I have my music ordered in nested folders, structured by artist, album then track - eg, I:\MP3s\Coldplay\A Rush Of Blood To The Head\The Scientist.mp3...
Intersting, that's precisely how iTunes organized my music for me.
There's nothing about iTunes that stops me from using that sorted directory structure in winamp or WMP or whatever other player I choose, not sure what you're trying to say there, unless maybe you were thinking of songs exclusively from the ITMS.
I'm with ya on the compilation thing though. It stores them in their own folder \Compilations but displaying them is problematic. My solution was just to make playlists for the compilations I listen to often.
I wouldn't be so harsh, except that my engineering profs are managing to teach material that is nothing near cutting edge and are enthusiastic about it(and in my Signals class literally bouncing off walls while talking about Fourier)
I suppose part of that may have to do with the arcane/obscure nature of math research--and by that I mean that, well, for example I went to check out my math prof's website and see what his field was, and couldn't really comprehend any of it (with math experience up through diffy and linear algebra)
By contrast looking at my engineering professors' work, I may not know the details but I can get a handle on the general idea at least. There aren't that many intermediate steps, so perhaps that makes it easier for my engr professors to have an interest in showing us all how it works.
Or I might have just gotten crap math teachers. I had a really good one back in the community college (Who was in engineering originally) but since I came to a university it's gone far downhill from there as far as the math department.
The thing I found about most of my college math profs is that they don't give a shit about anything but their pet research projects and regard non-grad level math as 'trivial' and not worth their time.
First, in calc 1, sure, don't allow programmable calculators. In Diff eq? Why should i STILL have to waste time and pages of paper working out derivatives and integrals by hand? I've been tested on it in three classes already (Calc 1,2,3) and all it's doing is taking up time which I could be learning the new material
Second, A good professor could easily give you a calculator, laptop, textbook and all your notes and still form a test such that you'd still have to *know* the material instead of just punching it in a calculator( The words "Show your work" hang heavy in the air at test time) If having a TI 89 lets you ace the test, the test is worthless.
I somewhat agree with you. My worst math teachers taught because they wanted to teach, not because they enjoyed math. My best were in engineering before they decided they wanted to teach, and had found they loved math.
Interesetingly enough, now that i'm in college, again some of my best math teachers are in the engineering department. Some of the worst are in the math department, but that is perhaps another discussion.
Thanks for bringing up needlepoint, that's a great example of what the parent is talking about.
Doing needlepoint is more akin to using a stylus--you're using an object with a very fine resolution point to put something precisely where you want it.
I imagine it might have something to do with Intel being able to supply chip and chipset in a tightly integrated package (and a customized package no doubt, to keep OSX locked into it)
I'm a current college student (MIS degree, so maybe I'm biased), but laptops are prevalent for a reason...
Prevalent perhaps, but where? It seems to me like they're only prevalent in dorms and apartments, not on campus.Do you really (and i'm genuinly asking) see that many people taking a laptop to class? In four years of college (2 for an AA, 2 and counting in Engineering) the only people I've ever seen bring a laptop to class were using it to goof off during lecture. Of course, perhaps I'm biased as well, because my university (well, department at least) has enough high powered labs that people don't feel the need to bring their laptop along to do work in the meantime.
Regarding your notes, I type faster than I write too, but I'm curious how you deal with non-text basd information (equations, diagrams,etc) or if that issue doesn't come up in your coursework
Even if this is in fact the case, and not a result of bad stats, I'm not surprised. Why?
College students. College goers everywhere are convinced they need a laptop for school for various reasons (I'll take notes with it..my desk is small..etc etc) when really what they need is a mini tower with an LCD monitor to accomplish the same or better end. Plenty of colleges require laptops (Which IMHO is so much more a status thing than anything productivity oriented) these days which is no doubt driving up the sales rates as well.
Dell has "wide" monitors (and i'm sure other mfr's do too) however, i bet the LCD units that go in them cost more than twice what a 19" LCD does. That is to say, if you were making something like this, you could get two 19" LCDs for cheaper than one of the big wide ones.
Now, if only we could find a way to prevent forest fires
I'm not sure that's such a good idea; preventing natural fires just means that when a big one *does* happen, it's got 3 years of bracken and leaves for fuel, instead of 1
Glad I'm not the only one who loves chicken thighs for the price. My mother will forever tsk at me for using them (not healthy or some such) but when they're a few dollars for a pound and a half deboned (and cheaper with bone and skin on)..forget it.
Think i'll be making chicken curry this week;) if i can find a good curry sauce recipe
Why on earth would an ISP do such a thing? Outside of niche ISPs like Christian ISPs?
Plenty of ISPs offer voluntary filtering of content. Also I could easily see small "local" ISPs getting pressured by the soccer mom segment into filtering this sort of thing by default.
Remember, ISPs make a lot of money from honry people who want porn. Take the porn away, and you'll make them switch ISPs.
People who are still getting their porn via web pages probably aren't 'serious' enough about their hobby to change ISPs if it gets more difficult. A real porn hound would be much more likely to swap ISPs over shitty newsgroup service
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Just out of curiousity, won't windex also destroy most anti glare coatings found on CRTs? I ask because my last monitor, a KDS had a big warning on it never to use glass cleansers.
I doubt it. By saying yes you want to be a "C" box, you're basically acknownledging the fact that people will be downloading illegal content using your machine as an intermediary (otherwise why else would they be using bouncing. I mean, really folks.)
Now, if *everyone* had bouncing on by default, it might be a bit different. And probably horribly slower.
Considering that I'm a regular LAN gamer, I'd actually be inclined to say that I do get 10x the fun out of my PC than I would a console.
I realize we could gang together a handful of Xboxes or whatever, but multiplayer on a console (most notably the screen-sharing issue combined with TV resolution and size) makes the experience, IMHO, abysmal compared to multiplayer PC gaming.
To be fair, certain genres do lend themselves to a console controller (Platformers, fighting games, and sports games in particular, IMHO)
However, watching or playing an FPS on a consle makes me cringe due to the nature of the analog stick controllers (Remidns me of playing a PC shooter with mouse acceleration on and cranked up)
Ditto RTSs and RPGs, but that's more due to the fact that a keyboard lends itself ot alot of hotkeys, which both those genres do bett er with.
They don't need feeding often. Twice a week should do fine, and remove whatever's left (Some spiders will leave a bolus of exoskeleton in their enclosure after feeding)
Dead food...possibly. My smallest tarantula (which is about the size of a young jumping spider) will take crickets that have had their head crushed, as well as dismembered cricket legs (the big jumping ones)
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How is cell phone chatter any different
Because people typically don't speak 3 volume levels louder to have a conversation with someone right next to them.
I have my music ordered in nested folders, structured by artist, album then track - eg, I:\MP3s\Coldplay\A Rush Of Blood To The Head\The Scientist.mp3 ...
Intersting, that's precisely how iTunes organized my music for me.
There's nothing about iTunes that stops me from using that sorted directory structure in winamp or WMP or whatever other player I choose, not sure what you're trying to say there, unless maybe you were thinking of songs exclusively from the ITMS.
I'm with ya on the compilation thing though. It stores them in their own folder \Compilations but displaying them is problematic. My solution was just to make playlists for the compilations I listen to often.
I wouldn't be so harsh, except that my engineering profs are managing to teach material that is nothing near cutting edge and are enthusiastic about it(and in my Signals class literally bouncing off walls while talking about Fourier)
I suppose part of that may have to do with the arcane/obscure nature of math research--and by that I mean that, well, for example I went to check out my math prof's website and see what his field was, and couldn't really comprehend any of it (with math experience up through diffy and linear algebra)
By contrast looking at my engineering professors' work, I may not know the details but I can get a handle on the general idea at least. There aren't that many intermediate steps, so perhaps that makes it easier for my engr professors to have an interest in showing us all how it works.
Or I might have just gotten crap math teachers. I had a really good one back in the community college (Who was in engineering originally) but since I came to a university it's gone far downhill from there as far as the math department.
Referring to highhschool or college?
The thing I found about most of my college math profs is that they don't give a shit about anything but their pet research projects and regard non-grad level math as 'trivial' and not worth their time.
I somewhwat dissagree. Two things:
First, in calc 1, sure, don't allow programmable calculators. In Diff eq? Why should i STILL have to waste time and pages of paper working out derivatives and integrals by hand? I've been tested on it in three classes already (Calc 1,2,3) and all it's doing is taking up time which I could be learning the new material
Second, A good professor could easily give you a calculator, laptop, textbook and all your notes and still form a test such that you'd still have to *know* the material instead of just punching it in a calculator( The words "Show your work" hang heavy in the air at test time) If having a TI 89 lets you ace the test, the test is worthless.
I somewhat agree with you. My worst math teachers taught because they wanted to teach, not because they enjoyed math. My best were in engineering before they decided they wanted to teach, and had found they loved math.
Interesetingly enough, now that i'm in college, again some of my best math teachers are in the engineering department. Some of the worst are in the math department, but that is perhaps another discussion.
Well if the school gave the class/the students their calculators, and says 'give them back or else' that's some good motivation.
Thanks for bringing up needlepoint, that's a great example of what the parent is talking about.
Doing needlepoint is more akin to using a stylus--you're using an object with a very fine resolution point to put something precisely where you want it.
I wouldn't use solaris if Sun paid me to.
I imagine it might have something to do with Intel being able to supply chip and chipset in a tightly integrated package (and a customized package no doubt, to keep OSX locked into it)
Does AMD even do its own chipsets anymore?
IIRC cold water holds more O2 than warm.
I'm a current college student (MIS degree, so maybe I'm biased), but laptops are prevalent for a reason...
Prevalent perhaps, but where? It seems to me like they're only prevalent in dorms and apartments, not on campus.Do you really (and i'm genuinly asking) see that many people taking a laptop to class? In four years of college (2 for an AA, 2 and counting in Engineering) the only people I've ever seen bring a laptop to class were using it to goof off during lecture. Of course, perhaps I'm biased as well, because my university (well, department at least) has enough high powered labs that people don't feel the need to bring their laptop along to do work in the meantime.
Regarding your notes, I type faster than I write too, but I'm curious how you deal with non-text basd information (equations, diagrams,etc) or if that issue doesn't come up in your coursework
Even if this is in fact the case, and not a result of bad stats, I'm not surprised. Why?
College students. College goers everywhere are convinced they need a laptop for school for various reasons (I'll take notes with it..my desk is small..etc etc) when really what they need is a mini tower with an LCD monitor to accomplish the same or better end. Plenty of colleges require laptops (Which IMHO is so much more a status thing than anything productivity oriented) these days which is no doubt driving up the sales rates as well.
Dell has "wide" monitors (and i'm sure other mfr's do too) however, i bet the LCD units that go in them cost more than twice what a 19" LCD does. That is to say, if you were making something like this, you could get two 19" LCDs for cheaper than one of the big wide ones.
Now, if only we could find a way to prevent forest fires
I'm not sure that's such a good idea; preventing natural fires just means that when a big one *does* happen, it's got 3 years of bracken and leaves for fuel, instead of 1
I won't, I'm getting mine for free! *ducks*
Does anyone see anything replacing keyboards anytime soon?
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Datajack.
Glad I'm not the only one who loves chicken thighs for the price. My mother will forever tsk at me for using them (not healthy or some such) but when they're a few dollars for a pound and a half deboned (and cheaper with bone and skin on) ..forget it.
;) if i can find a good curry sauce recipe
Think i'll be making chicken curry this week
Why on earth would an ISP do such a thing? Outside of niche ISPs like Christian ISPs?
Plenty of ISPs offer voluntary filtering of content. Also I could easily see small "local" ISPs getting pressured by the soccer mom segment into filtering this sort of thing by default.
Remember, ISPs make a lot of money from honry people who want porn. Take the porn away, and you'll make them switch ISPs.
People who are still getting their porn via web pages probably aren't 'serious' enough about their hobby to change ISPs if it gets more difficult. A real porn hound would be much more likely to swap ISPs over shitty newsgroup service
Just out of curiousity, won't windex also destroy most anti glare coatings found on CRTs? I ask because my last monitor, a KDS had a big warning on it never to use glass cleansers.
I doubt it. By saying yes you want to be a "C" box, you're basically acknownledging the fact that people will be downloading illegal content using your machine as an intermediary (otherwise why else would they be using bouncing. I mean, really folks.)
Now, if *everyone* had bouncing on by default, it might be a bit different. And probably horribly slower.
Considering that I'm a regular LAN gamer, I'd actually be inclined to say that I do get 10x the fun out of my PC than I would a console.
I realize we could gang together a handful of Xboxes or whatever, but multiplayer on a console (most notably the screen-sharing issue combined with TV resolution and size) makes the experience, IMHO, abysmal compared to multiplayer PC gaming.
To be fair, certain genres do lend themselves to a console controller (Platformers, fighting games, and sports games in particular, IMHO)
However, watching or playing an FPS on a consle makes me cringe due to the nature of the analog stick controllers (Remidns me of playing a PC shooter with mouse acceleration on and cranked up)
Ditto RTSs and RPGs, but that's more due to the fact that a keyboard lends itself ot alot of hotkeys, which both those genres do bett
er with.
Statute mile, nautical mile first and foremost.
There are also "Survey miles" and a few other oddballs that the average person will never see
They don't need feeding often. Twice a week should do fine, and remove whatever's left (Some spiders will leave a bolus of exoskeleton in their enclosure after feeding)
Dead food...possibly. My smallest tarantula (which is about the size of a young jumping spider) will take crickets that have had their head crushed, as well as dismembered cricket legs (the big jumping ones)