I agree, absentee parrents are a LARGE problem with todays schools. But when that is combined with aiming the way things are set up and taught at girls, you end up with trouble. The lack of dicipline in classrooms (how teachers are now powerless against troublemakers) helps cause a lot of problems. Don't missunderstand, I agree that there are bigger reasons for the problems in todays schools, I wrote so much about the "girlying" of schools because the others didn't apply to the poster's question.
And as for The War Against Boys, schools are just one little thing. The rest of the book has many MANY other areas and great examples and such of how this is happening. It's very facinating reading.
You make a good point, I would also like to point out that medicine doesn't work for everyone. If you don't think the medicine is doing a good job on your daughter, try a different one or a different type of therapy (as the origional topic was looking into).
I heard earlier this month that some big exec at a pharmacutical company said that as much as 50% of medications don't work for the people they are perscribed to because of their genetics. While I believe that the number above is exaguated, don't forget that it's entirely possible that the ridilin is doing very little for what it was prescribed for, in which case the trade off of taking it (side effects, for example) might not be worth it in your case.
While all points of view should be taken with a grain of salt, medicine is not neccessary the answer. And one poster below this comment points out that Ridilin is close to speed. I think the origional post makes some great points. And while I wouldn't go straight out and follow his advice without looking to it, I would check into it.
I believe I posted something about AD(H)D not being a disease in one of the earlier Ask Slashdots. I firmly believe that it is not a disease. The fact is that AD(H)D is simply not the normal way people think or act, and as such has been labeled a disease; which prompts people to look for "cures" to the behaviors.
Now I wouldn't be at all suprised if neural feedback therapy would work, but I agree with the parent comment that it's not needed. I suggest you look into the parent post and think about whether you think your kid really is a problem, or it's just a "doesn't fit into the current education model".
First, I'd like to refer you to my pervious comment in the origional discussion. That said, I have one other thing. I would like you to read "The War Against Boys". Buy it ($14 I think), check it out at your library, whatever. Now I realize that your child isn't a boy, but one of the things that the book talks about is how public schools are becoming designed for "girls". By this I mean the classic little girl who always sits quietly and pays attention and such. Kids who do not fit this mold often have problems or are labeled troublemakers or as AD(H)D kids or other such things. I think an alternative schooling environment may be the best thing for your child. A perokial school, a private school, maybe there is even a school that specializes in AD(H)D kids in your area; because as you know they often just learn differently. I think reading this book might help you realize what I suspect is going on: you child doesn't fit the mold and so other people (school administrators/teachers for example) are trying to "help" you make her fit that mold. A quick look at the table of contents shows that I think chapter 7 is for you, but I could be wrong about that.
PS: If something above is unclear, just reply and I'll be glad to answer you. And if you/.ers out there if you disagree with me or think I'm an idiot, I'd really appriciate it if you'd just reply and tell me. I'll read it.
PPS: I said this in my last comment and I think I might have gotten modded down for it, but I'll say it again. I would suggest you call Dr. Laura and ask her about your situation. She's VERY good at helping you figure out where to go on issues like this. And I can garuntee she only has your child's best interests at heart when she gives you advice. She is a licenced Clinical and Family Therapist (I think that's the term), so she knows what she is talking about.
I would assume that they already use IBM's compilers since IBM designed the chips and would have the fastest/maturest compilers. What other option is there? GCC? I thought that GCC didn't produce very optomized code for G3/4/5s (optomised well by using AltiVec, etc).
Just like I'd assume that Microsoft would use Intel's compilers if a) Microsoft didn't make compilers and b) AMD (and other clones) weren't around.
So I'm just speculating. Anyone know the real answer?
I believe that it referes to the interfaces between code. What I mean is that, for example, it lists the functions in object files the same was as GCC and they are called with the same machine code sequence as GCC (they way arguments are put on the stack, etc). This is good for a few reasons. For one thing, it means that code written with this compiler can link to code written with GCC or vice-versa. Ordinarily you can't take an object file from VC++, one from OpenWatcom, one from GCC, and one from ICC and link them together. But if all the compilers were biniary compatablie, you would be able to. It has nothing to do with the internal code generated, as if both compilers generated identicle sequences of machine code, one couldn't be faster than the other. I think the main benefit is that, for example, you could use a static library that was compiled with this compiler with your code that uses GCC without a problem.
As for commandline switches and such, I would assume that they would be the same (or that there would be a simple option like --gcc that would turn on "gcc mode" so that it took the same command line stuff).
PS: If I'm wrong would someone please reply and correct me, and not just mod me wrong?
You may be feeding a troll, but thanks for making a good point. I think understanding that after a certain point throwing money at things (like anti-drug programs) has VERY little benefit is often taken for not caring.
And unfortunatly your reply that was on topic is quite true. I think what we really need is something to fix our current culture that seems to breed addicts more than 50 or 75 years ago (maybe this is just a perception thing?).
--MBCook (a typical fucking Replublican) who doesn't think this comment is worth most people's time
Could someone tell me why I hear so many things like this about South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and other Asian countries? I've heard one or two stories about people in the US being addicted, but I seem to hear tons from the whole Asian area?
Why is this? Is this a cultural thing (they encourge you to be part of a group, as opposed to the current US mantra of "be yourself")? Does it have to do with availibility of the games (there are very few gaming cafes here in the US for example)? Is it some other issue (I'm not willing to pay $10 a month or whatever for a game that I already own but pricing structures are different over there)? Is this just an outgrowth of how RPGs are much MUCH more popular than here in the US?
Thanks for any answers you can give me.
PS: And why SHOULD I pay $10 a month for a game I already paid $60 for? Silly marketing execs. Now if the game was free upfront and it was only the monthly fee, I could be lured in...
Sounds like an opertunity for OSS to me. Why not have someone work on a (I assume scaled down) versoin of GAIM or something like that. Is there something preventing a good OSS client (like some problem with the networking APIs that are exposed) or is this just a lack of work (people have been putting up with official clients so there was no "want" for 3rd party software)?
He's right! After a quick check he's right! I have iTunes installed on my Windows XP laptop and the icons are there in the iTunes.exe file. Instructions:
Make a shortcut to iTunes.exe
Select the shortcut and choose "Properties"
Go to the "Shortcut" tab (if it's not already open) of the "Properties" dialog box
Click the "Change Icon" button near the bottom
Look at the icons (if they aren't there, make sure the iTunes.exe file is the path in the text frield at the top of the dialog)
So if you look at those icons, you see all sorts of formats. Now look at the 3rd and 6th icons on the last row... WMA and OGG.
Maybe OGG support is comming?
PS: Also of interest, there are icons that are labled "movie", "nvf", and "sdii". Anyone know what those last two are?
PPS: I see that there are two icons for AAC, one that's locked and one that isn't. That's cute;)
Oh, oops. I only looked at the closeup of the left hand side where all the other stuff is (like the S-Video jack and such). I still wonder about the "cable modem" jack. Maybe it's normal TV for PVR type stuff?
Well that gives me A TON more faith in the console. My faith is no longer at the "look, they're trying to sell and empty box to investors 'cause it's vaporware" level to the "it actually exists but I doubt it will make it to market or be successful" level.
That said, what's with the cable jack on the back labled "cable modem"? Does it have a built in cable modem? How are those of us who already have a cable modem supposed to use that feature? I thought you could only have one cable modem per house without buying extra IP address (at major prices)? Why no ethernet, or wifi, or something like that? Do I have to buy a USB ethernet adaptor just to take the console online?
Yeah, I'm sure that the sales differences have nothing to do with the fact that for most people a 5900 is overkill for many things and they never need that 5950, so they buy the cheaper one and spend the extra (what is it, $150 or $200?) on games or something. If you can afford to risk your graphics card on something like this which could hurt it (see my other post in this thread), they you should have bought the better card in the first place.
I doubt that such is the case here. My guess is that the chips on the 5900 didn't pass QA at 5950 speeds. The people who are doing this may get a performance boost, but they are playing with fire. There are two possibilities:
The chips passed as a 5950 - They got lucky, but the board might still not be designed for the higher clockspeed or whatever. You could run into problems.
The chips failed at 5950 - OK, you may not notice it now, but problems could appear soon. Maybe just little graphical artifacts, maybe full scale crashes. You could be about to ruin your card.
This is probably just like if you discovered that you could do something to change the multiplyer on the Pentium 4. Maybe it will work better, but there is a decent chance that it won't. And you might not find out untill you've been playing for 3 hours online and are about to cream the top ranked guy on the server in CS. You're about to jump out from behind a box and knife him in the skull (I always loved that) and *WHAM*... your computer crashes and the video is screwed up. If you're lucky a reset will fix it. But if you were lucky, that probably wouldn't have happened. Hope you didn't break it.
It's not always corporate greed, there can be a reason.
I thought about that while writing my post, but I think that the vast majority of the sales of GBAs and GBA games go to kids, so by pricing the system out of the reach of kids you are killing off a large and important market. Just because it's not your target market doesn't mean that you have to bar them from buying your product (which is what a $200 price would do).
And even with the 30 something market, the price still worries me for the drop it/lose it/scratch it/etc reasons I gave in my post. One of the great things about the GBA (in my opinion) is that you don't have to treat it like a Fabrige (sp?) egg or diamond ring. While it's not cheap, it's not hard to replace. Most 30 something would be able to drop $60 for a new GBA if they needed, but how many have $250 or $300 to spend at the drop of a hat if something happens to their PSP?
So, what will I buy (price wise)? Let's take a look:
$0 to $50 - I'll grab it, what's to lose?
$50 to $100 - I'll look a little harder, but still great
$100 to $150 - OK, this will take some considering
$150 to $200 - It better be one hell of a product
$200 to $250 - And it should include 2 games
$250 to $350 - And a Gameboy
$350 to $500 - And a PS 1
$500 to... - And a girlfirend
I trust Sony a LOT, and I do intend to buy a PSP when they come out, but it costs anything more than $200 they're idiots. You can get a brand new GBA for $60. One of the reasons that many people get GBAs for their kids is that they are $60. Who would buy their 10 year old a $300 portable game system? I wouldn't trust one with something that expensive. If they're smart it will price at about $150, $200 if it includes a good game or two. Anything more than $200 is shooting themselves in the foot.
Of course this is all speculation. Currency conversion, taxes (like I assume VAT is included in the European prices?), and such all factor into the numbers posted in the article.
p But in closing, it's one thing to pay $300 for a console, but something like a handheld that can get scratched/lost/soaked in a puddle/stolen/run over with a car/etc. the chances of getting people to pay $300 or more is PATHETIC.
That's mentioned. It was done in part to test the theory that they should all run nearly identicly, which was fount to be true for the most part. The tiny variations are probably due ot the different languages not producing the exact same IL code for the CLR. Things may have turned out the same, but if they didn't and the test wasn't run, we wouldn't have known.
Because as we all know VC++ and the other Microsoft languages are so widly available for Linux/BeOS. I'm sorry but your comment is pure troll. It would be interesting to have things like GCC under Linux on the same computer there too, but you can't compare Microsoft's.NET to anything under Linux, because.NET doesn't run under Linux (I know about Mono, but that isn't MS's runtime).
Oh, right, forgot about that. Good catch. But there in lies a new problem, there will be quite a few people who miss that on first glance (like I did), and might miss out on that stuff. Maybe they should have kept the 10 gig and just added the accessories so that EVERY model got them.
I for one am worried about the iPod mini's price. For reference I just got an iPod for Christmas so I'm not in the market any more, but I was untill recently.
Now the iPod mini its self is very cool. But the price is a problem for me. Watching the keynote over the 'net, Jobs described it as just $50 more than a flash player with decent memory, and that's true. But, for just $50 more you can get a REAL iPod that holds almost 4x as much (4 gigs versus 15 gigs). There is a lot to be said about that iPod mini, but that price is a little much for me.
It's just so close to the price of the low end real iPod. I could understand if the price was $200, I think that would be the magic number, but I think that $250 is just too close. I don't know if the price is the result of trying to get a certain profit margin (quite likely) or an attempt to keep them from canabalizing the iPod market too much (also likely), but I think the price is a little high. At $150 they would fly off the shelves faster than anything else out there. At $200 they'd be a great deal and would sell fantastically. At $250... they won't flop, but...
Which also brings me to one other problem. The 15 gig iPod. It costs $100 to get 5 more gigs of space (the 20 gig model). So let's look at things:
4 gig mini - $250 - $62.50 per gig
15 gig iPod - $300 - $20.00 per gig - 11 gigs more for $50 - $4.54 per new gig
20 gig iPod - $400 - $20.00 per gig - 5 gigs more for $100 - $20.00 per new gig
40 gig iPod - $500 - $12.50 per gig - 20 gigs more for $100 - $5.00 per new gig
So as you can see, the value of upgrading to the 20 gig iPod isn't in line with the rest of levels. With the low end full iPod at 15 gigs, the 20 gig model doesn't seem like much of as good a choice, the premium is just too high. As value goes, the iPod mini and the 20 gig iPod just don't hold up compared to the 15 and 40 gig models.
Now again, don't take this as bashing the new iPods or anything. The iPod is a fantastic device and the mini looks great too, it just seems like it would be much more wise to people to spend $50 more for a 15 gig, which has less than 1/3 the cost per gig.
PS: I can't WAIT to see the guts of one of 'em posted to the web. I wanna se it!
PPS: Let's face it, a $100 dollar iPod was a pretty rediculous idea, especially if it were to have the 2 or 4 gigs we thought it would.
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Interesting post. I can't say I agree with all you say, but there is one thing I'd like to clarify. You (and another reply) both talk about how Blacks aren't more racist than Whites, they are about the same.
Now as for individuals, I believe that they are pretty much the same, maybe Blacks a hair more due to Black culture. What I mean when I say that Blacks are more racist is that when someone claims there is a race issue or something like that, the majority of times the issue either isn't there (but it's been invented because they are looking for a boogie man, say Whitie to blame) or is blown way out of proportion (a guy who just happens to be a racist gets in a car accident that is a TRUE accident, but the other guy who is Black sues because the other guy is a racist and calls it a hate crime). I believe that the majority of race problems in this country today are CAUSED by Black people (or other minorities) when there really isn't a problem there. That (if I haven't been too rambeling and incohesive) is what I meant.
Which isn't to say that there aren't true problems or racists out there, I'm just saying it's a very small problem now.
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Feminist doesn't mean feminist. I consider myself to be a true feminist. Dr. Laura Schlessinger has called herself a true feminist as well, and I believe her. This is in contrast to "feminist", as used in the Nation Organisation of (I Don't Know What Kind Of) Women; what Rush Limbaugh calls "Feminazis". These are feminists who go WAY OVER THE EDGE, past true feminism into what becomes nothing but narcisistic anti-male hate speach.
Tammy Bruce isn't a faux liberal, she's just not a hard left liberal. She's a middle of the road liberal if even that far. A liberal can be a liberal if they show a conservative viewpoint or two. 100 - 1 > 50.
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You're right, I am a conservative. The "learn the truth" is just to peak people's intrest to try to get them to read the books. As for "being angry", I'm not, just a little bit frustrated. I also emphasized the seriousness of my points because when talking against established "truths", just saying "blank is wrong" can get you a reaction of "idiot who doesn't like things", while "blank is wrong because of THIS and that and OTHER STUFF" can often get people to actually read and think about things. It's simply a tool. These things annoy me, but I'm not angry about them and I do have better things to do, and that's what I spend my time doing. I'm no zealot, but I'm passionate when give an invitation.
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No, you missunderstand. I'm not saying that becuase there are two racist Blacks all Blacks are racist; that makes no sense as you pointed out.
What I mean is that there are people like those two I mentioned (and many more). They are hailed as heros and considered heads of the Black community and are trusted. So when they start spouting about how some issue (like more Blacks get parking tickets in predominatly Black neighborhoods than Whites to make up an example) is a race issue (when it's not, like the example above) then all those people who believe them believe what they are saying. So what you end up with is a few people who are racist (in my opinion for purely monetary reasons) turn hundres, THOUSANDS intro racists. The result? All of a sudden everything is a race issue. It's all about Whitey trying to keep the brothers down, which is racist thinking.
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And as for The War Against Boys, schools are just one little thing. The rest of the book has many MANY other areas and great examples and such of how this is happening. It's very facinating reading.
PS: Thanks for the comment by the way.
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I heard earlier this month that some big exec at a pharmacutical company said that as much as 50% of medications don't work for the people they are perscribed to because of their genetics. While I believe that the number above is exaguated, don't forget that it's entirely possible that the ridilin is doing very little for what it was prescribed for, in which case the trade off of taking it (side effects, for example) might not be worth it in your case.
While all points of view should be taken with a grain of salt, medicine is not neccessary the answer. And one poster below this comment points out that Ridilin is close to speed. I think the origional post makes some great points. And while I wouldn't go straight out and follow his advice without looking to it, I would check into it.
I believe I posted something about AD(H)D not being a disease in one of the earlier Ask Slashdots. I firmly believe that it is not a disease. The fact is that AD(H)D is simply not the normal way people think or act, and as such has been labeled a disease; which prompts people to look for "cures" to the behaviors.
Now I wouldn't be at all suprised if neural feedback therapy would work, but I agree with the parent comment that it's not needed. I suggest you look into the parent post and think about whether you think your kid really is a problem, or it's just a "doesn't fit into the current education model".
First, I'd like to refer you to my pervious comment in the origional discussion. That said, I have one other thing. I would like you to read "The War Against Boys". Buy it ($14 I think), check it out at your library, whatever. Now I realize that your child isn't a boy, but one of the things that the book talks about is how public schools are becoming designed for "girls". By this I mean the classic little girl who always sits quietly and pays attention and such. Kids who do not fit this mold often have problems or are labeled troublemakers or as AD(H)D kids or other such things. I think an alternative schooling environment may be the best thing for your child. A perokial school, a private school, maybe there is even a school that specializes in AD(H)D kids in your area; because as you know they often just learn differently. I think reading this book might help you realize what I suspect is going on: you child doesn't fit the mold and so other people (school administrators/teachers for example) are trying to "help" you make her fit that mold. A quick look at the table of contents shows that I think chapter 7 is for you, but I could be wrong about that.
PS: If something above is unclear, just reply and I'll be glad to answer you. And if you /.ers out there if you disagree with me or think I'm an idiot, I'd really appriciate it if you'd just reply and tell me. I'll read it.
PPS: I said this in my last comment and I think I might have gotten modded down for it, but I'll say it again. I would suggest you call Dr. Laura and ask her about your situation. She's VERY good at helping you figure out where to go on issues like this. And I can garuntee she only has your child's best interests at heart when she gives you advice. She is a licenced Clinical and Family Therapist (I think that's the term), so she knows what she is talking about.
Just like I'd assume that Microsoft would use Intel's compilers if a) Microsoft didn't make compilers and b) AMD (and other clones) weren't around.
So I'm just speculating. Anyone know the real answer?
As for commandline switches and such, I would assume that they would be the same (or that there would be a simple option like --gcc that would turn on "gcc mode" so that it took the same command line stuff).
PS: If I'm wrong would someone please reply and correct me, and not just mod me wrong?
And unfortunatly your reply that was on topic is quite true. I think what we really need is something to fix our current culture that seems to breed addicts more than 50 or 75 years ago (maybe this is just a perception thing?).
--MBCook (a typical fucking Replublican) who doesn't think this comment is worth most people's time
Why is this? Is this a cultural thing (they encourge you to be part of a group, as opposed to the current US mantra of "be yourself")? Does it have to do with availibility of the games (there are very few gaming cafes here in the US for example)? Is it some other issue (I'm not willing to pay $10 a month or whatever for a game that I already own but pricing structures are different over there)? Is this just an outgrowth of how RPGs are much MUCH more popular than here in the US?
Thanks for any answers you can give me.
PS: And why SHOULD I pay $10 a month for a game I already paid $60 for? Silly marketing execs. Now if the game was free upfront and it was only the monthly fee, I could be lured in...
Sounds like an opertunity for OSS to me. Why not have someone work on a (I assume scaled down) versoin of GAIM or something like that. Is there something preventing a good OSS client (like some problem with the networking APIs that are exposed) or is this just a lack of work (people have been putting up with official clients so there was no "want" for 3rd party software)?
So if you look at those icons, you see all sorts of formats. Now look at the 3rd and 6th icons on the last row... WMA and OGG.
Maybe OGG support is comming?
PS: Also of interest, there are icons that are labled "movie", "nvf", and "sdii". Anyone know what those last two are?
PPS: I see that there are two icons for AAC, one that's locked and one that isn't. That's cute ;)
Oh, oops. I only looked at the closeup of the left hand side where all the other stuff is (like the S-Video jack and such). I still wonder about the "cable modem" jack. Maybe it's normal TV for PVR type stuff?
That said, what's with the cable jack on the back labled "cable modem"? Does it have a built in cable modem? How are those of us who already have a cable modem supposed to use that feature? I thought you could only have one cable modem per house without buying extra IP address (at major prices)? Why no ethernet, or wifi, or something like that? Do I have to buy a USB ethernet adaptor just to take the console online?
Yeah, I'm sure that the sales differences have nothing to do with the fact that for most people a 5900 is overkill for many things and they never need that 5950, so they buy the cheaper one and spend the extra (what is it, $150 or $200?) on games or something. If you can afford to risk your graphics card on something like this which could hurt it (see my other post in this thread), they you should have bought the better card in the first place.
This is probably just like if you discovered that you could do something to change the multiplyer on the Pentium 4. Maybe it will work better, but there is a decent chance that it won't. And you might not find out untill you've been playing for 3 hours online and are about to cream the top ranked guy on the server in CS. You're about to jump out from behind a box and knife him in the skull (I always loved that) and *WHAM*... your computer crashes and the video is screwed up. If you're lucky a reset will fix it. But if you were lucky, that probably wouldn't have happened. Hope you didn't break it.
It's not always corporate greed, there can be a reason.
And even with the 30 something market, the price still worries me for the drop it/lose it/scratch it/etc reasons I gave in my post. One of the great things about the GBA (in my opinion) is that you don't have to treat it like a Fabrige (sp?) egg or diamond ring. While it's not cheap, it's not hard to replace. Most 30 something would be able to drop $60 for a new GBA if they needed, but how many have $250 or $300 to spend at the drop of a hat if something happens to their PSP?
I trust Sony a LOT, and I do intend to buy a PSP when they come out, but it costs anything more than $200 they're idiots. You can get a brand new GBA for $60. One of the reasons that many people get GBAs for their kids is that they are $60. Who would buy their 10 year old a $300 portable game system? I wouldn't trust one with something that expensive. If they're smart it will price at about $150, $200 if it includes a good game or two. Anything more than $200 is shooting themselves in the foot.
Of course this is all speculation. Currency conversion, taxes (like I assume VAT is included in the European prices?), and such all factor into the numbers posted in the article. p But in closing, it's one thing to pay $300 for a console, but something like a handheld that can get scratched/lost/soaked in a puddle/stolen/run over with a car/etc. the chances of getting people to pay $300 or more is PATHETIC.
That's mentioned. It was done in part to test the theory that they should all run nearly identicly, which was fount to be true for the most part. The tiny variations are probably due ot the different languages not producing the exact same IL code for the CLR. Things may have turned out the same, but if they didn't and the test wasn't run, we wouldn't have known.
Because as we all know VC++ and the other Microsoft languages are so widly available for Linux/BeOS. I'm sorry but your comment is pure troll. It would be interesting to have things like GCC under Linux on the same computer there too, but you can't compare Microsoft's .NET to anything under Linux, because .NET doesn't run under Linux (I know about Mono, but that isn't MS's runtime).
Oh, right, forgot about that. Good catch. But there in lies a new problem, there will be quite a few people who miss that on first glance (like I did), and might miss out on that stuff. Maybe they should have kept the 10 gig and just added the accessories so that EVERY model got them.
Now the iPod mini its self is very cool. But the price is a problem for me. Watching the keynote over the 'net, Jobs described it as just $50 more than a flash player with decent memory, and that's true. But, for just $50 more you can get a REAL iPod that holds almost 4x as much (4 gigs versus 15 gigs). There is a lot to be said about that iPod mini, but that price is a little much for me.
It's just so close to the price of the low end real iPod. I could understand if the price was $200, I think that would be the magic number, but I think that $250 is just too close. I don't know if the price is the result of trying to get a certain profit margin (quite likely) or an attempt to keep them from canabalizing the iPod market too much (also likely), but I think the price is a little high. At $150 they would fly off the shelves faster than anything else out there. At $200 they'd be a great deal and would sell fantastically. At $250... they won't flop, but...
Which also brings me to one other problem. The 15 gig iPod. It costs $100 to get 5 more gigs of space (the 20 gig model). So let's look at things:
So as you can see, the value of upgrading to the 20 gig iPod isn't in line with the rest of levels. With the low end full iPod at 15 gigs, the 20 gig model doesn't seem like much of as good a choice, the premium is just too high. As value goes, the iPod mini and the 20 gig iPod just don't hold up compared to the 15 and 40 gig models.
Now again, don't take this as bashing the new iPods or anything. The iPod is a fantastic device and the mini looks great too, it just seems like it would be much more wise to people to spend $50 more for a 15 gig, which has less than 1/3 the cost per gig.
PS: I can't WAIT to see the guts of one of 'em posted to the web. I wanna se it!
PPS: Let's face it, a $100 dollar iPod was a pretty rediculous idea, especially if it were to have the 2 or 4 gigs we thought it would.
Now as for individuals, I believe that they are pretty much the same, maybe Blacks a hair more due to Black culture. What I mean when I say that Blacks are more racist is that when someone claims there is a race issue or something like that, the majority of times the issue either isn't there (but it's been invented because they are looking for a boogie man, say Whitie to blame) or is blown way out of proportion (a guy who just happens to be a racist gets in a car accident that is a TRUE accident, but the other guy who is Black sues because the other guy is a racist and calls it a hate crime). I believe that the majority of race problems in this country today are CAUSED by Black people (or other minorities) when there really isn't a problem there. That (if I haven't been too rambeling and incohesive) is what I meant.
Which isn't to say that there aren't true problems or racists out there, I'm just saying it's a very small problem now.
Tammy Bruce isn't a faux liberal, she's just not a hard left liberal. She's a middle of the road liberal if even that far. A liberal can be a liberal if they show a conservative viewpoint or two. 100 - 1 > 50.
You're right, I am a conservative. The "learn the truth" is just to peak people's intrest to try to get them to read the books. As for "being angry", I'm not, just a little bit frustrated. I also emphasized the seriousness of my points because when talking against established "truths", just saying "blank is wrong" can get you a reaction of "idiot who doesn't like things", while "blank is wrong because of THIS and that and OTHER STUFF" can often get people to actually read and think about things. It's simply a tool. These things annoy me, but I'm not angry about them and I do have better things to do, and that's what I spend my time doing. I'm no zealot, but I'm passionate when give an invitation.
What I mean is that there are people like those two I mentioned (and many more). They are hailed as heros and considered heads of the Black community and are trusted. So when they start spouting about how some issue (like more Blacks get parking tickets in predominatly Black neighborhoods than Whites to make up an example) is a race issue (when it's not, like the example above) then all those people who believe them believe what they are saying. So what you end up with is a few people who are racist (in my opinion for purely monetary reasons) turn hundres, THOUSANDS intro racists. The result? All of a sudden everything is a race issue. It's all about Whitey trying to keep the brothers down, which is racist thinking.