I can completely agree with what you are saying; however, let's not forget what age group buys the most CDs. I can't remember where I saw the stats, but teenagers purchase more music than any other age group. So, there's definetly a reason to bring these singers back to produce the same shit that teenagers have and will like for years to come. I do believe that RIAA can better accomodate the other age groups that want this thought provoking music.
I would have to say that the only stupid thing regarding anime is that adults (term being used loosely) watch it. Adults watching anime usually reflects their lack of insight into the real world, and a want for fantasy away from the real world. Perhaps you should go outside and come to grips with the world... it isn't perfect, but it's not all bad. Anime is the last step before becoming a hermit.
This is ridiculous.... I bought a new car a few years back.... and only the next year, a newer model came out!! And it had the CD player I wanted to!! I guess what I'm sarcastically trying to get at is that just because a newer graphics card comes ut, you don't NEED to get it. Why don't you go spend the money on some new clothes are something!
I'll have to agree with all of this.... don't forget that newbies can get started by bringing their computers and favorite distro with them to any lug meeting.
I can agree with this statement, and would also like to comment on the preconception of some toward the purpose of college. I have worked primarily with blue-collar workers through my short life. Many of these have never attended college or post secondary school. I don't blame these people for this nor do I subject these people to any type of criticism. However, the majority of them have a preconceived idea of a college education. They believe college is an institution to learn a particular trade. This is far from the truth. College may make you better at what you want to do; however, the purpose of college is to teach you fundamentals, and give to you the ability to learn other things as they come about. I have to tell these people that you cannot learn about computers once and be prepared for the future. We have to learn about the fundamental theories in order to progress with the current world of technology.
We should make all CS students learn assembler. But, they would have no idea what was going on until they had a class that explains the basic architecture and design of computer systems. It would be a good way of weeding out true CS stuents:-)
As opposed to C/C++, which was what I was taught in college, Java is a higher level language, and of course demands a stronger machine in order to compile and interpret the code in a reasonable amount of time. However, to the universities and other schools that have the budget to supply the equipment necessary to equip their students with computers capable of reasonably compiling and executing java, java can be an excellent learning tool to a student learning object oriented programming.
My largest complaint here is this: most students just starting to learn the principles of computer programming do not initially begin with obect oriented coding. Every school that I know of first teaches top-down coding first. Eventually, modularization becomes the current topic, and then object oriented programming is addressed. OOP doesn't become the topic of class discussion at most schools until the second semester of a CS student. Which leaves me to conclude that java is worthwhile for students to learn when they reach that level. However, students do not reach the level where they will understand the advantages (disadvantages) of java versus C/C++ until later in their college careers. I believe java to be a strong language to address object oriented ideas in code, but not a strong place to teach students the basic principles of programming.
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I can completely agree with what you are saying; however, let's not forget what age group buys the most CDs. I can't remember where I saw the stats, but teenagers purchase more music than any other age group. So, there's definetly a reason to bring these singers back to produce the same shit that teenagers have and will like for years to come. I do believe that RIAA can better accomodate the other age groups that want this thought provoking music.
I would have to say that the only stupid thing regarding anime is that adults (term being used loosely) watch it. Adults watching anime usually reflects their lack of insight into the real world, and a want for fantasy away from the real world. Perhaps you should go outside and come to grips with the world... it isn't perfect, but it's not all bad. Anime is the last step before becoming a hermit.
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This is ridiculous.... I bought a new car a few years back.... and only the next year, a newer model came out!! And it had the CD player I wanted to!! I guess what I'm sarcastically trying to get at is that just because a newer graphics card comes ut, you don't NEED to get it. Why don't you go spend the money on some new clothes are something!
I'll have to agree with all of this.... don't forget that newbies can get started by bringing their computers and favorite distro with them to any lug meeting.
I can agree with this statement, and would also like to comment on the preconception of some toward the purpose of college. I have worked primarily with blue-collar workers through my short life. Many of these have never attended college or post secondary school. I don't blame these people for this nor do I subject these people to any type of criticism. However, the majority of them have a preconceived idea of a college education. They believe college is an institution to learn a particular trade. This is far from the truth. College may make you better at what you want to do; however, the purpose of college is to teach you fundamentals, and give to you the ability to learn other things as they come about. I have to tell these people that you cannot learn about computers once and be prepared for the future. We have to learn about the fundamental theories in order to progress with the current world of technology.
We should make all CS students learn assembler. But, they would have no idea what was going on until they had a class that explains the basic architecture and design of computer systems. It would be a good way of weeding out true CS stuents :-)
As opposed to C/C++, which was what I was taught in college, Java is a higher level language, and of course demands a stronger machine in order to compile and interpret the code in a reasonable amount of time. However, to the universities and other schools that have the budget to supply the equipment necessary to equip their students with computers capable of reasonably compiling and executing java, java can be an excellent learning tool to a student learning object oriented programming.
My largest complaint here is this: most students just starting to learn the principles of computer programming do not initially begin with obect oriented coding. Every school that I know of first teaches top-down coding first. Eventually, modularization becomes the current topic, and then object oriented programming is addressed. OOP doesn't become the topic of class discussion at most schools until the second semester of a CS student. Which leaves me to conclude that java is worthwhile for students to learn when they reach that level. However, students do not reach the level where they will understand the advantages (disadvantages) of java versus C/C++ until later in their college careers. I believe java to be a strong language to address object oriented ideas in code, but not a strong place to teach students the basic principles of programming.