"You may not concider your self a racist, but if you are white in America you are benefitting from a racist system and your innaction on attempting to undo those elements that are benefitting you because of your skin color is tacit support of racism, at best."
I think maybe you don't understand what PetWolverine is trying to say. He is saying the means do not acheive the end. Even if a person is not racist i.e. someone who thinks race has direct correlation with ability, it is still logical for him/her to come to the conclusion that in certain environment the correlation exist.
Also not doing anything maybe better than doing a bad thing, or have a wrong policy. That does not mean that someone do not care. It means that when a decision is to be made to undo elements and impact of past injustice, the decision must be firstly effective and not have too severe side effect.
You may be interested in this article by Glenn C. Loury (by the way he is african american) http://www.bu.edu/irsd/articles/howtomn d.htm, in particular the section Logical Stereotyping.
PS You may be able to deduce that I am not a native english speaker. I came from Hong Kong, raised in the middle class family, have above average IQ but below average EQ, introvert and below average communications skill (am I disadvantaged? Need special help?) I think that the best we could ask for is to stop systematic unjust law and policy but rely on non profit organisations to achieve our goals.
Oh, not only a little bit plato, but also some aristotle...
I could only guess why some people behave like that.
Red hat is the 'proof' to them that open source business model works -- it is profitable and at the same time 'moral'. Unlike Microsoft.
But now their dream break down. So they become upset.
RMS had it right. He said he was not sure whether free software could make more money, or work better than proprietary software.
For me, the interesting thing is whether Redhat made the right business decision. It probably is a good decision in the short run. But for the long run I am not sure.
But two of his kids are 11 and 12 only. They probably are still too young to have unlimited and unsupervised internet access.
And you think they could handle torture and genocide? Morally they could, but emotionally?
11 and 12 years old are not adult.
I think that psychologically it is possible to become aroused on guys (or leather boots:) by some kind of conditioning?
With our brain and harmones, everything is possible. (I am not saying that there is no genetic influence.)
I am not an expert on pornography.
But, I think that there is a difference between different kind of pornography.
Softccore stuff should be ok.
Hard, really hardcore stuff do have some bad impact on.
With respect, may I suggest that communication is a two-way street.
You really cannot compare tech (or car) salespeople and medical practitioner, unless you think the customer or the boss is always right.
Different people have opinions on what jargons need to be explained to what people. Like should a stock investor know what is EBITDA? Should an employee know what is EBITDA? Should a financial advisor use the term EBITDA? Should a stock broker use the term EBITDA?
Respect is also two-way, between management and technical staff.
Although many of his (popular) writings are conservative propaganda, in this particular one on Social Security Privatization he did mention that there would not be risk-free higher return on private plans. But it is good because people now people could choose their own investment mix according to their own risk calculations.
But that would bring up the classic trade-off between freedom and equality.
Hopefully Redhat is going to grow and become profitable, then maybe they would come back and provide some products to small business/non-profit market.
Between the time, some smaller companies should be able to fill the gap, i.e. provide security updates to out-of-date rh version.
BTW, if you are open-source supporter, there is no surprise here. Since proprietary software is not evil, Redhat has done nothing wrong -- maybe except the audit part, but no one is forced to buy their software either.
And if you are free software supporter, then there is still the freedom to support out-of-date redhat distributions.
It's fun to guess/count how many percent of people don't read the article...
I think something you quote is very interesting:
Unless they happen to be very good looking, or great natural athletes, or have older siblings who are popular, they'll tend to become nerds."
So he thinks becoming a nerd is inevitible if someone is smart and not spend time to become popular; otherwise it is due to something totally out of his/her control.
Great natural ahletes? They practise *hard*. A nerd can do that too.
I don't know how to continue... another nature v nurture argument?
The reason seems obvious -- they are still young, and nobody give them good advice.
I also think that bullying become more common if students are bored. I think more extra-curicular activities,clubs would help. Of course having competent teachers in class help -- otherwise what else to do beside bullying each other?
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"You may not concider your self a racist, but if you are white in America you are benefitting from a racist system and your innaction on attempting to undo those elements that are benefitting you because of your skin color is tacit support of racism, at best."
n d.htm, in particular the section Logical Stereotyping.
I think maybe you don't understand what PetWolverine is trying to say. He is saying the means do not acheive the end. Even if a person is not racist i.e. someone who thinks race has direct correlation with ability, it is still logical for him/her to come to the conclusion that in certain environment the correlation exist.
Also not doing anything maybe better than doing a bad thing, or have a wrong policy. That does not mean that someone do not care. It means that when a decision is to be made to undo elements and impact of past injustice, the decision must be firstly effective and not have too severe side effect.
You may be interested in this article by Glenn C. Loury (by the way he is african american)
http://www.bu.edu/irsd/articles/howtom
PS You may be able to deduce that I am not a native english speaker. I came from Hong Kong, raised in the middle class family, have above average IQ but below average EQ, introvert and below average communications skill (am I disadvantaged? Need special help?) I think that the best we could ask for is to stop systematic unjust law and policy but rely on non profit organisations to achieve our goals.
Oh, not only a little bit plato, but also some aristotle...
I could only guess why some people behave like that.
Red hat is the 'proof' to them that open source business model works -- it is profitable and at the same time 'moral'. Unlike Microsoft.
But now their dream break down. So they become upset.
RMS had it right. He said he was not sure whether free software could make more money, or work better than proprietary software.
For me, the interesting thing is whether Redhat made the right business decision. It probably is a good decision in the short run. But for the long run I am not sure.
But two of his kids are 11 and 12 only. They probably are still too young to have unlimited and unsupervised internet access. And you think they could handle torture and genocide? Morally they could, but emotionally? 11 and 12 years old are not adult.
How about you discuss your masturbation with your son first? That shouldn't be difficult.
Of course that's related to his rule no. 1.
5 years old? Unlimited access in his room? You must be kidding.
I think that psychologically it is possible to become aroused on guys (or leather boots :) by some kind of conditioning?
With our brain and harmones, everything is possible. (I am not saying that there is no genetic influence.)
I am not an expert on pornography. But, I think that there is a difference between different kind of pornography. Softccore stuff should be ok. Hard, really hardcore stuff do have some bad impact on.
As long as Koffice could open and save to the old format, it should not be a big problem.
I never say I agree with all his points. He is not a god, and he never pretends to be one.
OTOH, Henry Spencer ...
A classic
Only one problem I can see: Strike of the public union.
I second your choice. One of the author is the creator of beanshell. He knows Java very well.
With respect, may I suggest that communication is a two-way street.
You really cannot compare tech (or car) salespeople and medical practitioner, unless you think the customer or the boss is always right.
Different people have opinions on what jargons need to be explained to what people. Like should a stock investor know what is EBITDA? Should an employee know what is EBITDA? Should a financial advisor use the term EBITDA? Should a stock broker use the term EBITDA?
Respect is also two-way, between management and technical staff.
See this
2.Piano
3.Chinese Chess
4.Board Games
5.Bridge
I guess those are geeky hobbies. The interesting thing is 3,4,5 could be done on a computer or online with other people.
Tech/IT gives profit by:
1. Reducing cost (Fedex,IBM),
2. Providing valuable services (Google -- intranet search, not internet search,IBM), and
3. Creating Monopolies (Microsoft, IBM)
Guess for whom would I like to work?
For me, the Bubble never burst as IBM, Oracle are still discontinuing the support on old versions of their software at a rate that urge me to curse!
You may be intersted in this
http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/barro/ bw/bw00_07_03.pdf
Although many of his (popular) writings are conservative propaganda, in this particular one on Social Security Privatization he did mention that there would not be risk-free higher return on private plans. But it is good because people now people could choose their own investment mix according to their own risk calculations.
But that would bring up the classic trade-off between freedom and equality.
The tragedy is people do not even understand trivial economic issues. And we seldom fairly evaluate the costs of valuable treasures.
First see whether you could join an existing project. This will save everybody's time.
For example, Read This Before You Write a Newsreader
Bottom line, there is no free lunch.
Hopefully Redhat is going to grow and become profitable, then maybe they would come back and provide some products to small business/non-profit market.
Between the time, some smaller companies should be able to fill the gap, i.e. provide security updates to out-of-date rh version.
BTW, if you are open-source supporter, there is no surprise here. Since proprietary software is not evil, Redhat has done nothing wrong -- maybe except the audit part, but no one is forced to buy their software either.
And if you are free software supporter, then there is still the freedom to support out-of-date redhat distributions.
And if you (myself included) are cheap ...
Are there really people extending desktop or server applications to use javascript?
I want to know as well.
You could find open source javascript runtime by searching ecmascript and runtime on google.
I believe qtscript is based on ecmascript. Flash also use it for user scripting.
Which is better as an "extention" language?
Both are equally powerful. Both are different from traditional language like C and pascal, so they both requires different thinking patterns.
TCL has better implementation and community support, but javascript is more popular and easier to learn.
It's a tough choice.
Ever heard about Beanshell?
it may help...
I guess you are working in a IT consulting company? IBM Global Services?
How lucky you are! At least you don't have to know Coldfusion...
It's fun to guess/count how many percent of people don't read the article...
I think something you quote is very interesting:
Unless they happen to be very good looking, or great natural athletes, or have older siblings who are popular, they'll tend to become nerds."
So he thinks becoming a nerd is inevitible if someone is smart and not spend time to become popular; otherwise it is due to something totally out of his/her control.
Great natural ahletes? They practise *hard*. A nerd can do that too.
I don't know how to continue ... another nature v nurture argument?
The reason seems obvious -- they are still young, and nobody give them good advice.
I also think that bullying become more common if students are bored. I think more extra-curicular activities,clubs would help. Of course having competent teachers in class help -- otherwise what else to do beside bullying each other?