Actually, the state university I work for, encourages exactly that behavior. Heck, we even encourage students to take lower level major courses offered by the local community colleges, at the CCs. I've heard a few groups talk about getting us out of the lower-level course offerings, and just working with the local CCs since they tend to do it better anyway (we a a research institution, and a lot of our profs don't want to be bothered with lower level stuff).
Yeah, those JC's and Community Colleges work pretty well. A friend had a full scholarship to Stanford, but found his first semester was not to his liking - sitting in 300+ student lecture halls taking notes while a TA flips through slides and answers questions with an accent so thick he had to ask three times for it to be repeated. Came back home, knocked off his first two years in classes of 20-40 students and then returned to Stanford to finish up.
A Bachelors in Liberal Arts is "almost" worthless in terms getting a job(avg . A associate degree is worth less then less half that...
Degrees only make the Filters in HR deparments happy when screening job applicants.
I've been on interview committees where we've scanned portfolios and been mildly impressed until we asked a few questions to see how the applicant uses that hard earned knowledge. Beats me how some people get their degrees. Some have been utter frauds. Meanwhile, some of the brightest, most energetic people I've known only have a high school diploma, associates degree, certificate from a technical school or spent some time in the armed forces doing the sort of work which is largely being outsourced by the DoD these days.
It's what you make of it and how you spent your time while pursuing it. On the evening of my 21st birthday I was pulling an all-nighter in the computer lab while my friends were all getting drunk at a party in my honor.
I got my PhD without any debt along the way or money from my parents. Go to a good undergrad that gives grants instead of loans to cover most of financial need (the annual price tag was $30+k, but few people actually paid anywhere near that...). Work a summer job to cover the rest, which doubles as gaining experience by working in a lab, etc (which often would be enough to cover most state university programs without any grants). Then most engineering and science programs will pay you to go to graduate school if you work as a TA, or better, as an RA essentially be paid to get your thesis done and papers to pad your resume.
A friend of mine is having his PhD entirely footed by the university he's performing research work at. How sweet it can be!
They still exist, but I don't think they cover as much as they once did. Something I became quite aware of was the "Raise The Tuition Through Fees Game" which became quite popular a couple decades back. Higher education realised they could only get away with so much in "Tuition" so they added "high cost fees (for courses requiring an expensive setting or special equipment)", "lab fees", "renoberation fees", "froylavin fees" and "potrzebie fees", which tacked onto tuition began to hurt, particularly as Scholarships and Financial Aid would mostly cover the standard tuition, but were more circumspect about covering fees.
You can get a degree for very cheap, even a decent one. 1. Find a good state school 2 Pick a degree and read all the requirements for that degree very carefully. 3. Look in the transfer database for that school. Take every course that can transfer in exactly from a local community college 4. Take the rest of the courses from that state school.
I got my Engineering degree without taking a single general elective from the school. Everything came from online/summer community college courses for 1/4 the price. Most people spend to much at college because they go where it is convenient and they don't pick a degree until the 3rd or 4th year.
Or you can find some full-time job in the university so your tuition is largely covered as a fringe benefit, like I did. 2 degrees (c:
Fees and books I still had to foot, but that was insignificant compared to the price of tuition.
I really hadn't though about it before, but that fringe benefit has opened a lot of doors and kept me in wasabi peas for a mighty long time and I never really tallied up the amount in zorkmids my employer footed. Pretty good deal all around. HOYVIN-GLAVIN!
I'd hire this guy in a flash. This kind of stunt shows a level of creativity, commitment and out of the box thinking that's worth more than any college degree.
No, actually I'm not. Not in the least. It's the way of things now, even when your motto is "Do no evil" or "What evil would you like to get into today?" Wall Street expects certain targets to be hit and the way to do that is cut corners and use loopholes.
Wind doesn't kill loads of migrating birds. It slices and dices a few hawks but that's about it. The 1.5 megawatt turbines move slow enough birds are usually out of the way of the blades. Most slice 'n dice jobs are the older, smaller turbines.
Further, it lends well to dual purpose land-use, the Shiloh II Wind Farm, Solano County, California, is grazing land so there's no lost land use.
That's the biggest problems with shifts in power, especially if parties change every four years. One party spends four years getting something in place, or sets some long term goals, and then next election someone else comes in and changes it all. So they spend all the time and money getting one thing spun up and then it gets canned and they spend the next four years doing something else and it may be canned.
Gotta be a better way.
Democracy is the worst method of government, except for all the alternatives.
Blame him if you like, but it's most of the NIMBYs. For years the Dept of Energy performed nuclear tests in the Nevada desert, pockmarking the landscape. Now traces of radiation have been found in ground water hundreds of miles from the sites, due to the nature of faults in the Basin and Ridge region and movement of underground water. Tends to scare people and they tend to make their will known to their representatives in the capitol.
Meanwhile, the Hanford site is in dire need (and has been) of shutting down, with no new disposal location in sight. A friend worked at Hanford for a couple years and explained to me how it was never meant to house as much waste as it does and the long-term storage wasn't in the original plans. Old vaults of waste have been found to be developing cracks and been reinforced.
Considering the price, I don't even pay attention to it because I can build a decent desktop system and have enough left over to buy a Galaxy III
Yeah, but that comparison is completely irrelevant, as we're talking about a portable computing device, and you're talking about something that is stuck on a desk.
Not the Galaxy III. Didn't read the sentence that far?
I'm surprised, I actually assumed there would be at LEAST a million Microsoft fanboys who would buy one. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, there's Apple and Android fanboys too. I just thought the Microsoft faithful alone would push it well beyond the 1m mark. And I supposed it might still, given a little more time.
Maybe everyone is holding out for the Surface Pro?
I think the Microsoft Fanboy is a dying breed. Not simply because they've been burned a time or two, but because Microsoft is so incredibly late to this dance there's only so many wallflowers who haven't accepted iPad or Android in the interim and are now rather unwilling to jump ship for an unknown.
Microsoft really needed to come out with a strong contender, but it's overpriced, new interface/behavior and then the boot dropped when the battery life of the Pro became its Achilles' heel.
Ballmer must be done throwing chairs and is now moving on to throwing engineers around his office.
I think that a majority of the Surfaces sold so far are developers looking for a reference system.
Or they don't read reviews. There are a staggering number of people who make completely uninformed purchases.
Probably well meaning parents getting their kid or college student on in the hopes they will find a use for it (door stop, hold up plant, coaster, etc.)
Some people will buy anything as a toy to tinker with.
And then there's probably a few who genuinely want one because they think it will be an easy switch from their laptop.
Considering the price, I don't even pay attention to it because I can build a decent desktop system and have enough left over to buy a Galaxy III
Think again. Compared to gold, silver, copper, oil, wheat, corn, soybeans, and many other commodities, the dollar has lost a pretty good chunk of it's value.*
*Citation needed
The major problem with tying a currency to a precious metal (or commodity) is when the supply and/or demand of that commodity changes, radically, in a short period of time, as happened in the 1890's.
As another example, look at the attempt to manipulate silver prices in the late 1970's and early 1980's by the Hunt brothers.
I beg to ask... Who schedules to ship a new product, especially one like this, immediately after Christmas?!? Either you plan to ship several weeks before Christmas for shoppers to buy it, or you ship several weeks later when people return from whatever type of vacation they took. Definitely not during that week of each year, between Christmas and New Years Eve, when potential customers already have made their Christmas purchases and occasionally maxed out their credit card, and potential reviewers are skying nowhere near their editors.
If word got out that Zynga got one, their stock price might (only saying might) slow its skid.
DRM hasn't failed and isn't useless. It's quite successful at pissing off honest customers and turning them towards piracy and circumvention.
Not just DRM, but all the preview sh*t when I put a DVD in the player. I don't give a damn about all these other things, why do I have to sit there hammering the skip forward button and/or menu button? It's a great motivator toward ripping the content off the DVD, burning it on a blank and then watching it whenever I want to see the movie.
Varying valuations of silver and gold are the reason we left the Gold Standard. There was a time in the 1890's when a silver dollar face value was less than the silver content value, so the US Treasury stopped minting them (very exciting pieces for collectors as they have low mintages.)
Trust me, you don't ever want us to return to coins made of gold and silver.
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Yep.
Actually, the state university I work for, encourages exactly that behavior. Heck, we even encourage students to take lower level major courses offered by the local community colleges, at the CCs. I've heard a few groups talk about getting us out of the lower-level course offerings, and just working with the local CCs since they tend to do it better anyway (we a a research institution, and a lot of our profs don't want to be bothered with lower level stuff).
Yeah, those JC's and Community Colleges work pretty well. A friend had a full scholarship to Stanford, but found his first semester was not to his liking - sitting in 300+ student lecture halls taking notes while a TA flips through slides and answers questions with an accent so thick he had to ask three times for it to be repeated. Came back home, knocked off his first two years in classes of 20-40 students and then returned to Stanford to finish up.
No but you DO get what you pay for in life.
A Bachelors in Liberal Arts is "almost" worthless in terms getting a job(avg . A associate degree is worth less then less half that...
Degrees only make the Filters in HR deparments happy when screening job applicants.
I've been on interview committees where we've scanned portfolios and been mildly impressed until we asked a few questions to see how the applicant uses that hard earned knowledge. Beats me how some people get their degrees. Some have been utter frauds. Meanwhile, some of the brightest, most energetic people I've known only have a high school diploma, associates degree, certificate from a technical school or spent some time in the armed forces doing the sort of work which is largely being outsourced by the DoD these days.
It's what you make of it and how you spent your time while pursuing it. On the evening of my 21st birthday I was pulling an all-nighter in the computer lab while my friends were all getting drunk at a party in my honor.
I got my PhD without any debt along the way or money from my parents. Go to a good undergrad that gives grants instead of loans to cover most of financial need (the annual price tag was $30+k, but few people actually paid anywhere near that...). Work a summer job to cover the rest, which doubles as gaining experience by working in a lab, etc (which often would be enough to cover most state university programs without any grants). Then most engineering and science programs will pay you to go to graduate school if you work as a TA, or better, as an RA essentially be paid to get your thesis done and papers to pad your resume.
A friend of mine is having his PhD entirely footed by the university he's performing research work at. How sweet it can be!
Hell, Harvard is free too, if your family makes under $60k (about the 60th percentile). Well, assuming you can get into Harvard.
Yep. One thing to get that free ride, another to have a place to reside during those years (notice how I didn't use the mythical word 'sleep')
That's how we used to do this in the olden days.
They still exist, but I don't think they cover as much as they once did. Something I became quite aware of was the "Raise The Tuition Through Fees Game" which became quite popular a couple decades back. Higher education realised they could only get away with so much in "Tuition" so they added "high cost fees (for courses requiring an expensive setting or special equipment)", "lab fees", "renoberation fees", "froylavin fees" and "potrzebie fees", which tacked onto tuition began to hurt, particularly as Scholarships and Financial Aid would mostly cover the standard tuition, but were more circumspect about covering fees.
You can get a degree for very cheap, even a decent one.
1. Find a good state school
2 Pick a degree and read all the requirements for that degree very carefully.
3. Look in the transfer database for that school. Take every course that can transfer in exactly from a local community college
4. Take the rest of the courses from that state school.
I got my Engineering degree without taking a single general elective from the school. Everything came from online/summer community college courses for 1/4 the price. Most people spend to much at college because they go where it is convenient and they don't pick a degree until the 3rd or 4th year.
Or you can find some full-time job in the university so your tuition is largely covered as a fringe benefit, like I did. 2 degrees (c:
Fees and books I still had to foot, but that was insignificant compared to the price of tuition.
I really hadn't though about it before, but that fringe benefit has opened a lot of doors and kept me in wasabi peas for a mighty long time and I never really tallied up the amount in zorkmids my employer footed. Pretty good deal all around. HOYVIN-GLAVIN!
I'd hire this guy in a flash. This kind of stunt shows a level of creativity, commitment and out of the box thinking that's worth more than any college degree.
Careful ... that's how Microsoft got started.
Here come the degree snobs.
"You didn't really get an education unless you paid a fortune for it, like me."
Or
"You didn't really get an education, unless you are massively in debt, like me."
No, actually I'm not. Not in the least. It's the way of things now, even when your motto is "Do no evil" or "What evil would you like to get into today?" Wall Street expects certain targets to be hit and the way to do that is cut corners and use loopholes.
"Alice, yer not going to an asteroid, but to the Moon!
Wind doesn't kill loads of migrating birds. It slices and dices a few hawks but that's about it. The 1.5 megawatt turbines move slow enough birds are usually out of the way of the blades. Most slice 'n dice jobs are the older, smaller turbines.
Further, it lends well to dual purpose land-use, the Shiloh II Wind Farm, Solano County, California, is grazing land so there's no lost land use.
That's the biggest problems with shifts in power, especially if parties change every four years. One party spends four years getting something in place, or sets some long term goals, and then next election someone else comes in and changes it all. So they spend all the time and money getting one thing spun up and then it gets canned and they spend the next four years doing something else and it may be canned.
Gotta be a better way.
Democracy is the worst method of government, except for all the alternatives.
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Blame him if you like, but it's most of the NIMBYs. For years the Dept of Energy performed nuclear tests in the Nevada desert, pockmarking the landscape. Now traces of radiation have been found in ground water hundreds of miles from the sites, due to the nature of faults in the Basin and Ridge region and movement of underground water. Tends to scare people and they tend to make their will known to their representatives in the capitol.
Meanwhile, the Hanford site is in dire need (and has been) of shutting down, with no new disposal location in sight. A friend worked at Hanford for a couple years and explained to me how it was never meant to house as much waste as it does and the long-term storage wasn't in the original plans. Old vaults of waste have been found to be developing cracks and been reinforced.
John McAfree?
What a clever pun considering the situation. Surely it was intentional!
He was probably caught in Guatemala's firewall. The worm.
Considering the price, I don't even pay attention to it because I can build a decent desktop system and have enough left over to buy a Galaxy III
Yeah, but that comparison is completely irrelevant, as we're talking about a portable computing device, and you're talking about something that is stuck on a desk.
Not the Galaxy III. Didn't read the sentence that far?
I'm surprised, I actually assumed there would be at LEAST a million Microsoft fanboys who would buy one. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, there's Apple and Android fanboys too. I just thought the Microsoft faithful alone would push it well beyond the 1m mark. And I supposed it might still, given a little more time.
Maybe everyone is holding out for the Surface Pro?
I think the Microsoft Fanboy is a dying breed. Not simply because they've been burned a time or two, but because Microsoft is so incredibly late to this dance there's only so many wallflowers who haven't accepted iPad or Android in the interim and are now rather unwilling to jump ship for an unknown.
Microsoft really needed to come out with a strong contender, but it's overpriced, new interface/behavior and then the boot dropped when the battery life of the Pro became its Achilles' heel.
Ballmer must be done throwing chairs and is now moving on to throwing engineers around his office.
I think that a majority of the Surfaces sold so far are developers looking for a reference system.
Or they don't read reviews. There are a staggering number of people who make completely uninformed purchases.
Probably well meaning parents getting their kid or college student on in the hopes they will find a use for it (door stop, hold up plant, coaster, etc.)
Some people will buy anything as a toy to tinker with.
And then there's probably a few who genuinely want one because they think it will be an easy switch from their laptop.
Considering the price, I don't even pay attention to it because I can build a decent desktop system and have enough left over to buy a Galaxy III
Take a TRS-80 and watch them try to figure it out.
will probably require that they take it down.
I'm thinking Google should just remove any and all links to anything that even just has the movie studios' name on it. Including their own websites.
So it would serve the studios right if you could no longer even find the stuff using Google .. no TV shows, no movies, nuthin.
Google [The Hobbitt]
only links to the book are found, no references to the upcoming films.
Yeah, that'd fix em.
Think again. Compared to gold, silver, copper, oil, wheat, corn, soybeans, and many other commodities, the dollar has lost a pretty good chunk of it's value.*
*Citation needed
The major problem with tying a currency to a precious metal (or commodity) is when the supply and/or demand of that commodity changes, radically, in a short period of time, as happened in the 1890's.
As another example, look at the attempt to manipulate silver prices in the late 1970's and early 1980's by the Hunt brothers.
That just looks so sweet, heck yeah.
I beg to ask... Who schedules to ship a new product, especially one like this, immediately after Christmas?!? Either you plan to ship several weeks before Christmas for shoppers to buy it, or you ship several weeks later when people return from whatever type of vacation they took. Definitely not during that week of each year, between Christmas and New Years Eve, when potential customers already have made their Christmas purchases and occasionally maxed out their credit card, and potential reviewers are skying nowhere near their editors.
If word got out that Zynga got one, their stock price might (only saying might) slow its skid.
DRM hasn't failed and isn't useless. It's quite successful at pissing off honest customers and turning them towards piracy and circumvention.
Not just DRM, but all the preview sh*t when I put a DVD in the player. I don't give a damn about all these other things, why do I have to sit there hammering the skip forward button and/or menu button? It's a great motivator toward ripping the content off the DVD, burning it on a blank and then watching it whenever I want to see the movie.
Disney one of the worst offenders.
Exactly. Here's some reading for you.
Link
Varying valuations of silver and gold are the reason we left the Gold Standard. There was a time in the 1890's when a silver dollar face value was less than the silver content value, so the US Treasury stopped minting them (very exciting pieces for collectors as they have low mintages.)
Trust me, you don't ever want us to return to coins made of gold and silver.