My lectures certainly are a lot more than this, but that doesn't keep kids from surfing. Intro Government and Politics courses aren't that interesting to everyone, but they're required to take it. I fail so many kids every semester because they can't make the grade, due to uncontrollable surfing. Others use their laptops wisely, for writing/searching their notes, so I can't just ban laptops entirely.
I teach introductory government at UT-Dallas and I have similar complaints. Granted, Chicago Law should be able to rely on the honor system with these post graduate students to enforce a no-surfing rule.
However, for students fresh out of high school taking a required course, I need their attention to help them pass this course. My policy in the classroom is if I catch someone doing anything besides taking notes on a laptop, they can't bring them to class anymore. It's distracting for them, obviously, but it's also distracting to the students around them. Nevertheless, when I'm lecturing, I don't really have time to walk around in the back of the classroom to police them. I've contacted the university IT department to see about shutting down wifi for this class during our scheduled time, but they politely refused.
Some of you will say that since they're paying tuition they should be allowed to do whatever they want. That's certainly one point of view. The opposing point is that it is disrespectful to me, the instructor, as well as the other students. I would much rather these kids not come to class than to show up surfing myspace and chatting the whole time.
If it were legal, I would have instituted a wifi pocket scrambler long ago.
I stand corrected! We've always reserved "thesis" for mere mortal masters students. If I had mod points, I'd bump you up to a "5". Thanks for the correction!
You and me both, I guess. I've been known to be gullible when it comes to Jobs. He's swindled me before, (CHRP, OS9, 68K->PPC->G3/G4/G5->Intel, iPod G1->iPod Dockables, etc.) and he'll probably do it again. I'm not sure who I'm more pissed at in general. Jobs for tricking me with his guile, or me for falling for it every time.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... well, we won't be fooled again.
Somehow, at least in my psyche, this doesn't hold up to empirical scrutiny.
I wasn't planning on spending my day camped inside the mall at the Apple store waiting for 6 o'clock (by noon it was over 150 people), so I decided to hit the nearest AT&T store. The line looked long, but upon counting, I was #47 @ 4:30. Unfortunately, the Texas Rain had stopped and I was wrapped around the wrong side of the building where it was hot as hell (98-F). We saw no signs of AT&T people whatsoever until 5:45 when they started running a survey. No one answered anything regarding how much stock they had. Even though I was #47, it took AT&T staff TWO HOURS to service everyone in front of me. They evidently thought they had to run credit checks on everybody. Then they decided to do manual receipts instead of printed ones. By 8:00pm, I was still outside waiting and pissed. We saw the manager and asked if there were going to be enough phones for us. He said that we'd have to wait and see, we might have to get vouchers. One of the guys behind me said, "you really ought to go in there an check your stock, because the last thing you want to happen is have all these folks outside wait another two hours for your slow-asses to tell us that we can't have a phone." He thought about it a second and made an "executive decision" to check the stock. Turns out he had plenty, but he acted like it was a huge inconvenience for HIM. Once I finally get in side, shortly after 8pm (remember, I was only #47!) they try to run a credit check. I said, I'll do it at home, just give me the goddamned phone. The clerk was totally clueless. He would put in my order then complain that the computer "kicked him out" and he'd ask me all the questions again. Plus he kept trying to sell my accessories, which I had no f*ing interest in, yet he was persistent, like he needed the quota or commission. It took 15 minutes from the time I walked up to the counter until the time I left the front door. Totally unacceptable.
I'll never enter another AT&T store again. And I already can't wait until my 2 year service contract is up.
Saw a fortwo driving around the Dallas Farmer's Market yesterday. It has Texas plates, so it wasn't like they just drove it across the pond or anything.
Happit, for those who don't know is one less than happy. So, I don't wish you happiness in your job hunting, but just a little less. Sort of like, "not proud, not shame, but less shame".
After getting laid off three times in a year due to downsizing or "bad attitudes" (I'll show them a bad attitude, stupid work monkeys!) I opted to go back to school in politics. I'm now wrapping up my PhD in political science. The appeal of running for office is very strong, now more than ever. Outside of that, I'm planning on teaching.
As far as IT and lay-offs, you know the old sayings about the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut and the squeekiest wheel gets the grease? I think their problem with me was usually the smelliest turd in your leather lounge chair gets shoveled out with zeal.
nonsense. If anyone on this board should know about the events around August 1, 1966, it's me. Students didn't have weapons and weren't firing back at Whitman. He was up there for an hour and a half, taking his time.
If I'm going somewhere remote, I take a Personal Locator Beacon similar to EPIRBs, with GPS position transmission. Some of them have two way radios that operate on emergency frequency 406 MHz.
This way, if you get stuck in a snow drift, stranded in the desert, kidnapped but not mugged, or whatever, just hit the big red button and wait for the sirens.
If DVD Jon can build a method of stripping the DRM from iTunes files that's easier than assorted python scripts and DOS command lines, or more universal than relying on a specific version of iTunes (Windows 6.0.4, or whatever), or more universal for other platforms (like for Macs, since just about every fricking Mac owner uses iTunes), then hell yes I'm excited about it. There's no mac solution, the solutions I know of know rely on specific knowledge about the structure of the DLL windows library (hens no mac, linux, etc), and it's a pain in the ass since there's no suitable UI for any songs from iTunes 6.x onward.
If he can build some commercial institution to create something like we're lacking, I'll pay, big time, to be able to play my iTunes songs on my other media players.
I'm wondering if this would be live action or animation? The original was actually fairly scary when I was a child, and to some extent it still is. The newer live action Hobbit movies have nice effects but they just don't have that fright of the original. But I'm sure some Peter Jackson lovers will have plenty to argue about this.
What we do to discourage truancy is to have assigned seating. I've built seating charts for each seat in the lecture hall. Everyone is notified what seat they'll be seating in (giving priority to disabilities and laptops). If their butt is not in that seat 5 minutes after class starts or 5 minutes before it ends, we put an each empty seat on the chart. Later I go back and match up the absent seats with names on the roll. Attendance counts for 10% of their semester grade. This seems to be very effective, and after the initial set up requires very little effort.
Why does it matter if it's a communist state or not. What does that have to do with any other part of the story. What, are we back in the Red Scare again? The communist country of China says X. The communist country of North Korea says Y. The middle-aged white man of Texas says who gives a sh*t whether they're communist or dairy workers. This has nothing to do with the story of getting rid of microsoft. Just leave the word out if it doesn't matter, K?
There is no such thing as a Republican candidate for governor in Texas at the moment. The Republicans are nominating the current Governor Rick Perry to continue as the Republican spot on the ticket. Any other "Republican" candidates either aren't candidates in any upcoming election or aren't really Republican.
The only other likely *conservative* candidate for governor is Mary Kate Ashley Rylander Strayhorn Carol Keeton Boutros Shazbot... she's like the comptroller right now, and since she can't compete for the Republican seat against Rick Perry she's trying to get on the ballot as an independent... notoriously difficult to do in Texas but instigated by the expected success of independent hopeful Kinky Freidman.
When I was salaried, I got around $80K a year, but when I was contracting I got $85/hour... roughly $160K a year but I lost huge chunks of that to taxes and paying for my own medical.
The lamp on the light pole burned out with a pop, the resulting "trail" is nothing more than a pseudo lens flare or visual artifact caused by the flash on the camera.
What about having a wireless, batteryless mouse operate off the motion of the mouse itself? Couldn't you have a tiny little generator run off the ball of the mouse to produce electricity? It brings new meaning to the idea of shaking your mouse to get it to unfreeze, though, doesn't it? Hey, maybe I should patent this before someone like M$ does.
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My lectures certainly are a lot more than this, but that doesn't keep kids from surfing. Intro Government and Politics courses aren't that interesting to everyone, but they're required to take it. I fail so many kids every semester because they can't make the grade, due to uncontrollable surfing. Others use their laptops wisely, for writing/searching their notes, so I can't just ban laptops entirely.
I teach introductory government at UT-Dallas and I have similar complaints. Granted, Chicago Law should be able to rely on the honor system with these post graduate students to enforce a no-surfing rule.
However, for students fresh out of high school taking a required course, I need their attention to help them pass this course. My policy in the classroom is if I catch someone doing anything besides taking notes on a laptop, they can't bring them to class anymore. It's distracting for them, obviously, but it's also distracting to the students around them. Nevertheless, when I'm lecturing, I don't really have time to walk around in the back of the classroom to police them. I've contacted the university IT department to see about shutting down wifi for this class during our scheduled time, but they politely refused.
Some of you will say that since they're paying tuition they should be allowed to do whatever they want. That's certainly one point of view. The opposing point is that it is disrespectful to me, the instructor, as well as the other students. I would much rather these kids not come to class than to show up surfing myspace and chatting the whole time.
If it were legal, I would have instituted a wifi pocket scrambler long ago.
Greg
I stand corrected! We've always reserved "thesis" for mere mortal masters students. If I had mod points, I'd bump you up to a "5". Thanks for the correction!
g
PhD candidates write dissertations, not theses.
You and me both, I guess. I've been known to be gullible when it comes to Jobs. He's swindled me before, (CHRP, OS9, 68K->PPC->G3/G4/G5->Intel, iPod G1->iPod Dockables, etc.) and he'll probably do it again. I'm not sure who I'm more pissed at in general. Jobs for tricking me with his guile, or me for falling for it every time.
... well, we won't be fooled again.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice
Somehow, at least in my psyche, this doesn't hold up to empirical scrutiny.
G
I wasn't planning on spending my day camped inside the mall at the Apple store waiting for 6 o'clock (by noon it was over 150 people), so I decided to hit the nearest AT&T store. The line looked long, but upon counting, I was #47 @ 4:30. Unfortunately, the Texas Rain had stopped and I was wrapped around the wrong side of the building where it was hot as hell (98-F). We saw no signs of AT&T people whatsoever until 5:45 when they started running a survey. No one answered anything regarding how much stock they had. Even though I was #47, it took AT&T staff TWO HOURS to service everyone in front of me. They evidently thought they had to run credit checks on everybody. Then they decided to do manual receipts instead of printed ones. By 8:00pm, I was still outside waiting and pissed. We saw the manager and asked if there were going to be enough phones for us. He said that we'd have to wait and see, we might have to get vouchers. One of the guys behind me said, "you really ought to go in there an check your stock, because the last thing you want to happen is have all these folks outside wait another two hours for your slow-asses to tell us that we can't have a phone." He thought about it a second and made an "executive decision" to check the stock. Turns out he had plenty, but he acted like it was a huge inconvenience for HIM. Once I finally get in side, shortly after 8pm (remember, I was only #47!) they try to run a credit check. I said, I'll do it at home, just give me the goddamned phone. The clerk was totally clueless. He would put in my order then complain that the computer "kicked him out" and he'd ask me all the questions again. Plus he kept trying to sell my accessories, which I had no f*ing interest in, yet he was persistent, like he needed the quota or commission. It took 15 minutes from the time I walked up to the counter until the time I left the front door. Totally unacceptable.
I'll never enter another AT&T store again. And I already can't wait until my 2 year service contract is up.
Saw a fortwo driving around the Dallas Farmer's Market yesterday. It has Texas plates, so it wasn't like they just drove it across the pond or anything.
I find it hard to say that this finding is recent ... I mean it was done in 2001 ... Right? Don't care anyway.
Happit, for those who don't know is one less than happy. So, I don't wish you happiness in your job hunting, but just a little less. Sort of like, "not proud, not shame, but less shame".
g
After getting laid off three times in a year due to downsizing or "bad attitudes" (I'll show them a bad attitude, stupid work monkeys!) I opted to go back to school in politics. I'm now wrapping up my PhD in political science. The appeal of running for office is very strong, now more than ever. Outside of that, I'm planning on teaching.
As far as IT and lay-offs, you know the old sayings about the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut and the squeekiest wheel gets the grease? I think their problem with me was usually the smelliest turd in your leather lounge chair gets shoveled out with zeal.
Happt job hunting, to all!
g
nonsense. If anyone on this board should know about the events around August 1, 1966, it's me. Students didn't have weapons and weren't firing back at Whitman. He was up there for an hour and a half, taking his time.
If I'm going somewhere remote, I take a Personal Locator Beacon similar to EPIRBs, with GPS position transmission. Some of them have two way radios that operate on emergency frequency 406 MHz.
This way, if you get stuck in a snow drift, stranded in the desert, kidnapped but not mugged, or whatever, just hit the big red button and wait for the sirens.
Buy it, steal it, or borrow it ... but love it. It's right up your alley with the tagging business.
What a shameful waste of a scarce commodity. Not that I care that much, cuz I'm an HD-DVD man.
... native lands!!!
Canada sounds perfect. Iceland sounds pretty awesome too with a 2-to-1 female-male ratio. And Sweden has chocolate and snow skiing.
If DVD Jon can build a method of stripping the DRM from iTunes files that's easier than assorted python scripts and DOS command lines, or more universal than relying on a specific version of iTunes (Windows 6.0.4, or whatever), or more universal for other platforms (like for Macs, since just about every fricking Mac owner uses iTunes), then hell yes I'm excited about it. There's no mac solution, the solutions I know of know rely on specific knowledge about the structure of the DLL windows library (hens no mac, linux, etc), and it's a pain in the ass since there's no suitable UI for any songs from iTunes 6.x onward.
If he can build some commercial institution to create something like we're lacking, I'll pay, big time, to be able to play my iTunes songs on my other media players.
Anyone see the South Park season 10 premier? Very apropos.
I'm wondering if this would be live action or animation? The original was actually fairly scary when I was a child, and to some extent it still is. The newer live action Hobbit movies have nice effects but they just don't have that fright of the original. But I'm sure some Peter Jackson lovers will have plenty to argue about this.
What we do to discourage truancy is to have assigned seating. I've built seating charts for each seat in the lecture hall. Everyone is notified what seat they'll be seating in (giving priority to disabilities and laptops). If their butt is not in that seat 5 minutes after class starts or 5 minutes before it ends, we put an each empty seat on the chart. Later I go back and match up the absent seats with names on the roll. Attendance counts for 10% of their semester grade. This seems to be very effective, and after the initial set up requires very little effort.
Why does it matter if it's a communist state or not. What does that have to do with any other part of the story. What, are we back in the Red Scare again? The communist country of China says X. The communist country of North Korea says Y. The middle-aged white man of Texas says who gives a sh*t whether they're communist or dairy workers. This has nothing to do with the story of getting rid of microsoft. Just leave the word out if it doesn't matter, K?
There is no such thing as a Republican candidate for governor in Texas at the moment. The Republicans are nominating the current Governor Rick Perry to continue as the Republican spot on the ticket. Any other "Republican" candidates either aren't candidates in any upcoming election or aren't really Republican.
... she's like the comptroller right now, and since she can't compete for the Republican seat against Rick Perry she's trying to get on the ballot as an independent ... notoriously difficult to do in Texas but instigated by the expected success of independent hopeful Kinky Freidman.
The only other likely *conservative* candidate for governor is Mary Kate Ashley Rylander Strayhorn Carol Keeton Boutros Shazbot
Greg
When I was salaried, I got around $80K a year, but when I was contracting I got $85/hour ... roughly $160K a year but I lost huge chunks of that to taxes and paying for my own medical.
Tattooine? Christ, will you Star Wars guys just shut the **** up for a few years?
... It's a FILM for godsake ... not life ... a movie!
Does everything have to be compared to some children's science fiction MOVIE?
We're all really tired of this crap. Move on
g
The lamp on the light pole burned out with a pop, the resulting "trail" is nothing more than a pseudo lens flare or visual artifact caused by the flash on the camera.
What about having a wireless, batteryless mouse operate off the motion of the mouse itself? Couldn't you have a tiny little generator run off the ball of the mouse to produce electricity? It brings new meaning to the idea of shaking your mouse to get it to unfreeze, though, doesn't it? Hey, maybe I should patent this before someone like M$ does.
Greg