Personally, I have to agree with everything you said.
I'm still a beginner in web design, but I have found that some people can design and some can't. Some people can write books on design, but can't do it worth crap, and vice versa, the same applies to teaching it. Some people go for what works (the KISS method); others work on making their components applicable to multiple projects (make a template and fill in content). I can make a website that does just about anything I want it to do, but I can't make it (or the markup) even look presentable. I have friends that can do fancy designing in CSS, but don't understand what simple PHP statements like "if(!isset($_POST['submit']))" checks for, or how to build a whole multi-page form in a single file.
To elaborate on what you said, I believe any person can be plotted on a graph. As far as web design goes, I believe you can plot people on a graph with the x axis to be considered creativity and a y axis to be considered logic.
Everyone falls into quadrant I or along the positive x-axis/y-axis (I don't know anybody that has negative creativity or logic, do you?)... (I'll go with simple equations for ease) Just to clarify before we start, whenever I use the percent sign, I'm talking about percentile...
Anybody under the curve "y=10+(100/x)^2 {100>x>0}" should be considered hopeless in the world web design and programming. (If you are less than 10% in creativity or logic, even if you are 99% in the other, you'll never get anything accomplished...if you are balanced logical or creative; you need to be at least 25% in both)
Anybody over the curve "y=60+(100/(x-50))^2 {100>x>50}" is extremely well suited for pretty much any aspect of web design and programming. (They must be at least 65% in both... If they are as low as 65% in one, they are 99% in the other... if they are a completely balanced person; they will be 75% in each...)
Between the 2 lines is the area where everyone has the potential to be a good web designer, but very few actually pursue it... as you move from the first line to the second, the people become, in general, better web designers Remember I'm talking about POTENTIAL, not actual skill; a very creative and logical person has the POTENTIAL to be a great web designer, but may lack interest or initiative...someone who isn't creative or logical doesn't have POTENTIAL, but they could become a web designer with some effort...
I still am a kid. Lendrick is totally right; I just find ways around it... at one point my parents were using some crazy login alternative that tracked time like they do at cyber cafes, but I just dled slax (knoppix wouldn't have been bad either) and got all the time I wanted using that by editing the log files (they were plain text, just in the "administrator" account directory, so you couldn't get to them as any other Windows user)...
Kids will find a way. Trust me.
Even now, I'm 'limited' to 1 hour a day. I've been on just over 11 hours already...
Do I have a Social Life? Nope. Do I need one? Nope.
Just let your kids grow up nerds. It's good for them. Think of their future.
I think this comes back to how we raise our children... (Well actually how you raise your children since I'm still one...)
I think that the whole "don't question, just accept" way of thinking is totally absurd. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to hear "because I said so" or "What do you mean 'Why?' It just is!" from an adult? What's worse are the "I'll tell you when you're older", "You wouldn't understand", and "You don't want to know that"... My personal favorite is "It doesn't matter"...
My parents were great; they avoided these types of thought-quashing over-used "no-answers", but many of my teachers (even the good ones) at the elementary school level (USA) got so sick of me (it wasn't just me, but I did ask a lot of questions) asking questions that they decided that 'It doesn't matter' what I want to know, it only matters what the curriculum says to teach (another whole rant), that if the explanation wasn't simple, that they should make something up.
I'm not trying to brag, but even in 1st grade, I was really good at math. I have 3 math teaches in my family, and that helped a bit, but teachers often tell 'little lies' because it doesn't really matter... Do you have any idea how many recesses I sat trying to figure out why you couldn't divide by a fraction or decimal?! I certainly didn't know for sure what you would get, but it only makes sense that if you have 8 marbles and you put them into 2 piles you have 4 in each pile (8/2=4) and then you put them into 1 pile, you would have 8 in each pile (8/1=8) and if you were to keep cutting the number of piles in half, the number of marbles would double, which is true (8/(1/2)=16), but no first grade teacher is going to try to explain the fact that multiplication and division are the same thing when the teacher just spent days trying to teach the kids not to confuse them. I'm going to go off on [another] tangent... the teachers don't call them little lies; they call them white lies. Does anybody who uses that term have any idea how incredibly racist that is?! It implies that black lies (big lies) are very bad; while white lies aren't so bad...I don't think I need to elaborate any further...
When I started writing this, I was going to give an example from each grade, but now that I'm done with that, and re-read it, I've decided not to bother as 99% of readers will have given up by now...
The other problem with the way kids are taught to reason is you* spend so much time telling kids to do it 'the right way'... in reality, kids are told to do it your way. They are told that their way is always wrong.
-You have to color in the lines. Why? Because I said so. Is there any reason to make kids color in the lines? Can you think of one? Yes? Why do most parents/teachers/etc. refuse to explain it to their children? Is coloring in the lines a life-skill? No, but it does help to teach motor skills. There are other reasons, but that's the only one that makes any sense to me... Isn't it more efficient to just scribble? Isn't it actually stifling creativity to teach kids that you have to color each object one color?
-Walk in a straight line between classes. (Not sure if they do this most places, or if it's just a regional thing) I can't count the number of times I questioned it in the first year or two, but after being yelled at because I asked so many times, I just kind of accepted it. (Just for the record, 'It doesn't matter' isn't an acceptable answer when a kid asks a question multiple times. Obviously if they keep asking the question, it matters to them)
Again, I was going to ramble for a bit longer, but I think I've ranted on the school system and on conformity enough for one post...
Has it occured to the almightly number-crunchers that most of the recently purchased ipods are probably destined to be christmas/haunakka/kwanzaa/etc. presents?
Maybe they should check music sales after the 'end-user' actually recieves their device...
The other number-twisting fact is that many people are just upgrading their mp3 player and not needing to download much more music (how much legal music does one need???)...
Just some thoughts for food. Please. I'm hungry.
Someone beat me to it... I live less than 10 minutes (walking time) from Clarkson.
In case anyone was interested, http://clarkson.edu/ is Clarkson's website.
I should have been a little clearer...
It is incorperated to the point that if it were to be uninstalled, the operating system wouldn't work (believe me, I've tried, if you uninstall MSIE forcefully, windows explorer stops working correctly or, in some cases, at all)
I like the idea of a web and file browser in one, but I would like to be able to disable part of all of it even if it can't be uninstalled.
I meant exactly what I said; the problem is that it is installed, not that it comes installed, but that it is always (if you want windows explorer to function properly) installed...
I don't work much with macs, but every Linux Distro I've worked with (serveral free ones) come with an option to remove the packaged programs, or, in some cases, just not install them in the first place...
I think that they made a correct relationship, but in the wrong way...
I think that cheaters and shoplifters are more likely to P2P, not the other way around...but of course this would totaly defeat their argument, so why would they even mention that?
What the RIAA wants to control MORE of my life?!
Actually I think there would have to be a new regulatory commision created, so that *certain political figureheads* can give out more important positions as political favors.
What (besides search sound) can't google currently do? All togother currently you can:
Seach the web
even from your mobile phone
Have them answer questions
Search news headlines
Search catalogs
Search books
Look at a directory of the web
Search for images
Get a map of *anywhere*
Translate *any* page into *any* language
and so many more I would probably exceede some post-length limit...
I'm not talking about every sound happening, but a directory of sounds possible. Like 1,000,000 common sounds. What use could this possibly be? Your car is making a funny noise. Get out your mp3 player, take a recording of it, and google it. Your a bird watcher, you cant see a bird but you can hear it and want to know what type. Take a recording and google it.
I might be way off base here, but it seems like it would be pretty handy...
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Personally, I have to agree with everything you said.
I'm still a beginner in web design, but I have found that some people can design and some can't. Some people can write books on design, but can't do it worth crap, and vice versa, the same applies to teaching it. Some people go for what works (the KISS method); others work on making their components applicable to multiple projects (make a template and fill in content). I can make a website that does just about anything I want it to do, but I can't make it (or the markup) even look presentable. I have friends that can do fancy designing in CSS, but don't understand what simple PHP statements like "if(!isset($_POST['submit']))" checks for, or how to build a whole multi-page form in a single file.
To elaborate on what you said, I believe any person can be plotted on a graph.
As far as web design goes, I believe you can plot people on a graph with the x axis to be considered creativity and a y axis to be considered logic.
Everyone falls into quadrant I or along the positive x-axis/y-axis (I don't know anybody that has negative creativity or logic, do you?)...
(I'll go with simple equations for ease)
Just to clarify before we start, whenever I use the percent sign, I'm talking about percentile...
Anybody under the curve "y=10+(100/x)^2 {100>x>0}" should be considered hopeless in the world web design and programming.
(If you are less than 10% in creativity or logic, even if you are 99% in the other, you'll never get anything accomplished...if you are balanced logical or creative; you need to be at least 25% in both)
Anybody over the curve "y=60+(100/(x-50))^2 {100>x>50}" is extremely well suited for pretty much any aspect of web design and programming.
(They must be at least 65% in both... If they are as low as 65% in one, they are 99% in the other... if they are a completely balanced person; they will be 75% in each...)
Between the 2 lines is the area where everyone has the potential to be a good web designer, but very few actually pursue it... as you move from the first line to the second, the people become, in general, better web designers
Remember I'm talking about POTENTIAL, not actual skill; a very creative and logical person has the POTENTIAL to be a great web designer, but may lack interest or initiative...someone who isn't creative or logical doesn't have POTENTIAL, but they could become a web designer with some effort...
I still am a kid. Lendrick is totally right; I just find ways around it... at one point my parents were using some crazy login alternative that tracked time like they do at cyber cafes, but I just dled slax (knoppix wouldn't have been bad either) and got all the time I wanted using that by editing the log files (they were plain text, just in the "administrator" account directory, so you couldn't get to them as any other Windows user)...
Kids will find a way. Trust me.
Even now, I'm 'limited' to 1 hour a day. I've been on just over 11 hours already...
Do I have a Social Life? Nope. Do I need one? Nope.
Just let your kids grow up nerds. It's good for them. Think of their future.
I think this comes back to how we raise our children... (Well actually how you raise your children since I'm still one...)
I think that the whole "don't question, just accept" way of thinking is totally absurd.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to hear "because I said so" or "What do you mean 'Why?' It just is!" from an adult?
What's worse are the "I'll tell you when you're older", "You wouldn't understand", and "You don't want to know that"...
My personal favorite is "It doesn't matter"...
My parents were great; they avoided these types of thought-quashing over-used "no-answers", but many of my teachers (even the good ones) at the elementary school level (USA) got so sick of me (it wasn't just me, but I did ask a lot of questions) asking questions that they decided that 'It doesn't matter' what I want to know, it only matters what the curriculum says to teach (another whole rant), that if the explanation wasn't simple, that they should make something up.
I'm not trying to brag, but even in 1st grade, I was really good at math. I have 3 math teaches in my family, and that helped a bit, but teachers often tell 'little lies' because it doesn't really matter... Do you have any idea how many recesses I sat trying to figure out why you couldn't divide by a fraction or decimal?! I certainly didn't know for sure what you would get, but it only makes sense that if you have 8 marbles and you put them into 2 piles you have 4 in each pile (8/2=4) and then you put them into 1 pile, you would have 8 in each pile (8/1=8) and if you were to keep cutting the number of piles in half, the number of marbles would double, which is true (8/(1/2)=16), but no first grade teacher is going to try to explain the fact that multiplication and division are the same thing when the teacher just spent days trying to teach the kids not to confuse them.
I'm going to go off on [another] tangent... the teachers don't call them little lies; they call them white lies. Does anybody who uses that term have any idea how incredibly racist that is?! It implies that black lies (big lies) are very bad; while white lies aren't so bad...I don't think I need to elaborate any further...
When I started writing this, I was going to give an example from each grade, but now that I'm done with that, and re-read it, I've decided not to bother as 99% of readers will have given up by now...
The other problem with the way kids are taught to reason is you* spend so much time telling kids to do it 'the right way'... in reality, kids are told to do it your way. They are told that their way is always wrong.
-You have to color in the lines. Why? Because I said so.
Is there any reason to make kids color in the lines? Can you think of one? Yes? Why do most parents/teachers/etc. refuse to explain it to their children? Is coloring in the lines a life-skill? No, but it does help to teach motor skills. There are other reasons, but that's the only one that makes any sense to me...
Isn't it more efficient to just scribble?
Isn't it actually stifling creativity to teach kids that you have to color each object one color?
-Walk in a straight line between classes. (Not sure if they do this most places, or if it's just a regional thing)
I can't count the number of times I questioned it in the first year or two, but after being yelled at because I asked so many times, I just kind of accepted it.
(Just for the record, 'It doesn't matter' isn't an acceptable answer when a kid asks a question multiple times. Obviously if they keep asking the question, it matters to them)
Again, I was going to ramble for a bit longer, but I think I've ranted on the school system and on conformity enough for one post...
Has it occured to the almightly number-crunchers that most of the recently purchased ipods are probably destined to be christmas/haunakka/kwanzaa/etc. presents? Maybe they should check music sales after the 'end-user' actually recieves their device... The other number-twisting fact is that many people are just upgrading their mp3 player and not needing to download much more music (how much legal music does one need???)... Just some thoughts for food. Please. I'm hungry.
Someone beat me to it... I live less than 10 minutes (walking time) from Clarkson. In case anyone was interested, http://clarkson.edu/ is Clarkson's website.
I should have been a little clearer... It is incorperated to the point that if it were to be uninstalled, the operating system wouldn't work (believe me, I've tried, if you uninstall MSIE forcefully, windows explorer stops working correctly or, in some cases, at all) I like the idea of a web and file browser in one, but I would like to be able to disable part of all of it even if it can't be uninstalled. I meant exactly what I said; the problem is that it is installed, not that it comes installed, but that it is always (if you want windows explorer to function properly) installed... I don't work much with macs, but every Linux Distro I've worked with (serveral free ones) come with an option to remove the packaged programs, or, in some cases, just not install them in the first place...
The only thing wrong with MSIE is that it is installed...
I think that they made a correct relationship, but in the wrong way... I think that cheaters and shoplifters are more likely to P2P, not the other way around...but of course this would totaly defeat their argument, so why would they even mention that?
What the RIAA wants to control MORE of my life?! Actually I think there would have to be a new regulatory commision created, so that *certain political figureheads* can give out more important positions as political favors.
Definatly have to agree with you there. Still can't figure out why they cant just add something batween the "killer foam" and the heatproof tiles...
All togother currently you can:
I'm not talking about every sound happening, but a directory of sounds possible. Like 1,000,000 common sounds. What use could this possibly be?
Your car is making a funny noise. Get out your mp3 player, take a recording of it, and google it.
Your a bird watcher, you cant see a bird but you can hear it and want to know what type. Take a recording and google it.
I might be way off base here, but it seems like it would be pretty handy...