I think you may be confused, this is just a strict anti-microsoft bias (which is very common here) but I could see how in this case it looks like a socialist bias, especially to someone like you who probably thinks "socialist" is a swear word.

Recalculate for the case where one person makes 75k and the other makes 25k and you'll see what the GP is referring to. I'm not saying it's wrong, just clarifying.

True, but #1 he probably isn't actually the one who came up with the idea, and #2 as I said, wild ideas do make it, but rarely.

I mean I wouldn't expect a non-engineer to be coming up with great ideas for space travel, either. Wild ideas only rarely make it. We hear about stories where those wild ideas from people who have no skill do make it but the vast majority of those wild ideas fall flat.

All of us stoners have seen desperate times and desperate actions but frankly mate you've taken the biscuit

He did?! I was wondering where that last biscuit went.

I've actually done something similar to this in the workplace before and found it to be very effective. Basically I scheduled a meeting for the last hour or so of the workday Friday and invited the other developers to come jump on with me. I shared my screen, we had an open mic, but basically I talked through what I was doing and they had a chance to see how my thought process works and also to make suggestions or ask questions. It turned out to be a good chance for the more junior folks to learn from me and some of the other experienced developers and at the same time it made us think about what we were doing at a deeper level, which is something you can get complacent in after you've been doing it a while.

This is something I did for several weeks in a row, but the last time was at least two years ago -- and yet as recently as last month I've had some of the folks that participated bring it up and comment how much they learned from it. If you think about it, it's basically pair programming on steroids.

He said "We're all dicks" not "we all have dicks."

You might want to consider that the reason modern war doesn't involve air combat as much is specifically because one side of those wars has completely dominated in the air.

Also the F-4 Phantom famously didn't have a gun which made it much less useful than it really could have been. John Cheshire, who flew 197 missions in one, said this: "Bullets are cheap and tend to go where you aim them. I needed a gun, and I really wished I had one."

There is a book named En... ohhhhh..... I see what you did there.

I think the other folks replying to you missed your point -- it's shame that the current republican party is such a mess, because a strong republican party with reasonable positions on issues would not be a bad thing, but instead would be a good alternative to the current democratic party -- which is not what it could be either, let's face it.

That may be true, but of the 20 republican candidates in the field those are probably the least electable ones when it comes to the general election.

Oh give it a rest. Do you think the first rockets carried satellites into space? Do you think the first airplane flew across the country? New tech doesn't start out as the end-all-be-all, it starts out as a baby step and people with higher aspirations improve upon it until it's something you never thought possible. Your attitude of "It's useless because it doesn't do what I imagined" is just ridiculous.

That would be fine with me, too! Anything that can help me determine what to actually expect.

It's probably because the field of glasswork is not inherently known to the public to be a particularly masculine nor feminine trade. When you tell people about it, I bet nobody has ever said "Isn't that something girls do?" The thing keeping a lot of women from STEM fields is not necessarily the environment within those fields, but let's face it, little girls are dressed in pink and given dolls from the moment they are born and are often ostracized if they want to play with traditionally male toys. Same with boys, they are dressed in blue and given sports toys or toy guns and if they play with dolls people treat them like outsiders. This lasts through their entire lives.

Just last week I was out to lunch with three other male coworkers. One of them said to another "What, did your sisters dress you up like a ballerina as a child?" -- They are in their 40s. This just goes to show you how far into life these stereotypes go.

The answer doesn't lie in making boys' toys more girly or girls' toys more boyish. We have to change how society thinks if we want to truly allow for equality in genders. As you can see from every single Slashdot thread on this topic, we have a long way to go, or perhaps we have the wrong goal.