If all computers and technology get fried why should we go back to the same old system. I mean it must have been a crappy system to begin with if some disaster destroyed it in the first place, right? So I say we should try a new system. I call the I am god system. It works like this, everyone in the world should drop what they are doing, give me all their wealth and serve me! Now thats a better system then one any kernel hacker could ever think of. I dont know about you but I would sure love that system. I guess without Diablo life wouldnt be perfect but I sure wouldnt complain.
until X comes with decent drivers for my Radeon 64 DDR Im not going to pay attention to any window manager. To hell with them anyway did you people see athena!! Now thats a window manager XML customization and all.
Sorry to dissapoint but linux is primarily a c/c++ platform. Thats what its written in. What languages were you thinking of writing apps in? Sure you can write a ton of garbage in Lisp, Scheme, Adda but these languages arent at the heart of linux or even Unix. Some CS major was bored one day and decided to port them. I guess Tcl is a "linux language" but Im sorry to tell you it seriously sucks. I guess linux is a good perl platform but tcl and perl are scripting languages so who the hell is going to write games in them. Linux is a much more programmer friendly system then palm or ce but its primarily a c/c++ system even it java support is shit. I do all my java in code warrior but that getting of the topic.
Im currently go to stuy. I was in that assholes (Dr Plass) class during the term he got arrested it really hit the school har. Stuy is a great place. If you leave money in a classroom and comeback the next period their is a good chance that it will still be there. I dont know many schools like that. They say that we are super competitive and that nobody is friendly but thats just bullshit and to be honest most of the teachers arent that bad we have alot of phds in the building and most of the teachers at least have a masters. Excuse the bad grammar as usual.
WOW you misunderstand me Stuy isnt hard its just harder then most of the schools in New York. The NYC education system is totally fucked up. Its probably the worst in the country. Now I dontknow about you but a 0-9 schedule isb't easy it means your in school from 8-4 every day plus 1-2 hours of hw. If I went to my local school i would have a 20 minute commute but thanks to stuy its more like an hour 10 minutes on the fucking R train. Have you seen the new ap comp sci case study it isnt hard but they have totally fucked up the class marine biology my ass. I dont know what you know about other schools in the city but how many do you think even teach their kids about linux/unix. Stuy is also a very liberal environment no metal detector and no security guards harassing you every step of the way. Sure cutting is easy but if you cut your a fucking moron. Stuy does what a school is supposed to provide people with a good place to get a good education. You can get from it what you want. If you want to cut and spend 5 years there you can. If you want to take a half dozen ap classes you can. Colleges wont accept AP credit because its their bussiness to suck you dry. My cousin is an economics major at Columbia they made him take a class his sophmore year titled the "Economics of Sports" can their be a more bullshit course. Im a junior and in my 3 years here not one of my teachers has made us go over regents of sat2 questions so can you tell me how are they teaching to the test. Under your old principal Mrs Perrulo stuy got a reputation for grade inflation and bullshit, but Teitel the new principal had changed a lot of the old practices. He is a bit of an asshole but the school is a lot better. Im sorry but to have a decent life pulling a 95 is impossible. Franky in a nerd but I just cant image getting so absorded in all the school bullshit that you have to get absorbed in to get that 95. Im more then happy with my 90 average and I dont even overwork myself to get it. When did I say I was troubled by Stuy? Stuy is a very open place and I have seriously matured in it. It prepares you for college by providing a very college like atmosphere anyone who disagrees is just jealous that they didn't got to stuy. My brother goes to our zoned school lets just say he isn't the brightest apple in the bunch, but he has managed to pull a 95 average with even less work then me so any myths of grade inflation at stuy are highly over rated. Clearly Im very biased but you people shouldn't judge a school you haven't been too. Between the 3 science high schools I think we share a total of 7 or 8 nobel prize winners how many school can say that. In closing whyu would we need to run bsd when we never have more then 2 or 3 hundred kid on the entire network at a given time and the school website gets less hits then my own shitty site?
I go to Stuy and I have just on question what grade inflation? As soon as Stuy started to get that kind of reputation the teacher quickly became grade nazis. Today your grade is basically your test average (if not lower) just because they want to fight this reputation. As for Thomas Jefferson I dont want to brag but your have you been at stuy? We cant possibly fill the trophy cases with more awards. We also send between 20-50 kids a year to Harvard how many schools can say that! For those that are wondering a 3.9 at Stuy is probably a 4.0 at any other school. The kids here I think are very naturally gifted but over the years have become very lazy because of all the bull shit that every kid has to deal with ie SAT's, clubs charity work etc. The average sat grade at stuy is around a 1450 for those that are wondering call the school if you want more exact figures the number is on the site. Also visit www.stuynet.com for a more inner view of stuyvesant it a great place I have really grown their. Excuse the poor grammar but im at work and dont have the time.
I go to Stuyvesant so imagine my surprise when I saw Stuy being mentioned on Slashdot. The average Sat score at Stuyvesant is 1400-1500. We send between 20 and 40 kids a year to Harvard. Most of our computers run Debian linux. All of our kids have access to their shell accounts via telnet/ssh and all our course programming is done via the web. So tech wise we and academic wise we are 20 years ahead of every other high school in the US and better then some colleges. Stuy isnt an easy place to survive in (long commute hard schedules annoying kids) but its better than the schools that most of my friends attend. We are treated with respect and are basically allowed to do whatever we want (cutting class is easy), but everyone knows the consequences tens years down the line if you do something stupid.Most of us never end up going to ivy league schools however, because pulling a 95 average at Stuy is very very hard. Basically whatever grade you would get at your local zoned school is probably 5 to 10 points higher than a comparable Stuy grade. At stuy the teachers are far more demanding and far less willing to tolerate bullshit.Also the schedule at stuy is very demanding. Take my favorite class ap compsci we meet everyday for one 45 minute period. However, in most other schools the ap compsci classes meet for 10 periods a week. So we only have half the amount of time to cover the course work. At Stuy your not taught to pass some stupid test you are taught that the material is important and valuable and even if you never use it you have to know it to be a better person. Simply put our school kicks ass, but I would rather be on Babylon 5
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If all computers and technology get fried why should we go back to the same old system. I mean it must have been a crappy system to begin with if some disaster destroyed it in the first place, right? So I say we should try a new system. I call the I am god system. It works like this, everyone in the world should drop what they are doing, give me all their wealth and serve me! Now thats a better system then one any kernel hacker could ever think of. I dont know about you but I would sure love that system. I guess without Diablo life wouldnt be perfect but I sure wouldnt complain.
until X comes with decent drivers for my Radeon 64 DDR Im not going to pay attention to any window manager. To hell with them anyway did you people see athena!! Now thats a window manager XML customization and all.
Sorry to dissapoint but linux is primarily a c/c++ platform. Thats what its written in. What languages were you thinking of writing apps in? Sure you can write a ton of garbage in Lisp, Scheme, Adda but these languages arent at the heart of linux or even Unix. Some CS major was bored one day and decided to port them. I guess Tcl is a "linux language" but Im sorry to tell you it seriously sucks. I guess linux is a good perl platform but tcl and perl are scripting languages so who the hell is going to write games in them. Linux is a much more programmer friendly system then palm or ce but its primarily a c/c++ system even it java support is shit. I do all my java in code warrior but that getting of the topic.
Im currently go to stuy. I was in that assholes (Dr Plass) class during the term he got arrested it really hit the school har. Stuy is a great place. If you leave money in a classroom and comeback the next period their is a good chance that it will still be there. I dont know many schools like that. They say that we are super competitive and that nobody is friendly but thats just bullshit and to be honest most of the teachers arent that bad we have alot of phds in the building and most of the teachers at least have a masters. Excuse the bad grammar as usual.
WOW you misunderstand me Stuy isnt hard its just harder then most of the schools in New York. The NYC education system is totally fucked up. Its probably the worst in the country. Now I dontknow about you but a 0-9 schedule isb't easy it means your in school from 8-4 every day plus 1-2 hours of hw. If I went to my local school i would have a 20 minute commute but thanks to stuy its more like an hour 10 minutes on the fucking R train. Have you seen the new ap comp sci case study it isnt hard but they have totally fucked up the class marine biology my ass. I dont know what you know about other schools in the city but how many do you think even teach their kids about linux/unix. Stuy is also a very liberal environment no metal detector and no security guards harassing you every step of the way. Sure cutting is easy but if you cut your a fucking moron. Stuy does what a school is supposed to provide people with a good place to get a good education. You can get from it what you want. If you want to cut and spend 5 years there you can. If you want to take a half dozen ap classes you can. Colleges wont accept AP credit because its their bussiness to suck you dry. My cousin is an economics major at Columbia they made him take a class his sophmore year titled the "Economics of Sports" can their be a more bullshit course. Im a junior and in my 3 years here not one of my teachers has made us go over regents of sat2 questions so can you tell me how are they teaching to the test. Under your old principal Mrs Perrulo stuy got a reputation for grade inflation and bullshit, but Teitel the new principal had changed a lot of the old practices. He is a bit of an asshole but the school is a lot better. Im sorry but to have a decent life pulling a 95 is impossible. Franky in a nerd but I just cant image getting so absorded in all the school bullshit that you have to get absorbed in to get that 95. Im more then happy with my 90 average and I dont even overwork myself to get it. When did I say I was troubled by Stuy? Stuy is a very open place and I have seriously matured in it. It prepares you for college by providing a very college like atmosphere anyone who disagrees is just jealous that they didn't got to stuy. My brother goes to our zoned school lets just say he isn't the brightest apple in the bunch, but he has managed to pull a 95 average with even less work then me so any myths of grade inflation at stuy are highly over rated. Clearly Im very biased but you people shouldn't judge a school you haven't been too. Between the 3 science high schools I think we share a total of 7 or 8 nobel prize winners how many school can say that. In closing whyu would we need to run bsd when we never have more then 2 or 3 hundred kid on the entire network at a given time and the school website gets less hits then my own shitty site?
I go to Stuy and I have just on question what grade inflation? As soon as Stuy started to get that kind of reputation the teacher quickly became grade nazis. Today your grade is basically your test average (if not lower) just because they want to fight this reputation. As for Thomas Jefferson I dont want to brag but your have you been at stuy? We cant possibly fill the trophy cases with more awards. We also send between 20-50 kids a year to Harvard how many schools can say that! For those that are wondering a 3.9 at Stuy is probably a 4.0 at any other school. The kids here I think are very naturally gifted but over the years have become very lazy because of all the bull shit that every kid has to deal with ie SAT's, clubs charity work etc. The average sat grade at stuy is around a 1450 for those that are wondering call the school if you want more exact figures the number is on the site. Also visit www.stuynet.com for a more inner view of stuyvesant it a great place I have really grown their. Excuse the poor grammar but im at work and dont have the time.
I go to Stuyvesant so imagine my surprise when I saw Stuy being mentioned on Slashdot. The average Sat score at Stuyvesant is 1400-1500. We send between 20 and 40 kids a year to Harvard. Most of our computers run Debian linux. All of our kids have access to their shell accounts via telnet/ssh and all our course programming is done via the web. So tech wise we and academic wise we are 20 years ahead of every other high school in the US and better then some colleges. Stuy isnt an easy place to survive in (long commute hard schedules annoying kids) but its better than the schools that most of my friends attend. We are treated with respect and are basically allowed to do whatever we want (cutting class is easy), but everyone knows the consequences tens years down the line if you do something stupid.Most of us never end up going to ivy league schools however, because pulling a 95 average at Stuy is very very hard. Basically whatever grade you would get at your local zoned school is probably 5 to 10 points higher than a comparable Stuy grade. At stuy the teachers are far more demanding and far less willing to tolerate bullshit.Also the schedule at stuy is very demanding. Take my favorite class ap compsci we meet everyday for one 45 minute period. However, in most other schools the ap compsci classes meet for 10 periods a week. So we only have half the amount of time to cover the course work. At Stuy your not taught to pass some stupid test you are taught that the material is important and valuable and even if you never use it you have to know it to be a better person. Simply put our school kicks ass, but I would rather be on Babylon 5