Do you know how to make African American’s perform poorly on a test? Just make the first question “What is your race?”
Now I realize that the above statement sounds horrible and it is terribly politically incorrect, but it is the actual results of the experiment below. It suggests that we may be hindering […]
KGWN - Cheyenne Police Chief Got Degree from Diploma Mill
The city of Cheyenne has paid for the city’s police chief to earn a masters degree from a suspected diploma mill.
Police Chief Bob Fecht got the degree from Lacrosse University in Mississippi.
I think the big question would be whether or not he got a raise for […]
You can Search Harvard’s museum collections. They have scanned and photographed over 80,000 works of art that you can view online. Some of the scans are at very high resolution. If you play around with the URL you can get it to give you images up to 3000 pixels accross.
I’d […]
An article
by the guardian talks about how email can become adictive and actually lower your IQ like drugs.
The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.
Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached “startling” levels in […]
If you are looking at getting a degree through Harvard’s Extension school make sure you check out the residency requirement for your program. The ALM in IT degree requires you to spend one semester on campus. The summer session counts as a semester and it is only 8 weeks long.
Although some ALM in […]
The United States Census has some interesting facts on the education rates of each state. The chart below shows the percentage of adults over 25 years of age who have at least a bachelors degree. The top position goes to the District of Columbia, but since it is such a small area, it […]
Capella announced that it is going to go public. Capella has always looked like an interesting university. They are a commercial enterprise and based on their requirements it seems that they probably rank a little higher academically than University of Phoenix.
“Capella Education Co. of Minneapolis, one of the few private education firms to […]
One of the attributes of a good software development process is consistently releasing software. With this in mind, I wanted to compare the development cycles from Microsoft and Apple when it comes to their Operating Systems. I only compared the client operating systems and not the server versions.
OS X:
10.0 — March 2001
10.1 — […]
There used to be two choices for web hosting. You could get a dedicated server for several hundred dollars each month. This would give you complete control of your machine letting you schedule automatic jobs to run, upgrade packages, etc. Or you could share a server with a bunch of other people. […]
Last year Duke gave iPods to all of it’s incoming freshmen. An article came out today that gives a small overview of the program. It sounds like the iPod program wasn’t really studied. They basically just gave everyone iPods to see what would happen. The article has quotes from teachers saying […]
While I don’t anticipate Amazon selling out to Google anytime soon, much of the work done at Google is being duplicated by Amazon and vice versa. Google’s mission is to organize all of the content in the world and make it easy to find. This basically what Amazon has done for shopping. […]
While taking classes through Harvard’s Extension school, I ran across a very helpful product from Enounce. They make a plug in that gives you variable speed control of Real Media streams. This means you can play lecture videos back faster or slower than they were originally recorded.
Enounce uses some special technology […]
Distance education and on-line learning opportunities are starting to show up at most universities and colleges. Here are a few things to consider when looking into taking classes over the Internet. I’m going to break this into two categories. The first covers things that you need to know about yourself, the second […]
Why Java Won’t Get It Right is an interesting entry about some of the problems with Java technology. The best part is that it is written by someone who actually knows Java. A part that I particularly liked was:
They over-architect everything. I’ve actually used a Java framework (I’m not gonna say which) […]
The following is a JUnit test that looks like it should always run without a problem. Mark the current time in a variable called start call Thread.sleep and tell it to sleep for x number of seconds, note the current time again in a variable called end and then assert that end - start […]