The pay really sucks. Frankly you'd probably be better off managing a fast food restaurant.
If you put up with the crappy pay and the stifling bureaucracy, then you're probably not doing it for your own selfish purposes, but rather because you feel that it's the right thing to do. Which means that you are genuinely interested in teaching people.
How much can you earn managing a fast food restaurant? Is it more then 40k a year?
A teachers pay puts them in the top 50% of wage earners.
Not great money but the pay DOES NOT SUCK. And the bureaucracy tends to drive out people with options, talents, youth, and abilities. People interested in teaching will eventually be driven out like everyone else unless they have no better options.
The trouble is, teachers are paid extremely poorly (that's why we have so many bad ones)
Bullshit. The years of teachers being underpaid are long gone. Their pay puts them in the top 50% of wage earners. Not amazing pay but to call their better then average pay "extremely poor" is just plain wrong
But personally, I'd rather see introductory programming courses taught in Python or Scheme. Those languages are small enough that students can focus on program design without being encumbered by syntax and semantics.
Isn't that like teaching kids to read for meaning in works like Catcher in the Rye, Moby Dick,... before teaching them the simple grammer of first grade english class?
There seems to be a large number of people who think this is all the womens fault and she set him up and living in Russia with her kids. Seems completely ridiculous to me but some people will go on forever and invent crazy theorys to explain events that already have an explination.
JFK, moon landing, 9/11, Paul is dead....
So to you who utterly proclaim she is alive in Russia with her kids, why don't you hire a detective to put the kids or her mother under surveillance? She will show up, maybe she is already there. I know it would be expensive but if enough of you chip in it wouldn't be that bad. And if you TRULY believe he is innocent don't you have a moral requirement to at least chip in $50 or $100 to help out?
Is it possible that Hans' lawyers already did this and came up empty? I don't know, but that might have been money well spent by the defense. Or maybe the lawyers declined to waste the money this way since they believed this theory was a load of crap.
My conscience is clear, I think he is guilty as hell but those of you who are wringing your hands, perhaps put you could put together a "Free Hans" foundation investigate the location of the wife. First step would be for some TRUE BELIEVERS to step up and look at everything in the court transcripts and post it online, highlight interesting/important parts and post it online. I get the feeling once people calm down a bit in a week or so no one is going to do anything at all.
The bill's author, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, said the money raised from the tax isn't to dissuade gamers...
Of course taxes on cigarettes are to dissuade smokers but taxes on games are not to dissuade gamers.
Lawmakers are also not sure how much the tax would generate.
Why would a lawmaker need to know that? Next you'll be asking programmers to know which language they are going to use for their project.
Erpenbach said at this point, he's not sure how much it would cost to move non-violent 17-year-olds to the juvenile system. Of course he doesn't know. He didn't know how much the taxes would raise why would know how much money is needed?
The Nasdaq comment caught my eye. I believe that Nasdaq, at least in part, sits on Unisys built mainframes. Has any MMO company talked to Unisys, IBM or any other mainframe manufactures? (are there any others left?)
It seems to me if you wanted "1 world" it might be a good idea to start by having "1 machine".
Of course this presumes the reason why things are on many servers is mainly technical restrictions as opposed to content creation reasons. Maybe Eve works as 1 world is because you only need a map maker; it is the players that create the content, meaning drama. A mainly PvE game would require lots and lots very carefully crafted content to make sure everyone has enough room to spread out but still group up. It is easy to create enough content for 25,000 people is easier then for 200,000; unless the other people are the content.
The mac version of Eve was reported as in development as far back as March but as of yet no offical statements.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/eve/index.php
And people ALREADY run Eve on linux using Cedega. Running Eve on linux is nothing new, people have been doing it for at least 9 months, maybe more.
Nice of slashdot to pick up a PR statement.
Yes the reason digg has a higher page rank on alexia is because the average digg user is almost universally less technically savy then the average slashdot user. No I am not being sarcastic, they are dumber.
A slashdot debate on bush and the war, for example, will use complete word and sentances and sometimes include facts. A crazy rant it might be but a crazy READABLE rant. The same debate on digg... bush = leet haxor STFU, WAR IS BAD, OBAMA 08 WOOT.
"Disclaimer for the rest of Slashdot: I'm well aware of the situations where this may be the person's only means of income. I still would rather not support this system."
You set up a situation where the person MUST gold farm to have enough money to eat and you say you will NOT support the system, I would guess you would want no one else to support the system either.
My god, is assuaging your guilt of success and a comfortable life really more important then someone having enough to eat? People like you disgust me. You cry out for the "rights of the workers" and yet you openly admit that you would take away the workers best option just so you would feel better.
They banned CONSERVITVE blogger Michelle Malkin. Why was that? (I am asking here, I really don't know)
Even the (usually liberal) New York Times was very sympathic to the censoring of Malkin.
Come on enough with the hype.
Now Spore has the power to enlighten the masses to everything from global trade to the wonders of life, and allow us simpletons to grasp the scope and scale of all existance.
This may be the greatest game ever created, past, present, or future, but the hype is up to biblical purportions.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=producers. htm
Made $38,054,424
Cost $45 million
Net loss $7 Million
I wish I had 7 million to lose.
I assume the play is doing better, but how much of cut of that is he getting?
I don't think playwrites get very much in the way of royalties.
Hate to tell you but G4 is gotten rid of most of its gaming roots. The survivers from before the merger are X-Play and Attack of the Show ( which really isn't a surver but what "The Screen Saver" mutated into). The CEO in charge of the merger was fired because ratings are horrible and new management brought in to clean up the mess. The new management has no intrest in reviving any TechTV or game based format.
No one is intrested in a format that will get eyes away from the format, ( in plain english TV competes with console games, you can do only one at a time. If the TV tells you to play games you have to stop watching TV.) It is NOT like watching a show about movies because those are review shows in which you watch TV to help you decied what movie to see. At that point you have already decided to watch a movie but are using TV to help decide which one, so TV tries to recapture you for 1/2 hour of reviews. X-Play might survive because of this. They aren't tell you to playing games so much as telling you which games to play. There is nothing in X-Play to get one excited to play games, but watching footage of people playing will get you excited, you will turn on the XBox/PS2/GC/360 and play. You will also be no longer watching TV and thus they will have LOST viewers, not gained. Losing views means losing advertisers, which means NO MONEY.
Face it, Gaming TV is DEAD! Perhaps a game based network might make it as IPTV but never as a traditional TV network.
Won't the farmers that survived the banhammer just be able to increase their prices, as their competitors are at least temporarly out of commision? Plus the supply of gold available for purchase is less so won't prices go up even more?
There is a difference between cost and salary. Cost includes the persons workstation, including software licenses, health insurance, a few weeks of vacation, 11 to 15 holidays, Social Security tax...
That of course doesn't include the IT department, janatorial staff, buildling maitnance, accounting, shipping department, and random secretarial staff.
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The pay really sucks. Frankly you'd probably be better off managing a fast food restaurant.
If you put up with the crappy pay and the stifling bureaucracy, then you're probably not doing it for your own selfish purposes, but rather because you feel that it's the right thing to do. Which means that you are genuinely interested in teaching people.
How much can you earn managing a fast food restaurant? Is it more then 40k a year? A teachers pay puts them in the top 50% of wage earners. Not great money but the pay DOES NOT SUCK. And the bureaucracy tends to drive out people with options, talents, youth, and abilities. People interested in teaching will eventually be driven out like everyone else unless they have no better options.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-25-teacher-salary-raise_x.htm http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
The trouble is, teachers are paid extremely poorly (that's why we have so many bad ones)
Bullshit. The years of teachers being underpaid are long gone. Their pay puts them in the top 50% of wage earners. Not amazing pay but to call their better then average pay "extremely poor" is just plain wrong
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-25-teacher-salary-raise_x.htm http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
The rest of what you said may have some validity but your understanding of teacher incomes is just plain wrong.
But personally, I'd rather see introductory programming courses taught in Python or Scheme. Those languages are small enough that students can focus on program design without being encumbered by syntax and semantics.
Isn't that like teaching kids to read for meaning in works like Catcher in the Rye, Moby Dick, ... before teaching them the simple grammer of first grade english class?
Thanks you. We Americans, while not really interested in other cultures, do appreciate the translation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
JFK, moon landing, 9/11, Paul is dead ....
So to you who utterly proclaim she is alive in Russia with her kids, why don't you hire a detective to put the kids or her mother under surveillance? She will show up, maybe she is already there. I know it would be expensive but if enough of you chip in it wouldn't be that bad. And if you TRULY believe he is innocent don't you have a moral requirement to at least chip in $50 or $100 to help out?
Is it possible that Hans' lawyers already did this and came up empty? I don't know, but that might have been money well spent by the defense. Or maybe the lawyers declined to waste the money this way since they believed this theory was a load of crap.
My conscience is clear, I think he is guilty as hell but those of you who are wringing your hands, perhaps put you could put together a "Free Hans" foundation investigate the location of the wife. First step would be for some TRUE BELIEVERS to step up and look at everything in the court transcripts and post it online, highlight interesting/important parts and post it online. I get the feeling once people calm down a bit in a week or so no one is going to do anything at all.
Of course taxes on cigarettes are to dissuade smokers but taxes on games are not to dissuade gamers.
Lawmakers are also not sure how much the tax would generate.Why would a lawmaker need to know that? Next you'll be asking programmers to know which language they are going to use for their project.
Erpenbach said at this point, he's not sure how much it would cost to move non-violent 17-year-olds to the juvenile system. Of course he doesn't know. He didn't know how much the taxes would raise why would know how much money is needed?Also not from the article, Erpenbach is a democrat from a suburb of Madison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Erpenbach
Wisconsin is the 6th most taxed state. So the money might already be available 5% sales tax and top income tax rate of 6.75%, it is 6.5% for most people. http://www.revenue.wi.gov/faqs/pcs/taxrates.html
They person you buy the abuse from called is a Dominatrix. Or so I heard... I mean a friend told me ...
According to wikipedia disbarment proceedings were filed, but doesn't mention any resolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)#The_Florida_Bar
I know the law can move really slow but how long do such proceedings take? Any court watchers have any inside info or analysis?
The Nasdaq comment caught my eye. I believe that Nasdaq, at least in part, sits on Unisys built mainframes. Has any MMO company talked to Unisys, IBM or any other mainframe manufactures? (are there any others left?)
It seems to me if you wanted "1 world" it might be a good idea to start by having "1 machine".
Of course this presumes the reason why things are on many servers is mainly technical restrictions as opposed to content creation reasons. Maybe Eve works as 1 world is because you only need a map maker; it is the players that create the content, meaning drama. A mainly PvE game would require lots and lots very carefully crafted content to make sure everyone has enough room to spread out but still group up. It is easy to create enough content for 25,000 people is easier then for 200,000; unless the other people are the content.
The mac version of Eve was reported as in development as far back as March but as of yet no offical statements. http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/eve/index.php And people ALREADY run Eve on linux using Cedega. Running Eve on linux is nothing new, people have been doing it for at least 9 months, maybe more. Nice of slashdot to pick up a PR statement.
Yes the reason digg has a higher page rank on alexia is because the average digg user is almost universally less technically savy then the average slashdot user. No I am not being sarcastic, they are dumber.
A slashdot debate on bush and the war, for example, will use complete word and sentances and sometimes include facts. A crazy rant it might be but a crazy READABLE rant.
The same debate on digg...
bush = leet haxor
STFU, WAR IS BAD, OBAMA 08 WOOT.
"Disclaimer for the rest of Slashdot: I'm well aware of the situations where this may be the person's only means of income. I still would rather not support this system." You set up a situation where the person MUST gold farm to have enough money to eat and you say you will NOT support the system, I would guess you would want no one else to support the system either. My god, is assuaging your guilt of success and a comfortable life really more important then someone having enough to eat? People like you disgust me. You cry out for the "rights of the workers" and yet you openly admit that you would take away the workers best option just so you would feel better.
It's more like, wow this is the greatest game ever. Oh my god black and white is the greatest.
...after 3 hours of play...
Ok that was fun whats on TV?
They banned CONSERVITVE blogger Michelle Malkin. Why was that? (I am asking here, I really don't know) Even the (usually liberal) New York Times was very sympathic to the censoring of Malkin.
Come on enough with the hype. Now Spore has the power to enlighten the masses to everything from global trade to the wonders of life, and allow us simpletons to grasp the scope and scale of all existance. This may be the greatest game ever created, past, present, or future, but the hype is up to biblical purportions.
This shows that greed can be used in a positive way.
That is all I have to say, anyone else have anything to add?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=producers. htm
Made $38,054,424
Cost $45 million
Net loss $7 Million
I wish I had 7 million to lose.
I assume the play is doing better, but how much of cut of that is he getting?
I don't think playwrites get very much in the way of royalties.
His career must really be in the hole for him to even talk to G4.
I would like to take this chance to plug my own website http://www.digital-misfits.com/ where I sell modded XBoxes.
Out of the 18 XBox titles I have I can play exactly 0 on the 360.
;)
Of course that is because they are on my hard drive
You can already by a box full of haxncrax for under $200 including shipping.
Hate to tell you but G4 is gotten rid of most of its gaming roots. The survivers from before the merger are X-Play and Attack of the Show ( which really isn't a surver but what "The Screen Saver" mutated into). The CEO in charge of the merger was fired because ratings are horrible and new management brought in to clean up the mess. The new management has no intrest in reviving any TechTV or game based format. No one is intrested in a format that will get eyes away from the format, ( in plain english TV competes with console games, you can do only one at a time. If the TV tells you to play games you have to stop watching TV.) It is NOT like watching a show about movies because those are review shows in which you watch TV to help you decied what movie to see. At that point you have already decided to watch a movie but are using TV to help decide which one, so TV tries to recapture you for 1/2 hour of reviews. X-Play might survive because of this. They aren't tell you to playing games so much as telling you which games to play. There is nothing in X-Play to get one excited to play games, but watching footage of people playing will get you excited, you will turn on the XBox/PS2/GC/360 and play. You will also be no longer watching TV and thus they will have LOST viewers, not gained. Losing views means losing advertisers, which means NO MONEY. Face it, Gaming TV is DEAD! Perhaps a game based network might make it as IPTV but never as a traditional TV network.
Won't the farmers that survived the banhammer just be able to increase their prices, as their competitors are at least temporarly out of commision? Plus the supply of gold available for purchase is less so won't prices go up even more?
There is a difference between cost and salary. Cost includes the persons workstation, including software licenses, health insurance, a few weeks of vacation, 11 to 15 holidays, Social Security tax ...
That of course doesn't include the IT department, janatorial staff, buildling maitnance, accounting, shipping department, and random secretarial staff.