A couple of years ago when my daughter showed up for middle school orientation, all of her 6th grade class had been given slips of paper with the WRONG locker combination. Mayhem ensues. One can easily imagine that schools aren't experts in tasks like this, although you can certainly argue that they should be. Probably some poor teacher with half a clue about technology was assigned the task of distributing locker combinations, and no one bothered to check before the slips were handed out. Ultimately there's no accountability for stuff like this so the situation is not likely to change any time soon.
...and I'm not being sarcastic, if my 11 year old son is any indication of what is happening around the country.
He saved all his birthday, christmas and allowance money for months to buy an iPod touch and spends way too much time playing games on it. Most of the games are free or only cost a couple of bucks, meaning he can get near-instant gratification without having to save $50 to buy a console game. He uses it almost exclusively as a game platform, even to the point of using a clunky old mp3 player for music, in order to save the iPod touch battery for game play.
You can get work experience while you study, and probably get your tuition paid to boot. It's called a Research Assistant position. Don't assume that Computer Science departments are the only place to look for one. Other departments like Astronomy, Chemistry and the biological sciences all have computing needs.
I just had a conversation this weekend about a policy tried with some success in Chicago. When an entire school has an egregious record of underperforming, fire everyone in the building and start over. Make them re-apply for their jobs. (I tried searching for an article to support this story just now, but I couldn't find one.)
Back in college in the 1980's I administered a cluster of Sun2's with 160MB rack mounted hard drives. You could define those days as when a "hard drive" would kill you if dropped on your head from a height of 3 feet.
"Replacing all of the transformers would take months, if not years". Use your imagination: Will stores even be open? Will your employer even require your services?
I'm curious about the free Wikipedia access part. Lock my daughter out of wi-fi and give her one of these when she's supposed to be doing research, to prevent her from getting distracted by AIM all the time:)
It could be the solution of how how to maintain legacy systems in generations to come. They just need to start mapping the genes of a COBOL programmer.
Configure emacs auto-mode-alist to open Java archives with archive-mode, and then edit deployment descriptors contained in the archive without having to extract the archive. Bliss.
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A couple of years ago when my daughter showed up for middle school orientation, all of her 6th grade class had been given slips of paper with the WRONG locker combination.
Mayhem ensues. One can easily imagine that schools aren't experts in tasks like this, although you can certainly argue that they should be. Probably some poor teacher with half a clue about technology was assigned the task of distributing locker combinations, and no one bothered to check before the slips were handed out. Ultimately there's no accountability for stuff like this so the situation is not likely to change any time soon.
The evil corporation is American (go figure)
...and I'm not being sarcastic, if my 11 year old son is any indication of what is happening around the country.
He saved all his birthday, christmas and allowance money for months to buy an iPod touch and spends way
too much time playing games on it. Most of the games are free or only cost a couple of bucks, meaning he
can get near-instant gratification without having to save $50 to buy a console game. He uses it almost
exclusively as a game platform, even to the point of using a clunky old mp3 player for music, in order to save the
iPod touch battery for game play.
Is it just me or does the name "Drupal" seem kind of limp and flaccid?
Putting CAPS LOCK key next to 'A' on the keyboard? It was the first thing I thought of.
They had 300 baud in 1964? Raise your hand if you were still using 110 baud in the 1970's.
You can get work experience while you study, and probably get your tuition paid to boot. It's called a Research Assistant position. Don't assume that Computer Science departments are the only place to look for one. Other departments like Astronomy, Chemistry and the biological sciences all have computing needs.
I just had a conversation this weekend about a policy tried with some success in Chicago. When an entire school has an egregious record of underperforming, fire everyone in the building and start over. Make them re-apply for their jobs. (I tried searching for an article to support this story just now, but I couldn't find one.)
'It may be that if it wasn't for Facebook, some students would still find other ways to avoid studying, and would still get lower grades.'
That fits my experience as a parent exactly. I've found that if you deny your children access to one distraction, they will just find another.
Back in college in the 1980's I administered a cluster of Sun2's with 160MB rack mounted hard drives. You could define those days as when a "hard drive" would kill you if dropped on your head from a height of 3 feet.
"Replacing all of the transformers would take months, if not years". Use your imagination: Will stores even be open? Will your employer even require your services?
If you don't think loss of the entire power grid would deeply affect your life, I have to wonder where you live (and that's being kind)
I'm curious about the free Wikipedia access part. :)
Lock my daughter out of wi-fi and give her one of these when she's supposed to be doing research, to prevent her from getting distracted by AIM all the time
It could be the solution of how how to maintain legacy systems in generations to come. They just need to start mapping the genes of a COBOL programmer.
recentf mode, which keeps a list of recently opened files:
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
For bonus points, set a PROJECT environment variable before starting eclipse, and maintain project-specific lists of recently opened files:
(when (getenv "PROJECT")
; project-specific recently opened files
(setq recentf-save-file (concat (getenv "PROJECT") "/.recentf"))
; project-specific emacs config
(when (file-exists-p (concat (getenv "PROJECT") "/.emacs"))
(load-file (concat (getenv "PROJECT") "/.emacs")))
; project-specific TAGS file
(when (file-exists-p (concat (getenv "PROJECT") "TAGS"))
(visit-tags-table (concat (getenv "PROJECT") "TAGS"))))
Configure emacs auto-mode-alist to open Java archives with archive-mode, and then edit deployment descriptors contained in the archive without having to extract the archive. Bliss.
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)", :-)
"Parity Error"
and of course "With what? Your bare hands?"
Yes, Blind Man's Bluff is an excellent book...I've submitted it as a story idea for a Nova episode, but so far no response.
'Nuff said.
...after the MIB show up with their flashy thing!
Or, you could say he's got the 3rd easiest job in the world, right up there with the Maytag repairman and Rush Limbaugh's fact checker.
How could you tell the difference when the source of most material on FM radio *is* CD?