I have always been taught to use the calculator as a tool, something to make mundane repetive tasks go faster; not to have it do the work for me. We were always taught what did what, and the teacher could use the calculator to show us why what happened happened. Its alot easier to change 2x^2 to 2x^3 on a calculator than it is to hand draw both graphs.
Were we still taught how to do it by hand? You betcha. We were quizzed on everything we did and weren't allowed to use graphing calcs. But when all we're doing is filling in variables in an equation like "3x^3+2x^2-5x = y", and then graphing points by hand, you are wasting time that could be spent learning something new.
When problems like that were a smaller piece of a BIG problem, the calculator just made stuff we already knew easier. That is when it is a good tool.
Of course, in today's world, you don't always have teachers who know what they're doing, or even care about what they teach. That's when "just do it on the calculator" becomes a problem.
I have replaced my TI-83+ with Power One's graphing calculator program. It has more features, and is much more flexible, than any TI i've ever seen. It graphs faster, and you can set each line on the graph to a different color so its easier to tell them apart (not to mention the higher screen resolution making the graphs more detailed). I love it.
The only problem teachers face is cheating. I could have stored my whole Trig textbook on my Clie (memorysticks rock). Yeah, you can write stuff in TI's programming menus, but its a pain. Not so with a PDF reader on my Palm.
Isn't it cool when that happens? My cable provider (Charter) has a habit of sending my packets to a router that adds around 500ms onto all of my pings, and when that happens bandwidth drops to about.5k/sec. I can't load most webpages when that happens.
Third Place: AirPort Radar -- Three years ago at MacHack, every table in the hotel atrium where the hackers congregate was adorned with an Ethernet hub. Most of those disappeared last year, because many people had AirPort cards and could use the wireless network instead, and this year, all but a very few people relied entirely on six AirPort Base Stations scattered around the hotel. Taking advantage of the wireless network setup, Mike Neil and Eric Traut wrote AirPort Radar, which used the differing signal strengths from multiple AirPort Base Stations to triangulate and display the location of a PowerBook, even while it was moving.
There was a group of competitors at MacHack 2001 (i think it was 2k1) that did this with the wifi stations in the convention center + hotel. They didn't win the competition, but it was my favorite hack from the event. I'll see if i can find a link to the info page.
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Actually, the ??AA would buy a few more congresscritters and get some legislation passed that FORCES the tech industry to develop this brand of DRM.
The only problem with that is that product placement begins to be the focus of the show, and not a little thing we can ignore.
For instance: The Malcom in the Middle episode that followed the Super Bowl had some incredibly obvious placements. The one that sticks out in my mind was duing the "mud wrestling" scene. As the two moms are going at it, the camera decides to focus on not the crowd, but a fat guy in the crowd. He was chowing down on Doritos 3Ds (which Malcom pans to viewers in a couple commercials). The camera came back to him several times, and stayed there.
Instead of having the family share a bag of Doritos 3Ds while watching a movie, which would allow a decent writer to continue to further the plot, Fox chose to show me a fat man. He had nothing to do with the show at all, except for the fact that he was watching the fight.
My fear is that instead of seeing the actors walk in front of a bank of Coke machines at the amusement park, we'll get little "product" moments that have nothing to do with the show.
The funny thing is, the admins don't enforce it - its the bitchy librarian (oh man is she mean) and the paraniod teachers that give us hell. The sysadmins just do what they're told by the faculty.
At my highschool, if you're caught on a website that has nothing to do with your class, you lose your computer privledges for a month. If you play a shockwave game, you're off for the rest of the year. If you try to install a game from home, you recieve a suspension and lose computer privledges for the year.
The paraniod lackeys at my school are scared to death of anything we might do to our pentium 133s. DeepFreeze is on every computer in all of the labs (except the one iMac lab, but those things have 32 megs of physical RAM on the most bloated system install i've ever seen - they're pretty much crippled to begin with).
Come to think of it, the only decent machines that we have in my three year old highschool (they spent how many 10s of millions building it?) are the 10 our IT department put together specifically for the administrators - they have 1ghz pentium 3s and Geforce 3s. Nobody under the vice principle can use them. The students, on the other hand, are stuck with horribly equipped machines that can barely run Netscape - this comments page would take about 60 seconds to render- or the CISCO router config utility - keyboard lag of about 10 seconds.
So, basically, your students are very lucky. I think you have a good idea. But if we even suggested doing this at my highschool, we'd probably violate our acceptable use policy.
I was told that any split in the line running to my modem would cause connection and interferrence problems (the installation guy ran a whole new drop from the pole outside my house). Wonder if that's really true?
Besides how many more deaths might this cause then cell-phones, driving down the road typing up a document in one eye and driving with the other.
Well, assuming nobody else (other drivers, pedestrians) are hurt, this is a GOOD thing - it finally puts Darwin back in the driver's seat (groan...).
Soccer mom is driving giant SUV with 2.5 kids in it. Soccer mom looks into cellphone to see who's calling her. Soccer mom careens off bridge, killing not only herself, but her kids as well. Since there's no offspring left, nobody can pass on the stupidity gene.
I love my Sony Clie Peg-N610C for all the reasons other posters have listed. However, i have one gripe - the screen scratches easier than a brand new car. I've only had it for a few months and already the stylus itself has scratched the daylights out of the screen. And there are far too many scratches, especially in the graffiti area, to just pass them off as errant dust particles rubbing in some odd way.
I believe that as far as FreeBSD is concerned, partitions are sections of slices. So what windows calls a partition, FreeBSD would refer to as a slice.
The MIT article claims that a digital signature is created based on the sound data in an MP3. Well, what if two people rip the same MP3 with the same ripper using the same settings? Wouldn't that create copies that were exactly alike?
Or are the record companies going after you for just sharing the music?
I believe that they found almost 6,000 new galaxies in the patch of sky they looked at. Before these pics, we didn't know there was anything there. I'd bet that there are millions, if not billions, of galaxies that we don't know about. And if there's just one planet with life on it in each of those galaxies... that's still alot of life.
The thing is, the internet hogs are just a front for Comcast's greed. They could handle this is ways that benifit the customer alot more, but they just care about money.
This is just comcast covering up bad planning, or making an excuse to rape the customer and cut back their costs.
When you sign up for their service, you pay for a certain speed for a certain ammount of $/month. Whether or not you use that is your business - you paid for it, its yours to use. If comcast is running out of bandwidth, its their fault - they oversold without proper planning. This will "solve" that problem. If they want to cut back on bandwidth in order to save money, this will help. Their greediness is an excuse to fuck the consumer in the ass.
Why is comcast doing this for JUST video and music? Did the RI/MPAA threaten them?
Who cares if i download alot of music and videos? What if i have alot of friends who do their own electronic music? What if every relative i know posts three hour long iMovies of them and their kids to the web, and i want to download that? How is that different from a Linux geek downloading 10 distribution isos? Comcast is acting like they know the answer. What, 200 three-meg MP3s somehow costs them more bandwidth than a 600 meg RedHat iso? Bits are bits. If someone wanted to get around this, just download everything as a.txt and change it to.mp3 (at least for those in the Windows world).
Of course, later on in the article, they talk about people hosting their own webservers, and that they are the people putting strain on the network. If that's even true, what does that have to do with my movie and music downloads?
This is one of the most asinine ideas i've ever heard of.
No, the word "terror" is now required, by law, to be in every single piece of news that is published. Besides, nobody would read the article if it didn't have something about TERRORISM IN AMERICA. Just ask CNN.
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I have always been taught to use the calculator as a tool, something to make mundane repetive tasks go faster; not to have it do the work for me. We were always taught what did what, and the teacher could use the calculator to show us why what happened happened. Its alot easier to change 2x^2 to 2x^3 on a calculator than it is to hand draw both graphs.
Were we still taught how to do it by hand? You betcha. We were quizzed on everything we did and weren't allowed to use graphing calcs. But when all we're doing is filling in variables in an equation like "3x^3+2x^2-5x = y", and then graphing points by hand, you are wasting time that could be spent learning something new.
When problems like that were a smaller piece of a BIG problem, the calculator just made stuff we already knew easier. That is when it is a good tool.
Of course, in today's world, you don't always have teachers who know what they're doing, or even care about what they teach. That's when "just do it on the calculator" becomes a problem.
I have replaced my TI-83+ with Power One's graphing calculator program. It has more features, and is much more flexible, than any TI i've ever seen. It graphs faster, and you can set each line on the graph to a different color so its easier to tell them apart (not to mention the higher screen resolution making the graphs more detailed). I love it.
The only problem teachers face is cheating. I could have stored my whole Trig textbook on my Clie (memorysticks rock). Yeah, you can write stuff in TI's programming menus, but its a pain. Not so with a PDF reader on my Palm.
Isn't it cool when that happens? My cable provider (Charter) has a habit of sending my packets to a router that adds around 500ms onto all of my pings, and when that happens bandwidth drops to about .5k/sec. I can't load most webpages when that happens.
Simple solution - de-virginize the virgins. Then they can't be sacrificed. Oh wait, that would be sinful too. Yay for religion!
Here it is. From that site:
Third Place: AirPort Radar -- Three years ago at MacHack, every table in the hotel atrium where the hackers congregate was adorned with an Ethernet hub. Most of those disappeared last year, because many people had AirPort cards and could use the wireless network instead, and this year, all but a very few people relied entirely on six AirPort Base Stations scattered around the hotel. Taking advantage of the wireless network setup, Mike Neil and Eric Traut wrote AirPort Radar, which used the differing signal strengths from multiple AirPort Base Stations to triangulate and display the location of a PowerBook, even while it was moving.
There was a group of competitors at MacHack 2001 (i think it was 2k1) that did this with the wifi stations in the convention center + hotel. They didn't win the competition, but it was my favorite hack from the event. I'll see if i can find a link to the info page.
Actually, the ??AA would buy a few more congresscritters and get some legislation passed that FORCES the tech industry to develop this brand of DRM.
The only problem with that is that product placement begins to be the focus of the show, and not a little thing we can ignore.
For instance: The Malcom in the Middle episode that followed the Super Bowl had some incredibly obvious placements. The one that sticks out in my mind was duing the "mud wrestling" scene. As the two moms are going at it, the camera decides to focus on not the crowd, but a fat guy in the crowd. He was chowing down on Doritos 3Ds (which Malcom pans to viewers in a couple commercials). The camera came back to him several times, and stayed there.
Instead of having the family share a bag of Doritos 3Ds while watching a movie, which would allow a decent writer to continue to further the plot, Fox chose to show me a fat man. He had nothing to do with the show at all, except for the fact that he was watching the fight.
My fear is that instead of seeing the actors walk in front of a bank of Coke machines at the amusement park, we'll get little "product" moments that have nothing to do with the show.
The funny thing is, the admins don't enforce it - its the bitchy librarian (oh man is she mean) and the paraniod teachers that give us hell. The sysadmins just do what they're told by the faculty.
At my highschool, if you're caught on a website that has nothing to do with your class, you lose your computer privledges for a month. If you play a shockwave game, you're off for the rest of the year. If you try to install a game from home, you recieve a suspension and lose computer privledges for the year.
The paraniod lackeys at my school are scared to death of anything we might do to our pentium 133s. DeepFreeze is on every computer in all of the labs (except the one iMac lab, but those things have 32 megs of physical RAM on the most bloated system install i've ever seen - they're pretty much crippled to begin with).
Come to think of it, the only decent machines that we have in my three year old highschool (they spent how many 10s of millions building it?) are the 10 our IT department put together specifically for the administrators - they have 1ghz pentium 3s and Geforce 3s. Nobody under the vice principle can use them. The students, on the other hand, are stuck with horribly equipped machines that can barely run Netscape - this comments page would take about 60 seconds to render- or the CISCO router config utility - keyboard lag of about 10 seconds.
So, basically, your students are very lucky. I think you have a good idea. But if we even suggested doing this at my highschool, we'd probably violate our acceptable use policy.
I was told that any split in the line running to my modem would cause connection and interferrence problems (the installation guy ran a whole new drop from the pole outside my house). Wonder if that's really true?
Besides how many more deaths might this cause then cell-phones, driving down the road typing up a document in one eye and driving with the other.
Well, assuming nobody else (other drivers, pedestrians) are hurt, this is a GOOD thing - it finally puts Darwin back in the driver's seat (groan...).
Soccer mom is driving giant SUV with 2.5 kids in it. Soccer mom looks into cellphone to see who's calling her. Soccer mom careens off bridge, killing not only herself, but her kids as well. Since there's no offspring left, nobody can pass on the stupidity gene.
I love my Sony Clie Peg-N610C for all the reasons other posters have listed. However, i have one gripe - the screen scratches easier than a brand new car. I've only had it for a few months and already the stylus itself has scratched the daylights out of the screen. And there are far too many scratches, especially in the graffiti area, to just pass them off as errant dust particles rubbing in some odd way.
I believe that as far as FreeBSD is concerned, partitions are sections of slices. So what windows calls a partition, FreeBSD would refer to as a slice.
Don't ask me why its that way.
DHCP problems? Never had them. Maybe i'm just lucky?
Talk about system bugs!
<cheap pun>Your computer would STILL have less bugs than Windows!</cheap pun>
Not knowing how to do a simple for() loop is inexcusable, but using pointers? Come on - nobody knows what those things are for!
The MIT article claims that a digital signature is created based on the sound data in an MP3. Well, what if two people rip the same MP3 with the same ripper using the same settings? Wouldn't that create copies that were exactly alike?
Or are the record companies going after you for just sharing the music?
Beat me to it.
I believe that they found almost 6,000 new galaxies in the patch of sky they looked at. Before these pics, we didn't know there was anything there. I'd bet that there are millions, if not billions, of galaxies that we don't know about. And if there's just one planet with life on it in each of those galaxies... that's still alot of life.
The thing is, the internet hogs are just a front for Comcast's greed. They could handle this is ways that benifit the customer alot more, but they just care about money.
This is just comcast covering up bad planning, or making an excuse to rape the customer and cut back their costs.
.txt and change it to .mp3 (at least for those in the Windows world).
When you sign up for their service, you pay for a certain speed for a certain ammount of $/month. Whether or not you use that is your business - you paid for it, its yours to use. If comcast is running out of bandwidth, its their fault - they oversold without proper planning. This will "solve" that problem. If they want to cut back on bandwidth in order to save money, this will help. Their greediness is an excuse to fuck the consumer in the ass.
Why is comcast doing this for JUST video and music? Did the RI/MPAA threaten them?
Who cares if i download alot of music and videos? What if i have alot of friends who do their own electronic music? What if every relative i know posts three hour long iMovies of them and their kids to the web, and i want to download that? How is that different from a Linux geek downloading 10 distribution isos? Comcast is acting like they know the answer. What, 200 three-meg MP3s somehow costs them more bandwidth than a 600 meg RedHat iso? Bits are bits. If someone wanted to get around this, just download everything as a
Of course, later on in the article, they talk about people hosting their own webservers, and that they are the people putting strain on the network. If that's even true, what does that have to do with my movie and music downloads?
This is one of the most asinine ideas i've ever heard of.
Odd, i see less than 2,000,000 online right now. Where do they get these figures - the number of times the app has been downloaded?
Except that Apple has been doing this on their laptops for quite a while. Or at least did at one time.
Mind posting his phone #? I'm sure there are quite a few people here who would like to share some of their feelings with him.
No, the word "terror" is now required, by law, to be in every single piece of news that is published. Besides, nobody would read the article if it didn't have something about TERRORISM IN AMERICA. Just ask CNN.