Indeed. Although it's done for marketing reasons, not PC reasons. My department does use quite a few male students in those pictures.
What's wrong with John's posting? Or mine, come to that...
Ah well you see, to criticise the newspeak that is PC is to be a 'ist of some sort!
(I remember a couple of occasions when people were taking such photos at our college; our group (or at least the computer systems subset of it) was always a popular choice. Among the thirteen of us there were three girls, (one who was of Malaysian extraction), a black guy and an Iraqi[1]. Hence lots of posed shots of small groups huddled round a PC pointing at the screen).
[1] Making a career of failing every course he went on - which meant he could stay another year each time to retake the course. He (quite understandably) thought that was preferable to getting drafted into the Iran / Iraq war which would happen if he went home.
Hmm, I must have been quite some time later than you (given that you taught me), but I did exactly the same. I wonder if the -8's still there... (when I was there it was parked in a lab upstairs along one side wall, as I recall)
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Jules
I doubt it. But I'm about to build one of these...
Yeah, it was still there mid-90s, and sufficiently not in the way that it may have survived for quite a while, but I'm sure some enterprising soul offered Real Money for it and took it away (I really hope the uni didn't just junk it as they did with so much of their interesting hardware)
setup to live in it, but computers of any vintage are like gold dust around here - we're not exactly in an area of high technology use! I never did have much time for DEC equipment when I was "hands-on" at Bletchley as we were drowing in their hardware - now that they're not everywhere I look, I've got more desire to see what all the fuss is about :-)
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Jules
That's strange. I worked at a college (now university) over 40 years ago. One second year student (an Iraqi) was a second year student for the four years I worked there. I wonder if he still is?
Even better would be two female ethnic minority students snogging.
Um, I'll get my coat ...
Owain
We had a few of those at my university. They all looked like Saddam, and wore identical berets and long leathr duster coats in a dark red verging on purple. I suppose the colour was chosen because it doesn't show the blood. Most of the other Iraqi students were sure that these were secret service police.
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Perfectly reasonable. You're trying to attract students into an engineering course, by having a pretty girl you (a) assure other girls that they won't be alone and (b) attract most of the boys looking at the picture.
Andy
I'll have look and see what I can find.
Adam
I got four more 100W bulbs the other day to add to my stockpile.
Exactly. For the same reasons, the guides I employ on interview days are of both genders..!
You know, I probably should get involved somehow. I've been with TNMoC (formerly the Computer Museum at Bletchley Park) for quite some years now, but never did have any involvement with the BCS or CCS. Now I'm permanently US-based, that might be a good idea.
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Still got those superbrains up in the loft , which I still haven't got around to chucking yet ...
Becase a lot of areas that were flooded in the past few years are areas where flooding has occured in the past[1], but they have still build new properties on them as I assume the land was cheap to purchase. Most of teh TV coverage seems to show new properties that have been flooded not old ones.
[1] 50+ years.
At least one should be physically disabled too. :)
this is often true but it doesn't apply to the floods in old west country villages. I was going by what meteorologists have said, not what TV shows.
even better:- 7 inch!!!!
TV is all about news, ie sensationalising current events. Maybe look at the science behind the claims, weather predictions are a long way from reliable.
Re increase in 'freak' events, any events that are semi-random and of low occurrence will inevitably see periods where occurrences are above average and other periods where theyre below. Thats the nature of the beast. But if you can turn misunderstanding statistics into a news story, its all money and an ego trip.
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