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I thought it a little odd too - what kind of lazy lecturer is it that can't write their own problem sheets and either give good enough lectures that students can take decent notes or give out photocopies of the slides?
I think that the US education system is basically shifted along a few years - students in the first years of college are treated more like A-level students are in the UK: set weekly homeworks, learning from textbooks etc.
Don't they have exams at Princeton? What happens at the end of the year when you come to revise for the exam and your book from the first semester has expired?
The only textbooks I bought were for subjects where I 'forgot' to go to the lectures and needed to do some panic revision in the course before the exam.
I think you just need a better digital camera. Shutter lag, controls and not being able to disable auto-power off shouldn't be a problem with a good digital camera. I like my Canon IXUS 50(SD400 in the US).
A 6"x4" print from a digital picture costs ~15p - from the number of people in the photo print shop I was in the other day, getting favourite photos printed out is fairly common.
The Dixons group is truly awful, especially as they essentially own the entire UK high street and out-of-town electronics market. PCWorld, Curry's and Dixons shops are all Dixon's group and are universally overpriced, with a poor selection and the most stupid staff on the planet.
Precisely. It appears that "Step 2" for webmasters is "write ill-informed, unsubstaniated rant about a subject guaranteed to piss off a large portion of the Slashdot readership".
When I was at State school (UK), ideas like creationism were taught in Religious Education classes for 1 hour a week, along with Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim etc. ideas. No particular weighting was given to any particular religion, it was just "this is what these people believe".
Would that not be a good idea to resolve the dispute? A good way to open kids minds to ideas beyond their parents' religion, too.
I think a large fraction of tech companies (at least here in the UK) run flexitime these days, generally something like 37.5 hours a week, you must be in the office between 11:00am and 3:00pm. And even large, traditional companies like Shell allow IT employees at least one day a week working from home.
Dataconnections do exactly that as part of their preliminary six hours of testing. They give you a definition of a vaguely Fortran like language and then ask you to step through a hundred line program on paper and write down the final result. And, no, I didn't get the job.
I would say that he has a point, but that doesn't mean we should stop using IDEs. A good coder should at least be able to code using vi/emacs and a command line if they have to. Being able to write code with only the basics and debugging using just code examination and logging is important for what it teaches you. However, a decent coder should also recognise that they are more productive with a good IDE.
In my experience, good developers can always do "text editor and gcc" development if they have to, while poor developers very often run in fear of anything without a visual debugger and a "Build" button.
Bullying is not a suitable topic for a computer game. In term time this charity is contacted by up to four suicidal pupils a day. Between 16-20 children a year kill themselves in the UK due to school bullying. Amusing subject for a game isn't it?
What a bunch of self-righteous wankers. A huge fraction of films/books/games deal with horrible subjects. Should we ban *every* film/book/game that doesn't involve everyone just being nice to each other?
They'll be protesting against Itchy and Scratchy and Michelangelo's David next...
Strange that this article should end up on Slashdot: it was a Slashdot inspired story in the first place. I pointed out the original Slashdot article about the device to my father (Nicholas Roe), knowing that as a travel journalist he would be interested. And here we are, a fortnight later, and it's on Slashdot itself. the strange circular world of online journalism.
I too would be sad to see the big N go: games like Paper Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Sunshine, Zelda etc. proved to me that the game industry could still be about fun, as opposed to 'mature' crap like Splinter Cell.
There is a value in intelligent discussion of consoles from each company as you say, to counter misinformation. But every console discussion these days seems to break down into "OMG no boobies! GC is teh suxor!!!" or something similar: tribal conflict, not discussion.
It's so funny watching the console fanboys fight. They seem to forget that these are just companies we're talking about, not tribes. This is a competitive free market: if company A does well, it spurs company B to do better, and all consumers gain, irrespective of whether they own a console from company A or B.
Bloody hell there are some daft people on Slashdot. Did you buy your computer to read dialogs? Or did you buy it to do some work with it? I'm guessing it's the latter.
Why intentionally make the user do more work to perform simple tasks?
At this point, surely virtually every band is a rip off of someone or other. Still, you'd have to agree it's better than Jessica Simpson. It just annoys me sometimes when people say "modern music is dead" and name three vacu-pop groups as 'proof'.
No, the important pictures are of the second group of bombers - the ones who forgot to keep their explosives in the fridge and therefore didn't meet quite the 'glorious' end they were hoping for.
The post was probably written by an English person: we tend (outwardly at least) to take a very pessimistic "the sky is falling" outlook on things. Hence the nickname "Whinging Poms", I guess.
That said, I didn't vote for the current poor excuse of a government:-)
The Acer Travelmate 8104 meets most of that, I think. I use one as my main desktop work machine and it's very nice. The screen is 1680x1050 15.3@ widescreen, 2Gz Sonoma, 1Gb RAM, 100Gb HDD.
My girlfriend loves GTA3:Vice City. It's a bit disturbing watching her hunt down pedestrians with a baseball bat. Of course, she can't navigate at all and has to keep stopping to ask me for directions...
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I thought it a little odd too - what kind of lazy lecturer is it that can't write their own problem sheets and either give good enough lectures that students can take decent notes or give out photocopies of the slides?
I think that the US education system is basically shifted along a few years - students in the first years of college are treated more like A-level students are in the UK: set weekly homeworks, learning from textbooks etc.
Don't they have exams at Princeton? What happens at the end of the year when you come to revise for the exam and your book from the first semester has expired?
The only textbooks I bought were for subjects where I 'forgot' to go to the lectures and needed to do some panic revision in the course before the exam.
I think you just need a better digital camera. Shutter lag, controls and not being able to disable auto-power off shouldn't be a problem with a good digital camera. I like my Canon IXUS 50(SD400 in the US).
A 6"x4" print from a digital picture costs ~15p - from the number of people in the photo print shop I was in the other day, getting favourite photos printed out is fairly common.
The Dixons group is truly awful, especially as they essentially own the entire UK high street and out-of-town electronics market. PCWorld, Curry's and Dixons shops are all Dixon's group and are universally overpriced, with a poor selection and the most stupid staff on the planet.
And Apache helicopter gunships that can't fire missiles without damaging their tail rotor.
Precisely. It appears that "Step 2" for webmasters is "write ill-informed, unsubstaniated rant about a subject guaranteed to piss off a large portion of the Slashdot readership".
When I was at State school (UK), ideas like creationism were taught in Religious Education classes for 1 hour a week, along with Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim etc. ideas. No particular weighting was given to any particular religion, it was just "this is what these people believe".
Would that not be a good idea to resolve the dispute? A good way to open kids minds to ideas beyond their parents' religion, too.
I think a large fraction of tech companies (at least here in the UK) run flexitime these days, generally something like 37.5 hours a week, you must be in the office between 11:00am and 3:00pm. And even large, traditional companies like Shell allow IT employees at least one day a week working from home.
Dataconnections do exactly that as part of their preliminary six hours of testing. They give you a definition of a vaguely Fortran like language and then ask you to step through a hundred line program on paper and write down the final result. And, no, I didn't get the job.
I would say that he has a point, but that doesn't mean we should stop using IDEs. A good coder should at least be able to code using vi/emacs and a command line if they have to. Being able to write code with only the basics and debugging using just code examination and logging is important for what it teaches you. However, a decent coder should also recognise that they are more productive with a good IDE.
In my experience, good developers can always do "text editor and gcc" development if they have to, while poor developers very often run in fear of anything without a visual debugger and a "Build" button.
Bullying is not a suitable topic for a computer game. In term time this charity is contacted by up to four suicidal pupils a day. Between 16-20 children a year kill themselves in the UK due to school bullying. Amusing subject for a game isn't it?
What a bunch of self-righteous wankers. A huge fraction of films/books/games deal with horrible subjects. Should we ban *every* film/book/game that doesn't involve everyone just being nice to each other?
They'll be protesting against Itchy and Scratchy and Michelangelo's David next...
Strange that this article should end up on Slashdot: it was a Slashdot inspired story in the first place. I pointed out the original Slashdot article about the device to my father (Nicholas Roe), knowing that as a travel journalist he would be interested. And here we are, a fortnight later, and it's on Slashdot itself. the strange circular world of online journalism.
So that people who aren't sure can get further information, obviously. Verbs on the buttons makes sure that the text in the dialog is unambiguous.
I too would be sad to see the big N go: games like Paper Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Sunshine, Zelda etc. proved to me that the game industry could still be about fun, as opposed to 'mature' crap like Splinter Cell.
There is a value in intelligent discussion of consoles from each company as you say, to counter misinformation. But every console discussion these days seems to break down into "OMG no boobies! GC is teh suxor!!!" or something similar: tribal conflict, not discussion.
It's so funny watching the console fanboys fight. They seem to forget that these are just companies we're talking about, not tribes.
This is a competitive free market: if company A does well, it spurs company B to do better, and all consumers gain, irrespective of whether they own a console from company A or B.
Bloody hell there are some daft people on Slashdot. Did you buy your computer to read dialogs? Or did you buy it to do some work with it? I'm guessing it's the latter.
Why intentionally make the user do more work to perform simple tasks?
At this point, surely virtually every band is a rip off of someone or other. Still, you'd have to agree it's better than Jessica Simpson. It just annoys me sometimes when people say "modern music is dead" and name three vacu-pop groups as 'proof'.
/Scrolls through ipod artists list for good recent music
Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, White Stripes, Jef Buckley (well, kind of recent), Foo fighters, Coldplay, Kings of Leon
There is good new music out there.
79p, not 99p.
No, the important pictures are of the second group of bombers - the ones who forgot to keep their explosives in the fridge and therefore didn't meet quite the 'glorious' end they were hoping for.
The post was probably written by an English person: we tend (outwardly at least) to take a very pessimistic "the sky is falling" outlook on things. Hence the nickname "Whinging Poms", I guess.
:-)
That said, I didn't vote for the current poor excuse of a government
Apart from the trackpoint, of course. I'd prefer an external optical mouse, personally: you can use them virtually anywhere you can a laptop.
The Acer Travelmate 8104 meets most of that, I think. I use one as my main desktop work machine and it's very nice. The screen is 1680x1050 15.3@ widescreen, 2Gz Sonoma, 1Gb RAM, 100Gb HDD.
My girlfriend loves GTA3:Vice City. It's a bit disturbing watching her hunt down pedestrians with a baseball bat. Of course, she can't navigate at all and has to keep stopping to ask me for directions...