On average I would agree with the parent post.
Of course it is entirely possible for any individual, expert or otherwise, to lie or unknowingly be equally wrong within a court of law.
And when it comes to the DSM IV and mental health/psychology in general, it is arguably not the most empirically sound or universally agreed area of science.
There are a lot of "super students" here which is nice. As a teacher of I.C.T. in the UK I wonder where you all are? In my last cohort of post 16 students there was only one who was considering Computer Science at University. That said, he did very well, but would have clearly preferred more programming modules and fewer collaboration/office/business units, as would I, however without a whole cohort interested in the more academic side it's difficult for schools to justify offering a course/module.
This is why I've started a club in year 7 which goes well beyond the I.C.T. curriculum and into areas more suitable for Computing. Perhaps if we can build an interest in Computing as a discreet subject from ICT we can offer both and cover differing types of student.
That said I'd also like to avoid the situation where a students first foray into programming, happens in a multimedia unit and involves AS2!
Anyone remember the good ole days.
Three part equations, observation, experiments hypotheses you know, this sort of stuff
as opposed to this sort of stuff
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Many have called Stephen Hawkins a genius and whilst I don't doubt he's a very clever guy (indeed smarter than I), I'm not sure what observable proof of his science we've had to date?
On this latest offering/musings on ET - I'm interested in how this thread seems to mostly reflect the view of staying quiet and even mentions (godwin alert) killing hitler as a baby and wiping out other civilisations as an act of compassion as all life is likely to compete itself to death.
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Maybe look at this for some hope in human evolution and violence whilst the evidence presented isn't perfect, it is at least an attempt at evidence not just a single mind kind of making stuff up...
Much as other browsers may eat into FF at the moment, my main fear is more that the patent issues around h.264 and supporting the codec in HTML5 are more likely to have an impact. I like and use both chrome and FF for different reasons but have faith that while the startup times and javascript engine of FF are playing catchup they are likely to, you know - catch up. Also I'd agree with the earlier poster who said that Mozilla really need to sort out corporate rollout and user lockdown as soon as possible.
I think a great deal of the community of FireFox and Mozilla, In many ways the growth reminds me of how google slipped into mainstream usage/consciousness from the highly technically literate down to the casual user but in many ways more admirable. However when push comes to shove, whilst I'll support FireFox and ogg the many people I've turned onto FireFox are likely to turn to chrome for an open source/standards savvy browser that just works, as big content providers push h.264 onto the web.
The suggestion from Siebel that IT's glory days are over since 2000 in fact tie in nicely with the era that the World Wide Web came to prominence in enterprises. As the idea of open standards in information systems has taken hold the old "lock in" proprietary technique for wrestling money out of your customers has become weaker in this sector. Vendors no longer have the upper hand as organisations seek to prevent the lock in through insistence of support for open standards. Those who would be like Sieble can look to biotech for the future of the lockin (and I don't mean down the pub) but you'll find people like Tim Berners Lee already working in that direction too, there is the science commons and the neuro commons not to mention the Semantic Web.
Is the archetypal entrepreneur disingenuous when it comes to IT, that I don't know, but I will say this, to my mind IT's "glory days" are far from over, they are in fact just starting, it is just the likes of Siebel "The Commercial Entrepreneur" may no longer be invited to the party as its the many not the few who now benefit!
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On average I would agree with the parent post. Of course it is entirely possible for any individual, expert or otherwise, to lie or unknowingly be equally wrong within a court of law. And when it comes to the DSM IV and mental health/psychology in general, it is arguably not the most empirically sound or universally agreed area of science.
There are a lot of "super students" here which is nice. As a teacher of I.C.T. in the UK I wonder where you all are? In my last cohort of post 16 students there was only one who was considering Computer Science at University. That said, he did very well, but would have clearly preferred more programming modules and fewer collaboration/office/business units, as would I, however without a whole cohort interested in the more academic side it's difficult for schools to justify offering a course/module. This is why I've started a club in year 7 which goes well beyond the I.C.T. curriculum and into areas more suitable for Computing. Perhaps if we can build an interest in Computing as a discreet subject from ICT we can offer both and cover differing types of student. That said I'd also like to avoid the situation where a students first foray into programming, happens in a multimedia unit and involves AS2!
Anyone remember the good ole days. Three part equations, observation, experiments hypotheses you know, this sort of stuff as opposed to this sort of stuff
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Many have called Stephen Hawkins a genius and whilst I don't doubt he's a very clever guy (indeed smarter than I), I'm not sure what observable proof of his science we've had to date? On this latest offering/musings on ET - I'm interested in how this thread seems to mostly reflect the view of staying quiet and even mentions (godwin alert) killing hitler as a baby and wiping out other civilisations as an act of compassion as all life is likely to compete itself to death.
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Maybe look at this for some hope in human evolution and violence whilst the evidence presented isn't perfect, it is at least an attempt at evidence not just a single mind kind of making stuff up...
Much as other browsers may eat into FF at the moment, my main fear is more that the patent issues around h.264 and supporting the codec in HTML5 are more likely to have an impact. I like and use both chrome and FF for different reasons but have faith that while the startup times and javascript engine of FF are playing catchup they are likely to, you know - catch up. Also I'd agree with the earlier poster who said that Mozilla really need to sort out corporate rollout and user lockdown as soon as possible.
I think a great deal of the community of FireFox and Mozilla, In many ways the growth reminds me of how google slipped into mainstream usage/consciousness from the highly technically literate down to the casual user but in many ways more admirable. However when push comes to shove, whilst I'll support FireFox and ogg the many people I've turned onto FireFox are likely to turn to chrome for an open source/standards savvy browser that just works, as big content providers push h.264 onto the web.
http://www.featuredartistscoalition.com/showscreen.php?site_id=161&screentype=folder&screenid=2984 and think about what these high profile artists want, not what the pressure groups from the record labels want!
The suggestion from Siebel that IT's glory days are over since 2000 in fact tie in nicely with the era that the World Wide Web came to prominence in enterprises. As the idea of open standards in information systems has taken hold the old "lock in" proprietary technique for wrestling money out of your customers has become weaker in this sector. Vendors no longer have the upper hand as organisations seek to prevent the lock in through insistence of support for open standards. Those who would be like Sieble can look to biotech for the future of the lockin (and I don't mean down the pub) but you'll find people like Tim Berners Lee already working in that direction too, there is the science commons and the neuro commons not to mention the Semantic Web. Is the archetypal entrepreneur disingenuous when it comes to IT, that I don't know, but I will say this, to my mind IT's "glory days" are far from over, they are in fact just starting, it is just the likes of Siebel "The Commercial Entrepreneur" may no longer be invited to the party as its the many not the few who now benefit!
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