The system is meant to be for real-time assessment of students. The old way of raising hands doesn't quite cut it since you never know if everyone who raised their hand was correct or if everyone who didn't raise their hand was wrong.
Systems such as these aren't meant to replace anything. They are a tool to enhance the learning process by allowing a teacher to dynamically adjust their lessons.
It does a class no good to have a teacher continue to teach an idea when the class already understands it or if a teacher doesn't spend enough time on a particular section.
It is a tool for teachers and students to learn and work on trouble spots while the lessons are fresh in their mind instead of 3 days later when they take a test and then 3 days after that when the test is graded.
I am just reminded about how many apps that I used to run on my old 8086 that never needed patching. Same with old console games...they always seemed to just work.
Then again, apps are much more complicated nowadays.
On the other hand, the wide reach of the internet allows for easy patching which can lead to sloppy coding since updates are too easy to aquire.
When editing a document in Notes, can you immediately see if the author and/or any previous editors are online, and if so, initiate a group conference with a single click of a button.
Oh and I forgot Pedro in Spain...will your IM translate in real time?
I'm so sick of people basing notes. Just the suggestion to use a Wiki instead of Notes shows that the author hasn't a clue to what Notes is.
I'd be the first to admit that using Notes purely for email is insane. Bloat to the bloatest bloat. But it does something very well:
It's not the best email client It's not the best web server It's not the best db platform It's not the best nntp server It's not the best mail server It's not the best c&s It's not the best IM It's not the best CMS It's not the best CRM
However, it IS all of the above. Personally I enjoy not having to fight 10 different systems to work together. I gladly accept a few limitations of each individual service for an end result that is integrated AND portable. I can have every bit of information and functionality when disconnected and out of the office as I do when in the office. Can you say workflow?
The biggest problem with Notes/Domino is the limited amount of experienced developers and administrators. 99% of all problems I see with Notes/Dom is implementation. And if anyone is still comparing a Wiki to Notes, they had a bad implementation.
I couldn't even imagine the code needed to combine relational data with replication. Notes wasn't meant to be releational. If you need that type of system, store it in abother db and access it through notes.
Then I wonder why I still get 10s of thousands of attempted relays every day on my 8 user mail server. Most spammers aren't that sophisticated and just use published lists of open relays.
Sure there are high tech spammers, but wouldn't a reduction of 10% of spam still be a good thing?
Sitting here watching the spam pile up won't make it any better.
All these ideas have already been hashed many times over. Then the winamp boys released gnutella, it was still in the infant stage. The protocol never progressed from that point. Clients attempted to hack in features like chat, private networks, etc but the base protocol still remained unchanged.
Countless proposals were created about how to dynamicly move one's position in the network based on bandwidth, authentication, spam prevention, etc. No one could agree on a single plan and run with it.
Throw in a "community" leader who took everyone's ideas and started a company with them (he has since commited suicide), hung everyone ne out to dry, as well as many others who "sold out", pretty much halted the development of the protocol even to this day.
Hopefully someone can grab the reigns who cares about the systems rather than a quick way to make a buck. There's still lots that need to be done for P2P systems.
It's not about the shelf life. Sure the games are in the bargain bin, but even though they are old there is yet to be a FPS that comes close to the gameplay.
Shelf life or no, be glad the good games are supported.
Different articles are quoting different parts of what seemed like a larger interview. In an email to nvnews Carmack said the demo was run on ATI's next gen product because, even though they tried, nV lost to ATI in every test based on the test samples each company was able to produce.
The comparison was based on the R300 (next gen ATI) vs a super pumped GF4. nVidia didnt have any working NV30 samples from what I can tell.
Carmack also stated that nVidia is 6 months behind in development due to the time they spent on the xbox.
Seems to me that nvidia is trying to play catch up by throwing MHz at the problem...can you say Pentium III?
nVidia's drivers are far from rock solid, just less far than ATIs. But the last few versions of ATI drivers have come a long way. At this point, i would give nVidia a 7/10 for drivers, and ati a 6/10.
The parts of the 8500 that make it more advanced than the GF4 aren't widely used yet.
Shots of default installs show ATI with a better LOD than the GF4 IMO. Plus I prefer free aniso rather than free FSAA. I don't notice jaggies when moving around in a game, I only see them in static screenshots. Anisotropic filtering makes a bigger impact to me.
Plus Anandtech's last review showed the ATI drivers have matured a LOT over the last few months. I think they have the right combination of features and vision to actually break nV's strangle hold on the market.
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I am using their solutions because they are the best for my needs.
After reading the article, I think I can *SEE* where they put the stem cells.
The system is meant to be for real-time assessment of students. The old way of raising hands doesn't quite cut it since you never know if everyone who raised their hand was correct or if everyone who didn't raise their hand was wrong.
Systems such as these aren't meant to replace anything. They are a tool to enhance the learning process by allowing a teacher to dynamically adjust their lessons.
It does a class no good to have a teacher continue to teach an idea when the class already understands it or if a teacher doesn't spend enough time on a particular section.
It is a tool for teachers and students to learn and work on trouble spots while the lessons are fresh in their mind instead of 3 days later when they take a test and then 3 days after that when the test is graded.
I am just reminded about how many apps that I used to run on my old 8086 that never needed patching. Same with old console games...they always seemed to just work.
Then again, apps are much more complicated nowadays.
On the other hand, the wide reach of the internet allows for easy patching which can lead to sloppy coding since updates are too easy to aquire.
When editing a document in Notes, can you immediately see if the author and/or any previous editors are online, and if so, initiate a group conference with a single click of a button.
Oh and I forgot Pedro in Spain...will your IM translate in real time?
Sigh..
I'm so sick of people basing notes. Just the suggestion to use a Wiki instead of Notes shows that the author hasn't a clue to what Notes is.
I'd be the first to admit that using Notes purely for email is insane. Bloat to the bloatest bloat.
But it does something very well:
It's not the best email client
It's not the best web server
It's not the best db platform
It's not the best nntp server
It's not the best mail server
It's not the best c&s
It's not the best IM
It's not the best CMS
It's not the best CRM
However, it IS all of the above. Personally I enjoy not having to fight 10 different systems to work together. I gladly accept a few limitations of each individual service for an end result that is integrated AND portable. I can have every bit of information and functionality when disconnected and out of the office as I do when in the office. Can you say workflow?
The biggest problem with Notes/Domino is the limited amount of experienced developers and administrators. 99% of all problems I see with Notes/Dom is implementation. And if anyone is still comparing a Wiki to Notes, they had a bad implementation.
I couldn't even imagine the code needed to combine relational data with replication. Notes wasn't meant to be releational. If you need that type of system, store it in abother db and access it through notes.
Ontario does too. Actually most of Minnesota's border is Ontario.
Old school Manitobins (known as "tobins") say "aboot". Actually its somewhere between "a boot" and "a boat"
the taste of the newb generation!
While I can't believe this conspiracy theory made to to slashdot, I find myself wanting to experiment too.
Then I wonder why I still get 10s of thousands of attempted relays every day on my 8 user mail server. Most spammers aren't that sophisticated and just use published lists of open relays.
Sure there are high tech spammers, but wouldn't a reduction of 10% of spam still be a good thing?
Sitting here watching the spam pile up won't make it any better.
I wrote one...works well for me and my company but it's not finished yet.
http://www.spamwedge.net
so does 3com and with their latest switches, it is on by default.
Just hope you don't run Appletalk on a network with spanning tree enabled. Not a good result.
Bad bad people
PS, ignore my ecommerce link above...
All these ideas have already been hashed many times over. Then the winamp boys released gnutella, it was still in the infant stage. The protocol never progressed from that point. Clients attempted to hack in features like chat, private networks, etc but the base protocol still remained unchanged.
Countless proposals were created about how to dynamicly move one's position in the network based on bandwidth, authentication, spam prevention, etc. No one could agree on a single plan and run with it.
Throw in a "community" leader who took everyone's ideas and started a company with them (he has since commited suicide), hung everyone ne out to dry, as well as many others who "sold out", pretty much halted the development of the protocol even to this day.
Hopefully someone can grab the reigns who cares about the systems rather than a quick way to make a buck. There's still lots that need to be done for P2P systems.
Insert Terminator reference here...
woops didn't see the full duplex part. My bad.
there are always atleast 2 devices in a collision domain. A NIC and the port it is plugged in to can talk over each other and cause a collision.
Collisions can and do happen on a switch, but not nearly as often as hubs.
Now I know how intel designs their processors.
It's not about the shelf life. Sure the games are in the bargain bin, but even though they are old there is yet to be a FPS that comes close to the gameplay.
Shelf life or no, be glad the good games are supported.
no, it 25005. 24834 is the current official release.
Different articles are quoting different parts of what seemed like a larger interview. In an email to nvnews Carmack said the demo was run on ATI's next gen product because, even though they tried, nV lost to ATI in every test based on the test samples each company was able to produce.
The comparison was based on the R300 (next gen ATI) vs a super pumped GF4. nVidia didnt have any working NV30 samples from what I can tell.
Carmack also stated that nVidia is 6 months behind in development due to the time they spent on the xbox.
Seems to me that nvidia is trying to play catch up by throwing MHz at the problem...can you say Pentium III?
nVidia's drivers are far from rock solid, just less far than ATIs. But the last few versions of ATI drivers have come a long way. At this point, i would give nVidia a 7/10 for drivers, and ati a 6/10.
The parts of the 8500 that make it more advanced than the GF4 aren't widely used yet.
Shots of default installs show ATI with a better LOD than the GF4 IMO. Plus I prefer free aniso rather than free FSAA. I don't notice jaggies when moving around in a game, I only see them in static screenshots. Anisotropic filtering makes a bigger impact to me.
Plus Anandtech's last review showed the ATI drivers have matured a LOT over the last few months. I think they have the right combination of features and vision to actually break nV's strangle hold on the market.
heh, slashdot readers being linked to tribalwar.
I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or to run away as the internet implodes around me.