Clearly not. I gave you the professional definition directly from master class. You disagree with them too.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cgi
Any “computer generated image”.

You do disagree with the established definition, and you have every right to be wrong. I have every right to contradict you.

Because your argument is not professional, logical, technically correct, or rational, I’m not picking up on that.

You have no idea what my CGI experience might be. My brother was offered a job at Lucas Ranch (before ILM, before Pixar). I’ve been exposed to computer generated images and the terminology surrounding them since the 80s.

I’m also not trying to use the definition you and your close office mates might have decided is correct among yourselves, I’m using the definition you can find in any dictionary or classroom. You aren’t giving any definition nor any citations to back it up.

Edit: PS- again, what sales pitch?!

If you wants to plays this solo, here ams the Skwisgaar Skwigelf Advanced Fast Hand Finger Wizard Master Class Instructional Video!



You gots to practice that stuff.

And yet, 1-1 is a master class in designing an invisible tutorial.

*related=https://videosift.com/video/Design-Club-Super-Mario-Bros-Level-1-1-Game-Analysis

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I wasn't much of a DS9 fan but I love this episode for the audacity. They did a great job at editing this in. An editor's master class for sure.

Yeah, not an unfair comment. Don't know if she's deliberately restraining herself or just a bit unsure, but it still rocks.

I can understand picking Tool as a school project though, their music is so multi faceted and involved (not to mention the sheer number of instruments and effects used to create their sound), featuring some really wacky timings etc (Lateralus) that it probably constitutes a master class... =)

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Teaching not difficult or stressful? Teachers don't need to bring their "A" game?
When I call you clueless in the next sentence, please don't take it as 'anti-social sniping', take it as a simple statement of fact.
You are clueless on seemingly every facet of the topic of education. I've done much teaching in my life: public high school, college ensembles, private lessons, section coaching, master classes, summer camps and substitute teaching. Speaking from experience, some of those jobs are easy, but there is nothing easy about public K-12 teaching. If you don't bring your "A" game, you will be eaten alive by students, administrators and parents (in that order). Teaching is actually more difficult for bad teachers, which is why 50% of teachers quit within the first 5 years of their career. I don't imagine business intimidates that many MBAs away from the profession.
My dad was a business man as well as a teacher, so I won't dispute that running a business is also difficult.
Let's be honest, this 'good intellectual debate' is neither good nor intellectual, and it's hardly even a debate.


It's shit like this, DFT. (emphasis added below)

That aside, being an educator is a noble profession. Certainly like any job if you care you make it more difficult for yourself - if you don't then you make it easier. But being a salary employee isn't even in the same ballpark as owning and worrying about your own business. There's very little risk in clocking into a teaching job. And yes grading papers over a TV dinner is probably not fun, but stressful? Nay.

Seeing how you gave your own circumstantial evidence, I'd like to do that as well. My high school teachers were largely a joke. Ms. Williams was a rather large lady who taught my junior and senior year English. She started both years telling us how much she despised teaching grammar, so she didn't teach it. She promised we'd watch lots of videos though, and we did. Terrible waste of time.

It took Mr. Wright nearly a year to teach us the fundamentals of writing a check and balancing our checkbook. He spent ten minutes in class every day, then assigned us busy work while he left for the rest of the period to smoke in the teacher's lounge. True story.

Mr. Amos never taught us anything in our Marketing class. He was in the classroom maybe an eighth of the year, and we didn't do a single lesson plan except when there was a substitute teacher. Mr. Dismuke was quite brilliant as a Mathematician. But his oratory skills were as engaging as a 1960s robot, and most kids barely passed or failed his courses. Mr. Qualls was there to produce high school plays and nothing else. It was great for you if you were in one of his plays, but if you weren't you spent the period in a classroom by yourselves doing absolutely nothing. Mrs. Ruth always thought I was drawing hidden satanic messages in my art class, so she would take it upon herself to "censor" my art. That is she would paint or mark over it. Mr. Maynard told me once he didn't like me, and once he refused to hand a test out to me because he was sure I'd fail it anyways. He gave me a zero and I eventually failed his course. Mr. Davis let us sleep in his class. Mr. Williams used to let the underaged girls massage his shoulders during class. Etc. All true stories from my personal experience. And I could go on and on.

I can't remember a single teacher that brought their "A" game. Not one. And surprisingly not a single one of them was "eaten alive by students, administrators and parents (in that order)."

Teaching not difficult or stressful? Teachers don't need to bring their "A" game?

When I call you clueless in the next sentence, please don't take it as 'anti-social sniping', take it as a simple statement of fact.

You are clueless on seemingly every facet of the topic of education. I've done much teaching in my life: public high school, college ensembles, private lessons, section coaching, master classes, summer camps and substitute teaching. Speaking from experience, some of those jobs are easy, but there is nothing easy about public K-12 teaching. If you don't bring your "A" game, you will be eaten alive by students, administrators and parents (in that order). Teaching is actually more difficult for bad teachers, which is why 50% of teachers quit within the first 5 years of their career. I don't imagine business intimidates that many MBAs away from the profession.

My dad was a business man as well as a teacher, so I won't dispute that running a business is also difficult.

Let's be honest, this 'good intellectual debate' is neither good nor intellectual, and it's hardly even a debate.

>>> ^chilaxe:

@Ryjkyj "If it's any consolation, I also upvoted your original comment. "
Yes, I did notice

@dystopianfuturetoday
If the NYT is correct, a 14% reduction in salary suggests they're getting a good deal when you consider that they chose such an easy, low-stress job. People with similar education levels like MBAs tend to work 60-80 hour work weeks, don't get summers off, and their job is substantially harder, in which you'll be eaten alive if you're not constantly bringing your 'A game.'
An MBA can do a teacher's easy job, but a teacher can't do an MBA's difficult job, and that, combined with that everybody wants to be a teacher, makes a pay cut expected, even if the pay cut is larger than 14%.

DFT, good intellectual debates shouldn't bother us so much that our comments need to be filled with anti-social sniping

>> ^Trancecoach:

were the gum sales enough to pay for master classes?
if i was cynical, i'd say this smacked of government propaganda.


Even without knowing Korean you can tell the translation is clearly off in some spots just because the results don't make any sense. I can't help but wonder if "I took master classes if I had a chance" was actually "I would take master classes if I had a chance". It seems to fit better that way.

As for this being propaganda, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing South Korea would put out. Maybe North Korea.

He said he would like to take master classes. He obviously can't afford them.

Tearjerker all the way.

sort of like slumdog...

except, I don't understand how a kid gets into high school or learns how to sing while living on the street...
were the gum sales enough to pay for master classes?

if i was cynical, i'd say this smacked of government propaganda.

>> ^grinter:
Though it may exist, I'm not aware of any post-colonial nation founded by the previously enslaved or greatly oppressed that has grown economically powerful. Sure, there are examples where members of the 'master class' succeeded from an empire to found a new nation, but that is a very different situation.

Please share an example of the latter.

Colonialism would be an nonviable practice if it's central purpose was anything other than exploiting the natural wealth of colonized lands and the hard work of colonized people. That, however, doesn't mean that all colonized peoples start from the same place. To ignore history and to argue that many liberated African peoples are suffering today because of their own ineptitude is sheer ignorance.

Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, Canada, South Africa (before apartheid ended) are all ex-colonies and none can deny their success. I think colonialism certainly leaves an imprint, however it's up to the inheritors to use it to their advantage. In fact, South American natives inhabited Haiti prior to the arrival of any invaders and I'm certain they were quite well fed.

If you're trying to argue with me that Haitians are capable of feeding themselves, perhaps you need to view this video again.

Next time you're peeling a potato, look at the little crevices (the so called "eyes"). These are in fact potato seeds. It would be quite easy, wouldn't it, to plan some potato skin and reap a harvest?

As a matter of fact, I'm quite certain that a five pound sack of potatoes would be enough for you or I to start a little garden. Sure we'd need to roll the field and plow the ground, but after a few years, we might even have enough to feed a few families.

Why am I telling you this? Just to demonstrate how utterly hopeless these people are unless they get their hands dirty and PUT SOME SEEDS IN THE GROUND THEY ARE NOW EATING.

Though it may exist, I'm not aware of any post-colonial nation founded by the previously enslaved or greatly oppressed that has grown economically powerful. Sure, there are examples where members of the 'master class' succeeded from an empire to found a new nation, but that is a very different situation.

As far as tropical nations go, the Dominican Republic may be far better off than Haiti, but there, it was wealthy land owners that seized the country from the Spanish. In Haiti, inconsistent French policy on the position of slaves in the colonies enabled Haitian slaves to stage a successful revolt. The countries had very different starting points.

Colonialism would be an nonviable practice if it's central purpose was anything other than exploiting the natural wealth of colonized lands and the hard work of colonized people. That, however, doesn't mean that all colonized peoples start from the same place. To ignore history and to argue that many liberated African peoples are suffering today because of their own ineptitude is sheer ignorance.