Every half-rate semi-scam technical school is "Accredited." However, most of them are accredited by miscellaneous national networks, which are basically comprised of similar schools, all attempting to give eachother legitimacy
Unfortunately, if they're not accredited by the "proper" regional and national councils, then your credits won't be worth squat if you ever need to go elsewhere for more schooling. I suggest you compare their accreditation with that at a local state run university, and if they don't match, go forward knowing that your transcript might as well have been printed on your inkjet.
That said, if they teach you what you want to know, and you have a specific plan for what you're going to do with that, go for it. And network HARD with your classmates, so you can leverage the two or three that get job's right off, and jump into their workplace later.
A lot.
Slashdot will never provide mirrors of the sites that they crush though. Why? Certainly not because of all of the technical issues listed in the FAQ... not even because of laziness. The simple reason is money. With a single post on slashdot being able to rapidly crush the allotted bandwidth of a midsize site, can you imagine the cost if Slashdot had to pay for all that bandwidth themselves? Furthermore, Slashdot can ONLY make money by collecting ad revenues for content links, without ever having to generate/host any content themselves.
I.E.
1) Some guy put's a funny thing on the internet for his small loyal band of friends/admirers to laugh at.
2) Slashdot posts it, in order to generate more pageloads on their site for viewing the story and comments on the story.
3) The burden/cost of serving the content is born by the third party, who is often times noncommercial, and in some cases bears an EXTREME cost for exceeding his allotted bandwidth.
4) Slashdot makes money, the person who provides the content to allow them to do so loses out.
5) I imagine it's only a matter of time before the first person decides to do the research and find an approach which would allow suit for damages.
In summary, Slashdot's business model as a.COM instead of a.ORG is grossly abusive. Think of it as a grand version of those people who build a porn site entirely from offsite image links. Were I a webmaster with anything accessible to the public, I would definitely reconfigure my server to redirect anyone with a referer from Slashdot to a very tiny ascii picture of my wang.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'll stop reading:)
Explanation? Very simple and sincere - someone else has completely ruined the world my son was imagining, creating and dreaming of for over two years - his words.
If I were you, I'd be much more concerned by my son's habit of speaking in the third person.
Or if you want a non-sissy mud, telnet://durismud.org:6666. It's like Sojourn, but you're allowed to kill eachother. Also, we just went live with the Undead races!
Well Tex, I'm pretty sure that he meant liberal in the TRADITIONAL sense of loosely binding, and not so strict. The definitions you give are based on the heavily politicized interpretation of Liberal's who originally received that brand because they were seeking to loosen the moral rules of society. Often, you see liberal used as a synonym for free (i.e. to liberate is to make free.)
There are a lot of posts from a ZapMedia rep posted as anon coward... he seems pretty pissed off. If you want conviincing of who they are, compare the text of the few posts where rrobison (the zapmedia rep who submitted the story originally) doesn't post AC to the text of the AC posts refuting some claims. Especially interesting is the AC response to the guy discussing the big screwjob that ZapMedia put on him. Very Cheesy.
It's a trap! Some guy on the KDE team has his desktop calendar all screwed up... he think's that TODAY is April 1!
Actually April Fools is named because...
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That was the old Christmas day, which was later changed by the church academics. It became named April Fools day after the people who refused to accept the Church's wisdom, and begin celebrating Christmas on the new "proper" day. Time to get my tree out of the closet...
Then submit a post to Slashdot about this new sweet site with a burgeoning community... Voila! Instant eyeballs! I mean, it clearly worked for this guy. Perhaps I'll seed mine with the first 3 lines of an Office replacement app... let Slashdot take care of the rest.
There's no way to execute a PS2 Game DVD from the linux system if you boot up in Linux. The only way to play a game on the box when it's been Linuxed is to reboot with a game disc in the drive. Also, while you can develop your own stuff, there's no way to write it out to a CD/DVD that can play on any PS2 without the linux kit.
Yeah, except for the people microsoft sells your email address to. 3 months ago, as a test, I created a VERY random 16character email account name on Hotmail.com. 8 days ago, I received spam from four different servers, all corporate.
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You have the right idea, but WHQL is for hardware drivers, which is nice in and of itself. Rather, microsoft will sign software for you if you consent to pass a bevy of tests that determine whether or not you play nice with the OS, including not thrashing system files. Unfortunately, this kind of certification is VERY expensive, and not really an option for shareware authors. What would be nice is creation of an independent, cheaper organization that would supply similar certifications.
The survey says that younger adults and people with a lot of time on their hands are better able to learn how to use their techno-baubles! Imagine that... I'd imagine that you could publish this same survey every decade and the results would always ring true.
I own three of those tanks, and they're pretty lame. The ir guns don't sense properly, the treads constantly come off, they're slow on any surface, and won't go at all on carpet.
Why are people so easily driven away from websites by the tyrannical X10 ads? Seriously, any time you are looking at an X10 banner, you are only 4 clicks away from banishing them permanently from your experience. Simply click through to their page, hop to the faq, click the link to the "make these stop showing up page", and click OK. It says 30 days, but you can change the HTTP Get parm value to any number of days you want (the message doesn't change, but I've tested it.) I'll even give you THIS pre modified shortcut!
Slashdot Mirror
In this case, pg appears to translate to paging. You will note they use many other abbreviations in the HELP to keep each entry 1 line.
Unfortunately, if they're not accredited by the "proper" regional and national councils, then your credits won't be worth squat if you ever need to go elsewhere for more schooling. I suggest you compare their accreditation with that at a local state run university, and if they don't match, go forward knowing that your transcript might as well have been printed on your inkjet.
That said, if they teach you what you want to know, and you have a specific plan for what you're going to do with that, go for it. And network HARD with your classmates, so you can leverage the two or three that get job's right off, and jump into their workplace later.
VP: Fucking Marketing
A lot. Slashdot will never provide mirrors of the sites that they crush though. Why? Certainly not because of all of the technical issues listed in the FAQ... not even because of laziness. The simple reason is money. With a single post on slashdot being able to rapidly crush the allotted bandwidth of a midsize site, can you imagine the cost if Slashdot had to pay for all that bandwidth themselves? Furthermore, Slashdot can ONLY make money by collecting ad revenues for content links, without ever having to generate/host any content themselves. I.E. 1) Some guy put's a funny thing on the internet for his small loyal band of friends/admirers to laugh at. 2) Slashdot posts it, in order to generate more pageloads on their site for viewing the story and comments on the story. 3) The burden/cost of serving the content is born by the third party, who is often times noncommercial, and in some cases bears an EXTREME cost for exceeding his allotted bandwidth. 4) Slashdot makes money, the person who provides the content to allow them to do so loses out. 5) I imagine it's only a matter of time before the first person decides to do the research and find an approach which would allow suit for damages. In summary, Slashdot's business model as a .COM instead of a .ORG is grossly abusive. Think of it as a grand version of those people who build a porn site entirely from offsite image links. Were I a webmaster with anything accessible to the public, I would definitely reconfigure my server to redirect anyone with a referer from Slashdot to a very tiny ascii picture of my wang.
Of course, this doesn't mean I'll stop reading :)
The last sentence ruins it, and makes the joke obvious for even the most thickwitted of slashdotters.
If I were you, I'd be much more concerned by my son's habit of speaking in the third person.
Or if you want a non-sissy mud, telnet://durismud.org:6666. It's like Sojourn, but you're allowed to kill eachother. Also, we just went live with the Undead races!
I can't rhyme; why even try!
I believe that the beowulf comments are now less obligatory than they are unwelcome.
Well Tex, I'm pretty sure that he meant liberal in the TRADITIONAL sense of loosely binding, and not so strict. The definitions you give are based on the heavily politicized interpretation of Liberal's who originally received that brand because they were seeking to loosen the moral rules of society. Often, you see liberal used as a synonym for free (i.e. to liberate is to make free.)
There are a lot of posts from a ZapMedia rep posted as anon coward... he seems pretty pissed off. If you want conviincing of who they are, compare the text of the few posts where rrobison (the zapmedia rep who submitted the story originally) doesn't post AC to the text of the AC posts refuting some claims. Especially interesting is the AC response to the guy discussing the big screwjob that ZapMedia put on him. Very Cheesy.
Nuff said! The only thing that could improve Farscape would be some fraggles.
It's a trap! Some guy on the KDE team has his desktop calendar all screwed up... he think's that TODAY is April 1!
That was the old Christmas day, which was later changed by the church academics. It became named April Fools day after the people who refused to accept the Church's wisdom, and begin celebrating Christmas on the new "proper" day. Time to get my tree out of the closet...
Then submit a post to Slashdot about this new sweet site with a burgeoning community... Voila! Instant eyeballs! I mean, it clearly worked for this guy. Perhaps I'll seed mine with the first 3 lines of an Office replacement app... let Slashdot take care of the rest.
Yeah, I'm talking about being able to share my stuff with anyone who DIDN'T shell out the big bucks for the Linux kit.
There's no way to execute a PS2 Game DVD from the linux system if you boot up in Linux. The only way to play a game on the box when it's been Linuxed is to reboot with a game disc in the drive. Also, while you can develop your own stuff, there's no way to write it out to a CD/DVD that can play on any PS2 without the linux kit.
More importantly, using the WHOIS database for marketing purposes is against ICANN rules and against the AUP on most WHOIS servers.
Does no one remember The Art of War series?
Yeah, except for the people microsoft sells your email address to. 3 months ago, as a test, I created a VERY random 16character email account name on Hotmail.com. 8 days ago, I received spam from four different servers, all corporate.
Kind of give's a different spin to Steganography.
You have the right idea, but WHQL is for hardware drivers, which is nice in and of itself. Rather, microsoft will sign software for you if you consent to pass a bevy of tests that determine whether or not you play nice with the OS, including not thrashing system files. Unfortunately, this kind of certification is VERY expensive, and not really an option for shareware authors. What would be nice is creation of an independent, cheaper organization that would supply similar certifications.
The survey says that younger adults and people with a lot of time on their hands are better able to learn how to use their techno-baubles! Imagine that... I'd imagine that you could publish this same survey every decade and the results would always ring true.
I own three of those tanks, and they're pretty lame. The ir guns don't sense properly, the treads constantly come off, they're slow on any surface, and won't go at all on carpet.
Why are people so easily driven away from websites by the tyrannical X10 ads? Seriously, any time you are looking at an X10 banner, you are only 4 clicks away from banishing them permanently from your experience. Simply click through to their page, hop to the faq, click the link to the "make these stop showing up page", and click OK. It says 30 days, but you can change the HTTP Get parm value to any number of days you want (the message doesn't change, but I've tested it.) I'll even give you THIS pre modified shortcut!