The issue is illegal immigrants crowding the city schools. A single bad student or one with limited english can drop the whole class average by a large margin.
In california where I work for a school district I am seeing this problem. Thanks to No child left behind we are seeing funding cuts as well and 1 out of 4 students are illegal or there parents are illegal in my district and no its not inner city either.
In rural areas they do not suffer from this problem so a single student who scores only 15% at grade level can not bring down the whole average.
But your assessment is correct. School administrators receive free BMW's and Mercedes and they just cut 300 teachers from their payroll at the same time. Also one administrator has ties to board of directors at Gateway computers so we keep upgrading on computers we dont need and she gets a payback from it too.
Perl is a just an awk/sed on steriod for system administrators.
I know that is changing as people do more with it such as run slashcode but people should use what language is best for the job.
Perl is great for scripting jobs on unix servers. After I found out there were 3 different ways to write hello world I was shocked and my view changed. I didn't really touch it anymore.
You would in affect be recreating C++ or java as you need templates and classes that can create new instances of themselves.
At that point it would make sense to use an object oriented language from the start with proper API's.
I am not saying its impossible and yes simplicity is elegant but I do not even want to think of trying to do what I described above in C that I could do with less work in Java.
The problem was dos apps were little operating systems. Games, WordPerfect, Autocad, lotus, etc had their own drivers. If you had Novel Netware then you had redirectors and other drivers that all conflicted in non protected memory.
Programmers used peak and poke and assumed people would 1 run app at 1 time.
Windows had to support that backward compatibility. One good thing with Windows 7 is that every app will run in a vm to prevent this backsupport hell.
If dos were a real operating system in the first place we never would have had this problem. However I believe the 8086 and 8088 were not capable of protected memory but I cold be wrong.
God it was terrible and IBM picked these processors on purpose so businesses would buy more mainframes if they wanted a *real* stable OS/Hardware.
A good lawyer could make that argument that Google is in the business of organized crime.
After all what are teh perecentages of google searches for mp3's or porn?
My guess would be quite high in the %20 range. If that is the case it could be argued that Google should pay up for hurting the poor little record companies.
If I were google I would quickly lobby some politicians fast to create laws to protect search engines. This is very not good indeed.
People watch movies to see the actors and actresses they like. This gives them the bargaining power in a contract in regards to compensation.
How much do you they think Linus is worth or Denis Ritchie or James Gosling? My guess is 6 figure salaries.
You need to do what the market (Society) wants. Working hard is not the same as working smart. You can work very hard doing something no one wants that badly such as brewing coffee at a starbucks. Therefore your salary will be in the poverty level.
First go to your bit torrent settings and setup maximum download speed to 350k a second. Second the default bittorent incoming connections is set to 200. Move it down to 85 connections.
This is with a 640k dsl connection at home and makes a HUGE difference.
Occasionally I move up the download speed to 450k a second if no one is playing wow or doing anything intensive online.
However if your isp is evil and is throttling down your whole connection then it wont make a different what your connection speed is. Even if your connection is only 5k a second your whole connection will be modded down to a 56k modem speed. THen your pretty much fucked.
If that doesn't work you can try the harder more exotic methods described in the other comments.
Nor is FIOS from what I have read from other users here on/,
Face it we are screwed thanks to Net Neutrality. What pisses me off is that the government just put up billions of dollars in infrastructure improvements a year or two ago. Did it go to upgrade their network?
Nope it went to the CEO's and their shareholders and more lobbying to take away our freedom.
I give up on bittorrent. Its going to be something that Americans will no longer do such as program or have drm-less hardware.
What is truly sad is that we just kick our feet back and do not care. Why can't I run my own software on my iphone?
We need to write to our legislatures and see if we can overturn net neutrality. Who owns the internet? The government, people, or a few monopolies?
Unfortunately the maga telecom's have already answered this for us and took it over. What is stopping them from filtering out content or having their own ICANN for DNS? They own the pipes at this point and can do whatever the hell they want. Sorry to rant.
I use AT&T dsl and my router was fine with bittorrents until a few months ago.
As a test I downloaded just one torrent with only a few k per second. My wifes latency in wow jumpes well into the the thousands. I tried about 10 torrents all pumping hundreds of k a second and it makes no difference.
The second I turn off bit torrent my connection mysteriously becomes better.
As a result my wife wont let me use bit torrents anymore and it pisses me off. It seems the whole connection is throttled with just a single torrent and this happens even if only a few k per second is downloaded. We paid for the highest speed possible for our internet service. I think I am no longer going to use it. Whats the point if I have to use only low bandwith applications?
I use to write java code and I was considering a used macbook as a laptop back in 2006.
Java is the most popular language in business today and it has surpassed even c and c++. WIth Windows supporting.Net and Java I decided to stick with a PC.
Apple lost and even Linux is ahead with its must smaller marketshare because of its support for Java.
Apple is supporting more and more proprietary standards and is making life difficult for software developers. In the end we are going to see more and more windows based apps if it does not get its act together.
As much as I dislike Vista at least I can run frostwire, netbeans, eclipse, and VS.Net.
I am thinking high support costs because the MCSE's are not trained to support mac users.
Add non integration with the CFO's must have outlook calander/scheduling app written in VBA and lack of integration with MS active directory services.
Macs are cheaper only if you start out with a mac friendly office. If you are heavily invested in vista, Windows server, and active directory the support costs can add up. Not to mention VB is one of the most popular languages in business.
I am going for a B.A. and my wife almost has a masters.
Financial aid is the problem. We are so far in debt that now I need to move in with my parents because a B.A. will not pay the rent if we have to pay $2,000 a month for 30 years to pay for our education. Teachers make shit.
Oddly this is why I am going for an MBA. With an MBA I can afford a entry level house within 2 to 3 years of paying off the loans.
My wife left her first husband because he did exactly as you described.
He provided my wife a better lifestyle and worked 12 hour shifts at night and never really seen her.
Needless to say this is why she eventually divorced him and he was stunned as he was a provider and I was just this guy living off ramon noodles but making straight A's.
She wanted time and someone who is on track.
Yes 60 or more hours a week are expected in certain situations. However I made a vow not to go over 50 hours a week on average after a year or two when I am situated with work. I learned about the principles of overwork bondage in an ethics course in business oddly enough.
You hit negative return quickly after 45 hours a week. Typically at 60 every hour you work costs you two hours to fix.
People get Utress which is a high from overwork that athletes get as well. It makes you feel important and necessary but it hurts productivity.
If I ever have a say in my teams or company in the future I would institute a policy limiting the hours of work. Its bad for employees marriages, morale, and productivity.
If your boss is a jerk who demands this then perhaps its time to apply at different companies. Stand up for yourself and family.... oh and the statement about Yale? I think you may regret it.
My wife is a teacher and all the studies show happiness and love is what children model early on. In the long run a degree from Yale is nice but it wont bring true happiness nor appreciation if they never have good role modeling. Love and time will make them happier when they are dults and build a stronger bond with yourself as a parent.
Relationships bring happiness and stability.
These are just my own philosophies and I am hell bent on getting a six figure salary. On the otherhand my marriage is more important than money and yes these jobs will bring happiness and appreciation. Excessive hours wont.
Long term going back to school to get an MBA or more training will make up for the provider factor.
Right now I make didly squat and my wife brings in alot more. This is fine for me as I am a college student and I know in the long term it brings in more money and its what needs to be done. I plan to really scale back and maybe live with my parents for my 1.5 year MBA program. However within 5 years I could be making 100k a year for their college... or I could make 25k a year and work 70 hours a week with 2 jobs? I think I will take the later.
In 25 years I can retire in luxury and not have my kids go through the pain of blue collar work because they could not afford to go to college.
It hurts my ego but its all sterotypical that a man must bring in the money. Go ask your wifes whats more important in a man? I bet you money will be ranked low verses time with the family and happiness.
The problem was none of the software engineers who were part of the Vista team ever thought it was going to be released. So they did not take it seriously and all focuses on their little cool features and forgot about the basics.
When Alchin was fired the new release manager mentioned we have to release it within 120 days or cancel it and stick with XP forever.
Many in slashdot would not mind this. After all Linus said 2.6 is the final release of Linux until something radical needs to happen.
Vista is a radically new platform that is not NT based anymore with a large portion of it residing in userland. Future releases of windows will depend on it.
Vista is not alpha or beta. Its quite stable... useful on the otherhand?
Actually it is useful if you use the new search features and have sp1 with the latest drivers and bios updates. My toshiba laptop was terrible with Vista installed until very recently when my SD sata drive became supported. It was running off PIO mode and taking 2 - 3 minutes to boot.
It was immature and maybe rc status but at least its getting stable now.
But seriously windows 3.11 was very bad and was a joke. I am still mad at it over a decade later and I remember booting into DOS every moment I could to escape the monstrosity.
WindowsME and Windows95 were truly awful and unpredictable. I would take Vista over these 2 operating systems anyday. It just works and I do like the search capabilities where I do not ever have to use the mouse to navigate menus in programs.
I think windows2k and xp were good enough and finally predictable so it spoiled alot of us who take stability and reliability for granted.
Many employers are more than happy to pay 50k a year but will start them off at 30k for a a year or two and promote them quickly after.
They do this as they are afraid of people with egos getting in the way of business objectives and employee turnover.
Showing humility is what they want to see. IF you have a good degree you can get promoted fast but a degree means you can take tests well and do homework. A degree does not mean you will perform well and be aligned with the needs of the business.
I gave up on I.T. all together. Its hard without a degree and I am majoring in business administration. My classmates explain the degree simply is a hs diploma of 25 years ago. Its the minium requirement for a 30k a year job now to prove your stuff.
An MBA is a different story and the GP may want to consider that if he wants to make big bucks and be someone in middle management and not a yes sir man.
If I quote anything in the apa format with more than 40 words I need to pad or indent the whole citation 5 spaces.
I can only do this in openoffice 1 line at a time. For example if the end of the quote is in the middle of a line and I finish the sentence, openoffice will just move the whole line over.
Also if I cut and paste with italic a bug will prevent me to put the rest of the text non italicized. This and many other reasons is why I need MS Office. Openoffice will not check for passive phrases in sentences either which is unacceptable in a college level apa paper.
If you ever send a resume you also better make sure all the strange formatting kinks work in the real version of MS Office that also appear on OpenOffice.
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The issue is illegal immigrants crowding the city schools. A single bad student or one with limited english can drop the whole class average by a large margin.
In california where I work for a school district I am seeing this problem. Thanks to No child left behind we are seeing funding cuts as well and 1 out of 4 students are illegal or there parents are illegal in my district and no its not inner city either.
In rural areas they do not suffer from this problem so a single student who scores only 15% at grade level can not bring down the whole average.
But your assessment is correct. School administrators receive free BMW's and Mercedes and they just cut 300 teachers from their payroll at the same time. Also one administrator has ties to board of directors at Gateway computers so we keep upgrading on computers we dont need and she gets a payback from it too.
Sco Xenix at least had multitasking and the mac with its 6800k was light years ahead.
.... sigh
:-)
Os/2 in 1986 was already fully 32-bit if you had a 386 and could be used by mere mortals unlike the skunkware version of unix back then.
MS killed and win16 with its hungarian notation was just
Don't get me started. This time when 64-bit computing came SuSE Linux and Net/FreeBSD were already there before MS.
Thank god for competition today. If it were not for Linux I doubt winxp 64 would ever be a reality.
Bad dark days of computing indeed.
Perl is a just an awk/sed on steriod for system administrators.
I know that is changing as people do more with it such as run slashcode but people should use what language is best for the job.
Perl is great for scripting jobs on unix servers. After I found out there were 3 different ways to write hello world I was shocked and my view changed. I didn't really touch it anymore.
If its undocumented then where do the developers find about these tricks?
You would in affect be recreating C++ or java as you need templates and classes that can create new instances of themselves.
At that point it would make sense to use an object oriented language from the start with proper API's.
I am not saying its impossible and yes simplicity is elegant but I do not even want to think of trying to do what I described above in C that I could do with less work in Java.
Java can be a pain with lots of verbose code compared to a simple language.
// its been years since I did C++ forgive me if I // am wrong
// Display the string.
Python is easier and not everything is an object. Object oriented programming is hard and this is especially true for newbies.
Whats easier?
#include studio.h
int main()
{
prinf( "Hello World")
}
or
package helloworld;
public class HelloWorldApp {
public HelloWorldApp() {
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
Count the lines of code it takes for a simple Message Dialog? Wow!
I do not know python but I have a feeling is pretty simple to say hello world for a noob and create a simple dialogue box.
Java will never die though because the api is very feature rich and its extremely portable.
The problem was dos apps were little operating systems. Games, WordPerfect, Autocad, lotus, etc had their own drivers. If you had Novel Netware then you had redirectors and other drivers that all conflicted in non protected memory.
Programmers used peak and poke and assumed people would 1 run app at 1 time.
Windows had to support that backward compatibility. One good thing with Windows 7 is that every app will run in a vm to prevent this backsupport hell.
If dos were a real operating system in the first place we never would have had this problem. However I believe the 8086 and 8088 were not capable of protected memory but I cold be wrong.
God it was terrible and IBM picked these processors on purpose so businesses would buy more mainframes if they wanted a *real* stable OS/Hardware.
A good lawyer could make that argument that Google is in the business of organized crime.
After all what are teh perecentages of google searches for mp3's or porn?
My guess would be quite high in the %20 range. If that is the case it could be argued that Google should pay up for hurting the poor little record companies.
If I were google I would quickly lobby some politicians fast to create laws to protect search engines. This is very not good indeed.
Supply and demand.
People watch movies to see the actors and actresses they like. This gives them the bargaining power in a contract in regards to compensation.
How much do you they think Linus is worth or Denis Ritchie or James Gosling? My guess is 6 figure salaries.
You need to do what the market (Society) wants. Working hard is not the same as working smart. You can work very hard doing something no one wants that badly such as brewing coffee at a starbucks. Therefore your salary will be in the poverty level.
First go to your bit torrent settings and setup maximum download speed to 350k a second. Second the default bittorent incoming connections is set to 200. Move it down to 85 connections.
This is with a 640k dsl connection at home and makes a HUGE difference.
Occasionally I move up the download speed to 450k a second if no one is playing wow or doing anything intensive online.
However if your isp is evil and is throttling down your whole connection then it wont make a different what your connection speed is. Even if your connection is only 5k a second your whole connection will be modded down to a 56k modem speed. THen your pretty much fucked.
If that doesn't work you can try the harder more exotic methods described in the other comments.
Nor is FIOS from what I have read from other users here on /,
Face it we are screwed thanks to Net Neutrality. What pisses me off is that the government just put up billions of dollars in infrastructure improvements a year or two ago. Did it go to upgrade their network?
Nope it went to the CEO's and their shareholders and more lobbying to take away our freedom.
I give up on bittorrent. Its going to be something that Americans will no longer do such as program or have drm-less hardware.
What is truly sad is that we just kick our feet back and do not care. Why can't I run my own software on my iphone?
We need to write to our legislatures and see if we can overturn net neutrality. Who owns the internet? The government, people, or a few monopolies?
Unfortunately the maga telecom's have already answered this for us and took it over. What is stopping them from filtering out content or having their own ICANN for DNS? They own the pipes at this point and can do whatever the hell they want. Sorry to rant.
Something needs to be done.
I use AT&T dsl and my router was fine with bittorrents until a few months ago.
As a test I downloaded just one torrent with only a few k per second. My wifes latency in wow jumpes well into the the thousands. I tried about 10 torrents all pumping hundreds of k a second and it makes no difference.
The second I turn off bit torrent my connection mysteriously becomes better.
As a result my wife wont let me use bit torrents anymore and it pisses me off. It seems the whole connection is throttled with just a single torrent and this happens even if only a few k per second is downloaded. We paid for the highest speed possible for our internet service. I think I am no longer going to use it. Whats the point if I have to use only low bandwith applications?
There are huge language changes with support for things like generics and autoboxing.
Many java developers already use this in their code and it wont compile with earlier versions such as java 1.4.
Swing is much better and multithreaded by default in java6.
I believe the latest release of netbeans in beta will not compile without java6.
I use to write java code and I was considering a used macbook as a laptop back in 2006.
.Net and Java I decided to stick with a PC.
Java is the most popular language in business today and it has surpassed even c and c++. WIth Windows supporting
Apple lost and even Linux is ahead with its must smaller marketshare because of its support for Java.
Apple is supporting more and more proprietary standards and is making life difficult for software developers. In the end we are going to see more and more windows based apps if it does not get its act together.
As much as I dislike Vista at least I can run frostwire, netbeans, eclipse, and VS.Net.
I am thinking high support costs because the MCSE's are not trained to support mac users.
Add non integration with the CFO's must have outlook calander/scheduling app written in VBA and lack of integration with MS active directory services.
Macs are cheaper only if you start out with a mac friendly office. If you are heavily invested in vista, Windows server, and active directory the support costs can add up. Not to mention VB is one of the most popular languages in business.
I am going for a B.A. and my wife almost has a masters.
Financial aid is the problem. We are so far in debt that now I need to move in with my parents because a B.A. will not pay the rent if we have to pay $2,000 a month for 30 years to pay for our education. Teachers make shit.
Oddly this is why I am going for an MBA. With an MBA I can afford a entry level house within 2 to 3 years of paying off the loans.
My wife left her first husband because he did exactly as you described.
... oh and the statement about Yale? I think you may regret it.
He provided my wife a better lifestyle and worked 12 hour shifts at night and never really seen her.
Needless to say this is why she eventually divorced him and he was stunned as he was a provider and I was just this guy living off ramon noodles but making straight A's.
She wanted time and someone who is on track.
Yes 60 or more hours a week are expected in certain situations. However I made a vow not to go over 50 hours a week on average after a year or two when I am situated with work. I learned about the principles of overwork bondage in an ethics course in business oddly enough.
You hit negative return quickly after 45 hours a week. Typically at 60 every hour you work costs you two hours to fix.
People get Utress which is a high from overwork that athletes get as well. It makes you feel important and necessary but it hurts productivity.
If I ever have a say in my teams or company in the future I would institute a policy limiting the hours of work. Its bad for employees marriages, morale, and productivity.
If your boss is a jerk who demands this then perhaps its time to apply at different companies. Stand up for yourself and family.
My wife is a teacher and all the studies show happiness and love is what children model early on. In the long run a degree from Yale is nice but it wont bring true happiness nor appreciation if they never have good role modeling. Love and time will make them happier when they are dults and build a stronger bond with yourself as a parent.
Relationships bring happiness and stability.
These are just my own philosophies and I am hell bent on getting a six figure salary. On the otherhand my marriage is more important than money and yes these jobs will bring happiness and appreciation. Excessive hours wont.
Long term going back to school to get an MBA or more training will make up for the provider factor.
.. or I could make 25k a year and work 70 hours a week with 2 jobs? I think I will take the later.
Right now I make didly squat and my wife brings in alot more. This is fine for me as I am a college student and I know in the long term it brings in more money and its what needs to be done. I plan to really scale back and maybe live with my parents for my 1.5 year MBA program. However within 5 years I could be making 100k a year for their college.
In 25 years I can retire in luxury and not have my kids go through the pain of blue collar work because they could not afford to go to college.
It hurts my ego but its all sterotypical that a man must bring in the money. Go ask your wifes whats more important in a man? I bet you money will be ranked low verses time with the family and happiness.
"Both .NET and Mono allow for C#, so you're not stuck on one platform."
About as elegant as using Open XML in ms word because its cross compatible and its an iso standard so its not on one platform.
The problem was none of the software engineers who were part of the Vista team ever thought it was going to be released. So they did not take it seriously and all focuses on their little cool features and forgot about the basics.
When Alchin was fired the new release manager mentioned we have to release it within 120 days or cancel it and stick with XP forever.
Many in slashdot would not mind this. After all Linus said 2.6 is the final release of Linux until something radical needs to happen.
Vista is a radically new platform that is not NT based anymore with a large portion of it residing in userland. Future releases of windows will depend on it.
Yes it had to be released as it was a disaster.
Vista is not alpha or beta. Its quite stable ... useful on the otherhand?
Actually it is useful if you use the new search features and have sp1 with the latest drivers and bios updates. My toshiba laptop was terrible with Vista installed until very recently when my SD sata drive became supported. It was running off PIO mode and taking 2 - 3 minutes to boot.
It was immature and maybe rc status but at least its getting stable now.
But seriously windows 3.11 was very bad and was a joke. I am still mad at it over a decade later and I remember booting into DOS every moment I could to escape the monstrosity.
WindowsME and Windows95 were truly awful and unpredictable. I would take Vista over these 2 operating systems anyday. It just works and I do like the search capabilities where I do not ever have to use the mouse to navigate menus in programs.
I think windows2k and xp were good enough and finally predictable so it spoiled alot of us who take stability and reliability for granted.
I tried the previous version of ubuntu and it lacked support for the chipsets wifi and ati x1200 graphics.
I knew I should have got an intel machine.
Yep
Many employers are more than happy to pay 50k a year but will start them off at 30k for a a year or two and promote them quickly after.
They do this as they are afraid of people with egos getting in the way of business objectives and employee turnover.
Showing humility is what they want to see. IF you have a good degree you can get promoted fast but a degree means you can take tests well and do homework. A degree does not mean you will perform well and be aligned with the needs of the business.
I gave up on I.T. all together. Its hard without a degree and I am majoring in business administration. My classmates explain the degree simply is a hs diploma of 25 years ago. Its the minium requirement for a 30k a year job now to prove your stuff.
An MBA is a different story and the GP may want to consider that if he wants to make big bucks and be someone in middle management and not a yes sir man.
I had formatting bugs and the lack of checking of passive sentences were the issues for myself.
I need real formatting.
If I quote anything in the apa format with more than 40 words I need to pad or indent the whole citation 5 spaces.
I can only do this in openoffice 1 line at a time. For example if the end of the quote is in the middle of a line and I finish the sentence, openoffice will just move the whole line over.
Also if I cut and paste with italic a bug will prevent me to put the rest of the text non italicized. This and many other reasons is why I need MS Office. Openoffice will not check for passive phrases in sentences either which is unacceptable in a college level apa paper.
If you ever send a resume you also better make sure all the strange formatting kinks work in the real version of MS Office that also appear on OpenOffice.