I study engineering in the UK, and at my University there is no culture of bringing laptops into lectures. There are no rules against it, but it would probably be frowned upon if someone did it. Everyone handwrites their notes on paper. Many people will afterwards scan their notes into a computer, type them up, or rewrite them on paper more neatly as I like to do (bad handwriting when writing quickly in lectures). I do not think that there would be any benefit to adding a laptop to the lecture stage, as I know that it would be a huge distraction. It would probably mean that I had neater notes, but who are we kidding? I would inevitably get distracted and start doing other things in the background which would hamper my learning. Just like answering a text in class, it distracts from the lecture. Anyway, the process of typing up the notes afterwards (or whatever other variation you do) will help reinforce the learning.
I used linux (open suse with kde) for the first time recently, installing it on a machine that had previously been running the win 7 beta. Apart from the fact that I found it totally impossible to get sound from it despite spending almost 2 hours installing drivers (which are near impossible to find for linux) I just found it to be less useable overall (than any of the windows systems or mac osx). I had been considering giving it to my parents to replace their windows machine, but I quickly realised that they would be unable to use it. I think that considering there is such a good community behind all of the linux distros the effort would be much better used on creating a single more customizable distro. It would be far easier on the software devs as well. At the moment they cant be bothered realeasing software for such a small percentage of users and it is damaging the image of linux.
While they are engaging in all this moral spelunking why do the Germans not just go ahead and ban karting which 'trivializes' the dangers of driving. Or ban parachuting which 'trivializes' the dangers of gravity. Or while they are at it, they could ban fun which 'trivializes' life in Germany these days which the government wants to make as dull as possible until you are shot to death by a psychotic teenager.
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I study engineering in the UK, and at my University there is no culture of bringing laptops into lectures. There are no rules against it, but it would probably be frowned upon if someone did it. Everyone handwrites their notes on paper. Many people will afterwards scan their notes into a computer, type them up, or rewrite them on paper more neatly as I like to do (bad handwriting when writing quickly in lectures). I do not think that there would be any benefit to adding a laptop to the lecture stage, as I know that it would be a huge distraction. It would probably mean that I had neater notes, but who are we kidding? I would inevitably get distracted and start doing other things in the background which would hamper my learning. Just like answering a text in class, it distracts from the lecture. Anyway, the process of typing up the notes afterwards (or whatever other variation you do) will help reinforce the learning.
So, if someone decides to leak the chat logs will Wikileaks publish them?
I used linux (open suse with kde) for the first time recently, installing it on a machine that had previously been running the win 7 beta. Apart from the fact that I found it totally impossible to get sound from it despite spending almost 2 hours installing drivers (which are near impossible to find for linux) I just found it to be less useable overall (than any of the windows systems or mac osx). I had been considering giving it to my parents to replace their windows machine, but I quickly realised that they would be unable to use it. I think that considering there is such a good community behind all of the linux distros the effort would be much better used on creating a single more customizable distro. It would be far easier on the software devs as well. At the moment they cant be bothered realeasing software for such a small percentage of users and it is damaging the image of linux.
While they are engaging in all this moral spelunking why do the Germans not just go ahead and ban karting which 'trivializes' the dangers of driving. Or ban parachuting which 'trivializes' the dangers of gravity. Or while they are at it, they could ban fun which 'trivializes' life in Germany these days which the government wants to make as dull as possible until you are shot to death by a psychotic teenager.