Many public-school science teachers are not even educated as scientists.
Are you sure about that? At least here, to teach high school science subjects, you generally need to be qualified to do so. My wife has a BS and MA in chemistry, with an undergraduate minor in biology. This qualifies her to teach both subjects, if she takes the subject tests to get certified (she's only certified for chemistry, so that she doesn't have to teach bio). I'm reasonably certain that the entire science department has science, versus education, undergraduate degrees--in fact, my wife may be the only one with a formal education degree (MEd).
Actual scientists can command salaries higher than what teachers are paid, so very few people who graduate with a science degree are willing to work in a public high school.
This is not really our experience, but your mileage may vary. Before going back to grad school for her MEd, my wife was making roughly the same money working as a senior lab analyst. The benefits were a little better, though.
Look at it this way: I don't care for the taste of horseradish--it tastes like varnish to me--but I can't discount the fact that a lot of people really enjoy it.
It's not fair to presume the reasons why some of us enjoy beer. If it were really as simple as:
People. Drink. Beer. To. Get. High.
then everyone would drink inexpensive beer with high alcohol content (Steel Reserve, I'm looking in your direction). And some people do. But as far as I'm concerned, I'd actually prefer to be less affected by the alcohol.
I'm not going to get on any high horse about "refined palates," but for just about any food or drink, you can find someone who cares about it more than you do, and they've usually spent a lot of time discriminating between qualities that others might not perceive. It's no skin off my nose.
Built around the Motorola MC6845 display controller, the CGA card featured several graphics and text modes. The highest resolution of any mode was 640×200, and the highest color depth supported was 4-bit (16 colors). [wikipedia.org]
That's technically true, but for all practical purposes, you got four colors and liked them. From your Wikipedia link, the 16 color mode was a special trick from 80x25 text mode. I played a lot of games on a CGA monitor--to this day, those godawful palettes are burned into my memory--and I don't recall ever seeing any game use that mode.
As for the PC speaker, I can remember the Windows driver that made it a PCM device, and it was passable but low-quality and used a lot of CPU. Some games made a valiant go of it, but there's a reason why the Adlib and Sound Blaster cards became so prevalent.
I second that; with a single upload they'll provide downloads in any format, with any pricing scheme your little heart desires. You can tag your songs with a Creative Commons license, too. From a nerdy standpoint, it seems like they really "get it".
It does seem to lack the networking features of a MySpace, though. As revolting as MySpace may be, it makes it very easy to jump in and start making connections (of course, most of those connections are probably to porn spam-bots).
Hyperbolic overuse of the words "literally" and "raped" has literally raped them of all meaning! (everyone else was discussing semantics; I just wanted to be popular)
Public schools do not do ANY lab experiments any more. Most of them don't even have a gas hookup at the teacher's desk in a science classroom. Hell, bring in a couple tabs of alka-seltzer to demonstrate the process of effervesence and you're likely to get dragged off under some "zero tolerance" medications policy.
I'm not going to get involved in the homeschooling argument here, but this is patently untrue. My wife teaches high school chemistry in a district that's stretched so thin they're letting several hundred employees go this year, but she and the other chemistry teacher still do labs. Yes, sometimes the supplies are more limited than she would like, but the lab is an essential part of her classroom.
The economy was cruising on the downslope after the internet bubble burst in mid-2000. That happened on Clinton's watch.
Clinton was president in mid-2000?
Yes; he meant "mid-2000" as a specific year, not the middle of the '00s. The election took place in November of 2000; Clinton held office until the inauguration in January 2001.
Whether the additional income over the "magical threshold" comes from running a business or salary is entirely orthogonal to my point. Besides which, running a business falls under a separate class of tax laws than personal income.
he wants to make $250K but is afraid of doing it because of how he'll be taxed
I never understood this argument, though it gets trotted out all the time. The marginal tax rate increases over $250K; you pay the same amount of taxes on the first $250K regardless of your gross. So, first of all, it's not like going over a set threshold is going to mean your net income goes down. Second, although I've heard plenty of complaining about taxes in higher brackets, I've never known anyone to turn down a pay raise (cf. Charles Barkley in his playing days).
I disagree; SVN doesn't really have "tags" or "branches" per se. They're just conventions to make the migration from CVS easier, and implemented as copies (albeit space-efficient). The downside is that it's difficult to tell which version of a file exists in which tags, whereas CVS gives you that information. When you're managing a project that has multiple supported releases, it does come in handy.
If we're counting the Greens, make that fourth--don't forget Nader's 2000 running mate, Winona LaDuke, who was also probably the first Native American vice presidential candidate.
I still submit that claiming "states' rights" is being disingenuous on their part. If we're citing Wikipedia links, from the Confederate States of America article (emphasis mine):
Four of the seceding states, the Deep South states of South Carolina,[3] Mississippi,[4] Georgia,[5] and Texas,[6] issued formal declarations of causes, each of which identified the threat to slaveholders' rights as the cause of, or a major cause of, secession; Georgia also claimed a general Federal policy of favoring Northern over Southern economic interests. In what later came to be known as the Cornerstone Speech, C.S. Vice President Alexander Stephens declared that the "cornerstone" of the new government "rest[ed] upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth".[7]
And, regarding Confederacy President Jefferson Davis:
In his farewell speech to the United States Congress, Davis made it clear that the secession crisis had been created by the Republican Party's failure "to recognize our domestic institutions [an acknowledged euphemism for slavery] which pre-existed the formation of the Union -- our property which was guarded by the Constitution."[10]
That makes it sound like slavery was, in fact, their cause, and they weren't ashamed to admit it.
I heard a funny story about them, which may or may not be true:
The Romantics played here in Tucson a few years back for a local festival-type show (either "Nightmare on Congress" or "Fall Crawl"--mostly local bands, including one I played in at the time), and a fairly well-known local band let them rehearse in their practice space. Someone walking through the hallway heard them and commented that it sounded like a really crappy Romantics cover band. If only they knew!
My suggestion is to have theaters that are 21 and older. This way, the teenie-bopper problem is taken care of, and they can serve alcohol. This way they can lower ticket prices and more than make up for it in bar sales.
I agree, and in fact there are some theaters doing just that. Check out the Alamo Drafthouse. It started in Austin and seems to be expanding to the rest of Texas (fingers crossed for expansion to Arizona). They don't necessarily play the current blockbusters, but if it's really catching on, maybe others will start to emulate them.
Is the problem that you need to enter a hex WEP key? I remember this being a problem when I first went wireless, and I'm pretty sure I was using Jaguar at the time. Panther (and Tiger, I assume) has a drop-down list where you can specify the type of WEP key, but if I recall correctly, Jaguar just asks for the WEP key. Putting a '$' before the WEP key indicates that it's in hex, which solved my issue. My AP is from D-Link, but the same principle should still apply.
The writer has obviously never listened to Limbaugh because Limbaugh does not make such statements. Apparently anything a liberal disagrees with is "controversial and obviously inflammatory."
I beg your pardon? Calling Chelsea Clinton the "White House dog" is neither controversial nor inflammatory?
This doesn't really contradict you, and not that it's a major hassle, but some stores (Banana Republic, J. Crew to name two) actually have the security sensor sewn into a tag on the clothing. They deactivate it at the register, but you're left to cut it out yourself when you get it home. A little interesting factoid; your point still stands.
Btw, Jamie, a $30 dollar sound blaster live will let you play multiple sound streams with no mixing required.
I made this mistake recently. My original Sound Blaster Live and Audigy work quite nicely. However, the $30 Sound Blaster Live 24-bit they're selling at Best Buy actually works quite poorly at the moment, if at all. Turns out it's using a new, different chipset, and I never had any success getting a sensible audio stream out of it with Fedora Core 3. Some distros don't yet have ALSA drivers for it. Caveat emptor.
Better yet - why not form an indy band and get some gigs (or just play in the garage for your own amusement). That is probably more enjoyable, and certainly costs less money over the long run.
More enjoyable? Absolutely. I've learned about a lot of really great bands through my bandmates. Plus, I've met other local musicians and seen a lot of fellow local bands.
Costs less money? Not really, the money we make from gigs generally barely covers our practice space rent. Add in strings, drumheads, new equipment, you name it, and it's a net loss. However, we're not in it for the money. I have a real job, and I'm getting too old to harbor any dreams of stardom. Which is just how I like it.
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Many public-school science teachers are not even educated as scientists.
Are you sure about that? At least here, to teach high school science subjects, you generally need to be qualified to do so. My wife has a BS and MA in chemistry, with an undergraduate minor in biology. This qualifies her to teach both subjects, if she takes the subject tests to get certified (she's only certified for chemistry, so that she doesn't have to teach bio). I'm reasonably certain that the entire science department has science, versus education, undergraduate degrees--in fact, my wife may be the only one with a formal education degree (MEd).
Actual scientists can command salaries higher than what teachers are paid, so very few people who graduate with a science degree are willing to work in a public high school.
This is not really our experience, but your mileage may vary. Before going back to grad school for her MEd, my wife was making roughly the same money working as a senior lab analyst. The benefits were a little better, though.
Look at it this way: I don't care for the taste of horseradish--it tastes like varnish to me--but I can't discount the fact that a lot of people really enjoy it.
It's not fair to presume the reasons why some of us enjoy beer. If it were really as simple as:
People. Drink. Beer. To. Get. High.
then everyone would drink inexpensive beer with high alcohol content (Steel Reserve, I'm looking in your direction). And some people do. But as far as I'm concerned, I'd actually prefer to be less affected by the alcohol.
I'm not going to get on any high horse about "refined palates," but for just about any food or drink, you can find someone who cares about it more than you do, and they've usually spent a lot of time discriminating between qualities that others might not perceive. It's no skin off my nose.
There were so many negatives in the summary I drew a Venn diagram and I still couldn't work it out.
I didn't not draw a Karnaugh map, myself.
That's technically true, but for all practical purposes, you got four colors and liked them. From your Wikipedia link, the 16 color mode was a special trick from 80x25 text mode. I played a lot of games on a CGA monitor--to this day, those godawful palettes are burned into my memory--and I don't recall ever seeing any game use that mode.
As for the PC speaker, I can remember the Windows driver that made it a PCM device, and it was passable but low-quality and used a lot of CPU. Some games made a valiant go of it, but there's a reason why the Adlib and Sound Blaster cards became so prevalent.
It does seem to lack the networking features of a MySpace, though. As revolting as MySpace may be, it makes it very easy to jump in and start making connections (of course, most of those connections are probably to porn spam-bots).
Hyperbolic overuse of the words "literally" and "raped" has literally raped them of all meaning! (everyone else was discussing semantics; I just wanted to be popular)
Have you even SEEN a public school lately?
Public schools do not do ANY lab experiments any more. Most of them don't even have a gas hookup at the teacher's desk in a science classroom. Hell, bring in a couple tabs of alka-seltzer to demonstrate the process of effervesence and you're likely to get dragged off under some "zero tolerance" medications policy.
I'm not going to get involved in the homeschooling argument here, but this is patently untrue. My wife teaches high school chemistry in a district that's stretched so thin they're letting several hundred employees go this year, but she and the other chemistry teacher still do labs. Yes, sometimes the supplies are more limited than she would like, but the lab is an essential part of her classroom.
The economy was cruising on the downslope after the internet bubble burst in mid-2000. That happened on Clinton's watch.
Clinton was president in mid-2000?
Yes; he meant "mid-2000" as a specific year, not the middle of the '00s. The election took place in November of 2000; Clinton held office until the inauguration in January 2001.
I'm still waiting for "Mastering true" and "Mastering false".
It's funny that you should mention that. I don't remember how I stumbled upon it, but here you go: http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/truenut.html
Whether the additional income over the "magical threshold" comes from running a business or salary is entirely orthogonal to my point. Besides which, running a business falls under a separate class of tax laws than personal income.
he wants to make $250K but is afraid of doing it because of how he'll be taxed
I never understood this argument, though it gets trotted out all the time. The marginal tax rate increases over $250K; you pay the same amount of taxes on the first $250K regardless of your gross. So, first of all, it's not like going over a set threshold is going to mean your net income goes down. Second, although I've heard plenty of complaining about taxes in higher brackets, I've never known anyone to turn down a pay raise (cf. Charles Barkley in his playing days).
I disagree; SVN doesn't really have "tags" or "branches" per se. They're just conventions to make the migration from CVS easier, and implemented as copies (albeit space-efficient). The downside is that it's difficult to tell which version of a file exists in which tags, whereas CVS gives you that information. When you're managing a project that has multiple supported releases, it does come in handy.
Show me, on this doll, where His noodly appendage touched you.
If we're counting the Greens, make that fourth--don't forget Nader's 2000 running mate, Winona LaDuke, who was also probably the first Native American vice presidential candidate.
-J
The Romantics played here in Tucson a few years back for a local festival-type show (either "Nightmare on Congress" or "Fall Crawl"--mostly local bands, including one I played in at the time), and a fairly well-known local band let them rehearse in their practice space. Someone walking through the hallway heard them and commented that it sounded like a really crappy Romantics cover band. If only they knew!
Is the problem that you need to enter a hex WEP key? I remember this being a problem when I first went wireless, and I'm pretty sure I was using Jaguar at the time. Panther (and Tiger, I assume) has a drop-down list where you can specify the type of WEP key, but if I recall correctly, Jaguar just asks for the WEP key. Putting a '$' before the WEP key indicates that it's in hex, which solved my issue. My AP is from D-Link, but the same principle should still apply.
I beg your pardon? Calling Chelsea Clinton the "White House dog" is neither controversial nor inflammatory?
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They already have something like that--it's called "Detroit".
More enjoyable? Absolutely. I've learned about a lot of really great bands through my bandmates. Plus, I've met other local musicians and seen a lot of fellow local bands.
Costs less money? Not really, the money we make from gigs generally barely covers our practice space rent. Add in strings, drumheads, new equipment, you name it, and it's a net loss. However, we're not in it for the money. I have a real job, and I'm getting too old to harbor any dreams of stardom. Which is just how I like it.
-J