NT is much like linux is this respect, a section of the kernel is hardware dependant and has to be rewritten for a port. HAL.DLL is really a non-issue, that's just for motherboard/bios manufacturers to supply any special code for the particular model of computer to run. ntoskrnl.exe itself also has hardware dependant code
To the degree that social mobility has improved since then it is an improvement. Though I think the original article's concern was with the lower chances for mobility among black people.
As a bald statistic that isn't very helpful. Besides just replacing race by culture doesn't clarify anything. Where does culture come from and why does it have a particular content? Moreover culture seems unlikely to be produced entirely internally, either to the individual or the 'race'. Don't white people play any role in forming 'black' culture?
But doesn't the fact that the group is in the heads of quite a few americans including some in public office make it something to worry about?
I do tend to agree with you, the idea that black people must be natural victims of technology or anything, however well intentioned, does tend to institutionalise racial difference.
Um, but doesn't racism mean that class and race are assumed to be the same (or at least confused). I mean if the limit of racism was assuming that different skin color implied a different penis size I can't imagine many people would worry about it. But if you assume black neighbourhoods are poor or black people are uneducated or drug dealers then it becomes a problem, as well as something of a self-fufilling prophecy.
> The reality of the modern economy is that more > than a third of the population is limited by > ability or gumption to working in the low-end > service sector. We can't change that, and > unless you want to make your own McFries, I > humbly submit that we don't really want to. > What a depressing thought. Better start stockpiling shotguns and canned food now then.
Moreover it isn't at all obvious that that a situation is natural, not more than a couple of hundred years ago everyone worked in the fields. To those who didn't that seemed quite natural too. Is there some reason why social development should stop at the end of the twentieth century?
If only Linux was as good as the USSR, still we can only hope. Aside from that why does slashdot still post these utterly fact and logic free rantings from various computer pundits. Do they have a deal with Infoworld? Slashdot proletarians demand to know.
Fellow post-modern computer scientists, despite his claims to have developed a post-modern computer language, Larry Wall is unable to break radically with cartesian rationality. Perl promotes a totalizing discourse which defines(!!) every statement as right or wrong syntax, privileging the white, male programmer. Only Visual Basic which allows development free from externally imposed structures can liberate hitherto marginalized voices. Long live goto! Death to Larry Wall
I'm dubious about the idea of a regulator to enfore software quality, if the release of every game has to be approved (or more likely is followed by lawsuits from disgruntled customers) then companies will be encouraged not to innovate or take risks. I would prefer to accept a certain proportion of rubbish games, with most weeded out by reviewers than have every one produced to the same formulas. If this become popular then politicians would probably be keen to use it to introduce censorship.
Had you bothered to read my argument instead of deciding on a strawman to attack, then you would know that I implied race was socially constructed (or how else could different ethnic groups be redesignated), and in fact white tended to be a class definition. Once you acknowledge this then race loses its meaning. Or how do you explain the differences in income between say Asian-Americans and African-Americans except that the white majority views some ethnic groups as more 'white' than others. Obviously this is far too subtle for you, better to just jump in feet first.
Did no one tell you, asians are honorary whites now, don't you remember the LA riots? That aside, what the Village Voice writer was pointing out was that 'geeks' are generally likely to move into the entire echelons of capitalism and they are by and large white. Simple fact I would have thought, and for 'geeks' to act as they are oppressed by this arrangement (even comparing their treatment to the holocaust) just takes the piss.
I find the notion of a closed community, enforced technologically or socially, somewhat scarey. It seems less a utopia than a retreat from the kind of vibrant intellectual life that might characterise the internet in a less privatised society. One of the intriguing things about slashdot is the heterogenous range of views and topics, more like a cafe (of the Left bank sort, if a bit too near the CS department for comfort) than the university common room.
I disagree, US national identity was based on a shared ethos, it had its downside of course, but it wasn't based on opposition to another country. One can emigrant to the US and become an American citzen for example.
I meant that the differences between two humans (from any ethnic group) are more than the differences between the averages of any particular ethnic group.
I try to avoid essentialising nationality, simply because it is an empirical fact that all humans are almost entirely the same. Any two Scotsmen would be less alike than the 'average' Welsh and Scot.
But nationality identity has provided a potent way of uniting a country, think how much the British empire depended on a cohesive notion of Britishness. Now the British empire committed some terrible crimes but national identity can function in a positive way, for example the USA, when it is based on progressive principals. Scottish and Welsh nationalism on the other hand is distinguished by being opposed to English 'oppression'. I can see very little good coming from it.
As with all books of prediction, this is really a comment on the present. The dominant trend of the past decades has been a declining industrial base in the advanced countries (second wave, or capitalist as they are usually called), now rather than seeing this as a failure of capitalism (which it certainly is), the theorists of the new economy redefine unemployment as flexibility, low paged, irregular work as service jobs, the breakdown in national identity and cohesion in favour of largely imaginary "ethnic" identities (for example Scotland and Wales) as decentralisation. When the author predicts that goods will be designed almost for each person this is clearly a fantasy, out of reach of all but the richest, the modern trend being noted here is twofold, first towards definitions of identity based mainly on consumption and secondly towards a shift of responsibility onto the individual. If we are 'prosummers' then we have no need or desire to put complain about our circumstances, join political parties or trade unions, in short social life is completely privatised. This is not a utopia, except for those who are benefiting from a lack of political accountability, but a nightmare. Decadence is the only way to describe it. It should also be noted that the computer industries growth has chiefly come from consolidation, it is only the fantasy world of the US stockmarket that makes it appear otherwise.
The Ramboullet were a charade. The US government prevented face-to-face contact between the parties and less than 18 hours before the talks were due to end presented the Yugoslav delegation with 56 new pages of text. The agreement provided for the virtual occupation of the whole of Yugoslav, no sovereign government could have signed it and the Yugoslavian government weren't intended to.
Second, we (i.e. our governments) did quite a lot in Bosnia, we encouraged the Bosnian Muslims to fight on in the hope that the US would intervene on their behalf. More importantly, at the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia we gave the green light to the independence of Croatia, Slovenia and then Bosnia, making a solution that preserved Yugoslavia impossible.
Thirdly, it is important what other sides did. It begs the important question, why Serbia, why now? And yes, the KLA does kill Serbs (who are a substantial part of the population of Kosovo), so another Krajina might be on the cards if the Yugoslavian army wasn't there.
Fourthly, I know a number of Yugoslavians living in Britain and none of them are any more irrational than any other nationality, and to say so is rascist. Moreover, nationalism doesn't arise out of a vacum, it was created by the extremely high levels of unemployment in Yugoslavia after our friendly, non-intervening superpowers cut financial aid.
Several points i) You might ask your brother what the Croat army did to the Serb population of Krajina, with in this case Nato air cover. ii) Civil wars are nasty, its a fact of life. But atrocities were committed by all sides. The roots of the current conflict lie in the wave of violence against ethnic Serbs in Kosovo which lead the Yugoslav government to revoke its autonomous status. What is needed is not Western intervention (which has already made things worst) but a locally agreed solution. The British and US government hardly have clean fingers in respect of the wars of the last 50 years, are you heading down to Washington to bomb the US government too? iii) You want to 'bomb Serbia into the stone age" and yet you condem ethnic violence. It is simply incredible you don't seen the discontinuity between these statements. iv) I'm not a Serb agent and it shows the weakness of the case for the war that its defenders are reduced to name calling
Well it is perhaps because the case of the Yugoslavian government (which in my opinion is entirely reasonable) is being made known, that their internet connection has been shutoff. I actually agree it isn't as serious as the US bombing Yugoslavia or funding terrorists. I suggest anyone who is computer literate and opposed to the war should make sure Nato and the Nato government's propoganda sites are shutdown.
This is just FUD. Only modifications to the source of GCC are covered by its license (in this case the GPL).
The output it produces is unencumbered. However if you link with libraries covered by the LGPL then the source to your program remains unencumbered but people using your program have the right to the source of the LGPL libraries, usually this is never a problem since they are all widely available.
You have to hope that the video game companies have enough courage to ask if burnt out executives could sue the company that makes Monopoly, the relatives of Yugoslavians or Iraqis killed by the US army could sue the makers of Desert Strike or maybe countries with an unpleasant, warmongering president could claim it was his unhealthy addict to Civilization which got him/her started.
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NT is much like linux is this respect, a section
of the kernel is hardware dependant and has to
be rewritten for a port. HAL.DLL is really a
non-issue, that's just for motherboard/bios
manufacturers to supply any special code for the
particular model of computer to run. ntoskrnl.exe
itself also has hardware dependant code
Did help a lot of people
To the degree that social mobility has improved
since then it is an improvement.
Though I think the original article's concern was
with the lower chances for mobility among black
people.
As a bald statistic that isn't very helpful.
Besides just replacing race by culture doesn't
clarify anything. Where does culture come from
and why does it have a particular content?
Moreover culture seems unlikely to be produced
entirely internally, either to the individual
or the 'race'. Don't white people play any
role in forming 'black' culture?
But doesn't the fact that the group is in the heads of quite a few americans including some in public office make it something to worry about?
I do tend to agree with you, the idea that black people must be natural victims of technology or
anything, however well intentioned, does tend
to institutionalise racial difference.
Um, but doesn't racism mean that class and race
are assumed to be the same (or at least
confused). I mean if the limit of racism was
assuming that different skin color implied a
different penis size I can't imagine many people
would worry about it. But if you assume black
neighbourhoods are poor or black people are
uneducated or drug dealers then it becomes a
problem, as well as something of a self-fufilling
prophecy.
> The reality of the modern economy is that more > than a third of the population is limited by
> ability or gumption to working in the low-end
> service sector. We can't change that, and
> unless you want to make your own McFries, I
> humbly submit that we don't really want to.
>
What a depressing thought. Better start
stockpiling shotguns and canned food now then.
Moreover it isn't at all obvious that that a situation is natural, not more than a couple of hundred years ago everyone worked in the fields. To those who didn't that seemed quite natural too. Is there some reason why social development should stop at the end of the twentieth century?
Strictly his job is "reading" films
If only Linux was as good as the USSR, still we can
only hope.
Aside from that why does slashdot still post these
utterly fact and logic free rantings from
various computer pundits.
Do they have a deal with Infoworld?
Slashdot proletarians demand to know.
Fellow post-modern computer scientists, despite
his claims to have developed a post-modern computer language, Larry Wall is unable to
break radically with cartesian rationality.
Perl promotes a totalizing discourse which defines(!!) every statement as right or wrong syntax, privileging the white, male programmer.
Only Visual Basic which allows development free from externally imposed structures can liberate
hitherto marginalized voices.
Long live goto!
Death to Larry Wall
I'm dubious about the idea of a regulator to
enfore software quality, if the release of every
game has to be approved (or more likely is
followed by lawsuits from disgruntled customers)
then companies will be encouraged not to innovate
or take risks. I would prefer to accept a
certain proportion of rubbish games, with most
weeded out by reviewers than have every one
produced to the same formulas. If this become
popular then politicians would probably be keen to use it to introduce censorship.
Unfortunately unlike MIPS, the x86 TLB is
implemented entirely in hardware so this won't
work.
Had you bothered to read my argument instead of
deciding on a strawman to attack, then you would
know that I implied race was socially constructed
(or how else could different ethnic groups be
redesignated), and in fact white tended to be a
class definition. Once you acknowledge this then
race loses its meaning. Or how do you explain the
differences in income between say Asian-Americans and
African-Americans except that the white majority
views some ethnic groups as more 'white' than others. Obviously this is far too subtle for you, better to just jump in feet first.
Did no one tell you, asians are honorary whites
now, don't you remember the LA riots?
That aside, what the Village Voice writer was
pointing out was that 'geeks' are generally likely
to move into the entire echelons of capitalism
and they are by and large white. Simple fact I
would have thought, and for 'geeks' to act as
they are oppressed by this arrangement (even
comparing their treatment to the holocaust) just
takes the piss.
I find the notion of a closed community, enforced
technologically or socially, somewhat scarey. It
seems less a utopia than a retreat from the kind
of vibrant intellectual life that might
characterise the internet in a less privatised
society. One of the intriguing things about
slashdot is the heterogenous range of views and
topics, more like a cafe (of the Left bank sort,
if a bit too near the CS department for comfort)
than the university common room.
Well listen to an SNP member, what is the need
for a separate Scottish state if not to escape
English 'oppression'.
I disagree, US national identity was based on a shared ethos, it had its downside of course, but it wasn't based on opposition to another country.
One can emigrant to the US and become an American citzen for example.
I meant that the differences between two humans (from any ethnic group) are more than the differences between the averages of any particular ethnic group.
I try to avoid essentialising nationality, simply because it is an empirical fact that all humans are almost entirely the same. Any two Scotsmen would be less alike than the 'average' Welsh and Scot.
But nationality identity has provided a potent way of uniting a country, think how much the British empire depended on a cohesive notion of Britishness. Now the British empire committed some terrible crimes but national identity can function in a positive way, for example the USA, when it is based on progressive principals. Scottish and Welsh nationalism on the other hand is distinguished by being opposed to English 'oppression'. I can see very little good coming from it.
As with all books of prediction, this is really a comment on the present. The dominant trend of the past decades has been a declining industrial base in the advanced countries (second wave, or capitalist as they are usually called), now rather than seeing this as a failure of capitalism (which it certainly is), the theorists of the new economy redefine unemployment as flexibility, low paged, irregular work as service jobs, the breakdown in national identity and cohesion in favour of largely imaginary "ethnic" identities (for example Scotland and Wales) as decentralisation. When the author predicts that goods will be designed almost for each person this is clearly a fantasy, out of reach of all but the richest, the modern trend being noted here is twofold, first towards definitions of identity based mainly on consumption and secondly towards a shift of responsibility onto the individual. If we are 'prosummers' then we have no need or desire to put complain about our circumstances, join political parties or trade unions, in short social life is completely privatised. This is not a utopia, except for those who are benefiting from a lack of political accountability, but a nightmare. Decadence is the only way to describe it.
It should also be noted that the computer industries growth has chiefly come from consolidation, it is only the fantasy world of the US stockmarket that makes it appear otherwise.
--
Yours, depressingly
Please Comrade, what did poor old KM do to deserve that. Nice to see him mentioned in a non-GNU context though.
The Ramboullet were a charade. The US government prevented face-to-face contact between the parties and less than 18 hours before the talks were due to end presented the Yugoslav delegation with 56 new pages of text. The agreement provided for the virtual occupation of the whole of Yugoslav, no sovereign government could have signed it and the Yugoslavian government weren't intended to.
Second, we (i.e. our governments) did quite a lot in Bosnia, we encouraged the Bosnian Muslims to fight on in the hope that the US would intervene on their behalf. More importantly, at the beginning of the breakup of Yugoslavia we gave the green light to the independence of Croatia, Slovenia and then Bosnia, making a solution that preserved Yugoslavia impossible.
Thirdly, it is important what other sides did. It begs the important question, why Serbia, why now?
And yes, the KLA does kill Serbs (who are a substantial part of the population of Kosovo), so another Krajina might be on the cards if the Yugoslavian army wasn't there.
Fourthly, I know a number of Yugoslavians living in Britain and none of them are any more irrational than any other nationality, and to say so is rascist. Moreover, nationalism doesn't arise out of a vacum, it was created by the extremely high levels of unemployment in Yugoslavia after our friendly, non-intervening superpowers cut financial aid.
Several points
i) You might ask your brother what the Croat
army did to the Serb population of Krajina, with
in this case Nato air cover.
ii) Civil wars are nasty, its a fact of life. But atrocities were committed by all sides. The roots of the current conflict lie in the wave of violence against ethnic Serbs in Kosovo which lead the Yugoslav government to revoke its autonomous status. What is needed is not Western intervention (which has already made things worst) but a locally agreed solution. The British and US government hardly have clean fingers in respect of the wars of the last 50 years, are you heading down to Washington to bomb the US government too?
iii) You want to 'bomb Serbia into the stone age"
and yet you condem ethnic violence. It is simply incredible you don't seen the discontinuity between these statements.
iv) I'm not a Serb agent and it shows the weakness of the case for the war that its defenders are reduced to name calling
Well it is perhaps because the case of the
Yugoslavian government (which in my opinion is
entirely reasonable) is being made known, that
their internet connection has been shutoff.
I actually agree it isn't as serious as the US
bombing Yugoslavia or funding terrorists.
I suggest anyone who is computer literate and opposed to the war should make sure Nato and
the Nato government's propoganda sites are shutdown.
This is just FUD. Only modifications to the source
of GCC are covered by its license (in this case the GPL).
The output it produces is unencumbered. However if
you link with libraries covered by the LGPL then
the source to your program remains unencumbered
but people using your program have the right to
the source of the LGPL libraries, usually this is
never a problem since they are all widely available.
You have to hope that the video game companies have enough
courage to ask if burnt out executives could sue
the company that makes Monopoly, the relatives of Yugoslavians
or Iraqis killed by the US army could sue the makers of
Desert Strike or maybe countries with an unpleasant,
warmongering president could claim it was his unhealthy addict to
Civilization which got him/her started.