It really depends entirely on the method of delivery. I've had a few classes with an outstanding professore here who makes every effort to tailor his lectures to the students he's teaching. He has won several awards for his methods of pedagogy (sp). Like anything else, the addition of laptops to the classroom is a tool which can be abused, misuesd, or manage to become very benificial.
If implimented correctly, all that clickety-tatp-tap-tappety could be no more distracting then the sound of pens scratching across the paper and calculator buttons being jammed to the contact pad.
I still can't shake the image I have of the first laptop I saw in a class... The guy was looking at porno on the second row of a C programming class on his new dell. After a little while, and due to several laughs from those behind him, the professor came over and walked up behind him.
After that, the embarresd student was given the task of being the note monkey at the front of the class for the slides. The proff never let him live it down. I don't think that kid will ever look at porno again without remembering the look on the professors face.:)
Agreed. we have a limited use 4600 which has revolutionized out productions here. We had an old HP1200 deskjet which would suck ink. It was running about 2 cartridges every two weeks. Now we're at one cartrisge a month on it, and the big jobs get done on the laserjet. It's going to be about 600$ a year to run the hp4600. As opposed to well over 600 for the deskjet. And we get a lot better document quality. The deskjet or our hp4050 and 4000 are used for drafts, with the final cut being made on the hp4600.
Yeah, but the whole point here is that they have to come clean with some VERY clear IP examples to be able to pull this off and not get the crap sued out of them by corperations which rely on Linux for what ammounts to extorsion.
Until the've showed us "theirs", we are under an obligation to not show us our green.
Either this is the longest running, most dangerous game of poker/russian roulette/quiditch that I've ever seen, or someone's smoking some floppy disks over at SCO.
My secret opinion is that Microsoft, who recently announced that Linux is their number 2 threat, may have secretly bought out SCO and is using them as a sacrificial tool to destabilize the market and kill linux.
Aside from the fact that this isn't a *secret* anymore, I just also relized that this is scarry as hell, since it would mean the SCO (dba Microsoft's player) doesn't give an FSCK if they make it through this.
The funny thing is, I just tried to use that page to give him some words addressing my position and experiences, thoughts, what not. The "submit information" link didn't wokr in Safari.:) So, since I'm not using Windo$e, my voice is not herad without going through some effort. All I wanted was an email address to email him at...
I've actually completely banished Office 2000 from the systems I manage. It's usually okay on the initial install on win2k machines, but can get disasterously unstable when you try to patch it (the'res three major patches now. ) Xp is also a smaller install for the options we use. And if you don't install the fscking clipguy, it doesn't wig out. And the patches have never given me a problem.
The SCSI issues with XP have made it unusable for most things. And it's too big to install on most of the older machines which run fine with win2k. The'll be getting SP4 in the next week or so. Best,
My favorite thus far is mineral oil. A close second is Poly alkylene Glycol. (PAG, Union Carbide Heat Transfer Lubricant. 75-H-90000 is best for PC temperatures.) Cool part is, it's miscible with water if you want to make is a little less viscous. Third would require some back of the large notebook paper calculations involving boiling points of some alchohols. I think Hexanol is close for a PC. (To set up a complete refridgeration cycle.)
Wierd... My dual AMD MP2000+'s run in the mid 40's under full load. Sure you've goot good ventillation? Our other AMD systems also usually max out at about 45 ^\circ C. (Antec 400W Fileservercase with 5 case fans. 2 antec and 3 coolmaster. ) Original AMD CPU fans.
You should see this thing eat through climatology models with 3 gigs of ram:)
An even better one exists.. If you've got a box on a network without a domain and it's running sendmail, a few settings will check for the domain name FQDN until they fail. Couple this with a program which tries to send to a local aliased name. Since it can't find itself in the DNS, and since it doesn't have one, it loops in the MTA prettymuch forever spooling off errors to the postmaster account. Even frying the spools doesn't always help.
I second... classical music is rarely sold at bestbuy/target.etc.. If it is, I've already got a better recording of it, can't stand the artist, or it costs 17.99 and never goes down. I've gotten some good steals (read, 6.99 cd's which are good recordings.) But have to spend an hour looking for them and "hope" the recording is good. For a classcal music buff, the RIAA and CD industry in general doesn't carter to my needs. I don't give a rats ass about most modern artists who can't even deal with a key change or read music. (There are exceptions.:) ) But there are so many GREAT classical musicians and playing ensembles out there which would make great recordings for reasonable costs if the RIAA would get off its ass.
And able to sustain the impacts of shards deflected off the shoddyly manufactured cheap disks as the shatter in your drive...I've had lables come off at regular speeds. (j would second this.) PNY media NEVER goes in my drives anymore.
Actually, now we have something to do with all the frisbies and AOL cd's/cup coasters we've been saving over the years, dont we.
Yep. Sure is... It's going to be tough for them to sell the concept of using ChickenWire(tm) to hold back the flood. Just doesn't hold water.
I DON't trust Microsoft enough yet to control my hardware. I can't see how this is anything but a pipe dream on their part. Statistically, they do not have a chance at pulling it off. (Win2k's alright now...)
But I'm sure This is just phase two. Phase is locking IE into the os (no more stand alone.) Office is next. Phase two: Provide record companies with a P2P solution so that MS can get their financial backing via free advertising. Phase 3:...?? Phase 4: Profit!
The only papers I've been involved in required *only* MS word files since it's the *industry standard*. We've never had a M$ word file submit right the first time. Much of the scientific publishing world has sold out and lost the benefits of working with pre typeset docs. I've gotten rather good at turning my LyX docs into word files, but I'll NEVER stoop to developing docs in word. 1. LyX is the reason why I switched to linux. 2. I've published a paper and am working on a second in lyx, which will have to be converted to word at the end. 3. This is ON TOPIC becasue I'm also working on a lengthy SCI-FI novel project using LyX. Which I had to manually fix because Word removed every single freaking apostrphy and quote from the document. (Some 80k words at the time.) 4. My editor choice is myself and my friends.
The problem is, even in the 20K-200K range of hardware, the software usually sucks. Or the install isn't stable. One example, (albiet cheaper one) I've been dealing with is a simple scale that sends data over a serial port to a PC. Using VB, you can occasionally get reliable results while taking data into Excel. Even through the software to do this cost as much as the scale. On the other side of my fence, I've been using Linux for about a year now to do video capture and acquire temperatures from a networked DAQ unit. It's effortless after installed. I'm looking into similar linux based solutions to running two old units, a DDA-06 and a DAS-16 to record thermocuple data realtime. The linux projects for these are actually really good, far exceding the windows based controls. The problem is the age of the boards (ISA, mid 80's) which are actually still sold today by several vendors including Omega. Unfortunatly, you need to be a god of electrical juices inorder to calibrate the darn things.
...one who enjoyed the first matrix...I HAVE to say that Matrix Reloaded spoiled itself. There is about 25 minutes of good footage in the movie. Half the dialouges should have been cut, another quarter should have been shortened. The town hall "orgy" session yeally didn't fit AT ALL. Yes, the party at the end, should have been in Zion, but there is still a lot left to do. They broke the rule, as a friend put it, of accomplishing something in the middle movie of a series. They didn't get anywhere at all until the last 10 minutes of the movie. As to the links to society, I believe this movie has its best (and only worth while meaning) when viewd as the posts suggest, as an example of our society. Points: 1. Shock and Awe is used as to soften the watcher to cover the lack of thought while storyboarding the flick. 2. While the world is being destroyed and all chances are of human survival are waxing, eveyone gets down and boogies in their own ways, ignoring the impending doom for a little while (perhaps too long). Except for the ONE. (Which is the redeaming and hopful message of the movie.) 3. Internal politics in the administration bifurcate the command structure, introduce strife and almost do in humanity. If it wasn't for that council member, who made the point (and joke) that there was no point... 4. If you drive a Caddy, you ARE invincible. Sorry, if you take off the back of a BMW with that SUT, the front of the truck would be gone as well.
*Ends rant here.*
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Oh, Come on... I've got ants in half my machines at work... It's called being in the basement at the university which used to do ant experiments, and working near cornsyrup. (JK, I actually acetone all the ants to death. Yes I know it's flamable, but I try to be careful around live computers.)
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This is by far one of the most pivital breakthroughs I've seen in a while. Makes me want to fire up our lasers and start playing...However, they haven't accomplished this yet..
"We ought to be able to do things that have never been possible before," Joannopoulos. While this is true, its application remains to be seen. I'll wait with held breath for their publication.
On the same note, I wounder wheather this is just the begining of similar earth shattering (whell, light bending in this case) breakthroughs in other fields due to bringing ideas of two different fields together. Most optics people I know would never even consider bringing sound into the picture.
My prediction: new sight and smell techniques will revolutionze the way scientists do research by allowing for instantaneous point density determinations in complex 3-d flows. (Extremely useful!) This will happen when this advacment using sound to modify crystal properties is coupled with a device that picks up minute particle changes over a surface (smell) and correlates the two internally.
I haven't bought a single CD sinde napster got hosed. considering the status of my CD collection (mostly classical) and my MP3 collection (which is all the CD's in the house, plus recordings of concerts which I've played in) have been static since even before this... I buy CD's to put them into the computer as MP3's But I HATE bad recordings of good pieces of music. Listening to it first is the only way you can tell.
Yeah, one has skill but often little expression, the other thinks they do, but uses the skill they think they have to express themselves. I'll let you figure out which. *ducks*
As someone who legitimatily and necessarily sends over 100 emails a week, and most of these are directly related to my employment and related actvities, this is disturbing. Who gets the money though? The people whos hardware is "used" or the G-man. I guess either way it wouldn't matter much, since both would have the same hypothetical effect on spammers. I'm sure this would be a logistics nightmare on university campusii where mail servers are not eentirely centeralized. And there would be a whole new string of loopholes related to spoofing, and accounts with "bulk sending rates" and such.
My bet would be that intranet mail on campus networks would probably still be free to send for a long time after such a change in the books.
Still, this is like slashing away at the core benifit of the net. I feel it sharply, having started my networking experience in a Freenet Helpdesk office many years ago. Mostly helping people send free email through a free account.
Dbase3 can't even deal with years. And NO ONE ever gets paid more than ONCE a month in Dbase's world.:)
If we ever turn on our annuls experiment, the code was written mostly in the 70's-80's. Should still work. I think it's all in a drawer full of punch cards. It worked when it was last used and has been kept in condidition.
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It really depends entirely on the method of delivery. I've had a few classes with an outstanding professore here who makes every effort to tailor his lectures to the students he's teaching. He has won several awards for his methods of pedagogy (sp). Like anything else, the addition of laptops to the classroom is a tool which can be abused, misuesd, or manage to become very benificial.
:)
If implimented correctly, all that clickety-tatp-tap-tappety could be no more distracting then the sound of pens scratching across the paper and calculator buttons being jammed to the contact pad.
I still can't shake the image I have of the first laptop I saw in a class... The guy was looking at porno on the second row of a C programming class on his new dell. After a little while, and due to several laughs from those behind him, the professor came over and walked up behind him.
After that, the embarresd student was given the task of being the note monkey at the front of the class for the slides. The proff never let him live it down. I don't think that kid will ever look at porno again without remembering the look on the professors face.
No, the kid was not me...
Agreed. we have a limited use 4600 which has revolutionized out productions here. We had an old HP1200 deskjet which would suck ink. It was running about 2 cartridges every two weeks. Now we're at one cartrisge a month on it, and the big jobs get done on the laserjet. It's going to be about 600$ a year to run the hp4600. As opposed to well over 600 for the deskjet. And we get a lot better document quality. The deskjet or our hp4050 and 4000 are used for drafts, with the final cut being made on the hp4600.
Yeah, but the whole point here is that they have to come clean with some VERY clear IP examples to be able to pull this off and not get the crap sued out of them by corperations which rely on Linux for what ammounts to extorsion.
Until the've showed us "theirs", we are under an obligation to not show us our green.
Either this is the longest running, most dangerous game of poker/russian roulette/quiditch that I've ever seen, or someone's smoking some floppy disks over at SCO.
My secret opinion is that Microsoft, who recently announced that Linux is their number 2 threat, may have secretly bought out SCO and is using them as a sacrificial tool to destabilize the market and kill linux.
Aside from the fact that this isn't a *secret* anymore, I just also relized that this is scarry as hell, since it would mean the SCO (dba Microsoft's player) doesn't give an FSCK if they make it through this.
Yikes
The funny thing is, I just tried to use that page to give him some words addressing my position and experiences, thoughts, what not. The "submit information" link didn't wokr in Safari. :) So, since I'm not using Windo$e, my voice is not herad without going through some effort. All I wanted was an email address to email him at...
Best,
I've actually completely banished Office 2000 from the systems I manage. It's usually okay on the initial install on win2k machines, but can get disasterously unstable when you try to patch it (the'res three major patches now. ) Xp is also a smaller install for the options we use. And if you don't install the fscking clipguy, it doesn't wig out. And the patches have never given me a problem.
The SCSI issues with XP have made it unusable for most things. And it's too big to install on most of the older machines which run fine with win2k.
The'll be getting SP4 in the next week or so.
Best,
My favorite thus far is mineral oil. A close second is Poly alkylene Glycol. (PAG, Union Carbide Heat Transfer Lubricant. 75-H-90000 is best for PC temperatures.) Cool part is, it's miscible with water if you want to make is a little less viscous. Third would require some back of the large notebook paper calculations involving boiling points of some alchohols. I think Hexanol is close for a PC. (To set up a complete refridgeration cycle.)
Wierd... My dual AMD MP2000+'s run in the mid 40's under full load. Sure you've goot good ventillation? Our other AMD systems also usually max out at about 45 ^\circ C. (Antec 400W Fileservercase with 5 case fans. 2 antec and 3 coolmaster. ) Original AMD CPU fans.
:)
You should see this thing eat through climatology models with 3 gigs of ram
PLEASE don't tell my boss about this... He'll freak and I'll never get him to stop using Word 5.0 on mac OS (as old as possible...)
And all caught for a $0.75 discrepency on a phone bill. :)
To quote Rowling
Moody: CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!
An even better one exists.. If you've got a box on a network without a domain and it's running sendmail, a few settings will check for the domain name FQDN until they fail. Couple this with a program which tries to send to a local aliased name. Since it can't find itself in the DNS, and since it doesn't have one, it loops in the MTA prettymuch forever spooling off errors to the postmaster account. Even frying the spools doesn't always help.
I second... classical music is rarely sold at bestbuy/target.etc.. If it is, I've already got a better recording of it, can't stand the artist, or it costs 17.99 and never goes down. I've gotten some good steals (read, 6.99 cd's which are good recordings.) But have to spend an hour looking for them and "hope" the recording is good. For a classcal music buff, the RIAA and CD industry in general doesn't carter to my needs. I don't give a rats ass about most modern artists who can't even deal with a key change or read music. (There are exceptions.:) ) But there are so many GREAT classical musicians and playing ensembles out there which would make great recordings for reasonable costs if the RIAA would get off its ass.
Ah well, rant ends here.
And able to sustain the impacts of shards deflected off the shoddyly manufactured cheap disks as the shatter in your drive...I've had lables come off at regular speeds. (j would second this.) PNY media NEVER goes in my drives anymore.
:)
Actually, now we have something to do with all the frisbies and AOL cd's/cup coasters we've been saving over the years, dont we.
I'll bring over my dremel this weekend.
Another thing to get out of the way...They probably didn't even consider the fact that some people use linux on those other 5 computes our of the ten.
Yep. Sure is... It's going to be tough for them to sell the concept of using ChickenWire(tm) to hold back the flood. Just doesn't hold water.
...??
:)
I DON't trust Microsoft enough yet to control my hardware. I can't see how this is anything but a pipe dream on their part. Statistically, they do not have a chance at pulling it off. (Win2k's alright now...)
But I'm sure This is just phase two. Phase is locking IE into the os (no more stand alone.) Office is next. Phase two: Provide record companies with a P2P solution so that MS can get their financial backing via free advertising. Phase 3:
Phase 4: Profit!
Who said they've never copied anything before.
The only papers I've been involved in required *only* MS word files since it's the *industry standard*. We've never had a M$ word file submit right the first time. Much of the scientific publishing world has sold out and lost the benefits of working with pre typeset docs.
I've gotten rather good at turning my LyX docs into word files, but I'll NEVER stoop to developing docs in word.
1. LyX is the reason why I switched to linux.
2. I've published a paper and am working on a second in lyx, which will have to be converted to word at the end.
3. This is ON TOPIC becasue I'm also working on a lengthy SCI-FI novel project using LyX. Which I had to manually fix because Word removed every single freaking apostrphy and quote from the document. (Some 80k words at the time.)
4. My editor choice is myself and my friends.
The problem is, even in the 20K-200K range of hardware, the software usually sucks. Or the install isn't stable.
One example, (albiet cheaper one) I've been dealing with is a simple scale that sends data over a serial port to a PC. Using VB, you can occasionally get reliable results while taking data into Excel. Even through the software to do this cost as much as the scale.
On the other side of my fence, I've been using Linux for about a year now to do video capture and acquire temperatures from a networked DAQ unit. It's effortless after installed.
I'm looking into similar linux based solutions to running two old units, a DDA-06 and a DAS-16 to record thermocuple data realtime. The linux projects for these are actually really good, far exceding the windows based controls. The problem is the age of the boards (ISA, mid 80's) which are actually still sold today by several vendors including Omega. Unfortunatly, you need to be a god of electrical juices inorder to calibrate the darn things.
Hey, the're BORG...Resistance is futile. :)
...one who enjoyed the first matrix...I HAVE to say that Matrix Reloaded spoiled itself. There is about 25 minutes of good footage in the movie. Half the dialouges should have been cut, another quarter should have been shortened. The town hall "orgy" session yeally didn't fit AT ALL. Yes, the party at the end, should have been in Zion, but there is still a lot left to do.
They broke the rule, as a friend put it, of accomplishing something in the middle movie of a series. They didn't get anywhere at all until the last 10 minutes of the movie.
As to the links to society, I believe this movie has its best (and only worth while meaning) when viewd as the posts suggest, as an example of our society. Points:
1. Shock and Awe is used as to soften the watcher to cover the lack of thought while storyboarding the flick.
2. While the world is being destroyed and all chances are of human survival are waxing, eveyone gets down and boogies in their own ways, ignoring the impending doom for a little while (perhaps too long). Except for the ONE. (Which is the redeaming and hopful message of the movie.)
3. Internal politics in the administration bifurcate the command structure, introduce strife and almost do in humanity. If it wasn't for that council member, who made the point (and joke) that there was no point...
4. If you drive a Caddy, you ARE invincible. Sorry, if you take off the back of a BMW with that SUT, the front of the truck would be gone as well.
*Ends rant here.*
Oh, Come on... I've got ants in half my machines at work... It's called being in the basement at the university which used to do ant experiments, and working near cornsyrup. (JK, I actually acetone all the ants to death. Yes I know it's flamable, but I try to be careful around live computers.)
"We ought to be able to do things that have never been possible before," Joannopoulos. While this is true, its application remains to be seen. I'll wait with held breath for their publication.
On the same note, I wounder wheather this is just the begining of similar earth shattering (whell, light bending in this case) breakthroughs in other fields due to bringing ideas of two different fields together. Most optics people I know would never even consider bringing sound into the picture.
My prediction: new sight and smell techniques will revolutionze the way scientists do research by allowing for instantaneous point density determinations in complex 3-d flows. (Extremely useful!) This will happen when this advacment using sound to modify crystal properties is coupled with a device that picks up minute particle changes over a surface (smell) and correlates the two internally.
I haven't bought a single CD sinde napster got hosed. considering the status of my CD collection (mostly classical) and my MP3 collection (which is all the CD's in the house, plus recordings of concerts which I've played in) have been static since even before this...
I buy CD's to put them into the computer as MP3's But I HATE bad recordings of good pieces of music. Listening to it first is the only way you can tell.
Yeah, one has skill but often little expression, the other thinks they do, but uses the skill they think they have to express themselves. I'll let you figure out which. *ducks*
As someone who legitimatily and necessarily sends over 100 emails a week, and most of these are directly related to my employment and related actvities, this is disturbing. Who gets the money though? The people whos hardware is "used" or the G-man.
I guess either way it wouldn't matter much, since both would have the same hypothetical effect on spammers.
I'm sure this would be a logistics nightmare on university campusii where mail servers are not eentirely centeralized. And there would be a whole new string of loopholes related to spoofing, and accounts with "bulk sending rates" and such.
My bet would be that intranet mail on campus networks would probably still be free to send for a long time after such a change in the books.
Still, this is like slashing away at the core benifit of the net. I feel it sharply, having started my networking experience in a Freenet Helpdesk office many years ago. Mostly helping people send free email through a free account.
Dbase3 can't even deal with years. And NO ONE ever gets paid more than ONCE a month in Dbase's world. :)
If we ever turn on our annuls experiment, the code was written mostly in the 70's-80's. Should still work. I think it's all in a drawer full of punch cards. It worked when it was last used and has been kept in condidition.
If could listen to the music first...
(had to do it)