This is my first time on here in at least a year, mostly been doing the g+ thing myself.

Email is the most broken, least secure communication system out there. It's also the slowest and the most filtered (primarily due to the lack of security, as there's no other way to deal with spam effectively). I only use it when I have to.

When I worked at a managed IT company in California, I found that the biggest recurring problem clients had was email. Much blame can be counted to either problems inherent in the system since the 70s or solutions to said problems.

I long since stopped using it for real communication. If I need to talk to someone, I drop a dime. I can't guarantee it got there, and I just don't frequently get anything important enough to justify digging through all the garbage. If I need to send them a file, I send it direct rather than hoping it gets through various filters, limits, and other problems with sending files via email. For anything else, instant messenger does the job infinitely better than email.

If the company wants the programmer to be more productive they'll give them two monitors. That way they can run the application on one screen, or documentation, and have the IDE open on another. Having to toggle between windows while cutting and pasting, or looking for fine detail differences between output, and code is a real real real suck ass aspect of coding.

This could of course be fixed by giving them a larger monitor and fixing the way maximize works in the OS.

This is the most obvious "discovery" ever.

The next thing you know they'll start shooting people for putting daisy's into the muzzle of a rifle.

When I was a kid KTTV in LA broadcast the 1989 Rose Parade on New Years Day in 3D. All you needed was a cheap pair of glasses from 7-11 with one shaded lens (not colored.) They weren't electronic, they didn't have shutters, but the 3D worked. Whatever happened with that technology?

In fact I found it on youtube. Wish I still had the cheapo glasses haha.

Anyway, point is, it seems to me that if the affect can be produced using input rather than special TV/Players that studios interested in 3-D releases should just use that simplified distribution model. (ie, it is embedded into the movie, and the disc comes with a couple payers of cheap glasses.)

3dcompany.com had some info about the rose parade broadcast.

The UID identifies the iPhone within XCode. It enables things like authentication without passwords for (trivial) applications. For example if I have an app with profiles, and that app is only usable on the iPhone, there is no need for a password or login, I can just use the UID.

Big whoop.

Mind if I ask which nation? I'm curious.

I totally agree that our "one size fits all" education system could use some diversity in methodology. Unfortunately diversity means larger infrastructure and more money that we aren't really willing to pay via taxes.

Most students do not ever need beyond an 8th grade level of english, or math education. So, as you said, why not give them technical or vocational training if that is the route they want.

You my friend have no idea of the hellish world we would be living in if young men between 12-18 were not compelled to be in a controlled environment everyday while their parents were at work and unable to supervise them.

Whatever the case, you do not want people that age having that much free time on their hands unless you want crime to sky rocket.

Golly gosh it is so awful when the owners of a corporation have to actually keep their contractual promises to their employees. Boodeehoodeehooo. I'm crying so many tears for those owners that ran the company into the ground.

There are so many reasons why these scores could be the way they are, teacher performance being one of them.

Do you remember in High School how there were certain kids who were just assholes? They usually ended up in remedial classes of some sort? And that that remedial class was taught by a teacher who was probably a disciplinarian first, and teacher second? Should that teacher's scores by considered a valid representation of their job performance? He is probably the football/wrestling coach, and is literally baby sitting unruly, rude, disruptive teens, in the hopes that by keeping them out of other classrooms the other students might have a chance at not having a lesson disrupted.

Did you know many schools in LAUSD don't have air conditioning despite the temp getting into the hundreds in August/Sept and June? If a teacher has a southern facing classroom with all day sun exposure, well, how well do you think those students are going to be learning for 2-3 months of the year?

I think the union is acting ridiculous and in a very tone deaf manner on this. I don't think that is a reason to abolish the union though. You want tougher rules for teachers? Vote in a mayor and city council that will support tougher negotiating positions and risk a teacher's strike. Don't want to deal with a strike? Then you're a coward or lazy, and blaming them for wanting the best deal they can get is just another thing you're being lazy about.

LOL.

Unions aren't necessary? Glad you've been listening to right wing talk radio. The rest of us though have been the victims of corporate greed enough times now to know better.

Your evidence is anecdotal, and speaks more to how you didn't take your language course seriously than how many people actually learned a foreign language.

I took Japanese in High School. I really wish I'd been more diligent in learning.