The problem is, either kids don't care about getting good grades, or they think they can handle the workload. You wouldn't believe how many times kids in my classes would not have work to do that next class, even though the teacher had provided opportunities the previous class to work on it, and they instead had goofed off.
While cell phones may provide good opportunities to teach time management, students aren't learning it.
It's unrealistic to say to a class, "Students, use your cell phones' web browsers to research the February Revolution" when not all students are going to have cell phones with web data plans. I know mine sure doesn't. It's more equal to either go to the library or get a mobile computer lab.
Also, not all kids who have technology are brilliant students who are only going to use it for research or other related activities. I knew this one kid who brought his laptop into school and would be playing World of Warcraft during class. Do you think every single kid packing a powerful cell phone is appropriately using that power for anything more important than texting their friends? No way! With a cell phone like that, I could SSH into my home network, I could easily research things while on the go, etc. Other students think their only purpose is a glorified gaming machine and texting machine.
Disclaimer: I do have games installed on my graphing calculator.
And speaking of not having girlfriends, I've got this great money-saving idea: wash the whites and colored laundry together. Saves a lot of money. Can't figure out why girls haven't caught on.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, near Portland, OR, there's a burger chain called (appropriately) Burgerville. Good burgers, and they claim to be made from the Northwest.
The thing is, privacy is something that's come to be expected by government officials. Look at the convention where they hashed out the Constitution, back in 1787. They ordered the meetings closed, and the windows locked, so that no one could see or hear what they were doing. The delegates were forbidden to leak details to the public. Remember this was also in Philadelphia, in the summer!
After I complained online to the FCC about the car warranty scammers calling my cell phone, I too received a letter stating that there had not been any infraction. So, I wrote a letter back to them, quoting the information they sent me, stating that it was an infraction. I demanded that they reinvestigate. Still haven't heard anything back from them.
More like, if you have a car, you can't drive it. Or park it. What with the daily congestion charge being 8 GBP ($12) and parking in the car parks running at least $50 a day, I sure would find a way to not need a car. Would I still want a car? Sure. But would I be willing to pay an outrageous amount? No way! I went to London as a tourist this last spring, and the sticker-shock was the most unpleasant part about London. Nice people, OK transportation, astronomical prices. That doesn't really encourage me as a tourist to come back.
I'm willing to guess I know what the problem is. Many of the older cities in Europe (the ones with narrow streets) were built when primary modes of transportation were walking, and horse-riding.
U.S. cities, on the other hand, and in particular, West Coast cities, are built with either a horse-and-buggy mentality, or a car mentality. As the suburbs developed in the 1950's, it allowed many people to get out of the city, and enjoy a higher quality of life than could be experienced right in the city center. As I've already discussed London in an earlier post, I'll use New York City. Awful city. Absolutely made me sick. I could not wait to get out of that city. Do you know what their idea of a backyard is? I'm prepared to say, "Nothing." Do you know what their idea of a front-yard is? This little window-box. I think in at least the parts of London I visited, it was similar.
I live in the suburb of a medium-sized Western city, and we have probably an eighth of an acre for backyard space alone. And we aren't even in a rural area. We're in the suburbs. Another twenty minutes from where I live, I can be out in the countryside. We have access to a wide variety of resources that necessitate vehicular travel, as public transportation does not make sense:
We travel to an island north of the city to pick fruit for canning. Can you imagine hauling ten buckets of apples on a bus?
The church we attend is in another part of the city, and if we used our bus system, it would take us fifty minutes each way. (By car, fifteen minutes.)
I have never figured out how students who ride the bus manage to get those large posterboards for projects, or instruments such as tubas, or string basses, manage. At least the instrument I play (trombone) isn't that bad.
P.S. I can't harass the Brits entirely though. I like the idea of the "right-to-wander." Or is that only in Scotland?
Of course, forget about it in the US, except maybe in Oregon.
Considering I live in Oregon, maybe I can comment on this.:-)
Yes, it certainly is a total piece of crap because it doesn't suit your lifestyle.
It seems like you are attacking MichaelSmith. He did not say the car was a total piece of crap. He merely said it would not fit his lifestyle. Where I live in Oregon, it does not make a whole lot of sense for me to use public transportation. It's inconvenient, and would actually cost more.
However, in Dublin, New York City, or London (I've visited all three), public transportation could make a lot more sense, particularly if I didn't want to deal with congestion problems. London, for example, charges some outrageous fee each time one wants to drive into the city center. (How they do this is a technological marvel in-and-of-itself. Read more.) A car like this could also make sense in rural Ireland, where sometimes their ideas of highways are Americans' ideas of impassable.
While the people of Portland, Eugene, and Ashland (and I suppose Salem as well) like to promote the "greenness" of Oregon, there are still gazillions of SUVs and trucks, even in the suburbs of Portland.
I prefer to look at the English language as a precise lexicon. Each word has a precise meaning, that is, gigantic is smaller than huge (this can depend on which dictionary one uses). Writing then becomes like computer programming: Each word is a tool, used for a precise purpose. Just as one does not use a screwdriver as a hammer, one does not use "feline," when the target audience clearly demands the term "cat," or "pussycat." One does not use BASIC for writing CGI scripts, just as one does not use Perl for writing MS-DOS programs from 1995.
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Sure, but we still have to deal with the people who fail.
The problem is, either kids don't care about getting good grades, or they think they can handle the workload. You wouldn't believe how many times kids in my classes would not have work to do that next class, even though the teacher had provided opportunities the previous class to work on it, and they instead had goofed off.
While cell phones may provide good opportunities to teach time management, students aren't learning it.
It's unrealistic to say to a class, "Students, use your cell phones' web browsers to research the February Revolution" when not all students are going to have cell phones with web data plans. I know mine sure doesn't. It's more equal to either go to the library or get a mobile computer lab.
Also, not all kids who have technology are brilliant students who are only going to use it for research or other related activities. I knew this one kid who brought his laptop into school and would be playing World of Warcraft during class. Do you think every single kid packing a powerful cell phone is appropriately using that power for anything more important than texting their friends? No way! With a cell phone like that, I could SSH into my home network, I could easily research things while on the go, etc. Other students think their only purpose is a glorified gaming machine and texting machine.
Disclaimer: I do have games installed on my graphing calculator.
Uhhhh, why would you cook your pockets?!
And speaking of not having girlfriends, I've got this great money-saving idea: wash the whites and colored laundry together. Saves a lot of money. Can't figure out why girls haven't caught on.
Our customers on the other hand...
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, near Portland, OR, there's a burger chain called (appropriately) Burgerville. Good burgers, and they claim to be made from the Northwest.
My scheme...
Why didn't they just build it in Maine?
The thing is, privacy is something that's come to be expected by government officials. Look at the convention where they hashed out the Constitution, back in 1787. They ordered the meetings closed, and the windows locked, so that no one could see or hear what they were doing. The delegates were forbidden to leak details to the public. Remember this was also in Philadelphia, in the summer!
He was going to attack the crew by giving them paper cuts.
Doesn't that assume that all Republicans are rich people? Bad assumption, and stereotypical.
Why do you have a problem with anarchy? I, for one, welcome our new anarchist overlords.
Only three lines? Let's see...
Bebo, Facebook, Slashdot, Gmail, Launchpad, Fedora Wiki, Archive.org, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Hotmail. *Whew*
I'd better write really small.
Err, what's wrong with Daylight Savings Time?
After I complained online to the FCC about the car warranty scammers calling my cell phone, I too received a letter stating that there had not been any infraction. So, I wrote a letter back to them, quoting the information they sent me, stating that it was an infraction. I demanded that they reinvestigate. Still haven't heard anything back from them.
But does it run Linux?
What license would this be released under? Will there be a fork project?
You don't need a car in London, for example.
More like, if you have a car, you can't drive it. Or park it. What with the daily congestion charge being 8 GBP ($12) and parking in the car parks running at least $50 a day, I sure would find a way to not need a car. Would I still want a car? Sure. But would I be willing to pay an outrageous amount? No way! I went to London as a tourist this last spring, and the sticker-shock was the most unpleasant part about London. Nice people, OK transportation, astronomical prices. That doesn't really encourage me as a tourist to come back.
I'm willing to guess I know what the problem is. Many of the older cities in Europe (the ones with narrow streets) were built when primary modes of transportation were walking, and horse-riding.
U.S. cities, on the other hand, and in particular, West Coast cities, are built with either a horse-and-buggy mentality, or a car mentality. As the suburbs developed in the 1950's, it allowed many people to get out of the city, and enjoy a higher quality of life than could be experienced right in the city center. As I've already discussed London in an earlier post, I'll use New York City. Awful city. Absolutely made me sick. I could not wait to get out of that city. Do you know what their idea of a backyard is? I'm prepared to say, "Nothing." Do you know what their idea of a front-yard is? This little window-box. I think in at least the parts of London I visited, it was similar.
I live in the suburb of a medium-sized Western city, and we have probably an eighth of an acre for backyard space alone. And we aren't even in a rural area. We're in the suburbs. Another twenty minutes from where I live, I can be out in the countryside. We have access to a wide variety of resources that necessitate vehicular travel, as public transportation does not make sense:
P.S. I can't harass the Brits entirely though. I like the idea of the "right-to-wander." Or is that only in Scotland?
Of course, forget about it in the US, except maybe in Oregon.
Considering I live in Oregon, maybe I can comment on this. :-)
Yes, it certainly is a total piece of crap because it doesn't suit your lifestyle.
It seems like you are attacking MichaelSmith. He did not say the car was a total piece of crap. He merely said it would not fit his lifestyle. Where I live in Oregon, it does not make a whole lot of sense for me to use public transportation. It's inconvenient, and would actually cost more.
However, in Dublin, New York City, or London (I've visited all three), public transportation could make a lot more sense, particularly if I didn't want to deal with congestion problems. London, for example, charges some outrageous fee each time one wants to drive into the city center. (How they do this is a technological marvel in-and-of-itself. Read more.) A car like this could also make sense in rural Ireland, where sometimes their ideas of highways are Americans' ideas of impassable.
While the people of Portland, Eugene, and Ashland (and I suppose Salem as well) like to promote the "greenness" of Oregon, there are still gazillions of SUVs and trucks, even in the suburbs of Portland.
True. One can be precise, but wrong.
I prefer to look at the English language as a precise lexicon. Each word has a precise meaning, that is, gigantic is smaller than huge (this can depend on which dictionary one uses). Writing then becomes like computer programming: Each word is a tool, used for a precise purpose. Just as one does not use a screwdriver as a hammer, one does not use "feline," when the target audience clearly demands the term "cat," or "pussycat." One does not use BASIC for writing CGI scripts, just as one does not use Perl for writing MS-DOS programs from 1995.
One possible way would be a jet of energy streaming from a rotating black hole...
Wikipedia article.
You don't even need drinking to make it bad. :-D
It's not necessarily sexist...my mom has always told me that I can have a nice wedding quite inexpensively. But then, what ./er gets married?
And don't forget the animated GIFs of flaming torches and spinning globes!
And a cheezy-looking GIF of a spider, or a web. (For being on the "Web." :p)
I didn't know that there were that many homeless Slashdotters. :-)