By allowing every tom, dick and idgit to pursue and obtain degrees with our lax admittance standards at modern day colleges and universities, the advanced degree, while being probably required, will soon be no indication of ability, knowledge, or added value of an employee to an enterprise. To maximize the perceived value you might carry as an employee, you will probably need to maximize your presentable portfolio of demostrated expertise. In fact, only in specific limited areas of study, where degrees are required for certification, licensure, and funding (engineers, architects, physicians, research sciences), are degrees going to retain their value. For information tach jobs, I think demonstrated skills will be more valued than degrees. And proven success will be more valuable for business related jobs than an MBA, I expect.
Now, if Universities return to the tighter admissions standards of yesteryear, and return to accepting only the top 30% of applicants, as they once did, degrees will become more valuable in the future.
Teachers in sports, music, and other fields tend to believe that talent matters and that they know it when they see it. In fact, they appear to be confusing ability with precocity.
I think Malcolm Gladwell makes an assault on this part of your argument. While it is probably true that drive is as important as ability in the development of star-whatevers, Gladwell discusses how it is proven that experts in a field are sub-cognitively able to precess overall performance metrics on a level that allows them to be able to legitimately forcast success and ability of students into the future.
However, there is no evidence that any god exists. It is anti-intellectual to presume a god exists with a complete and total lack of evidence. Of all the useful intellectual tools developed over history, the most useful has been Occam's Razor.
PvPers aren't going to go to Vanguard. Vanguard has promised that they will be about huge raids. In fact, they keep saying that is the whole point of their game.
I haven't seen Darkfall, but my bet is that PvP junkies will either check out WoW again after the expansion, with its promised changes to PvP, or will go to WarHammer until it is decided that WarHammer is a bust too.
I wonder why the PvPers didn't go play Auto Assault. It had a great PvP element and was a lot of fun when you could get enough people online (Of course, it's major problem was getting enough people online).
Governments operate on fear. They control their people with fear. We used to be told to fear nuclear anihilation. Then we were told to fear the pervasive influence of drugs. Now we are told to fear terrorism. He's not being reactionary. He's being irritated.
can get a job at any age. That whole "talented" thing is the key. You will need to have demonstrable ability at some level. However, 30 isn't too old to move into the software business. But you will probably need to figure out right away what kind of programming and programming language you are most interested in. In my experience, companies look for programmers who specialize in a specific language and can tie it in to other languages...Like a Java programmer who can tie things back to C++. Or C++ programmers who can tie back to assembler.
I'm not giving up my wired connection until they fix the inherent latency issues in wireless. 80% of what I use my computer for is gaming. Online gaming is killed by lag. Wireless has tons of lag.
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The Bible is best burnt. Magic: The Gathering, on the other hand, loses its appeal when you can play poker for real money.
CBC is hard-left-leaning, anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-big-business, anti-conservative...
Anything that is anti-Israel, anti-Christian, anti-big-business and anti-conservative can't be all bad. I draw the line at atni-American, however. Bad CBC! Bad!
How much does Jobs actually have to do with day to day operations at Apple? He has been intimately involved with day to day at Pixar, which probably doesn't leave much time for Apple. Does anyone think it's safe to say that Jobs' involvement at Apple has been similar to Gates' involvement at Microsoft of late: long range vision and direction, but not day to day? It seems to me that he keeps the CEO title so he can step in right way if he perceives Apple to be making misteps or deviating from his idea of where they need to go.
Or, just maybe, those dollars haven't started to flow to Rose yet. Remember, 90% of the dot com bust outs were because everything in the dot com was "paper". There were no real assets, just stock valuations, and when those valuations crashed, nobody had anything left. Rose might actually not have much in the way of real money beyond any salary he might be pulling. And given Digg's operating revenue, I doubt he's pulling that much of a salary (low 6 figures is next to nothing in San Jose).
The one problem with Hasbro shutting down all the game stores is that in alot of places, the WotC or Game Keeper store was the only game store in town. And a lot of people looked at these stores closing down and thought, "If they can't keep a branded store open, why would anyone open an indy store?" So these places lose a venue to get gamers together and encourage gaming as an activity and a hobby.
Yeah, I know, you can buy anything you need to game off the internet. But it's getting harder and harder to find people for TT gaming if you want to get a game going in your living room. If anything is contributing to the decline of the gaming industry, it's that fact. Because for all our high tech nature and the potential geekiness of the people who game, gaming still thrives on face to face interaction.
Another thing lost, with many of these little game shops closing down, is the last refuge for the geeks and misfits that we are in some very geek/misfit unfriendly parts of the country. Even the most anti-social amongst us still liked to go to the game store, if only too look over the latest game offerings and get an idea of what's coming down the pike (yeah, they would still go home and order it off the internet where it was probably cheaper).
And for all of you who will chime in and say, "My local game store is doing fine," I'm happy for you. But I'll tell you, it was nigh impossible to find a gaming store in LA (lots of card stores, and the Games Workshop store, sure, but not a plain old gaming store). And now that I've moved back to Ilinois, the local gaming stores that used to be here have both closed. So I am reduced to searching the net for my games. Yeah, I can get in the car and drive, but it lacks both the convenience and the comraderie of a local game store, where you know the guy who runs it and you know a lot of the people who go there. I'll miss the local game store; it was often a fun place to be.
Oh? Los Angeles and the surrounding cities are some of the most religious communities in the United States, but they also have some of the highest crime rates. Same for San Diego. And Phoenix.
As someone else pointed out, Huntsville's low crime rate is predominantly due to a relative affluence across the community, especially compared to much of the rest of the state.
is there anybody on Slashdot who actually thinks their comments through anymore
Conversely, how many Slashdotters read what other people actually say? I didn't call anyone stupid or an idiot. I said they exercise poor judgement.
Oh, and btw, the US Patent office is supposed to exercise judgement in determining what is patentable. That they may choose not to is, in and of itself, poor judgement.
So, it's almost guaranteed that they will grant the patent. Because a room full of cocker spaniels could exercise better judgement than the US Patent Office.
Most of these people go to church! They have morals!
Religion and morality have very little to do with each other. In fact, that which the Christian church teaches as morality is little more than a plan designed to increase the number of Christians, while eliminating the competition (you know, heathens). Study a little theology and you will see that any assertion of religion bringing morality is bunk.
Low population density mixed with relative affluence reduces crime. That's what Huntsville has. But Huntsville is also surrounded by a state that still thinks lynching is an acceptable solution to the "racial problem."
But even in 2000, Blackboard had nothing new to contribute to either computing or teaching. In fact, the first learning oriented CMS that was actually useful for someone other than math professors was WebCT.
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By allowing every tom, dick and idgit to pursue and obtain degrees with our lax admittance standards at modern day colleges and universities, the advanced degree, while being probably required, will soon be no indication of ability, knowledge, or added value of an employee to an enterprise. To maximize the perceived value you might carry as an employee, you will probably need to maximize your presentable portfolio of demostrated expertise. In fact, only in specific limited areas of study, where degrees are required for certification, licensure, and funding (engineers, architects, physicians, research sciences), are degrees going to retain their value. For information tach jobs, I think demonstrated skills will be more valued than degrees. And proven success will be more valuable for business related jobs than an MBA, I expect.
Now, if Universities return to the tighter admissions standards of yesteryear, and return to accepting only the top 30% of applicants, as they once did, degrees will become more valuable in the future.
Teachers in sports, music, and other fields tend to believe that talent matters and that they know it when they see it. In fact, they appear to be confusing ability with precocity.
I think Malcolm Gladwell makes an assault on this part of your argument. While it is probably true that drive is as important as ability in the development of star-whatevers, Gladwell discusses how it is proven that experts in a field are sub-cognitively able to precess overall performance metrics on a level that allows them to be able to legitimately forcast success and ability of students into the future.
To prove there is no God we must prove a negative
However, there is no evidence that any god exists. It is anti-intellectual to presume a god exists with a complete and total lack of evidence. Of all the useful intellectual tools developed over history, the most useful has been Occam's Razor.
PvPers aren't going to go to Vanguard. Vanguard has promised that they will be about huge raids. In fact, they keep saying that is the whole point of their game. I haven't seen Darkfall, but my bet is that PvP junkies will either check out WoW again after the expansion, with its promised changes to PvP, or will go to WarHammer until it is decided that WarHammer is a bust too. I wonder why the PvPers didn't go play Auto Assault. It had a great PvP element and was a lot of fun when you could get enough people online (Of course, it's major problem was getting enough people online).
You left out the DRM problems it will have that will keep people from buying.
Governments operate on fear. They control their people with fear. We used to be told to fear nuclear anihilation. Then we were told to fear the pervasive influence of drugs. Now we are told to fear terrorism. He's not being reactionary. He's being irritated.
can get a job at any age. That whole "talented" thing is the key. You will need to have demonstrable ability at some level. However, 30 isn't too old to move into the software business. But you will probably need to figure out right away what kind of programming and programming language you are most interested in. In my experience, companies look for programmers who specialize in a specific language and can tie it in to other languages...Like a Java programmer who can tie things back to C++. Or C++ programmers who can tie back to assembler.
mouse is about a year old. I didn't refer it to logitech. Just bought a regular old optical mouse and haven't had a problem since.
I see huge lag with the logitech wireless mouse I have. Click, wait 3 seconds, the click registers. It was horrible.
make up diseases and disorders to give themselves work and research grants. And, yes, 98% of all statistics are made up.
Actually, I kind of vaguely remember a group of hardcore dice chuckers having a big "tear up the cards" party at Gen Con the year Magic came out too.
I'm not giving up my wired connection until they fix the inherent latency issues in wireless. 80% of what I use my computer for is gaming. Online gaming is killed by lag. Wireless has tons of lag.
The Bible is best burnt. Magic: The Gathering, on the other hand, loses its appeal when you can play poker for real money.
CBC is hard-left-leaning, anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-big-business, anti-conservative... Anything that is anti-Israel, anti-Christian, anti-big-business and anti-conservative can't be all bad. I draw the line at atni-American, however. Bad CBC! Bad!
How much does Jobs actually have to do with day to day operations at Apple? He has been intimately involved with day to day at Pixar, which probably doesn't leave much time for Apple. Does anyone think it's safe to say that Jobs' involvement at Apple has been similar to Gates' involvement at Microsoft of late: long range vision and direction, but not day to day? It seems to me that he keeps the CEO title so he can step in right way if he perceives Apple to be making misteps or deviating from his idea of where they need to go.
Or, just maybe, those dollars haven't started to flow to Rose yet. Remember, 90% of the dot com bust outs were because everything in the dot com was "paper". There were no real assets, just stock valuations, and when those valuations crashed, nobody had anything left. Rose might actually not have much in the way of real money beyond any salary he might be pulling. And given Digg's operating revenue, I doubt he's pulling that much of a salary (low 6 figures is next to nothing in San Jose).
totally left out last winter's flap about Rose and Digg banning dissenting or questioning voices from their midst. Digg faces censorship accusations.
The one problem with Hasbro shutting down all the game stores is that in alot of places, the WotC or Game Keeper store was the only game store in town. And a lot of people looked at these stores closing down and thought, "If they can't keep a branded store open, why would anyone open an indy store?" So these places lose a venue to get gamers together and encourage gaming as an activity and a hobby. Yeah, I know, you can buy anything you need to game off the internet. But it's getting harder and harder to find people for TT gaming if you want to get a game going in your living room. If anything is contributing to the decline of the gaming industry, it's that fact. Because for all our high tech nature and the potential geekiness of the people who game, gaming still thrives on face to face interaction. Another thing lost, with many of these little game shops closing down, is the last refuge for the geeks and misfits that we are in some very geek/misfit unfriendly parts of the country. Even the most anti-social amongst us still liked to go to the game store, if only too look over the latest game offerings and get an idea of what's coming down the pike (yeah, they would still go home and order it off the internet where it was probably cheaper). And for all of you who will chime in and say, "My local game store is doing fine," I'm happy for you. But I'll tell you, it was nigh impossible to find a gaming store in LA (lots of card stores, and the Games Workshop store, sure, but not a plain old gaming store). And now that I've moved back to Ilinois, the local gaming stores that used to be here have both closed. So I am reduced to searching the net for my games. Yeah, I can get in the car and drive, but it lacks both the convenience and the comraderie of a local game store, where you know the guy who runs it and you know a lot of the people who go there. I'll miss the local game store; it was often a fun place to be.
Oh? Los Angeles and the surrounding cities are some of the most religious communities in the United States, but they also have some of the highest crime rates. Same for San Diego. And Phoenix. As someone else pointed out, Huntsville's low crime rate is predominantly due to a relative affluence across the community, especially compared to much of the rest of the state.
is there anybody on Slashdot who actually thinks their comments through anymore Conversely, how many Slashdotters read what other people actually say? I didn't call anyone stupid or an idiot. I said they exercise poor judgement. Oh, and btw, the US Patent office is supposed to exercise judgement in determining what is patentable. That they may choose not to is, in and of itself, poor judgement.
So, it's almost guaranteed that they will grant the patent. Because a room full of cocker spaniels could exercise better judgement than the US Patent Office.
Only at work;).
Most of these people go to church! They have morals! Religion and morality have very little to do with each other. In fact, that which the Christian church teaches as morality is little more than a plan designed to increase the number of Christians, while eliminating the competition (you know, heathens). Study a little theology and you will see that any assertion of religion bringing morality is bunk. Low population density mixed with relative affluence reduces crime. That's what Huntsville has. But Huntsville is also surrounded by a state that still thinks lynching is an acceptable solution to the "racial problem."
But, as was pointed out previously, you still have to live in Alabama.
But even in 2000, Blackboard had nothing new to contribute to either computing or teaching. In fact, the first learning oriented CMS that was actually useful for someone other than math professors was WebCT.