Maybe you watched the 80s remake? The original is very good, and it's been recently completed with some bits that were somehow left out and made the plot hard to understand. I couldn't believe a silent movie could be so gripping.
The thing is, University shouldn't be about "Law & Order", but about knowledge acquisition and critical thinking. The profs shouldn't have to spend time and energy doing a bad Sherlock Holmes impression.
In some countries (some European ones for example), the profs have enough of a status and credibility that when they catch somebody cheating, they can make their decision on the spot and don't need to justify it to any higher order. Of course there is potential for bias in that case, but less hassle for the prof and therefore less cheating probably makes up for it.
There's a lot of wheel reinvention going on with Sun and their Java libraries. Witness the Collection Frameworks, where we already had the Java Generic Library (JGL), same deal with JAXP going against many good XML parsers. Now we have indeed two logging systems, and I'm willing to bet that we'll have some sort of JUnit copycat soon enough.
OTOH, my guess is that having Sun provide such libraries makes life easier license-wise, but IANAL.
Well, I get this one regular spam entitled "REAL NEWS", which is some sort of weekly roundup of american events viewed from a far right wing point of view.
I'm still not sure though if the agenda is indeed political (one way or the other) or rather to shock you enough that you'd end up replying to it, hence validating your email address so that you can get some viagra spam next.
Check out U-P2P (yes, I'm involved in this). It's a fairly easy to use P2P framework where the piping is already done, and all you need to do is specify the schema of the type of document you want to share. You can then create a "bibster", a "stampster",..., and each community is itself part of a "communityster", so you can publish or discover communities using the same mechanism. Would that fit your description?
It's still beta stuff, but there's also some publications along with the code on the site.
(maybe I'm missing something obvious here so please be gentle!)
The grandparent has a point though, what's the big technical difficulty (other than size and cooling issues maybe?) in producing a cell phone with a good processor, bluetooth, WiFi, flash memory, video out and maybe USB?
When using the device as a cell phone, you wouldn't use the other features to avoid draining the battery, but other than that you'd have a fully functioning portable computer that can replace your PC. Take it home, lay it on its special dock, and bang: you got your monitor, mouse, external DVD player and external hard drive connected, all of this while the cell phone is recharging.
For most PC users, that should be all you need! Right?
There is one great example of a journal on Artificial Intelligence that is peer-reviewed and available for free: JAIR. This is by the way a journal with a good reputation, so (being online != sleazy). I wonder why we don't see more example of this model, where the journal is available online, but you can always buy the paper version if you want to.
In addition to the parent's points (agreed with all of them), don't forget libraries!!! Best source for good books, especially old ones. Granted, you can't keep'em forever, but it is so easy to forget that the book you're looking for might be available for FREE.
There's also the scientific journals (check out the ACM and IEEE web sites), and conference proceedings, which you can order online from the supporting association.
My PhD years were the best years of my life. It was not as work-intensive as you are implying. You get to interact with smart people, you get to work very independently, there is a lot of diversity in your work, you get to travel if your papers get accepted at a conference, and your hours are extremely flexible. And I partied a lot too!:)
Precisely because I had a company who was funding it, I had to defend my PhD before money ran out, and that was a pity.
But in your case, you were absolutely right not to pursue a PhD, because your objectives (getting out of university as quickly as possible and making money, not that there's anything wrong with that!) just do not match what a PhD has to offer.
As for stupid people getting their PhD's faster, that is simply not true. Remember there is a whole committee that needs to be satisfied with the work, so the supervisor can't just pull a fast one by them.
Maybe software should not only come with a usage license (= user rights and responsibilities) but also the "ethical" guidelines it follows (= software rights and responsibilities), like these Google software principles. There may be different sets of guidelines for different uses, the same way there are different licenses.
One of those, then, could be a viral one, keeping with the GPL spirit: if you bundle your piece of software with one that follows the viral "ethical" guidelines, then you must also adopt them.
I'd rather say "AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming) is simply evidence that an OO language without metaclass support has some fundamental design problems."
As long as you can say "A class is also an object, so I should be able to define its class to control its behavior any way I want", you can replicate AOP behavior very easily, with much more power too. Smalltalk for example can do everything AspectJ does for Java and so much more. And let's not even get started with Lisp-based OO languages!
Having said that, "with great power comes great responsibility", so I guess Java designers thought they shouldn't let the average programmer play with matchsticks...
Seems to me that rather than a tool, the net would in fact be an excellent exercise in critical thinking to study in school: give the students any topic, ask them to research it (using all sorts of resources including the web), then analyse the findings. Did you double-check the facts you found? Is the source reputable? Are the arguments backed up by proper references? and so on...
Or have them study the topics of privacy and anonymity: how do you enforce them? Discuss free speech vs accountability... Piracy vs freedom of information... Copyright vs innovation...
Play role games using online forums as an exercise... Set up a Wiki Wiki and have students come up with an essay collaboratively... Then sabotage it and let them rescue it using moderation, caching, version control, password protection...
It would be foolish to ignore computers and the internet in the education system, it's just that you need to take into account the new challenges and opportunities they represent.
Well, I happen to like the look of the buildings, at least based on the pictures. The style fits the spirit of innovation and risk-taking of its researchers. I expected the Slashdot crowd to show less conservatism than this.
Of course whether the building will prove to be functional or not is a different story, only time will tell!
Or maybe because you are forced to upgrade to read files that were created with a more recent version?
Doesn't that precisely count as a reason why MS 4 doesn't do all you need?
Stricto sensu, yes. But this is not a need that came from the user initially, it was rather created artificially by Microsoft (or as the result of other people's needs). Darn network effect! I guess you could keep around the old version for composing your own documents, and use the new version for opening complicated files. Kind of like the juggling we all need to do with web browsers these days...
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Maybe you watched the 80s remake? The original is very good, and it's been recently completed with some bits that were somehow left out and made the plot hard to understand. I couldn't believe a silent movie could be so gripping.
Modded funny? I'd say Insightful.
The thing is, University shouldn't be about "Law & Order", but about knowledge acquisition and critical thinking. The profs shouldn't have to spend time and energy doing a bad Sherlock Holmes impression.
In some countries (some European ones for example), the profs have enough of a status and credibility that when they catch somebody cheating, they can make their decision on the spot and don't need to justify it to any higher order. Of course there is potential for bias in that case, but less hassle for the prof and therefore less cheating probably makes up for it.
There's a lot of wheel reinvention going on with Sun and their Java libraries. Witness the Collection Frameworks, where we already had the Java Generic Library (JGL), same deal with JAXP going against many good XML parsers. Now we have indeed two logging systems, and I'm willing to bet that we'll have some sort of JUnit copycat soon enough.
OTOH, my guess is that having Sun provide such libraries makes life easier license-wise, but IANAL.
Heh, maybe we can run Microsoft to bankruptcy by running their internet bill to crazy levels! Let's all download SP2 once a day in the background! ;-)
Well, I get this one regular spam entitled "REAL NEWS", which is some sort of weekly roundup of american events viewed from a far right wing point of view.
I'm still not sure though if the agenda is indeed political (one way or the other) or rather to shock you enough that you'd end up replying to it, hence validating your email address so that you can get some viagra spam next.
It's still beta stuff, but there's also some publications along with the code on the site.
(maybe I'm missing something obvious here so please be gentle!)
The grandparent has a point though, what's the big technical difficulty (other than size and cooling issues maybe?) in producing a cell phone with a good processor, bluetooth, WiFi, flash memory, video out and maybe USB?
When using the device as a cell phone, you wouldn't use the other features to avoid draining the battery, but other than that you'd have a fully functioning portable computer that can replace your PC. Take it home, lay it on its special dock, and bang: you got your monitor, mouse, external DVD player and external hard drive connected, all of this while the cell phone is recharging.
For most PC users, that should be all you need! Right?
Please enlighten me now!
Well, wouldn't it be possible to adapt some form of peer-review to a peer-to-peer system? Some sort of rating a la eBay would be a start...
There is one great example of a journal on Artificial Intelligence that is peer-reviewed and available for free: JAIR. This is by the way a journal with a good reputation, so (being online != sleazy). I wonder why we don't see more example of this model, where the journal is available online, but you can always buy the paper version if you want to.
In addition to the parent's points (agreed with all of them), don't forget libraries!!! Best source for good books, especially old ones. Granted, you can't keep'em forever, but it is so easy to forget that the book you're looking for might be available for FREE.
There's also the scientific journals (check out the ACM and IEEE web sites), and conference proceedings, which you can order online from the supporting association.
My PhD years were the best years of my life. It was not as work-intensive as you are implying. You get to interact with smart people, you get to work very independently, there is a lot of diversity in your work, you get to travel if your papers get accepted at a conference, and your hours are extremely flexible. And I partied a lot too! :)
Precisely because I had a company who was funding it, I had to defend my PhD before money ran out, and that was a pity.
But in your case, you were absolutely right not to pursue a PhD, because your objectives (getting out of university as quickly as possible and making money, not that there's anything wrong with that!) just do not match what a PhD has to offer.
As for stupid people getting their PhD's faster, that is simply not true. Remember there is a whole committee that needs to be satisfied with the work, so the supervisor can't just pull a fast one by them.
Can't you just attach a moist towel at the back of the Roomba and let it go?
Maybe Google could offer to only "read" OUTGOING mail? This way it would only be the gmail user's decision to be "watched".
DM reference huh?
Unfortunately though, the only way to get people's attention these days is to be outrageous or funny, or whatever appeals to the lowest instincts.
There probably are people out there who do a serious and thorough job of analyzing and discussing facts, but can you name one?
Just wondering: the Google Desktop uses an HTML rendering engine. Is it homegrown, an IE component, or something else?
Maybe software should not only come with a usage license (= user rights and responsibilities) but also the "ethical" guidelines it follows (= software rights and responsibilities), like these Google software principles. There may be different sets of guidelines for different uses, the same way there are different licenses.
One of those, then, could be a viral one, keeping with the GPL spirit: if you bundle your piece of software with one that follows the viral "ethical" guidelines, then you must also adopt them.
As long as you can say "A class is also an object, so I should be able to define its class to control its behavior any way I want", you can replicate AOP behavior very easily, with much more power too. Smalltalk for example can do everything AspectJ does for Java and so much more. And let's not even get started with Lisp-based OO languages! Having said that, "with great power comes great responsibility", so I guess Java designers thought they shouldn't let the average programmer play with matchsticks...
Not only maths help eliminate penis enlargement ads, but they eliminate penis growth altogether.
Seems to me that rather than a tool, the net would in fact be an excellent exercise in critical thinking to study in school: give the students any topic, ask them to research it (using all sorts of resources including the web), then analyse the findings. Did you double-check the facts you found? Is the source reputable? Are the arguments backed up by proper references? and so on...
Or have them study the topics of privacy and anonymity: how do you enforce them? Discuss free speech vs accountability... Piracy vs freedom of information... Copyright vs innovation...
Play role games using online forums as an exercise... Set up a Wiki Wiki and have students come up with an essay collaboratively... Then sabotage it and let them rescue it using moderation, caching, version control, password protection...
It would be foolish to ignore computers and the internet in the education system, it's just that you need to take into account the new challenges and opportunities they represent.
Well, I happen to like the look of the buildings, at least based on the pictures. The style fits the spirit of innovation and risk-taking of its researchers. I expected the Slashdot crowd to show less conservatism than this.
Of course whether the building will prove to be functional or not is a different story, only time will tell!
Viewing is one thing, but you need to edit other people's documents too sometimes!