If this school had a problem with kids kissing, would they wire their jaws shut?
Rather than implement a costly and complicated technological solution, what this school needs to do is implement some good old-fashioned discipline. If a teacher catches a kid misusing a cell phone, just give the kid a day of detention. That'll get old pretty quickly.
We should be teaching children that obnoxious social behavior has consequences and giving them a chance to learn why such rules exist. The "blocking" solution will just enrage them.
Related: how many of you work at companies who block certain web sites and personal email accounts? And how does that make you feel about your employer?
I would love to know what kind of site it is that's getting "slammed by people from all over the world" but which "couldn't possibly be of interest" to anyone but the residents of Jerkwater, USA. Because -- clearly -- these users think that it is of interest to them.
You certainly have a problem, but I'm not sure it's the one you think it is. Sounds like you should expand the scope of your site, gain a billion world-wide users, and stop turning potential users away.
Forget a tool for computers. We need a tool like this for physical crime scenes. You know: something that would, like, scan crime scenes and find, like, relevant DNA evidence and shit. It could even have an option where it would print out an arrest warrant with the name of the murderer on it.
Which leads to one simple question: With all these politically free, feature-rich alternatives available for the download, why would anyone choose to work with Google Apps?
Because it's online. I work with people across the country and across the world. For many of these people, attaching a document to an email is asking a lot. Not to mention the version control headaches (documentA.doc, documentA2.doc, etc) that inevitably arise in document-sharing situations. Google Docs stops this kind of suffering. I've used it with technologically illiterate people to great effect.
In a quantitative comparison of features, yeah, OO has more. Clearly. *cough*. I don't think that was ever a question. If you're a power user, or you're trying to write complex documentation or something, then yeah, you probably need OO. But for sharing simple docs across geographically dispersed people, Google Docs wins hands down.
The question isn't proprietary vs FOSS vs web-based vs desktop. It's "what do you want to use it for". A Blackberry isn't a replacement for a laptop, but if all you want is mobile email, it's probably fine.
If you want to remain competitive, offer something better than the competition. You can't compete by blocking users from seeing what else is out there.
I second the community college idea and add one small note: take them for undergrad, or even no credit. It will be cheaper, and you won't be as stressed out over not doing well on tests or homework, because your grade won't be going on any sort of "permanent record". Instead, you can just focus on learning the material.
I'm in much the same situation as you, currently slogging my way through a discrete math course. I studied a large portion of the material over the summer by myself, and I can tell you that being able to ask somebody a question can save you hours of head-scratching. It has also been nice to discover that not everybody who takes a math class is a mathematical genius. In fact, most of them are not:-)
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If this school had a problem with kids kissing, would they wire their jaws shut?
Rather than implement a costly and complicated technological solution, what this school needs to do is implement some good old-fashioned discipline. If a teacher catches a kid misusing a cell phone, just give the kid a day of detention. That'll get old pretty quickly.
We should be teaching children that obnoxious social behavior has consequences and giving them a chance to learn why such rules exist. The "blocking" solution will just enrage them.
Related: how many of you work at companies who block certain web sites and personal email accounts? And how does that make you feel about your employer?
I would love to know what kind of site it is that's getting "slammed by people from all over the world" but which "couldn't possibly be of interest" to anyone but the residents of Jerkwater, USA. Because -- clearly -- these users think that it is of interest to them.
You certainly have a problem, but I'm not sure it's the one you think it is. Sounds like you should expand the scope of your site, gain a billion world-wide users, and stop turning potential users away.
Forget a tool for computers. We need a tool like this for physical crime scenes. You know: something that would, like, scan crime scenes and find, like, relevant DNA evidence and shit. It could even have an option where it would print out an arrest warrant with the name of the murderer on it.
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Because it's online. I work with people across the country and across the world. For many of these people, attaching a document to an email is asking a lot. Not to mention the version control headaches (documentA.doc, documentA2.doc, etc) that inevitably arise in document-sharing situations. Google Docs stops this kind of suffering. I've used it with technologically illiterate people to great effect.
In a quantitative comparison of features, yeah, OO has more. Clearly. *cough*. I don't think that was ever a question. If you're a power user, or you're trying to write complex documentation or something, then yeah, you probably need OO. But for sharing simple docs across geographically dispersed people, Google Docs wins hands down.
The question isn't proprietary vs FOSS vs web-based vs desktop. It's "what do you want to use it for". A Blackberry isn't a replacement for a laptop, but if all you want is mobile email, it's probably fine.
If you want to remain competitive, offer something better than the competition. You can't compete by blocking users from seeing what else is out there.
Read too quickly and thought it said NASA was announcing a new space panther.
That would be sweet. I would totally read about that.
I second the community college idea and add one small note: take them for undergrad, or even no credit. It will be cheaper, and you won't be as stressed out over not doing well on tests or homework, because your grade won't be going on any sort of "permanent record". Instead, you can just focus on learning the material.
I'm in much the same situation as you, currently slogging my way through a discrete math course. I studied a large portion of the material over the summer by myself, and I can tell you that being able to ask somebody a question can save you hours of head-scratching. It has also been nice to discover that not everybody who takes a math class is a mathematical genius. In fact, most of them are not :-)
Good luck!