people with expensive atrack players probably were not very satisfied when they lost the market war. In the end, better technology wins. Trying to make everyone happy doesn't work, there are going to be losers. That is life.
if your mamma didn't teach you that, that isn't my problem. So march your butt up stares and ask her to teach you the basics of life
Competition is good! Let the market decide! Let the best format win! Even if there isn't a clear winner then people will have a choice, which is good too. Crap, I am sick of this organization of or that organization dictating what I can or cannot buy/think/do.
I think that Microsoft is finally realizing that they have their niche that they will excel in and other places where they simply can't. There niche is out of the box solutions that need little to no customization. Linux excels at customization. The problem for Microsoft is that Linux can eventually get to the point where they excel at out of the box solutions because they do not have the corporate overhead that Microsoft has.
Public education is a tool. Give a hammer to one guy and he may build a dog house. Give a hammer to another guy and he may build the White house. Teachers can inspire their kids, they can spend extra time with the ones who need it, but when a teacher has 30 students, 15 of which are indifferent to school, 10 of which aren't even qualified to be in the class and 5 of which who are sharp... What is a person to do. Again, the main problem with public education is not teachers.
Come to think of it, I didn't really meet many if any very sharp education majors. There is some truth to those who can't, teach. Regardless, I think this is not the biggest problem of our education system. The sharpest students that I went to school with did two things. They were self feeders and two, they hung out with others like them. The teachers ability, drive, or what have you had little to do with what I (or other sharp students that I knew) actually learned. Concentrating on teachers like this is like having a flat tire and changing your oil expecting it to fix your car.
I totally agree, I have been running XP for over a year now. Before that I was running 2000 professional. The ONLY reason I am running XP is because I needed a beefier machine and the machine my company bought had XP preloaded. I would still be running 2000 and be totally happy, not missing a thing, if XP wasn't preloaded on my new machine. Again, I totally agree, show me solid reasons to switch and I will switch. Heck, I and most of the programmers at the company I work for would.
Maybe. Or maybe parents don't have enough TIME to teach their kids since they are working at two or more jobs just to pay the bills (and the salaries of incapable teachers who expect the parents to do their job for them.)
Maybe people shouldn't have kids if they don't have time for them. Also, I don't know what the average class size is in public school is, but I am guessing it is around 30. A 1 to 30 ratio does not give a teacher a lot of time for one on one for each student. Another thing, you forget that some of us techies start at wages that takes teachers 20 years to make and that with only a bachelors degree (some techies don't even have that). I have friends with Masters degrees begging for a teaching job. So teacher's, in my opinion don't go into the proffession for the money...so many of them may actually do it because they love the proffession(I have a wavering opinion on this point mind you). Assumming this, I think the problem is not the incompetant teachers, the problem must lie in the system, or the parents, or the money, or our society.
The problem isn't religion. It has way more to do with the laziness of U.S. citizens and the lack of parental involvement. Most kids academically do not know what a hard days work is. Because the majority of kids are lazy the bar is set lower and lower. It was that way all through my years of schooling, from kindergarden through me graduating with my BS in CS. Secondly, parents on the most part do not think that it is their responsibility to teach their kids. I volunteered two years in the public school system to find this out. This problem is less of an issue on/. because to be a techy you almost have to be non lazy academically (self feeder) and because of this attribute of techies the lack of parental interest is overcome.
Do not blame it on religion, Christian or otherwise why we as a nation are falling behind academically!
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Ads...I see them once in a while, but they are quickly added to my adblock list. Really, should tech saavy/. readers see very many ads at all? I think the poster of the parent is a wanna be geek. Ok, enough sluphing off, back to work...
While what you are saying may be true, I highly doubt it. I went through all the boring as well as the challenging courses to get my degree. And during my time, I saw students drop out of the major throughout. The reasons I saw were because they didn't have the drive, they wanted to be spoon fed, or they couldn't bitch to a proff enough to get a passing grade.
Also, a CS degreee is about theroy or at least it should be. If you want more real world working knowledge then go to a technical school. Either way, a good CS grad is worth every bit as much as a good technical grad. The real world working knowledge is easier to pick up than the theroy. Knowing the whole picture and getting down to the details later (on the job) is always better than knowing the details and then trying to get the whole picture (college).
More important than strengths and weaknesses of a CS program is the ability to be a self feeder, to learn on one's own. I work at a company where roughly half of us are programmers. The cream of the bunch are self feeders. They are the producers, they are the achievers.
So, my reply to this poster is. I wouldn't want to work with a whiner like you. Get-R-Done there or Get-R-Done someone where else, but Get-R-Done.
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people with expensive atrack players probably were not very satisfied when they lost the market war. In the end, better technology wins. Trying to make everyone happy doesn't work, there are going to be losers. That is life. if your mamma didn't teach you that, that isn't my problem. So march your butt up stares and ask her to teach you the basics of life
Competition is good! Let the market decide! Let the best format win! Even if there isn't a clear winner then people will have a choice, which is good too. Crap, I am sick of this organization of or that organization dictating what I can or cannot buy/think/do.
I think that Microsoft is finally realizing that they have their niche that they will excel in and other places where they simply can't. There niche is out of the box solutions that need little to no customization. Linux excels at customization. The problem for Microsoft is that Linux can eventually get to the point where they excel at out of the box solutions because they do not have the corporate overhead that Microsoft has.
Public education is a tool. Give a hammer to one guy and he may build a dog house. Give a hammer to another guy and he may build the White house. Teachers can inspire their kids, they can spend extra time with the ones who need it, but when a teacher has 30 students, 15 of which are indifferent to school, 10 of which aren't even qualified to be in the class and 5 of which who are sharp... What is a person to do. Again, the main problem with public education is not teachers.
Come to think of it, I didn't really meet many if any very sharp education majors. There is some truth to those who can't, teach. Regardless, I think this is not the biggest problem of our education system. The sharpest students that I went to school with did two things. They were self feeders and two, they hung out with others like them. The teachers ability, drive, or what have you had little to do with what I (or other sharp students that I knew) actually learned. Concentrating on teachers like this is like having a flat tire and changing your oil expecting it to fix your car.
I totally agree, I have been running XP for over a year now. Before that I was running 2000 professional. The ONLY reason I am running XP is because I needed a beefier machine and the machine my company bought had XP preloaded. I would still be running 2000 and be totally happy, not missing a thing, if XP wasn't preloaded on my new machine. Again, I totally agree, show me solid reasons to switch and I will switch. Heck, I and most of the programmers at the company I work for would.
Maybe. Or maybe parents don't have enough TIME to teach their kids since they are working at two or more jobs just to pay the bills (and the salaries of incapable teachers who expect the parents to do their job for them.)
...so many of them may actually do it because they love the proffession(I have a wavering opinion on this point mind you). Assumming this, I think the problem is not the incompetant teachers, the problem must lie in the system, or the parents, or the money, or our society.
Maybe people shouldn't have kids if they don't have time for them. Also, I don't know what the average class size is in public school is, but I am guessing it is around 30. A 1 to 30 ratio does not give a teacher a lot of time for one on one for each student. Another thing, you forget that some of us techies start at wages that takes teachers 20 years to make and that with only a bachelors degree (some techies don't even have that). I have friends with Masters degrees begging for a teaching job. So teacher's, in my opinion don't go into the proffession for the money
The problem isn't religion. It has way more to do with the laziness of U.S. citizens and the lack of parental involvement. Most kids academically do not know what a hard days work is. Because the majority of kids are lazy the bar is set lower and lower. It was that way all through my years of schooling, from kindergarden through me graduating with my BS in CS. Secondly, parents on the most part do not think that it is their responsibility to teach their kids. I volunteered two years in the public school system to find this out. This problem is less of an issue on /. because to be a techy you almost have to be non lazy academically (self feeder) and because of this attribute of techies the lack of parental interest is overcome.
Do not blame it on religion, Christian or otherwise why we as a nation are falling behind academically!
Ads...I see them once in a while, but they are quickly added to my adblock list. Really, should tech saavy /. readers see very many ads at all? I think the poster of the parent is a wanna be geek. Ok, enough sluphing off, back to work...
While what you are saying may be true, I highly doubt it. I went through all the boring as well as the challenging courses to get my degree. And during my time, I saw students drop out of the major throughout. The reasons I saw were because they didn't have the drive, they wanted to be spoon fed, or they couldn't bitch to a proff enough to get a passing grade. Also, a CS degreee is about theroy or at least it should be. If you want more real world working knowledge then go to a technical school. Either way, a good CS grad is worth every bit as much as a good technical grad. The real world working knowledge is easier to pick up than the theroy. Knowing the whole picture and getting down to the details later (on the job) is always better than knowing the details and then trying to get the whole picture (college). More important than strengths and weaknesses of a CS program is the ability to be a self feeder, to learn on one's own. I work at a company where roughly half of us are programmers. The cream of the bunch are self feeders. They are the producers, they are the achievers. So, my reply to this poster is. I wouldn't want to work with a whiner like you. Get-R-Done there or Get-R-Done someone where else, but Get-R-Done.