Mine was similar to his, and it was largly sones and daughters of Engineers and Scientists and other STEM workers.

Not that my experience or his matters to you. Something tells me though, that you are 100 percent proficient in rejecting any data that doesn't support your worldview.

Its been my experience also, although your's is much more in depth than mine. The young ladies by and large are not interested.

People seem to look at this as a situation where something is keeping women out of STEM. Yes, it's the young women themselves. They are not interested.

Any young lady that wishes to get into science and technology should be encouraged and supported.

Any young lady that wants to go into other career should also be encouraged and supported.

My experience, especially with the sons and daughters of STEM people, just teaches me that even in a seriously supportive environment, if those young ladies don't want to get into STEM, it's an impossible task, unless you start forcing them into it.

And last time I checked, gender equality was not about forcing women into living their life in a manner other than what they wished. Wasn't that what women were trying to escape from?

Wales! You insensitive clod - they are called BBW's!

And you are an anonymous Coward.

Checkmate atheists!

I don't disagree. I'm a firm believer in a direct hookup. I'm envisioning a umbilical that you attach when you drive up. Then when you are finished it disconnects when you hit the ignition or hwatever they call it on an EV.

The only disadvantage I can see is you won't be able to back in and charge. Which given the "backing into a space" crowd, I suspect they won't be driving EV's for a long long time.

Its groupthink in action. It's the same exact thing that allowed KFC to thing that this was an appropriate commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Whereas normal people would call that assault, The sociaopatchs that produced it, and whatever assholes at KFC that approved it never thought for a second it was wildely inappropriate.

The craziest thing is, both processes, the awful icons and the filmed assault probably went through dozens of people to be approved. Whereas a couple people in a office throwing a rubber ball against the wall would certainly have done much better.

Yes, a lot of people do things I don't do either.

Problem is, When you are setting up a computer for other people, they have a tendency to like things like they like them. That's why I ended up with pissed off people because they couldn't put all the programs they liked on the desktop - on the desktop (desktop apps vs metro apps).

I don't do that either. But when a potential customer can't find a good reason to change everything they do - for absolutely no improvement, they won't.

Certainly can. I use personalized icons all the time. Different colors for different purposes, sometimes a letter as an icon. Just pretty much whatever I want.

The icons however, for many(most) people are just the part of the system they interface with, so inordinate attention is paid to them when they are fugly.

The part I am curious about is the stuff under the interface. Windows 8 was such a dog's breakfast that I just stopped supporting it. Weird stuff like no popmail for the integrated program, the insane distinction between "Desktop apps" and "Metro Apps", where you couldn't make a desktop shortcut with the metro apps, and the need to play Whack a Mole when trying to perform basic system functions. Then going to the web to look it up (shouldn't that tell you something that ther are websites telling you how to shut down a computer with Windows 8?You'd be surprised how many people use popmail, or like to have their programs shortcutted to their desktop.

Its not that it didn't work. It just didn't work in a way that made much sense to too many people.

Like Windows 8?

That's rather weak.

We adapt, we don't just say "Hmm, batteries dont work well above the arctic circle, so we can't use batteries at all for anything."

Ever see what they have to do with proper internal combustion vehicles up thar? Block and battery heaters, electric access plugs at parking meters, even using small fires to heat up the big diesels (perhaps mythical) . Leave them idling 24/7, but don't forget, the hydraulic systems aren't getting warm, so be really careful.

Such a deal that there are Youtube videos about it:

https://www.youtube.com/result...

You might hate environmentalists, but that reason is pretty silly.

Better yet, where are your calculations that it can be done with the same efficiency as a plug/socket arrangement?

I'e always thought the model should be the Alaskan Block heater paradigm. Pull up to the meter, plug it in. Or even the parking lot of today, with a credit card payment kiosk. Lay the cables, meter it, and charge your card automatically. It's not futuristic, but then all solutions don't need to be futuristic.

Let me know the physics - I'll understand them.

I wonder if people get too hung up on system icons however - same thing happened with OSX Yosemite. I can change icons in a few seconds rather than beyatch about it.

Now if I just don't have to go to the web to find out how to do things I've done for years, in their other Os's, we might be talking here.

Also, I hope they've put POPmail back into the system mail program. It's not like half the world uses it or anything.

Safersurfing for persistent cookies not stored in the usual places.

Oy, I've got to stop attempting humor....

I wasn't disagreeing with him. He wrote:

"I know, because men and women are identical."

To which I replied as I did about him going to the wrong websites.

Shemales, aka chicks with dicks, sort of like..... oh, never mind ...it's complicated.

Amazing how many people are wasting mod points calling an admitted Offtopic Post as Offtopic. Captain Obvious is smiling upon thee.