For those of you who can't be bothered to think about actual uses before complaining about the thing, actual uses do exist. Probably the best example is for reporters taking pictures and not having to deal with people who get caught in the picture and don't want to be. It would be a mutual relationship that helps both parties avoid trouble.
After some careful examination a team of scientists has determined that it would be impossible for Santa to carry all the presents to be delivered in his sleigh or for an army of elves to have the manpower to create them using traditional methods. It has also been determined that his bag of gifts does not in fact hold a rip in in space-time opening to an alternate "santaland" universe.
So how does he do it?
Spy satellites that used to monitor the Soviet Union have determined that instead of carrying the mythical bag of presents on his sliegh he instead carries a highly advanced fusion reactor which is used to create gifts from pure energy. But where does this leave the elves? They are in fact nuclear scientists and engineers that keep the whole show going. Radiation exposure during the early years resulted in the physical deformations in their genetic line.
First thing, contrary to what many other have said, you will find students interested tech stuff. Make the topic something like a programming contest and you'll get attendence from the geek community. The more accessible you make it the more people will show up, so I'd stay away from things that require a lot of prior knowlege or a large time investment.
There have been a lot of good suggestions so far like teaching about car sound systems (there's a helluva lot of technical lessons it could introduce), or you could run a course to introduce kids to fixing computer problems. Process of elimination, common procedures, and running Firefox. Just keep it simple so that the audience is wide.
If you want to do something that would really help out, just ask the school. There's a ton of run of the mill stuff they always need help with. Chances are that their internal network admins are overwhelmed or they need substitute teachers.
Then you're missing out on some of the best programming on TV. Try to catch one of their technology shows like "Extreme Engineering" or "Modern Marvels". The shows are a little lightweight but genuinely interesting.
Not that this is the only place where it is like I described, just that it's the only place I have had much experience. I'd assume many other places are just like what I described, but to state that as fact would be just as unsubstantiated as the claims others are making about our education system.
I'm 18 and graduating from a New Jersey public school this year in an upper-middle class area. I'm at the top of class, taking all the AP courses I can and doing very well in them. My firsthand experiences have been quite different from what everyone except a select few have been describing.
There are 20 people in my Calculus AP BC class, the most difficult offered at the school. There are 60 people in in Calculus AP AB, the class one step down from that. The classes are NOT fun. They entail a lot of difficult but not usually tedious work. It is taught with a blackboard and some chalk in a lecture/math lab format. Every student has a calculator, but rarely uses it because the symbolic nature of the work makes them nearly useless.
There are no "cool" people that aren't in these classes. The same people that you go to a calculus study group with are found at all the popular concerts and parties. It is usually the potheads and idiots that are looked down upon. I guess they have fun at whatever they do, but it's like they are the disconnected ones.
It's not like we all come diciplinarian homes either. When I get bad grades my parents usually say "That's too bad, hope you do better next time". I have a number of Chinese/Inidan/Korean friends with very strict parents that do excel in many areas, but no more so than other people like me have, not to mention I'm Polish.:P
So, in conclusion, I have no idea where the blame lies for underperforming students. I have no idea why other students do so well. The entire thing makes no sense to me. The one thing I can tell you for sure is that anyone that gives you a clear answer to any of these questions is either a liar, pushing an adgenda, or a complete genious (or any combination of the three).
I've been running C&C:RA on my XP machines for a long time now. I even got them to work correctly networked. The work required was far from hacking, just installing various patches and tweaking IPX/SPX settings.
For those of you who didn't RTFA and got right to the misinforming posts, this is about fee-based services. To subscribe to the wireless service in Philly the article states that it will cost you $15-20 a month, which puts the issue in a different perspective.
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A great majority of TV watching people both like the familiarity of recording shows on the VCR and are not ready to make the jump to using a PVR. Also, the process of being able to record a show on tape, take it out of the VCR and do whatever with it still hasn't become common enough or cheap enough with newer mediums such as DVD-R for many people to buy into it.
It doesn't matter if you are the best teacher ever to walk the earth, most public schools will have wonder why you waste your time there within months of your first day. No matter how much money the science department gets it can't make a student give a damn. Not only do you have depressing students, but then you have to deal with the school administration when you the parents of the pothead that got a 30 on his chem final call and raise hell.
The opposite is true too. If you have a bunch of interested students you can put together a great class with very few supplies.
Science teacher absolutely deserves to be on the list as long as a large part of our society still sees no value in education.
You mean all the things that matter a lot more to the environment than CO2 emissions? The things that are killing off entire species and causing major health problems RIGHT NOW?
"BPL has been given a bad wrap by many news sources. At this stage, it is really impossible to tell whether the interference complaints are legit for the actual technology as a whole, or whether they are based purely on BPL networks that were not researched or planned well enough before deployment - some reports even suggest false claims have been made to try and derail the deployment of BPL by pro-radio enthusiasts."
If it doesn't cause actual interference then why would pro-radio enthusiasts be trying to derail it? I'd think they would know what they're talking about, being "radio enthusiasts" and a large percentage of them being EEs.
That's not right. Let's try it with some example numbers. Say we get 20mpg. Over 150000 miles with $2 gas that's 150000/20*2=$15000 in gas. Now we get 0.5 extra mpg, so it becomes 150000/20.5*2=$14634. I think you calculated the cost of running a car that gets 0.5mpg. You can't even pin that on an H1.:P
Maybe "Complete Idiot" is a bit harsh of a term, but the only way you can really screw up is by not tightening your hose clamps (you'll catch it before the machine powers on anyway), buying cheap parts that can break (very rare), or spilling water during filling (which doens't matter since the machine is off).
I've been doing my own water cooling systems for a few years now and have come to the conclusion that if you aren't a complete idiot you'll never have any trouble.
I finished my second last September and have been using it since. I built the whole case from stainless steel tubing. One side of the case is pressurized for water distribution and the other side is a reservior. Here's a pic: http://members.lycos.co.uk/zackbass1/IMG_0023compr essed.jpg The great thing about is that I'm able to run my little 2.4C at over 3.4Ghz (I built it in Sept 2003, so it was a big deal) completely silently. The radiator is large enough that it doesn't need any fans. The only noise that comes from the case is the hard disks spinning.
I live in New Jersey and bought a nice Honda generator before hurricane Floyd hit us. I got to use it for 12 hours that time. Since then I haven't had a power outage long enough to plug the generator into the breaker box and start it up. We even have tree covered overhead lines around here.
I run my XP box 24/7 and get 2-4 months of uptime. I would venture to guess that about 10% of my sessions require a reboot, simply for the fact that I don't start any new sessions other than when something fails or is upgraded. If I never did planned upgrades my session failure would be around 100%.
What if we were to just let this act pass, then have a copyright holder on our side sue someone? Take the money from that and sue 10 other people, lather, rinse, repeat until the general public is outraged. Sue some senators, sue some old ladies, just make sure to sue a whole lot of 'em. Eventually the breaking point that we've been in search of for so long would be reached. Copyright would be moved to a center-stage issue with a whole bunch of people well distributed around the political landscape rightfully pissed off.
It is actually a VERY easy to settle issue. Start by reading it, and when you're doing with that learn some of the history the surrounded its creation. Read the Federalist papers. Read the opinions of the various framers. Many of them were VERY vocal.
Here's a hint about what they say: view 2 is correct, view 1 was the framers' worst nightmare. One of the major concerns in the adoption of the bill of rights was that people might eventually start to believe view 1.
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For those of you who can't be bothered to think about actual uses before complaining about the thing, actual uses do exist. Probably the best example is for reporters taking pictures and not having to deal with people who get caught in the picture and don't want to be. It would be a mutual relationship that helps both parties avoid trouble.
Now all we need...is smart users :)
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Good luck finding any at NJIT!
After some careful examination a team of scientists has determined that it would be impossible for Santa to carry all the presents to be delivered in his sleigh or for an army of elves to have the manpower to create them using traditional methods. It has also been determined that his bag of gifts does not in fact hold a rip in in space-time opening to an alternate "santaland" universe.
So how does he do it?
Spy satellites that used to monitor the Soviet Union have determined that instead of carrying the mythical bag of presents on his sliegh he instead carries a highly advanced fusion reactor which is used to create gifts from pure energy. But where does this leave the elves? They are in fact nuclear scientists and engineers that keep the whole show going. Radiation exposure during the early years resulted in the physical deformations in their genetic line.
First thing, contrary to what many other have said, you will find students interested tech stuff. Make the topic something like a programming contest and you'll get attendence from the geek community. The more accessible you make it the more people will show up, so I'd stay away from things that require a lot of prior knowlege or a large time investment.
There have been a lot of good suggestions so far like teaching about car sound systems (there's a helluva lot of technical lessons it could introduce), or you could run a course to introduce kids to fixing computer problems. Process of elimination, common procedures, and running Firefox. Just keep it simple so that the audience is wide.
If you want to do something that would really help out, just ask the school. There's a ton of run of the mill stuff they always need help with. Chances are that their internal network admins are overwhelmed or they need substitute teachers.
Then you're missing out on some of the best programming on TV. Try to catch one of their technology shows like "Extreme Engineering" or "Modern Marvels". The shows are a little lightweight but genuinely interesting.
Not that this is the only place where it is like I described, just that it's the only place I have had much experience. I'd assume many other places are just like what I described, but to state that as fact would be just as unsubstantiated as the claims others are making about our education system.
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I'm 18 and graduating from a New Jersey public school this year in an upper-middle class area. I'm at the top of class, taking all the AP courses I can and doing very well in them. My firsthand experiences have been quite different from what everyone except a select few have been describing.
:P
There are 20 people in my Calculus AP BC class, the most difficult offered at the school. There are 60 people in in Calculus AP AB, the class one step down from that. The classes are NOT fun. They entail a lot of difficult but not usually tedious work. It is taught with a blackboard and some chalk in a lecture/math lab format. Every student has a calculator, but rarely uses it because the symbolic nature of the work makes them nearly useless.
There are no "cool" people that aren't in these classes. The same people that you go to a calculus study group with are found at all the popular concerts and parties. It is usually the potheads and idiots that are looked down upon. I guess they have fun at whatever they do, but it's like they are the disconnected ones.
It's not like we all come diciplinarian homes either. When I get bad grades my parents usually say "That's too bad, hope you do better next time". I have a number of Chinese/Inidan/Korean friends with very strict parents that do excel in many areas, but no more so than other people like me have, not to mention I'm Polish.
So, in conclusion, I have no idea where the blame lies for underperforming students. I have no idea why other students do so well. The entire thing makes no sense to me. The one thing I can tell you for sure is that anyone that gives you a clear answer to any of these questions is either a liar, pushing an adgenda, or a complete genious (or any combination of the three).
I've been running C&C:RA on my XP machines for a long time now. I even got them to work correctly networked. The work required was far from hacking, just installing various patches and tweaking IPX/SPX settings.
For those of you who didn't RTFA and got right to the misinforming posts, this is about fee-based services. To subscribe to the wireless service in Philly the article states that it will cost you $15-20 a month, which puts the issue in a different perspective.
A great majority of TV watching people both like the familiarity of recording shows on the VCR and are not ready to make the jump to using a PVR. Also, the process of being able to record a show on tape, take it out of the VCR and do whatever with it still hasn't become common enough or cheap enough with newer mediums such as DVD-R for many people to buy into it.
It doesn't matter if you are the best teacher ever to walk the earth, most public schools will have wonder why you waste your time there within months of your first day. No matter how much money the science department gets it can't make a student give a damn. Not only do you have depressing students, but then you have to deal with the school administration when you the parents of the pothead that got a 30 on his chem final call and raise hell.
The opposite is true too. If you have a bunch of interested students you can put together a great class with very few supplies.
Science teacher absolutely deserves to be on the list as long as a large part of our society still sees no value in education.
You mean all the things that matter a lot more to the environment than CO2 emissions? The things that are killing off entire species and causing major health problems RIGHT NOW?
How else should I get more performance out of my CPU? It's not like I can redesign the processor from the BIOS.
In that case, NK better get its ass in gear! We've got a lot of space to explore!
"BPL has been given a bad wrap by many news sources. At this stage, it is really impossible to tell whether the interference complaints are legit for the actual technology as a whole, or whether they are based purely on BPL networks that were not researched or planned well enough before deployment - some reports even suggest false claims have been made to try and derail the deployment of BPL by pro-radio enthusiasts."
If it doesn't cause actual interference then why would pro-radio enthusiasts be trying to derail it? I'd think they would know what they're talking about, being "radio enthusiasts" and a large percentage of them being EEs.
That's not right. Let's try it with some example numbers. Say we get 20mpg. Over 150000 miles with $2 gas that's 150000/20*2=$15000 in gas. Now we get 0.5 extra mpg, so it becomes 150000/20.5*2=$14634. I think you calculated the cost of running a car that gets 0.5mpg. You can't even pin that on an H1. :P
Here's the entire project from start to finish:e adid=165425
http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?s=&thr
Maybe "Complete Idiot" is a bit harsh of a term, but the only way you can really screw up is by not tightening your hose clamps (you'll catch it before the machine powers on anyway), buying cheap parts that can break (very rare), or spilling water during filling (which doens't matter since the machine is off).
I've been doing my own water cooling systems for a few years now and have come to the conclusion that if you aren't a complete idiot you'll never have any trouble.
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Here's my first project:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1009/index.asp
I finished my second last September and have been using it since. I built the whole case from stainless steel tubing. One side of the case is pressurized for water distribution and the other side is a reservior. Here's a pic:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/zackbass1/IMG_0023comp
The great thing about is that I'm able to run my little 2.4C at over 3.4Ghz (I built it in Sept 2003, so it was a big deal) completely silently. The radiator is large enough that it doesn't need any fans. The only noise that comes from the case is the hard disks spinning.
I live in New Jersey and bought a nice Honda generator before hurricane Floyd hit us. I got to use it for 12 hours that time. Since then I haven't had a power outage long enough to plug the generator into the breaker box and start it up. We even have tree covered overhead lines around here.
Damnit, I want to play with my generator!
What exactly would they be trying to prove?
;)
"Yep, we now know for sure that those are some fine WMDs you've got. We had no idea how cool your weapons looked before these inspections!"
I run my XP box 24/7 and get 2-4 months of uptime. I would venture to guess that about 10% of my sessions require a reboot, simply for the fact that I don't start any new sessions other than when something fails or is upgraded. If I never did planned upgrades my session failure would be around 100%.
What if we were to just let this act pass, then have a copyright holder on our side sue someone? Take the money from that and sue 10 other people, lather, rinse, repeat until the general public is outraged. Sue some senators, sue some old ladies, just make sure to sue a whole lot of 'em. Eventually the breaking point that we've been in search of for so long would be reached. Copyright would be moved to a center-stage issue with a whole bunch of people well distributed around the political landscape rightfully pissed off.
It is actually a VERY easy to settle issue. Start by reading it, and when you're doing with that learn some of the history the surrounded its creation. Read the Federalist papers. Read the opinions of the various framers. Many of them were VERY vocal.
Here's a hint about what they say: view 2 is correct, view 1 was the framers' worst nightmare. One of the major concerns in the adoption of the bill of rights was that people might eventually start to believe view 1.
Not when one of the main goals of high school is to give the young adult the tools necessary to make informed judgements about his/her world.