Emphatically, yes. Nursing programs are AVIDLY trying to recruit men.
Okay, I will try to make it clear that my experience is not in nursing, but in Social Work. It is routine that, in this female dominated field, male candidates are only considered AFTER all female candidates. This happens because the hiring committees are, generally, all women and women are allowed to behave, in the workplace, in a manner that, when conducted my men, is considered hostile and descriminatory.
Further, I have seen, that when a qualified woman is found she will generally be hired and a man will be laid off for her to replace. Men in the field are denied many positions and opportunities, it is common for a man to be required to travel, or work with, a female observer.
It should come as no surprise that men do not stay long in the Social Work field, or gravitate to limited contact functions like report generation and research. While nursing may be a safe profession for men, I will state that Social Work and Teaching are actively hostile to men in and attempting to enter, the field.
"Personally, I found it amazing that the construction crew didn't see the flaw."
What you do not seem to remember is that this was built in the US. This is the land where union busting makes you into a hero and at will employment is the rule.
This does factor in. If the welder (who also, generally, has several years of college level engineering classes) sees a flaw there is little he can do about it. If the welder were to argue the point then it is likely the he would be to told to leave the site and someone else would do it. If the welder tried to push the issue then it is likely that they would find themselves blacklisted.
The only real option that the welder faces is to change careers or to insure that the plans have an engineers seal and do exactly what is on the plan, no matter how bad that plan is. Having worked in construction, I have seen this very play carried out several times.
helicopter: check (the hilers was not in service, however it did exist)
auto: check
penicillin: okay, I think it was a wartime developmet
television: check (not common, but did exist)
I think I could go on, almost all of the real big developments, other than the computer, which to the average person was not that important in '68, were WWII developments. There were not that many real big developments there. The rocketry was a growth of the pre WWII rocket clubs that were sponsored in germany as a result of the prohibition on artillery in the treaty of Versailles.
The biggest difference was not the existence of these technologies, it was the accessibility of these technologies.
Thanks, the responses to your thread inspired me to check and see when my license expires. I have until 2012. I really don't even remember having renewed it, but I must have.
"iPods cost almost double what equivilent devices cost"
Where? I have purchased less expensive MP3 players. First, they were not that much less expensive (as I recall, about 10%-15%). Second, they did not work.
One I remember, an RCA, was, effectively, unsupported by the manufacturer and only worked for a couple of months. I then needed to re format and reinstall the OS. Keep in mind that the manufacturer provided no support for how o do this. The reason that I needed to do this was that it simply stopped working. Whenever I turned it on it gave an error message.
Even then, it still never worked well. The interface for putting music on it was to mount it as a device and then copy and paste to the appropriate directory in the device. Basically, the interface was terrible. The user interface was no better. I ended up giving it to a niece, she is happy to have a MP3 player but likes my Ipod better. The Ipod interface is just better.
So, this cheaper player initially cost, at best, 15% less. Then, it took about four times as long to install music. Then it took two weekends to get working again after the started hard drive clunking and giving error messages. Then, finally, add to that, the cost of an Ipod in order to get a MP3 player with a usable interface. Buying an Ipod the first time would have been cheaper.
The idea of the internet making education to the masses really has not panned out. It ran into the problem of accreditation and expense. Advanced education, even on-line, remains beyond the means of most people due to it's cost.
This high cost, of education, is kept artificially high by regional accreditation cartels. Of course people can argue that education is free; it is also unmarketable. People do not market their education, in most cases, they market their degrees. There are a number of solutions to this situation. However, there is a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, with it's accompanying high cost.
It will be interesting to see how they work around this problem.
Good, because whole opensource needs coders and even graphical artists (ewh) and document writers and usuability engineers what we can really use is tech support monkeys.
So you have hearby volunteerd to sit in an irc channel and answer any and all questions.
I tried that. What I got for it was to be banned from the IRC Linux Help channel. It was several years ago and I had nothing to do all day saturdays due to constant snow (it was back when I used Linux often enough to be able to answer questions). So, I started hanging on Linux Help and doing nothing but answering newbie questions.
A person came on needing help making a boot disk. I was helping him by walking through the process and another person that was always there, but never helping new people, started insisting that I not help that person because he (the person I was helping) had already asked that question. I made it clear that IRC isn't talk radio, there is no one question per person rule. the person them started flooding the channel with garbage piles to interfere with my helping the person.
I still managed to finish communicating the instructions and the person asking for help left. Then I and the person trying to be in charge of the channel had a discussion. The result was that he then op'ed (I hadn't realized that he was a moderator, and it wouldn't have changed my actions if I had), I got booted and was unable to log back in, I had been banned.
I considered coming back in under a different name; I then decided that would be a dishonorable route. I also realized that Linux was a toy for poorly socialized children and little more. It was an eye opening moment. When I had dealt with Linux users in the past I had noted this tenancy to have a, "I figured it out, now the knowledge is mine, and mine alone!," attitude. Because I could talk to and see these people I always made excuses for them and their behavior. I realized that it was an attitude that truly was endemic to Linux.
As time went on, I needed to get work done with the computer other than just playing with it and trying to get stuff to run. So, I, of course, stopped using Linux (and I was no longer supporting a System V box for a job). I could no longer competently sit and answer newbie questions; although, I am sure I could pick it up, again, rather quickly if I tried.
The point of this is that I did sit and answer questions in an IRC channel one day a week for several months. What I saw was a total unwillingness to help new people and abuse of those who were. I stand by my statement, Linux was a toy for poorly socialized children and little more (I will amend this to say that is does make a, not great but, fair and inexpensive router).
Okay, I can not really answer for myself, I am only 39 and have pretty well lost interest in computer games. However, I can comment on what I see my father playing, he is 76.
He mostly plays solitaire. He plays it because it is relaxing and, as he says, "I can turn the thing off at any moment and it doesn't mean a thing." Based on that, I would say that any game sold to him needs a lot of auto saving (and modern computers are fast enough to do that). He isn't interested in any game that needs to have a manual sitting open next to him. The interface must be intuitive and self explanatory. As far as any combat games, no way; he sees them and has a total "been there, done that (in the real world) no desire to do it again," attitude.
Tetris is out because, as I said, he wants games that he can play while drinking a cup of coffee, taking care of my mother (which means frequent breaks) and just living his life. The game needs to just be there in the backdround waiting for him to pick up where he left off.
Okay, I an buy the part where you say, "I like Nintendo games." However, I question the part where you say, "the Revolution is the only console that offers something genuinely new."[p]
This is not because they will no do just that, it is because you don't know what they will do. I am reasonably sure that you have not seen a Nintendo Revolution. As such, you have no idea what it will be, or do.[p]
There is nothing wrong with being excited about a future product. However, it is disingenuous to compare an existing product to vaporware; this is exactly what Microsoft has been criticized for doing, for decades.
I too have stopped purchasing, and playing, games. They have gotten too hard. In the effort to appeal to, ever more jaded, professional game players (reviewers and kids) the games have become too hard to play and enjoy. I find myself using ever more cheats to reach a minimal level of enjoyment in the games.
Then there is the issue of graphics over content. Shoot the other guy gets old; I need reason to shoot him. I find myself playing spiderwebs games more. They have terrible graphics, but at least it seems that there is something there.
I reloaded Baldur's gate last week and it is sill good. I liked Fallout and Fallout III. I even enjoyed mechwarrior III. I don't recall any games that I have liked since then, and I have rally slowed down on game purchases.
If I could give a bit of advise to game developers, it would be, "don't worry about using the latest game engine, just hire some good writers."
For one thing, when you are in a quasi-emergency state there is a possibility of getting permission to do things that would never be allowed otherwise. One of the reasons for this is that it is the perfect rebuttal to the "that isn't the way we have always done it..." opposition. "you are right, we have never done any of this before."
There is also the infrastructure argument. There is no service that an argument like the one you present can not wok with. Sewers, we need water first. Water, we need disposal first. Houses, we need electricity first. Electricity, we need houses first. It can go on forever.
This is why many projects get locked in the perpetual planning stage. No one is willing to take the heat for getting started on the project, they would rather plan forever. They want perfect, and as a result never work toward good.
Back when I was in college I had a commodore 64 that tended to overheat. I ended up taking the power supply apart (the early ones could be opened) and C-clamping a big-piece-of-metal(tm) to it. This acted as a heat sink. My only thought here is that it seems that we should have come a way in product prerelease testing since then.
In my previous jobs I used a PDA constantly. had customer lists in it, commonly used part numbers, and a bunch of other stuff. I now work in an environment that I can not connect anything to my computer. Therefore, I can not get information to the PDA. People here use paper day-timers. I had never used one in my life and am still having a hard time adjusting.[p]
The culture here is just to not use computers (people look at me like I am from another planet when I mention email, or the assume it is porn because it is the internet and we all know the internet is porn). hen I asked for palm manager to b put on my computer the answer was not only no; but I was also put on the list of people to check for hacking activity on a regular basis. Putting things in the windows startup folder or on the server is considered hacking.[p]
As much as I hate using a day-timer and prefer that PDA, there is just no way I can use one in the culture of secutity fear and ignorance that I work in.
I am going to work from the assumption that you have made a typo. However, if you have not, a 1/4 ton pickup would be among the smallest PUs' on the market. It is a class of vehicles that includes the original Army jeep (the ones from the '40s') and the Suzuki Samurai. Being hit by any vehicle can be painful and traumatic. However, a 1/4 ton PU is not a large vehicle.
Yes, I understand this. However, I for one, would love a radio enabled iPod. I ride a motorcycle. As such, I would like as few electro'gadgets as possible. it is just a space and control issue. As it is, I just don't bring a radio with me. Most people who do seem to use xM radio. A bit more battery life would be good.
I can think of a lot of things that would make the iPod better for motorcycle use (like a secure bracket that can be screwed to something). If course motorcycle riding iPod users is probably a bit of a limited market group (You do see a lot of Ipods being carried by bikers though).
I was ding IT when 3.11 was the thing. I remember converting to Win 95 in the Govt. Agency I was working for. I still feel that 3.11 had a superior user interface. The only problem with 3.11, and the reason that I had to put 95 on the computers, was the poor IP implementations on 3.11. They were after-market and did not work well.
I now use OS X almost exclusively on my time and whatever flavor of windows I happen to run into at work. I think that there has been regression in usability but that is inevitable as features continue to be added. The developers also have an advantage that did not exist back then. It is no longer necessary to cater to true new users. almost everyone, across socioeconomic boundaries, has some training and familiarization with the use of computers. As such, OSs' no longer need to focus on true first time users.
I will also see it in the theatre. Only because my wife will make me go. Lets face it, if Episode I really had been Episode I; there would have been no Episode II.
I have forgotten my user name so I am posting as AC.
"Actually, I very much dislike concealed-carry.
I think if you want to carry a gun in public, you should be required to carry it in full public view."
What you fail to realize is that in the strange world of the law, full public view is concealed carry. You could paint your pistol a day-glow color, attach a strobe to it, and hang it from a fishing pole; and it would still be a concealed weapon. (that was the phrasing of my police academy instructor, it is one of those things that has stuck in my mind.
If it is loaded, or can be loaded without opening a locked box other than a glove-box, and has a barrel of less than 16 inches, and is less than 23 inches in overall length, then it is a concealed weapon.
I do understand what you are trying to say. However, with such a system millions of unarmed people would loose the safety given to them by the simple fact that a potential attacher can not know if they are armed. It would also result in increased lethality in crime as a small number of criminals stage 'ambushes' of armed citizens.
It is simply a bad idea to tell potential thugs who will be easy targets. It is also a bad idea to help potential criminals plan attacks. In all, requiring concealed weapons to be plainly visible doesn't help anyone and has a lot of potential for long term harm.
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Further, I have seen, that when a qualified woman is found she will generally be hired and a man will be laid off for her to replace. Men in the field are denied many positions and opportunities, it is common for a man to be required to travel, or work with, a female observer.
It should come as no surprise that men do not stay long in the Social Work field, or gravitate to limited contact functions like report generation and research. While nursing may be a safe profession for men, I will state that Social Work and Teaching are actively hostile to men in and attempting to enter, the field.
What you do not seem to remember is that this was built in the US. This is the land where union busting makes you into a hero and at will employment is the rule.
This does factor in. If the welder (who also, generally, has several years of college level engineering classes) sees a flaw there is little he can do about it. If the welder were to argue the point then it is likely the he would be to told to leave the site and someone else would do it. If the welder tried to push the issue then it is likely that they would find themselves blacklisted.
The only real option that the welder faces is to change careers or to insure that the plans have an engineers seal and do exactly what is on the plan, no matter how bad that plan is. Having worked in construction, I have seen this very play carried out several times.
airplane: check
helicopter: check (the hilers was not in service, however it did exist)
auto: check
penicillin: okay, I think it was a wartime developmet
television: check (not common, but did exist)
I think I could go on, almost all of the real big developments, other than the computer, which to the average person was not that important in '68, were WWII developments. There were not that many real big developments there. The rocketry was a growth of the pre WWII rocket clubs that were sponsored in germany as a result of the prohibition on artillery in the treaty of Versailles.
The biggest difference was not the existence of these technologies, it was the accessibility of these technologies.
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Where? I have purchased less expensive MP3 players. First, they were not that much less expensive (as I recall, about 10%-15%). Second, they did not work.
One I remember, an RCA, was, effectively, unsupported by the manufacturer and only worked for a couple of months. I then needed to re format and reinstall the OS. Keep in mind that the manufacturer provided no support for how o do this. The reason that I needed to do this was that it simply stopped working. Whenever I turned it on it gave an error message.
Even then, it still never worked well. The interface for putting music on it was to mount it as a device and then copy and paste to the appropriate directory in the device. Basically, the interface was terrible. The user interface was no better. I ended up giving it to a niece, she is happy to have a MP3 player but likes my Ipod better. The Ipod interface is just better.
So, this cheaper player initially cost, at best, 15% less. Then, it took about four times as long to install music. Then it took two weekends to get working again after the started hard drive clunking and giving error messages. Then, finally, add to that, the cost of an Ipod in order to get a MP3 player with a usable interface. Buying an Ipod the first time would have been cheaper.
This high cost, of education, is kept artificially high by regional accreditation cartels. Of course people can argue that education is free; it is also unmarketable. People do not market their education, in most cases, they market their degrees. There are a number of solutions to this situation. However, there is a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, with it's accompanying high cost.
It will be interesting to see how they work around this problem.
I tried that. What I got for it was to be banned from the IRC Linux Help channel. It was several years ago and I had nothing to do all day saturdays due to constant snow (it was back when I used Linux often enough to be able to answer questions). So, I started hanging on Linux Help and doing nothing but answering newbie questions.
A person came on needing help making a boot disk. I was helping him by walking through the process and another person that was always there, but never helping new people, started insisting that I not help that person because he (the person I was helping) had already asked that question. I made it clear that IRC isn't talk radio, there is no one question per person rule. the person them started flooding the channel with garbage piles to interfere with my helping the person.
I still managed to finish communicating the instructions and the person asking for help left. Then I and the person trying to be in charge of the channel had a discussion. The result was that he then op'ed (I hadn't realized that he was a moderator, and it wouldn't have changed my actions if I had), I got booted and was unable to log back in, I had been banned.
I considered coming back in under a different name; I then decided that would be a dishonorable route. I also realized that Linux was a toy for poorly socialized children and little more. It was an eye opening moment. When I had dealt with Linux users in the past I had noted this tenancy to have a, "I figured it out, now the knowledge is mine, and mine alone!," attitude. Because I could talk to and see these people I always made excuses for them and their behavior. I realized that it was an attitude that truly was endemic to Linux.
As time went on, I needed to get work done with the computer other than just playing with it and trying to get stuff to run. So, I, of course, stopped using Linux (and I was no longer supporting a System V box for a job). I could no longer competently sit and answer newbie questions; although, I am sure I could pick it up, again, rather quickly if I tried.
The point of this is that I did sit and answer questions in an IRC channel one day a week for several months. What I saw was a total unwillingness to help new people and abuse of those who were. I stand by my statement, Linux was a toy for poorly socialized children and little more (I will amend this to say that is does make a, not great but, fair and inexpensive router).
He mostly plays solitaire. He plays it because it is relaxing and, as he says, "I can turn the thing off at any moment and it doesn't mean a thing." Based on that, I would say that any game sold to him needs a lot of auto saving (and modern computers are fast enough to do that). He isn't interested in any game that needs to have a manual sitting open next to him. The interface must be intuitive and self explanatory. As far as any combat games, no way; he sees them and has a total "been there, done that (in the real world) no desire to do it again," attitude.
Tetris is out because, as I said, he wants games that he can play while drinking a cup of coffee, taking care of my mother (which means frequent breaks) and just living his life. The game needs to just be there in the backdround waiting for him to pick up where he left off.
Okay, I an buy the part where you say, "I like Nintendo games." However, I question the part where you say, "the Revolution is the only console that offers something genuinely new."[p] This is not because they will no do just that, it is because you don't know what they will do. I am reasonably sure that you have not seen a Nintendo Revolution. As such, you have no idea what it will be, or do.[p] There is nothing wrong with being excited about a future product. However, it is disingenuous to compare an existing product to vaporware; this is exactly what Microsoft has been criticized for doing, for decades.
I reloaded Baldur's gate last week and it is sill good. I liked Fallout and Fallout III. I even enjoyed mechwarrior III. I don't recall any games that I have liked since then, and I have rally slowed down on game purchases.
If I could give a bit of advise to game developers, it would be, "don't worry about using the latest game engine, just hire some good writers."
There is also the infrastructure argument. There is no service that an argument like the one you present can not wok with. Sewers, we need water first. Water, we need disposal first. Houses, we need electricity first. Electricity, we need houses first. It can go on forever.
This is why many projects get locked in the perpetual planning stage. No one is willing to take the heat for getting started on the project, they would rather plan forever. They want perfect, and as a result never work toward good.
Back when I was in college I had a commodore 64 that tended to overheat. I ended up taking the power supply apart (the early ones could be opened) and C-clamping a big-piece-of-metal(tm) to it. This acted as a heat sink. My only thought here is that it seems that we should have come a way in product prerelease testing since then.
In my previous jobs I used a PDA constantly. had customer lists in it, commonly used part numbers, and a bunch of other stuff. I now work in an environment that I can not connect anything to my computer. Therefore, I can not get information to the PDA. People here use paper day-timers. I had never used one in my life and am still having a hard time adjusting.[p] The culture here is just to not use computers (people look at me like I am from another planet when I mention email, or the assume it is porn because it is the internet and we all know the internet is porn). hen I asked for palm manager to b put on my computer the answer was not only no; but I was also put on the list of people to check for hacking activity on a regular basis. Putting things in the windows startup folder or on the server is considered hacking.[p] As much as I hate using a day-timer and prefer that PDA, there is just no way I can use one in the culture of secutity fear and ignorance that I work in.
I am going to work from the assumption that you have made a typo. However, if you have not, a 1/4 ton pickup would be among the smallest PUs' on the market. It is a class of vehicles that includes the original Army jeep (the ones from the '40s') and the Suzuki Samurai. Being hit by any vehicle can be painful and traumatic. However, a 1/4 ton PU is not a large vehicle.
I was going to look at the article. However, his site is so bad I didn't make it past the frying pan.
Yes, I understand this. However, I for one, would love a radio enabled iPod. I ride a motorcycle. As such, I would like as few electro'gadgets as possible. it is just a space and control issue. As it is, I just don't bring a radio with me. Most people who do seem to use xM radio. A bit more battery life would be good. I can think of a lot of things that would make the iPod better for motorcycle use (like a secure bracket that can be screwed to something). If course motorcycle riding iPod users is probably a bit of a limited market group (You do see a lot of Ipods being carried by bikers though).
I was ding IT when 3.11 was the thing. I remember converting to Win 95 in the Govt. Agency I was working for. I still feel that 3.11 had a superior user interface. The only problem with 3.11, and the reason that I had to put 95 on the computers, was the poor IP implementations on 3.11. They were after-market and did not work well. I now use OS X almost exclusively on my time and whatever flavor of windows I happen to run into at work. I think that there has been regression in usability but that is inevitable as features continue to be added. The developers also have an advantage that did not exist back then. It is no longer necessary to cater to true new users. almost everyone, across socioeconomic boundaries, has some training and familiarization with the use of computers. As such, OSs' no longer need to focus on true first time users.
I will also see it in the theatre. Only because my wife will make me go. Lets face it, if Episode I really had been Episode I; there would have been no Episode II.
I have forgotten my user name so I am posting as AC. "Actually, I very much dislike concealed-carry. I think if you want to carry a gun in public, you should be required to carry it in full public view." What you fail to realize is that in the strange world of the law, full public view is concealed carry. You could paint your pistol a day-glow color, attach a strobe to it, and hang it from a fishing pole; and it would still be a concealed weapon. (that was the phrasing of my police academy instructor, it is one of those things that has stuck in my mind. If it is loaded, or can be loaded without opening a locked box other than a glove-box, and has a barrel of less than 16 inches, and is less than 23 inches in overall length, then it is a concealed weapon. I do understand what you are trying to say. However, with such a system millions of unarmed people would loose the safety given to them by the simple fact that a potential attacher can not know if they are armed. It would also result in increased lethality in crime as a small number of criminals stage 'ambushes' of armed citizens. It is simply a bad idea to tell potential thugs who will be easy targets. It is also a bad idea to help potential criminals plan attacks. In all, requiring concealed weapons to be plainly visible doesn't help anyone and has a lot of potential for long term harm.