They actually have rules now about how many people at a time are allowed to wait for the toilet, especially the one near the cockpit. So right now you might get a flight attendant asking you to sit back down, anyhow.
Oh, great. I have panic attacks on planes, and the one thing that keeps me calm and distracted is playing my DS. So not only do I look nervous, every time I start to get really freaked out I start fiddling with a strange little electronic device! This will not make flying more fun for me.
Perhaps you should go do some research. They most certainly do, and as I said, it is often automatic after teaching for a few years. They do not have to do extra work to earn it like university professors do. Tenure is why many teachers who screw up royally do not get fired, they just get moved to a worse (read: lower-income) school within the district. It is VERY hard to fire an elementary/high school teacher who has tenure.
They don't make the greatest pay (but not the worst, and in some areas high-demand math and science teachers do pretty well), BUT:
a) Once they get tenure, they are nearly impossible to fire for even the most egregious misconduct. Tenure generally requires 3-5 years of teaching in the same district and little else, it's not like in higher ed where you have to jump through a million hoops to prove yourself worthy.
b) Pay raises are based entirely on seniority, and in most places CANNOT be based on actual achievement, evaluations, good work, etc. The only exception is raises for getting an advanced degree.
Yes, teachers get the short end of the stick in a lot of ways, but the union is not really helping things - it's hell-bent on securing the jobs of the worst teachers out there to the detriment of the average teachers, the decent teachers, the great teachers, and the students. There's no other job where you could do shitty work and not only not get fired for it, but continue to get the same raises as your colleagues who are doing far better work. Even if your boss wants to fire you and doesn't want to give you raises.
Is it any better than imeem, which offers essentially the same service for free? The one issue with imeem is that it can be hard to navigate and find what you want - it's no iTMS.
The weirdness of Spaces is one of the main reasons I haven't had my department upgrade my laptop yet. Desktop Manager (from berlios.de) pretty much gets it right in all the important ways - why was it so hard for Apple to do the same? I also don't know what I'd do without the mini-outlines in my menubar - it's amazing how much info you can get just from glancing at tiny outlines of the shape of the windows. I can't always remember what I put in each desktop, but glancing at that and I can easily see which are pdfs in Preview, which are terminal windows, etc, and click on the one I want on the first try most times.
One of the things that makes scientology a cult is the fact that you have to pay exorbitant amounts of money (tens of thousands of dollars) just to gain access to the full religious texts, let alone achieve their definition of "salvation."
Compare to any other major world religion - how much does a bible or a quran cost? And yes, churches want you to donate money and some even require tithing, but giving your 10% does not entitle you to any special super-sekkrit Ultra Writings of Christ or anything that is required for salvation. Their full religious texts are easily available for anyone to read through to make an informed decision about whether or not they believe in that religion. With scientology, you aren't even allowed to know fully what it is you're joining until you've paid out in a big way.
I've noticed this with my 17-year-old brother. Emailing him is useless; he checks it so infrequently that Yahoo keeps deleting his account. Between IM, text, Facebook, and multiplayer games like Runescape and WoW, he just doesn't need it to keep in touch with his friends.
I've warned him that when he gets to college he'd better get in the habit or he'll miss something important from a professor. But for now, for social purposes, it's just not that useful for him.
Plenty of people in poverty (and some not who just don't feel like buying their own computer) use the internet at a public library. I've seen accounts from many homeless people online who got back on track thanks to public library computers and online job/housing listings.
A skinny person with a really high metabolism can eat far more in a day than a fat person with a slow one. Plus, you only need to eat a lot to *get* fat - maintaining your weight doesn't require eating extra. Not to mention tall people, teenaged boys, people with very physical jobs, and many others who would all eat more than an average person.
I'm not all pro-obesity or anything, but it's just silly to think that ALL obese people eat more than ALL average-weight people.
I don't like the fact that they call several of the failed projects "mistakes" or "blunders." Their entire mission is to push the envelope farther than what they can imagine other people going. They're not going to come up with crazy-ass successes like the internet and stealth planes without also coming up with some crazy-ass ideas that wind up not working, like a spaceship that uses nuclear bombs for propulsion and psychic spies. Those things did fail, but that doesn't make those things mistakes - they're a natural byproduct of a process aiming for both high creativity and high productivity.
This is very true; I was mostly using that as an example of what kind of major changes can happen over the course of 5 years. Who thought in 2003 that Apple would switch to Intel? The idea that Apple could possibly NOT come out with something "new and shiny" in the next five years to stay well ahead of Linux is just silly.
Of course you'd run it. I have an eMac at home. But would you buy one today? Some people who are mostly focused on cost would, but many people would not. I'm not convinced it would be a serious competitor in the marketplace as suggested.
So either Apple has something new and shiny by then
Oh yeah, no way THAT'S going to happen.
You don't think an Intel Mac running 10.5 has no advantages over a PowerPC running 10.2? You think a Linux box that's the equivalent of the latter would be able to seriously compete with the former?
Wow, it's really interesting to read some of the serious posts and realize how much misinformation was swarming around in the minutes/hours after the attack - explosions at the white house, 11 planes hijacked (probably due to one of the flight #s being #11), Algeria claiming responsibility - no, it was the Palestinians! (With a bonus extremely protracted "Fuck the palestinians/good on the palestinians" flame war attached.)
Aaaahhhh, I see. So it's just an illusion of choice when it comes to that kind of thing. My husband is moving to Montreal for a year, and so I've been trying to figure out how on earth we'll stay in communication without paying international roaming on his cel phone.
At least the argument that competition and free market will keep companies from abusing non-neutrality makes some kind of sense in Canada. I was checking out providers in Montreal recently, and it looks like you actually *gasp* get a choice of who to get broadband from! If one company is slowing things down, you might actually be able to get comparable service from another company! In the U.S. you are lucky if you have one cable provider AND one broadband provider in your area. I live in a neighborhood with TWO cable providers - but not even the entire city gets that, only a little sliver. I've never seen anywhere else with two cable choices.
How would you loan an eBook? Send them the file, then delete it from your hard drive til they return it? You'd still have to keep track of who has what file. Unless you mean they solve this problem b/c you could just give the book away to whoever wants a copy - but that would be illegal, now wouldn't it?
I've heard the argument that the iMac is what kept Apple afloat long enough to develop and release OS X and the iPod - sure, without those they'd still be floundering, but without the iMac they wouldn't have lived long enough to make those.
It may be really difficult to get a modern kid interested in these shows. I watched an episode of Watch Mr Wizard with a group of adults (mostly in our late 20s early 30s), and we had to fast forward through parts because it was boring for US. I mean, what they were doing was cool, but the pace was not what even most adults today are accustomed to. We watched one episode each of that, Mr Wizard's World (which most of us grew up with), Bill Nye, and Dragonfly TV - it's really fascinating how the message of "what science is" has changed over the years. For Mr Wizard, science was mostly "neat tricks you can do;" for Bill Nye, it's content; and for Dragonfly TV, it's a way to solve problems in the world.
It is pretty ridiculous what Disney charges - they claim it's for all the bonus curriculum materials that are on the disc, but you're still only getting as much content as can fit on any other DVD. Most public libraries have a lot of Bill Nye episodes in stock, luckily.
Dragonfly TV is a show currently on PBS, I highly recommend it. This show isn't so much about specific content information, but it gets at various science content while also showing science as a process that anyone (especially kids) can do.
I recently held a series of events in my department looking at educational TV shows, and we included this show on the science TV day - I'd never heard of it, but we were all super-impressed. It's a "news show" type format, where they report on three or four sets of kids who have conducted experiments while trying to solve real-life problems. For instance, one group of kids lives on a reservation and they needed a lightweight yet fire- and water-resistant material to build houses out of. They tested out a variety of materials, and settled on I think it was bales of hay coated with cement. And then houses were actually built out of these!
There is content embedded in what the kids are doing, but the main focus is a) that "science" is how you solve problems in the world and b) kids can solve these problems.
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They actually have rules now about how many people at a time are allowed to wait for the toilet, especially the one near the cockpit. So right now you might get a flight attendant asking you to sit back down, anyhow.
Oh, great. I have panic attacks on planes, and the one thing that keeps me calm and distracted is playing my DS. So not only do I look nervous, every time I start to get really freaked out I start fiddling with a strange little electronic device! This will not make flying more fun for me.
Perhaps you should go do some research. They most certainly do, and as I said, it is often automatic after teaching for a few years. They do not have to do extra work to earn it like university professors do. Tenure is why many teachers who screw up royally do not get fired, they just get moved to a worse (read: lower-income) school within the district. It is VERY hard to fire an elementary/high school teacher who has tenure.
a) Once they get tenure, they are nearly impossible to fire for even the most egregious misconduct. Tenure generally requires 3-5 years of teaching in the same district and little else, it's not like in higher ed where you have to jump through a million hoops to prove yourself worthy.
b) Pay raises are based entirely on seniority, and in most places CANNOT be based on actual achievement, evaluations, good work, etc. The only exception is raises for getting an advanced degree.
Yes, teachers get the short end of the stick in a lot of ways, but the union is not really helping things - it's hell-bent on securing the jobs of the worst teachers out there to the detriment of the average teachers, the decent teachers, the great teachers, and the students. There's no other job where you could do shitty work and not only not get fired for it, but continue to get the same raises as your colleagues who are doing far better work. Even if your boss wants to fire you and doesn't want to give you raises.
Is it any better than imeem, which offers essentially the same service for free? The one issue with imeem is that it can be hard to navigate and find what you want - it's no iTMS.
10 cents would be a perfectly acceptable price - if imeem weren't already offering the same service for FREE.
The weirdness of Spaces is one of the main reasons I haven't had my department upgrade my laptop yet. Desktop Manager (from berlios.de) pretty much gets it right in all the important ways - why was it so hard for Apple to do the same? I also don't know what I'd do without the mini-outlines in my menubar - it's amazing how much info you can get just from glancing at tiny outlines of the shape of the windows. I can't always remember what I put in each desktop, but glancing at that and I can easily see which are pdfs in Preview, which are terminal windows, etc, and click on the one I want on the first try most times.
Compare to any other major world religion - how much does a bible or a quran cost? And yes, churches want you to donate money and some even require tithing, but giving your 10% does not entitle you to any special super-sekkrit Ultra Writings of Christ or anything that is required for salvation. Their full religious texts are easily available for anyone to read through to make an informed decision about whether or not they believe in that religion. With scientology, you aren't even allowed to know fully what it is you're joining until you've paid out in a big way.
I've warned him that when he gets to college he'd better get in the habit or he'll miss something important from a professor. But for now, for social purposes, it's just not that useful for him.
Plenty of people in poverty (and some not who just don't feel like buying their own computer) use the internet at a public library. I've seen accounts from many homeless people online who got back on track thanks to public library computers and online job/housing listings.
And do you know the current eating habits of any of those oinkers?
I'm not all pro-obesity or anything, but it's just silly to think that ALL obese people eat more than ALL average-weight people.
I don't like the fact that they call several of the failed projects "mistakes" or "blunders." Their entire mission is to push the envelope farther than what they can imagine other people going. They're not going to come up with crazy-ass successes like the internet and stealth planes without also coming up with some crazy-ass ideas that wind up not working, like a spaceship that uses nuclear bombs for propulsion and psychic spies. Those things did fail, but that doesn't make those things mistakes - they're a natural byproduct of a process aiming for both high creativity and high productivity.
This is very true; I was mostly using that as an example of what kind of major changes can happen over the course of 5 years. Who thought in 2003 that Apple would switch to Intel? The idea that Apple could possibly NOT come out with something "new and shiny" in the next five years to stay well ahead of Linux is just silly.
Of course you'd run it. I have an eMac at home. But would you buy one today? Some people who are mostly focused on cost would, but many people would not. I'm not convinced it would be a serious competitor in the marketplace as suggested.
Oh yeah, no way THAT'S going to happen.
You don't think an Intel Mac running 10.5 has no advantages over a PowerPC running 10.2? You think a Linux box that's the equivalent of the latter would be able to seriously compete with the former?
Wow, it's really interesting to read some of the serious posts and realize how much misinformation was swarming around in the minutes/hours after the attack - explosions at the white house, 11 planes hijacked (probably due to one of the flight #s being #11), Algeria claiming responsibility - no, it was the Palestinians! (With a bonus extremely protracted "Fuck the palestinians/good on the palestinians" flame war attached.)
Aaaahhhh, I see. So it's just an illusion of choice when it comes to that kind of thing. My husband is moving to Montreal for a year, and so I've been trying to figure out how on earth we'll stay in communication without paying international roaming on his cel phone.
Sorry, that should say "one cable provider AND one DSL provider," not "broadband."
At least the argument that competition and free market will keep companies from abusing non-neutrality makes some kind of sense in Canada. I was checking out providers in Montreal recently, and it looks like you actually *gasp* get a choice of who to get broadband from! If one company is slowing things down, you might actually be able to get comparable service from another company! In the U.S. you are lucky if you have one cable provider AND one broadband provider in your area. I live in a neighborhood with TWO cable providers - but not even the entire city gets that, only a little sliver. I've never seen anywhere else with two cable choices.
How would you loan an eBook? Send them the file, then delete it from your hard drive til they return it? You'd still have to keep track of who has what file. Unless you mean they solve this problem b/c you could just give the book away to whoever wants a copy - but that would be illegal, now wouldn't it?
I've heard the argument that the iMac is what kept Apple afloat long enough to develop and release OS X and the iPod - sure, without those they'd still be floundering, but without the iMac they wouldn't have lived long enough to make those.
It may be really difficult to get a modern kid interested in these shows. I watched an episode of Watch Mr Wizard with a group of adults (mostly in our late 20s early 30s), and we had to fast forward through parts because it was boring for US. I mean, what they were doing was cool, but the pace was not what even most adults today are accustomed to. We watched one episode each of that, Mr Wizard's World (which most of us grew up with), Bill Nye, and Dragonfly TV - it's really fascinating how the message of "what science is" has changed over the years. For Mr Wizard, science was mostly "neat tricks you can do;" for Bill Nye, it's content; and for Dragonfly TV, it's a way to solve problems in the world.
It is pretty ridiculous what Disney charges - they claim it's for all the bonus curriculum materials that are on the disc, but you're still only getting as much content as can fit on any other DVD. Most public libraries have a lot of Bill Nye episodes in stock, luckily.
I recently held a series of events in my department looking at educational TV shows, and we included this show on the science TV day - I'd never heard of it, but we were all super-impressed. It's a "news show" type format, where they report on three or four sets of kids who have conducted experiments while trying to solve real-life problems. For instance, one group of kids lives on a reservation and they needed a lightweight yet fire- and water-resistant material to build houses out of. They tested out a variety of materials, and settled on I think it was bales of hay coated with cement. And then houses were actually built out of these!
There is content embedded in what the kids are doing, but the main focus is a) that "science" is how you solve problems in the world and b) kids can solve these problems.