There are a lot of good teachers out there pulling a student aside and making the effort while grading 50 term papers over a weekend who deserve to be paid more.
There are also a lot of bad teachers out there working a 8-3 day and grading entirely by multiple choice (ie. Computer graded) and collecting a 12 month salary for 9 months of work.
I'd love to have my summer's off to travel the world and work part-time at the box office during baseball season and still get paid the same as a 50+ hour on-call programming slave. It's very dangerous to have a minimum teacher salary if you don't have the minimum teacher standards to go along with it. I think history has shown that throwing more money at the education problem hasn't resolved anything.
The article goes into arguments we've all read, and probably made before. The main point missing from this relatively well organized and civil rant is what to do about it.
It's always easier to point out he problems than the answers.
Let us not forget what Comedy Central comedian Lewis Black had to say on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno after performing in Rolla, MO.
"That's right. I've performed in Rolla MO... Because my life is a rich, full tapestry. And If you're thinking of killing yourself, Rolla's the place to go!"
Damn if it ain't true.
Admittedly off-topic, but would that small University happen to be carry the abbreviation of UMR?
Regardless, I attend said University and have found Blackboard to be a pretty usefull tool. Anything that can put most of your notes, homework, and other study materials in one place is certainly a good thing.
The whole thing with networked class rooms just screams distraction and is probably just a way to help those who care, and entertain those who don't.
It depends on the class, the students, and yourself. A little experimentation with a "wired classroom" is a step in the right direction.
I agree that the modern parent leaves too much parenting Jo XBOX and re-runs of "Leave it to Beaver", but have you ever tried saying Goodnight to a kid with ADD? It's quite a process, let me tell ya (my girlfriends brother can't focus on food, let alone homework). This is a firm "sorry, get your ass to bed". Sure, there will be whining of "just a few more credits pleaaaaassee...." but there is a firm 'NO' that can along with that.
It's a slightly less drastic measure than unplugging the game machine yourself (which starts a much more fun and larger arguement) and this device gives you a warning. It's hard to monitor the exact bedtime clock when you're doing laundry, the dishes, and trying to balance the checkbook all at the same time.
Before we all claim that anyone who uses some outside help in disciplining their kids is a bad parent, we should really think about how this might actually be usefull.
Nintendo thumb (playstation thumb) is an only an accepted medical term if you go for 4+ hours without breaks and develop at least a blister on your thumbs. Anything else is just being a pussy
I have to agree with you 100%. I've recently made my first move from Micro to the Penguin and had my fair share of troubles along the way. I figured "this ain't so bad." Then 2 nights ago I spent 4 hours setting up my aunt/uncle's new Dell. The extend of my work was plugging in those cool little plugs where they go, installing their USB printer/copier/scanner, installing Office XP, and setting up their Dial up with AOL (they already had agreed to use the service so there was nothing else I can do for them). This took 4 damn hours people! It's easy for us to forget how simply new this whole computers thing is for most people. If you can make documentation aimed at 10 year olds and 4 click installs JOE USER ain't gunna care what kinda shit it can do if they can't figure out how it works.
Here's hoping! Sounds like even though the FCC doesn't listen to shit, this might actually happen. This might me a real step in the right direction of protecting you and me.
So many people post to the M$ sucks articles because that is the opinion of the masses here. (stating the obvious, I know). But frankly, not many of us can sit down, read 80 pages of graduate level mathematics, and have a strong opinion on this.
Maybe this says something about the "Me hate Microsoft *grunt*" mentality, but you can't expect 300+ posts on something this complexity and relative obscurity. If you think it's hard to talk to the general public about OSS and computing topics, try explaining simplex to Joe Public. You'll get a confused look and maybe a punch in the face.
Well I don't understand the code you've spent the last 48 hours working on and don't know if it will make this project successful, but how does that make you feel?
And of course, my personal favorite,
If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Managers from the Information Science path are stupid
I think that is false: there never has *been* glory in Computer Science. Not even in the dot-com boom. No, *technology* was glorified, not the science.
When Ryan Phillippeor and Josh Hartnett get to pretend they are programmers in major hollywood teenie-bopper flicks, coders had become glorified.
Yes, but the question to me is who are they selling all this content to? If JUMBOCORP can get the taxpayers to put the infrastructure in place and then come in as the only provider in the area they still have a monopoly, and got someone else to put down the money.
That being said I'd love a system where Telecos were fighting to give me broadband access the cheapest. I'd really love more than just limited DSL availability or a cable modem IF you already get cable. FITH would be great but who wants to trust the governement to run it? It seems we are either faced with the choice between putting our faith (i shudder at such a statement) in a local municipality or waiting for it become relavent on someone's bottom line to give me a good deal.
I'd love my local gov to intelligently put Fiber in place and not turn it into all of those road improvement projects that take years and go to the contractor who was chosen by the lowest bid and more likely who he knows.
I consider myself somewhat an average geek and don't find him pitiful. Who hasn't grabbed a stick and pretended they were Darth Maul or any other Jedi badass? I laugh when I saw this because I was laughing at myself. I could have done the exact same thing and looked just as stupid. If it weren't for some kid at school who found the tape and posted it online this would be just another idiotic teenage fantasy that we've all lived in some form or another.
I think the kid should be proud that he is now world renown and maybe gave a little chuckle to a bunch of nerds JUST LIKE HIM.
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Seems to be a cunning ploy of the US Army to indoctrinate todays youth in the fun and games of killing people for your country. How wonderful technology is.
As opposed to the way it is today where todays youth enjoys the fun and games of killing demons from hell on mars or killing Germans in World War II ect.... Kids are already killing people in there games; this is an ATTEMPT to show a slightly more realistic view of this and do a little recruiting while at it. What's wrong with that?
I have yet to hear of an employment descrimination case in the high tech sector based upon age.
Where have you been? I've heard of several cases. One of which involved thousands of layoffs at Sun Microsystems, and conveniently hiring over half that back within a matter of months, excluding the former employees from their search. I haven't heard what happened to the case, but a little googling turned up the court case Cruz v. Sun Microsystems, Inc. The hard part about a discrimination case like that is proving WHY they didn't hire all those 40 year old applicants instead of the indentured H1B's.
I'm turning 21 in 2 weeks (THANK THE HEAVENS) and worry about my future in the IT industry and I haven't even graduated into it yet. I don't want to be a code monkey and hope to get my foot in the door and show I can do more than code.
It's getting harder each day with companies try to cut costs, shipping anything that doesn't require security to India, and that which does need to be done locally (i'm speaking US-wide at least) the code monkeys are a dime / dozen.
I'm not saying it's everywhere and certainly hope it isn't, but if you haven't seen the trend you either have a great position and don't need to worry about the rest of IT or haven't opened your eyes in a few years.
Hell I might just buy one and no games so Microsoft can take a loss! I've been looking for something to try my hand at Red Hat on, and I can help M$ lose money.
I'm amazed! I've never wanted so much to live in Texas so that I and everyone I know could show up and actually be heard, for once.
It wasn't until I started visiting/. here that I actually kept up on what Uncle Sam was doing to my rights.
Here's hoping that the people will be heard today.
I am currently making about $2800/month working as a co-op (basically an intern) at a BioSci company. I'm basically a system admin here working with SAP. CS Majors can make it in this world, but you have to be flexible. I'm doing everything I can here to make connections with the UNIX and NT teams here so that I work anywhere. Big companies have huge IT infrastructures that need people. Billion dollar corporations have to keep their data somewhere. There is more to the CS field than dotCOMs.
Just my 2 cents.
It's just another example of Hollywood trying to F*ck the consumer while making more money. Now the studios have this great idea that now they can release censored versions of your favorite movies so that these timeless masterpieces can be shown to your kids. While I agree that this isn't a perfect plan, I think it would be cool to show my kids Animal House, with a few scenes removed (they don't need to be seeing Tits on-screen...yet). Instead of buying this DVD player, Hollywood wants to make those parents buy the standard version and the censored version to double their profits off of these consumers.
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Don't like the idea of useing a cheap PSU with a case for under $30 much less a under $30 psu.
Get off your horse. One of the best power supplies I ever owned was free after mail-in rebate: a 500 watt no name brand.
There are a lot of good teachers out there pulling a student aside and making the effort while grading 50 term papers over a weekend who deserve to be paid more.
There are also a lot of bad teachers out there working a 8-3 day and grading entirely by multiple choice (ie. Computer graded) and collecting a 12 month salary for 9 months of work.
I'd love to have my summer's off to travel the world and work part-time at the box office during baseball season and still get paid the same as a 50+ hour on-call programming slave. It's very dangerous to have a minimum teacher salary if you don't have the minimum teacher standards to go along with it. I think history has shown that throwing more money at the education problem hasn't resolved anything.
The article goes into arguments we've all read, and probably made before. The main point missing from this relatively well organized and civil rant is what to do about it. It's always easier to point out he problems than the answers.
DamnSmallLinux
Just like the Matrix: Revolutions, I'll try and keep my hopes as low as possible knowing that I will hate it, but I'll go and be disappointed anyway.
Let us not forget what Comedy Central comedian Lewis Black had to say on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno after performing in Rolla, MO.
"That's right. I've performed in Rolla MO... Because my life is a rich, full tapestry. And If you're thinking of killing yourself, Rolla's the place to go!"
Damn if it ain't true.
Regardless, I attend said University and have found Blackboard to be a pretty usefull tool. Anything that can put most of your notes, homework, and other study materials in one place is certainly a good thing.
The whole thing with networked class rooms just screams distraction and is probably just a way to help those who care, and entertain those who don't.
It depends on the class, the students, and yourself. A little experimentation with a "wired classroom" is a step in the right direction.
I agree that the modern parent leaves too much parenting Jo XBOX and re-runs of "Leave it to Beaver", but have you ever tried saying Goodnight to a kid with ADD? It's quite a process, let me tell ya (my girlfriends brother can't focus on food, let alone homework). This is a firm "sorry, get your ass to bed". Sure, there will be whining of "just a few more credits pleaaaaassee...." but there is a firm 'NO' that can along with that.
It's a slightly less drastic measure than unplugging the game machine yourself (which starts a much more fun and larger arguement) and this device gives you a warning. It's hard to monitor the exact bedtime clock when you're doing laundry, the dishes, and trying to balance the checkbook all at the same time.
Before we all claim that anyone who uses some outside help in disciplining their kids is a bad parent, we should really think about how this might actually be usefull.
Just my 2 cents
Nintendo thumb (playstation thumb) is an only an accepted medical term if you go for 4+ hours without breaks and develop at least a blister on your thumbs. Anything else is just being a pussy
my 2 cents
Here's hoping! Sounds like even though the FCC doesn't listen to shit, this might actually happen. This might me a real step in the right direction of protecting you and me.
Maybe this says something about the "Me hate Microsoft *grunt*" mentality, but you can't expect 300+ posts on something this complexity and relative obscurity. If you think it's hard to talk to the general public about OSS and computing topics, try explaining simplex to Joe Public. You'll get a confused look and maybe a punch in the face.
And of course, my personal favorite, If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Managers from the Information Science path are stupid
Sound really fancy and confident and get yourself published. No one ever said Historians told the truth, but they make whatever they say interesting
When Ryan Phillippeor and Josh Hartnett get to pretend they are programmers in major hollywood teenie-bopper flicks, coders had become glorified.
That being said I'd love a system where Telecos were fighting to give me broadband access the cheapest. I'd really love more than just limited DSL availability or a cable modem IF you already get cable. FITH would be great but who wants to trust the governement to run it? It seems we are either faced with the choice between putting our faith (i shudder at such a statement) in a local municipality or waiting for it become relavent on someone's bottom line to give me a good deal.
I'd love my local gov to intelligently put Fiber in place and not turn it into all of those road improvement projects that take years and go to the contractor who was chosen by the lowest bid and more likely who he knows.
I consider myself somewhat an average geek and don't find him pitiful. Who hasn't grabbed a stick and pretended they were Darth Maul or any other Jedi badass? I laugh when I saw this because I was laughing at myself. I could have done the exact same thing and looked just as stupid. If it weren't for some kid at school who found the tape and posted it online this would be just another idiotic teenage fantasy that we've all lived in some form or another. I think the kid should be proud that he is now world renown and maybe gave a little chuckle to a bunch of nerds JUST LIKE HIM.
As opposed to the way it is today where todays youth enjoys the fun and games of killing demons from hell on mars or killing Germans in World War II ect.... Kids are already killing people in there games; this is an ATTEMPT to show a slightly more realistic view of this and do a little recruiting while at it. What's wrong with that?
Don't start the whole abortion thing. People have been screaming at each other over this one forever and it ain't really a /.'ing topic.
Dude 2: Dude... that'd be awesome! We could like have our own network without that internet crap
Dude 1: Dude... That'd be cool
I'm still waiting for a reasonable ammount of WiFi hot-spots to check email. This falls under the category of pipe-dream.
-My 2 cents.
I have yet to hear of an employment descrimination case in the high tech sector based upon age.
Where have you been?
I've heard of several cases. One of which involved thousands of layoffs at Sun Microsystems, and conveniently hiring over half that back within a matter of months, excluding the former employees from their search. I haven't heard what happened to the case, but a little googling turned up the court case Cruz v. Sun Microsystems, Inc. The hard part about a discrimination case like that is proving WHY they didn't hire all those 40 year old applicants instead of the indentured H1B's.
I'm turning 21 in 2 weeks (THANK THE HEAVENS) and worry about my future in the IT industry and I haven't even graduated into it yet. I don't want to be a code monkey and hope to get my foot in the door and show I can do more than code.
It's getting harder each day with companies try to cut costs, shipping anything that doesn't require security to India, and that which does need to be done locally (i'm speaking US-wide at least) the code monkeys are a dime / dozen.
I'm not saying it's everywhere and certainly hope it isn't, but if you haven't seen the trend you either have a great position and don't need to worry about the rest of IT or haven't opened your eyes in a few years.
Hell I might just buy one and no games so Microsoft can take a loss! I've been looking for something to try my hand at Red Hat on, and I can help M$ lose money.
I'm amazed! I've never wanted so much to live in Texas so that I and everyone I know could show up and actually be heard, for once. It wasn't until I started visiting /. here that I actually kept up on what Uncle Sam was doing to my rights.
Here's hoping that the people will be heard today.
I am currently making about $2800/month working as a co-op (basically an intern) at a BioSci company. I'm basically a system admin here working with SAP. CS Majors can make it in this world, but you have to be flexible. I'm doing everything I can here to make connections with the UNIX and NT teams here so that I work anywhere. Big companies have huge IT infrastructures that need people. Billion dollar corporations have to keep their data somewhere. There is more to the CS field than dotCOMs. Just my 2 cents.
It's just another example of Hollywood trying to F*ck the consumer while making more money. Now the studios have this great idea that now they can release censored versions of your favorite movies so that these timeless masterpieces can be shown to your kids. While I agree that this isn't a perfect plan, I think it would be cool to show my kids Animal House, with a few scenes removed (they don't need to be seeing Tits on-screen...yet). Instead of buying this DVD player, Hollywood wants to make those parents buy the standard version and the censored version to double their profits off of these consumers.