No, he's the opposite of Limbaugh -- he's a philanthropist.
He was listed as the third largest donor behind Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2008. He's also taken the Giving Pledge to give away half of his wealth to charity. The George Kaiser Family Foundation gives millions to the causes of education, child poverty, and community health services.
He's been proposing eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies for years. He would rather the money go to health and education.
He's not using this as a political stunt, he's willing to put his money where it counts instead of just being a blowhard like Limbaugh.
Don't forget that Scientific Atlanta is now owned by Cisco, too. They make the infrastructure systems for cable companies. I think the Sci Atl home page tells you all you need to know about this study.
It says:
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It certainly used to be. Yeah, then we had this crazy notion that everyone should be educated. It's called compulsory education and it has been around for decades.
How do you pay? By results. What results do you want? What results do YOU want? Happy students and parents? Educated students? Tell me a system to measure the effectiveness of a teacher and then merit pay works.
Businesses certainly do not get to define their own market, they live in a market defined by suppliers, customers and competitors. Really? I hope you have never worked in business. Defining your market is one of the key steps to developing any business. Because education doesn't get to determine their market, it is foolish to compare compulsory education to a business.
The problem with comparing education to the "real world" is that education is not a business. Teachers have to take every student that shows up in their class. Businesses get to define their own market.
If you have graduated college and don't know the difference between inculpatory and exculpatory you need to ask for a refund.
If you are a PhD in any subject and can't define those words, well, you have been educated beyond your intelligence.
Knowing the definition of words outside your area of expertise is the reason universities make you take all those liberal arts classes that science and engineering majors constantly bitch about.
There's maybe 3 or 4 high definition channels available right now.
On my cable system in Oklahoma there are 6 full-time HD channels and 3 locals which carry a significant amount of HD programming.
Just because you don't watch HD doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Go type in your zip code over at I Want MY HDTV.com and see how many channels are available in your area.
The Civic Hybrid is very nice. It looks and feels like a normal car. In fact, you may have seen some driving around and didn't notice them. They look just like the normal Civic except for a small Hybrid tag on the right rear. Ars Technica has a good review of the Civic Hybrid.
And the Chief Justice' name is MULLARKEY. As in bull mullarkey I suppose. What the heck is going on in CO? Are the picking funny names out of the phone book and offering them spots on the state Supreme Court?
That's kind of my point. Microsoft admits, "Yep, we broke it. You got a problem with that?" That's a great technical support answer if I've ever heard one.
As for who uses Netscape -- the good thing about the Netscape-style plugin was that it provided a cross-platform/cross-browser solution with one product. The user got to choose which browser to use instead of it being mandated by an embedded application. With ActiveX, it's pretty much IE on Windows only.
My company uses a Netscape-stlye plugin to display interactive weather data in the browser. Other applications include music notation (Coda Finale), TIFF viewing (AlternaTIFF) and the previously mentioned QuickTime.
This change by Microsoft means that anyone who upgrades to Service Pack 2 for IE 5.5 breaks our product. And the best part is Microsoft's KB article describing the status as, "This behavior is by design."
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No, he's the opposite of Limbaugh -- he's a philanthropist.
He was listed as the third largest donor behind Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates in 2008. He's also taken the Giving Pledge to give away half of his wealth to charity. The George Kaiser Family Foundation gives millions to the causes of education, child poverty, and community health services.
He's been proposing eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies for years. He would rather the money go to health and education.
He's not using this as a political stunt, he's willing to put his money where it counts instead of just being a blowhard like Limbaugh.
It's perfect if you don't mind a little data corruption in your backups.
Don't forget that Scientific Atlanta is now owned by Cisco, too. They make the infrastructure systems for cable companies. I think the Sci Atl home page tells you all you need to know about this study.
It says:
The Bandwidth Crunch
Squeeze More Performance
from Your Network or
Join the Move to 1 GHz
It's marketing for a Cisco business.
That's OK. I sense a Streisand effect in Exxon's not too distant furture.
There is a difference between an archive and a backup.
An archive is something that is stored in a safe location for possible use later, but also to save for posterity.
A backup is used to keep current data in two locations in case one set of data is lost.
Hard drives are fine for backups. For archives you want write-once media that can't be easily (or even possibly) erased.
Two different solutions to two different problems.
How would you determine teacher merit?
Test scores? Student evaluations?
The problem with comparing education to the "real world" is that education is not a business. Teachers have to take every student that shows up in their class. Businesses get to define their own market.
If you have graduated college and don't know the difference between inculpatory and exculpatory you need to ask for a refund.
If you are a PhD in any subject and can't define those words, well, you have been educated beyond your intelligence.
Knowing the definition of words outside your area of expertise is the reason universities make you take all those liberal arts classes that science and engineering majors constantly bitch about.
There's maybe 3 or 4 high definition channels available right now. On my cable system in Oklahoma there are 6 full-time HD channels and 3 locals which carry a significant amount of HD programming. Just because you don't watch HD doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Go type in your zip code over at I Want MY HDTV.com and see how many channels are available in your area.
Um, you can do a season pass for all channels. Just create a wishlist item for the title of the show and it will record it on every channel.
So make a wishlist for "Sex and the City" or Seinfeld and it will record the episode from all the channels.
The Civic Hybrid is very nice. It looks and feels like a normal car. In fact, you may have seen some driving around and didn't notice them. They look just like the normal Civic except for a small Hybrid tag on the right rear. Ars Technica has a good review of the Civic Hybrid.
And the Chief Justice' name is MULLARKEY. As in bull mullarkey I suppose. What the heck is going on in CO? Are the picking funny names out of the phone book and offering them spots on the state Supreme Court?
As for who uses Netscape -- the good thing about the Netscape-style plugin was that it provided a cross-platform/cross-browser solution with one product. The user got to choose which browser to use instead of it being mandated by an embedded application. With ActiveX, it's pretty much IE on Windows only.
This change by Microsoft means that anyone who upgrades to Service Pack 2 for IE 5.5 breaks our product. And the best part is Microsoft's KB article describing the status as, "This behavior is by design."