Well I'm sure your.Net apps require 7000% more CPU cycles than a C/C++ program. Java isn't much better, which is sad, because it's very difficult to write a language/environment(.Net) which is more bloated and has worse performance than Java.
Every time I use a.Net app my heart sinks and I feel queasy, knowing it will be ridiculously slow, probably crash, and is almost certain to pollute my registry and dlls.
Yes you're exactly right. I just can't get the job I want, so I'm bitter and poo-pooing the $3trillion war. I guess I should be grateful to the military for all the improvements in my life through their research such as: a 2000lb bomb, space-based nuclear missiles, Kevlar(oops that was NASA), Velcro(oops NASA), aircraft(again, NASA), tanks, APCs, 50 caliber rifles with armour piercing rounds, you get the idea.
I guess I should just relax and enjoy the record-high oil prices. Maybe I can enlist again for another term. I can't wait to go to Saudi and use my degree to be a driver for a Sheikh.
I don't think it would appear as discrimination if handled appropriately; it's not that difficult to administer standardized tests with computers these days and have automated feedback and reporting. Those kids which fail one subject but pass others, would be required to attend the course at the level they need. If you combine that with standardized curriculum and supplemental tutoring, it can work very well.
I remember when I was teaching English for the first time; we had an entire curriculum with scripted lesson plans, activities, recordings, etc. Not necessarily the most interesting way to teach, but it was very effective and even a lousy teacher could follow it and get results. If you were to do the same thing in a one-to-one environment, the learning would take half as much time.
While I agree that some parents are limited in their abilities to teach, resources, etc, I believe many of the things taught in schools could be taught at home or in combination. Good examples are: arithmetic, reading, and writing up to 8th grade level. Beyond 8th grade, there should be teacher oversight by teachers with a degree in their subject such as Math, English, Physics, etc.
I actually went through 5 different educational systems: Government, Christian Academy, Trade Schools, state Universities+Colleges, and on-the-job training led by instructors. The most effective method(for me) was the module-based computerized training at the trade school. They just let you fly as fast as you can and have an instructor there when you stumble. The least effective method was the university lecture hall with 70 students, wherein you basically just teach yourself and the teacher just outlines the course and does grading.
I think many government schools fall somewhere in the middle where they have big classes, students must teach themselves, but counseling and more teacher support is given in the form of feedback. This may work for the masses but it really retards intelligent people and rewards mediocrity.
Seems like the schools would have a preference for mediocre teachers so that they don't have to deal with all the upsets that a great teacher would cause.
Yes, wages are a big factor. It's a very dismal outlook to teach as a career, specifically one with a Math degree. Hell, bean-counters make more teachers...
Yeah same here. I was actually remedial when I got to college and then went all the way through diff eq with straight A's. Most of it was because I had wonderful teachers and all the homework was relevant and comprehensible. Not to mention the small classes of less than 15 students(usually 10).It was almost like having a personal tutor...
Yeah the state Universities are viewing students as "widgets" for industry, while generating revenue which goes to the bonuses of the CEOs(er Deans). Everybody gets a degree, everybody passes, everyone's tuition magically costs the exact same amount as they can borrow from the student loan program. Everyone is promised higher paying jobs, everyone winds up with the same or worse pay(especially after subtracting loan payments). The system is going down fast like a spanish galleon loaded with too much gold...
Of course it's cultural, to the degree that the culture influences the parenting of the child. Look, if the parents make their kid study hard and encourage them into academia, by-and-large, the kids will do well and go into academia.
Don't forget the McMansion alongside the golf course.
But seriously, I can't imagine people voting for a chess grandmaster or scientist as president, let alone paying $100 for a ticket to see a professional math contest-like they do for an NFL game. America is a lot like Rome, they want to see blood, action, etc. And when they go to work, they don't want to be bothered with difficult things like thinking, reasoning, deduction, etc.
I think the OP is referring to priorities in terms of money spent. The US could spend their military budget on higher education and have had an LHC 10 years ago. Or space programs, or materials science, etc. When I go looking for a job with my Physics degree my choices are largely Boeing(Warplanes), Lockheed(Missiles), or Raytheon(Radars). If priorities were academic, my choices would be: Physics Teacher, Lab Tech, Research, etc. Instead of joining the military to pay for college, I could do a post-grad post at NIST or OSHA or something like that.
All kids should be home-schooled to the best ability of their parents, and then sent off to school once their knowledge has surpassed their parents. With home-schooling, some things are missing such as chem/bio labs, intramural-sports, a band to play with, etc. I suppose the schools could just make those all after-school activities and send the home-schoolers out once a week to use the labs...
I think that, historically, the parents had a very low level of education so children were sent to school at a very early age to learn to read, write, etc. Now, it seems very different as many parents have University education. It's no surprise their kids are bored when the school is teaching them what they already know. I think it would be better to treat schools like a university where the parents select specific courses and the kids place into them by exam. For each level(primary, middle, secondary) there should be a standardized test(with feedback!). The GED is already out there, how about one for middle school? primary school? I know I would've much preferred staying home and studying rather than sitting in a school getting bullied all day. Maybe show up for an hour each day for a photography class because my parents knew nothing about it. This could be done pretty easily and would dump the burden back onto parents. Right now, teachers are charged with raising children while their parents work... it isn't working.
I should think this would fall upon the parents to take responsibility for their child's education. The government education is just a starting point. If a child is beyond that, send them to private school or get a tutor. Hell, my parents couldn't afford any of that so I enrolled myself in college when I was 16(my High School had to foot the bill:)). There are also trade schools, open/alternative schools, etc.
Oh and please don't equate Steve Jobs with Einstein. A college-dropout-businessman is not on the same level as the Father of Modern Physics and Nobel Laureate.
Ok, try classes of 35 students... 6 per week... that's 210 students. How long does it take to grade 210 papers? Every week? Don't forget you need to plan 18 lessons(3 periods/weekX6classes). During the days off, teachers are at work. Teachers make a lot of personal sacrifice and are constantly faced with decisions where they have to choose between helping one gifted student or 25 struggling ones. I'm sure they try to help everyone but in reality, classroom time is limited and so are teachers.
When teaching kids math, it's more of a monkey-see monkey-do phenomenon. The logic and deduction come later after calculus, usually at the undergraduate level. Asians don't teach logic and deduction, they teach copying, cheating, and rote-skills; hence their kids appear better at math. In US government schools, the monkey-see approach is thwarted by large classroom sizes, disciplinary problems, and general cultural malaise and perception that math is not important.Who wants to do homework when they could be taking steroids and getting big enough to be drafted into the NFL?
Actually you could perform a first-order approximation for the weenie-tip by using a sinusoidal oscillator and get a probability density of where it will hit and the expectation values for velocity, how far, how long, etc.
As a physicist and math/science teacher, I agree completely. Intellectuals are persecuted outside of academia and shunned by the majority of society.
Basically, American culture consists of MSNBC news, hotmail, facebook, lame shows like SNL, CSI, and Sunday football. They're happy as long as they have gas in their SUV, msg-laden food on their table, and have their Sunday football. I call it an "Information Bubble". If these people don't hear of something from MSNBC, they think it doesn't exist.
In reality, all of those people have been sold a false bill of goods by the corporations that own them. The information is filtered to create a culture of consumerism and discourage discussion and dissent.
As for denial, it goes even further than global warming to include fossil-fuel depletion/scarcity, the Hubbard peak, housing bubbles, credit bubbles, CDS bubbles, etc. I have a feeling that once the Information Bubble bursts, people will realize their house is owned by a Chinese lender, their car by a Saudi lender, they owe 50% of their wages in taxes every year, there is no industry or jobs in the US other than exporting copyrights and legalese, and their kids can't do math well.
I personally feel like packing up with all the intellectuals and starting a new country based on merit and achievement rather than who was born to a wealthier family.If a guy like Bush can become president of the US, then the US is lost to the powers the founding fathers were trying to stop.
Oh puhleeeeeease! o-chem is just cannon fodder. As a physics major, it was a total brain-dead class with lots of memorization of nomenclature and regimental procedures to satisfy the DEA and other authorities. Yes we all know Benzene is nasty and Sulfuric Acid burns your eyes out. Can we move on? I remember the classic answer in chem class to questions was "That's beyond the scope of this course". For example: "Wow this chapter has a section about lasers, how do those work?" or "Hey since we're learning about electron affinity, how do we calculate it so we don't have to memorize 101 values?" or "Hey this nomenclature is really great, is there some pocket-reference so we don't have to memorize 800 names?"
Actually HD is to SD as CD-Quality Audio is to mp3. Take a Britney spears song and listen to it on mp3 and then CD: No difference. Now take Pink Floyd and do the same: HUGE difference. The difference is in the details that the artist can convey to the audience. CD-audio is an almost identical sound as a live performance, whereas mp3(64kbps) is compressed and sounds like a live performance over the radio. I guess it doesn't matter either way if you have tin-can speakers or live in a noisy building.
I recently watched the "Lord of the Rings" director's cut from DVD at 1024x786(smaller due to fitting the screen), as well as the SD version on TV. There was a lot missing from the SD, entire characters and plot points, in fact. What's really noticeable is when you project it on the wall with a 3meter diagonal and you can see every granularity, every frame loss, etc.I suppose it doesn't matter if you're still using a 500-line CRT, but it's similar to the tin-can speaker analogy.
On the other hand, I don't think your average Joe has a HDTV set or a projector so the technology may be only for a very small crowd...
Postfix is a mail server, if you want a drop-in replacement for exchange, PostPath can do it(for a fee) or you can figure out how to do it yourself.
For the people who want a million and one things:
Webdav+Ical.. Of course if you switch to that from the Exchange server, your clients will notice unless you can do a DNS redirect and translate the MAPI to the new and improved global standard.
And google runs their Searchable database of trillions of websites across tens of thousands of servers, across many data centers, that cost literally billions of dollars.
Fixed that for ya!
Anyhoo, when you strip off all the empty microsoft promises, FUD, propaganda, and lies, exchange is really just email and calendaring. Nothing more.
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,Net is gay. You have been brainwashed. Your entire career and all your experience will be worthless next year. You will be Eclipsed.
Well I'm sure your .Net apps require 7000% more CPU cycles than a C/C++ program. Java isn't much better, which is sad, because it's very difficult to write a language/environment(.Net) which is more bloated and has worse performance than Java.
.Net app my heart sinks and I feel queasy, knowing it will be ridiculously slow, probably crash, and is almost certain to pollute my registry and dlls.
Every time I use a
Yes you're exactly right. I just can't get the job I want, so I'm bitter and poo-pooing the $3trillion war. I guess I should be grateful to the military for all the improvements in my life through their research such as: a 2000lb bomb, space-based nuclear missiles, Kevlar(oops that was NASA), Velcro(oops NASA), aircraft(again, NASA), tanks, APCs, 50 caliber rifles with armour piercing rounds, you get the idea.
I guess I should just relax and enjoy the record-high oil prices. Maybe I can enlist again for another term. I can't wait to go to Saudi and use my degree to be a driver for a Sheikh.
ALLAH AKBAH!
I don't think it would appear as discrimination if handled appropriately; it's not that difficult to administer standardized tests with computers these days and have automated feedback and reporting. Those kids which fail one subject but pass others, would be required to attend the course at the level they need. If you combine that with standardized curriculum and supplemental tutoring, it can work very well.
I remember when I was teaching English for the first time; we had an entire curriculum with scripted lesson plans, activities, recordings, etc. Not necessarily the most interesting way to teach, but it was very effective and even a lousy teacher could follow it and get results. If you were to do the same thing in a one-to-one environment, the learning would take half as much time.
While I agree that some parents are limited in their abilities to teach, resources, etc, I believe many of the things taught in schools could be taught at home or in combination. Good examples are: arithmetic, reading, and writing up to 8th grade level. Beyond 8th grade, there should be teacher oversight by teachers with a degree in their subject such as Math, English, Physics, etc.
I actually went through 5 different educational systems: Government, Christian Academy, Trade Schools, state Universities+Colleges, and on-the-job training led by instructors. The most effective method(for me) was the module-based computerized training at the trade school. They just let you fly as fast as you can and have an instructor there when you stumble. The least effective method was the university lecture hall with 70 students, wherein you basically just teach yourself and the teacher just outlines the course and does grading.
I think many government schools fall somewhere in the middle where they have big classes, students must teach themselves, but counseling and more teacher support is given in the form of feedback. This may work for the masses but it really retards intelligent people and rewards mediocrity.
Seems like the schools would have a preference for mediocre teachers so that they don't have to deal with all the upsets that a great teacher would cause.
Yes, wages are a big factor. It's a very dismal outlook to teach as a career, specifically one with a Math degree. Hell, bean-counters make more teachers...
Yeah same here. I was actually remedial when I got to college and then went all the way through diff eq with straight A's. Most of it was because I had wonderful teachers and all the homework was relevant and comprehensible. Not to mention the small classes of less than 15 students(usually 10).It was almost like having a personal tutor...
See? Only the 99th percentile hasn't been outsourced yet...
Yeah the state Universities are viewing students as "widgets" for industry, while generating revenue which goes to the bonuses of the CEOs(er Deans). Everybody gets a degree, everybody passes, everyone's tuition magically costs the exact same amount as they can borrow from the student loan program. Everyone is promised higher paying jobs, everyone winds up with the same or worse pay(especially after subtracting loan payments). The system is going down fast like a spanish galleon loaded with too much gold...
We covered up our weakness in math and science by subsidizing foreign grad students
fixed that for ya
Of course it's cultural, to the degree that the culture influences the parenting of the child. Look, if the parents make their kid study hard and encourage them into academia, by-and-large, the kids will do well and go into academia.
Because smart people leave high school after a year and go to college?
Don't forget the McMansion alongside the golf course.
But seriously, I can't imagine people voting for a chess grandmaster or scientist as president, let alone paying $100 for a ticket to see a professional math contest-like they do for an NFL game. America is a lot like Rome, they want to see blood, action, etc. And when they go to work, they don't want to be bothered with difficult things like thinking, reasoning, deduction, etc.
I think the OP is referring to priorities in terms of money spent. The US could spend their military budget on higher education and have had an LHC 10 years ago. Or space programs, or materials science, etc. When I go looking for a job with my Physics degree my choices are largely Boeing(Warplanes), Lockheed(Missiles), or Raytheon(Radars). If priorities were academic, my choices would be: Physics Teacher, Lab Tech, Research, etc. Instead of joining the military to pay for college, I could do a post-grad post at NIST or OSHA or something like that.
All kids should be home-schooled to the best ability of their parents, and then sent off to school once their knowledge has surpassed their parents. With home-schooling, some things are missing such as chem/bio labs, intramural-sports, a band to play with, etc. I suppose the schools could just make those all after-school activities and send the home-schoolers out once a week to use the labs...
I think that, historically, the parents had a very low level of education so children were sent to school at a very early age to learn to read, write, etc. Now, it seems very different as many parents have University education. It's no surprise their kids are bored when the school is teaching them what they already know. I think it would be better to treat schools like a university where the parents select specific courses and the kids place into them by exam. For each level(primary, middle, secondary) there should be a standardized test(with feedback!). The GED is already out there, how about one for middle school? primary school? I know I would've much preferred staying home and studying rather than sitting in a school getting bullied all day. Maybe show up for an hour each day for a photography class because my parents knew nothing about it. This could be done pretty easily and would dump the burden back onto parents. Right now, teachers are charged with raising children while their parents work... it isn't working.
I should think this would fall upon the parents to take responsibility for their child's education. The government education is just a starting point. If a child is beyond that, send them to private school or get a tutor. Hell, my parents couldn't afford any of that so I enrolled myself in college when I was 16(my High School had to foot the bill :)). There are also trade schools, open/alternative schools, etc.
Oh and please don't equate Steve Jobs with Einstein. A college-dropout-businessman is not on the same level as the Father of Modern Physics and Nobel Laureate.
Ok, try classes of 35 students... 6 per week... that's 210 students. How long does it take to grade 210 papers? Every week? Don't forget you need to plan 18 lessons(3 periods/weekX6classes). During the days off, teachers are at work. Teachers make a lot of personal sacrifice and are constantly faced with decisions where they have to choose between helping one gifted student or 25 struggling ones. I'm sure they try to help everyone but in reality, classroom time is limited and so are teachers.
When teaching kids math, it's more of a monkey-see monkey-do phenomenon. The logic and deduction come later after calculus, usually at the undergraduate level. Asians don't teach logic and deduction, they teach copying, cheating, and rote-skills; hence their kids appear better at math. In US government schools, the monkey-see approach is thwarted by large classroom sizes, disciplinary problems, and general cultural malaise and perception that math is not important.Who wants to do homework when they could be taking steroids and getting big enough to be drafted into the NFL?
Actually you could perform a first-order approximation for the weenie-tip by using a sinusoidal oscillator and get a probability density of where it will hit and the expectation values for velocity, how far, how long, etc.
As a physicist and math/science teacher, I agree completely. Intellectuals are persecuted outside of academia and shunned by the majority of society.
Basically, American culture consists of MSNBC news, hotmail, facebook, lame shows like SNL, CSI, and Sunday football. They're happy as long as they have gas in their SUV, msg-laden food on their table, and have their Sunday football. I call it an "Information Bubble". If these people don't hear of something from MSNBC, they think it doesn't exist.
In reality, all of those people have been sold a false bill of goods by the corporations that own them. The information is filtered to create a culture of consumerism and discourage discussion and dissent.
As for denial, it goes even further than global warming to include fossil-fuel depletion/scarcity, the Hubbard peak, housing bubbles, credit bubbles, CDS bubbles, etc. I have a feeling that once the Information Bubble bursts, people will realize their house is owned by a Chinese lender, their car by a Saudi lender, they owe 50% of their wages in taxes every year, there is no industry or jobs in the US other than exporting copyrights and legalese, and their kids can't do math well.
I personally feel like packing up with all the intellectuals and starting a new country based on merit and achievement rather than who was born to a wealthier family.If a guy like Bush can become president of the US, then the US is lost to the powers the founding fathers were trying to stop.
Sort of like Cadbury milk chocolate sold world-wide?
Oh puhleeeeeease! o-chem is just cannon fodder. As a physics major, it was a total brain-dead class with lots of memorization of nomenclature and regimental procedures to satisfy the DEA and other authorities. Yes we all know Benzene is nasty and Sulfuric Acid burns your eyes out. Can we move on? I remember the classic answer in chem class to questions was "That's beyond the scope of this course". For example: "Wow this chapter has a section about lasers, how do those work?" or "Hey since we're learning about electron affinity, how do we calculate it so we don't have to memorize 101 values?" or "Hey this nomenclature is really great, is there some pocket-reference so we don't have to memorize 800 names?"
Actually HD is to SD as CD-Quality Audio is to mp3. Take a Britney spears song and listen to it on mp3 and then CD: No difference. Now take Pink Floyd and do the same: HUGE difference. The difference is in the details that the artist can convey to the audience. CD-audio is an almost identical sound as a live performance, whereas mp3(64kbps) is compressed and sounds like a live performance over the radio. I guess it doesn't matter either way if you have tin-can speakers or live in a noisy building.
I recently watched the "Lord of the Rings" director's cut from DVD at 1024x786(smaller due to fitting the screen), as well as the SD version on TV. There was a lot missing from the SD, entire characters and plot points, in fact. What's really noticeable is when you project it on the wall with a 3meter diagonal and you can see every granularity, every frame loss, etc.I suppose it doesn't matter if you're still using a 500-line CRT, but it's similar to the tin-can speaker analogy.
On the other hand, I don't think your average Joe has a HDTV set or a projector so the technology may be only for a very small crowd...
Postfix is a mail server, if you want a drop-in replacement for exchange, PostPath can do it(for a fee) or you can figure out how to do it yourself.
For the people who want a million and one things: Webdav+Ical.. Of course if you switch to that from the Exchange server, your clients will notice unless you can do a DNS redirect and translate the MAPI to the new and improved global standard.
And google runs their Searchable database of trillions of websites across tens of thousands of servers, across many data centers, that cost literally billions of dollars.
Fixed that for ya!
Anyhoo, when you strip off all the empty microsoft promises, FUD, propaganda, and lies, exchange is really just email and calendaring. Nothing more.