There should be no reason why the SSH protocol should be used standard across the board. Not having it on Windows has created way too many unencrypted ports. Just as long as MS just doesn't screw it up and only make it a secure Telnet client, but where you can secure port communication across servers.
We are hired to write new programs/new ways of solving a problem. Rules are made to solve common problems. If we only follow these rules we are limited to writing programs that have already been written, in that case we are just useless. If we know when to bend or break the rules, then we can create things that solve problems differently and is new and unique.
When I work with programmers so are hard fixed on the right way to do things, I often get a response that x cannot be done. I break the rule and I have done it in a couple of days work, then they will go but you didn't follow the right form. The end user doesn't care about form, they care if it Works well, It can be maintained, and it is secure.
Sometimes I will copy and paste a function and just do some minor tweaks were I could have just added a parameter. Why do I do this? Readability. Having a function called SplitPersonName(string name) and another one called SplitCompanyName(string name) So when I run the function it will be easily readable, as well if there is a bug in one of the fuctions but it works fine for the other. I can just change that one function without having to unit test other parts that could have been effected.
Also I avoid too much Classes that are extended from other classes, that tends to add confusion on where a particular code is being called if you are debugging it from the middle of the class structure.
It is OK to break rules, but you should have a good reason to do so. Also you should feel free to not break the rules when you do not have a good reason to do so.
You sound like you have been brainwashed to believe all you should do is work at your job all your life. Having room to host friends and family and have them feel welcomed is an important part of life, as well starting a family.
Recent grads tend to not have any scope on where they should be socially. The idea of having their basic needs met, seems appealing, that they are making it. Then after some time, when they see their friends, getting nicer homes, or getting married and having a family, they realize that they are missing important aspects in life.
The problem is the age of most equipment. Most medical Equipment talks HL7 v2. And is sent via a standard unencrypted port, and the more medical equipment it is easier to setup an other port, then to parse messages by their message source.
It isn't as much as not caring, but the age of most of this stuff is so old, that you need to keep backwards compatibility, as for the most part they were designed for Serial port communication, with a TCP/IP hack. When TCP/IP no longer was considered a passing fad.
After a HIPAA violation, then they will pay for it. They are regulations in place, there just isn't enforcement until after an incident happened.
The Flat open network, just as long as it is closed off to the rest of the world, is good enough. But when you start bringing in outside connections from vendors and other areas, and or using the same network for the public Wi-Fi then you may be getting in trouble.
I can see this as less of trying to protect the identity of the person, but more to being about to make a 3d model of a crime scene. If we can see where people are and their actions then put 3d models of them. Then we can take a look at the video at different angles and perspective.
When a video show a cop shooting an unarmed person. If we look at the events from the eyes of the cop, it may show the action from his point of view was more threatening, or we can look at it from the eyes of the person who got shot, where he may have seen the cop threatening him more than he should, or about to have physical contact.
The issue is Truth is in the eyes of the beholder. We we think is true, isn't always so, What we state as truth is based on our field of senses, and our emotional state at the time. We humans do a lot or predictive reasoning and filling in many gaps, and filtering out a lot of information. Being able to see the incident at different angles is far more important than anonymizing the person, which can be done by blurring the face very easily.
Well yes, but the problem with professional versions of anything is fun, is the fact it will need to bring in money, to pay the bills. This means the artist will need to paint some marketing material, or draw particular things that make money. The musician will need to play the same old song. The programmer will need to do some CRUD based B2B app. So the professional gamer will need to make money. When under pressure people will often set their morals aside. So they will cheat, the substandard drawing, a crappy performance, Crappy code. Or find a way to cheat at the game as so they will make the money.
Because of this fact, we need to be sure they are safeguards against all levels against cheating and fraud. Someone can be the best guy in the world, but they are not incorruptible. We need to compromise to function in society, however it is too easy to go too far.
The real question is how much more does it cost google to keep desktop voice search maintained vs their mobile devices. I personally don't use it, on any device, but it would seem to me that keeping a desktop version is rather simple, as all the real work is on the back end. Unless there are people are finding it easy to abuse it on the desktop environment.
Many companies fail to understand the cost of turnover. Normally when turnover happens it will cost 150% to replace an employee. Because of the time it will take them to settle in and get use to the process (The informal one, that isn't written down, such as avoid these departments, as their manager is a jerk, work around this director because he is useless). After about a full year of learning then someone usually comes truly productive in the institution. So that is a big cost to the organization to have people leave.
While employee salary is the biggest expense for an organization, it is also a vital key to its infrastructure, and it shouldn't be skimmed. Studies show if someone is getting paid more than they feel it is worth, they will work harder, if they feel they are getting paid less than they feel they are worth, they will not work as hard. The calculation for happy employees isn't hard. Give them good pay: on par or better than your compensation. Give them predictability: They will need to feel that their job is steady, and they can plan a life outside around it. Give them opportunities to grow: Make sure they have a path towards promotion, ability to learn other things. A lot of businesses feel tuition reimbursement will just train people to be overqualified for their job. However if you can promote the person once they have the new education, they will stick around, and you will have someone in that higher position who knows the business with the latest skills.
Avoiding any one of these causes turn over. Under par pay: You may get employees when they are desperate, or with a promise of the other two where they think they can work up really fast. But any thing that causes them to lose trust in the organization and they are out, as soon as they can. Lack or predictability: This could just come from a volatile attitude, where you may be friendly one day, and yelling and screaming the next. Where your job in under pressure that YOU may be next on the layoff. Down times do happen, but you can make this more predictable letting people know who is getting canned, and why, allowing them time to prepare, and perhaps using your organizations resources to help them find new work. This can also mean unpredictable hours, granted all work isn't 9-5 but, having a good scheduled and shared out of office duties so people can live their life. Lack of growth: As they continue on the job, the gain insight on what needs to be done, not allowing people to grow, in terms of rank, or getting choice jobs. Also the organization will have an overly simplify ranking structure.
Also if you are going to have internet access in your car, have it on a separate computer then what you are using for the core services, with the entertainment system. You engine, steering, breaking, and lights should be on a separate computer without any form of wide area network. Just a plug for manual software updates.
Your other systems, that are not directly affecting your driving can be hooked up to the internet. Where hackers cannot harm the person.
Not everything needs to be hooked up to the internet.
Land, we can build up, also the United States is 50th in population density. We have room if you are willing to think outside of your little coastal city. As land is in higher demand prices go up, so the population learns to live with less of it. I like my space, so I moved out of the city, where I can have my space, however it is far from many services.
But here is the issue, as part of balance, if we have too much bacteria or the wrong type we get sick too. Refrigeration slows down the spoiling process however it doesn't stop it, thus giving us a false sense of security, while eating spoiled food, just because a particular strand seems to thrive better in colder temperatures than the others. While the food is sterilized to serve at room temperature still isn't sterilized, and sometimes fermentation takes advantage of microorganisms to create the flavor we like. We like the flavor from smoked, salted, and preserved foods. Why? Because we were evolved to like those, because we knew that it wasn't spoiled food and those side effect we can deal with. I am not contradicting myself BALANCE is the keyword. Pining on all the bad stuff we face in our environment isn't healthy. Taking normal precautions and finding what your body feels as a good balance will probably help you live longer than picking up on the weekly buzzword diet trend. Or trying to do what that pretty girl is trying this week.
Because the environment can sustain a larger population. However changes are needed on how we use the environment. We can feed the world, but we are not giving that a priority. We can get clean energy.
They don't fail to understand it, they factor it in, and realize with some tweaks to how we use the environment it can sustain a much larger population.
Ancient cities use to collapse when their population hit about 1 million people. The environment couldn't handle it, Today we can handle 20 - 30 million people a city. Because we are more efficient at handling the environment, Indoor plumbing, electricity, steel construction. Help put a large population in one place survive and thrive.
In general a larger population is better for the economy. It is just most of us think of an economy as something in a fixed supply. So more people will just mean more jobs that are filled and less for others. That isn't true, as the population grows the economy will grow to meet the increased demand, by matching its increased supply of workforce. The problem is our culture has values that are in conflict with itself. If someone has a child outside of wedlock we still have them considered as an outcast, and prefer not to give them or their child extra assistance, because "She shouldn't have done the act" This was less of an issue in the older days, as people got married at a younger age, and often had a tight family structure to cover up such shame, such as the 40 year old grandmother, saying it is her child. In this modern age, we need to realize that people are getting married much later in life, this causes us much more time to avoid our natural urges, which causes a lot more failures. Contraceptive is one part of the problem. Allowing the family to plan when they have a child, but the bigger cultural issue is still at play.
It was a major factor. The Separate but equal concept that men did the work outside the home and woman did the work inside. Held true for thousands of years, because there was enough work inside the home to keep someone busy full time. Then when we got such appliances that cut the jobs down, so women had more free time, which allowed them to focus on other activities outside the home, and such activities wasn't about pleasing her man, like the advertisements stated.
You can just live in a bubble, and avoid anything dangerous. Oh wait, we found that we need a good supply of microorganisms to keep our body healthy, so living in a bubble is bad for our health too. Our body can deal with with many of these "Bad" things when at the correct level. And with the amounts ideal, you are probably overall healthier than without them.
We americans trend towards excess, and will even go with excess of absence. Our body is designed to process many of these things, and without ingesting these harmful things, those part of our bodies atrophy and weaken our ability to protect against it. But that doesn't mean go hog while and base your diet strictly on foods with harmful elements. Just take things in moderation. A Balanced Diet, not an extreme one.
It depends, I don't see Rust replacing C any time soon. And if you are trying to do applications of any particular depth, it may not be the best choice. A lot of the extra libraries/crates vie Cargo are not so mature yet, and finding the best one for you needs is really a crapshoot, as well some of them that is available seem rather questionable. I expect over time there will be some weeding out the junk and building on and expanding the core libraries.
Yes you can go alone without using extra libraries, but other than learning how to do it yourself, you are just duplicating work that some one else has done, and probably put a little more time to fix many of its issues.
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The year of the the Linux Desktop will be the same year the Desktop Dies. Linux (kernel) actually bypassed it by taking center stage on the mobile market, with Google's ChromeOS, really only competing with Apple, and winning in numbers of units sold. The Desktop will stay a windows world, until Microsoft stops making windows for desktops, then people will switch to Linux as their alternative. By that point the desktop wouldn't be a profitable business, so other than being made by a group of hobbyists, the market will be dead.
However what I don't get, is why the Linux community hasn't been pushing for dominance in the Work Station market. Those who use larger Personal Computers to do real computational work. KDE is one of the closest to offering this type of work environment. But there needs more work in multi-screen display abilities, Being able to scale windows down on the WM level and just shrink or expand the content dynamically. Faster ways to switch windows, perhaps even eye tracking where the content you are looking at is expanded, while the other windows are shrunk. Maximizing your viewing state. There is plenty of room of technology growth in the work station market, focusing less on making it so Grandma can browse the web, but more for expert users to be productive while using the computer for computational needs.
The thing is there is plenty of terrorism and violence from other groups as well. Christians, Buddhists, and even Atheists can be radicalized and be turned violent. To attack people who do not follow their views on life. Just take a look at the classic Flame wars between VI and EMACS. So much anger and hate for a FREAKING TEXT editor, that is usually both installed by default or both not at all on most systems. If you think it is any particular group of people who are the problem, you are seriously misleading yourself, and undermining the general safety of the nation.
Yes there is an issue where Muslims are in dispute over some area that never seems to get any peace, and they are many groups who are getting overly violent about it. But it isn't the Muslims that is the problem, it is the idea that you need to follow the rules MORE strictly.
STEM is a concept that got out of control. The problem was schools were not giving enough effort in Science and Math. (Technology and Engineering in my mind are practical executions of Science and Math, but I guess S&M wouldn't be a good name) So this was the Degree Requirement for A High school graduation (1 credit is a full year of classes) 4 Credits of English 4 Credits of History/Social Studies 2 Credits of Math 2 Credits of Science 3 Credits of Foreign Language or 2 Credits with 3 Credits of Art and Music 2 Credits of PE.
Then you needed to fill in some of the spots with electives.
However It has always bugged me that there was only 2 credits needed for Math. If we were to keep the credits equal I would have took away the 2 credits of history and put them in Math. Not because I disliked history, I actually liked that class, but because Math and Language skills, are used to train the brain on how to think, and look at issues. Science and History are implementation of Mathematical and Literal thinking, quite important. But with the way it was setup Math and Science was treated like useless classes, stuff you don't need in real life.
So in the future, where technology is the key to a decent middle class life, there is a Push on STEM, however this push is cutting off Arts and Music, funding. Where all was needed was just a rewrite in the degree requirements. Where either you take out the Requirement for extra history (You can still take it as elective) or lower the number of electives you need to take ( a few less study halls)
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There should be no reason why the SSH protocol should be used standard across the board. Not having it on Windows has created way too many unencrypted ports. Just as long as MS just doesn't screw it up and only make it a secure Telnet client, but where you can secure port communication across servers.
We are hired to write new programs/new ways of solving a problem. Rules are made to solve common problems.
If we only follow these rules we are limited to writing programs that have already been written, in that case we are just useless.
If we know when to bend or break the rules, then we can create things that solve problems differently and is new and unique.
When I work with programmers so are hard fixed on the right way to do things, I often get a response that x cannot be done. I break the rule and I have done it in a couple of days work, then they will go but you didn't follow the right form.
The end user doesn't care about form, they care if it Works well, It can be maintained, and it is secure.
Sometimes I will copy and paste a function and just do some minor tweaks were I could have just added a parameter.
Why do I do this? Readability. Having a function called SplitPersonName(string name) and another one called SplitCompanyName(string name) So when I run the function it will be easily readable, as well if there is a bug in one of the fuctions but it works fine for the other. I can just change that one function without having to unit test other parts that could have been effected.
Also I avoid too much Classes that are extended from other classes, that tends to add confusion on where a particular code is being called if you are debugging it from the middle of the class structure.
It is OK to break rules, but you should have a good reason to do so. Also you should feel free to not break the rules when you do not have a good reason to do so.
You sound like you have been brainwashed to believe all you should do is work at your job all your life.
Having room to host friends and family and have them feel welcomed is an important part of life, as well starting a family.
Recent grads tend to not have any scope on where they should be socially.
The idea of having their basic needs met, seems appealing, that they are making it. Then after some time, when they see their friends, getting nicer homes, or getting married and having a family, they realize that they are missing important aspects in life.
When will you learn a Wi-Fi enable Tea Kettle is a horrible Idea.
Oh I just got a message from my Wi-Fi enabled coffee machine that my coffee is done.
The problem is the age of most equipment.
Most medical Equipment talks HL7 v2. And is sent via a standard unencrypted port, and the more medical equipment it is easier to setup an other port, then to parse messages by their message source.
It isn't as much as not caring, but the age of most of this stuff is so old, that you need to keep backwards compatibility, as for the most part they were designed for Serial port communication, with a TCP/IP hack. When TCP/IP no longer was considered a passing fad.
After a HIPAA violation, then they will pay for it.
They are regulations in place, there just isn't enforcement until after an incident happened.
The Flat open network, just as long as it is closed off to the rest of the world, is good enough. But when you start bringing in outside connections from vendors and other areas, and or using the same network for the public Wi-Fi then you may be getting in trouble.
I can see this as less of trying to protect the identity of the person, but more to being about to make a 3d model of a crime scene.
If we can see where people are and their actions then put 3d models of them. Then we can take a look at the video at different angles and perspective.
When a video show a cop shooting an unarmed person. If we look at the events from the eyes of the cop, it may show the action from his point of view was more threatening, or we can look at it from the eyes of the person who got shot, where he may have seen the cop threatening him more than he should, or about to have physical contact.
The issue is Truth is in the eyes of the beholder. We we think is true, isn't always so, What we state as truth is based on our field of senses, and our emotional state at the time. We humans do a lot or predictive reasoning and filling in many gaps, and filtering out a lot of information. Being able to see the incident at different angles is far more important than anonymizing the person, which can be done by blurring the face very easily.
Well yes, but the problem with professional versions of anything is fun, is the fact it will need to bring in money, to pay the bills.
This means the artist will need to paint some marketing material, or draw particular things that make money.
The musician will need to play the same old song.
The programmer will need to do some CRUD based B2B app.
So the professional gamer will need to make money.
When under pressure people will often set their morals aside. So they will cheat, the substandard drawing, a crappy performance, Crappy code. Or find a way to cheat at the game as so they will make the money.
Because of this fact, we need to be sure they are safeguards against all levels against cheating and fraud. Someone can be the best guy in the world, but they are not incorruptible. We need to compromise to function in society, however it is too easy to go too far.
The real question is how much more does it cost google to keep desktop voice search maintained vs their mobile devices. I personally don't use it, on any device, but it would seem to me that keeping a desktop version is rather simple, as all the real work is on the back end. Unless there are people are finding it easy to abuse it on the desktop environment.
Many companies fail to understand the cost of turnover. Normally when turnover happens it will cost 150% to replace an employee. Because of the time it will take them to settle in and get use to the process (The informal one, that isn't written down, such as avoid these departments, as their manager is a jerk, work around this director because he is useless). After about a full year of learning then someone usually comes truly productive in the institution. So that is a big cost to the organization to have people leave.
While employee salary is the biggest expense for an organization, it is also a vital key to its infrastructure, and it shouldn't be skimmed. Studies show if someone is getting paid more than they feel it is worth, they will work harder, if they feel they are getting paid less than they feel they are worth, they will not work as hard. The calculation for happy employees isn't hard.
Give them good pay: on par or better than your compensation.
Give them predictability: They will need to feel that their job is steady, and they can plan a life outside around it.
Give them opportunities to grow: Make sure they have a path towards promotion, ability to learn other things. A lot of businesses feel tuition reimbursement will just train people to be overqualified for their job. However if you can promote the person once they have the new education, they will stick around, and you will have someone in that higher position who knows the business with the latest skills.
Avoiding any one of these causes turn over.
Under par pay: You may get employees when they are desperate, or with a promise of the other two where they think they can work up really fast. But any thing that causes them to lose trust in the organization and they are out, as soon as they can.
Lack or predictability: This could just come from a volatile attitude, where you may be friendly one day, and yelling and screaming the next. Where your job in under pressure that YOU may be next on the layoff. Down times do happen, but you can make this more predictable letting people know who is getting canned, and why, allowing them time to prepare, and perhaps using your organizations resources to help them find new work. This can also mean unpredictable hours, granted all work isn't 9-5 but, having a good scheduled and shared out of office duties so people can live their life.
Lack of growth: As they continue on the job, the gain insight on what needs to be done, not allowing people to grow, in terms of rank, or getting choice jobs. Also the organization will have an overly simplify ranking structure.
Also if you are going to have internet access in your car, have it on a separate computer then what you are using for the core services, with the entertainment system.
You engine, steering, breaking, and lights should be on a separate computer without any form of wide area network. Just a plug for manual software updates.
Your other systems, that are not directly affecting your driving can be hooked up to the internet. Where hackers cannot harm the person.
Not everything needs to be hooked up to the internet.
Land, we can build up, also the United States is 50th in population density. We have room if you are willing to think outside of your little coastal city. As land is in higher demand prices go up, so the population learns to live with less of it. I like my space, so I moved out of the city, where I can have my space, however it is far from many services.
But here is the issue, as part of balance, if we have too much bacteria or the wrong type we get sick too. Refrigeration slows down the spoiling process however it doesn't stop it, thus giving us a false sense of security, while eating spoiled food, just because a particular strand seems to thrive better in colder temperatures than the others. While the food is sterilized to serve at room temperature still isn't sterilized, and sometimes fermentation takes advantage of microorganisms to create the flavor we like.
We like the flavor from smoked, salted, and preserved foods. Why? Because we were evolved to like those, because we knew that it wasn't spoiled food and those side effect we can deal with.
I am not contradicting myself BALANCE is the keyword. Pining on all the bad stuff we face in our environment isn't healthy. Taking normal precautions and finding what your body feels as a good balance will probably help you live longer than picking up on the weekly buzzword diet trend. Or trying to do what that pretty girl is trying this week.
Because the environment can sustain a larger population. However changes are needed on how we use the environment. We can feed the world, but we are not giving that a priority. We can get clean energy.
They don't fail to understand it, they factor it in, and realize with some tweaks to how we use the environment it can sustain a much larger population.
Ancient cities use to collapse when their population hit about 1 million people. The environment couldn't handle it, Today we can handle 20 - 30 million people a city. Because we are more efficient at handling the environment, Indoor plumbing, electricity, steel construction. Help put a large population in one place survive and thrive.
In general a larger population is better for the economy. It is just most of us think of an economy as something in a fixed supply. So more people will just mean more jobs that are filled and less for others. That isn't true, as the population grows the economy will grow to meet the increased demand, by matching its increased supply of workforce.
The problem is our culture has values that are in conflict with itself. If someone has a child outside of wedlock we still have them considered as an outcast, and prefer not to give them or their child extra assistance, because "She shouldn't have done the act"
This was less of an issue in the older days, as people got married at a younger age, and often had a tight family structure to cover up such shame, such as the 40 year old grandmother, saying it is her child. In this modern age, we need to realize that people are getting married much later in life, this causes us much more time to avoid our natural urges, which causes a lot more failures.
Contraceptive is one part of the problem. Allowing the family to plan when they have a child, but the bigger cultural issue is still at play.
It was a major factor. The Separate but equal concept that men did the work outside the home and woman did the work inside. Held true for thousands of years, because there was enough work inside the home to keep someone busy full time.
Then when we got such appliances that cut the jobs down, so women had more free time, which allowed them to focus on other activities outside the home, and such activities wasn't about pleasing her man, like the advertisements stated.
That is over a hundred years ago, grandpa.
You can just live in a bubble, and avoid anything dangerous. Oh wait, we found that we need a good supply of microorganisms to keep our body healthy, so living in a bubble is bad for our health too.
Our body can deal with with many of these "Bad" things when at the correct level. And with the amounts ideal, you are probably overall healthier than without them.
We americans trend towards excess, and will even go with excess of absence. Our body is designed to process many of these things, and without ingesting these harmful things, those part of our bodies atrophy and weaken our ability to protect against it. But that doesn't mean go hog while and base your diet strictly on foods with harmful elements. Just take things in moderation. A Balanced Diet, not an extreme one.
It depends, I don't see Rust replacing C any time soon. And if you are trying to do applications of any particular depth, it may not be the best choice. A lot of the extra libraries/crates vie Cargo are not so mature yet, and finding the best one for you needs is really a crapshoot, as well some of them that is available seem rather questionable.
I expect over time there will be some weeding out the junk and building on and expanding the core libraries.
Yes you can go alone without using extra libraries, but other than learning how to do it yourself, you are just duplicating work that some one else has done, and probably put a little more time to fix many of its issues.
The year of the the Linux Desktop will be the same year the Desktop Dies.
Linux (kernel) actually bypassed it by taking center stage on the mobile market, with Google's ChromeOS, really only competing with Apple, and winning in numbers of units sold.
The Desktop will stay a windows world, until Microsoft stops making windows for desktops, then people will switch to Linux as their alternative. By that point the desktop wouldn't be a profitable business, so other than being made by a group of hobbyists, the market will be dead.
However what I don't get, is why the Linux community hasn't been pushing for dominance in the Work Station market. Those who use larger Personal Computers to do real computational work. KDE is one of the closest to offering this type of work environment. But there needs more work in multi-screen display abilities, Being able to scale windows down on the WM level and just shrink or expand the content dynamically. Faster ways to switch windows, perhaps even eye tracking where the content you are looking at is expanded, while the other windows are shrunk. Maximizing your viewing state. There is plenty of room of technology growth in the work station market, focusing less on making it so Grandma can browse the web, but more for expert users to be productive while using the computer for computational needs.
The thing is there is plenty of terrorism and violence from other groups as well. Christians, Buddhists, and even Atheists can be radicalized and be turned violent. To attack people who do not follow their views on life. Just take a look at the classic Flame wars between VI and EMACS. So much anger and hate for a FREAKING TEXT editor, that is usually both installed by default or both not at all on most systems. If you think it is any particular group of people who are the problem, you are seriously misleading yourself, and undermining the general safety of the nation.
Yes there is an issue where Muslims are in dispute over some area that never seems to get any peace, and they are many groups who are getting overly violent about it. But it isn't the Muslims that is the problem, it is the idea that you need to follow the rules MORE strictly.
There is the rest of the world to contend to.
You can still suck but if you suck less than the others you are still the best.
STEM is a concept that got out of control.
The problem was schools were not giving enough effort in Science and Math. (Technology and Engineering in my mind are practical executions of Science and Math, but I guess S&M wouldn't be a good name)
So this was the Degree Requirement for A High school graduation (1 credit is a full year of classes)
4 Credits of English
4 Credits of History/Social Studies
2 Credits of Math
2 Credits of Science
3 Credits of Foreign Language or 2 Credits with 3 Credits of Art and Music
2 Credits of PE.
Then you needed to fill in some of the spots with electives.
However It has always bugged me that there was only 2 credits needed for Math. If we were to keep the credits equal I would have took away the 2 credits of history and put them in Math. Not because I disliked history, I actually liked that class, but because Math and Language skills, are used to train the brain on how to think, and look at issues. Science and History are implementation of Mathematical and Literal thinking, quite important. But with the way it was setup Math and Science was treated like useless classes, stuff you don't need in real life.
So in the future, where technology is the key to a decent middle class life, there is a Push on STEM, however this push is cutting off Arts and Music, funding. Where all was needed was just a rewrite in the degree requirements. Where either you take out the Requirement for extra history (You can still take it as elective) or lower the number of electives you need to take ( a few less study halls)