it blows my mind the blackboard is still widely used. i know several instructors who got the allergy to chalk developed, so they keep sneezing and caughing during the lecture. having the writable tablet with projector would have been a great relief for them.
of course everything will be extensively reworked, to achieve the proper balance between the political correctness and maximizing the profits. blah... by coincidence, i've picked up the OZ omnibus about a few months ago, and been reading it since. uneven, of course, but there is a certain charm in each story. old-fashioned charm we surely won't see in WB version.
you cannot proceed from A to B without learning what is A. math is bloody systematic. so you have a student who flunked some basic staff. still our public schools don't let him/her to get a failing grade (there was an article in NY Times on that subject, a while ago). so the student move to the next grade, of course, can't comprehend what's going on. still move on, probably with the lowest passing grade possible, etc etc etc.
from my personal experience while doing volunteer math tutoring at CRLS (Cambridge Ringe Latin High). A girl, probably in 7-8th grade, needs a help with inequalities.
So I tell her that it is basically the same like equalities, except for a single value (or a single point) we now have a range of points (an interval). Show her a few equalities, and see completely blank look on her face.
Well, I write very simple equation, something like
x + 1 = 3,
and ask her to solve it. Again, a blank look on her face.
Well, now I tell her: x = 3-1. So what is x. Her face finally brightens up, she pulls down a calculator from her purse and computes 3-1.
I ask her: how about doing that computation without a calculator? She can't.
As far as I'm concerned, she is somewhere on the 1st grade math level. Yet I'm sure she'll finish school, probably getting the lowest passing grade on math. For her and her likes it is probably a good idea *not* to study math at all. She's lost. Hopelessly lost, and no tutoring will ever help. Period.
like, about 10-15 years ago or so, forgot the venue but remember how he was saying that IPv6 was just around the corner. Apparently it is still around the corner and will stay this way, so IETF decided to give not-so-gentle kick-in-the-ass of Internet providers. Yet - working at some point for BBN Planet dealing with lots of management issues, I can clear see the first question in any provider's mind: what would be the cost of conversion? Who's going to pick up the tab? Even if it's mandated by IETF, at this point Internet - as a loosely couple collection of Tier-1 providers, each is more or less autonomous (yeah, AS, pun intended), it's either 'everyone gets converted', or 'noone gets converted', but it's no longer can be mandated. I'm thinking of management/monitoring tools, many are homegrown - think of the cost of re-writing them. THink of the cost of re-training the personal. it's overwhelming task. no wonder there is no rush to convert. there is *no pressing need* to convert.
A funny footnote: in direct conversation with Scott Bradner, aka SOB (the IETF chair at the time IPv6 was introduced), he said, roughly, the following: Well, we were trying to push TCP/IP as a standard, as hard as we could. Now some 'industry pundits' picked up on the issue of 32-bit addressing space of IPv4 as a limiting factor. So we had to quickly cook up something (which we called IPv6), just to keep their mouth shut, just to tell the world that "yes, we will have expandability in a future". He sounded like he didn't give a damn whether IPv6 would ever be implemented. Scott, by the way, was heavily on a practical side of things, including manageability. I can understand his sentiment.
Here is a true story about the real mice. My friend worked part-time at Dana Farber Cancer Institute while studying at medical school. He told me all mice and rats experiments had to be properly documented, to insure no unnecessary cruelty was done to the animals. At the end all mice and rats were killed with gilliotine (quick and painless). I remember meeting him one day and he was a bit upset. He told me the last night air conditioner broke down and all their mice and rats died. So much for prevention the cruelty...
I remember working with AIX many years ago (that was the time when IBM started exploring Unix and the RISC architecture) and remember very well how with SMIT (their management system) you join all the hard drive into the common pool, and then define the partitions out of that pool. Isn't that something similar to ZFS? If so, then IBM was the first, at least in terms of concept.
nowdays requirement for the immigrants to learn the western values and the language of the country they live is called 'divisive'. what is the alternative? Nowdays both France and England are filled with pakis and arabs hating the West, kind of a bomb about to explode (in fact already started exploding).
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it blows my mind the blackboard is still widely used. i know several instructors who got the allergy to chalk developed, so they keep sneezing and caughing during the lecture. having the writable tablet with projector would have been a great relief for them.
(a) should the Internet move to IPv6 or stick with IPv4? Which one is the lesser evil?
(b) Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD: what would Jesus watch?
on the next alphabet cycle ...
of course everything will be extensively reworked, to achieve the proper balance between the political correctness and maximizing the profits. blah ... by coincidence, i've picked up the OZ omnibus about a few months ago, and been reading it since. uneven, of course, but there is a certain charm in each story. old-fashioned charm we surely won't see in WB version.
you should visit jerkcity.com more often .
If sun had bought Apple, z-frames would have the iPod slot (and come with an optional matching white color).
so he saw an intruder while he was sleeping. and walking. no fear of hight of course.
no wonder it's being implemented in China.
you cannot proceed from A to B without learning what is A. math is bloody systematic. so you have a student who flunked some basic staff. still our public schools don't let him/her to get a failing grade (there was an article in NY Times on that subject, a while ago). so the student move to the next grade, of course, can't comprehend what's going on. still move on, probably with the lowest passing grade possible, etc etc etc.
from my personal experience while doing volunteer math tutoring at CRLS (Cambridge Ringe Latin High). A girl, probably in 7-8th grade, needs a help with inequalities.
So I tell her that it is basically the same like equalities, except for a single value (or a single point) we now have a range of points (an interval). Show her a few equalities, and see completely blank look on her face.
Well, I write very simple equation, something like
x + 1 = 3,
and ask her to solve it. Again, a blank look on her face.
Well, now I tell her: x = 3-1. So what is x. Her face finally brightens up, she pulls down a calculator from her purse and computes 3-1.
I ask her: how about doing that computation without a calculator? She can't.
As far as I'm concerned, she is somewhere on the 1st grade math level. Yet I'm sure she'll finish school, probably getting the lowest passing grade on math. For her and her likes it is probably a good idea *not* to study math at all. She's lost. Hopelessly lost, and no tutoring will ever help. Period.
(just an obligatory remark)
*you* kill the printer?
the mass extinsion was caused by the attempt to convert from ipv4 to ipv6. caveat emptor!
like, about 10-15 years ago or so, forgot the venue but remember how he was saying that IPv6 was just around the corner. Apparently it is still around the corner and will stay this way, so IETF decided to give not-so-gentle kick-in-the-ass of Internet providers. Yet - working at some point for BBN Planet dealing with lots of management issues, I can clear see the first question in any provider's mind: what would be the cost of conversion? Who's going to pick up the tab? Even if it's mandated by IETF, at this point Internet - as a loosely couple collection of Tier-1 providers, each is more or less autonomous (yeah, AS, pun intended), it's either 'everyone gets converted', or 'noone gets converted', but it's no longer can be mandated. I'm thinking of management/monitoring tools, many are homegrown - think of the cost of re-writing them. THink of the cost of re-training the personal. it's overwhelming task. no wonder there is no rush to convert. there is *no pressing need* to convert.
A funny footnote: in direct conversation with Scott Bradner, aka SOB (the IETF chair at the time IPv6 was introduced), he said, roughly, the following: Well, we were trying to push TCP/IP as a standard, as hard as we could. Now some 'industry pundits' picked up on the issue of 32-bit addressing space of IPv4 as a limiting factor. So we had to quickly cook up something (which we called IPv6), just to keep their mouth shut, just to tell the world that "yes, we will have expandability in a future".
He sounded like he didn't give a damn whether IPv6 would ever be implemented. Scott, by the way, was heavily on a practical side of things, including manageability. I can understand his sentiment.
regarding the war in Iraq, all Slashdot servers will be confiscated, as a first step. I hate to think what's going to happen with Cowboy Neal.
Here is a true story about the real mice. My friend worked part-time at Dana Farber Cancer Institute while studying at medical school. He told me all mice and rats experiments had to be properly documented, to insure no unnecessary cruelty was done to the animals. At the end all mice and rats were killed with gilliotine (quick and painless). I remember meeting him one day and he was a bit upset. He told me the last night air conditioner broke down and all their mice and rats died. So much for prevention the cruelty ...
neither you must sign the agreement with your blood. I predict the unqualified success of iPhone!
Just imagine them sneaking through US-Mexican border.
start hyperdrive and plunge to a nearby black hole.
I remember working with AIX many years ago (that was the time when IBM started exploring Unix and the RISC architecture) and remember very well how with SMIT (their management system) you join all the hard drive into the common pool, and then define the partitions out of that pool. Isn't that something similar to ZFS? If so, then IBM was the first, at least in terms of concept.
Is "Psychiatric help - 5 cents" one of them?
that proves that either fruit flies or banana have free will.
A plain old telephone service. As an extra benefit, it can connect you to network at about 52Kbps if the line isn't that noisy.
coming soon to MySpace near you.
nowdays requirement for the immigrants to learn the western values and the language of the country they live is called 'divisive'. what is the alternative? Nowdays both France and England are filled with pakis and arabs hating the West, kind of a bomb about to explode (in fact already started exploding).
I wonder how Apple ever manage to survive without following any of the advice of that kind.