This is sad. You have an article with the phrase "vertical relief" in it and you can't come up with anything even remotely humorous? For shame, AC... for shame.
The point is that the bad schools close. They'd hopefully be rebooted with new administrations and get a fresh start.
Protip: IMO most schools don't fail because of shitty facilities or anything. There's people all over who learn in a little brick shack and get better educations than some American kids. It's the administration and teaching environment that fails them.
When people can go elsewhere, they will always try to go to the best place for their kids. Right now, you can't do that without moving thanks to district rules. (If I lived two blocks over, I would have went to a shitty school instead of a New Jersey Blue Ribbon School.)
Competition is what's needed here. When's the last time you heard about one school pinching a teacher from another? Not a coach, not a principal - a teacher? You haven't, because administrations just get lazy and try to keep things barely up to standards.
...no really, I am. It's not as bad as people think.
There's basically five wards of the city: Central, North, East, West, and South. The East Ward (more famously known as The Ironbound) is a very nice old school neighborhood. Not always quiet but there aren't any crack dens.
The Central Ward is downtown, where we have a stadium (hosting the NJ Devils, Seton Hall Pirates, and a bunch of concerts) and a lot of good bars and shops.
The other three wards pretty much ARE the run down, people-getting-shot areas. I'm fortunate to leave in the good part of Newark.
I'm pretty much the opposite of Gordon Freeman, except I don't have the hot mulatto girl following me around and a bitchin' powered armor suit that talks to me.
I do have a crowbar and a huge cache of guns, though.
This is just an anti-Israel/Jewish/America copypasta. It's best to ignore it. Remarkably, it's one of the few times I've ever seen copypasta actually relevant to the topic at hand in/.
Students in my city (Newark, NJ) have something like $10,000 spent on them each annually, and yet most of our buildings are in the worst state.
The basic ideas behind vouchers as I see it is that it would promote competition. When people can pack up and go to another school (that will happily take their money), you had better clean up your act and get your spending under control or you'll be shut down in no time.
It's nice how we have such a competition-free primary and secondary education system in a country with so much capitalism and competition elsewhere.
Well yeah... it works better for crews that need to get around fast but do not need to carry a lot of cargo (security and whatnot). The only downside is if someone whips out a pistol and shoots at you, you'll have cover for your ankles and that's about it. At least you can hide behind a golf cart. (;
I don't think you've ever been to any sort of themed fan convention. Walk 2 miles and stand up for approximately 12 hours, with a 5 minute break every hour. I'd love to see how you fare.
No matter how strong you are or how much endurance you have, standing/walking around at a con for that long is going to take a toll on you.
The funny thing is I was serious... they made such a huge fuss about it on things like the Today show.
I was watching Today when the Segway was introduced. For like two fucking hours (my parents told me about the "revolution" thing) they talked about this mysterious thing. My mind is racing - "hovercraft? It has to be a personal hovercraft. Or a fucking jetpack!"
And then they bring this thing out and my heart sinks. My first thought was "This thing is a joke... right?"
Segways are useful for a segment of the population - the people who can walk but with difficulty and yet do not require crutches / canes - someone with a bad knee, for instance. But it's not quite the revolution I was hoping for. ):
I was severely disappointed with the Segway. I hear about the "revolution in personal transportation" PR they had going, and I expected one of three things:
Let's say you have a Dell XPS laptop with a 320 GB HD. (Just picked a random lappy from Best Buy for this example). So let's say you have a 100 gig "Fake" partition and a 220 gig encrypted partition. Couldn't they just look up the laptop online and find out that the HD space is smaller than its supposed to be?
I do not know much about Truecrypt, but what about going into the BIOS? Let's say you get around my aforementioned problem by installing a larger hard drive and having a 320 GB fake partition. Can't they just go into the BIOS and see that the HD is really 500 gigs?
Of course, if it just has to pass a cursory examination (and they don't go into the BIOS), I'm sure this will work to get you through security.
BTW, could someone explain / provide linkage as to how this whole Truecrypt partition stuff works? Possible pro/cons (longer loading times for programs / longer access times for files? etc.), how it works, how it can be foiled and how it can be found out (i.e. how can they tell that you have a Truecrypt hidden partition). Thanks.
...just mail the laptop to yourself, wherever you're going?
If you're staying at a friends house, they'll hold it. If you're going to a hotel, they'll hold it. Then mail it back to yourself/family/friends on the way back home.
Inconvienient and expensive, yes, but would they search your laptop then?
Just like how tablet pc's have been a failure to the masses over and over and over again..
I've used a tablet PC (laptop) for about a week (borrowed it from a friend). One major issue with it was the RAM. MS Journal uses vector graphics - if you try to do really complex drawings in the poor bastard machine with 512 megs of RAM it slowed down considerably.
Is there any good Linux functionality for tablet PCs? I'd like to run a tablet lappy with Photoshop/GIMP etc. for generic things like taking notes, sketches, etc., and keeping them all in one place.
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Skeeter? Is that you?
This is sad. You have an article with the phrase "vertical relief" in it and you can't come up with anything even remotely humorous? For shame, AC... for shame.
Redundancy, redundancy, off-site redundancy
There, fixed that for you. Backups aren't worth a damn if the building is blown up.
Hm, there seems to be a pizza van outside my residence...
Why can't they just use a bob and tether? Have a GPS antenna floating on a mini buoy and a wire connected to the sub.
The point is that the bad schools close. They'd hopefully be rebooted with new administrations and get a fresh start.
Protip: IMO most schools don't fail because of shitty facilities or anything. There's people all over who learn in a little brick shack and get better educations than some American kids. It's the administration and teaching environment that fails them.
When people can go elsewhere, they will always try to go to the best place for their kids. Right now, you can't do that without moving thanks to district rules. (If I lived two blocks over, I would have went to a shitty school instead of a New Jersey Blue Ribbon School.)
Competition is what's needed here. When's the last time you heard about one school pinching a teacher from another? Not a coach, not a principal - a teacher? You haven't, because administrations just get lazy and try to keep things barely up to standards.
I'm from Newark, NJ, you insensitive clod!
...no really, I am. It's not as bad as people think.
There's basically five wards of the city: Central, North, East, West, and South. The East Ward (more famously known as The Ironbound) is a very nice old school neighborhood. Not always quiet but there aren't any crack dens.
The Central Ward is downtown, where we have a stadium (hosting the NJ Devils, Seton Hall Pirates, and a bunch of concerts) and a lot of good bars and shops.
The other three wards pretty much ARE the run down, people-getting-shot areas. I'm fortunate to leave in the good part of Newark.
Do it like it's done now. Base a school's funding on a per-student basis. Every student that jumps ship is a student where you lose funding.
If a parent was, say, willing to go to another public school 20 miles away, that should say something about the quality of their local school.
Yeah, I mean look at that bitchin' goatee Freeman is sportin'!
I'd like to get Buffy on my "staff".
Mod parent up to the fucking sky!
Right, because "keep throwing more money at them" as an answer has worked marvelously.
Protip: the schools that lose money deserve it for sucking so much.
I'm a computer guy, not a physicist!
I'm pretty much the opposite of Gordon Freeman, except I don't have the hot mulatto girl following me around and a bitchin' powered armor suit that talks to me.
I do have a crowbar and a huge cache of guns, though.
...wow. Just wow. Can't believe they recycled their own art so blatantly.
This is just an anti-Israel/Jewish/America copypasta. It's best to ignore it. Remarkably, it's one of the few times I've ever seen copypasta actually relevant to the topic at hand in /.
Students in my city (Newark, NJ) have something like $10,000 spent on them each annually, and yet most of our buildings are in the worst state.
The basic ideas behind vouchers as I see it is that it would promote competition. When people can pack up and go to another school (that will happily take their money), you had better clean up your act and get your spending under control or you'll be shut down in no time.
It's nice how we have such a competition-free primary and secondary education system in a country with so much capitalism and competition elsewhere.
Well yeah... it works better for crews that need to get around fast but do not need to carry a lot of cargo (security and whatnot). The only downside is if someone whips out a pistol and shoots at you, you'll have cover for your ankles and that's about it. At least you can hide behind a golf cart. (;
I don't think you've ever been to any sort of themed fan convention. Walk 2 miles and stand up for approximately 12 hours, with a 5 minute break every hour. I'd love to see how you fare.
No matter how strong you are or how much endurance you have, standing/walking around at a con for that long is going to take a toll on you.
The funny thing is I was serious... they made such a huge fuss about it on things like the Today show.
I was watching Today when the Segway was introduced. For like two fucking hours (my parents told me about the "revolution" thing) they talked about this mysterious thing. My mind is racing - "hovercraft? It has to be a personal hovercraft. Or a fucking jetpack!"
And then they bring this thing out and my heart sinks. My first thought was "This thing is a joke... right?"
Segways are useful for a segment of the population - the people who can walk but with difficulty and yet do not require crutches / canes - someone with a bad knee, for instance. But it's not quite the revolution I was hoping for. ):
I was severely disappointed with the Segway. I hear about the "revolution in personal transportation" PR they had going, and I expected one of three things:
* jetpacks
* hovercars / flying cars
* teleporters
And instead, I get a golfcart cut in half with a gyroscope and scooter handlebars added. What a fucking disappointment.
Their heads are not that high. Think about 3 feet off of the ground and behind them.
They can just upload the source to a directory on their server and not password or encrypt it. Someone will find it eventually.
IANAL but I don't think they're under any legal obligation to secure their own code.
But there's a possible issue with this, no?
Let's say you have a Dell XPS laptop with a 320 GB HD. (Just picked a random lappy from Best Buy for this example). So let's say you have a 100 gig "Fake" partition and a 220 gig encrypted partition. Couldn't they just look up the laptop online and find out that the HD space is smaller than its supposed to be?
I do not know much about Truecrypt, but what about going into the BIOS? Let's say you get around my aforementioned problem by installing a larger hard drive and having a 320 GB fake partition. Can't they just go into the BIOS and see that the HD is really 500 gigs?
Of course, if it just has to pass a cursory examination (and they don't go into the BIOS), I'm sure this will work to get you through security.
BTW, could someone explain / provide linkage as to how this whole Truecrypt partition stuff works? Possible pro/cons (longer loading times for programs / longer access times for files? etc.), how it works, how it can be foiled and how it can be found out (i.e. how can they tell that you have a Truecrypt hidden partition). Thanks.
...just mail the laptop to yourself, wherever you're going?
If you're staying at a friends house, they'll hold it. If you're going to a hotel, they'll hold it. Then mail it back to yourself/family/friends on the way back home.
Inconvienient and expensive, yes, but would they search your laptop then?
Just like how tablet pc's have been a failure to the masses over and over and over again..
I've used a tablet PC (laptop) for about a week (borrowed it from a friend). One major issue with it was the RAM. MS Journal uses vector graphics - if you try to do really complex drawings in the poor bastard machine with 512 megs of RAM it slowed down considerably.
Is there any good Linux functionality for tablet PCs? I'd like to run a tablet lappy with Photoshop/GIMP etc. for generic things like taking notes, sketches, etc., and keeping them all in one place.
So the Gamecube was manufactured in Austrailia?