As a black person I experienced it a lot when I was job hunting. I noticed when I stopped putting my race on applications the responses almost doubled. I have a "white" name and a "white" voice (so I've been told) so interviewer would seem to like me just fine on the phone. Every time I would walk in for an interview, the interviewer would get a surprised look on their face and I could just tell no matter what I did or said I wasn't getting the job... A friend of mine who does a lot of hiring for his company once told me that sometimes blacks will be avoided in IT because there stereotype that blacks don't work well in groups.
I am a senior tech at my current job and still experience problems. I am more knowledgeable then most of my fellow techs, but people still feel that they need to explain basic concepts to me that they don't ever seem to have to explain to other newer techs. It doesn't matter how many time I prove myself with difficult technical issues or impress our customers, I'm always treated like a child by my coworkers and management. I'm trying my best not to get bitter and become the stereotypical "angry black man", but after four years of this crap its getting harder every day.
I'm actually surprised they didn't have something like this in the first place. During my senior year of high school in 2003 while I was living in Bismarck ND I received 4-5 pieces of mail from every branch of the military a week, on top of a phone call. I just happened to be in a family considered lower income. None of my friends were getting so much recruiting material thrown at them. One of the recruiters kept pushing that fact that he knew I liked computers and I could work with all sorts of computers in the army. I soon found out that because of the no child left behind act schools had to turn over student's info to recruiters for federal funding. I moved to Portland OR to go into computer science. I was in college for a little over a year and switched majors, so I to Grand Forks ND and will be attending school probably in fall. I have been off the educational grid for about a year because of this. I recently spoke to my mom and she informed me that she has been getting weekly calls from recruiters trying to get my address in Grand Forks. She told me that one of the recruiters said he knew I moved back to North Dakota and just wants to know where exactly. So I cringe to think what its going to be like once I start attending classes again and they can easily get access to my personal info...
I don't usually respond to such obvious flame bait... but does your mom make you wear a helmet before you go on the internet? Go to the apple menu, select software update, and install update. That is all. No messing with network settings. I agree... enough CRAP.
yes I'm sure you get lots of "real" work done on your Thinkpad, while us iBook and powerbook users spend hours playing games and not doing any "real" work at all...
Yeah and most linux distros have an even lower percentage of users yet they still make it to the front page. If you don't like that apple stores that make it to the front page you can just ignore them. Obviously you pay enough attention to these stories to feel the need to come in an comment. If you don't like the apple stores no one is forcing you to read them.
If you are considering dumping your significant other just to play a friggin game, I get the odd feeling your relationship isn't meant to be. If you take your relationship seriously you will get back on the damn gaming and find something mutual the both of you can enjoy. Luckily I don't have that problem... me and my girlfriend recently got into an argument over who was the bigger zelda fan.
I stand corrected, I should of probably RTFA instead of skimming it, but my original point is that virus wouldn't be as much of a problem on OS X as windows if OS X had the same market share as windows.
Uh... no. Yes is OS X was the most used OS yes there would be many more security holes found but to say it would have the same virus problem as windows is a joke. All this thing is is an app with the.app extension hidden, and even for it to do something destructive to the the system it would need the password, like any virus would on OS X would. SO no there wouldn't be as many virus for OS X if OS X had the market share as windows, windows is insecure by design.
yes you do I have had that happen on my 12" iBook soon after I had the all to common logic board failure, core dump almost always means a hardware problem
I have a great girlfriend, shes into gaming and has the a lot of the same interests I do, and we are in a similar situation, but if she found out I have to play games to be able to stand talking to her for more then 3 minutes there would be hell to pay
played it on b.net for about 2 hours, relized the only way to win online was to make the same unit over and over, tossed the game in a shelf somewhere and went back to playing starcraft.
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As a black person I experienced it a lot when I was job hunting. I noticed when I stopped putting my race on applications the responses almost doubled. I have a "white" name and a "white" voice (so I've been told) so interviewer would seem to like me just fine on the phone. Every time I would walk in for an interview, the interviewer would get a surprised look on their face and I could just tell no matter what I did or said I wasn't getting the job... A friend of mine who does a lot of hiring for his company once told me that sometimes blacks will be avoided in IT because there stereotype that blacks don't work well in groups. I am a senior tech at my current job and still experience problems. I am more knowledgeable then most of my fellow techs, but people still feel that they need to explain basic concepts to me that they don't ever seem to have to explain to other newer techs. It doesn't matter how many time I prove myself with difficult technical issues or impress our customers, I'm always treated like a child by my coworkers and management. I'm trying my best not to get bitter and become the stereotypical "angry black man", but after four years of this crap its getting harder every day.
I'm actually surprised they didn't have something like this in the first place. During my senior year of high school in 2003 while I was living in Bismarck ND I received 4-5 pieces of mail from every branch of the military a week, on top of a phone call. I just happened to be in a family considered lower income. None of my friends were getting so much recruiting material thrown at them. One of the recruiters kept pushing that fact that he knew I liked computers and I could work with all sorts of computers in the army. I soon found out that because of the no child left behind act schools had to turn over student's info to recruiters for federal funding. I moved to Portland OR to go into computer science. I was in college for a little over a year and switched majors, so I to Grand Forks ND and will be attending school probably in fall. I have been off the educational grid for about a year because of this. I recently spoke to my mom and she informed me that she has been getting weekly calls from recruiters trying to get my address in Grand Forks. She told me that one of the recruiters said he knew I moved back to North Dakota and just wants to know where exactly. So I cringe to think what its going to be like once I start attending classes again and they can easily get access to my personal info...
I don't usually respond to such obvious flame bait... but does your mom make you wear a helmet before you go on the internet? Go to the apple menu, select software update, and install update. That is all. No messing with network settings. I agree... enough CRAP.
yes I'm sure you get lots of "real" work done on your Thinkpad, while us iBook and powerbook users spend hours playing games and not doing any "real" work at all...
well I need to learn to proofread... stories not stores.
Yeah and most linux distros have an even lower percentage of users yet they still make it to the front page. If you don't like that apple stores that make it to the front page you can just ignore them. Obviously you pay enough attention to these stories to feel the need to come in an comment. If you don't like the apple stores no one is forcing you to read them.
I have screen spanning doctor running on 10.3.7 and it works fine.
oops... I meant cut back, not get back...
If you are considering dumping your significant other just to play a friggin game, I get the odd feeling your relationship isn't meant to be. If you take your relationship seriously you will get back on the damn gaming and find something mutual the both of you can enjoy. Luckily I don't have that problem... me and my girlfriend recently got into an argument over who was the bigger zelda fan.
I stand corrected, I should of probably RTFA instead of skimming it, but my original point is that virus wouldn't be as much of a problem on OS X as windows if OS X had the same market share as windows.
Uh... no. Yes is OS X was the most used OS yes there would be many more security holes found but to say it would have the same virus problem as windows is a joke. All this thing is is an app with the .app extension hidden, and even for it to do something destructive to the the system it would need the password, like any virus would on OS X would. SO no there wouldn't be as many virus for OS X if OS X had the market share as windows, windows is insecure by design.
yes you do I have had that happen on my 12" iBook soon after I had the all to common logic board failure, core dump almost always means a hardware problem
I have a great girlfriend, shes into gaming and has the a lot of the same interests I do, and we are in a similar situation, but if she found out I have to play games to be able to stand talking to her for more then 3 minutes there would be hell to pay
Patching a windows box is just as easy, the problem is you have to constantly patch them
what about McDonalds?
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played it on b.net for about 2 hours, relized the only way to win online was to make the same unit over and over, tossed the game in a shelf somewhere and went back to playing starcraft.