There are 8 Macs in my work/home space right now, ranging from 1996 to 2004. They all have a highly functional power button on the front. Your point?
Or maybe you're thinking about the FatMac 512K that's sitting in my closet, ca. 1985. That one does have a power button on the back. OK, I guess there were some Motorola 60x based machines with power buttons on the back. Most of those also had power buttons on the keyboard.
I believe that there is no coincidence in most major cultures having the same types of stories and buildings (ie pyramids). I can't prove what, nor can I fathom what may have been the central force behind it all.
I believe that historians, archaeologists, and the like, severely underestimate just how much travel there was in the truly ancient world. People can walk a thousand kilometers in a couple of years without too much hardship (relative to standards at the time). I believe that there is as yet uncovered evidence of seaside civilizations, and that they had marine technologies adequate for long distance voyages. I believe that the "collective unconscious" that shows up in parallel stories, symbolics, and architecture, is largely a product of homo sapiens sapiens evolving with a global cultural commerce, much like our skull shape is a product of our mastery of fire, i.e. eating cooked food.
I believe that our scalp-hair's bizarre unlimited growth is similarly a cultural product.
More down-to-earth than a slot-loading bubble iMac with Rage 128 video? So, I wanted to run the latest OS, upgraded to a 7200RPM 60GB discount Maxtor HD and put a couple of PC133 512MB RAM chips in, big deal. Runs Panther great, even with Konfabulator sucking cycles, and no Quartz Extreme. Doesn't run the latest renderheavy apps or games of course, but everything else is fine, especially last years' apps.
I'm going to install Jaguar on a all-in-one G3 233MHz. I'll post in my journal on how it goes.
I have run OS X (10.2) on a G3, and let me tell you it is miserable. Everything studders, even the nice genie effect and dock. Multitasking is impossible, and at idle the CPU is at 55%.
Panther really made the difference for G3's. Posting from home on a G3 500 running 10.3; only occasional stutters when heavily multitasking (e.g. Azureus, Toast (burning), Firefox, Word, Preview, Mail, Quicktime, iTunes, macjournal, BBEdit, Quicksilver, Konfabulator are usually running, at least two or three actively, in two different logged-in users) and generally an acceptable GUI response time, dock is smooth, animations work. Idle CPU usage rarely gets over 20%, 30% when running Konfabulator. Of course, having 1GB of RAM and a fast HD makes the biggest difference on a G3.
Are you are not applying the 5 security updates Apple released in the last 5 months (9/07, 9/16, 9/30, 10/27, 12/2) that requires a reboot then?
Not on that machine, not until a particular project is finished next month. Always update between major projects. It's a calculated risk, and easier to make when you're 'flying under the radar' on an alternative OS.
used the trademark phrase of "snappy"
OK, busted. The dual G4 is right at the edge of what I consider a responsive GUI, and not always snappy (eg. when rendering). The G5 is 'snappy.' Your 'greased-pig' dig is gratuitous: I make no silly speed claims for old gear, other than admiring the speed-up in 10.3 and the longevity of Apple's kit. For the record, I like working on Macs, but only in comparison to XP or a less-than-perfect Linux install, and I'd still be running W2K on my admin machine if it didn't require constant fiddling with security. Computers are a looong ways off from what I want, have wanted for 20 years, and Apple bears most of my ire in that respect since they lead the pack in many design directions.
To return to the point: a G4 will be fast enough for the average user if RAM is adequate.
Yes, I may be a billionaire, but I spend most of my time as software architect making interns learn FCP on an old G4 because I like piddling around on old gear, and Steve B's doing such a great job. Otherwise, I hang out on/. and troll for the Bildenburger agenda, now that the doctors say my Adjustments are going well. That's all for now, I'm posting from an underground city near Bellingham, and I have to go to a meeting of the Elitist International Satanist Banking Mafia to plan the Longhorn (get it?) rollout.
I've gotten so cozy in my nearly MS-free world since I managed to offload the last W2K machine that I forget about the risks, and how that antiviral cruft soaked up CPU and RAM.
Until, that is, I open an MS Office document with macros, then the whole sense of dread and ire comes back; and I'm always surprised and annoyed when the latest worm brings local networks staggering to their knees.
I regularly have interns with their new XP-laden laptops puffing their lips out in a combination of awe and despair when they realize that the dual-450MHz G4 I have them working on is
4 years old
running nonstop (over 5 mos. this time)
running no antivirus software and on a university network
doing everything their new WinTel machines can, only smoothly (OK I've disabled chat services so they'll get some work done; likewise it is game-free)
stock, but the heart of a productive video editing set-up (despite a wimpy video card)
only slightly less snappy than the shiny new G5 in the next rack over, which is rated at over 5 times the MHz (well, until they rip or render).
Panther (10.3) actually sped up the 350MHz iBook w/ 384MB of RAM that I use for field work; even on that hand-crank antique OS X is eminently usable, and wows onlookers (although often it's Quicksilver's functionality that's really causing the eyepoppiing).
OS X on a cheap G4 will convert people. The only key issues for me are stock RAM configurations and build quality.
Musical Drool, sometimes called Muzak, is scientifically organized and driven by social engineering. Studies beginning in WWII factories determined many of the physiological and correllating psychological effects of tempo, style, etc. of piped-in musical drool.
Sophisticated retail operations now use this in a far more refined manner, factoring in time of day, time of year, weather, circadian rythms, regional demographics, whether people should linger or move on, feel nostalgic or forward thinking, you name it. Yes it's acoustic purgatory; yes it is universally despised; yes, it works. It streamlines and optimizes purchasing behaviour, statistically.
Like it or not, the main obstacle that minorities need to overcome is their own culture. Past atrocites aside, sometimes you need to just get over it and get on with it. Adapt. Survive. That includes dressing/acting/speaking in such a way to get that job you're after, even if it doesn't reflect your "culture".
Oh, I agree that we all take personal responsibility, and cultures and subcultures take collective responsibility, in order to improve things. No kidding!
However, stating that that's all they really have holding them back is just ignoring enormous social problems that are "overdetermined"--that is, they are shored up from many angles and processes--and doomed to failure. At worst, it is a form of "blaming the victim." "If she didn't dress purty, she wouldn't get raped" just doesn't fly anymore, unless you're advocating Taliban values.
The problem wasn't what's happened in the past, the problem is that history is now a crutch to avoid doing what everyone else has to do to survive.
This is a half-truth. Crutch to some, yeah, no doubts. History isn't just the past, however. What do they teach people in high school history these days? Isn't it obvious that history is an ongoing process? Social systems are complex, like fluid dynamics. Drop a pebble in: the mineral is on the bottom, but the pond continues to respond. Remnants of old processes persist, and a drop of water can't do much about it. Past atrocities don't just stop--I have friends with murdered parents. You tell them to ignore its effects on their upbringing. I have friends who've lost everything to fraud and are left with burdensome debts. You tell them to not go bankrupt. I have friends who were sexually abused as children--tell them to ignore that and see what happens.
Generally, all those success-story exceptions you might come across will tell you that they had to work harder than the competition to get accepted, sometimes MUCH harder. The individual can overcome, but society is an aggregate, and greater (or, well, lesser) than the sum of its parts. Both levels must be addressed.
I never did anything that I need to be punished for. Why am I forced to make restitution for anything? That's silly.
It isn't about you, it's about this entity called society, which is the aggregate of its citizens' behaviour over time. Your interaction with society involves this interaction with the continuity of society's history; every time you walk into a Carnegie library, you're interacting with the continuing legacy of robber-baron philanthropy, with all its mixed bag of ongoing historical implications. In the same way that our children et. al will have to deal with our toxic dumps, we have to deal with our toxic socological remnants.
Saying 'why should I pay taxes / be inconvenienced / be refused access in order to clean up that problem' doesn't make the problem go away. The half-life of oppression is probably greater than an order of two generations.
I didn't do the abuse, why am I paying for it? It's time to level the playing field. You can't create equality while legislating perks for ANYONE.
This IS about levelling the playing field. The economic effects of years of prejudice continues. Levelling the playing field without filling in the holes isn't effective. I think that one of the issues here is that the ideological emphasis on individualism obscures the actual workings of collective behaviour. Think of the social security crisis, and how people are looking forward to how unfair it will be to those paying in to the system in 30 years. Another issue is the North American cultural denial of the existence of class, which leads people to seek other explanations for their troubles.
Go walk around a minority community and see how you are treated, then come back here and tell me that the in-your-face madness is one sided.
That's what I meant. My first visit to Chicago was stunning: I thought such segregation was limited to places like Johannesburg. Sure it goes both ways. You want people to be happy and patient with the situation?
all these laws do is reinforce the schism. Make everyone truly equal under the law, and the social aspects of it all will work itself out in time.
I agree that they probably do reinforce schisms, given the general ignorance about how the present includes past effects. Making everyone truly equal--even defining what is equal--is much more complicated than you suggest. Legislation like that generally ignores structural problems and focuses on specific documentable behaviours by individuals. Do you think that structural problems will naturally self-correct in a reasonable period of time? Then again, you seem to be ignoring (or denying) those structural issues.
Don't we deserve the same rights as anyone else?
The issue, here, is that you have more rights (in practice, if not in legislation). If economic benefit doesn't accrue, why bother investing or saving? The benefits derived from treaty-breaking expropriation of land is evident in real-estate speculation, for instance, and people are looking at how some corporations still exist that benefitted directly from slavery. (If you think that corporate law isn't fundamentally flawed, and that in fact yes, they should be given the rights of an individual with none of the responsibilities, they why yes, there are still 'people' around who directly stole labour through slavery--implicating the shareholders.)
Education isn't working very quickly, so the government decided to be a vanguard and lead the way. I'm not defending their boneheaded execution of a solution, but I am defending the attempt to fill in huge holes in the playing field.
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You can see those "sambo" lawn statues all over the USA as well.
Please explain, if the past is what's keeping "the people down", how recent immigrants and refugees can do so well, when they come into the country with absolutely nothing?
Well, Mr. Coward, a little homework into what it's like having your traditions stripped from you, your land and livelihood robbed, your language denied, your worth measured in either death or ducats, and the nature of culture (hint: it isn't individual, it's multigenerational), and you might begin to be able to answer your own question. It isn't the past keeping people down, it's the ongoing fruits of past policy. Try googling for 'effect s of slavery' and 'residential schools' for a start.
For what it's worth, I know millionaire lawyer First Nations people ('Indian' to Americans) and federal politicians from the Black community, and of course successful immigrants. They all acknowledge their own hard work, as well as noting the ongoing institutional violence directed at some of their communities and residual damage that hasn't healed yet from three generations back. Part of their hard work was in overcoming those obstacles, not just in entrepeneurship.
The myth of the american melting pot leads to a blindness about the nature of cultural transmission.
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Yeah, we're polite while we're saying racist things, eh?
When I first got to Ontario I couldn't believe that I was actually seeing little black sambo lawn ornaments. I mean, WTF?
Segregation and racist epithets up here generally are designed for those who were here first. When the architects of Apartheid wanted prior art, they came to Canada and looked at the reservation system.
especially since the peoples of the Americas didn't actually have any word denoting the land masses now known as the Americas
A fairly common cross-cultural legend on the continent commonly called it "Turtle Island." That name is now in vogue in the aborignal community, at least in Canada.
That's called restitution, dude. (Yeah, ok mods, I've taken the bait of a troll.) While it may be unfair in most applications, and almost always a bureaucratic bungle, quota programs are an attempt to address the ongoing, unfinished results of centuries of abuse. You are obviously just too ideologically mired (or just plain parochial) to see how skin privilege actually works on the grand scale. Every time I've been to the USA, I'm struck by how in-your-face this residual madness is.
You don't have equality in the 'States, despite half-witted quota programs, and you won't for a long time. It isn't as simple as the "Sneetches."
Sometimes, words cause the killing, maiming, and screaming to start. It's worth paying attention to those words. The words themselves don't hurt, but the results do.
Call me a baldheaded cracker; I don't care really, because at the end of the day my paleface still gives me (subtle, but noticeable) privileges.
Here's a hint: with most words, context is everything. There are a hundred ways to use the word "right" -- and some of them are threatening.
Interestingly, this is actually the same feature from Mac OS 8 or or even System 7, and the user interface is hardly changed at all (though the guts may be, IDK). It's ancient tech! It was great in its day (really was revolutionary for 1996), but you'd think they would at least upgrade the stinkin' voices a wee bit. In those days (yah I'm an ol' fart), there were external "PlainTalk" microphones that sat on the monitor and did a better job than the tiny laptop mic on the eMac.
With a systemwide macro program like Keyquencer I could stack up a huge amount of everyday tasks with a simple vocal command (computer, do morning routine), while looking for my coffee cup. Try asking it to tell you a joke. There are quite a few knocknock jokes in there.
Funny thing is that Longhorn is the name of an apres ski bar at the foot of both Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. They named their next-gen operating system after a saucepit bar known for its drunken rowdiness! How... comforting.
he's spent an awfully long time trying to make the world see things his way
I seem to remember (pls correct me) that when Jobs returned to Apple his work computer was a ThinkPad running OpenStep; I guess you could say that 'his way' has included running OS X on IBM hardware already.
let's face facts: the "West" has outstripped every other culture technologically for centuries. This has in turn led to cultural, financial, and philosophical dominance as well.
These 'facts' are likely to be challenged by history, particularly in the biological realm (thus the mad rush of biopiracy: go to indigenous cultures, find out what they know about flora and fauna, take it home, adapt it to laboratory conditions, and claim ownership via patents). Some traditional agricultures used incredible biodiversity to maintain food security. Reducing that biodiversity to ennable chemical and mechanical inputs isn't necessarily an improvement from the point of view of food security and nutrition, but it's good for profits and centralizing ownership, and temporary boosts of productivity (in a mirror of the stockmarket model).
My point is that your version of 'outstripping' is actually redefining the terms of advancement in what is sometimes a rather boneheaded way, because it results in dominance and improvements in one area at greater cost in others. Many of the improvements wrought by inappropriate tech are founded on ecological or sociological credit, and interest is accumulating. The cost/benefits of many technological advancements have been obscured by a doctrine of dominion and true advancements in things like arbitrage and other financial schemes.
This is not a bad thing-- it is just a thing. Someone has to be in charge, and the good news is that the dominant philosophy is liberal democracy.
Now that's just blatantly ideological. One could just as easily say that the dominant practice is neo-con kleptocracy.
We are seriously thinking about building our house using this product in a few years. Its going to either one of these domes or using insultated concrete forms (ICF).
I suggest trying to discover what kind of offgassing you're going to get from all that urethane and shotcrete. Seems like a good geometry, but the materials make me shudder... drywall and carpets are bad enough.
Ever seen what happens to the traditional adobe house when an earthquake hits?
I don't know about adobe bricks, but a similar material, cob, has curved walls and fibrous material for integrity, and generally withstand earthquakes well.
10 years (the first few were slim), so it's young, and only has 24 students at a time.
Did it turn out any pros?
2. Plenty of pros come out of there -- Vancouver is hollywoodNorth, the school has a great local rep. That said, many of the students are youth and not careerists in the end. Sometimes industry folks take courses there to revive their indie spirit, they have week-long courses available.
ny shown at Sundance, Slamdance or even Slumdance?
3. A few sundance screenings, many many awards in the student categories at many festivals, other festivals. Very good standings competing with films that were made for much more money on much better gear over a far longer period of time. Some of the best results are with high-school teens, but career-change people go there too.
It isn't a comprehensive film school. It's for building a sense of creativity and storytelling, self-esteem, and a can-do indie spirit. It is low-theory, high-intensity training in 15-hour-a-day media production with a small crew and utterly brutal deadline (no script to finished product in 6 days). The goal is to get people making their own product, get a demo reel and some awards, then get out there and get a job or a funder, instead of dinking around in $20,000/yr film schools.
University film schools are great for putting production training in the context of academic worldliness, but I know far too many graduates who spent 10 years as minor cogs in the hollywood machine in order to pay off gross student loans, and never had time to make their own films.
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So don't. Just play your playlist the way you ordered it before uploading.
There are 8 Macs in my work/home space right now, ranging from 1996 to 2004. They all have a highly functional power button on the front. Your point?
Or maybe you're thinking about the FatMac 512K that's sitting in my closet, ca. 1985. That one does have a power button on the back. OK, I guess there were some Motorola 60x based machines with power buttons on the back. Most of those also had power buttons on the keyboard.
I believe that historians, archaeologists, and the like, severely underestimate just how much travel there was in the truly ancient world. People can walk a thousand kilometers in a couple of years without too much hardship (relative to standards at the time). I believe that there is as yet uncovered evidence of seaside civilizations, and that they had marine technologies adequate for long distance voyages. I believe that the "collective unconscious" that shows up in parallel stories, symbolics, and architecture, is largely a product of homo sapiens sapiens evolving with a global cultural commerce, much like our skull shape is a product of our mastery of fire, i.e. eating cooked food.
I believe that our scalp-hair's bizarre unlimited growth is similarly a cultural product.
More down-to-earth than a slot-loading bubble iMac with Rage 128 video? So, I wanted to run the latest OS, upgraded to a 7200RPM 60GB discount Maxtor HD and put a couple of PC133 512MB RAM chips in, big deal. Runs Panther great, even with Konfabulator sucking cycles, and no Quartz Extreme. Doesn't run the latest renderheavy apps or games of course, but everything else is fine, especially last years' apps.
I'm going to install Jaguar on a all-in-one G3 233MHz. I'll post in my journal on how it goes.
Panther really made the difference for G3's. Posting from home on a G3 500 running 10.3; only occasional stutters when heavily multitasking (e.g. Azureus, Toast (burning), Firefox, Word, Preview, Mail, Quicktime, iTunes, macjournal, BBEdit, Quicksilver, Konfabulator are usually running, at least two or three actively, in two different logged-in users) and generally an acceptable GUI response time, dock is smooth, animations work. Idle CPU usage rarely gets over 20%, 30% when running Konfabulator. Of course, having 1GB of RAM and a fast HD makes the biggest difference on a G3.
Not on that machine, not until a particular project is finished next month. Always update between major projects. It's a calculated risk, and easier to make when you're 'flying under the radar' on an alternative OS.
used the trademark phrase of "snappy"
OK, busted. The dual G4 is right at the edge of what I consider a responsive GUI, and not always snappy (eg. when rendering). The G5 is 'snappy.' Your 'greased-pig' dig is gratuitous: I make no silly speed claims for old gear, other than admiring the speed-up in 10.3 and the longevity of Apple's kit. For the record, I like working on Macs, but only in comparison to XP or a less-than-perfect Linux install, and I'd still be running W2K on my admin machine if it didn't require constant fiddling with security. Computers are a looong ways off from what I want, have wanted for 20 years, and Apple bears most of my ire in that respect since they lead the pack in many design directions.
To return to the point: a G4 will be fast enough for the average user if RAM is adequate.
Yes, I may be a billionaire, but I spend most of my time as software architect making interns learn FCP on an old G4 because I like piddling around on old gear, and Steve B's doing such a great job. Otherwise, I hang out on /. and troll for the Bildenburger agenda, now that the doctors say my Adjustments are going well. That's all for now, I'm posting from an underground city near Bellingham, and I have to go to a meeting of the Elitist International Satanist Banking Mafia to plan the Longhorn (get it?) rollout.
I've gotten so cozy in my nearly MS-free world since I managed to offload the last W2K machine that I forget about the risks, and how that antiviral cruft soaked up CPU and RAM.
Until, that is, I open an MS Office document with macros, then the whole sense of dread and ire comes back; and I'm always surprised and annoyed when the latest worm brings local networks staggering to their knees.
- 4 years old
- running nonstop (over 5 mos. this time)
- running no antivirus software and on a university network
- doing everything their new WinTel machines can, only smoothly (OK I've disabled chat services so they'll get some work done; likewise it is game-free)
- stock, but the heart of a productive video editing set-up (despite a wimpy video card)
- only slightly less snappy than the shiny new G5 in the next rack over, which is rated at over 5 times the MHz (well, until they rip or render).
Panther (10.3) actually sped up the 350MHz iBook w/ 384MB of RAM that I use for field work; even on that hand-crank antique OS X is eminently usable, and wows onlookers (although often it's Quicksilver's functionality that's really causing the eyepoppiing).OS X on a cheap G4 will convert people. The only key issues for me are stock RAM configurations and build quality.
Musical Drool, sometimes called Muzak, is scientifically organized and driven by social engineering. Studies beginning in WWII factories determined many of the physiological and correllating psychological effects of tempo, style, etc. of piped-in musical drool.
Sophisticated retail operations now use this in a far more refined manner, factoring in time of day, time of year, weather, circadian rythms, regional demographics, whether people should linger or move on, feel nostalgic or forward thinking, you name it. Yes it's acoustic purgatory; yes it is universally despised; yes, it works. It streamlines and optimizes purchasing behaviour, statistically.
It is a very scary industry, at heart.
Oh, I agree that we all take personal responsibility, and cultures and subcultures take collective responsibility, in order to improve things. No kidding!
However, stating that that's all they really have holding them back is just ignoring enormous social problems that are "overdetermined"--that is, they are shored up from many angles and processes--and doomed to failure. At worst, it is a form of "blaming the victim." "If she didn't dress purty, she wouldn't get raped" just doesn't fly anymore, unless you're advocating Taliban values.
The problem wasn't what's happened in the past, the problem is that history is now a crutch to avoid doing what everyone else has to do to survive.
This is a half-truth. Crutch to some, yeah, no doubts. History isn't just the past, however. What do they teach people in high school history these days? Isn't it obvious that history is an ongoing process? Social systems are complex, like fluid dynamics. Drop a pebble in: the mineral is on the bottom, but the pond continues to respond. Remnants of old processes persist, and a drop of water can't do much about it. Past atrocities don't just stop--I have friends with murdered parents. You tell them to ignore its effects on their upbringing. I have friends who've lost everything to fraud and are left with burdensome debts. You tell them to not go bankrupt. I have friends who were sexually abused as children--tell them to ignore that and see what happens.
Generally, all those success-story exceptions you might come across will tell you that they had to work harder than the competition to get accepted, sometimes MUCH harder. The individual can overcome, but society is an aggregate, and greater (or, well, lesser) than the sum of its parts. Both levels must be addressed.
It isn't about you, it's about this entity called society, which is the aggregate of its citizens' behaviour over time. Your interaction with society involves this interaction with the continuity of society's history; every time you walk into a Carnegie library, you're interacting with the continuing legacy of robber-baron philanthropy, with all its mixed bag of ongoing historical implications. In the same way that our children et. al will have to deal with our toxic dumps, we have to deal with our toxic socological remnants.
Saying 'why should I pay taxes / be inconvenienced / be refused access in order to clean up that problem' doesn't make the problem go away. The half-life of oppression is probably greater than an order of two generations.
I didn't do the abuse, why am I paying for it? It's time to level the playing field. You can't create equality while legislating perks for ANYONE.
This IS about levelling the playing field. The economic effects of years of prejudice continues. Levelling the playing field without filling in the holes isn't effective. I think that one of the issues here is that the ideological emphasis on individualism obscures the actual workings of collective behaviour. Think of the social security crisis, and how people are looking forward to how unfair it will be to those paying in to the system in 30 years. Another issue is the North American cultural denial of the existence of class, which leads people to seek other explanations for their troubles.
Go walk around a minority community and see how you are treated, then come back here and tell me that the in-your-face madness is one sided.
That's what I meant. My first visit to Chicago was stunning: I thought such segregation was limited to places like Johannesburg. Sure it goes both ways. You want people to be happy and patient with the situation?
all these laws do is reinforce the schism. Make everyone truly equal under the law, and the social aspects of it all will work itself out in time.
I agree that they probably do reinforce schisms, given the general ignorance about how the present includes past effects. Making everyone truly equal--even defining what is equal--is much more complicated than you suggest. Legislation like that generally ignores structural problems and focuses on specific documentable behaviours by individuals. Do you think that structural problems will naturally self-correct in a reasonable period of time? Then again, you seem to be ignoring (or denying) those structural issues.
Don't we deserve the same rights as anyone else?
The issue, here, is that you have more rights (in practice, if not in legislation). If economic benefit doesn't accrue, why bother investing or saving? The benefits derived from treaty-breaking expropriation of land is evident in real-estate speculation, for instance, and people are looking at how some corporations still exist that benefitted directly from slavery. (If you think that corporate law isn't fundamentally flawed, and that in fact yes, they should be given the rights of an individual with none of the responsibilities, they why yes, there are still 'people' around who directly stole labour through slavery--implicating the shareholders.)
Education isn't working very quickly, so the government decided to be a vanguard and lead the way. I'm not defending their boneheaded execution of a solution, but I am defending the attempt to fill in huge holes in the playing field.
Wow. Just... wow.
Well, Mr. Coward, a little homework into what it's like having your traditions stripped from you, your land and livelihood robbed, your language denied, your worth measured in either death or ducats, and the nature of culture (hint: it isn't individual, it's multigenerational), and you might begin to be able to answer your own question. It isn't the past keeping people down, it's the ongoing fruits of past policy. Try googling for 'effect s of slavery' and 'residential schools' for a start.
For what it's worth, I know millionaire lawyer First Nations people ('Indian' to Americans) and federal politicians from the Black community, and of course successful immigrants. They all acknowledge their own hard work, as well as noting the ongoing institutional violence directed at some of their communities and residual damage that hasn't healed yet from three generations back. Part of their hard work was in overcoming those obstacles, not just in entrepeneurship.
The myth of the american melting pot leads to a blindness about the nature of cultural transmission.
Yeah, we're polite while we're saying racist things, eh?
When I first got to Ontario I couldn't believe that I was actually seeing little black sambo lawn ornaments. I mean, WTF?
Segregation and racist epithets up here generally are designed for those who were here first. When the architects of Apartheid wanted prior art, they came to Canada and looked at the reservation system.
A fairly common cross-cultural legend on the continent commonly called it "Turtle Island." That name is now in vogue in the aborignal community, at least in Canada.
That's called restitution, dude. (Yeah, ok mods, I've taken the bait of a troll.) While it may be unfair in most applications, and almost always a bureaucratic bungle, quota programs are an attempt to address the ongoing, unfinished results of centuries of abuse. You are obviously just too ideologically mired (or just plain parochial) to see how skin privilege actually works on the grand scale. Every time I've been to the USA, I'm struck by how in-your-face this residual madness is.
You don't have equality in the 'States, despite half-witted quota programs, and you won't for a long time. It isn't as simple as the "Sneetches."
Sometimes, words cause the killing, maiming, and screaming to start. It's worth paying attention to those words. The words themselves don't hurt, but the results do.
Call me a baldheaded cracker; I don't care really, because at the end of the day my paleface still gives me (subtle, but noticeable) privileges.
Here's a hint: with most words, context is everything. There are a hundred ways to use the word "right" -- and some of them are threatening.
Interestingly, this is actually the same feature from Mac OS 8 or or even System 7, and the user interface is hardly changed at all (though the guts may be, IDK). It's ancient tech! It was great in its day (really was revolutionary for 1996), but you'd think they would at least upgrade the stinkin' voices a wee bit. In those days (yah I'm an ol' fart), there were external "PlainTalk" microphones that sat on the monitor and did a better job than the tiny laptop mic on the eMac.
With a systemwide macro program like Keyquencer I could stack up a huge amount of everyday tasks with a simple vocal command (computer, do morning routine), while looking for my coffee cup. Try asking it to tell you a joke. There are quite a few knocknock jokes in there.
Funny thing is that Longhorn is the name of an apres ski bar at the foot of both Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. They named their next-gen operating system after a saucepit bar known for its drunken rowdiness! How... comforting.
I seem to remember (pls correct me) that when Jobs returned to Apple his work computer was a ThinkPad running OpenStep; I guess you could say that 'his way' has included running OS X on IBM hardware already.
These 'facts' are likely to be challenged by history, particularly in the biological realm (thus the mad rush of biopiracy: go to indigenous cultures, find out what they know about flora and fauna, take it home, adapt it to laboratory conditions, and claim ownership via patents). Some traditional agricultures used incredible biodiversity to maintain food security. Reducing that biodiversity to ennable chemical and mechanical inputs isn't necessarily an improvement from the point of view of food security and nutrition, but it's good for profits and centralizing ownership, and temporary boosts of productivity (in a mirror of the stockmarket model).
My point is that your version of 'outstripping' is actually redefining the terms of advancement in what is sometimes a rather boneheaded way, because it results in dominance and improvements in one area at greater cost in others. Many of the improvements wrought by inappropriate tech are founded on ecological or sociological credit, and interest is accumulating. The cost/benefits of many technological advancements have been obscured by a doctrine of dominion and true advancements in things like arbitrage and other financial schemes.
This is not a bad thing-- it is just a thing. Someone has to be in charge, and the good news is that the dominant philosophy is liberal democracy.
Now that's just blatantly ideological. One could just as easily say that the dominant practice is neo-con kleptocracy.
I suggest trying to discover what kind of offgassing you're going to get from all that urethane and shotcrete. Seems like a good geometry, but the materials make me shudder... drywall and carpets are bad enough.
I don't know about adobe bricks, but a similar material, cob, has curved walls and fibrous material for integrity, and generally withstand earthquakes well.
10 years (the first few were slim), so it's young, and only has 24 students at a time.
Did it turn out any pros?
2. Plenty of pros come out of there -- Vancouver is hollywoodNorth, the school has a great local rep. That said, many of the students are youth and not careerists in the end. Sometimes industry folks take courses there to revive their indie spirit, they have week-long courses available.
ny shown at Sundance, Slamdance or even Slumdance?
3. A few sundance screenings, many many awards in the student categories at many festivals, other festivals. Very good standings competing with films that were made for much more money on much better gear over a far longer period of time. Some of the best results are with high-school teens, but career-change people go there too.
It isn't a comprehensive film school. It's for building a sense of creativity and storytelling, self-esteem, and a can-do indie spirit. It is low-theory, high-intensity training in 15-hour-a-day media production with a small crew and utterly brutal deadline (no script to finished product in 6 days). The goal is to get people making their own product, get a demo reel and some awards, then get out there and get a job or a funder, instead of dinking around in $20,000/yr film schools.
University film schools are great for putting production training in the context of academic worldliness, but I know far too many graduates who spent 10 years as minor cogs in the hollywood machine in order to pay off gross student loans, and never had time to make their own films.