Yeah, we had an exam problem on this for the Australian coastline when I was doing chaos theory. There's a fairly famous paper where some guy (forget his name) got a spectacularly good estimate of the length of the british coastline using just the usual box-counting method
This perplexes me, to be honest. I've never once encountered a journal my uni library doesnt have a sub to, not one. I dont know if that's just in my field of study and research (physics), but still.
It's also the only state in negative population growth, and an economic recession:p
Easy to adopt a radical software solution when your ship's sinking anyway
You cannot challenge an existing pre-conception without going outside the bounds of that pre-conception. The whole POINT of academia is to challenge pre-conceptions, and so advance human knowledge. Effectively what this alumni group is saying is that any lecturer who advocates a position not within the status quo should not be allowed to continue.
Research academics use teaching as a sounding board for their ideas. A forum where their ideas may be put forward, challenged. It provides a medium where they are forced to translate their own wild opinions into a form coherent and solid enough that a semi-layperson can understand, and consider the merits of, those opinions.
Should people like canadian author and academic John Ralston Saul then be silenced, not because their views are discredited, but because a certain self-proclaimed "mainstream" doesnt like them?
If a lecturer can be proven WRONG, that's one thing. But to silence them just because you dont agree with them is beyond rediculous
Mozilla - "What we REALLY need is for all browsers to comply to some sort of standard, so that users dont have the compatibility headaches they currently have"
Microsoft - "Aww, come on, that would be too much effort! Cant we just fiddle with pretty colours?"
Thank christ for that, a program that starts up automatically, runs in background, and warns me if anything else tries to start up automatically and run in background
Oh the irony.
Perhaps the lawyers are also not aware that every time I've tried to play a copy-protected cd in linux, the only way I've been able to do it is to rip it with cdparanoia
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Yeah, we had an exam problem on this for the Australian coastline when I was doing chaos theory. There's a fairly famous paper where some guy (forget his name) got a spectacularly good estimate of the length of the british coastline using just the usual box-counting method
This perplexes me, to be honest. I've never once encountered a journal my uni library doesnt have a sub to, not one. I dont know if that's just in my field of study and research (physics), but still.
It's also the only state in negative population growth, and an economic recession :p
Easy to adopt a radical software solution when your ship's sinking anyway
You cannot challenge an existing pre-conception without going outside the bounds of that pre-conception. The whole POINT of academia is to challenge pre-conceptions, and so advance human knowledge. Effectively what this alumni group is saying is that any lecturer who advocates a position not within the status quo should not be allowed to continue.
Research academics use teaching as a sounding board for their ideas. A forum where their ideas may be put forward, challenged. It provides a medium where they are forced to translate their own wild opinions into a form coherent and solid enough that a semi-layperson can understand, and consider the merits of, those opinions.
Should people like canadian author and academic John Ralston Saul then be silenced, not because their views are discredited, but because a certain self-proclaimed "mainstream" doesnt like them?
If a lecturer can be proven WRONG, that's one thing. But to silence them just because you dont agree with them is beyond rediculous
"Armour" DOES have a "u" in it, if you speak English and not North American
10% isnt a precision, it's a disaster. You cant possibly claim a constant is valid if the empirical evidence varies from it by 10%
Mozilla - "What we REALLY need is for all browsers to comply to some sort of standard, so that users dont have the compatibility headaches they currently have" Microsoft - "Aww, come on, that would be too much effort! Cant we just fiddle with pretty colours?"
Thank christ for that, a program that starts up automatically, runs in background, and warns me if anything else tries to start up automatically and run in background
Oh the irony. Perhaps the lawyers are also not aware that every time I've tried to play a copy-protected cd in linux, the only way I've been able to do it is to rip it with cdparanoia