The mind of a man is just better geared for the intensive focus required for these things, whereas the female mind is geared more towards a broader but less comprehensive mode of though.
Either you are trolling or you actually believe this. I'm going to assume that you are ignorant enough to buy into that mode of thought, and instead of reciting the stereotypical male/female model for a moment, you might want to consider these examples:
1.) There's evidence to suggest that Mileva Maric, Einstein's first wife, collaborated with him to produce some of his most important theories but was never given any credit for her work.
2.) Rosalidn Franklin discovered the double helix structure of DNA but her male colleagues took credit and publicity for her discovery.
In all my years in tech related work (about 15) I have not once heard a single comment from a coworker even suggesting that women aren't as good as tech workers. I've never ever heard anything derogatory about a female candidate because she is female in post-interview discussions.
You should have considered what I was saying more carefully. The days of being outright nasty to women who decide to break into these fields are gone (although there are still some women alive who had to live through those periods.) These days it's more of an unconcious choice mostly influenced by the already established culture; some of which I already mentioned. Part of it is choice from invidual women, part of it might also be that there is still some force of resistance that exists but might not be totally obvious. Since you're not a woman you see the world differently. Women are treated differently from men (and most of it follows what our culture is dictating) so it doesn't seem like a huge stretch to assume that there is still some "old fashioned" prejudice still embedded in the psyche of some men.
If you were to replace all the content in the media from its current sexist and old fashioned view of gender to something that transmits a more egalitarian message, then you had better believe that America as a whole would start to change pretty quickly. But you're also partially right. One TV show isn't going to do much of anything outside of inspire a few individuals. You would basically need to rework the way basically everyone thinks in this country to make any changes.
Why do we want women in tech? I'm not saying I'm against women in tech, I just wonder why, if they don't want to do it, we should want them to want it?
You generally want women in science for the same reason you would want diversity in any field. It brings new perspectives and ideas to science because women usually lead lives that are a bit different from that of men.
There are also a few ideas as to why there are low numbers of women in science:
1.) Because the people already established in these fields (men) don't want them there and are doing things to make sure they don't succeed. (Like not giving referalls for jobs, not being very helpful when someone asks for help, etc.) Science is male dominated.
2.) Because women choose not to enter a scientific field.
Are we pushing for "equality" without regard for whether or not they WANT to do this?
From my perspective, today it's more likely that the individual chocies of women are playing a greater factor than if people are trying to push them out. There doesn't appear to be any siginficant roadblocks in their way that would prevent them from going further in a scientific career today than in the past. So I would agree with that, and it does piss me off quite a bit when I hear about trying to get "women into science." The forced equality idea is crap especially if it's the case that the low numbers of women might actually be because of personal choice.
Of course.... You also have to consider other factors that are probably influencing women to stay away from science such as -- our culture. If you notice the images and ideas that both men and women are bombarded with on a daily basis, then it becomes clear as to how people start to get ideas about what they're "supposed" to be doing with their lives. Some examples: Men and boys are often portrayed as tough, rugged individuals who should be outside playing games and exploring the world. Women and girls are often portrayed as soft, quiet individuals who are delicate and excell at domestic life (staying inside) and looking beautiful. Horray for stereotypes!
Get my point? The whole pushing for equality thing is crap when if you consider that if you get rid of things like these completely stupid stereotypes that the problem of low numbers of women in science would probably fix itself.
It looks like XHTML 2.0 is a lot like the previous versions (XHTML 1.0, 1.1) with some new features. I doubt the predicted "wide success" of XHTML 2.0 if no one really seemed to care about the older versions. I sure would have liked it if every web site author was enthuastic enough to have well formatted pages.
So, women who play games, if they're kids or even in their 40s, they like to have short play sessions, especially in mobile
Thanks to whoever came to such an insightful conclusion. How about everyone just makes games that don't suck in general instead of trying to get rich off of them? There is no possibility that any male gamer could also not desire games that are easy and fun to play on their *mobile phones*! As if each game currently available for these devices was aiming to be a MMORPG.
Another thing that I've noticed is that most of these "girl games" are no different from the games "everyone else" plays with the exception of the addition of stylizied or cutsey graphics that just somehow assume that every female in the world can identify with or is missing from their current games.
It would be nice to see more games that are not only fun but everyone of all ages regardless of their personality can enjoy. I think Nintendo is a good example of this. I often dislike these types of movements in seemingly trivial areas such as entertainment when their energy could be better used to beating the out a lot of the old prejudices from other corners of our culture rather than perpetuating stereotypes. Solitaire: Now for women! FEATURING 100% more pink and every card has hearts on it! What was wrong with the old, and seemingly neutral solitaire? Too "masculine"? Whatever.
It's possible to do it, and it's easier for me because almost all of my apps are open source projects and they work well with plain users. It takes a bit of work for others, but depends on what you're running really. For a lot of apps you might need to set some crazy permissions but you can eventually get most things working, or try using runas as a last resort.
Nice. I noticed that Symantec acquired Sygate and are (surprise!) not giving away their excellent firewall anymore. Sygate Personal Firewall is IMO the best free Windows firewall available. Don't use Zone Alarm. It's extremely icky. Download SPF from here. It should last you for a while.
The one and only time I've ever had a PC of mine hijacked was because of 180solutions under IE7 and XPSP2 a few months back... I browsed to a site related to them and a moment later I had several new icons next to my clock and plenty of pop up ads saying hello.
The only reason this is a problem is because of the type of user that these companies are exploiting. You're running IE that doesn't appear to be locked down in any way on an account with administrator privileges. Basically any ActiveX app (most likely) not only has the flexibility to do basically whatever, but nothing is stopping it from tearing apart your system since it's also running with administrator privileges.
Don't feel too bad though, back in the days of Windows 98 I had some InstallShield app pop up through Internet Explorer and install some intrusive application without any warning.
Just because Microsoft gives your account admin access by default (WinXP) doesn't mean you can't do anything to protect yourself. You should take some time to lock down your system if you don't want another infection. No more admin level access to your every day account, etc. Unfourtnately, because your type of setup is so common unscrupulous companies will take advantage of it. (See also: SONY)
Maybe not, but the OP has a point: if and when you wake up, will it do you much good to wake up a) broke, and b) without a marketable skill? You'll be about as useful to the new society as a buggy driver is to ours.
Or maybe, if you wake up you'll be assigned to a position in society based on your capabilities. Haven't you watched Futurama?
Use a server side scripting language like PHP and don't worry about browser support for Javascript (can be tricky.) Have pages that don't break if the browser doesn't support CSS. Use compliant HTML. Not sure how complicated your project really is but from this perspective, I'm wondering why you're bothering with specific versions of operating systems? It's still good to test with the widest range of browsers possible if you have the time, but it's often safe to only support what vendors are currently supporting.
You missed precompiled binaries targeted for a certain architecture. None of the software I use on my computers runs off of a VM. It's either precompiled or bulit from the source. So yes, I would say it matters because I make it a point to avoid most things that use VMs.
I'm time-poor. I like gaming but I simply do not have the time to figure out some of the oblique puzzles in RPGs or have to revisit places to pick up key items I missed the first time around
What's the point then? Most of the fun in a game seems to be exploring and figuring stuff out for yourself. If you need to buy a guide to get through a game then maybe you need to find something different to play. I would be seriously bored anyway if I just had all the answers handed to me.
If I were teaching, I'd explain to the class on the first day that I not only know how to use the Internet to check for plagerism, I'm going to, and that I'll fail any and every student I catch.
It's good to state that upfront. My school has a very strict no cheating policy that will, at worse, fail someone out of a course.
Exactly. The people in businesses who are making decisions to outsource programming tasks are probably not programmers themselves and do not need to understand how to write stuff. People, such as the computer science student, are ultimately going to be doing said outsourced work, and they actually need to have a clue as to what they're doing.
It's things like this that really tick me off. This is probably worse than the reason "I'm doing it for the money" when I ask people why they're getting a degree in computer science. That seems like an indication they don't have a real desire to go beyond the minimum of what's required of them.
If someone is going to cheat their way through their course work, they need to stop wasting their money and go do something else.
I won't buy from Sony. That's for sure. I've happened to mention the problem with Sony once when it came up in a conversation, and it's pretty clear that some people just don't know what's going on with them.
I was really expecting "Web 2.0" to come with "Internet 2.0," but it seems someone has been inventing buzz words again to note progressions in the technology.
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Yes, they both did. Maybe you want to provide some evidence to disprove what I said?
Either you are trolling or you actually believe this. I'm going to assume that you are ignorant enough to buy into that mode of thought, and instead of reciting the stereotypical male/female model for a moment, you might want to consider these examples:
1.) There's evidence to suggest that Mileva Maric, Einstein's first wife, collaborated with him to produce some of his most important theories but was never given any credit for her work.
2.) Rosalidn Franklin discovered the double helix structure of DNA but her male colleagues took credit and publicity for her discovery.
You should have considered what I was saying more carefully. The days of being outright nasty to women who decide to break into these fields are gone (although there are still some women alive who had to live through those periods.) These days it's more of an unconcious choice mostly influenced by the already established culture; some of which I already mentioned. Part of it is choice from invidual women, part of it might also be that there is still some force of resistance that exists but might not be totally obvious. Since you're not a woman you see the world differently. Women are treated differently from men (and most of it follows what our culture is dictating) so it doesn't seem like a huge stretch to assume that there is still some "old fashioned" prejudice still embedded in the psyche of some men.
The AC has made an excellent point that people should pay attention to.
If you were to replace all the content in the media from its current sexist and old fashioned view of gender to something that transmits a more egalitarian message, then you had better believe that America as a whole would start to change pretty quickly. But you're also partially right. One TV show isn't going to do much of anything outside of inspire a few individuals. You would basically need to rework the way basically everyone thinks in this country to make any changes.
You generally want women in science for the same reason you would want diversity in any field. It brings new perspectives and ideas to science because women usually lead lives that are a bit different from that of men.
There are also a few ideas as to why there are low numbers of women in science:
1.) Because the people already established in these fields (men) don't want them there and are doing things to make sure they don't succeed. (Like not giving referalls for jobs, not being very helpful when someone asks for help, etc.) Science is male dominated.
2.) Because women choose not to enter a scientific field.
From my perspective, today it's more likely that the individual chocies of women are playing a greater factor than if people are trying to push them out. There doesn't appear to be any siginficant roadblocks in their way that would prevent them from going further in a scientific career today than in the past. So I would agree with that, and it does piss me off quite a bit when I hear about trying to get "women into science." The forced equality idea is crap especially if it's the case that the low numbers of women might actually be because of personal choice.
Of course.... You also have to consider other factors that are probably influencing women to stay away from science such as -- our culture. If you notice the images and ideas that both men and women are bombarded with on a daily basis, then it becomes clear as to how people start to get ideas about what they're "supposed" to be doing with their lives. Some examples: Men and boys are often portrayed as tough, rugged individuals who should be outside playing games and exploring the world. Women and girls are often portrayed as soft, quiet individuals who are delicate and excell at domestic life (staying inside) and looking beautiful. Horray for stereotypes!
Get my point? The whole pushing for equality thing is crap when if you consider that if you get rid of things like these completely stupid stereotypes that the problem of low numbers of women in science would probably fix itself.
It looks like XHTML 2.0 is a lot like the previous versions (XHTML 1.0, 1.1) with some new features. I doubt the predicted "wide success" of XHTML 2.0 if no one really seemed to care about the older versions. I sure would have liked it if every web site author was enthuastic enough to have well formatted pages.
Thanks to whoever came to such an insightful conclusion. How about everyone just makes games that don't suck in general instead of trying to get rich off of them? There is no possibility that any male gamer could also not desire games that are easy and fun to play on their *mobile phones*! As if each game currently available for these devices was aiming to be a MMORPG.
Another thing that I've noticed is that most of these "girl games" are no different from the games "everyone else" plays with the exception of the addition of stylizied or cutsey graphics that just somehow assume that every female in the world can identify with or is missing from their current games.
It would be nice to see more games that are not only fun but everyone of all ages regardless of their personality can enjoy. I think Nintendo is a good example of this. I often dislike these types of movements in seemingly trivial areas such as entertainment when their energy could be better used to beating the out a lot of the old prejudices from other corners of our culture rather than perpetuating stereotypes. Solitaire: Now for women! FEATURING 100% more pink and every card has hearts on it! What was wrong with the old, and seemingly neutral solitaire? Too "masculine"? Whatever.
And we all thank them for that
http://www.tucows.com/preview/213160. The other one works for me anyway.
It's possible to do it, and it's easier for me because almost all of my apps are open source projects and they work well with plain users. It takes a bit of work for others, but depends on what you're running really. For a lot of apps you might need to set some crazy permissions but you can eventually get most things working, or try using runas as a last resort.
Nice. I noticed that Symantec acquired Sygate and are (surprise!) not giving away their excellent firewall anymore. Sygate Personal Firewall is IMO the best free Windows firewall available. Don't use Zone Alarm. It's extremely icky. Download SPF from here. It should last you for a while.
The only reason this is a problem is because of the type of user that these companies are exploiting. You're running IE that doesn't appear to be locked down in any way on an account with administrator privileges. Basically any ActiveX app (most likely) not only has the flexibility to do basically whatever, but nothing is stopping it from tearing apart your system since it's also running with administrator privileges.
Don't feel too bad though, back in the days of Windows 98 I had some InstallShield app pop up through Internet Explorer and install some intrusive application without any warning.
Just because Microsoft gives your account admin access by default (WinXP) doesn't mean you can't do anything to protect yourself. You should take some time to lock down your system if you don't want another infection. No more admin level access to your every day account, etc. Unfourtnately, because your type of setup is so common unscrupulous companies will take advantage of it. (See also: SONY)
Or maybe, if you wake up you'll be assigned to a position in society based on your capabilities. Haven't you watched Futurama?
No, but someone has already patented a method for making the sky collapse. You will be contacted by their lawyers shortly.
Use a server side scripting language like PHP and don't worry about browser support for Javascript (can be tricky.) Have pages that don't break if the browser doesn't support CSS. Use compliant HTML. Not sure how complicated your project really is but from this perspective, I'm wondering why you're bothering with specific versions of operating systems? It's still good to test with the widest range of browsers possible if you have the time, but it's often safe to only support what vendors are currently supporting.
I'm a little put off how there appears to be multiple ads for ban saws on the side of the main page
You missed precompiled binaries targeted for a certain architecture. None of the software I use on my computers runs off of a VM. It's either precompiled or bulit from the source. So yes, I would say it matters because I make it a point to avoid most things that use VMs.
What's the point then? Most of the fun in a game seems to be exploring and figuring stuff out for yourself. If you need to buy a guide to get through a game then maybe you need to find something different to play. I would be seriously bored anyway if I just had all the answers handed to me.
It's good to state that upfront. My school has a very strict no cheating policy that will, at worse, fail someone out of a course.
It's things like this that really tick me off. This is probably worse than the reason "I'm doing it for the money" when I ask people why they're getting a degree in computer science. That seems like an indication they don't have a real desire to go beyond the minimum of what's required of them.
If someone is going to cheat their way through their course work, they need to stop wasting their money and go do something else.
Just because you have the money doesn't mean you need to buy the entire advertising firm just to run a few advertisements!
I won't buy from Sony. That's for sure. I've happened to mention the problem with Sony once when it came up in a conversation, and it's pretty clear that some people just don't know what's going on with them.
I believe the correct term is industry mandated bling bling
I was really expecting "Web 2.0" to come with "Internet 2.0," but it seems someone has been inventing buzz words again to note progressions in the technology.