That, at least, is easy--given the sourceforge app--what they need is to develop it a bit more in order to have it allow for comment reading / posting without having to load safari
Abandoning MS Office will not necessarily save your district 70,000 - MS has a great non-profit discount, and depending on whether you meet certain restrictions, I was involved in one purchase for a small private school where each disk was only 15 bucks (and before someone suggests I must have bought if from someone in a back alley, this was using MS's non-profit program).
Is that the same situation though? Horse care and carriage repair went towards a similarly skilled labor situation--car mechanics need to have training in order to be able to do what they do just as vets / carriage repairment did as well.
Will a Kindle digital delivery system need anywhere near that kind of manpower? Is it of a similar skill level? (And yes, I am aware some have this idea that a car mechanic need not be as skilled as a vet, but it strikes me as inappropriate considering the intricacies of even early cars--nowhere near those of live animals but with greater knowledge base).
though the others have noted they will cut down trees for fun... I am thinking more importantly that paper mills get their trees typically from tree farms... which have a record for 1) using eucalyptus trees which damage soil but 2) treating damaged soil to reuse the land...
We aren't saving any trees by stopping the production of paper... unless you are one of those concerned about dryads being killed and then, well, I for one am not that concerned about you anymore.
While I don't know enough to argue any of your other points, I am made suddenly suspicious noting that EU anti-trust laws cannot have existed prior to 1993 (though anti-trust laws likely existed in some individual member states--those not formerly communist bloc being the most likely) when the EU was formed. MS is older than that by nearly 20 years with its IPO still nearly ten years prior to the EU formation in 1986 (thus you can take your pick as to when it "became" MS)
It seems to me the opposite of "funny" should be "depressing" and maybe we should be able to multi-mod. "Insightful" here is very apt but the parent is also fairly depressing.
Strip searches (which the article that wasn't blocked by our filter did not indicate) are within the legal limit for any offender minor or not provided appropriate authorities are present (in this case, likely a female cop and female administrator) and the action is warranted. What is not noted is her (obviously sealed) prior discipline record that led to their extreme tack in this case. It may be that she was on watch for drug sales or something--this is the part we will never know (she is a minor). In the end, she violated a known rule for the school/community and knew that part of the consequences was loss of her phone--it's in the handbook where I teach in fairly large letters and likely was where she is. Further--texting during math hardly promotes her learning math (which on a site devoted to people who for the most part at least enjoy the concept of math strikes me as not beneficial).
doing a simple visual comparison with the free online versions from the various cable company's websites also yields similar results... the "HD" version of... Psych (USA), for example, is listed on the website as 480p... that's normal, non HD TV... yet it looks fine on my HDTV and equal to the "HD" of the cable company's version.
the other night we had a fairly serious storm in the Dallas area. The air raid sirens went off and my wife and I took my computer into the closet with us where we watched the news live over the internet without having to be hooked into the power grid. On top of it all--as long as there are air raid sirens (or whatever they call them now that we apparently have no risk of air raids), there does not seem to me to be a huge need of television to communicate imminent danger.
rather than spreading vitriol, I think a good number of us are simply amazed that TV has become a necessity so much so that the government (and thereby each taxpayer) has to pay for us all to keep having it--last I checked, the trees and parks of the world still had kids playing in them.
according to my broker, I will need roughly 2 million in savings to maintain my current salary upon retirement (not counting SS, which, frankly, I don't)
Thank you--your post is most clarifying and I find that I do agree with it in many points. I really don't see any change in the system likely because every year I see more and more parents not caring one way or the other--not insulted by a claim that this is the case.
The system is problematic and I think that more and more we will be seeing people attempt to withdraw from it. I don't think staying on board will help keep it from spinning out of control, but I also don't agree with where it is now. It seems more of a holding action in hopes that something better will come along.
As a "government agent," of the type you describe, I still find government to be a necessary evil. Am I part of the government?--only after a fashion.
Still, it would seem to me that just like a Disney shareholder can quite frequently have more impact on changing a company than, say, a strongly conservative religious group's decision to avoid buying from the company, so too, a teacher, or any other government employee, stands a greater chance at implementing significant change than someone on the outside yelling that we're doing it all wrong.
After all, do you listen to strangers who tell you that you have it wrong or to people you know and work with on a daily basis? (of course, as someone disagreeing with your position who doesn't know you, I may have just sealed my fate:) )
"viable fixes" - I read more than the article, I read the comments and other related articles:
1: bundling
2: startup choice of installation (within the "setting up your computer" process)
3: separate sale of the browser
"handout" - not speaking of money but rather of their inclusion in the apparently positive for the little guy situation at the end of the suit.
objecting in this specific case" - I think that there are some companies that should have monopolies (my local water utility as I don't see any reason to have the street torn up every time someone decides they are going into business as a water producer). I am not saying MS is like the water company but they are certainly close in my estimation. The other browser companies are more akin to the Ozarka water guy who comes around to your business once a week to give you a new jug.
I agree with you on the telephone concept but it does not directly correlate (I am not "renting" my browser as all updates are free). It would seem to me to be more akin to a requirement that Standard Oil remove all Class B oils from their product before drawing crude up out of the ground. To make such a requirement would be ridiculous and effectively cripple the company completely. Instead, of course, Standard Oil changed its practices, stopped being a monopoly and eventually merged with other oil companies decades ago. MS can change some of its practices (like the media player) but in the end, the level of system integration with IE is too much to change without completely changing the MS business model.
This sounds like a really good way for Apple to gain market share. It is a visually appealing, simple system that is easy to learn and when customers find that the government has broken their new computers, they'll take them back and get something that works.
It strikes me as somewhat hypocritical for Mozilla to join the suit against MS while at the same time saying they don't want any of the viable fixes to be applied.
This is basically asking for a handout that is only going to see the lawyers win in the end. MS makes money because they make a product that for all its problems is easily usable (apparently) by 90% of the world. For all that we complain here, telling a software company what they need to include in their program in order to sell it does not sound too good to me--I can see telling a company, "don't include viruses" but telling a company it can't include something that is foundational to the system's operation (for most people) is not just 'antitrust' enforcement, it's crippling a legitimate (however much disliked) business.
Try Clinton's - Bush was just maintaining the status quo and it isn't like we haven't had more success with the use of adult stem cells than embryonic ones anyway.
The Catholic Church has stated that it has no qualms with evolution (there is no "discord" between the two) which is as close to supporting something as they will likely get.
The American evangelical churches tend to hold to a 6 to 10 thousand year period with quite a number of evangelicals in those churches, including scholars, not holding to it--simply because there are multiple ways to read the first few pages of Genesis. In the end, they all remain evangelical because they all believe that God created everything in the beginning.
There may be something of national importance near you--the area around the Bangor sub base in Washington was at one time fairly well shown but is now a big patch of blur
Not only the Pope, but also several prominent Protestants have discussed the issue, including the venerable C. S. Lewis, who wrote an entire series (the "Space Trilogy") exploring the possibility. He uses philosophy throughout and though short, it has some pretty dense ideas.
As a Protestant myself, I see no problem with an infinitely powerful God creating whatever he felt like in whatever length of time he chose to do so--this includes aliens. I very much doubt Christians would be all that disturbed about except for the ones that give most of us a bad name by making it on the news for shooting someone.
In Spain, the burgers taste like Whitecastle's but they at least have decent salads and gazpacho in the summer (and the McRib which should never have died in the US). Many in the US would probably also enjoy McD's drink options in Spain as well.
I am from America and I honestly found the European depiction of Obama the more... unnerving. On a recent trip, Obama was in one paper (German) depicted as having a halo (via special effects and not the cheap drawn-in ones), in another described as a demi-god and savior (French) and in another described as a messiah (Belgian-French).
Americans aren't alone in uplifting any one individual to a place of too much significance.
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That, at least, is easy--given the sourceforge app--what they need is to develop it a bit more in order to have it allow for comment reading / posting without having to load safari
Abandoning MS Office will not necessarily save your district 70,000 - MS has a great non-profit discount, and depending on whether you meet certain restrictions, I was involved in one purchase for a small private school where each disk was only 15 bucks (and before someone suggests I must have bought if from someone in a back alley, this was using MS's non-profit program).
Is that the same situation though? Horse care and carriage repair went towards a similarly skilled labor situation--car mechanics need to have training in order to be able to do what they do just as vets / carriage repairment did as well. Will a Kindle digital delivery system need anywhere near that kind of manpower? Is it of a similar skill level? (And yes, I am aware some have this idea that a car mechanic need not be as skilled as a vet, but it strikes me as inappropriate considering the intricacies of even early cars--nowhere near those of live animals but with greater knowledge base).
Amazing! You are telling me that our beloved governments might be forced to do something illegal?
though the others have noted they will cut down trees for fun... I am thinking more importantly that paper mills get their trees typically from tree farms... which have a record for 1) using eucalyptus trees which damage soil but 2) treating damaged soil to reuse the land... We aren't saving any trees by stopping the production of paper... unless you are one of those concerned about dryads being killed and then, well, I for one am not that concerned about you anymore.
While I don't know enough to argue any of your other points, I am made suddenly suspicious noting that EU anti-trust laws cannot have existed prior to 1993 (though anti-trust laws likely existed in some individual member states--those not formerly communist bloc being the most likely) when the EU was formed. MS is older than that by nearly 20 years with its IPO still nearly ten years prior to the EU formation in 1986 (thus you can take your pick as to when it "became" MS)
but are we talking old London double-decker, more modern, Victoria, BC or... ?
It seems to me the opposite of "funny" should be "depressing" and maybe we should be able to multi-mod. "Insightful" here is very apt but the parent is also fairly depressing.
Strip searches (which the article that wasn't blocked by our filter did not indicate) are within the legal limit for any offender minor or not provided appropriate authorities are present (in this case, likely a female cop and female administrator) and the action is warranted. What is not noted is her (obviously sealed) prior discipline record that led to their extreme tack in this case. It may be that she was on watch for drug sales or something--this is the part we will never know (she is a minor). In the end, she violated a known rule for the school/community and knew that part of the consequences was loss of her phone--it's in the handbook where I teach in fairly large letters and likely was where she is. Further--texting during math hardly promotes her learning math (which on a site devoted to people who for the most part at least enjoy the concept of math strikes me as not beneficial).
they're not all sent to the valley... some are sent to the desert
doing a simple visual comparison with the free online versions from the various cable company's websites also yields similar results... the "HD" version of ... Psych (USA), for example, is listed on the website as 480p... that's normal, non HD TV... yet it looks fine on my HDTV and equal to the "HD" of the cable company's version.
the other night we had a fairly serious storm in the Dallas area. The air raid sirens went off and my wife and I took my computer into the closet with us where we watched the news live over the internet without having to be hooked into the power grid. On top of it all--as long as there are air raid sirens (or whatever they call them now that we apparently have no risk of air raids), there does not seem to me to be a huge need of television to communicate imminent danger.
rather than spreading vitriol, I think a good number of us are simply amazed that TV has become a necessity so much so that the government (and thereby each taxpayer) has to pay for us all to keep having it--last I checked, the trees and parks of the world still had kids playing in them.
according to my broker, I will need roughly 2 million in savings to maintain my current salary upon retirement (not counting SS, which, frankly, I don't)
Thank you--your post is most clarifying and I find that I do agree with it in many points. I really don't see any change in the system likely because every year I see more and more parents not caring one way or the other--not insulted by a claim that this is the case. The system is problematic and I think that more and more we will be seeing people attempt to withdraw from it. I don't think staying on board will help keep it from spinning out of control, but I also don't agree with where it is now. It seems more of a holding action in hopes that something better will come along.
As a "government agent," of the type you describe, I still find government to be a necessary evil. Am I part of the government?--only after a fashion.
:) )
Still, it would seem to me that just like a Disney shareholder can quite frequently have more impact on changing a company than, say, a strongly conservative religious group's decision to avoid buying from the company, so too, a teacher, or any other government employee, stands a greater chance at implementing significant change than someone on the outside yelling that we're doing it all wrong.
After all, do you listen to strangers who tell you that you have it wrong or to people you know and work with on a daily basis? (of course, as someone disagreeing with your position who doesn't know you, I may have just sealed my fate
"viable fixes" - I read more than the article, I read the comments and other related articles:
1: bundling
2: startup choice of installation (within the "setting up your computer" process)
3: separate sale of the browser
"handout" - not speaking of money but rather of their inclusion in the apparently positive for the little guy situation at the end of the suit.
objecting in this specific case" - I think that there are some companies that should have monopolies (my local water utility as I don't see any reason to have the street torn up every time someone decides they are going into business as a water producer). I am not saying MS is like the water company but they are certainly close in my estimation. The other browser companies are more akin to the Ozarka water guy who comes around to your business once a week to give you a new jug.
I agree with you on the telephone concept but it does not directly correlate (I am not "renting" my browser as all updates are free). It would seem to me to be more akin to a requirement that Standard Oil remove all Class B oils from their product before drawing crude up out of the ground. To make such a requirement would be ridiculous and effectively cripple the company completely. Instead, of course, Standard Oil changed its practices, stopped being a monopoly and eventually merged with other oil companies decades ago. MS can change some of its practices (like the media player) but in the end, the level of system integration with IE is too much to change without completely changing the MS business model.
This sounds like a really good way for Apple to gain market share. It is a visually appealing, simple system that is easy to learn and when customers find that the government has broken their new computers, they'll take them back and get something that works.
It strikes me as somewhat hypocritical for Mozilla to join the suit against MS while at the same time saying they don't want any of the viable fixes to be applied. This is basically asking for a handout that is only going to see the lawyers win in the end. MS makes money because they make a product that for all its problems is easily usable (apparently) by 90% of the world. For all that we complain here, telling a software company what they need to include in their program in order to sell it does not sound too good to me--I can see telling a company, "don't include viruses" but telling a company it can't include something that is foundational to the system's operation (for most people) is not just 'antitrust' enforcement, it's crippling a legitimate (however much disliked) business.
Try Clinton's - Bush was just maintaining the status quo and it isn't like we haven't had more success with the use of adult stem cells than embryonic ones anyway.
The Catholic Church has stated that it has no qualms with evolution (there is no "discord" between the two) which is as close to supporting something as they will likely get. The American evangelical churches tend to hold to a 6 to 10 thousand year period with quite a number of evangelicals in those churches, including scholars, not holding to it--simply because there are multiple ways to read the first few pages of Genesis. In the end, they all remain evangelical because they all believe that God created everything in the beginning.
There may be something of national importance near you--the area around the Bangor sub base in Washington was at one time fairly well shown but is now a big patch of blur
Not only the Pope, but also several prominent Protestants have discussed the issue, including the venerable C. S. Lewis, who wrote an entire series (the "Space Trilogy") exploring the possibility. He uses philosophy throughout and though short, it has some pretty dense ideas. As a Protestant myself, I see no problem with an infinitely powerful God creating whatever he felt like in whatever length of time he chose to do so--this includes aliens. I very much doubt Christians would be all that disturbed about except for the ones that give most of us a bad name by making it on the news for shooting someone.
In Spain, the burgers taste like Whitecastle's but they at least have decent salads and gazpacho in the summer (and the McRib which should never have died in the US). Many in the US would probably also enjoy McD's drink options in Spain as well.
I am from America and I honestly found the European depiction of Obama the more ... unnerving. On a recent trip, Obama was in one paper (German) depicted as having a halo (via special effects and not the cheap drawn-in ones), in another described as a demi-god and savior (French) and in another described as a messiah (Belgian-French).
Americans aren't alone in uplifting any one individual to a place of too much significance.