I try not to press her on these questions. Both of these guys were pretty new, but so is her school.
Word of advice about Missouri: the southwestern part of the state is horrifyingly conservative. If you like more liberal, open-minded types, you may want to stick with the north or Columbia.
PROTIP: Don't believe anything you hear from Fox News, right-wing radio, or any properties owned by Rupert Murdoch. Much like Greek myths, there will be a small nugget of truth in with all the bullshit, but it's a job to pull it out.
I don't know about you, but I was an ignorant little shit when I was in the public school system. It wasn't as bad towards the end, but I still had no real idea about the Real World.
About the only thing I could have said objectively about teachers is "do I feel like I've learned enough?", but even then, owing to lack of life experience, it would have been a poor choice to believe me.
I just turned 30, and I have a very different perspective now than I did at 18.
My wife teaches at a public high school in Missouri. It's actually fairly easy (at least in her building) to get rid of a teacher who doesn't work out -- one guy lasted only for his contracted year before his contract wasn't renewed, and another guy who's been dragging his heels at finishing his certs is leaving at the end of May, after maybe three years.
Untrue, and I have an anecdote to back that up. A user brought in an old Pentium-233 laptop with 160MB of RAM. The laptop ran WinXP (forget which SP, but this was before 3) and Office 2003, and it was actually really fast. Word would launch in about 3 seconds from a fresh reboot. Excel was similarly fast.
I'm certain the difference was that/nothing/ was running, especially no anti-virus (and no viruses either).
So 256MB of RAM should be plenty for just one app at a time under XP, if you don't have any background crap running.
I had one of those monitors. I do love Trinitron tubes, but this one eventually had something funny happen to the EDID information and it became unable to do more than 60 Hz.
I agree, this was a stupid submission. The RC isn't going to be supported with security fixes, etc. for the year, and I have noticed bugs that also won't be fixed ('cause it's not the release).
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That's precisely where I'm coming from.
Also, I have to laugh at this:
I know that it's fashionable to hate the liberals here on Slashdot
because of how Slashdot was during the Bush years.
...on a much faster processor than a Pentium-266. Your point?
Also, nice try to put words into my mouth, there.
As opposed to the closed-minded types 'round here, chum. One has only to read the loony-letters to the newspaper to wince.
Because bad parents affect kids more than the teachers, and there are a /lot/ more bad parents out there.
I try not to press her on these questions. Both of these guys were pretty new, but so is her school.
Word of advice about Missouri: the southwestern part of the state is horrifyingly conservative. If you like more liberal, open-minded types, you may want to stick with the north or Columbia.
PROTIP: Don't believe anything you hear from Fox News, right-wing radio, or any properties owned by Rupert Murdoch. Much like Greek myths, there will be a small nugget of truth in with all the bullshit, but it's a job to pull it out.
I don't know about you, but I was an ignorant little shit when I was in the public school system. It wasn't as bad towards the end, but I still had no real idea about the Real World.
About the only thing I could have said objectively about teachers is "do I feel like I've learned enough?", but even then, owing to lack of life experience, it would have been a poor choice to believe me.
I just turned 30, and I have a very different perspective now than I did at 18.
I have to call bullshit on this. No teacher of mine has ever tried to push me to vote one way or another.
Don't listen to right-wing talk radio. It rots your brain.
My wife teaches at a public high school in Missouri. It's actually fairly easy (at least in her building) to get rid of a teacher who doesn't work out -- one guy lasted only for his contracted year before his contract wasn't renewed, and another guy who's been dragging his heels at finishing his certs is leaving at the end of May, after maybe three years.
Untrue, and I have an anecdote to back that up. A user brought in an old Pentium-233 laptop with 160MB of RAM. The laptop ran WinXP (forget which SP, but this was before 3) and Office 2003, and it was actually really fast. Word would launch in about 3 seconds from a fresh reboot. Excel was similarly fast.
I'm certain the difference was that /nothing/ was running, especially no anti-virus (and no viruses either).
So 256MB of RAM should be plenty for just one app at a time under XP, if you don't have any background crap running.
I had to be the guest of honor at a bukkake party with all the editors.
Not necessarily. Slashdot had a competition of some sort last year, and one of the prizes was an abandoned low-UID account.
I had one of those monitors. I do love Trinitron tubes, but this one eventually had something funny happen to the EDID information and it became unable to do more than 60 Hz.
I agree, this was a stupid submission. The RC isn't going to be supported with security fixes, etc. for the year, and I have noticed bugs that also won't be fixed ('cause it's not the release).
because you knew that was coming.
Gosh, nobody would ever quote out of context to prove a point. Especially not a butt-hurt Republican.
Yeah. As much as I think this is about Specter getting re-elected, it's also true that he didn't leave the GOP so much as the GOP left him.
Dear god, I read that entire hundred-page speech about ten years ago. I still don't know quite why.
Evidently, dear fool, you didn't notice that the jetliner was escorted by fighters. This was a crucial detail that was missing in '01.
Still butthurt about the election?
This was performance art by the Obama administration, the better to show people what paranoid idiots they are.
I fear authoritarians, opportunistic politicians, and bad financial planning. Also stupid people.
Since this is Slashdot, sometimes I fear reading the article.
RTFA, n00b. Joe User won't have this capability, because it won't be available in Windows Home, only Professional and above.