If you compare the average student teacher ratio for all 50 states and look at their ranking, you will find there is no correlation except when it comes to extreme overcrowding ( > 20). The lowest ranked schools often have just as many students per class as higher ranked schools. 15 seems to be optimal but it's no guarantee for success. The worst ranked state has 16 kids per class on average, and so does the 3rd ranked state.
They would be cheaper obviously but when you're spending millions on the systems themselves, you might as well throw in a few bucks extra to make the container look nice.
This only shows the consequences of an earth that heats up. It does not show that man is responsible for the earth heating up or that man has any control over it.
You need a new job then. Or a different attitude. If you think you need to kill yourself for the 1% then you probably care way too much about money. The reason jobs that require intelligence don't need unions is because companies can not just pick another monkey from the zoo to replace you. You have to set the limits for how much you are willing to work and adjust your salary expectations accordingly. I have a mortgage and can pay all of my bills working about 20 hours a week and that's about as much as I work for pay. I'm also student teaching full time. Once that's over in about 8 weeks I'll be able to work full time for actual pay and have twice as much money as I need every month.
I worked in a small company once with basically me and one other developer. I "unionized" and said "no new bugs for one month" The boss went along with it (didn't have much of a choice, but we sold him on the idea anyway). We spent the entire month cleaning up code and fixing existing bugs. A month later the boss set up a bunch of requirements with a nice bonus if we made the deadline. We made the deadline. We got our way, he got his way. Everyone wins. Having a clean codebase allowed us to do much more work in less time. He just had to leave us alone for one month.
The first step to having a nice work environment is to talk with employees to figure out what "reasonable" is. You can then talk to the boss. As soon as you start threatening "unionization" you're just assuming he's a jerk when that may not be the case.
Until you're 18 you don't have rights, you have privileges. If parents don't like public education and the rules to attend they can go to a private school or home school. This is why it is important to defend both those options and make them as available as possible.
I'm currently student teaching (High School) and there are a lot of reasons not to friend students on Facebook. My current primary reason as a student teacher is that I'm still exploring the limits of personal information / stories that can safely be shared without it coming back as an attempted torture device. I told students I took French in high school and college and a student decided calling me "Frenchie" would be a good idea. I just laughed and said "Say 'chowder'' which defused that right away. Facebook is an unfiltered place to express myself and communicate with friends. The more people you let in the more professional you have to be which is lame. That's not what Facebook is for. Even if the students you friend are responsible with the information during class, they may share stories with other students who are not. Then you get rumors and all kinds of fun stuff. And frankly, I just don't care to keep my Facebook profile PG for the kiddies. I'm an adult that has adult conversations and adult interests.
There are professional channels to use to communicate with students and I don't have a problem talking to students in class about non-class related things. But, it's at my discretion and off the record.
But yes, I agree you should get to know your students. Some of the problem of not knowing them is large class sizes. In my three classes with 15 students each I recognize them all and know their names. In the two classes with nearly 40 students each, I'm still learning names and faces.
Doing research for my master's in secondary ed people do seem to actually believe that academic "success" is defined by lack of discipline problems. Nevermind the kids can't actually do math or read or write. Kids are capable of being "engaged" by walls for entire class periods. That's obviously not a measure of learning.
I primarily use the middle finger and pointer finger of both hands and the right thumb (space) and left pinky (shift). I can also very accurately type about 75 wpm without looking at my fingers or screen and recognize and correct errors without looking at the screen. I've been programming, writing papers, etc for 20 years now. There's a lot of muscle sense built up.
I only do short texts so speed doesn't matter. Most of the time typing is spent thinking about what you're writing. The only time I hit 75 wpm is when I'm doing a typing test. So the only thing that really matters is comfort, not speed. I use the fingers I use because I don't have to contort my hand in uncomfortable positions to type. So type however is comfortable for you. That's going to be the fastest way for you.
If you watch the documentary about Pixar (available streamed on Netflix) it shows the scene and talks a bit about the hand animation. This video actually shows a lot more though,
Google is doing an outstanding job getting information collected. But at the end of the day it's just a "dumb" search that matches keywords with content trying to hide results that are just junk. Google is all about quantity of information with some basic garbage filters. There is no real relational information being gathered between content sources.
The next step in search should be to start analyzing information based on themes and returning results that may not have the same keywords, but are related in themes. Also, ranking results by reading level, length, etc would probably go a long way to getting rid of junk and help in research. Real text analysis. That would help meaningful content get to the top of results.
You can't "understand" things if you don't have the "facts"
The brain is also far superior than Google in combining facts into new understandings. Google cannot relate Moby Dick and Treasure Island together. You have to actually read the books to know what each are saying so that your brain can extrapolate the common themes.
The idea that having "stubs" of knowledge in the most powerful computer on the planet and leaving the real meat of facts in the dumbest computers on the planet is somehow a good thing is just idiotic. Google is not going to link information together for you. You have to put the real meat of information into your head and then only your brain is capable of making connections to create real understanding.
The best programmers generally start as hobbyists. You don't need a "job" to get experience. When I first started trying to get a job as a programmer I filled my resume largely with my own projects that I had done on my own time. Now it's filled with things I've been paid to do. I still point to one or two hobby projects on occasion depending on what I'm getting into.
There is very little in the programming world that you can't get experience with as a hobbyist. If you want to be paid to develop embedded software there are plenty of neat products out there that let you get experience. If you want to be paid to be a developer then build web sites on your own time first. Want to be a game programmer? Make games as a hobby first. I worked all kinds of part time jobs. I was making pizza for minimum wage when I saved up enough for my first $1300 166Mhz PC.
There are very few professions that you can't get experience simply as a hobbyist first. If you think you have to get paid before you can get experience you simply lack ambition.
The reason it's so cheap is because it doesn't have networking, a keyboard, touch screen monitor or a rugged enclosure.
Once you add a keyboard, mouse and HDMI capable monitor you're up to easily $200. The advantage of course is that you can simply swap out the $25 part when you want an upgrade.
RAM is relatively cheap. Spend the money and get more RAM if the company doesn't explicitly say you can't.
You're the intern, you get the leftovers. Show some initiative.
I do contract work. I'm expected to provide my own office and equipment. Some clients are nice enough to give me free stuff when I ask. I recently got a nice P4 2.0Ghz IBM ThinkPad with 2GB of RAM. Eventually I'll buy a new laptop to replace it with using my winnings.
When you're a real employee, then you can complain about what they give you. In the meantime, expect to spend your own money to make your job easier.
That's why for you it's a bargain. You get thousands of dollars of benefits for hundreds of dollars of "investment."
If you get more back from the government than you put in, someone is getting less than they put in. How is that a bargain for them?
That's how class warfare works. As long as the "poor" think they're entitled to the wealth of the "rich" we'll continue hearing silly arguments about what a bargain it is to pay taxes and get so much in return.
If people actually had to pay for what they consumed, they'd probably try harder to make sure money isn't being wasted. Unfortunately, we have too many people who don't mind consuming more than is necessary because they aren't paying for it.
As someone who only speaks English (took French in High School and College for my foreign language requirement), I've never even heard the term "Tax Heaven." Those two words don't belong together. Ever.
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If you compare the average student teacher ratio for all 50 states and look at their ranking, you will find there is no correlation except when it comes to extreme overcrowding ( > 20). The lowest ranked schools often have just as many students per class as higher ranked schools. 15 seems to be optimal but it's no guarantee for success. The worst ranked state has 16 kids per class on average, and so does the 3rd ranked state.
That's why it's comedy.
They would be cheaper obviously but when you're spending millions on the systems themselves, you might as well throw in a few bucks extra to make the container look nice.
"Five hundred million years ago carbon dioxide was 20 times more prevalent than today"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
Where the dinosaurs driving around in cars?
This only shows the consequences of an earth that heats up. It does not show that man is responsible for the earth heating up or that man has any control over it.
Education had been state run and progressively getting better up until the 1970's when the feds took it over and it has now flat lined for 40 years.
Roads and bridges are also paid for by and maintained by the communities / counties in which they run through.
The Federal Government adds nothing of value to education and minimal value to our roads and bridges.
I have hacked my car so that it no longer tells me I'm out of gas until it actually is.
You need a new job then. Or a different attitude. If you think you need to kill yourself for the 1% then you probably care way too much about money. The reason jobs that require intelligence don't need unions is because companies can not just pick another monkey from the zoo to replace you. You have to set the limits for how much you are willing to work and adjust your salary expectations accordingly. I have a mortgage and can pay all of my bills working about 20 hours a week and that's about as much as I work for pay. I'm also student teaching full time. Once that's over in about 8 weeks I'll be able to work full time for actual pay and have twice as much money as I need every month.
I worked in a small company once with basically me and one other developer. I "unionized" and said "no new bugs for one month" The boss went along with it (didn't have much of a choice, but we sold him on the idea anyway). We spent the entire month cleaning up code and fixing existing bugs. A month later the boss set up a bunch of requirements with a nice bonus if we made the deadline. We made the deadline. We got our way, he got his way. Everyone wins. Having a clean codebase allowed us to do much more work in less time. He just had to leave us alone for one month.
The first step to having a nice work environment is to talk with employees to figure out what "reasonable" is. You can then talk to the boss. As soon as you start threatening "unionization" you're just assuming he's a jerk when that may not be the case.
Until you're 18 you don't have rights, you have privileges. If parents don't like public education and the rules to attend they can go to a private school or home school. This is why it is important to defend both those options and make them as available as possible.
I'm currently student teaching (High School) and there are a lot of reasons not to friend students on Facebook. My current primary reason as a student teacher is that I'm still exploring the limits of personal information / stories that can safely be shared without it coming back as an attempted torture device. I told students I took French in high school and college and a student decided calling me "Frenchie" would be a good idea. I just laughed and said "Say 'chowder'' which defused that right away. Facebook is an unfiltered place to express myself and communicate with friends. The more people you let in the more professional you have to be which is lame. That's not what Facebook is for. Even if the students you friend are responsible with the information during class, they may share stories with other students who are not. Then you get rumors and all kinds of fun stuff. And frankly, I just don't care to keep my Facebook profile PG for the kiddies. I'm an adult that has adult conversations and adult interests.
There are professional channels to use to communicate with students and I don't have a problem talking to students in class about non-class related things. But, it's at my discretion and off the record.
But yes, I agree you should get to know your students. Some of the problem of not knowing them is large class sizes. In my three classes with 15 students each I recognize them all and know their names. In the two classes with nearly 40 students each, I'm still learning names and faces.
Doing research for my master's in secondary ed people do seem to actually believe that academic "success" is defined by lack of discipline problems. Nevermind the kids can't actually do math or read or write. Kids are capable of being "engaged" by walls for entire class periods. That's obviously not a measure of learning.
I primarily use the middle finger and pointer finger of both hands and the right thumb (space) and left pinky (shift). I can also very accurately type about 75 wpm without looking at my fingers or screen and recognize and correct errors without looking at the screen. I've been programming, writing papers, etc for 20 years now. There's a lot of muscle sense built up.
I only do short texts so speed doesn't matter. Most of the time typing is spent thinking about what you're writing. The only time I hit 75 wpm is when I'm doing a typing test. So the only thing that really matters is comfort, not speed. I use the fingers I use because I don't have to contort my hand in uncomfortable positions to type. So type however is comfortable for you. That's going to be the fastest way for you.
If you watch the documentary about Pixar (available streamed on Netflix) it shows the scene and talks a bit about the hand animation. This video actually shows a lot more though,
Google is doing an outstanding job getting information collected. But at the end of the day it's just a "dumb" search that matches keywords with content trying to hide results that are just junk. Google is all about quantity of information with some basic garbage filters. There is no real relational information being gathered between content sources.
The next step in search should be to start analyzing information based on themes and returning results that may not have the same keywords, but are related in themes. Also, ranking results by reading level, length, etc would probably go a long way to getting rid of junk and help in research. Real text analysis. That would help meaningful content get to the top of results.
You can't "understand" things if you don't have the "facts"
The brain is also far superior than Google in combining facts into new understandings. Google cannot relate Moby Dick and Treasure Island together. You have to actually read the books to know what each are saying so that your brain can extrapolate the common themes.
The idea that having "stubs" of knowledge in the most powerful computer on the planet and leaving the real meat of facts in the dumbest computers on the planet is somehow a good thing is just idiotic. Google is not going to link information together for you. You have to put the real meat of information into your head and then only your brain is capable of making connections to create real understanding.
The best programmers generally start as hobbyists. You don't need a "job" to get experience. When I first started trying to get a job as a programmer I filled my resume largely with my own projects that I had done on my own time. Now it's filled with things I've been paid to do. I still point to one or two hobby projects on occasion depending on what I'm getting into.
There is very little in the programming world that you can't get experience with as a hobbyist. If you want to be paid to develop embedded software there are plenty of neat products out there that let you get experience. If you want to be paid to be a developer then build web sites on your own time first. Want to be a game programmer? Make games as a hobby first. I worked all kinds of part time jobs. I was making pizza for minimum wage when I saved up enough for my first $1300 166Mhz PC.
There are very few professions that you can't get experience simply as a hobbyist first. If you think you have to get paid before you can get experience you simply lack ambition.
The reason it's so cheap is because it doesn't have networking, a keyboard, touch screen monitor or a rugged enclosure.
Once you add a keyboard, mouse and HDMI capable monitor you're up to easily $200. The advantage of course is that you can simply swap out the $25 part when you want an upgrade.
It's cool but doesn't really solve any problems.
The power comes from the HDMI cable which supplies 5v.
RAM is relatively cheap. Spend the money and get more RAM if the company doesn't explicitly say you can't.
You're the intern, you get the leftovers. Show some initiative.
I do contract work. I'm expected to provide my own office and equipment. Some clients are nice enough to give me free stuff when I ask. I recently got a nice P4 2.0Ghz IBM ThinkPad with 2GB of RAM. Eventually I'll buy a new laptop to replace it with using my winnings.
When you're a real employee, then you can complain about what they give you. In the meantime, expect to spend your own money to make your job easier.
That's why for you it's a bargain. You get thousands of dollars of benefits for hundreds of dollars of "investment."
If you get more back from the government than you put in, someone is getting less than they put in. How is that a bargain for them?
That's how class warfare works. As long as the "poor" think they're entitled to the wealth of the "rich" we'll continue hearing silly arguments about what a bargain it is to pay taxes and get so much in return.
If people actually had to pay for what they consumed, they'd probably try harder to make sure money isn't being wasted. Unfortunately, we have too many people who don't mind consuming more than is necessary because they aren't paying for it.
States are expressly forbidden from taxing interstate commerce.
Unless this clown has a federal sales tax in mind, it's just another example of congress having a complete disregard for the Constitution.
Since when are e-mails a legally binding contract between individuals?
Zuckerberg could have given him the moon in an e-mail but if there's no signed, dated, notarized, contract, it's not going anywhere.
Feel free to watch the film in 2D then. Those of us (possibly two, even three maybe) who like the 3D experience will pay the extra to do so.
I've yet to see a 3D film released exclusively in 3D.
As someone who only speaks English (took French in High School and College for my foreign language requirement), I've never even heard the term "Tax Heaven." Those two words don't belong together. Ever.
Perhaps it's a scheme to extort tax payers by cutting essentials rather than waste to convince the population they need to pay more in taxes.