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Comment Re:55% White (Score 1) 561

Apple's categorizations are consistent with national demographic categories. All the ethnicities you list would fall under "Asian".

(The US as a whole is about 73% white, or 63% non-Hispanic white, meaning whites are underrepresented in Apple's workforce, no matter how you count.)

Maybe you missed the part about Apple being a Californian company. According to 2011 US Census Bureau estimates, California's population was 39.7% Non-Hispanic White

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 561

Is this a problem? Personally, I don't think so. It just means that more women are interested in teaching younger children, and the men who are there are because they want to be. I doubt there's some grand conspiracy to prevent men from becoming kindergarten teachers.

Yeah, the fact that men just happen to be in the teaching jobs that get paid better is total coincidence.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 561

Gotta agree that's stupid. First, you can only hire people that are available with the skills you're looking for. So if you don't have "diverse applicants", you'll never get "higher numbers". Second, I hope he doesn't mean it, but it sounds like Cook want to be more diverse to look more politically correct. If I were a stock holder, I'd be upset.

Well, first of all, this report comes as a result of stockholders being upset. And second, it was all about the diversity within board of directors and the upper management (aka "leadership). Where white males were overrepresented compared to the "tech" diversity (hiring a bunch of white women improved one statistic recently, getting Dre onboard upped the black score). It's all in TFR.

Comment Re:Netflix Time Now? (Score 1) 252

It looks pretty awful on anything with a HD resolution these days so that probably wouldn't help it.

So does Star Trek (TOS, heck even some of TNG) but people still love watching them for the stories and they always make the Netflix most-popular lists.

Depends on what you are looking at - both B5 and the older ST shows were filmed on film, and the FX for ST TOS and most for TNG were also done on film, while those for B5 were digital and rendered to be good enough (if that) for analog TV resolution.

The resolution of film is good enough to at least look better on HD than on SD - but the digital effects will show the pixels.

And that's ignoring that for both TOS and TNG Paramount has released HD versions with "better" FX.

Comment Re:Netflix Time Now? (Score 2) 252

Unfortunately, there isn't anything they can do about that without a huge infusion of money. Basically, they lost all of the FX material and it would all have to be redone from scratch. That's the problem with a relatively low-budget production.

Even if they still had the material it would have to be redone - low polygon count models and low res textures don't make good HD images.

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