just wait until google's system is so good at differentiating between various typing habits that none of those protections matter. Just think, capitalization, punctuation, character burst rate, vernacular, hours of use, and formatting of search strings will all work against you.
I recently installed ubuntu/kubuntu onto an OldWorld G3 because I was home sick for a while, and I have to say that I find myself gravitating towards Gnome also. KDE looks nice, and has some really cool features, but Gnome just felt more natural to use.
One thing that really turned me off of KDE was that everything has a "K" name. Following a common theme is ok, but not when it is at the expense of usability. I found myself having to actually spend time reading though all of the options so I could do simple tasks. If KDE were to adopt a naming standard that didn't require "Kapplication(description of application)" I would probably have liked it better, but as a desktop that I'm just using to take up time I'd rather have something I can jump in and start using. I'll play around with KDE some more, but right now Gnome seems like the way to go.
I almost refuse to use Windows Media broadcasts, although it is installed on the widest user base I dislike the quality and the resource usage of windows media. Unless there is something that I am very, very interested in that has no other method of viewing I will just pass.
I would go with QuickTime, if you have something that people like to watch then maybe it will make more people download it; and I believe that when installing iTunes on a PC that QuickTime is automatically downloaded so there may be more users than one would initially think.
I agree, I don't mind carrying a purse as long as it's not done to purposely exercise control. I've actually been with girls and had one of their friends show up with her new boyfriend in tow and heard the girls say "wow, that was fast, that boy is so whipped, he's already carrying her purse". How ridiculous, they turn something that normally wouldn't be a big deal into a removal of your self respect.
It's hot here in Florida and it really doesn't bother me, it's not like I'm trekking all over the place just from here to there. And usually I'm on my bicycle so I get a cool breeze everywhere I go.
The middle pocket is pretty sizable and should be able to accommodate a flat photo gear case. Something similar to one of those neoprene iBook skins except for photo gear. That way you could just pull the whole sleeve out of the bag when you need the photo gear and it would offer added protection.
I picked up one of these so I could take my laptop to school and with me on my sports bike.
It works great. I think that mine is a little larger though.
damn, does MS have no shame, the windows look way too much like OS X. I wonder if Apple is going to wait until Vista is released to sue MS out of existence.
As someone who supported 5000 machines, mostly made up of Windows PCs I can say that I like the Mac better. It's the reason that I use a Mac as my main computer. I have a Windows PC, but I only use it to play City of Heroes, I see no other use for it. It's not because I don't know how to use it, it's because the Mac offers a better user experience, IMO.
Apple gets better reviews, even for mediocre product releases, because they have built up a history of innovation. It's the same reason that even when Mercedes releases a stupid car it still gets a somewhat positive review.
work on the code;
make sure that it is known that the code is not meant for release, but is just an aid in their work;
include some serious backdoors into the code;
???????;
profit!;
You went completely off track with the "woe is the white male" crap.
I don't really see that. I grew up with little to no money, I wore hand-me-down clothes, both my parents worked, a box of tuna helper was dinner for 5, I never owned a computer until I managed to buy an old commodore from goodwill for $5, I rarely had all the school supplies that I needed, I never had air conditioning, I never had heat, other than 1 year I never had the means to participate in any sports, and still I couldn't find a grant to pay for school. When I began searching for grants and scholarships I found many that I would've qualified for if I were a minority... or, since you brought it up, of a different ethnicity, son of a veteran, woman, etc... I have issue with all discriminatory scholarships that are not based on merit or need, but since this was a thread about race I didn't want to cloud an already hotly discussed issue.
To continue with my defense for the "woe is the white male crap" I want to say that I too grew up in a small town. In the town that I lived in if you were under the age of 18 and it was after 11pm a police officer would stop you when they saw you walking along the streets and try to take you home, but the police implemented a policy of not stopping black children because they didn't want to appear racist. I am by no means trying to give a sob story and talk about how bad my life is, but I am more pointing out that despite this idea that minorities are the only ones who experience discrimination, white men are discriminated against just as much.
So educational opportunities are still not being realized for blacks and hispanics. Admission rates still lag behind whites and asians, and as of 2001 were actually declining.
This is true, admission to 4 year universities is declining, but many believe that this is due to an increased enrollment in lower cost 2-year community colleges at first.
That "head start" takes the form of better schools, better access to health care, better living conditions, and the like. If you don't help those that are disadvantaged, they will remain disadvantaged for a long long time.
But how long should we give those who were disadvantaged an advantage? A generation? two? Until they are equally represented? What if that never happens? Maybe it's not a problem with society, but a problem with the culture of the underrepresented groups.
You complaining about a compartively small amount of programs, focusing on that as the source of all your problems
None of this is the source of all my problems. I'm very happy with my life, I hold no animosity towards anyone. If there was a scholarship available for my ethnic group I'd surely take it. I really just wanted to point out that I dislike how every time someone takes issue with an underrepresented group in any industry, if that group is a minority, the knee-jerk reaction is to blame society rather than the members of that group. The general trend is then to talk about the lack of privilege, I wanted to point out that a lot of those groups have programs in place to help them pay for college, something I didn't have.
Perhaps you should have done more research into financial aid. Perhaps you should have studied harder in high school. No. Of course not. It's the negros.
Perhaps they should have worked harder, perhaps they should have attempted to get into college. No. Of course not. It's society.
You don't know what discrimination is. Stop grandstanding. You're emberassing yourself.
How am I grandstanding? I'm simply relating my personal experience. How is my personal experience emberrassing?
Regardless of race, it's demonstrably true that people in shitty circumstances are statistically less likely to achieve all sorts of things than people in swell ones. Noting this fact doesn't take away anybody's free will. Noting this fact doesn't take away anybody's free will.
and it is true that it is harder to elevate yourself than it is to remain at the same level, but you can't say that circumstance is everything if there are many people rising up everyday. Maybe free will was the incorrect term to use... would me saying that it removes respect for their potential be a better statement? What I am trying to say is that if you take the easy way out and just say that someone is where they are because of the circumstances that they were born into you immediately take away their personal responsibility and shift the blame to society. Perhaps it is an ideological difference, but I believe that once you remove someone's personal responsibility they no longer have a reason to strive for success. Telling someone that they are a failure because of society just lets them off the hook, telling that same person that they're a failure because they didn't try to do any better still leaves them with possibility.
I took the black-white IAT, and as predicted by myself I had a slight preference to whites over blacks, just as I also found that I have a slight preference to young over old.
blaming the school system or a person's way of life kind of takes away their free will. If you want an example of someone who worked hard despite the environment they were born in look here.
I really believe that despite a person's upbringing they can achieve what they want in the US. And despite statistics showing that blacks are underprivileged they have an opportunity to do what they want, but it will require hard work. Someone is always able to learn, if they want to.
Saying that blacks don't go to college because of a long history of discrimination is sweeping quite a lot under the rug.
Sorry, but you're flat out wrong on this one. In 2004, 84.8% of white people [census.gov] graduated from high school, and 26.8% had a bachelor's degree. Whereas only 73.5% of black people [census.gov] graduated from high school, and only 14.4% had bachelor's degrees.
Just because fewer blacks are taking advantage of education doesn't mean that it's not available for them. Despite the numbers being lower, they do not receive less education, fewer take advantage of it. If next year 0 white people went to college would you say that white people get less college education than black people? Or would you say that fewer white people are taking advantage of college?
I'd need some more information on your situation. What was your background? How much do your parents make? To clarify my statement. At the income level of my family I would've had many scholarships available for me if I were black or hispanic. But I fell into an area where as a white person my family made more than most scholarships allowed, but not enough to pay for college.
I actually had to work almost 60 hours per week while taking 21 credit hours, so excuse me if your 25 hours a week doesn't strike a chord with me.
I apologize, though, if I offended you with my comment. I'm not saying that everything is handed to anyone "of color", but there are far more opportunities available.
ahhh, now that I have the clarification I think that I could get behind a system like that. Someone who is making a lot of money, but allowing it to "trickle-down" for the benefit of society wouldn't have to pay a great deal of taxes, or could possibly not pay taxes at all. While someone who is hoarding their profits for themselves would essentially end up with the same amount of take-home pay that those who contribute do due to taxes.
The way I saw it before the clarification was that the rich would be taxed at the rate that they are now, but could lower that by giving back.
I do like your idea, but we'd need to refine it a little to make sure that there is still a reward for the work that the rich put in, and also ensure that there is a way to save money, tax-free, to enable these people to live a retirement in the lifestyle that they become accustomed to.
The person making 20K will not be saving anything- he needs to spend it all to live. He will pay 2K in sales tax- 10% of his total earnings.
This is a very flawed statement. Sales tax is not paid on items needed to live. If the person making $20k would probably be paying no more than $500 in taxes.
I'm not sure, I'd really have to think about it quite a bit more. My original post was more to state that I didn't think that income taxes should be raised for the rich, but I don't know that lowering them significantly would be a good idea.
I suppose that I did fail to mention that almost all of the instructors were Indian; so I guess that they were represented in the classroom. I wonder how the numbers have changed in subsequent classes.
I hadn't seen the video before and somewhat sided with the man who was "attacked" by police officers after being a victim of police brutality myself, but after seeing the video I don't see what was wrong... the police didn't use too much force, you can see the man was resisting.
Hell, in my case I had 3 officers kicking me and hitting me with mag-lights, but they were in a high-stress situation so I really hold no animosity towards them. And my experience was video taped by 4 separate people, but since I'm white it didn't make national news.
I also support replacing sales tax with income and real estate taxes, and increasing overall taxes on the wealthy in order to reduce income tax on the lower brackets
Why would you want to replace sales tax? Sales tax already disproportionately affects the rich because they spend more income on "luxury" items. And why would you want to increase overall taxes on the wealthy? The wealthy already pay 35% in just federal income tax, plus their property taxes are typically higher.
I am not rich, in fact, I am far from rich, but I do not think that we should penalize people for making more money. Usually someone who is making a lot of money is employing at least a few people, there aren't too many jobs that make someone wealthy without employing some others.
In the United States, blacks and hispanics have less good home life, less good schools, less good treatment by the government, less wealth, less college education.
This is the most racist comment I have seen in this story so far. Please elaborate on the "less good home life", I have no idea what you mean by this... are you saying that their homes are less expensive? or in poor neighborhoods?
And perhaps, the quality of schools in the poorer sections of the US is not as good as in the more affluent sections, but you can't say that there are no white people going to these schools too.
The less wealth comment might be valid across a portion of the population, but you can't say that there aren't a lot of blacks and hispanics making a good living
The comment that you make that I have to disagree with most is the "less college education". Going to college myself I found that I was hard pressed to find ways to pay for school. A large portion of grants and scholarships are racially biased. As a black person I would've had my entire education paid for, but as a white person I had to take out large student loans. As a black person I would've even been able to get into college with lower test scores and a lower GPA.
Despite what you may think, as a white person I am discriminated against by the laws and policies in the US. If I do not have the privilege of coming from a rich family I am basically left out in the cold when it comes to paying for, and being accepted to a good college.
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But the shows will only be available over Comcast on Demand, not for download. That's lame :(
just wait until google's system is so good at differentiating between various typing habits that none of those protections matter. Just think, capitalization, punctuation, character burst rate, vernacular, hours of use, and formatting of search strings will all work against you.
I recently installed ubuntu/kubuntu onto an OldWorld G3 because I was home sick for a while, and I have to say that I find myself gravitating towards Gnome also. KDE looks nice, and has some really cool features, but Gnome just felt more natural to use.
One thing that really turned me off of KDE was that everything has a "K" name. Following a common theme is ok, but not when it is at the expense of usability. I found myself having to actually spend time reading though all of the options so I could do simple tasks. If KDE were to adopt a naming standard that didn't require "Kapplication(description of application)" I would probably have liked it better, but as a desktop that I'm just using to take up time I'd rather have something I can jump in and start using. I'll play around with KDE some more, but right now Gnome seems like the way to go.
I almost refuse to use Windows Media broadcasts, although it is installed on the widest user base I dislike the quality and the resource usage of windows media. Unless there is something that I am very, very interested in that has no other method of viewing I will just pass.
I would go with QuickTime, if you have something that people like to watch then maybe it will make more people download it; and I believe that when installing iTunes on a PC that QuickTime is automatically downloaded so there may be more users than one would initially think.
I agree, I don't mind carrying a purse as long as it's not done to purposely exercise control. I've actually been with girls and had one of their friends show up with her new boyfriend in tow and heard the girls say "wow, that was fast, that boy is so whipped, he's already carrying her purse". How ridiculous, they turn something that normally wouldn't be a big deal into a removal of your self respect.
It's hot here in Florida and it really doesn't bother me, it's not like I'm trekking all over the place just from here to there. And usually I'm on my bicycle so I get a cool breeze everywhere I go.
The middle pocket is pretty sizable and should be able to accommodate a flat photo gear case. Something similar to one of those neoprene iBook skins except for photo gear. That way you could just pull the whole sleeve out of the bag when you need the photo gear and it would offer added protection.
I picked up one of these so I could take my laptop to school and with me on my sports bike.
It works great. I think that mine is a little larger though.
damn, does MS have no shame, the windows look way too much like OS X. I wonder if Apple is going to wait until Vista is released to sue MS out of existence.
vs Apple's normal view; try a Mac before you trash it...er, I'm sorry, you're a Windows user.... before you "recycle" it.
As someone who supported 5000 machines, mostly made up of Windows PCs I can say that I like the Mac better. It's the reason that I use a Mac as my main computer. I have a Windows PC, but I only use it to play City of Heroes, I see no other use for it. It's not because I don't know how to use it, it's because the Mac offers a better user experience, IMO.
Apple gets better reviews, even for mediocre product releases, because they have built up a history of innovation. It's the same reason that even when Mercedes releases a stupid car it still gets a somewhat positive review.
work on the code;
make sure that it is known that the code is not meant for release, but is just an aid in their work;
include some serious backdoors into the code;
???????;
profit!;
I don't really see that. I grew up with little to no money, I wore hand-me-down clothes, both my parents worked, a box of tuna helper was dinner for 5, I never owned a computer until I managed to buy an old commodore from goodwill for $5, I rarely had all the school supplies that I needed, I never had air conditioning, I never had heat, other than 1 year I never had the means to participate in any sports, and still I couldn't find a grant to pay for school. When I began searching for grants and scholarships I found many that I would've qualified for if I were a minority... or, since you brought it up, of a different ethnicity, son of a veteran, woman, etc... I have issue with all discriminatory scholarships that are not based on merit or need, but since this was a thread about race I didn't want to cloud an already hotly discussed issue.
To continue with my defense for the "woe is the white male crap" I want to say that I too grew up in a small town. In the town that I lived in if you were under the age of 18 and it was after 11pm a police officer would stop you when they saw you walking along the streets and try to take you home, but the police implemented a policy of not stopping black children because they didn't want to appear racist. I am by no means trying to give a sob story and talk about how bad my life is, but I am more pointing out that despite this idea that minorities are the only ones who experience discrimination, white men are discriminated against just as much.
So educational opportunities are still not being realized for blacks and hispanics. Admission rates still lag behind whites and asians, and as of 2001 were actually declining.
This is true, admission to 4 year universities is declining, but many believe that this is due to an increased enrollment in lower cost 2-year community colleges at first.
That "head start" takes the form of better schools, better access to health care, better living conditions, and the like. If you don't help those that are disadvantaged, they will remain disadvantaged for a long long time.
But how long should we give those who were disadvantaged an advantage? A generation? two? Until they are equally represented? What if that never happens? Maybe it's not a problem with society, but a problem with the culture of the underrepresented groups.
You complaining about a compartively small amount of programs, focusing on that as the source of all your problems
None of this is the source of all my problems. I'm very happy with my life, I hold no animosity towards anyone. If there was a scholarship available for my ethnic group I'd surely take it. I really just wanted to point out that I dislike how every time someone takes issue with an underrepresented group in any industry, if that group is a minority, the knee-jerk reaction is to blame society rather than the members of that group. The general trend is then to talk about the lack of privilege, I wanted to point out that a lot of those groups have programs in place to help them pay for college, something I didn't have.
Perhaps you should have done more research into financial aid. Perhaps you should have studied harder in high school. No. Of course not. It's the negros.
Perhaps they should have worked harder, perhaps they should have attempted to get into college. No. Of course not. It's society.
You don't know what discrimination is. Stop grandstanding. You're emberassing yourself.
How am I grandstanding? I'm simply relating my personal experience. How is my personal experience emberrassing?
and it is true that it is harder to elevate yourself than it is to remain at the same level, but you can't say that circumstance is everything if there are many people rising up everyday. Maybe free will was the incorrect term to use... would me saying that it removes respect for their potential be a better statement? What I am trying to say is that if you take the easy way out and just say that someone is where they are because of the circumstances that they were born into you immediately take away their personal responsibility and shift the blame to society. Perhaps it is an ideological difference, but I believe that once you remove someone's personal responsibility they no longer have a reason to strive for success. Telling someone that they are a failure because of society just lets them off the hook, telling that same person that they're a failure because they didn't try to do any better still leaves them with possibility.
I took the black-white IAT, and as predicted by myself I had a slight preference to whites over blacks, just as I also found that I have a slight preference to young over old.
I really believe that despite a person's upbringing they can achieve what they want in the US. And despite statistics showing that blacks are underprivileged they have an opportunity to do what they want, but it will require hard work. Someone is always able to learn, if they want to.
Saying that blacks don't go to college because of a long history of discrimination is sweeping quite a lot under the rug.
Didn't they already hear about it here or maybe even here?? Don't they read /. ?
Sorry, but you're flat out wrong on this one. In 2004, 84.8% of white people [census.gov] graduated from high school, and 26.8% had a bachelor's degree. Whereas only 73.5% of black people [census.gov] graduated from high school, and only 14.4% had bachelor's degrees. Just because fewer blacks are taking advantage of education doesn't mean that it's not available for them. Despite the numbers being lower, they do not receive less education, fewer take advantage of it. If next year 0 white people went to college would you say that white people get less college education than black people? Or would you say that fewer white people are taking advantage of college?
I'd need some more information on your situation. What was your background? How much do your parents make? To clarify my statement. At the income level of my family I would've had many scholarships available for me if I were black or hispanic. But I fell into an area where as a white person my family made more than most scholarships allowed, but not enough to pay for college.
I actually had to work almost 60 hours per week while taking 21 credit hours, so excuse me if your 25 hours a week doesn't strike a chord with me.
I apologize, though, if I offended you with my comment. I'm not saying that everything is handed to anyone "of color", but there are far more opportunities available.
ahhh, now that I have the clarification I think that I could get behind a system like that. Someone who is making a lot of money, but allowing it to "trickle-down" for the benefit of society wouldn't have to pay a great deal of taxes, or could possibly not pay taxes at all. While someone who is hoarding their profits for themselves would essentially end up with the same amount of take-home pay that those who contribute do due to taxes.
The way I saw it before the clarification was that the rich would be taxed at the rate that they are now, but could lower that by giving back.
I do like your idea, but we'd need to refine it a little to make sure that there is still a reward for the work that the rich put in, and also ensure that there is a way to save money, tax-free, to enable these people to live a retirement in the lifestyle that they become accustomed to.
This is a very flawed statement. Sales tax is not paid on items needed to live. If the person making $20k would probably be paying no more than $500 in taxes.
I'm not sure, I'd really have to think about it quite a bit more. My original post was more to state that I didn't think that income taxes should be raised for the rich, but I don't know that lowering them significantly would be a good idea.
I suppose that I did fail to mention that almost all of the instructors were Indian; so I guess that they were represented in the classroom. I wonder how the numbers have changed in subsequent classes.
I hadn't seen the video before and somewhat sided with the man who was "attacked" by police officers after being a victim of police brutality myself, but after seeing the video I don't see what was wrong... the police didn't use too much force, you can see the man was resisting.
Hell, in my case I had 3 officers kicking me and hitting me with mag-lights, but they were in a high-stress situation so I really hold no animosity towards them. And my experience was video taped by 4 separate people, but since I'm white it didn't make national news.
Why would you want to replace sales tax? Sales tax already disproportionately affects the rich because they spend more income on "luxury" items. And why would you want to increase overall taxes on the wealthy? The wealthy already pay 35% in just federal income tax, plus their property taxes are typically higher.
I am not rich, in fact, I am far from rich, but I do not think that we should penalize people for making more money. Usually someone who is making a lot of money is employing at least a few people, there aren't too many jobs that make someone wealthy without employing some others.
This is the most racist comment I have seen in this story so far. Please elaborate on the "less good home life", I have no idea what you mean by this... are you saying that their homes are less expensive? or in poor neighborhoods?
And perhaps, the quality of schools in the poorer sections of the US is not as good as in the more affluent sections, but you can't say that there are no white people going to these schools too.
The less wealth comment might be valid across a portion of the population, but you can't say that there aren't a lot of blacks and hispanics making a good living
The comment that you make that I have to disagree with most is the "less college education". Going to college myself I found that I was hard pressed to find ways to pay for school. A large portion of grants and scholarships are racially biased. As a black person I would've had my entire education paid for, but as a white person I had to take out large student loans. As a black person I would've even been able to get into college with lower test scores and a lower GPA.
Despite what you may think, as a white person I am discriminated against by the laws and policies in the US. If I do not have the privilege of coming from a rich family I am basically left out in the cold when it comes to paying for, and being accepted to a good college.