...and you walked uphill to school against the wind both ways in -100 degree weather with snow past your neck?
You obviously didn't read the parent posts. UoP classes run such that each class runs for 5 weeks and covers an entire semester of material. You're not supposed to, or possibly even allowed, to take more than one class at a time. Or to say it differently, a single class at a time is considered a full time load. 9 papers over a semester isn't that bad, same with the reading load. However, condense that into 5 weeks and it quickly becomes insane.
Please read the posts before responding. I was taking one class at a time through UoP. The 12+ credits stated was for traditional brick & mortar university.
I find most people overestimate what they actually know. I've more than once met a C, SQL, Java, Visual Basic, etc... "expert" who knew very little about the language they claimed to know so well.
Tell me about it. We just got rid of a Linux "expert" who turned out to only know Ubuntu. We use SuSE enterprise and he could not understand at all why we didn't install apt-get as part of our standard install set. You should've seen his face when we explained to him that there IS no apt-get for SuSE and he'll have to go search for his own packages. Was priceless!
You mean like... Everywhere just about? People are always indulging in drama and politics everywhere I've been ESPECIALLY those who claim to not like it. It's generally used as their excuse to run away when the going gets tough.
Generally I agree, but I have no patience for it. When the drama/politics start up, I'll usually leave the room and just go do what needs to be done anyway. As I said in another post, life is too short and I have too much to get done to sit around and listen to that crap. In the end it's easier to ask forgiveness (especially for getting something done the right way) than it is to ask permission.
To my knowledge, pedagogy is not just about one size fits all but rather about, "we do it this way because that's the way it's always been done and it's the right way". May sound like splitting hairs, but IMHO it's a big difference.
It's very typical. They replace actual instruction with huge reading and paper loads to hide the fact that the courses are pretty much completely empty of any real value.
Working is much better. I'm not some snowflake dipshit who cries to mommy when I don't get a trophy for showing up. I work an average of 50+ hours a week at an extremely demanding job and enjoy it immensely. At times I've held truly shiatty jobs that sucked the life out of me but needed the money to eat/pay rent/etc. Right now I'm dealing with the transition from two incomes and one house to one income and two houses due to having to move to find work, wife can't find a job in new town, and old house won't sell. Life sucks, but you deal with it and move on.
To mangle a Monty Python quote, "I'm 32, I'm not old". Everyone on my team is actually within 2 years of each other for what it's worth. Also when I conduct interviews I'm MUCH more concerned about what you know, what you can do, and how well you learn and think than what kind of piece of paper you have.
Yes, I have little patience for bureaucracy, always have and always will, but I've by and large learned to deal with it or side-step it as the situation calls for. What I have ZERO patience for is pedagogy and jumping through arbitrary hoops that have no relation to the task at hand but are there to waste your time or prove that you have the patience to jump through hoops. I have too much shit to get done and life is too short to waste time on that.
Please understand the subject you're talking about before discussing it as almost all of your information is incorrect.
At U of Phoenix, there is no difference between full and part time. You take only one class at a time and each class lasts for 5 only weeks total. That's right, that whole load was ONLY ONE CLASS AT A TIME. Additionally, I WAS unemployed at the time and was still barely able to keep up. I was mentioning the full time employment bit in response to their (omnipresent) advertising that repeatedly describes how you can complete a degree and work full time.
Second, I was in their IT program, not an arts program. That did include some management classes on the course list, however the classes I took were more oriented to networking and such.
Third, US colleges are the same way. Note I stated 12 CREDITS, not 12 classes. Each class is a higher or lower number of credits depending on its course load and difficulty.
I would hazard to guess that it's pretty much impossible to go to traditional brick & mortar school "full time" (12 credits/semester I believe) and hold down a full time 40 hr job, family or no family.
Besides, "real" schools don't tell you that you can easily go there full time and hold a full time job. In fact, usually you're advised to seek out financial aid and student loans specifically because you need to concentrate on studying and work as little as possible. Granted that's in an ideal world, but as with most things in life you start with idealism and step backwards until you find reality.
...and then suddenly you're paid too much for your grade, you're bumped to a higher GS grade, and suddenly you're too high of a grade for your job. So you're shuffled to a job that's completely outside of your field but is for the right grade.
Seen it done in person, never works well at all and is usually a complete disaster. That being said, you're also set for life as it almost literally takes an act of congress to get you fired.
I did U of Phoenix for 4 classes (see full rant above) and everything in that report is 100% true. They lie like a rug to get you in the door then charge you exorbitant amounts for sub-standard ridiculously paced classes that are next to worthless.
I would both agree and disagree. I did the atrocious U of Phoenix for 4 classes and couldn't take it any more. It was exactly as the OP said and more. The discussions were extremely stupid and shallow and the classes either weren't particularly relevant or were below-level, but additionally the pace was absolutely bonkers. I was ASSURED by my advisor when I started that in no circumstance should I be spending more than 15 hours a week on my coursework, including all reading, discussions, and assignments and that it was easy to do with a job and a family, just like the ads say. Well what they should tell you is that you HAVE to have a family to do it because you have to have people who can do everything else in your life for you besides, eat, sleep, work, and study.
We were assigned an average of 900+ pages of reading a week over the courses I took and they expected you to read it all. Then there were the papers: the last course I took with them had 9 major papers due in 5 weeks, comprised of 5 individual and 4 group papers. And if that wasn't bad enough, being the local English nazi I was chosen by my group to be the guy to put the papers together. Normally work I actually kind of enjoy, except 2 members (out of 4) of our group could write at maybe a 5th grade level. I would open their submissions and would be presented with an opening run-on sentence followed by a colon and a list of talking points. That's it. Being that the pace was so insane and I didn't want to get a bad grade, I would end up re-writing their entire sections. Of course I would complain to the "professor" and was assured that the problem was being looked into and that the person's other papers were fine. Of course they were fine, the school had a department that you could send your papers to and they would coach you through every step of correcting your mistakes, all but doing it for you. But that doesn't help on the group papers.
Bear in mind that all of this was also after going to traditional classroom college for 2 1/2 years and getting fed up with the hoop-jumping and ball-playing and endless drama and politics. I eventually left all of it and got a job and have been very successful being self-taught. Of course it causes a problem getting through HR drones, but my take on it is that if you're so hide-bound about everyone having a piece of paper, then I don't want to work there. True, it's been tough at times but I've never gone hungry and I've had (in my oh so humble opinion) better jobs because of it.
Just finished reading the rest of the article and this is still about the CAPACITOR problem? My god that's old news! EVERY technology manufacturer was affected by that, and by and large every one had the same response. To be blabbering on about how this is a breach of the sanctity of customer trust or some other bullshit is...well...bullshit. Get with the times.
I would add on to this that this is very public knowledge for anybody in IT for almost all manufacturers. No surprises here at all. I do a LOT of server purchasing from Dell and have yet to have problems where they didn't stand behind a machine. That being said, I also know that they're a soul-sucking corporate America company out to make a buck from everyone so buyer beware.
We're using SLES 11 on production servers with no problems. We decided to jump straight to 11 after getting burned for being 9.4 too long and nobody in the world supports it any more.
As far as VMware Tools support on SLES 11, according to VMWare's official documentation it is:
Apple's criticisms of Flash are spot on, but I'm 100% with the author in being Adobe's side on this one. Apple is deliberately spreading lies and half-truths in order to harm Adobe, further lock in developers and users, and push more iDevices. Remember, Apple is a hardware company and that's where the biggest part of their profits come from. iTunes? Just a way to sell zillions of iPods and make a little profit on the side. App store? Just a way to sell more iPhones/iPod touches and make some profit on the side. Holding features back from each new generation of software? Just a way to sell more of the next generation of hardware when you make the feature not compatible with the previous version.
Adobe's a PITA, Apple's a lying controlling paranoid scumbag. Kill 'em all.
Because 4chan was set up deliberately as a haven for completely free speech. Other boards do have problems with it, but the mods are quick enough with the banhammer to discourage it and drive the offenders to easier prey with less mods and more permissive policies, like the *chans.
Unfortunately parent is correct, your chances of turning this down and keeping your current job are very slim. Did your boss give a reason you "have to" move into an administrative role? That sounds a bit fishy to me, and if I were you I might take it up with my 2nd line manager to verify the reasoning behind it.
...if her lawyers planned or even steered this way since it may be a more fruitful avenue to pursue in the end. Either way it's absolutely absurd and obscene. It's pretty obvious this whole house of cards the recording industry has made will fall, the question is just which attack will make it finally crumble?
Believe it or not, I actually use very little compared to the average US household. I compare utility bills with people and they can't believe mine are so low. I just happen to like a long, scalding hot shower with lots of water.
B) Only if you dispose of CFL's correctly at your local hazardous waste disposal site.
C) I can only assume you're referring to mercury from power plants and the fuel-per-watt difference. This is the same argument I've heard against electric cars, and it's a very interesting one. The main difference is that when you burn whatever fuel at a power plant, that's a single source of the pollutants. It's just a matter of scale and location. At a power plant, you have a single large source of pollution that you can apply industrial filtration and cleaning to, which is much more efficient and isolated to the power plant site. For a CFL, if you break it it may be a smaller amount of mercury but it's in your house right next to you and can do much more real damage to you.
I'd like to see proof of this. Showers mix water of two specific and (until the water heater runs out) unchanging temperatures. You can't just reduce your hot water without reducing your cold water also, else your end water temp will change. If you really want to save fossil fuel, get a demand heater or follow my other suggestion to get a geo-exchange system and hook the high pressure loop up to a coil in your water heater.
My argument for rinsing hair still stands though, being a person with very long hair I can attest that it takes WAAAAAY longer and probably more water in the end to rinse under a low-flow shower head.
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...and you walked uphill to school against the wind both ways in -100 degree weather with snow past your neck?
You obviously didn't read the parent posts. UoP classes run such that each class runs for 5 weeks and covers an entire semester of material. You're not supposed to, or possibly even allowed, to take more than one class at a time. Or to say it differently, a single class at a time is considered a full time load. 9 papers over a semester isn't that bad, same with the reading load. However, condense that into 5 weeks and it quickly becomes insane.
Please read the posts before responding. I was taking one class at a time through UoP. The 12+ credits stated was for traditional brick & mortar university.
Tell me about it. We just got rid of a Linux "expert" who turned out to only know Ubuntu. We use SuSE enterprise and he could not understand at all why we didn't install apt-get as part of our standard install set. You should've seen his face when we explained to him that there IS no apt-get for SuSE and he'll have to go search for his own packages. Was priceless!
Generally I agree, but I have no patience for it. When the drama/politics start up, I'll usually leave the room and just go do what needs to be done anyway. As I said in another post, life is too short and I have too much to get done to sit around and listen to that crap. In the end it's easier to ask forgiveness (especially for getting something done the right way) than it is to ask permission.
To my knowledge, pedagogy is not just about one size fits all but rather about, "we do it this way because that's the way it's always been done and it's the right way". May sound like splitting hairs, but IMHO it's a big difference.
It's very typical. They replace actual instruction with huge reading and paper loads to hide the fact that the courses are pretty much completely empty of any real value.
Working is much better. I'm not some snowflake dipshit who cries to mommy when I don't get a trophy for showing up. I work an average of 50+ hours a week at an extremely demanding job and enjoy it immensely. At times I've held truly shiatty jobs that sucked the life out of me but needed the money to eat/pay rent/etc. Right now I'm dealing with the transition from two incomes and one house to one income and two houses due to having to move to find work, wife can't find a job in new town, and old house won't sell. Life sucks, but you deal with it and move on.
THANK YOU for some fucking validation!
To mangle a Monty Python quote, "I'm 32, I'm not old". Everyone on my team is actually within 2 years of each other for what it's worth. Also when I conduct interviews I'm MUCH more concerned about what you know, what you can do, and how well you learn and think than what kind of piece of paper you have.
Yes, I have little patience for bureaucracy, always have and always will, but I've by and large learned to deal with it or side-step it as the situation calls for. What I have ZERO patience for is pedagogy and jumping through arbitrary hoops that have no relation to the task at hand but are there to waste your time or prove that you have the patience to jump through hoops. I have too much shit to get done and life is too short to waste time on that.
Please understand the subject you're talking about before discussing it as almost all of your information is incorrect.
At U of Phoenix, there is no difference between full and part time. You take only one class at a time and each class lasts for 5 only weeks total. That's right, that whole load was ONLY ONE CLASS AT A TIME. Additionally, I WAS unemployed at the time and was still barely able to keep up. I was mentioning the full time employment bit in response to their (omnipresent) advertising that repeatedly describes how you can complete a degree and work full time.
Second, I was in their IT program, not an arts program. That did include some management classes on the course list, however the classes I took were more oriented to networking and such.
Third, US colleges are the same way. Note I stated 12 CREDITS, not 12 classes. Each class is a higher or lower number of credits depending on its course load and difficulty.
I would hazard to guess that it's pretty much impossible to go to traditional brick & mortar school "full time" (12 credits/semester I believe) and hold down a full time 40 hr job, family or no family.
Besides, "real" schools don't tell you that you can easily go there full time and hold a full time job. In fact, usually you're advised to seek out financial aid and student loans specifically because you need to concentrate on studying and work as little as possible. Granted that's in an ideal world, but as with most things in life you start with idealism and step backwards until you find reality.
...and then suddenly you're paid too much for your grade, you're bumped to a higher GS grade, and suddenly you're too high of a grade for your job. So you're shuffled to a job that's completely outside of your field but is for the right grade.
Seen it done in person, never works well at all and is usually a complete disaster. That being said, you're also set for life as it almost literally takes an act of congress to get you fired.
I did U of Phoenix for 4 classes (see full rant above) and everything in that report is 100% true. They lie like a rug to get you in the door then charge you exorbitant amounts for sub-standard ridiculously paced classes that are next to worthless.
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I would both agree and disagree. I did the atrocious U of Phoenix for 4 classes and couldn't take it any more. It was exactly as the OP said and more. The discussions were extremely stupid and shallow and the classes either weren't particularly relevant or were below-level, but additionally the pace was absolutely bonkers. I was ASSURED by my advisor when I started that in no circumstance should I be spending more than 15 hours a week on my coursework, including all reading, discussions, and assignments and that it was easy to do with a job and a family, just like the ads say. Well what they should tell you is that you HAVE to have a family to do it because you have to have people who can do everything else in your life for you besides, eat, sleep, work, and study.
We were assigned an average of 900+ pages of reading a week over the courses I took and they expected you to read it all. Then there were the papers: the last course I took with them had 9 major papers due in 5 weeks, comprised of 5 individual and 4 group papers. And if that wasn't bad enough, being the local English nazi I was chosen by my group to be the guy to put the papers together. Normally work I actually kind of enjoy, except 2 members (out of 4) of our group could write at maybe a 5th grade level. I would open their submissions and would be presented with an opening run-on sentence followed by a colon and a list of talking points. That's it. Being that the pace was so insane and I didn't want to get a bad grade, I would end up re-writing their entire sections. Of course I would complain to the "professor" and was assured that the problem was being looked into and that the person's other papers were fine. Of course they were fine, the school had a department that you could send your papers to and they would coach you through every step of correcting your mistakes, all but doing it for you. But that doesn't help on the group papers.
Bear in mind that all of this was also after going to traditional classroom college for 2 1/2 years and getting fed up with the hoop-jumping and ball-playing and endless drama and politics. I eventually left all of it and got a job and have been very successful being self-taught. Of course it causes a problem getting through HR drones, but my take on it is that if you're so hide-bound about everyone having a piece of paper, then I don't want to work there. True, it's been tough at times but I've never gone hungry and I've had (in my oh so humble opinion) better jobs because of it.
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Just finished reading the rest of the article and this is still about the CAPACITOR problem? My god that's old news! EVERY technology manufacturer was affected by that, and by and large every one had the same response. To be blabbering on about how this is a breach of the sanctity of customer trust or some other bullshit is...well...bullshit. Get with the times.
I would add on to this that this is very public knowledge for anybody in IT for almost all manufacturers. No surprises here at all. I do a LOT of server purchasing from Dell and have yet to have problems where they didn't stand behind a machine. That being said, I also know that they're a soul-sucking corporate America company out to make a buck from everyone so buyer beware.
Just my $.02
^^^ +10 sad but true
We're using SLES 11 on production servers with no problems. We decided to jump straight to 11 after getting burned for being 9.4 too long and nobody in the world supports it any more.
As far as VMware Tools support on SLES 11, according to VMWare's official documentation it is:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/osp_install_guide.pdf start on page 18
Apple's criticisms of Flash are spot on, but I'm 100% with the author in being Adobe's side on this one. Apple is deliberately spreading lies and half-truths in order to harm Adobe, further lock in developers and users, and push more iDevices. Remember, Apple is a hardware company and that's where the biggest part of their profits come from. iTunes? Just a way to sell zillions of iPods and make a little profit on the side. App store? Just a way to sell more iPhones/iPod touches and make some profit on the side. Holding features back from each new generation of software? Just a way to sell more of the next generation of hardware when you make the feature not compatible with the previous version.
Adobe's a PITA, Apple's a lying controlling paranoid scumbag. Kill 'em all.
Because 4chan was set up deliberately as a haven for completely free speech. Other boards do have problems with it, but the mods are quick enough with the banhammer to discourage it and drive the offenders to easier prey with less mods and more permissive policies, like the *chans.
Unfortunately parent is correct, your chances of turning this down and keeping your current job are very slim. Did your boss give a reason you "have to" move into an administrative role? That sounds a bit fishy to me, and if I were you I might take it up with my 2nd line manager to verify the reasoning behind it.
...if her lawyers planned or even steered this way since it may be a more fruitful avenue to pursue in the end. Either way it's absolutely absurd and obscene. It's pretty obvious this whole house of cards the recording industry has made will fall, the question is just which attack will make it finally crumble?
Believe it or not, I actually use very little compared to the average US household. I compare utility bills with people and they can't believe mine are so low. I just happen to like a long, scalding hot shower with lots of water.
Right but the previous poster made the point to explicitly say it would specifically use less hot water, implying not less cold water, which is bunky.
A) Do you have numbers?
B) Only if you dispose of CFL's correctly at your local hazardous waste disposal site.
C) I can only assume you're referring to mercury from power plants and the fuel-per-watt difference. This is the same argument I've heard against electric cars, and it's a very interesting one. The main difference is that when you burn whatever fuel at a power plant, that's a single source of the pollutants. It's just a matter of scale and location. At a power plant, you have a single large source of pollution that you can apply industrial filtration and cleaning to, which is much more efficient and isolated to the power plant site. For a CFL, if you break it it may be a smaller amount of mercury but it's in your house right next to you and can do much more real damage to you.
I'd like to see proof of this. Showers mix water of two specific and (until the water heater runs out) unchanging temperatures. You can't just reduce your hot water without reducing your cold water also, else your end water temp will change. If you really want to save fossil fuel, get a demand heater or follow my other suggestion to get a geo-exchange system and hook the high pressure loop up to a coil in your water heater.
My argument for rinsing hair still stands though, being a person with very long hair I can attest that it takes WAAAAAY longer and probably more water in the end to rinse under a low-flow shower head.