I'm not surprised to hear the GUI made it easier to learn using the CLI. Many people are under the mistaken impression that learning the "easy way" will always lock you out of understanding the "right way" but they couldn't be more wrong.
I started to learn to drive on my grandpa's old pickup truck. It had a manual transmision. It was difficult to learn and it took a lot of attention from the road at a time when I needed to be paying huge amounts of attention to the cars around me.
My grandpa noticed this and the next time we went driving he brought his car that had an automatic transmission. I complained that I needed to learn to shift but he just said, "you can learn to shift later after you're a better driver."
Fast forward a couple of years. I bought a car with a stick and I just plain learned that sucker. You know what? It was 10 times easier than it was when I was just starting out. I was already a decent driver so I was able to pay much more attention to the clutch/shift action and I became pretty good at it very quickly.
GUIs and CLIs are the same (roughly). Why on earth should a newbie that doesn't really understand TCP/IP be banging his head up againgst the wall to remember cryptic commands? He should be concentrating on understanding how the parts work together instead of the nitty gritty of each individual part. Later on, after he understands the basics he'll be able to concentrate on the other stuff and learn to do it right.
I agree. I think we'll see that those percentages are "some computer in our shop uses this." rather than "most or all computers in our shop use this."
I was the IT guy for a 35-desktop company a few years back. We ran Linux on exactly two of those computers. Furthermore, each of the "Linux computers" multibooted with WinNT and the WinNT partition was definately the primary.
Would my company have counted as one of the "19% that use Linux on the desktop"?
There are several fine translations here, but I just wanted to add that this line, and the line following may well have changed my life.
I've known for a while that with a nice IT job and a good standard of living I needed to start thinking of ways I could give back to the community. But how? I'm not that interested in soup kitchen work and just giving money to United Way or whatever just seemed like a way to provide payroll for the organization instead of getting help to people that need it.
But this is perfect for me. IT work is expensive if these people have to pay for it, but I can give it to them for free. Getting low-cost equipment, putting it together in a nice package and installing it... and spending some time with the person who needs to understand how it works... I can do this. It would be fun. I can make a difference.
I don't mean to get all tear-jerky on y'all, but the original poster is dead-on. People like us, who are already used to helping out Grandma and Uncle Bob, can give the same kind of support to someone who really needs it. And it will be by doing something we love to do anyway.
"Unless it's harassment, you're wrong. You have every right to speak to someone who doesn't want to listen."
Seriously, think about what you're saying. It sounds like you're saying that you have a constitutional right to speak to someone who is actively trying to avoid listening to you. I would think that's the very definition of harassment.
Furthermore, I would think that's basically what the Do Not Call list is attempting to do; give relief to people who feel harassed.
It's horrible that this is being couched as a constitutional debate. Nowhere in this country, or any other, does there exist a right to speak to someone who doesn't want to listen. Saying it's a constitutionally protected right to call you is like advertisers suing HBO saying they have a protected right to put ads in your movies.
More simply put, they have a right to speak but you have a right to not listen. The government is finally acknowledging you're right to put a virtual sign on your gate(phone) saying you don't want to listen to anyone until further notice.
Don't need a new mobo design? I couldn't disagree more. The Mac G5 is a great example of the positive effect a redesigned motherboard can have on cooling and noise. HP also makes some low end servers that aren't much more powerful than high-end consumer PCs but have dramatically better cooling just by redesigning the mobo.
In fact the thing that disappoints me most about this new form factor is that it doesn't look like it's going far enough. It looks like you have the potential for plenty of dead air space in the case. I feel a bit cheated to have to wait until next year to get an "improved" product that still can't compete, airflow-wise, with a current Mac.
Hate to say it, but it's often a bad idea for governments to tax behaviors they want less of. Consider the "sin" taxes on alcohol and tobacco. If the government gets significant revenue from these sources then it give them an incentive to keep the "sin" healthy enough to pay for your kids school books. I know it sounds perverse, but that is exactly how the process works.
Put another way, if the government is taxing LANs, then at least you know they'll be making other LAN friendly laws to keep their revenue stream flowing.
I'm NOT suggesting taxing LAN's is a good idea, only that incentive is a bit stranger to track than most people think.
If you read farther in the article it says a potential future application of the tower is hydrogen creation. Hydrogen can definitely be shipped to countries that need it (for their fuel-cell automobiles perhaps?).
It's not the same as power line transmission, but it's definitely a way to export the power.
True, if the guy makes more than $80 million he'll have to give some of his profits to the record lable. But he gets $20 million dollars to invest as he pleases right now.
Both sides win because the needs of each side are different. One side needs/wants cash quickly while the other side prefers more cash but is willing to wait for it.
Instead of insurance you might want to think of it like an IPO. You're giving away some of your potential profits in exchange for instant cash; something not easily come by.
"Is this as bad a deal as it appears? Notice that the guy voluntarily signed - in order for him todo that, they had to offer something that he felt was worth signing. Maybe promotional things, perhaps transportation costs, etc."
In the article they say he got $20 million up front for a 25% stake in the revenues of upcoming tours. Sounds like a regular ol' investment to me and it also looks like both sides will make out nicely.
The real danger is that they'll start sticking much worse deals to new acts who will be afraid to turn it down for fear of not getting signed.
A lot of ads really are better than the shows they support. I personally thing this is Darwinian. If people are actively looking for your ad to watch it then you can just ignore the whole TIVO "problem" and sit back and collect your cash.
Benchmarks aren't a problem if you don't use 'em. All you have to do is measure the performance of real-world apps on typical problems with stock hardware/software settings. Anandtech and Tom's Hardware do this all the time and nobody complains about their results. It could easily be done for the G5 vs. HP Dual Xeon 3.2's as well.
-Buy each machine stock from the factory. -Load up Photoshop, Director, Lightwave and Maya -Run common transforms and renders at common resolutions. -Convert some CDs to MP3s and some AVIs and Quicktime movies to MPEG2 and MPEG4 files -Measure the time it takes to perform the procedures. -Report the results in a nice graph.
This is what real people do with high end Macs. It's what they buy faster machines for. How could anyone complain about such a test?
The fact is, people don't really care about which hardware is faster on "normalized" benchmarks, they care about whether the stuff they will be using it for is faster.
This focus on the Bluetooth headset is shortsighted. BT headsets might be the only currently useful thing to do with BT, but they get BT on devices. When BT gets on devices then you build a base of devices. When you have a base of devices then people start leaving their BT on all the time and they start thinking of interesting ways to use them.
I want:
- my BT headset to interface with my VOIPed home phone - my BT cell phone to act as a wireless remote control for my TV - a BT wireless remote to allow separate control over two identical cable boxes (try that with IR) - a BT keyboard and mouse to interface with my BT smartphone - to have all my wireless keyboards and mice work with all my computers and all my devices - to have automatic sync between all of my devices simply by walking up to them
I'll get all of these things with BT because it's low powered, physically small and very cheap to implement in quantity. I'll never get all of these things if I try to get them with 802.11.
For many things I actually agree with you on this one. People should be doing far more voting with their dollars (and feet).
There are, however, things such as number portability that must have interoperable technology and will only work if A)all carriers agree to it or B)all carriers are forced to implement it. I think the government is serving everyone's interest quite well, including the cell phone carriers in the long run, when they force this kind of interoperability.
Why is it that they complain about the costs for things that actually help consumers but they have no problem implementing things that block us from saving money?
My new mLife plan and cell phone have the following âoefeaturesâ:
- Blocks my ability to make a standard RAS connection with my cell phone "modem" (built in feature of the phone) mandating that I use the outrageously priced mLife GPRS data carrier (about $40.00 for 20MB of transfers per month).
- Blocks my ability to restrict dialing of numbers (built into most SIMs at no extra charge but disabled on my AT&T phone)
- Blocks my ability to use the "call costs" feature of my Nokia cell phone so I know how much my calls are actually costing me
Now all of those features were built into the phone (and disabled by AT&T), but what about features that need to be provided on the carrier side?
- There's no carrier provided cost of call during the call (mandatory on German phones)
- Thereâ(TM)s no ability to meter usage (unless you buy the massively expensive "pay as you go" plans)
- Thereâ(TM)s no ability to restrict usage to only a few incoming/outgoing numbers for your kids' phones (the cell phone provided features don't work properly if caller ID is turned off) so itâ(TM)s painfully easy for your kids to go over their monthly minutes.
If these people wonâ(TM)t provide us service that serves us then they need laws to force it out of them. The number portability rule is not only a good one, but long overdue. The fact that theyâ(TM)re lobbying to screw us out of this feature for the sole purpose of lining their pockets at our inconvenience should be swatted down faster than fast.
The reason for the strange design was to make it licensable as a motorcycle.
According to the law (at least in CA) three wheels = motorcycle and four wheels = car. Motorcycles are given much, much more latitude in designing for safety regulations.
Bumpers, crash resistant doors, even safety belts are technically optional on a "motorcycle" but would require expensive and heavy designs if it were a "car." They got a chance to save cost by going with three wheels, but most importantly they got to save weight which is the bane of any electric vehicle.
It's true that they could have gone for a golf-cart like vehicle, but the other major design consideration was to make this thing fast enough for the highway. Regulations limit NEV's (Neighborhood Electric Vehicles - the golf-cart thingys) to something like 35MPH while the Sparrow zipped along at 65MPH.
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This is too funny seeing this here. A couple weeks back we had some ants on the kitchen table (a few here and there) and I got rid of 'em. A while later there were a few more. I didn't see anything sticky that they might be going for, but I decided to clear off the table and wipe it down to make sure.
Well, one of the things I had on the table that needed clearing off was my laptop. When I lifted it up there were a bunch of ants underneath it and that's when I noticed there were a bunch more crawling in and out of the cooling holes. I saw at least one of them with some kind of a crumb or something and since I seriously doubt he got it from inside the laptop, my best guess was that he was carrying it from wherever he found it to store it in the laptop.
I had the laptop on the kitchen table for a few days at this point and it had been on the whole time so it was running plenty hot. The ants didn't seem to mind at all. I guess if they can live in Arizona then they wouldn't mind the interior of a laptop either. The only thing I never figured out is why they would go there in the first place? Was there some kind of noise drawing them in? Did they prefer the higher heat environment?
This is pretty nice except the whole point of the water rocket is to mix air with the water. If you substituted gasoline for the water then you would have air mixed with gasoline.
Now the pressure of the escaping gasoine/air mixture might well be enough to keep flames from "traveling up the pipe" for most of the trip down the driveway, but at the end your going to have a two liter bottle almost entirely filled with gasoline vapor and air which is exerting almost zero outward pressure. This is something that definately could explode.
Witness UNIX and it's clones. MS would have you believe that running an OS or using programing tools from 1995 is wrong but I somehow don't think everyone around here would agree.
The best part about this isn't that it's a godsend to any particular need, but rather that it will attract business users who aren't fully utilizing their networks (a lot of 'em) and help drive down cellular phone costs.
Right now Cellular providers use stickin' it too us for services that should be free (text messaging). If we *do* get it for free over the LAN and we use it, then the market dictates that cellular providers will be forced to lower their prices.
I don't think he was being especially intolerant. The first two conditions for writing a letter of recommendation were:
1- a demonstration of excellence (you had to get an "A" in one of his classes) and 2- he had to know you personally.
Obviously he believes that a recommendation is something more than a simple statement that the person knows the subject matter. He obviously feels it's a personal endorsement that reflects on him.
I don't think it's too much of stretch for him to say you also have conform to beliefs that he personally holds as extremely important to the subject he teaches to get that personal endorsement. I don't think it shows intolerance of any belief, but rather says that he can't personally endorse you if you haven't really absorbed his teaching in the manner in which he intended it.
Put another way, would you require a Black Studies professor to write a letter of recommendation to a KKK member just because he was capable of explaining what racism is? Would that be "intolerant" of the professor? I think you could require him to give the "A" in the class, but the letter.... I don't think so.
These are only additional costs because the business is codifying it's "assumptions" in the hopes of making additional profit without regard for the needs or desires of some of its most important customers.
It's like a company offering all you can eat for $10.00 a head. They don't actually expect to be losing money if some guy eats $15.00 worth of food 'cause someone else will come in and eat $5.00 worth of food evening things out.
But what if the company noticed that it was actually getting a 75% of their customers eating $15.00 worth of food.
They _could_ just raise their price. But they won't do that because the light eater might feel put out. They wouldn't want to piss off the guy getting less than what he's paying for would they? They're making a lot of profit at his expense. I know! They could turn the light eater against the heavy eater!
They could complain that the "extra" food is an "additional costs." They could treat anyone who isn't eating an exactly average amount (or less!) like some greedy hog trying to drive them out of business. They could complain about how very unfair it is that someone would want to get all they can eat at an all you can eat restaurant.
What if I need more food though? What if I'm a sumo wrestler trying to keep my job? And what if they're the only restaurant in town? I guess I just gotta take the abuse, don't I? And my brother in law, the tiny Japanese guy who barely eats a thimble full at every meal, can be satisfied that they're really taking care of him by letting him eat however much he wants.
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I'm not surprised to hear the GUI made it easier to learn using the CLI. Many people are under the mistaken impression that learning the "easy way" will always lock you out of understanding the "right way" but they couldn't be more wrong.
I started to learn to drive on my grandpa's old pickup truck. It had a manual transmision. It was difficult to learn and it took a lot of attention from the road at a time when I needed to be paying huge amounts of attention to the cars around me.
My grandpa noticed this and the next time we went driving he brought his car that had an automatic transmission. I complained that I needed to learn to shift but he just said, "you can learn to shift later after you're a better driver."
Fast forward a couple of years. I bought a car with a stick and I just plain learned that sucker. You know what? It was 10 times easier than it was when I was just starting out. I was already a decent driver so I was able to pay much more attention to the clutch/shift action and I became pretty good at it very quickly.
GUIs and CLIs are the same (roughly). Why on earth should a newbie that doesn't really understand TCP/IP be banging his head up againgst the wall to remember cryptic commands? He should be concentrating on understanding how the parts work together instead of the nitty gritty of each individual part. Later on, after he understands the basics he'll be able to concentrate on the other stuff and learn to do it right.
TW
I agree. I think we'll see that those percentages are "some computer in our shop uses this." rather than "most or all computers in our shop use this."
I was the IT guy for a 35-desktop company a few years back. We ran Linux on exactly two of those computers. Furthermore, each of the "Linux computers" multibooted with WinNT and the WinNT partition was definately the primary.
Would my company have counted as one of the "19% that use Linux on the desktop"?
TW
There are several fine translations here, but I just wanted to add that this line, and the line following may well have changed my life.
I've known for a while that with a nice IT job and a good standard of living I needed to start thinking of ways I could give back to the community. But how? I'm not that interested in soup kitchen work and just giving money to United Way or whatever just seemed like a way to provide payroll for the organization instead of getting help to people that need it.
But this is perfect for me. IT work is expensive if these people have to pay for it, but I can give it to them for free. Getting low-cost equipment, putting it together in a nice package and installing it... and spending some time with the person who needs to understand how it works... I can do this. It would be fun. I can make a difference.
I don't mean to get all tear-jerky on y'all, but the original poster is dead-on. People like us, who are already used to helping out Grandma and Uncle Bob, can give the same kind of support to someone who really needs it. And it will be by doing something we love to do anyway.
I'm in.
TW
"Unless it's harassment, you're wrong. You have every right to speak to someone who doesn't want to listen."
Seriously, think about what you're saying. It sounds like you're saying that you have a constitutional right to speak to someone who is actively trying to avoid listening to you. I would think that's the very definition of harassment.
Furthermore, I would think that's basically what the Do Not Call list is attempting to do; give relief to people who feel harassed.
It's horrible that this is being couched as a constitutional debate. Nowhere in this country, or any other, does there exist a right to speak to someone who doesn't want to listen. Saying it's a constitutionally protected right to call you is like advertisers suing HBO saying they have a protected right to put ads in your movies.
More simply put, they have a right to speak but you have a right to not listen. The government is finally acknowledging you're right to put a virtual sign on your gate(phone) saying you don't want to listen to anyone until further notice.
TW
Don't need a new mobo design? I couldn't disagree more. The Mac G5 is a great example of the positive effect a redesigned motherboard can have on cooling and noise. HP also makes some low end servers that aren't much more powerful than high-end consumer PCs but have dramatically better cooling just by redesigning the mobo.
In fact the thing that disappoints me most about this new form factor is that it doesn't look like it's going far enough. It looks like you have the potential for plenty of dead air space in the case. I feel a bit cheated to have to wait until next year to get an "improved" product that still can't compete, airflow-wise, with a current Mac.
TW
Hate to say it, but it's often a bad idea for governments to tax behaviors they want less of. Consider the "sin" taxes on alcohol and tobacco. If the government gets significant revenue from these sources then it give them an incentive to keep the "sin" healthy enough to pay for your kids school books. I know it sounds perverse, but that is exactly how the process works.
Put another way, if the government is taxing LANs, then at least you know they'll be making other LAN friendly laws to keep their revenue stream flowing.
I'm NOT suggesting taxing LAN's is a good idea, only that incentive is a bit stranger to track than most people think.
TW
If you read farther in the article it says a potential future application of the tower is hydrogen creation. Hydrogen can definitely be shipped to countries that need it (for their fuel-cell automobiles perhaps?).
It's not the same as power line transmission, but it's definitely a way to export the power.
TW
True, if the guy makes more than $80 million he'll have to give some of his profits to the record lable. But he gets $20 million dollars to invest as he pleases right now.
Both sides win because the needs of each side are different. One side needs/wants cash quickly while the other side prefers more cash but is willing to wait for it.
Instead of insurance you might want to think of it like an IPO. You're giving away some of your potential profits in exchange for instant cash; something not easily come by.
TW
"Is this as bad a deal as it appears? Notice that the guy voluntarily signed - in order for him todo that, they had to offer something that he felt was worth signing. Maybe promotional things, perhaps transportation costs, etc."
In the article they say he got $20 million up front for a 25% stake in the revenues of upcoming tours. Sounds like a regular ol' investment to me and it also looks like both sides will make out nicely.
The real danger is that they'll start sticking much worse deals to new acts who will be afraid to turn it down for fear of not getting signed.
TW
A lot of ads really are better than the shows they support. I personally thing this is Darwinian. If people are actively looking for your ad to watch it then you can just ignore the whole TIVO "problem" and sit back and collect your cash.
TW
until the price of cellular more closely resebles the cost of Wi-Fi this kind of apples to oranges comparison is irrelevant.
I love my cell phone, but I need more than 10MB of data for my $20.
TW
Benchmarks aren't a problem if you don't use 'em.
All you have to do is measure the performance of real-world apps on typical problems with stock hardware/software settings. Anandtech and Tom's Hardware do this all the time and nobody complains about their results. It could easily be done for the G5 vs. HP Dual Xeon 3.2's as well.
-Buy each machine stock from the factory.
-Load up Photoshop, Director, Lightwave and Maya
-Run common transforms and renders at common resolutions.
-Convert some CDs to MP3s and some AVIs and Quicktime movies to MPEG2 and MPEG4 files
-Measure the time it takes to perform the procedures.
-Report the results in a nice graph.
This is what real people do with high end Macs. It's what they buy faster machines for. How could anyone complain about such a test?
The fact is, people don't really care about which hardware is faster on "normalized" benchmarks, they care about whether the stuff they will be using it for is faster.
TW
On the other hand, you can make your own portable folding display for your maps by using a printer...
When Apple becomes Unix and Novell becomes Unix should we really be referring to them as "competing OSes" anymore?
If all I'm doing is providing body panels and upholstery I'm not going to be calling myself an auto manufacturer.
TW
This focus on the Bluetooth headset is shortsighted. BT headsets might be the only currently useful thing to do with BT, but they get BT on devices. When BT gets on devices then you build a base of devices. When you have a base of devices then people start leaving their BT on all the time and they start thinking of interesting ways to use them.
I want:
- my BT headset to interface with my VOIPed home phone
- my BT cell phone to act as a wireless remote control for my TV
- a BT wireless remote to allow separate control over two identical cable boxes (try that with IR)
- a BT keyboard and mouse to interface with my BT smartphone
- to have all my wireless keyboards and mice work with all my computers and all my devices
- to have automatic sync between all of my devices simply by walking up to them
I'll get all of these things with BT because it's low powered, physically small and very cheap to implement in quantity. I'll never get all of these things if I try to get them with 802.11.
TW
For many things I actually agree with you on this one. People should be doing far more voting with their dollars (and feet).
There are, however, things such as number portability that must have interoperable technology and will only work if A)all carriers agree to it or B)all carriers are forced to implement it. I think the government is serving everyone's interest quite well, including the cell phone carriers in the long run, when they force this kind of interoperability.
TW
Why is it that they complain about the costs for things that actually help consumers but they have no problem implementing things that block us from saving money?
My new mLife plan and cell phone have the following âoefeaturesâ:
- Blocks my ability to make a standard RAS connection with my cell phone "modem" (built in feature of the phone) mandating that I use the outrageously priced mLife GPRS data carrier (about $40.00 for 20MB of transfers per month).
- Blocks my ability to restrict dialing of numbers (built into most SIMs at no extra charge but disabled on my AT&T phone)
- Blocks my ability to use the "call costs" feature of my Nokia cell phone so I know how much my calls are actually costing me
Now all of those features were built into the phone (and disabled by AT&T), but what about features that need to be provided on the carrier side?
- There's no carrier provided cost of call during the call (mandatory on German phones)
- Thereâ(TM)s no ability to meter usage (unless you buy the massively expensive "pay as you go" plans)
- Thereâ(TM)s no ability to restrict usage to only a few incoming/outgoing numbers for your kids' phones (the cell phone provided features don't work properly if caller ID is turned off) so itâ(TM)s painfully easy for your kids to go over their monthly minutes.
If these people wonâ(TM)t provide us service that serves us then they need laws to force it out of them. The number portability rule is not only a good one, but long overdue. The fact that theyâ(TM)re lobbying to screw us out of this feature for the sole purpose of lining their pockets at our inconvenience should be swatted down faster than fast.
TW
The reason for the strange design was to make it licensable as a motorcycle.
According to the law (at least in CA) three wheels = motorcycle and four wheels = car. Motorcycles are given much, much more latitude in designing for safety regulations.
Bumpers, crash resistant doors, even safety belts are technically optional on a "motorcycle" but would require expensive and heavy designs if it were a "car." They got a chance to save cost by going with three wheels, but most importantly they got to save weight which is the bane of any electric vehicle.
It's true that they could have gone for a golf-cart like vehicle, but the other major design consideration was to make this thing fast enough for the highway. Regulations limit NEV's (Neighborhood Electric Vehicles - the golf-cart thingys) to something like 35MPH while the Sparrow zipped along at 65MPH.
This is too funny seeing this here. A couple weeks back we had some ants on the kitchen table (a few here and there) and I got rid of 'em. A while later there were a few more. I didn't see anything sticky that they might be going for, but I decided to clear off the table and wipe it down to make sure.
Well, one of the things I had on the table that needed clearing off was my laptop. When I lifted it up there were a bunch of ants underneath it and that's when I noticed there were a bunch more crawling in and out of the cooling holes. I saw at least one of them with some kind of a crumb or something and since I seriously doubt he got it from inside the laptop, my best guess was that he was carrying it from wherever he found it to store it in the laptop.
I had the laptop on the kitchen table for a few days at this point and it had been on the whole time so it was running plenty hot. The ants didn't seem to mind at all. I guess if they can live in Arizona then they wouldn't mind the interior of a laptop either. The only thing I never figured out is why they would go there in the first place? Was there some kind of noise drawing them in? Did they prefer the higher heat environment?
TW
This is pretty nice except the whole point of the water rocket is to mix air with the water. If you substituted gasoline for the water then you would have air mixed with gasoline.
Now the pressure of the escaping gasoine/air mixture might well be enough to keep flames from "traveling up the pipe" for most of the trip down the driveway, but at the end your going to have a two liter bottle almost entirely filled with gasoline vapor and air which is exerting almost zero outward pressure. This is something that definately could explode.
Witness UNIX and it's clones. MS would have you believe that running an OS or using programing tools from 1995 is wrong but I somehow don't think everyone around here would agree.
TW
The best part about this isn't that it's a godsend to any particular need, but rather that it will attract business users who aren't fully utilizing their networks (a lot of 'em) and help drive down cellular phone costs.
Right now Cellular providers use stickin' it too us for services that should be free (text messaging). If we *do* get it for free over the LAN and we use it, then the market dictates that cellular providers will be forced to lower their prices.
TW
I don't think he was being especially intolerant. The first two conditions for writing a letter of recommendation were:
1- a demonstration of excellence (you had to get an "A" in one of his classes) and
2- he had to know you personally.
Obviously he believes that a recommendation is something more than a simple statement that the person knows the subject matter. He obviously feels it's a personal endorsement that reflects on him.
I don't think it's too much of stretch for him to say you also have conform to beliefs that he personally holds as extremely important to the subject he teaches to get that personal endorsement. I don't think it shows intolerance of any belief, but rather says that he can't personally endorse you if you haven't really absorbed his teaching in the manner in which he intended it.
Put another way, would you require a Black Studies professor to write a letter of recommendation to a KKK member just because he was capable of explaining what racism is? Would that be "intolerant" of the professor? I think you could require him to give the "A" in the class, but the letter.... I don't think so.
TW
These are only additional costs because the business is codifying it's "assumptions" in the hopes of making additional profit without regard for the needs or desires of some of its most important customers.
It's like a company offering all you can eat for $10.00 a head. They don't actually expect to be losing money if some guy eats $15.00 worth of food 'cause someone else will come in and eat $5.00 worth of food evening things out.
But what if the company noticed that it was actually getting a 75% of their customers eating $15.00 worth of food.
They _could_ just raise their price. But they won't do that because the light eater might feel put out. They wouldn't want to piss off the guy getting less than what he's paying for would they? They're making a lot of profit at his expense. I know! They could turn the light eater against the heavy eater!
They could complain that the "extra" food is an "additional costs." They could treat anyone who isn't eating an exactly average amount (or less!) like some greedy hog trying to drive them out of business. They could complain about how very unfair it is that someone would want to get all they can eat at an all you can eat restaurant.
What if I need more food though? What if I'm a sumo wrestler trying to keep my job? And what if they're the only restaurant in town? I guess I just gotta take the abuse, don't I? And my brother in law, the tiny Japanese guy who barely eats a thimble full at every meal, can be satisfied that they're really taking care of him by letting him eat however much he wants.
TW