Until some fucking idiot thinks I what to search his page using his form and focuses my cursor for me. Yes you Google and the other fucking idiots. The idea is that I don't have to touch my mouse.
They're aged 9 months to 19 years, mine being 11. They cannot comprehend "satisfy and enhance intellectual curiosity" and it cannot be their goal.
As I said in a post many months back, Honda play an active roll in the school. They fund one room and they provide technology training to the children. The last time they came in, the children built robots with battery packs, motors, microswitches and duct tape(!!!). Now that does indeed "satisfy and enhance intellectual curiosity"
I suppose my idea of a minimum and yours is slightly different.
The minimum for a disruptive child might be turning up once a week.
My minimum is doing all the homework. Turning up every day. Being polite and caring. Going the extra yard involves after school clubs, helping the teacher, putting in that extra bit of effort.
I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of the company who handles all the points and merchandise. I'll probably forget to look back on/. when I get home. I imagine a lot of schools use them.
The new academies in the UK are funded from the government, not the local council as in previous years. The school controls all their money and the local council have no say in the matter. If the school wants to concentrate on science, they can spend their money on science, no questions asked.
I imagine the school will spend less than 10 GBP per student each year. Half the price of a book.
Yeah! Stand them in the corner with a pointy hat with the word "Dunce" on it! That'll teach them!
Rewarding is far, far better.
In my daughter's school they offer reward cards; they're a bit like loyalty cards. Instead of the old gold stars, they are now given points that can be exchanged for material goods. A point for handing in homework, an extra point for handing it in early, points for winning competitions, be they sports or academic.
By the end of the first year, if you do the minimum, you'll have enough for a Wii remote, cheap mobile phone, or little MP3 player. By the end of the fifth year, if you are a grade A++ student, attend all the after school clubs, etc, you'll have enough for a netbook.
Sounds good to me.
This is one of the new UK academies, if anyone is interested. And, one year in, is the highest ranking school in the somewhat deprived and poverty stricken area we live in.
I sit here with cmd.exe running and everyone thinks I'm doing something important. The trick is to choose a large directory, with many sub-directories, on a slow server, on the other side of the world.
I'm sure this is illegal in the UK. Classed a counterfeit.
Using the UK data protection act is easy, but it does cost a single pound for admin costs. I wouldn't be suprised if these requests were rejected for that alone.
Get someone else to sign the cheque too. Agencies have been know to take your signature, scan it, then print it back on a consumer credit agreement form.
I assume this is the SlideShare in question: http://www.slideshare.net/
The front landing page looks excellent. The CSS hasn't loaded and the page looks like something from 1998 - excellent, have a bonus point. None of the images display either, but I'm guessing the CDN is blocked by my company's nanny software - it's no big deal, I used to block 3rd party images back in the days.
The first featured slideshow looks exactly the same as the landing page. No CSS and no images. If only all presentations could look like this!
I used to play a type of side scrolling 2D platform shooter on a Korean website. Obtaining an RRN was easier than finding a crack. 30-odd mates from another gaming site also managed to join me. It really wasn't a big issue.
Coordinating with parents has caused its own problems with my daughter and her friends. They're at the age where they walk to school on their own but are not old enough to leave the local area on bus.
Every single minor problem results in a phone call to us. They panic when someone cries. A grazed knee seems like a broken leg. Back in my day (GOML), dealing with these issues gave independence.
Credit is king, not Android or Blackberry. It doesn't matter what phone you have if you haven't got minutes. Chores for minutes works well here. I haven't washed-up in years.
So many of us British cry "Free speech!" on the internet. They all assume we have free speech in the UK. They all feel we should have the right to say anything we please.
The fact is we don't have free speech here. We never did and we probabaly never will.
I'm just glad I got trolling out of my system 10 years ago:p
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Space as Page Down is great.
Until some fucking idiot thinks I what to search his page using his form and focuses my cursor for me. Yes you Google and the other fucking idiots. The idea is that I don't have to touch my mouse.
Bless the FSM that GreaseMonkey exists.
Complete with Wanker Lights, I'd bet.
The number doesn't pass the LUHN test. Panic over. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Pigs aren't used for finding truffles any more, they tend to eat them.
:)
Dogs are better at the job, and they can be trained not to eat the goods.
And truffles can be farmed.
Just saying
We had a male Labrador.
One day it decided to test its place on the ladder, and went for my mother.
My father reasserted his authority as alpha male, by means of a neck grab and shake, and that was the end of the situation.
Labradors are dogs; pack animals; and they play by their rules. Never underestimate a dog's potential, no matter what breed.
They're aged 9 months to 19 years, mine being 11. They cannot comprehend "satisfy and enhance intellectual curiosity" and it cannot be their goal.
As I said in a post many months back, Honda play an active roll in the school. They fund one room and they provide technology training to the children. The last time they came in, the children built robots with battery packs, motors, microswitches and duct tape(!!!). Now that does indeed "satisfy and enhance intellectual curiosity"
I suppose my idea of a minimum and yours is slightly different.
The minimum for a disruptive child might be turning up once a week.
My minimum is doing all the homework. Turning up every day. Being polite and caring. Going the extra yard involves after school clubs, helping the teacher, putting in that extra bit of effort.
But your points are fair *thumbs up*
I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of the company who handles all the points and merchandise. I'll probably forget to look back on /. when I get home. I imagine a lot of schools use them.
The new academies in the UK are funded from the government, not the local council as in previous years. The school controls all their money and the local council have no say in the matter. If the school wants to concentrate on science, they can spend their money on science, no questions asked.
I imagine the school will spend less than 10 GBP per student each year. Half the price of a book.
Yeah! Stand them in the corner with a pointy hat with the word "Dunce" on it! That'll teach them!
Rewarding is far, far better.
In my daughter's school they offer reward cards; they're a bit like loyalty cards. Instead of the old gold stars, they are now given points that can be exchanged for material goods. A point for handing in homework, an extra point for handing it in early, points for winning competitions, be they sports or academic.
By the end of the first year, if you do the minimum, you'll have enough for a Wii remote, cheap mobile phone, or little MP3 player. By the end of the fifth year, if you are a grade A++ student, attend all the after school clubs, etc, you'll have enough for a netbook.
Sounds good to me.
This is one of the new UK academies, if anyone is interested. And, one year in, is the highest ranking school in the somewhat deprived and poverty stricken area we live in.
Fuck the survey, this is why I still visit Slashdot.
I use google first, for every site, it's perfect.
Fix other things on Slashdot. They're more important.
I watch a fair bit of sport by hooking up a laptop to the TV. I'd love to pay for it in return for an HD quality picture, honestly I would.
My problem with using the Xbox is it's so bloody noisy. Fix that first Microsoft and I'll happily cancel the TV part of my cable package.
So open more connections to different servers.
I (the family) have nine devices at home which connect to the internet
2 laptops
1 desktop
3 phones
1 TV
1 Xbox
1 Wii
It is unlikely all will be downloading at the same time, but not impossible.
I only have 30/3mbit and maxing it out is not hard.
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Troll.
Why not?
/f
I sit here with cmd.exe running and everyone thinks I'm doing something important. The trick is to choose a large directory, with many sub-directories, on a slow server, on the other side of the world.
>tree
They should pay me extra for knowing that
I had "regenerative braking" on my 1/12 scale model cars over 20 years ago.
I do wonder why such a big fuss is made about it.
I'm sure this is illegal in the UK. Classed a counterfeit.
Using the UK data protection act is easy, but it does cost a single pound for admin costs. I wouldn't be suprised if these requests were rejected for that alone.
Get someone else to sign the cheque too. Agencies have been know to take your signature, scan it, then print it back on a consumer credit agreement form.
I assume this is the SlideShare in question: http://www.slideshare.net/
The front landing page looks excellent. The CSS hasn't loaded and the page looks like something from 1998 - excellent, have a bonus point. None of the images display either, but I'm guessing the CDN is blocked by my company's nanny software - it's no big deal, I used to block 3rd party images back in the days.
The first featured slideshow looks exactly the same as the landing page. No CSS and no images. If only all presentations could look like this!
IE7 on XP (because I'm forced to use it).
Forget Windows! I've been doing this for years and I can only see myself doing more of it as I age.
Where did I leave that DVD?
On the left shelf? No, it's not threre.
On the right shelf? Oh yeah, that's where I left it.
It was a figure of speech.
Finding cracks is not a hard task. Finding RRNs is just as easy.
I used to play a type of side scrolling 2D platform shooter on a Korean website. Obtaining an RRN was easier than finding a crack. 30-odd mates from another gaming site also managed to join me. It really wasn't a big issue.
:)
So yeah, it's true, and it happens pretty often
Coordinating with parents has caused its own problems with my daughter and her friends. They're at the age where they walk to school on their own but are not old enough to leave the local area on bus.
Every single minor problem results in a phone call to us. They panic when someone cries. A grazed knee seems like a broken leg. Back in my day (GOML), dealing with these issues gave independence.
Credit is king, not Android or Blackberry. It doesn't matter what phone you have if you haven't got minutes. Chores for minutes works well here. I haven't washed-up in years.
A complete DVD-R in 7.1 hours!
CmdrTaco doesn't live here anymore.
So many of us British cry "Free speech!" on the internet. They all assume we have free speech in the UK. They all feel we should have the right to say anything we please.
:p
The fact is we don't have free speech here. We never did and we probabaly never will.
I'm just glad I got trolling out of my system 10 years ago