The politics of this is way too charged.
If the issue is whether the president of harvard should have opened his big mouth, then no I think he should have shown more tact.
If you want to argue the deeper issue at hand, there is no reason that men and women have different abilities in different areas, and their bodies as well as their brains work in different ways.
Men and woman's bodies are clearly different, as well as some of our internal organs, so why cant our brains be different?
Clearly men and women act differently and from an evolutionary perspective men and women need this difference for humans to survive.
Its a matter of men and women complimenting each other. Women make up in areas that men lack, and vice versa. I think in any strong relationship this is true. If a man and a woman are too much alike, then somehow it doesnt work. Ultimately a man and a woman are a team, and its an advantage if the woman is stronger is some areas, while the man stronger in other.
So perhaps men in general are better at math and science. I'm not saying its true for sure, and I can't sit here and prove it to you. But this possibility is not so far flung, and furthermore I think we live in a much better place due to the fact that men and women have different strengths.
and another thing: apple users have been sucked into the cult of apple in that they will buy apple products above any other products just because 'its hip and cool' even if there are other products that are better and cheaper. Basically people are buying into the image that steve jobs has cultivated. Sort of like Starbucks.
apple was essentially dead around 1998, then what steve jobs did was essentially what volkswagon did for their new beetle. Suddenly you can get different colors for your computer! Apple has continued to simply market for style rather than substance. Fine. It looks pretty on your coffee table, but how does it benchmark? so basically id pay between 500-800 dollars more just because? I can customize a pc, put in the cards that I want to, upgrade when needed all for cheaper.
you still havent answered my point, instead being nitpicky about the phrasing of the post itself. i see that like most mac users you prefer form over substance.
marketing marketing marketing. thats been the apple mantra for the last 5 years under the new jobs regime. the reality is that the mac computer itself is overpriced. ok, OSx is fine, but the hardware you can get cheaper for a pc if ur not a computer moron. dont like windows? linux is available. you can get better stuff with a pc you can customize it better and in 3 years when you throw out your apple mini you can upgrade a pc. 1.42ghZ? PLU-EEZE!
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The politics of this is way too charged. If the issue is whether the president of harvard should have opened his big mouth, then no I think he should have shown more tact. If you want to argue the deeper issue at hand, there is no reason that men and women have different abilities in different areas, and their bodies as well as their brains work in different ways. Men and woman's bodies are clearly different, as well as some of our internal organs, so why cant our brains be different? Clearly men and women act differently and from an evolutionary perspective men and women need this difference for humans to survive. Its a matter of men and women complimenting each other. Women make up in areas that men lack, and vice versa. I think in any strong relationship this is true. If a man and a woman are too much alike, then somehow it doesnt work. Ultimately a man and a woman are a team, and its an advantage if the woman is stronger is some areas, while the man stronger in other. So perhaps men in general are better at math and science. I'm not saying its true for sure, and I can't sit here and prove it to you. But this possibility is not so far flung, and furthermore I think we live in a much better place due to the fact that men and women have different strengths.
by the way microsoft is the greatest company ever!
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clockspeed matters when you're trying to run 3 programs at once and they're all slow as molasses...
and another thing: apple users have been sucked into the cult of apple in that they will buy apple products above any other products just because 'its hip and cool' even if there are other products that are better and cheaper. Basically people are buying into the image that steve jobs has cultivated. Sort of like Starbucks.
apple was essentially dead around 1998, then what steve jobs did was essentially what volkswagon did for their new beetle. Suddenly you can get different colors for your computer! Apple has continued to simply market for style rather than substance. Fine. It looks pretty on your coffee table, but how does it benchmark? so basically id pay between 500-800 dollars more just because? I can customize a pc, put in the cards that I want to, upgrade when needed all for cheaper.
you still havent answered my point, instead being nitpicky about the phrasing of the post itself. i see that like most mac users you prefer form over substance.
hmmmm... and apple is not part of the global conspiracy i guess?
marketing marketing marketing. thats been the apple mantra for the last 5 years under the new jobs regime. the reality is that the mac computer itself is overpriced. ok, OSx is fine, but the hardware you can get cheaper for a pc if ur not a computer moron. dont like windows? linux is available. you can get better stuff with a pc you can customize it better and in 3 years when you throw out your apple mini you can upgrade a pc. 1.42ghZ? PLU-EEZE!