That's your credential. To others it's a bone of contention. You might like to keep your bias in check. Just because you are atheistic doesn't mean you are well educated or vice-versa, if you get my drift.
Which would be why he added a qualifier, to indicate that he and his friends happened to be both. To have misread it in such a way shows -your- bias.
Huh. Must be nice to be able to put your cultural identity in your pocket and fit in with the dominant culture once in a while. Some of us can't take off our skin colour. Having said that, if an employer doesn't want you because you're not white, it's not an employer worth working for. Be proud of your heritage!
My lineage traces back through Cherokee, Irish, French, African, and for the last 400+ years continental American. Most people just think I'm white. I've never even visited Europe, and though I have nothing against Eurpoeans, I am -NOT- a European American.
My skin color says very little about my "race" or "heritage". It says even less abut me. It gets darker in the summer, and lighter in the winter.
That being said, I work in an IS department in Memphis that is mostly staffed by black women. Memphis is city that is majority black. They call this department IS, but in reality most of the IS staff are business analysts. There are 2 white males in this department, 3 white females, 1 Chinese national female (who transfered from IT), and 9 black females. The last 5 people to leave or get fired from this department were white males. There has never been more than 3 white males in this department in the 26 months I have been working here. The two remaining white males (me and one other) have the least seniority of anyone in the department. The other guy was hired last month. The IS department is managed by a black woman.
The IT department here is actually doing IS work, while the actual functions of IT are subcontracted out. The IT department is 1 Canadian male, 2 Chinese females, 1 Korean female, 1 Greek male, 1 Hebrew male, 2 white males, and a Chinese decended male manager.
The subcontractors doing the IT work are, 1 white male, 1 white female, 1 black male, and 1 Indian female.
So to the point of the original submission; yes, I'd say racism and sexism still exists in IS/IT, but it's not necessarily what you would expect. From my experience, being a white male makes it harder to get hired. It makes it harder to get into the "in" clique. Which in turn makes it harder to advance. They call this "Equal Opprotunity".
Close -- you want to submit Bush's name in every one of those queries. Once it's apparent that he is inextricably linked to the other search material then he'll tuck his tail between his legs and skulk off home.
Similar to the "miserable failure" thing, a search on "Perverted Sex Act" should return whitehouse.gov
Oh, wait, Clinton beat me to that one.
But seriously, it would be fun to to get some of those sort of things going.
The biggest problem I tend to face is that people don't know where the hardware ends, and where the OS Begins and where the OS Ends and the Applications begins.
Heck, they don't know where one physical peice of hardware ends and another begins. And they don't know what each peice of hardware is or does.
How many time have you heard someone refer to the computer case as the "hard drive" or the monitor as "the computer"? Or refer to a 3.5" floppy as a "hard disk".
They don't know any of the terminology.
They can't tell you what the dialog box says over the phone because they have no idea what a dialog box is.
I have heard the word "download" misused so many times it makes me want to scream.
So I suppose in response to the submitters question, I would say what people need to know more than anything else is the terminology. Until they speak the same language, they can't go any farther. The jargon was created to fill a need, not just for the heck of it. You can only dumb it down so far.
Try telling someone how to drive a car without using any traffic related terminology.
"Turn the round thing in front of you and push on the rectangular thing on the floor. You need to stay on the right side of the black stuff on the ground. Make sure the pointy thing on the guage in front of you doesn't go above the numbers on the signs posted to the side of the black stuff on the ground."
It may seem silly, but that's the level tech support has to sink to for many support calls.
This myth has been addressed extensively by the electric car community:
Thanks for the link, but it failed to mention pollution involved in manufacturing, replacement, and eventual disposal of the batteries and their components.
What I asked for is a complete analysis of the ENTIRE system - of which I still have not seen. Perhaps electric cars are still a winner. And I realize the difficulties of comparing dis-similar systems. But the data about pollution related to batteries in electric vehicles is conspicuous in it's absense.
The talk about pollution as if it is the only end goal is a little distracting. The fact is, internal cumbustion engines will continue to be used as long as they are the most practical and inexpensive way to get around. As soon as someone can inarguably show something better, they will become rich and the world will make the change.
If the user wishes to run off of electric power as much as possible, drawing off the grid should they be so inclined, why not offer this option? I would anticipate that power generation at a centralized plant (hopefully even after taking distribution losses into account) will generally be more ecologically friendly than doing so from smaller plants optimized for in-vehicle use.
You can hope all you want, but the primary energy source for electricity in the US is coal. Which is a very dirty fuel. Other primary sources include oil, natural gas, and nuclear. All you'd accomplish by using an all electric car is to shift the pollutants to a more concentrated centralized source.
I don't know of any study showing a total energy savings or pollution reduction across the entire energy production and distribution process for electric and/or hybrid cars. If anyone does, please share.
Actually this is because humidity as we know it is a measure of water vapour, which is in fact colourless and damn near transparent.
You've apparently never been in Memphis in the summer. You can see 90% humidity. Not within the confines of a room, but 100 feet or more away it can become noticable. Half a mile away it's absolutely obvious. I'd call it translucent, not transparent.
A watched pot never boils. The computers were right all along.
I think this has more to do with quantum physics than phase change mathmatics... the whole thing about you can't observe a pot of water and know what state it is in at the same time.
The current administrations secret wiretaps, prisons etc.. is a huge example. I am not so much upset that the general public didn't know, but my elected official sure as hell should have known about it.
As for your examples, your elected officials did know. Does it surprise you that they are not being completely honest about it? Don't buy into the politicaly motivated lies and contortions. They are at least as bad for freedom as any government secrets.
You can still be affected with other browsers, you just have to try harder.
I think you just made his argument....
Only if his argument is that using another browser on Windows is lulling oneself into a false sense of security. Internet Explorer is only one of many components of Windows that are affected. If google desktop indexes your browser cache, for example, you're still screwed. If your browser uses Windows Media Player to automatically display various files, you're still screwed. If you save the file and view it as a thumbnail, you're screwed. If you get it sent to you in email and you open it in Outlook, you're screwed.
but it still does stupid anal-retentive things like refusing to Save As...GIF (for example) until you manually make the image type Indexed
I've never had any trouble saving as GIF with gimp. If you're not in an indexed mode it simply gives you the option of converting to indexed or grayscale, the only formats GIF can handle. Then you click "export", then add a comment if you like, and walla - you have a GIF.
This is not an ie flaw. This is a Windows flaw. You can still be affected with other browsers, you just have to try harder. Anything using the Windows DLL that does the WMF processing will be affected.
The sharp IT people end up running the company. I just heard a story about this trend on the radio earlier this week.
Few people know how the company actually works as well as the IT staff. They touch everyone elses job. In many cases they understand the subtleties of each employee's job better than the person who does it every day from rote - because the IT worker often has to know how it affects other people's tasks as well.
The programmers that don't end up in management just love what they're doing, have no ambition, or are lacking people skills.
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I like Java, but it's only cross platform in theory.
Which is why I gave up on it a long time ago.
Every time I have ever expressed any negative opinion of Java on Slashdot someone mods me down. Some people get really touchy about Java. I still stand by my opinion that it has never lived up to its hype.
I would agree that it is the fault of the VM, not a fault of the language syntax. But the net effect is that I don't even like dealing with it as an end user. It seems like all the Java apps want to install their own VM and trying to get them all to work correctly (and together) is never easy.
Only about 1 in 1000 people who start martial arts earn a black belt that's 0.1% and since most people don't even try martial arts it having a black belt far more "elite" than a 4 year degree right? Wow, I didn't relealize how l33t I really was!
Yes, but your typing is not in sync with your finger movements.
I read the review, even before posting the comment. And, to quote from the site: The DSC-R1 is a first of a kind, the first all-in-one digital (fixed-lens digital) to utilize an APS-C size sensor. I still stand by my assertion, it is not perfect, but this camera is a breakthrough, and deserved an Slashdot article.
I didn't say read the press release. I said do a side by side comparison.
My initial point was that this is nothing but a press release. Don't believe the hype.
Of course it does from the user perspective -- I want to remember that email and create a bookmark for it.
And how is cluttering up the bookmarks, and later searching through them, better than looking in the sent mail folder? Gmail even has a better way to organize and look for it. I'm going to assume you've tried to organize your bookmarks at least once. Seriously, which is easier?
There are dozens of usability studies that show that people like the back button exactly for that reason: For them, it means undo.
I don't know of anyone who expects the back button to revert to the previous state the last thing you entered in a form field. Web browsers have NEVER worked that way.
Geez... You really have no clue when it comes to digital cameras, right?
You obviously didn't click my URL. I may not be the world's greatest photographer, but I do know what I'm talking about.
So, let me explain. This is a _significant_ new development in the field of consumer digital cameras, in no way an typical incremental evolution.
Its significance comes from a new type of CCD, a new development by Sony. Until now, you basically had two types of digital cameras, compact consumer cameras with tiny CCDs, and digital SLRs with huge CCDs.
There are three basic types of digital sensors: Those with RGB sensors laid out in a rectangular grid; Foveon where they are stacked on top of each other; and Fuji's which has sensors which are offset from one another.
Or, if you prefer, two basic types: CCD or CMOS.
Prehaps you should browse around dpreview.com to see just how ordinary that camera is. Try the side by side feature of the site.
If you want to see a cool camera for a good price, try a Nikon D200. Or if excellent color and full frame is important, take a look at the Canon 5D. If you're really serious, look at something in the Canon 1D line. If you want a toy, look at Sony.
Nope. Can't think of one. You do realise that it's perfectly reasonable to use Javascript with real links don't you? And I wasn't complaining about onclicks, I was complaining about spans and onclicks together being a half-arsed replacement for real links.
The response object is handled through Javascript and it's what allows you to update the page without reloading. If you wanted to use a "real link" you would be forced to load a new page, completly negating the benefit of Ajax.
So basically I should stop wanting my basic browser features to work, even though other providers can do it, and even though it would work if they constructed their web application correctly?
You should understand that a web application is not a web page and there is a paradigm shift. There may be some instances where maintaining "web page" expectations makes sense, but in many applications it doesn't. Some examples: Bookmarking a sent email in gmail makes no sense. Nor does hitting the back button to clear a cell in an interactive spreadsheet. Saving state across sessions on a half filled in form probably would not be useful.
Just about every complaint I've seen about Ajax so far seems to be geared at "It doesn't act like a web page". Ajax is best used for web applications. Of course it doesn't act like a web page... that's why it's so useful.
I would only recommend Canon or Nikon to people looking for cameras.
Sony has done nothing worth a headline here. This is pure PR - one of those planted "news" stories where some reporters got fed a story on a slow news day... maybe got sent a free camera with some marketing hype.
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Which would be why he added a qualifier, to indicate that he and his friends happened to be both. To have misread it in such a way shows -your- bias.
I'm too smart to do that.
My lineage traces back through Cherokee, Irish, French, African, and for the last 400+ years continental American. Most people just think I'm white. I've never even visited Europe, and though I have nothing against Eurpoeans, I am -NOT- a European American.
My skin color says very little about my "race" or "heritage". It says even less abut me. It gets darker in the summer, and lighter in the winter.
That being said, I work in an IS department in Memphis that is mostly staffed by black women. Memphis is city that is majority black. They call this department IS, but in reality most of the IS staff are business analysts. There are 2 white males in this department, 3 white females, 1 Chinese national female (who transfered from IT), and 9 black females. The last 5 people to leave or get fired from this department were white males. There has never been more than 3 white males in this department in the 26 months I have been working here. The two remaining white males (me and one other) have the least seniority of anyone in the department. The other guy was hired last month. The IS department is managed by a black woman.
The IT department here is actually doing IS work, while the actual functions of IT are subcontracted out. The IT department is 1 Canadian male, 2 Chinese females, 1 Korean female, 1 Greek male, 1 Hebrew male, 2 white males, and a Chinese decended male manager.
The subcontractors doing the IT work are, 1 white male, 1 white female, 1 black male, and 1 Indian female.
So to the point of the original submission; yes, I'd say racism and sexism still exists in IS/IT, but it's not necessarily what you would expect. From my experience, being a white male makes it harder to get hired. It makes it harder to get into the "in" clique. Which in turn makes it harder to advance. They call this "Equal Opprotunity".
I do need to get some cigars...
Similar to the "miserable failure" thing, a search on "Perverted Sex Act" should return whitehouse.gov
Oh, wait, Clinton beat me to that one.
But seriously, it would be fun to to get some of those sort of things going.
I was eating, dude!
Heck, they don't know where one physical peice of hardware ends and another begins. And they don't know what each peice of hardware is or does.
How many time have you heard someone refer to the computer case as the "hard drive" or the monitor as "the computer"? Or refer to a 3.5" floppy as a "hard disk".
They don't know any of the terminology.
They can't tell you what the dialog box says over the phone because they have no idea what a dialog box is.
I have heard the word "download" misused so many times it makes me want to scream.
So I suppose in response to the submitters question, I would say what people need to know more than anything else is the terminology. Until they speak the same language, they can't go any farther. The jargon was created to fill a need, not just for the heck of it. You can only dumb it down so far.
Try telling someone how to drive a car without using any traffic related terminology.
"Turn the round thing in front of you and push on the rectangular thing on the floor. You need to stay on the right side of the black stuff on the ground. Make sure the pointy thing on the guage in front of you doesn't go above the numbers on the signs posted to the side of the black stuff on the ground."
It may seem silly, but that's the level tech support has to sink to for many support calls.
Thanks for the link, but it failed to mention pollution involved in manufacturing, replacement, and eventual disposal of the batteries and their components.
What I asked for is a complete analysis of the ENTIRE system - of which I still have not seen. Perhaps electric cars are still a winner. And I realize the difficulties of comparing dis-similar systems. But the data about pollution related to batteries in electric vehicles is conspicuous in it's absense.
The talk about pollution as if it is the only end goal is a little distracting. The fact is, internal cumbustion engines will continue to be used as long as they are the most practical and inexpensive way to get around. As soon as someone can inarguably show something better, they will become rich and the world will make the change.
You can hope all you want, but the primary energy source for electricity in the US is coal. Which is a very dirty fuel. Other primary sources include oil, natural gas, and nuclear. All you'd accomplish by using an all electric car is to shift the pollutants to a more concentrated centralized source.
I don't know of any study showing a total energy savings or pollution reduction across the entire energy production and distribution process for electric and/or hybrid cars. If anyone does, please share.
You've apparently never been in Memphis in the summer. You can see 90% humidity. Not within the confines of a room, but 100 feet or more away it can become noticable. Half a mile away it's absolutely obvious. I'd call it translucent, not transparent.
Yes, burn him. He turned me into a newt!
I think this has more to do with quantum physics than phase change mathmatics... the whole thing about you can't observe a pot of water and know what state it is in at the same time.
As for your examples, your elected officials did know. Does it surprise you that they are not being completely honest about it? Don't buy into the politicaly motivated lies and contortions. They are at least as bad for freedom as any government secrets.
Don't make me throw a Holy Hand Grenade at you.
This goes way beyond "use another browser".
I've never had any trouble saving as GIF with gimp. If you're not in an indexed mode it simply gives you the option of converting to indexed or grayscale, the only formats GIF can handle. Then you click "export", then add a comment if you like, and walla - you have a GIF.
This is not an ie flaw. This is a Windows flaw. You can still be affected with other browsers, you just have to try harder. Anything using the Windows DLL that does the WMF processing will be affected.
The sharp IT people end up running the company. I just heard a story about this trend on the radio earlier this week.
Few people know how the company actually works as well as the IT staff. They touch everyone elses job. In many cases they understand the subtleties of each employee's job better than the person who does it every day from rote - because the IT worker often has to know how it affects other people's tasks as well.
The programmers that don't end up in management just love what they're doing, have no ambition, or are lacking people skills.
Which is why I gave up on it a long time ago.
Every time I have ever expressed any negative opinion of Java on Slashdot someone mods me down. Some people get really touchy about Java. I still stand by my opinion that it has never lived up to its hype.
I would agree that it is the fault of the VM, not a fault of the language syntax. But the net effect is that I don't even like dealing with it as an end user. It seems like all the Java apps want to install their own VM and trying to get them all to work correctly (and together) is never easy.
Yes, but your typing is not in sync with your finger movements.
I didn't say read the press release. I said do a side by side comparison.
My initial point was that this is nothing but a press release. Don't believe the hype.
And how is cluttering up the bookmarks, and later searching through them, better than looking in the sent mail folder? Gmail even has a better way to organize and look for it. I'm going to assume you've tried to organize your bookmarks at least once. Seriously, which is easier?
I don't know of anyone who expects the back button to revert to the previous state the last thing you entered in a form field. Web browsers have NEVER worked that way.
Care to link to one of those studies?
You obviously didn't click my URL. I may not be the world's greatest photographer, but I do know what I'm talking about.
There are three basic types of digital sensors: Those with RGB sensors laid out in a rectangular grid; Foveon where they are stacked on top of each other; and Fuji's which has sensors which are offset from one another.
Or, if you prefer, two basic types: CCD or CMOS.
Prehaps you should browse around dpreview.com to see just how ordinary that camera is. Try the side by side feature of the site.
If you want to see a cool camera for a good price, try a Nikon D200. Or if excellent color and full frame is important, take a look at the Canon 5D. If you're really serious, look at something in the Canon 1D line. If you want a toy, look at Sony.
The response object is handled through Javascript and it's what allows you to update the page without reloading. If you wanted to use a "real link" you would be forced to load a new page, completly negating the benefit of Ajax.
You should understand that a web application is not a web page and there is a paradigm shift. There may be some instances where maintaining "web page" expectations makes sense, but in many applications it doesn't. Some examples: Bookmarking a sent email in gmail makes no sense. Nor does hitting the back button to clear a cell in an interactive spreadsheet. Saving state across sessions on a half filled in form probably would not be useful.
Just about every complaint I've seen about Ajax so far seems to be geared at "It doesn't act like a web page". Ajax is best used for web applications. Of course it doesn't act like a web page... that's why it's so useful.
I wouldn't.
I would only recommend Canon or Nikon to people looking for cameras.
Sony has done nothing worth a headline here. This is pure PR - one of those planted "news" stories where some reporters got fed a story on a slow news day... maybe got sent a free camera with some marketing hype.
Move along... nothing to see here.