The comparison of literary rejections does not consider whether the test for literacy had changed. Secondly these are figures for people who volunteered for the military, which is not representative of the population. Figures for literacy around the Vietnam war are not backed by information.
When you go back earlier, there is an assumption that the books people read makes them more literate.
You have not provided the facts to back that argument up. You've provided assertions and conjecture. Try again.
One problem he doesn't address is that better students go to these elite schools. I'm sure this is not a popular view, but it is accurate.
My wife is a teacher and as part of her master's degrees she had work placement at a number of places. She taught in some public schools and some private. The best schools were the ones in the best areas. The very best ones were the private ones in best areas. They were the best schools because: - parent support was high (support for the teachers, support for the students and support for learning) - raw materials were better
With government schools no longer competing, charity-funded schools would return to the fore.
Ah. So we remove the problem from the government and throw it at the charies to deal with. Without funding of course. I can't wait to see how that works out.
That Kentucky (or any state in the U.S.) applies the same logic to education is no surprise, but why do Slashdotters acquiesce to determining teachers' salary by central planning and government mandate? The free market should determine teachers' salaries. The prerequisite, of course, would be to eliminate government-run schools and let private schools compete for tuition money from parents.
This means poor teachers go to places that need them most: poorer areas.
I'd like to be a teacher. Some of the greatest influences on my life have been teachers. I like teaching kids science and computers, and I've got a talent for it.
But I'll never be a teacher under current systems.
I wouldn't either. Know why? I am a man.
There is no way I ever want to get into teaching, even though I think I'd love it. In the current climate you are just too exposed to claims of sexual abuse.
Wow, me too. That is I'm a programmer (software engineer if you prefer) and my wife is a teacher too.
The problem with teaching is you don't leave them at work. She does a lot of preparation and marking at home. She also worries about the students she teaches.
Then: A dozen different video card manufacturers, twice that many chipsets, equal variety of drivers. Now: Two major manufacturers, two unified drivers.
Now: PCI, PCIx, PCI Express and AGP (multiple versions). Oh yeah and unified buggy drivers now.
Then: IDE=slow. Master? Slave? Cable? WTF is this? Now: SATA - plug and go.
Now: IDE plus SATA. I don't see a lot of SATA DVD/CD drives.
Then: Set up your modem to connect to your ISP and hope you don't get any incoming calls. Firewall? What's that? Now: ADSL. Wireless routers. Built-in firewalls.
This has nothing to do with building your own computer but...
Now: ADSL - 8 billion configuration values (PPPOa, PPPOe), everyone running their own network (DHCP etc). Wireless routers - cross vendor issues, configuration is messy (unless you don't care about security). Built in firewalls are good. ADSL + Wireless etc: let me say 10 years ago my mother set up a dial up connection. Now she needs me to handle their connection to the web. It is better than dial up but more complicated.
This is one of the issues with the Bush rhetoric about the war on terror. It assumes that because there have been terrorist events/cells in different countries that they are linked. In many cases there are no links at all. In almost all cases the issues are local issues and the groups have nothing in common except their methods.
The war on terror is a joke because there is no enemy. Saying that the war on terror is a war on a tactic almost makes more sense than the idea that there is a global network of linked terrorists who are all trying destroy the US.
Yes. You tie up the government with constantly renewing laws. This would mean either nothing would get through or, more likely, laws would just get rubber stamped.
Yeah it makes for some difficult situations. There is a difficult tension there, holding something as the word of God and also recognising that some of it is allegory. If you aren't careful you can strip anything you don't like out of the bible. Go the other way and you end up where we are now (to some extent).
I recall reading a book about writing SQL where the author pointed out that halving execution time of a query was nice, but if you shaved even seconds off a frequently run query you would see significant performance increases.
The irony of this is that one of my whinges about Windows is that menus and filesystem operations are slow when they shouldn't be. Expanding the control panel from the start menu. Put a CD into the computer and open windows explorer. It won't display because it is loading the CD, which blocks me from working with stuff on local drives. If you have a windows explorer window open to a networked drive that becomes unavailable (eg VPN closed), the window locks up for some time. Why mingle the processes to mount volumes with the processes to display them?
One would hope things like this would get better with time not worse. Obviously a vain hope.
There seems to be a significant problem with American Christians. They read the bible as a scientific document. It isn't. It suffers all the flaws of their lack of knowledge of science at the time it was written. For example Genesis 1 talks about water below being separated from the water above, reflecting the belief at the time that the earth was in a bubble floating in water.
The bible in God's timeless word to mankind on his relationship with them. Science is orthogonal to that purpose.
My qualifications? (Since the question will come up.) 10 years in the USN Submarine Service working with the MK88 and MK 98 Trident Fire Control Systems, as well as 30 odd years of studying naval technology and issues.
You'd think in that time you'd have picked up something about systems...
I know this is Slashdot, where nerds like their OSes. But there are times when the best solution for the job does not involve your favorite OS, hardware, or even your design philosophy.
I believe that the longest working week in the guiness book of records was for a medical intern, althought there may have been a new record set.
As for lawyers, I have two in the family. Their experience has been if you work for a big company you can expect to average 70 ours a week. Incidentally this is true for an Australian firm and for the Japanese arm of a US firm.
However my wife has just graduated as a teacher. Once again the hours are pretty bad (there is a *lot* of effectively unpaid overtime at home), she is paid more than a graduate engineer.
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There needs to be a girl too.
I've read the link.
The comparison of literary rejections does not consider whether the test for literacy had changed. Secondly these are figures for people who volunteered for the military, which is not representative of the population. Figures for literacy around the Vietnam war are not backed by information.
When you go back earlier, there is an assumption that the books people read makes them more literate.
You have not provided the facts to back that argument up. You've provided assertions and conjecture. Try again.
EISA, VESA and manual jumpers stopped being an issue 10 years ago. Before that sure they were a problem.
OK, I saw the Gatto talk.
One problem he doesn't address is that better students go to these elite schools. I'm sure this is not a popular view, but it is accurate.
My wife is a teacher and as part of her master's degrees she had work placement at a number of places. She taught in some public schools and some private. The best schools were the ones in the best areas. The very best ones were the private ones in best areas. They were the best schools because:
- parent support was high (support for the teachers, support for the students and support for learning)
- raw materials were better
With government schools no longer competing, charity-funded schools would return to the fore.
Ah. So we remove the problem from the government and throw it at the charies to deal with. Without funding of course. I can't wait to see how that works out.
That Kentucky (or any state in the U.S.) applies the same logic to education is no surprise, but why do Slashdotters acquiesce to determining teachers' salary by central planning and government mandate? The free market should determine teachers' salaries. The prerequisite, of course, would be to eliminate government-run schools and let private schools compete for tuition money from parents.
This means poor teachers go to places that need them most: poorer areas.
I'd like to be a teacher. Some of the greatest influences on my life have been teachers. I like teaching kids science and computers, and I've got a talent for it.
But I'll never be a teacher under current systems.
I wouldn't either. Know why? I am a man.
There is no way I ever want to get into teaching, even though I think I'd love it. In the current climate you are just too exposed to claims of sexual abuse.
You can spend a lot of money on education but not much on teachers.
Wow, me too. That is I'm a programmer (software engineer if you prefer) and my wife is a teacher too.
The problem with teaching is you don't leave them at work. She does a lot of preparation and marking at home. She also worries about the students she teaches.
You may not agree with the guy but there is no need to be abusive. Being reduced to abuse says more about you than him.
The US does not want to learn from other nations, they must implement solutions from scratch.
Now: PCI, PCIx, PCI Express and AGP (multiple versions). Oh yeah and unified buggy drivers now.
Now: IDE plus SATA. I don't see a lot of SATA DVD/CD drives.
This has nothing to do with building your own computer but...
Now: ADSL - 8 billion configuration values (PPPOa, PPPOe), everyone running their own network (DHCP etc). Wireless routers - cross vendor issues, configuration is messy (unless you don't care about security). Built in firewalls are good. ADSL + Wireless etc: let me say 10 years ago my mother set up a dial up connection. Now she needs me to handle their connection to the web. It is better than dial up but more complicated.
Agreed on cases and scanners/USB support.
In other words, you're overwhelmingly ignorant on the real world.
Just say he is an average American. Same meaning, shorter phrase.
This is one of the issues with the Bush rhetoric about the war on terror. It assumes that because there have been terrorist events/cells in different countries that they are linked. In many cases there are no links at all. In almost all cases the issues are local issues and the groups have nothing in common except their methods.
The war on terror is a joke because there is no enemy. Saying that the war on terror is a war on a tactic almost makes more sense than the idea that there is a global network of linked terrorists who are all trying destroy the US.
Yes. You tie up the government with constantly renewing laws. This would mean either nothing would get through or, more likely, laws would just get rubber stamped.
Yeah it makes for some difficult situations. There is a difficult tension there, holding something as the word of God and also recognising that some of it is allegory. If you aren't careful you can strip anything you don't like out of the bible. Go the other way and you end up where we are now (to some extent).
This is actually a good thing to look at.
I recall reading a book about writing SQL where the author pointed out that halving execution time of a query was nice, but if you shaved even seconds off a frequently run query you would see significant performance increases.
This is about that. You will use menus a lot.
The irony of this is that one of my whinges about Windows is that menus and filesystem operations are slow when they shouldn't be. Expanding the control panel from the start menu. Put a CD into the computer and open windows explorer. It won't display because it is loading the CD, which blocks me from working with stuff on local drives. If you have a windows explorer window open to a networked drive that becomes unavailable (eg VPN closed), the window locks up for some time. Why mingle the processes to mount volumes with the processes to display them?
One would hope things like this would get better with time not worse. Obviously a vain hope.
There seems to be a significant problem with American Christians. They read the bible as a scientific document. It isn't. It suffers all the flaws of their lack of knowledge of science at the time it was written. For example Genesis 1 talks about water below being separated from the water above, reflecting the belief at the time that the earth was in a bubble floating in water.
The bible in God's timeless word to mankind on his relationship with them. Science is orthogonal to that purpose.
My qualifications? (Since the question will come up.) 10 years in the USN Submarine Service working with the MK88 and MK 98 Trident Fire Control Systems, as well as 30 odd years of studying naval technology and issues.
You'd think in that time you'd have picked up something about systems...
Safeguards disabled or not, that is not an acceptable outcome. These machines kill people.
It's by design too.
I know this is Slashdot, where nerds like their OSes. But there are times when the best solution for the job does not involve your favorite OS, hardware, or even your design philosophy.
Unless that OS is debian.
Seems to me if Microsoft made the career more attractive people might look into it.
I don't think we want to see Microsoft schools.
I believe that the longest working week in the guiness book of records was for a medical intern, althought there may have been a new record set.
As for lawyers, I have two in the family. Their experience has been if you work for a big company you can expect to average 70 ours a week. Incidentally this is true for an Australian firm and for the Japanese arm of a US firm.
However my wife has just graduated as a teacher. Once again the hours are pretty bad (there is a *lot* of effectively unpaid overtime at home), she is paid more than a graduate engineer.
Blah blah blah
Need more CS students
Blah blah blah
More H1-B cheap labour needed
Blah blah blah
He is just asking for one thing: cheap labour. More CS students == larger market of programmers == lower pay. H1-B == more cheap people.