I must say, the textbooks that exist for public schools are terrible. They present arbitrary facts and information to such a disinteresting degree that I even find them nausiating. And I'm the kind of guy who reads a dictionary when I get BORED.
I think there is much to be improved upon for textbooks but we need to focus on a more hands on approach. Also, a good textbook wont do squat if the only people that decide to teach are not very talented... Teachers are paid less than babysitters. Who'd want to go into a profession that can't even pay the bills to teach some snotty nosed kids?
Parents pay on average 400$ a month for daycare. If we paid teachers this at ONLY 20 students per class and about 180 days in the schoolyear this is about 48k. A starting teacher in my state only makes 30k a year (about).
I'm all for the books. Let's get some better experts and write better books. Sounds cool to me.
Why make an inferior operating system with obvious problems and more security issues than the mind can comfortably imagine?
Microsoft has a unique ability to suck and sell at the same time. I wish I knew why too.
What happens if, when you look at Windows, you begin to twitch uncontrolably, and, durning one of these spasims, you hit the enter key?
I can't believe they even have these licenses. A license like this would never work in the real world.
It took me an hour one morning to code a site that is HTML 4.01 compliant. And 10 minutes to convert all my old content to the new standard...
Later that day I made another site in 15 minutes that was rather complex that was HTML 4.01 compliant. It's not hard.
The point is we shouldn't let IE (and thus Microsoft) set the web "standards". In case you haven't noticed this is capitalism son. They want fat sacs of cash monies, not to better the creative environment of the web.
Most of the time if you make something to W3 standards it will work on almost any browser. For example, that site I created looks good on every browser I could find--even in Lynx.
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I must say, the textbooks that exist for public schools are terrible. They present arbitrary facts and information to such a disinteresting degree that I even find them nausiating. And I'm the kind of guy who reads a dictionary when I get BORED. I think there is much to be improved upon for textbooks but we need to focus on a more hands on approach. Also, a good textbook wont do squat if the only people that decide to teach are not very talented... Teachers are paid less than babysitters. Who'd want to go into a profession that can't even pay the bills to teach some snotty nosed kids? Parents pay on average 400$ a month for daycare. If we paid teachers this at ONLY 20 students per class and about 180 days in the schoolyear this is about 48k. A starting teacher in my state only makes 30k a year (about). I'm all for the books. Let's get some better experts and write better books. Sounds cool to me.
Why make an inferior operating system with obvious problems and more security issues than the mind can comfortably imagine? Microsoft has a unique ability to suck and sell at the same time. I wish I knew why too.
What happens if, when you look at Windows, you begin to twitch uncontrolably, and, durning one of these spasims, you hit the enter key? I can't believe they even have these licenses. A license like this would never work in the real world.
Two words: Kazaa Lite.
http://www.kazaalite.com
Kazaa Lite has no spyware. Some guy got really happy with a hex editor on it.
It took me an hour one morning to code a site that is HTML 4.01 compliant. And 10 minutes to convert all my old content to the new standard... Later that day I made another site in 15 minutes that was rather complex that was HTML 4.01 compliant. It's not hard. The point is we shouldn't let IE (and thus Microsoft) set the web "standards". In case you haven't noticed this is capitalism son. They want fat sacs of cash monies, not to better the creative environment of the web. Most of the time if you make something to W3 standards it will work on almost any browser. For example, that site I created looks good on every browser I could find--even in Lynx.