sigh. I had teh aw3sum defcon (?7) shirt with the major on it. But I lost it somehow ; ;

Earlier is better for me, technically.
Are there free slashdot Tshirts involved here? :)

The big issue here is not "fun place vs stable place".

The big issue here is, "Coding, or Management".
And at the Directorship level, no less.

That level of things is all about politics. Think REAL HARD about whether you want to make that change. Because if you jump, and DONT like it... you're badly screwed. Where would you transition to?
Trying to get a new coding job, when your last job wasnt coding, is going to be difficult.
Trying to get a new management job, when you failed at your last one, is going to be... impossible.

Maybe not so ashamed if it works the other way as well.

I have occasionally been offered surprisingly good deals by one site, when I stopped for a bit, and started pricing other sites... then came BACK to the first site.
Wonder if that's driven by this stuff as well?

UNLIKE the f22- raptor, though, this is basically an "unmanned vehicle". The title implies "jet aircraft" )ie: passenger vehicle) to most people, but in reality, this is not much more than "an oversized, air-launched missile".

Which makes it sadly way less interesting

Yeah, i transitioned to xfce, and used it for quite a while myself. But then it needed updating. And updating it is a pain....

So I migrated to just using fluxbox instead.
- virtual desktops.
- multi-monitor support
- "launcher" in the form of holding down right-mouse-button on rootwin to start what I needed. WITHOUT having to drag my mouse way down to the bottom of my large monitor or anything
- little clock in bottom corner

Everything I need right there. Everything else is pretty much just bloat for me.

Only problem is, he WANTS to be Steve Jobs.

But Steve Jobs, he aint.

Sez who? The dictionary sure doesnt. It in fact declares gender == sex. dictionary.com: 1 == grammatical 2. == "sex" (#3 is a bit odd, I cant make a trivial summary, but it's not what you are claiming)

You're using biased language, attempting to frame it as some kind of passive, "it just happens by itself" thing, using language such as "gendered".

More accurate statement might be "You can be biologically male, but still try to pose as a member of the female gender".

To people without a political agenda, the word "gender" is simply a polite synonym for "sex(male or female)"

Actually, the more prevelant and likely fear, is of the messed up guys who "self identify as female", and go have their genitals chopped off, and then go want to prove their worth against "other females". It's happened before. (eg: "Renee" richards) It should not be allowed to happen again.
It's unfair to REAL women.

(Note to the caped crusaders out there: if I "self-identify" as an oranutang, and sugically have a tail grafted onto my butt, that does not make me an oranutang. Similarly, if I "self-identify" as a girl, and go make those surgical pretenses... that does not make me a girl, either.)

200 years ago, it was "all the X comes from Europe"

100 years ago, often it was "all the X comes from America"

now it's "all the X comes from China".

See the pattern? More importantly, do you see what that implies about future power?

Better start teaching your kids Chinese. They own the american goods market, AND they own the american government. (When you control someone's debt, you can effectively control that person too, if desired)

'scuse me? What exactly is this alleged "payroll tax", that is not "income tax" ? !! The only way such a thing could be true in the literal sense, is if it were a tax on the person PAYING the payroll, rather than the person receiving it as their income.

if its on the person paying it, then your claims of "taking more from lower-income folks" is completely bogus.

At any rate, your claim about "50% pays zero taxes" is not even close to "total BS". It's merely taken out of context, where the context was fairly understood as "zero federal income tax".

Bizzare.. I guess only in california is verizon expanding fios. I keep getting FiOS spam in my (US mail)box every month, seems like. And this is when I'm aready a customer :-} I signed up within the last 12 months. Free installation, and around $75 a month for internet and landline phone.

It took me a while to figure out that the NEW article, really is buried in a sentence that refers to past arguments.

This is really poor editing.
The hyper link should be connected to the (Jeff C says..) phrase instead, or something like that.

Careful, your religion is showing. (Note: being an Atheist, doesnt mean you dont have a religion. it just means your religion doesnt have a god as its center)

You probably dont have children, do you?

The primary purpose of parenting (as opposed to, say, an orphanage) is to "indoctrinate", or one might even say brainwash, your children with what you believe is proper behaviour. So the first part of your sentence is not much more than redundantly referring to parenting in general, albeit in an extremely Christianphobic manner.

Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian

In theory, this is true. However, in practice, the most loud, publicized, "non-Christian" media viewpoints, do tend to indeed be very anti-family and anti morals.

Family is, by common-sense, long-standing definition, the biological parents of children, staying together exclusively to raise, protect, and care for their children. In particular, the state of the parents is usually called "marriage".

Sadly, the primarily anti-christian media is attacking just about every point of that. eg:

• "No need to be faithful.. adultery isnt just okay, its exciting and good!"
• "No need to stay with your children... do whatever feels good to YOU! The children will be fine with whoever"
• "Heck, since all of the above is okay, what do we need marriage for? Lets just pervert it, and redefine it to be all about lust.. oops, I mean 'love', instead of family"

In a related story, creativity and productivity at CERN goes down by 200%.

Seriously, though, it would seem like in theory, fun things such as the actual mass related stuff in Mass Effect (but not crazy stuff like biotics) may finally be on the horizon.

Fun, and potentially scary, times ahead.

First of all,I'd be interested in you showing numbers proving that it was EVER a "very gender-balanced field". I'm scheptical of that.

To answer your question, though: I dont think there are individiual, easy-to-point-out examples. I think it's more an issue of attitudes, and work styles. Women are far more likely to choose the "I want to work with people" careers. They are more likely to want to socialize around certain types of things (See the other guys' post about his wife's complaints about her not liking her co-workers' social chices. Women are far more likely to just plain want to Talk More :) In my workplace, our branch of the IT work, is very, very isolated. Almost zero face-to-face chatting during the day. All cube work, and mostly online, not phone. Perhaps IT has changed to be less phone/in-person support overall, and that may have affected gender ratios.

Most women are not interested in that kind of "work environment". But that doesn't make our area "female hostile"; it simply makes it "not something that most women are interested in", in the same way that watching over 20-30 kindergarteners is "not something that most men are interested in."

Nothing to see here, move along to the next liberal knee-jerk cause.