at Simon's Rock College, we had ethernet jacks in the lecture halls. The professors usually collected homework at the end of class, and instead of listening to the lecture, I would type my homework and print it to a network printer. The professors all loved me=)
I believe that an essential part of the high school experience is the preperation for 'real life'. Whether that life involves menial labor or college, the purpose of high school is to lay down the tools and framework of learning that we use every day. In high school, we learn how to express our ideas clearly through many mediums, and to interpret the physical world. I believe that computers are an essential part of that education.
I just turned 17, graduated 2 years ago. Technically, I should still be in high school. Now, I'm doing research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences here at NYU. I used the skills I learned in school to program that Fair Vol/ Var Swap calculator in C. Learning Mathematica in high school to do calculus helped me understand PDE. I used the computer skills I learned in high school to help pay my tuition.
Technology is always a tool to help students achieve their ends. However, it is up to them to define whether it is to success. Don't cripple driven students to cater to the lowest common denominator.
I have a visor also, and I've been craving the eyemodule-- It's a digital camera that goes into the expansion slot of the visor. It can take black/white or color images, and only increases the length of the visor by 15mm. The images are also quite small when stored on the visor, the Deluxe can hold 125-500 images, depending on the resolution and color. It uses the visor screen as a viewfinder, so you can see what you're taking... The quality is not so great, but then it's only about $150 USD.
"Hopefully by making this data available to the public, software developers will become more aware of how vulnerable their software really is and fix the root of the problem."
Most of the world's population lives in a climate where it's warm in the summer, and therefore it wouldn't make sense to wear a coat every day. Also, many people I know also change their clothing on a regular basis.. Should each piece of clothing have a seperate IP? Should each cell phone in each jacket have a seperate number?
Another note--Living in NYC, the capital of label whoredom, has taught me that people dress so that other people will think they are 'cool'. What would make it catch on would be if Prada or Louis Vuitton made them....
In the auditorium, Skinner speaks to the children.
Skinner: Children, the times they are a-becoming quite different. Test scores are at an all-time low, so I've come up with these academic alerts. [hold stack of cards] You will receive one as soon as your grades start to slip in any subject. This way your parents won't have to wait until report card time to punish you. Martin: How innovative. I like it! Kearney: Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton: beat up Martin. [Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" which the Newton translates as "Eat up Martha"] Bah! [throws Newton] Martin:[being bonked on the head] Ow!
This law is putting decisions out of the hands of the parents. I believe that a parent gives implicit consent when they allow their children to be at an arcade.
I am going to be 17 and a sophomore in college in a month, and my parents have made many conscious decisions to allow me to have the same rights of an adult. They allow me to get my own apartment in Manhattan (400 miles from home) and basically do whatever I deem responsible, whenever I want (though i am stuck in the server room 55 hours a week). I have my own checking account, and own brokerage account.
Last week, I paid $700 in income tax... yet I can't vote? I can't play UT or SoF? If the government is so big on parent's rights, why do they take the rights of their children without their consent?
On an unrelated note, has anyone ever seen anyone over 18 in an arcade?:)
Because if it didn't, most of us wouldn't have jobs! All of the rhetoric about technology and the internet making lives easier and giving us more free time is directed at people whose jobs do not include writing code to make that technology work.
It's just like saying that the widespread use of indoor plumbing dramatically cuts back on everybody's family time and leisure because a few plumbers have to work more.
"(Nearly half) of Napster users...described the nature of its impact on their music purchases in a way which either explicitly indicated or suggested that Napster displaces CD sales," the Field study said.
If less than half of Napster users buy less CDs, it means that more than half buy more CDs, which evens out and then some. See, they admit it themselves... the RIAA benefits from Napster!
I registered for my trademark online with the USPTO. Instead of actually signing the document, the form prompts you to type your name in a text field 'affirming that all the previously entered information is true,etc'. If that's not a digital signature, I dont know what is. How can they do this if it is not legally binding?
If I were an owner of a clothing brand I wouldn't call it very good advertising to have any random backcountry loser flaunt my logo on his bloated, distended beer belly:)
How do you plan on running typical matters of government? (such as taxes, citizens, tariffs, a judicial system, criminals, the death penalty, treason, etc.) Many people are frustrated with the beuarocracy and injustice of the governments in their own countries. Since you have the opportunity of building your own from scratch, what are your plans?
Starting with a population of 14 (with the silly assumption that there were seven guys to go with those seven women)
It doesn't matter how many guys there are, as long as there is one. You know, it's possible for a man to impregnate more than one woman in his lifetime. It makes no difference in the interest of reproduction if there are 2 guys or 600, as long as there are only 7 women.
Carnegie Mellon has been developing working prototypes of this kind of technology for years. So far, they have automated cars, buses, and trucks. (Can anyone say "Maximum Homerdrive?") check out this link The news release is almost 3 years old, but it conveys the point. -j
"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon ye shoulders of Giants" -Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke
It's not so much memorizing facts as being generally competent with the material. In college, in most mid level-advanced physics and math classes, they allow you to bring a sheet of notes with all the formulas. Maybe memorizing those formulas would be useless, but you are being tested on how to apply them. I could have an open laptop test about triple integrals, and not know anything about them, yet look it up and complete the test without really knowing how to do them. -j
Wouldn't this test the student's ability to use search engines and not their proficiency in the subject matter? Last week I found an example using google that was exactly the same as a problem on my Vector Calc problem set, with the only differences in the wording. If I could find an exact problem on the subject of line integrals, imagine what one could find on a subject like Hamlet or American History...? -j
Westinghouse does not sponser it anymore because they don't exist. A few years ago they bought CBS and changed their name to that, selling off their engineers to Bechtel or Seamans and others. -j
This could be just from personal experience, but there are probably more female geeks than you think, in part because they don't fit some of the stereotypes that most people use to describe geeks. The stereotype of a 'geek' is a male hermit who wears the same clothes with poor personal hygene. However, most of the women I know who know coding and *nix and have all the techincal knowledge and interest associated with the word geek, look and act less like their male counterparts. For example, I buy clothes from Bergdorf's, manolo blahnik shoes, and actually have a favorite designer. I can get into Limelight without paying the cover, and i sometimes wear suits to work. People who don't know me well probably don't know that I stay home every saturday to watch star trek, or know that Apu's brother's name is Sanjay and Hans Moleman is 29 years old. They don't know that I left HS 2 years early and took Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Classical Mechanics in my freshman year, or coded for a 15-127 mastery exam at CMU for 11 hours straight with nothing but 2 liters of jolt. Maybe it's harder to tell female geeks from male geeks. I think that there are some advantages to being female. Despite being hit on and stalked, women get WAY more scholarship money that you don't even have to be poor to get. btw, I'm not in the computer industry for the joy of coding or to lurk in the machine room during NYE, even though I do like elegant code. I think that most women are in the computer industry to make money. -j
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at Simon's Rock College, we had ethernet jacks in the lecture halls. The professors usually collected homework at the end of class, and instead of listening to the lecture, I would type my homework and print it to a network printer. The professors all loved me=)
-j
Education is not job skills.
I believe that an essential part of the high school experience is the preperation for 'real life'. Whether that life involves menial labor or college, the purpose of high school is to lay down the tools and framework of learning that we use every day. In high school, we learn how to express our ideas clearly through many mediums, and to interpret the physical world. I believe that computers are an essential part of that education.
I just turned 17, graduated 2 years ago. Technically, I should still be in high school. Now, I'm doing research at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences here at NYU. I used the skills I learned in school to program that Fair Vol/ Var Swap calculator in C. Learning Mathematica in high school to do calculus helped me understand PDE. I used the computer skills I learned in high school to help pay my tuition.
Technology is always a tool to help students achieve their ends. However, it is up to them to define whether it is to success. Don't cripple driven students to cater to the lowest common denominator.
-Jennifer
jf542@courant.nyu.edu
I have a visor also, and I've been craving the eyemodule-- It's a digital camera that goes into the expansion slot of the visor. It can take black/white or color images, and only increases the length of the visor by 15mm. The images are also quite small when stored on the visor, the Deluxe can hold 125-500 images, depending on the resolution and color. It uses the visor screen as a viewfinder, so you can see what you're taking... The quality is not so great, but then it's only about $150 USD.
-j
Ohh... Err... Tell me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still live with their parents?
"Hopefully by making this data available to the public, software developers will become more aware of how vulnerable their software really is and fix the root of the problem."
Get it?? the ROOT of the problem? hehe...
-j
Most of the world's population lives in a climate where it's warm in the summer, and therefore it wouldn't make sense to wear a coat every day. Also, many people I know also change their clothing on a regular basis.. Should each piece of clothing have a seperate IP? Should each cell phone in each jacket have a seperate number?
Another note--Living in NYC, the capital of label whoredom, has taught me that people dress so that other people will think they are 'cool'. What would make it catch on would be if Prada or Louis Vuitton made them....
-j
In the auditorium, Skinner speaks to the children.
Skinner: Children, the times they are a-becoming quite different. Test scores are at an all-time low, so I've come up with these academic alerts. [hold stack of cards] You will receive one as soon as your grades start to slip in any subject. This way your parents won't have to wait until report card time to punish you.
Martin: How innovative. I like it!
Kearney: Hey Dolph, take a memo on your Newton: beat up Martin.
[Dolph writes "Beat up Martin" which the Newton translates as "Eat up Martha"] Bah! [throws Newton]
Martin: [being bonked on the head] Ow!
-j
Finally-- my very own regeneration alcove :)
-j
This law is putting decisions out of the hands of the parents. I believe that a parent gives implicit consent when they allow their children to be at an arcade.
:)
I am going to be 17 and a sophomore in college in a month, and my parents have made many conscious decisions to allow me to have the same rights of an adult. They allow me to get my own apartment in Manhattan (400 miles from home) and basically do whatever I deem responsible, whenever I want (though i am stuck in the server room 55 hours a week). I have my own checking account, and own brokerage account.
Last week, I paid $700 in income tax... yet I can't vote? I can't play UT or SoF? If the government is so big on parent's rights, why do they take the rights of their children without their consent?
On an unrelated note, has anyone ever seen anyone over 18 in an arcade?
-j
Because if it didn't, most of us wouldn't have jobs! All of the rhetoric about technology and the internet making lives easier and giving us more free time is directed at people whose jobs do not include writing code to make that technology work.
It's just like saying that the widespread use of indoor plumbing dramatically cuts back on everybody's family time and leisure because a few plumbers have to work more.
-j
Instead of having a bake sale to buy lunch, why not just eat the baked goods instead?
"I am Worf, son of Mogh. I have come to challenge the lies that have been spoken of my father!"
"(Nearly half) of Napster users...described the nature of its impact on their music purchases in a way which either explicitly indicated or suggested that Napster displaces CD sales," the Field study said.
If less than half of Napster users buy less CDs, it means that more than half buy more CDs, which evens out and then some. See, they admit it themselves... the RIAA benefits from Napster!
-j
I registered for my trademark online with the USPTO. Instead of actually signing the document, the form prompts you to type your name in a text field 'affirming that all the previously entered information is true,etc'. If that's not a digital signature, I dont know what is. How can they do this if it is not legally binding?
If I were an owner of a clothing brand I wouldn't call it very good advertising to have any random backcountry loser flaunt my logo on his bloated, distended beer belly:)
-j
How do you plan on running typical matters of government? (such as taxes, citizens, tariffs, a judicial system, criminals, the death penalty, treason, etc.) Many people are frustrated with the beuarocracy and injustice of the governments in their own countries. Since you have the opportunity of building your own from scratch, what are your plans?
Starting with a population of 14 (with the silly assumption that there were seven guys to go with those seven women)
It doesn't matter how many guys there are, as long as there is one. You know, it's possible for a man to impregnate more than one woman in his lifetime. It makes no difference in the interest of reproduction if there are 2 guys or 600, as long as there are only 7 women.
--no sig for you!
Carnegie Mellon has been developing working prototypes of this kind of technology for years. So far, they have automated cars, buses, and trucks. (Can anyone say "Maximum Homerdrive?") check out this link
The news release is almost 3 years old, but it conveys the point.
-j
"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon ye shoulders of Giants"
-Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke
It's not so much memorizing facts as being generally competent with the material. In college, in most mid level-advanced physics and math classes, they allow you to bring a sheet of notes with all the formulas. Maybe memorizing those formulas would be useless, but you are being tested on how to apply them. I could have an open laptop test about triple integrals, and not know anything about them, yet look it up and complete the test without really knowing how to do them.
-j
No sig for you!!!
Wouldn't this test the student's ability to use search engines and not their proficiency in the subject matter? Last week I found an example using google that was exactly the same as a problem on my Vector Calc problem set, with the only differences in the wording. If I could find an exact problem on the subject of line integrals, imagine what one could find on a subject like Hamlet or American History...?
-j
Westinghouse does not sponser it anymore because they don't exist. A few years ago they bought CBS and changed their name to that, selling off their engineers to Bechtel or Seamans and others.
-j
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
-j
Tuesday is Troll day!
I wonder what implications this has on political prisoners and torture? You could really mess with somebody's head with that thing.
This could be just from personal experience, but there are probably more female geeks than you think, in part because they don't fit some of the stereotypes that most people use to describe geeks. The stereotype of a 'geek' is a male hermit who wears the same clothes with poor personal hygene. However, most of the women I know who know coding and *nix and have all the techincal knowledge and interest associated with the word geek, look and act less like their male counterparts. For example, I buy clothes from Bergdorf's, manolo blahnik shoes, and actually have a favorite designer. I can get into Limelight without paying the cover, and i sometimes wear suits to work. People who don't know me well probably don't know that I stay home every saturday to watch star trek, or know that Apu's brother's name is Sanjay and Hans Moleman is 29 years old. They don't know that I left HS 2 years early and took Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Classical Mechanics in my freshman year, or coded for a 15-127 mastery exam at CMU for 11 hours straight with nothing but 2 liters of jolt. Maybe it's harder to tell female geeks from male geeks. I think that there are some advantages to being female. Despite being hit on and stalked, women get WAY more scholarship money that you don't even have to be poor to get. btw, I'm not in the computer industry for the joy of coding or to lurk in the machine room during NYE, even though I do like elegant code. I think that most women are in the computer industry to make money. -j