How is that we hear so many stories of Asian immigrants coming to this country with nothing, or next to nothing and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, often with less than most native-born people who linger in stagnant poverty over generations.
The asian immigrants have one thing going for them; hope. People here in the vicious cycle of poverty have often given up on themselves, and are actually in a position where they feel hopeless.
The native family likely has a drug abuse problem, maybe a alcoholic father or a mother addicted to gambling. You can succeed in life if you have the drive and determination to do so, but these kids from these fucked up homes come out fucked up too, and the cycle continues.
For the state to defeat poverty, it takes investment, time, and determination. You can blame the individual, but you should also blame their circumstances.
, they call students who simply can't learn the way they teach, lazy.
Let's dissect this for a moment.
If we're talking grade school, my wife finds that with most kids who lag behind it's the parents lack of involvement that's the problem. Teachers want to fail the kids who don't perform; my wife had six kids on her class who didn't do a lick of homework. When she called the parents in to discuss they never showed. Why should the school care when the parents don't? Education, IMO starts in the home. A teacher in grade school can't fail a kid; it's too hard and it's not worth the effort. The parent needs to decide to hold their kid back.
In high school, welcome to life. You're in a class of 30. When you move into university you'll be in a class of 150. The world doesn't bend for you, you bend for the world. Tough shit. That, unfortunately is life, and isn't the teacher's fault, it's the student's. Teaching style be damned.
There was two comments in the post = a point about chanting islamic chants and a second point about C4.
Why are the two even related? The Unibomber was America. You're not using Christian Chants as your rhetoric, you're using Islamic chants.
So yeah, I take exception to your example because you're using the use of fear mongering and Muslims when religious radicals exist in all walks of life. I never heard people talking this way about Waco, Texas.
I can agree with that - HR people are the worse barrier for getting a job; they should take more seriously the challenge of finding the right candidate for a job instead of just looking at the specs laid out before them.
Quite often, if I am able to make it past HR, I am able to coast to an offer. HR is often my largest hurdle, mostly because I'm self taught and the stigma of not having a CompSci degree is a kick in the nuts.
It's not the system, it's the perception that's the problem.
New Zealand's proportional representation is full of problems for them - there's a lot of folks who don't like that system, and I find the voting system too confusing. One such system was proposed for BC here in Canada, and I voted against it because I found it too complex. I like our current voting system - I show up and put a single X in a single circle. Having to order my candidates - that's fucked up.
A party could easily come to the party that appeals to the left and the right. I'd be willing to bet that most reasonable Americans would classify themselves as fiscal conservative, social liberal... I want lower taxes but I want to see the poor and needy be taken care of too. If my taxes take care of the poor, maybe the poor would be less inclined to rob me.
Which is fascinating - here in Canada, we have left, right and a middle of the road party.
The middle of the road party should be the natural governing party because they appeal to both sides, and it's been the case here in Canada. The pendulum has swung to the right sometimes, and never a majority to the left. However the left has held the balance of power in the past, and holds it today too. That means that careful consideration need be given to the left before passing laws.
Truth is though, I don't see what's good about the Republicans - they lower taxes and increase deficit spending - they are not fiscally conservative at all - they're a wolf in sheep's clothing. And the Democrats - while they appear to be left leaning are in fact not left leaning - they cave to corporate interests as much as Republicans do too.
Give me a truly fiscally conservative party that cuts spending and cuts taxes and I could be interested, but as it stands, deficit spending to fund wars is not a conservative.
You have to vote both these parties out if you want to get rid of this stuff. Not just the candidates that voted for this bill. Which is why I don't understand the absence of third party choice in the USA. There's nothing wrong with voting for a third party. You're showing that you aren't interested in the top two choices. If enough of you had the courage to vote for a third party, it wouldn't be a problem. The fear of vote splitting is an excuse. Your vote is never a throw away vote, even if it's for a third party.
While I understand exceptions when it comes to handing in coursework because of an unexpected illness or a death in the family, I don't think the teacher should accept late work at all. They should get a zero or a severe reduction in points. My wife can't fail 50% of her class. She hits the first term report cards and half her class is failing. She's required by the ministry of education to give a child all the chances in the world to make up missed schoolwork.
And THEN at the end of the year, she has 1/3 of her class still failing. She's required by the ministry of education to write a report for all these kids on what they need to do to pass her class, and they have all summer to complete her requirements to pass. Furthermore, if they have passed only one term of the three, they still pass the grade.
She sees all this bullshit, and is powerless to do anything about it because the ministry IMO over manages.
We see this in IT all the time. You present a good idea at a meeting and a group of managers pounce on it and overmanage that idea to the point where it sucks. Same thing with the ministry of education.
That was the justification in my school district grown up to get rid of their Honours Math program. They felt the exceptional students should be meshed with the mediocre ones.
I went from being an A honours student to being a C+ student in retard math. I found the class to slow and too stupid. I actually got an F on a few tests because I performed too many calculations in my head and didn't show my work. I had this uncanny ability to do a lot of stuff in my head in high school math.
I got away with it in University Calculus but I wised up that if I showed my work and got the wrong answer I still get partial marks:)
>I would suggest smaller class sizes rather than segregation based on intelligence.
My wife's a teacher and I can tell you a few things about kids now that she's learned.
1) If parents don't care the kids don't either. Parents involved in the education of their children have children successful in their education.
2) No child left behind is bullshit. If kids don't get grade 7 material, they won't get grade 8 material. The worse part is that the kid in grade 8 will be disruptive to the rest of the class. The stupid kids tend to be the most obnoxious.
3) When smart kids are told by the dumb kids that they needn't do the work and they'll still pass, the smart kids catch on and jump on that bandwagon too, being dragged into the trenches with the stupid kids.
4) When stupid kids are allowed to hand in their homework late, the smart kids realize they can do it too.
Dumb kids drag down smart kids. Teachers are powerless to do anything with these stupid kids.
Truth be told though, if the parents aren't interested in seeing their kids succeed, why should the school even care?
Yahoo mail has gone to seed lately whereas Hotmail has improved. Actually I'm really impressed with Yahoo mail. I find the interface very useful - at least like a clone of standard email clients... It's runs quite well and makes me happy to use it.
I have nothing admittedly to gauge it again as I haven't used Hotmail for years and I haven't bothered with a gmail account...
IBM/AMD has a long way to go to catch up. The IBM guys I've talked to have mentioned that multi-core / multi-processor units in the x86 platform have diminishing returns per core because of the overhead on the controller of the multiple cores - they price their licensing for db2 accordingly - their per-processor pricing discounts on multi-core x86 machines.
OTOH they price Power licenses at full price per core because according to them Power doesn't have the diminishing returns that x86 has on multiple cores/processors...
That is a big deal in a world of parallel computing no?
I have this new invention called freedom and peace of mind. Security measures are a funny thing. Once you lift them the hole is wide open for widespread abuse. You can bet your ass if they stopped checking liquids now that you'd get poisons and explosives on the plane in liquid containers.
but for a programmer it's an annoyance. I work in a java shop, and most java developers have moved to mac. Honestly, eclipse and netbeans runs on mac - there isn't too much on a mac that's an annoyance for java developers. And there's still Ruby and Python and even Perl and PHP. It's fine.
OSX has macports which have all the awseomeness of FreeBSD ports.
The real thing that's killing Linux on the desktop IS Linux on the desktop.
I'll tell you why I moved over. Wireless compatibility is still a problem for various wireless chipsets. My laptop needed madwifi. It ran okay but still didn't work well with NetworkManager.
As well, native printer drivers are non existent.
Truth be told, I bought a mac because it has all the awesomeness of unix without the headaches. There's no STFU you N00B RTFM kinda stuff going on.
the treatment a company gives its customers are often one and the same. I'll argue though that Wal-Mart seems to treat their customers well and their employees like inexpensive lemmings.
? The logical benchmark is to compare it to the first eleven months of Windows XP, back in 2001 and 2002. I'd say it's probably better to compare to Windows ME than XP...
They need to ration them out fairly, that means making them more expensive No, Nintendo is running their business the way they feel they need to, and IMO it's working bloody awesome. The shortages are their because demand is high.
so radically below market that scalpers are grabbing them. I got one last March just fine. I watched the Amazon forums and a Wii came up. They were super easy to grab then. Too bad for anyone who's waited until Christmas to buy one really. Not Nintendo's market. Just wait for February when things will get back to normal again really...
Right now, I'd say Nintendo's on the ball and Sony's missed the boat.
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How is that we hear so many stories of Asian immigrants coming to this country with nothing, or next to nothing and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, often with less than most native-born people who linger in stagnant poverty over generations.
The asian immigrants have one thing going for them; hope. People here in the vicious cycle of poverty have often given up on themselves, and are actually in a position where they feel hopeless.
The native family likely has a drug abuse problem, maybe a alcoholic father or a mother addicted to gambling. You can succeed in life if you have the drive and determination to do so, but these kids from these fucked up homes come out fucked up too, and the cycle continues.
For the state to defeat poverty, it takes investment, time, and determination. You can blame the individual, but you should also blame their circumstances.
, they call students who simply can't learn the way they teach, lazy.
Let's dissect this for a moment.
If we're talking grade school, my wife finds that with most kids who lag behind it's the parents lack of involvement that's the problem. Teachers want to fail the kids who don't perform; my wife had six kids on her class who didn't do a lick of homework. When she called the parents in to discuss they never showed. Why should the school care when the parents don't? Education, IMO starts in the home. A teacher in grade school can't fail a kid; it's too hard and it's not worth the effort. The parent needs to decide to hold their kid back.
In high school, welcome to life. You're in a class of 30. When you move into university you'll be in a class of 150. The world doesn't bend for you, you bend for the world. Tough shit. That, unfortunately is life, and isn't the teacher's fault, it's the student's. Teaching style be damned.
One border agent has stopped me when I was about to go back north
What's a US agent doing on the Canadian entry point?
I don't particularly understand that - what would they do, deny you exit?
If it was a Canadian border guard, I'm shocked - those guys are usually pretty decent from what I've experienced...
There was two comments in the post = a point about chanting islamic chants and a second point about C4.
Why are the two even related? The Unibomber was America. You're not using Christian Chants as your rhetoric, you're using Islamic chants.
So yeah, I take exception to your example because you're using the use of fear mongering and Muslims when religious radicals exist in all walks of life. I never heard people talking this way about Waco, Texas.
I can agree with that - HR people are the worse barrier for getting a job; they should take more seriously the challenge of finding the right candidate for a job instead of just looking at the specs laid out before them.
Quite often, if I am able to make it past HR, I am able to coast to an offer. HR is often my largest hurdle, mostly because I'm self taught and the stigma of not having a CompSci degree is a kick in the nuts.
OWA for Firefox looks like balls. Works like balls too. I'm stuck with that as IMAP hangs too much to be usable, both in Thunderbird and Evolution.
Try xrandr instead. I farted around with MergedFB and Xinerama before I found xrandr. I'm pretty impressed with it for dual display.
As long as it's taxed and has governmental oversight, nothing.
Can China collect taxes when her citizens travel to Las Vegas to gamble?
Seriously, oversight is one thing, but the taxation part is bullshit. It's protectionism, plain and simple.
It's not the system, it's the perception that's the problem.
New Zealand's proportional representation is full of problems for them - there's a lot of folks who don't like that system, and I find the voting system too confusing. One such system was proposed for BC here in Canada, and I voted against it because I found it too complex. I like our current voting system - I show up and put a single X in a single circle. Having to order my candidates - that's fucked up.
A party could easily come to the party that appeals to the left and the right. I'd be willing to bet that most reasonable Americans would classify themselves as fiscal conservative, social liberal... I want lower taxes but I want to see the poor and needy be taken care of too. If my taxes take care of the poor, maybe the poor would be less inclined to rob me.
Which is fascinating - here in Canada, we have left, right and a middle of the road party.
The middle of the road party should be the natural governing party because they appeal to both sides, and it's been the case here in Canada. The pendulum has swung to the right sometimes, and never a majority to the left. However the left has held the balance of power in the past, and holds it today too. That means that careful consideration need be given to the left before passing laws.
Truth is though, I don't see what's good about the Republicans - they lower taxes and increase deficit spending - they are not fiscally conservative at all - they're a wolf in sheep's clothing. And the Democrats - while they appear to be left leaning are in fact not left leaning - they cave to corporate interests as much as Republicans do too.
Give me a truly fiscally conservative party that cuts spending and cuts taxes and I could be interested, but as it stands, deficit spending to fund wars is not a conservative.
And THEN at the end of the year, she has 1/3 of her class still failing. She's required by the ministry of education to write a report for all these kids on what they need to do to pass her class, and they have all summer to complete her requirements to pass. Furthermore, if they have passed only one term of the three, they still pass the grade.
She sees all this bullshit, and is powerless to do anything about it because the ministry IMO over manages.
We see this in IT all the time. You present a good idea at a meeting and a group of managers pounce on it and overmanage that idea to the point where it sucks. Same thing with the ministry of education.
That was the justification in my school district grown up to get rid of their Honours Math program. They felt the exceptional students should be meshed with the mediocre ones.
:)
I went from being an A honours student to being a C+ student in retard math. I found the class to slow and too stupid. I actually got an F on a few tests because I performed too many calculations in my head and didn't show my work. I had this uncanny ability to do a lot of stuff in my head in high school math.
I got away with it in University Calculus but I wised up that if I showed my work and got the wrong answer I still get partial marks
>I would suggest smaller class sizes rather than segregation based on intelligence.
My wife's a teacher and I can tell you a few things about kids now that she's learned.
1) If parents don't care the kids don't either. Parents involved in the education of their children have children successful in their education.
2) No child left behind is bullshit. If kids don't get grade 7 material, they won't get grade 8 material. The worse part is that the kid in grade 8 will be disruptive to the rest of the class. The stupid kids tend to be the most obnoxious.
3) When smart kids are told by the dumb kids that they needn't do the work and they'll still pass, the smart kids catch on and jump on that bandwagon too, being dragged into the trenches with the stupid kids.
4) When stupid kids are allowed to hand in their homework late, the smart kids realize they can do it too.
Dumb kids drag down smart kids. Teachers are powerless to do anything with these stupid kids.
Truth be told though, if the parents aren't interested in seeing their kids succeed, why should the school even care?
I have nothing admittedly to gauge it again as I haven't used Hotmail for years and I haven't bothered with a gmail account...
OTOH they price Power licenses at full price per core because according to them Power doesn't have the diminishing returns that x86 has on multiple cores/processors...
That is a big deal in a world of parallel computing no?
Here's IMO the sign that the W3C needs a swift kick in the pills. A query language for the semantic web?
The W3C is past its usefulness and needs a shakedown IMO.
And macports rock.
Why? Firefox's memory management is truly ass. I do not think a web browser should ever consume 400MB of RAM - it's bad.
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -psn_0_77843
I've tried all the different changes to the settings and it still is ass. I run it on my mac, and with four tabs open it's taking over 100MB:
user 114 0.7 11.2 542940 117764 ?? S 8:54pm 5:59.26
11.2% of my RAM is consumed by firefox, and that's only with four tabs open.
OSX has macports which have all the awseomeness of FreeBSD ports.
The real thing that's killing Linux on the desktop IS Linux on the desktop.
I'll tell you why I moved over. Wireless compatibility is still a problem for various wireless chipsets. My laptop needed madwifi. It ran okay but still didn't work well with NetworkManager.
As well, native printer drivers are non existent.
Truth be told, I bought a mac because it has all the awesomeness of unix without the headaches. There's no STFU you N00B RTFM kinda stuff going on.
Right now, I'd say Nintendo's on the ball and Sony's missed the boat.
Did I say feet? I should have sad meters ^_^ I'm from Canada - a bastard fusion of Metric and Imperial systems :)
Still I think my rubber band theory bears some weight...