This guy's a criminal and maybe the only reason Slashdot readers are not calling him that is because the only other geeks the make the news are not really geeks, but businessmen running geek companies.
A better analogy is a terrorist that set off bomb that happened not to kill anyone or one of the accountants cooking the books at Enron. This job should go to the high school kid that wrote a killer app for homeless shelters, but then again, he didn't make the news.
I've been looking into the same thing recently. Here's what I found out:
The two best schools I've found (IMHO) that are B&M, accredited and appear well organized online programs that are completely online are UMUC ( http://www.umuc.edu/ ) and Virginia Tech ( http://www.vt.edu/ ). Yes, Stanford and MIT have some online programs, but these programs look extremely specialized from my quick assessment.
The two best online resources I've found for researching online programs are US News & World Report ( http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ rankindex_brief.php ) and Petersons ( http://www.petersons.com/ ). After I narrowed down my choices, I would go to a B&M bookstore and look their ratings in college guides to see how large their offline programs are, etc.
Amazingly, the area of online degrees still appears to in its infancy, but the area is growing as teaching practices are becoming refined. Like any other kind of education, your results depend on what you put into it. If your enthusiastic about what your studying, your skill level will be obvious.
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This guy's a criminal and maybe the only reason Slashdot readers are not calling him that is because the only other geeks the make the news are not really geeks, but businessmen running geek companies. A better analogy is a terrorist that set off bomb that happened not to kill anyone or one of the accountants cooking the books at Enron. This job should go to the high school kid that wrote a killer app for homeless shelters, but then again, he didn't make the news.
I've been looking into the same thing recently. Here's what I found out: The two best schools I've found (IMHO) that are B&M, accredited and appear well organized online programs that are completely online are UMUC ( http://www.umuc.edu/ ) and Virginia Tech ( http://www.vt.edu/ ). Yes, Stanford and MIT have some online programs, but these programs look extremely specialized from my quick assessment. The two best online resources I've found for researching online programs are US News & World Report ( http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ rankindex_brief.php ) and Petersons ( http://www.petersons.com/ ). After I narrowed down my choices, I would go to a B&M bookstore and look their ratings in college guides to see how large their offline programs are, etc.
Amazingly, the area of online degrees still appears to in its infancy, but the area is growing as teaching practices are becoming refined. Like any other kind of education, your results depend on what you put into it. If your enthusiastic about what your studying, your skill level will be obvious.
Start growing the beard now!
Paying the community back about $10 million a year sounds like it should be added to the verdict.
So logically, the most anti Microsoft part of the country is the center of the midwest.