4) Generally speaking, the head of any educational institution in the UK is referred to as the "Principal", including both Universities, and primary and secondary schools. This term applies in virtually all of the Commonwealth countries (ie. all of the former British colonies apart from the US)
The head of primary and secondary schools in the UK is known as the "head teacher", commonly shortened to "head". I have yet to hear the term "principal" here - having been through a number of UK schools myself, worked in a number of schools, having teaching parents, and an ex-headteacher Godmother. Many of my colleagues have wives that are deputy/head teachers - I've yet to hear them refer to their wives as "the principal".
I seriously doubt you can't afford to learn drums. All you need is a practice pad, a pair of sticks, and a couple of firm pillows. Plus a lot of dedication.
If you want a real kit you can pick up something to begin on for a couple of hundred bucks easily - you can nearly buy a new kit for that kind of money!
Electric kits start at that kind of money too, and you can modify the most awful acoustic kits into really nice electronic sensors for a few bucks per drum.
Seconded. All good points, but I think in particular when starting out you *must* learn to feel comfortable to stop people when you don't understand something and ask questions. When working together on a project, it really isn't a competition. If you don't "get" the objectives and the reasons why you will not be able to complete the tasks effectively, and when explaining the task to someone else you will end up bullshitting - and we all know how easy that is to spot.
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In the UK this is due to league tables. Why teach kids how to do something for the rest of their lives if they might end up messing up in a known-format test? Bad results in that test result in the school being shunned by parents, even as far as moving their kids to other schools, sending the schools into "special measures" and ultimately affecting salaries and teacher motivation.
No, it's much better to teach the kids how to pass the tests and only the tests. That way the parents are happy because little Johnny got 98% in his tests! As parents don't need to invest time with their kids - that's what schools, nanny's and the xbox360 are for as everyone seems to know these days - they'll never find out how little their children know until too late.
Go and work for a large company and find out. You can't use the hard drive in a workstation to store anything other than applications - the machine will (out of necessity) be a standard image that will get blasted from time to time with updates, or when something breaks on the Windows install.
For enterprise storage, hard drives are not cheap. Yes, you can buy domestic IDE drives for cheap, but check the prices on SAS or "enterprise grade" storage. A large company will have potentially petabytes of data - backups for that amount of data aren't cheap, let alone archiving.
Emails are "archived" because most companies age off old emails. Any sensible company will archive emails that users delete (look at Enron as an example of why you'd want to do this).
Out of interest, how much exercise do you do per day, and what do you eat? These things can have a massive effect on the ability to sleep - especially the exercise aspect.
Building your own often works out more difficult - you have to divert resources into building and maintaining your hardware rather than solving the core business problem. If you have a cap on the number of staff that you can have (like many government depts) this will hurt you - buying off-the-shelf systems from Dell/HP/IBM/Sun/Apple wont.
That would be because the cig at that point is 3/4 of cotton and a pice of paper smaller then a dime.
Oh dear. Most cig filters are cellulose acetate, not cotton, and they can take upwards of 10 years to decompose. That is why people get pissed off at them being tossed on the ground.
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to you talking to the guy/gal in the seat next to you. I certainly don't want to hear you guffawing at Ugly Betty or whatever you are watching. When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your screaming baby. When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your kids whining "Mommy, how much longer" When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to get up as soon as the food has been served because you need the toilet but you only just realised.
The only difference between PhotoShop 7 and CS2 is a couple more features to convert it to bloatware and THAT'S IT!
Hmm, not really?
7 can't edit 16-bit per channel files, nor RAW camera files, in any useful way. There is no high-dynamic-range support (an awful name for what it does, as this is just dynamic range compression), no lens / perspective correction tools, and the filters/effects are much more limited (particularly the sharpen/blur, and the filter layers). CS2 also added the "smart objects" feature, which is really invaluable when working with imagery that you want to use on multiple output formats.
Sure, some of those features can be achieved with external tools, but most people are trying to slim down their workflow as much as possible to decrease the time spent on each project - this is especially true of photographers working with RAW files.
Maybe for you CS2 offers little new, but many people would find it seriously hard to go back to CS, let alone 7 (probably the same people that can't/wont use GIMP).
That's real funny. We built three dual PIII 650MHz duals, Supermicro mobo, and two are now dead and the third is unstable. None of my P4s cooked (the oldest is a 1.7GHz that is still running nicely as a dev server), but several Athlon systems I've seen have died where fans failed on heatsinks.
Swings and roundabouts...
A straight guy is unlikely to hire / review a gay porn film, etc.
I imagine similar things are possible with politically charged films, possibly more so, by looking at the way people write, or the things they write about. Many people find it hard to keep their thoughts to themselves if suitably fired up about something they disagree with.
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The head of primary and secondary schools in the UK is known as the "head teacher", commonly shortened to "head". I have yet to hear the term "principal" here - having been through a number of UK schools myself, worked in a number of schools, having teaching parents, and an ex-headteacher Godmother. Many of my colleagues have wives that are deputy/head teachers - I've yet to hear them refer to their wives as "the principal".
You've obviously seen our Governments for the last 20 or so years then :(
So far, just one.
I seriously doubt you can't afford to learn drums. All you need is a practice pad, a pair of sticks, and a couple of firm pillows. Plus a lot of dedication.
If you want a real kit you can pick up something to begin on for a couple of hundred bucks easily - you can nearly buy a new kit for that kind of money!
Electric kits start at that kind of money too, and you can modify the most awful acoustic kits into really nice electronic sensors for a few bucks per drum.
Seconded. All good points, but I think in particular when starting out you *must* learn to feel comfortable to stop people when you don't understand something and ask questions. When working together on a project, it really isn't a competition. If you don't "get" the objectives and the reasons why you will not be able to complete the tasks effectively, and when explaining the task to someone else you will end up bullshitting - and we all know how easy that is to spot.
In the UK this is due to league tables. Why teach kids how to do something for the rest of their lives if they might end up messing up in a known-format test? Bad results in that test result in the school being shunned by parents, even as far as moving their kids to other schools, sending the schools into "special measures" and ultimately affecting salaries and teacher motivation.
No, it's much better to teach the kids how to pass the tests and only the tests. That way the parents are happy because little Johnny got 98% in his tests! As parents don't need to invest time with their kids - that's what schools, nanny's and the xbox360 are for as everyone seems to know these days - they'll never find out how little their children know until too late.
And how many one handed Muslims have you seen?
More like 1000 or 2000 disks, not 350. 1TB drives haven't really hit the enterprise yet. The biggest SAS drives in use are still 300GB.
Go and work for a large company and find out. You can't use the hard drive in a workstation to store anything other than applications - the machine will (out of necessity) be a standard image that will get blasted from time to time with updates, or when something breaks on the Windows install.
For enterprise storage, hard drives are not cheap. Yes, you can buy domestic IDE drives for cheap, but check the prices on SAS or "enterprise grade" storage. A large company will have potentially petabytes of data - backups for that amount of data aren't cheap, let alone archiving.
Emails are "archived" because most companies age off old emails. Any sensible company will archive emails that users delete (look at Enron as an example of why you'd want to do this).
Or lusers trust phishing emails. They do because they don't know any better, and they likely don't care either.
Out of interest, how much exercise do you do per day, and what do you eat? These things can have a massive effect on the ability to sleep - especially the exercise aspect.
If you don't know how many people are entitled to vote prior to the election you have got serious problems anyway.
My Weller iron has one of these. Unfortunately, when they go wrong you end up with the whole metal shaft of the iron going bright orange :((
Quick! Block out the Sun! It's causing global warming!!! OH NOES
Building your own often works out more difficult - you have to divert resources into building and maintaining your hardware rather than solving the core business problem. If you have a cap on the number of staff that you can have (like many government depts) this will hurt you - buying off-the-shelf systems from Dell/HP/IBM/Sun/Apple wont.
Did I miss the bit where it said they were laid off?
You make the assumption that he has spare time in which to work another job. Many of us have to take multiple jobs just to survive...
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to you talking to the guy/gal in the seat next to you. I certainly don't want to hear you guffawing at Ugly Betty or whatever you are watching.
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your screaming baby.
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to listen to your kids whining "Mommy, how much longer"
When I'm stuck in a plane, I don't want to be forced to get up as soon as the food has been served because you need the toilet but you only just realised.
Why is a mobile call worse than any of those?
That's the point - lots of people did indeed guess that. This is one of the first decent experiments that goes some way to proving it.
Hmm, not really?
7 can't edit 16-bit per channel files, nor RAW camera files, in any useful way. There is no high-dynamic-range support (an awful name for what it does, as this is just dynamic range compression), no lens / perspective correction tools, and the filters/effects are much more limited (particularly the sharpen/blur, and the filter layers). CS2 also added the "smart objects" feature, which is really invaluable when working with imagery that you want to use on multiple output formats.
Sure, some of those features can be achieved with external tools, but most people are trying to slim down their workflow as much as possible to decrease the time spent on each project - this is especially true of photographers working with RAW files.
Maybe for you CS2 offers little new, but many people would find it seriously hard to go back to CS, let alone 7 (probably the same people that can't/wont use GIMP).
Like a cellphone contract? :-)
That's real funny. We built three dual PIII 650MHz duals, Supermicro mobo, and two are now dead and the third is unstable. None of my P4s cooked (the oldest is a 1.7GHz that is still running nicely as a dev server), but several Athlon systems I've seen have died where fans failed on heatsinks. Swings and roundabouts...
Not really- American English has more in common with Old English than Modern English does. Words ended with -ize etc.
A straight guy is unlikely to hire / review a gay porn film, etc. I imagine similar things are possible with politically charged films, possibly more so, by looking at the way people write, or the things they write about. Many people find it hard to keep their thoughts to themselves if suitably fired up about something they disagree with.