Half my family are teachers. From what I can see the money is very tight. They can't even aford paper. My sister like many teachers spends her own money for supplies. The problem isn't the amount spent per child it's the amount that reaches each child in the form of direct education. Most of the money like most government departments gets consumed in bloated administrative costs. You might be shocked to find what the proportion of highly paid administrators are to teachers. Remember the structure is very complex and there are many levels between the Congress and the teachers. I've worked at companies where there were three administrators and office people for every person actually working to produce product. The school system is much worse. Let's say the government wanted to add a 10,000 new teachers. Even if they were being paid $50,000 a year that would only be $500,000,000, a bargin. But that's not the way it works. When you add administrative costs I think you'd find it would cost several billion maybe much more. Other than a handful of new accountants to pay the teachers in truth just how much more support is needed. Yes there are more classrooms and supplies but with most schools they have the space just need enough teachers. The knee jerk reaction to an education problems seems to be more planning/administrators. Fire half the administrative staff and hire an equal number of teachers. You'll save money and put a lot of teachers in classrooms where they are needed. Maybe with the money saved they can actually buy paper and books.
I can't begrudge him for making a few bucks off what is likely to be temporary fame. He's a good guy and deserves some success. Microsoft has money and open source by definition has limited resources. He has every right to think of his family first. Open source verses corporate software is not the first consideration for everyone. Does anyone know if he has any interest in open source or not? Not everyone has a preference. It's a choice of working or not. How many programers out there are working for Microsoft that support open source? How many of them have refused work from Microsoft on principal?
the conservation right is very interested. This condition has reached pandemic proportions among their ranks. Maybe this treatment can avoid the ethical delemia that has left so many right wingers untreated.
This is always an ugly subject but I guess I'll wade in again. Where exactly does the end user get itellectual rights to a writer's work without paying for the material? There's nothing in the constitution that takes away the writer's right to market his work. The free market system handles this all quite well. If you don't wish to pay for the work don't buy it. Seems a simple solution. If you want the work then you pay for the work. If all intellectual property is free then what is the incentive to create it in the first place? Most aren't writing to get rich they are simply trying to support their families. The J.K Rowlings and Kings are rare. Most struggle to get by. Does your desire for free stuff overide their right to earn a living? What's so horrible about paying for a book? Up until the Guttenberg press they were unaccessible to the average person. Today anyone can aford a book. I think Project Guttenberg is a wonderful thing but an author should be allowed to make a living during his lifetime. To use J.K. Rowlings as an example do you think she would have published the Harry Potter books if she had to do so unpaid or would she still be on the dole left the books unpublished? Isn't it a better world where a woman who is on welfare can sell her work and become successful than a world where if she wishes to practice her craft she has to stay on welfare for life to write? If you still think your rights to free stuff outweigh the writer's rights to earn a living how about this, what if all the authors say screw it and stop writing? Who's the looser in that senerio? Everyone I think.
Before you buy one find out how "temporary" the houses are? They keep repeating it so I assume we aren't talking 35 years. It's pretty basic so I'm quessing you could build a traditional wood structure of the same size and shape for around the same price. A wood structure can last hundreds of years. Sure it can be assembled in a couple of hours but that's not including a finished interior. Got to say it's a lot for a disposible house.
"Is there, like, a trillion-dollar prize for building the first Dyson sphere?"
No but there's one for fixing the national debt. The Dyson Sphere might be more realistic though.
" NASA needs to create a $10 million X-Prize going to the congressman that can secure them the most funding."
"This just in, NASA's budget just passed the military and education budgets combined. When asked for a comment the head of the space agency, who was wearing mouse ears and dancing in a circle, shouted, "We goin' to Mars"."
The most interesting thing to me is none of the law enforcement agencies were interested in their information. Given the face this guy was stupid enough to send $80 the photo could have been of an actual scammer. The joke is law enforcement would be more likely to go after him for the $80 reverse scam than that didn't benefit him than the real thief that is stealing 18 grand a shot. I realize there is little they can do from England and the United States to a Nigeran scammer. Given the millions involved there should be pressure on Nigeria to prosecute these men. It may be bringing in millions to the local economy but the threat of a trade embargo from the US and Europe would scare them and could have an effect. Trust me, if Enron was being scammed out of hundreds of millions of dollars the government would be all over it. The fact it's mostly retired people and people who are stupid or desperate the government could care less.
GPS systems are intergrated into new celphones. Are those banned on military bases as well? The military is going to have to deal with a brave new world in electronics. What about car GPS systems? Are they banned from bases? It's a knee jerk reaction on the GPS front. As to it having a celphone for spying, are celphones banned from all meetings? My guess is most Generals are armed with a celphone. Celphone jammers are realitively cheap and availible. It might be a smarter and more pratical thing to simply use them in conference rooms and not sweat the Majors new lapel phone let alone coke can.
One of the single biggest problems this country has is the letter of the law is far more important than the intent. It's one of the reasons we are so over regulated. Most lawyers make their livings by distorting the law to benefit their clients. "We all know what the law means but it says this." Criminals get off and corporations get away with acts that should be and in truth are criminal. It's all spin. Their intent was to deface the property to advertise their product. This is obviously illegal. Is it nessacary to create a new law everytime a new method of breaking the law becomes availible?
To hell with what should be spared, I say we should be targeting ground zero. What about Washington DC? The Petroleum Lobbyist would have to throw a dinner party to make sure everyone was in town. Could solve most of the worlds problems in one strike. Not sure if Washington is big enough for a hyperspace bypass but we could offer it up and see. Just tell them Bush was a poetry critic before he became President.
The most interesting this to me is Microsoft doesn't deny anything. He refers to it as their "business model". In this country selling a product below cost is called dumping and is illegal. Microsoft has begun similar practices inorder to do a preemptive strike against other operating systems. They at times have given away, or at a radically discounted price, operating systems or hardware inorder to take over a market before any other operating system has a chance. It locks them into Microsoft products. It's like giving away cars that run on a special blend of gasoline. It may seem like a good deal and the country gets hooked on free cars. Then you find out the gas is going to cost $5 a gallon and in the long run you'll be spending twice as much. It is a business model, they simply borrowed it from drug dealers.
The hotel guests will go to their window to see the staggering view of the earth. Instead they are greeted with a stunning view of the inflatable McDonalds that just went up across from the hotel. Hey at least weight won't be a problem until they come home.
"It can instantly dissect the geography of a city, showing users the electrical power grid, all rail, roads, pathways, and and other man-made features, plus much more both in map and photographic form."
Does it come in Arabic?
I recently tried to install Mandrake 8.1 I had picked up a while back and finally got around to installing it on a spare hard drive. All seemed to go well until I tried to boot it up. I recieved an unfamilar warning and the screen started to flash. After a lot of digging on various websites I found the problem was an unsupported video card, I later found my current monitor wasn't supported either. That's when the fun began. I tried the Mandrake site. It claimed the video card was supported on 8.1. I looked for updates and found none. I tried tech support and got no response. I tried various Linux user websites and go no response there. I can't even get it to boot up in safe mode. There appears to be no forward compatiblity with video cards. Even an old copy of Win 95 will boot up with a modern video card even if there are no drivers. It just defaults to a standard VGA driver. I was really unimpressed with my first Linux outing. I got zero support from anyone and I couldn't even get to a desktop. First time I ever had that happen and I've been installing operating sysytems since DOS 5.0. I even got ME up and running, if you can call it that. I always considered ME the worst operating system ever. At least I could get it running. Mandrake/Linux looks like a lot of fun but it's useless if I can't even get it to run. I realize 8.1 is an older version of Mandrake but the machine I was trying to install it on dates from the same time the software was released and the video card is older yet. Still feels not ready for primetime. More and more software supports Linux but it's hard to get a straight answer about what hardware is supported and tech support is dodgy at best. I want to switch but I can't aford to keep trying different versions of Linux and different hardware combinations to find one that works. Buying a preloaded system is a bit annoying. I've been building my own machines for a lot of years and I'm loathed to buy off the shelf. Mandrake sadly just became my most recent piece of shelfware.
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Writers and layout people use cap lock all the time. Most will use it from time to time in standard word processing. Computers aren't just for programers. Some of us use the software they write.
The new ad will be Ronald McDonald playing a pipe while being followed by a couple of dozen fat kids singing the latest Brittany Spears song. Hey it worked in the fable.
How sure is he that he didn't sell out to a subsidiary of Microsoft? It's not paranoia. Other companies in the past have bought in to competing companies to errode them from within. Microsoft isn't above using that tactic. Billions are at stake if Microsoft even looses a small market share.
The only way the system would work is if Microsoft won and managed to buy out all other software major companies. One of the biggest problems is the simple fact not everyone uses a computers for the same thing. Most of us customize our machines in some way whether with hardware combinations or software combinations. Cookie cutter computers don't appeal to serious computer people. What the concept really speaks to is the fear of the software companies. Four to five years is more likely their prediction of when they'll start running out of upgrades. I'm still using Office 97, and I rarely use it these days. People are starting to realize the software does what I need it to do. Why upgrade? The software companies are desperate to go to a license only system. The are fast approaching market saturation and don't want to see their profits start to drop. Unfortunately what will happen is new hardware will come out and to be compatible with our favorite software we'll be forced into their license schemes when we upgrade. It'll be like drug companies hooking you on addictive drugs because once you are cured you don't need to buy their drugs. Has anyone else noticed that all the new drugs are geared towards "treatment" not cure? Why cure some one once when you can treat them forever? Which is the better business model? Expect all the larger companies to go to yearly licenses within five years. As far as Gates predictions his batting average sucks. So far he managed to blow off the internet and search engines as unimportant. After everyone else got on board he decided he wanted to drive the train. Gates is the great follower. He's not the leader or visionary.
I would try to get into the habbit of backing up important files on something like a pen drive. You can easily slip it into your pocket and often the data on the computer is more valuable than the machine itself. CD and DVD burners are great but if you use a CDRW be sure to remove the disk between back ups. You don't want to be saying after it is stolen at least I backed it up only to realize the disk is still in the drive.
Took some digging but I found them for sale and got a price. The 20 gig was going for $255 and the 40 gig was going for $370. Here's the site if anyone is desperate enough to pay the price. http://atic.ath.cx/index.php?page=Products&cat =5
I like the compatiblity of USB but I'd still like to see the price on the 40 gig in the area of $200. I'm sure they'll come down to that range eventually. 256 and 512 USB pen drives are doing the trick for me and at a fraction the price.
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Half my family are teachers. From what I can see the money is very tight. They can't even aford paper. My sister like many teachers spends her own money for supplies. The problem isn't the amount spent per child it's the amount that reaches each child in the form of direct education. Most of the money like most government departments gets consumed in bloated administrative costs. You might be shocked to find what the proportion of highly paid administrators are to teachers. Remember the structure is very complex and there are many levels between the Congress and the teachers. I've worked at companies where there were three administrators and office people for every person actually working to produce product. The school system is much worse. Let's say the government wanted to add a 10,000 new teachers. Even if they were being paid $50,000 a year that would only be $500,000,000, a bargin. But that's not the way it works. When you add administrative costs I think you'd find it would cost several billion maybe much more. Other than a handful of new accountants to pay the teachers in truth just how much more support is needed. Yes there are more classrooms and supplies but with most schools they have the space just need enough teachers. The knee jerk reaction to an education problems seems to be more planning/administrators. Fire half the administrative staff and hire an equal number of teachers. You'll save money and put a lot of teachers in classrooms where they are needed. Maybe with the money saved they can actually buy paper and books.
He doesn't appear to be missing many. They seem to be failing in unison. At least Bush got them working together.
I can't begrudge him for making a few bucks off what is likely to be temporary fame. He's a good guy and deserves some success. Microsoft has money and open source by definition has limited resources. He has every right to think of his family first. Open source verses corporate software is not the first consideration for everyone. Does anyone know if he has any interest in open source or not? Not everyone has a preference. It's a choice of working or not. How many programers out there are working for Microsoft that support open source? How many of them have refused work from Microsoft on principal?
I find super gluing their fingers to the keyboard helps promote computer use.
the conservation right is very interested. This condition has reached pandemic proportions among their ranks. Maybe this treatment can avoid the ethical delemia that has left so many right wingers untreated.
Here's a site on that school that was built in England. http://www.cardboardschool.co.uk/
This is always an ugly subject but I guess I'll wade in again. Where exactly does the end user get itellectual rights to a writer's work without paying for the material? There's nothing in the constitution that takes away the writer's right to market his work. The free market system handles this all quite well. If you don't wish to pay for the work don't buy it. Seems a simple solution. If you want the work then you pay for the work. If all intellectual property is free then what is the incentive to create it in the first place? Most aren't writing to get rich they are simply trying to support their families. The J.K Rowlings and Kings are rare. Most struggle to get by. Does your desire for free stuff overide their right to earn a living? What's so horrible about paying for a book? Up until the Guttenberg press they were unaccessible to the average person. Today anyone can aford a book. I think Project Guttenberg is a wonderful thing but an author should be allowed to make a living during his lifetime. To use J.K. Rowlings as an example do you think she would have published the Harry Potter books if she had to do so unpaid or would she still be on the dole left the books unpublished? Isn't it a better world where a woman who is on welfare can sell her work and become successful than a world where if she wishes to practice her craft she has to stay on welfare for life to write? If you still think your rights to free stuff outweigh the writer's rights to earn a living how about this, what if all the authors say screw it and stop writing? Who's the looser in that senerio? Everyone I think.
Before you buy one find out how "temporary" the houses are? They keep repeating it so I assume we aren't talking 35 years. It's pretty basic so I'm quessing you could build a traditional wood structure of the same size and shape for around the same price. A wood structure can last hundreds of years. Sure it can be assembled in a couple of hours but that's not including a finished interior. Got to say it's a lot for a disposible house.
"Is there, like, a trillion-dollar prize for building the first Dyson sphere?" No but there's one for fixing the national debt. The Dyson Sphere might be more realistic though.
" NASA needs to create a $10 million X-Prize going to the congressman that can secure them the most funding."
"This just in, NASA's budget just passed the military and education budgets combined. When asked for a comment the head of the space agency, who was wearing mouse ears and dancing in a circle, shouted, "We goin' to Mars"."
The most interesting thing to me is none of the law enforcement agencies were interested in their information. Given the face this guy was stupid enough to send $80 the photo could have been of an actual scammer. The joke is law enforcement would be more likely to go after him for the $80 reverse scam than that didn't benefit him than the real thief that is stealing 18 grand a shot. I realize there is little they can do from England and the United States to a Nigeran scammer. Given the millions involved there should be pressure on Nigeria to prosecute these men. It may be bringing in millions to the local economy but the threat of a trade embargo from the US and Europe would scare them and could have an effect. Trust me, if Enron was being scammed out of hundreds of millions of dollars the government would be all over it. The fact it's mostly retired people and people who are stupid or desperate the government could care less.
Yeah but according to them using Linux will make you go blind.
GPS systems are intergrated into new celphones. Are those banned on military bases as well? The military is going to have to deal with a brave new world in electronics. What about car GPS systems? Are they banned from bases? It's a knee jerk reaction on the GPS front. As to it having a celphone for spying, are celphones banned from all meetings? My guess is most Generals are armed with a celphone. Celphone jammers are realitively cheap and availible. It might be a smarter and more pratical thing to simply use them in conference rooms and not sweat the Majors new lapel phone let alone coke can.
One of the single biggest problems this country has is the letter of the law is far more important than the intent. It's one of the reasons we are so over regulated. Most lawyers make their livings by distorting the law to benefit their clients. "We all know what the law means but it says this." Criminals get off and corporations get away with acts that should be and in truth are criminal. It's all spin. Their intent was to deface the property to advertise their product. This is obviously illegal. Is it nessacary to create a new law everytime a new method of breaking the law becomes availible?
To hell with what should be spared, I say we should be targeting ground zero. What about Washington DC? The Petroleum Lobbyist would have to throw a dinner party to make sure everyone was in town. Could solve most of the worlds problems in one strike. Not sure if Washington is big enough for a hyperspace bypass but we could offer it up and see. Just tell them Bush was a poetry critic before he became President.
The most interesting this to me is Microsoft doesn't deny anything. He refers to it as their "business model". In this country selling a product below cost is called dumping and is illegal. Microsoft has begun similar practices inorder to do a preemptive strike against other operating systems. They at times have given away, or at a radically discounted price, operating systems or hardware inorder to take over a market before any other operating system has a chance. It locks them into Microsoft products. It's like giving away cars that run on a special blend of gasoline. It may seem like a good deal and the country gets hooked on free cars. Then you find out the gas is going to cost $5 a gallon and in the long run you'll be spending twice as much. It is a business model, they simply borrowed it from drug dealers.
The hotel guests will go to their window to see the staggering view of the earth. Instead they are greeted with a stunning view of the inflatable McDonalds that just went up across from the hotel. Hey at least weight won't be a problem until they come home.
"It can instantly dissect the geography of a city, showing users the electrical power grid, all rail, roads, pathways, and and other man-made features, plus much more both in map and photographic form." Does it come in Arabic?
I recently tried to install Mandrake 8.1 I had picked up a while back and finally got around to installing it on a spare hard drive. All seemed to go well until I tried to boot it up. I recieved an unfamilar warning and the screen started to flash. After a lot of digging on various websites I found the problem was an unsupported video card, I later found my current monitor wasn't supported either. That's when the fun began. I tried the Mandrake site. It claimed the video card was supported on 8.1. I looked for updates and found none. I tried tech support and got no response. I tried various Linux user websites and go no response there. I can't even get it to boot up in safe mode. There appears to be no forward compatiblity with video cards. Even an old copy of Win 95 will boot up with a modern video card even if there are no drivers. It just defaults to a standard VGA driver. I was really unimpressed with my first Linux outing. I got zero support from anyone and I couldn't even get to a desktop. First time I ever had that happen and I've been installing operating sysytems since DOS 5.0. I even got ME up and running, if you can call it that. I always considered ME the worst operating system ever. At least I could get it running. Mandrake/Linux looks like a lot of fun but it's useless if I can't even get it to run. I realize 8.1 is an older version of Mandrake but the machine I was trying to install it on dates from the same time the software was released and the video card is older yet. Still feels not ready for primetime. More and more software supports Linux but it's hard to get a straight answer about what hardware is supported and tech support is dodgy at best. I want to switch but I can't aford to keep trying different versions of Linux and different hardware combinations to find one that works. Buying a preloaded system is a bit annoying. I've been building my own machines for a lot of years and I'm loathed to buy off the shelf. Mandrake sadly just became my most recent piece of shelfware.
Writers and layout people use cap lock all the time. Most will use it from time to time in standard word processing. Computers aren't just for programers. Some of us use the software they write.
The new ad will be Ronald McDonald playing a pipe while being followed by a couple of dozen fat kids singing the latest Brittany Spears song. Hey it worked in the fable.
How sure is he that he didn't sell out to a subsidiary of Microsoft? It's not paranoia. Other companies in the past have bought in to competing companies to errode them from within. Microsoft isn't above using that tactic. Billions are at stake if Microsoft even looses a small market share.
The only way the system would work is if Microsoft won and managed to buy out all other software major companies. One of the biggest problems is the simple fact not everyone uses a computers for the same thing. Most of us customize our machines in some way whether with hardware combinations or software combinations. Cookie cutter computers don't appeal to serious computer people. What the concept really speaks to is the fear of the software companies. Four to five years is more likely their prediction of when they'll start running out of upgrades. I'm still using Office 97, and I rarely use it these days. People are starting to realize the software does what I need it to do. Why upgrade? The software companies are desperate to go to a license only system. The are fast approaching market saturation and don't want to see their profits start to drop. Unfortunately what will happen is new hardware will come out and to be compatible with our favorite software we'll be forced into their license schemes when we upgrade. It'll be like drug companies hooking you on addictive drugs because once you are cured you don't need to buy their drugs. Has anyone else noticed that all the new drugs are geared towards "treatment" not cure? Why cure some one once when you can treat them forever? Which is the better business model? Expect all the larger companies to go to yearly licenses within five years. As far as Gates predictions his batting average sucks. So far he managed to blow off the internet and search engines as unimportant. After everyone else got on board he decided he wanted to drive the train. Gates is the great follower. He's not the leader or visionary.
I would try to get into the habbit of backing up important files on something like a pen drive. You can easily slip it into your pocket and often the data on the computer is more valuable than the machine itself. CD and DVD burners are great but if you use a CDRW be sure to remove the disk between back ups. You don't want to be saying after it is stolen at least I backed it up only to realize the disk is still in the drive.
Took some digging but I found them for sale and got a price. The 20 gig was going for $255 and the 40 gig was going for $370. Here's the site if anyone is desperate enough to pay the price. http://atic.ath.cx/index.php?page=Products&cat =5 I like the compatiblity of USB but I'd still like to see the price on the 40 gig in the area of $200. I'm sure they'll come down to that range eventually. 256 and 512 USB pen drives are doing the trick for me and at a fraction the price.