Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:38 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: > > >... failing to account for one > >set of calculations done in kilometers and one in > >miles (or feet) > > If you are thinking of the loss of the Mars Polar > Lander, I believe it was > actual

[L3!] Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-23 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [D] I also don't think that "progress" is only > > > >measured by technology and business -- > > > > > > [J] Was it allways that way? > > > > I don't follow you here - I said that progress > >does n

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-22 Thread Russell Chapman
Jan Coffey responded to: Huh? Nothing butt http over port 80? What are you talking about? I'm using port 22 right this second, on a system owned by a friend who knows what the heck he's doing with it. with Most companies have blocked all other ports, they will not buy software that functions

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-22 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > > --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >I was not > > > > referencing anything we don't already know ~how~ to do, just stuff we > > > aren't > > > > doing that we do know how to

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-22 Thread Julia Thompson
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Jan Coffey wrote: > > --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I was not > > > referencing anything we don't already know ~how~ to do, just stuff we > > aren't > > > doing that we do know how to do, or worse, have done. > > As far as distributed concurrent network

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-22 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I won't swear it was him. It might have been Dirac, and I'd appreciate > > > correction: > > > > > > "Back then, a second rate mind could have a first rate idea. Now, a > first > > > rate mind has a hard time coming up with a third rate idea." > >

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:40 AM Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world > > --- Dan Minette

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look around you, at the rate things ~were~ going, super sonic travel > should > > be commonplace, a moon station should be old news, maned mars mission > should > > be old news as well. Highly destributed concurent systems should be > > commonplace. >

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world > > >

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:49 PM > Subject: Re: Girls more

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best person for plesant interaction, or the best person for achieving > > technical results? > > Out of curiosity, in your world view, does everyone work all by themselves > and then everything falls into place at the end? How do you work wit

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:53 AM > Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathically focused > world >

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:49 PM Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world > The average yea

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world > > --- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Kanandarqu
> Jan asked relating to the "best person for the job"- > The best person for plesant interaction, or the best person for achieving > technical results? LOL, I wear cracked, taped together, hanging by a thread rose colored glasses. In my world I can have both. In reality, sometimes I get a bit o

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Jan Coffey
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How would you measure "efficient"? Worker productivity has reached > higher and higher levels since "Women's Lib", wouldn't this seem to > support progress overall? I have no way to counter most of what you have questioned. However, I do know that the "produti

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Jan Coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathically focused world > Strange it always seems to me that these same people are

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-21 Thread Kanandarqu
> Jan wrote- > What about an education system and workplace that are now more focused on > empathic and rote memorization ability than on problem solving ability? While I am not the most up to date on teaching methods, the only "large scale" changes I can recall that have impacted the majority of

Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-20 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I also don't think that "progress" is only > > measured by > > > technology and business -- particularly I don't > > think > > > that most corporations have a shining "vision of > > the future"- other than their own profits (of course > > th

Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:38 PM 9/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm not tracking here, Jan; failing to account for one set of calculations done in kilometers and one in miles (or feet) If you are thinking of the loss of the Mars Polar Lander, I believe it was actually confusion over whether the thrust of th

Re: [L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
Addendum: I left out the filtration and calibration steps required in the 'high-tech' approach to bacterial quantification, and I forget the name of the machine used to measure light absorption and emission at various wavelengths...bu' ith on th' tiph ah ma tongue! :) It wasn't even necessary for

[L3]Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
> Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >William T Goodall wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm > > > > "Women have overtaken men at every level of > > > >education in developed cou

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-19 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK; now that I've put out a couple of embers and have > replenished my chocolate level, I think I'll disagree > with several points below. > > --- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-18 Thread Deborah Harrell
OK; now that I've put out a couple of embers and have replenished my chocolate level, I think I'll disagree with several points below. --- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm > > "Women have ove

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-16 Thread Jan Coffey
--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm > > "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed > countries around the world. > > And girls are now more confident of getting better-paid, professional > jobs than their f