Despite agreeing with the CTU, teachers in Chicago make a hell of a lot of money.
My wife is a teacher in Broward County. It's the 6th largest district in the country and one of the lowest salaries for teachers. Has to be the worst benefits too.
You spent an awful lot of time responding to something I wrote in 2007. The point was, a thumb drive running Linux was something I thought of back then for the future of gaming. We'll see what happens. As you know already, live Linux has some drivers and is able to download specific drivers after boot. The really scary part is that dongle-like hardware can already be added to thumb drives. That's not even talking about the possibilities for the aesthetic design of a thumb drive.
Here is my prediction for the next big thing in PC games. live DVDs. You’ll get your game on a live DVD that runs a custom operating system or perhaps Linux to make it easy. A huge portion of the overhead costs for games involves support. If publishers could control the environment their software runs in, end-user support costs drop dramatically. The real hurdle to overcome? Driver support. Though, when publishers cross the live DVD bridge, I’m sure hardware manufacturers will jump onboard and sure up some unified driver technology like Nvidia and ATI already have. This all makes it much easier to play games and easier still to troubleshoot them. What about copy protection you ask? CD keys still work for online play. Why not have a game run its own operating system from a usb thumb drive? this allows the publisher to add dongle-type hardware to the usb thumb drive if they so choose to add that level of copy protection. You heard it all here first.
There's a larger issue here. What the content cartels are doing is un-American and dangerous.
Their business model is no longer working for them overall. The market has shifted. In a free market, they would go out of business. Instead of shifting their model to meet the market, they have bought legislation which eliminates all the risk for them.
Case in point as mentioned above. HBO. I grew up with it. Now I can't afford it and want to watch it. I will not subscribe to cable just for the luxury of getting HBO. I can afford HBO. I can't afford cable, nor do I want to watch 98% of what they're offering. The market isn't buying. The market is adjusting. The market wants easy access and is willing to pay reasonable costs. iTMS sells a ton of TV shows. Even then they're still priced too high. HBO has an online streaming offering, but only as a way to entice subscribers. This is where it goes all wrong.
They are heeding the easy access part. That's HBO-GO. Where they derail is the existing subscribers part. A cable subscription now costs about $38 a month. Add HBO and that's another $15 a month. All of that when all I want is HBO-GO. Bundling is bad. The Benefit goes entirely to the provider. If the company just offered HBO-GO for $15 a month I would gladly pay that.
The other side of that coin is the easy access part. The content is delayed for those who only use HBO-GO even though they are subscribers. In fact, all online content is delayed. Hulu, netflix, crackle, iTMS, google play, viacom, ABC, and CBS. Delayed by only a day is PBS. This is not the easy access we want. We want it available immediately after air. But the content cartels want to keep their fees rolling in by making it less attractive for people to get what they want while not actually delivering it. This seems like collusion to me.
I remember a time when DSL was only offered by the phone company. Then the government set forth regulations which allowed for competition in 1996. Business was too good for so many when the industry bought their way out of it. Now the content cartels also have a lock on access and distribution. And the consumer loses. Offer what people want and they will pay for it.
Their DRM hasn't prevented me from enjoying their games. It's their shitty beta level release code. Splinter Cell: Conviction didn't work until months after release. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier didn't work until months after release. Despite buying GR:FS, I played the scene release version a week before the game was out. It installed fine, ran ok and didn't crash once. Then when it was released on steam, I uninstalled scene release and downloaded the steam version. It didn't want to install. It finally ran and ran like crap. Low framerate and such. It crashed frequently. Online just wouldn't connect. Steam version and ubi retail version had different patch levels. But the worst part of it was the super shitty uplay web kludge.
I guess that's why they decided to remove it. The pirated version actually ran better and with less bugs.
I thought that they lost their way with the n-series.
My wife had an n70 and I bought a used n80.
At the time they were decent, but what cost for nothing. Then the G1 came out like a year later and we both got one of those. Android is the best thing to happen to phones since motorola mobilized them.
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the novint Falcon 3D.
Steam has supported this for a long while. I's love to see hardware come from valve. The whole company is a skunk works of sorts. Their hardware would be no different.
simple. When the VC dollars dry up, at least cities offer hope to newly out of work nerds. Office parks in suburban satellites tend to only offer retail and food service opportunities when the large companies crawl out.
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That's not irony.
Who will a stolen iPhone identify?
Am I the only one who thinks it's a bad idea to allow JSTOR and others to prevent worldwide dissemination of academic knowledge through a paywall?
Academic knowledge should belong to the world. Hoarding it for the elites is bad for humanity.
Grand jury leads to school board member's sex life
This has to be a record. Four school board members and family plus the teacher's union president arrested in less than 5 years.
Ex-Broward teachers union chief charged with theft, fraud
ARRESTED: School Board Member Stephanie Kraft and Husband Mitch
Ex-Broward School Board member Beverly Gallagher sentenced to 37 months in prison
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/06/exschool-board-member-beverly-gallagher-sentenced-to-37-months-in-prison.html#storylink=cpy
That's just in the past 5 years.
Despite agreeing with the CTU, teachers in Chicago make a hell of a lot of money.
My wife is a teacher in Broward County. It's the 6th largest district in the country and one of the lowest salaries for teachers. Has to be the worst benefits too.
You spent an awful lot of time responding to something I wrote in 2007. The point was, a thumb drive running Linux was something I thought of back then for the future of gaming. We'll see what happens. As you know already, live Linux has some drivers and is able to download specific drivers after boot. The really scary part is that dongle-like hardware can already be added to thumb drives. That's not even talking about the possibilities for the aesthetic design of a thumb drive.
here's the text for lazy people.
I point you to my post from 2007
We'll see if it rings true.
That's not the same standards.
There's a larger issue here. What the content cartels are doing is un-American and dangerous.
Their business model is no longer working for them overall. The market has shifted. In a free market, they would go out of business. Instead of shifting their model to meet the market, they have bought legislation which eliminates all the risk for them.
Case in point as mentioned above. HBO. I grew up with it. Now I can't afford it and want to watch it. I will not subscribe to cable just for the luxury of getting HBO. I can afford HBO. I can't afford cable, nor do I want to watch 98% of what they're offering. The market isn't buying. The market is adjusting. The market wants easy access and is willing to pay reasonable costs. iTMS sells a ton of TV shows. Even then they're still priced too high. HBO has an online streaming offering, but only as a way to entice subscribers. This is where it goes all wrong.
They are heeding the easy access part. That's HBO-GO. Where they derail is the existing subscribers part. A cable subscription now costs about $38 a month. Add HBO and that's another $15 a month. All of that when all I want is HBO-GO. Bundling is bad. The Benefit goes entirely to the provider. If the company just offered HBO-GO for $15 a month I would gladly pay that.
The other side of that coin is the easy access part. The content is delayed for those who only use HBO-GO even though they are subscribers. In fact, all online content is delayed. Hulu, netflix, crackle, iTMS, google play, viacom, ABC, and CBS.
Delayed by only a day is PBS. This is not the easy access we want. We want it available immediately after air. But the content cartels want to keep their fees rolling in by making it less attractive for people to get what they want while not actually delivering it. This seems like collusion to me.
I remember a time when DSL was only offered by the phone company. Then the government set forth regulations which allowed for competition in 1996. Business was too good for so many when the industry bought their way out of it. Now the content cartels also have a lock on access and distribution. And the consumer loses. Offer what people want and they will pay for it.
pretty sure it was xerox.
I would have platform driver requirements.
That and a single app which runs the same as all other platforms.
ergotron
He has released a 2010 return.
There are portions of his 2011 return released but not the complete return.
Who is the idiot now?
I'm sorry if your corporate IT incorrectly configured their WLAN.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
duh duh duh!
That's all it's worth, really?
I would love to see them. I'll bet he hasn't paid taxes in years. They offshore their profits and domesticate their losses.
The government ends up paying them a refund even though it's stealing.
Their DRM hasn't prevented me from enjoying their games. It's their shitty beta level release code. Splinter Cell: Conviction didn't work until months after release. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier didn't work until months after release. Despite buying GR:FS, I played the scene release version a week before the game was out. It installed fine, ran ok and didn't crash once. Then when it was released on steam, I uninstalled scene release and downloaded the steam version. It didn't want to install. It finally ran and ran like crap. Low framerate and such. It crashed frequently. Online just wouldn't connect. Steam version and ubi retail version had different patch levels. But the worst part of it was the super shitty uplay web kludge.
I guess that's why they decided to remove it. The pirated version actually ran better and with less bugs.
patents aside, Nokia is still in business?
I thought that they lost their way with the n-series.
My wife had an n70 and I bought a used n80.
At the time they were decent, but what cost for nothing. Then the G1 came out like a year later and we both got one of those.
Android is the best thing to happen to phones since motorola mobilized them.
Well the Oculus Rift is making strides.
With what are they replacing it?
rootkit?
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the novint Falcon 3D.
Steam has supported this for a long while. I's love to see hardware come from valve. The whole company is a skunk works of sorts. Their hardware would be no different.
The service is meant for app developers. They are pitching in to get access to the API when it's written.
simple. When the VC dollars dry up, at least cities offer hope to newly out of work nerds.
Office parks in suburban satellites tend to only offer retail and food service opportunities when the large companies crawl out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie
Operational but not deployed.
OOP is not desirable for every situation.
Perl really fits the bill for most administrative tasks.
I have a friend who got his RHCE and he just didn't have the understanding of Linux that I did.
Also, now the LPIC1 gives you your Linux+ and Novell CLA certifications as well.
the problem is, we already pay those taxes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund
local tax, franchise tax as well.