I don't see what the problem is here. People are sorting themselves. The GOOD thing is that some of those that do not want the education are leaving school rather than staying and causeing problems.
"No person left behind" is a flawed system. As we see from the dropout rate, many people want to be left behind. At least these people are making the decision. Unfortunately, many people don't make the choice to leave school and their class turns into a babysitting session and even the kids who want to learn, can't lean.
The biggest problem is that we spend more per child in the inner cities where there are more classes with babysitters, and they are the most expensive babysitter
I have seen the articles about the ozone hole. As usual there is an explanation.
In most articles I have read, you need to read down to the last paragraph to see that the size of the ozone hole varies with themperature and that the temp in August at the South Pole was 9 degrees cooler than average, and that cool weather increases the size of the ozone hole. So much for global warming, Al! Perhaps what we call global warming is a change in tilt of the earth?
But before we even think about what causes it, we need to put this in historical perspecive. We have been measuring the size of the ozone hole for about 10 years. This is not enough time to judge any trend, and they do find that the size varies from year to year...it is NOT increasing every year. We don't have a baseline on how big the hole was 100 years ago before we had a fridge in every house, so for now, these measurments are simply a curiosity and filler for the papers.
What causes the ozone? Sunlight hits the atmosphere and ionizes it. When you are at a pole in the winter there is almost a 24 hour night. No sun, no ionization.
They say that the reason we need a layer of ozone is to protect us from the ultra-violet light that causes skin cancer. Of course at the South Pole in August since there is no sun, we need no protection! Good engineering design if you ask me.
Connect the dots. Global warming is NOT man made. It is made by changes in Earth's orbit and changes in output from the sun.
Can anyone tell me who was burning fossel fuels between the year 850 and 1300 when the earth last experienced "global warming" or why from 1300 to sometime around 1800 we experienced global cooling in what scientists called a "mini ice-age"?
If Mitt wants more tech grads, he has to look at what a tech career is. I am in IT. The amount of information I need to know doubles every year, yet my plumber, lawyer and doctor make more than I do. I have a working life of about 20 years. After that, companies want to hire the new kids out of school, or workers on H1B visas (Congress just approved 230K more).
Companies don't want to do development here, so why should I be a developer?
I do not mean to sound bitter. There is no law saying that there has to be a tech job for me or anyone. If those positions pay too little or are done in other countries, you are not going to get tech grads in MA.
I live in Westchester and will be talking to my represenative about this. In general whenever the government attempts to fix a problem like this it is always too little or too much and too late...just look at Can Spam.
Westchester can't legislate radio law. That is handled by the Federal Communications Commission.
Should my tax dollars pay for the government to compete with private enterprise?
I have no love for monopolies, but fear of government competition will keep more companies out of the industry and only slow deployment of high speed unwired internet.
Not sure about the rest of the chip set, but a friend bought a computer at Best Buy with a Celeron M yesterday. So they are already selling Celeron M's.
[Ctrl]-u in Mozilla in Linux clears the location bar. That feature is broke in Firefox versions I have tried. You can select, then delete what is in the location bar, but that copies the location bar into your cut/paste buffer...not good if you were about to paste a URL in the location bar!
Amazing. Did not think you could overload a site like MSNBC.com. Guess I was wrong!
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Amateur Radio Operators have been historically significant in "advancement of the radio art" (quoted from the FCC reason for the creation of the service).
Let's also remember that Apple Computer was started in a garage!
I am looking for a solution. Has anyone else seen this?
I vote no on a mail account that gets all email sent to the domain. I host a bunch of domains. When I started in '96, this was not a problem. Unfortunately, times have changed!
About a month ago three of the domains I host started getting LOTS of email. examination of the email showed that I was getting over 50K messages addressed to random names.
50K messages is a lot for me. A year ago I received 25K/week, and 60% were marked as spam by spamassassin.
Back to this year...Since no more than 25 of the current spam comes from the same host, they are impossible to block. That means somthing like more than 2000 comprimised machines sending spam!
I use Qmail...great software, but unfortunately it accepts the email before verifying that it can be delivered...then generates a bounce message. 25K bounce messages in the queue ties up a machine! At the moment, for those domains, I put all the email to bad accounts into the bit bucket. I will fix this next week.
Spam is expensive. I offer email free because it did not used to cost anything, but times have changed. We are talking somthing like 500MB/day...thats 15 gigs a month! Bandwidth cost money.
Filtering for virii and spam cost resources. 18 months ago 80 domains ran fine on a 200MHZ machine with 128MB ram. This month I replace that machine for the second time with a 2.5Ghz machine and 1 Gig of ram.
Unfortunately what is needed is for the ISP at one or more of these spam hosts to snif the traffic to the machine so we can find the source...this is not likely to happen!
These three domains have only 2 or 3 valid users each!
Here we see the invisible hand working! When gas price reaches some level, custormers vote with their dollars for the best choice. When SUV purchases go down because of gas pricing, manufacturers make cars more efficient.
We don't need government regulations to make this happen...lets get rid of other energy regulation.
Lets repeal the law that limits nuke plants liability, then let the market deceide which energy we should be using.
Your feul is expensive not because of supply and demand, but because of taxes. Unfortunately we suffer from large taxes on our energy too, but I guess not as bad as you.
I have not applied certain upgrades to WinXP because they don't install unless you agree to a new EULA.
I guess that this means I MUST agree to the new license or stop using MS. Not a problem!
In other news... I wonder where in my current license they say they can REQUIRE me to upgrade?
Not a problem, but I want my pound of flesh. I don't believe that I should need to give M$ consideration (in the form of a new EULA) in exchange for an upgrade any more than I give Ford consideration for a recall on my car without changing the terms of the service contract which came with the purchase.
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I don't see what the problem is here. People are sorting themselves. The GOOD thing is that some of those that do not want the education are leaving school rather than staying and causeing problems.
"No person left behind" is a flawed system. As we see from the dropout rate, many people want to be left behind. At least these people are making the decision. Unfortunately, many people don't make the choice to leave school and their class turns into a babysitting session and even the kids who want to learn, can't lean.
The biggest problem is that we spend more per child in the inner cities where there are more classes with babysitters, and they are the most expensive babysitter
Why is the bosses mail sent and received in clear text?
I have seen the articles about the ozone hole. As usual there is an explanation.
In most articles I have read, you need to read down to the last paragraph to see that the size of the ozone hole varies with themperature and that the temp in August at the South Pole was 9 degrees cooler than average, and that cool weather increases the size of the ozone hole. So much for global warming, Al! Perhaps what we call global warming is a change in tilt of the earth?
But before we even think about what causes it, we need to put this in historical perspecive. We have been measuring the size of the ozone hole for about 10 years. This is not enough time to judge any trend, and they do find that the size varies from year to year...it is NOT increasing every year. We don't have a baseline on how big the hole was 100 years ago before we had a fridge in every house, so for now, these measurments are simply a curiosity and filler for the papers.
What causes the ozone? Sunlight hits the atmosphere and ionizes it. When you are at a pole in the winter there is almost a 24 hour night. No sun, no ionization.
They say that the reason we need a layer of ozone is to protect us from the ultra-violet light that causes skin cancer. Of course at the South Pole in August since there is no sun, we need no protection! Good engineering design if you ask me.
Connect the dots. Global warming is NOT man made. It is made by changes in Earth's orbit and changes in output from the sun.
Can anyone tell me who was burning fossel fuels between the year 850 and 1300 when the earth last experienced "global warming" or why from 1300 to sometime around 1800 we experienced global cooling in what scientists called a "mini ice-age"?
LTSP.ORG does somthing similar. You run X clients on a common "server" and view it with an X server on almost anything with 64 megs or more of memory.
When I was a kid only geeks wore devices on their belt.
I wore hame radios and calculators.
The other day I saw a female executive (definately NOT geek) with a camera, blueberry, and cell phone on her belt.
I am telling my kids NOT to go into a tech field.
If Mitt wants more tech grads, he has to look at what a tech career is.
I am in IT.
The amount of information I need to know doubles every year, yet my plumber, lawyer and doctor make more than I do. I have a working life of about 20 years. After that, companies want to hire the new kids out of school, or workers on H1B visas (Congress just approved 230K more).
Companies don't want to do development here, so why should I be a developer?
I do not mean to sound bitter. There is no law saying that there has to be a tech job for me or anyone. If those positions pay too little or are done in other countries, you are not going to get tech grads in MA.
I live in Westchester and will be talking to my represenative about this. In general whenever the government attempts to fix a problem like this it is always too little or too much and too late...just look at Can Spam.
Westchester can't legislate radio law. That is handled by the Federal Communications Commission.
I have no love for monopolies, but fear of government competition will keep more companies out of the industry and only slow deployment of high speed unwired internet.
Not sure about the rest of the chip set, but a friend bought a computer at Best Buy with a Celeron M yesterday. So they are already selling Celeron M's.
[Ctrl]-u in Mozilla in Linux clears the location bar. That feature is broke in Firefox versions I have tried. You can select, then delete what is in the location bar, but that copies the location bar into your cut/paste buffer...not good if you were about to paste a URL in the location bar!
When they fix this, I will try it again.
Amazing. Did not think you could overload a site like MSNBC.com. Guess I was wrong!
Amateur Radio Operators have been historically significant in "advancement of the radio art" (quoted from the FCC reason for the creation of the service).
Let's also remember that Apple Computer was started in a garage!
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I am looking for a solution.
Has anyone else seen this?
I vote no on a mail account that gets all email sent to the domain. I host a bunch of domains. When I started in '96, this was not a problem. Unfortunately, times have changed!
About a month ago three of the domains I host started getting LOTS of email. examination of the email showed that I was getting over 50K messages addressed to random names.
50K messages is a lot for me. A year ago I received 25K/week, and 60% were marked as spam by spamassassin.
Back to this year...Since no more than 25 of the current spam comes from the same host, they are impossible to block. That means somthing like more than 2000 comprimised machines sending spam!
I use Qmail...great software, but unfortunately it accepts the email before verifying that it can be delivered...then generates a bounce message. 25K bounce messages in the queue ties up a machine! At the moment, for those domains, I put all the email to bad accounts into the bit bucket. I will fix this next week.
Spam is expensive. I offer email free because it did not used to cost anything, but times have changed. We are talking somthing like 500MB/day...thats 15 gigs a month! Bandwidth cost money.
Filtering for virii and spam cost resources. 18 months ago 80 domains ran fine on a 200MHZ machine with 128MB ram. This month I replace that machine for the second time with a 2.5Ghz machine and 1 Gig of ram.
Unfortunately what is needed is for the ISP at one or more of these spam hosts to snif the traffic to the machine so we can find the source...this is not likely to happen!
These three domains have only 2 or 3 valid users each!
Any suggestions?
Here we see the invisible hand working! When gas price reaches some level, custormers vote with their dollars for the best choice. When SUV purchases go down because of gas pricing, manufacturers make cars more efficient.
We don't need government regulations to make this happen...lets get rid of other energy regulation.
Lets repeal the law that limits nuke plants liability, then let the market deceide which energy we should be using.
Your feul is expensive not because of supply and demand, but because of taxes. Unfortunately we suffer from large taxes on our energy too, but I guess not as bad as you.
The next day he was found drowned in his tea-pee.
You would think that after 20 years they would get the typos fixed! I counted two, and I am not very good at proofreading.
I agree. I was wondering why readers here seem so for Internet voting while so against computer voting!
As far as I am concern, deep 6 both!
isketch seems to need Director...not available for my kids Linux machine! :-(
I have not applied certain upgrades to WinXP because they don't install unless you agree to a new EULA.
I guess that this means I MUST agree to the new license or stop using MS. Not a problem!
In other news...
I wonder where in my current license they say they can REQUIRE me to upgrade?
Not a problem, but I want my pound of flesh. I don't believe that I should need to give M$ consideration (in the form of a new EULA) in exchange for an upgrade any more than I give Ford consideration for a recall on my car without changing the terms of the service contract which came with the purchase.