***All Aboard the HMS Daily Chat- 10/2/10***

Bunnyinthelights

Pap hunny,
You BETTER be there Saturday sweetheart.
Please dont let anything stand in your way of what you want to do.
x

littlemisschocolate

Pooky - big hugs.

I've eaten one too many vegetables. Cx

Ames

ZTD wrote: »

TV "academia" is for the lowest common denominator alas. It's ladled on in bright primary colours to tell people how to think.

If you want the truth, or more accurately, the uncertainty - the internet is the place to go.

I agree with the first part, it's ok for getting people interested in subjects, but not much good when you already know the basics.

I prefer books to the internet though.

katsu

Evening all. Made it back south safe and sound

Now to eat and catchup

ZTD

Ames wrote: »

I agree with the first part, it's ok for getting people interested in subjects, but not much good when you already know the basics.

I prefer books to the internet though.

Books get out of date too quickly alas. Internet puts you on the bleeding edge. But both are better than TV.

Ames

Problem with the internet though is to get the real good stuff you have to pay subscriptions. And history research moves so slowly that books are good for two or three years at least. Journals are probably a happy compromise.

I said earlier (maybe yesterday) that my economics course is terrible because it doesn't seem to have been updated since 2003, so all of the statistics are hopelessly out of date, with reference to internet sales being tiny for instance. Now, that's a subject that moves so quickly books are obsolete by the time they're published.

Bunnyinthelights

Hi ya Katsu!

How was Scotland?

katsu

Bunnyinthelights wrote: »

Gemz,
Thanks hun but this is Cambridge not my beloved CSO job *sigh*

This is my back up job til my CSO job starts and my current job ends (been made redundant again)

Bunny,

I've been assuming community support officer as in pcso. Is that right or something else?

ZTD

Ames wrote: »

Problem with the internet though is to get the real good stuff you have to pay subscriptions. And history research moves so slowly that books are good for two or three years at least. Journals are probably a happy compromise.

I said earlier (maybe yesterday) that my economics course is terrible because it doesn't seem to have been updated since 2003, so all of the statistics are hopelessly out of date, with reference to internet sales being tiny for instance. Now, that's a subject that moves so quickly books are obsolete by the time they're published.

Statistics certainly need to be up to date, but economic's main problem is that it is beset by fads all the time which tend to bury the past.

Derivatives are hailed as being all new, but the first futures were traded during the Greek Empire (i.e. before the Roman Empire rose to ascendency) - which is quite a while ago...

Bunnyinthelights

No, thats correct Katsu-apparently, I 'have' the job but am waiting for a position...on waiting list and have been there for best part of a year. Grrrrrr