Because most parents who complain about schools, and decide to home school, can't reliably pick their nose, never mind provide education for their own children...
Wrong.
It's not "hard" to educate your child because the methods of teaching haven't changed that much in 100 years. So the average person can get their child through high school because the curiculum(sp) are widely available as is testing to be sure your kid is retaining/learning. It's a PITA to sort it all out and very time consuming, but it can be done.
That is not to say homeschooling hasn't been abused by adults with children who hardly qualify for the term "parent." Most of it is just FUD that you have accepted without a moments consideration.
Instead of spouting of about a field you appear to know nothing about, consider for a moment that teaching should be a series of interconnecting blocks of skill transfer, just like mathematical skills are taught. Mastery of each is required in order to move onto the next one.
In the scenario just described then, the preschool teacher and all the other teachers that came before the Math teacher are as valuable as the math teacher who can't do her job until the other teachers do theirs.
Your comments sound like armchair parenting. Either that or you have the luxury of practically infinite privately funded choices for your child's education.
It has almost nothing to do with the Teacher's Union.
There are very few (if any) parents who specifically "don't care if their kids get an education." If they don't care then they as parents probably qualify to have their child taken away from them by the courts for other reasons.
The problem is that voters want nothing to do with the system. They love to complain, but won't do anything.
So, your fiancee goes off to (let me take a wild guess) some proto-suburb that currently is running a budget surplus on an annual basis where she can afford to live and have a few bucks left over at the end of the month. e.g. There's plenty of money to go around.
The last bit about no child left behind is a hostile jab at the school system. It probably is poorly run, but the voters clearly don't care because nothing has been done.
The priorities in this case are the voters inclination to do something. Here in Los Angeles, the voters haven't done much of anything besides give the school district construction money. Other than that it's business as usual. As much as some may talk about better schooling (whatever that means) class sizes haven't gone down, graduation rates have even gone down despite perceived low bueracracy (sp..!) performance.
As a parent, I can tell you that even middle-income parents have abandoned LAUSD public education with the exception of maybe one or two public schools ideally situated.
And the next logical step is to control what you can install. But before that, Microsoft will most likely force a developer to buy a microsoft approved cert to "protect their users" and raise income. This of course will be a huge chilling effect for developing new things on a Microsoft OS. Given their monopoly status, it only makes Windows PC's and the apps running on them more expensive to consumers.
It's not spyware. Kerio personal firwall would alert me. It has in the past anyway....
My firewall detects the connections after doing manual installs. I know this because I've got production equipment we can't just let windows auto-update on. Based on my experience, WGA is just one of many apps/updates that phones home.
Again, it's been this way for quite a while, and the information does not "perfectly" identify you, but each install has it's own signature as far as I can tell so they can deduce who you are pretty quickly.
Why do you care now as opposed to all of the other Microsoft's-evil-OS stories on/.?
It's been this way for some time. For example, I regularly get outgoing connections when using.msi packaged apps. For an app that has no real reason as it is free for nokia owners this makes no sense to me. They go to a verisign certificate server and then a certificate revocation list.
Older apps used custom ports, nearly all apps I've installed recently do it on port 80. Denying the connection doesn't seem to change anything.
I've got recent screenshots in case anyone is interested. BTW I'm running Kerio personal firewall, which is excellent for this kind of thing.
It's all about the benjamins. Publishers have access to the distribution channels > distribution channels charge money to be there > retailer charges money to be on their shelf. Period.
If I had millions to throw at a POS book about some topic, I could get distribution everywhere.
As many posts point out, many companies stay on whatever outdated software because it serves their needs and continues to do so.
Introducing planned obsolescence into your comment(are any machines....) sidesteps the career limiting risks a system administrator faces when her PHB wants a shiny new software application.
Diverting attention away from Microsoft's security woes by throwing up backward compatibility is a fallacy. The big reason microsoft gets into security trouble is the organization has no incentive to provide more security. It's a business: Selling first, security second. I'm glad the situation is so bad because it keeps me gainfully employed.
Finally, *right now* backward compatibility is totally irrelevant to Microsoft..Net anyone? What about all of those Visual Basic developers that have moved onto other languages? There are so many other examples. They've got the majority of users and they need to keep them consuming Microsoft products, whatever the cost. Sadly, customers are very forgiving, so they put up with the abuse.
I work in a company that does the vast majority of it's business everywhere else in the world BUT the U.S. and sip makes it easy for customers to call us from all parts of the world.
We even run a sip server and give out accounts for just this reason. Guess What? It's good for business.
I agree that sip/voip telemarketing is right around the corner.
But the rest of it I just don't understand. How would your doomsday scenario work? A user needs either a soft or hardware sip telephone and probably a voip aware firewall.
If they just use the phone, I'm unclear where the payload comes from. In packets? Maybe, but it would require a PC to use.
If you go to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpslicense.mspx
You will find, This CNS provision will only apply to companies engaged in the following businesses:
Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) focusing on printing technologies that consume XPS Documents in printers
IHVs focusing on scanning technologies that create XPS Documents with scanners
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that support the above types of IHVs through the development of Raster
Image Processors (RIPs) and drivers
You'll then notice there are Microsoft patents involved in the closed standard.
Conclusions?
1. Typical OSS project is screwed
2. Closed standard designed to extend and extinguish competitors. (So is PDF in some ways)
I'm not saying Adobe is the good guy here, but the print industry has had YEARS of working out the kinks in PDF's. I'm not sure what Microsoft brings to the table.
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Teaching is neither ditch digging nor civil engineering.
Because most parents who complain about schools, and decide to home school, can't reliably pick their nose, never mind provide education for their own children...
Wrong.
It's not "hard" to educate your child because the methods of teaching haven't changed that much in 100 years. So the average person can get their child through high school because the curiculum(sp) are widely available as is testing to be sure your kid is retaining/learning. It's a PITA to sort it all out and very time consuming, but it can be done.
That is not to say homeschooling hasn't been abused by adults with children who hardly qualify for the term "parent." Most of it is just FUD that you have accepted without a moments consideration.
You'll get paid just slightly above a living wage, $50,000 in a city like Los Angeles where you need $45,000 just to make ends meet.
That's if you win the Teacher's Wage Lottery.
FYI: http://www.teachinla.com/whyteach/salary.html
Instead of spouting of about a field you appear to know nothing about, consider for a moment that teaching should be a series of interconnecting blocks of skill transfer, just like mathematical skills are taught. Mastery of each is required in order to move onto the next one.
In the scenario just described then, the preschool teacher and all the other teachers that came before the Math teacher are as valuable as the math teacher who can't do her job until the other teachers do theirs.
It's time for a reality check. Seriously.
Your comments sound like armchair parenting. Either that or you have the luxury of practically infinite privately funded choices for your child's education.
It has almost nothing to do with the Teacher's Union.
There are very few (if any) parents who specifically "don't care if their kids get an education." If they don't care then they as parents probably qualify to have their child taken away from them by the courts for other reasons.
The problem is that voters want nothing to do with the system. They love to complain, but won't do anything.
So, your fiancee goes off to (let me take a wild guess) some proto-suburb that currently is running a budget surplus on an annual basis where she can afford to live and have a few bucks left over at the end of the month. e.g. There's plenty of money to go around.
The last bit about no child left behind is a hostile jab at the school system. It probably is poorly run, but the voters clearly don't care because nothing has been done.
The priorities in this case are the voters inclination to do something. Here in Los Angeles, the voters haven't done much of anything besides give the school district construction money. Other than that it's business as usual. As much as some may talk about better schooling (whatever that means) class sizes haven't gone down, graduation rates have even gone down despite perceived low bueracracy (sp..!) performance.
As a parent, I can tell you that even middle-income parents have abandoned LAUSD public education with the exception of maybe one or two public schools ideally situated.
No one cares.
And the next logical step is to control what you can install. But before that, Microsoft will most likely force a developer to buy a microsoft approved cert to "protect their users" and raise income. This of course will be a huge chilling effect for developing new things on a Microsoft OS. Given their monopoly status, it only makes Windows PC's and the apps running on them more expensive to consumers.
It's not spyware. Kerio personal firwall would alert me. It has in the past anyway....
We're talking about a few thousand bytes of info tops, so you wouldn't really recognize the slowdown.
My firewall detects the connections after doing manual installs. I know this because I've got production equipment we can't just let windows auto-update on. Based on my experience, WGA is just one of many apps/updates that phones home.
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Again, it's been this way for quite a while, and the information does not "perfectly" identify you, but each install has it's own signature as far as I can tell so they can deduce who you are pretty quickly.
Why do you care now as opposed to all of the other Microsoft's-evil-OS stories on
It's been this way for some time. For example, I regularly get outgoing connections when using .msi packaged apps. For an app that has no real reason as it is free for nokia owners this makes no sense to me. They go to a verisign certificate server and then a certificate revocation list.
Older apps used custom ports, nearly all apps I've installed recently do it on port 80. Denying the connection doesn't seem to change anything.
I've got recent screenshots in case anyone is interested. BTW I'm running Kerio personal firewall, which is excellent for this kind of thing.
I use links you insensitive clod! http://links.sourceforge.net/
How do guys like this afford to do these internships? Are they paid? Does the bank of mommy and daddy pay the way?
Seriously. I've got no bank of mom and dad, work and go to school. How do I do it when I'm the one who feeds/clothes myself?
It's all about the benjamins. Publishers have access to the distribution channels > distribution channels charge money to be there > retailer charges money to be on their shelf. Period.
If I had millions to throw at a POS book about some topic, I could get distribution everywhere.
Pompous ass.
As many posts point out, many companies stay on whatever outdated software because it serves their needs and continues to do so.
.Net anyone? What about all of those Visual Basic developers that have moved onto other languages? There are so many other examples. They've got the majority of users and they need to keep them consuming Microsoft products, whatever the cost. Sadly, customers are very forgiving, so they put up with the abuse.
Introducing planned obsolescence into your comment(are any machines....) sidesteps the career limiting risks a system administrator faces when her PHB wants a shiny new software application.
Diverting attention away from Microsoft's security woes by throwing up backward compatibility is a fallacy.
The big reason microsoft gets into security trouble is the organization has no incentive to provide more security. It's a business: Selling first, security second. I'm glad the situation is so bad because it keeps me gainfully employed.
Finally, *right now* backward compatibility is totally irrelevant to Microsoft.
in every sense of the word.
I work in a company that does the vast majority of it's business everywhere else in the world BUT the U.S. and sip makes it easy for customers to call us from all parts of the world.
We even run a sip server and give out accounts for just this reason. Guess What? It's good for business.
A browser plug-in makes it better.
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I agree that sip/voip telemarketing is right around the corner.
But the rest of it I just don't understand. How would your doomsday scenario work? A user needs either a soft or hardware sip telephone and probably a voip aware firewall.
If they just use the phone, I'm unclear where the payload comes from. In packets? Maybe, but it would require a PC to use.
If you go to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/xpslicense.mspx You will find, This CNS provision will only apply to companies engaged in the following businesses: Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) focusing on printing technologies that consume XPS Documents in printers IHVs focusing on scanning technologies that create XPS Documents with scanners Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that support the above types of IHVs through the development of Raster Image Processors (RIPs) and drivers You'll then notice there are Microsoft patents involved in the closed standard. Conclusions? 1. Typical OSS project is screwed 2. Closed standard designed to extend and extinguish competitors. (So is PDF in some ways) I'm not saying Adobe is the good guy here, but the print industry has had YEARS of working out the kinks in PDF's. I'm not sure what Microsoft brings to the table.