There aint no class war, there's a class massacre.
McCollough retired in 2006, but I don't want to go through the most recent proxy. Sorry, a bit dated.
W. Alan McCollough
Chief Executive Officer
Circuit City Stores Inc.
In 2005, W. Alan McCollough raked in $5,470,049 in total compensation including stock option grants* from Circuit City Stores Inc..
From previous years' stock option grants, the Circuit City Stores Inc. executive cashed out $3,052,902 in stock option exercises.
And W. Alan McCollough has another $20,773,329 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but I don't see that as a bad thing. A big part of development is figuring out what you want and need.
The article makes this far more complicated than it needs to be. Basically its a mobile digital library and post office. WiFi and Internet isn't kind of beside the point.
good thing they didn't have this when I was in school. I wrote 5 or 6 papers freshman year and just rewrote them every semester. It would be a PITA arguing over the ethics of plagiarising myself every semester. Politics of West Africa => Foreign Policy of West Africa => Economic Development Case Study: Nigeria => Anthropology: Cultures of West Africa. I had a couple different series that made up about half my coursework, with each paper in a series changed 20 to 50%. In the end I probably spent more time on the remixes than I would have if I had written brand new papers. I also learned more, as I forced myself to build connections across different fields of study. A lot more enlightening than copying my class notes and picking random quotes from one or two sources (or 10 sources that say the same thing from the same point of view). Would my anthro teacher fail me if he knew my application of post-colonial philosophy to an analysis of race in America was cribbed from a previous political theory class? Or would I have kept the A? Only the way it was cheating was that it prevented the first excruciating hour of writer's block.
"work for hire" my big hairy ass. I don't pay fifty grand for the opportunity to work. My ideas are pretty worthless, but they aren't of negative value. Tuition/housing at my alma mater is now over 50k a year. Nucking futs. Great gyms, half a dozen starbucks, neat course bulletin boards, and an amazing student union. Unfortunately, all the profs are overworked/underpaid adjuncts and the student union is actually used for corporate conferences.
Would a ruling in favor of the students affect search engines? Real question, I don't know.
If a professor needs to use this system to detect plagiarism, the students are getting a crappy education. One or a combination of the following are probably true:
a) the professor can't read.
b) the professor doesn't read the papers.
c) the professor has no idea who the students are and their capabilities. If the dumbass star athlete turns in genius work, or for that matter the brilliant nerd turns in trite bullshit, questions should be asked.
d) there is no opportunity for discussion among/between students and faculty.
Most of these problems could be avoided with smaller classes, which would be possible if so much money wasn't thrown at higher ed leaches like plagiarism detection.
My grandfather has written and "published" two books. The first was published in 1996 and is something of a travel memoir. It has a rank around 200,000. The second was published in 2003 and is an autobiography focusing on half a century spent coaching. It has a rank about 1.5million. While neither are big sellers (understatement) I know the second has sold more than the first. After a good 50 years of coaching there's plenty of former players out there that are interested. It has 8 copies available used. The first, older book, has 3 copies available, one with an inscription, so I know exactly who's copy it is (RIP, so no hard feelings). So a rank of 1.5million means no copies sold and at 200k no copies sold.
Dude right on! I'm garbage man. It's the 21st century man. Why should I have to get up off the couch and drive around town picking up garbage. I want to have kids, a family, a social life. But no!!! F* these arrogant pricks complaining about the smell and telling me its not their problem.
IIRC, an NDA/IP signed after an offer of employment has been accepted is void. If this wasn't the case, companies would go round offering mega salaries to relocate and then slash benefits and add onerous conditions once a new employee has gone through the expense of moving and leaving their old job. In those circumstances, any contract becomes null and void, and immediate reductions in salary often end up with a lawsuit.
Where do you work?
I can't help you without a firm name and address. Any hopeless administrative or cleaning staff that could use some buttering up? What's the filing cabinet look like?
Most teachers work summers. They don't have a magic box they can pull lesson plans out of on the first day of school. Phys. Ed. "teachers" are naturally the exception to this rule. Hell, my mother teaches preschool 3 days a week, and she still spends most days over the summer putting together new projects and hunting down new materials.
Frankly, I think elementary and secondary teachers need to be tied in much closer to academia. You want them to teach? Treat them like faculty, and compensate accordingly. Encourage them to bring their qwirks and specialties into the classroom. I took a general level "East Meets West"(after the end of the cold war but that was the last time they updated the soc. studies curriculum) in 9th. Full range of students, from idiot to genius. The teacher spent most of his spare time antiquing, and that was what made the class interesting and got even the idiots engaged. He could spend an entire class riffing on Russian art and architecture and pull out a religious icon or a faberge egg. Not in the textbook, in the curriculuum or on the state mandated test but far more educational than the drivel the bureaucrats wanted forced upon us.
Why do we expect teachers to teach when we force them to give the same damn lesson for the 20th time instead? Congratulations, the students passed the test, but they're still dumb as rocks.
In school I pitied the slower kids because they got stuck in "english" classes that taught rules of grammar. You can't teach grammar. If you throw enough good (age appropriate) literature at a student, they'll learn enough of it intuitively to write proficiently. Do any of you remember the essays we were forced to read on standardised tests? Maybe not, because any interest or inspiration was edited out before it reached us. I still remember the last article on my 6th grade Connecticut standardised reading test; the chemical reactions involved in the corrosion of marble. It was supposed to be the hardest (big words and all), but I thought it was the easiest because it was challenging and engaging. Although, that should indicate the current understanding of education. Easy = dull+simple, Hard = dull+complex. Maybe kids would learn to read if they were given material worth reading. Instead we give them the literary equivalent of man pages with small words. I wonder why Billy is busy picking his nose instead of doing his school work? Once a child knows how to float, throw them in the deep end of the pool and show them how to swim. Once a child knows how to use a dictionary, throw real literature at them and show them how to confront new ideas.
I'm not sure why this compensation plan is limited to science and math teachers. Apparently the only qualification administrators are looking for in an english teacher is an ability to read the instructions to a toaster oven. Teaching rules is easy, but knowing what material should be given to little Susy is a very difficult question. What will interest and challenge her? A wide ranging understanding of liberal arts is not what our current system looks or trains for. Instead anyone that reads Tom Clancy thrillers is qualified.
Of course, what happens when a social studies teacher gives a student the autobiography of Malcolm X for Black History Month, an English teacher gives a student Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, or a science teacher shows how to make a spud gun? And that is why are kids are stupid. We don't trust them with knowledge and we don't trust their teachers to challenge them. Education is dangerous. Teaching to a bullshit curriculum and a bullshit test is nice and safe. Parent involvement has become little more than objecting to books they haven't even read instead of working with teachers to figure out what is appropriate and challenging. We can have dangerous thoughtful children or children safely locked in a tiny ignorant world. Our society has asked for stupid children. You get what you ask for.
Before I edited my post I had mentioned that a "cure for autism" is ethically murky. My point is simply that the response to this news should not be unfettered enthusiasm. There are similar ethical debates within the deaf community. Frankly, I think that the problem is not that scientists provide the option of altering oneself, but that these advances in medicine and technology are often couched in paternalism. It's "we can fix you; make you normal" rather than "here's an option". Some day normal will mean having biotech augmentations of some sort. An exciting option, but if someone tells me that they can fix my product of evolution body I might be a little pissed. Try telling a flat chested woman that those can be "fixed" and see what happens. Many autistics have a similar view.
Many "nonprofit" hospitals are getting nailed for this practice. They strike sweetheart deals with insurers then screw over the uninsured, send their bills to collection and seize their house. We all end up paying for everyone else's medical problems anyways. The emergency room treats whoever they get, able to pay or not so that's where the uninsured go and we get stuck with the bill. I'd rather help pay for their use of preventive medicine than end up with the tab for their far more expensive ER visits when their their treatable conditions become catastrophic.
Broder is a hack. Gates' statements can be easily fact checked. When an employer brings in an H1B they have to file with the Dept. of Labor and indicate they made a good faith effort to recruit an American. They also have to report the salary being offered. I deal with this frequently at work (as critic not HR douche) and invariably the salaries are ridiculous. A quick glance at the database shows that Microsoft is not nearly as bad an abuser of the system as some (I've seen sub 40k for experienced software developers), but it doesn't average to 100k. Facts are our friends: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
thanks. My post was going to be much sloppier. Autism and Aspergers aren't cancer, it's a way of being and a "cure" is a threat to the identity of autistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=woman+co w&search=Search
Except GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes is pure nonsense. Giga means a billion? Sorry, this isn't a base 10 field. Football announcers don't say "hand off to Reggie Bush for a gain of 4 meters." Even Madden is not that retarded. Marketers and hard drive engineers need to stop applying a convention that means nothing in the computer science domain. I refuse to use MiB or GiB because they can't wrap their heads around the binary system.
Actually they are both wrong. In decimal, giga is 10^9, mega = 10^6, kilo = 10^3 therefor in binary it should be: giga = 2^9, mega = 2^6, kilo = 2^3.
Prosecutors charged that Duronio, angry over not receiving as large a bonus as he had expected, sought revenge against his employer by building, planting, and disseminating the logic bomb. It was designed to delete all the files in the host server in the company's central data center and in every server in every U.S. branch office.
Unfortunately, nuclear power isn't cheaper. It's cheaper to operate, but the total cost of ownership is greater. The problem is that insurance costs are enormous. Modern nuclear power is incredibly safe, but in the event of a very unlikely accident in operation or transport of waste, the damage caused could easily run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. It doesn't help that Congress has indemnified operators of liability. Just because no one is paying the premiums doesn't mean the costs of insurance aren't there. It just means our government(us) picks up the tab when an accident happens, whether 10 years from now or 100 years from now.
The essential problem is that no one really knows how much energy costs. Even if we can sum up direct subsidies, because energy is what makes everything go it is just too big and complicated to fit in a ledger book. What does pollution from a coal plant cost? A nuclear disaster amortized over 100 years? Foreign policy? Oil spills? etc. People can and do make guesses, but it's just too big of a problem. How do you account for something when the very act of accounting for it alters the meaning of a dollar?
Nuclear power has a role to play, but fission nor any other one source of power is the solution.
"So you're right, that certainly doesn't give me any moral or ethical -- much less legal -- right to go out and steal stuff from Creative, at least not unless you espouse a somewhat extreme form of IP anarchism."
I'm nitpicking but if "you espouse a somewhat extreme form of IP anarchism" you don't need an Apple-Creative settlement to justify infringing Creative's patent. When it comes to IP (is theft) and most other things I'm an anarchist without adjectives but can we please have some semblance of ideological consistency.
You are confusing real property and intellectual property. The right to not have your real property taken from you is not a matter of principle, it is a practical matter. Our society cannot exist based on rampant theft, and therefor real property is protected by the force of government. Intellectual property is likewise a bargain reached in order to create the greatest societal well being. It's only your property as long as it suits the Greater Good. Intellectual pursuits aren't discrete and are freely transferrable. Who owns hip-hop, rock and roll, film noir? I can build a house with my own two hands, but my intellectual "products" are fully dependent upon the intellectual discourse that surrounds me.
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"Running Vista in a virtualized environment in the home may be just the thing for young kids with parents to help minimize the risks to their machine when the parents are cruising around online."
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When's the updated edition of "Find Waldo Now?" coming out?
ahh, the irish curse ftw.
There aint no class war, there's a class massacre. McCollough retired in 2006, but I don't want to go through the most recent proxy. Sorry, a bit dated. W. Alan McCollough Chief Executive Officer Circuit City Stores Inc. In 2005, W. Alan McCollough raked in $5,470,049 in total compensation including stock option grants* from Circuit City Stores Inc.. From previous years' stock option grants, the Circuit City Stores Inc. executive cashed out $3,052,902 in stock option exercises. And W. Alan McCollough has another $20,773,329 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but I don't see that as a bad thing. A big part of development is figuring out what you want and need.
The article makes this far more complicated than it needs to be. Basically its a mobile digital library and post office. WiFi and Internet isn't kind of beside the point.
good thing they didn't have this when I was in school. I wrote 5 or 6 papers freshman year and just rewrote them every semester. It would be a PITA arguing over the ethics of plagiarising myself every semester. Politics of West Africa => Foreign Policy of West Africa => Economic Development Case Study: Nigeria => Anthropology: Cultures of West Africa. I had a couple different series that made up about half my coursework, with each paper in a series changed 20 to 50%. In the end I probably spent more time on the remixes than I would have if I had written brand new papers. I also learned more, as I forced myself to build connections across different fields of study. A lot more enlightening than copying my class notes and picking random quotes from one or two sources (or 10 sources that say the same thing from the same point of view). Would my anthro teacher fail me if he knew my application of post-colonial philosophy to an analysis of race in America was cribbed from a previous political theory class? Or would I have kept the A? Only the way it was cheating was that it prevented the first excruciating hour of writer's block.
"work for hire" my big hairy ass. I don't pay fifty grand for the opportunity to work. My ideas are pretty worthless, but they aren't of negative value. Tuition/housing at my alma mater is now over 50k a year. Nucking futs. Great gyms, half a dozen starbucks, neat course bulletin boards, and an amazing student union. Unfortunately, all the profs are overworked/underpaid adjuncts and the student union is actually used for corporate conferences.
Would a ruling in favor of the students affect search engines? Real question, I don't know.
If a professor needs to use this system to detect plagiarism, the students are getting a crappy education. One or a combination of the following are probably true: a) the professor can't read.
b) the professor doesn't read the papers.
c) the professor has no idea who the students are and their capabilities. If the dumbass star athlete turns in genius work, or for that matter the brilliant nerd turns in trite bullshit, questions should be asked.
d) there is no opportunity for discussion among/between students and faculty. Most of these problems could be avoided with smaller classes, which would be possible if so much money wasn't thrown at higher ed leaches like plagiarism detection.
"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."
My grandfather has written and "published" two books. The first was published in 1996 and is something of a travel memoir. It has a rank around 200,000. The second was published in 2003 and is an autobiography focusing on half a century spent coaching. It has a rank about 1.5million. While neither are big sellers (understatement) I know the second has sold more than the first. After a good 50 years of coaching there's plenty of former players out there that are interested. It has 8 copies available used. The first, older book, has 3 copies available, one with an inscription, so I know exactly who's copy it is (RIP, so no hard feelings). So a rank of 1.5million means no copies sold and at 200k no copies sold.
Dude right on! I'm garbage man. It's the 21st century man. Why should I have to get up off the couch and drive around town picking up garbage. I want to have kids, a family, a social life. But no!!! F* these arrogant pricks complaining about the smell and telling me its not their problem.
...long live WFMU!!! who needs RIAA crap?
it's seventh grade gym locker room all over again.
IIRC, an NDA/IP signed after an offer of employment has been accepted is void. If this wasn't the case, companies would go round offering mega salaries to relocate and then slash benefits and add onerous conditions once a new employee has gone through the expense of moving and leaving their old job. In those circumstances, any contract becomes null and void, and immediate reductions in salary often end up with a lawsuit.
Where do you work?
I can't help you without a firm name and address. Any hopeless administrative or cleaning staff that could use some buttering up? What's the filing cabinet look like?
Most teachers work summers. They don't have a magic box they can pull lesson plans out of on the first day of school. Phys. Ed. "teachers" are naturally the exception to this rule. Hell, my mother teaches preschool 3 days a week, and she still spends most days over the summer putting together new projects and hunting down new materials.
Frankly, I think elementary and secondary teachers need to be tied in much closer to academia. You want them to teach? Treat them like faculty, and compensate accordingly. Encourage them to bring their qwirks and specialties into the classroom. I took a general level "East Meets West"(after the end of the cold war but that was the last time they updated the soc. studies curriculum) in 9th. Full range of students, from idiot to genius. The teacher spent most of his spare time antiquing, and that was what made the class interesting and got even the idiots engaged. He could spend an entire class riffing on Russian art and architecture and pull out a religious icon or a faberge egg. Not in the textbook, in the curriculuum or on the state mandated test but far more educational than the drivel the bureaucrats wanted forced upon us.
Why do we expect teachers to teach when we force them to give the same damn lesson for the 20th time instead? Congratulations, the students passed the test, but they're still dumb as rocks.
In school I pitied the slower kids because they got stuck in "english" classes that taught rules of grammar. You can't teach grammar. If you throw enough good (age appropriate) literature at a student, they'll learn enough of it intuitively to write proficiently. Do any of you remember the essays we were forced to read on standardised tests? Maybe not, because any interest or inspiration was edited out before it reached us. I still remember the last article on my 6th grade Connecticut standardised reading test; the chemical reactions involved in the corrosion of marble. It was supposed to be the hardest (big words and all), but I thought it was the easiest because it was challenging and engaging. Although, that should indicate the current understanding of education. Easy = dull+simple, Hard = dull+complex. Maybe kids would learn to read if they were given material worth reading. Instead we give them the literary equivalent of man pages with small words. I wonder why Billy is busy picking his nose instead of doing his school work? Once a child knows how to float, throw them in the deep end of the pool and show them how to swim. Once a child knows how to use a dictionary, throw real literature at them and show them how to confront new ideas.
I'm not sure why this compensation plan is limited to science and math teachers. Apparently the only qualification administrators are looking for in an english teacher is an ability to read the instructions to a toaster oven. Teaching rules is easy, but knowing what material should be given to little Susy is a very difficult question. What will interest and challenge her? A wide ranging understanding of liberal arts is not what our current system looks or trains for. Instead anyone that reads Tom Clancy thrillers is qualified.
Of course, what happens when a social studies teacher gives a student the autobiography of Malcolm X for Black History Month, an English teacher gives a student Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, or a science teacher shows how to make a spud gun? And that is why are kids are stupid. We don't trust them with knowledge and we don't trust their teachers to challenge them. Education is dangerous. Teaching to a bullshit curriculum and a bullshit test is nice and safe. Parent involvement has become little more than objecting to books they haven't even read instead of working with teachers to figure out what is appropriate and challenging. We can have dangerous thoughtful children or children safely locked in a tiny ignorant world. Our society has asked for stupid children. You get what you ask for.
which European and where did Linux go? sorry. next time I should probably RTFSummary.
Before I edited my post I had mentioned that a "cure for autism" is ethically murky. My point is simply that the response to this news should not be unfettered enthusiasm. There are similar ethical debates within the deaf community. Frankly, I think that the problem is not that scientists provide the option of altering oneself, but that these advances in medicine and technology are often couched in paternalism. It's "we can fix you; make you normal" rather than "here's an option". Some day normal will mean having biotech augmentations of some sort. An exciting option, but if someone tells me that they can fix my product of evolution body I might be a little pissed. Try telling a flat chested woman that those can be "fixed" and see what happens. Many autistics have a similar view.
Many "nonprofit" hospitals are getting nailed for this practice. They strike sweetheart deals with insurers then screw over the uninsured, send their bills to collection and seize their house. We all end up paying for everyone else's medical problems anyways. The emergency room treats whoever they get, able to pay or not so that's where the uninsured go and we get stuck with the bill. I'd rather help pay for their use of preventive medicine than end up with the tab for their far more expensive ER visits when their their treatable conditions become catastrophic.
Broder is a hack. Gates' statements can be easily fact checked. When an employer brings in an H1B they have to file with the Dept. of Labor and indicate they made a good faith effort to recruit an American. They also have to report the salary being offered. I deal with this frequently at work (as critic not HR douche) and invariably the salaries are ridiculous. A quick glance at the database shows that Microsoft is not nearly as bad an abuser of the system as some (I've seen sub 40k for experienced software developers), but it doesn't average to 100k. Facts are our friends: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
thanks. My post was going to be much sloppier. Autism and Aspergers aren't cancer, it's a way of being and a "cure" is a threat to the identity of autistics.o w&search=Search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=woman+c
How is this offtopic?
Except GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes is pure nonsense. Giga means a billion? Sorry, this isn't a base 10 field. Football announcers don't say "hand off to Reggie Bush for a gain of 4 meters." Even Madden is not that retarded. Marketers and hard drive engineers need to stop applying a convention that means nothing in the computer science domain. I refuse to use MiB or GiB because they can't wrap their heads around the binary system. Actually they are both wrong. In decimal, giga is 10^9, mega = 10^6, kilo = 10^3 therefor in binary it should be: giga = 2^9, mega = 2^6, kilo = 2^3.
Duronio aka Clark Griswold?
Unfortunately, nuclear power isn't cheaper. It's cheaper to operate, but the total cost of ownership is greater. The problem is that insurance costs are enormous. Modern nuclear power is incredibly safe, but in the event of a very unlikely accident in operation or transport of waste, the damage caused could easily run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. It doesn't help that Congress has indemnified operators of liability. Just because no one is paying the premiums doesn't mean the costs of insurance aren't there. It just means our government(us) picks up the tab when an accident happens, whether 10 years from now or 100 years from now.
The essential problem is that no one really knows how much energy costs. Even if we can sum up direct subsidies, because energy is what makes everything go it is just too big and complicated to fit in a ledger book. What does pollution from a coal plant cost? A nuclear disaster amortized over 100 years? Foreign policy? Oil spills? etc. People can and do make guesses, but it's just too big of a problem. How do you account for something when the very act of accounting for it alters the meaning of a dollar?
Nuclear power has a role to play, but fission nor any other one source of power is the solution.
"So you're right, that certainly doesn't give me any moral or ethical -- much less legal -- right to go out and steal stuff from Creative, at least not unless you espouse a somewhat extreme form of IP anarchism."
I'm nitpicking but if "you espouse a somewhat extreme form of IP anarchism" you don't need an Apple-Creative settlement to justify infringing Creative's patent. When it comes to IP (is theft) and most other things I'm an anarchist without adjectives but can we please have some semblance of ideological consistency.
You are confusing real property and intellectual property. The right to not have your real property taken from you is not a matter of principle, it is a practical matter. Our society cannot exist based on rampant theft, and therefor real property is protected by the force of government. Intellectual property is likewise a bargain reached in order to create the greatest societal well being. It's only your property as long as it suits the Greater Good. Intellectual pursuits aren't discrete and are freely transferrable. Who owns hip-hop, rock and roll, film noir? I can build a house with my own two hands, but my intellectual "products" are fully dependent upon the intellectual discourse that surrounds me.
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.001% Marx
.001% Fanon
.001% Nietzsche
.001% Friedman
.001% Plato
.001% JS Mill
.......
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"Running Vista in a virtualized environment in the home may be just the thing for young kids with parents to help minimize the risks to their machine when the parents are cruising around online."
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