Go buy a sandisk thumb drive and tell me it doesn't autorun. Oh wait, two people in this thread (ok, i was one of them) have already pointed at this example.. perhaps sandisk isn't marking itself as removable, maybe the ipod isn't either, I have no idea. all I know is that I plugged a sandisk thing in my computer, and random shit got installed on to the computer.
I thought the same thing. Guess what happened when I first plugged in my SanDisk micro thumb drive? Shit got installed on my computer, that I had to specifically uninstall and then format the thumb drive (Conveniently available from the menu it installed, but still).
NOTHING in the manual about "Oh yeah, if you plug this in to a windows PC we're running shit without telling you."
I no longer trust "blank" media, but what can one do? Plug the hard drive in to a windows machine and format it? Woops, already fucked your computer over, since Windows will helpfully immediately run and install anything on the disk. This is a failure of Windows with autorun being on by default.
I just bought a japanese PS2 because my friends tried to play imports using chips and they either had chip detectors (they usually had early chips that weren't as cloaked ) or fried the console when attempting to install it.
Those days are long gone? I guess that explains why products such as Incredibuild aren't popular, and why visual studio needs the ultra-mega-expensive edition just to parallelize building projects in a solution between your multiple cores. Oh wait.
I work on a mid-sized C++ project where the build times are approximately 30-40 minutes. I can finish a can of dew in that time, easily. Incredibuild has drastically reduced that time to about 6 minutes.
Note: I don't work for Incredibuild, just am a customer who is sually happy/satisfied.
I already did it (and didn't wuss out and go the inetd route), handles GET, HEAD... HTTP/1.0 only, pulls files from a disk (hardcoded the directory).. if the webserver proc could fopen it and fread it, it went out over the wire. Security wasn't there, no POST or PUT or DAV stuff, obviously. Mostly C style with a bit of C++ when it was pleasant (using strings as generic buffers to dump stuff in temporarily).. took 1.5 hours, with about 30 minutes of distraction (people kept coming over and talking to me about my job. Pfft.. I'm browsing slashdot people, leave me alone.)
It was good timing too, as I was about to write a simple client/server for a work related project. Getting the practice on this was pleasant.
No, YOU do not understand. It is NOT any different, if only because only people who have access to see that information will see the wall post with the update. I'm not getting news feed posts about everyone at my university, so it's only doing news feed posts about my friends. My friends can already "stalk" me and check their "My Friends" page to see when someone has recently updated their profile. So, they see I have and check it, and don't see that I'm in a relationship anymore.
Except now they don't have to obsessive-compulsively check the 'my friends' page and/or compare the pages with what used to be there. Oh, and guess what.. YOU CAN REMOVE IT FROM THE NEWS FEED if you don't want to have that information broadcasted.
I blame my monitor. I'm getting a new computer tomorrow and this old and busted one had a bunch of dead pixels on either side of the - sign and made it look like a plus.
3x - 2x = 10 , but if that - looks like a + then it's 5x = 10, right? eh?..
Ok, I have no excuse. Even the "I was at dragoncon and stayed at the rather poor rave until way too late and then had to leave early to catch my flight home" can't explain how wrong I was there, so I won't try.:P
yeah, but I've been having problems with those lately as well (and it was more annoying that her question was about simple algebra that was on the board, correctly, for her to see.. she just had to bother to look one line below it).
*shrug* I actually had forgotten most of how to do integrals until just recently (I was walking along and saw a shirt, and I apologize for not knowing the syntax, but it went integral sign, 13 on top 10 on bottom, 2x dx , followed by a question mark. I guessed at the answer and worked on my faint memories of how I thought integrals worked to realize I was correct.
I was a computer science major, and took my physics classes with the mechanical engineers. 90% male, 95% were white, asian, or indian. Those are actual numbers. I wasn't intentionally being racist, there was a lack of black students (and females) in the major, and they had a public policy of providing more financial aid to students in the minority groups for the major. This person I was referring to WAS given assistance in this regard, it came up in conversation one day (though I heard it from someone who knew her better than I did). It was more an attack on affirmative action type policies (call me racist again, whatever. I don't mean it like that -- I hate this entire concept of "we don't have enough of group x, let's lower the standards for that group).
And no, an educator's job is to educate. It's right in the word. How does me sitting in class let an educator know how well I understand something? If the testing doesn't prove I learned the material, then that's the fault of the testing. Perhaps the tests should be an interview, a paper, or something else that will adequately prove that the student knows the material that was meant to be taught. If, instead, one is attempting to teach "life lessons" such as obedience, attendance, discipline, memorization, etc. then fine, be strict on those things. If you're trying to get the students to think, then do so. If you're cramming 150+ students in a room and talking at them (not with them), then I think they can be doing better things with their time than waiting to hear what you have to say, and the podcasts are a good idea. (I can probably read faster than someone can effectively audibly communicate the same knowledge. Even if you're dictating from the same source, you have to slow down your rate of speech to be understood, enunciate, etc. Furthermore, there's probably several times you'll loop back and emphasize something so that people aren't lost further down the road, whereas with written material, in a private study session, people can go back and figure out where they got lost and continue on.)
:) I like that analogy. I don't see the point of watching / listening to a live concert that I didn't attend, unless there are unreleased things on said dvd. Being at the concert (and then watching that same one later) does have a lot more emotional impact.
I do agree that my favorite teachers were ones that got the class involved, but that would narrow it down to two professors (and much smaller classes than the 'lectures' I'm imagining this person is making a podcast of). In these cases, I went because I enjoyed the class, not even because I cared about the topics. In the end, it really matters what the goal is for the course, and that's up to the student to decide. If they don't need the credits, then can they sit in on the class just because you're awesome and they want to watch you? Most colleges would limit this, because they aren't getting money for that. If they do need the credits, do they need to learn the material? They'll probably know how to do that best (or at least to their satisfaction). If their results don't match up with the image you want to present of the graduates of the college (and that's really the only argument I've heard for taking personal interest in the students), then the tests should have been harder to weed them out. If they don't need to learn the material (they already know it), then attendance might help a bit, I'll admit -- if they're self taught, there might be things in the way you do something that hadn't occured to them or they hadn't seen. But then maybe those things should have been on the test.. ?
In the end, it's really about the student. I learn best visually, but I have a rather good situational memory -- I'll tie learning something with where I learn it. That's why when revising lectures I would always go somewhere else (even if it was with my computer), such as my living room. I then associate that with the learning, and it keys it well in my mind. The classroom can (and obviously has) served this need, but if I already have a place I feel comfortable in, why force me to leave it? Furthermore, why force me to learn aurally? I find the best material I've ever had for learning something has been when there was a reasonably static webpage with all the content, and the lecture (if attended) was marginally supplemental, or entertaining, or what have you. Tufte is a good example of this. Everything he has to say is in his books, and the books are used in the lectures, as he directs you at various pages and passages. However, having the directed reading to key points of the books (and relying on the situational memory and a few notes to remember the locations of the information in the books), helped emphasize his overall points. I can go back and read the rest of the information later, and get even more from it because of it. Or, I can read the books and the lecture schedule beforehand, and come in prepared with questions instead of a tabula rasa that you have to work to fill in.
If someone wants to learn a subject, they will. You can't stop them, so why not help them as much as you can, is the way I generally think (and try to do in my lectures -- I tend to give a twiki page (locked if needed) or a word document beforehand, usually printed out for the people in the class to peruse. Maybe I'll have it up on the screen so people can read it there if not on their computers or the printout, or maybe I'll have visual aids to the lecture, but I don't give more information out loud in the lecture than is available in the material I reference).
I'm a bit of an oddity, I'll admit. I prefer self-checkout, and I'd rather have a touch screen menu than attempt to dictate an order to a waiter. I'm not sure if that's related, but for some reason it clicked in my mind as something that should be admitted to.
Oh, and sorry about my English skills, if you think they're lacking.. I tend to improperly punctuate and to blend my ideas together. A consequence of poor education, surely, as education in writing style was severely lacking from my curriculum (or so dumbed down to the lcd that it was pointless). I routinely got As with this writing style, for example.
As a graduate student who teaches a C programming course, why do you care if the students are in the room with you?
If they can watch you on video, they get the exact same amount out of the class that they would have if they sat passively in the room.
If there are external methods of asking questions about things that weren't clear on the video (newsgroups, for example) that you moderate but don't even need to respond in, then they can ask questions and get just as much out of it as they would have if they were sitting in the room actively asking questions. More so, in fact, since it's 1) easier for the other students to skip over stupid questions, and 2) recorded, so you can go back if it was just "I didn't hear that because I was staring at this girl over here", and the responses are recorded (on the newsgroups themselves) so that they can go back in the future to find out the answer.
If the student already knows the material, why force them to waste their time sitting in the class? Either let them test out of it (most colleges won't allow this), or just shut up and give them the quizzes. If you're testing what they need to know, and that's what you were teaching, then congratulations.. if they pass your test, then they know the information you were supposed to be giving them. What's the problem here?
If there is something to be gained by being in the class, then I'll be there. If I can get just as much out of it by not going (and face it.. bachelor's degrees at least in the US are becoming so common as to be meaningless, and the standards are lowered to accomodate this as well in most cases), then why should I have to go? Lectures are about giving out information. It's usually a one way mechanism, occasionally (and rarely) does someone ask a question during the lecture. If you want class participation, make a discussion course. Oh, but discussing integrals doesn't really make sense, does it?
I treated college as a rubber stamp that I needed to get a job. Did I learn things? Yes. Did I do it by sitting in class? No, I did it by doing the assignments, or just learning what I needed to right before the test. I pick things up quickly and one reading of the textbook of a subject I'm interested in is good enough for me to remember where to go when I need the information again (or to classify the information so I can find it later). College isn't (and shouldn't be!) about rote memorization of stupid facts. If you're teaching me to think, then do it by challenging me (not making me sit in a lecture while you talk at me and I'm eyeing the girl two rows away). If you're trying to force me to learn something, give up hope right now -- you can't force someone to learn something when they don't want to.
I welcome all the responses telling me that I'm an idiot or whatever, that's fine. I'm a bit full of myself with regards to how quickly I pick things up (and no, I don't remember everything -- but I will remember that there was something that I don't know the details of 100%, and will then know to look for it again to re-learn it when I need to use it). Why force me to be on the same level of the people who are also there for the rubber stamp, but are on the bottom end of the pool of applicants? I went to a school and in to a major that had a rather noticeable lack of various groups (blacks, women), and it was somewhat apparent that there were a few people in the school who got there to equalize the numbers and not because of ability. Why force me on their level? The person I'm thinking of actually asked a college level, calculus-based physics-for-engineers professor to explain how 3x = 2x + 10 became 5x = 10, x=2 (the numbers might have been different, but it was similarly simplistic).
I was a TA in one-on-one labs, gave several lectures and presentations, etc. I continue to do so to this day, at my current job. Guess what? I don't care if the students remember what I say, that's up to them to want to do. If the people who DO care remember that the information is out there and it's accessible later, then I've done my job. If all they have is a powerpoint presentation with a couple brief sentences at the end when they want to go back to the information, then I consider my job a failure, but that's another discussion.
Basically -- You're going to do this, some of the students will find a way around it (the smart ones), the other students will use said way around it (the lazy ones, not necessarily different from the smart ones), and you'll just piss people off. Don't.
I understand the difference (at least, I think I do.. software engineer dealing with network programming, and went through ccna training at my high school but didn't bother with the test), but their "security team" sure as hell doesn't seem to.
World of Warcraft is relatively low bandwidth, I've seen my friend's bandwidth charts when him and his wife were both raiding at the same time. Didn't go very high at all. I can't imagine that duration the connection has been open matters more than the amount of data being sent continuously which is why I specifically asked about WoW, and they said that it was the connection time, not data rate.
The previously mentioned friend who got numbers from them got them to admit a little bit about what was happening, they said that whenever there was a problem on the line, even a momentary hiccup, they capped the highest uploader, automatically. They didn't describe what metrics they used or over what timeframe, to be able to determine that.. *sigh*.
It has me paranoid, I want to use my internet connection but I don't want it to be capped. Which is rather silly, since why don't I just use it, get capped, and use it more? What's the point of being afraid to use it so that I later might get capped, and then be able to use it slower? *grr*. So while I would like to video chat with my friends, is that too much bandwidth? I don't know, and they won't tell me.
Perhaps when the local cable company decides to stop having arbitrary, confusing, and most importantly secretive policies about what I'm allowed to do with their service and what I'm not allowed to do, I'll believe this, but they don't want me on their network since I actually use it.
Case in point: recently they upgraded my service from 10mbit / 2mbit to 15mbit / 2mbit. To do this, they had an unannounced, planned outage for 6 hours starting at midnight on a Friday night. I called and had to talk to someone before I could even verify that my service was interrupted, the person said that it was their policy to not announce these things since security systems might rely on the cable connection, and they wouldn't want potential thiefs to know when to strike. Oh, and even if they DID announce them, no one would listen (if it was on a web page) and they might not have the $(cable_company)'s email account so they couldn't use that either. Great, so now I can't find another way to protect my home (if my security system uses the cable internet / phone service), way to go guys.
The worse one though: If I use "more than my reasonable amount" of upstream bandwidth, I'll have said bandwidth capped to 20kbyte/s. I've had this happen to me, I called and they said they'd reply to this issue within 24-48 hours. 117 hours later (and three phone calls from me counting the first) they called me back and said that they sell "burst, not stream". They couldn't explain that any better, but said that long connections were against the rules and that games like World of Warcraft (I asked specifically) were ways to get capped. I apparently need to take a break every so often or else I'll have my connection throttled?
A friend has it happen to him, he actually got numbers out of the person. Outgoing connections (wtf?) can't last more than 20 minutes or else risk being capped, so he set his bittorrenting (probably not at all legal either;)) to account for this. Every 20 minutes it'd take a 10 minute break. Yep, capped again within two days.
Screw cable, when they pull crap like this.. Now if only DSL here in America (Fairfield County, Connecticut especially..) didn't suck.
So? The other sites are more popular, fine. Just beacuse I narrow down the searches doesn't mean that if I search for pokemon, the results he found aren't in there SOMEWHERE. Name a search engine that 1) listens to meta data and 2) will find a site when you say "pokemon nude", but doesn't list it at all when you say "pokemon" and go through 100 pages of results.
Google's crawler (does it even look at meta tags like that?) sees META KEYWORD="pokemon anime fetish porn nudity misty brock ash pikachu sex anal butt", says "This page has these keywords, I'll add it to the list of links for each individual one"
I can see the lawsuit now: "Your honor, I typed pokemon in to Google, with the safe search off, and went to the 28th page and I saw this: . These people have to be stopped!"
the 'nude' filtered out the results that DIDN'T have nudity, but NOT including 'nude' did nothing to filter the results WITH nudity (unless google's really smart about selectively deactivating SafeSearch when you intentionally search for unsafe words). It's just that there's so many BETTER ranked sites.
So, in conclusion, who the hell is doing this, and is it helping them? If I only list META KEYWORD="pokemon anime misty brock ash pikachu", and then have hardcore porn on there.. guess what, I'm still not likely to be any higher than that link on the 28th page of results that I mentioned.
I don't think that it's because Opera is better or nicer (though I'm sure I could disable it if it did work), I think it's because, for some reason, people are STILL doing browser detection like idiots. Not that I mind, I can't stand the idea of this (leave right click alone!)
The problem? // -- Browser Detection -- var ie = document.all&&document.getElementById var ff = document.getElementById&&!document.all// If the browser is compatible on right-click call the function to get the highlighted text if (ie||ff) { document.oncontextmenu = getselection; }
opera supports "document.all" AND "getElementById". (hell, firefox does too, it just refuses to let you check for document.all so as to NOT break stupidities like this.)
Why not? Make the first IRL meeting be with both sets of parents involved, like any other meeting of two kids outside of school will be.
"Hey mom, can I go over to Suzie's?" "Sure, but I want to meet Suzie and her parents first."
Why the hell does it matter that Suzie might be a senior from the same school district that she met on the bus, as opposed to a senior from the same school district that she met online? I've met tons of people from BBSs and the Internet over the years. Back when I was living with my parents.. guess what? My parents met these people with me the first time. Once I moved out, they didn't have that ability.. they wanted it, but I had ideas of being an adult then and being responsible for my actions and wouldn't let them. (that and they were 2.5 hours away)
Where you first start talking to someone is unimportant.
You're right, you can't do that. However, you CAN take a jpeg which has lost some data, apply some intelligent filters to it and clean out the blockiness / random and color shifts in what should have been a solid color, and the interesting aliasing artifacts around what used to be straight lines, and smooth those over (for the color abruptness) and straighten out / dealias the lines (I don't want to say antialias).
It's not impossible, just difficult. Compare the ATI TV Wonder Elite (it's not the only one, but it's the one I'm familiar with) with devices that don't have comb filters, etc: http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/2351.
Disclaimer: I actually have no idea what the hell i'm talking about. I just read that review recently and was amazed, so I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
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Go buy a sandisk thumb drive and tell me it doesn't autorun. Oh wait, two people in this thread (ok, i was one of them) have already pointed at this example.. perhaps sandisk isn't marking itself as removable, maybe the ipod isn't either, I have no idea. all I know is that I plugged a sandisk thing in my computer, and random shit got installed on to the computer.
I thought the same thing. Guess what happened when I first plugged in my SanDisk micro thumb drive? Shit got installed on my computer, that I had to specifically uninstall and then format the thumb drive (Conveniently available from the menu it installed, but still).
NOTHING in the manual about "Oh yeah, if you plug this in to a windows PC we're running shit without telling you."
I no longer trust "blank" media, but what can one do? Plug the hard drive in to a windows machine and format it? Woops, already fucked your computer over, since Windows will helpfully immediately run and install anything on the disk. This is a failure of Windows with autorun being on by default.
Yahoo's been doing this for a while, with videos.google.com as well. My friend attempted to submit this MONTHS ago and it was rejected.
I just bought a japanese PS2 because my friends tried to play imports using chips and they either had chip detectors (they usually had early chips that weren't as cloaked
) or fried the console when attempting to install it.
Those days are long gone? I guess that explains why products such as Incredibuild aren't popular, and why visual studio needs the ultra-mega-expensive edition just to parallelize building projects in a solution between your multiple cores. Oh wait.
I work on a mid-sized C++ project where the build times are approximately 30-40 minutes. I can finish a can of dew in that time, easily. Incredibuild has drastically reduced that time to about 6 minutes.
Note: I don't work for Incredibuild, just am a customer who is sually happy/satisfied.
nice pun, thanks :)
I already did it (and didn't wuss out and go the inetd route), handles GET, HEAD... HTTP/1.0 only, pulls files from a disk (hardcoded the directory).. if the webserver proc could fopen it and fread it, it went out over the wire. Security wasn't there, no POST or PUT or DAV stuff, obviously. Mostly C style with a bit of C++ when it was pleasant (using strings as generic buffers to dump stuff in temporarily).. took 1.5 hours, with about 30 minutes of distraction (people kept coming over and talking to me about my job. Pfft.. I'm browsing slashdot people, leave me alone.)
It was good timing too, as I was about to write a simple client/server for a work related project. Getting the practice on this was pleasant.
No, YOU do not understand. It is NOT any different, if only because only people who have access to see that information will see the wall post with the update. I'm not getting news feed posts about everyone at my university, so it's only doing news feed posts about my friends. My friends can already "stalk" me and check their "My Friends" page to see when someone has recently updated their profile. So, they see I have and check it, and don't see that I'm in a relationship anymore.
Except now they don't have to obsessive-compulsively check the 'my friends' page and/or compare the pages with what used to be there. Oh, and guess what.. YOU CAN REMOVE IT FROM THE NEWS FEED if you don't want to have that information broadcasted.
yeah, I guessed that was the answer, then figured that out. There was one right next it that was
:P
\int_10^13 2x dx - \int_0^3 3x^2 dx
(so.. 42)
I blame my monitor. I'm getting a new computer tomorrow and this old and busted one had a bunch of dead pixels on either side of the - sign and made it look like a plus.
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:P
3x - 2x = 10 , but if that - looks like a + then it's 5x = 10, right? eh?
Ok, I have no excuse. Even the "I was at dragoncon and stayed at the rather poor rave until way too late and then had to leave early to catch my flight home" can't explain how wrong I was there, so I won't try.
yeah, but I've been having problems with those lately as well (and it was more annoying that her question was about simple algebra that was on the board, correctly, for her to see.. she just had to bother to look one line below it).
*shrug* I actually had forgotten most of how to do integrals until just recently (I was walking along and saw a shirt, and I apologize for not knowing the syntax, but it went integral sign, 13 on top 10 on bottom, 2x dx , followed by a question mark. I guessed at the answer and worked on my faint memories of how I thought integrals worked to realize I was correct.
I was a computer science major, and took my physics classes with the mechanical engineers. 90% male, 95% were white, asian, or indian. Those are actual numbers. I wasn't intentionally being racist, there was a lack of black students (and females) in the major, and they had a public policy of providing more financial aid to students in the minority groups for the major. This person I was referring to WAS given assistance in this regard, it came up in conversation one day (though I heard it from someone who knew her better than I did). It was more an attack on affirmative action type policies (call me racist again, whatever. I don't mean it like that -- I hate this entire concept of "we don't have enough of group x, let's lower the standards for that group).
And no, an educator's job is to educate. It's right in the word. How does me sitting in class let an educator know how well I understand something? If the testing doesn't prove I learned the material, then that's the fault of the testing. Perhaps the tests should be an interview, a paper, or something else that will adequately prove that the student knows the material that was meant to be taught. If, instead, one is attempting to teach "life lessons" such as obedience, attendance, discipline, memorization, etc. then fine, be strict on those things. If you're trying to get the students to think, then do so. If you're cramming 150+ students in a room and talking at them (not with them), then I think they can be doing better things with their time than waiting to hear what you have to say, and the podcasts are a good idea. (I can probably read faster than someone can effectively audibly communicate the same knowledge. Even if you're dictating from the same source, you have to slow down your rate of speech to be understood, enunciate, etc. Furthermore, there's probably several times you'll loop back and emphasize something so that people aren't lost further down the road, whereas with written material, in a private study session, people can go back and figure out where they got lost and continue on.)
:) I like that analogy. I don't see the point of watching / listening to a live concert that I didn't attend, unless there are unreleased things on said dvd. Being at the concert (and then watching that same one later) does have a lot more emotional impact.
I do agree that my favorite teachers were ones that got the class involved, but that would narrow it down to two professors (and much smaller classes than the 'lectures' I'm imagining this person is making a podcast of). In these cases, I went because I enjoyed the class, not even because I cared about the topics. In the end, it really matters what the goal is for the course, and that's up to the student to decide. If they don't need the credits, then can they sit in on the class just because you're awesome and they want to watch you? Most colleges would limit this, because they aren't getting money for that. If they do need the credits, do they need to learn the material? They'll probably know how to do that best (or at least to their satisfaction). If their results don't match up with the image you want to present of the graduates of the college (and that's really the only argument I've heard for taking personal interest in the students), then the tests should have been harder to weed them out. If they don't need to learn the material (they already know it), then attendance might help a bit, I'll admit -- if they're self taught, there might be things in the way you do something that hadn't occured to them or they hadn't seen. But then maybe those things should have been on the test.. ?
In the end, it's really about the student. I learn best visually, but I have a rather good situational memory -- I'll tie learning something with where I learn it. That's why when revising lectures I would always go somewhere else (even if it was with my computer), such as my living room. I then associate that with the learning, and it keys it well in my mind. The classroom can (and obviously has) served this need, but if I already have a place I feel comfortable in, why force me to leave it? Furthermore, why force me to learn aurally? I find the best material I've ever had for learning something has been when there was a reasonably static webpage with all the content, and the lecture (if attended) was marginally supplemental, or entertaining, or what have you. Tufte is a good example of this. Everything he has to say is in his books, and the books are used in the lectures, as he directs you at various pages and passages. However, having the directed reading to key points of the books (and relying on the situational memory and a few notes to remember the locations of the information in the books), helped emphasize his overall points. I can go back and read the rest of the information later, and get even more from it because of it. Or, I can read the books and the lecture schedule beforehand, and come in prepared with questions instead of a tabula rasa that you have to work to fill in.
If someone wants to learn a subject, they will. You can't stop them, so why not help them as much as you can, is the way I generally think (and try to do in my lectures -- I tend to give a twiki page (locked if needed) or a word document beforehand, usually printed out for the people in the class to peruse. Maybe I'll have it up on the screen so people can read it there if not on their computers or the printout, or maybe I'll have visual aids to the lecture, but I don't give more information out loud in the lecture than is available in the material I reference).
I'm a bit of an oddity, I'll admit. I prefer self-checkout, and I'd rather have a touch screen menu than attempt to dictate an order to a waiter. I'm not sure if that's related, but for some reason it clicked in my mind as something that should be admitted to.
Oh, and sorry about my English skills, if you think they're lacking.. I tend to improperly punctuate and to blend my ideas together. A consequence of poor education, surely, as education in writing style was severely lacking from my curriculum (or so dumbed down to the lcd that it was pointless). I routinely got As with this writing style, for example.
crap. Ok, that student was obviously me, or should have been... ;)
As a graduate student who teaches a C programming course, why do you care if the students are in the room with you?
If they can watch you on video, they get the exact same amount out of the class that they would have if they sat passively in the room.
If there are external methods of asking questions about things that weren't clear on the video (newsgroups, for example) that you moderate but don't even need to respond in, then they can ask questions and get just as much out of it as they would have if they were sitting in the room actively asking questions. More so, in fact, since it's 1) easier for the other students to skip over stupid questions, and 2) recorded, so you can go back if it was just "I didn't hear that because I was staring at this girl over here", and the responses are recorded (on the newsgroups themselves) so that they can go back in the future to find out the answer.
If the student already knows the material, why force them to waste their time sitting in the class? Either let them test out of it (most colleges won't allow this), or just shut up and give them the quizzes. If you're testing what they need to know, and that's what you were teaching, then congratulations.. if they pass your test, then they know the information you were supposed to be giving them. What's the problem here?
If there is something to be gained by being in the class, then I'll be there. If I can get just as much out of it by not going (and face it.. bachelor's degrees at least in the US are becoming so common as to be meaningless, and the standards are lowered to accomodate this as well in most cases), then why should I have to go? Lectures are about giving out information. It's usually a one way mechanism, occasionally (and rarely) does someone ask a question during the lecture. If you want class participation, make a discussion course. Oh, but discussing integrals doesn't really make sense, does it?
I treated college as a rubber stamp that I needed to get a job. Did I learn things? Yes. Did I do it by sitting in class? No, I did it by doing the assignments, or just learning what I needed to right before the test. I pick things up quickly and one reading of the textbook of a subject I'm interested in is good enough for me to remember where to go when I need the information again (or to classify the information so I can find it later). College isn't (and shouldn't be!) about rote memorization of stupid facts. If you're teaching me to think, then do it by challenging me (not making me sit in a lecture while you talk at me and I'm eyeing the girl two rows away). If you're trying to force me to learn something, give up hope right now -- you can't force someone to learn something when they don't want to.
I welcome all the responses telling me that I'm an idiot or whatever, that's fine. I'm a bit full of myself with regards to how quickly I pick things up (and no, I don't remember everything -- but I will remember that there was something that I don't know the details of 100%, and will then know to look for it again to re-learn it when I need to use it). Why force me to be on the same level of the people who are also there for the rubber stamp, but are on the bottom end of the pool of applicants? I went to a school and in to a major that had a rather noticeable lack of various groups (blacks, women), and it was somewhat apparent that there were a few people in the school who got there to equalize the numbers and not because of ability. Why force me on their level? The person I'm thinking of actually asked a college level, calculus-based physics-for-engineers professor to explain how 3x = 2x + 10 became 5x = 10, x=2 (the numbers might have been different, but it was similarly simplistic).
I was a TA in one-on-one labs, gave several lectures and presentations, etc. I continue to do so to this day, at my current job. Guess what? I don't care if the students remember what I say, that's up to them to want to do. If the people who DO care remember that the information is out there and it's accessible later, then I've done my job. If all they have is a powerpoint presentation with a couple brief sentences at the end when they want to go back to the information, then I consider my job a failure, but that's another discussion.
Basically -- You're going to do this, some of the students will find a way around it (the smart ones), the other students will use said way around it (the lazy ones, not necessarily different from the smart ones), and you'll just piss people off. Don't.
I understand the difference (at least, I think I do.. software engineer dealing with network programming, and went through ccna training at my high school but didn't bother with the test), but their "security team" sure as hell doesn't seem to.
World of Warcraft is relatively low bandwidth, I've seen my friend's bandwidth charts when him and his wife were both raiding at the same time. Didn't go very high at all. I can't imagine that duration the connection has been open matters more than the amount of data being sent continuously which is why I specifically asked about WoW, and they said that it was the connection time, not data rate.
The previously mentioned friend who got numbers from them got them to admit a little bit about what was happening, they said that whenever there was a problem on the line, even a momentary hiccup, they capped the highest uploader, automatically. They didn't describe what metrics they used or over what timeframe, to be able to determine that.. *sigh*.
It has me paranoid, I want to use my internet connection but I don't want it to be capped. Which is rather silly, since why don't I just use it, get capped, and use it more? What's the point of being afraid to use it so that I later might get capped, and then be able to use it slower? *grr*. So while I would like to video chat with my friends, is that too much bandwidth? I don't know, and they won't tell me.
Perhaps when the local cable company decides to stop having arbitrary, confusing, and most importantly secretive policies about what I'm allowed to do with their service and what I'm not allowed to do, I'll believe this, but they don't want me on their network since I actually use it.
;)) to account for this. Every 20 minutes it'd take a 10 minute break. Yep, capped again within two days.
Case in point: recently they upgraded my service from 10mbit / 2mbit to 15mbit / 2mbit. To do this, they had an unannounced, planned outage for 6 hours starting at midnight on a Friday night. I called and had to talk to someone before I could even verify that my service was interrupted, the person said that it was their policy to not announce these things since security systems might rely on the cable connection, and they wouldn't want potential thiefs to know when to strike. Oh, and even if they DID announce them, no one would listen (if it was on a web page) and they might not have the $(cable_company)'s email account so they couldn't use that either. Great, so now I can't find another way to protect my home (if my security system uses the cable internet / phone service), way to go guys.
The worse one though: If I use "more than my reasonable amount" of upstream bandwidth, I'll have said bandwidth capped to 20kbyte/s. I've had this happen to me, I called and they said they'd reply to this issue within 24-48 hours. 117 hours later (and three phone calls from me counting the first) they called me back and said that they sell "burst, not stream". They couldn't explain that any better, but said that long connections were against the rules and that games like World of Warcraft (I asked specifically) were ways to get capped. I apparently need to take a break every so often or else I'll have my connection throttled?
A friend has it happen to him, he actually got numbers out of the person. Outgoing connections (wtf?) can't last more than 20 minutes or else risk being capped, so he set his bittorrenting (probably not at all legal either
Screw cable, when they pull crap like this.. Now if only DSL here in America (Fairfield County, Connecticut especially..) didn't suck.
So? The other sites are more popular, fine. Just beacuse I narrow down the searches doesn't mean that if I search for pokemon, the results he found aren't in there SOMEWHERE. Name a search engine that 1) listens to meta data and 2) will find a site when you say "pokemon nude", but doesn't list it at all when you say "pokemon" and go through 100 pages of results.
Google's crawler (does it even look at meta tags like that?) sees META KEYWORD="pokemon anime fetish porn nudity misty brock ash pikachu sex anal butt", says "This page has these keywords, I'll add it to the list of links for each individual one"
I can see the lawsuit now: "Your honor, I typed pokemon in to Google, with the safe search off, and went to the 28th page and I saw this: . These people have to be stopped!"
the 'nude' filtered out the results that DIDN'T have nudity, but NOT including 'nude' did nothing to filter the results WITH nudity (unless google's really smart about selectively deactivating SafeSearch when you intentionally search for unsafe words). It's just that there's so many BETTER ranked sites.
So, in conclusion, who the hell is doing this, and is it helping them? If I only list META KEYWORD="pokemon anime misty brock ash pikachu", and then have hardcore porn on there.. guess what, I'm still not likely to be any higher than that link on the 28th page of results that I mentioned.
I'm interested in this "iHole" you seem to have for sale.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192223&cid =15783662 this person.
I don't think that it's because Opera is better or nicer (though I'm sure I could disable it if it did work), I think it's because, for some reason, people are STILL doing browser detection like idiots. Not that I mind, I can't stand the idea of this (leave right click alone!)
// -- Browser Detection -- // If the browser is compatible on right-click call the function to get the highlighted text
The problem?
var ie = document.all&&document.getElementById
var ff = document.getElementById&&!document.all
if (ie||ff)
{
document.oncontextmenu = getselection;
}
opera supports "document.all" AND "getElementById". (hell, firefox does too, it just refuses to let you check for document.all so as to NOT break stupidities like this.)
Why not? Make the first IRL meeting be with both sets of parents involved, like any other meeting of two kids outside of school will be.
"Hey mom, can I go over to Suzie's?" "Sure, but I want to meet Suzie and her parents first."
Why the hell does it matter that Suzie might be a senior from the same school district that she met on the bus, as opposed to a senior from the same school district that she met online? I've met tons of people from BBSs and the Internet over the years. Back when I was living with my parents.. guess what? My parents met these people with me the first time. Once I moved out, they didn't have that ability.. they wanted it, but I had ideas of being an adult then and being responsible for my actions and wouldn't let them. (that and they were 2.5 hours away)
Where you first start talking to someone is unimportant.
You're right, you can't do that. However, you CAN take a jpeg which has lost some data, apply some intelligent filters to it and clean out the blockiness / random and color shifts in what should have been a solid color, and the interesting aliasing artifacts around what used to be straight lines, and smooth those over (for the color abruptness) and straighten out / dealias the lines (I don't want to say antialias).
It's not impossible, just difficult. Compare the ATI TV Wonder Elite (it's not the only one, but it's the one I'm familiar with) with devices that don't have comb filters, etc: http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/2351.
Disclaimer: I actually have no idea what the hell i'm talking about. I just read that review recently and was amazed, so I'm trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
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