We have a USB Standard, it was good enough. Standards wouldn't improve that without competition, enter FireWire, and USB needed an upgrade. Next up, ESATA, and USB needed another upgrade.

Standards don't change USB is still USB that standard hasn't changed, and now, we have three (or more) USB Standards (not to mention connectors)

I rest my case.

Problem with that kind of attitude is that you end up with nobody working, after you keep firing the bottom 10%

100, 90, 81, 73, 56, 50 ...

Google is in the process of killing off NPAPI plugins completely (like Flash, Java etc), and that API will be completely gone in a couple months. Websites better get rid of all the flash stuff soon, and HTML 5 is the replacement.

I applaud Google for forcing the industry forward.

We should create a whole OS that controls Drone Swarms ....

We'll call it ...

BeeOS!

So, given the choice between two with SOME information, you'd rather randomly choose? Great, you just got a lawyer specializing in Divorce when you needed a specialist for something completely unrelated. I wonder if you'd pick doctors the same way.....

"Hey I need a brain surgeon ... eanie meanie minie moe ... a proctologist ! PERFECT, because my head is in my ass! "

Then .. that means I'm HOT! WOOT!

Dragons are cool until they light you on fire with their bad breath, and you die.

Standards are required when there is no competition. When competition is introduced, those that do better with less advance, and those that don't diminish.

FURTHER, I would suggest that standards tend to stagnate over time, or worse become increasingly useless as additional standards are placed (and then stagnate) in attempts to increase quality, having the exact opposite effect.

I work in education, and the education model we have, and are trying to maintain, is industrial era format, with Factory Schools building robot workers. The problem is, we aren't there anymore, and the model has to change. We don't have to keep inventing wheels to educate our kids more effectively. We just need the opportunity to change the system via Competition, where most end up better off.

Which Lawyer would your rather go to, given the following two metrics (No other information available, simplistic choice) ?

We win 90% of our cases

or

We've won $900 Million dollars for our clients

It might be, that the Principal doesn't have the requisite time to spend in classrooms because student discipline is out the window, and they are having do deal with rebellion in the hallways and classrooms. Or perhaps Parents of Johnny Rotten don't think Johnny is a bad seed, that it is everyone else. Or perhaps it is trying to organize the entire staff for the three weeks of Standardized Testing that needs to be completed ... or ... any number of other "urgent" matters that delay or disrupt the "important" ones.

Not necessarily. Bad Metrics can cause problems in situations where no metrics wouldn't. As in unintended consequences. In this case, this is exactly what happened, bad metrics results in worse performance, not better.

I can usually tell the worth of a Educator (teacher) by their desire to learn. I work in a school district, and the better teachers tend to want to learn new stuff. The lessor teachers figure they are done "learning" because they finished college or similar attitude. Everything being equal, those teachers that still love to learn are better teachers, than those that don't want to learn anything else.

Most Standardized testing fails at the student's level. They are great for people who have no contact with students (Politicians, High Level Administrators etc), but they do NOTHING to help the kids learn anything. And because of that, they are more or less worthless for students, and everything for people getting paid stupid amounts of money to generate standards based testing.

And standards based testing is EXPENSIVE, and negatively impacts seat time in classrooms. And my experience is that by the time the results are back, it is too late to help anyone on anything, except those that don't have any contact with student.

If you are posting "Private" or "Personal" stuff on social networks, you're the fool. And you're not fooling anyone.

Ever heard of "Screen Capture" and "Revenge sites"? Yeah, you're "private" life isn't as private as you think it is.

But you do have one advantage, most people don't really care about your dick pics or whatever.

Cisco is one of the worst companies that certify, because their version of networking is strange compared to everyone else's.