Which is likely why it became 1-800-CALL-ATT. And Carrottop even spelled it out multiple times during the commercials so if you didn't have the capacity to spell those words they forced it into your long term memory through repetition...
- Raising salaries: It won't work to appeal only to the rejects.
Actually, starting salaries for teachers are relatively good. Which is why (IMHO) a lot of liberal arts majors and other such degrees that don't lead directly to high paying jobs tend to be drawn to teaching. The salary problem is actually in the years following, as there's no incentive for a good teacher to stay put. Here is the salary schedule for my local school district. It takes over 10 years to earn 10% more than your starting salary.
- Firing for gross incompetence. As works with just about everyone else.
You can thank the union for that. There are no merit increases (only longevity) and, short of molesting some kids, it's almost impossible to get fired. Again, it's all about incentive. The only (financial) incentive for teachers is to be around for another year, not to teach well or make efforts to become a better teacher.
- Requiring a higher level of knowledge and teaching abilities.
I think if the first 2 points are enacted, this one would simply follow... But I do have to say that this is one of the few things that the "No Child Left Behind Act" got right. It requires teachers to be "highly qualified", which means that a teacher actually has to demonstrate competence and that they had formal education in the subject they are to teach.
When I was looking around a few years back for a cheap registrar I found both godaddy and gkg.net were about the same price... I'm glad I went with gkg.net.
You know there are 4GB DIMMs around nowadays. So, 4 slots = 16GB. And 2G DIMMs are all over the place and relatively cheap, so you could get 8G with 4 slots at a minimum!
I've seen a 4P Opteron system with 16 DIMMs running with 64GB of memory. So it can be done! But that much memory is EXPENSIVE (4G DIMMs are just now getting under $1/MB)!
I do just that, but run into another spammer generated PITA. Since my IP is included on some blacklists as a dynamic IP (which, unfortunately it is) many mailservers (especially lately) have begun rejecting any mail sent directly from my IP.. Not a big deal, I just relay it through my ISP's SMTP server for those domains, but it's still a PITA. And all becuase of our friends, the spammers. Thanks.
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Which is likely why it became 1-800-CALL-ATT. And Carrottop even spelled it out multiple times during the commercials so if you didn't have the capacity to spell those words they forced it into your long term memory through repetition...
- Raising salaries: It won't work to appeal only to the rejects.
Actually, starting salaries for teachers are relatively good. Which is why (IMHO) a lot of liberal arts majors and other such degrees that don't lead directly to high paying jobs tend to be drawn to teaching. The salary problem is actually in the years following, as there's no incentive for a good teacher to stay put. Here is the salary schedule for my local school district. It takes over 10 years to earn 10% more than your starting salary.
- Firing for gross incompetence. As works with just about everyone else.
You can thank the union for that. There are no merit increases (only longevity) and, short of molesting some kids, it's almost impossible to get fired. Again, it's all about incentive. The only (financial) incentive for teachers is to be around for another year, not to teach well or make efforts to become a better teacher.
- Requiring a higher level of knowledge and teaching abilities.
I think if the first 2 points are enacted, this one would simply follow... But I do have to say that this is one of the few things that the "No Child Left Behind Act" got right. It requires teachers to be "highly qualified", which means that a teacher actually has to demonstrate competence and that they had formal education in the subject they are to teach.
And some may just not work correctly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425586
When I was looking around a few years back for a cheap registrar I found both godaddy and gkg.net were about the same price... I'm glad I went with gkg.net.
you got the Colbert quote wrong...
It's "George W. Bush: great president or greatest president?"
You know there are 4GB DIMMs around nowadays. So, 4 slots = 16GB. And 2G DIMMs are all over the place and relatively cheap, so you could get 8G with 4 slots at a minimum!
I've seen a 4P Opteron system with 16 DIMMs running with 64GB of memory. So it can be done! But that much memory is EXPENSIVE (4G DIMMs are just now getting under $1/MB)!
I do just that, but run into another spammer generated PITA. Since my IP is included on some blacklists as a dynamic IP (which, unfortunately it is) many mailservers (especially lately) have begun rejecting any mail sent directly from my IP.. Not a big deal, I just relay it through my ISP's SMTP server for those domains, but it's still a PITA. And all becuase of our friends, the spammers. Thanks.