I teach at the elementary level. I’ve pilot tested several textbooks in several curriculums. After using many publishers’ products, I’ve got a feel for what works well for me, and what materials I need. But what’s most important is how well the students work with the materials. If the students struggle with a pilot curriculum due to poor presentation, then that curriculum isn’t going to get my vote. And if there are mistakes in the materials, the sales rep is going to get an earful from me, but not my business (I hope).
I also teach at the elementary school level. I started in upper grade math, and now I teach first grade. I also get to continue using my IT skills in the classroom and on campus. My room has a projector with a SmartBoard, plus a couple of student computers. I've also set up an external and internal school website for information and data resources.
I still love IT, but I couldn't see myself doing it for the rest of my life. I feel like I'm accomplishing a lot more now. As for pay, I'm making what I made when I bought my house, plus I'm married now and my wife's an engineer, so budget's not a problem.
They don't enforce CPU minutes. If you use a lot, they may move you to an underused server. If you use a crazy amount, which is rare, they'll suggest a dedicated server.
As for killing processes, I find that if I 'nice' my long-running processes, they don't get killed.
I kept getting mortgage point-men looking for referrals so they could turn me over to local mortgage brokers. I played along one time to see where it got me, and I wish I hadn't.
I immediately got many calls from local mortgage lenders, whom I chewed out and reported, but I now get constant VOIP calls from more mortgage point-men (from the same several phone numbers, using fake business names) using the same bogus info I gave that first one.
I have the anonymous blocking, which blocks the forged Caller ID numbers, but the VOIP calls still some through, so I tell them I'm reporting them and never to call me back, then file a complaint to donotcall.gov every time hoping they'll get a spanking.
And I don't blame him. He's a college professor, and college students should act and communicate like educated people. By letting such habits slide, he would not promoting a full education; he'd be allowing students to fall flat in other areas. Written communication is essential in the workplace, and graduates who get jobs and continue to communicate in "chat speak" should be shunned. "Chat speak" in normal communication is more of a Jr. High and High School behavior (i.e. juvenile). While it's appropriate in its proper arena, it doesn't belong in a university classroom.
I use Safari, and it underlines my misspellings. You'd think that technology hounds would know how to turn on a spellchecking feature. Or to install one if they don't have one.
It's hard to take some who claims to be intelligent seriously when they can't even spell. Granted, it's shallow, but it's *so* easy to be a good speller. And I don't want to hear the whining about it taking too much time. If you're going to do something, try to do it well. Bad spelling just tells me a person is too lazy to communicate effectively.
I'm more lenient with grammar, as that's a tough one, and grammar checkers aren't so readily available. But I'd at least expect people to show a rudimentary understanding of proper grammar.
Didja look at their site? "Perspective students," and "...convert what is learned in life a college degree," And how 'bout that picture of the graduation? Close yer robe, guy! Somehow, I suspect that people who fell for this didn't care about the quality of their degree.
I register my domains at GoDaddy.com, and use DBP for my WHOIS information. I rarely get any spam coming through my mydomain.com@domainsbyproxy.com address. At least with this legislative leniency, my approach won't be outlawed yet.
Of the three styles of iMacs, this one is by *far* the easiest to work on. Loosening three screws lets you remove the rear panel for full access to the entire system. Here is a diagram of its insides.
Kryptonite has a similar warranty. Though if your bike is stolen, they often steal the lock, as well, leaving you with no evidence of a broken/compromised lock. So bike messengers will keep a spare Kryptonite lock. If their bike is stolen, they beat the crap out of the lock, busting it open, and then use this busted lock to claim their warranty.
You'll be preventing people who will rely solely on that search site from finding your own site. It's like blocking IE users from visiting your site. They'll just go somewhere else.
I have a paid SpamCop account. I used to report everything, but it just takes too much time and the amount of spam continues to rise. I will not be renewing my SpamCop account once it expires next April.
I'm happier with using good spam filtering (Spam Assassin/Spam Sieve) and just ignoring the problem. I see much less spam this way, compared to looking at each and every spam I report.
In an enterprise environment, the enterprise most likely owns the computer and is responsible for its upkeep. In a University/dorm setting, the computer is most likely privately owned by the student.
Security Focus has a posting about the 5 Boroughs CD installing some copy protection software if you put the CD in a Windows or Mac system. There's much griping on a Beastie Boys message board, but few details.
A Google search indicates that this is not the case in US and UK, though someone picked one up in Manahattan that's copy protected. Since this album just came out a couple of days ago, it'll be interesting to hear how this pans out.
It got its own center about 7 years ago. You have to take the KSC Bus Tour to see it. It's in pristine condition, and each of its segments is labeled and described. It's a shame that the KSC site doesn't have a better picture of their Saturn V, but I have one here.
I don't feel that would be an effective spamming technique. A person's outgoing e-mail is such low-volume that a spammer isn't really spreading the word.
Not to mention that it'd have to include a mechanism for the spammer to get paid for the victim sending the message.
I'd lose my patience quickly if someone I knew sent me spam a second time after I alerted them to their problem. Fortunately, I don't know that many clueless people.
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I teach at the elementary level. I’ve pilot tested several textbooks in several curriculums. After using many publishers’ products, I’ve got a feel for what works well for me, and what materials I need. But what’s most important is how well the students work with the materials. If the students struggle with a pilot curriculum due to poor presentation, then that curriculum isn’t going to get my vote. And if there are mistakes in the materials, the sales rep is going to get an earful from me, but not my business (I hope).
And punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks.
I also teach at the elementary school level. I started in upper grade math, and now I teach first grade. I also get to continue using my IT skills in the classroom and on campus. My room has a projector with a SmartBoard, plus a couple of student computers. I've also set up an external and internal school website for information and data resources.
I still love IT, but I couldn't see myself doing it for the rest of my life. I feel like I'm accomplishing a lot more now. As for pay, I'm making what I made when I bought my house, plus I'm married now and my wife's an engineer, so budget's not a problem.
DreamHost offers 2 terabytes of transfer.
They don't enforce CPU minutes. If you use a lot, they may move you to an underused server. If you use a crazy amount, which is rare, they'll suggest a dedicated server.
As for killing processes, I find that if I 'nice' my long-running processes, they don't get killed.
I kept getting mortgage point-men looking for referrals so they could turn me over to local mortgage brokers. I played along one time to see where it got me, and I wish I hadn't.
I immediately got many calls from local mortgage lenders, whom I chewed out and reported, but I now get constant VOIP calls from more mortgage point-men (from the same several phone numbers, using fake business names) using the same bogus info I gave that first one.
I have the anonymous blocking, which blocks the forged Caller ID numbers, but the VOIP calls still some through, so I tell them I'm reporting them and never to call me back, then file a complaint to donotcall.gov every time hoping they'll get a spanking.
12:34:56 pm on July 8, 1990, since it was 12:34:56 7/8/90. Now *that* was the best such thing of all time.
And I don't blame him. He's a college professor, and college students should act and communicate like educated people. By letting such habits slide, he would not promoting a full education; he'd be allowing students to fall flat in other areas. Written communication is essential in the workplace, and graduates who get jobs and continue to communicate in "chat speak" should be shunned. "Chat speak" in normal communication is more of a Jr. High and High School behavior (i.e. juvenile). While it's appropriate in its proper arena, it doesn't belong in a university classroom.
I use Safari, and it underlines my misspellings. You'd think that technology hounds would know how to turn on a spellchecking feature. Or to install one if they don't have one.
It's hard to take some who claims to be intelligent seriously when they can't even spell. Granted, it's shallow, but it's *so* easy to be a good speller. And I don't want to hear the whining about it taking too much time. If you're going to do something, try to do it well. Bad spelling just tells me a person is too lazy to communicate effectively.
I'm more lenient with grammar, as that's a tough one, and grammar checkers aren't so readily available. But I'd at least expect people to show a rudimentary understanding of proper grammar.
Sheesh.
Didja look at their site? "Perspective students," and "...convert what is learned in life a college degree,"
And how 'bout that picture of the graduation? Close yer robe, guy! Somehow, I suspect that people who fell for this didn't care about the quality of their degree.
Consumers are looking for bigger numbers. The number they have been trained to is Clock Speed. That's really all that counts.
What about drive space or RAM? They don't know the difference. It's the CPU.
I may be generalizing, but CPU speed has always been the main selling point, aside from price.
Their choice. They chose one live pilot, plus the weight of two people made up of trinkets provided by the ground crew.
I register my domains at GoDaddy.com, and use DBP for my WHOIS information. I rarely get any spam coming through my mydomain.com@domainsbyproxy.com address.
At least with this legislative leniency, my approach won't be outlawed yet.
Of the three styles of iMacs, this one is by *far* the easiest to work on. Loosening three screws lets you remove the rear panel for full access to the entire system. Here is a diagram of its insides.
Kryptonite has a similar warranty. Though if your bike is stolen, they often steal the lock, as well, leaving you with no evidence of a broken/compromised lock. So bike messengers will keep a spare Kryptonite lock. If their bike is stolen, they beat the crap out of the lock, busting it open, and then use this busted lock to claim their warranty.
Fer fsck's sake, I wish the Slashdot editors would do something about the atrocious spelling of some of their contributors. What the heck is "Goggle"?
You'll be preventing people who will rely solely on that search site from finding your own site. It's like blocking IE users from visiting your site. They'll just go somewhere else.
I have a paid SpamCop account. I used to report everything, but it just takes too much time and the amount of spam continues to rise. I will not be renewing my SpamCop account once it expires next April.
I'm happier with using good spam filtering (Spam Assassin/Spam Sieve) and just ignoring the problem. I see much less spam this way, compared to looking at each and every spam I report.
Let us know how your new USPTO acquaintances justify themselves.
In an enterprise environment, the enterprise most likely owns the computer and is responsible for its upkeep.
In a University/dorm setting, the computer is most likely privately owned by the student.
These relationships expire 18 months after your dealings (transactions, payments, etc.) end.
But you can still ask to be put on their Do Not Call list.
Security Focus has a posting about the 5 Boroughs CD installing some copy protection software if you put the CD in a Windows or Mac system. There's much griping on a Beastie Boys message board, but few details. A Google search indicates that this is not the case in US and UK, though someone picked one up in Manahattan that's copy protected. Since this album just came out a couple of days ago, it'll be interesting to hear how this pans out.
It got its own center about 7 years ago. You have to take the KSC Bus Tour to see it. It's in pristine condition, and each of its segments is labeled and described. It's a shame that the KSC site doesn't have a better picture of their Saturn V, but I have one here.
If you have to give a code out to someone, why not just add them to your whitelist? No additional mechanisms needed.
I don't feel that would be an effective spamming technique. A person's outgoing e-mail is such low-volume that a spammer isn't really spreading the word.
Not to mention that it'd have to include a mechanism for the spammer to get paid for the victim sending the message.
I'd lose my patience quickly if someone I knew sent me spam a second time after I alerted them to their problem. Fortunately, I don't know that many clueless people.