Should we all be paid the same per hour regardless of what we produce in that hour?

The Koch brothers employ 10's of thousands of people.

Obviously they're doing something for ordinary people.

Obama is spying on every American with blanket data grabs and still fails to stop terrorist attacks
Obama has the IRS pry into the personal lives of anyone (and high school kids) who is trying to start a conservative non-profit

And you want to bitch about money from people supporting a candidate that DIDN'T WIN the election.

Step 1: Get the tyrant in power
Step 2: Keep the tyrant in power

Posting an article about people who are harassing conservatives for who they dare to support with their money... That's just special. I guess the IRS isn't doing a good enough job, we need to find other avenues to ensure Conservative/Republicans politicians don't get financial contributions to their campaign.

Science has proven light can exist without a source.

Funny that you mock it.

Because that's exactly what Science teaches as part of the big bang theory.

No other creation myths say that light came first.

and you fail.

Programming is all about solving problems and you can't sort out your own monitor. Might be a good time to find a new profession. I program on my laptop screen and have the browser open in the full hd monitor. I also have a standard mouse attached because touch pads are irritating to me.

I couldn't stand a regular 9-5 job. Almost 4 years ago now, I was fired from the last I worked at and haven't looked back. In the last 30 days I've worked on about 16 different projects for various clients. That's typical for the last three years. Many of those projects are long term, multi-year, projects but none of them occupy all my working time. I work on them, take a couple days off for the client to review and give me feedback, and then I repeat the process. It's very rare now that a single project takes up all my time for more than a week.

You just need to embrace your ADD and find diverse work to do. Then you can distract yourself with productive things to do.

The other thing to do is start getting paid hourly. If you're not being productive you can just clock out and come back when your brain is ready to cooperate. Being paid for 8 hours whether you do nothing or something is probably not helping.

The other ADD friendly thing for me is having a backlog of tickets. If I have one thing to do, my brain tends to shut down because it's bored by the prospect of doing one thing. I need to be close to overwhelmed with tickets in order to maximize productivity for extended hours.

The thing is, the "slower" drives are plenty fast enough for Tivos and whatnot. The drive is not the limiting factor on streaming recorded HD content. It's the CPU that determines whether your digital recorder/player can do full 1080.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/how-higher-rpm-hard-drives-rip-you-off/322

The other issue is that faster RPMs doesn't necessarily mean better performance for your application. When dealing with large media files, it's pretty irrelevant since you're doing sequential IO the vast majority of the time.

I don't remember that last time I bought a hard drive and looked at the RPM rating on it. SSDs have been around long enough that it's now a question of whether you want to spend the extra money on an SSD for better performance. And with my home server, all I care about is cheap for the drives I know are going to fail and put an end of life sticker on them 1 to 2 years out to start a rotation so I replace them before they fail. And for drives that just need to store a large amount of rarely accessed data, I just care about capacity. I don't need 1/3rd more RPMs to run a robocopy. It's not a race to back up the drives. It just needs to happen.

High performance standard hard drives are like mid grade fuel. I don't know who buys that stuff.

They actually did a study in which kids were paid for good grades. There was zero positive impact. It simply isn't a motivating factor.

Kids need problems to solve. Hobbies. And if they see that a computer can be used to solve their problem, they'll use it.

I didn't learn programming because it was "fun" when I was 8 or so. I learned programming because it solved problems I was interested in. Namely, making games and creating animation. I made some pretty lengthy ASCII animations back in the day. I was interested in animation and computers were a way to solve the problem since I didn't have an 8mm camera and money to spend on developing film as would be required if I tried to use stop motion as the means to solve the problem.

I still use programming primarily to solve problems. I just solve different problems and get paid more to do it now.

Students shouldn't be allowed to use things they don't understand. Calculators are for solving thousands of calculations and calculations with large numbers. Students should know how to do the same work by hand using smaller sets of calculations and smaller numbers.

If you don't understand the math, you won't be able to know if the answer your calculator gave you is right or how to find the problem if it's wrong.

It's not about making math "too easy." It's about actually understanding math. It's about learning how to actually solve problems and think logically. Just plugging it into a calculator doesn't teach you much. Any monkey can do that.

That's what most companies are looking for. This is why I'm a freelancer. I have enough work to keep me busy well over 40 hours a week and get paid for every single hour I work.

It's a balance. If you can't do the job with as high of quality as someone else in the same time or faster, you're going to lose out to the other guy.

Master chef's can turn out much higher quality food much faster than your average cook. That's why they work for fancy restaurants and get paid lots of money.

When people want quality and speed, they want experts.

I have Century Link with 20Mb down and 5Mb down for $60 a month including a static IP which adds all of $5 a month to the cost. They even opened up port 25 at no cost so I can run outbound SMTP if I need it for testing user registration, etc. Incoming is blocked.

I always run a home server because I have no restrictions on disk space or services I can run, I need the system anyway, I need the internet connection anyway, etc. So there's no additional out of pocket cost except $5 a month for the static IP. I'm certainly not running anything that's going to use up the available bandwidth.

If what you're doing on your server brings in enough money to warrant an upgrade, then upgrade. There's no reason to shell out extra money for something that brings in no money. Unless that's just what you want to spend your money on.

Meanwhile, the people who were smart enough to figure out how to make today's tech, didn't have today's tech to learn with. Today's kids are too busy playing video games to know what math is good for. Something they'd see no end of if they had actual hobbies.

Doesn't matter to me though. This idiotic obsession with technology just makes me more valuable in the work force.

People who make a living with technology know what it's good for.

That's why they use is sparingly (and to greater benefit) than instructors that fully embrace a bunch of expensive junk with no actual educational value.

Whiteboard, projector, laptop, document camera. That's my ideal set of technology for a classroom.

If kids would turn off the video games and go explore the world. Clock's ticking, assholes. I want my hover-board.