How ironic that Slashdot should be punting an advert at the top of this very page saying "I'm Rich. You're Not. I Cracked The Code To Making Money. See How I Make $3 Million Per Year Doing Nothing. And How You Can Too."
He experimented further. In one class he had everyone write all hour about the back of his thumb. Everyone gave him funny looks at the beginning of the hour, but everyone did it, and there wasn't a single complaint about "nothing to say."
In another class he changed the subject from the thumb to a coin, and got a full hour's writing from every student. In other classes it was the same. Some asked, "Do you have to write about both sides?" Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence-building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's. Classes where he used that coin exercise were always less balky and more interested.
As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything...from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
He discussed this with a professor of psychology who lived next door to him, an extremely imaginative teacher, who said, "Right. Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading system and then you'll get real education."
The Maplin and Elonex sites state that it operates on wireless b/g (it may be the case that this is with the WiFi update patch installed). Many people have reported being able to connect using WPA on the default OS and it's well documented that 3MX definitely handles WPA out-of-the-box.
Just thought I'd add that software patches to the Wi-Fi drivers have solved connectivity issues higlighted in that Gizmodo review. It's come a long way, baby !
I've got an Elonex ONEt, which is the same family as the Alpha 400 (along with Maplin CnMBook, Razorbook, Trendtac 700, etc). Lots of fun and hacking potential. Check out the alternative to the default OS - the 3MX distro by Wicknix.
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it. This is required for.torrents to work.
Not if there are enough seeders. Some BT clients (Transmission for one) allow you to throttle your upload speed to zero kb/sec. You can therefore leech 100% of the desired content without seeding a single byte to anyone else.
There's a whole chapter in The Mythical Man Month dedicated to exploring the "Second System Effect". Gnome developers avoid it, KDE developers embrace it. I think this is KDE's Achilles Heel.
Another result of Gnome's glacial progression is that its interface is 'less surprising' than KDE's. This is usually felt to be A Good Thing.
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How ironic that Slashdot should be punting an advert at the top of this very page saying "I'm Rich. You're Not. I Cracked The Code To Making Money. See How I Make $3 Million Per Year Doing Nothing. And How You Can Too."
User made videos are now targeted, as well as videos to the likeness of "look how I play $instrument to $song".
I wonder how many royalty payments Hervé Roy received for all the YouTube videos featuring the track "Lovers Theme" ?
I'm not the best storyteller, but hopefully I've managed to convey a bit of how long and confusing that process was for me.
On the contrary, that was very articulate and informative. Bravo, sir !
Mein Luftkissenfahrzeug ist voller Aale.
Mod +5. 'Nice one'.
I hurt my arm recently and am typing obe handed.
These aren't the typos you're looking for.
He experimented further. In one class he had everyone write all hour about the back of his thumb. Everyone gave him funny looks at the beginning of the hour, but everyone did it, and there wasn't a single complaint about "nothing to say."
In another class he changed the subject from the thumb to a coin, and got a full hour's writing from every student. In other classes it was the same. Some asked, "Do you have to write about both sides?" Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence-building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's. Classes where he used that coin exercise were always less balky and more interested.
As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything...from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
He discussed this with a professor of psychology who lived next door to him, an extremely imaginative teacher, who said, "Right. Eliminate the whole degree-and-grading system and then you'll get real education."
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
You can't polish a turd.
I tried that........and it's true. :(
The Maplin and Elonex sites state that it operates on wireless b/g (it may be the case that this is with the WiFi update patch installed). Many people have reported being able to connect using WPA on the default OS and it's well documented that 3MX definitely handles WPA out-of-the-box.
Just thought I'd add that software patches to the Wi-Fi drivers have solved connectivity issues higlighted in that Gizmodo review. It's come a long way, baby !
I've got an Elonex ONEt, which is the same family as the Alpha 400 (along with Maplin CnMBook, Razorbook, Trendtac 700, etc). Lots of fun and hacking potential. Check out the alternative to the default OS - the 3MX distro by Wicknix.
I've just made some toast and I believe the toaster is finally ready for the worktop. Well done everybody !
Does giving a cash gift to the UK government count ?
C'mon mods, that was both ontopic and funny. Made me smirk, at least.
Do things the RyanAir way.
You can't play high-performance games on a thin client over the Web. I can't believe anyone's still talking like it's possible. The sums don't add up.
I wonder what they'd make of musical wind sculptures in the garden of your workplace ?
How big could the stable music market possibly be?
You'd be surprised. It's the next biggest market after house music and garage music.
Yes. Yes, they can.
No. No, they can't.
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it. This is required for .torrents to work.
Not if there are enough seeders. Some BT clients (Transmission for one) allow you to throttle your upload speed to zero kb/sec. You can therefore leech 100% of the desired content without seeding a single byte to anyone else.
Oh noooooooes. An AC continues to be pissed off. How shall I sleep ?
There's a whole chapter in The Mythical Man Month dedicated to exploring the "Second System Effect". Gnome developers avoid it, KDE developers embrace it. I think this is KDE's Achilles Heel.
Another result of Gnome's glacial progression is that its interface is 'less surprising' than KDE's. This is usually felt to be A Good Thing.
Convert your movie files to M-JPEG and play them off an SD card through the Photo Channel.
a coworker of mine told me that his nephew (a 14 years old girl)
Uuuhhhh...