Apart from Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, can anyone here name any important female figure in the history of technology?
What, you mean apart from Admiral Hopper?
You're also ignoring the historical position of women in society - less likely to be educated, strongly discouraged from working in engineering type roles, would find it harder to raise funds to develop inventions, etc. It's hardly a surprise that the men with their access to education, encouragement and funding would achieve much of the progress.
Fox has a point, oh my god I will go to hell for that, TV broadcasting gets it money by giving YOU TV and advertisters eyeballs to watch the commercials.
If Fox can't generate sufficient revenue to continue broadcasting, because people are skipping ads, then Fox should stop broadcasting.
They shouldn't sue people that aren't watching the ads.
That expectation that the law must protect their outmoded (and exploitative) business models is what fucks me off so much about the media industries. Find a new business model. Find a new business. Engage and embrace your customers, because clearly they want to watch Fox, they just don't want fucking adverts.
hmm. I have an app installed on my phone that lets me press a single button and it'll use the microphone on the phone to listen to music playing, identify the artist and the song, and give me a link to purchase the track there and then.
I don't tend to use it to buy the music, but I do use it to identify and remember it, and do more research when I get home.
So for instance, at lunch on Thursday last week, the restaurant played - Emeli Sande: Next to Me - Caro Emerald: That Man - John Lee Hooker: I Love You Honey
All three of which I'm pondering acquiring so that I can dance to them, none of which I'd even have known the artist for had I not had that app.
Petrol's just under $10 a gallon here, and non-carbon electricity costs over 15 pence/KWH if I buy it from the grid.
I don't have water flowing through my property, I have planning regulations, neighbours and limited availability making wind power complicated and expensive and if you think solar power's a viable option then you're a fucking lunatic.
So yes, cheap reliable energy available to me right now is carbon based. The fact that some other people in other places with different infrastructures, different weather patterns, different legal and regulatory frameworks and different energy needs can get non-carbon electricity for 6c/KWH is frankly irrelevant.
I can't, it's not an available or viable option, and I'd be fucking delighted if it was.
Hmm. Things I've considered as I approach my 40th: - partner dancing (I went Modern Jive and WCS, but whatever works for you) - round the world cruise - hiking across south america - buying a biplane and flying to south africa (from England) - becoming a gigolo - go gay for a bit - get a new job - suicide (ideally after blowing my entire net worth and whatever loans I can raise on some or all of the above) - motorbikes (like fast cars, but faster, cheaper, and often negate the need for the above option) - shooting shit (I use a bow) - start a business
Several of those aren't really appealling to me, but it'll be more fun if I let you imagine which.
Yep, I was saying.. I can't purchase or generate sufficient power for 6c per kwh. Nice for you that you can. You probably pay less for petrol too, and have a bigger house. Can I come and live with you?
So combine the UK's average tidal range with the expected efficiency of the turbines you'd be able to drive using this technique and tell us how many miles of coastline we'd have to destroy to provide power to just one town in the country - say, Birmingham.
Bonus points if you don't have to destroy Ireland too.
I'm confused. Story states that viable energy sources aren't banned in favour of unproven and/or expensive energy sources, and that means Cameron's a puppet?
Kneejerk often?
(Note that I'm not challenging whether he's a marionette, just your logic in inferring it from a fairly innocuous part of a report that has far more important implications)
Linux has been trying this for me since then, but couldn't even recognise the CD drive on my previous laptop.
Of course, the '95 copy of Yggdrasil I have on CD includes multiple warnings about the ability to permanently break your monitor if you don't correctly enter its parameters, so I have pretty clear memories on that front.
It's useful to separate out the OS from the apps. The fact that some of the apps might be interesting is quite distinct from the fact that the OS is crap.
I'll confess, I've only been using Linux since '94, so I'm still a little new to the system.
I would challenge however that Windows 7 is crap. It's not, it's a perfectly capable OS, very stable, well supported and only around four times the price I'd prefer to pay.
It's also pathetically easy to keep malware free if you're remotely competent, but I guess if you're only used to Linux then it might seem a little scary having to learn a new system.
I call BS on GP getting more work done in win (xp, vista, 7, whatever). You must live in a parallel universe where AV never expires or get in the way, Java never updates, drivers for old peripheral always install and work cleanly, clueless colleagues never let the browser (yes, chrome included) redirect to a different home or search page, and application updates never require rebooting.
Hmm. I don't run AV, Java never updates because I only enable it when I need it, drivers for old peripherals are already installed and work cleanly and clueless colleagues use their own fucking PC.
Application updates occasionally but rarely need a reboot, but I shut down every night anyway. Uptime records are kind of old hat.
It's all about familiarity. Linux is not more familiar than win, but a particular distro of linux sure might.
It's all about software support. Linux doesn't run the software I use.
erm. what about when a mouth is involved? What if the butthole is female? What if there's a dildo involved (strap-on or otherwise)? What if there are two vaginas and a penis (and/or multiple other organs, objects and animals)?
So... yeah... there is a difference, and there is nothing "homophobic" about it... *facepalm*
Yeah, ok. I'll agree with you there. My landlord is gay, and I live with him. Acknowledging that he's gay doesn't make me homophobic, and living with him doesn't make me homosexual. Our housemate is female and hasn't had a boyfriend for two years, but I've no idea what her preferences are - or what size batteries they need.
It is like the way American black people often call each other "nigga". A black person saying it is assumed not to have racist intent. If a white guy goes up to a black stranger and says "wassup nigga!" that really might be perceived as racist.
That's a racist attitude in itself. If I can't use the term 'nigga' then no fucker should use it. If people I'm with use it to describe each other, then they'd better expect me to use it too.
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Apart from Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, can anyone here name any important female figure in the history of technology?
What, you mean apart from Admiral Hopper?
You're also ignoring the historical position of women in society - less likely to be educated, strongly discouraged from working in engineering type roles, would find it harder to raise funds to develop inventions, etc. It's hardly a surprise that the men with their access to education, encouragement and funding would achieve much of the progress.
That alone accounts for the disparity in the boardroom
Yet, comically, over half the people recruited for FTSE100 boards in the past two months were female.
(quoted this morning on the BBC by a woman on some organisation that monitors/helps boards in the UK)
Fox has a point, oh my god I will go to hell for that, TV broadcasting gets it money by giving YOU TV and advertisters eyeballs to watch the commercials.
If Fox can't generate sufficient revenue to continue broadcasting, because people are skipping ads, then Fox should stop broadcasting.
They shouldn't sue people that aren't watching the ads.
That expectation that the law must protect their outmoded (and exploitative) business models is what fucks me off so much about the media industries. Find a new business model. Find a new business. Engage and embrace your customers, because clearly they want to watch Fox, they just don't want fucking adverts.
hmm. I have an app installed on my phone that lets me press a single button and it'll use the microphone on the phone to listen to music playing, identify the artist and the song, and give me a link to purchase the track there and then.
I don't tend to use it to buy the music, but I do use it to identify and remember it, and do more research when I get home.
So for instance, at lunch on Thursday last week, the restaurant played
- Emeli Sande: Next to Me
- Caro Emerald: That Man
- John Lee Hooker: I Love You Honey
All three of which I'm pondering acquiring so that I can dance to them, none of which I'd even have known the artist for had I not had that app.
Petrol's just under $10 a gallon here, and non-carbon electricity costs over 15 pence/KWH if I buy it from the grid.
I don't have water flowing through my property, I have planning regulations, neighbours and limited availability making wind power complicated and expensive and if you think solar power's a viable option then you're a fucking lunatic.
So yes, cheap reliable energy available to me right now is carbon based. The fact that some other people in other places with different infrastructures, different weather patterns, different legal and regulatory frameworks and different energy needs can get non-carbon electricity for 6c/KWH is frankly irrelevant.
I can't, it's not an available or viable option, and I'd be fucking delighted if it was.
Nope, can't (legally) fly, but the lessons would be fun.
Great bucket list!
nah, it's a list of possible things. I don't want to do all of them. I wont do some of them.
Apparently you can get it free over the interwebs.
All companies offering investment services in the UK include a statement approximating:
Please remember, the value of your investment and the income from it can go down as well as up and isn't guaranteed.
(taken from an actual investment sales website)
So you know, I'm kind of feeling uncharitable to you. You were trying to make a quick return and didn't execute your deals fast enough. Tough.
Invest wisely and you'll be fine. Gamble and you may lose. You lost.
Hmm. Things I've considered as I approach my 40th:
- partner dancing (I went Modern Jive and WCS, but whatever works for you)
- round the world cruise
- hiking across south america
- buying a biplane and flying to south africa (from England)
- becoming a gigolo
- go gay for a bit
- get a new job
- suicide (ideally after blowing my entire net worth and whatever loans I can raise on some or all of the above)
- motorbikes (like fast cars, but faster, cheaper, and often negate the need for the above option)
- shooting shit (I use a bow)
- start a business
Several of those aren't really appealling to me, but it'll be more fun if I let you imagine which.
Yep, I was saying.. I can't purchase or generate sufficient power for 6c per kwh. Nice for you that you can. You probably pay less for petrol too, and have a bigger house. Can I come and live with you?
So why not say 0.1mm, using a unit familiar to the audience and discernable on a standard ruler?
Instead they said 100 metres, which are sodding big balls.
As far as I know they aren't any laws against pretending to be interested in things.
Welcome to the law in England and Wales:
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/fraud_act/#a07
asking them not to go into particular rooms.
Sorry, you can sell houses while denying access to parts of the house?
Damn you're good.
MPAA's involvement in this case is the suit against the programmer, and twisting his arm into testifying in the UK in return for no charges
That in itself could prejudice the reliability of his evidence.
I hope the case gets thrown out of court on those grounds alone.
Shit, the MPAA have admitted fraudulently gaining access to the house in the first place, any evidence must be tainted from the outset.
Not impressed if this is true - will watch the court case in Newcastle with interest.
So combine the UK's average tidal range with the expected efficiency of the turbines you'd be able to drive using this technique and tell us how many miles of coastline we'd have to destroy to provide power to just one town in the country - say, Birmingham.
Bonus points if you don't have to destroy Ireland too.
That's nice for you. I'm using some right now.
It's cheaper, more reliable and the only approach currently available at the scales needed.
I'd far rather be using nuclear power to generate electricity but sadly I lack the personal resources to implement my own generator.
I'm confused. Story states that viable energy sources aren't banned in favour of unproven and/or expensive energy sources, and that means Cameron's a puppet?
Kneejerk often?
(Note that I'm not challenging whether he's a marionette, just your logic in inferring it from a fairly innocuous part of a report that has far more important implications)
Linux has been doing this for me since 1996.
Linux has been trying this for me since then, but couldn't even recognise the CD drive on my previous laptop.
Of course, the '95 copy of Yggdrasil I have on CD includes multiple warnings about the ability to permanently break your monitor if you don't correctly enter its parameters, so I have pretty clear memories on that front.
It's useful to separate out the OS from the apps. The fact that some of the apps might be interesting is quite distinct from the fact that the OS is crap.
I'll confess, I've only been using Linux since '94, so I'm still a little new to the system.
I would challenge however that Windows 7 is crap. It's not, it's a perfectly capable OS, very stable, well supported and only around four times the price I'd prefer to pay.
It's also pathetically easy to keep malware free if you're remotely competent, but I guess if you're only used to Linux then it might seem a little scary having to learn a new system.
I call BS on GP getting more work done in win (xp, vista, 7, whatever). You must live in a parallel universe where AV never expires or get in the way, Java never updates, drivers for old peripheral always install and work cleanly, clueless colleagues never let the browser (yes, chrome included) redirect to a different home or search page, and application updates never require rebooting.
Hmm. I don't run AV, Java never updates because I only enable it when I need it, drivers for old peripherals are already installed and work cleanly and clueless colleagues use their own fucking PC.
Application updates occasionally but rarely need a reboot, but I shut down every night anyway. Uptime records are kind of old hat.
It's all about familiarity. Linux is not more familiar than win, but a particular distro of linux sure might.
It's all about software support. Linux doesn't run the software I use.
It's ok, the way they're fucking up DRM on Windows games they'll soon stop seeing demand there too.
erm. what about when a mouth is involved? What if the butthole is female? What if there's a dildo involved (strap-on or otherwise)? What if there are two vaginas and a penis (and/or multiple other organs, objects and animals)?
So... yeah... there is a difference, and there is nothing "homophobic" about it... *facepalm*
Yeah, ok. I'll agree with you there. My landlord is gay, and I live with him. Acknowledging that he's gay doesn't make me homophobic, and living with him doesn't make me homosexual. Our housemate is female and hasn't had a boyfriend for two years, but I've no idea what her preferences are - or what size batteries they need.
hmm. You think a 6'8 MTF loses all her muscle tone when she starts living as a woman?
It is like the way American black people often call each other "nigga". A black person saying it is assumed not to have racist intent. If a white guy goes up to a black stranger and says "wassup nigga!" that really might be perceived as racist.
That's a racist attitude in itself. If I can't use the term 'nigga' then no fucker should use it. If people I'm with use it to describe each other, then they'd better expect me to use it too.