True. The TRS-80 models I and III were Z80 based, whereas the CoCo had a Motorola 6809 CPU.
I believe I still have a "Rev D" original CoCo (albiet with upgraded memory and keyboard) as well as a CoCo 2 in my mom's basement, along with printer that probably no longer works, 300 baud modem and dual floppy drives.
I clearly remember my dad running his small business using Radio Shack accounting software, first on a Model I then later a Model III. This would have been starting in the late 70's.
Daily reports and employee commission calculations were done with a BASIC program that my uncle wrote.
In fact, the Model III ran payroll, receivables and general ledger until 1996 or so.
Tax/withholding rates in the payroll program were changed by editing a DATA statement in the program. The user manual provided clear instruction on how to do this.
If I'm in the right mood I've done this, and semi truck drivers seem to routinely drive like this, probably more out of self interest than altruistic intent. Avoid shifting, avoid brake wear, probably minimizes fuel usage too.
It seems to have a positive impact on traffic flow. Plus there's always some asshole behind you who's just furious at you driving "slow". Pissing off that guy can be fun.
In fact you're staying next to the same set of about 10 cars in the other lanes the whole time, so there's no negative impact to his commute time. But he can't race up to 50 then stop, then to 50 mph, then stop when he's riding your ass doing 30 the whole time.
I work in IT for a Fortune 150 company. We've been profitable all the way through the recent (and ongoing) economic tumult. In fact, sales have been better, same month to same month, for almost every month for years.
The company is supposedly "big on retention" too.
I haven't had a raise the last raise cycles, because "I'm above market." They give me a few thousand dollars bonus each year in lieu of a raise, I assume hoping I don't realize that raises are cumulative.
Despite being a darn good programmer, I'm functioning as an analyst while people in other companies do the work I want to be doing. My happy days are when I write a shell script to do something.
There are people who truly get computers, and computer languages. For them - and I like to think I'm one - picking up another procedural language is a matter of a fairly short period of time.
Even if I can pick up Java or C# pretty quickly, there's a whole ecology of libraries surrounding that language - libraries everyone uses - that, so far as I can tell, are highly complex. It can take quite a while to learn those libraries and the right, best way to use them.
I get the impression this is especially true of Java. So if you want a truly productive, professional Java programmer, you need someone with real experience, or you need to allow significant ramp-up time, during which they either aren't productive, or their "productive" output is kind of bad.
That sounds hideously complicated and prone to failure.
I basically never travel for work, but I haven't taken a laptop with me on vacation since I got an iPad.
I'm still on my original "iPad 1". Works fine for everything I care about. Email, web, stupid cat videos. Slashdot is painful but that doesn't really matter.
I just use the on-screen keyboard, but I could see getting one of the physical keyboards if I had a lot of typing to do.
You know what? Yes, from the point of view of people OUTSIDE the child's family, let's create a special kids world where the parents don't have to worry about any of that stuff. Not hear swearing, not see (sexualized at least) nudity, not hear about politics or war or money problems or sex or drinking or divorce or any of it.
Let's leave it to the parents to teach their children about the real world, in the way and at the time they think is best instead of having them learn stuff by listening to their teacher and teacher's friends talking about it on Facebook.
If a teacher wants to be on Facebook with their students, they should create a separate Facebook account for that purpose, and they should make their school administration aware of it and friend the school principal along with whatever students they friend. Keep being Ms. Doe to the students, be Jane to your friends, and never the twain should meet, Facebook-wise.
I don't think I said anything about sexual predators.
I just think kids should worry about kid stuff and not see their teachers getting drunk, being stupid, and generally carrying on. All of which, I'm told, is rampant on Facebook.
Personally, my Facebook account is a mechanism for fooling around with people I largely haven't seen since I graduated from high school 25-ish years ago. And even that gets kind of bawdy and would be inappropriate for small children.
If your wife could use Facebook as a force for good with her students, that's wonderful. It sounds like she is a wonderful caring person. Not all teachers are that. Some are stupid 22-year-olds who still live like they're in college except from 8 to 3. I don't want my 10-year-old hanging out on Facebook with her and all her friends.
Social networks tend to show EVERYTHING about people who truly use them as they are intended.
Is it OK for a teacher to be friends with students, visit with them and their parents, and so forth? Absolutely.
Is it OK for students to see their teacher's private life - including all the stupid stuff that they did 5 years ago? Probably not, especially not at the primary grades - kids don't need to see adult stuff.
My sister teaches dance at a private dance school. She refuses to friend anyone younger than 14. It's the same thing. Kids don't need to see adult stuff.
I just barely have cable television - $24.99 "limited basic" from Comcast.
I wonder if that would be enough to satisfy this scheme, or if they would only let me have the Hulu version of the channels I get?
(My wife isn't ready to give up on cable - even though it's really nothing more than CSPAN + OTA channels. But this is $50 less than what we were paying per month.)
I'm not sure I'm 100% there, but it is colossally stupid to call them over something like this. Assuming he isn't guilty of anything else, he's guilty of being stupid.
If your house is broken into or your car stolen, call them so there's a police report to give the insurance company. Who knows, maybe they'll do something productive, too.
There are similar state laws as well. Based on a quick glance this appears to be similar to the Illinois one, which defines mandatory reporters as people in a variety of professions that work with children. The professions are enumerated in the Illinois law - medical personnel, teachers, day care workers, etc.
The Illinois law also mandates training in this law for such people.
If you aren't in a job defined as a mandatory reporter, you aren't required to report child abuse. Based on my mom's description of interactions with Illinois DCFS, they won't typically accept reports of certain types of abuse except from a subgroup of the mandatory reporters - for example, a report of mental abuse will be accepted from a doctor, but not necessarily a day care worker.
It's a recognition that such things happen, both in and out of scouting.
The intro booklet is not specifically about scouting. It's about protecting yourself from predators throughout your childhood, and is intended to be used by parent and child together.
Have the scouts had some problems? Sure. But I think it's a good thing to facilitate that talk between parent and child, because otherwise it probably isn't going to happen a lot of the time.
The first 5 years or so are all in a single file folder that, by thickness, looks empty. After that it gets thicker, but (I measured) it's actually more like 7 inches in the drawer than 9.
In that time I've consistently had investment accounts, made IRA contributions, bought and sold houses, made charitable donations, and done all the other things adults do financially.
This is in fact a full set of complete taxes, both state and federal.
I have no idea what you're saving that is so damn thick.
9 inches of copier paper would be something like 1500 sheets (if it's 3 reams. I have a gut feeling that a ream is around 3 inches thick.)
Of course, you're likely never going to read this (AC) so I don't know why I'm bothering.
It really depends how regular "regular" is. If you make a 400 mile drive, that's probably a 2 day rental minimum, and more likely 3+. (I figure it's roughly 6 - 7 hours of just driving to get there, and unless you're acting as a courier you're probably going to spend some time at your destination.)
That adds up pretty quickly ($36 a day for an Aveo at Enterprise) to the point that, if it's a monthly trip, you should probably just buy a suitable car.
If you have a family, and it's a regular trip with the family, the public transport thing is financially unattractive. Flying 3 people gets expensive, and have you priced Amtrak tickets? If they even go where you want to go, it costs more than flying.
I don't know what your daily driver is; mine is a 2008 VW, and my wife's is a 2007 Camry. Neither has ever stranded us, or even given any particular mechanical trouble whatsoever that would result in having to stop halfway through a trip.
I have an '08 VW GTI. My typical trip computer average is about 24 MPG. That's entirely around town - no highway time - in the western Chicago suburbs. (Oak Brook/Willowbrook/Darien/Downers Grove area for you locals.)
On the rare occasion that I I hit the highway and cruise at a steady (and high) speed I do get around 30 MPG.
Personally I hate it when I see a Prius ahead of me. I know they'll be driving like a granny at about 5 mph below the speed limit.
Get there earlier and the "there may be a considerable wait" threat from TSA becomes meaningless.
My wife and I take two or three trips a year. She always gets patted down, because she is a cyborg. (OK, she has a replacement knee and hip, but that sounds much less cool.) We just factor an extra 20 minutes in at the checkpoint and it's fine.
My wife and I opted out on Tuesday night coming back from San Juan, PR. We both had to do so repeatedly, while being told that "there might be an extended delay."
She has consented in the past, but is pregnant and uncomfortable with the technology. I opted out both in solidarity and because I'm skeptical of the safety of the device. Don't need skin cancer or something. My grandmother had quite a lot of cancer.
The "enhanced" pat-down was no big deal if you ask me, but I'm sure it varies. I certainly didn't feel physically violated by the friendly guy who put his finger inside my waistband. It did tickle a little though. (I'm not being sarcastic with "friendly", he really did seem like a good guy.)
From a rights standpoint I hate it, from a pragmatic standpoint it was not a big deal.
The traffic reports use terms like "the Stevenson Expressway" "the Tristate" "the Bishop Ford" and other names. These are all names for interstate highways. Sometimes the same interstate highway number has multiple names.
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In a pinch you could also mess with the volume and pitch knobs on your cassette player, and try a different player.
Always make sure you have a hard copy. Worst case you retype it.
Ah, the good old days.
True. The TRS-80 models I and III were Z80 based, whereas the CoCo had a Motorola 6809 CPU.
I believe I still have a "Rev D" original CoCo (albiet with upgraded memory and keyboard) as well as a CoCo 2 in my mom's basement, along with printer that probably no longer works, 300 baud modem and dual floppy drives.
I clearly remember my dad running his small business using Radio Shack accounting software, first on a Model I then later a Model III. This would have been starting in the late 70's.
Daily reports and employee commission calculations were done with a BASIC program that my uncle wrote.
In fact, the Model III ran payroll, receivables and general ledger until 1996 or so.
Tax/withholding rates in the payroll program were changed by editing a DATA statement in the program. The user manual provided clear instruction on how to do this.
If I'm in the right mood I've done this, and semi truck drivers seem to routinely drive like this, probably more out of self interest than altruistic intent. Avoid shifting, avoid brake wear, probably minimizes fuel usage too.
It seems to have a positive impact on traffic flow. Plus there's always some asshole behind you who's just furious at you driving "slow". Pissing off that guy can be fun.
In fact you're staying next to the same set of about 10 cars in the other lanes the whole time, so there's no negative impact to his commute time. But he can't race up to 50 then stop, then to 50 mph, then stop when he's riding your ass doing 30 the whole time.
I work in IT for a Fortune 150 company. We've been profitable all the way through the recent (and ongoing) economic tumult. In fact, sales have been better, same month to same month, for almost every month for years.
The company is supposedly "big on retention" too.
I haven't had a raise the last raise cycles, because "I'm above market." They give me a few thousand dollars bonus each year in lieu of a raise, I assume hoping I don't realize that raises are cumulative.
Despite being a darn good programmer, I'm functioning as an analyst while people in other companies do the work I want to be doing. My happy days are when I write a shell script to do something.
It isn't entirely true, though.
There are people who truly get computers, and computer languages. For them - and I like to think I'm one - picking up another procedural language is a matter of a fairly short period of time.
Even if I can pick up Java or C# pretty quickly, there's a whole ecology of libraries surrounding that language - libraries everyone uses - that, so far as I can tell, are highly complex. It can take quite a while to learn those libraries and the right, best way to use them.
I get the impression this is especially true of Java. So if you want a truly productive, professional Java programmer, you need someone with real experience, or you need to allow significant ramp-up time, during which they either aren't productive, or their "productive" output is kind of bad.
That sounds hideously complicated and prone to failure.
I basically never travel for work, but I haven't taken a laptop with me on vacation since I got an iPad.
I'm still on my original "iPad 1". Works fine for everything I care about. Email, web, stupid cat videos. Slashdot is painful but that doesn't really matter.
I just use the on-screen keyboard, but I could see getting one of the physical keyboards if I had a lot of typing to do.
I wonder if you actually tried the app.
As I recall, it is so slow as to be unusable on my iPad (original model) and crashes frequently.
It deserves to die.
You know what? Yes, from the point of view of people OUTSIDE the child's family, let's create a special kids world where the parents don't have to worry about any of that stuff. Not hear swearing, not see (sexualized at least) nudity, not hear about politics or war or money problems or sex or drinking or divorce or any of it.
Let's leave it to the parents to teach their children about the real world, in the way and at the time they think is best instead of having them learn stuff by listening to their teacher and teacher's friends talking about it on Facebook.
If a teacher wants to be on Facebook with their students, they should create a separate Facebook account for that purpose, and they should make their school administration aware of it and friend the school principal along with whatever students they friend. Keep being Ms. Doe to the students, be Jane to your friends, and never the twain should meet, Facebook-wise.
I don't think I said anything about sexual predators.
I just think kids should worry about kid stuff and not see their teachers getting drunk, being stupid, and generally carrying on. All of which, I'm told, is rampant on Facebook.
Personally, my Facebook account is a mechanism for fooling around with people I largely haven't seen since I graduated from high school 25-ish years ago. And even that gets kind of bawdy and would be inappropriate for small children.
If your wife could use Facebook as a force for good with her students, that's wonderful. It sounds like she is a wonderful caring person. Not all teachers are that. Some are stupid 22-year-olds who still live like they're in college except from 8 to 3. I don't want my 10-year-old hanging out on Facebook with her and all her friends.
It depends on what behavior.
Social networks tend to show EVERYTHING about people who truly use them as they are intended.
Is it OK for a teacher to be friends with students, visit with them and their parents, and so forth? Absolutely.
Is it OK for students to see their teacher's private life - including all the stupid stuff that they did 5 years ago? Probably not, especially not at the primary grades - kids don't need to see adult stuff.
My sister teaches dance at a private dance school. She refuses to friend anyone younger than 14. It's the same thing. Kids don't need to see adult stuff.
I just barely have cable television - $24.99 "limited basic" from Comcast.
I wonder if that would be enough to satisfy this scheme, or if they would only let me have the Hulu version of the channels I get?
(My wife isn't ready to give up on cable - even though it's really nothing more than CSPAN + OTA channels. But this is $50 less than what we were paying per month.)
It sounds OK to me.
You had an idea, and did the work to get it in front of decision makers. It didn't work out, but they still like that you tried.
In some companies, you'd get a negative mention on your review or worse if they didn't like the idea.
I'm not sure I'm 100% there, but it is colossally stupid to call them over something like this. Assuming he isn't guilty of anything else, he's guilty of being stupid.
If your house is broken into or your car stolen, call them so there's a police report to give the insurance company. Who knows, maybe they'll do something productive, too.
There are similar state laws as well. Based on a quick glance this appears to be similar to the Illinois one, which defines mandatory reporters as people in a variety of professions that work with children. The professions are enumerated in the Illinois law - medical personnel, teachers, day care workers, etc.
The Illinois law also mandates training in this law for such people.
If you aren't in a job defined as a mandatory reporter, you aren't required to report child abuse. Based on my mom's description of interactions with Illinois DCFS, they won't typically accept reports of certain types of abuse except from a subgroup of the mandatory reporters - for example, a report of mental abuse will be accepted from a doctor, but not necessarily a day care worker.
It's a recognition that such things happen, both in and out of scouting.
The intro booklet is not specifically about scouting. It's about protecting yourself from predators throughout your childhood, and is intended to be used by parent and child together.
Have the scouts had some problems? Sure. But I think it's a good thing to facilitate that talk between parent and child, because otherwise it probably isn't going to happen a lot of the time.
You may call bullshit, but I call asshole.
The first 5 years or so are all in a single file folder that, by thickness, looks empty. After that it gets thicker, but (I measured) it's actually more like 7 inches in the drawer than 9.
In that time I've consistently had investment accounts, made IRA contributions, bought and sold houses, made charitable donations, and done all the other things adults do financially.
This is in fact a full set of complete taxes, both state and federal.
I have no idea what you're saving that is so damn thick.
9 inches of copier paper would be something like 1500 sheets (if it's 3 reams. I have a gut feeling that a ream is around 3 inches thick.)
Of course, you're likely never going to read this (AC) so I don't know why I'm bothering.
It just isn't worth the work to digitize old records unless you're living in a truly small, small, small place.
I have every tax return I have ever filed since 1985 or so. It takes less than nine inches in a file drawer, including supporting documentation.
And there is little chance of my file drawer having a crash, or its format going out of date and becoming unreadable.
It really depends how regular "regular" is. If you make a 400 mile drive, that's probably a 2 day rental minimum, and more likely 3+. (I figure it's roughly 6 - 7 hours of just driving to get there, and unless you're acting as a courier you're probably going to spend some time at your destination.)
That adds up pretty quickly ($36 a day for an Aveo at Enterprise) to the point that, if it's a monthly trip, you should probably just buy a suitable car.
If you have a family, and it's a regular trip with the family, the public transport thing is financially unattractive. Flying 3 people gets expensive, and have you priced Amtrak tickets? If they even go where you want to go, it costs more than flying.
I don't know what your daily driver is; mine is a 2008 VW, and my wife's is a 2007 Camry. Neither has ever stranded us, or even given any particular mechanical trouble whatsoever that would result in having to stop halfway through a trip.
There are always exceptions. My boss drives hers pretty fast too. But in general seeing a Prius ahead makes me sad.
Anecdotal data:
I have an '08 VW GTI. My typical trip computer average is about 24 MPG. That's entirely around town - no highway time - in the western Chicago suburbs. (Oak Brook/Willowbrook/Darien/Downers Grove area for you locals.)
On the rare occasion that I I hit the highway and cruise at a steady (and high) speed I do get around 30 MPG.
Personally I hate it when I see a Prius ahead of me. I know they'll be driving like a granny at about 5 mph below the speed limit.
Get there earlier and the "there may be a considerable wait" threat from TSA becomes meaningless.
My wife and I take two or three trips a year. She always gets patted down, because she is a cyborg. (OK, she has a replacement knee and hip, but that sounds much less cool.) We just factor an extra 20 minutes in at the checkpoint and it's fine.
My wife and I opted out on Tuesday night coming back from San Juan, PR. We both had to do so repeatedly, while being told that "there might be an extended delay."
She has consented in the past, but is pregnant and uncomfortable with the technology. I opted out both in solidarity and because I'm skeptical of the safety of the device. Don't need skin cancer or something. My grandmother had quite a lot of cancer.
The "enhanced" pat-down was no big deal if you ask me, but I'm sure it varies. I certainly didn't feel physically violated by the friendly guy who put his finger inside my waistband. It did tickle a little though. (I'm not being sarcastic with "friendly", he really did seem like a good guy.)
From a rights standpoint I hate it, from a pragmatic standpoint it was not a big deal.
My cat routinely snags new shirts the first day I wear them. Not exactly good in this case.....
I live in the Chicago area.
I usually say I-55, I-294, or 294.
The traffic reports use terms like "the Stevenson Expressway" "the Tristate" "the Bishop Ford" and other names. These are all names for interstate highways. Sometimes the same interstate highway number has multiple names.
It's VERY confusing.