I'm an inner city school teacher in Baltimore. I've had kids from 6th to 12th grade, and the overwhelming sentiment in the last two years from the kids is that FB is on its way out. Some of them grudgingly have accounts, but most of them--particularly the younger ones--think of it as outdated and for people who are ancient like me. They're using SnapChat and other newer social forms of communication.
Just another side of the coin. Others have said there's no reason to use FB when older tech (or no tech) will do. My students would tell you that it's time to move on to the next thing.
I accidentally dropped my Sony Vaio XG18 down a flight of stairs (about 13 steps) onto an uncarpeted tile/cement floor. Except for the DVD ROM, which broke when its tray shot out during the fall and just about disintegrated, the laptop booted fine afterward and is still going strong more than a year later.
I also once popped a resistor off of an Abit motherboard while trying to remove the CPU fan with a screwdriver (I know, I know, you don't even have to say it). However, it turned out that all the particular resistor did was monitor the motherboard temperature. Thank the gods for Abits ridiculous number of Mbd features.
No kidding. I mean...I have absolutely no problem paying artists for their music, programmers for their code, etc. But. When I feel (and I do) like 99% the 17$ I spend on a music cd is going directly into the pockets of an evil record company, it's hard to justify paying it. I don't have the money to burn, and if my favorite band is only going to get about a dime...
It's just something Issac Asimov said. Or rather, it's something that he's said to have said. I've never found any evidence that the quote is genuinely attributable to him.
"Seems the citizens were forced to obtain pirated copies due to the high cost and having to buy software they did not need to get the parts they DID need."
Gee, this sounds awfully familiar. Not a problem unique to Taiwan. I wonder if (and hope) it will ultimately have implications for the US market.
The thing is, this just isn't true. It's true that grading is a bit more subjective in the humanities, but lots of humanities profs are loathe to even give out A's for this reason. Also, there are almost never any curved grades in humanities classes, many people (including myself, a PhD student in English) find 15-25 page analytical papers more difficult and time-consuming than studying for an exam on a concrete subject, and in a lot of humanities courses at the lower levels of BA work (Composition, foreign languages, etc) anything lower than a straight C is failing.
I was always amazed at how much less time I had to spend on my computer programing assignments than my Lit. research papers, and how many more people got A's because of the curve.
I can't understand why science and engineering majors are held to one standard for grades and academics versus humanities majors even in the same school
Actually, the guy who wrote this peice is an Associate Professor of Geology and of Civil and Environmental Engineering. So, while this piece might not be from a "technical" point of view, it refers to the sciences rather than the humanities.
As a PhD student in English Lit, grade inflation has *not* been my expierence at all, but rather the opposite--professors who don't give out simple A's on principle.
After reading the Penny Arcade comic and checking out the site to convince myself it was a joke, I did a google search. Most of the results are foreign language pages, (evidently, "mavav" means something in a slavic language) but the first two that come up are these, people taking this way too seriously:
a google cache this guy evidently figured it out and took his site down.
I'm a PhD student in Literature (I know...) and although there's definitely a bit of a problem in the Humanities with people not responding to others in a useful dialogue at times, and there is certainly the same "publish or perish" imperative, it is really a *huge* faux pas to not have read the entirity of the paper/book you cite. In my field, you can easily be discredited for your entire academic carrer for that sort of thing.
Incidentally, it seems to me that the peer review process that exists in both the humanities and the sciences ought to catch these people who are completely misreading their source material. If neither the people writing the papers nor the reviewers are familiar with secondary materials, a real problem exists.
It could have been Workbench...Amigas were known for their funny error messages though. Remember "Guru Meditation Error" ?
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I had the same problem when I tried to cancel my cell phone. We have a service here called Cricket which provides local cell phone service and isn't available everywhere. I am moving out of the Cricket area in a month, and wanted my phone shut off. Took me an hour and 15 minutes and switches to many different departments (including getting a person who said "there's no one available in our disconnect department right now" during business hours. They can be sure I won't sign on with them again.
What exactly is the force of a reviewer getting linux software for free? Why would I be excited about Mandrake sending me the newest version of whatever when I can download a similar (and possibly better) app for free?
I can't imagine that there are enough people with such vehement anti-Napster sentiments for this to ever become a real issue (fingers cross.) If this becomes widespread, however, it could be a true pain, especially to those who are still labouring along with a standard modem.
Hopefully, no one will ever need to go to such drastic measures, but there is a way to protect yourself from this. One of the nice things about mp3s is that it's easy to listen to the beginning of each mp3 during the download to make sure it is, in fact, the song you want. Though this is a little time consuming, it's decidedly less so than spending an hour downloading the sweet sound of your favorite timepiece.
Nonetheless, this is an incredibly creative (if irritating,) protest idea. Kudos and chastisements at the same time.
You're right, though, isn't there the stress on the fact that the 'new' sort of replicant (the type played by Sean Young in the film) was nigh undetectable by ordinary methods? Part of the power of both the book and the director's cut for me was the ambiguity.
Because in the end, how do we know if we're androids or humans?
I'm interested to know whether there is acutally a market for a UNIX/MacOS combination. I agree that it sounds like a neat idea in general, and would definitely raise my opinion of the Macintosh, but will the average (even the above average,) Mac user welcome such a thing?
The Mac users I've talked to seem to range from skeptical to downright hostile on the subject, declaring that they'll stick with an outdated OS if necessary, but I'm not convinced that they adequately represent the Mac community. Any hardcore Mac users lurking here who have thoughts on how this will be recieved by the Mac community at large?
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I'm an inner city school teacher in Baltimore. I've had kids from 6th to 12th grade, and the overwhelming sentiment in the last two years from the kids is that FB is on its way out. Some of them grudgingly have accounts, but most of them--particularly the younger ones--think of it as outdated and for people who are ancient like me. They're using SnapChat and other newer social forms of communication.
Just another side of the coin. Others have said there's no reason to use FB when older tech (or no tech) will do. My students would tell you that it's time to move on to the next thing.
I accidentally dropped my Sony Vaio XG18 down a flight of stairs (about 13 steps) onto an uncarpeted tile/cement floor. Except for the DVD ROM, which broke when its tray shot out during the fall and just about disintegrated, the laptop booted fine afterward and is still going strong more than a year later.
I also once popped a resistor off of an Abit motherboard while trying to remove the CPU fan with a screwdriver (I know, I know, you don't even have to say it). However, it turned out that all the particular resistor did was monitor the motherboard temperature. Thank the gods for Abits ridiculous number of Mbd features.
No kidding. I mean...I have absolutely no problem paying artists for their music, programmers for their code, etc. But. When I feel (and I do) like 99% the 17$ I spend on a music cd is going directly into the pockets of an evil record company, it's hard to justify paying it. I don't have the money to burn, and if my favorite band is only going to get about a dime...
It's just something Issac Asimov said. Or rather, it's something that he's said to have said. I've never found any evidence that the quote is genuinely attributable to him.
Gee, this sounds awfully familiar. Not a problem unique to Taiwan. I wonder if (and hope) it will ultimately have implications for the US market.
The thing is, this just isn't true. It's true that grading is a bit more subjective in the humanities, but lots of humanities profs are loathe to even give out A's for this reason. Also, there are almost never any curved grades in humanities classes, many people (including myself, a PhD student in English) find 15-25 page analytical papers more difficult and time-consuming than studying for an exam on a concrete subject, and in a lot of humanities courses at the lower levels of BA work (Composition, foreign languages, etc) anything lower than a straight C is failing.
I was always amazed at how much less time I had to spend on my computer programing assignments than my Lit. research papers, and how many more people got A's because of the curve.
Actually, the guy who wrote this peice is an Associate Professor of Geology and of Civil and Environmental Engineering. So, while this piece might not be from a "technical" point of view, it refers to the sciences rather than the humanities.
As a PhD student in English Lit, grade inflation has *not* been my expierence at all, but rather the opposite--professors who don't give out simple A's on principle.
After reading the Penny Arcade comic and checking out the site to convince myself it was a joke, I did a google search. Most of the results are foreign language pages, (evidently, "mavav" means something in a slavic language) but the first two that come up are these, people taking this way too seriously:
a google cache this guy evidently figured it out and took his site down.
element gaming page down 2 stories to read his comments.
I'm a PhD student in Literature (I know...) and although there's definitely a bit of a problem in the Humanities with people not responding to others in a useful dialogue at times, and there is certainly the same "publish or perish" imperative, it is really a *huge* faux pas to not have read the entirity of the paper/book you cite. In my field, you can easily be discredited for your entire academic carrer for that sort of thing.
Incidentally, it seems to me that the peer review process that exists in both the humanities and the sciences ought to catch these people who are completely misreading their source material. If neither the people writing the papers nor the reviewers are familiar with secondary materials, a real problem exists.
Saw this fake error on a postcard at the MassMOCA museum in Massachusetts:
"Error: There is not enough RAM in the known universe to complete the opperation you have requested."
It could have been Workbench...Amigas were known for their funny error messages though. Remember "Guru Meditation Error" ?
I had the same problem when I tried to cancel my cell phone. We have a service here called Cricket which provides local cell phone service and isn't available everywhere. I am moving out of the Cricket area in a month, and wanted my phone shut off. Took me an hour and 15 minutes and switches to many different departments (including getting a person who said "there's no one available in our disconnect department right now" during business hours. They can be sure I won't sign on with them again.
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What exactly is the force of a reviewer getting linux software for free? Why would I be excited about Mandrake sending me the newest version of whatever when I can download a similar (and possibly better) app for free?
I can't imagine that there are enough people with such vehement anti-Napster sentiments for this to ever become a real issue (fingers cross.) If this becomes widespread, however, it could be a true pain, especially to those who are still labouring along with a standard modem.
Hopefully, no one will ever need to go to such drastic measures, but there is a way to protect yourself from this. One of the nice things about mp3s is that it's easy to listen to the beginning of each mp3 during the download to make sure it is, in fact, the song you want. Though this is a little time consuming, it's decidedly less so than spending an hour downloading the sweet sound of your favorite timepiece.
Nonetheless, this is an incredibly creative (if irritating,) protest idea. Kudos and chastisements at the same time.
You're right, though, isn't there the stress on the fact that the 'new' sort of replicant (the type played by Sean Young in the film) was nigh undetectable by ordinary methods? Part of the power of both the book and the director's cut for me was the ambiguity.
Because in the end, how do we know if we're androids or humans?
I'm interested to know whether there is acutally a market for a UNIX/MacOS combination. I agree that it sounds like a neat idea in general, and would definitely raise my opinion of the Macintosh, but will the average (even the above average,) Mac user welcome such a thing?
The Mac users I've talked to seem to range from skeptical to downright hostile on the subject, declaring that they'll stick with an outdated OS if necessary, but I'm not convinced that they adequately represent the Mac community. Any hardcore Mac users lurking here who have thoughts on how this will be recieved by the Mac community at large?