Partially true, but I think anyone who's smart enough to pirate a copy of XP is also smart enough to not use IE6. It's still there, but laying dormant.
In this case it's about active versions of IE6, like at the school I teach at. They never upgraded to 7, and I'm not holding my breath on them rolling forward to 8 over the summer. Lazy/reluctant IT and ignorant XP users are the reasons IE6 is clinging to life.
Maybe you missed what happened when Janet Jackson performed at the Superbowl. I have never been to Britain before, so I can't speak for your culture, but here in America that would be considered a form of pornography.
Apple doesn't care about what you look at on your iPhone, and I'm sure they are well aware what people do on the internet. Apple's goal is to make money, and they do it by keeping a good image. A lawsuit involving some dumb parent who lets their kid use their iPhone and sees a nude picture on an app they downloaded from the Apple store would certainly tarnish that image.
1. Person buys iPhone from Apple.
2. Person buys Newspaper app under assumption he will get news.
3. Person sees exposed mammary glands in said app.
4. Person sues Apple.
If you actively search for porn on the internet that's your problem, but if you find the same material on an application supported by Apple (not a porn company) then it's there problem. This was lawsuit waiting to happen, and now with parental controls they can shift the responsibility off of their shoulders on to the user, where it should be.
Not sure where you got your info from, although maybe it's different in other districts, but with us you don't get approved to go up a step by the union, that's your administrator. So if you do a crappy job you'll get frozen where you are, tenure or not.
I will say though, bonuses for good teaching would be nice. Although we've already been stripped of many things that people in other fields take for granted so I wouldn't bet on it. Holiday parties around Christmas? Nice little gifts for sticking around for 10, 20, 30, or even 40 years? Nope, government doesn't want school money going towards those things anymore. Yes, they have a point about keeping the funding strictly for education, but not treating your teachers like respected employees is something that is no longer embraced.
Generalizations are bad news. You were in a poorly run union, at least from your viewpoint. As a teacher I am union member (by force), but it's a good union I can't praise enough for the work they've done getting our contracts settled. I can vouch for my union being a good union because they just prevented our Board of Education from increasing the number of nights we have to come back to school while at the same cutting the percentage of our annual raises by almost half and cutting health benefits. I can also tell you it is very easy for me to get involved if I wish. I know people who have gotten involved and they have made major impacts.
If you don't like the way things are being done, do something about it or walk away. Don't complain that the entire system sucks (even though complaining is one of my favorite hobbies).
Nah, most consumers just have the brain power equal to that of a middle school student. I teach a technology course at a middle school and will occasionally ask open-ended questions like 'what do you think of Wikipedia?' or 'do you think DRMs are a good or bad thing?'. 90% of the responses state that Wikipedia is the worst thing on Earth (one student suggested it's a place where child predators hang out) and that DRMs are fantastic.
They just see things on the surface: Wikipedia can be tampered with, and people shouldn't pirate software.
I teach at a middle school in New Jersey and we have a similar policy, but one that eliminates the grade inflation. The bare minimum for a marking period grade, and therefore final grade, is a 55. However, during the course of the actual marking periods there is no lower limit (except for a 0 I guess, haven't tried to give out negative grades yet). We still figure out a student's final grade like normal, but if it's anything lower than a 55, we just put 55. Still leaves that opportunity to catch up, but with much chance of beating the system
(Also, passing grade here is a 65 and we don't have any ridiculous 'E' grades)
Opie and Anthony now do a censored, FCC friendly show
Half true. They do 3 hours on terrestrial and another 2 on XM, which is uncensored.
XM charged/charges extra to listen subscribe to o/a, and they unable to get more than 500,000 listeners.
XM no longer charge the extra dollar to listen to O&A. And where do you get your numbers from? As far as I know both companies do not release ratings for their programs, only the total subscription numbers.
Notice that there are zero torrents for this crappy show no one cares about.
Slashdot Mirror
1.1.1 -> 2.0.0 - Expect 2.0.1 within the week.
Everything I needed to learn about wagon-wheel axles I learned from Oregon Trail.
Partially true, but I think anyone who's smart enough to pirate a copy of XP is also smart enough to not use IE6. It's still there, but laying dormant.
In this case it's about active versions of IE6, like at the school I teach at. They never upgraded to 7, and I'm not holding my breath on them rolling forward to 8 over the summer. Lazy/reluctant IT and ignorant XP users are the reasons IE6 is clinging to life.
Maybe you missed what happened when Janet Jackson performed at the Superbowl. I have never been to Britain before, so I can't speak for your culture, but here in America that would be considered a form of pornography.
Apple doesn't care about what you look at on your iPhone, and I'm sure they are well aware what people do on the internet. Apple's goal is to make money, and they do it by keeping a good image. A lawsuit involving some dumb parent who lets their kid use their iPhone and sees a nude picture on an app they downloaded from the Apple store would certainly tarnish that image.
1. Person buys iPhone from Apple.
2. Person buys Newspaper app under assumption he will get news.
3. Person sees exposed mammary glands in said app.
4. Person sues Apple.
If you actively search for porn on the internet that's your problem, but if you find the same material on an application supported by Apple (not a porn company) then it's there problem. This was lawsuit waiting to happen, and now with parental controls they can shift the responsibility off of their shoulders on to the user, where it should be.
Do you also not mind waiting 45 minutes in between adding each ingredient?
Not sure where you got your info from, although maybe it's different in other districts, but with us you don't get approved to go up a step by the union, that's your administrator. So if you do a crappy job you'll get frozen where you are, tenure or not.
I will say though, bonuses for good teaching would be nice. Although we've already been stripped of many things that people in other fields take for granted so I wouldn't bet on it. Holiday parties around Christmas? Nice little gifts for sticking around for 10, 20, 30, or even 40 years? Nope, government doesn't want school money going towards those things anymore. Yes, they have a point about keeping the funding strictly for education, but not treating your teachers like respected employees is something that is no longer embraced.
Generalizations are bad news. You were in a poorly run union, at least from your viewpoint. As a teacher I am union member (by force), but it's a good union I can't praise enough for the work they've done getting our contracts settled. I can vouch for my union being a good union because they just prevented our Board of Education from increasing the number of nights we have to come back to school while at the same cutting the percentage of our annual raises by almost half and cutting health benefits. I can also tell you it is very easy for me to get involved if I wish. I know people who have gotten involved and they have made major impacts.
If you don't like the way things are being done, do something about it or walk away. Don't complain that the entire system sucks (even though complaining is one of my favorite hobbies).
Nah, most consumers just have the brain power equal to that of a middle school student. I teach a technology course at a middle school and will occasionally ask open-ended questions like 'what do you think of Wikipedia?' or 'do you think DRMs are a good or bad thing?'. 90% of the responses state that Wikipedia is the worst thing on Earth (one student suggested it's a place where child predators hang out) and that DRMs are fantastic.
They just see things on the surface: Wikipedia can be tampered with, and people shouldn't pirate software.
I teach at a middle school in New Jersey and we have a similar policy, but one that eliminates the grade inflation. The bare minimum for a marking period grade, and therefore final grade, is a 55. However, during the course of the actual marking periods there is no lower limit (except for a 0 I guess, haven't tried to give out negative grades yet). We still figure out a student's final grade like normal, but if it's anything lower than a 55, we just put 55. Still leaves that opportunity to catch up, but with much chance of beating the system (Also, passing grade here is a 65 and we don't have any ridiculous 'E' grades)
XM no longer charge the extra dollar to listen to O&A. And where do you get your numbers from? As far as I know both companies do not release ratings for their programs, only the total subscription numbers.
Wrong.