What is "instant" or "superficial" about Apple products? Is a Dell Inspiron not "instant" because it is black? Are Zunes not "superficial" because (nobody buys them) they don't come in as many colors?
But what schools ARE teaching are how SPECIAL they (the kids) are and that equal outcomes are more important than equal opportunity.
I've been hearing this for 20 years now. I'm just curious--have the people who keep spouting this mantra even BEEN to an institution of higher education recently to make such spurious claims?
College grads, regardless of discipline, should just be happy to have jobs. Work hard, do good work, be humble, accept (not demand) positions of greater responsibility. Soon enough you'll be getting what you "deserve", but as a recent college graduate, the only thing you "deserve" is the chance not to screw up your really good job.
I've been involved with online college since 1997 (as a student), through today as an associate professor at one of those really big online schools you all know. Only until a couple of years ago did the powers that be realize the more IEx, ActiveX and other proprietary requirements you impose on the student body, the FEWER students will pay for your courses. There is no excuse, given the open framework of basic.html, to use ANYTHING that won't work on ANY computer (within reason...no 20 year old cpus, please) that can get online.
Fortunately my university has scaled back the stupid IE7/Active X requirements and redeveloped the entire student log-in pages to work with Mac OSX, Firefox, etc. (not sure how well it works with Linux stuff though).
Oh, cool. You are right about the UI and I should have paid attention. So you were replying to the radiohead guy then and not me? Cuz if that's the case, your post makes WAAAY more sense.
I agree. The "devious" mood is just sensationalism to get people to talk about the article. What really WAS newsworthy is the fact the guy makes inflammatory comments like "getting your money's worth" when punching hand-cuffed suspects. I think the innocuous "devious mood" comment is simply there to enrage and provoke otherwise common-sense folks like us, and to get us talking about it.
People still play NASCAR 2003 (2002) and Grand Prix Legends (1998) because Papyrus was bought out by big bad EA Sports. There haven't been good versions of that sort of game since (hard core racing sim) other than a few OSS projects. The "developers" of the NASCAR 2003 series that keep it going do so for no pay, other than whatever business they can drum up with their web advertising and donations. It seems the dichotomy is that real good gaming is not financially reasonable, and really bad games make enough money to keep encouraging the development of more bad games. When in doubt, develop yet another 3d-shooter based on the Half-Life engine and slap a $50 price tag on it.
Anecdotal, but I for one would have never played WoW had I not been a serious Warcraft II junkie back in the day. (played III, but didn't like the identity crisis of RTS versus RPG). WoW would probably have little appeal to me had I not been engrossed in the rich Warcraft story line that preceded it.
You do realize that all those different "realms" that you and your friends are on are also known as "servers"? The reason you and your friends spread across different servers can't communicate, is because, well, you are on different servers. There are like 10 million people on WoW. You don't expect Blizzard to reinvent the Internet just so your dwarf can chat with your friend's orc, do you?
A more valid complaint would by my L57 dwarf sitting idle on a server in the UK because Blizzard won't transfer him to a server in the US. I'd even expect to pay for that, but they won't. I guess they don't want Euro Gold to deflate US Gold prices.
That's simply not true. There's a science behind lie detector tests based in human psychology AND physiology. You can't make determinations with just one (that's why the body odor test is not valid), you need to analyze physiological responses as framed by the psychology of the questions posed.
Nah, I was just pointing out the pretension in your post is so thick that maybe you should sit back and reflect, and think, hmmm, maybe Radiohead isn't as universally excepted as great as I think. This is especially true when you trash relatively mainstream (and not horrible) acts like Metallica. Radiohead, for the record, is not their own genre. There were bands before them (U2) and bands after them (Coldplay) that are pretty much the same exact genre. For the record, I play blues bars gigs for beer/free/tips. Am I not a real artist because I play 50 year old covers all night? So you, sir, are welcome to "shut up with that crap", whatever that means, and feel free to keep your opinions about what "real" musicians are to your self, if you aren't willing to at least hear other people's takes on what that means.
What good are statistics outside the framework of research? Better yet, how do you get statistics without research? The two go hand-in-hand. That's the problem with the original post-- "you can make statistics say anything you want" is a bad argument, because if you are doing that, you are doing it wrong in the first place and your findings of the statistics are invalid.
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More people need to speak to their lawyers before using the "Fair Use" defense. I've been in education for about 10 years now and it's rarely clear what is and is not legal to use under the "Fair Use" exemption for education. But keep interpreting it how you want--you'll need a good lawyer if anybody ever wants sue you.
I think the guy is completely wrong about this being marketable - but hey, everybody is entitled to their own opinion and style.
In five minutes when this sort of thing proves never to have been marketable, it will be safe to say that this isn't a matter of opinion. Why do we have to qualify dumb/incorrect statements with "well, that's my opinion, so it can't be wrong"? As I prefer to say, you are entitled to be wrong.
Real artists experiment, REAL artists do things very original. real artists push forward and discover the future of music.
You forgot one: real artists starve. Besides anyone who flexes their intellectual superiority over people who can't name the three branches of government by citing Radiohead as "their own genre" loses credibility with me.
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I drive a fully paid for BMW, am looking out my window at an awesome view of the Capitol Building as I type this.
All this really proves is that even PhDs are idiots when equipped with a blackberry and a car.
What is "instant" or "superficial" about Apple products? Is a Dell Inspiron not "instant" because it is black? Are Zunes not "superficial" because (nobody buys them) they don't come in as many colors?
As it turned-out I was ready for the Lockheed job, but I certainly didn't feel I was "the shit" going into the working world.
And that is why you were "ready" for the Lockheed job.
Allow me to summarize your excellent post: "young and dumb" applies to every generation ever.
Where do we get our sense of exelence...
Probably not from your spelling skills...
But what schools ARE teaching are how SPECIAL they (the kids) are and that equal outcomes are more important than equal opportunity.
I've been hearing this for 20 years now. I'm just curious--have the people who keep spouting this mantra even BEEN to an institution of higher education recently to make such spurious claims?
I don't consider myself a narcissistic student, but I wonder, what's the point of going through years of education, if not to use it?
Uh oh, they're starting to figure it out... (SECRET: it rarely matters WHAT your degree is in, only that you have one.)
College grads, regardless of discipline, should just be happy to have jobs. Work hard, do good work, be humble, accept (not demand) positions of greater responsibility. Soon enough you'll be getting what you "deserve", but as a recent college graduate, the only thing you "deserve" is the chance not to screw up your really good job.
ANYTHING that won't work on ALL computers
FTFM (fixed that for me).
I've been involved with online college since 1997 (as a student), through today as an associate professor at one of those really big online schools you all know. Only until a couple of years ago did the powers that be realize the more IEx, ActiveX and other proprietary requirements you impose on the student body, the FEWER students will pay for your courses. There is no excuse, given the open framework of basic .html, to use ANYTHING that won't work on ANY computer (within reason...no 20 year old cpus, please) that can get online.
Fortunately my university has scaled back the stupid IE7/Active X requirements and redeveloped the entire student log-in pages to work with Mac OSX, Firefox, etc. (not sure how well it works with Linux stuff though).
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Oh, cool. You are right about the UI and I should have paid attention. So you were replying to the radiohead guy then and not me? Cuz if that's the case, your post makes WAAAY more sense.
I'm listed as a homosexual scientologist, although I'm neither-- does my facebook/myspace status make it true?
I agree. The "devious" mood is just sensationalism to get people to talk about the article. What really WAS newsworthy is the fact the guy makes inflammatory comments like "getting your money's worth" when punching hand-cuffed suspects. I think the innocuous "devious mood" comment is simply there to enrage and provoke otherwise common-sense folks like us, and to get us talking about it.
People still play NASCAR 2003 (2002) and Grand Prix Legends (1998) because Papyrus was bought out by big bad EA Sports. There haven't been good versions of that sort of game since (hard core racing sim) other than a few OSS projects. The "developers" of the NASCAR 2003 series that keep it going do so for no pay, other than whatever business they can drum up with their web advertising and donations. It seems the dichotomy is that real good gaming is not financially reasonable, and really bad games make enough money to keep encouraging the development of more bad games. When in doubt, develop yet another 3d-shooter based on the Half-Life engine and slap a $50 price tag on it.
Anecdotal, but I for one would have never played WoW had I not been a serious Warcraft II junkie back in the day. (played III, but didn't like the identity crisis of RTS versus RPG). WoW would probably have little appeal to me had I not been engrossed in the rich Warcraft story line that preceded it.
You do realize that all those different "realms" that you and your friends are on are also known as "servers"? The reason you and your friends spread across different servers can't communicate, is because, well, you are on different servers. There are like 10 million people on WoW. You don't expect Blizzard to reinvent the Internet just so your dwarf can chat with your friend's orc, do you?
A more valid complaint would by my L57 dwarf sitting idle on a server in the UK because Blizzard won't transfer him to a server in the US. I'd even expect to pay for that, but they won't. I guess they don't want Euro Gold to deflate US Gold prices.
That's simply not true. There's a science behind lie detector tests based in human psychology AND physiology. You can't make determinations with just one (that's why the body odor test is not valid), you need to analyze physiological responses as framed by the psychology of the questions posed.
Nah, I was just pointing out the pretension in your post is so thick that maybe you should sit back and reflect, and think, hmmm, maybe Radiohead isn't as universally excepted as great as I think. This is especially true when you trash relatively mainstream (and not horrible) acts like Metallica. Radiohead, for the record, is not their own genre. There were bands before them (U2) and bands after them (Coldplay) that are pretty much the same exact genre. For the record, I play blues bars gigs for beer/free/tips. Am I not a real artist because I play 50 year old covers all night? So you, sir, are welcome to "shut up with that crap", whatever that means, and feel free to keep your opinions about what "real" musicians are to your self, if you aren't willing to at least hear other people's takes on what that means.
What good are statistics outside the framework of research? Better yet, how do you get statistics without research? The two go hand-in-hand. That's the problem with the original post-- "you can make statistics say anything you want" is a bad argument, because if you are doing that, you are doing it wrong in the first place and your findings of the statistics are invalid.
More people need to speak to their lawyers before using the "Fair Use" defense. I've been in education for about 10 years now and it's rarely clear what is and is not legal to use under the "Fair Use" exemption for education. But keep interpreting it how you want--you'll need a good lawyer if anybody ever wants sue you.
Hmm, nice warning--as if going to a torrent site weren't NSFW enough, there are naked chicks at the bottom!
I think the guy is completely wrong about this being marketable - but hey, everybody is entitled to their own opinion and style.
In five minutes when this sort of thing proves never to have been marketable, it will be safe to say that this isn't a matter of opinion. Why do we have to qualify dumb/incorrect statements with "well, that's my opinion, so it can't be wrong"? As I prefer to say, you are entitled to be wrong.
Real artists experiment, REAL artists do things very original. real artists push forward and discover the future of music.
You forgot one: real artists starve. Besides anyone who flexes their intellectual superiority over people who can't name the three branches of government by citing Radiohead as "their own genre" loses credibility with me.
Entertaining in a cutesy, clever-yet-amateur sort of way? Yes. "The freaking future of entertainment"? Hardly.