From a learning standpoint: Can you formulate a coherent thesis? Can you support that thesis with evidence from the text? Does your argument make sense within the frame work of the text? (Does it fit in with the period the book was written in/the philosophy/school of the text/etc.?) If given any random text, can you deconstruct it on the basis of theme/characterization/setting/tone/mood/diction/symbolism/structure/plot/etc? Can you explain how a technique is used to explore/support the theme of a book? Can you deconstruct a text? English is really all about learning to parse text correctly and communicate effectively.
From a grading point of view: Is the teacher marking down for grammar? Faulty arguments? Is their an objective grading rubric? A bad teacher marks down any argument he or she doesn't like, even it it is valid and well supported. A good teacher points out the flaws in badly constructed arguments, even ones that argue a point the teacher likes.
Somebody decided not to run new wiring in the college library and instead put all the computers on wireless, and don't know if it's the implementation or something but the computers are beyond slow (about dial up speeds in some cases). So now nobody ever wants to use the computers in the library for web browsing, making them kind of useless for web research and kinda defeating the purpose of shiny new computers to ease the burden of the other big computer lab.
I think a shirt like that would be awesome in an ironic-kitschy sort of way. Plus, with the amount of male eye candy in the new movie it could totally catch fire with run of the mill fan girls. (I don't even like trek all that much and I want to see the new flick.)
What it does is break the free market and hand a monopoly for a limited time to the creator so that they may profit from their works without competition reducing the profitability of their work and by this method enable them to persue an artist as a career.
Uh isn't the competition all the other works on the market by other creators? Any book published this year inherently competes with everything in the book store, including public domain stuff without any copyrights.
I never said I was calculating for one person. I was just looking at the time spent, and for that the math is fine. I'm making the giant assumption that the didn't send texts at the exact same time. But fine, new math:
for approximately one text every 20 seconds-which is a really small amount of time even for a one word text. And he'd have to be even faster 'cause he's probably not texting at all times.
The lower values are a bit more sane: 70 000 / 31 = 2 258.06452 day (70 000 / 31) / 24 = 94.0860215 hour ((70 000 / 31) / 24) / 60 = 1.56810036 minute
For the record I adore linux and keep trying to con almost everybody I know (mostly my electrical engineering senior design team) into using it. Which is why I've seen people totally flounder with synaptic, even though I think it's kind of idiot proof. All the options and versions and everything else trip people up (not to mention that the quick search option on ibex is broken/useless). I've also seen people get lost on where to find that library/package/function they just installed.
A concrete example of having to do it all command line in linux vs. graphically in windows (though not from source far as I know) are the HP linux print drivers. (don't know, this probably has changed since last year.) It's really simple either way, but I know guys scared of the command line in all it's wonderful forms, and for them just dealing with output automatically makes it more difficult.
I don't know much, but I install software with a couple clicks via Ubuntu's package manager. I don't compile it...
See reply to poster below. I was just trying to point out that not all recompiles are equal, which was the parents point. Bad choice of equivalent. (Though really, the only time I have to recompile anything to get it working is when I have crazy dependency issues, and then I'm working with stuff that requires a technical proficiency where recompiles aren't a big bad scary thing. I don't care that I'm contradicting myself.) I use Ubuntu's package manager and think it's the most awesome thing ever, but I've had to deal with total newbies scared of it.
Fortunately your little fear mongering example hasn't been relevant for a least 5 years if not 10.
Depends what you're trying to install, though I'll grant most of the stuff you need to build from source on linux you need to build from source on windows. Dude, I run ubuntu so I've had to compile very little from source, I've just had to go through dependency hell (and the rgb.txt simlink hell for all sorts of win). I'm not even trying to play the FUD card, I'm just replying to the parents assertion that "everything recompiles", as if that means things are automatically equal for all distros.
Last time I looked, advertising income, not data sales, dominated their income by a wide margin.
But their advertising income is directly tied to their data mining, 'cause the whole selling point of the adverts system is basically that "we'll get your ad to your audience 'cause we know everything about everyone".
I think you left out a few steps, like "What's the manufacturer's web site? Okay, where is their downloads page? Okay, what's the exact model number? Okay, what version of Windows am I using?"
I've only had to do that with printers, which come with drivers/install cds. MS tends to have drivers for just about everything that doesn't come with a cd anyway, and a few things that do.
Have you ever tried to call Microsoft or Apple with a question?
I just closed a support claim with MS over Updates/Vista. Started the whole process online (after the suggestions pulled up by google didn't work) and when all the updates tech's suggestions failed I got transferred to a Vista tech and when his suggestions failed he sent me a Vista install CD (which I didn't have and was something I couldn't legally get through google) so I could try out his last suggestion, which worked fine. The whole process didn't take more than 2/3 weeks.
The only problem that came up was the whole disabling grub thing, which I expected and will fix using one of the four zillion online solutions that I found after throwing 10 different queries into google.I've had all sorts of stuff crop up with linux over the years, and a lot of times I've had to google the solution to figure out what I need to grab to implement that before I can even attempt to try out the solution.
Uh that's the whole point. There's a mountain of difference between clicking an install executable and having to run cmake/gcc/whatever else. One makes the software easily accessible to most everyone by hiding the scary technical parts, the other well explains why the linux desktop market share is so low.
Any asshole can get a 3.5 GPA nowadays, it is built into people choosing some schools over others
Or having old exams/hws/etc and professors too lazy to change anything or write good exams. One guy quipped that he's seen the class avg. go up 20 points since the iphone was invented. The guys with high GPAs worry me more than the ones without 'cause at least the low ones pretty much guarantee that the guy learned something more than how to memorize/copy a solution.
Almost everybody I know from my uni uses Facebook)
I've got two comp-sci professors friended on facebook and the entire honor's crew (who are required to have grades >=3.6) at my school is pretty active on it. The two friends I've got not on it (with awesome grades) aren't on 'cause they've got no time for yet another thing. I'm wondering how the study was done, 'cause if the vast majority of facebook users have lower grades, it could just be 'cause the vast majority of students have lower grades. The outliers are interesting in that way, and I'd love to see the actual numbers. The non-users interest me in that respect, but I wonder if the school used in the study had any effect on the results.
I've been to NYC a few times and I find it amazing that people can get lost in Manhattan since its basically one huge grid.
All the long time city dwellers I know who don't live/hang out in the village/downtown area get lost 'cause all the streets get names instead of numbers and it becomes one big mess. A lot of street names also change/streets disappear uptown. I get totally lost if I don't pay attention when getting out of a train station, 'cause without the subway signpost, I don't know if I'm going in the right direction 'til I hit the next street. East-West is worse for anyone who doesn't much wonder out of their neighborhood 'cause it's purely memorizing the order of the streets for which ever part of town you're in.
Shipping for another. My mom works for one of the big shipping companies and she says most of the transaction/billing/etc. stuff is mainframe/COBOL 'cause none of the modern languages can handle the data properly, and the company has tried just about everything else out there.
Men in computer science: robot vision, algorithms to avoid terrain and navigate obstacles, logic, highly advanced everything, etc.
Women in computer science: Doing the exact same thing.
Seriously, that's the kind of coding I'm doing/working with for a robotics project that requires all that stuff. (Though a lot of it has already been implemented in libraries like OpenCV and player and reinventing the wheel is kind of stupid, but yeah.) This girl didn't need it for her (very cool social experiment) project, so she didn't go near it. Yeah, she worked with robots, but not in a comp sci/AI way. I don't see the flaw; would you tell a web programmer to write a web cam driver 'cause his website can handle streaming video?
Similarly, for whatever reason, time on the subway is considered "private time," and it's generally frowned upon to talk loudly or make eye contact with strangers, etc.
Dunno, maybe 'cause I just want to get to where ever I'm going and therefore don't feel like dealing with anyone? (Most people I know sleep/study/read/pray on the train-it's often the only time they actually get to themselves) Or 'cause the last guy who talked to me on the subway tried to scam me out of 300 dollars?
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Some guy out there was so proud of his encryption scheme that he puts 4 commands.
Not all problems are driver related, user-friendliness is also a "big" problem.
He assumed that the end user needed the same functionality as him, so that's what he put on his menu. The average linux distro team is too busy recruiting people to hack on the code to even care about recruiting usability testers, if they even feel they need one. (There was a slashdot story ages ago about one distro where the whole philosophy was "if you're not 1337 enough to use this, we don't want you to".) The other problem of course is that the average distro just doesn't have the resources to do wide scale usability testing. They can't go out and pay a bunch of people to sit around and use there systems and write down everything that went wrong, and the people who'd do it for free usually don't run into the same problems or found a work around so they don't feel it's worth reporting the problem. Linux gui problems have been discussed to death on slashdot, and the general consensus is that most projects either can't or won't deal with them.
I think it's so awesome how incredibly thorough the whole joke is. They've managed to use CADIE as a plug for a good chunk of their projects and threw in some fake stuff to. I wasn't even sure if one of their projects (latitude) was real 'til I looked it up.
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From a learning standpoint:
Can you formulate a coherent thesis? Can you support that thesis with evidence from the text? Does your argument make sense within the frame work of the text? (Does it fit in with the period the book was written in/the philosophy/school of the text/etc.?) If given any random text, can you deconstruct it on the basis of theme/characterization/setting/tone/mood/diction/symbolism/structure/plot/etc? Can you explain how a technique is used to explore/support the theme of a book? Can you deconstruct a text? English is really all about learning to parse text correctly and communicate effectively.
From a grading point of view:
Is the teacher marking down for grammar? Faulty arguments? Is their an objective grading rubric? A bad teacher marks down any argument he or she doesn't like, even it it is valid and well supported. A good teacher points out the flaws in badly constructed arguments, even ones that argue a point the teacher likes.
Somebody decided not to run new wiring in the college library and instead put all the computers on wireless, and don't know if it's the implementation or something but the computers are beyond slow (about dial up speeds in some cases). So now nobody ever wants to use the computers in the library for web browsing, making them kind of useless for web research and kinda defeating the purpose of shiny new computers to ease the burden of the other big computer lab.
"Have you ever seen a girl naked?"
What if the answer's yes 'cause you're female?
I think a shirt like that would be awesome in an ironic-kitschy sort of way. Plus, with the amount of male eye candy in the new movie it could totally catch fire with run of the mill fan girls. (I don't even like trek all that much and I want to see the new flick.)
What it does is break the free market and hand a monopoly for a limited time to the creator so that they may profit from their works without competition reducing the profitability of their work and by this method enable them to persue an artist as a career.
Uh isn't the competition all the other works on the market by other creators? Any book published this year inherently competes with everything in the book store, including public domain stuff without any copyrights.
so, in reality, your math is completely wrong.
I never said I was calculating for one person. I was just looking at the time spent, and for that the math is fine. I'm making the giant assumption that the didn't send texts at the exact same time. But fine, new math:
140 000 / 31 = 4516.12903 day
((140000 / 31) / 24) = 188.172043 hour
((140000 / 31) / 24) / 60 = 3.13620072 minute
for approximately one text every 20 seconds-which is a really small amount of time even for a one word text. And he'd have to be even faster 'cause he's probably not texting at all times.
The lower values are a bit more sane:
70 000 / 31 = 2 258.06452 day
(70 000 / 31) / 24 = 94.0860215 hour
((70 000 / 31) / 24) / 60 = 1.56810036 minute
217,000/31 = 7000 a day
(217 000 / 31) / 24 = 291.666667 an hour
((217 000 / 31) / 24) / 60 = 4.86111111 a minute
And I assume they slept/ate/etc. so amazed that they managed to find the time for this
until that heel gets caught in the sidewalk/grass/etc.
Not if you open in ie tab/switch rendering agents.
For the record I adore linux and keep trying to con almost everybody I know (mostly my electrical engineering senior design team) into using it. Which is why I've seen people totally flounder with synaptic, even though I think it's kind of idiot proof. All the options and versions and everything else trip people up (not to mention that the quick search option on ibex is broken/useless). I've also seen people get lost on where to find that library/package/function they just installed.
A concrete example of having to do it all command line in linux vs. graphically in windows (though not from source far as I know) are the HP linux print drivers. (don't know, this probably has changed since last year.) It's really simple either way, but I know guys scared of the command line in all it's wonderful forms, and for them just dealing with output automatically makes it more difficult.
I don't know much, but I install software with a couple clicks via Ubuntu's package manager. I don't compile it...
See reply to poster below. I was just trying to point out that not all recompiles are equal, which was the parents point. Bad choice of equivalent. (Though really, the only time I have to recompile anything to get it working is when I have crazy dependency issues, and then I'm working with stuff that requires a technical proficiency where recompiles aren't a big bad scary thing. I don't care that I'm contradicting myself.)
I use Ubuntu's package manager and think it's the most awesome thing ever, but I've had to deal with total newbies scared of it.
Fortunately your little fear mongering example hasn't been relevant for a least 5 years if not 10.
Depends what you're trying to install, though I'll grant most of the stuff you need to build from source on linux you need to build from source on windows.
Dude, I run ubuntu so I've had to compile very little from source, I've just had to go through dependency hell (and the rgb.txt simlink hell for all sorts of win). I'm not even trying to play the FUD card, I'm just replying to the parents assertion that "everything recompiles", as if that means things are automatically equal for all distros.
Last time I looked, advertising income, not data sales, dominated their income by a wide margin.
But their advertising income is directly tied to their data mining, 'cause the whole selling point of the adverts system is basically that "we'll get your ad to your audience 'cause we know everything about everyone".
I think you left out a few steps, like "What's the manufacturer's web site? Okay, where is their downloads page? Okay, what's the exact model number? Okay, what version of Windows am I using?"
I've only had to do that with printers, which come with drivers/install cds. MS tends to have drivers for just about everything that doesn't come with a cd anyway, and a few things that do.
Have you ever tried to call Microsoft or Apple with a question?
I just closed a support claim with MS over Updates/Vista. Started the whole process online (after the suggestions pulled up by google didn't work) and when all the updates tech's suggestions failed I got transferred to a Vista tech and when his suggestions failed he sent me a Vista install CD (which I didn't have and was something I couldn't legally get through google) so I could try out his last suggestion, which worked fine. The whole process didn't take more than 2/3 weeks.
The only problem that came up was the whole disabling grub thing, which I expected and will fix using one of the four zillion online solutions that I found after throwing 10 different queries into google.I've had all sorts of stuff crop up with linux over the years, and a lot of times I've had to google the solution to figure out what I need to grab to implement that before I can even attempt to try out the solution.
Actually, he's probably DID/MPD
Just because someone else does it for you
Uh that's the whole point. There's a mountain of difference between clicking an install executable and having to run cmake/gcc/whatever else. One makes the software easily accessible to most everyone by hiding the scary technical parts, the other well explains why the linux desktop market share is so low.
Any asshole can get a 3.5 GPA nowadays, it is built into people choosing some schools over others
Or having old exams/hws/etc and professors too lazy to change anything or write good exams. One guy quipped that he's seen the class avg. go up 20 points since the iphone was invented. The guys with high GPAs worry me more than the ones without 'cause at least the low ones pretty much guarantee that the guy learned something more than how to memorize/copy a solution.
Almost everybody I know from my uni uses Facebook)
I've got two comp-sci professors friended on facebook and the entire honor's crew (who are required to have grades >=3.6) at my school is pretty active on it. The two friends I've got not on it (with awesome grades) aren't on 'cause they've got no time for yet another thing.
I'm wondering how the study was done, 'cause if the vast majority of facebook users have lower grades, it could just be 'cause the vast majority of students have lower grades. The outliers are interesting in that way, and I'd love to see the actual numbers. The non-users interest me in that respect, but I wonder if the school used in the study had any effect on the results.
I've been to NYC a few times and I find it amazing that people can get lost in Manhattan since its basically one huge grid.
All the long time city dwellers I know who don't live/hang out in the village/downtown area get lost 'cause all the streets get names instead of numbers and it becomes one big mess. A lot of street names also change/streets disappear uptown. I get totally lost if I don't pay attention when getting out of a train station, 'cause without the subway signpost, I don't know if I'm going in the right direction 'til I hit the next street. East-West is worse for anyone who doesn't much wonder out of their neighborhood 'cause it's purely memorizing the order of the streets for which ever part of town you're in.
Shipping for another. My mom works for one of the big shipping companies and she says most of the transaction/billing/etc. stuff is mainframe/COBOL 'cause none of the modern languages can handle the data properly, and the company has tried just about everything else out there.
Men in computer science: robot vision, algorithms to avoid terrain and navigate obstacles, logic, highly advanced everything, etc.
Women in computer science: Doing the exact same thing.
Seriously, that's the kind of coding I'm doing/working with for a robotics project that requires all that stuff. (Though a lot of it has already been implemented in libraries like OpenCV and player and reinventing the wheel is kind of stupid, but yeah.)
This girl didn't need it for her (very cool social experiment) project, so she didn't go near it. Yeah, she worked with robots, but not in a comp sci/AI way. I don't see the flaw; would you tell a web programmer to write a web cam driver 'cause his website can handle streaming video?
Similarly, for whatever reason, time on the subway is considered "private time," and it's generally frowned upon to talk loudly or make eye contact with strangers, etc.
Dunno, maybe 'cause I just want to get to where ever I'm going and therefore don't feel like dealing with anyone? (Most people I know sleep/study/read/pray on the train-it's often the only time they actually get to themselves) Or 'cause the last guy who talked to me on the subway tried to scam me out of 300 dollars?
Some guy out there was so proud of his encryption scheme that he puts 4 commands.
Not all problems are driver related, user-friendliness is also a "big" problem.
He assumed that the end user needed the same functionality as him, so that's what he put on his menu. The average linux distro team is too busy recruiting people to hack on the code to even care about recruiting usability testers, if they even feel they need one. (There was a slashdot story ages ago about one distro where the whole philosophy was "if you're not 1337 enough to use this, we don't want you to".) The other problem of course is that the average distro just doesn't have the resources to do wide scale usability testing. They can't go out and pay a bunch of people to sit around and use there systems and write down everything that went wrong, and the people who'd do it for free usually don't run into the same problems or found a work around so they don't feel it's worth reporting the problem. Linux gui problems have been discussed to death on slashdot, and the general consensus is that most projects either can't or won't deal with them.
Well kind of
I think it's so awesome how incredibly thorough the whole joke is. They've managed to use CADIE as a plug for a good chunk of their projects and threw in some fake stuff to. I wasn't even sure if one of their projects (latitude) was real 'til I looked it up.
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