Comment Re:Real reason (Score 1) 324
The government's just hungary for money.
They'd better Czech how much they can make.
The government's just hungary for money.
They'd better Czech how much they can make.
I am a doctor in real life and so is my wife.
I'm Brian, and so is my wife.
The only thing responsible for a "lack of women coders" is that fewer women than men are interested in software development as a career path. So what? I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to why this is a problem, why this is something to be concerned about, or why millions of dollars are being thrown around in an attempt to change the situation.
ummmm,errrrrr, well, you see, because....equality? Yeah that's it.
As a quick stats update, to date Microsoft has received over 250,000 pieces of feedback through the Windows Feedback tool, 25,381 community forum posts, and 641 suggestions in the Windows Suggestion Box.
And like and good corp they will ignore every single one and do whatever the fuck they want anyway.
The article is not saying that nerds are not welcoming women. But.. there are some really bad examples of women in technology being treated really badly. Look at some of the latest gaming activism against female game journalists. If you really want to look behind the surface on what happened, it is thoroughly disgusting.
I think that's more to do with the fact the main pusher of that doesn't know shit about games and is talking out of her arse and any gamer can see it. But because her videos have some half decent production values and lots of big words everyone else eats it up. And we are all accused of sexism when we try and point it out. Yes there are some bad apples helping to prove their 'point' but that is true of everything.
Yes, it is an insignificant figure considering they said they would get $184 million. Do the math, that's less than a quarter of what they said they would get (21.7% to be exact).
But thank you for playing and proving my point of people's hypocrisy when it comes to something they don't like (red light cameras) and things they do like (legalizing marijuana).
When something you don't like doesn't meet its expectation it's a complete and utter failure. When something you do like doesn't meet it's expectation it still got something.
Look again and you'll see I never said a word about speed cameras, just that $40 million is a shit load of cash in anyone's book, or at least it should be.
Colorado made a big deal of how much money they would take in by legalizing marijuana. They, the state, predicted they would take in $184 million in the first year and now it looks like they'll be lucky to hit $40 million.
Wow only $40 million? What an insignificant figure
Australian Physicists Build Reversible Tractor Beam
No they didn't. Not even remotely.
the ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them
Exactly. If I built a system that deployed a wheeled robot controlled by RF signals to drive over to something and push it toward me, that would be as much of a "tractor beam" as this is.
If you did it without the robot and only used the rf beam in some way sure. This may not be a true tractor beam but at least it is a beam and it does tract. So your remote controlled fetchbot is just that. Did they say in Star Trek "use the tractor beam" to which some red shirt gets in a shuttle to get whatever they wanted?
Lets learn to speak the language, shall we?
Tractor's pull. A tractor beam would pull. This pushes. It can't pull. This means its not a reversible tractor beam, which would mean it can pull and be reversed to push
Its a pusher beam, and it only works in a fluid, on objects with tiny amounts of mass that can stand to be roasted into oblivion in order to move them less than distance of a reasonable sized dictionary.
Did you read more than the headline?
Actually, never mind. Stupid question.
Apple products are designed using focus groups
They've testified under oath to the contrary during some of the recent patent litigation. Your whole comment is predicated on an untruth.
Because no one has ever lied to a court under oath before.
No, when you are working on such a massive scale they really aren't simpler, the engineering and sheer weights alone are astronomical.
For the hull sure, but what about the insides?
Not really. A cargo ship of that size is as complex as an aircraft carrier.
Considering this ship is designed to hold however many thousand cargo containers and the crew to support it, it needs a lot of empty space inside. Considering an aircraft carrier is essentially a city at sea, complete with nuclear reactors, aircraft hangars, repair shops, weapons bays, accommodation for a few thousand and mess facilities for the aforementioned plus its own empty space storage areas. I'm willing to bet the aircraft carrier is still more complex in terms of design and construction.
No no, this could turn out to be an HaterGate. Please do not try to bring facts into it! Let people who don't even use OS X come in and rant about the poor choices Apple consistently makes.
If they didn't consistently make such poor choices more people might be less against them. Basically unless you want to use your mac in the way they deem acceptable then fuck you. Fonts aside I find the mac deliberately obtuse and designed very much with form over function.
niche uses like most all video cameras.
Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.
Niche uses like 1 product type. I say that's pretty niche. Practically every keyboard (musical) has a MIDI port, but I doubt you'd argue that's not niche.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
