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It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
"In 1980, 30 percent of the computer science degrees went to women."
If true, why is the percentage going down?
It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
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Well check out tempest and Super Locomotive (which hardly anyone else remembers). And Q*Bert. And Gorf.
I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
I've never heard of Centipede before what Well check out tempest and Super Locomotive (which hardly anyone else remembers). And Q*Bert. And Gorf.
Try to find an actual historic arcade. The games make more sense in context. In particular, Tempest has been redone in a dozen forms, but without the original spinner controller it's just not the same.
(QBert, on the other hand, is just fine in emulation.)
In the Northeast you can go to Funspot:
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/
It's got the flavor of the real thing. Takes me back to the old days.
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I've never heard of Centipede before what Well check out tempest and Super Locomotive (which hardly anyone else remembers). And Q*Bert. And Gorf.
Tempest and QBert are excellent. Try to find an actual historic arcade. The games make more sense in context. In particular, Tempest has been redone in a dozen forms, but without the original spinner controller it's just not the same. (QBert, on the other hand, is just fine in emulation.) In the Northeast you can go to Funspot: http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/ It's got the flavor of the real thing. Takes me back t…
It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
People are starting to complain more about the second fact more and more nowadays, even compared to 2 years ago. Will there start to be widespread men's only scholarships soon and other affirmative action style things for men? Who knows.
It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
It's amazing how many more people complain about this: Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science... than this: ...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
The article also mentioned: "In 1980, 30 percent of the computer science degrees went to women." If true, why is the percentage going down?
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If you want to stop reading "tired rants on gender", perhaps you should try and make it unnecessary for those rants to exist.
Are you saying that caseorganic's desire not to read rants about gender mean that he is sexist? That seems like a baseless (and insulting) assumption...
I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
Stargate (best sidescroller ever), Galaga...most video games from 1981-3 were amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_video_gaming
What amazes me is that you can still find Galaga in arcades today. If, of course, you can find arcades at all.