Having a chalk board in a rrom does not cause education to take place, but if it is well used it can be helpful to the process.
Giving a kid a computer is only slightly better than giving them a chalk board. If you provide tools and guidence and use the tool well then you have a chance an real learning.
You make an interesting observational point, that mant piss-poor drivers are indeed using cell phones. But in every state in the country we have a varaity of laws on the books to deal with this behavior. Many (most?) states have distracted driving laws as a catch all, but outside of this the driver can be charged with tailgating, failure to maintain their lane, changing lanes w/o signaling, failure to obey a highway sign, the hits just keep on coming.
Wrap up three or four of these in a stop and the need for an additonal law seems rather anticlimactic.
If you feel the need to use the term so many times in a paragraph, perhaps you should spend the time to learn what the word means.
Perhaps he is referring to the complications of updating the OS when your handset maker/ cell carrier sold you a phone that is several revisions out of date and they refuse to make current updates available to you.
dmr,
Thank you for all that you have done. May you now rest in peace.
You do realize that this story is about AOL, correct spelling would simply be out of plase.
.. but there last geek quite, so now the data center must fend for itself.
Rest in peace Mr. Jobs.
This would not be inline with the Genius Bar, which is there to help people resolve problems users have experienced with their Apple technology.
One thing that Apple does better than almost any other tech company is that they say No to most items that are not relevant to their goals. They do not load up their stores with extra padding items in order to try to sell a few more units, unless they think that it fits in with the use of their key products. When you launch a new Mac, you are not hit over the head with loads of crap-ware which the system vendor managed to make an extra 30 bucks by hoisting upon you.
Picking up the short buck is not worth tarnishing the brand. To bad few other tech vendors will be able to figure this out.
It is not about secrecy it is about quality.
The VP at SAIC is saying that if the government demands that the software they purchase actually meets some minimum standard of quality then everyone will throw up their hands and quit. Which he feels will cause more software to be handed off to overseas developers who will do even a worse job than has already been done.
This smells very much like GM & Ford complaining that new fuel standards will be a technical impossibility to reach just moments before one of their competitors roll out models to the showroom floor that make the grade.
What are you talking about? OpenWRT has had a web interface for at least 5 years.
If this were FireFox that would be like 270 version releases ago.
One option worth consideration is the Harvard Extension School. While they do not offer a degree entirely online, the residency requirement is limited (I believe the undergrad degrees generally require four courses on campus). While the degree is a Bachelors of Liberal Arts, you are given a great deal of latitude in selecting courses, including delving into graduate level courses to delve deeper into selected CS/IT areas if you so choose.
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/
One student I know who completed his Bachelors at the Extension School while focusing on CS courses wrote about his experience:
You gain the capability to reach students which would not be able or willing to attend courses in the fixed time/place which your courses are currently available.
Currently I am a student at Harvard's Extension School. I have worked in the field that I am currently studying for over 15 years, and I am unwilling to step away from my career in order to pursue a degree. Hence any program that failed to provide a considerable amount of flexibility around physical location and time of day/ day of week scheduling were simply discarded from consideration.
Now having taken a variety of distance education courses over the years, I can tell you that there are good and bad ways to run distance education courses, just as there are good and bad ways to run a traditional course. Student faculty ratio is just as important in online courses as it is with in person courses. The 'personal' touch I received sitting in a lecture hall with over two hundred students in a Biology course was just as worthless as a similar number of students watching a lecture online. It quickly becomes clear in such circumstances that the staff does have the time or availability to really interact with the students.
If a professor is willing to invest the time and effort in an online course, there are several types of tools available to connect to students to ensure their understanding of the material at hand. The dirty trick in this is that it takes time and effort, just as it does when meeting in real life. The problem comes in when a school or a teacher come to think that the Internet is a magic wand which one will wave and everything will become better. Take my current course as an example. I have exchanges several messages with the Professor (mostly email, but not exclusively), in each instance I have received very thorough and timely. The assignments are not only well though out, the feedback is detailed and comes quickly.
To do this well takes time and effort. Those schools and professors that find a way to be successful in a new medium will likely thrive. Those that opt to treat distance education as a holding bin for warmed over leftovers will suffer.
... be sure to turn out the lights.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
