So the article basically says:
"Socializing with others provides good training and practice for socializing with others".
I know some researchers have to conduct null studies like this to pay their bills and stuff, but is anyone really interested in this?
Well this is what these types of studies are supposed to do - confirm the obvious. I'm just surprised they haven't studied the positive effects of playing team sports etc.
People don't like coffee, they like a slight coffee flavor.
That's true. I don't like coffee either, but I do like a slight coffee flavour. I don't like drinking plain coffee, because, quite frankly I think it's gross. I do however, like drinking sugar and cream with a big of coffee flavour for a nice added touch. I don't see how that's any more or less gross. And also don't see how sugar or cream or any of the other stuff in lattes is any more or less crap than coffee.
Lattes and stuff is just another kind of hot chocolate, and there's nothing wrong with that.
But to require every student to get a full liberal arts degree in order to get a job in a specialized area is not simply inefficient, it's idiotic.
Who's requiring that? If it's anyone, it's the potential employers who require a "full liberal arts degree in order to get a job in a specialized area". I don't think that is in any way the school's fault - they advertise a liberal arts degree, they deliver. If employers are going to misinterpret a liberal arts degree as training for a job, then, well, take it up with them. Don't blame the institutions that are simply delivering what they advertise.
In fact, that's why technical institutes and such exist - they're catered to people who aren't interested in a liberal arts degree but are interested in getting job training. Maybe you should have went to one instead?
The point is, either you made the wrong choice (it sounds like you didn't *want* to get a liberal arts degree, so why did you?), or employers are the ones making "inefficient" and "idiotic" requirements. In either case, it has nothing to do with the college or university.
I fully agree - if we are addressing this "stigma", why not address all the other "stigmas" in other fields as well? What about the "stigma" of boys in ballet? And as you said, don't these people recognize that, well, different people just have different interests and talents? Oh no! There are more girls becoming nurses than boys! We have to fight this stigma! (Actually, in this case, there might be an argument for encouraging boys to become nurses, if there is a shortage of nurses. However, since when do we have a shortage of people in IT?)
No one's contending that he isn't a genius, but calling him a mathematical genius is like calling him a literary genius - it's plain irrelevant. He is a arithmetical genius, no doubt, and that's quite an amazing feat.
trash DeVry all you want. My paycheck for being a developer converts to currency just the same as any of you with 'proper' degrees.
I'm sure it does. Just don't kid yourself that you have the equivalent of a 'proper' degree (what is that, anyways?). Many people with no degrees at all earn more than those with degrees - so is your paycheck any measurement of how good your degree is?
Since when did universities become life training institutions? Universities exist for very specialized and niche reasons - if you want to take courses on software development politics, go start your own "life training school".
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Uhh what's wrong with that? Lots of network transfer speeds are measured using Kb/s (modems, etc) - it's a common unit of measure and just as good as KB/s - so as long as it says so, who's fooling anyone?
Well as far as I could tell, my AP classes had a set curriculum as well, but we still didn't get textbooks for any of the AP courses. Calculus, for example, was taught entirely from overhead/board notes.
If you're aiming to give them a high-school level education anyways, what's the point of textbooks? I never used a textbook in highschool (nor did we ever get any, except for novels in English). In case some of you are too old to know, high-school curriculums are largely made up by the school district nowadays anyways. The teachers come up with their own lesson plans, and write up their own homework assignments (they claim that the textbook problems are "too easy"). The notes taken in class (which are usually well-organized, and read almost like a textbook, with consistently numbered sections, theorems, and examples) are basically what serve as study material. Going to class and listening attentively is what basically serves as "reading the textbook".
For example, Mitsubishi manufactures everything from LCD monitors to trains to escalators, to motor vehicles. Not surprisingly, one of the groups(Mistubishi Motors) is now in a lot of financial trouble.
I don't think there is a company called Mitsubishi. There are 29+ companies, all which have Mitsubishi in their names, and all of which use the same tri-diamond logo. But the only relationship between the companies is that most of their presidents belong to the same Friday club - and they meet informally for lunch on the 2nd Friday of each month. (Plus the fact that many of them used to be part of a big company called Mitsubishi around 50 years ago).
Sadly its in places like High-School English where you are encouraged and even taught to use $10 words where a $0.02 word will to. +5 points on your paper, -5 points in real-life where readability counts for more than sounding pretentious and academic.
And interestingly enough, where the real academics happen, University English is where you are encouraged and taught to forget everything you learned in high-school English and use $0.02 words wherever possible without sacrificing clarity or preciseness. +5 points for efficient and clear communication on your paper, -5 points in real life where sounding sophisticated and "professional" counts more than readability.
How small is the solid state hard disk though? It seems that, compared to regular hard disks, you can't get something like an 80GB drive for a reasonable cost.
I, for one, can't wait until solid state drives replace the current hard drives. The big advantage I see would be noise and vibration elimination. Combine that with a cool-running processor with a passive heatsink, a fanless power supply, and videocards/motherboards without fans, and we might just be able to have a truely silent computer that does not get louder over time. Given that we can find a good case design with appropriate convection of course...
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So the article basically says: "Socializing with others provides good training and practice for socializing with others". I know some researchers have to conduct null studies like this to pay their bills and stuff, but is anyone really interested in this?
Well this is what these types of studies are supposed to do - confirm the obvious. I'm just surprised they haven't studied the positive effects of playing team sports etc.
But what makes you think you can make MONEY if you can't do your JOB?
That's true. I don't like coffee either, but I do like a slight coffee flavour. I don't like drinking plain coffee, because, quite frankly I think it's gross. I do however, like drinking sugar and cream with a big of coffee flavour for a nice added touch. I don't see how that's any more or less gross. And also don't see how sugar or cream or any of the other stuff in lattes is any more or less crap than coffee.
Lattes and stuff is just another kind of hot chocolate, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Well it's a pretty sad world we live in as I think that particular explanation would make sense to most 5 year olds.
Who's requiring that? If it's anyone, it's the potential employers who require a "full liberal arts degree in order to get a job in a specialized area". I don't think that is in any way the school's fault - they advertise a liberal arts degree, they deliver. If employers are going to misinterpret a liberal arts degree as training for a job, then, well, take it up with them. Don't blame the institutions that are simply delivering what they advertise.
In fact, that's why technical institutes and such exist - they're catered to people who aren't interested in a liberal arts degree but are interested in getting job training. Maybe you should have went to one instead?
The point is, either you made the wrong choice (it sounds like you didn't *want* to get a liberal arts degree, so why did you?), or employers are the ones making "inefficient" and "idiotic" requirements. In either case, it has nothing to do with the college or university.
I fully agree - if we are addressing this "stigma", why not address all the other "stigmas" in other fields as well? What about the "stigma" of boys in ballet? And as you said, don't these people recognize that, well, different people just have different interests and talents? Oh no! There are more girls becoming nurses than boys! We have to fight this stigma! (Actually, in this case, there might be an argument for encouraging boys to become nurses, if there is a shortage of nurses. However, since when do we have a shortage of people in IT?)
No one's contending that he isn't a genius, but calling him a mathematical genius is like calling him a literary genius - it's plain irrelevant. He is a arithmetical genius, no doubt, and that's quite an amazing feat.
But it certainly wasn't recorded 50000 years ago.
I'm sure it does. Just don't kid yourself that you have the equivalent of a 'proper' degree (what is that, anyways?). Many people with no degrees at all earn more than those with degrees - so is your paycheck any measurement of how good your degree is?
Yeah but how likely is it going to be silent at 100 watts, unless you use some wacky sort of water cooling (and even then, there's the pump...)
No they didn't. They temporarily changed the default. Support for it certainly is still there.
Since when did universities become life training institutions? Universities exist for very specialized and niche reasons - if you want to take courses on software development politics, go start your own "life training school".
Uhh what's wrong with that? Lots of network transfer speeds are measured using Kb/s (modems, etc) - it's a common unit of measure and just as good as KB/s - so as long as it says so, who's fooling anyone?
I don't think that's typical user mentality. That's stupid people mentality.
Well as far as I could tell, my AP classes had a set curriculum as well, but we still didn't get textbooks for any of the AP courses. Calculus, for example, was taught entirely from overhead/board notes.
If you're aiming to give them a high-school level education anyways, what's the point of textbooks? I never used a textbook in highschool (nor did we ever get any, except for novels in English). In case some of you are too old to know, high-school curriculums are largely made up by the school district nowadays anyways. The teachers come up with their own lesson plans, and write up their own homework assignments (they claim that the textbook problems are "too easy"). The notes taken in class (which are usually well-organized, and read almost like a textbook, with consistently numbered sections, theorems, and examples) are basically what serve as study material. Going to class and listening attentively is what basically serves as "reading the textbook".
Which I've always found weird - why is it "save link as"? Am I not saving the target, not the link?
I don't think there is a company called Mitsubishi. There are 29+ companies, all which have Mitsubishi in their names, and all of which use the same tri-diamond logo. But the only relationship between the companies is that most of their presidents belong to the same Friday club - and they meet informally for lunch on the 2nd Friday of each month. (Plus the fact that many of them used to be part of a big company called Mitsubishi around 50 years ago).
No, I never did major in English - but I did take a required 1st-year English course, and my experience was as I described.
And interestingly enough, where the real academics happen, University English is where you are encouraged and taught to forget everything you learned in high-school English and use $0.02 words wherever possible without sacrificing clarity or preciseness. +5 points for efficient and clear communication on your paper, -5 points in real life where sounding sophisticated and "professional" counts more than readability.
Heck, with a plain old 7200 rpm harddrive, and more than 256 MB RAM, unhibernating takes *longer* (sometimes much longer) than rebooting.
On the other hand if you're using it has a terminal I suppose it doesn't matter...
How small is the solid state hard disk though? It seems that, compared to regular hard disks, you can't get something like an 80GB drive for a reasonable cost.
I, for one, can't wait until solid state drives replace the current hard drives. The big advantage I see would be noise and vibration elimination. Combine that with a cool-running processor with a passive heatsink, a fanless power supply, and videocards/motherboards without fans, and we might just be able to have a truely silent computer that does not get louder over time. Given that we can find a good case design with appropriate convection of course...