I do not agree. People will pay for great content. There is a lot of somewhat good content out there, but the source to backup the information they are trying to pass as fact can be close to non-existent. The New York Time is an indisputable source of well researched articles. I have never being a subscriber of any news paper, but I'm about to become one.
"Drunken Employee Pops Cap in Server" By Lester Haines
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It seems that whatever you do, you will end up dead anyway. In the immortal words of the great 'Fight Club' fighter Jack: "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
You won't believe how many times I clean my iPhone screen on a single day. I carry around a blue cleaning pad with me at all times. I guess you could say that borderline OCD would be the solution. =)
With the increase in college tuition and the unwillingness of employees to provide education incentives to their workers, it is getting harder and harder for the middle class to flourish. The Internet is a great source of information, but it is up to the individual to swift thru this information and find what is relevant and accurate. Reputable sources of knowledge are essential if we want to stay competitive and for our middle class to thrive. We need to put our full force behind these types of "Open Source" models of Education. With that in mind, here are a couple of more sources for high-quality/Open Source information:
1. MIT's OpenCourceWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/)
2. Connexions (http://cnx.org/)
Please, if you know of any others, post them. George Bernard once said: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. Let's keep the river of knowledge flowing freely and without restriction.
There is a good PBS documentary about this online. It is called "College Inc." Here is the link. http://video.pbs.org/video/1485280975/
Here is a quote from made by Mark DeFusco, University of Phoenix Dir from 1994 thru 2002: "If you take a look at for-profit colleges, the analysts will tell you that anywhere between 20 and 25 percent of the total revenue of a company is in sales and marketing, about a quarter. In most cases, the faculty are in the 10 to 20 percent range." He rationalizes it by saying this: "When I go and buy perfume for my mom, the chemicals in the bottle and the bottle itself amount to about $0.50. The advertising amounts to five or six bucks."
This might explain why the quality of teachers might not be that great. And they tend to advertise on high traffic sites like Yahoo Mail or MSN.com to name a couple. You all seen those add that tell moms that "Obama wants you to go back to school." It is very sad how this companies take advantage of the Government, thru student aid, and people in need. They are so quick to sign somebody up for a loan that they won't be able to pay.
In my opinion, this whole mess could have been avoided if Google would have made the use of Chrome, their own browser, madatory for all their employees. Why do they push Chrome as not only a web browser, but as an OS platform and not use it themself?
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I had a college professor who was well over 65. He thought himself Java and was teaching Grad students. I ran into him at a few conferences. Last time I check my school's website; he was still teaching.
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He has my vote. :)
I was using Linux as my OS. Going back to Windows. It is a shame that he thinks behaving the way he does is okay.
I do not agree. People will pay for great content. There is a lot of somewhat good content out there, but the source to backup the information they are trying to pass as fact can be close to non-existent. The New York Time is an indisputable source of well researched articles. I have never being a subscriber of any news paper, but I'm about to become one.
"Drunken Employee Pops Cap in Server" By Lester Haines
It seems that whatever you do, you will end up dead anyway. In the immortal words of the great 'Fight Club' fighter Jack: "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
You won't believe how many times I clean my iPhone screen on a single day. I carry around a blue cleaning pad with me at all times. I guess you could say that borderline OCD would be the solution. =)
What a waste of resources. I know people need to eat, but trying to pass an old book as new is not acceptable. (On a side note: Nice quote.)
With the increase in college tuition and the unwillingness of employees to provide education incentives to their workers, it is getting harder and harder for the middle class to flourish. The Internet is a great source of information, but it is up to the individual to swift thru this information and find what is relevant and accurate. Reputable sources of knowledge are essential if we want to stay competitive and for our middle class to thrive. We need to put our full force behind these types of "Open Source" models of Education. With that in mind, here are a couple of more sources for high-quality/Open Source information: 1. MIT's OpenCourceWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/) 2. Connexions (http://cnx.org/) Please, if you know of any others, post them. George Bernard once said: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. Let's keep the river of knowledge flowing freely and without restriction.
There is a good PBS documentary about this online. It is called "College Inc." Here is the link. http://video.pbs.org/video/1485280975/ Here is a quote from made by Mark DeFusco, University of Phoenix Dir from 1994 thru 2002: "If you take a look at for-profit colleges, the analysts will tell you that anywhere between 20 and 25 percent of the total revenue of a company is in sales and marketing, about a quarter. In most cases, the faculty are in the 10 to 20 percent range." He rationalizes it by saying this: "When I go and buy perfume for my mom, the chemicals in the bottle and the bottle itself amount to about $0.50. The advertising amounts to five or six bucks." This might explain why the quality of teachers might not be that great. And they tend to advertise on high traffic sites like Yahoo Mail or MSN.com to name a couple. You all seen those add that tell moms that "Obama wants you to go back to school." It is very sad how this companies take advantage of the Government, thru student aid, and people in need. They are so quick to sign somebody up for a loan that they won't be able to pay.
In my opinion, this whole mess could have been avoided if Google would have made the use of Chrome, their own browser, madatory for all their employees. Why do they push Chrome as not only a web browser, but as an OS platform and not use it themself?
Nice story about MS Bob. Run a search on Bing for "History taking up space." Here is the direct link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.windowsconfidential.aspx
I had a college professor who was well over 65. He thought himself Java and was teaching Grad students. I ran into him at a few conferences. Last time I check my school's website; he was still teaching.