Merchant service providers generally charge a monthly fee, somewhere between $0.25~$0.50 per transaction, and 2~5% per transaction. You may be able to find better prices than what I mentioned, bu they are all on the same basic monthly fee + transaction fee + percent of sale.
The college I went to used GPA, and while we knew where we stood through out the semester, if our grade was shit at mid-term, it was our responsibility to pull that up by the end of the semester. If you had 10% at mid-term, that was what was calculated from unless your prof let you do something to raise that mid-term score. If we had 10% at mid term, it wasn't automatically raised to 50% just cause.
The article mentioned bringing the grades for each quarter, (read as half semester), up to 50% to be used to calculate the semester grade. Bringing the quarterly grades up is BS in my opinion, and always will be.
Now, I'm not exactly sure how that school district handles the different semesters, but the grades from the different semesters should not be calculated together, period. Down here, if we bombed say 1 semester of English, but passed the next semester, it would count as having passed 1/2 year of English even if the 2 semesters averaged together was either less than passing or passing. We would have to make that 1/2 year regardless.
Keeping the fall and spring semesters distinct, sure, that is how it should be, but break the quarters up into distinct pieces as well, I'd find a comparable job elsewhere so that I wouldn't have to send my kids to such shit schools.
If the kids have to endure some hardships to bring their grades up to passing after bombing the mid-terms, well that's the price they pay. It's no different than what any of the rest of us had to endure, both high school and college. Actually, in high school we would never have been allowed to bring up the previous quarter's grade, but I do think that should be a possibility, handled between the teacher and the student.
Some people pass, some people fail. Doesn't matter what you do, that will never change. This overly liberal idea that everyone who is deficient in one area or another should be handled with kid gloves and propped up to look equal to everyone else is absurd, and even if it wasn't, there is no way to apply that to all aspects of life. Sure, where things can be measured by points on a paper, we can make everyone on the planet look alike, on paper anyway. Get all these look alikes in a room together, and you will see that they don't all measure up.
So, tell me, in this liberal prop everyone up to look as identical as possible world you live in, how do you propose we prop up people with Asperger's in their social skills? Or how about other forms of autism in their communication skills? What about the propping up the short and long term memory skills of people who suffer from alzheimers? I could go on and on here.
LOL No. First, butt ugly would have won beauty prizes compared to this girl. Second, I was married to a complete lunatic at the time, she even had the paperwork to prove it.
I think we should agree to disagree. We are obviously on complete opposite ends of spectrum here. So far apart that we can't even see the middle ground over the horizon.
100% of nothing is nothing. If you are going to charge your distributors more for your "product" than your they will make selling that "product", then you get the full 100% of nothing. On the other hand, if you see that they will walk away and find some other line of work if you insist on the full 100%, then you know it's time to come to somewhat more reasonable prices.
The place I worked for in Boston leased a bit of warehouse space at the company that packs a lot of Gilette's products. The majority of the people that did the packing were mentally handicapped, a small number were physically handicapped. Some of them had their little quirks, but a harder, more dedicated bunch of workers you couldn't find anywhere.
For a student who gets the minimum of 50 during the first quarter to pass, s/he has to get a 70 the second quarter. To get to a 70 average, (obviously a grade that the school district up there thinks is GOOD, sorry even in backassward Texas you have to get a 70 just to pass), the student would need a 90 average. There is no incentive for those students to do more than piss-poor mediocre when they know their grade won't be greatly affected. You give the kids a chance, and some incentive to fix-up their fuck-ups, and they just might do it, they could get in the low to mid 70's by end of semester, even if they do just turn out to be a mid 80's type of student. If they still fail they still fail, that's the life everyone else grew up with. This minimum 50% is doing nothing more than turning the high schools into paper-mills that send the kids out into the real world to fail.
While math and statistics aren't needed for programming, how about for looking at the raw numbers and deciding where you want your program and analysis to start at.
Giving your change a quick once over at the store. I ran across a cashier once that was so stupid she gave me more change than the money I gave her in the first place to pay for my groceries.
How about figuring the proper tip to give when you dine out. I really don't like having to carry around gadgets like calculators when I go places.
Quickly knowing your potential winnings when your bookie gives you the odds.
Did you miss the "give the kids a chance to fix-up their fuck-ups by getting with the program and doing the work, although late" part of my previous post?
I'm not advocating dooming them to hell for whatever reason they did shitty in the first semester, but rather making them work harder to correct the error. If they don't learn that they have to work harder, they will be stuck with jobs that make minimum wage look like CEO pay compared to what they will be able to get.
It's this kind of coddling shit that gets people through high school unable to do basic math or read at an 8th grade level.
And yes, I can come across as an asshole sometimes, probably because I am one.
Perhaps you missed my third sentence, which mentioned making up the work. Or did you miss my entire second paragraph which makes the education earned by students that do their work cheapened. I didn't say give them no chance, or no break, but rather make them earn that break so as not to degrade the work of the other students.
Shit man, it's one thing not to read the article or summary, but a different thing not to read the comment you are replying to.
Let's try not to make their being even stupider any more acceptable. One of these kids could end up becoming president one day and the last thing we need is a moron spending eight years in the whitehouse, driving the country, its military and its economy in to the ground. Let's keep that an unthinkable impossibility people!
Haven't we had somewhere between 16~20 years of that already?
Don't they still make such a thing as summer school. Let them waste their summer in a classroom, rather than hangin' with their friends. Or they could just be held back a grade and watch their buddies move on, while they are dreading an extra year in school. If they don't make the grade, and they don't make up the work, they don't deserve any break.
I wouldn't have wanted to be in a school like that because it would have done little more than cheapen the appearance of the education that I got. I earned my grades, they weren't raised because I was a lazy stupid shit that took a semester off.
On a good day I would half-ass pay attention in my math classes and never bothered doing homework unless it had serious potential for affecting my grades. All honors classes, all tests aced.
This 50% minimum is bull shit any way you slice it. Sure, give the kids a chance to fix-up their fuck-ups by getting with the program and doing the work, although late, but don't give them grades better than the shitty one they earned. There are no breaks like that after they get to the real world, it will only hurt them later in life if they learn to expect them.
Let's face it: when large groups have regular drills the first response on hearing yet another alarm is not "I should probably leave reasonably quickly now" but rather "not another freaking drill/false alarm, I'm busy". They then proceed to wander out aimlessly in dribs and drabs, all assuming that it's nothing more serious than an irritating work interruption or chance to skive off.
Would you rather have them all rushing for the door in a panic, not caring who or what they trample as long as they make it out?
With one of the fake antivirus malware loading softwares, it would pop-up a javascript confirm dialog before downloading the file. If you clicked "Cancel" it would keep popping up the dialog.
They did this to try to avoid the suspicion of a file automatically trying to download and run when visiting a web-site
I had to move a network at a vet's office once, and was somewhat wondering about all the pop-ups for their software, now I know. They were moving to larger and nicer facilities.
I still don't understand how they were able to use the internet though, 3/4ths of their browser window was covered by all of the "download or amazing toolbar" crap.
Better yet if MS could ditch the hearing impairing error chime
That is so their hearing impaired customers can hear the chime. Soon all their customers will be hearing impaired for that reason, so they better leave it alone or no one will know when their computer is having problems.
GMail can also use your work addy as a from address. If waiting for GMail to pull posts from your POP account is too slow, you, (or your mail admin), can set your mail server to automatically forward your work address to your GMail address.
Thinking that open source is naturally better than closed source is just as foolish as thinking closed source is naturally better than open source.
It's all about incentive, markets, and skill sets.
I do agree that photoshop is better than gimp. If I were a professional graphic artist, I would happily buy a mac for running photoshop. I'm not a graphic artist, and my needs are more than adequately met by gimp. Adobe's incentive is to make a profit by selling the best product to meet the graphic artist communities needs. I don't know the incentive behind the creation of gimp, perhaps it is to provide a similar product that will suit the needs of the rest of the world. If the CREATORS of gimp had a true need for features that exceeded photoshop's, then perhaps gimp would be farther along than it is, or even exceed photoshop.
AutoCAD, well, perhaps when the engineers that use it decide to jump into programming, as opposed to designing bridges and buildings, then there will be some alternative. AutoCAD has a small niche market. If there were a true need for high-end cad software outside of that niche, there would be more than enough up and coming OSS cad software products that could rival AutoCAD. Until the need is in the general community, the OSS cad software will suit the needs of that particular software's developers, there may be a couple of additional features that aren't needed by the developers, but only if they are a "nice to have, just in case" thing.
I would like to open a restaurant one day. I want my POS software to be open source, and tied into the back-end accounting software. I will probably be stuck either developing what I want myself, or going with proprietary software, what I want currently isn't being met by any OSS offering out there. The niche is just too small for suitable open source projects to exist at this time. That and most restaurantuers don't have the skills necessary to create the kind of systems that they would like to have.
I find it quite interesting that you didn't mention anything like web/database/email servers when you spit out photoshop and AutoCAD. Oh, wait, now I get it, you didn't want to show where OSS software is way more superior than its closed source counterparts.
If you are a seller that has a web-site outside of e-bay, you don't necessarily get to adjust your minimum bid or buy it now price. Yes, you will have on all your receipts, packaging, whatever your website address and you will let the eBay buyers know, with the receipts/paperwork shipped with the order what other things you offer on your site. The eBay stuff is just a teaser to push people to your web-site.
You don't want eBay prices lower because it just pushes your customer to the more expensive portal. If your eBay prices are higher, it pisses off any potential return customers that will only see you as gouging eBayers (is that a word) and you loose all future business from them.
Loose loose situation for sure.
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Merchant service providers generally charge a monthly fee, somewhere between $0.25~$0.50 per transaction, and 2~5% per transaction. You may be able to find better prices than what I mentioned, bu they are all on the same basic monthly fee + transaction fee + percent of sale.
The college I went to used GPA, and while we knew where we stood through out the semester, if our grade was shit at mid-term, it was our responsibility to pull that up by the end of the semester. If you had 10% at mid-term, that was what was calculated from unless your prof let you do something to raise that mid-term score. If we had 10% at mid term, it wasn't automatically raised to 50% just cause.
The article mentioned bringing the grades for each quarter, (read as half semester), up to 50% to be used to calculate the semester grade. Bringing the quarterly grades up is BS in my opinion, and always will be.
Now, I'm not exactly sure how that school district handles the different semesters, but the grades from the different semesters should not be calculated together, period. Down here, if we bombed say 1 semester of English, but passed the next semester, it would count as having passed 1/2 year of English even if the 2 semesters averaged together was either less than passing or passing. We would have to make that 1/2 year regardless.
Keeping the fall and spring semesters distinct, sure, that is how it should be, but break the quarters up into distinct pieces as well, I'd find a comparable job elsewhere so that I wouldn't have to send my kids to such shit schools.
If the kids have to endure some hardships to bring their grades up to passing after bombing the mid-terms, well that's the price they pay. It's no different than what any of the rest of us had to endure, both high school and college. Actually, in high school we would never have been allowed to bring up the previous quarter's grade, but I do think that should be a possibility, handled between the teacher and the student.
Some people pass, some people fail. Doesn't matter what you do, that will never change. This overly liberal idea that everyone who is deficient in one area or another should be handled with kid gloves and propped up to look equal to everyone else is absurd, and even if it wasn't, there is no way to apply that to all aspects of life. Sure, where things can be measured by points on a paper, we can make everyone on the planet look alike, on paper anyway. Get all these look alikes in a room together, and you will see that they don't all measure up.
So, tell me, in this liberal prop everyone up to look as identical as possible world you live in, how do you propose we prop up people with Asperger's in their social skills? Or how about other forms of autism in their communication skills? What about the propping up the short and long term memory skills of people who suffer from alzheimers? I could go on and on here.
Now, can we finally agree to disagree?
I was talking about the paperwork to prove she was a lunatic
Though with her having that paperwork, the marriage license probably proves that I'm a bit nuts as well
LOL No. First, butt ugly would have won beauty prizes compared to this girl. Second, I was married to a complete lunatic at the time, she even had the paperwork to prove it.
I think we should agree to disagree. We are obviously on complete opposite ends of spectrum here. So far apart that we can't even see the middle ground over the horizon.
100% of nothing is nothing. If you are going to charge your distributors more for your "product" than your they will make selling that "product", then you get the full 100% of nothing. On the other hand, if you see that they will walk away and find some other line of work if you insist on the full 100%, then you know it's time to come to somewhat more reasonable prices.
The place I worked for in Boston leased a bit of warehouse space at the company that packs a lot of Gilette's products. The majority of the people that did the packing were mentally handicapped, a small number were physically handicapped. Some of them had their little quirks, but a harder, more dedicated bunch of workers you couldn't find anywhere.
For a student who gets the minimum of 50 during the first quarter to pass, s/he has to get a 70 the second quarter. To get to a 70 average, (obviously a grade that the school district up there thinks is GOOD, sorry even in backassward Texas you have to get a 70 just to pass), the student would need a 90 average. There is no incentive for those students to do more than piss-poor mediocre when they know their grade won't be greatly affected. You give the kids a chance, and some incentive to fix-up their fuck-ups, and they just might do it, they could get in the low to mid 70's by end of semester, even if they do just turn out to be a mid 80's type of student. If they still fail they still fail, that's the life everyone else grew up with. This minimum 50% is doing nothing more than turning the high schools into paper-mills that send the kids out into the real world to fail.
While math and statistics aren't needed for programming, how about for looking at the raw numbers and deciding where you want your program and analysis to start at.
Giving your change a quick once over at the store. I ran across a cashier once that was so stupid she gave me more change than the money I gave her in the first place to pay for my groceries.
How about figuring the proper tip to give when you dine out. I really don't like having to carry around gadgets like calculators when I go places.
Quickly knowing your potential winnings when your bookie gives you the odds.
Did you miss the "give the kids a chance to fix-up their fuck-ups by getting with the program and doing the work, although late" part of my previous post?
I'm not advocating dooming them to hell for whatever reason they did shitty in the first semester, but rather making them work harder to correct the error. If they don't learn that they have to work harder, they will be stuck with jobs that make minimum wage look like CEO pay compared to what they will be able to get.
It's this kind of coddling shit that gets people through high school unable to do basic math or read at an 8th grade level.
And yes, I can come across as an asshole sometimes, probably because I am one.
Perhaps you missed my third sentence, which mentioned making up the work. Or did you miss my entire second paragraph which makes the education earned by students that do their work cheapened. I didn't say give them no chance, or no break, but rather make them earn that break so as not to degrade the work of the other students.
Shit man, it's one thing not to read the article or summary, but a different thing not to read the comment you are replying to.
Let's try not to make their being even stupider any more acceptable. One of these kids could end up becoming president one day and the last thing we need is a moron spending eight years in the whitehouse, driving the country, its military and its economy in to the ground. Let's keep that an unthinkable impossibility people!
Haven't we had somewhere between 16~20 years of that already?
Don't they still make such a thing as summer school. Let them waste their summer in a classroom, rather than hangin' with their friends. Or they could just be held back a grade and watch their buddies move on, while they are dreading an extra year in school. If they don't make the grade, and they don't make up the work, they don't deserve any break.
I wouldn't have wanted to be in a school like that because it would have done little more than cheapen the appearance of the education that I got. I earned my grades, they weren't raised because I was a lazy stupid shit that took a semester off.
On a good day I would half-ass pay attention in my math classes and never bothered doing homework unless it had serious potential for affecting my grades. All honors classes, all tests aced.
This 50% minimum is bull shit any way you slice it. Sure, give the kids a chance to fix-up their fuck-ups by getting with the program and doing the work, although late, but don't give them grades better than the shitty one they earned. There are no breaks like that after they get to the real world, it will only hurt them later in life if they learn to expect them.
Let's face it: when large groups have regular drills the first response on hearing yet another alarm is not "I should probably leave reasonably quickly now" but rather "not another freaking drill/false alarm, I'm busy". They then proceed to wander out aimlessly in dribs and drabs, all assuming that it's nothing more serious than an irritating work interruption or chance to skive off.
Would you rather have them all rushing for the door in a panic, not caring who or what they trample as long as they make it out?
With one of the fake antivirus malware loading softwares, it would pop-up a javascript confirm dialog before downloading the file. If you clicked "Cancel" it would keep popping up the dialog.
They did this to try to avoid the suspicion of a file automatically trying to download and run when visiting a web-site
I had to move a network at a vet's office once, and was somewhat wondering about all the pop-ups for their software, now I know. They were moving to larger and nicer facilities.
I still don't understand how they were able to use the internet though, 3/4ths of their browser window was covered by all of the "download or amazing toolbar" crap.
Better yet if MS could ditch the hearing impairing error chime
That is so their hearing impaired customers can hear the chime. Soon all their customers will be hearing impaired for that reason, so they better leave it alone or no one will know when their computer is having problems.
GMail can also use your work addy as a from address. If waiting for GMail to pull posts from your POP account is too slow, you, (or your mail admin), can set your mail server to automatically forward your work address to your GMail address.
Thinking that open source is naturally better than closed source is just as foolish as thinking closed source is naturally better than open source.
It's all about incentive, markets, and skill sets.
I do agree that photoshop is better than gimp. If I were a professional graphic artist, I would happily buy a mac for running photoshop. I'm not a graphic artist, and my needs are more than adequately met by gimp. Adobe's incentive is to make a profit by selling the best product to meet the graphic artist communities needs. I don't know the incentive behind the creation of gimp, perhaps it is to provide a similar product that will suit the needs of the rest of the world. If the CREATORS of gimp had a true need for features that exceeded photoshop's, then perhaps gimp would be farther along than it is, or even exceed photoshop.
AutoCAD, well, perhaps when the engineers that use it decide to jump into programming, as opposed to designing bridges and buildings, then there will be some alternative. AutoCAD has a small niche market. If there were a true need for high-end cad software outside of that niche, there would be more than enough up and coming OSS cad software products that could rival AutoCAD. Until the need is in the general community, the OSS cad software will suit the needs of that particular software's developers, there may be a couple of additional features that aren't needed by the developers, but only if they are a "nice to have, just in case" thing.
I would like to open a restaurant one day. I want my POS software to be open source, and tied into the back-end accounting software. I will probably be stuck either developing what I want myself, or going with proprietary software, what I want currently isn't being met by any OSS offering out there. The niche is just too small for suitable open source projects to exist at this time. That and most restaurantuers don't have the skills necessary to create the kind of systems that they would like to have.
I find it quite interesting that you didn't mention anything like web/database/email servers when you spit out photoshop and AutoCAD. Oh, wait, now I get it, you didn't want to show where OSS software is way more superior than its closed source counterparts.
Mortgage companies and banks. You are talking about 2 regulated industries of which PayPal and eBay belong to neither.
If you are a seller that has a web-site outside of e-bay, you don't necessarily get to adjust your minimum bid or buy it now price. Yes, you will have on all your receipts, packaging, whatever your website address and you will let the eBay buyers know, with the receipts/paperwork shipped with the order what other things you offer on your site. The eBay stuff is just a teaser to push people to your web-site. You don't want eBay prices lower because it just pushes your customer to the more expensive portal. If your eBay prices are higher, it pisses off any potential return customers that will only see you as gouging eBayers (is that a word) and you loose all future business from them. Loose loose situation for sure.