Most states have had tuition caps on state-run schools for a long time. The only truly expensive schools are the private schools. The whole "spiraling costs" thing is only an issue because we keep getting more and more people going to private schools that they can't afford and majoring in useless crap such as 'women's studies' or 'sports statistics' and then complaining about their debt when no one will hire them.
Ah, to be rich like you and not have to worry about working for a living! Those of us poor schmucks who have to work are more concerned about being "more informed and useful" person than an undefined "well-rounded" person.
See, people use this horribly flawed "vocational skills" argument all of the time. Do you really want a doctor who doesn't know biology? An engineer who doesn't know physics? An economist who doesn't know economist? An accountant who knows nothing about accounting? The list goes on. There are necessary subjects / skills that people need to learn in order to do a job that they cannot easily learn on their own.
The whole "college is just to read some stuff that has no use in the real world" mentality is a carry over from centuries ago when only the extremely rich went to college because they never needed to work.
I'm in this program because this *is* what I want to do.
Sorry, but I'm a little confused. I think you and the other guy are using different definitions of "want to do". I think he's talking about what do you want to do for a career and you seem to be talking more about what you want to do for a hobby / what interests you but has little or no use when it comes to a job.
Well then those were (for the most part) people who never should've been in college in the first place. I'd say the real problem is that admissions aren't tougher / affirmative action / "diversity" bullshit are letting unqualified people get into college.
Well a good part of it is because more expensive schools can afford better teachers and select higher ability students, thus they can teach them more in the same four years of college than a lower cost school could. Granted, this isn't applicable in every case, but in general it is. Thus, the fact that you went to a more expensive school and received a better education makes you more qualified and companies will pay you more.
I have an Evo as well, since day 1. Last week I rooted it and installed the Sprint Lover's ROM, which is simply a slightly modified version of the 2.2 software that is on the stock Evo. Good GOD my battery life and performance has gone off the charts. I used to have to turn off mobile data any time I wasn't using the phone to get anything remotely like good battery life and now I can leave it on and get over a day of use out of it. It really amazes me how badly carrier pre-installed crap lowers the performance of your phone.
2) Really? Because he doesn't want a computer with less RAM, slower processor, smaller hard drive, and less battery life just to get a matte screen, you're trying to claim that he doesn't care about if it's glossy or not?
3) Yes, they do - and guess what? Monitors for desktops are almost always matte (I'd say I've seen maybe 10% that are glossy). You don't think that's a big hint that people want matte but since laptop manufacturers only make glossy, people buy glossy screen laptops because they have no alternative (other than just not having a laptop)?
So Apple should make a product that their core potential customer base (those with functioning brains) will abandon just to get to that small portion of idiots and elderly who want a smartphone? There are many companies who refuse to do that - Bentley for example will let you customize the crap out of their cars. However, if you want something extremely tacky, Bentley will flat out tell you "Sorry, but we don't do that - you should buy a different type of car". It's called having standards and not lowering the quality of your brand to appeal to a few more customers who are beneath you.
It's funny that you mention Android and MS - Android uses the same multiple alarm system (though for the real idiots, they do have "add alarm" next to the plus sign). The problem isn't the OS - the problem is (to quote Green Day) American idiots who can't use some common sense and instead bitch that they were forced to expend a tiny bit of energy and brain activity to try to do something.
You may want to live in a society where things are constantly being dumbed down more and more. I prefer to live in a society where people are expected to use their goddamn brain.
That's why there's this nifty feature where you can *GASP!* turn it off if you have a holiday. Shocking, isn't it? Who knew technology had advanced so far that you could turn off a repeating alarm?
That's how a basic alarm clock works. It does not make me consider what time I need to get up twelve Tuesdays from now. That's an overly complicated question to ask someone who just wants to use the device as a fscking alarm clock.
Neither does any phone alarm clock. It merely allows you the option of setting it to repeat on a certain schedule if you want it to. But your limited intelligence can't grasp that, just how it can't grasp that when there's only one goddamn button on the screen (a plus sign) that you should hit that button to add an alarm.
+ can mean plus, and, increase, zoom in,more information (such as expanding a collapsed tree view), use an international dialing prefix...it is a highly overloaded symbol.
So what you're saying is that you're too stupid to grasp the concept of context. I'm sorry that you flunked out of elementary school and that you can't grasp that certain words / symbols have different meanings in different contexts - or that most of those have a default definition unless certain contexts are applied. Once again, this is not a design failure or an OS failure - this is a genetic failure on the part of the incompetent user who lacks the intelligence to operate anything more complicated than crayons.
You've obviously never used an iPhone and thus, don't understand how retarded these people are for getting confused by this screen. While I've owned both an iPhone and an Android phone and can say that Android is much more intuitive (especially since it has a goddamn BACK button), this is still a matter of people just needed to be smacked upside the head and told "use your damn brain".
When you first go to it, that list of alarms is blank so you only have the + button. When there's only the one button, WTF else do you think you're going to hit to set an alarm?
No, it's not an age issue - it's an intelligence issue. While they may not know all the ins and outs instantly, anyone with a fully functioning brain can pick up most technology and use it for its basic functionality instantly with no training. Why? Because the interfaces rely on common fucking sense. Though sadly, I read reports a good decade or two ago about how Mr. Common F. Sense had died.....
Multiple alarms are very useful to most people. If you want your alarm set for work Monday through Friday, you set an alarm for that. If you want another one for waking you up later on Saturday, set one for that. If you want one for waking your up for church or something on Sunday, set one for that - then you can forget about it and it'll always go off when it's supposed to every day.
It's quite amusing how the Slashdot community likes to think of themselves as SO brilliant and superior and yet I'm seeing about 98% of the posts are people crying that they can't figure out how to set an alarm on a damn phone by using a little common sense and hitting the + button.
I think anyone who can't figure out that + means "add" (same as it always has since first grade when you learned basic addition) should have their voting rights revoked. If you can't figure out something THAT simple, how the hell can you make an intelligent decision when it comes to electing politicians?
Well goddamn it, I'm undoing all of my mod points to post this, but your comment was too infuriating to pass up.
When you go to a screen titled "Alarms" (yes, it has an 's' as in PLURAL) and you see a blank list and in the corner, the only thing on the screen is a +, how the HELL is it not obvious that you should probably push that to add something to that list of alarms? Did you not take first grade where they taught you that 1 + 1 = 2? This is NOT a matter of "complex design" (though amusingly, I get WAY more technologically incompetent people asking me how to use an iPhone than an Android phone), it's a matter of you not using common sense.
You're right though - not all old people are dumb - it's just that many of them refuse to use any common sense or put more than.000001 seconds of thought and energy into something. My grandpa is 93 and started using computers when he was in his mid-sixties. He wasn't a tech person, he was a mechanic and then later on a minister. He used some common sense and put some time into learning and now he can do pretty much anything he wants. My other grandparents on the other hand are much younger yet can't figure out how to use a mouse even because they won't put the two seconds of effort into learning how to use it.
I'm sorry, but any person on here saying "How should I know + means "add"?" should be smacked upside the head. What the hell do you think a plus sign means, in any application? Even in a goddamn calculator it still means ADD (or if you prefer the long version, ADDITION).
Given what Verizon is charging for their newer mobile broadband or for the Xoom, their new phone data plans will be obscene. I know that the Xoom data plan starts at $20 / month for a measly 1 GB and goes up to $80 / month for 10 GB.
With all due respect sir, the main thing you don't seem to understand is that I'm not some irresponsible kid who parties all day. I work a full time job, go to grad school, and make sure my homework is done before ever doing anything enjoyable. My priorities are to ensure that I have plenty of money saved in case of emergency and for the future and after necessary things (such as work, maintaining my car / household chores) are done, then enjoy myself and relax. Kids most certainly never will be in the cards - hell, I'd literally shoot myself before I'd end up like that (but then again, I'm one of the few who thinks it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees). But regardless, I'm never going to want to stop enjoying my life or wanting time to relax when I'm no longer working. While I may gain some new interests and possibly discontinue others that I grow tired of, it will never be because kids or a wife forced me into that situation.
You may legitimately be happy with your life - I can't say if you are or not because I don't know you. What I do know though is that every guy I do know (regardless of if he's in his 20's, 30's, 40's etc) that has kids is not very happy with his life because it's work 8+ hours a day then come home and deal with a screaming kids and cleaning up after them, then maybe zone out for an hour before going to sleep - and forget weekends, that's spent dealing with the kids too. Sure, they always SAY that they love having kids because it's what society forces people to say, but they then go on and on about all the things they can't do now that they have kids and how much they miss life before kids.
Yes, but "job" turning into "career" without the kid means a massive growth in disposable income to do what you want instead of spending all your time and money on a kid so when you finally DO have a moment of free time, you're comatose and do nothing with it.
I'll never understand you people with kids..... Everyone always wants to claim "Oh, eventually you'll change your mind" - no, sorry, I don't think I'm going to wake up one day and say "I want to be poor and miserable!" I work my ass off now in my job and in grad school so that I can enjoy the rewards later, not so that I can spend all my time dealing with some kid. But if you're happy with it, then good for you.
but used gamers would have bought the game new without the used option, hence costing the company money.
No. Some might have. Most wouldn't because most people who buy used games can't AFFORD to buy new games (hence why they buy used). If they raised the cost of used games or eliminated them all together, many people would stop playing games and the rest would just get fewer games. Hell, I know some people who buy a new game, beat it, then trade it in at gamestop and get another game used with that money - or else they sell off games that they have beaten to finance buying new copies of a game that just came out. If they didn't have a market to sell their games that they beat, they wouldn't buy nearly as many new games.
It's sad that you think that they have a right to however much money they decide that you "owe" them just for existing.....
Dragon Age - I know it's not TECHNICALLY a GOTY edition, but that's generally what bundles of the game + expansion + DLC are referred to as. I was not happy to find comments from other people who'd bought it and found the servers turned off.
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Most states have had tuition caps on state-run schools for a long time. The only truly expensive schools are the private schools. The whole "spiraling costs" thing is only an issue because we keep getting more and more people going to private schools that they can't afford and majoring in useless crap such as 'women's studies' or 'sports statistics' and then complaining about their debt when no one will hire them.
Ah, to be rich like you and not have to worry about working for a living! Those of us poor schmucks who have to work are more concerned about being "more informed and useful" person than an undefined "well-rounded" person.
It depends - did he take classes in those subjects of did he actually LEARN those subjects? My guess is probably a mixture of both.
Exactly. History has shown time and again that a truly educated population is a direct threat to the government.
See, people use this horribly flawed "vocational skills" argument all of the time. Do you really want a doctor who doesn't know biology? An engineer who doesn't know physics? An economist who doesn't know economist? An accountant who knows nothing about accounting? The list goes on. There are necessary subjects / skills that people need to learn in order to do a job that they cannot easily learn on their own.
The whole "college is just to read some stuff that has no use in the real world" mentality is a carry over from centuries ago when only the extremely rich went to college because they never needed to work.
I'm in this program because this *is* what I want to do.
Sorry, but I'm a little confused. I think you and the other guy are using different definitions of "want to do". I think he's talking about what do you want to do for a career and you seem to be talking more about what you want to do for a hobby / what interests you but has little or no use when it comes to a job.
Well then those were (for the most part) people who never should've been in college in the first place. I'd say the real problem is that admissions aren't tougher / affirmative action / "diversity" bullshit are letting unqualified people get into college.
Why then the school price/salary correlation ?
Well a good part of it is because more expensive schools can afford better teachers and select higher ability students, thus they can teach them more in the same four years of college than a lower cost school could. Granted, this isn't applicable in every case, but in general it is. Thus, the fact that you went to a more expensive school and received a better education makes you more qualified and companies will pay you more.
I have an Evo as well, since day 1. Last week I rooted it and installed the Sprint Lover's ROM, which is simply a slightly modified version of the 2.2 software that is on the stock Evo. Good GOD my battery life and performance has gone off the charts. I used to have to turn off mobile data any time I wasn't using the phone to get anything remotely like good battery life and now I can leave it on and get over a day of use out of it. It really amazes me how badly carrier pre-installed crap lowers the performance of your phone.
2) Really? Because he doesn't want a computer with less RAM, slower processor, smaller hard drive, and less battery life just to get a matte screen, you're trying to claim that he doesn't care about if it's glossy or not?
3) Yes, they do - and guess what? Monitors for desktops are almost always matte (I'd say I've seen maybe 10% that are glossy). You don't think that's a big hint that people want matte but since laptop manufacturers only make glossy, people buy glossy screen laptops because they have no alternative (other than just not having a laptop)?
No. It's always been pronounced "gooey" because saying "Gee-you-eye" just makes you sound like a moron.
So Apple should make a product that their core potential customer base (those with functioning brains) will abandon just to get to that small portion of idiots and elderly who want a smartphone? There are many companies who refuse to do that - Bentley for example will let you customize the crap out of their cars. However, if you want something extremely tacky, Bentley will flat out tell you "Sorry, but we don't do that - you should buy a different type of car". It's called having standards and not lowering the quality of your brand to appeal to a few more customers who are beneath you.
It's funny that you mention Android and MS - Android uses the same multiple alarm system (though for the real idiots, they do have "add alarm" next to the plus sign). The problem isn't the OS - the problem is (to quote Green Day) American idiots who can't use some common sense and instead bitch that they were forced to expend a tiny bit of energy and brain activity to try to do something.
You may want to live in a society where things are constantly being dumbed down more and more. I prefer to live in a society where people are expected to use their goddamn brain.
Until your alarm goes off early on Memorial Day
That's why there's this nifty feature where you can *GASP!* turn it off if you have a holiday. Shocking, isn't it? Who knew technology had advanced so far that you could turn off a repeating alarm?
That's how a basic alarm clock works. It does not make me consider what time I need to get up twelve Tuesdays from now. That's an overly complicated question to ask someone who just wants to use the device as a fscking alarm clock.
Neither does any phone alarm clock. It merely allows you the option of setting it to repeat on a certain schedule if you want it to. But your limited intelligence can't grasp that, just how it can't grasp that when there's only one goddamn button on the screen (a plus sign) that you should hit that button to add an alarm.
+ can mean plus, and, increase, zoom in,more information (such as expanding a collapsed tree view), use an international dialing prefix...it is a highly overloaded symbol.
So what you're saying is that you're too stupid to grasp the concept of context. I'm sorry that you flunked out of elementary school and that you can't grasp that certain words / symbols have different meanings in different contexts - or that most of those have a default definition unless certain contexts are applied. Once again, this is not a design failure or an OS failure - this is a genetic failure on the part of the incompetent user who lacks the intelligence to operate anything more complicated than crayons.
You've obviously never used an iPhone and thus, don't understand how retarded these people are for getting confused by this screen. While I've owned both an iPhone and an Android phone and can say that Android is much more intuitive (especially since it has a goddamn BACK button), this is still a matter of people just needed to be smacked upside the head and told "use your damn brain".
Here is a picture of the offending app http://callstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/snap-alarm.jpg
When you first go to it, that list of alarms is blank so you only have the + button. When there's only the one button, WTF else do you think you're going to hit to set an alarm?
No, it's not an age issue - it's an intelligence issue. While they may not know all the ins and outs instantly, anyone with a fully functioning brain can pick up most technology and use it for its basic functionality instantly with no training. Why? Because the interfaces rely on common fucking sense. Though sadly, I read reports a good decade or two ago about how Mr. Common F. Sense had died.....
Multiple alarms are very useful to most people. If you want your alarm set for work Monday through Friday, you set an alarm for that. If you want another one for waking you up later on Saturday, set one for that. If you want one for waking your up for church or something on Sunday, set one for that - then you can forget about it and it'll always go off when it's supposed to every day.
It's quite amusing how the Slashdot community likes to think of themselves as SO brilliant and superior and yet I'm seeing about 98% of the posts are people crying that they can't figure out how to set an alarm on a damn phone by using a little common sense and hitting the + button.
I think anyone who can't figure out that + means "add" (same as it always has since first grade when you learned basic addition) should have their voting rights revoked. If you can't figure out something THAT simple, how the hell can you make an intelligent decision when it comes to electing politicians?
Well goddamn it, I'm undoing all of my mod points to post this, but your comment was too infuriating to pass up.
When you go to a screen titled "Alarms" (yes, it has an 's' as in PLURAL) and you see a blank list and in the corner, the only thing on the screen is a +, how the HELL is it not obvious that you should probably push that to add something to that list of alarms? Did you not take first grade where they taught you that 1 + 1 = 2? This is NOT a matter of "complex design" (though amusingly, I get WAY more technologically incompetent people asking me how to use an iPhone than an Android phone), it's a matter of you not using common sense.
You're right though - not all old people are dumb - it's just that many of them refuse to use any common sense or put more than .000001 seconds of thought and energy into something. My grandpa is 93 and started using computers when he was in his mid-sixties. He wasn't a tech person, he was a mechanic and then later on a minister. He used some common sense and put some time into learning and now he can do pretty much anything he wants. My other grandparents on the other hand are much younger yet can't figure out how to use a mouse even because they won't put the two seconds of effort into learning how to use it.
I'm sorry, but any person on here saying "How should I know + means "add"?" should be smacked upside the head. What the hell do you think a plus sign means, in any application? Even in a goddamn calculator it still means ADD (or if you prefer the long version, ADDITION).
Given what Verizon is charging for their newer mobile broadband or for the Xoom, their new phone data plans will be obscene. I know that the Xoom data plan starts at $20 / month for a measly 1 GB and goes up to $80 / month for 10 GB.
No, the plans will make most people pay more for data - they'll just really rape the people who actually used what they pay for.
With all due respect sir, the main thing you don't seem to understand is that I'm not some irresponsible kid who parties all day. I work a full time job, go to grad school, and make sure my homework is done before ever doing anything enjoyable. My priorities are to ensure that I have plenty of money saved in case of emergency and for the future and after necessary things (such as work, maintaining my car / household chores) are done, then enjoy myself and relax. Kids most certainly never will be in the cards - hell, I'd literally shoot myself before I'd end up like that (but then again, I'm one of the few who thinks it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees). But regardless, I'm never going to want to stop enjoying my life or wanting time to relax when I'm no longer working. While I may gain some new interests and possibly discontinue others that I grow tired of, it will never be because kids or a wife forced me into that situation.
You may legitimately be happy with your life - I can't say if you are or not because I don't know you. What I do know though is that every guy I do know (regardless of if he's in his 20's, 30's, 40's etc) that has kids is not very happy with his life because it's work 8+ hours a day then come home and deal with a screaming kids and cleaning up after them, then maybe zone out for an hour before going to sleep - and forget weekends, that's spent dealing with the kids too. Sure, they always SAY that they love having kids because it's what society forces people to say, but they then go on and on about all the things they can't do now that they have kids and how much they miss life before kids.
Yes, but "job" turning into "career" without the kid means a massive growth in disposable income to do what you want instead of spending all your time and money on a kid so when you finally DO have a moment of free time, you're comatose and do nothing with it.
I'll never understand you people with kids..... Everyone always wants to claim "Oh, eventually you'll change your mind" - no, sorry, I don't think I'm going to wake up one day and say "I want to be poor and miserable!" I work my ass off now in my job and in grad school so that I can enjoy the rewards later, not so that I can spend all my time dealing with some kid. But if you're happy with it, then good for you.
but used gamers would have bought the game new without the used option, hence costing the company money.
No. Some might have. Most wouldn't because most people who buy used games can't AFFORD to buy new games (hence why they buy used). If they raised the cost of used games or eliminated them all together, many people would stop playing games and the rest would just get fewer games. Hell, I know some people who buy a new game, beat it, then trade it in at gamestop and get another game used with that money - or else they sell off games that they have beaten to finance buying new copies of a game that just came out. If they didn't have a market to sell their games that they beat, they wouldn't buy nearly as many new games.
It's sad that you think that they have a right to however much money they decide that you "owe" them just for existing.....
The moral of the story that I got out of your post was "Don't have kids" or possibly "Don't get married" because it sucks all the fun out of life.
Huh, unless it was a DOS game that was labeled as running on 95/98, all my old 9x games run fine in Win 7 64-bit.
Dragon Age - I know it's not TECHNICALLY a GOTY edition, but that's generally what bundles of the game + expansion + DLC are referred to as. I was not happy to find comments from other people who'd bought it and found the servers turned off.