Its really fun to do 60mph on the Thruway.* I do it once in a while, just for fun, and invariably end up with a cop tailgating me, yelling, and making angry gestures. Its even more fun on the [1-9]90 during peak traffic hours, where you can really screw up traffic. You sit in the right lane doing 54. There will always be a school bus within a half mile of you in the left lane doing 53.** Fun for all.
* Even more fun than pretending you've never been on the Thruway before and asking the toll booth workers why they're still there. "Didn't you hear? They said we only have to pay tolls until its paid off, which was 10 years ago."
** Funeral processions should be banned from expressways. I don't care how many angry mourners will hate me forever, if they're going 34, and I need to get an exit, I will cut between the cop-on-motorcycle and the hearse.
He ain't kidding. My wife and I got all of our baggage emptied and searched because she had some knitting needles and a 1" metal crochet hook. We anticipated something along these lines. The security guards were not the least bit interested in printed copies of the airport's rules and the airline's rules clearly stating that non-metal (bamboo) knitting needles and crochet hooks shorter than X inches were allowed.
The problem is compounded by the fact that one manager/boss/owner who does not value or understand security and 100 underlings that do means that the product is going to be insecure.
I never said that unions were always a bad thing. I think they were a great thing in the early 20th century. I think in many cases they are doing great work now. But I am very skeptical of the teachers' unions, and that is when all the information I get about them is from the unions themselves.
"The students that are involved with the project are going to be the same ones that have parents that care and are active in their education. Time and time again I've found that to be the biggest factor in education."
What?! I thought the only thing that mattered was how much money is spent on the school? Thats why the government needs us to give them more money, and to a higher level, so they can evenly distribute it, and we can be free from trying to run our own lives.
If there is a problem, giving more money and power to the government is ALWAYS the answer.
My wife is a teacher, and a member of the union. (They force you to pay the dues, so you may as well join.) I read all the magazines and newsletters that the union and its parent organizations send. From what I hear, from the unions themselves, the unions care about two things:
1) More power for the union. 2) More money for the union.
They are against new testing. They are against non-testing based instruction. They are against charter schools. They are against charter schools even if it means no schools. (Charters were willing to set up in New Orleans long before the public schools would have been able to operate. The unions fought against them, in favor of no schools at all.) The unions are against any changes to the tenure system. The unions are against anything proposed by or endorsed by the conservatives. The unions are against Wal-Mart. The unions are against the high cost of living. The unions are against forcing the teachers to get technology traning. The unions are against the schools spending more of their budgets on technology (and less on teachers). They are against home schooling. They are against school funding cuts. They are against property tax increases.
And they support teachers retiring at 55 with 25 years of service. They expect to work 25 years, only about 1/3 of their lives, and have the rest of us taxpayers who work from 16 to 65+, including summers, to support them. (Earlier retirement means hiring more teachers, which means more union members and more dues paid.)
With only a CS1 and CS2 under my belt, and having programmed in only Java and VBA, I did a project in school that had me programming a self-navigating robot in C. We had a small processor* with a C compiler and a debugger. I soon augmented the debugger with a row of LEDs wired to one of the registers, so I could debug while the thing was driving around and not hooked up to the computer with the debugger. It should just be kept low level enough that students have to solve their own problems. Its a great way to learn.
Sometimes it would crash inexplicably. The configuration editor crashed a lot. Sometimes I would minimize windows and they would disappear. I'm back to using e16 for now.
E17 looks really nice. I ran it for a few days. But its pre-alpha. Having cool feautes is worth nothing when you have to restart your WM every hour. I know it will get there, and be really nice when it does, but comparing features of pre-alpha development software with production releases is not helpful to anybody.
India's society and culture is evolving with every generation. Talk to a 20 year old, a 40 year old, and a 60 year old Indian. Look at Hyderabad or Bangalore where the young people are moving, compared to Chennai.
I have not been to China, nor talked to many Chinese, so correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, China is going to need a revolution, and its going to be messy.
You are correct. Sun's JVM does not trust whoever signed the first cert we got. We had specifically told them that we needed it to be signed by somebody trusted by Sun's 1.4 and 1.5 JVMs. They messed up the first time, but were prompt and courteous in fixing the issue.
It seems like _everybody_ messes up the first time nowadays, so I'll take somebody who can fix their problems well.
My company got a certificate from Comodo, and got a cert with a 3 signer chain. It was in okay in IE and Firefox, but not in Sun's JVM. Unacceptable for us. We emailed them, and they got us a new cert, signed by GTE, that was recognized by Sun's JVM in about 6 hours.
Interracial. Polygamy. Child brides. Your late brother's widow. Do you see the pattern? Male + Female. Not to say that all of those are good, or that some sort of homosexual union is bad, just don't call it marriage, because it isn't, by definition.
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If a Linux-OpenSSL-Apache-mod_perl setup gets cracked, it could be Linux, OpenSSL, Apache, or Perl.
If a Windows-IIS setup gets hacked, its all Microsoft.
Its really fun to do 60mph on the Thruway.* I do it once in a while, just for fun, and invariably end up with a cop tailgating me, yelling, and making angry gestures. Its even more fun on the [1-9]90 during peak traffic hours, where you can really screw up traffic. You sit in the right lane doing 54. There will always be a school bus within a half mile of you in the left lane doing 53.** Fun for all.
* Even more fun than pretending you've never been on the Thruway before and asking the toll booth workers why they're still there. "Didn't you hear? They said we only have to pay tolls until its paid off, which was 10 years ago."
** Funeral processions should be banned from expressways. I don't care how many angry mourners will hate me forever, if they're going 34, and I need to get an exit, I will cut between the cop-on-motorcycle and the hearse.
Did any of you who are system administrators actually have anybody else know about it?
H.R.4472? Where exactly in the bill is this covered?
No. The Linux Way is RTFC.
He ain't kidding. My wife and I got all of our baggage emptied and searched because she had some knitting needles and a 1" metal crochet hook. We anticipated something along these lines. The security guards were not the least bit interested in printed copies of the airport's rules and the airline's rules clearly stating that non-metal (bamboo) knitting needles and crochet hooks shorter than X inches were allowed.
The problem is compounded by the fact that one manager/boss/owner who does not value or understand security and 100 underlings that do means that the product is going to be insecure.
I never said that unions were always a bad thing. I think they were a great thing in the early 20th century. I think in many cases they are doing great work now. But I am very skeptical of the teachers' unions, and that is when all the information I get about them is from the unions themselves.
"If it's such a bargain, then why aren't you a teacher as well?"
Because I suck at teaching. So I got a job doing something I don't suck at.
"The students that are involved with the project are going to be the same ones that have parents that care and are active in their education. Time and time again I've found that to be the biggest factor in education."
What?! I thought the only thing that mattered was how much money is spent on the school? Thats why the government needs us to give them more money, and to a higher level, so they can evenly distribute it, and we can be free from trying to run our own lives.
If there is a problem, giving more money and power to the government is ALWAYS the answer.
My wife is a teacher, and a member of the union. (They force you to pay the dues, so you may as well join.) I read all the magazines and newsletters that the union and its parent organizations send. From what I hear, from the unions themselves, the unions care about two things:
1) More power for the union.
2) More money for the union.
They are against new testing. They are against non-testing based instruction. They are against charter schools. They are against charter schools even if it means no schools. (Charters were willing to set up in New Orleans long before the public schools would have been able to operate. The unions fought against them, in favor of no schools at all.) The unions are against any changes to the tenure system. The unions are against anything proposed by or endorsed by the conservatives. The unions are against Wal-Mart. The unions are against the high cost of living. The unions are against forcing the teachers to get technology traning. The unions are against the schools spending more of their budgets on technology (and less on teachers). They are against home schooling. They are against school funding cuts. They are against property tax increases.
And they support teachers retiring at 55 with 25 years of service. They expect to work 25 years, only about 1/3 of their lives, and have the rest of us taxpayers who work from 16 to 65+, including summers, to support them. (Earlier retirement means hiring more teachers, which means more union members and more dues paid.)
With only a CS1 and CS2 under my belt, and having programmed in only Java and VBA, I did a project in school that had me programming a self-navigating robot in C. We had a small processor* with a C compiler and a debugger. I soon augmented the debugger with a row of LEDs wired to one of the registers, so I could debug while the thing was driving around and not hooked up to the computer with the debugger. It should just be kept low level enough that students have to solve their own problems. Its a great way to learn.
* TI MSP 430
Sometimes it would crash inexplicably. The configuration editor crashed a lot. Sometimes I would minimize windows and they would disappear. I'm back to using e16 for now.
E17 looks really nice. I ran it for a few days. But its pre-alpha. Having cool feautes is worth nothing when you have to restart your WM every hour. I know it will get there, and be really nice when it does, but comparing features of pre-alpha development software with production releases is not helpful to anybody.
Nobody argues that it isn't a very powerful platform. Lotus simply suffers from an extremely poorly designed UI.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/
India's society and culture is evolving with every generation. Talk to a 20 year old, a 40 year old, and a 60 year old Indian. Look at Hyderabad or Bangalore where the young people are moving, compared to Chennai.
I have not been to China, nor talked to many Chinese, so correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, China is going to need a revolution, and its going to be messy.
Where did those numbers originally come from? If they came from the Chinese government, would you believe them?
When your body temperature is lowered, it weakens your immune system.
What if you deviced a digital lock with an encryption scheme to put on your locker. Would the school be violating the DMCA if they cut it?
What happens when I tranfer some random innocent file that matches one of these hashes?
You are correct. Sun's JVM does not trust whoever signed the first cert we got. We had specifically told them that we needed it to be signed by somebody trusted by Sun's 1.4 and 1.5 JVMs. They messed up the first time, but were prompt and courteous in fixing the issue.
It seems like _everybody_ messes up the first time nowadays, so I'll take somebody who can fix their problems well.
My company got a certificate from Comodo, and got a cert with a 3 signer chain. It was in okay in IE and Firefox, but not in Sun's JVM. Unacceptable for us. We emailed them, and they got us a new cert, signed by GTE, that was recognized by Sun's JVM in about 6 hours.
I'd be all in favor of the government getting out of the marriage business.
Interracial. Polygamy. Child brides. Your late brother's widow. Do you see the pattern? Male + Female. Not to say that all of those are good, or that some sort of homosexual union is bad, just don't call it marriage, because it isn't, by definition.
I'm not anti-homosexual. I'm anti-misusing-words.