I agree with you there, but there are more factors to account for. I myself have only just discovered what it is that makes me 'remember', and 'learn'. And that is 4 years after I have completed my Bachelor degree in Computer Science.
Depending on the source or nature of the information, I am either better at hearing it, or seeing it. And with other skills I actually need to try, and fail (a few (dozen)) times before I understand what is going on.
Learning always came 'natural' to me, with no real stimulus to get good at it, or understand it. If it took me 26 years to figure out how to learn, there is no way any teacher, parent or politician could 'specify' which teaching method is going to work best for me, or any other individual.
The current method of teaching, to me, appears like someone throwing a plate of spaghetti against the wall, and see what sticks. It's messy, and quite some people end up on the floor (of society), but at least you can point at the mess and say 'see, I am doing my best'.
George Bush has raised the claiming of state secrets to an artform. A very ugly, thuggish and anti-American art form. May he and Dick Cheney rot in hell.
Noted... you can expect some CIA operatives picking you up right.. about... NOW!
"What are the odds that Windows 7 won't be even more fucked up than Vista with whatever service pack they're up to by then?" A betting man huh? I would say 50/50. Its as likely it will just as fucked up as Vista, but given that they have 2 - 3 more years to add-on all kinds of extra crap into the OS, I'd say its just as likely its more fucked up. Hmm, when I look at those statistics... Is Vista really that good that it can't possibly get any better?
That's a disturbing thought.
Well, I am familiar with the 'rule' that you can ask more in return for a scarce product then that you can do with a product which is widely available.
And, good-quality products are usually scarce (with the noticable exception of F/OSS), but I doubt the rule can be applied the other way around.
Wouldn't it be possible to write a shadow-article covering these issues under an alias? Or would that be illegal?
(just me pondering about how science and scientists can both bennefit from funding:-p)
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I agree with you there, but there are more factors to account for. I myself have only just discovered what it is that makes me 'remember', and 'learn'. And that is 4 years after I have completed my Bachelor degree in Computer Science. Depending on the source or nature of the information, I am either better at hearing it, or seeing it. And with other skills I actually need to try, and fail (a few (dozen)) times before I understand what is going on. Learning always came 'natural' to me, with no real stimulus to get good at it, or understand it. If it took me 26 years to figure out how to learn, there is no way any teacher, parent or politician could 'specify' which teaching method is going to work best for me, or any other individual. The current method of teaching, to me, appears like someone throwing a plate of spaghetti against the wall, and see what sticks. It's messy, and quite some people end up on the floor (of society), but at least you can point at the mess and say 'see, I am doing my best'.
One might be tempted to ask, "Why 5 and not some other number?"
I can answer that: 1 to 4 are mine, and I own the mail-server :-)
As another result, the former will develop a seek-time of 473558400000 miliseconds.
George Bush has raised the claiming of state secrets to an artform. A very ugly, thuggish and anti-American art form. May he and Dick Cheney rot in hell.
Noted... you can expect some CIA operatives picking you up right.. about... NOW!
Good day Sir.
What safety? He as already infiltrated your network...
So... it's Ford? (Or is that part of GM?) Could you please feed our interest and tell us which one you mean?
You got me confused... which OS was poo-colored again?
Well, I am familiar with the 'rule' that you can ask more in return for a scarce product then that you can do with a product which is widely available. And, good-quality products are usually scarce (with the noticable exception of F/OSS), but I doubt the rule can be applied the other way around.
Wouldn't it be possible to write a shadow-article covering these issues under an alias? Or would that be illegal? (just me pondering about how science and scientists can both bennefit from funding :-p)
...Notably the free printers HP bundles with their OEM machines suck too, but what do you expect for free...
Ubuntu is free too, and that works... so being free is hardly an excuse for poor quality.