Well then, the responsibility lies with the reader to look at the information for what it really is: a collection of opinions without full context, rather than a factual, discrete rating of the instructor.
If the students were smart enough to do that, they wouldn't have recived bad grades and given bad reviews in the first place.
It's not about technology, it's about critical reasoning skills and a desire to understand the world. These are the same people who will insist that they can't cook, and that cooking the most basic item is some sort of black art.
Life is documented, whether it's how to operate every control in your car, how to use that computer, how to bake a cake, or paint your house. People go to a lot of effort to document life -- all you have to do is read about it.
There will always be people too lazy or clueless or full of learned helplessness to think logically about anything, much less how their computer works. They won't read manuals -- at best they'll write little crib notes about clicking this and pushing that, but they won't actually see any relationship between what they see on the screen and what their goal is.
My favorite was when Ms Ho announced at the end, with much fanfare, that starting today, Microsoft was unveiling some super-duper program so that if you bought Office now, the new update, when it was released, would be...FREE.
I've always considered "(sp)" to be a lame attempt to gain partial credit, as though the user is to be rewarded for knowing that they can't spell. To me it's always been shorthand for "The previous word is misspelled, but I won't be bothered to look it up."
The only thing worse that "(sp)" is "(sp?)", which is shorthand for "The previous word may or may not be misspelled. I'm not sure. Truth be told, the only thing I'm sure about is my own fat ass on the couch chomping bon-bons laziness."
Sorry to burst your bubble, AC, but I'm a generation older than the Enimen and Ludicrous demographic. I predate MTV, and may, in fact, be your daddy. As far as I'm concerned, most new music is just a derivation of what had already been done before, usually better, by 1979.
I rip MP3s at 192VBR. That's good enough for me after those Ramones concerts. That would allow ~72 complete albums in 4GB. You've failed to negate my point.
For what it's worth, I don't own an iPod yet, but I'm taking a serious look at the mini. 4GB is still a working week's worth of unique music to choose from. That's big enough for my needs and it's $50 cheaper than what I was considering spending before for a new iPod.
You'd lose that bet. I used to listen to alternative/college stations, but since '94 they've so been full of meritless Nirvana wannabees I switched to NPR and the classical station.
Getting to your point, though, 800 songs would still be ~80 albums. If 80 albums aren't enough to keep you amused between syncs, maybe it's you who has the attention span problem.
Remember when the iMacs first came out in all the colors? Pretty cool, but you liked some colors more than others? Well it turned out that preference to certain colors didn't quite follow a normal distribution. As a result, you started seeing lots if tangerine iMacs on sale. A lot of tangerine iMacs.
Personally, I'm betting that the gold iPod mini will by 2004's tangerine. It's pretty nasty. But y'know what? I don't care, because (a) it's going to be knocked down in price in six months, or come packaged with a dock or remote, and (b) it's small enough to fit in my pocket where I don't have to look at it and I can use that remote.
As for people saying that for an extra $50 they can just get the low-end 15GB, quit yer bitching and buy it.
Me, I'll keep the $50.
What's the point of having the iPod's FireWire if you're just going to keep the same stuff on your iPod all the time anyway? Between the FireWire connection and the smart playlists in iTunes, I can have my highest-rated tunes from each category with me, along with 1GB of randomly selected tunes swapped in each time I charge to keep the mix fresh.
I figure 800 songs (or whatever the mini ends up holding) is enough for my life: It's enough to walk around, go to the gym, or take a week-long trip without repeating. I don't need every song from my desktop computer with me every time I walk down the block.
Sure, it's only $50 more for much more space, but if it's not space that I'm going to use, it's a false economy to claim I've saved anything.
All I could think at the time (as a consumer) was "who the hell in Marketing thought Charlie Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' would make people want to buy a computer?"
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
Global warming is caused by Santa!
(This message is brought to you by the CO2 Distributors of America, who urge you to vote Republican this November.)
The only way to get onto the bridge is from the tunnel, which is I-93. While I suppose it may have been possible to add a bike lane to the bridge itself, they'd also have to build an entire special bike path to get on and off the bridge itself.
ObGeek: My dad flew on the concorde early in its first years of operation. Among the stuff he brought back (an impressive menu, a plastic folder with all sorts of cool FAQs and pictures, and a special Concorde luggage tag) there was a decal proclaiming "Concorde: Arrive in better shape."
I see it as a combination of monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This way you can have a headless Mac running in the background with a cool-running, thin, relatively cheap portable. If you want to upgrade, you upgrade the box under the desk, not the tablet. This way, cheap people can use it with a G3/G4 as a cheap upgrade, and power users can use it with a G5. If the wireless range is good enough, you could use it to stream DVDs and Web stuff anywhere you wanted to use it.
The problems are (a) it would suck power like a mofo, so you'd have to plug it in, (b) the wireless range limits just how useful it could be before you'd have to start adding expensive, power-sucking, stuff like a hard drive to it, and (c) it you're doing a lot of keyboard entry, you'd want to hook up a keyboard, and probably sit down with this thing propped up like a conventional monitor.
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The president of the United States is actually paid $400,000, but your point stands.
3.8 million times earth gravity?
As my wife pointed out, such a gravitational field would make anyone more attractive.
Does anybody know whatever happened with the research on harvesting real adult stem cells from fat tissue?
From fat tissue? At last, jobs will go back to Americans!
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Well then, the responsibility lies with the reader to look at the information for what it really is: a collection of opinions without full context, rather than a factual, discrete rating of the instructor.
If the students were smart enough to do that, they wouldn't have recived bad grades and given bad reviews in the first place.
Oh, piffle.
It's not about technology, it's about critical reasoning skills and a desire to understand the world. These are the same people who will insist that they can't cook, and that cooking the most basic item is some sort of black art.
Life is documented, whether it's how to operate every control in your car, how to use that computer, how to bake a cake, or paint your house. People go to a lot of effort to document life -- all you have to do is read about it.
There will always be people too lazy or clueless or full of learned helplessness to think logically about anything, much less how their computer works. They won't read manuals -- at best they'll write little crib notes about clicking this and pushing that, but they won't actually see any relationship between what they see on the screen and what their goal is.
the one innovative thing MS has ever done is creating Excel.
*cough* Visicalc *cough*
My favorite was when Ms Ho announced at the end, with much fanfare, that starting today, Microsoft was unveiling some super-duper program so that if you bought Office now, the new update, when it was released, would be...FREE.
Absolute silence from the audience.
So, one can only imagine my disgust when I happened to see one of these glorious creatures sitting on the curb by a neighbor's house...
The computer shown is actually a Mac Plus, which was first released in January 1986.
The FBI arrested one Russell Sprague
Why is it that cops always arrest one of somebody? It's not like raids on human clone factories are that common.
Great. Then we'd have a bunch of NASA spokespeople saying "talk to the hand."
Good thing there aren't any chairs to throw on Mars.
What exactly is so polite about that?
I've always considered "(sp)" to be a lame attempt to gain partial credit, as though the user is to be rewarded for knowing that they can't spell. To me it's always been shorthand for "The previous word is misspelled, but I won't be bothered to look it up."
The only thing worse that "(sp)" is "(sp?)", which is shorthand for "The previous word may or may not be misspelled. I'm not sure. Truth be told, the only thing I'm sure about is my own fat ass on the couch chomping bon-bons laziness."
Once they bring out Scrappy, though, you know the war's finished.
Sorry to burst your bubble, AC, but I'm a generation older than the Enimen and Ludicrous demographic. I predate MTV, and may, in fact, be your daddy. As far as I'm concerned, most new music is just a derivation of what had already been done before, usually better, by 1979.
I rip MP3s at 192VBR. That's good enough for me after those Ramones concerts. That would allow ~72 complete albums in 4GB. You've failed to negate my point.
For what it's worth, I don't own an iPod yet, but I'm taking a serious look at the mini. 4GB is still a working week's worth of unique music to choose from. That's big enough for my needs and it's $50 cheaper than what I was considering spending before for a new iPod.
Xserve RAID. 875,000 songs in your arms. Available for Mac and Windows.
You'd lose that bet. I used to listen to alternative/college stations, but since '94 they've so been full of meritless Nirvana wannabees I switched to NPR and the classical station.
Getting to your point, though, 800 songs would still be ~80 albums. If 80 albums aren't enough to keep you amused between syncs, maybe it's you who has the attention span problem.
Remember when the iMacs first came out in all the colors? Pretty cool, but you liked some colors more than others? Well it turned out that preference to certain colors didn't quite follow a normal distribution. As a result, you started seeing lots if tangerine iMacs on sale. A lot of tangerine iMacs.
Personally, I'm betting that the gold iPod mini will by 2004's tangerine. It's pretty nasty. But y'know what? I don't care, because (a) it's going to be knocked down in price in six months, or come packaged with a dock or remote, and (b) it's small enough to fit in my pocket where I don't have to look at it and I can use that remote.
As for people saying that for an extra $50 they can just get the low-end 15GB, quit yer bitching and buy it.
Me, I'll keep the $50.
What's the point of having the iPod's FireWire if you're just going to keep the same stuff on your iPod all the time anyway? Between the FireWire connection and the smart playlists in iTunes, I can have my highest-rated tunes from each category with me, along with 1GB of randomly selected tunes swapped in each time I charge to keep the mix fresh.
I figure 800 songs (or whatever the mini ends up holding) is enough for my life: It's enough to walk around, go to the gym, or take a week-long trip without repeating. I don't need every song from my desktop computer with me every time I walk down the block.
Sure, it's only $50 more for much more space, but if it's not space that I'm going to use, it's a false economy to claim I've saved anything.
All I could think at the time (as a consumer) was "who the hell in Marketing thought Charlie Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' would make people want to buy a computer?"
Yeah, everyone knows paper beats rock.
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
Global warming is caused by Santa!
(This message is brought to you by the CO2 Distributors of America, who urge you to vote Republican this November.)
The only way to get onto the bridge is from the tunnel, which is I-93. While I suppose it may have been possible to add a bike lane to the bridge itself, they'd also have to build an entire special bike path to get on and off the bridge itself.
Dio
Iron Maiden
Manowar
Duran Duran
Kate Bush
ABBA
Slayer
Spike Jones
Wu-Tang Clan
John Denver
"Hey, dude, it's me. I just realized that I can't go on that road trip with you. I, uh, have something I need to do that week."
Me too!
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America proposes to send just Bush to the Moon? I'm sure such a proposal would do much to re-establish cooperation with other countries.
ObGeek: My dad flew on the concorde early in its first years of operation. Among the stuff he brought back (an impressive menu, a plastic folder with all sorts of cool FAQs and pictures, and a special Concorde luggage tag) there was a decal proclaiming "Concorde: Arrive in better shape."
I see it as a combination of monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This way you can have a headless Mac running in the background with a cool-running, thin, relatively cheap portable. If you want to upgrade, you upgrade the box under the desk, not the tablet. This way, cheap people can use it with a G3/G4 as a cheap upgrade, and power users can use it with a G5. If the wireless range is good enough, you could use it to stream DVDs and Web stuff anywhere you wanted to use it.
The problems are (a) it would suck power like a mofo, so you'd have to plug it in, (b) the wireless range limits just how useful it could be before you'd have to start adding expensive, power-sucking, stuff like a hard drive to it, and (c) it you're doing a lot of keyboard entry, you'd want to hook up a keyboard, and probably sit down with this thing propped up like a conventional monitor.