Every school budget gets a 'no' vote from me! This school district I live in is too concerned with sports, and not concerned enough with technology, so I always vote no. If you can't spend my money wisely, I don't want you to have it.
Maybe you should propose a ballot iniative to spend more money on technology. Or directly on teacher salaries. You CAN choose what your local government does, you know.
And remember - it's not the "teachers" getting stuck in the middle, it's the education of our future society. Many of the current teachers would fall back to lower-paying jobs if better-qualified people started entering the field. The purpose of teacher pay raises is more to attract better teachers than to reward the present ones.
That would be attacking the symptom instead of the problem. The school administrators will just take that as an opportunity to continue spending all of their money on unnecessary equipment, and leave future pay raises up to another tax hike as well.
I said teacher salaries, not school budgets. If your local government or school board only proposes general budget increases, you should take that up with them.
The next time a pay raise for your local teachers is on the ballot, vote for it. Even if it's a sales tax increase. Your kids will thank you for it. Civilization will thank you for it.
Education is the world's most important profession, because without it, civilization would never propagate its knowledge to the next generation. And schoolteaching is a crucial yet underrecognized part of this.
"Allocating variables in the stack frame of the current function" is not "pushing items onto the stack". It can't be popped off the stack; it can't be placed there in preparation for a function call. In fact, the article linked says not to use alloca in the middle of a function -- if you could truly PUSH and POP, it would be perfectly fine to do something vaguely like push(2); printf("%d");.
a bright-but-not-intelligent geek has given the spammer assholes a way to encode their crap in simple HTML which no spam filter will manage to get.
Are you seriously trying to imply that the concept of rendering an image in HTML via 1-pixel table cells is new? The innovation here is connecting table-rendered-images and CAPTCHAs, not one or the other.
Even on my (relatively) new and (relatively) powerful machine, it took Firefox a noticeable amount of time to render the image, and caused my hard drive to crunch a little.
In Safari, on a 1.83 GHz Core Duo, the rendering was completely not noticeable. Perhaps Gecko is poor at rendering giant tables?
(This isn't unlikely. On Mozilla 1.4 on a 1.8 GHz HP, about a year ago, I tried to render a 320x200 image as a table - I was trying to find a quick hack to get an image out of QBasic. It took less time to realize netpbm would be easier and implement that than to render the table.)
In other words, Ubuntu actually thinks about the user's needs in advance and fixes them, while Microsoft (as described in the article) does nothing of the sort.
Tops on my list of applications are Firefox and Thunderbird, and I always get rid of modified versions and substitute the pristine versions direct from Mozilla.org. So I downloaded both, unzipped and untarred them into/usr/lib/, where Debian likes to keep them, and created symlinks in/usr/bin/ pointing to/usr/lib/firefox/firefox and/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird, where the system expects to find them.
In other words, he knew that Debian modified the Mozilla code and cared enough to get the originals. A newbie would not have attempted to replace this, and would have used the bundled variants just fine. No symlinks or DLL^WSO hell to worry about.
Most of the non-computer savvy people I know click the Big E on their desktop, and wait for the MSN page to load, and promptly hit whatever bookmark they wanted once the page loads: they don't actually use the MSN portal for anything.
I'm computer-savvy and use Firefox as my default (Windows) browser, but I still use IE occasionally for website testing, etc. I use it so rarely that I leave the MSN portal as the default. So I can attest to this behavior.
I am just saying there should be some real stand-out feature in the protagonist
Courage. Honesty. The self-confidence to do the right thing, no matter what, and realize that rules are secondary to morality.
Sure, you could have had a smart or strong or talented character as the hero, but merely being smart, strong, or talented isn't what really counts. There's a reason the three main characters -- especially Hermione -- are in Gryffindor.
Mod me up, mod me down. Label me a troll or call me flamebait. Agree or dissagree with me, it don't matter. Nothing you can do will change the truth of my statement.
I feel woefully inadequate correcting someone from the golden age of phreaking, but...I think you meant ATH0. If the phone's already off the hook, ATH1 does nothing.
Unfortunately, the most well-quoted parts of the Bible are the densest, and more often than not are quoted from the King James Version. It's not obvious to the modern reader that "Greater love hath no man than this" is in object-verb-subject order, and such concerns get in the way of really understanding the text.
Some of the Old Testament stories are pretty decent to read, though...try 1 Samuel 20 from the Contemporary English Version. (I don't necessarily endorse this version -- I just got a physical copy two days ago -- but it reads well.)
The entire book of Esther also is pretty good, as are parts of Acts, such as Acts 27 in a translation called The Message.
Of course, these aren't necessarilly the parts that relate to recent woes (when was the last time the king wanted to kill you or you were caught in a shipwreck off Malta?), but they're as theologically important as "My cup runneth over; surely goodness and mercy shall follow me" and similar parts.
(The New International Version and other more well-known versions are all good (you probably have heard quotes or readings from the NIV, even if you haven't heard the name), but it puts a large emphasis on faithfulness to the original text, which doesn't always use the same idioms as modern English.)
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Every school budget gets a 'no' vote from me! This school district I live in is too concerned with sports, and not concerned enough with technology, so I always vote no. If you can't spend my money wisely, I don't want you to have it.
Maybe you should propose a ballot iniative to spend more money on technology. Or directly on teacher salaries. You CAN choose what your local government does, you know.
And remember - it's not the "teachers" getting stuck in the middle, it's the education of our future society. Many of the current teachers would fall back to lower-paying jobs if better-qualified people started entering the field. The purpose of teacher pay raises is more to attract better teachers than to reward the present ones.
That would be attacking the symptom instead of the problem. The school administrators will just take that as an opportunity to continue spending all of their money on unnecessary equipment, and leave future pay raises up to another tax hike as well.
I said teacher salaries, not school budgets. If your local government or school board only proposes general budget increases, you should take that up with them.
Those who can, do, those who can't, teach.
Those who can, take a higher-paying job.
The next time a pay raise for your local teachers is on the ballot, vote for it. Even if it's a sales tax increase. Your kids will thank you for it. Civilization will thank you for it.
Education is the world's most important profession, because without it, civilization would never propagate its knowledge to the next generation. And schoolteaching is a crucial yet underrecognized part of this.
"Allocating variables in the stack frame of the current function" is not "pushing items onto the stack". It can't be popped off the stack; it can't be placed there in preparation for a function call. In fact, the article linked says not to use alloca in the middle of a function -- if you could truly PUSH and POP, it would be perfectly fine to do something vaguely like push(2); printf("%d");.
Surfing pr0n....thereby depraving others
Freudian slip?
a bright-but-not-intelligent geek has given the spammer assholes a way to encode their crap in simple HTML which no spam filter will manage to get.
Are you seriously trying to imply that the concept of rendering an image in HTML via 1-pixel table cells is new? The innovation here is connecting table-rendered-images and CAPTCHAs, not one or the other.
human intelligence requiring task
"Prove or disprove P=NP. (You have 500 characters remaining.)"
Even on my (relatively) new and (relatively) powerful machine, it took Firefox a noticeable amount of time to render the image, and caused my hard drive to crunch a little.
In Safari, on a 1.83 GHz Core Duo, the rendering was completely not noticeable. Perhaps Gecko is poor at rendering giant tables?
(This isn't unlikely. On Mozilla 1.4 on a 1.8 GHz HP, about a year ago, I tried to render a 320x200 image as a table - I was trying to find a quick hack to get an image out of QBasic. It took less time to realize netpbm would be easier and implement that than to render the table.)
Well, if you had a story about laptops that couldn't display e-books, I suppose notebook and !ebook would both be acceptable.
(This was before they combined them, geniuses.)
In other words, Ubuntu actually thinks about the user's needs in advance and fixes them, while Microsoft (as described in the article) does nothing of the sort.
If you don't know pointers, then you don't know how the machine works. I would never use a doctor that didn't know how my body worked.
Yes, but last time I went to the doctor he didn't grab a hand pump and start pushing my blood around.
And when was the last time C let you manually push items onto the stack?
It seems that someone on this site
Has no idea how to rhyme.
Jeez Malda, it's us, fer Chrissake. You're an editor already! You're allowed to say the G word (girlfriend) without losing /. cred around here.
You mean wife.
I have two words for you.
Turing completeness.
Tops on my list of applications are Firefox and Thunderbird, and I always get rid of modified versions and substitute the pristine versions direct from Mozilla.org. So I downloaded both, unzipped and untarred them into /usr/lib/, where Debian likes to keep them, and created symlinks in /usr/bin/ pointing to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird, where the system expects to find them.
In other words, he knew that Debian modified the Mozilla code and cared enough to get the originals. A newbie would not have attempted to replace this, and would have used the bundled variants just fine. No symlinks or DLL^WSO hell to worry about.
Geez. Are you one of the people that actually uses Plan 9!?
Most of the non-computer savvy people I know click the Big E on their desktop, and wait for the MSN page to load, and promptly hit whatever bookmark they wanted once the page loads: they don't actually use the MSN portal for anything.
I'm computer-savvy and use Firefox as my default (Windows) browser, but I still use IE occasionally for website testing, etc. I use it so rarely that I leave the MSN portal as the default. So I can attest to this behavior.
They think that they have what it takes to be the next J.K. Rowling. They don't.
Unless they're Barty Crouch.
I am just saying there should be some real stand-out feature in the protagonist
Courage. Honesty. The self-confidence to do the right thing, no matter what, and realize that rules are secondary to morality.
Sure, you could have had a smart or strong or talented character as the hero, but merely being smart, strong, or talented isn't what really counts. There's a reason the three main characters -- especially Hermione -- are in Gryffindor.
Mod me up, mod me down. Label me a troll or call me flamebait. Agree or dissagree with me, it don't matter. Nothing you can do will change the truth of my statement.
Right, it will stay as false as ever.
ATH1
I feel woefully inadequate correcting someone from the golden age of phreaking, but...I think you meant ATH0. If the phone's already off the hook, ATH1 does nothing.
You know, I'm a parent. My two daughters
You're not qualified.
(I posted this further down as a reply to an anon comment, so it got buried.)
Guys, this story is false. I see no Skype links. Do you see any Skype links?
Unfortunately, the most well-quoted parts of the Bible are the densest, and more often than not are quoted from the King James Version. It's not obvious to the modern reader that "Greater love hath no man than this" is in object-verb-subject order, and such concerns get in the way of really understanding the text.
Some of the Old Testament stories are pretty decent to read, though...try 1 Samuel 20 from the Contemporary English Version. (I don't necessarily endorse this version -- I just got a physical copy two days ago -- but it reads well.)
The entire book of Esther also is pretty good, as are parts of Acts, such as Acts 27 in a translation called The Message.
Of course, these aren't necessarilly the parts that relate to recent woes (when was the last time the king wanted to kill you or you were caught in a shipwreck off Malta?), but they're as theologically important as "My cup runneth over; surely goodness and mercy shall follow me" and similar parts.
(The New International Version and other more well-known versions are all good (you probably have heard quotes or readings from the NIV, even if you haven't heard the name), but it puts a large emphasis on faithfulness to the original text, which doesn't always use the same idioms as modern English.)
Same here. No Skype links for me, with Safari and the near-latest Mac version.