...plus the wonderful support of Apple (rated very highly every year)...
SUPPORT?!? For your information,/.'ers don't need no stinking support!:->
If Apple didn't kill the clones, the clones would have killed Apple...
Clones did not kill IBM, in fact they led to a competitive marketplace where new companies like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc. sprang up to compete with IBM. Competition is good for the consumer as more suppliers == lower prices. Apparently Steve Jobs must have failed Economics 101...
Sort of reminds me of their brilliant closed-architecture policy back in the 80's.....
Culminating in the more recent "No Clones" fiasco, which is the main reason I don't own a Mac.
I used to work for the advertising department of a department store chain in the mid-1990s, and I was continually amazed at how productive the Mac could make non-computer-literate designers and copywriters. I would have bought one if they had been priced cheaper and was hoping that the then-upcoming Mac clones were going to be a step in the right direction.
Apple killing off the Mac clones is why I still can't afford one and why I have a network of x86 clones at home. Oh well, I never did like being limited to one mouse button...
What is really amazing is how Apple can keep dropping the ball and still manage to stay in business!!!
I also happen to have a two-year-old brother, and in case anyone reading this doesn't know - babies are freaking expensive.
Like someone said on another thread, if you can't afford to have a baby, don't! Oh wait, that only applies to Black and Hispanic women on welfare. Never mind...
I know not a single person with "minority" status that has to work as hard as I do.
So the hundreds of Chicanos I personally know that are busboys, dishwashers, gardeners, housekeepers, etc. don't work as hard as you do? Just how many minorities do you know? I have to run a household on part-time wages and can't even afford a car. I work pretty damn hard myself yet I also manage to afford to go to school. Some advice:
1) If you want to get financial aid, make less money [less than 20K/yr] for this year and you will get it next year. Contrary to your opinion, financial aid is need based, not race based. Minorities get more financial aid because they are usually poor and they NEED it, not because of affirmative action.
2) Budget. Sell your car and use the bus. Get a roommate. Quit drinking and smoking weed. Don't spend money on high-tech toys you can't afford. That is how I can afford to go to school.
3) Instead of whining like a luser, get off your ass and join the military. I spent two years in the Army as an infantryman and got $24K in G.I. Bill benefits. The sweet part is that as a Texas veteran, if I cannot qualify for financial aid the state will pay for my tuition/fees through the Hazelwood Act. For the rest of my life!
There are ways to get money for school but it requires sacrifice, something that you seemingly know nothing about...
I do not mean to sound bigoted, because i'm not.
You have not given us any evidence to the contrary. If it quacks like a duck it probably IS a duck!!!
I am thankful for what I have, but it disgusts me to think that if I were another color that I would have damn near a free ride.
FREE RIDE? What the hell are you talking about? I currently owe at least 17K in student loans. Loans that I have to pay back. Nothing in life is free. Unless your name is George Bush...
Let me tell you, just wait until you get out of college and things will change for you. You will get first shot at the best jobs, and will get paid more and will get to join the exclusive country clubs. Being white is a "get out of jail" card you will be able to play the rest of your life.
What are you, a College Republican ditto-head? It sure sounds like it, as they like to talk about things they know absolutely nothing about, content to parrot GOP propaganda.
I have been on welfare. If were not for welfare I would have never have survived the 1960's. You see, my dad fell off an oil rig and hurt his back in the days before workman's comp. The company he worked for fired him because he couldn't work and my family had NO income at all.
Were it not for the excellent care he received at a Veteran's Administration hospital (he is a WWII vet) he would have never been able to get his back fixed. Were it not for Welfare my family and I would have starved. If it were not for the Comprehensive Education and Training Act he would have never been retrained as a carpenter and been able to begin a new career after his injury.
Incidentally they were all Democratic programs, as was Social Security. What you call socialistic I would call humanistic. I guess you would rather have my dad suffer in chronic back pain, work as a busboy, and have not only my family and but all the elderly who happen to be poor starve, huh? I guess you aren't one of those new-fangled compassionate conservatives...
Minimum wages are even worse; they hurt everyone at the bottom.
Cribbing from your College Republican cheat sheet again, huh? Let me give you a clue --> mindlessly spouting GOP mantras does not make them the truth!
How in hell does giving someone more money hurt them? It is about dignity for those who happen to be part of the lower class. Would you rather have these people work for a decent wage or get crap wages and have to go on food stamps to make ends meet?
Republicans keep saying that raising the minimum wage is inflationary, raises unemployment, and is bad for the country. The last two minimum wage increases have not had that effect. Inflation is in check and unemployment is at an all time low. In fact, due to record levels of employment many employers have to pay more than the minimum wage to find workers.
Republicans are supposed to be the party that are good for the economy, yet the last several Republican administrations have had shaky economic records. Bill Clinton and the Democrats have the economy humming at a record rate. Oh wait, I forget, the Republicans say that the current state of the economy is due to George Bush. ROTFL -- those Republicans sure know how to crack me up!!!
A right is something which doesn't cost the rest of the world: free speech, fair trial, arms bearing, lack of torture.
Say what? The rights we enjoy came at a great cost -- human life! People died during the American Revolution to give us the Constitution and its wonderful Bill of Rights. People died during World War II maintaining our rights, so they certainly did not come cheaply!
Free speech is not without cost. How many people suffer because they express unpopular opinions? Also, it costs a lot to send someone to prison so it is an undisputable fact that fair trials are not inexpensive. As for lack of torture, I can recall the media mentioning the fact that the total cost for NATO to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was in the billions, so clearly your argument does not wash...
We must make government legally color-blind so that it will stop using racial bias to continually expand government. Without government promoting division between the races, these divisions will eventually disappear.
And I suppose you believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny too? The government does not make the divisions up, it just categorizes and counts them and uses them to make equitable policies. Have you ever read the Constitution? It is called equal protection under the law.
If you are color blind, then you are ignoring the fact that I have color, i.e., you turn me into a white person. If you ignore the fact that I speak Spanish also then you treat me like I speak English only, i.e., like an average white person. In essence you completely ignore WHO and WHAT I am and turn me into what YOU want me to be. Like the guy in Repo Man sez: "Bullshit on that!"
If you want proof look at the political parties and their respective conventions. The Republicans believe in color-blindness and if you were to go to one of their conventions you would see the 1950's all over again -- old, straight, rich white men with a few token Blacks and Hispanics.
The Democrats, on the other hand, believe in, nay, celebrate diversity so if you were to go to one of their conventions you would see a slice of 1990's America. So not only will you see substantial Black and Hispanic representation, you will see women, the young, gays, and even some poor people.
I don't know about you but the America I live in is not composed only of old, straight, rich white men, but you wouldn't know it by reading the opinions of some of the fools who post to slashdot!
There are probably also some cultural differences - most web content is in English, which will lower use among Hispanics
What on earth are you talking about??? The the net is not solely an American/British phenomenon, as your ethnocentric statement seems to assert. If you speak Spanish you can get plenty of Spanish language content from Spain, Mexico and Central and South America. Also, you discount the fact that many American Hispanics speak English.
No, the main reason American Hispanics don't use the net is MONEY!!! Not because we can't afford to buy computers but because we can't afford to send our kids to elite private schools (many with a with one-to-one computer-kid ratio) so we have to send them to crappy public schools (with a 1:50 or 1:100 computer-kid ratio). That is if they even have computers at all.
If you want your page to look any better than just a plain grey text page, you need to make your site into one great big GIF.
Using GIFs instead of text would increase the download time for that webpage as well as limit you to 256 colors for artwork. It would also prevent saving the text in a form that you can index/grep and prevent you from using cut and paste should you want to quote that text. But most of all it would prevent users from using Lynx unless the text is included as part of the ALT tag (just how long can the ALT text be, anyway?).
Your "solution" causes more problems than it solves!!!
Slashdot Mirror
Say whatever you want about the OS; I've had my PowerBook for over a month and it hasn't crashed yet.
But you haven't had it turned on the whole time, have you? No crashes in one month does not necessarily mean an uptime of one month...
...plus the wonderful support of Apple (rated very highly every year)...
/.'ers don't need no stinking support! :->
SUPPORT?!? For your information,
If Apple didn't kill the clones, the clones would have killed Apple...
Clones did not kill IBM, in fact they led to a competitive marketplace where new companies like Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc. sprang up to compete with IBM. Competition is good for the consumer as more suppliers == lower prices. Apparently Steve Jobs must have failed Economics 101...
Sort of reminds me of their brilliant closed-architecture policy back in the 80's.....
Culminating in the more recent "No Clones" fiasco, which is the main reason I don't own a Mac.
I used to work for the advertising department of a department store chain in the mid-1990s, and I was continually amazed at how productive the Mac could make non-computer-literate designers and copywriters. I would have bought one if they had been priced cheaper and was hoping that the then-upcoming Mac clones were going to be a step in the right direction.
Apple killing off the Mac clones is why I still can't afford one and why I have a network of x86 clones at home. Oh well, I never did like being limited to one mouse button...
What is really amazing is how Apple can keep dropping the ball and still manage to stay in business!!!
I also happen to have a two-year-old brother, and in case anyone reading this doesn't know - babies are freaking expensive.
Like someone said on another thread, if you can't afford to have a baby, don't! Oh wait, that only applies to Black and Hispanic women on welfare. Never mind...
I know not a single person with "minority" status that has to work as hard as I do.
So the hundreds of Chicanos I personally know that are busboys, dishwashers, gardeners, housekeepers, etc. don't work as hard as you do? Just how many minorities do you know? I have to run a household on part-time wages and can't even afford a car. I work pretty damn hard myself yet I also manage to afford to go to school. Some advice:
1) If you want to get financial aid, make less money [less than 20K/yr] for this year and you will get it next year. Contrary to your opinion, financial aid is need based, not race based. Minorities get more financial aid because they are usually poor and they NEED it, not because of affirmative action.
2) Budget. Sell your car and use the bus. Get a roommate. Quit drinking and smoking weed. Don't spend money on high-tech toys you can't afford. That is how I can afford to go to school.
3) Instead of whining like a luser, get off your ass and join the military. I spent two years in the Army as an infantryman and got $24K in G.I. Bill benefits. The sweet part is that as a Texas veteran, if I cannot qualify for financial aid the state will pay for my tuition/fees through the Hazelwood Act. For the rest of my life!
There are ways to get money for school but it requires sacrifice, something that you seemingly know nothing about...
I do not mean to sound bigoted, because i'm not.
You have not given us any evidence to the contrary. If it quacks like a duck it probably IS a duck!!!
I am thankful for what I have, but it disgusts me to think that if I were another color that I would have damn near a free ride.
FREE RIDE? What the hell are you talking about? I currently owe at least 17K in student loans. Loans that I have to pay back. Nothing in life is free. Unless your name is George Bush...
Let me tell you, just wait until you get out of college and things will change for you. You will get first shot at the best jobs, and will get paid more and will get to join the exclusive country clubs. Being white is a "get out of jail" card you will be able to play the rest of your life.
Quack, quack, quack...
Welfare reduces the incentive to work.
What are you, a College Republican ditto-head? It sure sounds like it, as they like to talk about things they know absolutely nothing about, content to parrot GOP propaganda.
I have been on welfare. If were not for welfare I would have never have survived the 1960's. You see, my dad fell off an oil rig and hurt his back in the days before workman's comp. The company he worked for fired him because he couldn't work and my family had NO income at all.
Were it not for the excellent care he received at a Veteran's Administration hospital (he is a WWII vet) he would have never been able to get his back fixed. Were it not for Welfare my family and I would have starved. If it were not for the Comprehensive Education and Training Act he would have never been retrained as a carpenter and been able to begin a new career after his injury.
Incidentally they were all Democratic programs, as was Social Security. What you call socialistic I would call humanistic. I guess you would rather have my dad suffer in chronic back pain, work as a busboy, and have not only my family and but all the elderly who happen to be poor starve, huh? I guess you aren't one of those new-fangled compassionate conservatives...
Minimum wages are even worse; they hurt everyone at the bottom.
Cribbing from your College Republican cheat sheet again, huh? Let me give you a clue --> mindlessly spouting GOP mantras does not make them the truth!
How in hell does giving someone more money hurt them? It is about dignity for those who happen to be part of the lower class. Would you rather have these people work for a decent wage or get crap wages and have to go on food stamps to make ends meet?
Republicans keep saying that raising the minimum wage is inflationary, raises unemployment, and is bad for the country. The last two minimum wage increases have not had that effect. Inflation is in check and unemployment is at an all time low. In fact, due to record levels of employment many employers have to pay more than the minimum wage to find workers.
Republicans are supposed to be the party that are good for the economy, yet the last several Republican administrations have had shaky economic records. Bill Clinton and the Democrats have the economy humming at a record rate. Oh wait, I forget, the Republicans say that the current state of the economy is due to George Bush. ROTFL -- those Republicans sure know how to crack me up!!!
A right is something which doesn't cost the rest of the world: free speech, fair trial, arms bearing, lack of torture.
Say what? The rights we enjoy came at a great cost -- human life! People died during the American Revolution to give us the Constitution and its wonderful Bill of Rights. People died during World War II maintaining our rights, so they certainly did not come cheaply!
Free speech is not without cost. How many people suffer because they express unpopular opinions? Also, it costs a lot to send someone to prison so it is an undisputable fact that fair trials are not inexpensive. As for lack of torture, I can recall the media mentioning the fact that the total cost for NATO to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was in the billions, so clearly your argument does not wash...
We must make government legally color-blind so that it will stop using racial bias to continually expand government. Without government promoting division between the races, these divisions will eventually disappear.
And I suppose you believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny too? The government does not make the divisions up, it just categorizes and counts them and uses them to make equitable policies. Have you ever read the Constitution? It is called equal protection under the law.
If you are color blind, then you are ignoring the fact that I have color, i.e., you turn me into a white person. If you ignore the fact that I speak Spanish also then you treat me like I speak English only, i.e., like an average white person. In essence you completely ignore WHO and WHAT I am and turn me into what YOU want me to be. Like the guy in Repo Man sez: "Bullshit on that!"
If you want proof look at the political parties and their respective conventions. The Republicans believe in color-blindness and if you were to go to one of their conventions you would see the 1950's all over again -- old, straight, rich white men with a few token Blacks and Hispanics.
The Democrats, on the other hand, believe in, nay, celebrate diversity so if you were to go to one of their conventions you would see a slice of 1990's America. So not only will you see substantial Black and Hispanic representation, you will see women, the young, gays, and even some poor people.
I don't know about you but the America I live in is not composed only of old, straight, rich white men, but you wouldn't know it by reading the opinions of some of the fools who post to slashdot!
There are probably also some cultural differences - most web content is in English, which will lower use among Hispanics
What on earth are you talking about??? The the net is not solely an American/British phenomenon, as your ethnocentric statement seems to assert. If you speak Spanish you can get plenty of Spanish language content from Spain, Mexico and Central and South America. Also, you discount the fact that many American Hispanics speak English.
No, the main reason American Hispanics don't use the net is MONEY!!! Not because we can't afford to buy computers but because we can't afford to send our kids to elite private schools (many with a with one-to-one computer-kid ratio) so we have to send them to crappy public schools (with a 1:50 or 1:100 computer-kid ratio). That is if they even have computers at all.
Economic racism is a bitch...
If you want your page to look any better than just a plain grey text page, you need to make your site into one great big GIF.
Using GIFs instead of text would increase the download time for that webpage as well as limit you to 256 colors for artwork. It would also prevent saving the text in a form that you can index/grep and prevent you from using cut and paste should you want to quote that text. But most of all it would prevent users from using Lynx unless the text is included as part of the ALT tag (just how long can the ALT text be, anyway?).
Your "solution" causes more problems than it solves!!!