I'm not sure what your point is. A lot of people I know want a-la-carte pricing. If we had more providers, at least a couple would sell it to us that way because there are a lot of people who want it.
it's not the 90s anymore. We don't need a la carte cable. We have on-demand streaming.
That's largely why streaming is eating into cable co's sales, the main point of TFA.
Way too much is wasted on legacy make-work boondoggle cronyism handouts.
That's human nature, not just schools. Humans are wasteful, inefficient, tribal, and ego-driven apes who happen to be able to talk.
You can create monitors and auditors to try to "weed out waste", but auditing and the related effects are not cheap either.
Part of the problem is that teaching is getting more complex, which mirrors society. A teacher in 1970 didn't have to care about learning and teaching how to use educational computers, for example. There's also more rules to ensure things like minimum standards are met, and more rules creates more administrative overhead. Few cared about minimum standards in 1970.
You may think the private sector is more efficient, which in some ways is true, but they also waste a lot on sales and marketing shenanigans. The more competitive the industry, the more goes into the sales side instead of actually making a better mousetrap.
Heavy competition often also breeds underhanded shenanigans, like Wells Fargo's fake orders, or New England Patriots' microphone-gate and deflate-gate.
You also aren't also buying supplies for 100 other people (lowball of 5 classes @ 20 students/class).
One title of work software can be fairly pricey. Also, a teacher typically doesn't have to purchase one for each student. For example, a teacher can purchase say 5 color pencil sets and ask students to share them in class or rotate rather than buy one for each student (100 sets approx.) Sure, sharing is inconvenient and requires coordination, but is good social skills practice for the work world.
They should give the option of allowing potentially silly or stupid questions/answers, just put them on a 2nd-tier. Show the "prime" or vetted messages by default, but have buttons/links to view the 2nd-tier messages.
It's roughly comparable to choosing whether to view Slashdot's 0 and -1 ranked messages. If somebody really wants to see Python code in a goatse shape, so be it.
Is there a way to tell if toxins such as heavy metals come from man-made pollution, man-made environmental alteration (such as diverting streams), versus purely natural?
It's tricky to regulate and clean if we don't know what's causing it.
There are decent gigs maintaining legacy stacks, but often you have to move to a different city or even state. If you have family/spouse, that can be difficult.
The market is good now, but I've seen too many bubbles to reject the idea that programming is a safe career.
I've read one of the Scandinavian countries has laws about schools being funded equally to prevent just these kind of shenanigans. I'd love to see those kind of laws here in the States.
Conservatives don't seem to mind inequality. It increases competition in their mind and in theory raises all boats. Most don't seem ready to give that up and are essentially Ayn Randians to the bitter end.
Further, they fear "socialism" makes for a big government, and big government as a whole will allegedly grow power to curb their religion, take away their guns, and let men use the women's bathroom. Growing one arm of gov't will allegedly increase the power of another.
They'd rather risk starvation and illness than risk such an "attack" on their way of life. Paranoid? Yes, but many humans are like that. The Taliban are not the only ones. I have relatives like that who I know well. I love them, but they are also stubborn shitheads.
I buy office supplies and even software for my work because the administrative headaches of ordering such are often not worth the hassle. I'd rather work on IT than procurement paperwork. I've done this at multiple companies. Bad apples often cheat the procurement such that many orgs end up putting in lots of roadblocks.
True, I'm probably paid better than most teachers, though. Still, for smaller things, it often just makes life easier to go get them yourself.
Which Republican representatives explicitly disagreed with such action? (Yes, they complained of the President having too much power, but that's diff than disagreeing with the action itself.)
at least 70, probably 80, maybe even 90 percent of professional programmers should just fuck off and do something else as they are useless at programming.
Programming is statistically a dead-end job. Why should anyone hone a dead-end skill that you won't be able to use for long? For whatever reason, the industry doesn't want old programmers.
Otherwise, I'd suggest longer training and education before they enter the industry. But that just narrows an already narrow window of use.
Fiddling with JavaScript libraries to get a fancy dancy interface that makes PHB's happy is a sought-after skill, for good or bad. Now that we rely more on half-ass libraries, much of "programming" is fiddling with dark-grey boxes until they work good enough.
I'm not putting a value judgement on such work or library-centric architectures here, only making an observation about what's valued by those who hand out paychecks and raises.
Because cars last longer these days, the poor and lower middle class mostly buy used cars. The wealthy want new, of course. This means manufacturers who better cater to the finicky tastes of the wealthy get the sale.
Cranking out the same model in large quantities as cheap as possible is no longer a competitive strategy because the poor buy used and the rich don't want generic cars. But it's hard to get flexibility with automated manufacturing, and thus the "co-bots" which are semi-managed by line workers is the trend.
A disturbingly large % of westerners are overweight and it's not weight from muscles, many just seem to be weak and ugly (obese) in eyes of prospective females.
Those with money and power are often toads. But they can get away with it by having money and power.
I'm not sure how a country where millions of people don't have access to healthcare can call themselves 'civilised' with a straight face.
You don't understand. In the USA, about half the population values "freedom" over civilization.
It's partly inherent in the "the frontier" culture, and partly from the rich paying billions to convince them inequality and social Darwinism is a good thing. Who knows, maybe they are the future Kevin Costners and will evolve gills to survive Water World. All the coddled "socialists" won't have gills when the world warms and floods, and the Gillites will have the last laugh. At least we get the first laugh;-)
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I'm not sure what your point is. A lot of people I know want a-la-carte pricing. If we had more providers, at least a couple would sell it to us that way because there are a lot of people who want it.
That's largely why streaming is eating into cable co's sales, the main point of TFA.
Oligopolies = forced bundling; same as it ever was.
That's human nature, not just schools. Humans are wasteful, inefficient, tribal, and ego-driven apes who happen to be able to talk.
You can create monitors and auditors to try to "weed out waste", but auditing and the related effects are not cheap either.
Part of the problem is that teaching is getting more complex, which mirrors society. A teacher in 1970 didn't have to care about learning and teaching how to use educational computers, for example. There's also more rules to ensure things like minimum standards are met, and more rules creates more administrative overhead. Few cared about minimum standards in 1970.
You may think the private sector is more efficient, which in some ways is true, but they also waste a lot on sales and marketing shenanigans. The more competitive the industry, the more goes into the sales side instead of actually making a better mousetrap.
Heavy competition often also breeds underhanded shenanigans, like Wells Fargo's fake orders, or New England Patriots' microphone-gate and deflate-gate.
One title of work software can be fairly pricey. Also, a teacher typically doesn't have to purchase one for each student. For example, a teacher can purchase say 5 color pencil sets and ask students to share them in class or rotate rather than buy one for each student (100 sets approx.) Sure, sharing is inconvenient and requires coordination, but is good social skills practice for the work world.
They should give the option of allowing potentially silly or stupid questions/answers, just put them on a 2nd-tier. Show the "prime" or vetted messages by default, but have buttons/links to view the 2nd-tier messages.
It's roughly comparable to choosing whether to view Slashdot's 0 and -1 ranked messages. If somebody really wants to see Python code in a goatse shape, so be it.
Is there a way to tell if toxins such as heavy metals come from man-made pollution, man-made environmental alteration (such as diverting streams), versus purely natural?
It's tricky to regulate and clean if we don't know what's causing it.
There are decent gigs maintaining legacy stacks, but often you have to move to a different city or even state. If you have family/spouse, that can be difficult.
The market is good now, but I've seen too many bubbles to reject the idea that programming is a safe career.
Conservatives don't seem to mind inequality. It increases competition in their mind and in theory raises all boats. Most don't seem ready to give that up and are essentially Ayn Randians to the bitter end.
Further, they fear "socialism" makes for a big government, and big government as a whole will allegedly grow power to curb their religion, take away their guns, and let men use the women's bathroom. Growing one arm of gov't will allegedly increase the power of another.
They'd rather risk starvation and illness than risk such an "attack" on their way of life. Paranoid? Yes, but many humans are like that. The Taliban are not the only ones. I have relatives like that who I know well. I love them, but they are also stubborn shitheads.
I buy office supplies and even software for my work because the administrative headaches of ordering such are often not worth the hassle. I'd rather work on IT than procurement paperwork. I've done this at multiple companies. Bad apples often cheat the procurement such that many orgs end up putting in lots of roadblocks.
True, I'm probably paid better than most teachers, though. Still, for smaller things, it often just makes life easier to go get them yourself.
No no no, that's for general combat in Libya, NOT the removal of Qaddafi.
Wouldn't CC miners expecting better hardware soon stretch the limits?
Which Republican representatives explicitly disagreed with such action? (Yes, they complained of the President having too much power, but that's diff than disagreeing with the action itself.)
Programming is statistically a dead-end job. Why should anyone hone a dead-end skill that you won't be able to use for long? For whatever reason, the industry doesn't want old programmers.
Otherwise, I'd suggest longer training and education before they enter the industry. But that just narrows an already narrow window of use.
Fiddling with JavaScript libraries to get a fancy dancy interface that makes PHB's happy is a sought-after skill, for good or bad. Now that we rely more on half-ass libraries, much of "programming" is fiddling with dark-grey boxes until they work good enough.
I'm not putting a value judgement on such work or library-centric architectures here, only making an observation about what's valued by those who hand out paychecks and raises.
Dr. Hillman is not a climate scientist. I don't see how he is qualified to make climate predictions.
So bots will build a wall around us and make us pay for it?
No problem, I got you, babe.
I'm going to patent that process. Sounds obvious, but the Patent Office doesn't seem to notice such.
When Jeff Bezos realizes that, he'll enter the search engine biz. Maybe he'll buy Microsoft, keep Bing and Azure cloud, and sell the rest to China.
Because cars last longer these days, the poor and lower middle class mostly buy used cars. The wealthy want new, of course. This means manufacturers who better cater to the finicky tastes of the wealthy get the sale.
Cranking out the same model in large quantities as cheap as possible is no longer a competitive strategy because the poor buy used and the rich don't want generic cars. But it's hard to get flexibility with automated manufacturing, and thus the "co-bots" which are semi-managed by line workers is the trend.
I hear it got infected by the S0nnyB0n0 virus.
Those with money and power are often toads. But they can get away with it by having money and power.
You don't understand. In the USA, about half the population values "freedom" over civilization.
It's partly inherent in the "the frontier" culture, and partly from the rich paying billions to convince them inequality and social Darwinism is a good thing. Who knows, maybe they are the future Kevin Costners and will evolve gills to survive Water World. All the coddled "socialists" won't have gills when the world warms and floods, and the Gillites will have the last laugh. At least we get the first laugh ;-)
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