True enough, though that technical distinction between sex and gender is not necessarily well known outside the arts degree types. Hi geek guys - think woman/man = sex difference; feminine/masculine = gender difference.
Femininity and geekdom don't go well together. But femininity totally sucks anyway. It doesn't go with anything involving having a brain.
(Yes, I know some women do hang onto the dress up pretty part of femininity while tossing the bimbo stuff in the garbage. You go girls.)
Yeah, ok. But beware of the over-quick simple solution.
If I was dictator, I say "Yeah, you can have an abortion, but you must take this 5-year NorPlant implant too, and removing it for anything other than life threatening circumstances (or failure of the device) will bar you from ever getting another abortion...".
This is not a nice thing to say to a rape victim who wants to have a kid with her husband sometime in the next couple of years. Or for a different can of worms, a woman carrying a badly disabled brain damaged fetus.
Mind you, from your appreciation of "horses for courses" I can tell you are a true Perlite. It's so hard to have a holy war when one side keeps on saying "OK, do it your way, after all there's more than one way to do it"
Thank you Jeremy. And I must add that the logic of the article was dreadful. It's a very small circular argument which assumes its own conclusion
It runs like this. The board is not credible. Lori Fena is on the board, therefore Lori Fena is not credible and will act to prevent TRUSTe from criticising doubleclick. But weren't we examining the list to decide if the board is credible in the first place?
According to the article, the public opposes the break up of Microsoft.
Why? What's gone so wrong with the publicity - or gone so right for M$. For instance, the ILOVEYOU nonsense was never presented on the news as an MS-Outlook bug, but as a general computer bug. I had quite a few people ask if I'd been affected - we are a Solaris shop at work and I run Linux on my PC, and these people sort of knew that (at least, they ask me for linux advice now & then).
Microsoft seems to be able to come out of the shit smelling like a rose to the public. I'm just amazed.
here's the email I got: ----------------------- This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random. -----------------------
It _is_ Wednesday in America, even though it's Thursday here.
They'll never catch up with us.
Another slashdot reference in the media
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This article in the fluffy technology section of the Sydney Morning Herald discusses Intel's future in moving away from the Wintel alliance.
They say: Intel's first foray into box-building is something totally out of the box - a low-cost Internet access device... The prototype, codenamed EON ("edge of network" device), runs the free Linux operating system and the Web browser Mozilla, which in turn is based on Netscape's Navigator rather than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. and illustrate it with a piccie of said device showing a slashdot page.
Sadly the web version of the article is missing the illustration.
I have to say that Perl OO is extremely ugly. Even after a couple of years of daily Perl coding, I still find the syntax confusing and difficult to read.
I do love Perl for ordinary every day parsing - it can't be beat there. But large, object based projects with long term maintainablity? Give me python.
BTW, you can tell I'm a perl-girl: TMTOWTDI just extends to languages...
I'll start with agreeing with you - I think indeed that the "women's movement" was about equality; also that there are some truly weird-ass losers out there who do want vengeance or superiority or something.
But I don't think that womengamers.com fits into that latter category. I visit the site from time to time; they seem pretty sane.
Now, consider your own logic - I can see why a minority needs a special interest group, but women, making up more than half of the Earth's population, are hardly a minority anywhere.
Now I won't go into the need for a continueed women's movement and that being a minority or a majority isn't everything. Check out Amnesty International's womens' human rights campaign if you ned more on that score.
Bet with regard to this site: isn't the whole point precisely that women are a minority on the net and as gamers? We have to put up with all sorts of crap from some of the guys, as you see every time someone posts something about women on slashdot. (Watch replies to this and see it grow.) I'm glad you're not one of them, but please - give us a break when we want a time out from the verbal abuse.
Me neither, but I don't fit the demographic anyway - I'm too old. I did find it insulting that older women are supposedly out there looking for knitting patterns. Personally I look for biotech and web building info. (Know anything about Zope?)
And no, K0ala, you're not the only one. Not all of us have obvious names.
I do have a very female nick here, but it's a personal joke among my friends. To do with anagrams and pretend superheros. Oh, it would take too long to explain and it doesn't matter.
I really liked the essay on how they did it. Very informative. A lovely balance of plenty of technical detail together with plenty of explanation of what it all meant. Written for the ignorant, not the stupid.
Many linux documenters could learn a lot from these people
The George IV hotel's microbrewery's beer is sold at their Sydney pub, The Australia Hotel.
It's in "The Rocks", another tourist precinct, but nicer than bland and boring Darling Harbour. The Rocks has nice old sandstone buildings; it's the site of some of the earliest settlement. It's almost underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
MUCH easier to get to than Picton, especially if you are staying in the city and have limited time.
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Yeah mate.
My grandmother's dead so she'd have a lot of trouble reading it.
But she was a smart and well-educated woman. She got a degree way back in the 1920s, and taught school for many years. I imagine she could have taught Jon Katz a thing or two, especially about writing.
Dilbert: If you're so smart, how come you work here? Egghead-type: Intelligence has less practical application than you'd think.
Would you choose to be hyperintelligent? Maybe being pretty/hunky and popular would be more fun. Maybe being normal rather than exceptional would be less disruptive to your parents' lives?
Avoiding or curing diseases and disabilities is not very controversial. Only the most die-hard type could object. But I do worry about people selecting kids in some sort of shopping list way: might we lose variety? In the same way the we now have peaches and tomatoes that bounce and taste of nothing, might we end up with a monoculture of humans that just aren't flexible and creative any more 'cause everyone is chosen from the same limited set of popular genomes?
Just my little science fiction story here. Hey, who's seen GATTACCA?
Tweaked my.Xdefaults; relaunched Netscape:OK, but prefs have no effect. Launch new browser window: I get a little popup window titled "Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr)" with the message in the subject.
Poot:-(
Does anyone have a URL with references to what I can set & how?
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True enough, though that technical distinction between sex and gender is not necessarily well known outside the arts degree types. Hi geek guys - think woman/man = sex difference; feminine/masculine = gender difference.
Femininity and geekdom don't go well together. But femininity totally sucks anyway. It doesn't go with anything involving having a brain.
(Yes, I know some women do hang onto the dress up pretty part of femininity while tossing the bimbo stuff in the garbage. You go girls.)
Have some Australian beer back. I recommend avoiding Foster's; it's pissweak stuff for tourists and export only.
James Squires Amber Ale is a nice drop.
But WTF is a "feminine" activity?
If I see another pink Barbie "math is hard, let's go shopping and download pretty dresses!!!" I will puke.
And I won't believe for a second that that sort of rubbish encourages girls to do tech stuff.
Yeah, ok. But beware of the over-quick simple solution.
If I was dictator, I say "Yeah, you can have an abortion, but you must take this 5-year NorPlant implant too, and removing it for anything other than life threatening circumstances (or failure of the device) will bar you from ever getting another abortion...".
This is not a nice thing to say to a rape victim who wants to have a kid with her husband sometime in the next couple of years. Or for a different can of worms, a woman carrying a badly disabled brain damaged fetus.
Hear hear!
Mind you, from your appreciation of "horses for courses" I can tell you are a true Perlite. It's so hard to have a holy war when one side keeps on saying "OK, do it your way, after all there's more than one way to do it"
Thank you Jeremy. And I must add that the logic of the article was dreadful. It's a very small circular argument which assumes its own conclusion
It runs like this. The board is not credible. Lori Fena is on the board, therefore Lori Fena is not credible and will act to prevent TRUSTe from criticising doubleclick. But weren't we examining the list to decide if the board is credible in the first place?
Get a grip.
According to the article, the public opposes the break up of Microsoft.
Why? What's gone so wrong with the publicity - or gone so right for M$. For instance, the ILOVEYOU nonsense was never presented on the news as an MS-Outlook bug, but as a general computer bug. I had quite a few people ask if I'd been affected - we are a Solaris shop at work and I run Linux on my PC, and these people sort of knew that (at least, they ask me for linux advice now & then).
Microsoft seems to be able to come out of the shit smelling like a rose to the public. I'm just amazed.
No thanks! But Nitrozac knows what a geek-girl wants: Linus!
Oh yes, Nitrozac knows...
Oh, the teases. I wanted to know more about the beer :-)
here's the email I got:
-----------------------
This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
-----------------------
It cracked me up.
Should you wish, you may email me at
mistress@fuckyou.co.uk
It _is_ Wednesday in America, even though it's Thursday here.
They'll never catch up with us.
This article in the fluffy technology section of the Sydney Morning Herald discusses Intel's future in moving away from the Wintel alliance.
... The prototype, codenamed EON ("edge of network" device), runs the free Linux operating system and the Web browser Mozilla, which in turn is based on Netscape's Navigator rather than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
They say: Intel's first foray into box-building is something totally out of the box - a low-cost Internet access device
and illustrate it with a piccie of said device showing a slashdot page.
Sadly the web version of the article is missing the illustration.
I have to say that Perl OO is extremely ugly.
Even after a couple of years of daily Perl coding, I still find the syntax confusing and difficult to read.
I do love Perl for ordinary every day parsing - it can't be beat there. But large, object based projects with long term maintainablity? Give me python.
BTW, you can tell I'm a perl-girl: TMTOWTDI just extends to languages...
OK, sure this is bait.
I'll start with agreeing with you - I think indeed that the "women's movement" was about equality; also that there are some truly weird-ass losers out there who do want vengeance or superiority or something.
But I don't think that womengamers.com fits into that latter category. I visit the site from time to time; they seem pretty sane.
Now, consider your own logic - I can see why a minority needs a special interest group, but
women, making up more than half of the Earth's population, are hardly a minority anywhere.
Now I won't go into the need for a continueed women's movement and that being a minority or a majority isn't everything. Check out Amnesty International's womens' human rights campaign if you ned more on that score.
Bet with regard to this site: isn't the whole point precisely that women are a minority on the net and as gamers? We have to put up with all sorts of crap from some of the guys, as you see every time someone posts something about women on slashdot. (Watch replies to this and see it grow.) I'm glad you're not one of them, but please - give us a break when we want a time out from the verbal abuse.
Reboot - marvellous! Can't wait for the movies.
Now why doesn't Galaxy bookshop, or my local video rental place have any? They have all sorts of other crappier TV shows.
Does anyone know a source for these in Oz? Or at least somewhere that does PAL video, not NTSC...
I adored that game. Kill them silly little white knight dudes. Grow your own giant insect colonies.
I've never played Populous - what's it like?
Me neither, but I don't fit the demographic anyway - I'm too old. I did find it insulting that older women are supposedly out there looking for knitting patterns. Personally I look for biotech and web building info. (Know anything about Zope?)
And no, K0ala, you're not the only one. Not all of us have obvious names.
I do have a very female nick here, but it's a personal joke among my friends. To do with anagrams and pretend superheros. Oh, it would take too long to explain and it doesn't matter.
Does the GNOME Fish count? Mine's called Wanda. She's swimming in my panel as I type.
So can we please see the block list? That would be very interesting indeed.
Yup, I did.
I really liked the essay on how they did it. Very informative. A lovely balance of plenty of technical detail together with plenty of explanation of what it all meant. Written for the ignorant, not the stupid.
Many linux documenters could learn a lot from these people
The George IV hotel's microbrewery's beer is sold at their Sydney pub, The Australia Hotel.
It's in "The Rocks", another tourist precinct, but nicer than bland and boring Darling Harbour. The Rocks has nice old sandstone buildings; it's the site of some of the earliest settlement. It's almost underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
MUCH easier to get to than Picton, especially if you are staying in the city and have limited time.
Yeah mate.
My grandmother's dead so she'd have a lot of trouble reading it.
But she was a smart and well-educated woman. She got a degree way back in the 1920s, and taught school for many years. I imagine she could have taught Jon Katz a thing or two, especially about writing.
My favourite Dilbert cartoon, paraphrased:
Dilbert: If you're so smart, how come you work here?
Egghead-type: Intelligence has less practical application than you'd think.
Would you choose to be hyperintelligent? Maybe being pretty/hunky and popular would be more fun. Maybe being normal rather than exceptional would be less disruptive to your parents' lives?
Avoiding or curing diseases and disabilities is not very controversial. Only the most die-hard type could object. But I do worry about people selecting kids in some sort of shopping list way: might we lose variety? In the same way the we now have peaches and tomatoes that bounce and taste of nothing, might we end up with a monoculture of humans that just aren't flexible and creative any more 'cause everyone is chosen from the same limited set of popular genomes?
Just my little science fiction story here. Hey, who's seen GATTACCA?
Tweaked my .Xdefaults; relaunched Netscape:OK, but prefs have no effect. Launch new browser window: I get a little popup window titled "Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr)" with the message in the subject.
:-(
Poot
Does anyone have a URL with references to what I can set & how?