The question asked is if prejudice exists in the tech industry. My personal take is that the industry is irrelevant. Some dotcom in Washington, D.C. will (by simple probability) have more minorities employed than, say, a dotcom in Mississippi.
It really has nothing to do with the type of company. Companies are made up of people. People that have been taught, or have taught themselves, to either respect their peers or to take issue with their ethnic background. Having grown up in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, I learned to respect people for their merits and base my oppinions on each individual rather then the whole.
Now, working in northern Baltimore, a less diverse area, you can feel that there is more tension between the races, and this is reflected in the workplace. My wager is that you are more likely to see this sort of thing going on in a sparsely populated, ethnically similar area.
So, to get to the point, the industry is irrelevant. The people, and their mindsets, are what foster or discourage this type of behavior.
I don't see what the issue is. The fact that email addresses cannot be tied to MOTD responses is really irrelevant at this point. Lets consider the facts:
Quake3: Arena sends information about your video card to ID.
The Win32_Instructions_Readme.txt files states this.
No information that can be directly tied back to me, nor in any way could be used against me has been compromised.
This makes me a happy camper. I can't wait until the game comes out.
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The question asked is if prejudice exists in the tech industry. My personal take is that the industry is irrelevant. Some dotcom in Washington, D.C. will (by simple probability) have more minorities employed than, say, a dotcom in Mississippi.
It really has nothing to do with the type of company. Companies are made up of people. People that have been taught, or have taught themselves, to either respect their peers or to take issue with their ethnic background. Having grown up in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, I learned to respect people for their merits and base my oppinions on each individual rather then the whole.
Now, working in northern Baltimore, a less diverse area, you can feel that there is more tension between the races, and this is reflected in the workplace. My wager is that you are more likely to see this sort of thing going on in a sparsely populated, ethnically similar area.
So, to get to the point, the industry is irrelevant. The people, and their mindsets, are what foster or discourage this type of behavior.
Oh God. I usually don't find flamebait like this amusing, but I just laughed my ass off for 20 minutes.
Some industrial machinery smell. Grease, oil, the smell of duck tape holding various pieces together...etc.
- Quake3: Arena sends information about your video card to ID.
- The Win32_Instructions_Readme.txt files states this.
- No information that can be directly tied back to me, nor in any way could be used against me has been compromised.
This makes me a happy camper. I can't wait until the game comes out.Hmmmm. I see. What precisely are the qualifications of a WinNT administrator?