Keep trusting Goolag

In my CS program there was always on average about 8 women in the program at any given time(and about 50 guys).

Only 1 was equal to the top guys, she was absolutely brilliant. Maybe 2 were mediocre and the rest sucked and washed out.

That is far worse % than men in general.

Yeah, it is a small sample but my post-college experiences have showed me that that ratio of excellent male CS to women was about right.

Who really gives a fuck if more women go into this field? What possible positive will it bring?

If anything CS standards need to double or even triple. No one in my program that wasn't at least a B+ student was even a moderately capable programmer. They just banged on their code until it compiled, and even asking them to produce code that would compile was like asking them to fly.

Google is a spyware company. Everything they do involves collecting as much data as they can. My ISP(CenturyLink) told the Bush adminstration(as Qwest) to come back with a warrant when they asked the telecoms to spy on everyone. They never did. The have no interest in the stupid 6 strikes program. I pay $16.00 a month for a rock solid 20 Mbps connection.

Lighter does not mean less code, depending on your definition of lighter. Sure you can use less code, but it will probably be slower. Time vs space What is faster bubble sort or quick sort? Which takes much more code to implement? Answer to both: quick sort

Why would I want to run 12 year old hardware? Sure if I have it laying around I could run a headless Linux OS and use it as storage for all my media, but other than that what possible reason is there to want to run a modern OS on such an ancient system? I run 5 year old hardware that was fairly high-end then and runs everything today fine and I could build an identical copy of it today for not much more than 12 year old hardware.

My opensuse 12.3 with KDE 10 idles at around 400 MB and that is with all the bells and whistles turned on. Not terribly bloated. I can cut it way down my killing akonadi and its bastard children and the 3D effects without any loss of functionality, which of course raises the question: "If it doesn't add functionality or improve productivity why enable it?"

What this means is for someone who listens to music and does everything in a browser a system with 512 MB will run just fine, assuming a decent processor of course. Let's see Windows 7 or 8 do that.

You should be railing against MS for producing truly bloated operating systems not desktop environments like KDE which manage just fine on years-old low-end hardware.

Technical ignorance is a virtue these days, I guess. Sockatume, this is the most stupid thing I have read all week. I award you the Hairyfeet weekly award for extremely dumbassity. Congrats

PCI-express is still slower than it would be if video were integrated into the CPU so his point is valid even if his idea is likely unworkable.

Does this mean that YouTube is going to get shut off.

I knows several small companies that run their own servers. The rent a little space in a local colocation service, put up two or three servers throw it behind something like Untangle and done. It is not expensive, difficult or time consuming.

These are all small SaaS shops amd have zero downtime and no security issues.

Paying for a hosting is not always the most cost effective route. A host isn't going to secure your apps, a host is going to pass the cost of supporting idiots that are constantly calling/emailing them to you/ A host might oversell, not do anything about someone else bogging the server and network down. A host will give you a one size fits most solution, not a custom solution(at least without paying huge)

Given that most states would not be foolish enough to sign on and the US Congressional approval is required for interstate compacts this will not go anywhere.

It is a rare Presidential election where the winner doesn't get both the electoral and popular vote. It has happened four times.

Which means that the desire of the population has been accurately captured, and the few times it has not is irrelevant, we do not live in a democracy.

I still don't think that is reason to abolish the electoral college.

It doesn't matter how the election is decided, there will always be areas that candidates focus on and areas that are ignored. It is logistically impossible for presidential candidates to give equal time to every state.

Every states EV count. People like to think that they and the area they live in is the center of the universe. Just because your state is mostly ignored and didn't cast the vote that put a candidate over 270 doesn't mean it didn't count.

Personally, I am glad that my state is not a swing state, what little campaigning we get is way too much.

The failure to ban political parties in the constitution was the biggest blunders of the founders. It was hotly debated, but reason lost and even those opposed to parties gave in and formed them due to paranoia that those that didn't see everything their way wanted a monarchy. Even then, ignorant conspiracies about "them" flourished. Between that and giving corporations power and rights like they were a person pretty much has sealed our fate. Two parties that really aren't that different once you tear away the rhetoric have control of the government, from local to federal, and the corporations have control of the two parties.

Nice english, geez