@scottalanmiller Yeah, I honestly never went to college because all of the applications required writing essays. I hate writing essays, ergo, I never filled out a single application.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's a means of discourages kids who like math, that's for sure. It might help someone who is struggling, but those who struggle with math are unlikely to use much of it, no matter how much they are pushed to learn, in high school. Most jobs require essentially no math and most of the population retains no math from high school after graduation. The only real bad outcome is if those who do enjoy and excel at math are discouraged. That kind of forcing people to show steps makes math students, especially, reconsider math and science jobs to a large degree because it discourages them from taking math in college or, in many cases, going on to college at all.

It hurts those that we should be encouraging (in math) the most while encouraging those that aren't self motivated, are trying to cheat or just aren't that interested.

Very true, at least from my own perspective.

@scottalanmiller said:

As someone who is Aspy and doesn't solve problems the way that other kids did, this was very frustrating and made learning math hard, slow and boring. It made school painful and didn't allow me to exploit my nature learning abilities and forced me to be useless.

Yes, Scott used to rub sticks together to solve math problems. Sadly, he was robbed of his "nature learning abilities" and forced to assimilate.

@Dashrender That is understood, but it's part of the "one-size-fits-all" educational approach that I hate so much. As a former straight-A student with a math major and a 98.9 GPA, I don't think there was anyone questioning whether I understood the process, or whether I had any reason or desire to cheat. Some kids got discouraged by how easy it all came to me, and the teachers (some, not most) would look for ways to knock a point off here and there to keep me as close to the "norm" as possible. It happened in more than just math class, and I even had teachers laugh as they openly admitted, to my face, that was exactly what they were doing. It wasn't fair to the average kids that I was too smart, and I was therefore penalized in a sad attempt to maintain the status quo. Case in point; I get 100% of the correct answers on the one test that matters for the course, and I get 3 points deducted because I didn't write down quite enough of the steps for some of the problems. I even made a point of writing down way more than I did for any assignment all year long. I think I finished about 20 minutes before the next person, so I "obviously didn't take enough time", or some BS like that.

@scottalanmiller Yeah, it does math the way I do it; all in my head. Cost me a 100 on a regents once, cause I "didn't show enough work". Nothing like getting penalized for being too efficient. It takes too long to write all that crap down.

@Minion-Queen because I already have.

There are still some of us left who know how to do math without that gizmo.

@Minion-Queen Just make sure you use printed math problems. I'm sure it can't read your handwriting.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Mike-Ralston said:

Well, XenServer specifically tells me that Virtual Drives aren't enabled when I attempt to install to it. IT sees the USB just fine.

Oh, this is new information. It is XenServer telling us this? We've been trying to diagnose the Dell hardware up until now. This might be a XenServer issue.

Give this man a cookie!

How hard would it be to just get a single HD to put the OS on and then use the SAN for the datastores, or whatever Xen uses?

Hmmm... so, maybe it's not supported?

Pretty soon we're going to have something like 100 people who know how to make things like this and everyone else who can't even solve simple math problems. Talk about class separation.

It's to host a Xen Server, correct?

Or, maybe it's just not supported.

Also, you may have picked a bad example to pin you case on. Plumbers and electricians are skilled tradesmen, needing to be licensed and typically have apprenticeships. They don't just get hired off the street. However, I believe that most retail workers are not competent at their jobs. You be the judge.

You obviously don't know very many plumbers and electricians.

Ah, yes... IT: where the manager who did the hiring knows nothing about the skill set needed for the job, and the employee knows only slightly more than that (or maybe just knows enough buzzwords to impress the manager). I keep my sanity by remembering that 90% of all "professionals" are incompetent in their jobs... and I think the stats may be worse for non-professionals. (and that 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot)

@thanksaj said:

@art_of_shred said:

This post should be moderated. The innuendos are just too much. And where is PSX when you need him?

You ask for moderation AND PSX in the same post? That's about as hypocritical as it comes!

No, they typically show up together.

@scottalanmiller said:

@NetworkNerdWifey said:

@Minion-Queen They only hurt for a little bit. It's really not the most terrible pain you could possibly be in. I like all of mine. In fact I would get more. Granted, none of mine required that I sit longer than 45 minutes.

Being branded?

OH.... tattoos. @Dominica has one too.

Dick-Butt?

Well, you know what the dirt racers say... fast is loose!