Teachers are also among the most educated, being surpassed primarily by doctors, lawyers, and researchers (who are often themselves professors). The median income for a person with a "Bachelor's degree or more" is 49k and for someone with a masters degree is 52k. If I recall correctly, the average (or median?) salary for WI teachers was 51k, and they are the highest paid teachers in the country (both stats were from the less-than-conservative news orgs). This puts the "best paid" teachers among the average for their education level.
So really, the 50% that makes less than them should have stayed in school and earned a diploma / degree.
Citation here. On a side note, notice how the income drops for people with doctoral degrees (aka professors).
It's just all so damn sad. I'm falling into a puddle of my own tears. Oh my! I mean, education only makes up around 55% to 65% of state budgets. Why, whatever will those poor destitute people, do? Clearly, they need 100% of all taxes to go to education. Then everything will be perfect and everyone will be well educated and teachers will finally be able to stop living on the street, sleeping in the gutters and living on cans of cat food!
They may like teaching, but many of them (that I've seen) don't appear to be good at it. If you don't have patience, you really, really shouldn't be a teacher.
I think we need to make teaching more attractive as a career to build a bigger (hopefully better) pool of applicants to pick from. Regardless of what Fox News says, they are underpaid considering the job requirements and stress they deal with.
But even if they would lower prices in US and Europe, with games that pretty much leaves us with "crappy" games like Angry Birds, Farmville and indie games. You just cant have the same story, graphics quality and everything else involved with the big good games. I rather spend $50 and have a great game than small little games for a few dollars.
The real problem is that the copy-write holders are focusing on solving piracy, not managing piracy. They need to remember that their first goal is to make profit (more-or-less tied to revenue) and that one pirated copy doesn't translate to a lost sale.
Retail stores structure things knowing that some percentage of merchandise will be shoplifted. They don't like shop lifters, and take reasonable steps to prevent them. However, they don't go TSA on the customers. Like-wise, a game publisher should focus on impressing the customers who pay the $50, not eliminating the pirates who don't.
This is why I believe the government should own the lines and enforce competition through paid open access. (As if that'll ever happen in this country.)
I'm not philosophically opposed to government intervention and even I think that's a bad idea. The U.S. government has a horrible technology track record. Just see how smooth our roads are and imagine the internet connections like that..
I still say it''s a waste: the little we can actually learn from this could be either learned using vastly less resources, or the resources could be used to learn something vastly more useful.
Sometimes you need to do something that seems wasteful today to open the door for useful things down the line. Was it clear 140 years ago that Babbage's Analytical Engine was a key stepping stone towards pocket-sized super computers?
The problem with 'the cloud' is that no two experts can agree on what 'the cloud' is.
Cloud = computers systems and applications (or "apps", if you will) accessible and executed from the Internet. No? I never knew there was a question about what the Cloud is.
The original use of "cloud" referred to easily allocatable virtual servers. It has since been bastardize to refer to anything running or stored in cyberspace regardless of system architecture.
Ah, I screwed that up. I should have read the GP's post, then I would have understood h4rr4r's comment better. He posts so much, I should have given him the benefit of the doubt.
1. A star is a fusion reactor. These reactors are fission powered.
2. If you are willing to play this name changing game you can find these sorts of things in damn near everything.
3. Fictional tales no matter how long ago they were written are not good predictors of future occurrences.
After reviewing your post, we've requested you turn in your physics badge.
Not all investment is in stock price. GE, like most established companies, pays dividends. Their investors purchased their stock years or decades ago and are enjoying a small but reliable payment every 3 months.
In this case, stock price is part of the equation, but is not the entire picture.
The same role that Ford Motor Company is responsible to fill in preventing the use of it's vehicles as Getaway cars from scenes of crimes.
I think it's slightly different. Once Ford sells a car, they are done (except for warranty work).
This is more like Ford providing assistance during the heist. The robbers are actively using the service in the commission of the crime.
Also, the type of car is irrelevant. Or no car at all. Cracking the WPA in this instance can't be done without using Amazons service.
This would be like Ford giving road-side assistance during a heist. The tow-truck guy doesn't know the occupants are criminals, but if they see 20 bullet holes, a bleeding guy in the back, and maybe some curious looking bags... reporting it is simply being a good citizen.
Note the difference between Ford's tow-truck driver reporting what he saw and Ford monitoring all cars looking for those leaving a bank in a hurry.
It's actually quite difficult to snipe from a moving ship.
If by "ship" you mean "6 foot inflatable dingy", then yeah, it is. If, on the other hand, by "ship" you mean "cargo-hauler the size of several football fields" then no, it's not.
Agreed. Remember the incident where the captain was held hostage by 3 pirates in a covered life raft, only to be saved by 3 simultaneous sniper shots from Navy Seals on a ship?
Not really. Since it's self-reported, it's up to the person checking the box to bin themselves. What we learn here is that people who shy from calling themselves "software engineer", or are labelled "computer programmer" by their company's org chart, make less than people who report in as "software engineer".
Maybe it's because those who know the difference also know how to make themselves more valuable.
[1] "Dogs and Demons: tales for the dark side of Japan", Alex Kerr, 2001. A never seen analysis (by a long time nipponophile) in the western press on the cultural, economic, spiritual, ecological malaise of Japan.
Read it and loved it. Even though it's almost a decade old, it describes Japan's current situation pretty well while presenting lessons for us Westerners to take home.
Well, it pretty much is true. Apple doesn't offer a cheap Mac, never have and probably never will. Particularly their cheapest models - the Mac Mini being the very cheapest - have very crappy hardware value. The reason you buy this is simple, it's the only way to get a genuine Mac that runs OS X and Mac software, unless you're in the very small technical minority who'd be comfortable with a hackintosh.
I think there is also a group that likes the smaller form factor. Last I checked, even Shuttles weren't as small as the Mac Mini. I have space for a Mini in my entertainment center, but not a Shuttle and definitely not a tower.
I'm not running Apple but if I was I'd seriously consider taking a rematch with Microsoft on the mainstream market.
Why should they? Sure, MS has better market penetration. However, Apple is valued at just under $300 billion where MS is valued at $240 billion. At the end of the day, that's what matters to the investors. It's like telling Porsche "You should build cars that sell for $20k because GM and Ford are selling cars for less." Porsche is successful because they sell low volumes at a premium just as Apple does.
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Teachers are also among the most educated, being surpassed primarily by doctors, lawyers, and researchers (who are often themselves professors). The median income for a person with a "Bachelor's degree or more" is 49k and for someone with a masters degree is 52k. If I recall correctly, the average (or median?) salary for WI teachers was 51k, and they are the highest paid teachers in the country (both stats were from the less-than-conservative news orgs). This puts the "best paid" teachers among the average for their education level.
So really, the 50% that makes less than them should have stayed in school and earned a diploma / degree.
Citation here. On a side note, notice how the income drops for people with doctoral degrees (aka professors).
Of the $127 Million budget, $48 million is earmarked for education and $37.5 million of it is set for K-12.
Thanks.
On a side note, numbers on that link are in thousands. ^m^b.
It's just all so damn sad. I'm falling into a puddle of my own tears. Oh my! I mean, education only makes up around 55% to 65% of state budgets. Why, whatever will those poor destitute people, do? Clearly, they need 100% of all taxes to go to education. Then everything will be perfect and everyone will be well educated and teachers will finally be able to stop living on the street, sleeping in the gutters and living on cans of cat food!
Citation please.
They may like teaching, but many of them (that I've seen) don't appear to be good at it. If you don't have patience, you really, really shouldn't be a teacher.
I think we need to make teaching more attractive as a career to build a bigger (hopefully better) pool of applicants to pick from. Regardless of what Fox News says, they are underpaid considering the job requirements and stress they deal with.
Short hours
Hahaha... do you really thing a teacher's day end when the last bell rings? Or that many teach summer school just to make ends meet?
Not to mention that teachers pay increases have outstripped inflation consistently
This doesn't seem to apply for any teacher I know.
Wasn't he Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938?
But even if they would lower prices in US and Europe, with games that pretty much leaves us with "crappy" games like Angry Birds, Farmville and indie games. You just cant have the same story, graphics quality and everything else involved with the big good games. I rather spend $50 and have a great game than small little games for a few dollars.
The real problem is that the copy-write holders are focusing on solving piracy, not managing piracy. They need to remember that their first goal is to make profit (more-or-less tied to revenue) and that one pirated copy doesn't translate to a lost sale.
Retail stores structure things knowing that some percentage of merchandise will be shoplifted. They don't like shop lifters, and take reasonable steps to prevent them. However, they don't go TSA on the customers. Like-wise, a game publisher should focus on impressing the customers who pay the $50, not eliminating the pirates who don't.
I argue against them owning the lines, not against intervention.
So rather than opening the lines to competition and potentially having dozens of ISPs to choose from
Given our government's track record over the last decade or so, do you really think it'll end up this way?
This is why I believe the government should own the lines and enforce competition through paid open access. (As if that'll ever happen in this country.)
I'm not philosophically opposed to government intervention and even I think that's a bad idea. The U.S. government has a horrible technology track record. Just see how smooth our roads are and imagine the internet connections like that..
+1 for out-nerding
I still say it''s a waste: the little we can actually learn from this could be either learned using vastly less resources, or the resources could be used to learn something vastly more useful.
Sometimes you need to do something that seems wasteful today to open the door for useful things down the line. Was it clear 140 years ago that Babbage's Analytical Engine was a key stepping stone towards pocket-sized super computers?
No, you're thinking of John Boehner.
Interesting fact. Enter the above name and google suggests "crying", "cry", "affair" and "scam".
The problem with 'the cloud' is that no two experts can agree on what 'the cloud' is.
Cloud = computers systems and applications (or "apps", if you will) accessible and executed from the Internet. No? I never knew there was a question about what the Cloud is.
The original use of "cloud" referred to easily allocatable virtual servers. It has since been bastardize to refer to anything running or stored in cyberspace regardless of system architecture.
Except that the car weighs far more than that, and with car, driver, and fuel, you're up over 2000lbs.
Only if the driver is an American. ;-)
Ah, I screwed that up. I should have read the GP's post, then I would have understood h4rr4r's comment better. He posts so much, I should have given him the benefit of the doubt.
1. A star is a fusion reactor. These reactors are fission powered.
2. If you are willing to play this name changing game you can find these sorts of things in damn near everything.
3. Fictional tales no matter how long ago they were written are not good predictors of future occurrences.
After reviewing your post, we've requested you turn in your physics badge.
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I, for one, am shocked, shocked! that Facebook of all companies has introduced something so invasive!
Here are your customer contacts, sir.
Not all investment is in stock price. GE, like most established companies, pays dividends. Their investors purchased their stock years or decades ago and are enjoying a small but reliable payment every 3 months.
In this case, stock price is part of the equation, but is not the entire picture.
The same role that Ford Motor Company is responsible to fill in preventing the use of it's vehicles as Getaway cars from scenes of crimes. I think it's slightly different. Once Ford sells a car, they are done (except for warranty work). This is more like Ford providing assistance during the heist. The robbers are actively using the service in the commission of the crime. Also, the type of car is irrelevant. Or no car at all. Cracking the WPA in this instance can't be done without using Amazons service.
This would be like Ford giving road-side assistance during a heist. The tow-truck guy doesn't know the occupants are criminals, but if they see 20 bullet holes, a bleeding guy in the back, and maybe some curious looking bags... reporting it is simply being a good citizen.
Note the difference between Ford's tow-truck driver reporting what he saw and Ford monitoring all cars looking for those leaving a bank in a hurry.
It's actually quite difficult to snipe from a moving ship.
If by "ship" you mean "6 foot inflatable dingy", then yeah, it is. If, on the other hand, by "ship" you mean "cargo-hauler the size of several football fields" then no, it's not.
Agreed. Remember the incident where the captain was held hostage by 3 pirates in a covered life raft, only to be saved by 3 simultaneous sniper shots from Navy Seals on a ship?
Not really. Since it's self-reported, it's up to the person checking the box to bin themselves. What we learn here is that people who shy from calling themselves "software engineer", or are labelled "computer programmer" by their company's org chart, make less than people who report in as "software engineer".
Maybe it's because those who know the difference also know how to make themselves more valuable.
[1] "Dogs and Demons: tales for the dark side of Japan", Alex Kerr, 2001. A never seen analysis (by a long time nipponophile) in the western press on the cultural, economic, spiritual, ecological malaise of Japan.
Read it and loved it. Even though it's almost a decade old, it describes Japan's current situation pretty well while presenting lessons for us Westerners to take home.
Well, it pretty much is true. Apple doesn't offer a cheap Mac, never have and probably never will. Particularly their cheapest models - the Mac Mini being the very cheapest - have very crappy hardware value. The reason you buy this is simple, it's the only way to get a genuine Mac that runs OS X and Mac software, unless you're in the very small technical minority who'd be comfortable with a hackintosh.
I think there is also a group that likes the smaller form factor. Last I checked, even Shuttles weren't as small as the Mac Mini. I have space for a Mini in my entertainment center, but not a Shuttle and definitely not a tower.
I'm not running Apple but if I was I'd seriously consider taking a rematch with Microsoft on the mainstream market.
Why should they? Sure, MS has better market penetration. However, Apple is valued at just under $300 billion where MS is valued at $240 billion. At the end of the day, that's what matters to the investors. It's like telling Porsche "You should build cars that sell for $20k because GM and Ford are selling cars for less." Porsche is successful because they sell low volumes at a premium just as Apple does.