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Rob Philpott wrote:
Yep, we'll just consult Wikipedia before we whip that toe off.

Nooooo! Not that one! That one, the green, runny one.

Also, according to the internet, that toe has cancer.

harold aptroot wrote:
but in general I believe they are wrong.

In general, they're right. Mostly thanks to those institutions themselves Smile | :)

harold aptroot wrote:
Wrong enough that I'm planning to go back to university a second time and get some more of that value they think isn't there.

You're confusing attending class (which may or may not have value) with getting a paper that says 'academic' (which has value).

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Kids today have it made! When I was in college, the only extra reference materials I had (for programming) were the locally installed MSDN (usually a quarter or two behind) and a growing library of books I purchased at the local bookseller! There was no CP or SO then. There was only trial and error! Laugh | :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

kmoorevs wrote:
There was only trial and error!

Is that why every time I make an error I end up on trial? Wink | ;)

It was broke, so I fixed it.

You had MSDN?

Try reading the VAX/VMS doc set. Sigh | :sigh:

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Try reading the VAX/VMS doc set.

Will Rogers never met me.

Rob Philpott wrote:
This is so wrong...

Seems reasonable to me. Expectation has made a 'degree' the required norm rather than an unusual need without any actual increase in value. The manager of a McDonald's shouldn't be required to have a degree. And even if a degree was useful for that position then it should at least be relevant to that position.

Universities where I am have never had a requirement that professors must have any teaching experience and this includes not requiring that they have taken any classes in teaching much less communications. And more and more classes are being taught by those who are not professors (thus one might wonder why professors are needed at all.)

And by my experience many would have been helped quite a bit by knowing how to teach, how to lecture and even how to organize.

Classes are often required not by actual usefulness but often, and sometimes explicitly so, by political (university politics) expediency.

The fact is that when universities first came into existence the knowledge available there was in fact the only place that one could acquire that knowledge unless one was wealthy. And it acted as a repository for that knowledge that existed in few other places.

Obviously now that is a far different situation. For example the vast majority of people will never need to know what a Greek Tragedy is and many of those who do are only the teachers of such. One can argue that knowing about it is if fact the desire but that is true for a vast array of literature and one is exposed to specific ones only at the whim of a teacher and university rather than because there is in fact a consensus about the ones that are the 'best'. This holds true for many fields.

Along with that the chance that one might accidentally come across something new has been VASTLY increased.

Additionally the amount of knowledge has vastly exceeded anything that was conceivable in the past. For example despite doom and gloom statements the number of books published each year are greater by two orders of magnitude for those even in the 1970s.

And yes it is real knowledge and not just slop. Plenty of that but a lot of real knowledge as well. For example if one wants to make ones own table then one can find something online. Or learn how to sew. Or learn about electronics. There was a time when that wasn't possible. Even in the mid 1900s with libraries finding a book on a topic was more hit an miss and there often was only one book (which the library might or might not have.)

There is much made about "teaching students how to think" but the facts are this.
1. No one understands how that works.
2. Presuming that is even possible to teach that no one can objectively identify that.
3. Despite claims no one can teach another teacher how to do that
4. By the time someone reaches the university if they don't already know that then it seems rather unlikely that they will learn it there.

Can anyone give a rational explanation to explain what this could be[^]?

Its a big Hula Hoop.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Seriously ? A SW bug in the decompression algorithm ? When I see the number of question about OpenCV in Q&A, no wonder...

This is clearly the mirrored behavior of the yellow player coming from the right side.

I am sad that people get employed to make such things appear as a "news" on web sites. The saddest are probably those watching it. (including myself now, O irony).

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.

Blue Waffler wrote:
Can anyone give a rational explanation

Probably there is. The question is does he on CP?
For me it seems like reflection or overlapping while decompressing the picture after broadcast from camera. It also seems exactly like the previous run (2 second before) of the yellow player on the top-middle, between the two red players...

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

Yes, several. Next?

It is the ghost of David Moyes career travelling the world looking for solace.

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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

It could be video compression defects as suggested by others, but without having seen any other footage from the match, my money is on it simply being the shadow of one of those cameras they sometimes have strung out above the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam[^]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spidercam[^]

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty

I see dead pixel!!!

I'd rather be phishing!

Nikon is doing a recall on these cameras to perform an exorcism.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

probably reflection / refraction on the glass through which the camera is filming

It is obviously just a mirror image of the player running in from the right.

somehow an monozygotic ghost!

Looks like some team should get some kind of colored card for too many men on the field though.

Sorry I'm not well versed in Soccer.

Looks a bit like Arthur Dent, trying for a 'personal best' from a parallel universe. But how probable is that?

Will Rogers never met me.

"This 'Friend of Dorothy' wears a dress when being extremely enthusiastic."(2,2,4)

Not hard.

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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

This 'Friend of Dorothy'    TOTO
wears a dress               GOWN

when being extremely enthusiastic.
GO TO TOWN

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

It is hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs, because they always take things literally. Suspicious | :suss:

Entropy isn't what is used to be.

Why do engineers confuse Christmas and Halloween? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

A roman in a bar holds up two fingers and says, "Five beers please".

Shrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And does not.

A Buddhist monk approaches a hot-dog stand and says "make me one with everything"

There is a band named 1023MB. They have not had any gigs yet... Hmmm | :|

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