No I am not going to retract my statement. I guess it is born of personal experience.
When I take notes, I paraphrase what the instructor says, I do not quote them. I understand the point about not being able to read your own notes but I generally do not read my notes after I write them. The actual writing act embeds the information in my memory. Try taking notes in your Calculus class on your laptop. Oh where is that Integral key? Try taking notes in your Chinese class, Oh where is that xian4 on the keyboard. You cannot memorize chinese character without writing them. There may be exceptions and I agree that it would be very interesting to come up with a scientifically based comparison. Anyway.
Yes a laptop makes you more efficient at entering and storing vast amounts of information.
A laptop makes you more efficient at entering information into your laptop. Entering information into you brain is probably better done with hand written notes on a notepad.
...because people seem to dislike change at older ages.
Boy that is a gross generalization. I can stand change and different things far more easily then my young offspring. E.g., I can listen to almost any kind of music and enjoy it, but my children cannot stand anything but HipHop. Where on Earth did you come up with such a statement? People with Conservative attitudes generally do not like change might be true.
But that is a tautology anyway.
But it was not the Man who did something about it. It was a librarian. Next time they might not back down. The "officers" did not step out of their job description, they stepped out of their universe.
Isn't that just detecting the effects of electricity on the body, not the electricity itself. Like detecting a hammer by the bruise on your thumb when you tried to hit that nail held in your fingers.
Programming languages use = more often as an assignment rather than an equals.:= is also used as an assignment symbol. There are other variations. == is used to distinquish equals from the = assignment. The main problem derives from programmers and language developers using ASCII based terminals to write programs where fancy symbols do not exist.
Above poster said University of Cincinnati, not University of Dayton. Search for UC in google and the first entry you will see will be University of Cincinnati, the Bearcats. http://www.uc.edu/
I'd never purchase a computer from Sun. I might purchase a Sun computer from a Sun reseller but generally speaking - at least for their Sparc products - they charge too much. You can get their computers cheaper elsewhere. Again this might not be for the X86 products. I have never priced them at Sun and at someone else.
Hey, I've got an idea! How about we produce less? You know carbon neutral energy sources, solar energy, etc. Nah! Never happen. Not as long as big business is controlling energy.
I still subscribe to a morning paper. It is easier to read when I go out to lunch each day. The funnies are all in one place and the advertisements - inserts - are useful too. Internet advertising is too in the way. It is hard to read articles without skipping around the stupid ads. I just don't see any Internet sources that combine all that in one place plus I can put my coffee on it and no one will steal it - try that with a laptop.
I disagree with your like. I find the white lights to be over bright and obnoxious. I much prefer the muted look of the sodium vapor lights. Especially from the air. The yellow lights are much more pleasant to view. What would be really nice is if we could change them to our liking. I have one of those bright white lights in the street outside my house. If it had knobs on it where I could change its spectrum, that would be cool. My ex-wife's neightborhood has no street lights at all - which I really prefer.
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No I am not going to retract my statement. I guess it is born of personal experience.
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When I take notes, I paraphrase what the instructor says, I do not quote them. I understand the point about not being able to read your own notes but I generally do not read my notes after I write them. The actual writing act embeds the information in my memory. Try taking notes in your Calculus class on your laptop. Oh where is that Integral key? Try taking notes in your Chinese class, Oh where is that xian4 on the keyboard. You cannot memorize chinese character without writing them. There may be exceptions and I agree that it would be very interesting to come up with a scientifically based comparison. Anyway.
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Yes a laptop makes you more efficient at entering and storing vast amounts of information.
A laptop makes you more efficient at entering information into your laptop. Entering information into you brain is probably better done with hand written notes on a notepad.
Yeah, my Palm TX does Chinese rather nicely. Is the Roman/Latin Alphabet market the only market?
...because people seem to dislike change at older ages.
Boy that is a gross generalization. I can stand change and different things far more easily then my young offspring. E.g., I can listen to almost any kind of music and enjoy it, but my children cannot stand anything but HipHop. Where on Earth did you come up with such a statement? People with Conservative attitudes generally do not like change might be true. But that is a tautology anyway.
One quote I have on my white board:
Learn the difference between busyness and accomplishment.
I don't know who said it but I appreciate it.
But it was not the Man who did something about it. It was a librarian. Next time they might not back down. The "officers" did not step out of their job description, they stepped out of their universe.
If I could, I would listen a lot more. I do occasionally at home and at work but most of my
"radio" listening is in my car.
Isn't that just detecting the effects of electricity on the body,
not the electricity itself. Like detecting a hammer by the bruise
on your thumb when you tried to hit that nail held in your fingers.
I guess we wouldn't have to brush our teeth for 5 years then! Cool!
* The activity itself is not unsafe nor pose a "security hole" (regardless of your opinions on other non-security effects like liberty)
Baloney. It puts "we the people" at risk by eliminating judicial oversight.
Or a Preacher
Sure it does. My word processor has never had a virus:
Never!
Programming languages use = more often as an assignment := is also used as an assignment symbol. There are other variations. == is used to distinquish equals from the = assignment. The main problem
rather than an equals.
derives from programmers and language developers using ASCII based terminals to write programs where fancy symbols do not exist.
That is probably Vista.
Above poster said University of Cincinnati, not University of Dayton. Search for
UC in google and the first entry you will see will be University of Cincinnati,
the Bearcats. http://www.uc.edu/
Except for the license, which apparently took a major step backwards.
So it's crap because of the licence? I don't buy that
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So you find that unTenable?
Your post actually seems to be the whiniest of the above.
I'd never purchase a computer from Sun. I might purchase a
Sun computer from a Sun reseller but generally speaking - at
least for their Sparc products - they charge too much. You
can get their computers cheaper elsewhere. Again this might
not be for the X86 products. I have never priced them at
Sun and at someone else.
tech news != News for Nerds
Or how about Dr Savage? He was a rich crime fighter.
Bad Day To Be Sony????
I'd put up with it. 60 billion dollars in revenue last year.
(from their web page - 7,159,600 million yen)
It seems I have read several science fiction books that used this principle. Isn't that prior art?
Hey, I've got an idea! How about we produce less? You know carbon neutral
energy sources, solar energy, etc. Nah! Never happen. Not as long as big
business is controlling energy.
I still subscribe to a morning paper. It is easier to read when
I go out to lunch each day. The funnies are all in one place and
the advertisements - inserts - are useful too. Internet advertising
is too in the way. It is hard to read articles without skipping
around the stupid ads. I just don't see any Internet sources that
combine all that in one place plus I can put my coffee on it and no
one will steal it - try that with a laptop.
I disagree with your like. I find the white lights to be over
bright and obnoxious. I much prefer the muted look of the
sodium vapor lights. Especially from the air. The yellow
lights are much more pleasant to view. What would be really
nice is if we could change them to our liking. I have one
of those bright white lights in the street outside my house.
If it had knobs on it where I could change its spectrum, that
would be cool. My ex-wife's neightborhood has no street
lights at all - which I really prefer.