A teacher's job is not to tell the children what some people believe, his job is to teach what is known to be the most accurate theory in existence.
So... teachers should stop teaching Newton's theory of gravity and Galilean relativity, and start teaching Einstein's theories instead?
Simplified theories commonly taught in classrooms are acceptable because they've been shown to match reality to some extent through experimental evidence. As such they're often useful as they are and they're also conducive to learning, because once you've learned the simplified versions you can go on and learn the better versions.
No proposed form of intelligent design has convincing experimental evidence to back it up, and that is why it doesn't belong in a science classroom.
How do you graduate with a CS degree, and not know how to program? What kind of CS program are they running at this 'major' university?
He didn't say he doesn't know how to program, just that he doesn't like to. I'm doing first-year CS, and I was in a discussion about this at the first teacher/student meeting we had this year. One of the staff said that it's getting harder to push strongly programming-oriented units to students, because a good portion of CS students don't like programming. Obviously most of the people in the room were startled by this claim, "why are people doing CS if they don't like programming?" was the general response. There were a couple of students in the room who explained that they were only doing CS to get into related fields. If I recall correctly, one of them said he was more interested in the networks and databases aspects of CS than programming.
There's no point taking something and placing restrictions on it, if people can still use the freer version. Changing its license would be pointless unless someone was planning on making major modifications and improvements to the BSD software, and then maintaining it.
The new Maxis game, Spore, will supposedly be using procedural generation at least for the creature animation. Procedural generation could be very useful to all sorts of "open-ended" games, not as a means of compression for stored and immutable game data, but to facilitate in-game creation.
They are not favouring OSS, but Open Formats. The reason being that open formats do not lock users into using just one application. The anti-Microsoft jibe is because MS Office does not support open formats and have been reluctant so far to support them, and, while they're switching file format anyway compatibility issues with the "de facto" document format is no longer a problem, and they cannot use MS Word in the meantime, so they might as well switch to using software that is free.
If MS Office began supporting some sort of open format, using their software would not be a problem, theoretically. They are already doing that with their new XML formats, but as always they have to define their own format. I think the state in question has chosen to support the Open Document Format however, so this would not be accepted without the state making changes.
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Hence avoid, and not prevent. If I can't effectively prevent crime, I at least don't want it right outside my home.
There are some programming language implementations that "compile to C".
It's not really that you have to think to understand the jokes, mainly you have to know the characters well.
So... teachers should stop teaching Newton's theory of gravity and Galilean relativity, and start teaching Einstein's theories instead?
Simplified theories commonly taught in classrooms are acceptable because they've been shown to match reality to some extent through experimental evidence. As such they're often useful as they are and they're also conducive to learning, because once you've learned the simplified versions you can go on and learn the better versions.
No proposed form of intelligent design has convincing experimental evidence to back it up, and that is why it doesn't belong in a science classroom.
How do you graduate with a CS degree, and not know how to program? What kind of CS program are they running at this 'major' university?
He didn't say he doesn't know how to program, just that he doesn't like to. I'm doing first-year CS, and I was in a discussion about this at the first teacher/student meeting we had this year. One of the staff said that it's getting harder to push strongly programming-oriented units to students, because a good portion of CS students don't like programming. Obviously most of the people in the room were startled by this claim, "why are people doing CS if they don't like programming?" was the general response. There were a couple of students in the room who explained that they were only doing CS to get into related fields. If I recall correctly, one of them said he was more interested in the networks and databases aspects of CS than programming.
There's no point taking something and placing restrictions on it, if people can still use the freer version. Changing its license would be pointless unless someone was planning on making major modifications and improvements to the BSD software, and then maintaining it.
The new Maxis game, Spore, will supposedly be using procedural generation at least for the creature animation. Procedural generation could be very useful to all sorts of "open-ended" games, not as a means of compression for stored and immutable game data, but to facilitate in-game creation.
They are not favouring OSS, but Open Formats. The reason being that open formats do not lock users into using just one application. The anti-Microsoft jibe is because MS Office does not support open formats and have been reluctant so far to support them, and, while they're switching file format anyway compatibility issues with the "de facto" document format is no longer a problem, and they cannot use MS Word in the meantime, so they might as well switch to using software that is free.
If MS Office began supporting some sort of open format, using their software would not be a problem, theoretically. They are already doing that with their new XML formats, but as always they have to define their own format. I think the state in question has chosen to support the Open Document Format however, so this would not be accepted without the state making changes.