I may have come off sounding a little strong (with the "educated" part). I do, however, think that he still undercuts his own argument, by editorializing and being so biased against WikiPedia. WikiPedia isn't something sold for hundreds of dollars in a well bound series of books, yet he holds it to that standard and derides it for not matching the editorial standards of the Encyclopedia.
I didn't mean to come of as an anti-intellectual populist; just that in my experience with higher education (especially in the humanities), the "degree" more often than not comes with some pretty hefty biases and bagagge. It's a bit of a different story, in my opinion, for the hard sciences. Your points about physics and evolution are both well taken, and ones I would agree with.
This guy is wrong. He espouses the philosophy that, in essence, a group of "educated" ("" because it just means they got a nice degree) white (probably, in the parlance of wiki) men can decide the truth better than anyone else. The author says it all right here:
One person's "knowledge," unfortunately, may be another's ignorance.
Using that logic, it only seems obvious to spread editorial control as widely as possible, to remove any individual biases. Case in point: would I trust an article in the Encyclopædia Britannica written by Robert McHenry about WikiPedia? No, because it would be littered with juvenile potty jokes.
"The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom."
4 more years of lucrative no-bid contracts;
4 more years of underfunded, biased, racist, corrupt educational systems that reward nice suburban schools and gut already strained urban schools, to the benefit of Bush's friends who run testing and test preperation companies;
4 more years of stop-loss in the military;
4 more years of american AND iraqi casualties;
4 more years of job loss;
4 more years of a mounting federal defecit;
4 more years of a shrinking middle class, thanks to upper-bracket tax cuts;
4 more years of the axis of evil;
4 more years of imperiling the country by breeding thousands of people all over the globe who are convinced the only way they can survive is through our death;
4 more years of convincing the world that "we know best";
4 more years of the PATRIOT ACT and John Ashcroft;
4 more years of appointing ultra-conservative Supreme Court judges, who while decrying "activist judges", change the whole country into the Bible Belt and force their way into women's wombs by overturning Roe V. Wade;
4 less years of stem cell research that could revolutionize medicine, because it's immoral to use embryos, even as thousands of embryos are thrown away all over the country as we speak at In Vitro Fertilization clinics.
Agreed, unless you are old enough to have been around since before USB and those were 'standard' - well, proprietary scsi cards really (which btw is the case I am describing).
Most scanners worked fine with any SCSI cards. I don't think blaming everyone for a few cheapo scsi cards is fair.
Did you read the install notes on the box, or the website or during the installation process??? No.. Right that's your problem
The issue here isn't entirely reading requirements. It's the fact that a G3 isn't that out of date, but is still unable to run something.
Explain to me how $999 iBook is expensive?
Ok, I will. $999 for a 12" screen, 256mb ram, 32mb video ram, and a 30gb hard drive IS expensive. You can get a 15" screen for nearly the same price with a PC. And for the price of a 14" model, you can get a much more capable machine. Whether it's worth the extra or not is arguable (I think it is, I'm a fan myself), but I don't think there's much question that Apple hardware is expensive. And let's face it, part of that DOES come from the brushed aluminum look (which I happen to love).
Or have you ever tried using a scanner that had a proprietary pci card? I didn't think so.
Anyone who buys a scanner with a proprietary PCI card without researching it first isn't too bright, imo...
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I may have come off sounding a little strong (with the "educated" part). I do, however, think that he still undercuts his own argument, by editorializing and being so biased against WikiPedia. WikiPedia isn't something sold for hundreds of dollars in a well bound series of books, yet he holds it to that standard and derides it for not matching the editorial standards of the Encyclopedia.
I didn't mean to come of as an anti-intellectual populist; just that in my experience with higher education (especially in the humanities), the "degree" more often than not comes with some pretty hefty biases and bagagge. It's a bit of a different story, in my opinion, for the hard sciences. Your points about physics and evolution are both well taken, and ones I would agree with.
This guy is wrong. He espouses the philosophy that, in essence, a group of "educated" ("" because it just means they got a nice degree) white (probably, in the parlance of wiki) men can decide the truth better than anyone else. The author says it all right here:
One person's "knowledge," unfortunately, may be another's ignorance.
Using that logic, it only seems obvious to spread editorial control as widely as possible, to remove any individual biases. Case in point: would I trust an article in the Encyclopædia Britannica written by Robert McHenry about WikiPedia? No, because it would be littered with juvenile potty jokes.
"The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom."
I think he defeated his own argument...
4 More Years!
4 more years of lucrative no-bid contracts;
4 more years of underfunded, biased, racist, corrupt educational systems that reward nice suburban schools and gut already strained urban schools, to the benefit of Bush's friends who run testing and test preperation companies;
4 more years of stop-loss in the military;
4 more years of american AND iraqi casualties;
4 more years of job loss;
4 more years of a mounting federal defecit;
4 more years of a shrinking middle class, thanks to upper-bracket tax cuts;
4 more years of the axis of evil;
4 more years of imperiling the country by breeding thousands of people all over the globe who are convinced the only way they can survive is through our death;
4 more years of convincing the world that "we know best";
4 more years of the PATRIOT ACT and John Ashcroft;
4 more years of appointing ultra-conservative Supreme Court judges, who while decrying "activist judges", change the whole country into the Bible Belt and force their way into women's wombs by overturning Roe V. Wade;
4 less years of stem cell research that could revolutionize medicine, because it's immoral to use embryos, even as thousands of embryos are thrown away all over the country as we speak at In Vitro Fertilization clinics.
4 More Years!
Agreed, unless you are old enough to have been around since before USB and those were 'standard' - well, proprietary scsi cards really (which btw is the case I am describing).
Most scanners worked fine with any SCSI cards. I don't think blaming everyone for a few cheapo scsi cards is fair.
Woah, calm down there Sparky.
Did you read the install notes on the box, or the website or during the installation process??? No.. Right that's your problem
The issue here isn't entirely reading requirements. It's the fact that a G3 isn't that out of date, but is still unable to run something.
Explain to me how $999 iBook is expensive?
Ok, I will. $999 for a 12" screen, 256mb ram, 32mb video ram, and a 30gb hard drive IS expensive. You can get a 15" screen for nearly the same price with a PC. And for the price of a 14" model, you can get a much more capable machine. Whether it's worth the extra or not is arguable (I think it is, I'm a fan myself), but I don't think there's much question that Apple hardware is expensive. And let's face it, part of that DOES come from the brushed aluminum look (which I happen to love).
Or have you ever tried using a scanner that had a proprietary pci card? I didn't think so.
Anyone who buys a scanner with a proprietary PCI card without researching it first isn't too bright, imo...