I would think that minority groups would feel insulted by having tests that have lower standards then the average white kid. Doesn't just say that they are stupid? I know I would feel insulted if someone game me a test that was not as challenging as someone else. I am willing to say that all people despite ethnic or cultural background are smart enough to handle a challenging education and tests. I am going to go off on a limb here but I would bet that these lower standards are not needed. Rather keeping all students accountable to a higher standard in the class room no matter who they are.
With all the noise the students made as well as the negative press it is no wonder. The school was being attacked from all sides. Not to mention that they were in the wrong on this one. I just wish this type of public pressure could be applied to other areas of injustice... Say DeCSS?
IMO, MacOS and BeOS are the only real alternatives to MS Windows.
I don't want to start a flame war but you have got to be kidding me. BeOS maybe becuase from a design stand point it is a wonderful thing. The MacOS? It's old, bloated and from a design stand point it is a piece of shit. Hell they didn't even get multi tasking right for a long time and I remember when quake couldn't be ported at first becuase it didn't have threads. I will argue for Linux as an alturnative becuase I think you meant the user friendliness of Be and Mac. While there is a little ways to go, I look at GNOME and KDE and I have to think that useability issues will pass now that more companies and individuals are working on these things. Plus look at how much Linux has caught up already in terms of ease of use. Before you had to know your way around just to get a system installed. Now a Red Hat, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake, or whatever distribution you prefer, has a nice installation that requires only a minumum knowlege of your hardware to get it up and running. Well that is enough of my advocacy.
I was into the BeOS for a while. I really liked it when it's motto was "One processor isn't enough" Now it's the media OS. Blah. At first it was quite a revolutionary system built up on SMP, preemptive multi tasking and multi threading. Then they kept changing processors (Remember the original BeBox? I do) not to mention the binary formats. The BeOS does have a good design and has lots of things going for it. The jury has made a decision on it though and pretty much it's that "We don't care"
I must agree. I can not stop playing everquest. It is everything that Ultima Online should have been. Granted there are some problems, like having to camp stuff etc. Overall despite it's problems the game play and interaction with other players is great and there is always something to do. Many a day have I called in sick after staying up too late playing. If it ever came to Linux I could delete my Windows(R) partition for ever and ever.
I hope so. If I could run Everquest on Linux I would no longer need Windows at all. Isn't it interesting that the only thing holding some of us to that platform are the games we love? At least the Quake players have their wish...
I have often heard that many companies do not port games to Linux siting that some of the ports that have been made have not done too well. Most of the problem is that these games had been around for a while when they were port to Linux and thus were old news having made their sales already. If a company truly wanted to see the full impact of a Linux game, that game would need to be released at the same time as the Windows release, otherwise people will just buy the windows version out of impatience. Pretty much, with the exception of Loki, most ports to Linux have been half assed IMHO. I just hope that this trend of getting the game out within a reasonable time in comparison to the other releases will be more common. I believe it is more robust then some realize.
Hmmm, does anyone else think God (or Alla or Odin, or the Great Bannanarama, or whoever your supreme being is) will have a problem with these big companies patenting His invention?
As a matter of fact, I'm pretty darn angry about it.
Until 1995, 90% of the net was American. By 2005, more than 50% of the net will be Non-American. I make the changeover point sometime around 2002; Europe is about 12 months behind the USA and has 20% greater population, and the rest of the world (notably the Pacific Rim) is in there too.
The real action to keep your eyes on is not the speechifying in Congress, but what happens at the G8 summits and in the various low-key trade treaty meetings that happen from time to time. International treaties are effectively law
Good points, but as we all know, the US never follows international law. I do not know of many treaties that the US has ever honored with the exception of nuclear test ban treaties. What happens if the US tries to push their own regulations anyway and says "screw the world"?
Hey developers RedHat is profiting from all your hard work and you are getting little or nothing from it! ITS MICROSOFT ALL OVER AGAIN!
Yes, RedHat is profiting from many free software developers who have contributed, but isn't the same thing done by all the Linux distributors that sell their product? It is also not like RedHat has not given back. They have GPL'd all their code. Any distribution can use the RPM if they felt like doing so. I believe many developers of software that is used by RedHat are not complaining too much. If they didn't want anyone using their software unless they profited from it, they would not have GPL'd it. Right now, everyone is lining up to kick RH becuase of something they might do. I for one will give them credit for their record of supporting free software and will withhold condemnation until they actualy do something that compromises the ideals of free software. They have not done that yet.
Not a flame. Are you saying that Red Hat has been producing crappy stuff? I don't think they are that bad. I have been using Red Hat since 96 and I haven't been too disapointed. As far as I have seen, Red Hat is one of the best at GPLing all their stuff. I don't think that Cygnus tools will become RH specific. In fact I find it more likely that their tools will be more friendly to any Linux distribution. RH can't be that bad if so many distros take them as their base.
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I would think that minority groups would feel insulted by having tests that have lower standards then the average white kid. Doesn't just say that they are stupid? I know I would feel insulted if someone game me a test that was not as challenging as someone else. I am willing to say that all people despite ethnic or cultural background are smart enough to handle a challenging education and tests. I am going to go off on a limb here but I would bet that these lower standards are not needed. Rather keeping all students accountable to a higher standard in the class room no matter who they are.
With all the noise the students made as well as the negative press it is no wonder. The school was being attacked from all sides. Not to mention that they were in the wrong on this one. I just wish this type of public pressure could be applied to other areas of injustice... Say DeCSS?
I don't want to start a flame war but you have got to be kidding me. BeOS maybe becuase from a design stand point it is a wonderful thing. The MacOS? It's old, bloated and from a design stand point it is a piece of shit. Hell they didn't even get multi tasking right for a long time and I remember when quake couldn't be ported at first becuase it didn't have threads. I will argue for Linux as an alturnative becuase I think you meant the user friendliness of Be and Mac. While there is a little ways to go, I look at GNOME and KDE and I have to think that useability issues will pass now that more companies and individuals are working on these things. Plus look at how much Linux has caught up already in terms of ease of use. Before you had to know your way around just to get a system installed. Now a Red Hat, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake, or whatever distribution you prefer, has a nice installation that requires only a minumum knowlege of your hardware to get it up and running. Well that is enough of my advocacy.
I was into the BeOS for a while. I really liked it when it's motto was "One processor isn't enough" Now it's the media OS. Blah. At first it was quite a revolutionary system built up on SMP, preemptive multi tasking and multi threading. Then they kept changing processors (Remember the original BeBox? I do) not to mention the binary formats. The BeOS does have a good design and has lots of things going for it. The jury has made a decision on it though and pretty much it's that "We don't care"
I must agree. I can not stop playing everquest. It is everything that Ultima Online should have been. Granted there are some problems, like having to camp stuff etc. Overall despite it's problems the game play and interaction with other players is great and there is always something to do. Many a day have I called in sick after staying up too late playing. If it ever came to Linux I could delete my Windows(R) partition for ever and ever.
I hope so. If I could run Everquest on Linux I would no longer need Windows at all. Isn't it interesting that the only thing holding some of us to that platform are the games we love? At least the Quake players have their wish...
I have often heard that many companies do not port games to Linux siting that some of the ports that have been made have not done too well. Most of the problem is that these games had been around for a while when they were port to Linux and thus were old news having made their sales already. If a company truly wanted to see the full impact of a Linux game, that game would need to be released at the same time as the Windows release, otherwise people will just buy the windows version out of impatience. Pretty much, with the exception of Loki, most ports to Linux have been half assed IMHO. I just hope that this trend of getting the game out within a reasonable time in comparison to the other releases will be more common. I believe it is more robust then some realize.
Hmmm, does anyone else think God (or Alla or Odin, or the Great Bannanarama, or whoever your supreme being is) will have a problem with these big companies patenting His invention?
As a matter of fact, I'm pretty darn angry about it.
Until 1995, 90% of the net was American. By 2005, more than 50% of the net will be Non-American. I make the changeover point sometime around 2002; Europe is about 12 months behind the USA and has 20% greater population, and the rest of the world (notably the Pacific Rim) is in there too.
The real action to keep your eyes on is not the speechifying in Congress, but what happens at the G8 summits and in the various low-key trade treaty meetings that happen from time to time. International treaties are effectively law
Good points, but as we all know, the US never follows international law. I do not know of many treaties that the US has ever honored with the exception of nuclear test ban treaties. What happens if the US tries to push their own regulations anyway and says "screw the world"?
Corned beef sandwiches and beer?
What ever happend to donuts, pizza and mountain dew? Amateurs...
Hey developers RedHat is profiting from all your hard work and you are getting little or nothing from it! ITS MICROSOFT ALL OVER AGAIN!
Yes, RedHat is profiting from many free software developers who have contributed, but isn't the same thing done by all the Linux distributors that sell their product? It is also not like RedHat has not given back. They have GPL'd all their code. Any distribution can use the RPM if they felt like doing so. I believe many developers of software that is used by RedHat are not complaining too much. If they didn't want anyone using their software unless they profited from it, they would not have GPL'd it. Right now, everyone is lining up to kick RH becuase of something they might do. I for one will give them credit for their record of supporting free software and will withhold condemnation until they actualy do something that compromises the ideals of free software. They have not done that yet.
Not a flame. Are you saying that Red Hat has been producing crappy stuff? I don't think they are that bad. I have been using Red Hat since 96 and I haven't been too disapointed. As far as I have seen, Red Hat is one of the best at GPLing all their stuff. I don't think that Cygnus tools will become RH specific. In fact I find it more likely that their tools will be more friendly to any Linux distribution. RH can't be that bad if so many distros take them as their base.