Now, if they were smart.... record companies would *give away* music from bands just starting out and from the biggest bands out there and make money from tours.
Oh, great. Just what we need, the record companies owning our live performances as well.
No thank you. That is where the band makes its money (ok, most bands don't actually make money at that, because expenses overrun profits, but it's the idea that's the important thing; and bands that don't owe their souls to the record company figure out how to watch the bottom line on tours if they want to actually make a living. That's why Big Bands gave way to the Combo).
Please, lets us keep the recording industry out of the live performance industry as much as we can. I've got an idea how we can do that too.
Don't sign up with the record companies in the first place. Make your own recordings and give them away yourself as promo items to drive attendence at live shows.
There's a special rule for movies with Andre the Giant in them, even if they do "feature" a brainless twit of princess, even if she is named Buttercup.
Genre == Fancy Marketing word for Pigeonholed by Marketing.
Is it a disservice to the "product"? If it's of any quality always, but that's what you get in a world where "product" has become a synonym for "thing" and "buy" a synonym for "acquire".
In point of fact what you are really feeling itchy about is not the treatement of the product, but the treatment of yourself. Being pigeonholed as a little girl for liking the game.
And you should.
But they have no thought process for dealing with you as an individual. All they know are markets. Let me bring you to see Number 2. He explains it all much better than I can.
Ice Princess The Princess Diaries The Princess Diaries 2
Those are the obvious ones, but there were some others that Hollywood at least made, but had little confidence in so slipped them out direct to video with little fanfare, such as Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper.
The shining hidden gem though is unquestionably My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade. Don't believe me? Just check out the reviews at IMDB.
Just do a title search on "princess" and you'll find a virtual treasure trove of little dramatic jewels, such as the double winner of a Burbank International Children's Film Festival award, The Ruby Princess Runs Away.
All completely devoid of "action"; or intelligence.
You are confusing me with the guy who went into "web development"...
Yes. My attention is not focused here. I apologize.
You still don't address the high attrition rate this program has.
Sounds typical for first year calculus alone to me.
Anyway, I did. The reason for the attrition rate is not the math requirement, the math requirement is a requierment of the field. The attrition rate is because the field is attracting people who do not want that. People who would not, say, sign up as physics majors because they didn't want to do something that math intensive signed up for computer science, something with equal math requirements. 'Cause computers are cool and pay well and science isn't and doesn't or something.
The attrition rate wasn't too high. The signup rate was.
I don't know what courses of study your Uni offered. Perhaps they did not understand the difference between studying Computer Science and studying Computer Programming. It happens. If they have a decent programming curriculum you would expect at least 90% of the computer students to sign up for that and only a handful of math geeks to sign up for computer science. If they mistook Computer Science for Computer Programming perhaps they did not have a Computer Programming curriculum at all. It happens.
Or perhaps they mistook signing up a lot of people with success as a finacial institution. That happens too when the suits with calculators take control, be they of the accounting persuasion or the social engineering persuasion.
In any case it certainly appears that you went to a Uni that cannot deal with elite students if they have to shut down a whole department just because it only keeps the elite. Back in the day, when they were run by teachers, Unis were proud to have elite departments that only graduated a handful of students. Not by flunking people out in droves, but by making sure only people who had a chance to graduate got in.
Do they still teach physics there, or is that gone too?
And computer science just doesn't need all that many people in the field as a specialty; especially as positions for them are declining.
In any case the one place where blame is not is in requiring a study of math for the study of math. Science is about orginal research in the field, to expand theoretical knowledge and only people interested in such theoretical knowledge should apply.
Engineering is the practical application of math if that's what people are interested in doing.
Computer science does have a lot to do with math but is it reasonable to expect 24 hours of math when 36 hours gets you a degree in math?
Well, let's see, "science" in this context is basically the process of using math to model physical phenomenon and "computing" is using physical phenomena to model math.
So that would be a "Yes."
Which also leaves me to wonder which part you didn't understand, the "computer" or the "science"? I'm dead serious.
Oh, I don't blame you entirely, although one might think you had looked into a field and just what it entailed before signing up for it as a major, but the really troubling part is that you had prior education and career counseling. It was not done with any apparent degree of competence.
The really, really troubling part is that I would be more surprised if it had been. Such is the state of things today.
So, don't think I'm really picking on you or anything, I'm just having a bit of a sad giggle to myself in public while banging my head against the wall.
So yes, math is a big part of CS but there has got to be better ways to handle it.
No, there do not. Computer science is about math. Because that's what it is about. If you want to be a programmer or a web designer, study those. You seem to have finally found your path. It's merely a shame there was noone about competent enough to steer you toward it in the first place.
Is it really? Go figure. Packers must not be in it or I would have heard about it already (it's a work thing). I've even had the TV on for a few hours today and didn't see anything about it. I must watch the right channels or something.
. ..the prosecutors, judges and juries would correctly see this as a mere youthful prank rather than a serious threat to public order and give him community service. ..
. ..and a year, and restitution. They wouldn't ban him from the library though.
Let them have their blissfully naive fantasy that they're invulnerable.
They do not want this fantasy; they want their customers to have this fantasy.
The visible big vault and security guards in an old fashioned bank were always for show. Modern banks dispense with them because the public no longer demands them.
Jano, Columbo and Lampredi were the engineering geniuses and Chinetti the marketing genius; but Ferrari is the one that had his name on the cars and the bulk of the subsequent biographies.
U.S. Patent Number 2,292,387, August 11th, 1942, [was awarded to Hedy Lamarr] under the name 'Hedy Keisler Markey' (her married name) and George Antheil. ..
I knew how much to trust the guy the second he said this:
A gentleman went up country in Laos and asked the isloated rice farmers what they wanted to make their lives better:
They asked for crankable computers with wireless internet. It might be your western hubris that thinks they want a Hershey bar and some caveman shit.
And there are places in this world where a person owns one T-shirt and doesn't know where they'll get the money to replace it, but likely eat better than you do; and others where people are walking around in a thousand dollars worth of clothes and don't know where their next meal is coming from.
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Now, if they were smart.... record companies would *give away* music from bands just starting out and from the biggest bands out there and make money from tours.
Oh, great. Just what we need, the record companies owning our live performances as well.
No thank you. That is where the band makes its money (ok, most bands don't actually make money at that, because expenses overrun profits, but it's the idea that's the important thing; and bands that don't owe their souls to the record company figure out how to watch the bottom line on tours if they want to actually make a living. That's why Big Bands gave way to the Combo).
Please, lets us keep the recording industry out of the live performance industry as much as we can. I've got an idea how we can do that too.
Don't sign up with the record companies in the first place. Make your own recordings and give them away yourself as promo items to drive attendence at live shows.
KFG
There's a special rule for movies with Andre the Giant in them, even if they do "feature" a brainless twit of princess, even if she is named Buttercup.
Look it up, it's Rule 42.
Oh, wait. No.
KFG
Marketing == Pigeonholing.
Genre == Fancy Marketing word for Pigeonholed by Marketing.
Is it a disservice to the "product"? If it's of any quality always, but that's what you get in a world where "product" has become a synonym for "thing" and "buy" a synonym for "acquire".
In point of fact what you are really feeling itchy about is not the treatement of the product, but the treatment of yourself. Being pigeonholed as a little girl for liking the game.
And you should.
But they have no thought process for dealing with you as an individual. All they know are markets. Let me bring you to see Number 2. He explains it all much better than I can.
KFG
Ice Princess
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries 2
Those are the obvious ones, but there were some others that Hollywood at least made, but had little confidence in so slipped them out direct to video with little fanfare, such as Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper.
The shining hidden gem though is unquestionably My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade. Don't believe me? Just check out the reviews at IMDB.
Just do a title search on "princess" and you'll find a virtual treasure trove of little dramatic jewels, such as the double winner of a Burbank International Children's Film Festival award, The Ruby Princess Runs Away.
All completely devoid of "action"; or intelligence.
Because girls are dumb and like that goofy shit.
KFG
Well, I provided the setup, but it looks like nobody could come up with a punchline, so I'll just say goodnight, Gracie.
KFG
The line is attributed to Alexander Calder when asked if he could make a mobile out of solid gold.
KFG
You are confusing me with the guy who went into "web development"...
Yes. My attention is not focused here. I apologize.
You still don't address the high attrition rate this program has.
Sounds typical for first year calculus alone to me.
Anyway, I did. The reason for the attrition rate is not the math requirement, the math requirement is a requierment of the field. The attrition rate is because the field is attracting people who do not want that. People who would not, say, sign up as physics majors because they didn't want to do something that math intensive signed up for computer science, something with equal math requirements. 'Cause computers are cool and pay well and science isn't and doesn't or something.
The attrition rate wasn't too high. The signup rate was.
I don't know what courses of study your Uni offered. Perhaps they did not understand the difference between studying Computer Science and studying Computer Programming. It happens. If they have a decent programming curriculum you would expect at least 90% of the computer students to sign up for that and only a handful of math geeks to sign up for computer science. If they mistook Computer Science for Computer Programming perhaps they did not have a Computer Programming curriculum at all. It happens.
Or perhaps they mistook signing up a lot of people with success as a finacial institution. That happens too when the suits with calculators take control, be they of the accounting persuasion or the social engineering persuasion.
In any case it certainly appears that you went to a Uni that cannot deal with elite students if they have to shut down a whole department just because it only keeps the elite. Back in the day, when they were run by teachers, Unis were proud to have elite departments that only graduated a handful of students. Not by flunking people out in droves, but by making sure only people who had a chance to graduate got in.
Do they still teach physics there, or is that gone too?
And computer science just doesn't need all that many people in the field as a specialty; especially as positions for them are declining.
In any case the one place where blame is not is in requiring a study of math for the study of math. Science is about orginal research in the field, to expand theoretical knowledge and only people interested in such theoretical knowledge should apply.
Engineering is the practical application of math if that's what people are interested in doing.
KFG
Computer science does have a lot to do with math but is it reasonable to expect 24 hours of math when 36 hours gets you a degree in math?
Well, let's see, "science" in this context is basically the process of using math to model physical phenomenon and "computing" is using physical phenomena to model math.
So that would be a "Yes."
Which also leaves me to wonder which part you didn't understand, the "computer" or the "science"? I'm dead serious.
Oh, I don't blame you entirely, although one might think you had looked into a field and just what it entailed before signing up for it as a major, but the really troubling part is that you had prior education and career counseling. It was not done with any apparent degree of competence.
The really, really troubling part is that I would be more surprised if it had been. Such is the state of things today.
So, don't think I'm really picking on you or anything, I'm just having a bit of a sad giggle to myself in public while banging my head against the wall.
So yes, math is a big part of CS but there has got to be better ways to handle it.
No, there do not. Computer science is about math. Because that's what it is about. If you want to be a programmer or a web designer, study those. You seem to have finally found your path. It's merely a shame there was noone about competent enough to steer you toward it in the first place.
And that's not your fault.
KFG
Are you refering to the Linear Algebra or the English for Engineers?
KFG
Who woulda thunk that "computer" science would have something to do with math.
KFG
"Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday . . .
Is it really? Go figure. Packers must not be in it or I would have heard about it already (it's a work thing). I've even had the TV on for a few hours today and didn't see anything about it. I must watch the right channels or something.
KFG
While this VP can make promises right now, he cannot guarantee that at no point in the future will these techniques be used against customers.
Virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
KFG
How many times does it have to be repeated?
Until the chumps smarten up; i.e., forever.
KFG
. . .the prosecutors, judges and juries would correctly see this as a mere youthful prank rather than a serious threat to public order and give him community service. . .
.and a year, and restitution. They wouldn't ban him from the library though.
. .
KFG
Let them have their blissfully naive fantasy that they're invulnerable.
They do not want this fantasy; they want their customers to have this fantasy.
The visible big vault and security guards in an old fashioned bank were always for show. Modern banks dispense with them because the public no longer demands them.
KFG
The worm didn't do anything. . .
It tracked dirt all over the floor that the homeowner had to clean up.
It's like trying to rob a bank with an orange water gun. It's called a bad joke.
It's also called a crime. You can let your lawyer argue that it wasn't armed robbery, but it might be a tougher sell than you might think.
His actual crime was embarassing people.
Most especially himself. That's what bad jokes do. As well as leaving you with a mess to clean up.
KFG
Jano, Columbo and Lampredi were the engineering geniuses and Chinetti the marketing genius; but Ferrari is the one that had his name on the cars and the bulk of the subsequent biographies.
Such is the way of the brand driven world.
KFG
U.S. Patent Number 2,292,387, August 11th, 1942, [was awarded to Hedy Lamarr] under the name 'Hedy Keisler Markey' (her married name) and George Antheil. . .
.as a joke put only Hedy's name on it."
I knew how much to trust the guy the second he said this:
". .
KFG
I remember reading that the cases would be large and bright orange so they can easily be spotted if stolen
You can spray paint anything flat black.
KFG
One good mate beats the shit out of a whole yacht full of hookers.
Unless the hookers know how to take a Sun sight and are willing to go over the side to scrape the hull. Then maybe you've got something.
KFG
Yea, because third world countries know exactly what needs to be done, right?
As well as anybody else and better than most. Living closer to the metal of life they have to. Means are the issue, not knowledge.
KFG
A gentleman went up country in Laos and asked the isloated rice farmers what they wanted to make their lives better:
They asked for crankable computers with wireless internet. It might be your western hubris that thinks they want a Hershey bar and some caveman shit.
And there are places in this world where a person owns one T-shirt and doesn't know where they'll get the money to replace it, but likely eat better than you do; and others where people are walking around in a thousand dollars worth of clothes and don't know where their next meal is coming from.
KFG
God, can we get another war?
Ask and ye shall receive, but don't expect to be doing much gaming after it's done.
KFG
. . .creative . . .
He said the secret word. Give the man a prize.
KFG
This is true, unless you have been drinking.
So that's why he offered me a beer! But I fooled him, Grandma, I'm a cognac man.
If you think you are loosing your rights, ask your self, has your life been altered since you lost them?
No, because I have lost my right to alter it.
KFG