I said tech school, not technology school. There's a huge difference. See my reply to another above. My tech school is ABET accredited, and has been for decades. In fact, one of the schools that merged way back in the day to form my school helped start accredidation in the early 1900s.
And I'd count working for NASA for a summer as definitely getting pretty far, added in with the hours and hours of research I was able to do as an undergraduate (yes, real research, on things that aren't public yet). You can't get that at a non-accredited school, or at a big state school - at least not in the quantity and quality I did.
Wrong. You're thinking of "technology schools". "Tech schools" is a term that has been around for decades, way before the for-profits started. The "tech schools" are schools like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Michigan Tech, Texas Tech, Louisiana Tech, FIT, MIT, IIT, CalTech, Stanford, Purdue, etc., not DeVry, ITT, and the other for-profits, some of which are now accredited by a group formed by the non-accredited schools... There's a big difference between the "tech schools" and the "technology schools."
On the other hand, as an aerospace engineering graduate who finished last year after only four years and had a blast doing newspaper, student government, and a wealth of other activities, it depends on where you go - go to a tech school, and it's four years easy (plus a minor in Materials Engineering for my Tech Elecs). Two semesters at 15 hours, two at 18, and the rest 16-17. If you want to be an engineer, go to a school with an engineering curriculum, not a general curriculum with engineering tacked on top. Most of my friends finished in four, or took 4+ or 5 to get two degrees. It's not impossible, you just have to choose the right school.
ESA is already scheduled to build the ATV, or Autonomous Transfer Vehicle, to haul cargo to and from the ISS. The first, the Jules Verne, should be close to being ready to go as soon as the Space Shuttle can get back to a regular construction schedule and deliver the Columbus module (ESA's lab module). Maybe they are just figuring that they can trade cargo space for a passenger seat or two with the US or Russia, so they don't need a direct stake in a passenger craft.
h.264 will be the format of choice with the next-gen video cards with hardware support for h.264.
FairPlay does sort of suck, since you can't do anything with it, but at least it works, and doesn't get the movie/music people are bent out of shape.
Mac + Windows represents virtually all the _consumer_ market. Plus, iTunes can run on Linux via CrossOverOffice and others, so this point is not all that strong. The market just isn't there for solid native Linux support.
You can play these videos are FAR many more devices than the 5G iPod, like EVERY PC and Mac with iTunes. Yes, the videos right now are built for the iPod, but if you think the iPod is the only intended device, you've missed the point - the iPod is just a test.
Why do you need to burn a DVD when you can hook up your PC/Mac to your TV/HDTV, or even better yet, watch them on your nice high res monitor? Most people don't have HDTVs, so their computer monitors are as high res as they go. And you can burn the files to a data DVD to take wherever, or network share, or whatever. The DVD isn't tomorrow's technology - it's barely even today's. These videos represent a physical media-free environment, so again, whether this is a good thing or not, I think you're missing the point.
HDTV downloads would take FOREVER. Of course, if reports from Front Row-equipped iMacs streaming in HD trailer without stuttering or loading times is true, Apple is two steps ahead of us on this already.
Point is - this isn't meant to be a be all that ends all offering. This is a test, this is only a test. Why the heck else would they pick such a crazy variety of shows to test many potential demographics?
Man, those ricers always get the tech before us in the States. First they had those rice/electric hybrids, then fancy stickers, now fancy color-changing stickers. What's next, a 10 year warranty?
Agreed. This is why Linux has trouble going mainstream. We the/.'ers can do it ourselves, but the vast majority of people can't. Sheep like whatever pasture they're given, whether or not the smart sheep have built a cool looking bridge to a much better pasture with fewer bugs and wolf-protection and vi.
The only thing that is still lacking from this kind of thing, though, is the momentum to drive it through to more than just a few educators. If someone gave schools, especially public ones, science equipment and musical instruments and the like, in addition to a herd of Linux geeks to install this for the schools on their existing hardware (or give new hardware as needed), it could really take off. Apple, Microsoft, Dell, etc., like to make "community development" donations that go beyond just their computers/software, and this is what gets many on their platforms.
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Can I get a degree?
Nope, not from B&N, Amazon filed a patent yesterday for "a piece of paper denoting completion of a series of related educational courses with the intention of impressing those without said piece of paper to make more money than them. In another application, a collection of these pieces of paper are used to add every letter of the alphabet to the end of one's name, again in an attempt to compensate for inadequacies or impress those without the letters. When combined with user feedback and recommendations, a multi-million dollar 'non-profit' industry is created."
As someone who has worked in/around Japanese space hardware (the JEM intended for ISS), I can say that JAXA knows how to build a great spacecraft, maybe even better, cleaner, and with more emphasis on absolute accuracy than some American spacecraft. Like parent said, this was their first time doing a lot of these things, so I'm sure they'll learn plenty from this and get it right the next time.
Really, in space terms, that's not that far apart. 10 to 100 km is a pretty decent estimate for a object millions of km away from Earth. It's kind of like an epidemiologist saying "the deaths from H5N1 could range from 100-110 million"
Eh, the Red Sox and White Sox would have to win consecutive World Series before we should really worry about the end of the world. I don't think we have anything to worry about.
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I said tech school, not technology school. There's a huge difference. See my reply to another above. My tech school is ABET accredited, and has been for decades. In fact, one of the schools that merged way back in the day to form my school helped start accredidation in the early 1900s.
And I'd count working for NASA for a summer as definitely getting pretty far, added in with the hours and hours of research I was able to do as an undergraduate (yes, real research, on things that aren't public yet). You can't get that at a non-accredited school, or at a big state school - at least not in the quantity and quality I did.
Wrong. You're thinking of "technology schools". "Tech schools" is a term that has been around for decades, way before the for-profits started. The "tech schools" are schools like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Michigan Tech, Texas Tech, Louisiana Tech, FIT, MIT, IIT, CalTech, Stanford, Purdue, etc., not DeVry, ITT, and the other for-profits, some of which are now accredited by a group formed by the non-accredited schools... There's a big difference between the "tech schools" and the "technology schools."
On the other hand, as an aerospace engineering graduate who finished last year after only four years and had a blast doing newspaper, student government, and a wealth of other activities, it depends on where you go - go to a tech school, and it's four years easy (plus a minor in Materials Engineering for my Tech Elecs). Two semesters at 15 hours, two at 18, and the rest 16-17. If you want to be an engineer, go to a school with an engineering curriculum, not a general curriculum with engineering tacked on top. Most of my friends finished in four, or took 4+ or 5 to get two degrees. It's not impossible, you just have to choose the right school.
ESA is already scheduled to build the ATV, or Autonomous Transfer Vehicle, to haul cargo to and from the ISS. The first, the Jules Verne, should be close to being ready to go as soon as the Space Shuttle can get back to a regular construction schedule and deliver the Columbus module (ESA's lab module). Maybe they are just figuring that they can trade cargo space for a passenger seat or two with the US or Russia, so they don't need a direct stake in a passenger craft.
Sorry, but I have to rebutt this.
h.264 will be the format of choice with the next-gen video cards with hardware support for h.264.
FairPlay does sort of suck, since you can't do anything with it, but at least it works, and doesn't get the movie/music people are bent out of shape.
Mac + Windows represents virtually all the _consumer_ market. Plus, iTunes can run on Linux via CrossOverOffice and others, so this point is not all that strong. The market just isn't there for solid native Linux support.
You can play these videos are FAR many more devices than the 5G iPod, like EVERY PC and Mac with iTunes. Yes, the videos right now are built for the iPod, but if you think the iPod is the only intended device, you've missed the point - the iPod is just a test.
Why do you need to burn a DVD when you can hook up your PC/Mac to your TV/HDTV, or even better yet, watch them on your nice high res monitor? Most people don't have HDTVs, so their computer monitors are as high res as they go. And you can burn the files to a data DVD to take wherever, or network share, or whatever. The DVD isn't tomorrow's technology - it's barely even today's. These videos represent a physical media-free environment, so again, whether this is a good thing or not, I think you're missing the point.
HDTV downloads would take FOREVER. Of course, if reports from Front Row-equipped iMacs streaming in HD trailer without stuttering or loading times is true, Apple is two steps ahead of us on this already.
Point is - this isn't meant to be a be all that ends all offering. This is a test, this is only a test. Why the heck else would they pick such a crazy variety of shows to test many potential demographics?
Meh, damn shaman are overpowered anyhow.
"...it brings the first Real subscription music service to Mac and Linux-based products."
Silly Real, of course it's their first subscription service available to Mac and Linux users.
Man, those ricers always get the tech before us in the States. First they had those rice/electric hybrids, then fancy stickers, now fancy color-changing stickers. What's next, a 10 year warranty?
Agreed. This is why Linux has trouble going mainstream. We the /.'ers can do it ourselves, but the vast majority of people can't. Sheep like whatever pasture they're given, whether or not the smart sheep have built a cool looking bridge to a much better pasture with fewer bugs and wolf-protection and vi.
The only thing that is still lacking from this kind of thing, though, is the momentum to drive it through to more than just a few educators. If someone gave schools, especially public ones, science equipment and musical instruments and the like, in addition to a herd of Linux geeks to install this for the schools on their existing hardware (or give new hardware as needed), it could really take off. Apple, Microsoft, Dell, etc., like to make "community development" donations that go beyond just their computers/software, and this is what gets many on their platforms.
Can I get a degree?
Nope, not from B&N, Amazon filed a patent yesterday for "a piece of paper denoting completion of a series of related educational courses with the intention of impressing those without said piece of paper to make more money than them. In another application, a collection of these pieces of paper are used to add every letter of the alphabet to the end of one's name, again in an attempt to compensate for inadequacies or impress those without the letters. When combined with user feedback and recommendations, a multi-million dollar 'non-profit' industry is created."
Control-V, Control-C? Paste then Copy? Hmm...
Get Slashdot to space the posts 10 hours apart. That'll increase geek-productivity worldwide in no time.
No new Slashdot main stories for 9 hours and counting...
Bah, don't overestimate their chances of having traveled here from far, far away, even if it has been a long, long time...
SCREEEEEEECHHHHHH
Uh, I, for one, welcome our new Dark Side overlords.
Find out the facts? Ha! Not believing everything I read on /.? Ha! Cow-tipping? Ha!
I've tried all three, and none of them seem to be good ideas.
With an unlimited budget, what "myth" would you most like to test? How about using 1960s technology to try and land on the moon?
As someone who has worked in/around Japanese space hardware (the JEM intended for ISS), I can say that JAXA knows how to build a great spacecraft, maybe even better, cleaner, and with more emphasis on absolute accuracy than some American spacecraft. Like parent said, this was their first time doing a lot of these things, so I'm sure they'll learn plenty from this and get it right the next time.
Really, in space terms, that's not that far apart. 10 to 100 km is a pretty decent estimate for a object millions of km away from Earth. It's kind of like an epidemiologist saying "the deaths from H5N1 could range from 100-110 million"
Then again, its a spanish language site, so I give them kudos for finding someone whose English isn't terrible to write it up for them.
Uh, we have a 226 in progress: used "its" instead of "it's"
Eh, the Red Sox and White Sox would have to win consecutive World Series before we should really worry about the end of the world. I don't think we have anything to worry about.
So how fun is that fiber-reinforced polymer bridge in Wisconsin?
Or even on silicon!
Though what they can do with silicone may be much more, uh, er, entertaining.
Such a waste, especially when consider they had such high potential.
Nah, that'll just spark another fight, this one over whether to use the 4 number convention or the 5 number convention.
Eh, I just wish people had the sense to actually write a "summary" - this whole thing was copy and pasted directly from the story.