The main thing open source has done is to show how quick a release cycle can be. Compare the number of Linux releases in the last 5 years to the number of Windows, OS/2 or any other commercial OS.
The suits will get left out of the loop because thay slow things down. If they have any sense they will step back and let their code monkeys run the show.
I was trying to point out a value for money thing and got a bit carried away. I believe that very few people would ever need stuff that Photoshop can do that the Gimp can't. Besides, any missing functionality could be coded in gimp_perl coundn't it?
The guy who came up with this obviously has way too much free time on his hands.
Wake up SlashDot... This is obviously a load of bollocks and would result in any performance increase at all. At higher frequencies the problem is heat not signal interference.
Anyone else stupid enough to try this? Once again I will gladly eat my legs with a spoon if you get even a 10MHz improvement through this method.
Sorry. I didn't really explain myself properly. What I was on about was social interaction with people studying the same subject. Learning how to communicate in the lingo of that subject and learning to solve problems in your subject together.
You could be the best programmer in the world but if you have never worked in a team you are more likely to be a hinderance than a help in a large project. If you have never had to communicate in a social, face to face way with your peers and have never participated in a technical argument/discussion then you will be a fish out of water even if you have been writing kernel patches for linux since you were 3 yeare old.
I'm doing a Java course through web based study at the moment. I can't believe that this kind of study could possibly come anywhere near replacing a proper university. It's hard to explain why in a short post but there would be so many things missing. Someone posted earlier about the lack of social interaction with other students. This is vital in the development of any good student. You must learn to communicate with your peers in a mutually beneficial fashion. Someone else said that what we are doing here on slashdot is just as good but COME ON! Its a totaly different thing! Also I find it incredibly hard to avoid the temptation to skip bits which bore me. The thing about proper lectures is that you can't escape even when you want to. I've skiped some boring bits in the course I'm doing at the moment and now I'm a bit confused. I suppose one of the advantages of this kind of course is that I can go back over old stuff with out much bother but at a proper university I could go and talk to one of the Profs and he would put me straight. I just think that kind of socially interactive learning is much better. This is probably just because I am a TERRIBLE student. There's more but my boss is watching me and this is pretty obviously not the crappy Access application I'm supposed to be working on.
I think what he was saying was that the social interaction of attending a real university would be missing. This is a very important part of the study. Learning to interact with your peers in a mutually beneficial way.
Imagine you had the choice of working with someone who had earned ther degree in front of a computer or someone who had earned ther degree at a proper university interacting with other students. I bet the latter would be a far better choice.
OK... Looks like this is the first post. Yippee! Hows this going to work then? For this to be of any value peoples work will have to be assessed. Imagine hanving to mark 100 million (a figure from the text) essays on "The rise and fall of Socialism" or a stats paper. Hackers could have a ball bumping up their grades too. Have I got the wrong impression? I think for a University to be any use to anyone then assessment of peoples work will be essential.
Combining my experience of a couple of years at Uni studying physics with the knowledge imparted here by Mr acgetchell I think we can safely conclude that this patient is just a load of bollocks. I will eat both my legs with a spoon if it really works.
How do these CRAZY ideas get this far without someone saying "Hey! That is just shit! Stop wasting everyones time."?
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The main thing open source has done is to show how quick a release cycle can be. Compare the number of Linux releases in the last 5 years to the number of Windows, OS/2 or any other commercial OS.
The suits will get left out of the loop because thay slow things down. If they have any sense they will step back and let their code monkeys run the show.
Yeah. OK. Point taken.
I was trying to point out a value for money thing and got a bit carried away. I believe that very few people would ever need stuff that Photoshop can do that the Gimp can't. Besides, any missing functionality could be coded in gimp_perl coundn't it?
Thanks.
The guy who came up with this obviously has way too much free time on his hands.
Wake up SlashDot... This is obviously a load of bollocks and would result in any performance increase at all. At higher frequencies the problem is heat not signal interference.
Anyone else stupid enough to try this? Once again I will gladly eat my legs with a spoon if you get even a 10MHz improvement through this method.
Sorry. I didn't really explain myself properly. What I was on about was social interaction with people studying the same subject. Learning how to communicate in the lingo of that subject and learning to solve problems in your subject together.
You could be the best programmer in the world but if you have never worked in a team you are more likely to be a hinderance than a help in a large project. If you have never had to communicate in a social, face to face way with your peers and have never participated in a technical argument/discussion then you will be a fish out of water even if you have been writing kernel patches for linux since you were 3 yeare old.
I'm doing a Java course through web based study at the moment. I can't believe that this kind of study could possibly come anywhere near replacing a proper university. It's hard to explain why in a short post but there would be so many things missing. Someone posted earlier about the lack of social interaction with other students. This is vital in the development of any good student. You must learn to communicate with your peers in a mutually beneficial fashion. Someone else said that what we are doing here on slashdot is just as good but COME ON! Its a totaly different thing! Also I find it incredibly hard to avoid the temptation to skip bits which bore me. The thing about proper lectures is that you can't escape even when you want to. I've skiped some boring bits in the course I'm doing at the moment and now I'm a bit confused. I suppose one of the advantages of this kind of course is that I can go back over old stuff with out much bother but at a proper university I could go and talk to one of the Profs and he would put me straight. I just think that kind of socially interactive learning is much better. This is probably just because I am a TERRIBLE student. There's more but my boss is watching me and this is pretty obviously not the crappy Access application I'm supposed to be working on.
I think what he was saying was that the social interaction of attending a real university would be missing. This is a very important part of the study. Learning to interact with your peers in a mutually beneficial way.
Imagine you had the choice of working with someone who had earned ther degree in front of a computer or someone who had earned ther degree at a proper university interacting with other students. I bet the latter would be a far better choice.
This is true, but imagine how much better our grades would be if it was not for all the extra-curricular activities.
Hell.... I might even have graduated!
But I suppose I would not be the well balanced person I am now. Mmmmnnnnn.
OK... Looks like this is the first post. Yippee! Hows this going to work then? For this to be of any value peoples work will have to be assessed. Imagine hanving to mark 100 million (a figure from the text) essays on "The rise and fall of Socialism" or a stats paper. Hackers could have a ball bumping up their grades too. Have I got the wrong impression? I think for a University to be any use to anyone then assessment of peoples work will be essential.
Combining my experience of a couple of years at Uni studying physics with the knowledge imparted here by Mr acgetchell I think we can safely conclude that this patient is just a load of bollocks. I will eat both my legs with a spoon if it really works.
How do these CRAZY ideas get this far without someone saying "Hey! That is just shit! Stop wasting everyones time."?