SirSkidmore

Just because it's modified in Russian makes it shady? That seems a little ridiculous.

The link works fine for me.

yeah, sorry, fixed. It's a Monday, can you tell?

Completely true, if not implied. I just graduated from secondary school in the US. I want to be a programmer, but I never once took a programming class; my school didn't offer them. Most of my peers still have NO idea what they would like to study, even though some of them are paying $10,000-$20,000 to go to college.

At least at my school (a small rural secondary school), there just weren't enough classes to to "specialize" or focus on any one particular field. You just took the core classes every year: a science (sometimes), a math, an English.

Online learning can be good, but it can also be absolutely detrimental to education.

I just graduated from high school in a relatively rural community where online classes were extremely popular among students. You got time in the computer lab, and had an "adviser" for each of your online classes. There were notes, assignments, tests, and quizzes. Sounds great right? Except students quickly discovered their "adviser" cared a lot less about online classes than the real counterparts, so notes and assignments quickly vanished from the curriculum. Computer lab time wasn't regulated by any means, so many students "helped" (read: cheated) each other on their quizzes and tests no one cared, even after several incidents were reported.

I even took two online classes my senior year. Each course was supposed to be a semester long, yet I got both of them done in less than a month. Sure, I was an honors/AP/gifted student, but a semester course shouldn't be that easy to complete in such a short amount of time. I took "Online Intro to Creative Writing," and none, NONE, of the writing assignments were required by my adviser. There was no context for the lessons; no discussions to solidify concepts.

Sure, my one experience is probably relatively isolated, but I have heard similar stories from other students in the state. Online learning, imho, isn't helping the problem, it's making it worse.

Ack! Sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

I'd have to agree with you. There's quite a few errors on the homepage too.

> "... is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google."

should probably say Chromium.

Kind of irrelevant, but just out of curiosity, but what are those little PCs and monitors? They look very interesting!

I self-hosted for a long time, knowing it breaks my ISP's ToS. just recently, I received a letter regarding the web server and an extremely throttled connection until I shut it down.