My wife & I just recently went through this except we went with film rather than digital. Luckily my wife's mother is the secretary of a large church and also coordinates weddings so all the local photographers were willing to give us great discounts.
Overall the photography costs came to about $2,300. Their general policy is that after about 3-5 years, they'll sell the originals for another $500 or so. That way they get the majority of the revenue from people who want copies, but eventually we get the negatives. Fortunately for us, about 3 months after our wedding the company relocated to another office. To save costs and hassle in moving, they offered all of their customers the negatives for only $300.
Thank goodness we soon will no longer have to actually pay attention to our children ourselves! Our society will be so much better off once we don't have to take any responsibility for our kids.
i agree. but you have to admit that if an administration is forced to take credit for what those under them do wrong, they should also be allowed to take credit for what those under them do right. chances are that bush didn't write that letter, but he did put people on his staff that hired the person that did write the letter. that at least deserves some praise.
"that outside of the US you have to be 18 to get a driver's license (which I think is rather a sane attitude)"
In a lot of cases I agree that not getting a license until 18 is better, but I think you have to agree that, like every other issue, things in one country aren't the same as another.
I haven't been to Sweden, but on average, I think driving here is safer than in most countries around the world. We tend to have stricter laws, better law enforcement, more well-trained law enforcement, better roads, and a well-thought out road-system. Also, people are required to have insurance to get a license, but to do so, they have to have insurance. And with the prices of insurance always going up, people tend to be a little more careful.
On top of that, I think american communities tend to be more spread out than much of the rest of the world. (Mostly because we have the extra space to spread out where others don't.) Given that, more teens have to drive further to work and or school.
And lastly, I think there are big differences in average 15-20 year olds. I grew up in a small farming community where everyone learned to drive before they were 10 and by 14 were extremely proficient. However, I wouldn't trust some of my urban friends to drive safely at 21.
it's really difficult to carry an electronic copy into the bathroom with you as you read. and even if you're fortunate enough to have a tablet, it's a huge pain to have to scroll while you're conducting 'other' business.:-D
how bout you just spend some time with the kid & go teach him yourself? there will never be an electronic substitute for what a kid learns directly from his parents.
Interesting. Our site is a small private university, so I'm sure the majority of our visitors are parents, grandparents, or alumni that are the farthest from the geek spectrum. And I would guess that R/C visitors are a little more on the geeky side than not. It would be really interesting to see results from someplace like yahoo or google to see the middle of the road.
"While this is in a way cool (since that means the browser's now considered mainstream)"
actually it just means that hackers are finally starting to realize that people using IE rarely have data worth accessing. If someone's using FireFox, chances are they're bright enough to have some cool data.
On our webserver, we're only getting about 1.5% of 50,000 hits per day that our Firebird/Firefox, so it's still far from mainstream.
WHAT?!? somebody actually questions the theory of evolution?? He must be a fundamentalist! Off with his head!
actually, if you look at the hard evidence, the whole concept of macro-evolution is nothing more than a wild guess in the dark. the theory is full of holes and most of the logic doesn't completely add up. but i guess people have to believe in something.
think about 20 years ago when fewer americans had computers. on average, those that did were much more computer literate than the average today. mostly because they've become so cheap that anyone can have one.
If the percentage is still that low in egypt, chances are the few that do have them are the geeks that really know how to use them.
If that's the case, then another important question is how long you plan to stay in this position & how much is the job going to change over the next year or two.
I'm currently in a similiar position that primarily involves cleaning up a relatively unmanaged collection of webservers. While your in the process of defining your position, you need to remember that once you've been around a year or two and have the mess cleaned up, the job & will probably change quite a bit.
Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but if the school is knowledgably posting student data, then they are in open violation of FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). If you notify them of the problems & they still refuse to do something, you have every right (& possibily the responsibility) to sue the hell out of them.
Slashdot Mirror
"the contrast between the New York Times' relevance in the real world and the dismal rankings it gets in modern search engines"
how long has it been since the Times was really a relevant source of information in the real world?
My wife & I just recently went through this except we went with film rather than digital. Luckily my wife's mother is the secretary of a large church and also coordinates weddings so all the local photographers were willing to give us great discounts.
Overall the photography costs came to about $2,300. Their general policy is that after about 3-5 years, they'll sell the originals for another $500 or so. That way they get the majority of the revenue from people who want copies, but eventually we get the negatives. Fortunately for us, about 3 months after our wedding the company relocated to another office. To save costs and hassle in moving, they offered all of their customers the negatives for only $300.
Thank goodness we soon will no longer have to actually pay attention to our children ourselves! Our society will be so much better off once we don't have to take any responsibility for our kids.
i agree. but you have to admit that if an administration is forced to take credit for what those under them do wrong, they should also be allowed to take credit for what those under them do right. chances are that bush didn't write that letter, but he did put people on his staff that hired the person that did write the letter. that at least deserves some praise.
"that outside of the US you have to be 18 to get a driver's license (which I think is rather a sane attitude)"
In a lot of cases I agree that not getting a license until 18 is better, but I think you have to agree that, like every other issue, things in one country aren't the same as another.
I haven't been to Sweden, but on average, I think driving here is safer than in most countries around the world. We tend to have stricter laws, better law enforcement, more well-trained law enforcement, better roads, and a well-thought out road-system. Also, people are required to have insurance to get a license, but to do so, they have to have insurance. And with the prices of insurance always going up, people tend to be a little more careful.
On top of that, I think american communities tend to be more spread out than much of the rest of the world. (Mostly because we have the extra space to spread out where others don't.) Given that, more teens have to drive further to work and or school.
And lastly, I think there are big differences in average 15-20 year olds. I grew up in a small farming community where everyone learned to drive before they were 10 and by 14 were extremely proficient. However, I wouldn't trust some of my urban friends to drive safely at 21.
lol, nothing like the latest Half Life 2 screenshots to get a guy going.
it's really difficult to carry an electronic copy into the bathroom with you as you read. and even if you're fortunate enough to have a tablet, it's a huge pain to have to scroll while you're conducting 'other' business. :-D
how bout you just spend some time with the kid & go teach him yourself? there will never be an electronic substitute for what a kid learns directly from his parents.
lol wow. rough day huh?
yeah, guess it doesn't really matter that the UserID of the original joke is even higher huh?
I think everyone got those. We went in Oklahoma & got them too. It's actually sitting right here on my desk.
Those of us that are real fans were at Trilogy Tuesday.
Interesting. Our site is a small private university, so I'm sure the majority of our visitors are parents, grandparents, or alumni that are the farthest from the geek spectrum. And I would guess that R/C visitors are a little more on the geeky side than not. It would be really interesting to see results from someplace like yahoo or google to see the middle of the road.
why in the world is this modded to 5 for interesting?!?! are the modders high or something?
ebay?
"While this is in a way cool (since that means the browser's now considered mainstream)"
actually it just means that hackers are finally starting to realize that people using IE rarely have data worth accessing. If someone's using FireFox, chances are they're bright enough to have some cool data.
On our webserver, we're only getting about 1.5% of 50,000 hits per day that our Firebird/Firefox, so it's still far from mainstream.
i said he questioned evolution, not that he thought "evolution is crap."
Read his next reply. Surely you can see that he's questioning the possibility that evolution was responsible.
no, but the person i replied to did.
way to read.
I agree. btw, jsut wondering. if this crater is the evidence of a meteor... what ever happened to the actual meteor?
WHAT?!? somebody actually questions the theory of evolution?? He must be a fundamentalist! Off with his head!
actually, if you look at the hard evidence, the whole concept of macro-evolution is nothing more than a wild guess in the dark. the theory is full of holes and most of the logic doesn't completely add up. but i guess people have to believe in something.
I completely disagree with your logic.
think about 20 years ago when fewer americans had computers. on average, those that did were much more computer literate than the average today. mostly because they've become so cheap that anyone can have one.
If the percentage is still that low in egypt, chances are the few that do have them are the geeks that really know how to use them.
If that's the case, then another important question is how long you plan to stay in this position & how much is the job going to change over the next year or two.
I'm currently in a similiar position that primarily involves cleaning up a relatively unmanaged collection of webservers. While your in the process of defining your position, you need to remember that once you've been around a year or two and have the mess cleaned up, the job & will probably change quite a bit.
"But, the position is new, so I would have a chance to define many parameters."
is that a politically correct way of saying it has scope creep?
Nobody seems to have mentioned this, but if the school is knowledgably posting student data, then they are in open violation of FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). If you notify them of the problems & they still refuse to do something, you have every right (& possibily the responsibility) to sue the hell out of them.
documentation? what's documentation?