First of all let me say that i teach chemistry at a small junior college in western texas. We have plenty of students who enter our institution with hopes of later attending a professional school (medical, pharmacy, physical therapy etc.) and so i have see what some of these professional schools do in terms of education. One of the most important it the Texas Tech University Pharmacy School at Amarillo http://ismo.ama.ttuhsc.edu/ExternalHome/ This is a relatively new pharmacy school and is quite different in its approach to teaching. Entering students are required to purchase a laptop (the school gives a list of recommended laptop brands and features). When these students get to class they no longer have to sit and take notes in the traditioal lecture sense, they simply plug their machine into the network and the instructor turns on his/her machine and the student dloads the class material of the day as the lecturer provides the discussion. I think it has the ability to revolutionize teaching at this level because i have always felt that a student cannot learn something if he/she is sitting there trying to write down everything the instructor says and then doesnt really have the opportunity to 'listen'. If the student has a copy of the notes already and can simple make notations in their material as the instructor talks the the student has a much better chance at retaining whatever material was being taught for the say. I can see far reaching implications for teaching methods like this in the professional schools where the students are somewhat more motivated in the educational goals, but for me it seems somewhat insane to attempt to do this at the grade/middle school level. ~Cthulhu
It seems to me that the possible breakup of microsoft would probably would yield a new *operating system* company and an *application* company. As a very small person in the IT game i have a large difficulty talking my clients into using open source software such as linux on the desktop. They are familiar with the name Microsoft and at least part of what it means to runs their software. One of the problems viewed by the unitiated is the lack of suites of office software (You and I know this isnt true, but some people are too stubborn to convice otherwise). Now if the fracturing of Microsoft yielded an operating system company and an applications company, and lets say for hypothetical purposes that Bill would run the application company (which i personally think he would). Bill could easily port office to run on i386 linux and all of its other processor variants (alpha, ppc). Now lets say that this happens now there is a big name company on the destop of every linux system around, and the name linux grows and grows to fit the destop role that everyone seems to think it is destined for. What do you think, is it plausible. Is it not scary?
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First of all let me say that i teach chemistry at a small junior college in western texas. We have plenty of students who enter our institution with hopes of later attending a professional school (medical, pharmacy, physical therapy etc.) and so i have see what some of these professional schools do in terms of education. One of the most important it the Texas Tech University Pharmacy School at Amarillo http://ismo.ama.ttuhsc.edu/ExternalHome/ This is a relatively new pharmacy school and is quite different in its approach to teaching. Entering students are required to purchase a laptop (the school gives a list of recommended laptop brands and features). When these students get to class they no longer have to sit and take notes in the traditioal lecture sense, they simply plug their machine into the network and the instructor turns on his/her machine and the student dloads the class material of the day as the lecturer provides the discussion. I think it has the ability to revolutionize teaching at this level because i have always felt that a student cannot learn something if he/she is sitting there trying to write down everything the instructor says and then doesnt really have the opportunity to 'listen'. If the student has a copy of the notes already and can simple make notations in their material as the instructor talks the the student has a much better chance at retaining whatever material was being taught for the say. I can see far reaching implications for teaching methods like this in the professional schools where the students are somewhat more motivated in the educational goals, but for me it seems somewhat insane to attempt to do this at the grade/middle school level. ~Cthulhu
It seems to me that the possible breakup of microsoft would probably would yield a new *operating system* company and an *application* company. As a very small person in the IT game i have a large difficulty talking my clients into using open source software such as linux on the desktop. They are familiar with the name Microsoft and at least part of what it means to runs their software. One of the problems viewed by the unitiated is the lack of suites of office software (You and I know this isnt true, but some people are too stubborn to convice otherwise). Now if the fracturing of Microsoft yielded an operating system company and an applications company, and lets say for hypothetical purposes that Bill would run the application company (which i personally think he would). Bill could easily port office to run on i386 linux and all of its other processor variants (alpha, ppc). Now lets say that this happens now there is a big name company on the destop of every linux system around, and the name linux grows and grows to fit the destop role that everyone seems to think it is destined for. What do you think, is it plausible. Is it not scary?
Looks to me like an Apache error,
not a linux error.