apples been breaking direct download links of avatar:(

seriously... if they were going to give us more they should do this, make up for their sacd/dvdaudio f*ckups by putting out an open standard drm free high definition audio format and sell tracks that way. then maybe they'd get back some good will, demonstrating they are giving customers more for their money, not just doing things out of pure greed. anyways itunes already has told them exactly what consumers want, they want the good tracks. the "album" is not dead because of lack of a new format, its dead because people would rather not buy the other 7 shit tracks to get 2-3 good songs.

dansdata http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm water does well as well. anyways, it seems dubious to say the least.

male entertainment has an over representation of females, like it or not once you crunch real numbers, not flash game players or wii fit gamers the mass of gamers is male. and they don't mind playing a female character much of the time. now look at womens entertainment, 99.9% of the time anything catering to womens interest involves only women as main characters. so putting the spotlight on games is slightly dubious since the assumption that it should be 50/50 is a false assumption. you may as well claim that because most fashion magazines cater to women that fashion magazine editors are sexist against men:P its simply a matter of the market. as for race, theres plenty of divesity. of course asian characters probably don't get counted as minority by people who like to game numbers these days.

you don't need a forced expensive program to do this. if they are so poor software is free regardless. anyways "open source" is frankly not all that important to most of the worlds people. its being over sold as a necessity or skill. you might as well claim everyone should be their own car mechanic.

the fundamental idea behind the project was corrupt. the idea that computers are essential for early education is a joke. we have seen most every child in the west given access to computers in endlessly wasteful school technology programs and of course at home. whats come of this? every other kid becoming a programming genius/math wiz? or tons of people posting on the youtubes and twitter:P after decades of school computer spending we know the answer on the real value of computers in the classroom. if they had been effective as claimed we wouldn't be importing scientific/engineering talent from other countries at the rate we are, we'd have a ridiculous supply of our own. just as how all those early computers in elementary school got used for "oregon trail" and "carmen sandiego" the thinking behind shoving tech into little hands was based on fantasy. they should have spent the money on better basic education programs, not tech. and not just in the developing world, but here in the west as well.

so disagree, these patents are probably for common sense mechanisms that have nothing innovative about them and make the patent system a joke. simple abuse by corporations looking to put road blocks in front other competitors knowing that even their dodgiest patents cost a massive load of lawyer cost and time cost to invalidate/contest. nothing is innovative about the prius. Its just a product cobbled together from existing technologies. Innovation would mean something new, like a substantially improved battery for instance. This is nothing more than playing games.

holds no water. microsoft did NOT force anyone in any real way. now if they had blocked installation or download of competitors products on their os by consumers, thats another matter. the eu courts seem to think their citizens are idiots or something and need a level of protection that is ridiculous.

yup, its getting ridiculous. their idea of fairness is warped. drawing an arbitrary line where features should end on an o/s is ridiculous. if they were consistent with these things they'd have to rule that software would only be allowed to do one thing. further more if they applied this logic across the board things like cars should be sold without radios!! its anticompetitive to include a factory radio after all!! so now eu consumers get LESS for their money. the market has shown that ms and ie were not anticompetitive, firefox and the other competitors are strong. so the whole foundation of the eu case is ridiculous, they aren't protecting anyone, they are just bashing us companies. perhaps their warped mentality is what keeps them from generating successful companies like microsoft and google.

more proof the bias in education is against men. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8085011.stm Female students are ahead of men in almost every measure of UK university achievement, according to a report from higher education researchers.

http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html it is amusing the language/reading gap that favors women is just accepted, when under the same viewpoint it should mean that boys are horribly discriminated against when it comes to that aspect of education!! look at the gpas, women outperform men in many areas other than mathematics. are we to conclude that men are being highly discriminated against as well? that is the logical conclusion from such thinking. "Grades: That females receive higher grades in virtually every subject is undisputed. In reviewing the literature on gender differences in cognitive tests, for the flagship journal of the field, American Psychologist, Halpern (1997, p. 1102) points out that "higher grades in school, all or most subjects" is an area of unquestioned female advantage. Another recent, comprehensive review of the research literature on gender differences in school performance comes to the same conclusion: Data from a wide variety of sources and educational settings show that females in all ethnic groups tend to earn higher grades in school than do males, across different ages and eras, and across different subject matter disciplines. Many researchers in past times and today consider this to be such an obvious fact that they treat it as axiomatic....Modern reviews of the subject are unanimous in their finding of higher grades for females (Dwyer & Johnson, 1997, pp. 128-129)." "Class Rank and Honors: Since girls receive higher grades in school, they should also surpass boys in class rank. This is exactly what happens. Examining gender differences in high school class rank and honors in a nationally representative sample from the 1970s, Adelman (1991, p. 3) makes this point, "No matter how one slices the high school class of 1972, women's mean class rank exceeded that of men by a minimum of 10 points." Caucasian women attained, on the average, the highest class rank (67th percentile), while African-American men attained, on the average the lowest class rank (44th percentile). African-American women ranked far higher (56th percentile) than African-American men. The same pattern of female advantage in grades and honors shows up in the 1990s, in a nationally representative longitudinal study of the high school class of 1992 (NELS Second Follow-up, cited in Dwyer & Johnson, 1997, p. 139). In the academic arena, high school girls outdistanced boys in making the honor roll, in getting elected to a class office, and in receiving writing awards and other academic honors. In the academic arena, boys outdistanced women in vocational-technical honors and in awards in science and mathematics competitions. While males are still ahead in gaining mathematics and science honors, females are making strong gains. From 1995-1998, close to 40 percent of the winners of the most prestigious science competition, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, were female (Science Service, 1998). The Westinghouse Science Talent Search requires high school students to complete a project in science, mathematics, and engineering and submit a report communicating the results. The work goes on over many months, often with the assistance of a parent, teacher, or other researcher. The contest is notable for producing winners who later go on to win a Nobel Prize. Westinghouse finalists from the 1940s through the 1970s were overwhelmingly male. The number of females among the top 40 finalists has increased since the 1980s and is approaching parity (Table 2)." all this hand wringing over women is clearly missing the real problem eh?

seems she was previous debunked, and is back for another swipe with dodgy data. http://www.geoffreyfalk.com/blog/June2009.asp#5 http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math2.htm the top 1% of students in general esp at a high school level are not what matters when it comes to mathematical genius anyways. its ridiculous to draw conclusions from that. and if asian/colored women outperform their men then they should continue to do so when it gets to the phd level/awards right? probably not addressed. i think what matters with these studies is they are published and get a headline, thats all that really matters, very few of the gender warriors that like your conclusions are going to check your work.

so true, any company that would take advantage of the so called pay gap would crush its competition, greed always wins. it basically shows how big a lie this is. a 30% advantage is simply a recipe for domination of any sector. it is a manufacturered figure that is exaggerated and oversimplifies reality by assuming everyone makes the same life choices and so should have the same result. that it doesn't make sense doesn't make a spit of difference in politics where reason and truth count for nothing, and repeating big lies for political gain is perfectly kosher, especially if you have the power of political correctness to smash down anyone that questions your dubious claims.

the irony is that the same women will be rather quick to claim that women are better at xyz, multitasking, social interaction, verbal ability etc etc etc. so they've really already shot out their foot on the idea that all things are equal. of course they are never that consistent. ok lets make a deal. we'll let women claim they are every bit as good at math as men if they have to accept that women are just as criminally violent as men and so the only reason that women don't make up 50% of inmates at prisons is discrimination in the justice system.

indeed, warran farrell was a 3 time elected board member of NOW if anyone thinks he's anti woman. the reality is men man most dangerous disgusting and physically destructive jobs. there can be no rational discussion of parity without this consideration, especially when it comes to the whole "pay gap" nonsense. interests are different for the genders. theres nothing wrong with that in fact in some professions like medicine women are disproportionately represented, as medical doctors its becoming lopsided with women. the problem is that activist groups only focus on trying to force parity based on their own idea of what reality should be rather than allowing people to make their own choices. we've seen whats happened with forcing women down the road of the tech industry, many left it during the bust and never went back, i'm sure plenty more have left. female dominated jobs like nursing are well paid these days, and the lack of even handedness in this push for quotas or "help" to force parity shows how corrupt the whole enterprise really is. its really counterproductive, pushing quota/politically correct hiring only guarantees that the merits of any female math professionals is questioned by default. i also remember there was another study where accelerated math programs for girls only in some high schools yielded rather poor results as well. the girls could do math, but almost none choose it as a profession or major once they left for college.