And then the employee usually has to pay *more* direct from his/her check, both taxes and things like insurance

My 2 years of High School Latin ("At one time the land of Gaul was divided into 3 parts...") helped me with a medical terminology course simply because I was used to using non-english word roots, prefixes, and suffixes.

Not sure on the music, but IIRC about 25 years ago math majors at the University of Florida were exempt from the then-new language requirements.

You realize that the delayed rollerblock blowback design of the HK 91/93/94/MP5 is just a copy of that from the G3, which was licensed from Spain? And the only reason the Germans did that is that FN in Belgium refused them a license to build their own FN-FALs for some reason (G1 series as issued to German forces, the German Boarder Guard, etc). No German engineering involved...

Same round the AK-74 uses, similar to the 5.56x45 NATO stuff the M16 uses.

Unfortunately while its velocity will be OK (2800fps or so) there isn't a lot of mass to help push through and penetrate something like a big ass bear.

Now the 32 gauge shotgun, that is real close to 1/2", a "pure" lead round ball would weigh half an ounce... A 350 grain 416 caliber Barnes solid bullet (meant for the 416 rigby - a classic Dangerous Game round) in a sabot, being pushed to about 2000fps would do the job though... assuming the action strength was there.

The American pilot version - cut down bolt action in 22 Hornet. Since it has a barrel less than 16" and an OAL of less than 26" it falls under NFA purview, so there is a tax stamp associated (and several months wait).

http://www.gunbroker.com/Aucti...

The other "more common" but still rare is the M6 version which is 22 hornet over a 410 shotgun on a weird skeleton style stock and weirder firing mechanism

http://www.gunbroker.com/Aucti...

Not only that, but someone with a PhD has had their share of teachers who were great, and those that weren't. I've never had a "teach 'em how to teach" course, but I can read about best practices, emulate the good teachers I've had, and do those things I want done to/for me as a student.

FWIW I get paid about $700 per credit hour per semester to teach as an adjunct... IF you don't go crazy with course design, grading assignments, etc. you can do a good job in about 8 hours per week for a 3 credit course so it works out to about $20/hr over the term.

Do it wrong, and you'll sink a ton of hours into it though. Teaching 20 students is a lot less work than tutoring 20 students...

Perhaps because in order to make $ off an app you have to have *the* app to do it wiht... and while a lot of us can code, not that many have a great idea for something that will get someone to pay a few bucks for it.

Indeed. I taught a "this is what programming looks like, this is what these simple loops and logic statements do, this is a large library of functions that let you do relatively complex things very easily", etc. course for a 2 week summer camp last year with kids that were 10-14. Just getting their attention to start takes a few minutes, then showing something, explaining it real quick, then asking for ideas on what else it could do worked, but for every even slightly related question there were 3-4 that had absolutely nothing to do with anything going on at all.

At then end, I did manage to get about half of them actually writing simple PHP to do stuff (they already had a HTML class), the other half ended up playing Tanki Online.

How exactly is this selling out? The parts of Android that are Free will still be Free, the parts that aren't still won't be. If Microsoft wants to bring its office software, exchange clients, etc. to a new platform, who is to stop them?

Believe it or not, some of us not only appreciate the Free part of free software, but the cost, stability, flexability, varieties of software (or specific software) available, etc. The Stallmanites care more about ideals than anything else, but not all of us are Stallmanites.

Or even why the sensors are needed. I worked at a gas station in the late 80s and we "sticked" the tanks each night. Looong stick (about 30 feet) w/ an inch scale on it, a little dusting of baby powder and stick it in the tank until it hits bottom. Pull up immediately, see what number is visible closest to wet line on baby powder. Write in log for manager to see in hte morning.

Post from open wifi from a neighbors house, or a McDonalds, Starbucks, etc.

The college I work for is in the same town as a major state university. The CompSci program at said university has *one* programming class (in Java) as part of the degree track, simply to let students demonstrate the principles they are learning in all of the other classes.

A kinda big software dev place recently moved to town, thinking they'd grab all of these CompSci grads and have a built in supply of capable coders. After a few months of interviews, they came to our college president, worked with our ITE department, and are hiring our grads. For our AS in "systems analysis and programming" students get 5 semesters of coding (covering a student selected mix of c++, objective c, java, php+mysql, ios development and android development), plus stand alone clases in relational databases (again w/ mysql), HTML+CSS+JavaScript, and general programming logic.

As a bonus, another state university just a few hours south of us offers a BAS degree in software development that our AS degree is a "feeder" for. 5 more semesters of programming plus project management and then a bunch of slightly useful gen-ed courses.

I'm in the same position, work in academic technology but teach as an adjunct - Linux Admin I and II, and a PHP+MySQL class.

I can generally guess at success levels by how curious a student is about how stuff works, whether they want to work ahead, or try to figure out what tool would work to solve a problem they've been thinking about.

And like you I have had student that thought since they spend 10 hours a day online on facebook, playing WoW, etc. that they should be "in computers" for a living. I've also had recent HS grads taking (and failing) the courses because their high school counselor said that there was good money to be made "in computers" and they'd be working in AC all day instead of digging ditches. These same students couldn't follow a step-by-step direction list wtihout problems.