Look at these images of Ada Lovelace
Is she wearing jeans and a t-shirt? No.
I hope you feel properly ashamed and will stop kicking women out of STEM who might have otherwise had a happy life there but didn't fit your tiny mental model of who should be in STEM.
Women already in Engineering are
They are only one kind. You are excluding people you THINK would not be interested out of hand; why?
There are programmers who like good clothes. Why can't the same be true of women? Here's an amazing thought; perhaps a person can have multiple interests!
The point is, women who are highly interested in being fashion consumers are unlikely, IMO, to be interested in getting involved in the nitty-gritty details of technology
But my point is this line of thinking is at best barbaric, and totally wrong! It's exactly that kind of thinking that is keeping so many women out of engineering because everyone is constantly saying "oh you are interested in X, therefore you cannot possibly be a good programmer of electrical engineer".
I know good male programmers who have good fashion sense and also like good clothes. So why the hell should that not the be the case for some women too?
For whatever reason women are simply less inclined to even try STEM areas of work. So lets not go around building fucking walls to keep even more out than naturally already discard the thought out of hand even though they would enjoy it.
Again, you CANNOT get the size of a group to increase be being highly selective and exclusionary!
If you want to make STEM careers attractive to a larger set of the population, the answer is simple: increase the pay
WHAT THE FUCK. The pay (and job stability) is *already* extremely compelling and just about any STEM field. That's OBVIOUSLY not any kind of solution.
But now people on Slashdot, for some odd reason, want to bring more uninterested people into this career field?
NO you idiot. We want to bring people into STEM that have a natural love of it (and those are the only people that would stay anyway, you cannot force anyone into STEM which is why programs to herd women into STEM en-masse are stupid). But utter morons like yourself are driving them off before they can find out they do in fact like STEM sorts of work, and that means many females are in fact doing something they like far less than they would like working in STEM related fields.
Finally, if this is such a great idea, why don't we use a variation of it to bring more men into STEM careers?
We do, there are tons of things everywhere that make STEM seem interesting to boys. In fact that is a problem in itself though, in that there probably are a significant number of men that also would be happy in STEM that do not pursue it.
If they own the copyright, they are free to relicense a piece of data
Sorry to be pedantic, but replace "a piece of data" with "a work of authorship". If there isn't the creative work of a human being involved, it's not copyrightable. And then we get to this:
17 CFR 102(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
And that means that even when the hand of man is involved, a lot of things are still not copyrightable.
Let's look at what Oracle is doing. I'll start the list of moves that appear to be intended to alienate the community around the very software they're promoting and cause the Open Source community to create viable forks that end up absconding with the product and its market. You guys contribute additional examples...
IBM isn't known for dumb moves, but partnering with Oracle on this sure is one.
Bruce
I've known lots of women in engineering (and dated a couple). They were definitely NOT the kind of women interested in fashion clothes
Yes but remember THEY ARE ALREADY IN ENGINEERING!!!!!!!
I'm not saying this fashion thing is the best way but it's stupid to say that things that don't appeal to the women in STEM today have no value, because if you want the number of women in STEM to increase substantially you have to reach out IN SOME WAY to the women who are NOT in engineering!!
Why can't a woman who likes fashion ALSO be interested in STEM if approached in the right way? Applying technology to the creation of fashion can be fascinating and I think is an excellent way to draw in more women that may have been uninterested in technology otherwise.
the human race will be long extinct, along with anything we ever built.
Three things I can guarantee will still be around:
1) Porn. Even as we evolve into beings of pure energy we will wire ourselves to be electrically excited by existing porn as a tribute.
2) Trolls. The art of trolling will be unimaginable at that point but we all know they will be there.
3) Emacs. It's too damn pretty to die.
You missed does more than play games.
But Apple hasn't...
Question is: Whose eyes will decide this question?
Finally, we have found the perfect use for Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
So does USB...and serial for that matter. Whether one would want to is another matter. Thunderbolt is a small fraction of native x16 speeds
Apparently someone else who knows more than you thinks it's a good idea.
Could have saved yourself a lot of embarrassment there with a bit of Google work.
Where is your evidence of this?
That it's three 4K displays? My "evidence" is the Apple Mac Pro specs page which says exactly that.
Name one system EVER where you could subtract pixels from one display and magically be allowed to connect another.
You may want to read up on the meaning of the word BANDWIDTH. In fact the total amount of bandwidth dictates the number of displays you can attach via thunderbolt, you can have more displays withe lower resolution. You seriously do not understand how that is possible?
Those aren't specs, it's an ad
It's an ad, with some specs. I see the problem though, it's not that you can't read, it's that you lack the technical depth and understanding of newer technologies to understand what is going on.
I'll let you have the last response since there's no way you can learn enough to write an intelligent reply before the story is locked.
Changing the drive? Unclear this is a user operation
Changing everything seems to be a user operation, it's as easy to get in this new box as the old
External drives? External graphics?
Thunderbolt? Which even allows for external GPU expansion...
3 display max it would seem
It's not three displays, it's up to three *4K" displays (4096 x 2160). Where you really driving six displays of that resolution before? You could drive more displays with lower resolution.
Basically it seems like you didn't bother to even read the specs for even a moment.
This lil' PCIe SSD isn't (480GB likely)
I'd guess 1TB minimum. Pro system, remember?
That still means you would need external storage for large video files but you seem to be forgetting the vale of large local fast scratch storage, like Photoshop uses and FCP will quite likely make great use of.
Unless you are doing 4:2:2 uncompressed or something
Something, like 4k/8k video something...
This is NOT some well reasoned design to make video pros happy
It is if you think beyond a year.
It should be possible to replace the GPUs as well.
Which you can also do (along with everything else) over Thunderbolt. You could also have more storage at the same speed as the internal SSD chips.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
