The student has no say in the matter. It's as simple as that. If the school policy allows students to audit classes, that's it. It's between the instructor and the school.
Sure, they can do what you suggested - but it defeats the purpose of allowing students to audit classes - they get to sample the class without depriving a paying student of a seat in the class, while at the same time both contributing to the class environment and being able to decide if the class and instructor are really what they want.
So your "solution" ultimately hurts, not helps, paying students.
Also, to be honest, they have to know so much already and keep up with so many changing tax rules plus tax software every year that the majority of them have their capacity for learning while working maxed out anyways.
That's true in a lot of jobs, and certainly won't get any sympathy from me - the IT field changes a lot more in one year than accounting does in a decade.
When it was first created, SQL was considered a sort of a "databases for dummies." It let non-programmers use databases. "Real programmers" at the time dealt directly with file formats, records, and fields.
There's no excuse today except inertia - there are plenty of visual query tools around - no need for them to learn much new stuff.
Isn't the easy solution just not to smoke joints? I'm not snobbish enough to feel entitled to a good time even if it means I break the law. The problem is, this sort of thinking is the extreme exception, not the rule.
I've never been into recreational pharmacology, never been a smoker of anything, think it's called dope for a reason, and even I am in favor of legalization.
The problem with your argument is two-fold:
It used to be legal
Prohibition is a slippery slope
There are billions of ways to have a good time legally.
Don't tell them! They'll either make them illegal or tax them!
(And yes, you are coming across as being a bit snobbish with your "holier-than-thou" attitude.)
No, what they're saying is that times change, and if they can't learn the tools of the trade for dealing with larger data sets, they should stick to smaller businesses.
Also, the quick fix for the 2 billion records is "delete * from sex_offenders where known_alias ='cowboyneal'";
They lost me at "Microsoft's trustworthy $INSERT_ANYTHING".
Sorry, but Microsoft lost my trust more than a decade ago. Microsoft is like an abusive boyfriend who says "Trust me - I've changed, this time is really different..."
The indexing service IS off - it's one of the first things I get rid of under both linux and Windows. (along with getting rid of Mono under linux). I'm not a n00b Windows just plain sucks more juice...
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-- Barbie
You're spending a dollar to save a penny, it's about the dumbest way to "save" money imaginable.
The "retraining" is a one-time expense, whereas the other costs are repetitive. Save a penny a day, you've saved $3.65 in a year. They have to "retrain" anyway when they move to a new version of anything, so that's a bogus argument.
As for the windows-only apps - that's partially the fault of people who bought into vendor lock-in. It's like that Fram oil filter commercial: "You can pay me now and you can pay me later."
You shouldn't use stupid past decisions to justify stupid future decisions.
"Demystifying computers" - teaching them how to remove a virus isn't going to do that.
Teach them how a computer actually works - if they don't know what's normal, how the heck are they supposed to recognize when something is wrong?
Besides, if they're too stupid to recognize what's normal by now (like they've never really used a computer before), you're wasting your time "demystifying computers." If they're too old, or too young, you're again wasting your time. Perhaps we should send you to Soviet Russia and have a virus remove YOU!
The power requirements are more for Windows compared to linux on the same hardware - at least on my laptop. Then again, I installed a proper linux distro, not Crapuntu.
OpenSuse is SO much more polished.
Really want to reduce energy consumption in IT. Switch all those desktops to linux - a LOT less juice used to run the desktop.
And get people to turn their machines off at night.
And don't move to the cloud. There's a lot of stuff that works better locally, with fewer security concerns - like not having critical systems connected to a "cloud".
When I got it a decade ago, I had to find all sorts of awkward ways to type for a month or so, and take lots of breaks. Sleeping was almost impossible because there was NO comfortable position - but I never used braces. After a month or two, the inflammation subsided - the body WILL adapt if you push it to, and LET it.
Now? 20-hour keyboard sessions don't cause even a twinge.
You won't catch me flying. I used to, whenever I had to go somewhere to work, but I can't see myself putting up with the hassles. Better to drive. This way, I can take my dogs with me, see the country, bring along whatever gear *might* be needed, and plan to stay a week or two instead of "Well, this has to be finished by Monday because that's flight time, so some things might not get the attention they deserve sorry sux to be u."
Plus I've heard a few horror stories. Friends in Australia pay extra when coming to Canada just so they can avoid landing in the US. Not because they're terrorists or on any watch list or "look ethnic", but because they simply don't want the hassles at the end of a long flight.
You read the post! Put your blindfold back on, you terr'rist!
Seriously, people already don't want to fly, and who can blame them? China has the right idea with their new record-breaking high-speed trains. And for trans-ocean voyages, a slow cruise is more pleasant anyway - or just teleconference. It's not like we don't have the technology.
In a backwards way, the terrorists are actually helping to make the planet a bit greener, except that the US military is the world's single largest user of fossil fuels. And no, this is in no way a criticism of the military - they're under civilian leadership and have to suck it up even when the boss is an idjit, just like the rest of us.
If something could potentially be used in a bad way, even if most people aren't going to abuse it, it must immediately be banned! So, basically, anything that can be used as a weapon, too. Which is... pretty much everything.
I don't mind letting slashdot make some revenue off ads. Certainly, they have their uses. For example, when it comes time to buy my own server instead of using my hosts server, I'll look at both IBM and HP.
As for my personal info, my slashdot journal has a LOT, so how is anyone going to sell "private info" when it's already out there?
Either you get runaway global warming, or you get an ice-ball. For planets that don't have a crustal carbon cycle, there's no such thing as a "Goldilocks Zone".
That's both good and bad. Good, because it means that there's less likelyhood of someone else's bots wiping us out and stripping the planet to turn into computronium, bad because it would be nice to have someone else to talk to.
Muller is in favour of software patents - see his blog entry attacking RedHat, calling them parasites (and by extension, all open-source projects that "destroy value" by substituting free software in place of paying a quasi-monopolist. (Of course, the money isn't destroyed - it gets spent elsewhere, but Muller has his hand out looking for a new "sponsor/puppetmaster").
He's a known troll who sides with whoever he thinks will throw money his way one way or another. Witness his use of the "broken windows" argument to say that RedHat "destroys value"
I explained further above that the political perspective on this is focused on what works for the economy at large. Replacing $50 billion of proprietary software revenues with $5 billion of Red Hat revenues would be theoretically fine if Red Hat's business model were scalable and could serve as a role model for many other companies. But it's a uniquely parasitic model that can't be replicated. The only company for which it works on such a scale is Red Hat itself.
Venture capitalists used to be much more enthusiastic about open source years ago. But since Sun acquired MySQL and Red Hat acquired JBoss, there haven't really been any significant "exits" (IPOs or trade sales) of open source companies. Venture investment in open source startups has cooled off and, compared to previous levels, slowed down to a trickle.
So if I were a political decision-maker concerned with innovation policy, Red Hat would clearly not be a company for me to support. Instead, I would view its financials as an indication that proprietary software developers may very well have a point when requesting strong legal protection for the fruits of their R&D efforts.
From a pragmatic if not utilitarian perspective, it doesn't really matter if there are a few "trolls" taking advantage of the system, or if there's a problem with trivial patents, as long as patent protection favors a sustainable approach to innovation while patent abolition would simply be grist to the mills of a company like Red Hat.
The real root cause is assholes like you who change their story depending on which way the money is flowing. One day, patents are bad. The next day, patents are good when you decide to attack RedHat., one of your original sponsors. - "Red Hat's business model does more harm than good".
You're such an ass-wipe. Too bad nobody takes you seriously any more.
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Oops - gotta go - the device has a lifetime expectancy of only 1 hour, 7 minutes even at this slow speed.
Next time, I'll boot up that old 4.77 mhz PCjr.
Sure, they can do what you suggested - but it defeats the purpose of allowing students to audit classes - they get to sample the class without depriving a paying student of a seat in the class, while at the same time both contributing to the class environment and being able to decide if the class and instructor are really what they want.
So your "solution" ultimately hurts, not helps, paying students.
-- Barbie
That's true in a lot of jobs, and certainly won't get any sympathy from me - the IT field changes a lot more in one year than accounting does in a decade.
When it was first created, SQL was considered a sort of a "databases for dummies." It let non-programmers use databases. "Real programmers" at the time dealt directly with file formats, records, and fields.
There's no excuse today except inertia - there are plenty of visual query tools around - no need for them to learn much new stuff.
-- Barbie
I've never been into recreational pharmacology, never been a smoker of anything, think it's called dope for a reason, and even I am in favor of legalization.
The problem with your argument is two-fold:
Don't tell them! They'll either make them illegal or tax them!
(And yes, you are coming across as being a bit snobbish with your "holier-than-thou" attitude.)
-- Barbie
Also, the quick fix for the 2 billion records is "delete * from sex_offenders where known_alias ='cowboyneal'";
Sorry, but Microsoft lost my trust more than a decade ago. Microsoft is like an abusive boyfriend who says "Trust me - I've changed, this time is really different ..."
The only right response to both is "Drop dead!"
-- Barbie
-- Barbie
The indexing service IS off - it's one of the first things I get rid of under both linux and Windows. (along with getting rid of Mono under linux). I'm not a n00b Windows just plain sucks more juice ...
p
-- Barbie
The "retraining" is a one-time expense, whereas the other costs are repetitive. Save a penny a day, you've saved $3.65 in a year. They have to "retrain" anyway when they move to a new version of anything, so that's a bogus argument.
As for the windows-only apps - that's partially the fault of people who bought into vendor lock-in. It's like that Fram oil filter commercial: "You can pay me now and you can pay me later."
You shouldn't use stupid past decisions to justify stupid future decisions.
-- Barbie
Because most of them are running Crapuntu. Switch to another distro that gets power management right. OpenSuse does.
-- Barbie
"Demystifying computers" + "let me install a virus so that they can practice" == retarded.
Teach them how a computer actually works - if they don't know what's normal, how the heck are they supposed to recognize when something is wrong?
Besides, if they're too stupid to recognize what's normal by now (like they've never really used a computer before), you're wasting your time "demystifying computers." If they're too old, or too young, you're again wasting your time. Perhaps we should send you to Soviet Russia and have a virus remove YOU!
The power requirements are more for Windows compared to linux on the same hardware - at least on my laptop. Then again, I installed a proper linux distro, not Crapuntu. OpenSuse is SO much more polished.
My laptop fan doesn't even come on under load running linux, but under Windows, it runs even at idle.
So just plug a second monitor into the laptop - you won't even lose space for the goodies bar.
Really want to reduce energy consumption in IT. Switch all those desktops to linux - a LOT less juice used to run the desktop.
And get people to turn their machines off at night.
And don't move to the cloud. There's a lot of stuff that works better locally, with fewer security concerns - like not having critical systems connected to a "cloud".
Trackballs are NOT good. Definitely avoid at all costs.
When I got it a decade ago, I had to find all sorts of awkward ways to type for a month or so, and take lots of breaks. Sleeping was almost impossible because there was NO comfortable position - but I never used braces. After a month or two, the inflammation subsided - the body WILL adapt if you push it to, and LET it.
Now? 20-hour keyboard sessions don't cause even a twinge.
The best treatment for RSI is no treatment.
You won't catch me flying. I used to, whenever I had to go somewhere to work, but I can't see myself putting up with the hassles. Better to drive. This way, I can take my dogs with me, see the country, bring along whatever gear *might* be needed, and plan to stay a week or two instead of "Well, this has to be finished by Monday because that's flight time, so some things might not get the attention they deserve sorry sux to be u."
Plus I've heard a few horror stories. Friends in Australia pay extra when coming to Canada just so they can avoid landing in the US. Not because they're terrorists or on any watch list or "look ethnic", but because they simply don't want the hassles at the end of a long flight.
-- Barbie
Seriously, people already don't want to fly, and who can blame them? China has the right idea with their new record-breaking high-speed trains. And for trans-ocean voyages, a slow cruise is more pleasant anyway - or just teleconference. It's not like we don't have the technology.
In a backwards way, the terrorists are actually helping to make the planet a bit greener, except that the US military is the world's single largest user of fossil fuels. And no, this is in no way a criticism of the military - they're under civilian leadership and have to suck it up even when the boss is an idjit, just like the rest of us.
-- Barbie
Mandatory blindfolds or hoods. Include the flight crew, because God might tell them to crash another plane.
-- Barbie
As for my personal info, my slashdot journal has a LOT, so how is anyone going to sell "private info" when it's already out there?
Either you get runaway global warming, or you get an ice-ball. For planets that don't have a crustal carbon cycle, there's no such thing as a "Goldilocks Zone".
That's both good and bad. Good, because it means that there's less likelyhood of someone else's bots wiping us out and stripping the planet to turn into computronium, bad because it would be nice to have someone else to talk to.
He's a known troll who sides with whoever he thinks will throw money his way one way or another. Witness his use of the "broken windows" argument to say that RedHat "destroys value"
The only "troll" here is Muller.
You're such an ass-wipe. Too bad nobody takes you seriously any more.