I have a six-year-old in second grade and a four-year-old in kindergarten. The teachers are using the same boring techniques that didn't work when I was in school and are boring the crap out of my second grader. He's already turned off by learning every monday through friday and I have to reinvigorate him on the weekend with at-home projects. That's because the quality of teachers has gone down. with high demand, job security, pension plan, decent hours, many bad teachers are jumping at the chance to work in incredible areas with smart kids, such as Fairfax County.
It is unfortunate that the teaching system (of which my wife is a part) is stuck in a 19th century methodology of teaching the masses to act in unison. It is as if they're preparing these kids for the rote factory jobs of yesterday instead of the knowledge-critical jobs of today. What factory jobs are you talking about? Oh you meant your IT job:-P
I'm completing my masters in EE while substitute teaching at the moment, so I see the full grade spectrum. Kids aren't bored from the teaching tech (or lack there of), they are bored because of the lack of motivation and slow pace. There is more of a push these days to fill kids with information instead of having them learn it.
I've yet to find one instance in my work (IT manager over about 60 people in a large government agency with roughly 60 servers, 1,500 staff members and 18TB of data online) where I had to fill out a scantron form or decide which option was best - a, b, c, d, or all of the above. Ooh, ooh, can i please answer this one?? what about when you are making decision like buying servers or hardware and figuring out which option is the best.
As it is, I'm on the school site council, PTA and am constantly talking to the administration in my sons' school district. They just don't seem to want to 'get it.' Though I don't feel it's the teacher's responsibility to excite the student 100% on the topic or subject being taught, parents need to do their part instead of work 60 hours a week at a dead end job like most of these kids I deal with. And yes a corporate job making a 7 figure salary to me is dead end when you rarely see your family.
from my sources Google has an intricate hydra power setup in The Dalles.
Google doesn't care if you're an out of stater or not for Data Center jobs. The low level jobs (majority) of them don't even need an college education. Just some linux/hardware/networking background.
If you want a job in South Cacki-lacki, start your gentoo distros...
So you want to get paid by the hour for a menial job that you don't want to be at? That's a healthier attitude?
Most people take the Salary job because they'll put up with the menial job for 40 (or 50) hours as long as a good chunk of that time is spent doing something other than the job they are getting paid for.
I'd love to see you rack and cable servers for 40+ hours a week. It's very motivating to see the other Googlers go to Social events like ski trips and parties while you have to bite your tongue.
No thanks.
Come to DC. The federal government has many employees that do not perform. I'm not saying there aren't competent employees of in the government, but i think the "10% of the people do 90% of the work" holds somewhat true.
For a Data Center Tech position interview, my Mountain View HR rep didn't send me directions to the hidden data center in Atlanta (or the hotel the interviews were being done, to keep the location private). I decided to Google (Map) it, and didn't realize I had found their sales office in Atlanta. I sat in the reception area while a Sales employee was baffled as to why I was there, until he asked if it was for the Data Center. I told him to call the HR Rep, who wasn't answering my phone. Luckily though I was severely late, everthing worked out. The interview was one of the toughest ever but I kept my cool. Of course, then she forgot to call me several weeks later about whether I got the position or not. I had to call her and her response was that she was meaning to call me about my offer. I didn't take the position for other reasons, but I found out that A) she was a contracted employee and B)she longer works there anymore. So it goes to show, just because you have one person representing a company who might fsck up, doesn't mean the rest of the company is on the same level.
i believe the new Data Center located in the Dalles [Map] apparently uses windmills and hydroelectric power. So this has been in their sites for a while.
Being that many of my young friends work in the government including in the House and Senate (not as Pages *ducks*), I know they aren't using their heads when computing. They spend about 6 hours a day on a computer probably looking at $_favorite_porn_site . Those computers are almost guaranteed to be infected.
To one Congressional Office's credit (Cliff Stearns), they actually had iMacs setup. I guess that's one step in the right direction.
It's people like you that confuse my computer. All of these open WAPs confuse my computer while I'm wardriving especially some like New York City. It has no idea which WAP to go for.
On a serious note, being able to pop open my laptop just anywhere in the city and see a few open WAPs is great. I don't understand why the police are patrolling about this.
Facebook's infratstructure is getting overwhelmingly big. They included a photo uploading section because, well people obviously love photos. But their original plan was to distribute the photo load by allowing users to locally host their photos and use a program called Wirehog (I believe) to turn their computer into a share point. This failed because of the complexity and security. The also are looking to hire many people to code and develop as well as maintain their servers (stripped down fedora). I'm not sure what their profits are, but this 25 mil sounds really justified.
Yahoo offers a lot more than google in certain aspects. Yahoo provides Geocoding ability to turn addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates in an xml file format. same with their local search.
they also produce a CSV sheet for stock quotes.
but google does have the advantage in interface. google maps does beat all competition for example.
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I'm completing my masters in EE while substitute teaching at the moment, so I see the full grade spectrum. Kids aren't bored from the teaching tech (or lack there of), they are bored because of the lack of motivation and slow pace. There is more of a push these days to fill kids with information instead of having them learn it. I've yet to find one instance in my work (IT manager over about 60 people in a large government agency with roughly 60 servers, 1,500 staff members and 18TB of data online) where I had to fill out a scantron form or decide which option was best - a, b, c, d, or all of the above. Ooh, ooh, can i please answer this one?? what about when you are making decision like buying servers or hardware and figuring out which option is the best. As it is, I'm on the school site council, PTA and am constantly talking to the administration in my sons' school district. They just don't seem to want to 'get it.' Though I don't feel it's the teacher's responsibility to excite the student 100% on the topic or subject being taught, parents need to do their part instead of work 60 hours a week at a dead end job like most of these kids I deal with. And yes a corporate job making a 7 figure salary to me is dead end when you rarely see your family.
Why don't they make the whole shuttle out of these chips?
Spore will edge out DNF!!!
no typo. to catch breakfast AND dinner you must be there from 8AM to 630PM. And it's worth it too.
And all this time I've been wasting potential karma modding things that are informative as funny. No wonder my Karma rank is "confused."
from my sources Google has an intricate hydra power setup in The Dalles.
Google doesn't care if you're an out of stater or not for Data Center jobs. The low level jobs (majority) of them don't even need an college education. Just some linux/hardware/networking background.
If you want a job in South Cacki-lacki, start your gentoo distros...
And isn't fertilizer made with petroleum? seems quite counter productive.
So you want to get paid by the hour for a menial job that you don't want to be at? That's a healthier attitude? Most people take the Salary job because they'll put up with the menial job for 40 (or 50) hours as long as a good chunk of that time is spent doing something other than the job they are getting paid for. I'd love to see you rack and cable servers for 40+ hours a week. It's very motivating to see the other Googlers go to Social events like ski trips and parties while you have to bite your tongue. No thanks.
Inform us where to buy such LEDs, please.
Why would you go to their concert? You just stated you only liked 2 of their songs.
Most concerts I go to are usually of bands that I want to see/listen most of the songs they record.
I guess I'm the odd man out then.
Good Bye Karma.
Come to DC. The federal government has many employees that do not perform. I'm not saying there aren't competent employees of in the government, but i think the "10% of the people do 90% of the work" holds somewhat true.
damnit, get it straight
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IP on everything!
http://ietf20.isoc.org/videos/ip_on_everything.jp
For a Data Center Tech position interview, my Mountain View HR rep didn't send me directions to the hidden data center in Atlanta (or the hotel the interviews were being done, to keep the location private). I decided to Google (Map) it, and didn't realize I had found their sales office in Atlanta. I sat in the reception area while a Sales employee was baffled as to why I was there, until he asked if it was for the Data Center. I told him to call the HR Rep, who wasn't answering my phone. Luckily though I was severely late, everthing worked out. The interview was one of the toughest ever but I kept my cool. Of course, then she forgot to call me several weeks later about whether I got the position or not. I had to call her and her response was that she was meaning to call me about my offer. I didn't take the position for other reasons, but I found out that A) she was a contracted employee and B)she longer works there anymore. So it goes to show, just because you have one person representing a company who might fsck up, doesn't mean the rest of the company is on the same level.
it actually says in the google-analytics instructions to place it just above . I did it last night for a client's page.
i believe the new Data Center located in the Dalles [Map] apparently uses windmills and hydroelectric power. So this has been in their sites for a while.
Being that many of my young friends work in the government including in the House and Senate (not as Pages *ducks*), I know they aren't using their heads when computing. They spend about 6 hours a day on a computer probably looking at $_favorite_porn_site . Those computers are almost guaranteed to be infected.
To one Congressional Office's credit (Cliff Stearns), they actually had iMacs setup. I guess that's one step in the right direction.
Are you sure about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
This sounds like Dr. Ngo from University of Florida. I hear he's a big No No!
It's people like you that confuse my computer. All of these open WAPs confuse my computer while I'm wardriving especially some like New York City. It has no idea which WAP to go for. On a serious note, being able to pop open my laptop just anywhere in the city and see a few open WAPs is great. I don't understand why the police are patrolling about this.
I wish I had mod points to give you.
You can purchase this Laptop as a Developer for $2239 using the ADC Discount found here.
And Coolio used Stevie Wonder's song Pastime Paradise to create Gangsta's Paradise.
Facebook's infratstructure is getting overwhelmingly big. They included a photo uploading section because, well people obviously love photos. But their original plan was to distribute the photo load by allowing users to locally host their photos and use a program called Wirehog (I believe) to turn their computer into a share point. This failed because of the complexity and security. The also are looking to hire many people to code and develop as well as maintain their servers (stripped down fedora). I'm not sure what their profits are, but this 25 mil sounds really justified.
Yahoo offers a lot more than google in certain aspects. Yahoo provides Geocoding ability to turn addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates in an xml file format. same with their local search.
they also produce a CSV sheet for stock quotes.
but google does have the advantage in interface. google maps does beat all competition for example.
Maybe you can't eat with two spoons, but if you're a Dining Philosopher, you certainly need two forks!