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To to bad. Sorry that we woke up up from your video enhanced, political drug induced stupor.

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I find myself running more and more into young people who..how can I say this...are afraid of failing at what they do. So instead of experimenting or attempting something new and creative, they will only attempt that which they have complete instructions for. That is they screw up...the sky will fall...the world will come to and end....and their parents will disown them.

It's kind of scary and disheartening at the same time.

There was a computer science professor that I knew at the Univ. I work at that had the same misgivings about the students that he taught. That the students lacked any desire to risk getting into trouble by trying something different.

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This is true. However DeForest did not have a clue what was going on with his Audion tube initially. in fact it took him a number of tries to get the control grid in the correct place. he even believed, for a time, that gas in the tube made it work better. Which of course we know was totally wrong.

Which all goes to show that PhD really can mean 'Piled Higher and Deeper" sometimes.

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Much more interesting and fun than just spewing back what I was told. And it stuck better as well.

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But my experience in learning was quite the opposite. I learned best when the subject was explained, I tried it out myself, failed then had the reason why I failed explained to me.

But then this would require someone who had the time, experience and patience to help. Nearly all of which is missing from todays education system.

Especially in higher education where you sit in a hall with 150 other people. All the while attempting to understand some small figure at a podium gesticulating wildly.

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That's why the economic situation in Florida is in the toilet. Real estate hucksters swindling people with swamp land on a sand bar. And most of it is still way over priced.

High tech left Florida ages ago, like everyone here was Typhoid Mary. The schools are the worst and the transportation not much better. And nearly all the agriculture has been turned into cheesy housing developments on zero lot lined, red ant infested lots.

The only people who can afford to retire here are the ones who are independently wealthy.

Like the man said. "It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I know...I live there."

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Well I was to find out, much to my dismay, that the decisions were NOT being made by the engineers.
The engineers were being TOLD to design the TVs, radios, stereos and what not by bean counters to maximize profits. Period. That corporate did not give a wet slap about longevity or serviceability.
Just dazzle the public with bright colored lights and shiny buttons.

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