maybe instead of overspending, the student should go to a less expensive school and apply themselves. My local state university (a well respected one for engineering. vet medicine, and computer science) charges just over $6100/year for non graduate resident students in tuition. (non vet med) throw in a thousand for books, and you can get a very well respected 4 year degree for $30K. Graduate students are $7k per year (plus books) so add another $16k for a graduate masters degree. so you should be able to attain a masters degree (8 years of study) for under $50k
if you compare that to non-resident undergraduate fees of $17K +$1K for books, you'll see it is already highly subsidized to encourage local students to attend local universities.
Add that many sates have savings programs you can sign your children up for which will COMPLETELY pay for your education at a state school, and I'm just gonna have to say if you CHOOSE to go to a different school, and CHOOSE to take out high interest loans to pay for your education, and you want to bitch about them after the fact, you've proven you probably weren't smart enough to have attended college in the first place.
If you can't earn $30k over four years while in college, you probably shouldn't be looking for a college education.
probably becuase in the US, people think its a right to go to college so they can be lazy whiny bitches and take 6 years to "achieve" their 4 year degree.
does your government set standards for those attending and for those failing to reach standards disallow them from continuing?
We have those here too. They're called scholarships, and for people with the proven ability to achieve higher grades in educational classes, they are not that difficult to get.
Hell, if you can throw a ball or run fast, you can get a 4 year degree for nothing here. And has been proven over and over again, you don't even have to go to class to keep your scholarship in good standing for some schools......
except you conveniently forget to mention that the majority of students are now taking longer than 4 years to complete their 4 year degree and ARE NOT failing to enroll for a semester or two to create this. They are, instead, simply being lazy and only taking the lowest number of classes to get by that year and are more than willing to self-extend their stay in university simply because its "so hard" to study and learn a full schedule for every semester.
and dont give me any bullshit about it can't be done. The Fucking Florida State starting quarterback got his degree in TWO AND A HALF FUCKING YEARS while also being a student athlete. And he is in the running to be a Rhodes Scholar (their potential second in three years).
Face it, students as a whole are lazy whiny bitches.
If they were all actually attending class, studying, and actually treating their education with respect and the diligence it deserved, I'd have more sympathy for them, but reality is far different.
we have too many people attending universities who have no reason to be there. they are merely using mommy & Daddies money, or huge student loans to defer their choice to actually work and get a job.
I live in a university town, and have seen it.
students taking an average of 5.5 years to complete a 4 year degree, and NOT working while doing so. Instead the run up their student loans becuase hey, it's only money and you'll pay it back after you have that super high paying job you'll get right out of college.
the problem is both the students and the universities. students are stupid and think that an degree is the most important thing in the world. Universities will do anything to get more students and will gladly tell any student who listens the "great lie" about how they will earn, on average, 1 million dollars more over their lifetime than someone without a degree. While this statistic may be true (and honestly, who really knows this to be true), it's also a bullshit statistic. WHy? Because it lumps in people with one group that have no desire to earn money.
If you were instead, to take only those with the intelligence to work in a certain minimum level, and then only compare them, the numbers would be quite lower. They should also expose the number of people who are not working in the field for which they paid this outlandish amount of money and are instead working at a subpar job.
but no.
instead we'll doctor our statistics to make ourselves look important and to lower the importance of good ole experience at the same time.
I also laugh at the person who thinks that service sector workers are the low paid ones.....
you've never worked blue collar in your life have you?
I made $30k a year as a plumbers helper, living in Iowa, in the late 80's. I have friends who work in the HVAC world still and make upwards of $100k a year living in the midwest, where a 4000sqft house costs $300k.
maybe the real reason college is so popular, is that those that are going to it are, by and large, a bunch of lazy, incompetent, useless drivel who are merely delaying their entry into the "job market" as long as possible, and when they do enter, are "unable to find jobs" because they won't accept entry level positions and instead have a sense of entitlement to those cushy middle management jobs they were told by their lying universities they would automatically get offered because of the shitload of money they spent to attend a prestigious university that was all to happy to take their money and churn out yet another drone who is barely employable.
because if he later develops an app he wishes to sell, he has a way to get PAID. And requiring that you are a verified paypal member only makes sense as well. God forbid the stories we would see if they just allowed any old paypal account and somehow the money went to a non verified account and the developer didn't get it.
it would be holy hell for palm then.
this way circumvents that process by adding a layer of verification.
considering federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour (http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/posters/minwagebw.pdf), no, they can't undercut you to $10k/year for a 40 hour per week work week.
seawater is the lifeblood of every naval nuclear power plant, and as someone who was in the navy and in charge of the heat exchangers attached to a naval nuclear power plant, i can assure you it is a big deal and a LOT of time and maintenance is put into preventing corrosion and the associated leakage in piping that a heat exchanger utilizes. In order to have efficient heat exchange between two moving fluids, you need a very thin wall and you need it to be clear of any and all corrosion. This means a lot of time and effort, not too mention chemicals are used. For a mobile naval vessel, there is no other option, so the cost isn't an issue.
For a land based cooling system, it is an issue because there very well may be less expensive alternatives.
Not too mention the possible ramifications (good and bad) of discharging all of the heated water back into the marine ecology.
him and the millions of others who purchase them. Guess what, he's not the minority here.......
And anyone who thinks 99.9% is even CLOSE to an acceptable number to be used has their head in the sand.
A better, and more importantly, more acceptable way of saying this would be simply to say that many of the most commonly used programs have freely available and easily installed alternatives. Of course, that also goes for Windows and OSX, but that doesn't really matter.
no, most people do not need to reboot several times per day. And this is exactly what is wrong with Linux. The people with smug and obviously idiotic statements like this.
Face it, Windows in it's current versions is pretty damn stable, and Joe User knows this. Joe User also knows that statements that use "Most" in them are usually weaselword statements made by marketing types. He's learned this over the last decade by reading more than 1 source for his news and perusing the occasional blog or three.
So when some asshat comes around and says something as moronic as "most people need to reboot several times a day", which he knows from personal experience to be absolutely incorrect, he immediately wonders what else that is spewing from that person's mouth that is moronic and incorrect.
Next time, try using some factual basis in your conversations, and you might find that people will listen to them and possibly be persuaded by them.
When people ask me about Linux, I tell them the distro I use, what I use it for, what issues I have discovered, and ask them what they would like to use it for. Then an intelligent conversation can proceed because they have some basis for believing me. I don't tell them it's "teh bestst and windoze suxors" or make up moronic statements.
Sometimes Linux is a good fit for them, sometimes not. Either way, those that try it are more likely to not get frustrated by false hopes since they weren't flasley lead to believe it does everything better, because it doesn't.
The problem is not how "popular" or "cool" it is, the problem is with education. To put it simply and bluntly, your educational system sucks, particularly when it comes to science. Reform it. Education is pretty much the same problem for anyone, you're doing it wrong, look at how others are doing it right.
This is the absolute truth.
students at a majority of US colleges and universities are there simply because they are told they need to to succeed in life. Then they get there and basically waste an average of 5 years to get their 4 year degree. universities do not care, because they have gone to a billing system where you pay the same to take the maximum credit hours possible, and the minimum to be considered full time. so they obviously push students to go for the minimum and thus allow the themselves (the universities) to make more money off the student.
Universities have become as bad (or worse) than any corporation in the world. They routinely waste money in prolific ways, take every politically correct doctrine to the nth degree, will not fire people who obviously deserve to be, etc. They will also pretty much allow anyone with the money waving in their hands to enroll. so much for being the intelligent ones if you're attending a university.
you want a microcosm view of everything wrong in america today? go to a university (public or private) and do a bit of snooping, you'll find every sordid tale imaginable.
now through in that "the gubment" thinks that all you have to do to increase education is throw more money at it, and you have the perfect recipe for the epic failure of education in america.
You want to bring back real education? get rid of the teachers unions, get rid of tenure systems in ALL facets of education, PAY the teachers to be educators, force parents to police thier own children and kick out of school the children of the ones too fucking stupid to so, make kids actually prove proficiency for more than 1 week when "teaching them something", and finally stop telling us everything is "for the children" when it's not. It's for you and your political brethren.
i associate Les Paul with multi track recording more than a single guitar.
after all, without his multi track recording (and overdubbing before that) music wouldn't be what it is today. the beatles and beach boys wouldn't have been able to create their iconic albums, and people like Tom Dowd would have never been able to mix some of the arguably greatest recordings of all time.
if it's created for the sony screen size it works perfectly, and iirc there is a wat to make a pdf that does not have hard page breaks and line breaks but will actually reflow when opened in the sony reader.
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maybe instead of overspending, the student should go to a less expensive school and apply themselves.
My local state university (a well respected one for engineering. vet medicine, and computer science) charges just over $6100/year for non graduate resident students in tuition. (non vet med)
throw in a thousand for books, and you can get a very well respected 4 year degree for $30K.
Graduate students are $7k per year (plus books) so add another $16k for a graduate masters degree.
so you should be able to attain a masters degree (8 years of study) for under $50k
if you compare that to non-resident undergraduate fees of $17K +$1K for books, you'll see it is already highly subsidized to encourage local students to attend local universities.
Add that many sates have savings programs you can sign your children up for which will COMPLETELY pay for your education at a state school, and I'm just gonna have to say if you CHOOSE to go to a different school, and CHOOSE to take out high interest loans to pay for your education, and you want to bitch about them after the fact, you've proven you probably weren't smart enough to have attended college in the first place.
If you can't earn $30k over four years while in college, you probably shouldn't be looking for a college education.
probably becuase in the US, people think its a right to go to college so they can be lazy whiny bitches and take 6 years to "achieve" their 4 year degree.
does your government set standards for those attending and for those failing to reach standards disallow them from continuing?
We have those here too.
They're called scholarships, and for people with the proven ability to achieve higher grades in educational classes, they are not that difficult to get.
Hell, if you can throw a ball or run fast, you can get a 4 year degree for nothing here.
And has been proven over and over again, you don't even have to go to class to keep your scholarship in good standing for some schools......
except you conveniently forget to mention that the majority of students are now taking longer than 4 years to complete their 4 year degree and ARE NOT failing to enroll for a semester or two to create this.
They are, instead, simply being lazy and only taking the lowest number of classes to get by that year and are more than willing to self-extend their stay in university simply because its "so hard" to study and learn a full schedule for every semester.
and dont give me any bullshit about it can't be done.
The Fucking Florida State starting quarterback got his degree in TWO AND A HALF FUCKING YEARS while also being a student athlete. And he is in the running to be a Rhodes Scholar (their potential second in three years).
Face it, students as a whole are lazy whiny bitches.
If they were all actually attending class, studying, and actually treating their education with respect and the diligence it deserved, I'd have more sympathy for them, but reality is far different.
honestly, it worse than that.
we have too many people attending universities who have no reason to be there.
they are merely using mommy & Daddies money, or huge student loans to defer their choice to actually work and get a job.
I live in a university town, and have seen it.
students taking an average of 5.5 years to complete a 4 year degree, and NOT working while doing so. Instead the run up their student loans becuase hey, it's only money and you'll pay it back after you have that super high paying job you'll get right out of college.
the problem is both the students and the universities.
students are stupid and think that an degree is the most important thing in the world.
Universities will do anything to get more students and will gladly tell any student who listens the "great lie" about how they will earn, on average, 1 million dollars more over their lifetime than someone without a degree.
While this statistic may be true (and honestly, who really knows this to be true), it's also a bullshit statistic.
WHy?
Because it lumps in people with one group that have no desire to earn money.
If you were instead, to take only those with the intelligence to work in a certain minimum level, and then only compare them, the numbers would be quite lower. They should also expose the number of people who are not working in the field for which they paid this outlandish amount of money and are instead working at a subpar job.
but no.
instead we'll doctor our statistics to make ourselves look important and to lower the importance of good ole experience at the same time.
I also laugh at the person who thinks that service sector workers are the low paid ones.....
you've never worked blue collar in your life have you?
I made $30k a year as a plumbers helper, living in Iowa, in the late 80's.
I have friends who work in the HVAC world still and make upwards of $100k a year living in the midwest, where a 4000sqft house costs $300k.
maybe the real reason college is so popular, is that those that are going to it are, by and large, a bunch of lazy, incompetent, useless drivel who are merely delaying their entry into the "job market" as long as possible, and when they do enter, are "unable to find jobs" because they won't accept entry level positions and instead have a sense of entitlement to those cushy middle management jobs they were told by their lying universities they would automatically get offered because of the shitload of money they spent to attend a prestigious university that was all to happy to take their money and churn out yet another drone who is barely employable.
i'd rather have seen the new star trek as a bootleg than have paid the $12 to see it........
s/Microsoft/Apple
see how ignorant your argument is now?
because if he later develops an app he wishes to sell, he has a way to get PAID.
And requiring that you are a verified paypal member only makes sense as well.
God forbid the stories we would see if they just allowed any old paypal account and somehow the money went to a non verified account and the developer didn't get it.
it would be holy hell for palm then.
this way circumvents that process by adding a layer of verification.
ISWYDT
i believe driving actresses into anorexic starvation is perfectly fine.
they serve little real purpose.
just like letting athletes inject whatever the hell they want into themselves is fine with me too.
it's their fucking bodies.
if they want to kill themselves, fine
HERETIC!!!!
Stop applying logic and instead fall into the groupthink herd of the slashtards!!!!!!!!
considering federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour (http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/posters/minwagebw.pdf), no, they can't undercut you to $10k/year for a 40 hour per week work week.
so this list of piss is the reason you listed as a past employer then.............
seawater is the lifeblood of every naval nuclear power plant, and as someone who was in the navy and in charge of the heat exchangers attached to a naval nuclear power plant, i can assure you it is a big deal and a LOT of time and maintenance is put into preventing corrosion and the associated leakage in piping that a heat exchanger utilizes.
In order to have efficient heat exchange between two moving fluids, you need a very thin wall and you need it to be clear of any and all corrosion. This means a lot of time and effort, not too mention chemicals are used.
For a mobile naval vessel, there is no other option, so the cost isn't an issue.
For a land based cooling system, it is an issue because there very well may be less expensive alternatives.
Not too mention the possible ramifications (good and bad) of discharging all of the heated water back into the marine ecology.
They don't need the permission of the victims.
They have permission from the NFL which owns the copyright to all telecasts of their member teams.
It sorta came with being the "Official beer of the NFL" endorsement contract they paid for.
I'm gonna bet more people use iTunes on their HOME computers than use Linux.........
And many of them don't have a clue that they could use something else and really don't care because it works for what they want.
Because all of the Linux installs are legally using licensed mp3 and DVD codecs?
oh wait........
him and the millions of others who purchase them.
Guess what, he's not the minority here.......
And anyone who thinks 99.9% is even CLOSE to an acceptable number to be used has their head in the sand.
A better, and more importantly, more acceptable way of saying this would be simply to say that many of the most commonly used programs have freely available and easily installed alternatives.
Of course, that also goes for Windows and OSX, but that doesn't really matter.
no, most people do not need to reboot several times per day.
And this is exactly what is wrong with Linux. The people with smug and obviously idiotic statements like this.
Face it, Windows in it's current versions is pretty damn stable, and Joe User knows this.
Joe User also knows that statements that use "Most" in them are usually weaselword statements made by marketing types. He's learned this over the last decade by reading more than 1 source for his news and perusing the occasional blog or three.
So when some asshat comes around and says something as moronic as "most people need to reboot several times a day", which he knows from personal experience to be absolutely incorrect, he immediately wonders what else that is spewing from that person's mouth that is moronic and incorrect.
Next time, try using some factual basis in your conversations, and you might find that people will listen to them and possibly be persuaded by them.
When people ask me about Linux, I tell them the distro I use, what I use it for, what issues I have discovered, and ask them what they would like to use it for.
Then an intelligent conversation can proceed because they have some basis for believing me. I don't tell them it's "teh bestst and windoze suxors" or make up moronic statements.
Sometimes Linux is a good fit for them, sometimes not. Either way, those that try it are more likely to not get frustrated by false hopes since they weren't flasley lead to believe it does everything better, because it doesn't.
if that took you hours, I'm not sure you should be using a computer.........
This is the absolute truth.
students at a majority of US colleges and universities are there simply because they are told they need to to succeed in life.
Then they get there and basically waste an average of 5 years to get their 4 year degree.
universities do not care, because they have gone to a billing system where you pay the same to take the maximum credit hours possible, and the minimum to be considered full time. so they obviously push students to go for the minimum and thus allow the themselves (the universities) to make more money off the student.
Universities have become as bad (or worse) than any corporation in the world.
They routinely waste money in prolific ways, take every politically correct doctrine to the nth degree, will not fire people who obviously deserve to be, etc.
They will also pretty much allow anyone with the money waving in their hands to enroll. so much for being the intelligent ones if you're attending a university.
you want a microcosm view of everything wrong in america today? go to a university (public or private) and do a bit of snooping, you'll find every sordid tale imaginable.
now through in that "the gubment" thinks that all you have to do to increase education is throw more money at it, and you have the perfect recipe for the epic failure of education in america.
You want to bring back real education?
get rid of the teachers unions, get rid of tenure systems in ALL facets of education, PAY the teachers to be educators, force parents to police thier own children and kick out of school the children of the ones too fucking stupid to so, make kids actually prove proficiency for more than 1 week when "teaching them something", and finally stop telling us everything is "for the children" when it's not. It's for you and your political brethren.
most of Les and Mary's 10" recordings were not multi track but they were overdubbed.
there is a difference
he did however invent both.
i associate Les Paul with multi track recording more than a single guitar.
after all, without his multi track recording (and overdubbing before that) music wouldn't be what it is today.
the beatles and beach boys wouldn't have been able to create their iconic albums, and people like Tom Dowd would have never been able to mix some of the arguably greatest recordings of all time.
it was pbs and it was part of "The Masters" series.
you can get it on netflix under the name "Les Paul: Chasing Sound"
it's even available for Instant Watch
because they are releasing the ebooks at the same time as the hard back editions of new books, not a year later in paperback.
so it is significantly cheaper than the $25-40 price range of a hardback book.
there are also cheaper older books available as well.
and over 500,000 free classics.
and of course there's always calibre and torrent sites with LIT format books.
not all pdf's are scaled to the screen.
if it's created for the sony screen size it works perfectly, and iirc there is a wat to make a pdf that does not have hard page breaks and line breaks but will actually reflow when opened in the sony reader.