Apparently there's an issue with lack of memory protection? I can't believe that would be
true, I certainly haven't read anything about it in the reviews of mac os X (and they weren't that positive alltogether).
Somehow I feel that Linus' viewpoint would be slightly different than the average web reporter reviewing MacOS X. There's a big difference between educated users and Uber-developers/Kernel hackers.
Also, I'm sure the reviewers have mentioned lack of support for CD/DVD stuff... That's what this article infers is being affected by the memory protection.
As an Intructional Psychology and Technology PhD student, let me lessen some of your fears
Teachers may slack off on their intensity since students can just go online to learn.
Won't teachers have more time from research, then bring more to the classroom? I doubt MIT worries about its teachers not trying.
Students can skip more classes referring to the web and how they already "learned" something.
This won't help them on the exam. Hey, in a well-constructed course you shouldn't have to take roll. (Unless the class is based on dialog, like philosophy, but most web courses are not).
Learning something with the assistance of a vocal teacher is not the same as reading it.
True, but on a web course, you can watch video demonstrations over and over, and read sections again and again. You don't have to worry about missing something in your notes during a lecture. You get to move at your own pace.
I helped program the online course for basic physics during my undergrad. When we were teaching the laws of motions, we went to the ice rink and shot some video of hockey players. The student could watch that clip, and listen to the narration until they understood it. We got positive feedback about that.
MIT can lose students since they could go to other universities and still learn at their level.
Schools do compete for the best and brightest, and web courses will not change that. Nor with someone who scores perfect on their SAT will not choose to attend Jr. College instead of going to MIT.
Upkeep may be hellish
Ever try to keep up a tradional course? Web courses are a breeze.
...this was a time when the very idea of a machine for
casual or home use, or even have a full-featured computer on one's work desktop was radical, even laughable.
My father began working for IBM's Cottle Road facility in San Jose in 1970. In 1978 (I was just two-years-old), he told my mother that we would have a computer in our home within five years.
I'm not offended by your story, but mormons don't refer to it as "services", but "sacrement meeting". And I highly doubt that a religion with just over 50% of their members attending meetings would sneer at a stranger not attending.
I co-oped three summers at IBM in San Jose. Every assignment I had, and the reason I was invited back twice stemmed from one assignment I fought for. I could have been a copy boy the entire time, but because I proposed something, and did it, they offered me further employment.
Just because someone has you filing or doing inventory, does not mean that there is not more you can do. It's up to you to find a void and fill it.
All the teachers I had through high school seemed to be bent on the idea that education is a means to an end. I had some great teachers, but they did nothing to help their students learn outside of class.
It wasn't until a 3rd year French course that a Assistant Prof. (new Ph.D from Yale name Darryl Lee) showed me that learning is the destination. My entire life shifted around this new idea. The funny thing is that there was no way before that I would graduate in four years. Using this mentality has allowed me now to be out in four.
A few of the art guys I work with thought that Mac OS X would spell the end of M$, but I pointed out to them that with M$ you tie yourself to expensive proprietary software, with OS X you tie yourself to overpriced, albeit high quality, hardware.
We're still in the planning stages, but I'm working on a project for either my MS or Phd (haven't passed the review yet) in Instructional Psychology and Technology with an emphasis in second language acquition.
I'm not supposed to say a lot right now, but rest assured that things like this are coming and I'm trying to use GNU code. Also, my undergrad work was a BA in la litterature francaise, so I'm really looking to bend this towards teaching anglophones French.
What I want is a small Laptop, not a big PDA. See, I love wide screens, but only because you could make them the same demensions as the keyboard and have one small, full-featured laptop.
Of course this is not what the rest of the consuming world wants. IBM, back in the 80's did a poll and found that people said they wanted less, so they released the PC Jr. Which, of course, nobody wanted.
When I first decided to build my own computer, most of my art friends thought I was crazy. They said my time was worth the extra expense to buy a pre-built compaq or dell. What they didn't understand, no matter how much I told them, is that I gain more in education from doing it myself than I save in money.
Dell D costs X, homemade box costs Y, knowledge Z > (X - Y)
It's been a few years now, but one of the art guys I know, who always said he would go for prebuilt, inherited an old 166 from his grandfather and was cuirous about upgrading it. Now he knows as much about hardware as I do and is happy he did.
Many of my firends wanted to know why in the world I would want to get into Linux. Surely, I'm not enough of a power user to justify the added frustration. However, in the short period I have been running Linux, it is amazing how much I've learned.
The power is incredible. StarOffice (which I prefer for it's foreign language capabilities) is now my processor of choice and I installed it on my Winbox. But I truely feel that the benefit Linux has been to me is the knowledge I've gained form using it. Getting my PCTEL modem to work is a challenge, but I came away from it with much more than before.
I for one hope that Linux does not make the main stream desktop market as it is. I do not want to fight through dumbed-down interfaces to do what I want. AND I want to be able to see what my computer is doing.
This reminds me of the Dilbert.com List of the day where the Hum Res. people published the phone directory a week before layoffs. A bunch of people got a free weeks vacation before being canned.
On a personal note, I left my University employment for the summer for an internship at IBM. They guaranteed my position, and that of the three others leaving for internships (Intel, Motorola, Alcatel). My personal mailbox is my univeristy account, so it was kind of annoying that over the summer I, and the other three guys, would receive email to those account because we were still on their group list. About a week before school started they stopped coming.
When I returned they informed us that they needed to re-interview us, and then only took one of us back. No, it's not personal, but they could not name one person working there at the time who was better qualified than I. They told me this when I showed up to work the first day of class (8am). By Three I had had two interviews. Within 24 hours I had an offer (for more $$, no less), and started 48 hours after being let go. The kicker is that it's in a sister group to the department that fired me.
The manager who let the three of us go left for some startup a month later. No one in his group (who he had hired) was qualified to take his place, so they merged our departments. Now my manager is over his old group, I get the pick of assignments. All in all, I came out on top.
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Agreed.
I'm just beginning grad school, and people seem not to understand why, especially in the field of Instructional Psychology and Technology. "What can you do with that?" is what I often hear.
Well, I'm not in it for the money, I'm here to learn a field that interests me. Heaven forbid that a four-year university would serve for little more than just a certification process. Sadly, that's the attitude I came in with, but I learned in the last four years that school is for more than that.
What's really sad, is that the people who go all four years trying to do/learn as little as possible to get the desired grade, and then their "paper", degrade the value of that degree.
The benefit of a degree is not that it brings you more money, but that it shows, or at least should show, that you have completed a more-or-less "universal" (hence, "university") education. You should know your field/and/ some litt, art, etc. (That's the General Education), making you a well-rounded individual who can adapt to situation better than one who has not taken the time to study.
Disclaimer: Some of the brightest people I know do not have degrees, but they have studied on their own.
So, to answer the question, and to not be moderated as off-topic:), which field most interests you? If it's CS, do it. It may be the path of most resistance, but things worth doing are seldom easy.
BSA is good at inflating statistics. They recently said that 25% of office software in the US was pirated, but their methodology was as follows:
Estimated PCs Purchased = a
Office suites Purchased = b
% of pirated software = (a-b)/b
So, they count every PC, whether or not it's actually running an office suite.
Hmmm. What about free (as in beer) software? Well, they apparently don't count it. So, they get these inflated figures, and scare everybody into giving them some sort of regulatory power.
What is also forgotten is that the government provided that the most powerful ruling bodies are also those most separated from the people.
House: AKA the HOT house, swings with the whims of the people because of their short terms, and their direct popular elections.
Senate: Six-year terms separate them more from the will of the people, but they are still very accountable.
President, four-years, but with the electoral college, and only two terms, they are somewhat separated from the people.
Supreme court: Wields extreme power, but is not directly elected. They are appointed by a president, who is elected by an electoral college, and approved by the senate, who is elected in a popular vote.
The founding fathers structured it this way for other reasons than what you've heard....
The real results (actual votes, not exit polls, or guessing), have been within 500K thw whole night. I'm thinking this is like a great movie, or a quadruple-overtime game.... Whoever comes out on top, it's been a great ride.
I noticed the family's house next door had a broken window. "That's funny," I thought. So, I went over and looked in....
"Hmmm. There's a small rock, like the ones they put around their plants in their front yard. They might want to know this. I think I'll just put on in my pocket."
"Whoa. Look at the mess the robbers left. I think I'll just go straighten things up a bit. Ah, man! They took the new DVD player. I was looking forward to tonight's Halloween party. I hope they left the "Blair Witch Director's Cut" disk."
"I wonder if they got the jewlery.... Let's see, I think they kept it in that box on their dresser. Well, there's no jewels in it now. I guess I just go home."
Later that day, the cops came over to ask me some questions. "What's that in your pocket?" "How did you know the DVD player was taken?" "Can we finger-print you?"
Now I'm afraid that I may be suspected for something I didn't do. The Nerve! I was just curious and trying to help.
Go here to get the Espace from East Berlin Half-Life level. Just unzip it into your half-life/valve/maps folder, and type "map escape" into your HL console. You probably knew that.
The included escape routes are: Swimming under the wall, climbing over chain-linked sections (not recommended), going through the sewers, and tunneling. A couple of people, who were very experienced at HL, have been able to fight their way across, so that is possible as well.
It was my first HL map, so don't send me any flames about it sucking. I got an A on the project anyway.
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Somehow I feel that Linus' viewpoint would be slightly different than the average web reporter reviewing MacOS X. There's a big difference between educated users and Uber-developers/Kernel hackers.
Also, I'm sure the reviewers have mentioned lack of support for CD/DVD stuff... That's what this article infers is being affected by the memory protection.
Students may be able to cheat on exams.
As an Intructional Psychology and Technology PhD student, let me lessen some of your fears
Won't teachers have more time from research, then bring more to the classroom? I doubt MIT worries about its teachers not trying.
This won't help them on the exam. Hey, in a well-constructed course you shouldn't have to take roll. (Unless the class is based on dialog, like philosophy, but most web courses are not).
True, but on a web course, you can watch video demonstrations over and over, and read sections again and again. You don't have to worry about missing something in your notes during a lecture. You get to move at your own pace.
I helped program the online course for basic physics during my undergrad. When we were teaching the laws of motions, we went to the ice rink and shot some video of hockey players. The student could watch that clip, and listen to the narration until they understood it. We got positive feedback about that.
Schools do compete for the best and brightest, and web courses will not change that. Nor with someone who scores perfect on their SAT will not choose to attend Jr. College instead of going to MIT.
Ever try to keep up a tradional course? Web courses are a breeze.
http://www.skipintro.com or http://www.zombo.com
My father began working for IBM's Cottle Road facility in San Jose in 1970. In 1978 (I was just two-years-old), he told my mother that we would have a computer in our home within five years.
She laughed.
We bought our first computer in late 1980.
I'm not offended by your story, but mormons don't refer to it as "services", but "sacrement meeting". And I highly doubt that a religion with just over 50% of their members attending meetings would sneer at a stranger not attending.
Hmmm, asides from the blurb he linked to in the SL Tribune, I haven't heard anything. Last I checked, my mailing address was in Utah.
I co-oped three summers at IBM in San Jose. Every assignment I had, and the reason I was invited back twice stemmed from one assignment I fought for. I could have been a copy boy the entire time, but because I proposed something, and did it, they offered me further employment.
Just because someone has you filing or doing inventory, does not mean that there is not more you can do. It's up to you to find a void and fill it.
So that we can get paid more. :)
It wasn't until a 3rd year French course that a Assistant Prof. (new Ph.D from Yale name Darryl Lee) showed me that learning is the destination. My entire life shifted around this new idea. The funny thing is that there was no way before that I would graduate in four years. Using this mentality has allowed me now to be out in four.
Of course, now I'm applying for grad school...
Netpliance?
A few of the art guys I work with thought that Mac OS X would spell the end of M$, but I pointed out to them that with M$ you tie yourself to expensive proprietary software, with OS X you tie yourself to overpriced, albeit high quality, hardware.
I'm not supposed to say a lot right now, but rest assured that things like this are coming and I'm trying to use GNU code. Also, my undergrad work was a BA in la litterature francaise, so I'm really looking to bend this towards teaching anglophones French.
Of course this is not what the rest of the consuming world wants. IBM, back in the 80's did a poll and found that people said they wanted less, so they released the PC Jr. Which, of course, nobody wanted.
Dell D costs X, homemade box costs Y, knowledge Z > (X - Y)
It's been a few years now, but one of the art guys I know, who always said he would go for prebuilt, inherited an old 166 from his grandfather and was cuirous about upgrading it. Now he knows as much about hardware as I do and is happy he did.
Many of my firends wanted to know why in the world I would want to get into Linux. Surely, I'm not enough of a power user to justify the added frustration. However, in the short period I have been running Linux, it is amazing how much I've learned.
The power is incredible. StarOffice (which I prefer for it's foreign language capabilities) is now my processor of choice and I installed it on my Winbox. But I truely feel that the benefit Linux has been to me is the knowledge I've gained form using it. Getting my PCTEL modem to work is a challenge, but I came away from it with much more than before.
I for one hope that Linux does not make the main stream desktop market as it is. I do not want to fight through dumbed-down interfaces to do what I want. AND I want to be able to see what my computer is doing.
Just my 2 cents.
On a personal note, I left my University employment for the summer for an internship at IBM. They guaranteed my position, and that of the three others leaving for internships (Intel, Motorola, Alcatel). My personal mailbox is my univeristy account, so it was kind of annoying that over the summer I, and the other three guys, would receive email to those account because we were still on their group list. About a week before school started they stopped coming.
When I returned they informed us that they needed to re-interview us, and then only took one of us back. No, it's not personal, but they could not name one person working there at the time who was better qualified than I. They told me this when I showed up to work the first day of class (8am). By Three I had had two interviews. Within 24 hours I had an offer (for more $$, no less), and started 48 hours after being let go. The kicker is that it's in a sister group to the department that fired me.
The manager who let the three of us go left for some startup a month later. No one in his group (who he had hired) was qualified to take his place, so they merged our departments. Now my manager is over his old group, I get the pick of assignments. All in all, I came out on top.
Agreed.
/and/ some litt, art, etc. (That's the General Education), making you a well-rounded individual who can adapt to situation better than one who has not taken the time to study.
:), which field most interests you? If it's CS, do it. It may be the path of most resistance, but things worth doing are seldom easy.
I'm just beginning grad school, and people seem not to understand why, especially in the field of Instructional Psychology and Technology. "What can you do with that?" is what I often hear.
Well, I'm not in it for the money, I'm here to learn a field that interests me. Heaven forbid that a four-year university would serve for little more than just a certification process. Sadly, that's the attitude I came in with, but I learned in the last four years that school is for more than that.
What's really sad, is that the people who go all four years trying to do/learn as little as possible to get the desired grade, and then their "paper", degrade the value of that degree.
The benefit of a degree is not that it brings you more money, but that it shows, or at least should show, that you have completed a more-or-less "universal" (hence, "university") education. You should know your field
Disclaimer: Some of the brightest people I know do not have degrees, but they have studied on their own.
So, to answer the question, and to not be moderated as off-topic
Yeah, but that music was so annoying and repetitive that I can still remember it. In fact, it gets stuck in my head over, and over again....
Doo, doo, de-de-dooooo. De-doo, doo, doo, doo....
Estimated PCs Purchased = a
Office suites Purchased = b
% of pirated software = (a-b)/b
So, they count every PC, whether or not it's actually running an office suite. Hmmm. What about free (as in beer) software? Well, they apparently don't count it. So, they get these inflated figures, and scare everybody into giving them some sort of regulatory power.
Scary stuff.
Wasn't the shoe on the other foot then?
What is also forgotten is that the government provided that the most powerful ruling bodies are also those most separated from the people.
House: AKA the HOT house, swings with the whims of the people because of their short terms, and their direct popular elections.
Senate: Six-year terms separate them more from the will of the people, but they are still very accountable.
President, four-years, but with the electoral college, and only two terms, they are somewhat separated from the people.
Supreme court: Wields extreme power, but is not directly elected. They are appointed by a president, who is elected by an electoral college, and approved by the senate, who is elected in a popular vote.
The founding fathers structured it this way for other reasons than what you've heard....
I agree.
The real results (actual votes, not exit polls, or guessing), have been within 500K thw whole night. I'm thinking this is like a great movie, or a quadruple-overtime game.... Whoever comes out on top, it's been a great ride.
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Seriously, you have to wonder about a state where the split is 87% Bush - 8% Nader - 3% Gore?!? - 3% Buchanan.
"Hmmm. There's a small rock, like the ones they put around their plants in their front yard. They might want to know this. I think I'll just put on in my pocket."
"Whoa. Look at the mess the robbers left. I think I'll just go straighten things up a bit. Ah, man! They took the new DVD player. I was looking forward to tonight's Halloween party. I hope they left the "Blair Witch Director's Cut" disk."
"I wonder if they got the jewlery.... Let's see, I think they kept it in that box on their dresser. Well, there's no jewels in it now. I guess I just go home."
Later that day, the cops came over to ask me some questions. "What's that in your pocket?" "How did you know the DVD player was taken?" "Can we finger-print you?"
Now I'm afraid that I may be suspected for something I didn't do. The Nerve! I was just curious and trying to help.
The included escape routes are: Swimming under the wall, climbing over chain-linked sections (not recommended), going through the sewers, and tunneling. A couple of people, who were very experienced at HL, have been able to fight their way across, so that is possible as well.
It was my first HL map, so don't send me any flames about it sucking. I got an A on the project anyway.