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Comment Re:So...google apps folks? (Score 1) 213

There are two sorts of Google Apps accounts. If you had an old account and had never chosen to upgrade to the newer kind, it worked. However a couple of weeks ago Google forcibly upgraded everyone to the newer kind. Apparently it is still possible to login to the old account using a username like this: user%domain.com@gtempaccount.com but I haven't tried it.

Comment Re:Here we go again (SCO) (Score 1) 675

All right. I'll probably cheat and hit google before I'm done writing this.

                  Mac OS X

Not any more it doesn't.

SunOS

                  Solaris

Two versions of the same OS

Windows NT

                  Windows Vista

                  Windows NT

Three versions of the same OS

Android

Dalvik is Java-like but it aint Java.

Businesses

Submission + - Your starting salary vs. a teacher's?

An anonymous reader writes: I was wondering what every body's starting salary was, particularly since I have learned that around Houston and Dallas teachers start at around $40K for 9 months work. I have a physics degree, and teachers make more than I do. I believe teachers make on scale or more than college professors at public universities in Texas, and they make more than most science majors that I know. It is interesting that Bill Gates wants to address the math and science teacher shortage one way (higher pay), but wants to address the lack of technical people another way (bring in the foreigners). I also think there is more to it than just pay, or otherwise all the science majors I know could get higher pay as a teacher.

The cost of living in Dallas in not particular high; in the northern suburbs (Plano, Carrollton, Frisco) you can get a 2000 square foot, 4 bedroom house in the $150K-$170K range. A teacher's $40K starting salary (and up to $68K for experienced) for 9 months work seems like very good pay to me. Does it to you?

My experience with science majors:

Biology: Biology majors have a hard time finding any work at all, and if they find work it is often temp work or food processing QC. They rarely start at more than $30K, and often much less.

Chemistry: I assume those that find work in a big industry like pharmaceuticals or petroleum do well, but the ones I know working in the environmental industry or doing industrial QC work rarely start above $30K.

Geology: Geology is pretty much boom or bust. I think they are doing well now, but just a few years ago they were getting jobs in the environmental industry that rarely started above $30K.

Math: The only math guy I know is a 40-year-old actuary. His base salary is around $125K and he gets yearly bonuses in the $20K-$30K range.
Linux Business

Submission + - Linux.com | Joe Barr rips proprietary software ven

Graabein writes: On a slow newsday like today, this article should be good for a laugh: Joe Barr rips proprietary software vendor a new one. Quote: It seems to be a trend among some proprietary software vendors: attacking open source with lies. The latest appears in this week's Network World's Face-off, which features a slop-bucket full of self-serving hogwash by Ipswitch's Roger Greene entitled "Don't trust your network to open source." If ignorance were a crime, Greene would be swinging from the gallows. His pathetically malinformed drivel is enough to make even hardened PR flacks cringe with embarrassment. Greene's marketing agenda is based on what he claims are three myths about open source. Just for the fun of it, let's take a look at his claims."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - America in debt

HomelessInLaJolla writes: "
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.

Courtesy of the "This day in history" service part of the NYTimes daily e-mail delivery.

In 1941, President Roosevelt chose to saddle the American population with an increased debt that, as a nation, they had not truly acquiesced to. The 14th Amendment (specifically section 4), conveniently for those brokering power and money to the rest of us, stops citizens, or even states, from contesting the validity of that debt.

Some politicians (in particular, then Senator Wheeler of Montana) attempted to point out the ulterior motivation behind the Lend-Lease bill:

"The American taxpayer must make up his mind now that we have given the President power to carry on undeclared wars all over the world. He is probably going to have his taxes doubled and the national debt will be $100,000,000,000 instead of $65,000,000,000 if the war lasts for any length of time.

"This is what the Morgans and the other international bankers asked for and I hope they like it.

"As far as I am concerned I will make no effort to tie the hands of the President regarding the appropriations. It is up to the conservative majority in the Senate to the money. They supported the bill."
And it continues today. Inescapable debt is slavery.
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