Going back in my/. memory banks, that was a reference to the first Harry Potter movie. It was being pointed out that the soundtrack CD had a cost of close to $20; yet the DVD, a movie containing all of the same music, managed to sell for less.
I played it, you played it, and maybe a few other who enjoyed some fringe gaming. But the series wasn't popular back then. Really, the earlier GTAs probably get more sales now from parental buys who don't know the difference and think they're getting a sweet deal for their kids.
Query: if the Filet o' Fish cost you 60 cents, how come it is frequently the cheapest "large" sandwich on the menu? Not questioning your statement, just curious about pricing.
It's not. But you need to look at the vertical integration of media. Viacom owns radio, TV, and film properties out the wazoo, for example. That integration isn't as fully realized when it comes to computer games (NBC / Vivendi-Universal being the only really big example) so it's a convenient target. Eventually, as mergers continue, these targets will be too risky; and then they'll move on to something else.
For public office, yes. But if we accept that the Presidency should be (not is, but should be) filled by the most competent public official, how do we determine competency better than on-the-job experience. I would not promote someone to a high position in private sector if they hadn't demonstrated their competence. Why should I treat the Presidency any differently?
One: your first link cuts off in the year 2000, post-recession. Two: the loan forgiveness trend is in "high-needs" areas, which tend to be mostly math and hard science. Doesn't really apply to me, unfortunately.
We get those articles every year, no matter what happens.
At the risk of coming off like a conspiracy theorist:
If a district were to say that they had all the teachers they needed, and they were paying them what they were supposed to, what would happen when they still sucked? Yeah, exactly.
So you're never going to NOT get these articles, just like you're never going to NOT get RIAA propaganda about just how much they're losing to filesharing.
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When I say teacher, I don't refer to the college level, but to the primary and secondary school systems, for ages ~5-17. We generally don't refer to college instructors as teachers over here, so it will help future cultural confusion for you so separate that out.
Instead, I mean I have an actual degree in education -- a four-year degree plan designed for training teachers for one of the aforementioned school systems (in my case, secondary). That's in addition to the other sheepskin, of course.
At the risk of being insulting, I need to shout back something that a lot of disgruntled IT's over here think, whether it's politically correct or not:
Why should we improve our programming skills? Right now, no matter how good we get, we're always replaceable by an Indian IT that makes 10% of us? My best friend is out of college barely a year, and she's seen three rounds of layoffs in her IT department.
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Actually, I graduated in a much smaller community east of here. I moved to Houston specifically because of the supposed abundance of teaching positions compared to where I was.
I didn't limited myself to one district; in fact, with the help of the teacher's fairs held around here, I hit pretty much district in the area, plus quite a few out of area, and even out of state. In one of these fairs, it was literally standing-room only, with up to two hours to interview with some districts due to the lines. I had a genuine concern of just what the limit was before the fire martial intervened.
Now, I will concede that my specialties (I took two) don't help matters. I didn't focus in need areas. Math and Science definitely are in more demand. Regardless, they've still got enough applicants to go around.
As to the educational system, the fact is that lots of changes have been made over the past three to four decades. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. But none of them had a great impact on the situation. There's a general disengagement of students and of parents that make the education of many an uphill battle before they ever report for kindergarten. Teachers cannot solve that.
Historically, increasing funding to the education system has been fruitless. There are some districts on the extreme left, imporverished, end of the curve that could see marginal benefit. But the truth is that pouring money into the problem hasn't worked in fifty years, and it will continue to not work. See: "California"
In many cases, there are measures in place to award more pay to better teachers. In addition to various incentives programs, there is often assessment of teachers in regard to classroom performance etc. If a teacher, even one with tenure, doesn't perform, s/he can be denied credit for that year of service. Since salary is tied to that variable, it means less money. Granted, that doesn't do anything to get rid of teachers who suck, but it's something.
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I graduated in May with a degree in Education and another in Computer Science. I can't get permanent work in either. In Houston. The epicenter of Bushism.
All the layoffs of recent times have flooded the teaching ranks with people getting alternative certification. Add to that a recent flood of people who spent years in other roles in education just now finishing their degrees, and the new teachers are getting pushed out. That whole ETS scoring fiasco didn't help either.
Read again to understand this: there are too many teachers. People in other countries may not understand the gravity of this, but for people who are used to teachers being the most pissed on of American professionals, this should be the ultimate sign of how bad things are right now.
They have. Among those neighbors who had dial-up, the easiest sells were those who had a second line. It was the sell for my family to kill their second line. We're going to run out of those people sooner rather than later; but we're also hitting a critical mass that lets us offer low-cost broadband to everyone else (like $25 for a 400kbps DSL)
The last time I used a floppy was a couple of months ago when I installed my dad's new Microsoft 802.11g router. It will save settings on a disk that you can use to transfer information like the WEP key and other annoyingly long things to type from one wireless device to the next. Pretty nifty feature, really.
Especially if the FPS is already above the vertical refresh rate of your monitor... what good is 200 FPS when the monitor can only update at 80-85 FPS?
Keep in mind that an FPS is expressed as frames PER SECOND. It's entirely possible that for portions of a second, a game might render a "subpar" framerate and then pick up the slack later. 85FPS it may still be, but your monitor will have dropped 25% of them. So a higher rending FPS than monitor refresh rate means that you're going to have smoother rendering.
On the surface, I concur. However, what methods of consumption are allowed is a valid question, one whose answer can be changed in a rewriting of the agreement.
Well, I generally use a non-caffeinated tea from Celestial Seasonings. So that narrows down your choices nicely.
On second look:
A gmail account. Bastard...
Small problem with the statisic. Thousands of high school and college graduates finishing and May and June, and we're suprised about the number of new jobseekers outpacing new jobs in the last month or two? Come on now, be fair.
While I acknowledge that it's totally crackpot on the surface, I honestly have more success with third-party Windows distributions than the real thing. Besides, it's the OS. If something goes wrong, I wipe the C partition again and whip out my original. Well, that and I wait about three days so that someone else can find out if the release is FUBAR. Then again, we'd all be doing that with SP2 anyway, so no biggie.
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Going back in my /. memory banks, that was a reference to the first Harry Potter movie. It was being pointed out that the soundtrack CD had a cost of close to $20; yet the DVD, a movie containing all of the same music, managed to sell for less.
Could you guys at least have the courtesy of deleting all of those ads for mortgage applications? I'm sick of doing it myself.
No. Starvation is the low-fat version of Spam.
Tastes better, too.
Aw, man, poor guy. Hey, to cheer you up, I'll let you borrow the new anime DVDs I got in from China last week.
I played it, you played it, and maybe a few other who enjoyed some fringe gaming. But the series wasn't popular back then. Really, the earlier GTAs probably get more sales now from parental buys who don't know the difference and think they're getting a sweet deal for their kids.
Query: if the Filet o' Fish cost you 60 cents, how come it is frequently the cheapest "large" sandwich on the menu? Not questioning your statement, just curious about pricing.
It's not. But you need to look at the vertical integration of media. Viacom owns radio, TV, and film properties out the wazoo, for example. That integration isn't as fully realized when it comes to computer games (NBC / Vivendi-Universal being the only really big example) so it's a convenient target. Eventually, as mergers continue, these targets will be too risky; and then they'll move on to something else.
For public office, yes. But if we accept that the Presidency should be (not is, but should be) filled by the most competent public official, how do we determine competency better than on-the-job experience. I would not promote someone to a high position in private sector if they hadn't demonstrated their competence. Why should I treat the Presidency any differently?
One: your first link cuts off in the year 2000, post-recession. Two: the loan forgiveness trend is in "high-needs" areas, which tend to be mostly math and hard science. Doesn't really apply to me, unfortunately.
We get those articles every year, no matter what happens.
At the risk of coming off like a conspiracy theorist:
If a district were to say that they had all the teachers they needed, and they were paying them what they were supposed to, what would happen when they still sucked? Yeah, exactly.
So you're never going to NOT get these articles, just like you're never going to NOT get RIAA propaganda about just how much they're losing to filesharing.
When I say teacher, I don't refer to the college level, but to the primary and secondary school systems, for ages ~5-17. We generally don't refer to college instructors as teachers over here, so it will help future cultural confusion for you so separate that out. Instead, I mean I have an actual degree in education -- a four-year degree plan designed for training teachers for one of the aforementioned school systems (in my case, secondary). That's in addition to the other sheepskin, of course. At the risk of being insulting, I need to shout back something that a lot of disgruntled IT's over here think, whether it's politically correct or not: Why should we improve our programming skills? Right now, no matter how good we get, we're always replaceable by an Indian IT that makes 10% of us? My best friend is out of college barely a year, and she's seen three rounds of layoffs in her IT department.
Actually, I graduated in a much smaller community east of here. I moved to Houston specifically because of the supposed abundance of teaching positions compared to where I was.
I didn't limited myself to one district; in fact, with the help of the teacher's fairs held around here, I hit pretty much district in the area, plus quite a few out of area, and even out of state. In one of these fairs, it was literally standing-room only, with up to two hours to interview with some districts due to the lines. I had a genuine concern of just what the limit was before the fire martial intervened.
Now, I will concede that my specialties (I took two) don't help matters. I didn't focus in need areas. Math and Science definitely are in more demand. Regardless, they've still got enough applicants to go around.
As to the educational system, the fact is that lots of changes have been made over the past three to four decades. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. But none of them had a great impact on the situation. There's a general disengagement of students and of parents that make the education of many an uphill battle before they ever report for kindergarten. Teachers cannot solve that.
Historically, increasing funding to the education system has been fruitless. There are some districts on the extreme left, imporverished, end of the curve that could see marginal benefit. But the truth is that pouring money into the problem hasn't worked in fifty years, and it will continue to not work. See: "California"
In many cases, there are measures in place to award more pay to better teachers. In addition to various incentives programs, there is often assessment of teachers in regard to classroom performance etc. If a teacher, even one with tenure, doesn't perform, s/he can be denied credit for that year of service. Since salary is tied to that variable, it means less money. Granted, that doesn't do anything to get rid of teachers who suck, but it's something.
All the layoffs of recent times have flooded the teaching ranks with people getting alternative certification. Add to that a recent flood of people who spent years in other roles in education just now finishing their degrees, and the new teachers are getting pushed out. That whole ETS scoring fiasco didn't help either.
Read again to understand this: there are too many teachers. People in other countries may not understand the gravity of this, but for people who are used to teachers being the most pissed on of American professionals, this should be the ultimate sign of how bad things are right now.
They have. Among those neighbors who had dial-up, the easiest sells were those who had a second line. It was the sell for my family to kill their second line. We're going to run out of those people sooner rather than later; but we're also hitting a critical mass that lets us offer low-cost broadband to everyone else (like $25 for a 400kbps DSL)
Maybe they'll add code that makes subscriptions expire 50% faster after the first 40 hours.
The last time I used a floppy was a couple of months ago when I installed my dad's new Microsoft 802.11g router. It will save settings on a disk that you can use to transfer information like the WEP key and other annoyingly long things to type from one wireless device to the next. Pretty nifty feature, really.
Especially if the FPS is already above the vertical refresh rate of your monitor... what good is 200 FPS when the monitor can only update at 80-85 FPS?
Keep in mind that an FPS is expressed as frames PER SECOND. It's entirely possible that for portions of a second, a game might render a "subpar" framerate and then pick up the slack later. 85FPS it may still be, but your monitor will have dropped 25% of them. So a higher rending FPS than monitor refresh rate means that you're going to have smoother rendering.
On the surface, I concur. However, what methods of consumption are allowed is a valid question, one whose answer can be changed in a rewriting of the agreement.
That's not quite fair. As someone who's been watching the late night fare on the cable networks, we've had at least one badminton match every night.
So if I send you guys 80 bucks will the BBC let me watch? Serious question. No? Then lay off the license fee stuff as an excuse.
Err, see Laura Wilkinson.
Not necessary -- you've already been beaten to the invitation. Much thanks, though.
Well, I generally use a non-caffeinated tea from Celestial Seasonings. So that narrows down your choices nicely. On second look: A gmail account. Bastard...
Small problem with the statisic. Thousands of high school and college graduates finishing and May and June, and we're suprised about the number of new jobseekers outpacing new jobs in the last month or two? Come on now, be fair.
Thanks for the idea. Never thought of that!
While I acknowledge that it's totally crackpot on the surface, I honestly have more success with third-party Windows distributions than the real thing. Besides, it's the OS. If something goes wrong, I wipe the C partition again and whip out my original. Well, that and I wait about three days so that someone else can find out if the release is FUBAR. Then again, we'd all be doing that with SP2 anyway, so no biggie.