I do wonder: if one of those fell to the ground, what would happen?
With the recent stories of space junk falling to earth, could we someday be troubled by power stations falling on us?
NO todos los gringos estan locos, aunque muchos si. Es mas o menos el mismo porcentaje que los mexicanos. Sin "gringos" no hubiera slashdot, y muchos sitios que nos mantienen tan entretenidos e informados en todas partes del mundo. Me disculpo otra vez por mi error de usar "american" mal, e insisto que fue por la hueva de no poner unas letritas mas. Y claro, sin mexicanos no hubiera tacos, y haber como se llamaria el jefe de aqui XD CmdrHotdog?
Amen to that! When I was in middle school in mexico, my favorite chemistry teacher had us make caramel apple to teach us chemistry. We all agree education is dull, but we think to "go with the flow and hope it sinks in eventually, if not, copy it off someone nerdier than you." I say, put up with it as far as you can, grow up, and prevent it from happening to future generations.
I didn't claim mexican people are well educated. I said the opposite. I meant that we're so uneducated, we care to make it better. A bit of advice: every time I see stupidity on the first couple of sentences of a post, I stop reading it and ignore it ^^ (the fact that I read your post means: I respect your opinion and don't think disagreeing with me is equal to stupidity). Ojos de güey, güey ven.
Disculpa, por simplificar las cosas, use "american". Pense en "North American" pero me acorde de los canadienses. Americanos somos todos los nacidos en este continente, lo se, pero por ahorrar palabras lo simplifique. Esperemos que no haya mas confusion, y a la otra no lo vuelvo a hacer, por el bien de los americanos. ^^ (Me acabo de acordar de la cancion de los jaivas, "Todos Americanos" se la recomiendo al que tenga duda en que es un americano)
The students who move from mexico to the US are often the poorest, and that normally translates as the least educated.
I remember those teachers, hitting with rulers, and throwing erasers... ah, good ol' rural mexican education! Getting less common nowadays, with the new government.
I do have my mexican pride, but it's more about food than anything else. Otherwise, If I weren't mexican, I'd like to have been born in Russia, sounds like a fun place where to live.
Yes, I must admit it was a cheap device to prevent getting a reputation as a Mexican Nazi Supremacist.
If you really want to know, (if you don't, quit reading now) most my friends aren't mexican. I spend most my social time around hondurans, spaniards, americans and indians (from india).
Thanks for the help.
I was too lazy to capitalize correctly, and I still retain my mexican grammar sometimes, although I use english punctuation when typing in spanish (english punctuation is so much easier).
The mexican school system does have a long way to go, that's why there's so much concern about it!
Thank heavens today's school kids are being trained to properly write.
I was about 9 years.
Sorry for the mistake, I meant to say: there's no federal standard for education, and instead each county makes their own standards. In california, the standards were lower than in colorado. And even lower in new mexico.
I live and studied in Mexico some time and some in the US. The differences are:
In US there's no government agency that takes care of education. In Mexico, we have the Bureau of Public Education, which handles textbooks, adult education, and every aspect of making the people better informed.
We Mexicans are more open to accept that we know nothing- Most of us come from a time when we had so little, that up to this date, there are people who never got past Elementary school. Thus, as adults, we worry about our children, and that the same doesn't happen to them.
I've been around americans, and some of my best friends are americans, to know that american people (most, at least the ones I met) trust their schools systems more than we mexicans do. Back in my days (about 15 years ago) my mother got to help build the school where I studied, which is 5 blocks away from my current location. About 6 months ago, my brother, an electrician, got hired by the same school to install those high tech boards the article talks about. In general, Mexican people mind more their children's education, trying not to repeat history.
Science is a big thing- I keep hearing the creation vs. evolution in the US. There's no such thing in Mexico. In fact, in the textbooks there were 6 theories of how life could have come to exist, and students were encouraged to seek their own answers. That way, even the most naive pretty girl once came to me, the library worm, to recommend a good book on the Paleozoic period, and sat reading it for HOURS. We were forced to learn through curiosity.
Teachers in mexico are TEACHERS- Mexican teachers are hard working individuals who sometimes don't make a living teaching. In a small town in chihuahua where I lived, some alternated between farming and teaching, and one of my best teachers made a living selling wood. Those people knew their stuff and knew that learning was important, to prevent (redundancy alert) repeating a history in which we have to work hard to make a living.
(Joke entry starts here) Mexico is a country of former slaves. Our ancestors didn't go through the trouble of shedding their blood for our independance from slave labor so that we would end up in sweatshops!
I apologize for the long post (and bad grammar/spelling, I'm to lazy to edit XD); and hope not to make any stereotypes of any people, nor insult anybody. I am aware that people everywhere are the same (and I've been around plenty of different people to know that). Oh, and I don't mean to say that the american school system is bad, it's only that the Mexican school system is designed to get us all out of ignorance, while the american school system is only meant to teach.
PS. The time shall come soon when EVERY country will have to either sink or swim , and pretty soon, maybe not in our life time, we will have to start seeing each other as equals through technology, knowledge, etc. I don't know about other countries enough to know what their progress is (but most so called 3rd world countries are stepping out, even faster than mexico), but I do know about Mexico, because I am in Mexico. And I know that someday technology shall unite us all. (Corruscant, anyone?)
Peace.
Give him a break, he's a cowboy, maybe he's thinking of duels and revenge (a.k.a. payback).
Don't we all wanna unload some payback on them evil companies?
Actually, this article proves that a few thousand years ago (and maybe even now) dinosaurs were burrowing themselves so deep that it looks like they lived millions of years ago. You should now speak for god name in vain unless you do your "research", have received "holy enlightment" or been huffing kittens.
My dream machine would be one that can do simple tasks (check email, check news, etc.) on single button commands (or voice) in order to save my wrist energy for more important stuff.
Energy friendly is a big deal for me, I hate paying high electricity bills.
When it comes to specs, the only thing I care about is huge storage capacity, and fast enough for media, songs, and downloads.
And no useless, RAM crippling tasks, or "antipiracy" malaware. I'm already having trouble with those, since I reinstall windows so often.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope it becomes a meme... in Space!
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission, they say.
I do wonder: if one of those fell to the ground, what would happen? With the recent stories of space junk falling to earth, could we someday be troubled by power stations falling on us?
And soviet Russia is getting closer!
Neither is any other MS OS! They should have stuck to development MS DOS.
NO todos los gringos estan locos, aunque muchos si. Es mas o menos el mismo porcentaje que los mexicanos. Sin "gringos" no hubiera slashdot, y muchos sitios que nos mantienen tan entretenidos e informados en todas partes del mundo. Me disculpo otra vez por mi error de usar "american" mal, e insisto que fue por la hueva de no poner unas letritas mas. Y claro, sin mexicanos no hubiera tacos, y haber como se llamaria el jefe de aqui XD CmdrHotdog?
Because it's cheaper to buy a high caliber gun and take the plane to Mexico City than to buy some of those overpriced consoles.
Those spice smuggling hutts threaten our freedom... The empire needs to get their act together and give 'em hell!
Amen to that! When I was in middle school in mexico, my favorite chemistry teacher had us make caramel apple to teach us chemistry. We all agree education is dull, but we think to "go with the flow and hope it sinks in eventually, if not, copy it off someone nerdier than you." I say, put up with it as far as you can, grow up, and prevent it from happening to future generations.
I didn't claim mexican people are well educated. I said the opposite. I meant that we're so uneducated, we care to make it better. A bit of advice: every time I see stupidity on the first couple of sentences of a post, I stop reading it and ignore it ^^ (the fact that I read your post means: I respect your opinion and don't think disagreeing with me is equal to stupidity). Ojos de güey, güey ven.
Disculpa, por simplificar las cosas, use "american". Pense en "North American" pero me acorde de los canadienses. Americanos somos todos los nacidos en este continente, lo se, pero por ahorrar palabras lo simplifique. Esperemos que no haya mas confusion, y a la otra no lo vuelvo a hacer, por el bien de los americanos. ^^ (Me acabo de acordar de la cancion de los jaivas, "Todos Americanos" se la recomiendo al que tenga duda en que es un americano)
The students who move from mexico to the US are often the poorest, and that normally translates as the least educated. I remember those teachers, hitting with rulers, and throwing erasers... ah, good ol' rural mexican education! Getting less common nowadays, with the new government. I do have my mexican pride, but it's more about food than anything else. Otherwise, If I weren't mexican, I'd like to have been born in Russia, sounds like a fun place where to live.
Yes, I must admit it was a cheap device to prevent getting a reputation as a Mexican Nazi Supremacist. If you really want to know, (if you don't, quit reading now) most my friends aren't mexican. I spend most my social time around hondurans, spaniards, americans and indians (from india).
Thanks for the help. I was too lazy to capitalize correctly, and I still retain my mexican grammar sometimes, although I use english punctuation when typing in spanish (english punctuation is so much easier). The mexican school system does have a long way to go, that's why there's so much concern about it! Thank heavens today's school kids are being trained to properly write.
I was about 9 years. Sorry for the mistake, I meant to say: there's no federal standard for education, and instead each county makes their own standards. In california, the standards were lower than in colorado. And even lower in new mexico.
I live and studied in Mexico some time and some in the US. The differences are: In US there's no government agency that takes care of education. In Mexico, we have the Bureau of Public Education, which handles textbooks, adult education, and every aspect of making the people better informed. We Mexicans are more open to accept that we know nothing- Most of us come from a time when we had so little, that up to this date, there are people who never got past Elementary school. Thus, as adults, we worry about our children, and that the same doesn't happen to them. I've been around americans, and some of my best friends are americans, to know that american people (most, at least the ones I met) trust their schools systems more than we mexicans do. Back in my days (about 15 years ago) my mother got to help build the school where I studied, which is 5 blocks away from my current location. About 6 months ago, my brother, an electrician, got hired by the same school to install those high tech boards the article talks about. In general, Mexican people mind more their children's education, trying not to repeat history. Science is a big thing- I keep hearing the creation vs. evolution in the US. There's no such thing in Mexico. In fact, in the textbooks there were 6 theories of how life could have come to exist, and students were encouraged to seek their own answers. That way, even the most naive pretty girl once came to me, the library worm, to recommend a good book on the Paleozoic period, and sat reading it for HOURS. We were forced to learn through curiosity. Teachers in mexico are TEACHERS- Mexican teachers are hard working individuals who sometimes don't make a living teaching. In a small town in chihuahua where I lived, some alternated between farming and teaching, and one of my best teachers made a living selling wood. Those people knew their stuff and knew that learning was important, to prevent (redundancy alert) repeating a history in which we have to work hard to make a living. (Joke entry starts here) Mexico is a country of former slaves. Our ancestors didn't go through the trouble of shedding their blood for our independance from slave labor so that we would end up in sweatshops! I apologize for the long post (and bad grammar/spelling, I'm to lazy to edit XD); and hope not to make any stereotypes of any people, nor insult anybody. I am aware that people everywhere are the same (and I've been around plenty of different people to know that). Oh, and I don't mean to say that the american school system is bad, it's only that the Mexican school system is designed to get us all out of ignorance, while the american school system is only meant to teach. PS. The time shall come soon when EVERY country will have to either sink or swim , and pretty soon, maybe not in our life time, we will have to start seeing each other as equals through technology, knowledge, etc. I don't know about other countries enough to know what their progress is (but most so called 3rd world countries are stepping out, even faster than mexico), but I do know about Mexico, because I am in Mexico. And I know that someday technology shall unite us all. (Corruscant, anyone?) Peace.
Give him a break, he's a cowboy, maybe he's thinking of duels and revenge (a.k.a. payback). Don't we all wanna unload some payback on them evil companies?
Actually, this article proves that a few thousand years ago (and maybe even now) dinosaurs were burrowing themselves so deep that it looks like they lived millions of years ago. You should now speak for god name in vain unless you do your "research", have received "holy enlightment" or been huffing kittens.
My dream machine would be one that can do simple tasks (check email, check news, etc.) on single button commands (or voice) in order to save my wrist energy for more important stuff. Energy friendly is a big deal for me, I hate paying high electricity bills. When it comes to specs, the only thing I care about is huge storage capacity, and fast enough for media, songs, and downloads. And no useless, RAM crippling tasks, or "antipiracy" malaware. I'm already having trouble with those, since I reinstall windows so often.