*All* universities in general are very close to being a scam operation. They've managed to make themselves indispensable to modern life, while charging egregious amounts of money for it, and do *you* feel like we live in a particularly well-educated society?
The government is a shake-down operation designed to extract as much money as possible from the defenseless and transfer it to the billionaire beggars. Voting or participating in that corrupt mess is like choosing between being eaten by a jackal or a lion. Yeah, I participated, either way, I lose.
The system is rigged, you sound like you're posting from the 1950s, grandpa.
Matrox had a very clear preference for high GPA egotistical academics is what I'm saying, and their donations to their university didn't help anything either. That's *how* Matrox was ruined, not the *who*.
Maybe it's time we did. We are sitting on the largest collection of knowledge and facts, we have the most productive and efficient technology ever, and we arguing over "ownership" and "earning" as if we're still hard scrabble 14th century peasants.
Our brains haven't evolved as fast as our technology. Time we explore new ways of organizing our affairs that don't revolve around the worship and fear of the big bullies.
Pretty much, when the equation of "who owns the means of production" is so skewed towards unbelievable efficiency and productivity, what else is there left to do?
Never mind the employers; how about looking at universities' motivation to pump out so many degrees?
They make money from it. That's all. It's not about an educated populace or "learning to learn" or any of that high-minded horseshit. Money. End of story.
They take money from students, they take subsidies, they create markets for loans, markets for student housing.
I've seen electrical engineering go from actual engineering with the degree, to technician-level jobs requiring a degree. And I've worked with recent graduates. Wow. It's... amazing. I can't think of a better word.
I think WWII was faked. I mean really, you think that somehow we're not able to put a man on the Moon, but we were able to to go from propeller planes to nuclear bombs and cryptography and digital speech scrambling in a few years?
I think that's what it was, this was a good 20 years ago. It wasn't really a CD+G, it was a CD+LD, you could see the analog part of the CD that would play in a LaserDisc. The disc got stolen, who knows what it's worth today.
I consider the VIC-20 to be a nice SBC. Heck, I used mine 20 years ago to do some school work in the hardware labs of my college.
It was a lot easier to plug the VIC into the old CGA monitors and use BASIC to drive the user port than it was to use the XTs. The XTs had no HD, so I had to carry around boot floppies, the PC's BASIC didn't let you access the hardware AFAIK, the Turbo Pascal and C we used wasn't that easy either.
Commodore BASIC was in ROM, and a single line of code could create a 256 value look-up table from math and poke it into memory. A few bytes of assembler pumped it out the user port 8 bits at a time. Etc...
Same here, I've worked in EE for 25 years, as a technician at first. I don't see much of a future for it here in Montreal, I'm lucky I found a job here, it's off the island but at least I'm working in my field. At the same numerical wage as 15 years ago, minus the benefits, and with no vacation time except for the legal minimum. I worked the 24th. All day. I slept the 25th because I also work evenings doing contract work.. so I can make enough money to pay the immoral taxes in Quebec. (I made the mistake of going on unemployment last year, oops, the province considers this a revenue so it wants even more taxes from me.)
I wonder how the kids at Bombardier feel these days, with their bosses getting welfare to the tune of a billion dollars US yet shipping the jobs to Mexico.
Sure, just study more... What kind of life is this?
All I'm doing is running in place to pay taxes with the same salary as 15 years ago.
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*All* universities in general are very close to being a scam operation. They've managed to make themselves indispensable to modern life, while charging egregious amounts of money for it, and do *you* feel like we live in a particularly well-educated society?
Go back to sleep, grandpa. Soon you'll be gone and we'll have to fix the mess that happened under your watch.
The government is a shake-down operation designed to extract as much money as possible from the defenseless and transfer it to the billionaire beggars. Voting or participating in that corrupt mess is like choosing between being eaten by a jackal or a lion. Yeah, I participated, either way, I lose.
The system is rigged, you sound like you're posting from the 1950s, grandpa.
So that makes public funding of billionaire's profit-making machines OK?
Odd that the NFL needs to go begging for public funds to build their stadiums, isn't it? Those billionaire beggars have no shame.
I'd be surprised if it were even one milliwatt.
The "private sector" will be the first at the trough of public funds, believe it.
Matrox had a very clear preference for high GPA egotistical academics is what I'm saying, and their donations to their university didn't help anything either. That's *how* Matrox was ruined, not the *who*.
ruined by bringing in too many PhDs.... Matrox.
But when corporations seek higher profits elsewhere in the world, it's just good business sense, not parasitism, right?
Maybe it's time we did. We are sitting on the largest collection of knowledge and facts, we have the most productive and efficient technology ever, and we arguing over "ownership" and "earning" as if we're still hard scrabble 14th century peasants.
Our brains haven't evolved as fast as our technology. Time we explore new ways of organizing our affairs that don't revolve around the worship and fear of the big bullies.
No, that would be "modern technology", and science and weird things like indoor plumbing and germ theory...
Really? So if I drop you in the middle of the forest with nothing but your pants and a shirt, you could "earn" your way out of there?
Why not?
Pretty much, when the equation of "who owns the means of production" is so skewed towards unbelievable efficiency and productivity, what else is there left to do?
Never mind the employers; how about looking at universities' motivation to pump out so many degrees?
They make money from it. That's all. It's not about an educated populace or "learning to learn" or any of that high-minded horseshit. Money. End of story.
They take money from students, they take subsidies, they create markets for loans, markets for student housing.
I've seen electrical engineering go from actual engineering with the degree, to technician-level jobs requiring a degree. And I've worked with recent graduates. Wow. It's ... amazing. I can't think of a better word.
I do that regularly, I'm Canadian, raised in metric, yet I describe myself in imperial units re height and weight.
...or a dictionary, it seems.
I think WWII was faked. I mean really, you think that somehow we're not able to put a man on the Moon, but we were able to to go from propeller planes to nuclear bombs and cryptography and digital speech scrambling in a few years?
Why does a coin toss have more credibility than an economist? Same reason.
I think that's what it was, this was a good 20 years ago. It wasn't really a CD+G, it was a CD+LD, you could see the analog part of the CD that would play in a LaserDisc. The disc got stolen, who knows what it's worth today.
Oh well, RIP imaginative dude.
I consider the VIC-20 to be a nice SBC. Heck, I used mine 20 years ago to do some school work in the hardware labs of my college.
It was a lot easier to plug the VIC into the old CGA monitors and use BASIC to drive the user port than it was to use the XTs. The XTs had no HD, so I had to carry around boot floppies, the PC's BASIC didn't let you access the hardware AFAIK, the Turbo Pascal and C we used wasn't that easy either.
Commodore BASIC was in ROM, and a single line of code could create a 256 value look-up table from math and poke it into memory. A few bytes of assembler pumped it out the user port 8 bits at a time. Etc...
Whoah, not always! You can't "software" your way into a OCXO, for example.
JATO are for beginners. There are far better ways to go fast.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Same here, I've worked in EE for 25 years, as a technician at first. I don't see much of a future for it here in Montreal, I'm lucky I found a job here, it's off the island but at least I'm working in my field. At the same numerical wage as 15 years ago, minus the benefits, and with no vacation time except for the legal minimum. I worked the 24th. All day. I slept the 25th because I also work evenings doing contract work.. so I can make enough money to pay the immoral taxes in Quebec. (I made the mistake of going on unemployment last year, oops, the province considers this a revenue so it wants even more taxes from me.)
I wonder how the kids at Bombardier feel these days, with their bosses getting welfare to the tune of a billion dollars US yet shipping the jobs to Mexico.
Sure, just study more... What kind of life is this?
All I'm doing is running in place to pay taxes with the same salary as 15 years ago.