You don't know the half of it. My girlfriend is a music teacher here in Illinois. Here, you have to have four years of teaching in order to get your final teaching cert. This would be all well and good, but they also require a certain level of post-grad training hours. Unfortunately the state has yet to determine what training is necessary for each teaching position in most cases. The cases where they did specify the training requirements, that information wasn't released until only two months remained before the certification deadline.
Teacher's aides are also now required to have at least an associates degree. Not the teachers, the aides! Here we have people who bust their asses to become teachers, jump through hoops, some hoops that aren't even fully constructed, and are having a hell of a time actually remaining teachers. It's as if Illinois is actively attempting to design a system specifically engineered to reject teaching as a valid career. These are the people that genuinely love teaching, but they can't make heads or tails of the constantly changing and increasingly difficult requirements. I can only imagine how many others simply threw up their hands in disgust and looked for teaching opportunities or careers elsewhere.
The sad things is, I doubt Illinois is an exception to the general state of education in the US itself.
Bitter much? I am one of those poor people that supposedly can go to Harvard or Yale for free. I was part of an advanced program in my High School known as International Baccalaureate, an international standard that some schools around the world adhere to in order to provide a certain level of parity that exceeds standards in almost all member countries. Because of this, I absolutely obliterated the SATs, entered college as a Sophomore, and received a 2/3rd scholarship to the college I chose. My problem was that, despite my poor background, my scholarship destroyed any chance I had at government aid. So, with 2/3rds of my education paid for, where does the other part come from?
Three years in college put me $23k in the hole. Not bad for a double major, but hardly free. You're right on one thing, though: $60k for two adults is not rich. Unfortunately, I also know that $60k is hardly poor either - most of my life, we lived on less than $10k. Just ignore anyone who attacks you for being "rich". Nobody that really matters is attacking you, for what it's worth, you will always know the truth of the matter. Most would agree that you're part of the middle class that's being lost in all of this.
Your problem is not a unique one, but poor people aren't some nebulous entity that make you a convenient target for ridicule. If you read a little more carefully, it's the truly rich, the people in the top 5% that are the target of most of our ire. Even then, children can not be held accountable for the sins of their parents. The problem occours when the cost of labor becomes the lowest common denominator - as is rapidly occurring. When only price separates who works and who doesn't, only those who provide wages truly win. When that happens, there will only be rich and poor, and families like yours will no longer exist.
Yeah, you got screwed. But in the long run, that should be the least of your worries. People like me wanted to be people like you. That aspiration is getting harder to accomplish. I busted my ass to get where I am, but if this keeps up, no amount of hard work will help anyone. Remember only price matters when it comes to global labor competition, and everyone agrees we can't compete on that.
No, turning off swap is not disastrous. We've turned it off on our production web server cluster that routinely serves 60Mb sustained traffic. We've turned it off because we have 2GB of ram in these machines, and Linux insisted on preferring buffers and cache over our running applications. Fuck that, we said. With over 1GB Of buffers and cache, we had RAM to spare; bye-bye swap.
Ah yes. It's all the fault of bloaty apps. Apps like database daemons and high-traffic httpd daemons. We've turned swapping off on our servers because we were sick of seeing almost a GB of cache/buffer memory, while it was swapping 500MB of shit to disk. Want a bloaty app? How about the linux Kernel? I love the thing, but Jesus Tapdancing Christ it would rather swap our starting DB process to disk, than free up the fucking buffers and cache. Is there something wrong with wanting it to give precedence to not swapping?
Christopher Lambert has been in so many shitty B-movies, it's not funny. Rent "Beowulf" or "Fortress" sometime, and you'll see what I mean. ^_^
Be careful with Fortress though, during one sex scene, they get a camera angle wrong, and you can see that he's enjoying the scene a little too much as his female costar is bouncing up and down on him. Hehe.
And when you invite friends over for an MST or other kind of movie party, or play console video games with your friends, they can all crowd around your computer. Nice.
Why should we? I watch South Park and The Daily Show - everything else is basically background noise while I code, browse the web, or even read a book. Between video games, the internet, my rather hard to break reading habit, and many other different distractions, TV is just one of many ways I have to waste my time. ^_^
I already watch far less TV than in times past, so why should I participate in some pointless crap like this? You say it's an excuse, but I say "Who the fuck cares?" Ok, so I didn't watch TV for a week, and that accomplished what, exactly? Look at the statistics that have been reported on Slashdot multiple times recently a time or two.
TV viewership has already been severly curtailed recently simply due to competition with other forms of media. So, what's the point?
So I guess even your friends are wrong: it's not a good idea, even in theory. Maybe it was, once upon a time, but times change.
They don't have those here in the Midwest. I got used to seeing "road turtles" while I was growing up in Washington State, and was highly confused when I came here for college.
That was of course, before my friend drove over the etched parts of the road that are before all major 4-way highway stopsigns, and some road shoulders... I nearly shat myself. It's not the huge jerk you'll get from running over a road turtle, but it sure as hell got my attention.
Best thing about this kind of technology? Go ahead and try to circumvent it. ^_^
Wow. How exceedingly arrogant. Does that mean doing anything for any reason other than being passionately interested makes someone unworthy?
Tell that to all of the CS people I know who now work in services or fast food now that their jobs are gone. They don't have passion for these professions, so they should just make way for those who do. I mean, who needs food on the table, right?
This of course also ignores the fact that some people who *are* interested in CS may avoid it in lieu of something else, knowing they can't get a job when they graduate. So now you have CS-minded people taking classes they're not really interested in. That's better, right? Seriously, if CS becomes the equivalent of Underwater Basket Weaving, who's going to bother?
Yeah, 'cause he can administer the email server while he's at lunch, or driving three hours to the remote server farm. But it's not that important, it can wait until he gets back, right? Email? Jesus tapdancing Christ.
Go ahead, check your email. Me, I'll take my pager or cell phone telling me the servers are down when I'm in an otherwise remote location. See, some people have jobs where they don't just sit and stare at a monitor all day.
Call us back when you actually admin a server or two before being an asshat.
I'm a writer. You can generally count on 2k per page. The current book I'm working on is already over 120k and it's only 67 pages so far. Extending this theory to a 300-500 page book, you can expect 600k to one meg.
Of course, this is still way under their inflated figures, but a book is hardly 100k.
True, but the original injunction was filed last year in 2003. Viacom and Dish have been "negotiating" since then. My guess is that Viacom anticipated this possible move by Dish and probably has many other related contingencies.
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Ok... wait... so, if a client connects to my mail seerver, and I challenge him and wait for a response, doesn't that tie up the connection while I'm waiting? Isn't the whole point of network transfers to reduce the amount of time required to send information? So, could someone DOS mail services by simply opening a shitload of SMTP connections and never sending the result to my challenge? What kind of retarded solution is that?
Except Jet Direct has probably been around longer than you have, and certainly longer than Microsoft Networking. So, does it make sense for HP to change a decades old protocol, or for Microsoft to put a network related option in a network related menu?
Bzzzzzzt. Wrong. This guy was talking about setting up a network printer. You know, a printer you plug into a router that is *NOT HOOKED UP TO ANY COMPUTER*. He's right, you know. After you click "local printer", it gives you the option of specifying an IP address directly to the printer itself. What the fuck is that doing there? That should be in "Network Printers", except that Microsoft considers a network printer a printer configured locally on another computer accessible via SMB.
So, I guess TCP/IP is not considered a network, according to Microsoft.
Maybe they're just looking at the problem all wrong. We know what the proper shape of an eye is, we also know focal distances and distortion effects due to the eye's own lense. Why do we have to stick to the whole "Read this line for me, please," system when we can calculate the best prescription based on known information about how eyes and general optic elements work?
Platform independent, so long as your platform has a JVM for the version of java a vendor wrote their application to support. What's that? A whole assload of shit has been depreciated since then, and the application throws up hundreds of errors? Or look, my JVM has a bug that wasn't on the JVM the developers were using, looks like they can't reproduce the crash or memory leak that keeps getting me.
Don't kid yourself. Java has just as many problems as any traditional language, they have simply traded platform dependence for JVM dependence; not really an improvement.
If Java is so independent and standardized, why isn't it ANSI standard? What happens if Sun goes belly-up, or decides they want to charge for Java once everyone is entrenched? Or was that whole escapade with the GIF patents my imagination?
What's that? Sun supports open source? Sure, for now. What happens when they change CEOs and the new CEO decides to pull a Darl? What happened to long-term thinking? Jesus, now I can see why corps dump thousands of workers for a 1% boost in stock price: nobody thinks long-term anymore.
Man, this troll is so lazy, they're not even really trying...
25 year olds fresh out of college? Around here, people graduate when they're 22. Three years is a long freaking time.
Where are these $75k web-design jobs you seem to think everyone used to have? I made $35k out of college doing application design and database administration, and that was four years ago during the tail-end of the tech boom. A friend of mine was close to $100k, but that was in California doing high-end cryptography and consulting. I'd say the costs of living were comparable.
What about inflation? $1 in 1980 is now worth about $2.56, after figuring in a yearly inflation rate of 4%. The current minimum wage of $5.15 went into effect in 1997. 4% annual increases makes that $6.78. So if you know someone out there still making minimum wage, they have about 25% less buying power than they did in 1997. So what if someone is making $45k? That's about $17.5k in 1980 dollars. So yeah, I hope someone working in a company for 20+ years is making 45k right now.
Want more? In 1980, the average wage was $12.8k, after inflation, that's about $33k, or about $16 an hour. Remember that average includes minimum-wage jobs which have not been updated to reflect recent changes due to inflation.
However you want to cut it, there is nothing wrong with making $35k out of college. After four years of supplementary schooling, I'd fully expect candidates to want more, or at least more than the average - since the average person did not attend college if you believe the 2000 census.
I don't know what magical fairyland you live in, but in the US, things cost money. Education and experience should come at a premium, unless someone is arguing a recent High School graduate is worth as much as a certified engineer with 10 years of experience. The problem is that nobody wants to pay that premium, or they want to pay it in a country where $10,000 US is a king's ransom. Here, $10,000 US is considered below the poverty level.
But that's where inflation and devalued currency get you. We literally can't compete with $10k wages (or less) in Uzbekistan. At this rate, I might as well learn Hindi and move to India and make a king's ransom rather than scrape change together to pay my bills.
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You don't know the half of it. My girlfriend is a music teacher here in Illinois. Here, you have to have four years of teaching in order to get your final teaching cert. This would be all well and good, but they also require a certain level of post-grad training hours. Unfortunately the state has yet to determine what training is necessary for each teaching position in most cases. The cases where they did specify the training requirements, that information wasn't released until only two months remained before the certification deadline.
Teacher's aides are also now required to have at least an associates degree. Not the teachers, the aides! Here we have people who bust their asses to become teachers, jump through hoops, some hoops that aren't even fully constructed, and are having a hell of a time actually remaining teachers. It's as if Illinois is actively attempting to design a system specifically engineered to reject teaching as a valid career. These are the people that genuinely love teaching, but they can't make heads or tails of the constantly changing and increasingly difficult requirements. I can only imagine how many others simply threw up their hands in disgust and looked for teaching opportunities or careers elsewhere.
The sad things is, I doubt Illinois is an exception to the general state of education in the US itself.
I did get loans. Three of them. $8k each, for three years. Like I said, three years of school put me $23k in the hole. ^_^
Bitter much? I am one of those poor people that supposedly can go to Harvard or Yale for free. I was part of an advanced program in my High School known as International Baccalaureate, an international standard that some schools around the world adhere to in order to provide a certain level of parity that exceeds standards in almost all member countries. Because of this, I absolutely obliterated the SATs, entered college as a Sophomore, and received a 2/3rd scholarship to the college I chose. My problem was that, despite my poor background, my scholarship destroyed any chance I had at government aid. So, with 2/3rds of my education paid for, where does the other part come from?
Three years in college put me $23k in the hole. Not bad for a double major, but hardly free. You're right on one thing, though: $60k for two adults is not rich. Unfortunately, I also know that $60k is hardly poor either - most of my life, we lived on less than $10k. Just ignore anyone who attacks you for being "rich". Nobody that really matters is attacking you, for what it's worth, you will always know the truth of the matter. Most would agree that you're part of the middle class that's being lost in all of this.
Your problem is not a unique one, but poor people aren't some nebulous entity that make you a convenient target for ridicule. If you read a little more carefully, it's the truly rich, the people in the top 5% that are the target of most of our ire. Even then, children can not be held accountable for the sins of their parents. The problem occours when the cost of labor becomes the lowest common denominator - as is rapidly occurring. When only price separates who works and who doesn't, only those who provide wages truly win. When that happens, there will only be rich and poor, and families like yours will no longer exist.
Yeah, you got screwed. But in the long run, that should be the least of your worries. People like me wanted to be people like you. That aspiration is getting harder to accomplish. I busted my ass to get where I am, but if this keeps up, no amount of hard work will help anyone. Remember only price matters when it comes to global labor competition, and everyone agrees we can't compete on that.
Which kernel and what parameter? We've tried sysctl settings up the wazzu, but nothing seemed to actually change how it handled swapping.
No, turning off swap is not disastrous. We've turned it off on our production web server cluster that routinely serves 60Mb sustained traffic. We've turned it off because we have 2GB of ram in these machines, and Linux insisted on preferring buffers and cache over our running applications. Fuck that, we said. With over 1GB Of buffers and cache, we had RAM to spare; bye-bye swap.
Ah yes. It's all the fault of bloaty apps. Apps like database daemons and high-traffic httpd daemons. We've turned swapping off on our servers because we were sick of seeing almost a GB of cache/buffer memory, while it was swapping 500MB of shit to disk. Want a bloaty app? How about the linux Kernel? I love the thing, but Jesus Tapdancing Christ it would rather swap our starting DB process to disk, than free up the fucking buffers and cache. Is there something wrong with wanting it to give precedence to not swapping?
Christopher Lambert has been in so many shitty B-movies, it's not funny. Rent "Beowulf" or "Fortress" sometime, and you'll see what I mean. ^_^
Be careful with Fortress though, during one sex scene, they get a camera angle wrong, and you can see that he's enjoying the scene a little too much as his female costar is bouncing up and down on him. Hehe.
I think you missed the part where he mentioned that his SB-Live worked fine until recently:
But, I guess you were so full of indignant fury that your eyes temporarily glazed over and obscured that particular part of the post. You're forgiven.
Are you this guy?
And when you invite friends over for an MST or other kind of movie party, or play console video games with your friends, they can all crowd around your computer. Nice.
You don't have many friends, do you?
(I kid, I kid.)
Why should we? I watch South Park and The Daily Show - everything else is basically background noise while I code, browse the web, or even read a book. Between video games, the internet, my rather hard to break reading habit, and many other different distractions, TV is just one of many ways I have to waste my time. ^_^
I already watch far less TV than in times past, so why should I participate in some pointless crap like this? You say it's an excuse, but I say "Who the fuck cares?" Ok, so I didn't watch TV for a week, and that accomplished what, exactly? Look at the statistics that have been reported on Slashdot multiple times recently a time or two. TV viewership has already been severly curtailed recently simply due to competition with other forms of media. So, what's the point?
So I guess even your friends are wrong: it's not a good idea, even in theory. Maybe it was, once upon a time, but times change.
They don't have those here in the Midwest. I got used to seeing "road turtles" while I was growing up in Washington State, and was highly confused when I came here for college.
That was of course, before my friend drove over the etched parts of the road that are before all major 4-way highway stopsigns, and some road shoulders... I nearly shat myself. It's not the huge jerk you'll get from running over a road turtle, but it sure as hell got my attention.
Best thing about this kind of technology? Go ahead and try to circumvent it. ^_^
Errr, you do realize that Mohammed is the most common name in the world, don't you?
I don't get it. What's scary about a girl being on the pill?
Wow. How exceedingly arrogant. Does that mean doing anything for any reason other than being passionately interested makes someone unworthy?
Tell that to all of the CS people I know who now work in services or fast food now that their jobs are gone. They don't have passion for these professions, so they should just make way for those who do. I mean, who needs food on the table, right?
This of course also ignores the fact that some people who *are* interested in CS may avoid it in lieu of something else, knowing they can't get a job when they graduate. So now you have CS-minded people taking classes they're not really interested in. That's better, right? Seriously, if CS becomes the equivalent of Underwater Basket Weaving, who's going to bother?
Yeah, 'cause he can administer the email server while he's at lunch, or driving three hours to the remote server farm. But it's not that important, it can wait until he gets back, right? Email? Jesus tapdancing Christ.
Go ahead, check your email. Me, I'll take my pager or cell phone telling me the servers are down when I'm in an otherwise remote location. See, some people have jobs where they don't just sit and stare at a monitor all day.
Call us back when you actually admin a server or two before being an asshat.
I'm a writer. You can generally count on 2k per page. The current book I'm working on is already over 120k and it's only 67 pages so far. Extending this theory to a 300-500 page book, you can expect 600k to one meg.
Of course, this is still way under their inflated figures, but a book is hardly 100k.
True, but the original injunction was filed last year in 2003. Viacom and Dish have been "negotiating" since then. My guess is that Viacom anticipated this possible move by Dish and probably has many other related contingencies.
Ok... wait... so, if a client connects to my mail seerver, and I challenge him and wait for a response, doesn't that tie up the connection while I'm waiting? Isn't the whole point of network transfers to reduce the amount of time required to send information? So, could someone DOS mail services by simply opening a shitload of SMTP connections and never sending the result to my challenge? What kind of retarded solution is that?
Except Jet Direct has probably been around longer than you have, and certainly longer than Microsoft Networking. So, does it make sense for HP to change a decades old protocol, or for Microsoft to put a network related option in a network related menu?
Bzzzzzzt. Wrong. This guy was talking about setting up a network printer. You know, a printer you plug into a router that is *NOT HOOKED UP TO ANY COMPUTER*. He's right, you know. After you click "local printer", it gives you the option of specifying an IP address directly to the printer itself. What the fuck is that doing there? That should be in "Network Printers", except that Microsoft considers a network printer a printer configured locally on another computer accessible via SMB.
So, I guess TCP/IP is not considered a network, according to Microsoft.
Maybe they're just looking at the problem all wrong. We know what the proper shape of an eye is, we also know focal distances and distortion effects due to the eye's own lense. Why do we have to stick to the whole "Read this line for me, please," system when we can calculate the best prescription based on known information about how eyes and general optic elements work?
Platform independent, so long as your platform has a JVM for the version of java a vendor wrote their application to support. What's that? A whole assload of shit has been depreciated since then, and the application throws up hundreds of errors? Or look, my JVM has a bug that wasn't on the JVM the developers were using, looks like they can't reproduce the crash or memory leak that keeps getting me.
Don't kid yourself. Java has just as many problems as any traditional language, they have simply traded platform dependence for JVM dependence; not really an improvement.
If Java is so independent and standardized, why isn't it ANSI standard? What happens if Sun goes belly-up, or decides they want to charge for Java once everyone is entrenched? Or was that whole escapade with the GIF patents my imagination?
What's that? Sun supports open source? Sure, for now. What happens when they change CEOs and the new CEO decides to pull a Darl? What happened to long-term thinking? Jesus, now I can see why corps dump thousands of workers for a 1% boost in stock price: nobody thinks long-term anymore.
Man, this troll is so lazy, they're not even really trying...
25 year olds fresh out of college? Around here, people graduate when they're 22. Three years is a long freaking time.
Where are these $75k web-design jobs you seem to think everyone used to have? I made $35k out of college doing application design and database administration, and that was four years ago during the tail-end of the tech boom. A friend of mine was close to $100k, but that was in California doing high-end cryptography and consulting. I'd say the costs of living were comparable.
What about inflation? $1 in 1980 is now worth about $2.56, after figuring in a yearly inflation rate of 4%. The current minimum wage of $5.15 went into effect in 1997. 4% annual increases makes that $6.78. So if you know someone out there still making minimum wage, they have about 25% less buying power than they did in 1997. So what if someone is making $45k? That's about $17.5k in 1980 dollars. So yeah, I hope someone working in a company for 20+ years is making 45k right now.
Want more? In 1980, the average wage was $12.8k, after inflation, that's about $33k, or about $16 an hour. Remember that average includes minimum-wage jobs which have not been updated to reflect recent changes due to inflation.
However you want to cut it, there is nothing wrong with making $35k out of college. After four years of supplementary schooling, I'd fully expect candidates to want more, or at least more than the average - since the average person did not attend college if you believe the 2000 census.
I don't know what magical fairyland you live in, but in the US, things cost money. Education and experience should come at a premium, unless someone is arguing a recent High School graduate is worth as much as a certified engineer with 10 years of experience. The problem is that nobody wants to pay that premium, or they want to pay it in a country where $10,000 US is a king's ransom. Here, $10,000 US is considered below the poverty level.
But that's where inflation and devalued currency get you. We literally can't compete with $10k wages (or less) in Uzbekistan. At this rate, I might as well learn Hindi and move to India and make a king's ransom rather than scrape change together to pay my bills.