I don't know if the UK suffers from the same silly social notions that the US does.
For example, any British Black I've ever seen speaks perfect English, in the US, we have this silly notion that the natural language for blacks is something called "Ebonics". Ebonics is an English subset. An employer would be as likely to hire an ebonics-speaking black for a good job as he or she would be likely to hire a street-slang speaking white kid who uses the word "sh-t" every third word.
I saw a lawyer once explain that the definition of minority is "someone who is discriminated against".
With such thinking, whites can never be a minority because discrimination against whites is termed "reverse discrimination", and is often deemed acceptable.
Well there are certain black "leaders" who profit off discrimination, whenever something doesn't look quite right racially, they will show up and make a big production. They've succeeded in convincing many blacks that they have no chance to succeed, that things are too stacked against them... Their only hope is to support these "leaders". This has done more harm than good for the black population.
The minority groups that seem to do well (Asians for example) don't have such leaders, they just go out and do what needs to be done.
What about women though, why aren't feminists not being worked up by the lack of female participation in the curent information technology revolution?
I've seen some of that.
The truth is that women just aren't interested in the numbers that men are. For example, I would love for my wife to get into a better paying tech job, but she makes excuses "I'm not smart enough", (yet she's smarter than many people that I work with) "It doesn't interest me" (yet many times she uses my computer more than me, and she's looked at as an expert on PCs where she does work.)
The College that I went to had a higher female enrollment, yet there was only one woman in CS in our graduating class
We should certainly help them, but in the right way. I would gladly give the unused computers and/or parts in my basement to a poor person who wants them.
But I would not want to pay the government more to create a Federal Commission to give computers to a few poor people that happen to meet its requirements, and line the pockets of bueraucrats and lobbyists.
With the governments track record, they probably wouldn't differentiate between a poor person who genuinely wants a computer to improve his/her life, and one who wants to sell it for drug or booze money
I think an interesting (if not scary) development is the fact that Microsoft is starting to make inroads into the black community (by joint deals with BET, donating Winboxes to inner-city libraries & schools, etc.) What is the best way Free Software/Open Source advocates can combat this?
By letting Microsoft donate all this stuff to them. Most of us were first exposed to Microsoft and ran screaming to Linux, do you think they'll be any different?;-)
If Mexico can do it, why can't the US?
Because Mexico is a poor country to whom the idea of free software on inexpensive computers is a Godsend. In contrast, the US is a rich country that has the attitude that if it's free it can't be good.
Do you really think that if you yourself were born in the middle of a housing project, with 4 siblings, no idea who your father was, a mother on drugs half the time and unable to give you attention, let alone raise you, with a boyfriend that beats her and sells drugs, where you don't play outside of the house, and you're lucky to get enough food to eat, let alone nutritional food, that you'd be able to end up where you are today? If you do, then you're living in a different reality from the rest of us.
The funny thing is we encourage this type of lifestyle by subsidizing it.
We should be rewarding the poor people for making GOOD decisions, not bad ones
No actually it wasn't. I think Linus once said that it would never run on anything other than the Intel x86
It was designed so that all is needed to be ported is the micro-kernel on top of which is the rest of the OS
heh heh. Do a search for "Linux is obsolete". This is an old usenet thread from the early 90's where Linus argued against the micro-kernels with Andy Tanumbaum SP? (The author of Minix).
The irony as I see it is one of the merits of a Microkernel design is portability, yet Linux has become more widely ported than most microkernel OSes.
I do wonder how exactly he meant the statement that he was going to work for a company that doesn't compete with SGI.:)
A lot of companies, as a condition of being hired, prevent you from going to work for a direct competitor within a certain time frame after leaving. That's probably why he made that statement.
The funniest trend on MTV is that they've started doing these shows, documenting the making of music videos that they'll never show, because they stopped showing music videos in like 1992 or something. Except for the countdown show where they show about 30 seconds of a music video.
"120 minutes" has always been on Sunday at midnight (or thereabouts) the real wonder is that it's still on, and hasn't been replaced by that wrestling clay-figure show.
the rest of your post is pretty accurate though;-)
There seem to be two kinds of cities, the kind that people WANT to live in, (Manhatten, Boston/Cambridge Ma, Seattle, and others that don't come to mind) these cities tend to be too expensive for the average person to live in, with the suburbs of these cities being much more affordable.
The other type are run-down cities that nobody wants to live in. People choose the burbs in this case as well.
The other factors are bigger houses, lower taxes, lower auto insurance, a place to park, a yard/garden, quiet (no constant traffic/subway noises), a perceived lower crime rate. etc.
Real World and Road Rules are two shows about a gang of misfits who are forced to live together, and learn how to hate each other. One of them will inevitably get violent and get kicked off the show. At they end of the season, they cry and hug each other and go home. In between it will pretend to deal with real issues, and focus on each cast member's insecurities. I know this because my wife likes to watch it, and I am often subjected to it when I spend quality time with her.
Anyway, If I remember this Abe guy correctly, he was a real jerk who worked especially hard to make life miserable for the other people on the show. I think he was the one who provoked the black girl into hitting him, causing her to get thrown off the show.
I tend to believe that things like television have destroyed this social structure more than suburbia has. People tend to sit on their couch and watch TV more than go out and actually meet the neighbors.
I think he wants the Window Manager to handle them. QVWM, a Windows-clone wm, implements icons on the desktop. However in both GNOME and KDE, it's the file manager that does this.
I believe that it should be the wm that handles this, but that gets in the way of the wm independence that GNOME, and to a lesser extent, KDE try to achieve.
I've tried Litestep, the NeXTstep desktop for Win32. It's still got too many Win32isms in it, it's just not the same as Afterstep/Window Maker
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I tried Gnome and my initial impression was, Wow! Look at all of the cool things that you can do to your desktop. Then I tied to do real work with it, and it just really gets in the way, I can't really explain why, just that the initial "cool" features quickly become very annoying.
I worry that KDE will try to be too much like Gnome and become as unusable.
Patents are not secrets. If I patent a process to make widgets, the information on my process is publically available.
Not necessarily, many companies keep their processes secret, IE Coca-Cola. Transmeta hold at least two patents, yet we still don't OFFICIALLY know what they are doing.
I've seen a couple of Linux SNA implementations besides this one, all where commercial. Unfortunatly I don't have links..
As for the price, I imagine, since most people don't have an IBM mainframe in their basement, this is almost exclusivly for business use, $3G isn't alot of money for businesses that can afford Mainframes.
However judging from my experience, I used to work in a shop that used to use an SNA stack on HP (SNApplus 2). I would have possibly used the Linux SNA stuff on a proof of concept project that may not have be able to get the $3G funding needed. A lower cost or free SNA kit would be useful
You should never fall into the "I can't explain it so it must be a UFO" trap. My point was not to try to prove the existance of Alien craft, but rather to say that sometimes the debunkers and skeptics ask you to believe is more far-fetched than what they are trying to debunk.
But this stuff really didn't take off until the cold war was about over.
Even though Roswell happened in 1947, it was pretty much ignored until 1980, when some people in UFO circles started investigating. I don't think it got mass public attention until around 1990.
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I don't know if the UK suffers from the same silly social notions that the US does.
For example, any British Black I've ever seen speaks perfect English, in the US, we have this silly notion that the natural language for blacks is something called "Ebonics". Ebonics is an English subset. An employer would be as likely to hire an ebonics-speaking black for a good job as he or she would be likely to hire a street-slang speaking white kid who uses the word "sh-t" every third word.
I saw a lawyer once explain that the definition of minority is "someone who is discriminated against".
With such thinking, whites can never be a minority because discrimination against whites is termed "reverse discrimination", and is often deemed acceptable.
Well there are certain black "leaders" who profit off discrimination, whenever something doesn't look quite right racially, they will show up and make a big production. They've succeeded in convincing many blacks that they have no chance to succeed, that things are too stacked against them... Their only hope is to support these "leaders". This has done more harm than good for the black population.
The minority groups that seem to do well (Asians for example) don't have such leaders, they just go out and do what needs to be done.
I've seen some of that.
The truth is that women just aren't interested in the numbers that men are. For example, I would love for my wife to get into a better paying tech job, but she makes excuses "I'm not smart enough", (yet she's smarter than many people that I work with) "It doesn't interest me" (yet many times she uses my computer more than me, and she's looked at as an expert on PCs where she does work.)
The College that I went to had a higher female enrollment, yet there was only one woman in CS in our graduating class
We should certainly help them, but in the right way. I would gladly give the unused computers and/or parts in my basement to a poor person who wants them.
But I would not want to pay the government more to create a Federal Commission to give computers to a few poor people that happen to meet its requirements, and line the pockets of bueraucrats and lobbyists.
With the governments track record, they probably wouldn't differentiate between a poor person who genuinely wants a computer to improve his/her life, and one who wants to sell it for drug or booze money
By letting Microsoft donate all this stuff to them. Most of us were first exposed to Microsoft and ran screaming to Linux, do you think they'll be any different? ;-)
If Mexico can do it, why can't the US?Because Mexico is a poor country to whom the idea of free software on inexpensive computers is a Godsend. In contrast, the US is a rich country that has the attitude that if it's free it can't be good.
drugs half the time and unable to give you attention, let alone raise you, with a
boyfriend that beats her and sells drugs, where you don't play outside of the house,
and you're lucky to get enough food to eat, let alone nutritional food, that you'd be
able to end up where you are today? If you do, then you're living in a different reality
from the rest of us.
The funny thing is we encourage this type of lifestyle by subsidizing it.
We should be rewarding the poor people for making GOOD decisions, not bad ones
No actually it wasn't. I think Linus once said that it would never run on anything other than the Intel x86
It was designed so that all is needed to be ported is the micro-kernel on top of which is the rest of the OS
heh heh. Do a search for "Linux is obsolete". This is an old usenet thread from the early 90's where Linus argued against the micro-kernels with Andy Tanumbaum SP? (The author of Minix).
The irony as I see it is one of the merits of a Microkernel design is portability, yet Linux has become more widely ported than most microkernel OSes.
A lot of companies, as a condition of being hired, prevent you from going to work for a direct competitor within a certain time frame after leaving. That's probably why he made that statement.
The funniest trend on MTV is that they've started doing these shows, documenting the making of music videos that they'll never show, because they stopped showing music videos in like 1992 or something. Except for the countdown show where they show about 30 seconds of a music video.
"120 minutes" has always been on Sunday at midnight (or thereabouts) the real wonder is that it's still on, and hasn't been replaced by that wrestling clay-figure show.
;-)
the rest of your post is pretty accurate though
My little suburb has quite a few minority families, yet I and other whites still continue to live there. How do you explain that?
You pretty much nailed it.
There seem to be two kinds of cities, the kind that people WANT to live in, (Manhatten, Boston/Cambridge Ma, Seattle, and others that don't come to mind) these cities tend to be too expensive for the average person to live in, with the suburbs of these cities being much more affordable.
The other type are run-down cities that nobody wants to live in. People choose the burbs in this case as well.
The other factors are bigger houses, lower taxes, lower auto insurance, a place to park, a yard/garden, quiet (no constant traffic/subway noises), a perceived lower crime rate. etc.
Interviewing Cast members of Road Rules? Please!
Real World and Road Rules are two shows about a gang of misfits who are forced to live together, and learn how to hate each other. One of them will inevitably get violent and get kicked off the show. At they end of the season, they cry and hug each other and go home. In between it will pretend to deal with real issues, and focus on each cast member's insecurities. I know this because my wife likes to watch it, and I am often subjected to it when I spend quality time with her.
Anyway, If I remember this Abe guy correctly, he was a real jerk who worked especially hard to make life miserable for the other people on the show. I think he was the one who provoked the black girl into hitting him, causing her to get thrown off the show.
I tend to believe that things like television have destroyed this social structure more than suburbia has. People tend to sit on their couch and watch TV more than go out and actually meet the neighbors.
Was that the guy who wrote the giberish article that got published in a scientific magazine or something? I vaguely remember.
I think he wants the Window Manager to handle them. QVWM, a Windows-clone wm, implements icons on the desktop. However in both GNOME and KDE, it's the file manager that does this.
I believe that it should be the wm that handles this, but that gets in the way of the wm independence that GNOME, and to a lesser extent, KDE try to achieve.
I've tried Litestep, the NeXTstep desktop for Win32. It's still got too many Win32isms in it, it's just not the same as Afterstep/Window Maker
I tried Gnome and my initial impression was, Wow! Look at all of the cool things that you can do to your desktop. Then I tied to do real work with it, and it just really gets in the way, I can't really explain why, just that the initial "cool" features quickly become very annoying.
I worry that KDE will try to be too much like Gnome and become as unusable.
biggest thing stopping windows sheep from using Linux is the lack of a robust, fully functional GUI.
Actually it's lack of MS applications (Office), sure we have WP/Applix/Staroffice, but these types of people "don't want to learn a new application
Because one uses gasoline, and the other one uses propane. Duh! ;-)
Not necessarily, many companies keep their processes secret, IE Coca-Cola. Transmeta hold at least two patents, yet we still don't OFFICIALLY know what they are doing.
I've seen a couple of Linux SNA implementations besides this one, all where commercial. Unfortunatly I don't have links..
As for the price, I imagine, since most people don't have an IBM mainframe in their basement, this is almost exclusivly for business use, $3G isn't alot of money for businesses that can afford Mainframes.
However judging from my experience, I used to work in a shop that used to use an SNA stack on HP (SNApplus 2). I would have possibly used the Linux SNA stuff on a proof of concept project that may not have be able to get the $3G funding needed. A lower cost or free SNA kit would be useful
You should never fall into the "I can't explain it so it must be a UFO" trap. My point was not to try to prove the existance of Alien craft, but rather to say that sometimes the debunkers and skeptics ask you to believe is more far-fetched than what they are trying to debunk.
But this stuff really didn't take off until the cold war was about over.
Even though Roswell happened in 1947, it was pretty much ignored until 1980, when some people in UFO circles started investigating. I don't think it got mass public attention until around 1990.