You should have heard the whining in ~82 when Conan had brown hair instead of black hair...Gygax (I think it was him) even complained about it in a Dragon magazine column.
How could you possibly evaluate the accreditation of a scheme like this? Who grades the work? Computers can't grade essay questions, and multiple choice isn't sufficient to evaluate college level work. Where's the exposure to other students you normally wouldn't interact with? College is a process of intellectual ripening and social coming of age; a computer can't substitute for a brick building, unless you are already past your formative years. Will there be enough revenue to compensate the person who puts the lesson plans together (you know, the one with the earned Ph.D).
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So did Douglas Adams.
Does yours?
So...did that help you understand fugacity, activity coefficients, and solubility products? Just wondering...
"Dune has a lot of character-driven conflict that could just as easily be played out on an empty stage. "
So true. Shakespeare could have done a credible Dune with a handful of actors and one of those Chinese people-dragons made to look like a sandworm
You forgot "Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers".
You should have heard the whining in ~82 when Conan had brown hair instead of black hair...Gygax (I think it was him) even complained about it in a Dragon magazine column.
I thought it was pretty good.
I'd be more concerned about guidance systems than space stations.
I would argue that the cost of Windows is trivial to the overall cost of a college degree.
How could you possibly evaluate the accreditation of a scheme like this? Who grades the work? Computers can't grade essay questions, and multiple choice isn't sufficient to evaluate college level work. Where's the exposure to other students you normally wouldn't interact with? College is a process of intellectual ripening and social coming of age; a computer can't substitute for a brick building, unless you are already past your formative years. Will there be enough revenue to compensate the person who puts the lesson plans together (you know, the one with the earned Ph.D).
Or just skip all this crap and get a free MIT education http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm .
Depends on the time zone, Bubba.
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