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You can also file this under;
"Why your child will come back to live with you after they graduate from college."
"Why the Chinese will inevitably dominate over the US."
"Why social security and medicare will go unfunded as nobody is producing anything of real worth in this country."
"Why you are unemployed or flipping burgers with your bachelors degree in music."
You've got to admit that is a catchy tune though. I have it flowing through my head right now.
ReplyDeleteI can't even begin to form a response to this other than going to a dark corner and crying.
ReplyDeleteOr I could just have a drink. That sounds better.
I am going to have to agree and disagree with you on this one Cappy.
ReplyDeleteI agree, totally stupid and useless waste of resources. Absolutely no redeeming product produced.
On the other hand, there is a lot of items to be learned from the effort.
Programming skills
Working with a limited amount of resources.
Project management
Teamwork skills (sorely lacking in today's youth, I might add)
The outcome may be stupid and useless, but the skills learned may actually be useful in the long run. Reminds me of the electrical engineering design class exercise we undertook to design a solar powered flashlight (no storage batteries). Sure, useless product but we had to perform the design effort of selecting the solar cells, determining the amount current needed, size the bulb etc...
Taught me that design takes a lot of time with a pencil, paper, and calculator.
This effort could actually be a really good learning experience, and it is quite possible that some of these students will take the lessons learned and become better programmers or project managers as a result.
speaking of catchy tunes, I watched the movie 'Father Goose' on the Captain's recommendation
ReplyDeletenow I can't get that d@mn tune out of me head! Thanks, C'p'n
I have to agree with CBMTTek, the people who wrote that app will be fine in life. That's about all I'm going to say about the situation though.
ReplyDeleteThe type of lateral thinking required to turn a PDA into a musical instrument using its varied input functions is exactly the sort of thing that has traditionally been a strong point of the US and I think it will serve us well in the future.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think this is such a bad thing. The song they're playing could barely be called that, but synthetic instruments aren't anything new. The theremin is something like 80 years old.
I like this much better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrpGjFit1k