My Linear Algebra prof this year was a young woman teaching a class of 120 first year engineering students (97% male, no exaggeration). She walked into class on the first day, and said:
"There are a few rules in my classes.
No talking amongst yourselves. It's distracting and disrupts the whole class.
No laptops open unless you come to me after class and prove that you can take math notes on a laptop.
If you're messing around, don't think I don't know who you are. I've got a sheet up here with all your names, photos, and student ID's. Don't piss me off."
She taught the class well, and managed to keep my attention, so I didn't feel the need to be killing time online.
There are plenty of ways to get a well-rounded experience without going to a liberal arts school. Pick up a non-technical hobby, join a campus club, play a sport. Admittedly, it can be easy to get caught up in academic and geeky projects at a technical school, but if you put in the effort, you can come out with impressive technical skills and a well-rounded education.
They may not be as visible as before, but they remain the most profitable information technology corporation, and have more than 355,000 employees. Please, get your analogies straight and don't compare IBM to Word Perfect.
Disclaimer: I do currently work for IBM, but these are my personal opinions.
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Hey, it's one of those good botnets we just heard about!
Heck, I do it for free.
Yeah, just let the ISP's bring your site to its knees instead of the botnets.
Since I don't actually want to click the link, what's actually on this slashblog.notlong.com that keeps getting troll-linked?
They are the closest thing to a command line for the web.
Yubnub is a command line for the web. It rocks.
Fedora vs. Ubuntu
"There are a few rules in my classes.
She taught the class well, and managed to keep my attention, so I didn't feel the need to be killing time online.
No, mate, it's the vegemite.
Check out the comparison on the next page. The Thinkpad got almost 3 times the battery life of the Dell, coming in at close to 4 hours.
I give it about 2 months until they come up with a gameshow using the new technology.
It must be the year of the Linux Desktop!
There are plenty of ways to get a well-rounded experience without going to a liberal arts school. Pick up a non-technical hobby, join a campus club, play a sport. Admittedly, it can be easy to get caught up in academic and geeky projects at a technical school, but if you put in the effort, you can come out with impressive technical skills and a well-rounded education.
Great news for bloggers who don't mind having Microsoft's 'evil' plans hanging over their heads.
Where is IBM?
They may not be as visible as before, but they remain the most profitable information technology corporation, and have more than 355,000 employees. Please, get your analogies straight and don't compare IBM to Word Perfect.
Disclaimer: I do currently work for IBM, but these are my personal opinions.