The term "state's rights" is nothing more than politically charged rhetoric. States do not have rights. They have powers. Those powers are limited by the US constitution and federal statutes.
Yeah, because it's totally relevant to compare an introductory freshman level filler class full of information they either already know to the degree that they need to, or don't need to know at all, to an upper classman level business class for business majors.
Proof is tautological... either you have it or you don't.
The professor knows people cheated because students have confessed that there has been cheating, but he can't prove that they cheated, even with statistical analysis.
No dean will flunk a student who he suspects MIGHT have been cheating. That's simply a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The problem here is with the professor. A 400 level class that has a freaking scan tron test? Just how lazy is this guy? If the students simply memorized the answers from the test bank, then they have fulfilled the objectives of the test, because a multiple choice test simply requires you to choose the correct answer from a list.
Know what kind of test you can't cheat on?
A test that requires you to answer the question and explain how you came about the answer.
Drunks don't care if they're known as drunks unless you get in their face about it.
Drunks drink crap beer because crap beer is cheap beer. When they're not at the bar, they're drinking crap, so when they go to the bar, they go with what they know.
Crap beer is usually easier to drink. It's not overly hoppy or rich. You can consume buckets of the stuff and you won't feel full, you'll just feel like you need to take a piss.
It isn't because of the disc, it's because of the way that the d-pad acts when you play fighting games (which is about the only reason you'd actually need a revamped D-Pad in the first place). Why is it that every podunk Japanese fighting pad manufacturer out there can put out a pad which works fine with a game like Street Fighter, but you can't seem to get a handle on it? Look at ASCII's pads, figure out what they do, and replicate it. Problem solved.
Apple makes the vast majority of its money, not on the strength of its own products, but the easy availability of product through its iTunes and App Store.
The iPod and iPhone as platforms are nice, but as more and more people use their smartphone as their primary music device, this is going to shrink the market for devices like the iPod. Android phones are going to continue to make their presence felt in the mobile market, and it can't be long before Google decides to sell media for its devices as well, simply because Apple's profits can't be long ignored.
So, Apple will continue to be profitable, but at these levels? Doubtful.
uhuh, of course, because all scientists are the same and completely interchangeable. You do realise that these are climate scientists, don't you? They don't have much knowledge of engineering, or the inner workings of various energy producers.
Then meteorologists must be magical creatures, since they employ satellite data and radar to forecast the weather. How'd the satellites get up there? They aren't rocket scientists, are they? How'd they figure out how to use doppler radar to determine where clouds are? They aren't physicists either. How'd the satellites and radar machinery get programmed? They aren't computer engineers, radio engineers, electrical enginers, or software developers, for crying out loud!
I think the magical word of the day is: "collaboration."
... to have a scripting language that worked equally well on the browser and on the server and wasn't a complete piece of shit like Javascript? One programming language, one presentation language, one style language.
I'm not trying to discount current solutions here, I'm just saying that there has to be a better way.
Google makes money through advertisements. Their entire reason for trying to create a web based OS is not because they feel HTML + Javascript + CSS is a better way to go than the other languages. They're doing it because they want to hit you with ads from the second you turn on the computer to the second you power it down.
Check email? Ads. Use spreadsheet? Ads. Use photo editor? Ads. Search local filesystem? Ads. Play solitare? Ads.
Sure, they're willing to give away software for free. If giving it away means hosting it on their servers and reserving the right to take it away from you at any time while continuously deriving revenue from the software while you use it.
Moral relativism = more likely to encounter resistance to the idea that an invisible man in the sky sent his kid to be horribly murdered and then replaced by a long line of celibate geezers who cover up kid diddling.
The reason that Gears of War was so popular for so long had nothing to do with the single player mode. The multiplayer was the shooter equivalent of a fighting game. It was wildly popular.
But they decided that since the multiplayer didn't fit their vision, that they'd create a completely FUBAR version complete with a screwed up lobby system where you could wait 10 minutes between matches with levels so large that it almost guaranteed that you'd end up playing hide and seek at the end of rounds while everyone else watched, and completely changed the dynamics of the weapons on multiplayer simply because lesser players were getting beaten soundly. They didn't even test the game enough to see that visitor side shotguns weren't even shooting at the target. Instead of competing for the top spot on the XBox Live charts, it's battling Hello Kitty Sings and Muppet Massacre and who knows what else.
When 3 versions of Call of Duty rank above your game in online play, you have a serious problem.
I played the hell out of Gears 1, couldn't stand Gears 2, and won't spend a single cent on Gears 3.
People work for the government for 2 reasons: control and security. When a government agency doesn't spend its entire budget, the budget for the next year is probably going to be cut. A governmental manager would be pretty upset to see their budget cut because it's going to be harder for them to get things done in their little fiefdom, not to mention harm their expense account. A government, for that reason, will spend every dime it has, even if there's no good reason to do so.
Companies, on the other hand, are there to make a profit. It's a negative for a company to spend all it has. And while you can point out a few companies here and there which have gone into the red, the majority of them do not survive doing so for long, and they certainly don't do it purposefully.
Pretty much the only governments which can possibly operate in the black are governments ruled by dictators or monarchs, because they have no need to answer to the people.
That's not really THAT outlandish for an ERP system, but it most certainly is for a PM. Normally your $250 and up guys are the ones with specialized abilities in certain fields that require a mix of technical and functional understanding. When I was a recruiter, I once placed a consultant on a treasury project for a large agricultural company at a pay rate of $350 an hour, and his bill rate was over $500 an hour.
And that was AFTER the whole IT boom. I know an SAP Human Resources consultant whose bill rate was over $1300 an hour during that period.
Once upon a time, there were 5 friends. Each was in the cart making business. Each manufactured every part of his cart from scratch, because that's the way REAL cart makers made their carts back then. Their carts consisted of wheels, an axle, the body of the cart, the traces, and a yoke. Each of these friends happened to make one component of their carts better than the rest, and at least one part very poorly. Making a cart is a time consuming process, so one of the friends decided that he would purchase his worst part, the wheels, from his friend who made wheels the best. His friend thought that it was wierd that his friend would only want to purchase wheels from him, but because cartmaking is a tedious, low-pay job, he obliged. He could use the extra money.
This worked great. His carts were now that much better because he no longer had the weakness of the wheels to worry about. AND he got his job done faster since he only had to purchase them. So he then decided to approach his friend who made the best axles. While they didn't fit the wheels exactly, they were a good enough fit with a bit of tinkering. And so he went to each friend, purchasing a bit of a cart until he didn't actually have to build any of the parts himself, he only had to get them to work together.
People came to him because he built superior carts made with the best products, but he wasn't actually working all that hard because other people were making the parts for him. Soon, the demand for his carts was so great that his friends quit making carts altogether and simply made their cart parts for him. They were losing business to his superior carts anyway, and were making parts and subsequently, money much faster than if they were making entire carts by hand.
And they all lived happily everafter. Until that bastard Ford came along and wiped them all out.
It's kinda like the health care debate. Democrats, in all their glorious wisdom, have decided that the best way to make sure that everyone has access to healthcare is to force people to purchase health insurance from private corporations, or face penalties of fines and incarceration. Because when someone refuses to purchase health insurance, the best way to get them to do so is to lock them up so that they lose their ability to pay for it anyway. Americans have always had an implicit right to determine which private parties we want to do business with, but that may soon change. Until, of course, the Supreme Court slaps them silly for being completely oblivious to the commerce clause.
Both parties are willing to trade away our freedoms, it just depends which you're talking about.
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The term "state's rights" is nothing more than politically charged rhetoric. States do not have rights. They have powers. Those powers are limited by the US constitution and federal statutes.
Some of us got past the mentality of a 10 year old who still thinks their mother picks on them. You'll get there one day, champ.
Yeah, because it's totally relevant to compare an introductory freshman level filler class full of information they either already know to the degree that they need to, or don't need to know at all, to an upper classman level business class for business majors.
Probability is not proof.
Proof is tautological... either you have it or you don't.
The professor knows people cheated because students have confessed that there has been cheating, but he can't prove that they cheated, even with statistical analysis.
No dean will flunk a student who he suspects MIGHT have been cheating. That's simply a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The problem here is with the professor. A 400 level class that has a freaking scan tron test? Just how lazy is this guy? If the students simply memorized the answers from the test bank, then they have fulfilled the objectives of the test, because a multiple choice test simply requires you to choose the correct answer from a list.
Know what kind of test you can't cheat on?
A test that requires you to answer the question and explain how you came about the answer.
Mostly to stroke Assange's incredibly oversized ego. Dude spends donated money like water under the pretense of necessary secrecy.
Yeah, that ain't the case at all.
Drunks don't care if they're known as drunks unless you get in their face about it.
Drunks drink crap beer because crap beer is cheap beer. When they're not at the bar, they're drinking crap, so when they go to the bar, they go with what they know.
Crap beer is usually easier to drink. It's not overly hoppy or rich. You can consume buckets of the stuff and you won't feel full, you'll just feel like you need to take a piss.
It isn't because of the disc, it's because of the way that the d-pad acts when you play fighting games (which is about the only reason you'd actually need a revamped D-Pad in the first place). Why is it that every podunk Japanese fighting pad manufacturer out there can put out a pad which works fine with a game like Street Fighter, but you can't seem to get a handle on it? Look at ASCII's pads, figure out what they do, and replicate it. Problem solved.
In America, we play golf at tee time, you insensitive clod!
Apple makes the vast majority of its money, not on the strength of its own products, but the easy availability of product through its iTunes and App Store.
The iPod and iPhone as platforms are nice, but as more and more people use their smartphone as their primary music device, this is going to shrink the market for devices like the iPod. Android phones are going to continue to make their presence felt in the mobile market, and it can't be long before Google decides to sell media for its devices as well, simply because Apple's profits can't be long ignored.
So, Apple will continue to be profitable, but at these levels? Doubtful.
Then meteorologists must be magical creatures, since they employ satellite data and radar to forecast the weather. How'd the satellites get up there? They aren't rocket scientists, are they? How'd they figure out how to use doppler radar to determine where clouds are? They aren't physicists either. How'd the satellites and radar machinery get programmed? They aren't computer engineers, radio engineers, electrical enginers, or software developers, for crying out loud!
I think the magical word of the day is: "collaboration."
... to have a scripting language that worked equally well on the browser and on the server and wasn't a complete piece of shit like Javascript? One programming language, one presentation language, one style language.
I'm not trying to discount current solutions here, I'm just saying that there has to be a better way.
Yeah, I have no idea what those Google guys were thinking. The market was clearly saturated with search engines at the time.
Google makes money through advertisements. Their entire reason for trying to create a web based OS is not because they feel HTML + Javascript + CSS is a better way to go than the other languages. They're doing it because they want to hit you with ads from the second you turn on the computer to the second you power it down.
Check email? Ads.
Use spreadsheet? Ads.
Use photo editor? Ads.
Search local filesystem? Ads.
Play solitare? Ads.
Sure, they're willing to give away software for free. If giving it away means hosting it on their servers and reserving the right to take it away from you at any time while continuously deriving revenue from the software while you use it.
Moral relativism = more likely to encounter resistance to the idea that an invisible man in the sky sent his kid to be horribly murdered and then replaced by a long line of celibate geezers who cover up kid diddling.
Usenet has more monthly posts than digg, reddit, and slashdot combined, and that's without taking into account binary traffic and spam.
The reason that Gears of War was so popular for so long had nothing to do with the single player mode. The multiplayer was the shooter equivalent of a fighting game. It was wildly popular.
But they decided that since the multiplayer didn't fit their vision, that they'd create a completely FUBAR version complete with a screwed up lobby system where you could wait 10 minutes between matches with levels so large that it almost guaranteed that you'd end up playing hide and seek at the end of rounds while everyone else watched, and completely changed the dynamics of the weapons on multiplayer simply because lesser players were getting beaten soundly. They didn't even test the game enough to see that visitor side shotguns weren't even shooting at the target. Instead of competing for the top spot on the XBox Live charts, it's battling Hello Kitty Sings and Muppet Massacre and who knows what else.
When 3 versions of Call of Duty rank above your game in online play, you have a serious problem.
I played the hell out of Gears 1, couldn't stand Gears 2, and won't spend a single cent on Gears 3.
Yeah, because the world's track record in pre-democratic eras was just SOOOOO innovative.
Well, here's the general difference:
People work for the government for 2 reasons: control and security. When a government agency doesn't spend its entire budget, the budget for the next year is probably going to be cut. A governmental manager would be pretty upset to see their budget cut because it's going to be harder for them to get things done in their little fiefdom, not to mention harm their expense account. A government, for that reason, will spend every dime it has, even if there's no good reason to do so.
Companies, on the other hand, are there to make a profit. It's a negative for a company to spend all it has. And while you can point out a few companies here and there which have gone into the red, the majority of them do not survive doing so for long, and they certainly don't do it purposefully.
Pretty much the only governments which can possibly operate in the black are governments ruled by dictators or monarchs, because they have no need to answer to the people.
That's not really THAT outlandish for an ERP system, but it most certainly is for a PM. Normally your $250 and up guys are the ones with specialized abilities in certain fields that require a mix of technical and functional understanding. When I was a recruiter, I once placed a consultant on a treasury project for a large agricultural company at a pay rate of $350 an hour, and his bill rate was over $500 an hour.
And that was AFTER the whole IT boom. I know an SAP Human Resources consultant whose bill rate was over $1300 an hour during that period.
... what can easily be dismissed as an otherwise natural process, like plate tectonics. That's how you get PAID, my Ivy League brothas!" -- Al Gore
That's like saying that someone isn't holding you down if you can still wiggle your toes.
There is no right to anonymity in this country. This is not a free speech issue. This is a douchebag issue.
... and not a professional programmer.
Here's a little story:
Once upon a time, there were 5 friends. Each was in the cart making business. Each manufactured every part of his cart from scratch, because that's the way REAL cart makers made their carts back then. Their carts consisted of wheels, an axle, the body of the cart, the traces, and a yoke. Each of these friends happened to make one component of their carts better than the rest, and at least one part very poorly. Making a cart is a time consuming process, so one of the friends decided that he would purchase his worst part, the wheels, from his friend who made wheels the best. His friend thought that it was wierd that his friend would only want to purchase wheels from him, but because cartmaking is a tedious, low-pay job, he obliged. He could use the extra money.
This worked great. His carts were now that much better because he no longer had the weakness of the wheels to worry about. AND he got his job done faster since he only had to purchase them. So he then decided to approach his friend who made the best axles. While they didn't fit the wheels exactly, they were a good enough fit with a bit of tinkering. And so he went to each friend, purchasing a bit of a cart until he didn't actually have to build any of the parts himself, he only had to get them to work together.
People came to him because he built superior carts made with the best products, but he wasn't actually working all that hard because other people were making the parts for him. Soon, the demand for his carts was so great that his friends quit making carts altogether and simply made their cart parts for him. They were losing business to his superior carts anyway, and were making parts and subsequently, money much faster than if they were making entire carts by hand.
And they all lived happily everafter. Until that bastard Ford came along and wiped them all out.
The higher your talent level is, the more likely you're going to enjoy your job, simply because you have more options.
I know being a fry cook is tough for you, but chin up, soon you'll be working the burger line.
It's kinda like the health care debate. Democrats, in all their glorious wisdom, have decided that the best way to make sure that everyone has access to healthcare is to force people to purchase health insurance from private corporations, or face penalties of fines and incarceration. Because when someone refuses to purchase health insurance, the best way to get them to do so is to lock them up so that they lose their ability to pay for it anyway. Americans have always had an implicit right to determine which private parties we want to do business with, but that may soon change. Until, of course, the Supreme Court slaps them silly for being completely oblivious to the commerce clause.
Both parties are willing to trade away our freedoms, it just depends which you're talking about.