And look, they are prepared to donate their niche market tools to any school that is willing to use them in required training courses.
If you want your technology to become the industry standard, you need to capture your users when they're young and don't know better. SUN Microsystems, Apple and Microsoft have done that for years by donating or selling products at low prices.
I hate being so cynical, but this just reads as a PR move to gain publicity for a tech company.
A common practice among many businesses to get attention to their products.
You might be astonished how many "serious computer science programs" no longer teach the basics.
When I worked the Google help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired CS graduate through the process of turning on his own PC. He was astonished that no one was standing around to turn on his computer like they do at the university computer lab. I'm always surprised by how little computer scientists know about hardware.
I do computer security in government IT. This job is fixing the 2,000+ Windows computers that don't patch correctly each month, upgrading/downgrading all the other applications to baseline, and trying to convince users that the computer assigned to them is not "their" computer so I can reboot it. Consoling hurt computers is the easy part, fixing broken users is the hard part. I have associate degrees in General Education and Computer Programming, a handful of certifications, and 20+ years of technical experience (i.e., software testing, help desk/desktop support, PC refresh and data center). This is definitely where the money is at.
In the meantime, lets focus on actually getting these minorities the skills and desire to get to the interview in the first place.
You're overlooking the fact that many minorities are overrepresented in low-paying jobs that many white people don't want because their kids are told to go to college and get a high-paying job that doesn't require physical labor.
When it comes to professions with outsized shares of minorities, blacks are overrepresented in community and social-service occupations (as well as barbers and postal-service clerks). Asians make up a large share of computer workers, medical scientists, and personal appearance workers—a category that includes manicurists, makeup artists, and facialists. Hispanics are overrepresented in construction, maintenance, and agriculture work.
There has been some research into having people exist in a virtual body that is opposite their own gender, and it has led to those people identifying better with the opposite sex.
When I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders), the entire QA department tested multiplayer on Unreal Tournament 2004. Everone — including the few female testers — had male avatars in the game. I went with a female avatar to standout from the pack. I would camp with the sniper rifle. When everyone got tired of the head shots and flushed my avatar out into the open, I alternated between the sniper rifle and the rocket launcher while on the run. Since I was the only tester using a female avatar, the entire department cursed my name during the course of the game.
I typically play female avatars in single-player games. I stay away from multiplayer games to avoid the abuse from other players who assume that I was a woman and then discover that I'm a fat white guy. Nothing kills a virtual hard on than a fat white guy behind a female avatar.
I was programmed to be a sensitive guy 25 years ago when I worked in retail. As a IT technician for 20+ years who consoles hurt computers and fixes broken users, I don't need any more sensitivity programming.
As the seventh grade girls pointed out in the early 1980's, I came from a poor family because we didn't have an Apple ][ computer and cable to get MTV. I learned to work with what I got and not what I don't have.
I could only find one Supreme Court citation. That case restricted the states from locking up a non-dangerous person for no good reason. That's not the same as the Supreme Court ruling to close down the hospitals.
O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975), was a landmark decision in mental health law. The United States Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends. Since the trial court jury found, upon ample evidence, that petitioner did so confine respondent, the Supreme Court upheld the trial court's conclusion that petitioner had violated respondent's right to liberty.
Send them to the middle of nowhere 100 miles east where they won't be bothering anyone.
Send them back to Las Vegas!
For years, the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada's primary state mental facility, gave discharged patients a bus ticket out of town. Poor and mentally ill, they ended up homeless in cities around the country—especially in California, where more than 500 psychiatric patients were sent over a five year period.
We need to open a new generation of mental hospitals to give them the treatment they need.
California voters will elect another Ronald Reagan for governor and close the mental hospitals again because it's socialism to provide for the less fortunate.
When you concentrate money into a small area, you tend to attract some not so nice elements.
During the Gold Rush era people were complaining about Native Americans.
Peter Burnett, California's first governor, declared that California was a battleground between the races and that there were only two options towards California Indians, extinction or removal. The State of California directly paid out $25,000 in bounties for Indian scalps with varying prices for adult male, adult female, and child sizes. It also provided the basis for the enslavement and trafficking of Native American labor, particularly that of young women and children, which was carried on as a legal business enterprise. Miners, loggers, and settlers formed vigilante groups and local militias to hunt the Natives, regularly raiding villages to supply the demand.
Best thing could happen to that "sanctuary" city would be "the big one" that would drop it into the ocean.
I've been told two things over the last 30 years: the BIG ONE is coming and BART is coming to Silicon Valley. Of the two, BART is going to happen first. As for the BIG ONE, scientists are still predicting in the next 30 years.
If he becomes candidate, he has managed one thing: showing to the world what an unfair and outdated system the US parties have for selecting their nominees.
That was already proven when the Supreme Court decided to 2000 election.
Smart people can have relatives whoa re dumb people.
I'm reminded of that every time my tea party relatives in Idaho send me another news item from the right wing echo chamber. Then again, I'm one of the few in my family who has a college education.
As a child, this fool clearly decided negative attention was preferable to having personal hygiene or any friends.
I was in Special Ed for eight years because I had an undiagnosed hearing lost. Negative attention and lack of friends came with the territory. That didn't change until I skipped high school, went to college and started my technical career.
He's that smug little weasel that give IT workers a bad name.
Eli the Computer Guy has a wonderful YouTube video as to why IT workers should be assholes. Once I accepted that I was an asshole, my IT job got easier and more enjoyable.
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And look, they are prepared to donate their niche market tools to any school that is willing to use them in required training courses.
If you want your technology to become the industry standard, you need to capture your users when they're young and don't know better. SUN Microsystems, Apple and Microsoft have done that for years by donating or selling products at low prices.
I hate being so cynical, but this just reads as a PR move to gain publicity for a tech company.
A common practice among many businesses to get attention to their products.
You might be astonished how many "serious computer science programs" no longer teach the basics.
When I worked the Google help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired CS graduate through the process of turning on his own PC. He was astonished that no one was standing around to turn on his computer like they do at the university computer lab. I'm always surprised by how little computer scientists know about hardware.
Those should be in IT departments, no?
The IT department can handle deployed applications. Programmers still need to write application code to prevent security issues in the first place.
I do computer security in government IT. This job is fixing the 2,000+ Windows computers that don't patch correctly each month, upgrading/downgrading all the other applications to baseline, and trying to convince users that the computer assigned to them is not "their" computer so I can reboot it. Consoling hurt computers is the easy part, fixing broken users is the hard part. I have associate degrees in General Education and Computer Programming, a handful of certifications, and 20+ years of technical experience (i.e., software testing, help desk/desktop support, PC refresh and data center). This is definitely where the money is at.
In the meantime, lets focus on actually getting these minorities the skills and desire to get to the interview in the first place.
You're overlooking the fact that many minorities are overrepresented in low-paying jobs that many white people don't want because their kids are told to go to college and get a high-paying job that doesn't require physical labor.
When it comes to professions with outsized shares of minorities, blacks are overrepresented in community and social-service occupations (as well as barbers and postal-service clerks). Asians make up a large share of computer workers, medical scientists, and personal appearance workers—a category that includes manicurists, makeup artists, and facialists. Hispanics are overrepresented in construction, maintenance, and agriculture work.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/diversity-jobs-professions-america/396632/
There has been some research into having people exist in a virtual body that is opposite their own gender, and it has led to those people identifying better with the opposite sex.
When I worked at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders), the entire QA department tested multiplayer on Unreal Tournament 2004. Everone — including the few female testers — had male avatars in the game. I went with a female avatar to standout from the pack. I would camp with the sniper rifle. When everyone got tired of the head shots and flushed my avatar out into the open, I alternated between the sniper rifle and the rocket launcher while on the run. Since I was the only tester using a female avatar, the entire department cursed my name during the course of the game.
I typically play female avatars in single-player games. I stay away from multiplayer games to avoid the abuse from other players who assume that I was a woman and then discover that I'm a fat white guy. Nothing kills a virtual hard on than a fat white guy behind a female avatar.
I was programmed to be a sensitive guy 25 years ago when I worked in retail. As a IT technician for 20+ years who consoles hurt computers and fixes broken users, I don't need any more sensitivity programming.
My company is having sensitivity training this week. As I told my manager, I haven't taken a sensitivity class in the 1990's.
So you were a decade behind even in 1997?
As the seventh grade girls pointed out in the early 1980's, I came from a poor family because we didn't have an Apple ][ computer and cable to get MTV. I learned to work with what I got and not what I don't have.
The U.S. Supreme Court closed all the hospitals.
I could only find one Supreme Court citation. That case restricted the states from locking up a non-dangerous person for no good reason. That's not the same as the Supreme Court ruling to close down the hospitals.
O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975), was a landmark decision in mental health law. The United States Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends. Since the trial court jury found, upon ample evidence, that petitioner did so confine respondent, the Supreme Court upheld the trial court's conclusion that petitioner had violated respondent's right to liberty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Connor_v._Donaldson
No, you fucking liar.
Citation, please?
The liberals felt that mental institutions were cruel, and set an entire generation of lunatics loose, who promptly became homeless.
Citation, please?
You're an ignorant piece of shit rewriting history because the truth doesn't align with your agenda.
Citation, please?
Send them to the middle of nowhere 100 miles east where they won't be bothering anyone.
Send them back to Las Vegas!
For years, the Las Vegas Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, Nevada's primary state mental facility, gave discharged patients a bus ticket out of town. Poor and mentally ill, they ended up homeless in cities around the country—especially in California, where more than 500 psychiatric patients were sent over a five year period.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/nevada-settles-busing-homeless-lawsuit-san-francisco/
I bet that was extremely difficult for you.
Uploaded from an IBM AT with a 2400 baud modem.
Go the wrong couple of blocks from the Moscone Center and you're in a very bad part of town.
Especially that intersection with Starbucks on three of the four corners.
We need to open a new generation of mental hospitals to give them the treatment they need.
California voters will elect another Ronald Reagan for governor and close the mental hospitals again because it's socialism to provide for the less fortunate.
When you concentrate money into a small area, you tend to attract some not so nice elements.
During the Gold Rush era people were complaining about Native Americans.
Peter Burnett, California's first governor, declared that California was a battleground between the races and that there were only two options towards California Indians, extinction or removal. The State of California directly paid out $25,000 in bounties for Indian scalps with varying prices for adult male, adult female, and child sizes. It also provided the basis for the enslavement and trafficking of Native American labor, particularly that of young women and children, which was carried on as a legal business enterprise. Miners, loggers, and settlers formed vigilante groups and local militias to hunt the Natives, regularly raiding villages to supply the demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush
Best thing could happen to that "sanctuary" city would be "the big one" that would drop it into the ocean.
I've been told two things over the last 30 years: the BIG ONE is coming and BART is coming to Silicon Valley. Of the two, BART is going to happen first. As for the BIG ONE, scientists are still predicting in the next 30 years.
Grats on only being a decade behind!
I got started with web hosting in 1997. Opened a text file, put some HTML code in it, and uploaded to my account folder on a UNIX server.
You have a choice if you are smart enough to use a VPS host.
Which is what I have in 2016.
That was before people started broadcasting their boring life 24/7.
If he becomes candidate, he has managed one thing: showing to the world what an unfair and outdated system the US parties have for selecting their nominees.
That was already proven when the Supreme Court decided to 2000 election.
Smart people can have relatives whoa re dumb people.
I'm reminded of that every time my tea party relatives in Idaho send me another news item from the right wing echo chamber. Then again, I'm one of the few in my family who has a college education.
So Donald Trump's father got the bully gene and not the brilliant gene. That explains a lot.
As a child, this fool clearly decided negative attention was preferable to having personal hygiene or any friends.
I was in Special Ed for eight years because I had an undiagnosed hearing lost. Negative attention and lack of friends came with the territory. That didn't change until I skipped high school, went to college and started my technical career.
He's that smug little weasel that give IT workers a bad name.
Eli the Computer Guy has a wonderful YouTube video as to why IT workers should be assholes. Once I accepted that I was an asshole, my IT job got easier and more enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YaNGzplbE
They ... they're ... Oh my god...
The 2016 election is going to be one hell of a chest buster. O_o