it will eventually become accessible to only the upper class (as education always is).
A famous man once said, give a man a fish, he eats today and owes you a fish forever. But teach a man to fish, and he'll be competing with you for fish tomorrow.
Another famous man (pratchett) said - Make a man a fire, you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
This here is the future of education. Eventually we'll formalize this further by enabling a quick download directly to our brains that brings everyone up to speed fast regarding the facts of science, discipline, critical thinking, analysis.
It'll never happen.
First of all, there is an entrenched education style that has existed since the time of plato and aristotle, of a face to face student/teacher relationship. Also, We also have huge, multi-billion dollar institutions, with huge multi-national partnerships that ensure standardization within the education system. Direct downloads to our brains will not happen, for the same reason that we don't have jetpacks. It is too far in the future, and too complicated a technology - we're at a point where the question is still IF, not HOW.
Sure, the pendulum will swing towards online learning and decentralized institutions, but the traditional model of education has held up because it is (generally) robust, and closed to abuse. We'll probably see much more online education - and it'll be cheaper - but it won't be free, and it certainly won't be easy, and it will eventually become accessible to only the upper class (as education always is).
It seems to be aimed at Amiga enthusiasts/nostalgists who no longer have any actual Amiga hardware, but do happen to have some old PowerPC Mac hardware around, and want to run their old Amiga software on that rather than under UAE, and are willing to shell out a fair amount of cash to do so.
Seems likely to be a rather small market.
Take a look at their support page. If you don't like the way something is done, they are very clear that YOU (the user) are WRONG. It's obviously run by a bunch of engineers... so take that into account when using MorphOS.
Tip: If you want "support" for an OS that is made primarily by engineers... just use linux. It'll cost less, there are more people using it, and you're much less likely to run across a stuck-up engineer that can't let go of "his baby" when looking for help.
If that's the case then the CS programme was doing a bad job. A bachelors in any science should prepare you to be a competent scientist with expertise in that field. In the same way an engineering degree should prepare you to be an engineer.
... and you can be an excellent scientist without specific skills in your toolbox. Like programming. You can't simply claim that your definition is correct, by the way. Real scientists develop hypotheses from theories... your statement is nothing more than BS.
Me too, the hard part for your friend is to get past the guys at human resources, after that, it will be easier for him to go up, specially if your managers are not sociopaths.
Just remember - the guys in HR are trying to avoid making a bad decision, and are going to be seriously risk averse. So if you come in claiming to know how to do things, they'll just ignore you if you don't have that degree. On the other hand, if you come in and explain to them a lot of the things that you HAVE done, they'll feel (slightly) better knowing that you're experienced. Get some good recommendations behind you on work habits, dress well... and you *might* get to the next round of interviews with someone who is technical, not someone in HR. Then you can shine.
Those guys in HR aren't idiots - for every skilled but untrained person that they interview, there are 9 or 10 unskilled and untrained people that look and talk exactly like you.
I barely graduated high school and I hold a high level IT position.
Key plan: don't lie about your college degree!
I didn't finish my degree and I'm an Engineer at a medical device company. The VP of R & D here says "Your degree will get you your first job out of school. It won't get you your second." Point is, if your friend has the skills and can demonstrate them, the lack of a degree shouldn't be a factor at most places. What he needs is a foot in the door; persistence enough to get face time, the ability to communicate/demonstrate his skill set, and a good credible reference. Maybe that's you?
All these stories come back to the same thing - once you're working, it's easy (ish) to find another job in the same field. Getting that first job is the problem - so start networking. Do some volunteer work. In your situation, you pretty much have to get into a position (in life) where someone will hire you based on your knowledge... and they usually do that by knowing YOU.
So find something sort of tech-y, get to know a bunch of people, do a bunch of volunteer work, and make sure that everyone you know moderately well knows that you're looking for work. It'll get you the job, if you're not completed a-social. Don't complain that "Oh, I'm not a social person, but I have tech skills". Well, if that's the case, get a degree in Comp. Sci and be quiet. Otherwise, you'll have to get "in" using your soft skills.
The child may be behind due to learning disabilities (dyslexia, etc), that many of the school systems handle very poorly. I have seen children who have made it to 3rd grade not knowing how to read due to dyslexia but the school did not know because of clueless or careless teachers, overcrowding, or lack of well handled funding.
Don't always assume that the homeschooling is due to religious reasons. After all, they did come to a geek/nerd related web site to ask, rather then a church based web site.
And yet, most children with these disabilities can get special help when in the public school system. Sure, there is always a chance that they don't get the help they need immediately, but they do get it eventually. Doesn't sound like this kid has a chance of getting it at all.
I come from a family of teachers, so I know all about internal politics. Unless she no longer wants to teach under any circumstances, change schools first before giving up.
I was a language teacher for a year. While still in school, I realized that I *hated* the public school I was working in - I figured it was just random chance, since I'd had many good experiences volunteering in schools, in the past.
So I took a 4 month contract starting in september at a different school, that had a much different reputation... which is like saying that I switched from Mr Pib to Dr Pepper. Sure, one SOUNDS better, but there isn't much difference. Teachers who had been in the system for awhile must have felt that the grass was greener at a different school, but the grass is just terrible at all schools. How do I know? the contract I took for the second part of the year was at ANOTHER school. That was terrible as well.
There is something broken with our public education system. And I'm in CANADA, which is infitintely better than your crappy american public schools (according to Geoffrey Canada, some know-it-all american educator in some know-it-all american "documentary"). So yes, I feel her pain. Now? I'm doing some consulting work for Training and Development at a large govn't contractor... no relation at all to either of my degrees.
1. I am not a teenager, nor dumb.
2. that giant whooshing sound you heard was the joke going over your head.
OMG, Did you hear that? It went over your head too! (Did you not realize I was actually commenting in support of your "joke"?). Let's face it, if people don't recognize your comment as funny, then it's probably not the public that is missing the joke.
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There used to be a Mac game called Spectre, (It ran on MacOS 6 and 7 to date myself some). It was a simple tank game where you shot from a fixed forward facing gun, and used the arrow keys for controls. Hmm, that makes a total of 5 keys. But the simplicity of that game made it accessible to anyone, and therefore we could build up big team games. We'd blow off an hour or two between classes. In some ways, this is still the most fun I've had gaming, able to bring everyone in, no matter their skill level.
Obviously you're talking about "fun" that is derived from the players, not the game.
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Doesn't matter if Blizzard has NEVER shut down a server, the point is, if they do, the game is no longer playable. Not even the single player portion.
Think about it.
... Now, with the knowledge that they havn't pulled support for D2 over the last 12 years, you're not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and you immediately suspect that they'll pull support asap? Because that hasn't been my experience with blizzard so far, and until they break faith with me, I'll keep supporting them.
I believe he is referring to bnetd. I can see how a younger person might not have known about that.
And here I was, thinking that young people actually DO know everything (through their wikipedia accessible exo-brain phones). Turns out that no, you teenagers are just as dumb as I think you are - just better equipped at finding data, not actually using it.
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Vanilla being upwards of 5 years ago (BC was released in January 2007)...
WoW is continually being reworked. Heck, I can only think of one non-Raid zone in the WoW old world that is identical to its vanilla version, and that would be Silithus.
You say this as if cataclysm wasn't created INTENTIONALLY to do this. It'd be one thing if blizzard systematically changed all the assets slowly, to prevent knockoff servers. But no, they didn't. They shoehorned their anti-piracy efforts into a $60 upgrade. Congratulations, you just paid them to do something they should have done on their own to combat piracy.
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And it will still be illegal to create the crack, since Diablo III will presumably still be under copyright by the time Blizzard pulls the plug.
Er... the interoperability clause is part of copyright law, so no, it wouldn't be illegal at that point.
.. You know what else? It's a world wide game, and we're debating US copyright laws.
And this, folks, is why over-reliance on automatic spell checking is harmful. *sigh*
Hey, stop picking on the OP for a spelling mistake - he made a perfectly cromulent point. Besides, if you keep going all grammar/spelling nazi on him, you'll him some sort disassociative disorder and he'll never be a productive member of society.
$800 for a 640 x 480 12 bit display the same size as an A4 sheet of paper ?
How much did you pay for your smartphone? Here. I'll trade you this brick for it. Not only is the brick heavier (and more like you), but it's more dense (much like you).
Otherwise, why bother giving them sick days when they're sick?
Because you hope that it will keep them from coming in and making everybody else sick also.
We get 5 "sick days" where I work and I've asked folks who were absolutely obviously miserably sick why they didn't stay home and heard the reply "used up my sick days" so often that I stopped counting.
I'm glad that we agree that letting employees do things that directly and/or indirectly increase (or prevent a decrease) in productivity. I'm still not sure why you're reinforcing my argument with additional points, though - we're already on the same page.
I'm totally on board. As a native speaker of English, if I and the dictionary disagree, the dictionary is wrong. People forget that dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive.
You are correct, sir. And by sir, I mean "Complete idiot". See, the dictionary and I disagreed, and since my view of the english language is more correct than the millions of people upon whom the descriptive dictionary is based... you're now a complete poopy-head. And by poopy-head, I mean "Incompetent Asshat".
So I'm sorry but replacing a shitty president with an R after his name with a shitty president with a D after his name still leaves you with the shitty president part.
Well, yeah. That's kind of a no-brainer. Fortunately, that's not what happened.
What a failure, so many better things that we could have done with that money
Truth to be told - this is not the only failure that the American government has funded
... yeah, I'm thinking your education could have used a little more money invested in it - especially considering the blatantly incorrect views you hold.
While the bailout was bad, anything going out of the country would be worse.
Perhaps you could elaborate? Why would we want to retain unprofitable business (nevermind that solyndra was undercut by massive government subsidies in china)?
The fact that something isn't profitable generally means that it won't produce... stuff. So why would we want to keep it around? What long term benefit would be gained, by competing in a market that has investors and developed products?
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I personally see no value in this kind of master's degree if there is no need to write a thesis/dissertation.
So, course-based masters programs are of no value, huh? Tell that to the thousands of course-based masters grads.
it will eventually become accessible to only the upper class (as education always is).
A famous man once said, give a man a fish, he eats today and owes you a fish forever. But teach a man to fish, and he'll be competing with you for fish tomorrow.
Another famous man (pratchett) said - Make a man a fire, you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
This here is the future of education. Eventually we'll formalize this further by enabling a quick download directly to our brains that brings everyone up to speed fast regarding the facts of science, discipline, critical thinking, analysis.
It'll never happen.
First of all, there is an entrenched education style that has existed since the time of plato and aristotle, of a face to face student/teacher relationship. Also, We also have huge, multi-billion dollar institutions, with huge multi-national partnerships that ensure standardization within the education system. Direct downloads to our brains will not happen, for the same reason that we don't have jetpacks. It is too far in the future, and too complicated a technology - we're at a point where the question is still IF, not HOW.
Sure, the pendulum will swing towards online learning and decentralized institutions, but the traditional model of education has held up because it is (generally) robust, and closed to abuse. We'll probably see much more online education - and it'll be cheaper - but it won't be free, and it certainly won't be easy, and it will eventually become accessible to only the upper class (as education always is).
It seems to be aimed at Amiga enthusiasts/nostalgists who no longer have any actual Amiga hardware, but do happen to have some old PowerPC Mac hardware around, and want to run their old Amiga software on that rather than under UAE, and are willing to shell out a fair amount of cash to do so.
Seems likely to be a rather small market.
Take a look at their support page. If you don't like the way something is done, they are very clear that YOU (the user) are WRONG. It's obviously run by a bunch of engineers ... so take that into account when using MorphOS.
... just use linux. It'll cost less, there are more people using it, and you're much less likely to run across a stuck-up engineer that can't let go of "his baby" when looking for help.
Tip: If you want "support" for an OS that is made primarily by engineers
If that's the case then the CS programme was doing a bad job. A bachelors in any science should prepare you to be a competent scientist with expertise in that field. In the same way an engineering degree should prepare you to be an engineer.
... and you can be an excellent scientist without specific skills in your toolbox. Like programming. You can't simply claim that your definition is correct, by the way. Real scientists develop hypotheses from theories ... your statement is nothing more than BS.
I barely graduated high school and I hold a high level IT position.
Key plan: don't lie about your college degree!
Unless you like being the ceo of a large tech company....
Yeah, because that worked out so well for him.
Me too, the hard part for your friend is to get past the guys at human resources, after that, it will be easier for him to go up, specially if your managers are not sociopaths.
Just remember - the guys in HR are trying to avoid making a bad decision, and are going to be seriously risk averse. So if you come in claiming to know how to do things, they'll just ignore you if you don't have that degree. On the other hand, if you come in and explain to them a lot of the things that you HAVE done, they'll feel (slightly) better knowing that you're experienced. Get some good recommendations behind you on work habits, dress well ... and you *might* get to the next round of interviews with someone who is technical, not someone in HR. Then you can shine.
Those guys in HR aren't idiots - for every skilled but untrained person that they interview, there are 9 or 10 unskilled and untrained people that look and talk exactly like you.
I barely graduated high school and I hold a high level IT position.
Key plan: don't lie about your college degree!
I didn't finish my degree and I'm an Engineer at a medical device company. The VP of R & D here says "Your degree will get you your first job out of school. It won't get you your second." Point is, if your friend has the skills and can demonstrate them, the lack of a degree shouldn't be a factor at most places. What he needs is a foot in the door; persistence enough to get face time, the ability to communicate/demonstrate his skill set, and a good credible reference. Maybe that's you?
All these stories come back to the same thing - once you're working, it's easy (ish) to find another job in the same field. Getting that first job is the problem - so start networking. Do some volunteer work. In your situation, you pretty much have to get into a position (in life) where someone will hire you based on your knowledge ... and they usually do that by knowing YOU.
So find something sort of tech-y, get to know a bunch of people, do a bunch of volunteer work, and make sure that everyone you know moderately well knows that you're looking for work. It'll get you the job, if you're not completed a-social. Don't complain that "Oh, I'm not a social person, but I have tech skills". Well, if that's the case, get a degree in Comp. Sci and be quiet. Otherwise, you'll have to get "in" using your soft skills.
The child may be behind due to learning disabilities (dyslexia, etc), that many of the school systems handle very poorly. I have seen children who have made it to 3rd grade not knowing how to read due to dyslexia but the school did not know because of clueless or careless teachers, overcrowding, or lack of well handled funding.
Don't always assume that the homeschooling is due to religious reasons. After all, they did come to a geek/nerd related web site to ask, rather then a church based web site.
And yet, most children with these disabilities can get special help when in the public school system. Sure, there is always a chance that they don't get the help they need immediately, but they do get it eventually. Doesn't sound like this kid has a chance of getting it at all.
I come from a family of teachers, so I know all about internal politics. Unless she no longer wants to teach under any circumstances, change schools first before giving up.
I was a language teacher for a year. While still in school, I realized that I *hated* the public school I was working in - I figured it was just random chance, since I'd had many good experiences volunteering in schools, in the past.
So I took a 4 month contract starting in september at a different school, that had a much different reputation... which is like saying that I switched from Mr Pib to Dr Pepper. Sure, one SOUNDS better, but there isn't much difference. Teachers who had been in the system for awhile must have felt that the grass was greener at a different school, but the grass is just terrible at all schools. How do I know? the contract I took for the second part of the year was at ANOTHER school. That was terrible as well.
There is something broken with our public education system. And I'm in CANADA, which is infitintely better than your crappy american public schools (according to Geoffrey Canada, some know-it-all american educator in some know-it-all american "documentary"). So yes, I feel her pain. Now? I'm doing some consulting work for Training and Development at a large govn't contractor... no relation at all to either of my degrees.
1. I am not a teenager, nor dumb. 2. that giant whooshing sound you heard was the joke going over your head.
OMG, Did you hear that? It went over your head too! (Did you not realize I was actually commenting in support of your "joke"?). Let's face it, if people don't recognize your comment as funny, then it's probably not the public that is missing the joke.
There used to be a Mac game called Spectre, (It ran on MacOS 6 and 7 to date myself some). It was a simple tank game where you shot from a fixed forward facing gun, and used the arrow keys for controls. Hmm, that makes a total of 5 keys. But the simplicity of that game made it accessible to anyone, and therefore we could build up big team games. We'd blow off an hour or two between classes. In some ways, this is still the most fun I've had gaming, able to bring everyone in, no matter their skill level.
Obviously you're talking about "fun" that is derived from the players, not the game.
Doesn't matter if Blizzard has NEVER shut down a server, the point is, if they do, the game is no longer playable. Not even the single player portion.
Think about it.
... Now, with the knowledge that they havn't pulled support for D2 over the last 12 years, you're not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and you immediately suspect that they'll pull support asap? Because that hasn't been my experience with blizzard so far, and until they break faith with me, I'll keep supporting them.
I believe he is referring to bnetd. I can see how a younger person might not have known about that.
And here I was, thinking that young people actually DO know everything (through their wikipedia accessible exo-brain phones). Turns out that no, you teenagers are just as dumb as I think you are - just better equipped at finding data, not actually using it.
Vanilla being upwards of 5 years ago (BC was released in January 2007)...
WoW is continually being reworked. Heck, I can only think of one non-Raid zone in the WoW old world that is identical to its vanilla version, and that would be Silithus.
You say this as if cataclysm wasn't created INTENTIONALLY to do this. It'd be one thing if blizzard systematically changed all the assets slowly, to prevent knockoff servers. But no, they didn't. They shoehorned their anti-piracy efforts into a $60 upgrade. Congratulations, you just paid them to do something they should have done on their own to combat piracy.
And it will still be illegal to create the crack, since Diablo III will presumably still be under copyright by the time Blizzard pulls the plug.
Er... the interoperability clause is part of copyright law, so no, it wouldn't be illegal at that point.
.. You know what else? It's a world wide game, and we're debating US copyright laws.
Perhaps you missed the linked videos... but they actually show how flexible the display is as well as how tolerable it is to cutting it in half! Bill
Yeah, but flexibility is different than resistance to cracks, impact and shearing. Two different types of force.
I never thought I'd say this, but I think we need more engineers on slashdot.
Err... had to hold the measuring tape....
And this, folks, is why over-reliance on automatic spell checking is harmful. *sigh*
Hey, stop picking on the OP for a spelling mistake - he made a perfectly cromulent point. Besides, if you keep going all grammar/spelling nazi on him, you'll him some sort disassociative disorder and he'll never be a productive member of society.
$800 for a 640 x 480 12 bit display the same size as an A4 sheet of paper ?
How much did you pay for your smartphone? Here. I'll trade you this brick for it. Not only is the brick heavier (and more like you), but it's more dense (much like you).
Because you hope that it will keep them from coming in and making everybody else sick also. We get 5 "sick days" where I work and I've asked folks who were absolutely obviously miserably sick why they didn't stay home and heard the reply "used up my sick days" so often that I stopped counting.
I'm glad that we agree that letting employees do things that directly and/or indirectly increase (or prevent a decrease) in productivity. I'm still not sure why you're reinforcing my argument with additional points, though - we're already on the same page.
I'm totally on board. As a native speaker of English, if I and the dictionary disagree, the dictionary is wrong. People forget that dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive.
You are correct, sir. And by sir, I mean "Complete idiot". See, the dictionary and I disagreed, and since my view of the english language is more correct than the millions of people upon whom the descriptive dictionary is based ... you're now a complete poopy-head. And by poopy-head, I mean "Incompetent Asshat".
The use is technically correct
is a meaningless junk phrase in linguistics. If speakers of the language do not understand it, it is not correct.
Yo DAWG, I herd you like Words inside your Words, so I made you this: Wro-YOUR-STATEMENT-IS-VERY-INCORRECT-ng.
So I'm sorry but replacing a shitty president with an R after his name with a shitty president with a D after his name still leaves you with the shitty president part.
Well, yeah. That's kind of a no-brainer. Fortunately, that's not what happened.
What a failure, so many better things that we could have done with that money
Truth to be told - this is not the only failure that the American government has funded
... yeah, I'm thinking your education could have used a little more money invested in it - especially considering the blatantly incorrect views you hold.
While the bailout was bad, anything going out of the country would be worse.
Perhaps you could elaborate? Why would we want to retain unprofitable business (nevermind that solyndra was undercut by massive government subsidies in china)?
The fact that something isn't profitable generally means that it won't produce... stuff. So why would we want to keep it around? What long term benefit would be gained, by competing in a market that has investors and developed products?