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- Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a time
- Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a timeSheperds nowhere to be foundMany of my university professors I was in the college of engineering had a poor grasp of the English language. One professor named Murata was jokingly called "MoreData" in light of the fact that his English was utter...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
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- Apple's Black Friday sales under analysts' microscope
- A 36% decrease is considered slightly?[i]On Average, the stores were selling 8.3 Macs per hour, down from 13 on Black Friday last year according to similar checks we performed.[/i]I'd consider that significant not slight.Wait for a real report.Wow! Ambiguous reporting based on some guys going to am Apple Store and...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?
- Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?
- How manny more languages...... does one need to just doConsole.out.println("Hello world!");?RE: Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?I always wonder what Google will do next. They always surprise me. Go looks promising.Google wants to be just as dominant...if not more so...than M$.So one more way to get there is...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- 10 technological changes in 10 technological years
- retitle it15 Technological Changes in 15 Years... and even with that you'd be off. Pluto was reclassified... this is not a technological innovation, even its classification name already existed.15 years ago Forest Gump came out, and even it was talking about Apple being big then, when it was set......
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Why aren't students pushing paperless?
- it doesnt matterI dislike the teacher's who go paperless. I print everything out anyway. Yes, digital is nice, but I want a hard copy, something I dont have to sit at a computer to read. I spend enough time on here as it is.Even though "they" are pushing...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-08
- College Improves Messaging Availability and Performance With Monitoring Software
- Kentucky Community and Technical College System KCTCS offers classroom and online education to over 100,000 students. KCTCS is using Microsoft System Center data center solutions in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta to improve e-mail availability and performance and to simplify e-mail management. KCTCS has reduced problem resolution times...
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work
- Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Acer might be #2, but is the Ed market buying?
- Mom and Dad are going to buy...the college computer and they are going to look at the price point above all. There are a lot that are naive enough to buy the overpriced PC the school is selling or suggesting. Does the high school brand matter. Not even. Most kids...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?
- Re:Can Apple make a Tablet PC "cool"?My company is deeply involved in the production of visual materials for the scientific, technical and medical post-secondary education marketplace and they are just dying for a tool such as this for use in the classroom. With a solid customer base here, Apple can...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- U.S. willing to let go of Icann
- Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?
- As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Will online education kill the university?
- More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Will online education kill the university?
- If you go to Harvard, how much more are you learning in a second-year calculus class than you might at the University of Massachusetts? Or Podunk State College? It's still second-year calculus. Is there any reason that anyone with the motivation shouldn't take a second-year calculus course at Chris...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Are IT grads learning the right skills?
- Not university level informationThe type of information they are referring to is not something that applies to a university level of education. What they are asking for is the specific skills on the implementation of technologies. For example, I can talk all day about certificates and the use of them...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Not your father's tech school
- Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Not your father's tech school
- Recently, I've had the opportunity to visit our local vacational/technical school several times. When I was a kid, the voc tech school was only for dropouts, burnouts, and pregnant girls, with the occasional budding mechanic thrown in for good measure. This couldn't be further from the case now...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
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