This is the question that's been bugging me in the whole story.
The story doesn't indicate that she has any particular training in research or investigation. In fact, it points out specifically that everything posted pertaining to the cop (it's not specified that he was undercover) was publicly available.
So, my question is: does anyone believe for a moment that the Bad Guys aren't better at sniffing out undercover cops than Jane X Citizen? Meaning, she's not telling the Bad Guys anything they don't already know...
Maybe. Of course, if you start with the stupid backstory part, will they be paying attention when the punchline hits? (Again, assuming there's no script) the requirement is just that he informs them. Doesn't say they have to pay attention.
Burying inconvenient news - it works for governments and corporations, it can work for you.
(Based on my nine-year marriage to a wonderful anime geek, and observation of other couples)
Geek women are more common than you think - they just tend to avoid geek men (for the obvious reasons). But they are out there, and they're people (and geeks) just like the rest of us.
Be aware of the cost of your hobby - make sure you're not taking all the disposable income. It doesn't need to be dollar-for-dollar equal, but nothing honks her off more than being told that she can't spend $200 on her hobby because you just spent $2000 on yours.
Make sure you spend time together. On something you both enjoy. Taking her along for a raid only counts if you go to her yoga class.
Not sure a pre-nup is a good "must have" unless there was already a severe imbalance in finances when you got married. Otherwise, if you don't trust this person to pull half their weight in the relationship (and thus deserve half the "stuff" at the end), why are you marrying them?
Separate bank accounts *are* a good thing, although for a different reason - it's important for each of you to have your own credit rating and history. Not just in case of divorce, but accidental death and other nasties.
A buddy of mine is guilty of having sex with a 16 year old when he was 18 (and a senior in high school), and spent time in prison for it. Now that he is out, he is being "watched very closely", just in case he decides to have sex with any girls only two years younger than him (???).
However, that isn't the bad part. The bad part is that when he moved, he was forced to go door to door and tell people he was a sex offender.
That sucks. (Assuming that it was consensual, of course)
Is there a specific script he had to read from, or did he just need to inform them? If there wasn't a script, he really should have used it to his advantage:
"Hello, I am required by law to inform you that when I was a senior in high school, I had consensual sexual relations with a female two years my junior. To help inform the community about the possibility of me having consensual relations with women two years younger than myself, I am registered as a sex offender. I apologize for the waste of both our time that the government has imposed."
You can't make sensible puzzles in MMOs. It just doesn't work. It's a nice time sink for the fast players, everyone else will read it up on the internet. How do I overcome an opponent through some higher development? I ask the relvant wiki.
This is what killed Myst Online, sadly - a new Age/area would open, and if you weren't there the first day, you couldn't walk five steps without someone blasting the solutions over open chat. The only way they made the "puzzle" last longer was to make them so complicated that the average player shrugged and ignored it.
I keep thinking there should be a way to do it (using random or modular pieces, so each player/group gets a different variation?), but no-one's solved it yet.
"Proportional to contention" doesn't help when Big Bad Corporation steals your billion-dollar idea: they already have a billion dollars to fight you in court, you don't.
It also rewards rich people who can afford to raise the stakes. You might be 90% sure that you'll win, but the more money I spend hassling you, the more risk you have to accept. I can simply spend you out of the courtroom.
The difference is between
(a) Microsoft decides to use GPL code in their product, and then releases their code under GPL.
and
(b) Microsoft uses GPL code in their product, and only releases it under GPL (like they were supposed to), *after* someone calls them up and says "hey, you do know you're breaking the law here, right"?
I don't blame them for trying to spin it as case A, especially when you consider that case B equates to "Yeah, we totally broke the law, and these guys were nice enough to hang us for it."
No, but if you have a full bus with no empty seats, and a pregnant woman walks in, you'll find that some of those seats are marked priority for pregnant women, elderly, or handicapped. Your service as a regular Joe gets degraded, where other clients get priority -- but the difference isn't per client, it's per client status. And it's also true that a nominally elderly person might be perfectly healthy and capable of standing while I might not because I have a bad migraine or something, so this isn't perfect either.
I've seen people giving up their seat and standing on the bus for the elderly (and that's just polite, if unrelated), but the closer example would be a full bus, letting on a "priority seating" person, giving them your seat, then kicking you off because the bus is overfull.
If they oversold by 10%, reduce everyone's connection equally. But that's a heck of a lot fairer than them deciding what traffic they like and what they don't.
As a first approach, I agree. Here's where it gets hairy: What does "reduce everyone's connection equally" mean, exactly?
Here's one scenario: You're one of 10 people sharing a 100 mbit pipe, with a nominal subscription of 20 mbits. 9 of you are downloading stuff from bit torrent, which would take up the whole of your pipe if you could, for a total of 180 mbits desired connection. The last guy is trying to keep a 1 mbit stream of video chatting, or whatever, going steady. That means there's a total of 181 mbits of demand. One "fair" division scheme goes as thus: 100/181 = 0.552 so everybody gets 55% of the bandwith they asked for. All the downloaders get 11.04 mbits, the streaming guy gets 552 kbits (assuming 1m = 1000k because it makes the maths easier). Quite clearly, the streaming guy is getting shafted here.
Here's a different, still "fair" scenario: Take turns giving 1 mbit (or whatever) per person until each individual is satisfied or you run out. Under this scenario, the guy who's asking for only 1 mbit is getting all he wants and his real time stream is going just fine, while the remaining 9 guys divide the remaining 99 mbits between themselves: 11 mbits apiece, for a grand loss of 40 kbits each. Arguably the scheme is still fair, but the guy who needed a little bandwidth got it all while the guys who need a load barely felt the difference. Still, this scenario breaks down when the difference between usage types isn't this jarring.
So once you realize that ideal scenarios break down, we need to try more pragmatical strategies. VoIP tends to be low consumption, low latency tolerance, whereas P2P is usually high consumption, high latency tolerance. Even if I'm chit chatting with my friend while you're getting a crucial business tool from BT, my usage breaks down from throttling faster than yours does, so I get bandwidth first. What's important is that we're not getting screwed: If the contract says 20 mbits, we shouldn't get throttled "because it's P2P".
I'd see it as the second example - IIRC, my internet provider says speeds of up to 10 mbits (And I'll use that number because it rounds nicely.) If we're 10% over-capacity, I'm perfectly OK with everyone's pipe getting cut to 9mbits. No need to peek at packets and decide what content you like better. (Which is how I define "network neutrality" - I pay for bits, and my ISP doesn't need to know what bits I'm using. They definately shouldn't play favorites between them.)
I like your analogy, because it illustrates the key difference: if the bus is too full, the bus driver doesn't start pointing at people and saying "you can go, you have to wait". It's first-come, first serve. Same at the gym - when Mr. VoIP comes through the door, the gym doesn't grab Mrs Torrent and kick her out to make space.
I'm Canadian, and my needs are simple - I'm paying for a connection, and what I do with it is my business. Maybe my download is for my work, and I'm on a deadline - they don't know, and it's not their business to know. My router already lets me prioritize my bandwidth - I don't need my ISP deciding for me. Especially when they're deciding that my neighbor's deserves my share of the local pipe.
If they oversold by 10%, reduce everyone's connection equally. But that's a heck of a lot fairer than them deciding what traffic they like and what they don't.
I write Nifty 1.0 - I release it as GPL. You can
(a) use it under GPL, which means you have to contribute your code back under the same terms (you pay me for my code with your code.)
(b) you call me up, and arrange to pay me in some other fashion (cash, shares, goodwill, whatever we agree to). I license you the code under terms we find mutually agreeable.
This is just me, but I see GPL as a guarantee that I get "paid" for my work. If you're using it for non-profit/GPL freeness, then you're paying me back in code I can use. If you're using my code as part of your 3-step plan to Profit, then I deserve some cut. (If my contribution isn't big enough to warrant a cut, it must be simple to write your own, yes?).
Well, let's see, so far she has not provided a reasonable explanation. She has tried to provide a series of unreasonable ones, such as that someone used a non-existent wireless access point to frame her. How is it you believe she didn't do it? Remember, this is a civil case and there is not presumption of innocence.
Now, I'm just a Canadian, but don't *they* have to provide the reasonable explanation? Why should she have to disprove something if they can't prove it?
(To throw an old bad argument in, can you prove you're not beating your spouse? Wouldn't you prefer that they have to prove that you did first?)
At this point, I'd say it's time to get the local media involved. Especially if you can find a few other parents who are in the same position.
My family's past experience (YMMV, etc etc) is that schools will bury for as long as possible - admitting fault just isn't in the playbook. You need to shame them into making the change, and that means making sure it's very public. (If your community does Amber Alerts, that would work well - no school wants to hear their name over the airwaves in that context).
From your child's POV, I'd suggest seeing if they have a regular driver or bus number - something they can learn: "I ride home with Bob the Bus Driver", or "My bus is number 4". The best defense if street-proofing - making sure your kid knows the way home.
If you need to go the tech route (and while I still think it's not the right answer, I'm not going to argue), why not go with a simple cell phone? From what I understand, emergency services can track those just fine. (Or you can just call your child, or vice versa).
The problems are really more ones of logistics than the actual food. Sure, we produce too much food and much of it goes to waste. But getting the food to the right people at the right time is the hard part.
Which is the real tragedy - we can ship produce around the world and keep it fresh at your local grocery. Obviously we can get food to people at the right time - we just don't pick the right people
This service does nothing to help with marketing so there will be a million artists that no one has ever heard of or will listen to. Word of mouth marketing is (a) slow and (b) statistically unlikely to succeed. "Word of mouth successes" are really driven by people who are good at self promotion which most people are not. Plus for every successful "word of mouth" story that someone can point to, there are thousands of failures.
Not an RIAA killer, not even close
And I'd see it the other way - as Starving Artist X, I can now handle my own production (and at a pretty decent price point). Which means I *only* need a marketer, or at least can hire one independently of my distributor. Still a win for the artist.
(It may, of course, be to your advantage to show them ID -- if they're looking for John Smith and you can show your name is Richard Roe, you can be about your business that much sooner.)
Of course, since cops are allowed to lie to you, you don't have a reliable way of knowing who they're actually looking for, do you?
What if you have information that will help them? I live in a relatively high-crime neighborhood, and I've had quite a few interactions with the local police regarding crimes committed in my neighborhood or by my neighbors, everything from simple assaults, hit and runs, and drug dealing all the way up to homicides. Granted, I was never treated as a suspect, but I was happy to relay all the information I had to the cops, since I have a vested interest in decreasing crime in this neighborhood.
I agree that if you are a suspect or could possibly become a suspect, it is usually best to remain silent. Otherwise, though, help the cops if you can. In my experience, most cops are decent people who are trying to make the community better.
While I agree with the sentiment (I want to reduce crime), the cops have shot themselves in the foot with their "I'm allowed to lie to people".
When they show up at your door, how do you know if you're a suspect or not? They don't have to tell you - in fact, they're allowed to lie to you. So while I'd like to be a good citizen, I have to balance that with the obvious question - what does this cop really want with me?
Don't take my word for it--download the Ubuntu live CD yourself and try it. If you like it better than Windows I'll eat my own ass. (It'll be the color of Ubuntu.)If everyone tried the CD they'd see how bad it was. Windows advocates do download it and know how badly it sucks.
I have Ubuntu running on three systems currently:
My home PC runs 8.04 as it's only OS
My work PC runs 8.10 Wubi (as a dual boot)
My wife is playing around with the 9.04 LiveCD.
They all work just fine, thanks so much.
I'll even give you some things that I think it does better/worse than Windows:
Better:
upgrade/patch support: I get a little icon, I choose when/if/what to download, and most of the time there's not even a restart involved.
Ubuntu's "add/remove software" lets me add software from multiple sources, with no more effort than clicking a checkbox. (And everything removes just as simply and cleanly). And when I feel like being a poweruser, I can use synaptic with only slighly more fuss.
I have far fewer stability issues with Ubuntu than Windows. (And when I do have a problem, it's generally directly related to a bonehead move I made.
Worse:
running Windows applications (and MS apps in particular): If you need Office, or $NEW_VIDEO_GAME, you can do it in Ubuntu/Wine, but it's simpler in Windows. (Probably because they're all *Windows* applications).
Interoperability with aforementioned MS apps: Yep, OpenOffice isn't an Office clone. Works well enough, so long as you're not trying to create a 1:1 transfer between the two. (Of course, you couldn't do that between Office and WordPerfect, either, so I don't know why it's such a problem)
iTunes, but that's just dumbassery on Apple's part
With Ubuntu, I don't have as many computer problems to bitch about.
Bottom line, my house will probably remain a dual-boot home for now. But the Windows part is pretty much down to iTunes and video games. For everything else, there's Linux.
She's been at it 4 years and is almost to 75k for 9 months of work.
Just had to point out something here re: "9 months of work" - have you ever tallied up how many *hours* a teacher works in those "9 months"?
Teachers don't get to clock 40 hours a week. You're in early, out late (and carrying a pile of homework to mark at home). You're auto-signed up for every little project and event that comes along (you know when you went to visit at "meet the teacher night" - that's all part of the job).
I personally think teachers don't get paid nearly enough, and the math is simple - go find someone to babysit your kid for the day. Now, multiply that by 30, and add the fact that instead of getting the nice old lady down the street or the high school kid, you're getting a university-educated professional that is trusted to teach the required skills for this world.
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This is the question that's been bugging me in the whole story.
The story doesn't indicate that she has any particular training in research or investigation. In fact, it points out specifically that everything posted pertaining to the cop (it's not specified that he was undercover) was publicly available.
So, my question is: does anyone believe for a moment that the Bad Guys aren't better at sniffing out undercover cops than Jane X Citizen? Meaning, she's not telling the Bad Guys anything they don't already know...
Maybe. Of course, if you start with the stupid backstory part, will they be paying attention when the punchline hits? (Again, assuming there's no script) the requirement is just that he informs them. Doesn't say they have to pay attention.
Burying inconvenient news - it works for governments and corporations, it can work for you.
(Based on my nine-year marriage to a wonderful anime geek, and observation of other couples)
Not sure a pre-nup is a good "must have" unless there was already a severe imbalance in finances when you got married. Otherwise, if you don't trust this person to pull half their weight in the relationship (and thus deserve half the "stuff" at the end), why are you marrying them?
Separate bank accounts *are* a good thing, although for a different reason - it's important for each of you to have your own credit rating and history. Not just in case of divorce, but accidental death and other nasties.
A buddy of mine is guilty of having sex with a 16 year old when he was 18 (and a senior in high school), and spent time in prison for it. Now that he is out, he is being "watched very closely", just in case he decides to have sex with any girls only two years younger than him (???).
However, that isn't the bad part. The bad part is that when he moved, he was forced to go door to door and tell people he was a sex offender.
That sucks. (Assuming that it was consensual, of course)
Is there a specific script he had to read from, or did he just need to inform them? If there wasn't a script, he really should have used it to his advantage:
"Hello, I am required by law to inform you that when I was a senior in high school, I had consensual sexual relations with a female two years my junior. To help inform the community about the possibility of me having consensual relations with women two years younger than myself, I am registered as a sex offender. I apologize for the waste of both our time that the government has imposed."
You can't make sensible puzzles in MMOs. It just doesn't work. It's a nice time sink for the fast players, everyone else will read it up on the internet. How do I overcome an opponent through some higher development? I ask the relvant wiki.
This is what killed Myst Online, sadly - a new Age/area would open, and if you weren't there the first day, you couldn't walk five steps without someone blasting the solutions over open chat. The only way they made the "puzzle" last longer was to make them so complicated that the average player shrugged and ignored it.
I keep thinking there should be a way to do it (using random or modular pieces, so each player/group gets a different variation?), but no-one's solved it yet.
"Proportional to contention" doesn't help when Big Bad Corporation steals your billion-dollar idea: they already have a billion dollars to fight you in court, you don't.
It also rewards rich people who can afford to raise the stakes. You might be 90% sure that you'll win, but the more money I spend hassling you, the more risk you have to accept. I can simply spend you out of the courtroom.
Copyright isn't viral. The GPL is.
Exactly - Other people's GPL in your code will cause some symptoms, but you'll live.
Using other people's copyrighted material in your code will kill your company in lawsuits, so it's more like a shovel to the back of the head.
(a) Microsoft decides to use GPL code in their product, and then releases their code under GPL.
and
(b) Microsoft uses GPL code in their product, and only releases it under GPL (like they were supposed to), *after* someone calls them up and says "hey, you do know you're breaking the law here, right"?
I don't blame them for trying to spin it as case A, especially when you consider that case B equates to "Yeah, we totally broke the law, and these guys were nice enough to hang us for it."
No, but if you have a full bus with no empty seats, and a pregnant woman walks in, you'll find that some of those seats are marked priority for pregnant women, elderly, or handicapped. Your service as a regular Joe gets degraded, where other clients get priority -- but the difference isn't per client, it's per client status. And it's also true that a nominally elderly person might be perfectly healthy and capable of standing while I might not because I have a bad migraine or something, so this isn't perfect either.
I've seen people giving up their seat and standing on the bus for the elderly (and that's just polite, if unrelated), but the closer example would be a full bus, letting on a "priority seating" person, giving them your seat, then kicking you off because the bus is overfull.
If they oversold by 10%, reduce everyone's connection equally. But that's a heck of a lot fairer than them deciding what traffic they like and what they don't.
As a first approach, I agree. Here's where it gets hairy: What does "reduce everyone's connection equally" mean, exactly?
Here's one scenario: You're one of 10 people sharing a 100 mbit pipe, with a nominal subscription of 20 mbits. 9 of you are downloading stuff from bit torrent, which would take up the whole of your pipe if you could, for a total of 180 mbits desired connection. The last guy is trying to keep a 1 mbit stream of video chatting, or whatever, going steady. That means there's a total of 181 mbits of demand. One "fair" division scheme goes as thus: 100/181 = 0.552 so everybody gets 55% of the bandwith they asked for. All the downloaders get 11.04 mbits, the streaming guy gets 552 kbits (assuming 1m = 1000k because it makes the maths easier). Quite clearly, the streaming guy is getting shafted here.
Here's a different, still "fair" scenario: Take turns giving 1 mbit (or whatever) per person until each individual is satisfied or you run out. Under this scenario, the guy who's asking for only 1 mbit is getting all he wants and his real time stream is going just fine, while the remaining 9 guys divide the remaining 99 mbits between themselves: 11 mbits apiece, for a grand loss of 40 kbits each. Arguably the scheme is still fair, but the guy who needed a little bandwidth got it all while the guys who need a load barely felt the difference. Still, this scenario breaks down when the difference between usage types isn't this jarring.
So once you realize that ideal scenarios break down, we need to try more pragmatical strategies. VoIP tends to be low consumption, low latency tolerance, whereas P2P is usually high consumption, high latency tolerance. Even if I'm chit chatting with my friend while you're getting a crucial business tool from BT, my usage breaks down from throttling faster than yours does, so I get bandwidth first. What's important is that we're not getting screwed: If the contract says 20 mbits, we shouldn't get throttled "because it's P2P".
I'd see it as the second example - IIRC, my internet provider says speeds of up to 10 mbits (And I'll use that number because it rounds nicely.) If we're 10% over-capacity, I'm perfectly OK with everyone's pipe getting cut to 9mbits. No need to peek at packets and decide what content you like better. (Which is how I define "network neutrality" - I pay for bits, and my ISP doesn't need to know what bits I'm using. They definately shouldn't play favorites between them.)
I like your analogy, because it illustrates the key difference: if the bus is too full, the bus driver doesn't start pointing at people and saying "you can go, you have to wait". It's first-come, first serve. Same at the gym - when Mr. VoIP comes through the door, the gym doesn't grab Mrs Torrent and kick her out to make space.
I'm Canadian, and my needs are simple - I'm paying for a connection, and what I do with it is my business. Maybe my download is for my work, and I'm on a deadline - they don't know, and it's not their business to know. My router already lets me prioritize my bandwidth - I don't need my ISP deciding for me. Especially when they're deciding that my neighbor's deserves my share of the local pipe.
If they oversold by 10%, reduce everyone's connection equally. But that's a heck of a lot fairer than them deciding what traffic they like and what they don't.
I write Nifty 1.0 - I release it as GPL. You can
(a) use it under GPL, which means you have to contribute your code back under the same terms (you pay me for my code with your code.)
(b) you call me up, and arrange to pay me in some other fashion (cash, shares, goodwill, whatever we agree to). I license you the code under terms we find mutually agreeable.
This is just me, but I see GPL as a guarantee that I get "paid" for my work. If you're using it for non-profit/GPL freeness, then you're paying me back in code I can use. If you're using my code as part of your 3-step plan to Profit, then I deserve some cut. (If my contribution isn't big enough to warrant a cut, it must be simple to write your own, yes?).
Well, let's see, so far she has not provided a reasonable explanation. She has tried to provide a series of unreasonable ones, such as that someone used a non-existent wireless access point to frame her. How is it you believe she didn't do it? Remember, this is a civil case and there is not presumption of innocence.
Now, I'm just a Canadian, but don't *they* have to provide the reasonable explanation? Why should she have to disprove something if they can't prove it?
(To throw an old bad argument in, can you prove you're not beating your spouse? Wouldn't you prefer that they have to prove that you did first?)
At this point, I'd say it's time to get the local media involved. Especially if you can find a few other parents who are in the same position.
My family's past experience (YMMV, etc etc) is that schools will bury for as long as possible - admitting fault just isn't in the playbook. You need to shame them into making the change, and that means making sure it's very public. (If your community does Amber Alerts, that would work well - no school wants to hear their name over the airwaves in that context).
From your child's POV, I'd suggest seeing if they have a regular driver or bus number - something they can learn: "I ride home with Bob the Bus Driver", or "My bus is number 4". The best defense if street-proofing - making sure your kid knows the way home.
If you need to go the tech route (and while I still think it's not the right answer, I'm not going to argue), why not go with a simple cell phone? From what I understand, emergency services can track those just fine. (Or you can just call your child, or vice versa).
Best of luck.
Are we talking about a five year old? Eight? Ten? Fifteen?
The range of options varies with age. None of which involve tracking your child to a three-foot radius, btw.
By age 8, your kid should know which bus they're supposed to be on. (Probably earlier, but for the sake of argument.)
If younger, then you should be addressing it with the school.
The problems are really more ones of logistics than the actual food. Sure, we produce too much food and much of it goes to waste. But getting the food to the right people at the right time is the hard part.
Which is the real tragedy - we can ship produce around the world and keep it fresh at your local grocery. Obviously we can get food to people at the right time - we just don't pick the right people
Non-American here...
First question - what happens if you refuse? Will they not let you out of the country?
My thought was, just one more reason for me not to visit the US. Why put myself through the hassle and potential risk?
This service does nothing to help with marketing so there will be a million artists that no one has ever heard of or will listen to. Word of mouth marketing is (a) slow and (b) statistically unlikely to succeed. "Word of mouth successes" are really driven by people who are good at self promotion which most people are not. Plus for every successful "word of mouth" story that someone can point to, there are thousands of failures.
Not an RIAA killer, not even close
And I'd see it the other way - as Starving Artist X, I can now handle my own production (and at a pretty decent price point). Which means I *only* need a marketer, or at least can hire one independently of my distributor. Still a win for the artist.
... did anyone think for a moment there wasn't some sort of secure "safehouse" there?
It's the #2 man's house - there's going to be some sort of defensible position, and it's going to be wired for everything the White House is.
(It may, of course, be to your advantage to show them ID -- if they're looking for John Smith and you can show your name is Richard Roe, you can be about your business that much sooner.)
Of course, since cops are allowed to lie to you, you don't have a reliable way of knowing who they're actually looking for, do you?
Question: what happens if he doesn't sign the form? (Just thinking the signature could be used as proof of "he knew he did something bad")
What if you have information that will help them? I live in a relatively high-crime neighborhood, and I've had quite a few interactions with the local police regarding crimes committed in my neighborhood or by my neighbors, everything from simple assaults, hit and runs, and drug dealing all the way up to homicides. Granted, I was never treated as a suspect, but I was happy to relay all the information I had to the cops, since I have a vested interest in decreasing crime in this neighborhood.
I agree that if you are a suspect or could possibly become a suspect, it is usually best to remain silent. Otherwise, though, help the cops if you can. In my experience, most cops are decent people who are trying to make the community better.
While I agree with the sentiment (I want to reduce crime), the cops have shot themselves in the foot with their "I'm allowed to lie to people".
When they show up at your door, how do you know if you're a suspect or not? They don't have to tell you - in fact, they're allowed to lie to you. So while I'd like to be a good citizen, I have to balance that with the obvious question - what does this cop really want with me?
Don't take my word for it--download the Ubuntu live CD yourself and try it. If you like it better than Windows I'll eat my own ass. (It'll be the color of Ubuntu.)If everyone tried the CD they'd see how bad it was. Windows advocates do download it and know how badly it sucks.
I have Ubuntu running on three systems currently:
They all work just fine, thanks so much.
I'll even give you some things that I think it does better/worse than Windows:
Better:
Worse:
Bottom line, my house will probably remain a dual-boot home for now. But the Windows part is pretty much down to iTunes and video games. For everything else, there's Linux.
She's been at it 4 years and is almost to 75k for 9 months of work.
Just had to point out something here re: "9 months of work" - have you ever tallied up how many *hours* a teacher works in those "9 months"?
Teachers don't get to clock 40 hours a week. You're in early, out late (and carrying a pile of homework to mark at home). You're auto-signed up for every little project and event that comes along (you know when you went to visit at "meet the teacher night" - that's all part of the job).
I personally think teachers don't get paid nearly enough, and the math is simple - go find someone to babysit your kid for the day. Now, multiply that by 30, and add the fact that instead of getting the nice old lady down the street or the high school kid, you're getting a university-educated professional that is trusted to teach the required skills for this world.
Or better yet - home-school for a year.