I stand corrected. The only thing I know of DeVry is what I've seen in the commercials on the UHF channels. I did not know it qualified for University status. How is the English department? Do they have one at every location or do you have to spend a semester abroad to satisfy the Division II requirements?
I don't care what you call it. DeVry is still a technical school. However you are correct in that it is better then nothing.
You don't deserve to loose karma but man I'm trolling. There goes my 50.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Many people, and that unfortunately includes people in Human Resources, see the online degree as something that gets banged out during lunch. Until people really do get out into the workplace with such a degree and prove themselves this is probably always going to be the case.
I'm not speaking from experience here but it would seem to me that the online learning experience is a tough sell at a job interview.
I go to a commuter college and don't feel like it's a real college experience. Sure I'll have a degree from a decent state school when I'm done but I don't have the dorm experience. Some might argue that I'm ahead of the game there but I feel like I missed out. I definately notice a difference in alumni spirit between my school and say a school like Umass Amhearst. Most of my peers I won't miss when I'm gone because they're more like coworkers. We never had the late night bonding/speakers-out-the-window kegger. We share no particular intimacy that comes from close quarters living. Again some may argue that I'm ahead of the game further still.
I do have a more independant method of problem solving. I have more science and computer toys and reference books at my home because the library isn't a walk across the quad. But every step of the way has been something of a struggle having to figure things out myself b/c I can't ask someone down the hall.
Now multiply what I've said by a factor of 10 as you won't know who your peers are in an online class. You won't even have the kind of social life a night school student gets. I don't mean social life as in party. I've learned a lot working through problems with my peers, some problems cannot be solved on your own.
You may think that the social aspect isn't important. It's not if you're trying to get a technical degree in as little time as possible. In which case as an employer I'd probably lump you in with the Devry Tech grads. Not someone who's earned a BS Degree. If I was hiring I'd want someone who can work out problems with a group.
Having earned my BS (I graduate in 8 weeks) I know that most kids who can't work out problems together don't graduate with honors, many don't graduate at all. In other words the BS Degree represents a certain measureable amount of technical skill as well as implies a grasp of certain intangeble skills.
I had a career out of highschool before I decided I wanted a college degree. It was weird at first but it got better. I'm 32 now I don't look, feel or act it. I think it's from being around 20 year olds all day long. This has turned out to be a longer rant than I intended but I guess my bottom line is you're better off biting the bullet and living in poverty for 4 years and get the traditional degree.
Why didn't they just ban Netscape Navigator in the lisence agreement. Then they wouldn't have had to write IE. What other competing software don't they want people to use? Put that into the lisence too.
Back in '94 when I took over as network admin for the stockbrokerage I worked for the only joy I found in the job was guessing passwords. I could usually do it on the first guess. A tip here is if it's not in the roledex under "password" then it's in the pictures on the desk. This is especially true if the only picture on the desk is the guy's sailboat.
So can I get even louder headphones for my Mp3 player? Imagine how much quicker I can loose my hearing listening to my pirated CD's.
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Yes, when I was searching for obscure things on Napster I never ran across any Wyndham Hills recordings. Perhaps contemporary adult easy listening is the way to foil piracy.
The last CD I bought was Butterfly Joe, a band with 2 members from the Dead Milkmen. It's not that I don't want to like new music. I just don't want to have to dig for music I may like. That's why I liked Napster when it existed. I liked Deisel Boy when I stumbled on to them looking for unreleased live Dead Milkmen. None of the Clear Channel radio stations in Boston ever play anything but crusty oldies from the 60's and 70's or Lit and Stained and that crap.
I will admit I find Sum 41 amusing. I just don't have the time to search around for music anymore so unless something really hits me I have no interest in buying it.
So will desktop computers be exempt from this tax? Afterall they can store music and have nonremovable hard drives. And Tivo what about those? Can't they record the digital music tracks on the cable and satallite systems?
You won't be able to record your own music on any equipment after the digital copyright management chip is put in place. Anything without the Copy OK switch on it won't record. Selling Copy OK switches will be against the law like selling cable TV descramblers or that cable that lets you program your own Playstation games. You won't be allowed, on a technological level, to make your own music to compete with the big record companies. That's where these laws are heading.
Exactly, protect the little musician from having to get permission from the big record companies in order to create their own music.
No little highschool kid garage band you have to pay the RIAA $100,000 in charge backs to record your own material to hand out CD's at the VFW's teen talent show. Or sign this ridiculous contract and become one of the annointed musicians who are allowed to record your material. Just ignore the part where we retain exclusive rights to the copyright afterwards.
When I stopped buying music it wasn't because I could get it for free. It was because music today has passed me by. Maybe if some of the bands I loved 15 years ago release a new album I'll buy it but I'm not buying Nsync or Lit or Train or any other crap that passes for music today.
In fact just about the time I gave up on new music is the same time I learned how to play the guitar and make my own music. I may not have the production values that Brittney has but on the otherhand I don't need 600 digital tracks of the same verse sung over and over to smooth out the mistakes. Playing my own music makes me happier than desperately searching for out of print Dead Milkmen albums. Playing my own music won't make me rich and famous but it turns on my wife when I bang on the bongo's like a chimpanzee.
If the record companies don't want my money anymore then Fcuk'em. I'll take my guitar and go home. That's why record sales aren't growing anymore. They have the nads to grossly underestimate the taste of the rest of us in the quest for the quick teenager buck.
Not that I could book a free space flight with earthly miles but get earthly miles for a trip in space.
How many miles did the shuttle travel in the last 11 days? I'm too lazy to look it up but let's say it's a lot, in the 100,000's. How many first class upgrades could I get for that kind of travel. It would take some of the sting out of the high price of space travel today.
I guess this is why the clock just moved a little closer to midnight. If it were up to me I'd move the clock to 11:59. I have a bad gut feeling about all of this.
On the otherhand I'd kind of like to see a 1 megaton burst from 30 miles away just once. Aside from being the last thing I'd ever see if I didn't wear goggles, it's probably spectacular.
Please don't think I'm a war mongerer. I don't mean we should use it on anyone. It's just that I'm part of a generation which grew up expecting a nuclear war. Imagine my surprise when we never had one. A little grotesque disapointment that I have to actually get a day job instead of wander the desert looking for canned dog food and gasoline.
And I bet you thought that Reganite Nihilism was a thing of the 80's. Well After reading the above I realize it's alive and well living inside my subconcious. Just waiting to rear it's ugly little head. Does this mean I get to do cocaine again?
Ok it takes energy in and gives back a couple atoms of fusion. This produces some light and a shockwave.
Just because there's fusion of 2 D's into T doesn't necessarily mean it puts out more energy than went in.
And wouldn't it be cool if these guys get together with the guys that figured out how Guiness makes some bubbles sink. They could make a movie with Yahoo Serious.
There should be an international courthouse in Antartica. All international cases must be tried there. That would stop all these frivolous lawsuits. After all, who would bother to file a lawsuit there except the truly grieved.
So this will only get worse when an ebay merchant dies and the heirs realize that his 9000 positive feedback is worth a quick 20grand on the black market. What's to stop that? Or a merchant themselves realize they can get a little extra retirement juice by selling their account to the mob.
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I don't care what you call it. DeVry is still a technical school. However you are correct in that it is better then nothing.
You don't deserve to loose karma but man I'm trolling. There goes my 50.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Many people, and that unfortunately includes people in Human Resources, see the online degree as something that gets banged out during lunch. Until people really do get out into the workplace with such a degree and prove themselves this is probably always going to be the case.
I go to a commuter college and don't feel like it's a real college experience. Sure I'll have a degree from a decent state school when I'm done but I don't have the dorm experience. Some might argue that I'm ahead of the game there but I feel like I missed out. I definately notice a difference in alumni spirit between my school and say a school like Umass Amhearst. Most of my peers I won't miss when I'm gone because they're more like coworkers. We never had the late night bonding/speakers-out-the-window kegger. We share no particular intimacy that comes from close quarters living. Again some may argue that I'm ahead of the game further still.
I do have a more independant method of problem solving. I have more science and computer toys and reference books at my home because the library isn't a walk across the quad. But every step of the way has been something of a struggle having to figure things out myself b/c I can't ask someone down the hall.
Now multiply what I've said by a factor of 10 as you won't know who your peers are in an online class. You won't even have the kind of social life a night school student gets. I don't mean social life as in party. I've learned a lot working through problems with my peers, some problems cannot be solved on your own.
You may think that the social aspect isn't important. It's not if you're trying to get a technical degree in as little time as possible. In which case as an employer I'd probably lump you in with the Devry Tech grads. Not someone who's earned a BS Degree. If I was hiring I'd want someone who can work out problems with a group.
Having earned my BS (I graduate in 8 weeks) I know that most kids who can't work out problems together don't graduate with honors, many don't graduate at all. In other words the BS Degree represents a certain measureable amount of technical skill as well as implies a grasp of certain intangeble skills.
I had a career out of highschool before I decided I wanted a college degree. It was weird at first but it got better. I'm 32 now I don't look, feel or act it. I think it's from being around 20 year olds all day long. This has turned out to be a longer rant than I intended but I guess my bottom line is you're better off biting the bullet and living in poverty for 4 years and get the traditional degree.
Why didn't they just ban Netscape Navigator in the lisence agreement. Then they wouldn't have had to write IE. What other competing software don't they want people to use? Put that into the lisence too.
Back in '94 when I took over as network admin for the stockbrokerage I worked for the only joy I found in the job was guessing passwords. I could usually do it on the first guess. A tip here is if it's not in the roledex under "password" then it's in the pictures on the desk. This is especially true if the only picture on the desk is the guy's sailboat.
fuck you
So can I get even louder headphones for my Mp3 player? Imagine how much quicker I can loose my hearing listening to my pirated CD's.
Yes, when I was searching for obscure things on Napster I never ran across any Wyndham Hills recordings. Perhaps contemporary adult easy listening is the way to foil piracy.
If it wasn't for the "I'm feeling lucky" button then some day's I'd have no luck at all.
I will admit I find Sum 41 amusing. I just don't have the time to search around for music anymore so unless something really hits me I have no interest in buying it.
So will desktop computers be exempt from this tax? Afterall they can store music and have nonremovable hard drives. And Tivo what about those? Can't they record the digital music tracks on the cable and satallite systems?
You won't be able to record your own music on any equipment after the digital copyright management chip is put in place. Anything without the Copy OK switch on it won't record. Selling Copy OK switches will be against the law like selling cable TV descramblers or that cable that lets you program your own Playstation games. You won't be allowed, on a technological level, to make your own music to compete with the big record companies. That's where these laws are heading.
No little highschool kid garage band you have to pay the RIAA $100,000 in charge backs to record your own material to hand out CD's at the VFW's teen talent show. Or sign this ridiculous contract and become one of the annointed musicians who are allowed to record your material. Just ignore the part where we retain exclusive rights to the copyright afterwards.
In fact just about the time I gave up on new music is the same time I learned how to play the guitar and make my own music. I may not have the production values that Brittney has but on the otherhand I don't need 600 digital tracks of the same verse sung over and over to smooth out the mistakes. Playing my own music makes me happier than desperately searching for out of print Dead Milkmen albums. Playing my own music won't make me rich and famous but it turns on my wife when I bang on the bongo's like a chimpanzee.
If the record companies don't want my money anymore then Fcuk'em. I'll take my guitar and go home. That's why record sales aren't growing anymore. They have the nads to grossly underestimate the taste of the rest of us in the quest for the quick teenager buck.
It's all part of my rock and roll fantasy.
My freshman Organic 1 professor taught me that.
I hear voices and they put me on thorazine. My computer hears voices so where's the Service Pack, the computer equivilent of a good downer.
Thank you for doing the math for me. I just wasn't in the mood for math today.
On the other hand I don't think I want the whole can if I can't take a leak in the last half hour of the flight.
How many miles did the shuttle travel in the last 11 days? I'm too lazy to look it up but let's say it's a lot, in the 100,000's. How many first class upgrades could I get for that kind of travel. It would take some of the sting out of the high price of space travel today.
On the otherhand I'd kind of like to see a 1 megaton burst from 30 miles away just once. Aside from being the last thing I'd ever see if I didn't wear goggles, it's probably spectacular.
Please don't think I'm a war mongerer. I don't mean we should use it on anyone. It's just that I'm part of a generation which grew up expecting a nuclear war. Imagine my surprise when we never had one. A little grotesque disapointment that I have to actually get a day job instead of wander the desert looking for canned dog food and gasoline.
And I bet you thought that Reganite Nihilism was a thing of the 80's. Well After reading the above I realize it's alive and well living inside my subconcious. Just waiting to rear it's ugly little head. Does this mean I get to do cocaine again?
I would think that the computer can match exact wave forms far better than the computer could.
Just because there's fusion of 2 D's into T doesn't necessarily mean it puts out more energy than went in.
And wouldn't it be cool if these guys get together with the guys that figured out how Guiness makes some bubbles sink. They could make a movie with Yahoo Serious.
There should be an international courthouse in Antartica. All international cases must be tried there. That would stop all these frivolous lawsuits. After all, who would bother to file a lawsuit there except the truly grieved.
So this will only get worse when an ebay merchant dies and the heirs realize that his 9000 positive feedback is worth a quick 20grand on the black market. What's to stop that? Or a merchant themselves realize they can get a little extra retirement juice by selling their account to the mob.
I would be willing to give up quite a lot to go even 1/4 of the way to another world.
They'll probably solve the suspended animation problem by then. In that case I'd get to go on the whole trip.
In fact I hope they solve the suspended animation problem soon as I'm sick of listening to the kids go at it in the back seat.