I've actually had several professors that simply typed their lectures into powerpoint (using outlining) then read them to the class. It made class boring as hell, but it had the advantage that it was fairly easy to snooze or get work done during class, or even grab the powerpoint files from the web in some cases and not go to class at all.
When I was in CS, I had a few classes where the professors wouldn't accept assignments done in any IDE other than VisualStudio. so i did all my programming with bbedit & gcc, then spent an hour or so fighting with visual studio when i was done, so i could submit the zipfile the prof wanted.
And yeah, we got smacked grade-wise if we turned in something non-MS, to the tune of 10%. This was for command-line simple stuff.
Right, but if you want the *government* to buy into it, you are by definition catering to idiots (or at least trying to).
I've done a fair amount of public-sector work. I've met *three* people who could manage a GUI FTP app without serious coaching.
In my day, we didn't even have DATA! Our "computer" was a giant obsidian obelisk, and we "executed instructions" by applying our "input" via bone hammers to the heads of our fellow monkeys.
you can, actually, set up forts and string chains across publicly navigable rivers if you own enough land on either side. the power company and the phone company here (northwest florida) have done that. you can even dump toxic chemicals into the water to kill the fish and plants if you want, you just have to promise to eventually stop doing it.
so now we have freedom of assembly and freedom from assembly? wow. i wish i had that back when i was in college. wanders into frat house: "hey. i have a right to be here alone. says so in the constitution."
or just "there will be no state sanctioned business" - so no amtrak, no post office, no public service commission maintaining the phone and power lines, no DARPA, no internet2, no human genome project...
uh... we do that already. at least here in florida. it's called "Partners in Education"
the partners get big ads and basically whatever else they want from schools (exclusive drink machine franchises, 42 virgins for the corporate christmas party, etc.) and in return the school gets pencils, construction paper, free pizza, and so forth.
hell, my high school had a Microsoft Computer Lab bought and paid for, with plenty of ad space, by a MSFT grant.
Could I hook up a transmitter to send the VGA signal over RF and get rid of my monitor cable? If these things are so easy to sniff, I want to take advantage of it for myself.
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When I was in CS, I had a few classes where the professors wouldn't accept assignments done in any IDE other than VisualStudio. so i did all my programming with bbedit & gcc, then spent an hour or so fighting with visual studio when i was done, so i could submit the zipfile the prof wanted. And yeah, we got smacked grade-wise if we turned in something non-MS, to the tune of 10%. This was for command-line simple stuff.
Right, but if you want the *government* to buy into it, you are by definition catering to idiots (or at least trying to). I've done a fair amount of public-sector work. I've met *three* people who could manage a GUI FTP app without serious coaching.
You had CARDS? Lucky.
In my day, we didn't even have DATA! Our "computer" was a giant obsidian obelisk, and we "executed instructions" by applying our "input" via bone hammers to the heads of our fellow monkeys.
Proper "program execution" meant food for a week!
ah, but is it the screenplay to kenneth brannagh's hamlet, or mel gibson's hamlet?
you can, actually, set up forts and string chains across publicly navigable rivers if you own enough land on either side. the power company and the phone company here (northwest florida) have done that. you can even dump toxic chemicals into the water to kill the fish and plants if you want, you just have to promise to eventually stop doing it.
so now we have freedom of assembly and freedom from assembly? wow. i wish i had that back when i was in college. wanders into frat house: "hey. i have a right to be here alone. says so in the constitution."
or just "there will be no state sanctioned business" - so no amtrak, no post office, no public service commission maintaining the phone and power lines, no DARPA, no internet2, no human genome project...
uh... we do that already. at least here in florida. it's called "Partners in Education"
the partners get big ads and basically whatever else they want from schools (exclusive drink machine franchises, 42 virgins for the corporate christmas party, etc.) and in return the school gets pencils, construction paper, free pizza, and so forth.
hell, my high school had a Microsoft Computer Lab bought and paid for, with plenty of ad space, by a MSFT grant.
Could I hook up a transmitter to send the VGA signal over RF and get rid of my monitor cable? If these things are so easy to sniff, I want to take advantage of it for myself.