FWIW: whenever possible, I try to go to a (in this case) Verizon store and deal with a person face-to-face. I get much better results than calling the main CS number because you're talking to an entry-level CS person and you have to convince them you're not an idiot to get them to transfer you to a level-2 CS person. Also, in the store you're talking to a salesperson whose income depends on people like you and your friends buying stuff from them, but a CS phone rep's income is just there. Well, sometimes they get paid more for lower call times, which means to piss you off and make you hang up sooner.
I frankly don't see the point in the unix style "binaries in this folder, config files in this one, data in this one" thing. I like the c:\program files\nameofprogram and "My Documents" way of handling things. That'll never change in unix land, but it sure is nice.
"My Documents" = ${HOME}/ "c:\program files\nameofprogram" =/opt/nameofprogram
Granted, your home directory in Windows contains much more than just the "My Documents" folder, but the rest is essentially what you get in hidden files and directories (~/.foo) in Linux. Also, if you'll look inside your "c:\program files\nameofprogram" directories in Windows, you'll often find that they have binaries in one subdirectory, config files in another, and data in another. Sometimes they mix and match, and sometimes they just dump it all together, but often it looks a lot like a "/opt/nameofprogram" directory tree in Linux.
For everyday tasks, Windows users have already had someone (possibly themselves) copy their icons onto the desktop instead of having it in the start menu.
I'd still say the browser was instructed to put a table or a textarea somewhere. Actually, you're telling the browser it exists. The implicit stylesheet that the browser uses (or the explicit one you provide) tells the browser to put the table or textarea somewhere. The point is that HTML is supposed to describe the data and CSS tells the browser what to do with that data.
Why should I risk getting spammed because you want to teach yourself how to be a mail admin? Because it's a free country, so he damn well ought to have the freedom to learn about mail servers. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but why is the answer to make you happy by taking away someone else's freedoms?
Except that in many, if not most, world langauges, and definitely in English, the proper pronoun to refer to an entity of unknown gender is [translated into English as] "he".
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Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout...To minimize these problems, authors should use style sheets to control layout rather than tables. Please note the use of the word "should" rather than "must". If you don't understand, check out somewhere near the top of the spec where they explain what they mean by both terms. Then, you must realize, that while they are discouraged, they are still certainly legal. It's like putting up hideous lawn decorations. In many cases, your neighbors will be seriously pissed off, but it's not against the law [note, this is an example, YMMV].
Actually, having a Segway every 1/5000 objects is more dangerous than if they were more common. If they were more common, the congestion would force them to slow down to a safer pace, but with the sparseness, they're pretty much free to do what they want. It's like the New Jersey Turnpike at about 5am when traffic is low and everybody is doing 100 instead of the usual 75-80;)
Slackware, however, has yet to give a crap. That's not true. It pops up a single dialog box that pretty much says "uhh, you shouldn't do this...", and then it lets you go merrily on your way, assuming that the user is 1. intelligent enough to heed its warning, or 2. in need of a learning experience. At least, this is the behavior if you start KDE from the console as root.
Anyone watching the last few Star Wars films should be able to attest that floor sweepings don't make a good movie:-) Actually, if he'd used the floor sweepings, they would've been much better movies. Hell, had he used just the floor sweepings and trashed 90% of the footage he did use, it couldn't have been worse than Phantom Menace;)
I don't know about NYC, but I know in NC anyway, parking lots are considered "public vehicle areas" which fall under all the same laws as highways (roads), and if that's the case in NYC as well, then you can only use it inside;)
what can the congress do if the supremes decide... The House can impeach the entire supreme court. The Senate can remove them from office. The President can appoint replacements who will overturn the decision. The Senate can confirm said replacements. Then, a similar case could be brought before the new court. Would this happen in the real world? I doubt it, but that's what the Constitution allows as a check on the courts.
I'm not talking about "a little mistake". I'm talking about a woman who has been teaching for 25 years consistently making big mistakes that confuse the students who don't catch it to the point that they don't know the correct way to do the problem. It's not something like writing down 54*9=488 instead of 486. It's more like dividing when you need to add.
A bad teacher can't make a student unlearn things, and a bad teacher can't stop a truly determined student from learning, but sometimes the student has to learn in spite of the teacher. Sadly, sometimes the teacher teaches things that just aren't true. I had a math teacher once who would spend 45 minutes doing a problem on the board, get to the end, and say "well that's not right, we need to start over". This happened at least once every couple of weeks. Further, when someone would notice mistakes as they happened, the response was always of the flavor of, "I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention," which, on rare occasion can be funny, but when it happens over and over, it's disturbing. At any case, she really was a fucking retard, and those of us who slept through class and read the textbook actually did better on the tests and such than the people who tried to listen to her.
So what problems in particular are caused by teachers "thinking they are the boss"? The problem caused is teachers who think they are there to be the boss of the students instead of the truth that they are there to serve the community by educating the students. Honestly, that's more a problem with the administration than with most teachers, but some teachers have it as well.
The sad thing anymore is that virtually the entire class can go to the administration about a bad teacher, and nothing can be done because of unionization and tenure.
The teacher isn't the student's boss, and part of the problem is that they tend to think they are. In many cases of high school students, the student is actually the teacher's boss because the student is a taxpaying citizen. Granted, you should show your employees respect as well, and I don't agree with using the term "fucking retard" to their face, but that's another issue.
The main difference is that we're immersed in natural language from birth, whereas we're given small portions of the language of math at a time through the "education" process. The instinct for learning and assimilating knowledge is the same, but to learn math the way you learn another language, you would have to use it for communication, constantly. There are a lot of parallels between the way people learn second (third, fourth, ad infinitum) languages and the way people learn math.
Actually, computerized classes could make the subject interactive, which keeps you engaged so that you actually learn instead of letting your brain drop into semi-consciousness (beta waves) and then you start to doze off. This is often caused by a boring teacher whose lecture just isn't engaging at all, so yes, the computer could help. I spend the majority of my time in some college classes doing stuff online so that I can keep myself alert enough to absorb what the professor says instead of sitting there like a zombie and getting up at the end of class thinking, "now what the hell did he just say?"
It isn't the teachers who are pretending to care in order to get money. It's the educational system on the whole. Rather than ensuring that students learn math, a school district will ensure that students pass the math test in order to get the money they want from the state and federal governments. I've found that teachers, in general, care considerably and try very hard to get students to learn. I've found that principals, in general, do a half-assed job of pretending to care so that their schools can get the grant they want so that they can spend it on a new football field (or whatever other unrequired thing) and make themselves look good. If you go up a level from that, well, Samuel Clemons said it best, "God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the school board."
That has nothing to do with learning. I can memorize boring facts long enough to take a test, finish a course, et cetera, but once it's no longer necessary to avoid the punishment, it's forgotten. I made A's and B's in math (algebra, geometry, algebra 2, trig, pre-calc) in middle/high school, but by the time I took calculus in college, I couldn't remember any of it because I never really learned any of it.
Just curious, but what if the teacher is a fucking retard. I don't mean that in the literal sense, but what's wrong with calling a bad teacher a bad teacher?
you can increase government revenue without actually raising taxes
It's true that you can raise spending without raising taxes "at that time" but you have to pay the money back eventually and you pay it through taxes. Raise spending and you are raising taxes now or raising taxes later.
It's nice that you didn't bother to respond to what I said. I said you can increase revenue, that is to say, INCOME, without raising taxes. That means, you can pay for your spending by increasing the amount of money the government makes, without raising taxes. I already explained how, so I'm not bothering with that again since you're too dense to get it anyway, but if you want to argue, please actually address the text you quote and respond to.
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No, the lesson is don't install Release Candidates of anything in a production environment.
FWIW: whenever possible, I try to go to a (in this case) Verizon store and deal with a person face-to-face. I get much better results than calling the main CS number because you're talking to an entry-level CS person and you have to convince them you're not an idiot to get them to transfer you to a level-2 CS person.
Also, in the store you're talking to a salesperson whose income depends on people like you and your friends buying stuff from them, but a CS phone rep's income is just there. Well, sometimes they get paid more for lower call times, which means to piss you off and make you hang up sooner.
Not a one-time pad!
I frankly don't see the point in the unix style "binaries in this folder, config files in this one, data in this one" thing. I like the c:\program files\nameofprogram and "My Documents" way of handling things. That'll never change in unix land, but it sure is nice.
/opt/nameofprogram
"My Documents" = ${HOME}/
"c:\program files\nameofprogram" =
Granted, your home directory in Windows contains much more than just the "My Documents" folder, but the rest is essentially what you get in hidden files and directories (~/.foo) in Linux. Also, if you'll look inside your "c:\program files\nameofprogram" directories in Windows, you'll often find that they have binaries in one subdirectory, config files in another, and data in another. Sometimes they mix and match, and sometimes they just dump it all together, but often it looks a lot like a "/opt/nameofprogram" directory tree in Linux.
For everyday tasks, Windows users have already had someone (possibly themselves) copy their icons onto the desktop instead of having it in the start menu.
I'd still say the browser was instructed to put a table or a textarea somewhere.
Actually, you're telling the browser it exists. The implicit stylesheet that the browser uses (or the explicit one you provide) tells the browser to put the table or textarea somewhere. The point is that HTML is supposed to describe the data and CSS tells the browser what to do with that data.
Why should I risk getting spammed because you want to teach yourself how to be a mail admin?
Because it's a free country, so he damn well ought to have the freedom to learn about mail servers. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but why is the answer to make you happy by taking away someone else's freedoms?
Except that in many, if not most, world langauges, and definitely in English, the proper pronoun to refer to an entity of unknown gender is [translated into English as] "he".
Tables should not be used purely as a means to layout...To minimize these problems, authors should use style sheets to control layout rather than tables.
Please note the use of the word "should" rather than "must". If you don't understand, check out somewhere near the top of the spec where they explain what they mean by both terms. Then, you must realize, that while they are discouraged, they are still certainly legal. It's like putting up hideous lawn decorations. In many cases, your neighbors will be seriously pissed off, but it's not against the law [note, this is an example, YMMV].
Actually, having a Segway every 1/5000 objects is more dangerous than if they were more common. If they were more common, the congestion would force them to slow down to a safer pace, but with the sparseness, they're pretty much free to do what they want. It's like the New Jersey Turnpike at about 5am when traffic is low and everybody is doing 100 instead of the usual 75-80 ;)
Slackware, however, has yet to give a crap.
That's not true. It pops up a single dialog box that pretty much says "uhh, you shouldn't do this...", and then it lets you go merrily on your way, assuming that the user is 1. intelligent enough to heed its warning, or 2. in need of a learning experience. At least, this is the behavior if you start KDE from the console as root.
Anyone watching the last few Star Wars films should be able to attest that floor sweepings don't make a good movie :-) ;)
Actually, if he'd used the floor sweepings, they would've been much better movies. Hell, had he used just the floor sweepings and trashed 90% of the footage he did use, it couldn't have been worse than Phantom Menace
I don't know about NYC, but I know in NC anyway, parking lots are considered "public vehicle areas" which fall under all the same laws as highways (roads), and if that's the case in NYC as well, then you can only use it inside ;)
what can the congress do if the supremes decide...
The House can impeach the entire supreme court. The Senate can remove them from office. The President can appoint replacements who will overturn the decision. The Senate can confirm said replacements. Then, a similar case could be brought before the new court. Would this happen in the real world? I doubt it, but that's what the Constitution allows as a check on the courts.
I'm not talking about "a little mistake". I'm talking about a woman who has been teaching for 25 years consistently making big mistakes that confuse the students who don't catch it to the point that they don't know the correct way to do the problem. It's not something like writing down 54*9=488 instead of 486. It's more like dividing when you need to add.
A bad teacher can't make a student unlearn things, and a bad teacher can't stop a truly determined student from learning, but sometimes the student has to learn in spite of the teacher.
Sadly, sometimes the teacher teaches things that just aren't true. I had a math teacher once who would spend 45 minutes doing a problem on the board, get to the end, and say "well that's not right, we need to start over". This happened at least once every couple of weeks. Further, when someone would notice mistakes as they happened, the response was always of the flavor of, "I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention," which, on rare occasion can be funny, but when it happens over and over, it's disturbing. At any case, she really was a fucking retard, and those of us who slept through class and read the textbook actually did better on the tests and such than the people who tried to listen to her.
So what problems in particular are caused by teachers "thinking they are the boss"?
The problem caused is teachers who think they are there to be the boss of the students instead of the truth that they are there to serve the community by educating the students. Honestly, that's more a problem with the administration than with most teachers, but some teachers have it as well.
The sad thing anymore is that virtually the entire class can go to the administration about a bad teacher, and nothing can be done because of unionization and tenure.
The teacher isn't the student's boss, and part of the problem is that they tend to think they are. In many cases of high school students, the student is actually the teacher's boss because the student is a taxpaying citizen. Granted, you should show your employees respect as well, and I don't agree with using the term "fucking retard" to their face, but that's another issue.
The main difference is that we're immersed in natural language from birth, whereas we're given small portions of the language of math at a time through the "education" process. The instinct for learning and assimilating knowledge is the same, but to learn math the way you learn another language, you would have to use it for communication, constantly. There are a lot of parallels between the way people learn second (third, fourth, ad infinitum) languages and the way people learn math.
Actually, computerized classes could make the subject interactive, which keeps you engaged so that you actually learn instead of letting your brain drop into semi-consciousness (beta waves) and then you start to doze off. This is often caused by a boring teacher whose lecture just isn't engaging at all, so yes, the computer could help. I spend the majority of my time in some college classes doing stuff online so that I can keep myself alert enough to absorb what the professor says instead of sitting there like a zombie and getting up at the end of class thinking, "now what the hell did he just say?"
It isn't the teachers who are pretending to care in order to get money. It's the educational system on the whole. Rather than ensuring that students learn math, a school district will ensure that students pass the math test in order to get the money they want from the state and federal governments. I've found that teachers, in general, care considerably and try very hard to get students to learn. I've found that principals, in general, do a half-assed job of pretending to care so that their schools can get the grant they want so that they can spend it on a new football field (or whatever other unrequired thing) and make themselves look good. If you go up a level from that, well, Samuel Clemons said it best, "God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the school board."
That has nothing to do with learning. I can memorize boring facts long enough to take a test, finish a course, et cetera, but once it's no longer necessary to avoid the punishment, it's forgotten. I made A's and B's in math (algebra, geometry, algebra 2, trig, pre-calc) in middle/high school, but by the time I took calculus in college, I couldn't remember any of it because I never really learned any of it.
Just curious, but what if the teacher is a fucking retard. I don't mean that in the literal sense, but what's wrong with calling a bad teacher a bad teacher?
you can increase government revenue without actually raising taxes
It's true that you can raise spending without raising taxes "at that time" but you have to pay the money back eventually and you pay it through taxes. Raise spending and you are raising taxes now or raising taxes later.
It's nice that you didn't bother to respond to what I said. I said you can increase revenue, that is to say, INCOME, without raising taxes. That means, you can pay for your spending by increasing the amount of money the government makes, without raising taxes. I already explained how, so I'm not bothering with that again since you're too dense to get it anyway, but if you want to argue, please actually address the text you quote and respond to.