From what I've seen the problem is not Computer Science as a curriculum but the precursors to someone pursuing computer science as a career option.

Much as girls were not encouraged to help their dad's tinker about the car in the 50's and 60's I don't see them tinkering on their parent's computer as much as boys. I don't know if it is a society induced thing due to commercials and stereotypes or an actual difference in preference of interaction. Most CS majors I've known had significant interaction with computers as a child and developed an interest in them with their peer groups of like minded children. This also falls true with the few girls I've known in CS. A small number of them came into CS from other angles, usually sciences where they had to use computers significantly. I would say the percentage of women coming in that angle is larger than men as they were not exposed earlier in life to discover that it is their interest.

As for race, I see it more as a economic/exposure factor than race. Children who grow up poor are less likely to have home computers to mess around on and develop an interest from. Among my friends' children I've seen a strong divergence in CS interest from those who have an actual desktop/laptop versus those whose only exposure is a gaming console, smart phone, or even tablet.

My take away from these observations are that computer science in schools is important and that low income area schools deserve greater funding than higher income area schools as they have to compensate for the lack of exposure/education the children are likely to receive at home.

The NIDDK was aware of this years ago and had commissioned a feasibility study on creating a storage mechanism that all grant paid research would have to use. Unfortunately after a successful feasibility study the reviewers for the follow up real grant responded with "I do not see the scientific value of this research" and the grant went away with Vanderbilt as the only applicant. I've heard through the vine that someone picked up a new similar grant to work on it, but I haven't seen anything from it yet. The big problem is that researchers do not want to share their unpublished research. From what I've gleamed they want to keep things in their back pocket for future grants/publications.

The site was http://dkcoin.org/

I think your right and with many of the religious rules spouted by "Christians" I think they're more closely related to fundamentalist Jews. They seem to forget the entire portion about Jesus being the New Covenant with God. After a quick search this seems to be a decent explanation: http://outoftheoverflow.com/2009/09/22/whats-the-difference-between-the-old-covenant-new-covenant-in-the-bible/.

I'm surprised it's still around. It was dieing when I was assisting administrating one in college 15 years ago. All they used it for was DNS, DHCP, some web hosting of minor services (DCL Script ugh!!!), and forwarding of employee addresses (first.last@abc.edu to flast1@mail.abc.edu)

I've been doing Oracle SOA development for the past six months. The BPEL and XSLT transformation tools are supposedly business user friendly however I have to drop into the source code several times on every project to perform simple tasks and to make corrections to the assumptions that JDeveloper makes. Even things as simple as defining you want the value from the Nth occurrence of a repeating element have to be done in the source code. God forbid you don't want to use oracle as your namespace I have to open up several source files in order to uniformly use our URL as the namespace for everything that we've defined.

Well who's going to trust someone whose last name looks like 'dumb shit berg'.

I think a lot of areas should be funded solely by the fees paid. Especially ones involved in regulation.

Valve does put a lot into compatibility. If you go and find the install CD for some old game and try to install it there is a decent chance it won't work. However, Valve and/or the creator of the game put in the effort to figure out what DLL's and such are required to run the game.

You can use one if you like. But for console (read sitting on the living room couch) a KB/M doesn't work that well. I guess they felt that these trackpad controllers are the happy medium to allow the most flexibility / compatibility. I'd personally probably use a lap desk + KB/M

IBM has had several restructuring and re-orgs which is exactly what he's saying the upper echelon employees try to prevent.

Disney acquires new income sources via acquisition, have diversified sources of income, and their products are long lasting with a new set of customers every generation. Their internal creative development team goes through spurts of good and bad that would kill a normal company. The Princess and the Frog was lackluster at best. My 3yo nieces LOVE Lilo and Stich, Finding Nemo, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Bambi, and so on.

Fortunately today the hardware requirements are significantly more stable. I used a dell slimline that I had purchased used from my employer as a media center for 5 years with no problems. I'd still be using it today but after moving I do not have any cabinet space for it. The only real limiting factor on it was the fact it was a slimline and video card options are limited. But I reasonably played WoW, GW2, Minecraft, and WAR on it when I didn't want to play on my real PC at my desk.

I have seen this, but that is generally the developer's choice, not Valve's. For example the Steam version of BioShock 2 has an additional layer of GFWL. Ubisoft and EA games tend to have their standard DRM as well. The actual Steam DRM is painless.

Bah, forgot link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water_reactor