Honestly, I would love this guy as a teacher. It seems right up my alley.
As far as the 1-2 hours of homework/night goes, I rather hope that's not every night. A 4 hour assignment that you can work on every night and is due every Friday, or some sort of "not every night homework, but I have a list of stuff I need to do and when it needs to be done" is probably the best. It also teaches time management because if something is hard enough, the kids will figure out quick how to keep up with it. Anyhow, most districts have + points or +GPA for taking a AP class. It's meant to be harder.
Having been through the AP program with as many AP classes I could take (gifted for the rest), you will NEVER consistently have 4-6 hours of homework a night. On average I had about 30 min, less if I managed to pull some free time in class and get it done. Maybe once or twice a fortnight I'd have more than an hour or two.
@Londovir
Keep on doing what you're done. The kids who manage to succeed in your class will look back and thank you for it in the future.
I find this intriguing. Could you point my browser in a direction such that I could find said home brew titles? I presume there's a sort of gathering place where you can learn more.
I'll agree with what you said. Restrictions will cause the kids to break the restrictions. It's their nature to rebel against "The Man," and you never thought you'd be the Man, right? They're going to try their darnedest to break whatever you throw at them.
At my HS we had a bunch of filtering. We found we could change just 1 setting in Netscape to get around the block. After the school district ditched Netscape, students proceeded to use proxies. It took all of 2 days to find a new proxy that worked on the school's network. (Most of what they did was harmless, since the *game* was banned from all URLs and searches. Slime Volleyball and other flash games were popular at the time).
You're also going to run into the script kiddies that are at every high school. You give them a personal machine with unfettered access at night, and access to the school network during the day (presumably with wifi so they can use during class?), and you're just asking for trouble. Remember, OS X can have its admin password wiped with just the installation DVDs. That machine can no longer be considered secure once it goes home for the first time.
Yes, this looks ridiculous considering it's a voting machine, but to me it looks like a pretty normal software bug. I've seen far worse things get paste a full blown QA team.
It seems that's a fairly normal typo, and got past your preview pane
I didn't have an ounce of programming until I hit college. I took MATLAB presuming I'd be an engineer, but then I decided to go for CS. I just finished my first semester of Java (Final was today)
Honestly I think learning MATLAB first helped, since I was vaguely familiar with the concepts of conditionals, loops, arrays and whatnot, before I moved into OOP. For me it was just a matter of learning the fundamentals of OO and applying them to what I already knew. It worked for me, though it may not work for anyone else.
Actually, this is really appealing to me. I get a G1, while I'm at AT&T subscriber, and I don't care about 3G since I'm on a student living on campus ("free" wifi). Hell I've only got 2 more years.
My friend at school bought a Mac for that reason--development, because he had been only using Windows PCs up to that point, and now he can say he's developed on multiple platforms.
I've recently considered getting a Mac, but can any one tell me why I'd get a Mac and dual boot Windows versus using my current laptop with XP and Ubuntu? For my uses XP has been perfectly stable, and I mainly put Ubuntu on to try to learn Linux, but some of my peripherals don't work, so I just end up using XP ~99% of the time.
Ask your co-op adviser what the range of pay is for a Tech student. They'll have better information than any 3rd party website, since the Co-op office has everything. I'd say $13-17 is a decent range. I got offered one a job at $12 and ended up turning it down for a job that pays $16, though I got no fringe benefits (no paid vacation, no paid holidays, no 401k or health benefits). In comparison, my first job paid $2 less per hour, but I received 2 days/term paid vacation, paid holidays, bereavement leave (which I unfortunately had to take to go to a funeral), 6% match in a 401k, and modest Christmas bonus.
Instead of just looking at paid wages, look at the non-taxed benefits they're giving you. You may think "Oh, but they're paying me more" and that could be fine for your situation right now (you get health insurance through your parents, you don't think you need to save for retirement atm, and there's not many holidays in the term), but believe me it's better to have benefits than none at all.
I know when I was growing up I had a chemistry set from the discovery channel store. It was a fold out set with pipets, a small beaker, some non-toxic chemicals for the included experiment manual, and some other stuff. This appears to be close to what I had, but sans fold-out case: http://shopping.discovery.com/product-60266.html?endecaSID=11D909851918
Another thing I had for a while was a magic kit. It was a large box with assorted tricks. My parents got it from Costco. While I'm not sure if your son likes magic, Costco/Sams Club/BJ's Warehouse has a bunch of seasonal toys that may be up his alley.
I didn't see that documentary you're referring to, but was this just a random sampling or was it from one area? If the millionaire lived next to the "poor" person, he might consider himself rich and say middle class to be modest, though he might also live in a affluent neighborhood where everyone is a millionaire, and thus consider himself middle class relative to them. Wealth is definitely relative.
I'm waiting for the inevitable "glitch" that causes two-thirds of EA accounts to be banned from all EA games. They'll have lost all their records of who was legitimately banned and who was glitched, causing hundreds of thousands of EA players to rebuy their favorite games and register new accounts to pplay them.
Bargain with IT. In exchange for not encrypting the drive, you can physically secure the machine, with stuff like door codes.
Another option is to go higher than IT, to some administrator type. State that your research project is in jeopardy because of the new rules, and if you cannot get the project done (but you could if the restrictions were removed for your lab), there won't be any more grants. Administrators might be more concerned with the prestige of the lab than IT, so they'll pass a decree to the IT "automatons" (as EmagGeek said), which in turn will help you.
I believe that's the point, to not be able to tell. The hours are bumped so you wake up when it's light, work during the light hours, and go to sleep when it's dark. If we didn't change the clocks then supposedly you'll use more energy by turning on lights when it's dark out, because it's 7am and you have to get ready for work. You also don't have to spend any additional effort darkening your room to go to sleep at night.
While I think it's silly (we have enough technology to synchronize time; no more sun dials, and everyone flips the light on in the morning anyhow, so there's really no power savings), I don't see this going away anytime soon.
It's not a democracy, it's a Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic
We elect representatives to vote on what we think will be our behalf. If it was a democracy we'd be directly voting on every measure.
I go to college with a pretty widespread wifi network, and I also have a laptop, yet I do not carry it with me to class since it's a pain to carry while walking across our rather expansive campus (which you have to do since the buses are unreliable). I would love to be able to check my email or just idly surf the web between classes without going to a computer lab.
I'm intending to buy some smart phone or other device so I can use the internet wherever once I can figure out how to not pay for AT&T's 3G network since I live on a campus and will have "free" wifi for the next 2 years. I've considered the iTouch but I'm trying to avoid carrying around multiple devices if I don't need to.
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Honestly, I would love this guy as a teacher. It seems right up my alley.
As far as the 1-2 hours of homework/night goes, I rather hope that's not every night. A 4 hour assignment that you can work on every night and is due every Friday, or some sort of "not every night homework, but I have a list of stuff I need to do and when it needs to be done" is probably the best. It also teaches time management because if something is hard enough, the kids will figure out quick how to keep up with it. Anyhow, most districts have + points or +GPA for taking a AP class. It's meant to be harder.
Having been through the AP program with as many AP classes I could take (gifted for the rest), you will NEVER consistently have 4-6 hours of homework a night. On average I had about 30 min, less if I managed to pull some free time in class and get it done. Maybe once or twice a fortnight I'd have more than an hour or two.
@Londovir Keep on doing what you're done. The kids who manage to succeed in your class will look back and thank you for it in the future.
I find this intriguing. Could you point my browser in a direction such that I could find said home brew titles? I presume there's a sort of gathering place where you can learn more.
You forgot about the pirates. Where else would you go to see a real life pirate other than anywhere else in the world.
I'll agree with what you said. Restrictions will cause the kids to break the restrictions. It's their nature to rebel against "The Man," and you never thought you'd be the Man, right? They're going to try their darnedest to break whatever you throw at them.
At my HS we had a bunch of filtering. We found we could change just 1 setting in Netscape to get around the block. After the school district ditched Netscape, students proceeded to use proxies. It took all of 2 days to find a new proxy that worked on the school's network. (Most of what they did was harmless, since the *game* was banned from all URLs and searches. Slime Volleyball and other flash games were popular at the time).
You're also going to run into the script kiddies that are at every high school. You give them a personal machine with unfettered access at night, and access to the school network during the day (presumably with wifi so they can use during class?), and you're just asking for trouble. Remember, OS X can have its admin password wiped with just the installation DVDs. That machine can no longer be considered secure once it goes home for the first time.
Yes, this looks ridiculous considering it's a voting machine, but to me it looks like a pretty normal software bug. I've seen far worse things get paste a full blown QA team.
It seems that's a fairly normal typo, and got past your preview pane
It's working fine on FF 3.0.4, and I've got no-script running
In which case everyone with a valid question will be modded -1 Flamebait and -1 Troll by those who disagree
I didn't have an ounce of programming until I hit college. I took MATLAB presuming I'd be an engineer, but then I decided to go for CS. I just finished my first semester of Java (Final was today)
Honestly I think learning MATLAB first helped, since I was vaguely familiar with the concepts of conditionals, loops, arrays and whatnot, before I moved into OOP. For me it was just a matter of learning the fundamentals of OO and applying them to what I already knew. It worked for me, though it may not work for anyone else.
Nor does anyone who has waiting in a DMV line.
I bet that made taking multiple choice tests easy. Only one letter that is.
Actually, this is really appealing to me. I get a G1, while I'm at AT&T subscriber, and I don't care about 3G since I'm on a student living on campus ("free" wifi). Hell I've only got 2 more years.
They could totally buy car insurance.
Because of GMm/R^2
Can I quote you on that?
Looks like you already did.
My friend at school bought a Mac for that reason--development, because he had been only using Windows PCs up to that point, and now he can say he's developed on multiple platforms.
I've recently considered getting a Mac, but can any one tell me why I'd get a Mac and dual boot Windows versus using my current laptop with XP and Ubuntu? For my uses XP has been perfectly stable, and I mainly put Ubuntu on to try to learn Linux, but some of my peripherals don't work, so I just end up using XP ~99% of the time.
Ask your co-op adviser what the range of pay is for a Tech student. They'll have better information than any 3rd party website, since the Co-op office has everything. I'd say $13-17 is a decent range. I got offered one a job at $12 and ended up turning it down for a job that pays $16, though I got no fringe benefits (no paid vacation, no paid holidays, no 401k or health benefits). In comparison, my first job paid $2 less per hour, but I received 2 days/term paid vacation, paid holidays, bereavement leave (which I unfortunately had to take to go to a funeral), 6% match in a 401k, and modest Christmas bonus.
Instead of just looking at paid wages, look at the non-taxed benefits they're giving you. You may think "Oh, but they're paying me more" and that could be fine for your situation right now (you get health insurance through your parents, you don't think you need to save for retirement atm, and there's not many holidays in the term), but believe me it's better to have benefits than none at all.
I know when I was growing up I had a chemistry set from the discovery channel store. It was a fold out set with pipets, a small beaker, some non-toxic chemicals for the included experiment manual, and some other stuff. This appears to be close to what I had, but sans fold-out case: http://shopping.discovery.com/product-60266.html?endecaSID=11D909851918
Another thing I had for a while was a magic kit. It was a large box with assorted tricks. My parents got it from Costco. While I'm not sure if your son likes magic, Costco/Sams Club/BJ's Warehouse has a bunch of seasonal toys that may be up his alley.
I didn't see that documentary you're referring to, but was this just a random sampling or was it from one area? If the millionaire lived next to the "poor" person, he might consider himself rich and say middle class to be modest, though he might also live in a affluent neighborhood where everyone is a millionaire, and thus consider himself middle class relative to them. Wealth is definitely relative.
I'm waiting for the inevitable "glitch" that causes two-thirds of EA accounts to be banned from all EA games. They'll have lost all their records of who was legitimately banned and who was glitched, causing hundreds of thousands of EA players to rebuy their favorite games and register new accounts to pplay them.
Bargain with IT. In exchange for not encrypting the drive, you can physically secure the machine, with stuff like door codes.
Another option is to go higher than IT, to some administrator type. State that your research project is in jeopardy because of the new rules, and if you cannot get the project done (but you could if the restrictions were removed for your lab), there won't be any more grants. Administrators might be more concerned with the prestige of the lab than IT, so they'll pass a decree to the IT "automatons" (as EmagGeek said), which in turn will help you.
Windows, not walls.
You can look, but you can't touch.
That's not really your data you're downloading from the cloud, it's a copy provided to you by the grace of the service provider.
I believe that's the point, to not be able to tell. The hours are bumped so you wake up when it's light, work during the light hours, and go to sleep when it's dark. If we didn't change the clocks then supposedly you'll use more energy by turning on lights when it's dark out, because it's 7am and you have to get ready for work. You also don't have to spend any additional effort darkening your room to go to sleep at night.
While I think it's silly (we have enough technology to synchronize time; no more sun dials, and everyone flips the light on in the morning anyhow, so there's really no power savings), I don't see this going away anytime soon.
It's not a democracy, it's a Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic We elect representatives to vote on what we think will be our behalf. If it was a democracy we'd be directly voting on every measure.
So you're saying if we play Miley Cyrus at full blast she'll magically have talent?
I go to college with a pretty widespread wifi network, and I also have a laptop, yet I do not carry it with me to class since it's a pain to carry while walking across our rather expansive campus (which you have to do since the buses are unreliable). I would love to be able to check my email or just idly surf the web between classes without going to a computer lab.
I'm intending to buy some smart phone or other device so I can use the internet wherever once I can figure out how to not pay for AT&T's 3G network since I live on a campus and will have "free" wifi for the next 2 years. I've considered the iTouch but I'm trying to avoid carrying around multiple devices if I don't need to.