What I CAN do is do one task then jump to another task while I wait for review/inputs for task 1, and so on, and fit trips to slashdot and reading email and websurfing in the gaps too.
All done one at a time, with my full attention on that task at that time.
While I am completely against this as a bad precedent for internet freedom, I am also completely in favor of sending Zuckerberg to Pakistan for possible beheading.
Hmmm... bad precedent, beheading... this ones tough to call.
What's a paperback cost these days - about 8 bucks. Buy me 32 of these and I've spent my $250. This thing holds 1500 ebooks, before you add any memory expansion? I'm putting this in my shopping queue.
We use gps for work (doing archeological survey), but I also take full advantage of my Boy Scout/Marine Corps training in orienteering. My cow-orkers have no idea what orienteering is or how I can just blithely walk off into the field without having to keep going to the gps to determine where we were. They literally don't get the concepts.
"Actually, you're absolutely right. I need to look at this entire thing as a challenge instead of grunt work. I need to kick the tire and light the fires, man.
If they want me to recite stuff, I'll not only recite it for them, but follow it up with the logic behind the answer."
Well, taking it as a challenge is a good idea, but I really do mean to say that if you already know the material, seriously, ask if you can test out of the class at the beginning of the semester/quarter/whatever.
If not, maybe you can show him what you know and ask if you can do harder stuff for the same grade, if what you want is a deeper understanding of the class topic.
You're doing this all wrong, though. All anybody else sees is a C-grade slacker, no matter how much skills you have. Instead of whinging about grunt work, challenge your prof - can you test out of the grunt labor by showing him you have the knowledge RIGHT AWAY?
Show THEM you know it, don't waste your time and ours complaining here where it won't help you.
Whatever, paranoia boy. The installation isn't new, its just a new building. Sweat NSA snooping all you want, but Google interest in Asia isn't the reason they're building in Kunia -- I'd look at the king of the pork-barrel, Senator Daniel Inouye. _I_ like him, of course, since he's spending your money in my state.
In Bizarro Cable Company World,
UNlimited is to Limited as INFlammable is to Flammable
To the cable company there's no difference in the meanings of each pair.
As Inigo Montoya put it, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I think we get enough of New York Country Lawyer's imbecilic legal theories as is. There's no need for him to be squeezing in "precedent from postings on defaced website" between "innocence by reason of single motherhood" and "innocence by reason of cerebral palsy".
Why the hate there, Otter? You an RIAA member or stockholder, or just a grumpy old sod?
You've run the two sentences together to arrive at the wrong conclusion.
The first was pointing out production type programs (including Photoshop) that haven't been ported to linux that I run at home. That was the thread I was posting about, the assertion that people didn't use expensive programs like Photoshop at home.
The second was my assertion that in general Mac and Linux don't do the things I want to do. The unstated caveat would be something like '...unless I want to spend a big chunk of dosh I haven't got and learn new software or relearn how to run it on a new mac/linux box.'
Just adding my own data points to counter the GP's assertions.
The internet wasn't created to distribute information, dammit! Hey, this is Slashdot, most posters got their sex education from the internet, at the very least...
Maybe all those people I know who use Photoshop at home, or Rhinoceros, or any other program that decades of Unix and Linux coders haven't managed to equal.
For what I want (for my own amusement, not work related) to run, Mac doesn't work, and Linux isn't even a factor.
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What I CAN do is do one task then jump to another task while I wait for review/inputs for task 1, and so on, and fit trips to slashdot and reading email and websurfing in the gaps too. All done one at a time, with my full attention on that task at that time.
I recommended people mark their packages with something like "Danger- Live Fish"...
While I am completely against this as a bad precedent for internet freedom, I am also completely in favor of sending Zuckerberg to Pakistan for possible beheading. Hmmm... bad precedent, beheading... this ones tough to call.
What's a paperback cost these days - about 8 bucks. Buy me 32 of these and I've spent my $250. This thing holds 1500 ebooks, before you add any memory expansion? I'm putting this in my shopping queue.
We use gps for work (doing archeological survey), but I also take full advantage of my Boy Scout/Marine Corps training in orienteering. My cow-orkers have no idea what orienteering is or how I can just blithely walk off into the field without having to keep going to the gps to determine where we were. They literally don't get the concepts.
Here's a citation: http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/676/DLNR-Reopens-Polihale-Volunteer-energy-helps-State-get-the-job-done.aspx/ It was not bridge repair though, it was road and water system repair at a remote and isolated park beyond the end of the paved highway. Nice park, people drown there every year, nearly got me once...
Given the existence of a usb port, what is stopping students from sharing single textbooks?
"Actually, you're absolutely right. I need to look at this entire thing as a challenge instead of grunt work. I need to kick the tire and light the fires, man. If they want me to recite stuff, I'll not only recite it for them, but follow it up with the logic behind the answer." Well, taking it as a challenge is a good idea, but I really do mean to say that if you already know the material, seriously, ask if you can test out of the class at the beginning of the semester/quarter/whatever. If not, maybe you can show him what you know and ask if you can do harder stuff for the same grade, if what you want is a deeper understanding of the class topic.
You're doing this all wrong, though. All anybody else sees is a C-grade slacker, no matter how much skills you have. Instead of whinging about grunt work, challenge your prof - can you test out of the grunt labor by showing him you have the knowledge RIGHT AWAY? Show THEM you know it, don't waste your time and ours complaining here where it won't help you.
Get a boat, and flee the grid.
Whatever, paranoia boy. The installation isn't new, its just a new building. Sweat NSA snooping all you want, but Google interest in Asia isn't the reason they're building in Kunia -- I'd look at the king of the pork-barrel, Senator Daniel Inouye. _I_ like him, of course, since he's spending your money in my state.
In Bizarro Cable Company World, UNlimited is to Limited as INFlammable is to Flammable To the cable company there's no difference in the meanings of each pair. As Inigo Montoya put it, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I think we get enough of New York Country Lawyer's imbecilic legal theories as is. There's no need for him to be squeezing in "precedent from postings on defaced website" between "innocence by reason of single motherhood" and "innocence by reason of cerebral palsy". Why the hate there, Otter? You an RIAA member or stockholder, or just a grumpy old sod?
Just stick your license to the fridge with a honkin' great magnet for a while, and you'll have no problem...
GPS data, of course, backed up with sextants. We're nerds here, after all.
You've run the two sentences together to arrive at the wrong conclusion. The first was pointing out production type programs (including Photoshop) that haven't been ported to linux that I run at home. That was the thread I was posting about, the assertion that people didn't use expensive programs like Photoshop at home. The second was my assertion that in general Mac and Linux don't do the things I want to do. The unstated caveat would be something like '...unless I want to spend a big chunk of dosh I haven't got and learn new software or relearn how to run it on a new mac/linux box.' Just adding my own data points to counter the GP's assertions.
Maybe all those people I know who use Photoshop at home, or Rhinoceros, or any other program that decades of Unix and Linux coders haven't managed to equal. For what I want (for my own amusement, not work related) to run, Mac doesn't work, and Linux isn't even a factor.