they should be found out and set aside for advanced studies that can actually push them.
As someone who's worked for a public school for the past year, I can definitively say that if there's one thing public schools are entirely unable to do it is detect and promote excellence. We're too busy leaving no child behind (and I assure almost all of the ones that would have been left behind WANTED to be left behind and are resentful (at least now, maybe when they grow up some they'll be thankful), and as sad as it is their parents would generally be perfectly fine with them being left behind, too). We're a society hell bent on having everyone be normal - whether that means dragging up the under performers by lowering our standards or neglecting those who would love some extra guidance - and it's absolutely shooting ourselves in the foot.
I've been using them for about 3 years now - I started out on the pay once plan and I've since upgraded the cheapest yearly plan (mostly for extra aliases). I've NEVER had unexpected down time, and only once has there been any downtime for me (a scheduled server upgrade that they notified me over a week in advance of; I think it was on a Sunday and only for an hour or two - no incoming mail was lost, I just couldn't access my mailbox). The sieve scripts are wonderful for automatically handling e-mail and the spam filtering has worked a charm (no spam has made it into my inbox as long as I've used them; a few false positives - all mailing lists that could very easily have been flagged by others as spam - but those are easily corrected with a single "mark as not spam").
The bandwidth caps kind of scared me at first (since I had no clue how much bandwidth I was actually using for e-mail) but it turns out I've never even come close to using half of what they've allotted me.
Overall I've been very pleased with them.
"I also rarely drink (a beer or two maybe every 2 or 3 months)"
I feel sorry for those people that don't drink.
When they get up in the morning, that is the best they're gonna feel ALL DAY.
:)
I feel sad when I think about how some people haven't realized that certain things feel better than drinking...then I remember that it leaves more of "those things" for me and I feel happy again:P
I did experiment with roguelikes; I hacked a bare-bones ecosystem in a weekend in Ruby, and now I'm (leisurely) playing with fractal terrain in Scheme. By now I'm convinced a simulation-centric (as opposed to stats-growing--centric) MMORPG is feasible; it just wasn't tried yet.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously:P Let me know if anything comes from your experimentation because that's exactly the type of game I've been looking to play.
I don't know if this made it into the release or if it's just in the beta - but you can move your eyes left to right without moving your head!
Also you could just sit a reasonable distance from the monitor so you can see it all at once - I have no problems doing this on a 21" widescreen.
pay based on how much bandwidth you use- say 25 cents a gig + 10$/month for the connection its self- that way it regulates its self. you use more, you pay more and it doesn't matter what kind of data it is. the isps get more $ for more traffic they get and consumers don't get throttled nor do those who don't use much pay truckloads for the privilage of just getting online. [in fact data use would somewhat be encourageable by isps because they'd make more] it works for utilities like water, gas, electric etc why not here too?
Because every other ISP in the area is offering "UNLIMITED!" bandwidth - no one wants to be the one advertising limited, even if the unlimited really is limited.
No, your time is worthless only if it would be impossible to get someone to pay you for it.
It so happens I use my free time as I see fit because no one is offering ENOUGH money for me to spend my time otherwise - that does not mean my free time is worthless; it means it is worth more to me than the amount currently being offered.
Google had to know when it bought YouTube that it was risking attracting a number of lawsuits, the Viacom one being only the first. You can bet if it's successful, the other media giants will be lining up to get their payouts, too. Using Google services is a privacy risk as long as its billions of dollars are attracting high powered lawsuits.
I always thought Google bought it so that they could be the ones to try to defend as they actually have the resources to put up a decent fight.
A bit more info, once you download that firmware open up iTunes and hold down option (shift for you windows users) and click the "Check for Update" button - it will now ask you where the file is. Updating mine as I type this, I'll post how it went when it's done.
But wait, there's more! Phase 3 also involves flooding the underground and drowning all the workers.
Townsperson: But then who will operate the machinery and keep the pleasure dome running?
Dante: Phase 4: an army of robot workers to replace the slaves.
Walt and Steve-Dave: What if the robots united and rebelled against Leonardo?
Randal: Phase 5: an army of highly intelligent apes move in and quell the robot insurrection.
Townsperson: What if the apes are pacifists?
Time passes...
Dante: Phase 24: the virus, while not affecting anyone inside the dome, destroys all the chickens.
Townsperson: That may well be but then where will he get all the eggs?
Randal: Phase 39: Robot chickens.
Dante: Phase 63: The dome launches into space and nukes the Earth from orbit.
Randal: Itâ(TM)s the only way to be sure.
IT workers have no idea how well they are compensated for the simple job of keeping everyone else working efficiently. I have worked as an hourly employee, a consultant, and as a salaried employee, and other than a two month period a year and a half ago I can honestly say that being salaried is the LEAST I have ever worked so if that means carrying a BB and having it turned on for SMS once every 4 weeks, so be it.
It's NOT a simple job. It seems simple because you've been doing it for a while. It requires a lot of broad knowledge, a lot of specific knowledge, and the right mindset (which not everyone can have or learn).
Doing less work while salaried is a rather natural extension of permanence - you've gotten into a routine, you know exactly what to expect. Further I don't think anyone here is saying don't have SMS on - they're saying that if a company want's 24/7 support, it will be stated in your contract and reflected in your paycheck.
Amen! The only reason I have any semblance of grammar education is because I moved around a lot during childhood and one of the schools I attended actually made grammar a priority. It is appalling what some of my former classmates tried to pass off as English - although it's not as if their teacher would ever even notice; there were more than a handful of occasions where I would be marked "wrong" only to get out a large book of grammar and show the teacher that she was the one using the language incorrectly!
Banks make money from it? Could have fooled me. Last time I got my cards stolen, the bank reimbursed EVERY LAST TIME i lost because of it. They took the entire blame and responsability, I lost -nothing-....
My guess is you meant you got back every last DIME. If they actually reimbursed you for your time as well - who is your bank?
The same reason insulation must display a resistivity value: so the customer knows what the hell they're buying. It might not be illegal to sell mature games to young kids, but it's illegal to put a teen rating on those games (or it should be!).
So you think it should be illegal to put an arbitrary rating on the game other than the arbitrary rating decided by some (arbitrary) people?
While I'd agree with you if the box says "Contains no violence" when the game does in fact contain violence as that is clearly mislabeling a product. However, something being labeled that it is acceptable for a teen is a rather arbitrary distinction.
Instead of randomly generating pictures or something as someone suggested above, why not make it generate say a 64k program, keep iterating through this until you get an executable that will actually RUN (Without crashing) and see what happens.
The Perry Bible Fellowship - Amusing comics though seem dead lately. If you read the news section he says that the comic strip is no longer his focus and updates will be very irregular.
I had to install an update to my console the first time I played Mario Kart.
You didn't have to play Mario Kart. No, but he couldn't have returned it to the store either, since it had already been opened.
Re:Culture --weird (Score:5, Insightful) [All Americans suck because they cant drive]
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Cheap +5 Insightful: just say "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}" Wow, it does work!
Metal Buttons? I thought the iPhone didn't have any buttons. There are several, actually: Power, Home, Volume up and down, and a slider for silent mode.
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they should be found out and set aside for advanced studies that can actually push them.
As someone who's worked for a public school for the past year, I can definitively say that if there's one thing public schools are entirely unable to do it is detect and promote excellence. We're too busy leaving no child behind (and I assure almost all of the ones that would have been left behind WANTED to be left behind and are resentful (at least now, maybe when they grow up some they'll be thankful), and as sad as it is their parents would generally be perfectly fine with them being left behind, too). We're a society hell bent on having everyone be normal - whether that means dragging up the under performers by lowering our standards or neglecting those who would love some extra guidance - and it's absolutely shooting ourselves in the foot.
I've been using them for about 3 years now - I started out on the pay once plan and I've since upgraded the cheapest yearly plan (mostly for extra aliases). I've NEVER had unexpected down time, and only once has there been any downtime for me (a scheduled server upgrade that they notified me over a week in advance of; I think it was on a Sunday and only for an hour or two - no incoming mail was lost, I just couldn't access my mailbox). The sieve scripts are wonderful for automatically handling e-mail and the spam filtering has worked a charm (no spam has made it into my inbox as long as I've used them; a few false positives - all mailing lists that could very easily have been flagged by others as spam - but those are easily corrected with a single "mark as not spam"). The bandwidth caps kind of scared me at first (since I had no clue how much bandwidth I was actually using for e-mail) but it turns out I've never even come close to using half of what they've allotted me. Overall I've been very pleased with them.
There's where you're wrong, it isn't just one turtle.
That's right! It's turtles all the way down!
"I also rarely drink (a beer or two maybe every 2 or 3 months)"
I feel sorry for those people that don't drink.
When they get up in the morning, that is the best they're gonna feel ALL DAY.
I feel sad when I think about how some people haven't realized that certain things feel better than drinking...then I remember that it leaves more of "those things" for me and I feel happy again :P
I did experiment with roguelikes; I hacked a bare-bones ecosystem in a weekend in Ruby, and now I'm (leisurely) playing with fractal terrain in Scheme. By now I'm convinced a simulation-centric (as opposed to stats-growing--centric) MMORPG is feasible; it just wasn't tried yet.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Seriously :P Let me know if anything comes from your experimentation because that's exactly the type of game I've been looking to play.
if you make the window too wide, you have to move your head back and forth to read
I don't know if this made it into the release or if it's just in the beta - but you can move your eyes left to right without moving your head! Also you could just sit a reasonable distance from the monitor so you can see it all at once - I have no problems doing this on a 21" widescreen.
pay based on how much bandwidth you use- say 25 cents a gig + 10$/month for the connection its self- that way it regulates its self. you use more, you pay more and it doesn't matter what kind of data it is. the isps get more $ for more traffic they get and consumers don't get throttled nor do those who don't use much pay truckloads for the privilage of just getting online. [in fact data use would somewhat be encourageable by isps because they'd make more] it works for utilities like water, gas, electric etc why not here too?
Because every other ISP in the area is offering "UNLIMITED!" bandwidth - no one wants to be the one advertising limited, even if the unlimited really is limited.
No, your time is worthless only if it would be impossible to get someone to pay you for it.
It so happens I use my free time as I see fit because no one is offering ENOUGH money for me to spend my time otherwise - that does not mean my free time is worthless; it means it is worth more to me than the amount currently being offered.
a simple task like editing /etc/hosts requires jumping through tons of hoops on the mac just because it's designed to be "easier"
FYI, I just tried exactly what I'd do in Linux (Open a terminal and type "sudo nano /etc/hosts") on OS X 10.5 and it worked just fine.
Google had to know when it bought YouTube that it was risking attracting a number of lawsuits, the Viacom one being only the first. You can bet if it's successful, the other media giants will be lining up to get their payouts, too. Using Google services is a privacy risk as long as its billions of dollars are attracting high powered lawsuits.
I always thought Google bought it so that they could be the ones to try to defend as they actually have the resources to put up a decent fight.
Wow, took a while longer than I was expecting (several minutes), but everything is working fine!
Downloading apps from the built-in apps store is very easy and the free ones I've gotten so far have been pretty decent. Must go back to playing now!
A bit more info, once you download that firmware open up iTunes and hold down option (shift for you windows users) and click the "Check for Update" button - it will now ask you where the file is. Updating mine as I type this, I'll post how it went when it's done.
Oh and direct link since I'm a whore: http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
But wait, there's more! Phase 3 also involves flooding the underground and drowning all the workers.
Townsperson: But then who will operate the machinery and keep the pleasure dome running?
Dante: Phase 4: an army of robot workers to replace the slaves.
Walt and Steve-Dave: What if the robots united and rebelled against Leonardo?
Randal: Phase 5: an army of highly intelligent apes move in and quell the robot insurrection.
Townsperson: What if the apes are pacifists?
Time passes...
Dante: Phase 24: the virus, while not affecting anyone inside the dome, destroys all the chickens.
Townsperson: That may well be but then where will he get all the eggs?
Randal: Phase 39: Robot chickens.
Dante: Phase 63: The dome launches into space and nukes the Earth from orbit.
Randal: Itâ(TM)s the only way to be sure.
IT workers have no idea how well they are compensated for the simple job of keeping everyone else working efficiently. I have worked as an hourly employee, a consultant, and as a salaried employee, and other than a two month period a year and a half ago I can honestly say that being salaried is the LEAST I have ever worked so if that means carrying a BB and having it turned on for SMS once every 4 weeks, so be it.
It's NOT a simple job. It seems simple because you've been doing it for a while. It requires a lot of broad knowledge, a lot of specific knowledge, and the right mindset (which not everyone can have or learn).
Doing less work while salaried is a rather natural extension of permanence - you've gotten into a routine, you know exactly what to expect. Further I don't think anyone here is saying don't have SMS on - they're saying that if a company want's 24/7 support, it will be stated in your contract and reflected in your paycheck.
Amen! The only reason I have any semblance of grammar education is because I moved around a lot during childhood and one of the schools I attended actually made grammar a priority. It is appalling what some of my former classmates tried to pass off as English - although it's not as if their teacher would ever even notice; there were more than a handful of occasions where I would be marked "wrong" only to get out a large book of grammar and show the teacher that she was the one using the language incorrectly!
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Banks make money from it? Could have fooled me. Last time I got my cards stolen, the bank reimbursed EVERY LAST TIME i lost because of it. They took the entire blame and responsability, I lost -nothing-....
My guess is you meant you got back every last DIME. If they actually reimbursed you for your time as well - who is your bank?
The same reason insulation must display a resistivity value: so the customer knows what the hell they're buying. It might not be illegal to sell mature games to young kids, but it's illegal to put a teen rating on those games (or it should be!).
So you think it should be illegal to put an arbitrary rating on the game other than the arbitrary rating decided by some (arbitrary) people?
While I'd agree with you if the box says "Contains no violence" when the game does in fact contain violence as that is clearly mislabeling a product. However, something being labeled that it is acceptable for a teen is a rather arbitrary distinction.
HUH???? Most polls said people expected that we would find WMD and WMDs were found.
Well of course we knew they were there - we were the ones that sold them!
If you've only been upgrading, I'd highly suggest deleting your user profile and starting with a new one before deleting your addons.
Instead of randomly generating pictures or something as someone suggested above, why not make it generate say a 64k program, keep iterating through this until you get an executable that will actually RUN (Without crashing) and see what happens.
That is EXACTLY what SkyNET wants you to do...[All Americans suck because they cant drive]
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Cheap +5 Insightful: just say "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}" Wow, it does work!