The book sums up America's past 20 years of false promises, senseless faddism, and wasted millions in attempts to computerize the nation's education system.
While I know some smart people go into education, a lot of not-so-smart people go into education. People who tend to avoid the rigors of academic hard work. Thus, they are prone to fads and promises that say, "you don't _have_ to be academically rigorous! Our system will make it easy for you!"
With a car you have to move around 2000 pounds just to get your butt to go somewhere... on a bike that becomes 50 pounds, if you've got a really heavy bike.
Every year they send me a card saying that I need to renew or they'll stop filling my mailbox with this garbage, and I say "thank god." But then months later they are still sending me magazines...
I think the key there is you put down you were responsible for millions of dollars of purchasing decisions. Sure, that will make you a shoo-in to get the mag, but it will never stop.
Actually I think you will find that out of all countries traditionally thought of as more economically-developed, the US has one of the highest levels of people below the poverty line.
Most of those below the poverty line in the US are in poverty only compared to the rest of us in the US. If you put them in a third world country, they'd look pretty well off. TVs, radios, hot and cold running water, electricity, heat, enough food and clothing, toilets that flush waste away magically, BUT GOD HELP THEM NO CABLE, THE POOR WRETCHES!
While the author's point of the story itself might be that yes he is a famous sports star and therefore lets listen to the pearls of wisdom that drop from his mouth, I disagree that it is wholely out of place on slashdot.
The message for/. is this: Schilling has a wife and four kids--geeks _can_ find fertile wives.
The cool/bizarre part of the story is his co-ownership of the tabletop wargaming company.
Advanced Squad Leader is pretty hardcore wargaming. I don't know if he's into researching and writing that line of games, but playing it is serious enough. If you play it, you probably have a ton of opinions about the rules, and lots of house rules, so you might just as well be writing and researching. (I used to play ASL.)
The magnetic field flip, the super-volcano in Yellowstone, the San Andreas Fault, the demise of SCO. Have I missed anything? A Red Sox or Cubs World Series winner?
I read a book called "Mind Over Matter" about a couple of guys who crossed Antarctica on foot (a good read, BTW). It's not a walk--they started out with 450-lb sledges they could barely move. When they got to the South Pole, the author commented on how dirty and trashy it looked there. Scientists, tourists (making a quick hop down to the Pole, I reckon).
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Reminds me of a saying, "At some point a man either grows up or pulls his gray hair back into a ponytail."
Bills of Materials, BOMs, should never be discussed in airports, either.
Fedora Core 2: DOA
You can skip sleep, since you don't need to do it so your filesystems can get defragged.
I read about this far and then I _knew_ a flawed analogy was about to happen.
While I know some smart people go into education, a lot of not-so-smart people go into education. People who tend to avoid the rigors of academic hard work. Thus, they are prone to fads and promises that say, "you don't _have_ to be academically rigorous! Our system will make it easy for you!"
There's the mistake: marrying two women. Now that's a drain on the finances...
In America, that butt adds a lot of weight, too.
And that long, at a maximum, too.
I think the key there is you put down you were responsible for millions of dollars of purchasing decisions. Sure, that will make you a shoo-in to get the mag, but it will never stop.
Will StarOffice 5 run in it?
Most of those below the poverty line in the US are in poverty only compared to the rest of us in the US. If you put them in a third world country, they'd look pretty well off. TVs, radios, hot and cold running water, electricity, heat, enough food and clothing, toilets that flush waste away magically, BUT GOD HELP THEM NO CABLE, THE POOR WRETCHES!
That's heroic.
I thought it meant something like Plutonium or Uranium: Glows in the Dark, too!
You are lucky. I have to use a box of gravel for a firewall.
Yeah, they'll just slow down, the fine-evaders!
Yeah, these same people will still call the planet Mars "Mars", a Roman god. The stupidity just never ends.
The message for /. is this: Schilling has a wife and four kids--geeks _can_ find fertile wives.
Advanced Squad Leader is pretty hardcore wargaming. I don't know if he's into researching and writing that line of games, but playing it is serious enough. If you play it, you probably have a ton of opinions about the rules, and lots of house rules, so you might just as well be writing and researching. (I used to play ASL.)
The magnetic field flip, the super-volcano in Yellowstone, the San Andreas Fault, the demise of SCO. Have I missed anything? A Red Sox or Cubs World Series winner?
He's only doing a case study.
I read a book called "Mind Over Matter" about a couple of guys who crossed Antarctica on foot (a good read, BTW). It's not a walk--they started out with 450-lb sledges they could barely move. When they got to the South Pole, the author commented on how dirty and trashy it looked there. Scientists, tourists (making a quick hop down to the Pole, I reckon).
Here. All it says is "this is not the way..."
Now I know it's just a joke. _No_ commercial software runs on OpenBSD.
Then how are you supposed to do a California rolling stop?