wtf. Getting moderated as a troll for presenting actual facts?
Re:Microsoft has planned this for quite awhile.
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The Death of Folders?
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what you are describing sounds like a great illustration of why NOT to use folders.
Hear me out...
Take your library example one step further.
Yes, when you see they don't have your great Sci Fi book, it is great to be able to browse through other similar Sci-Fi Books on the same shelf (or folder)
BUT
What if a book is BOTH Sci-Fi AND Mystery? It can not be on both shelves at once:(
So, if they arbitrarily choose one of those folders to put it in, users looking in the other one miss out.
So the solution is to put "labels" on each book for each category it belongs to, then put them all in one big collection, with no folders. Then the book could be a Sci-Fi/Mystery/Western and everyone is happy.
The trick is of course to then make the search/browse tools easy to use so you can quickly brows through all the Sci-Fi books without worrying about what other labels a book has.
Interestingly enough, many people DO learn Physics and Calculus + much more by the time they are 18. The issue though is that most are not in the US.
I went to one of the top 10 high schools in the US and many of my friends were taking advanced placement classes like advanced calculus (at UNC) but most of the students only ended up with one year of calculus, if that.
At most US high schools, the standard of educations is lower than that, and most students do not get calculus until they are in college. Most of them have a dumbed down physics (not calculus based) in high school, if they take physics at all.
Contrast that to the education you get in other countries. My wife for example went to a normal school in New Zealand. In her school they taught a bit of algebra, geometry, trig, calculus every year, starting in 8th grade. This idea (of doing some concepts from all topics each year) is a much better plan than doing an entire year of 1 topic each year. By the time she graduated from high school for example, she had taken the equivilent of the following US college science and math courses: Advanced Calculus, Physics (with Calc), Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, Inorganic Chemistry, and Advanced Biology. When she went on to do a Zoology degree, she did not have to repeat any of those classes, since she had already completed them. Interestingly enough, when she went back to school in the US many years later (to get a Vet Degree) they made her take 30 hours of intro courses (most of those I listed for instance + freshman english) and needless to say, she got a strong A in all of them:-)
The point of all this?
You are right that kids should be able to complete their "basic" education earlier. The only part you missed is that many kids actually are, it it just the US education system that is slow.
Assuming you can get hired, once you are in the door, it generally doesn't matter where you got your degree.
Just make sure you spend as much time as you can gaining theoretical knowledge (the WHY, rather than the HOW) on your own, since those schools tend to concentrate on the applications themselves, (i.e. "using java vs C++" instead of "designing data structures" or "designing efficient compilers etc.")
Once you are in the real world, your detailed knowledge of java swing APIs will give you a quick head start vs someone with a CS degree, but their theoretical knowledge may serve them well in the long haul (enabling them to learn other technologies faster and/or design more complicated or efficient algorithms).
If you take your DeVry skills and suppliment them with the theoretical knowledge, you get the best of both worlds.
They may not be MIT but they are pretty darn good for engineering.
For example, their engeneering department has the 11th highest research budget of any school in the US.
The NCSU Centennial Campus is an enormous research center (a second campus) where over 100 companies and government agencies work hand in hand with the university. For example, in addition to their nanotech biomed research, they are also closely involved in NASA work with projects like the space shuttle: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/news_articles/puzzle.html
I have bad news for you. You HAVE been bamboozled:(
I will probably in the end be well served by the fact that DeVry has a (perhaps undeserved) very good reputation in the business world (or at least that's what they keep telling us).
I have worked for several large firms (all > 20,000 employees) and have been involved in hiring software developers at all of them. Without exception all considered real CS degrees vastly superior to schools like DeVry.
Actually, the US was not a penal colony. Only one state (Georgia - and only the upper, non-coastal area at that) had a few ships (from 1732 to 1776) of almost entirely banished debtors, but that does not equate to a generalization about the country as a whole like you tried to present it.
Contrast that small influx of people to the Australian system where 162,000 criminals were imported.
Interestingly, the purpose of this lone penal colony was actually not to get rid of criminals (like the australian migration) but was the result of the Oglethorpe Proposal, in which the monarchy was trying to put a buffer between their southern territory (South Carolina) and the Spaniards in Florida.
I never said the coinage of the US was the reason to leave.
It was the general sillyness of many things. That was just one small example of a stupid policy or behavior.
There were MANY things that led me to leave including the growing protectionist policies of the current regeme, the growing unwise govt spending, and very poor local policy decisions.
sillyness like this is part of the reason I left the US for NZ.
in NZ, we do not have 1$ or 2$ bills, only 1$ & 2$ coins.
More to the point, we got rid of the 1 cent piece and are in the process of getting rid of the 5 cent piece as well this year, since they are basically worthless.
The problem with US currency is that the govt makes coins like the susan b anthony dollar and then does not push them, so people dont bother using them.
while some "facts" are genererally agreed upon (such as that red and yellow = orange) others may be considered fact by many, but may actually be outright lies.
For example, some claim that Al Gore said he invented the internet.
Others claim that the story is conservative marketing, and that he did NOT claim to have invented it.
Depending upon which side you believe, the "fact" is either true or not true.
What is the prevent Google from returning "Al Gore" for searches of "who invented the internet?"
And what about religion? Faith makes many things seem "fact" that non-believers think is bunk.
I could easily see either of these examples existing without any "keywords" that you could filter on.
The problem is that, while people do have "opinions" about things (which doesnt make them a truth), if they publish that untruth, it BECOMES the truth for other people (who do not take the time to validate the truth.)
If a user asks: who is George Bush for example, is the right answer:
A. The current president, (blah blah, blah) or B. A Moron who (blah, blah, blah)
The point being that the "facts" are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Case in point, the CIA may state a different population than the country itself believes.
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wtf. Getting moderated as a troll for presenting actual facts?
what you are describing sounds like a great illustration of why NOT to use folders.
:(
Hear me out...
Take your library example one step further.
Yes, when you see they don't have your great Sci Fi book, it is great to be able to browse through other similar Sci-Fi Books on the same shelf (or folder)
BUT
What if a book is BOTH Sci-Fi AND Mystery? It can not be on both shelves at once
So, if they arbitrarily choose one of those folders to put it in, users looking in the other one miss out.
So the solution is to put "labels" on each book for each category it belongs to, then put them all in one big collection, with no folders. Then the book could be a Sci-Fi/Mystery/Western and everyone is happy.
The trick is of course to then make the search/browse tools easy to use so you can quickly brows through all the Sci-Fi books without worrying about what other labels a book has.
so, when you can't remember the password, how are you going to be able to log in to get your password?
WRONG. Mod Parent Down.
CNN was founded in 1980.
Fox News was not launched until October 7, 1996
Although CNN was indeed founded in 1980, Fox was not launched until October 7, 1996
that is absurd.
Why the hell are they transferring 3.9 MILLION customer's highly sensitive data unencrypted?
Interestingly enough, many people DO learn Physics and Calculus + much more by the time they are 18. The issue though is that most are not in the US.
:-)
I went to one of the top 10 high schools in the US and many of my friends were taking advanced placement classes like advanced calculus (at UNC) but most of the students only ended up with one year of calculus, if that.
At most US high schools, the standard of educations is lower than that, and most students do not get calculus until they are in college. Most of them have a dumbed down physics (not calculus based) in high school, if they take physics at all.
Contrast that to the education you get in other countries. My wife for example went to a normal school in New Zealand. In her school they taught a bit of algebra, geometry, trig, calculus every year, starting in 8th grade. This idea (of doing some concepts from all topics each year) is a much better plan than doing an entire year of 1 topic each year. By the time she graduated from high school for example, she had taken the equivilent of the following US college science and math courses: Advanced Calculus, Physics (with Calc), Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, Inorganic Chemistry, and Advanced Biology. When she went on to do a Zoology degree, she did not have to repeat any of those classes, since she had already completed them. Interestingly enough, when she went back to school in the US many years later (to get a Vet Degree) they made her take 30 hours of intro courses (most of those I listed for instance + freshman english) and needless to say, she got a strong A in all of them
The point of all this?
You are right that kids should be able to complete their "basic" education earlier. The only part you missed is that many kids actually are, it it just the US education system that is slow.
you just sold me on it. Boycotting conservative Clear Channel is the best reason I have heard yet.
what is a "merel mnorlats"?
Did you mean "mere mortals"?
That depends.
If the house has a major vulnerability like doors with NO LOCKS, or windows with no glass, it is clearly the former.
If they bust a window or a door and get in, it is a case of the latter.
Assuming you can get hired, once you are in the door, it generally doesn't matter where you got your degree.
Just make sure you spend as much time as you can gaining theoretical knowledge (the WHY, rather than the HOW) on your own, since those schools tend to concentrate on the applications themselves, (i.e. "using java vs C++" instead of "designing data structures" or "designing efficient compilers etc.")
Once you are in the real world, your detailed knowledge of java swing APIs will give you a quick head start vs someone with a CS degree, but their theoretical knowledge may serve them well in the long haul (enabling them to learn other technologies faster and/or design more complicated or efficient algorithms).
If you take your DeVry skills and suppliment them with the theoretical knowledge, you get the best of both worlds.
Please go and nod somewhere else, unless you have something useful to say.
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NCSU is listed by kiplinger as the 11th best value for all universities in the country.
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/
They may not be MIT but they are pretty darn good for engineering.
For example, their engeneering department has the 11th highest research budget of any school in the US.
The NCSU Centennial Campus is an enormous research center (a second campus) where over 100 companies and government agencies work hand in hand with the university. For example, in addition to their nanotech biomed research, they are also closely involved in NASA work with projects like the space shuttle: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/news_articles/puzzl
You are posting on Slashdot
You ARE a geek
Sorry
Yes, Exactly.
That would be a good idea.
No Wachovia bank employee (except maybe the security team or tax man) should ever be able to see my SSN for example.
been there, done that.
Shrub is too easy of a target.
Actually, the US was not a penal colony. Only one state (Georgia - and only the upper, non-coastal area at that) had a few ships (from 1732 to 1776) of almost entirely banished debtors, but that does not equate to a generalization about the country as a whole like you tried to present it.
Contrast that small influx of people to the Australian system where 162,000 criminals were imported.
Interestingly, the purpose of this lone penal colony was actually not to get rid of criminals (like the australian migration) but was the result of the Oglethorpe Proposal, in which the monarchy was trying to put a buffer between their southern territory (South Carolina) and the Spaniards in Florida.
I agree.
Forget the politics, get with the plan, and digitize everything, no matter what the language.
bah.
Many people (like me) post comments just to say what they think, to present their view point.
Not because they have some larger agenda or really care what*you* think about what we said.
Of course not.
I said sillyness like this is only (a small) part of the reason.
I never said the coinage (of the US) was the reason to leave.
Of course not.
Don't be silly.
I said sillyness like this is part of the reason.
I never said the coinage of the US was the reason to leave.
It was the general sillyness of many things. That was just one small example of a stupid policy or behavior.
There were MANY things that led me to leave including the growing protectionist policies of the current regeme, the growing unwise govt spending, and very poor local policy decisions.
sillyness like this is part of the reason I left the US for NZ.
in NZ, we do not have 1$ or 2$ bills, only 1$ & 2$ coins.
More to the point, we got rid of the 1 cent piece and are in the process of getting rid of the 5 cent piece as well this year, since they are basically worthless.
The problem with US currency is that the govt makes coins like the susan b anthony dollar and then does not push them, so people dont bother using them.
while some "facts" are genererally agreed upon (such as that red and yellow = orange) others may be considered fact by many, but may actually be outright lies.
For example, some claim that Al Gore said he invented the internet.
Others claim that the story is conservative marketing, and that he did NOT claim to have invented it.
Depending upon which side you believe, the "fact" is either true or not true.
What is the prevent Google from returning "Al Gore" for searches of "who invented the internet?"
And what about religion? Faith makes many things seem "fact" that non-believers think is bunk.
I could easily see either of these examples existing without any "keywords" that you could filter on.
The problem is that, while people do have "opinions" about things (which doesnt make them a truth), if they publish that untruth, it BECOMES the truth for other people (who do not take the time to validate the truth.)
how can they determine facts?
If a user asks: who is George Bush for example, is the right answer:
A. The current president, (blah blah, blah)
or
B. A Moron who (blah, blah, blah)
The point being that the "facts" are sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
Case in point, the CIA may state a different population than the country itself believes.