I guess, because my interest in schooling is learning something rather than getting some grades.
Totally agree with that. But in my experience formal schooling is the polar opposite of learning (at least for everyone I've met). Schooling has a linear style and for the most part only teaches what is required to pass the exam(s). It's disturbing to watch my coworkers with their BS's and MBA's struggle to form opinions and define principles....
"getting an education" != "passing an exam".
Passing a test requires only the regurgitation of information. That's learning only in the most superficial sense (like how one would teach a toddler their alphabet).
At first read I thought this was a new Dragon Quest game. A real one...like Legend if the Cursed King. God I loveed that game. I would happy if it would just be re-released fir modern console(s).
Kind of like prostitution. If you pay someone to have sex with you it's considered illegal (in some places). But you pay someone to have sex with you in front of a video camera, then it's porn and protected as free speech.
I imagine he doesn't hire people (or hasn't in many, many years). If the company was called 'Movies Ltd' and didn't bare Lucas' name, this wouldn't have even made Slashdot....
I seriously doubt 'George Lucas' had anything to do with this. It's possible he's not even aware of it. This was done by the Lucasfilm Ltd legal department. George doesn't exactly engage in day-to-day operations....he has 'people' for that.
A bit OT, but I thought it was a fact worth mentioning:
The most common carrier of Toxoplasma gondii are cats. When a cat with Toxo injures a rat (but does not kill it) it usually passes the infection to the rat. The effect of the parasite on rats makes them slower and far easier for predators (like cats) to catch/kill them. Which, in turn, passes the parasite on to the cat. The cat then takes a swipe at a rat...and so on ad infinitum.
The parasite uses the natural predator/prey relationship to keep itself alive.
But a far smarter way to handle it would be to announce there's X issues that Microsoft is Y days behind on patching rather than detailing what the issues are, correct?
Totally agree. But MS has known about serious security holes sometimes for years (coming out with new OS versions in the meantime) and done nothing. When the new OS is out, the problem still is there....
Large US corporations care more about avoiding highly publicized lawsuits than 'doing the right thing'. By calling MS out by announcing to the world their Windows flaws, it forces MS to either publicly refuse to fix the issue or put some of the ample resources on fixing it. Refusing to fix it will certainly spawn lawsuits (or even government action). That's sure good for everyone...
Given the broad power requirements for laptops (netbooks to pimped out gaming machines), how could it be standardized? If there were some kind of variable transformer, would it have to manually set when switching systems?
Except code has a qualitative value. The Internet would not exist without it. Someone can learn to code quite well without any inherent aptitude (and make decent money doing it). But the qualitative nature of art means one must posses 'gifts' (along with learned skills) in order to create lasting works.
I agree one should not overly generalize. But I am a bit jaded after years of working with people with physics degrees, CS degrees, mathematics degrees, or (my personal favorite) liberal arts degrees. So far not one of them seems to engage in or understand critical thought or even non-linear thought. Many boast about how college was a 'breeze' and how it was a non-stop drunken sex-fest. Maybe I just got a bad batch....:)
I never spent a second in college and have been working in IT for over a decade now. Sadly I make significantly more as a systems engineer than most my age make in just about any other job. A coworker of mine does the same job but makes about $8K less annually. While he spent 4+ years getting his BS, I was working my way up the pay-scale./And/ he has a $30K student loan over his head...
My favorites are the ones that give preference to a collage grad regardless of what the degree is in. "I like this candidate for the new IT Director position because he/she has a Masters in horticulture!"
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This magical accounting is why more and more bankable stars are demanding x% of the gross instead if just wanting part of the profits.
Totally agree with that. But in my experience formal schooling is the polar opposite of learning (at least for everyone I've met). Schooling has a linear style and for the most part only teaches what is required to pass the exam(s). It's disturbing to watch my coworkers with their BS's and MBA's struggle to form opinions and define principles....
"getting an education" != "passing an exam".
Passing a test requires only the regurgitation of information. That's learning only in the most superficial sense (like how one would teach a toddler their alphabet).
Are they pitted against each other? Other than the Android (which Google only makes the OS for) vs iPhone, what else is there?
It's true. There are a lot of BP Execs involved ~rimshot
I don't have PS3 :(
Hoping that one day the game will come out an another console.
And sometimes to the opposite sex.
At first read I thought this was a new Dragon Quest game. A real one...like Legend if the Cursed King. God I loveed that game. I would happy if it would just be re-released fir modern console(s).
You still have swag lamps? That's so retro! I bet you have orange shag to:)
Kind of like prostitution. If you pay someone to have sex with you it's considered illegal (in some places). But you pay someone to have sex with you in front of a video camera, then it's porn and protected as free speech.
I imagine he doesn't hire people (or hasn't in many, many years). If the company was called 'Movies Ltd' and didn't bare Lucas' name, this wouldn't have even made Slashdot....
I seriously doubt 'George Lucas' had anything to do with this. It's possible he's not even aware of it. This was done by the Lucasfilm Ltd legal department. George doesn't exactly engage in day-to-day operations....he has 'people' for that.
Are you kidding? Just last week the NYT had an entire column dedicated to using the Google to keep kids off ones lawn.
A bit OT, but I thought it was a fact worth mentioning:
The most common carrier of Toxoplasma gondii are cats. When a cat with Toxo injures a rat (but does not kill it) it usually passes the infection to the rat. The effect of the parasite on rats makes them slower and far easier for predators (like cats) to catch/kill them. Which, in turn, passes the parasite on to the cat. The cat then takes a swipe at a rat...and so on ad infinitum.
The parasite uses the natural predator/prey relationship to keep itself alive.
Totally agree. But MS has known about serious security holes sometimes for years (coming out with new OS versions in the meantime) and done nothing. When the new OS is out, the problem still is there....
Large US corporations care more about avoiding highly publicized lawsuits than 'doing the right thing'. By calling MS out by announcing to the world their Windows flaws, it forces MS to either publicly refuse to fix the issue or put some of the ample resources on fixing it. Refusing to fix it will certainly spawn lawsuits (or even government action). That's sure good for everyone...
...this is Geek Squad then? I do a bit of sidework now and then and many of my jobs are undoing what GS did...
Given the broad power requirements for laptops (netbooks to pimped out gaming machines), how could it be standardized? If there were some kind of variable transformer, would it have to manually set when switching systems?
Except code has a qualitative value. The Internet would not exist without it. Someone can learn to code quite well without any inherent aptitude (and make decent money doing it). But the qualitative nature of art means one must posses 'gifts' (along with learned skills) in order to create lasting works.
Colleges don't wash people out when Daddys is an alum and gives nearly a million a year. How do you think Dubya got his MBA? ;)
He's in the low 90's and I'm over 6 figures. I guess the $8K is a lot when one has so much more schooling.
I agree one should not overly generalize. But I am a bit jaded after years of working with people with physics degrees, CS degrees, mathematics degrees, or (my personal favorite) liberal arts degrees. So far not one of them seems to engage in or understand critical thought or even non-linear thought. Many boast about how college was a 'breeze' and how it was a non-stop drunken sex-fest. Maybe I just got a bad batch.... :)
I see your copy and paste skills are as good as my own. Indeed you are powerful....just as the Emperor has foreseen.
I never spent a second in college and have been working in IT for over a decade now. Sadly I make significantly more as a systems engineer than most my age make in just about any other job. A coworker of mine does the same job but makes about $8K less annually. While he spent 4+ years getting his BS, I was working my way up the pay-scale. /And/ he has a $30K student loan over his head...
My favorites are the ones that give preference to a collage grad regardless of what the degree is in. "I like this candidate for the new IT Director position because he/she has a Masters in horticulture!"