to get a date) and to socialise and don't want to be singled out because they are female.
Which is fine until someone goes around with duplicates of your plates then you will find you are getting fined for breaking the world land speed record.
I have always been a proponent of go with whatever is the best model. Yet it seems that governments all over the world are trying to prop up open source to try and put companies (mostly Microsoft) out of business. If the product is better and the model works - why does the government have to get involved at all?
because many years of the government propping up the proprietry software companies has created an uneven playing field.
Take a look at this story on the BBC. Pelagibacter ubiquehas evolved to have a small uncomplicated genome because it lives in a very resource scarce environment where the energy expended reproducing is an important factor in survival.
TV's that scan their viewing field every 10 seconds for people watching, take a biometric from irises then charge the viewer's "copyright material viewing account" for the amount of content they just saw?
I'm in the same situation. I have just finished a degree course and I don't know what I want to do. There are just too many possibilities at the moment. I'd like to try out lots of different things to see what I like. I know that I don't want to code for a living, I did that for my industrial placement and I didn't like it because takes the fun out of it.
Any ideas on good ways to sample different jobs and work environments?
So someone accidentally visits a porn site, they realise they don't want to be there and close the web browser. They then clear the cache. Couldn't this be construed as them knowing that they were doing something wrong and trying to hide the evidence?
the 'geeky' drive to throw intense, unimaginable-to-non-geeks effort into a problem until it is 'solved' has been a great detriment to every relationship I have ever attempted.
I've just been dumped by my boyfriend. He found this aspect of me confusing. I thought it was a me thing but I guess I overlooked that it is just part of my geekiness. I guess it also makes me good at tracking down bugs so I'm not really complaining:-).
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The fine print: *offer applies to the zeroes of the binary data stream only.
In such a male dominated field women feel like they have to get qualifications in order to be seen as competent by any potential employers. Whereas men are just assumed to be competent. In one of my previous jobs I'd answer the tech support line only to be asked "Can I speak to someone technical?" whereas when my male colleague answered he never got questioned.
If doctors got:
patients that repeatedly contracted food poisoning from eating rotten food and then...
walked into the hospital expecting to be seen first despite many other patients being in more need and...
patients that blamed their illness on the incompetence of the medical profession
They'd curse and swear and be cranky in public too.
The program performed an illegal operation, assessed its own punishment and decided it was executable so terminated itself.
1) Not everyone uses cash, a lot of people pay by card
2) Some people have multiple bank accounts, they like to have just enough in their day-to-day account and the rest in a higher interest savings account.
3) People are lazy, why go to the bank when you can do everything you need from home?
"Software vendors are in the best position to improve software security; they have the capability. But, unfortunately, they don't have much interest."
The article argues that the onus for dealing with insecurities should lie with the entity which has the capability to deal with them. With proprietary software this would fall on the vendor but with Open Source and Free Software anyone that owns a copy has the capability to improve security. There is no reason why the liability should fall solely on the vendor in the case of Open Source and Free Software.
http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html
Maybe now they can make nipples that work too.
"Kryten: It's indescribable, Spare Head Two. True, I'm having a few problems coping with the human emotions, and there's no zoom, the nipples don't work and I could show you a snapshot of something that would make your eyes spin like fruit machines! But that apart, it's all going well."
Since when has the number of languages been a problem for updating problems like this, the language file should be kept separate!
If you want "chicks" go to a bar. There are plenty of them willing to spread their legs for the price of a few drinks (though maybe not for you being as you post on Slashdot).
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However if you are interested in meeting women that are interested in Linux you are more likely to find them there than by picking a random one off the street. However note that a Linux user group is not a place to chat women up they probably come there because they are interested in Linux (rather than trying to get a date) and to socialise and don't want to be singled out because they are female.
Read this
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-H
Which is fine until someone goes around with duplicates of your plates then you will find you are getting fined for breaking the world land speed record.
You can't prevent death, only postpone it.
Reality is the thing that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.
I have always been a proponent of go with whatever is the best model. Yet it seems that governments all over the world are trying to prop up open source to try and put companies (mostly Microsoft) out of business. If the product is better and the model works - why does the government have to get involved at all?
because many years of the government propping up the proprietry software companies has created an uneven playing field.
RIAA also claims that P2P kills kittens and would steal your grandma given the chance.
Take a look at this story on the BBC. Pelagibacter ubiquehas evolved to have a small uncomplicated genome because it lives in a very resource scarce environment where the energy expended reproducing is an important factor in survival.
Sure it's easier for most people just to have one way of doing things and just learn it.
But I'd rather my computer work the way I want to rather than vice versa.
TV's that scan their viewing field every 10 seconds for people watching, take a biometric from irises then charge the viewer's "copyright material viewing account" for the amount of content they just saw?
Frequent save points but also some plot for when you want to play the game for longer periods of time (the newer Grand Theft Autos are good at this).
Goals that don't just involve blasting everything in sight (like Metal Gear Solid). I get bored easily with first-person shooters.
Goals that involve skill and thought rather than just reaction speed. Battles that require tactical decisions.
Personally, I'd rather be told that my coding is elegant or that my soldering is really neat.
Here's the breast option
I'm in the same situation. I have just finished a degree course and I don't know what I want to do. There are just too many possibilities at the moment. I'd like to try out lots of different things to see what I like. I know that I don't want to code for a living, I did that for my industrial placement and I didn't like it because takes the fun out of it.
Any ideas on good ways to sample different jobs and work environments?
So someone accidentally visits a porn site, they realise they don't want to be there and close the web browser. They then clear the cache. Couldn't this be construed as them knowing that they were doing something wrong and trying to hide the evidence?
the 'geeky' drive to throw intense, unimaginable-to-non-geeks effort into a problem until it is 'solved' has been a great detriment to every relationship I have ever attempted.
I've just been dumped by my boyfriend. He found this aspect of me confusing. I thought it was a me thing but I guess I overlooked that it is just part of my geekiness. I guess it also makes me good at tracking down bugs so I'm not really complaining :-).