There are some people who have to fight for years to get a teaching job. Teachers will always say there's a a shortage, just like msft will always say there is a shortage of developers.
1) Teaching is not a big money profession. Never was, probably never will be. If somebody wants big money, do something else. Teaching should almost be a calling. Why do people go into teaching, then bitch about their wages? What did they expect?
2) This article stinks of a teacher's union lobbying for more money. Teachers always argue that more money for teachers, and smaller class size, will mean better education. This arguement has more holes than swiss cheese. When the USA had the best education in the world, teachers were paid even less. The best schools are in Korea, where class size is much larger.
3) Although teaching is not a big money profession there are substantial perks. Teaching is an extremely secure job, with tons of time off. And the pay is not that bad.
For example, what's "open" about OpenVMS? In the 80's companies found that they could increase sales 14% by calling their software products "open" - or something like that, I guess.
Anyway, once a term has been exploited by management and marketing types, forget it, the term becomes meaningless.
It is rare that a job ad mentions a college degree at all. And when a degree is mentioned it's usually something like: "BSCS, or other technical degree, or equivilent experience." And you can certainly miss out on getting hired for a job if you are considered over educated.
A BSCS is as difficult to get as degree in engineering, but it's as worthless as degree in libral arts.
For that matter, the IT field is going down the sewer fast. Hours are long, pay is low, burnout is high. In IT, you can get liad off on a whim. Forign competition is always breathing down your neck.
I know nurses who earn over $100k/year with a community college education.
If you are going to get a degree in something, get a degree in something that requires a degree: doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer (other than software), etc.
Scox was just an unprofitable micro-cap (total market cap $6 million) before msft er, "arranged the financing" for scox's scam lawsuits.
Just like scox's puppet-master, scox is making all kinds of allegations, and refusing to provide any proof. Scox has been at for near four years, so far.
Ebay snitching would only hurt ebay's business. Why shouldn't ebay say: "sorry IRS, collecting taxes is *your* business - you figure out who owes you what."
It's like he really wants to say something nice about Vista, but can not actually think of anything.
> From an efficiency point of view, Vista beats XP hands down . . . the improved Start Menu . . . improved search, the larger, more detailed icons.
The total time I spend in a day launching programs from my start menu is less than two minutes, and I use my PC all day long. So how many seconds per day will that save me? And for the supposedly improved start menu, I would have to buy a new PC, learn a new OS, fight with all that WGA and DRM, and fight with all the new security cr@p. You gotta be kidding.
That is the only thing I can think of. I suppose, in the next two years or so, msft plans to strong-arm the game makers to use only directx 10. Other than that, four or five years down the road, you will need Vista to run the latest ms-office, msie, and ms-media player.
Fan-boy strawman arguement, I guess. This particular article has to do with msft. Nobody is letting apple off the hook, this article has nothing to do with apple, so we are discussing apple here.
Much of the same could be said of the old robber barrons, especially standard oil. They created a lot of jobs, provided a valuable product, and gave a lot of money to charities.
I suppose we should let those guys off the hook as well?
"Burst lawyers caught a pattern of apparent destruction of e-mail evidence on the part of Microsoft."
The same repeating pattern: msft destroy's evidence, then msft accuses others of destroying evidence. Msft steals code, then accuses others of stealing code. Msft abuses the public by controlling the standards, then msft has a screaming hissy-fit accusing others of trying to control the standard. Msft lies to the public with astro-turfing, and hiring others to front for msft etc., then msft screams and crys and falsely accuses others of fronting for the competition. And so on, and so on.
W2k runs all of my apps and hw. And W2K is faster, doesn't have that fisher-price interface, and is earier to use with default setup. Hopefully, in two years I can get by with just linux.
I have seen this arguement countless times, and it's crap. I can not take a hourse and buggy on the freeway, in that respect a car provides a measurable advantage.
When comparing Office-2007 with earlier version just posting that earlier versions are a "horse and buggy" is meaningless. Please be specific, if I don't need more than 256 columns, why whould I upgrade.
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There are some people who have to fight for years to get a teaching job. Teachers will always say there's a a shortage, just like msft will always say there is a shortage of developers.
Here's why:
1) Teaching is not a big money profession. Never was, probably never will be. If somebody wants big money, do something else. Teaching should almost be a calling. Why do people go into teaching, then bitch about their wages? What did they expect?
2) This article stinks of a teacher's union lobbying for more money. Teachers always argue that more money for teachers, and smaller class size, will mean better education. This arguement has more holes than swiss cheese. When the USA had the best education in the world, teachers were paid even less. The best schools are in Korea, where class size is much larger.
3) Although teaching is not a big money profession there are substantial perks. Teaching is an extremely secure job, with tons of time off. And the pay is not that bad.
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>>Not being beholden to Microsoft gives them a big advantage when competing with traditional PC sellers
Huh? You either buy Windows, or you buy MacOS-X. Where is this an advantage to Apple?
- They are not much more than an LCD screen, so would use less electricity
- They would put out less heat, therefor less need for air conditioning, and even less electricity.
- They would not have to be backed up, so you would not have to leave them on at night for the net backup program.
- Since the thin clients wouldn't be on at night, that means less heat generated, and less need for air conditioning
- There would be less to dispose of
- There would be no PC to replace, everytime msft forced an "upgrade"
I walk 5 miles on a treadmill, and that carges the battery in my electric car enough that I can drive the car one mile?
xdrive seems to think there's a firewall installed, but there isn't. At least not one that I could find.
For example, what's "open" about OpenVMS? In the 80's companies found that they could increase sales 14% by calling their software products "open" - or something like that, I guess.
Anyway, once a term has been exploited by management and marketing types, forget it, the term becomes meaningless.
He's giving away 90% of money. Poor guy, he probably only has about $5 billion left. And you want to deprive him of that? For shame.
It is rare that a job ad mentions a college degree at all. And when a degree is mentioned it's usually something like: "BSCS, or other technical degree, or equivilent experience." And you can certainly miss out on getting hired for a job if you are considered over educated.
A BSCS is as difficult to get as degree in engineering, but it's as worthless as degree in libral arts.
For that matter, the IT field is going down the sewer fast. Hours are long, pay is low, burnout is high. In IT, you can get liad off on a whim. Forign competition is always breathing down your neck.
I know nurses who earn over $100k/year with a community college education.
If you are going to get a degree in something, get a degree in something that requires a degree: doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer (other than software), etc.
Long article, but the author totally backs up all his assertions. Lots of screenshots, etc.
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http://kadaitcha.cx/vista/dogsbreakfast/index.htm
Scox was just an unprofitable micro-cap (total market cap $6 million) before msft er, "arranged the financing" for scox's scam lawsuits.
Just like scox's puppet-master, scox is making all kinds of allegations, and refusing to provide any proof. Scox has been at for near four years, so far.
Ebay snitching would only hurt ebay's business. Why shouldn't ebay say: "sorry IRS, collecting taxes is *your* business - you figure out who owes you what."
I think your anger may be misguided. I know of one CPA who gave up his practice due to the insane IRS regulations.
Private CPAs do not make tax code. The IRS doesn't give a damn what CPAs think.
The USA Treasury gets all of it's power from the USA congress, maybe that's who you should blame.
It's like he really wants to say something nice about Vista, but can not actually think of anything.
> From an efficiency point of view, Vista beats XP hands down . . . the improved Start Menu . . . improved search, the larger, more detailed icons.
The total time I spend in a day launching programs from my start menu is less than two minutes, and I use my PC all day long. So how many seconds per day will that save me? And for the supposedly improved start menu, I would have to buy a new PC, learn a new OS, fight with all that WGA and DRM, and fight with all the new security cr@p. You gotta be kidding.
The author is coming to a sad realization.
Or whatever you can think of:
For example:
Knoppix - msft doesn't have anything like it.
maybe Zimbra . .
That is the only thing I can think of. I suppose, in the next two years or so, msft plans to strong-arm the game makers to use only directx 10. Other than that, four or five years down the road, you will need Vista to run the latest ms-office, msie, and ms-media player.
Fan-boy strawman arguement, I guess. This particular article has to do with msft. Nobody is letting apple off the hook, this article has nothing to do with apple, so we are discussing apple here.
Much of the same could be said of the old robber barrons, especially standard oil. They created a lot of jobs, provided a valuable product, and gave a lot of money to charities.
I suppose we should let those guys off the hook as well?
"Burst lawyers caught a pattern of apparent destruction of e-mail evidence on the part of Microsoft."
The same repeating pattern: msft destroy's evidence, then msft accuses others of destroying evidence. Msft steals code, then accuses others of stealing code. Msft abuses the public by controlling the standards, then msft has a screaming hissy-fit accusing others of trying to control the standard. Msft lies to the public with astro-turfing, and hiring others to front for msft etc., then msft screams and crys and falsely accuses others of fronting for the competition. And so on, and so on.
I have not seen drm lowering prices. Maybe I'm missing something?
W2k runs all of my apps and hw. And W2K is faster, doesn't have that fisher-price interface, and is earier to use with default setup. Hopefully, in two years I can get by with just linux.
>>But there is yet to be a need for Vista.
Only Vista will run DirectX 10. It is a safe bet that later version of office, media-player, and msie, will only run on Vista.
>>Vista is, in fact, an amazing OS
In fact? Okay, what "in fact" is so amazing about Vista? What "amazing" thing can I do in Vista, that I can not do in XP?
I have seen this arguement countless times, and it's crap. I can not take a hourse and buggy on the freeway, in that respect a car provides a measurable advantage.
When comparing Office-2007 with earlier version just posting that earlier versions are a "horse and buggy" is meaningless. Please be specific, if I don't need more than 256 columns, why whould I upgrade.