"Imagine being forced to teach Swahili to a bunch of kids..."
I would, if that was asked of me.
Considering some of the stuff I've had to learn on the job to get paid, it's pretty close to Swahili. And you know what, I learn it. And then I teach it to others in my office. That's part of work, learning new stuff. It's part of what I'm paid to do. Theoretically, that is a teacher's entire job description.
A person is an idiot when they can't or don't want to learn. Considering that the faculty is more concerned about teachers learning than the students... Either (A) it means the teachers are dumber than their students, or that (B) they don't care what the students learn.
In my university, of all the faculties, Education was consistently the easiest to get into. So whenever someone would flunk out of some program or whatever, they'd all end up in Education. Teachers end up being the bottom of the barrel fairly often. The ones in Education as their first choice for a degree instead of their fourth are scarce.
So yea, either way, A or B, it is sad for the kids.
It's kind of a sad statement about American schools when one is more worried about teachers learning something than their students. And we trust our kids to these idiots?
I don't know about every university, but where I went, the faculty of education had the lowest minimum requirements for entry.
Well, that could be. If a company starts offering advantages to customers to switch, and these advantages have nothing to do with the quality of the product or service offered, such as cash rebates, they abdicate themselves a certain moral high ground. In my opinion anyways, uneducated as that may be.
The first thing I do when I roll out a new windows box, is point the browser to winamp.com. It's a decent player once configured properly, and plays almost everything under the sun. I just wish it had better video support. Winamp would be the best Media Player replacement I've seen yet.
I heard there's a really cool media player out of Hungary or something, that comes with neat extra programs too. Perhaps we should bundle that with Windows instead.
Still, at least, there is cause to make a physics study on the propagation of microwave radiation. Hell it would be fun, and physicists might learn something. There are definite hot spots and cold spots in any microwave oven, due to standing waves. This is why most home ovens have a rotating plate.
I think there's the remote possibility that this could have a bizarre and adverse effect. I recall reading about a modern art sculpture in a public square, made from stainless steel, that unintentionally focused the sun's rays to some tiny point a few metres above it. That point would become almost as hot as the surface of the sun. Once in a while pigeons would burst into flames as they inadvertently flew through this region.
I'd hate to see that on a train or other public place. Think of a curved ampitheatre building full of people, and shaped like a concave mirror. At the end of the show, if enough people turn on their cell phones and then dial their voicemail to check their messages, it's concievable that several people at a focus point could end up like the pigeons... Quite a thought!
BTW I am a physics undergraduate, I find this really interesting.
If I had any moderation points handy, I'd mod you up. Thats a really neat, informative, and eye-opening site. Gives me a list of people I should get to know in my social circle.;-)
Well said! It irritates me whenever I read a post that assumes that Slashdot and their readers are all of one mind. We are not the borg collective! I hope we never will be!
Some people say: "Boycott Disney! Some people say: "I'm going to watch whatever I feel like!" And yet others say: "whut??" as they scratch there ass...
"Microwave oven's output is typically from 600 W upwards. Are you really comparing this to hundreds of milliwatts?"
Ok... lets do some math... cell phone's peak power is about 2 watts. Times that by 300 people in a train, all trying to connect to their cell tower at the same time, after the train goes through a tunnel. (When the signal is faint, a cell phone boosts to maximum power to try to connect.) Suddenly, you have a train filled with 600w of microwave radiation. The shape of the train is much like a resonance chamber. Instant microwave oven... As the microwaves build standing waves, people in select areas of the train will burst into flames, while others nearby won't feel a thing.
Freaky.
I hear people in Japan regularly faint from heat stroke on trains... I wonder if some of it is already attributable to cell phones??
On the speed issue, I don't think this has been addressed... How many IDE I/O cards out there have slots for large amounts of RAM? How well do those caching SCSI controller cards work compared to an un-cached IDE? I dream of a controller card with 1GB of ram on it, and firmware that pre-loads the first 500MB of clusters into RAM (presumably system files and swap.)
I was under the impression that KERMIT has been around since the old UNIX days. Ms. Piggy is probably Redhat's new codename for all the bloatware that they package these days.
Well, of course, I couldn't agree with you more. Thats why I went to University. But how does that relate to the topic? I mean, I mentioned that I would like to learn AutoCAD in a school (not necessarily a college) because AutoCAD is the standard. Because it's the standard, I'm forced to agree to the EULA, and so is the school. Otherwise, everyone's out of a job.
How does teaching theory in a college instead of practice have any bearing on the fact that many professionals and graduates MUST learn these propritary software packages? If they won't learn them in college, they will learn them after graduation in a technical school.
I'm a computer professional. I'm required to use certain pieces of software. My choice is to either agree to ANY EULA a software company throws at me, or learn to flip burgers. Does a guy with an MCSE have the option to refuse any of Microsoft's EULA's? Does a draftsman have the choice to refuse any of Autodesk's EULA's? In theory, the answer is yes, but in practicality, no.
In so many industries, there's way more of a monopoly than anyone would think. A client I consult for tried to get into the funeral home business, only to find out that the industry is controlled by one big firm, and they control legislation enough to make it impossible for him to operate an independent funeral home.
The more I work, the more I'm amazed at how much protectionism exists in the world today.
I want to go to a school that will teach me AutoCAD. Surely what you say would make it impossible for me. No matter what you people say about how wonderful open-source software is, I havn't found anything that lights a candle to the specialized apps that Autodesk produces. Well worth the $7,000 per seat that my company pays.
I'm sure there are a lot of other closed-source software packages out there that are hands down superior to open source options. Probably for the reason that they require far more manpower and organization to produce than any open source network has yet to accomplish.
Just think of the Chinese...
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The moment you connect your computer to the online world, your computer starts firing packets off on all directions, to be picked up by the Great Firewall. If your location or IP raise a red flag, you hear a knock at your door...
Or in other legal issues, how soon before someone supoena's some companys log file in order to prove that an individual was online at a certain time and place, and was performing certain actions?
I wonder how many BioWare employees from Whyte come on here. I know I see a bunch of them at the local Taco Time. I wonder how loud of a voice they are here.
Now to make this slightly on topic, I also work on whyte ave, and I think the cut down power poles are a great idea. I just saw a guy stapling some ad posters to one, and I noticed he was being very careful to only staple over expired concert flyers.
Thanks... I must have missed that in the preview. I suppose from now on I shouldn't trust Inernet Explorer 6 to cut and paste URL's accurately. I should also get off my arse and learn how to add HTML tags so people could click on these URL's.
Yea 7 out of 20 ain't so bad... Of course nobody would think that it's the principle of the thing that matters. Since he's already a criminal, I guess it doesn't matter how many charges he's convicted of, or their legality/fairness.
Yes, the US legal system could still crush you quickly and brutally. Just the other day, a US court convicted a Canadian man for things he did in Canada, that are perfectly legal to do on Canadian soil. He's going to jail for life for trading with Cuba. USA isn't the world's policeman, it's slowly becoming the world's dictator.
Don't believe me? Go here. http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id={6A B849AC- DBB0-42C5-B048-5A3CC89706BF}
You USA'ers get your buildings blown up because you're overbearing bastards in how you treat other countries. Who woulda thought? Nah forget it, the rest of the world is full of terrorists, nuke em all...
Yes, good point. A collection of small, legal actions, taken as a whole, can be horribly bad. And should be illegal.
(For the diehard slashdot people) Most, if not all of M$'s actions are perfectly legal. Yet the consensus is that they did something awfully bad and illegal.
Technology is giving people the opportunity to be good/evil in brand new, innovative ways. The law should be very ready for this... I hope it will be.
Newsflash: Other countries have constitutions too!
What makes you think I was interpreting your constitution in the first place? The internet does extend beyond your borders you know... (At least for now.) I only mentioned the USA in passing as an example... I'm not even in the USA, why should I be an expert on your constitution. My post is applicable to any free and democratic country that has a constitution in any form.
And what it meant, is that privacy is becoming a very important issue, because new technology is becoming capable of erasing privacy in very scary ways, perhaps to the point of threatening freedom and democracy. And I also meant, that people should vote and guarantee privacy in whatever way they can, while they still can. Whether it's enshrining a "right", or adequately restricting their gov't, that doesn't matter. We'll leave constitutional nit-picking to the lawyers.
It's good you understand your own constitution. Do you think it's enough to protect your country from the future threat this technology brings? I hope so.
Bork!
P.S. If the people of the USA really wanted the constitution to become a list of rights and privileges of the people, they could make it so. Not a bad idea, on the face of things...
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"Imagine being forced to teach Swahili to a bunch of kids..."
I would, if that was asked of me.
Considering some of the stuff I've had to learn on the job to get paid, it's pretty close to Swahili. And you know what, I learn it. And then I teach it to others in my office. That's part of work, learning new stuff. It's part of what I'm paid to do. Theoretically, that is a teacher's entire job description.
A person is an idiot when they can't or don't want to learn. Considering that the faculty is more concerned about teachers learning than the students... Either (A) it means the teachers are dumber than their students, or that (B) they don't care what the students learn.
In my university, of all the faculties, Education was consistently the easiest to get into. So whenever someone would flunk out of some program or whatever, they'd all end up in Education. Teachers end up being the bottom of the barrel fairly often. The ones in Education as their first choice for a degree instead of their fourth are scarce.
So yea, either way, A or B, it is sad for the kids.
Pleh
It's kind of a sad statement about American schools when one is more worried about teachers learning something than their students. And we trust our kids to these idiots?
I don't know about every university, but where I went, the faculty of education had the lowest minimum requirements for entry.
Well, that could be. If a company starts offering advantages to customers to switch, and these advantages have nothing to do with the quality of the product or service offered, such as cash rebates, they abdicate themselves a certain moral high ground. In my opinion anyways, uneducated as that may be.
But what do I know!
The first thing I do when I roll out a new windows box, is point the browser to winamp.com. It's a decent player once configured properly, and plays almost everything under the sun. I just wish it had better video support. Winamp would be the best Media Player replacement I've seen yet.
I heard there's a really cool media player out of Hungary or something, that comes with neat extra programs too. Perhaps we should bundle that with Windows instead.
Bite-sized snack food for polar bears!
Phear the day someone introduces a mated pair of polar bears to the south pole.
Don't mind me, I was just being alarmist. :-)
Still, at least, there is cause to make a physics study on the propagation of microwave radiation. Hell it would be fun, and physicists might learn something. There are definite hot spots and cold spots in any microwave oven, due to standing waves. This is why most home ovens have a rotating plate.
I think there's the remote possibility that this could have a bizarre and adverse effect. I recall reading about a modern art sculpture in a public square, made from stainless steel, that unintentionally focused the sun's rays to some tiny point a few metres above it. That point would become almost as hot as the surface of the sun. Once in a while pigeons would burst into flames as they inadvertently flew through this region.
I'd hate to see that on a train or other public place. Think of a curved ampitheatre building full of people, and shaped like a concave mirror. At the end of the show, if enough people turn on their cell phones and then dial their voicemail to check their messages, it's concievable that several people at a focus point could end up like the pigeons... Quite a thought!
BTW I am a physics undergraduate, I find this really interesting.
If I had any moderation points handy, I'd mod you up. Thats a really neat, informative, and eye-opening site. Gives me a list of people I should get to know in my social circle. ;-)
Well said! It irritates me whenever I read a post that assumes that Slashdot and their readers are all of one mind. We are not the borg collective! I hope we never will be!
Some people say: "Boycott Disney!
Some people say: "I'm going to watch whatever I feel like!"
And yet others say: "whut??" as they scratch there ass...
THERE IS NO SLASHDOT COLLECTIVE
"Microwave oven's output is typically from 600 W upwards. Are you really comparing this to hundreds of milliwatts?"
Ok... lets do some math... cell phone's peak power is about 2 watts. Times that by 300 people in a train, all trying to connect to their cell tower at the same time, after the train goes through a tunnel. (When the signal is faint, a cell phone boosts to maximum power to try to connect.) Suddenly, you have a train filled with 600w of microwave radiation. The shape of the train is much like a resonance chamber. Instant microwave oven... As the microwaves build standing waves, people in select areas of the train will burst into flames, while others nearby won't feel a thing.
Freaky.
I hear people in Japan regularly faint from heat stroke on trains... I wonder if some of it is already attributable to cell phones??
On the speed issue, I don't think this has been addressed... How many IDE I/O cards out there have slots for large amounts of RAM? How well do those caching SCSI controller cards work compared to an un-cached IDE? I dream of a controller card with 1GB of ram on it, and firmware that pre-loads the first 500MB of clusters into RAM (presumably system files and swap.)
Buy a pentium so you can reboot faster.
I was under the impression that KERMIT has been around since the old UNIX days. Ms. Piggy is probably Redhat's new codename for all the bloatware that they package these days.
Bork! Bork! Bork!
Unfortunately, Microsoft execs can are quite greasy.
Bork!
Well, of course, I couldn't agree with you more. Thats why I went to University. But how does that relate to the topic? I mean, I mentioned that I would like to learn AutoCAD in a school (not necessarily a college) because AutoCAD is the standard. Because it's the standard, I'm forced to agree to the EULA, and so is the school. Otherwise, everyone's out of a job.
How does teaching theory in a college instead of practice have any bearing on the fact that many professionals and graduates MUST learn these propritary software packages? If they won't learn them in college, they will learn them after graduation in a technical school.
So what's your point?
I already am educated enough in the engineering disciplines. I want to upgrade my CAD skills. I'm glad you're glad for me.
So other than saying you prefer schools that teach engineering... What's your point?
I'm a computer professional. I'm required to use certain pieces of software. My choice is to either agree to ANY EULA a software company throws at me, or learn to flip burgers. Does a guy with an MCSE have the option to refuse any of Microsoft's EULA's? Does a draftsman have the choice to refuse any of Autodesk's EULA's? In theory, the answer is yes, but in practicality, no.
In so many industries, there's way more of a monopoly than anyone would think. A client I consult for tried to get into the funeral home business, only to find out that the industry is controlled by one big firm, and they control legislation enough to make it impossible for him to operate an independent funeral home.
The more I work, the more I'm amazed at how much protectionism exists in the world today.
Egads.
I want to go to a school that will teach me AutoCAD. Surely what you say would make it impossible for me. No matter what you people say about how wonderful open-source software is, I havn't found anything that lights a candle to the specialized apps that Autodesk produces. Well worth the $7,000 per seat that my company pays.
I'm sure there are a lot of other closed-source software packages out there that are hands down superior to open source options. Probably for the reason that they require far more manpower and organization to produce than any open source network has yet to accomplish.
Rich people have decent car alarms.
Poor people do not.
Idiot.
The moment you connect your computer to the online world, your computer starts firing packets off on all directions, to be picked up by the Great Firewall. If your location or IP raise a red flag, you hear a knock at your door...
Or in other legal issues, how soon before someone supoena's some companys log file in order to prove that an individual was online at a certain time and place, and was performing certain actions?
I wonder how many BioWare employees from Whyte come on here. I know I see a bunch of them at the local Taco Time. I wonder how loud of a voice they are here.
I couldn't resist...
"Go trappers!"
Now to make this slightly on topic, I also work on whyte ave, and I think the cut down power poles are a great idea. I just saw a guy stapling some ad posters to one, and I noticed he was being very careful to only staple over expired concert flyers.
Way to go Edmonton!!!
Bork.
Thanks... I must have missed that in the preview. I suppose from now on I shouldn't trust Inernet Explorer 6 to cut and paste URL's accurately. I should also get off my arse and learn how to add HTML tags so people could click on these URL's.
Yea 7 out of 20 ain't so bad... Of course nobody would think that it's the principle of the thing that matters. Since he's already a criminal, I guess it doesn't matter how many charges he's convicted of, or their legality/fairness.
Yes, the US legal system could still crush you quickly and brutally. Just the other day, a US court convicted a Canadian man for things he did in Canada, that are perfectly legal to do on Canadian soil. He's going to jail for life for trading with Cuba. USA isn't the world's policeman, it's slowly becoming the world's dictator.
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Don't believe me? Go here.
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id={6
You USA'ers get your buildings blown up because you're overbearing bastards in how you treat other countries. Who woulda thought? Nah forget it, the rest of the world is full of terrorists, nuke em all...
Bork
Yes, good point. A collection of small, legal actions, taken as a whole, can be horribly bad. And should be illegal.
(For the diehard slashdot people) Most, if not all of M$'s actions are perfectly legal. Yet the consensus is that they did something awfully bad and illegal.
Technology is giving people the opportunity to be good/evil in brand new, innovative ways. The law should be very ready for this... I hope it will be.
Newsflash: Other countries have constitutions too!
What makes you think I was interpreting your constitution in the first place? The internet does extend beyond your borders you know... (At least for now.) I only mentioned the USA in passing as an example... I'm not even in the USA, why should I be an expert on your constitution. My post is applicable to any free and democratic country that has a constitution in any form.
And what it meant, is that privacy is becoming a very important issue, because new technology is becoming capable of erasing privacy in very scary ways, perhaps to the point of threatening freedom and democracy. And I also meant, that people should vote and guarantee privacy in whatever way they can, while they still can. Whether it's enshrining a "right", or adequately restricting their gov't, that doesn't matter. We'll leave constitutional nit-picking to the lawyers.
It's good you understand your own constitution. Do you think it's enough to protect your country from the future threat this technology brings? I hope so.
Bork!
P.S. If the people of the USA really wanted the constitution to become a list of rights and privileges of the people, they could make it so. Not a bad idea, on the face of things...