yeah... the warranties really screw you. I bought a laptop from them and got the 2 year extended warranty on it... Mind you, it had a 1 Year manufacturers warranty as well.
I come around looking for some coverage needs 2 years after I buy it and I am told that the warranty is up... I said "WTF I bought a 2 year coverage plan over and above the manufactures plan warranty."
The guy told me that the 2 year coverage covers the first and second year and I said so basically I paid out the ass to double cover myself in the first year?
the only thing that would have been worse is if I decided that 1 year "extra" coverage would have been enough.
ActiveX is insanely useful for Corporate intranets.
The security model that SP2 and Vista use is good at keeping ActiveX from driveby access to machines so there is no reason to dump it. and untrusted sites is not the right way to think about it.
having the granularity they use is good for those who wish to use it. many will simply block all zones the same and then use the trusted sites zone for those sites that they need to use features like activeX for desktop integration.
I hope someone develops a browser that has a modular CSS enguine and leave the hooks open for anyone to use so you can plug in the CSS engine that you like. Then, CSS support can develop asynchronous from teh HTML engine and movement can accelerate on supporting the standards.
If anything was learned from the 2004 election in the US, it is that statistics are meaningless and cannot be used to show fraud or anything meaningful at all.
I envision lots of glass doored conference rooms and lots of big cushy leather arm chairs and couches arranged in sitting areas with coffee tables in the middle. Add some larger 4 person tables to spread work out over and you have what looks like a library but with out all the bookshelves.
I think it could work out to be a great work environment if you do not over staff the areas and provide free quality coffee and tea.
The Dems do not have a real majority in the Senate either. one of those votes, Lieberman, is always a vote for the Republicans on the war votes and many foreign policy votes. that puts the Dems in the minority on the war in the senate.
They can charge 1st class tickets more by guaranteeing their luggage gets off first thus making their travel more efficient, and they offer the same service to Economy passengers but the price is not included int eh ticket price so you have to pay more..
And God is where in that equation? It seems he has shows a logical and scientifically consistent reason why the premise of a young earth might be physically possible, but how does not leave God as the point of creation?
Ohh... he made the earth it self seem billions of years old but left the rest of to the universe.... Got it.
why are you complaining about constantly rewriting the boiler plait code? If you are using the same language, write the class once and use everywhere. in the context of our discussion I think that your complaint is unwarranted. In the end, someone has to write a class for it, if it si not written yet, then guess who the winner is?
nah... we can simply burn coal and use that new filter (can't find the link right now) to ciphen off the CO2 and Methane... burn teh methane for extra power and filter the CO2 from that as well, then send it over to this process to perminantly bind it and then cart it away.
not many universities do norm referencing any more. I think it is common in the Ivy League and at places like MIT where they need to separate out the students or they will be giving out A's to 99% of the kids. standard state schools and small private schools are almost all criterion referenced.
I am not sure why Fla. wastes that amount of money when they could simply norm reference the test to see where students actually fall. Norm referencing is actually good for standardized testing when you want to evaluate a population.
We are geeks!!! we are predisposed to Math and Science.
at any rate, the best thing you can do is to talk with the math teachers in your school to find out what the students are working on and then collaboratively design some extensions that you can apply in your classroom. a writing assignment that gets the kids to crack a book and report on a famous mathematician... make it a 20th century mathematician to make the kids see math is a living subject.
perhaps get them to write some modern applications in the realm of medicine, construction, urban planning, etc. TO make such an assignment interesting to the student, make sure they pick a career field they are interested in and have them investigate math's applications in those fields
I would not mix math and science in the same unit... Science is a little "softer" than math and will be more popular fore the students if given a choice. Also, make sure to have the kids pick the career field they want to write about before they are told what angle they will be looking at it from. knowing the angle will likely affect the career field they choose and thus fail to make them see math/sciences real contributions to areas other than engineering/science. Make sure they stick with that same field when you have them investigate the science involved.
As you may have gleaned, I am a trained, but non-practicing, math teacher. I found that I could not stand the classroom. All that work on lesson plans and then even when you make up games, they still do not want to learn the material. I found the business world to be much more enjoyable. At least there your hard work gives you benefits.
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yeah... the warranties really screw you. I bought a laptop from them and got the 2 year extended warranty on it... Mind you, it had a 1 Year manufacturers warranty as well.
I come around looking for some coverage needs 2 years after I buy it and I am told that the warranty is up... I said "WTF I bought a 2 year coverage plan over and above the manufactures plan warranty."
The guy told me that the 2 year coverage covers the first and second year and I said so basically I paid out the ass to double cover myself in the first year?
the only thing that would have been worse is if I decided that 1 year "extra" coverage would have been enough.
CSS is bullshit? fuck off you table layout fossil.
IE7 Pro plugin gives you all the features you miss from Firefox and Safari (inline spell checker is my favorite)
ActiveX is insanely useful for Corporate intranets.
The security model that SP2 and Vista use is good at keeping ActiveX from driveby access to machines so there is no reason to dump it. and untrusted sites is not the right way to think about it.
having the granularity they use is good for those who wish to use it. many will simply block all zones the same and then use the trusted sites zone for those sites that they need to use features like activeX for desktop integration.
I hope someone develops a browser that has a modular CSS enguine and leave the hooks open for anyone to use so you can plug in the CSS engine that you like. Then, CSS support can develop asynchronous from teh HTML engine and movement can accelerate on supporting the standards.
If anything was learned from the 2004 election in the US, it is that statistics are meaningless and cannot be used to show fraud or anything meaningful at all.
Yep...
Are you telling me that you do not trust the Putin's party won 99% of the electorate in Chechnya? Those people LOVE Putin.
I envision lots of glass doored conference rooms and lots of big cushy leather arm chairs and couches arranged in sitting areas with coffee tables in the middle. Add some larger 4 person tables to spread work out over and you have what looks like a library but with out all the bookshelves.
I think it could work out to be a great work environment if you do not over staff the areas and provide free quality coffee and tea.
All a relay does is.... relay. It is not the originator IP. So once you strip off all the IP addresses, the chewy nougat core will be the origonator.
Doesn't he already live in a place like that?
The Dems do not have a real majority in the Senate either. one of those votes, Lieberman, is always a vote for the Republicans on the war votes and many foreign policy votes. that puts the Dems in the minority on the war in the senate.
They can charge 1st class tickets more by guaranteeing their luggage gets off first thus making their travel more efficient, and they offer the same service to Economy passengers but the price is not included int eh ticket price so you have to pay more..
WTF? dude... Hawking radiation is the release of matter from a black hole. No information is retained. That is the key to the entire theory
And God is where in that equation? It seems he has shows a logical and scientifically consistent reason why the premise of a young earth might be physically possible, but how does not leave God as the point of creation?
Ohh... he made the earth it self seem billions of years old but left the rest of to the universe.... Got it.
why are you complaining about constantly rewriting the boiler plait code? If you are using the same language, write the class once and use everywhere. in the context of our discussion I think that your complaint is unwarranted. In the end, someone has to write a class for it, if it si not written yet, then guess who the winner is?
why are you typing boiler plate code over and over again? have you ever heard of a functions and classes?
nah... we can simply burn coal and use that new filter (can't find the link right now) to ciphen off the CO2 and Methane... burn teh methane for extra power and filter the CO2 from that as well, then send it over to this process to perminantly bind it and then cart it away.
"They must have some crappy cops"
not many universities do norm referencing any more. I think it is common in the Ivy League and at places like MIT where they need to separate out the students or they will be giving out A's to 99% of the kids. standard state schools and small private schools are almost all criterion referenced.
I am not sure why Fla. wastes that amount of money when they could simply norm reference the test to see where students actually fall. Norm referencing is actually good for standardized testing when you want to evaluate a population.
norm referencing has not been used for decades. Criterion referencing is used everywhere from K through University now.
build a rail gun and try that. You might be able to get a large enough structure and power to do it for less than 30 million... just barly.
We are geeks!!! we are predisposed to Math and Science.
at any rate, the best thing you can do is to talk with the math teachers in your school to find out what the students are working on and then collaboratively design some extensions that you can apply in your classroom. a writing assignment that gets the kids to crack a book and report on a famous mathematician... make it a 20th century mathematician to make the kids see math is a living subject.
perhaps get them to write some modern applications in the realm of medicine, construction, urban planning, etc. TO make such an assignment interesting to the student, make sure they pick a career field they are interested in and have them investigate math's applications in those fields
I would not mix math and science in the same unit... Science is a little "softer" than math and will be more popular fore the students if given a choice. Also, make sure to have the kids pick the career field they want to write about before they are told what angle they will be looking at it from. knowing the angle will likely affect the career field they choose and thus fail to make them see math/sciences real contributions to areas other than engineering/science. Make sure they stick with that same field when you have them investigate the science involved.
As you may have gleaned, I am a trained, but non-practicing, math teacher. I found that I could not stand the classroom. All that work on lesson plans and then even when you make up games, they still do not want to learn the material. I found the business world to be much more enjoyable. At least there your hard work gives you benefits.
MOre than a generation... he still had a kick butt show in the 80's!
My God!!! Someone IS dumber than Bush!!
Blasphemer!!!! Never incorrectly state the Flying Spaghetti Monster's name!! you shall be struck down by his long noodlie appendage!!