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How long can nerds talk computer art until Chuck Close gets mentioned?

He's not wedded to the computer but his work constantly explores how images are composed of smaller units (we'd call them pixels)

http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/8th_05/web_05b/Thomas/artwork_images_139_203464_chuck-close.jpg

Ha, my highschool requires us to pay $80 a year to "rent" a laptop that you are required to carry with you at all times at school (and then lug it home for homework). It is a Dell Latitude laptop, and has a very tight group security policy. (And no, it doen't run on linux...) As a matter of fact, our entire county has recently made this change. Oh, and yes, this is a public school.


p.s. i did rtfa, and i do realize this is talking about a university, not a highschool, but i thought i would throw that out there.

Ha, my highschool requires us to pay $80 a year to "rent" a laptop that you are required to carry with you at all times at school (and then lug it home for homework). It is a Dell Latitude laptop, and has a very tight group security policy. (And no, it doen't run on linux...) As a matter of fact, our entire county has recently made this change. Oh, and yes, this is a public school.


p.s. i did rtfa, and i do realize this is talking about a university, not a highschool, but i thought i would throw that out there.

My high school assigns dell latitudes to their students to take home, and we have to get all of our info from blackboard (please /. effect it!!! I need an excuse for not doing my homework)... I bet not a single one of you had to put up with this in high school!

My high school assigns dell latitudes to their students to take home, and we have to get all of our info from blackboard (please /. effect it!!! I need an excuse for not doing my homework)... I bet not a single one of you had to put up with this in high school!

That is completely wrong, my school district, Roanoke County Public Schools, Roanoke, Virginia has been assigning laptops to all of their 5000+ high school students for several years now, using them at home + at school, transitioning to the point of a zero-textbook policy. My school was actually the first [in our school system at least] to implement this policy. The computers are Dell Latitudes, and are commonly broken. Roanoke County hopes to soon implement the same policy in all secondary schools.

P.S. if you thought it was hard to stay out of trouble before, try getting an hour of detention for playing solitaire during lunch. (or 3 hours for shutting down other students computers with the tsshutdn function of terminal services within command prompt and then telling everyone you know how to do it...) Oh yeah, and are schools are also 100% wireless using proffesional linksys access points.

That is completely wrong, my school district, Roanoke County Public Schools, Roanoke, Virginia has been assigning laptops to all of their 5000+ high school students for several years now, using them at home + at school, transitioning to the point of a zero-textbook policy. My school was actually the first [in our school system at least] to implement this policy. The computers are Dell Latitudes, and are commonly broken. Roanoke County hopes to soon implement the same policy in all secondary schools.

P.S. if you thought it was hard to stay out of trouble before, try getting an hour of detention for playing solitaire during lunch. (or 3 hours for shutting down other students computers with the tsshutdn function of terminal services within command prompt and then telling everyone you know how to do it...) Oh yeah, and are schools are also 100% wireless using proffesional linksys access points.

That is completely wrong, my school district, Roanoke County Public Schools, Roanoke, Virginia has been assigning laptops to all of their 5000+ high school students for several years now, using them at home + at school, transitioning to the point of a zero-textbook policy. My school was actually the first [in our school system at least] to implement this policy. The computers are Dell Latitudes, and are commonly broken. Roanoke County hopes to soon implement the same policy in all secondary schools.

P.S. if you thought it was hard to stay out of trouble before, try getting an hour of detention for playing solitaire during lunch. (or 3 hours for shutting down other students computers with the tsshutdn function of terminal services within command prompt and then telling everyone you know how to do it...) Oh yeah, and are schools are also 100% wireless using proffesional linksys access points.

You uneducated dolts can then use that mouse to click here.