Those not weeded out in the US will not amount to anything. If they can't grok java, they won't be able to grok what comes later. They are wasting the time and energy of the capable students and the instructor. If this much hand-holding is necessary for Java, how much will be necessary for operating systems, algorithms, etc.?
BTW, your understanding of the term 'economic constraints' is apparantly (sp) flawed. All countries are under economic constraints. The difference is what is the shortage: money, physical capital, food, etc. At the very least, there is a shortage of time for all people. And when dealing with an ignoramus who is slowing down my education, I have to deal with insufficient patience.
(Dear Lord, I think I might be turning into an objectivist)
Since becoming a father, educating like this has been a dream. I'm not smart enough to get everything he needs. And I don't have the luxury of spending enough time away from work. But damn if this wouldn't be cool.
I'm torn on the social interaction issue. On one hand, we have the anecdotes surrounding the 'hellmouth' series by JK. While plenty of it was hyperbolic, I can relate to many of the sentiments. For anyone not in lockstep with his peers, it can be a bitch.
But it's difficult to get kids to see people from all walks of life. I've seen kids who were home-schooled and/or private schooled who really miss out on the dregs of society. Hell, they even miss out on the averages of society. They interact only with other elitists, be they 5, 15, or 55 years old. They do comport themselves well, but have clear difficulties reacting with children their own age, and those in different economic brackets.
Then I turn again to the other side of the argument: I attended public school for 10 out of 13 years. I picked up a few friends here and there. But I got most of my friends and social interaction from an after school job, and one after school activity (drama).
BTW, is there a single kindergarten in the country that isn't a den of socialist dogma?
I suppose my point is that much of life is dealing with dopey, moronic products of public schools. Better to learn to deal with it early on.
I have a 15 month old kid. My biggest concern about home schooling is social interaction. With any luck, there will be a 'critical mass' by the time he is really in the stage where he needs to pick up those skills. What do I mean? There'll be enough kids of varied backgrounds doing various homeschool group things that he'll be able to hang out with real people, not just 'homeschool weirdos'.
Maryland's standardized tests are a poster child for how to measure the wrong thing. They indirectly led to my wife resigning her teaching position. They've led to censure of a local school board member. (In my county, it's an elected position. One member thought the tests were such garbage that she kept her kids home on test day. That's why they'll soon be mandatory: right now, it only 'measures' school performance, and only aggregate numbers are supposed to be examined.)
You can thank Montgomery Co. (ranked fifth nationwide in number of soccer moms per capita) for this bit of bullshit.
Of course Al-Jebrah is a terrorist group. After all, it was the evil Egyptians who invented the zero. What other purpose could there be, except to spread Radical Islam throughout the world, and destroy the non-believers?
Of course, one approach would be to fail the fuckwits that can't hack it, but apparently teachers catch more flak for failing lazy students than passing smart ones.
Two reasons:
First, teacher competency is frequently based on how many students failed. Because obviously, the teacher is the end-all, be-all for education. The students and the parents have nothing to do with it.
Second, the kids who need to be failed are politicians' kids. After all, how could the jackass that wrote the DMCA and the dumb slut who was ignorant enough to carry his seed possibly mix genes in a manner that would result in a positive IQ? It would throw the theory of entropy right out the window.
I agree about the averaging. I've considered teaching at the local JC (oops. Guess it's a 'real' school these days.) On first day of class:
"Class, we are going to have a vote. I am more than willing to grade the class on a curve. But only if it works both ways. If the average for an exam is lower than a C, I will add points to the exam for everyone. If the average is higher than a C, everyone gets points deducted."
Oh my, that would be so fun. And evil. Opens up so many possibilities for the study of game theory.
If someone can't get through three intro courses, have they picked the correct major? If they have no study or note-taking skills, should they be in college?
Traditionally, these intro type classes in various majors were meant to weed out folks that the admissions testing missed.
No. Even "for what purpose art though Romeo" sounds better.
I guess that's why he's "The Bard" and I'm just a schlub.
What else is in the book? Sounds interesting. (I picked up Asimov's book on Shakespeare when a local bookstore had a going out of business sale. I hope my son can use it at some point in the future.)
I had good English teachers in high school. Every time we did Romeo and Juliet (twice in English, once in drama, I believe), the first thing out of the teachers' mouths was "Wherefore means why."
And this wasn't some fancy prep school. Just a plain, public high school in rural America.
I can certainly see where they might not want you to say too much. But even if you could say "I was deposed today.... Attorney submitted brief yesterday.... etc." Or even just post a blurb saying "eff page on trial updated today". Certainly these very factual things couldn't cause a problem.
'Wherefore' means 'why'. "Why art thou, Hypercard?" Perhaps the worst grammatical mistake in slashdot history. Perhaps you meant "Where art thou, Hypercard."
Shakespeare. Nifty new author. Worth a read. Heck, even the Mel Gibson movie of Hamlet might have given you a clue on this one.
You are correct. This is a nice strip, and very touching. As a matter of fact, I have one of the commemorative copies hanging on my wall in a nice silver frame.
This is how my wife's cochlear implant works. But like I said later in this thread, I imagine it is a bandwidth question. At this point, they'll be wanting to find out if they are hitting the right nerves and making them do the right thing. Later on, they'll work on making it smaller and less intrusive.
Also, remember that many people have more or less permanent holes in their skin. Grandfather had a shunt for kidney dialysis. No, it didn't go directly into the brain, but did go directly into one of those big blood vessels in the leg. There's also people who have had a colostomy. I'm sure there are other examples.
Doubt it. Cochlear implants transmit signals through the skin. Not sure exactly how it works, but if the transmitter isn't right over the skin, no signal gets through (Note: this is an implant my wife got in about 1989. Things may be different today.) Is this wireless? I guess, technically.
I imagine the real reason for the difference is the bandwidth. A picture IS worth a thousand words in that respect:)
There is a reasonable degree of implants put in infants. It largely depends on the type/manner of hearing loss. I'm no neurosurgeon (or any type of doc.) but I imagine that the aural pathways develop anyway, as they would normally develop between cochlea and the portion of the brain that deals with that. Whether the nerves in that pathway are stimulated by movements of cilia in the cochlea, or by electrodes, I'm not sure it matters to the pathways.
Hell, my wife would give ten times that (after all, I'm the one who earned it;) to see our kid one more time; even a single frame, not a single frame/second forever. But in the meantime, we'll have to make do with a second cochlear implant.
(IOW, insightful comment and I have no mod points.)
iPod works pretty well with BSD. Okay, okay, so it's not the flavor you mention. Still. I doubt you'll get any player that has better integration with a *nix workalike than the iPod and MacOS X.
My brother had one. I imagine that all of the ones still in existence should be near mint, as NOBODY could use the freakin' things, so they were either tossed aside or beaten to bits with a hammer.
Here goes the karma (and not in that joking 'haha, I'm just saying that to get upmodded'. Read on. You'll be lucky if this comment doesn't go to minus infinity)
Do you drive to work? Do you recycle? Are you a vegan? Every thing you do is going to piss someone off or hurt them. What's with this terrorism bullshit? The last time you bought a dime bag, did you consider that 99% of the cost of it went to terrorism?
Haven't seen it in the 3+ comments, so here goes:
Western nations have been trying for decades to bring some semblance of civilization to Africa. It ain't working. No matter what you do, someone is going to be getting over on someone in some rather heinous ways. The only thing keeping Egypt from a similar situation is the influence of Islam. (It's what eliminated MUCH of the fighting in the middle east as well. That it helped stir up more is not the point).
See, contrary to popular belief, it wasn't necessary for the white man to go very far inland to get slaves. One tribe bonks another and sells off the slaves they can't use.
For shits sake, large portions of the continent are still inhabited by those who commit female circumcision! Fuck 'em.
I have no idea why you assume you'll be screwed by a jeweler. Did you shop around? Get to know anybody? Or were you just a sanctimonious prick boohooing about the poor miners? Hit any estate sales? Pawn shops? There's plenty of places to get a ring.
But I've got a better idea. Just buy her something cheap. Unless she's a total pig, she'll get tired of you and divorce you in a year or so and find someone who has a pair. Or at least someone who will ask HER opinion on the subject.
Next on AskSlashdot: what type of toilet paper do you use? Do you wipe up or down? How does the roll face? Doesn't it bother you that ten trillion acres of virgin hardwood forest are clear cut every day so that you can wipe your ass?
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Those not weeded out in the US will not amount to anything. If they can't grok java, they won't be able to grok what comes later. They are wasting the time and energy of the capable students and the instructor. If this much hand-holding is necessary for Java, how much will be necessary for operating systems, algorithms, etc.?
BTW, your understanding of the term 'economic constraints' is apparantly (sp) flawed. All countries are under economic constraints. The difference is what is the shortage: money, physical capital, food, etc. At the very least, there is a shortage of time for all people. And when dealing with an ignoramus who is slowing down my education, I have to deal with insufficient patience.
(Dear Lord, I think I might be turning into an objectivist)
Since becoming a father, educating like this has been a dream. I'm not smart enough to get everything he needs. And I don't have the luxury of spending enough time away from work. But damn if this wouldn't be cool.
I'm torn on the social interaction issue. On one hand, we have the anecdotes surrounding the 'hellmouth' series by JK. While plenty of it was hyperbolic, I can relate to many of the sentiments. For anyone not in lockstep with his peers, it can be a bitch.
But it's difficult to get kids to see people from all walks of life. I've seen kids who were home-schooled and/or private schooled who really miss out on the dregs of society. Hell, they even miss out on the averages of society. They interact only with other elitists, be they 5, 15, or 55 years old. They do comport themselves well, but have clear difficulties reacting with children their own age, and those in different economic brackets.
Then I turn again to the other side of the argument: I attended public school for 10 out of 13 years. I picked up a few friends here and there. But I got most of my friends and social interaction from an after school job, and one after school activity (drama).
BTW, is there a single kindergarten in the country that isn't a den of socialist dogma?
I suppose my point is that much of life is dealing with dopey, moronic products of public schools. Better to learn to deal with it early on.
I have a 15 month old kid. My biggest concern about home schooling is social interaction. With any luck, there will be a 'critical mass' by the time he is really in the stage where he needs to pick up those skills. What do I mean? There'll be enough kids of varied backgrounds doing various homeschool group things that he'll be able to hang out with real people, not just 'homeschool weirdos'.
Maryland's standardized tests are a poster child for how to measure the wrong thing. They indirectly led to my wife resigning her teaching position. They've led to censure of a local school board member. (In my county, it's an elected position. One member thought the tests were such garbage that she kept her kids home on test day. That's why they'll soon be mandatory: right now, it only 'measures' school performance, and only aggregate numbers are supposed to be examined.)
You can thank Montgomery Co. (ranked fifth nationwide in number of soccer moms per capita) for this bit of bullshit.
Of course Al-Jebrah is a terrorist group. After all, it was the evil Egyptians who invented the zero. What other purpose could there be, except to spread Radical Islam throughout the world, and destroy the non-believers?
Of course, one approach would be to fail the fuckwits that can't hack it, but apparently teachers catch more flak for failing lazy students than passing smart ones.
Two reasons:
First, teacher competency is frequently based on how many students failed. Because obviously, the teacher is the end-all, be-all for education. The students and the parents have nothing to do with it.
Second, the kids who need to be failed are politicians' kids. After all, how could the jackass that wrote the DMCA and the dumb slut who was ignorant enough to carry his seed possibly mix genes in a manner that would result in a positive IQ? It would throw the theory of entropy right out the window.
I agree about the averaging. I've considered teaching at the local JC (oops. Guess it's a 'real' school these days.) On first day of class:
"Class, we are going to have a vote. I am more than willing to grade the class on a curve. But only if it works both ways. If the average for an exam is lower than a C, I will add points to the exam for everyone. If the average is higher than a C, everyone gets points deducted."
Oh my, that would be so fun. And evil. Opens up so many possibilities for the study of game theory.
If someone can't get through three intro courses, have they picked the correct major? If they have no study or note-taking skills, should they be in college?
Traditionally, these intro type classes in various majors were meant to weed out folks that the admissions testing missed.
No. Even "for what purpose art though Romeo" sounds better.
I guess that's why he's "The Bard" and I'm just a schlub.
What else is in the book? Sounds interesting. (I picked up Asimov's book on Shakespeare when a local bookstore had a going out of business sale. I hope my son can use it at some point in the future.)
I had good English teachers in high school. Every time we did Romeo and Juliet (twice in English, once in drama, I believe), the first thing out of the teachers' mouths was "Wherefore means why."
And this wasn't some fancy prep school. Just a plain, public high school in rural America.
I can certainly see where they might not want you to say too much. But even if you could say "I was deposed today.... Attorney submitted brief yesterday.... etc." Or even just post a blurb saying "eff page on trial updated today". Certainly these very factual things couldn't cause a problem.
'Wherefore' means 'why'. "Why art thou, Hypercard?" Perhaps the worst grammatical mistake in slashdot history. Perhaps you meant "Where art thou, Hypercard."
Shakespeare. Nifty new author. Worth a read. Heck, even the Mel Gibson movie of Hamlet might have given you a clue on this one.
(OT, Flame, Troll, bleh)
Holy shit! A slashdotter who put their money where their mouth is.
How about starting a journal to keep us updated?
Home Phone Networking. A boon to people with too many phone lines, and not enough ethernet drops.
"My father assured him that when he left, either his brains or his signature would be on that contract."
Yeah, it's just business.
(FWIW, considering the city would have likely gone with MS products anyway, this is a slightly better deal.)
You are correct. This is a nice strip, and very touching. As a matter of fact, I have one of the commemorative copies hanging on my wall in a nice silver frame.
This is how my wife's cochlear implant works. But like I said later in this thread, I imagine it is a bandwidth question. At this point, they'll be wanting to find out if they are hitting the right nerves and making them do the right thing. Later on, they'll work on making it smaller and less intrusive.
Also, remember that many people have more or less permanent holes in their skin. Grandfather had a shunt for kidney dialysis. No, it didn't go directly into the brain, but did go directly into one of those big blood vessels in the leg. There's also people who have had a colostomy. I'm sure there are other examples.
Doubt it. Cochlear implants transmit signals through the skin. Not sure exactly how it works, but if the transmitter isn't right over the skin, no signal gets through (Note: this is an implant my wife got in about 1989. Things may be different today.) Is this wireless? I guess, technically.
I imagine the real reason for the difference is the bandwidth. A picture IS worth a thousand words in that respect:)
There is a reasonable degree of implants put in infants. It largely depends on the type/manner of hearing loss. I'm no neurosurgeon (or any type of doc.) but I imagine that the aural pathways develop anyway, as they would normally develop between cochlea and the portion of the brain that deals with that. Whether the nerves in that pathway are stimulated by movements of cilia in the cochlea, or by electrodes, I'm not sure it matters to the pathways.
But I could be way off base.
Hell, my wife would give ten times that (after all, I'm the one who earned it;) to see our kid one more time; even a single frame, not a single frame/second forever. But in the meantime, we'll have to make do with a second cochlear implant.
(IOW, insightful comment and I have no mod points.)
iPod works pretty well with BSD. Okay, okay, so it's not the flavor you mention. Still. I doubt you'll get any player that has better integration with a *nix workalike than the iPod and MacOS X.
(No, I have neither. Just stating the facts.)
"case-ricer" I love it!
Did you notice the BMW emblem on the 'puter case?
Oooh. Ahhh.
My brother had one. I imagine that all of the ones still in existence should be near mint, as NOBODY could use the freakin' things, so they were either tossed aside or beaten to bits with a hammer.
Here goes the karma (and not in that joking 'haha, I'm just saying that to get upmodded'. Read on. You'll be lucky if this comment doesn't go to minus infinity)
Do you drive to work? Do you recycle? Are you a vegan? Every thing you do is going to piss someone off or hurt them. What's with this terrorism bullshit? The last time you bought a dime bag, did you consider that 99% of the cost of it went to terrorism?
Haven't seen it in the 3+ comments, so here goes:
Western nations have been trying for decades to bring some semblance of civilization to Africa. It ain't working. No matter what you do, someone is going to be getting over on someone in some rather heinous ways. The only thing keeping Egypt from a similar situation is the influence of Islam. (It's what eliminated MUCH of the fighting in the middle east as well. That it helped stir up more is not the point).
See, contrary to popular belief, it wasn't necessary for the white man to go very far inland to get slaves. One tribe bonks another and sells off the slaves they can't use.
For shits sake, large portions of the continent are still inhabited by those who commit female circumcision! Fuck 'em.
I have no idea why you assume you'll be screwed by a jeweler. Did you shop around? Get to know anybody? Or were you just a sanctimonious prick boohooing about the poor miners? Hit any estate sales? Pawn shops? There's plenty of places to get a ring.
But I've got a better idea. Just buy her something cheap. Unless she's a total pig, she'll get tired of you and divorce you in a year or so and find someone who has a pair. Or at least someone who will ask HER opinion on the subject.
Next on AskSlashdot: what type of toilet paper do you use? Do you wipe up or down? How does the roll face? Doesn't it bother you that ten trillion acres of virgin hardwood forest are clear cut every day so that you can wipe your ass?