Colleges aren't dealers of knowledge as much as they are of branding.
That is so true. My only regret in not going to an Ivy League school, a Research Triangle school, or one of the big, private California colleges is that they don't necessarily offer a better education, but grant access to their rather extensive alumni networks upon completion.
That, right there, is what that four-year education really buys. Nepotism can be a bitch.
It depends on what you want to get your graduate degree in. Just about any Ivy League school will offer some sort of business-related degree. On the other hand, very few -- if any -- will offer a graduate degree in a hard science.
Actually, I was making a reference to the movie Accepted (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/) in regards to how open both schools are. I like their model and hope they get their accreditation.
No, you're right about upper-level courses being significantly smaller; however, most core courses at larger universities tend to be in auditoriums where the students are shoved in like cattle or being taught by a TA since the real prof couldn't be bothered since he's more interested in "research." The point is that just because it's online doesn't mean it will be worse than in-person lecture.
And, for some reason, that's worse than the tenured university professors who have to teach to a classroom of 500 students, each who never interact directly with said professor, but with the often barely-competent TA? Or, instead of having instruction from the aforementioned prof, the course is, instead, taught by a TA who is burdened by his/her own coursework to barely be effective in the classroom? Education has been on the decline way before the Internet -- online learning is merely a tool. Unfortunately, that tool is in the wrong hands.
The problem with subsidizing mass transit isn't the fact that "no one ever rides it" -- no one ever rides it because "it's either damn near full or standing room only" or the bus never runs on time or runs infrequently or will leave its passengers stranded when it breaks down in a remote part of town and the next bus isn't for another 45 minutes if it is on-time or it whizzes on by if the union-protected driver doesn't feel like picking up passengers (this happens alot). Maybe that's just where I live, but a couple of years ago LA County (myself included) voted for a tax increase to provide Los Angeles Metro more funding to improve its services -- and, that was on top of a rate hike. It seems the money went into our version of the Big Dig -- aka the Silver Line expansion -- so that government cronies could get their pockets aligned with greenbacks.
If the goal is to encourage more people into using public transportation, LAMEtro should be offering up more routes instead of throwing money into the sinkhole -- which goes against LAMEtro's current thinking of spending $1billion/mile of train while cutting routes left and right, and in the process decreasing ridership for the reasons listed above.
People think it's better to have a car than to be dependent on unreliable transportation.
If it weren't for this (http://fimml.at/#glip), I probably wouldn't use Git. I know it ain't real Git, but it does a good job of fooling my Git client, and it lets me put up a repo on my webhost.
I may not be remembering things correctly, but it really seems to me that candidates have really ramped up on the attack ads.
I don't think that attack ads are anything new. Hell, what politicians used to say about each other back in 1800 make the political ads of today look tame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI). It may be more prevalent now, but I highly doubt that it's more visceral or slanderous.
With the MySpace-like down-trending that Facebook is going through, Mr. Ceglia might end up being awarded nothing if he wins outside of worthless stock.
First, if Google was going to go all math crazy with their bids, they should have started their bid with $phi billion. Second, why didn't they just go the Fibonacci route?
I thought Cisco was calling their operating systems NX-OS. Even still, isn't that like a really old release? I remember working on IOS 11 back in the late 90's.
The funny thing about this is that it's all predictable. I like to call this the Uncle Johnny Factor. Why you ask? Well, I have an uncle who's name happens to be Johnny who happens to hop on to tech trends at the very tail end. He set up a Geocities account in 2003, moved to MySpace in 2008, and got onto Facebook just recently. So, for all intents and purposes, he serves for me as a canary in the coal mine -- whenever he signs up for something, you know it's no longer cool.
Chinese wages haven't really gone up -- the US Dollar has been losing value. In other words, the Chinese aren't getting richer -- we're getting poorer. This is why Hu Jintao wants the Dollar to no longer be reserve currency.
I wouldn't say that Madison Avenue wanted to target us, but it's just they didn't know how. The Baby Boomers/Millenials/Tween Wavers like to be pandered to -- we Xers are more likely to treat those advertising suits a bit more suspect.
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I know it's been a while, but what about Hungarian Notation? Granted, it's been out for a while, but it's indispensable for most non-Web developers.
BTW, since no one has said it before, let me say it now -- DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! Now, we can be within "sweating distance."
Supposedly, this ran for nearly a year -- imagine how fast someone can come to the same result if he/she was dealing in qubits.
You can say "Joanne Moore is my mother" to Siri once.
Really? I have an aunt named Joanne Moore. Maybe, we're related in your hypothetical world.
Colleges aren't dealers of knowledge as much as they are of branding.
That is so true. My only regret in not going to an Ivy League school, a Research Triangle school, or one of the big, private California colleges is that they don't necessarily offer a better education, but grant access to their rather extensive alumni networks upon completion.
That, right there, is what that four-year education really buys. Nepotism can be a bitch.
For partying!
It depends on what you want to get your graduate degree in. Just about any Ivy League school will offer some sort of business-related degree. On the other hand, very few -- if any -- will offer a graduate degree in a hard science.
Actually, I was making a reference to the movie Accepted (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384793/) in regards to how open both schools are. I like their model and hope they get their accreditation.
No, you're right about upper-level courses being significantly smaller; however, most core courses at larger universities tend to be in auditoriums where the students are shoved in like cattle or being taught by a TA since the real prof couldn't be bothered since he's more interested in "research." The point is that just because it's online doesn't mean it will be worse than in-person lecture.
Dude, this is awesome! It's the real South Harmon Institute of Technology.
They have to pay for their new football stadium somehow.
And, for some reason, that's worse than the tenured university professors who have to teach to a classroom of 500 students, each who never interact directly with said professor, but with the often barely-competent TA? Or, instead of having instruction from the aforementioned prof, the course is, instead, taught by a TA who is burdened by his/her own coursework to barely be effective in the classroom? Education has been on the decline way before the Internet -- online learning is merely a tool. Unfortunately, that tool is in the wrong hands.
Should be:
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Napoleon XIV, is that you?
Since there's no corporate entity at stake, I don't see how this is relevant -- even if your assumption is correct.
The problem with subsidizing mass transit isn't the fact that "no one ever rides it" -- no one ever rides it because "it's either damn near full or standing room only" or the bus never runs on time or runs infrequently or will leave its passengers stranded when it breaks down in a remote part of town and the next bus isn't for another 45 minutes if it is on-time or it whizzes on by if the union-protected driver doesn't feel like picking up passengers (this happens alot). Maybe that's just where I live, but a couple of years ago LA County (myself included) voted for a tax increase to provide Los Angeles Metro more funding to improve its services -- and, that was on top of a rate hike. It seems the money went into our version of the Big Dig -- aka the Silver Line expansion -- so that government cronies could get their pockets aligned with greenbacks.
If the goal is to encourage more people into using public transportation, LAMEtro should be offering up more routes instead of throwing money into the sinkhole -- which goes against LAMEtro's current thinking of spending $1billion/mile of train while cutting routes left and right, and in the process decreasing ridership for the reasons listed above.
People think it's better to have a car than to be dependent on unreliable transportation.
If it weren't for this (http://fimml.at/#glip), I probably wouldn't use Git. I know it ain't real Git, but it does a good job of fooling my Git client, and it lets me put up a repo on my webhost.
Winning!
I may not be remembering things correctly, but it really seems to me that candidates have really ramped up on the attack ads.
I don't think that attack ads are anything new. Hell, what politicians used to say about each other back in 1800 make the political ads of today look tame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI). It may be more prevalent now, but I highly doubt that it's more visceral or slanderous.
I've found that alot of devs who are anti-review aren't arrogant, but rather insecure.
With the MySpace-like down-trending that Facebook is going through, Mr. Ceglia might end up being awarded nothing if he wins outside of worthless stock.
First, if Google was going to go all math crazy with their bids, they should have started their bid with $phi billion. Second, why didn't they just go the Fibonacci route?
I had a math prof in college who didn't know this fact. Sad.
iOS 5 would be faster too.
I thought Cisco was calling their operating systems NX-OS. Even still, isn't that like a really old release? I remember working on IOS 11 back in the late 90's.
The funny thing about this is that it's all predictable. I like to call this the Uncle Johnny Factor. Why you ask? Well, I have an uncle who's name happens to be Johnny who happens to hop on to tech trends at the very tail end. He set up a Geocities account in 2003, moved to MySpace in 2008, and got onto Facebook just recently. So, for all intents and purposes, he serves for me as a canary in the coal mine -- whenever he signs up for something, you know it's no longer cool.
Chinese wages haven't really gone up -- the US Dollar has been losing value. In other words, the Chinese aren't getting richer -- we're getting poorer. This is why Hu Jintao wants the Dollar to no longer be reserve currency.
I wouldn't say that Madison Avenue wanted to target us, but it's just they didn't know how. The Baby Boomers/Millenials/Tween Wavers like to be pandered to -- we Xers are more likely to treat those advertising suits a bit more suspect.