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Does it count as 0.5 if I get down, but not back up?

 

Kidding, but I'm very much in the single digit range.

I'd be in, but probably not for another couple of weeks.

Exactly. WTH? The only other major that has dropped is Mathematics, and that negligibly.

(Of course, there is the usual caveat when comparing percentages - a drop in proportion can easily be coupled with an overall increase, particularly in a growing discipline. Still, why is that growth so disproportionate?)

Misremembered; actually the American reads it off the "Witchfinder" business card.

I was sort of hoping this topic would be about the masterpiece by Alcritas. Ah well.

Schiller, "The Glove". ("Der Handschuh") A translation and the original are here.

You mean this?

 

 

(There is also some other quote about "roots of the world" and "beyond time" or something. Can't find it.)

I kind of want to boot up Minecraft and build that.

Wouldn't people aiming to be medical doctors be studying medicine? Biology is about living organisms, but has little to do with the various ways a human one can go wrong or be fixed.

I wonder why that is. Are women interested in different kinds of science, or is it a self-perpetuating effect?
Similarly, the gender balance is far more equal in mathematics than in computer science where I study, and those fields really don't differ significantly in the type of interest they require.

If you mean me, then it sucks. However, it can probably be found on the internet archive.

Edit: Oh yes, there it is.. The internet is forever. (At least you didn't ask about the R.E. Howard stuff.)

Yeah. I used to play it very heavily for half a year, after I stopped with Alpha Centauri and before I started with Minecraft. Now, like Alpha Centauri, only occasionally.

I can see that train of thought, but it's doomed to failure. The way to interest someone in science, regardless of geekiness, is to show her how awesome science is. If that doesn't work, then science might just not be her thing.

Good Omens had this bit where a Brit asks an American for a bundle of sticks...

This one blogger put it in terms of a Venn diagram: Take the set of all women, and the set of everyone interested in science. The union of those sets consists of people you're insulting; the intersection is your target audience.

 

I've been seeing incredulous reactions all over the net for a week now, and am still surprised now that I've actually seen the video.

I have this pet theory that the Shapers are actually pre-historic precursors of the Vahnatai, so that Avernum and Geneforge are set in different eras of the same planet.

 

 

In ages hence, people will wonder what the Watergate scandal had to do with water.

Perfectly understandable. Blisters heal, but reputation is forever. Who needs such things as "good sense" anyway?

My fastest victory (still taking at least a century) usually comes with the university, but that's because I almost always play the long game and go for Transcendence.

 

But I don't actually have much tactical skill, and still leave a lot of things (terraforming, base resources, unit design aside from specialty units like air-droppable probes & colony pods) to the suboptimal AI.

Well, it's an uncommon alliance, though that's mostly due to Santiago's AI and therefore not an issue when you're playing as her. She normally really hates the University, and is more likely to fight on Miriam's side in the inevitable Believer/University war.

Nine years and a bit.

 

I remember it like it was yesterday - it helps that I'm sitting at the very same desk I had back then.

The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie; Descriptive Complexity by Neil Immerman.

 

I also just noticed that I never mentioned it when I read The God Delusion two months back.

(The problem with finding free and good antivirus tools: The best free programs are open-source projects, which are written by programmers using them themselves, who tend to use platforms that don't need anti-virus.)

The closest you can get is likely an ad- or upgrade-nagging-supported free edition of a commercial package. I used to run Avira, and it was reasonably nice to handle and caught some stuff. (It's hard to tell what it didn't catch, of course.)

My first reaction too.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us.

(Listening to that speech always gives me a warm shiver.)

Not to mention a prequel trilogy...