My only complaint so far is there seems to be less emphasis on subjects beyond math and reading than I'd like. Maybe it's different elsewhere, or in higher grades, but my direct experience has left little to complain about so far.
I think it has been pretty universal over the last 30 years that they have been taking away more and more money from arts and other non-core but still very important subjects. As far as I can tell, they are using the money to fund an increasing number of administrators. It used to be the student to teacher ratio was an important number. These days I think the student to administrator ratio is getting way out of hand. When I went to school. there were zero paid administrators in my district. Now, in the same district, there are hundreds of administrators and a huge new administration building and the number of students in the district is within a few percent of the same number. In fact, they closed down about 1/4 of the elementary schools last year.
Why are these companies hiring software engineers to be code monkeys? College is not there to teach you a trade, it is there to teach you how to be a well rounded and teachable person.
Well , they tried posting an article in slashdot, but the audience was kind of small and it is a tossup whether the article promoted their cause or drew more attention to them as a food source.
The NFL routinely threatens to move teams out of a city if they don't cough up the cash to build/upgrade a stadium. Care to try that again Zippy.
quite true. So the cities should say "See ya". Since the franchise loses the city money overall. unfortunately, there is all the public goodwill you will lose because the rest of the morons believe that the football team actually brings in money for the city and besides, they like football and are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars of your and my money so that they will have the privilege of watching football for $500 a game.
Well, the United Way does that because they are not a worthy charity and have incredibly high administrative costs. Unfortunately, many companies force employees to donate and to solicit donations for this organizations because there are kickbacks and perks for the higher ups if a certain amount of donations originate from that company. The United Way needs to be shut down.
Of course, not everybody can afford to have the internet at their beck and call, but luckily libraries have expanded to fill that gap.
And of course, the vast majority of books and periodicals are not legally available on the internet.
If NFL wishes to be able to enforce blackouts, then they need to provide seating for all of the millions of people in that area that would have wanted to watch the game. If the game has sold out, they have not provided adequate seating and they do not get to have a blackout.
Also, the seating must accommodate all income levels, up to and including having free seats for people who can't afford to go to games and would have watched it for free on their TV.
I realize this sounds preposterous, but it is meant to. The REAL solution is no blackouts. People weren't going to go to your game anyway, because the ticket prices are so high that the average upper middle class family can't afford to go. Lower your prices and your stadium will fill up. Would you rather sell half your seats at $100 a ticket, or all of your seats at $75 a ticket? Flunk Econ 101 much?
FYI, I don't attend football games or watch them on TV. I can't be bothered with sports. But an injustice is an injustice.
The PowerPC line, They were doing good until the Gigahertz range was common in Intel, Power PC was still in MHZ. Intel started to make much faster chips and PowerPC couldn't get caught up.
of course PowerPC was RISC and Intel CPUs were CISC. It is an apples to oranges comparison. Kind of like how I have a 3.1 GHz SandyRidge processor right now and it is about 10 times faster than the 3.1 GHz process I had in my previous 8 year old computer.
I actually kind of liked 1-2-3 and AmiPro, and continued to use the Lotus Suite long after most people had accepted Office as the defacto standard. I would guess I probably gave up on Lotus around 1997 or 1998.
At no point could I abide Lotus Notes, though, and I know some corporations that are fixated on that pile of cruft. In fact, one company that I was at not too far back got bought by a much larger company and I only just managed to get out before the large company inflicted Lotus Notes on the smaller company.
However, Windows has it's place.... Running IE, Office, and most PC based games.... Oh, and the "Server" variants are good at sharing files, being domain controllers for other windows boxes and other such things, if you can afford the license costs... Other than that (and even FOR that sometimes) I'd prefer Linux.
I'm waiting for the day when Wine can run Windows games in emulation faster than Windows can run them natively.
This is the way I see it as well. We are talking about the Operating System here. This is not a 3D Renderer, a CAD Program, a game, or even a spreadsheet or document editor. It merely facilitates the running of actual programs. With each successive release, the footprint should be getting smaller as the engineers figure out how to do the job that the OS needs to do in a smaller space with fewer resources and keeping out of the way of the actual programs that are being used to get work done.
Must be nice to have tickets that are only $100. The very cheapest moving violation in Oklahoma City is well over $200, and the speeding fines start in the upper 200s.
Keep in mind that tickets are not a mere nuisance for rich people, either. Tickets cause insurance to go up, and eventually tickets lead to getting your drivers license taken away. That is not any better for the rich than it is for the rest of us.
The "red cars get more tickets" myth is a myth. See snopes.com. Supporting evidence of this is the fact that insurance companies don't ask you what color your car is.
I had a '98 Supra Turbo and I sped regularly but not egregiously. Never got a ticket in that car. I now have a BMW 335is and have also had a Lotus Turbo Esprit, a Mazda RX-7 convertible, a Lexus SC400, a 1990 Toyota Supra Turbo and a 1988 Toyota MR-2. Of all of these cars, the only one I have gotten a ticket in was the MR-2, and that was about 20 years ago, for driving 45 on a 4 lane divided highway, having not noticed that the speed limit was 35. Luckily I saw the cop ahead of me and slowed down from 55, which might have been a little bit fast, to 45 , which was a reasonable and prudent speed for the road and conditions. In fact, 45 was probably a little slow for that section of road. Luckily for me I got pulled over there and not 500 feet further up, where the highway was no longer divided, but was still 4 lanes, and the speed limit was 20.
I don't care for consistency in UI between my smart phone and my desktop. On my smartphone, I am stuck with a tiny screen, with not input method other than my fingers and a couple of buttons. On my desktop, I have a mouse and keyboard, which are dozens of times more efficient. I only use my smart phone for apps if I don't have a more efficient method readily available at the moment. I have no desire to be stuck with that input method on my desktop.
Which basically means that the UI for all platforms are dumbed down to the least capable device.
So which competitor to Windows is offering basically the opposite, ie, an Experience tailored to the device? That's the one I will be buying.
Only a grade A moron arrives in America and says to himself "I have arrived in India!".
Taken out of context, this happens quite frequently today.
As far as Columbus goes, if he really thought he had arrived in India, why did he go around naming all these places which in the populated country of India would have already had names?
He certainly pitched the trip as a western route to the east, but I don't think he had any beliefs upon arriving in the Americas that he had reached a known Eastern destination.
So, what were the incompetent security guards charged with?
Wait, what? The guy wandering around in a fog was charged? With what, exposing the inherent flaws in the security theater?
I have discovered through experimentation that if you don't give your preteen girl a cell phone, she won't spend all day obsessing about her cell phone.
Everything is a trade off. My car is so complex I can't begin to figure out how to fix it, but I do have a diagnostic tool on my iPad that I could not possible afford 10 years ago.
I assume you mean you couldn't afford the $400 ipad ten years ago and not that you couldn't afford the $50 diagnostic tool 10 years ago.
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For 22 + 22, I do 22+22. For 96 + 35 I do 100 + 31.
My only complaint so far is there seems to be less emphasis on subjects beyond math and reading than I'd like. Maybe it's different elsewhere, or in higher grades, but my direct experience has left little to complain about so far.
I think it has been pretty universal over the last 30 years that they have been taking away more and more money from arts and other non-core but still very important subjects. As far as I can tell, they are using the money to fund an increasing number of administrators. It used to be the student to teacher ratio was an important number. These days I think the student to administrator ratio is getting way out of hand. When I went to school. there were zero paid administrators in my district. Now, in the same district, there are hundreds of administrators and a huge new administration building and the number of students in the district is within a few percent of the same number. In fact, they closed down about 1/4 of the elementary schools last year.
Why are these companies hiring software engineers to be code monkeys? College is not there to teach you a trade, it is there to teach you how to be a well rounded and teachable person.
Well , they tried posting an article in slashdot, but the audience was kind of small and it is a tossup whether the article promoted their cause or drew more attention to them as a food source.
Yeah, and nobody is sticking up for the poor Cowboys either.
The NFL routinely threatens to move teams out of a city if they don't cough up the cash to build/upgrade a stadium. Care to try that again Zippy.
quite true. So the cities should say "See ya". Since the franchise loses the city money overall. unfortunately, there is all the public goodwill you will lose because the rest of the morons believe that the football team actually brings in money for the city and besides, they like football and are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars of your and my money so that they will have the privilege of watching football for $500 a game.
It sounds like he was there first. The stadium should move.
Well, the United Way does that because they are not a worthy charity and have incredibly high administrative costs. Unfortunately, many companies force employees to donate and to solicit donations for this organizations because there are kickbacks and perks for the higher ups if a certain amount of donations originate from that company. The United Way needs to be shut down.
Of course, not everybody can afford to have the internet at their beck and call, but luckily libraries have expanded to fill that gap.
And of course, the vast majority of books and periodicals are not legally available on the internet.
If NFL wishes to be able to enforce blackouts, then they need to provide seating for all of the millions of people in that area that would have wanted to watch the game. If the game has sold out, they have not provided adequate seating and they do not get to have a blackout.
Also, the seating must accommodate all income levels, up to and including having free seats for people who can't afford to go to games and would have watched it for free on their TV.
I realize this sounds preposterous, but it is meant to. The REAL solution is no blackouts. People weren't going to go to your game anyway, because the ticket prices are so high that the average upper middle class family can't afford to go. Lower your prices and your stadium will fill up. Would you rather sell half your seats at $100 a ticket, or all of your seats at $75 a ticket? Flunk Econ 101 much?
FYI, I don't attend football games or watch them on TV. I can't be bothered with sports. But an injustice is an injustice.
Oh, you beat me to it. At least I was good enough to scan through existing comments first instead of just posting my first thought on the subject.
The PowerPC line, They were doing good until the Gigahertz range was common in Intel, Power PC was still in MHZ. Intel started to make much faster chips and PowerPC couldn't get caught up.
of course PowerPC was RISC and Intel CPUs were CISC. It is an apples to oranges comparison. Kind of like how I have a 3.1 GHz SandyRidge processor right now and it is about 10 times faster than the 3.1 GHz process I had in my previous 8 year old computer.
I actually kind of liked 1-2-3 and AmiPro, and continued to use the Lotus Suite long after most people had accepted Office as the defacto standard. I would guess I probably gave up on Lotus around 1997 or 1998.
At no point could I abide Lotus Notes, though, and I know some corporations that are fixated on that pile of cruft. In fact, one company that I was at not too far back got bought by a much larger company and I only just managed to get out before the large company inflicted Lotus Notes on the smaller company.
However, Windows has it's place.... Running IE, Office, and most PC based games.... Oh, and the "Server" variants are good at sharing files, being domain controllers for other windows boxes and other such things, if you can afford the license costs... Other than that (and even FOR that sometimes) I'd prefer Linux.
I'm waiting for the day when Wine can run Windows games in emulation faster than Windows can run them natively.
This is the way I see it as well. We are talking about the Operating System here. This is not a 3D Renderer, a CAD Program, a game, or even a spreadsheet or document editor. It merely facilitates the running of actual programs. With each successive release, the footprint should be getting smaller as the engineers figure out how to do the job that the OS needs to do in a smaller space with fewer resources and keeping out of the way of the actual programs that are being used to get work done.
Must be nice to have tickets that are only $100. The very cheapest moving violation in Oklahoma City is well over $200, and the speeding fines start in the upper 200s.
Keep in mind that tickets are not a mere nuisance for rich people, either. Tickets cause insurance to go up, and eventually tickets lead to getting your drivers license taken away. That is not any better for the rich than it is for the rest of us.
The "red cars get more tickets" myth is a myth. See snopes.com. Supporting evidence of this is the fact that insurance companies don't ask you what color your car is.
I had a '98 Supra Turbo and I sped regularly but not egregiously. Never got a ticket in that car. I now have a BMW 335is and have also had a Lotus Turbo Esprit, a Mazda RX-7 convertible, a Lexus SC400, a 1990 Toyota Supra Turbo and a 1988 Toyota MR-2. Of all of these cars, the only one I have gotten a ticket in was the MR-2, and that was about 20 years ago, for driving 45 on a 4 lane divided highway, having not noticed that the speed limit was 35. Luckily I saw the cop ahead of me and slowed down from 55, which might have been a little bit fast, to 45 , which was a reasonable and prudent speed for the road and conditions. In fact, 45 was probably a little slow for that section of road. Luckily for me I got pulled over there and not 500 feet further up, where the highway was no longer divided, but was still 4 lanes, and the speed limit was 20.
I don't care for consistency in UI between my smart phone and my desktop. On my smartphone, I am stuck with a tiny screen, with not input method other than my fingers and a couple of buttons. On my desktop, I have a mouse and keyboard, which are dozens of times more efficient. I only use my smart phone for apps if I don't have a more efficient method readily available at the moment. I have no desire to be stuck with that input method on my desktop.
Unified Experience Across Devices
Which basically means that the UI for all platforms are dumbed down to the least capable device.
So which competitor to Windows is offering basically the opposite, ie, an Experience tailored to the device? That's the one I will be buying.
Only a grade A moron arrives in America and says to himself "I have arrived in India!".
Taken out of context, this happens quite frequently today.
As far as Columbus goes, if he really thought he had arrived in India, why did he go around naming all these places which in the populated country of India would have already had names?
He certainly pitched the trip as a western route to the east, but I don't think he had any beliefs upon arriving in the Americas that he had reached a known Eastern destination.
So, what were the incompetent security guards charged with?
Wait, what? The guy wandering around in a fog was charged? With what, exposing the inherent flaws in the security theater?
I have discovered through experimentation that if you don't give your preteen girl a cell phone, she won't spend all day obsessing about her cell phone.
Everything is a trade off. My car is so complex I can't begin to figure out how to fix it, but I do have a diagnostic tool on my iPad that I could not possible afford 10 years ago.
I assume you mean you couldn't afford the $400 ipad ten years ago and not that you couldn't afford the $50 diagnostic tool 10 years ago.
Thanks for the Troll mod, Prater.