I used to have direct TV (I'm going to try again since Time Warner cable doesn't broadcast digital for the lower 90 channels), and I got rid of it for 2 reasons...
1) I hate it when I lost reception in a bad rain or snow storm.... I don't have trees anywhere near my dish this time, so hopefull that will help a little...
2) (this is petty, but important to me) The dish looks like SHIT! I am one of the few techies that values the appearance of my house, and that damn dish is just butt ugly! I also wonder if it helps to paint a target on me for potential theifs (has good taste in TV programing... must have good taste in video and audio equip.)...
Other than that, it is cheaper and has a better picture than regular cable... so what is there to discuss? I'm also a huge sports fan, but I don't have time to watch more than the home team's game on Sunday (I get the rest of my stats from espn.com or on espnews). So why would anyone but someone affiliated with a major cable company care about the rest of this bull shit? Face it, Direct TV has whooped your asses! Better product at a lower cost... a no brainer IMHO.
Games or software that need 9700 over GeForce4 : 0
Maybe I'll wait until the cost comes down and until there is a true need for that card.... other than to brag to people that I have more money to waste on a graphics card than they do:)
You must be making a buck... or atleast I hope you are.... since you aren't (or shouldn't be) paying that much for bandwidth! Are you on cogent or a dial-up?
For every 20 minutes on the Web, "viewers" will be required to download three minutes of ads
Who ever wrote this was smoking crack!
People will find a way around this! They will either find some tech way around it, or they will simply stop visiting sites that make you do that.
I run a web site that rely's on ad revenue, but if these annoying forms of advertising don't come to an end, it could be the end of the Internet for everyone except big business. I know that there are VERY few sites that I would tolorate if they had annoying ads that "made" me do something.
Honestly, I think that the person that wrote this was just looking to get a rise out of people. (He got one out of me) Hopefully he will wake people up about this BEFORE this kind of thing becomes reality. What happened to simple, NON-POP-UP banners? Yes, they didn't work well, but they got sites exposure! I make it a point NOT to visit sites with annoying ads.... and the people that play the games I run seem to do the same thing. Of all the clicks we get, 10% go to the traditional, non-pop-up ads, 89.99% to the skyscraper banners, and 0.01% go to pop-up ads. NO ONE clicks on our pop-up ads because they are annoyng... and the people want them to go away! Now if only everyone else would be smart enough to follow suite of a few thousand MPOG players...
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The prof wasn't "legally" blind, but his eye sight wasn't so good....
He is a retired (and very well respected) prof that came back (really cheaply, I might add) to teach. He probably should have stayed in retirement because of his health problems, but he had nothing else to do. However, even though his courses could be very boring at times, I learned more practial knowledge in his courses than in most of the other courses I took.
As for the language thing, I agree... but that is a totall different topic. If you can't speak CLEAR English, you shouldn't teach in an English speaking University. Why do you think that my lecutes went so much better than those of people that are more intelligent than I am, but that can't speak a lick of English? I also lectured about cooler topics, usually web related...
How can a prof's lecture compare to playing a nice game of WarCraftIII or Age of Empires?
I have been on both sides of the coin, so I think I have a very unique perspective on this.
I was in a class with a boring prof, and I will (reluctantly) admit that I played Age of Empires in the back row of class one day. What can I say, I wasn't learning anything new and it was BORING! And to top that off, the prof had two hearing aids and is half blind... so this wasn't hard to do...
... on the other hand... I have given pleantly of lectures myself to college students....
I pride myself on giving very interactive presentations, but sometimes you just can't spice up a lecture that is about as fun to listen to as it is to watch paint dry.... and one day, I did catch a kid playing a game on his PC during one of my talks (I was giving the talk in a PC lab). I was pretty pissed off, but I understood... he didn't want to listen to that any more than I wanted to talk about it... it was a BORING topic! I tried to spice it up and ask people questions so that they didn't fall asleep, but nothing could have saved that talk...
So lets just get down to it and give the solution:
Students should only be permitted to use PC's, Palms, etc during LAB SESSIONS!
Seriously, there really is no need for students to bring a lap top to a lecture unless they don't plan on paying attention... and since they paid for the course, you'd think that they'd want to get what they paid for by listening to the information being passed from the professor to them. However, if it is convenient for them to screw around and day dream (or play on a machine in this case), then they will!
Bottom line: Listen to lecture or (play video game, chat with friends about how silly the prof's hair looks)... this is an easy one that only requires prof by observation... QED.
Check linksys.com before posting stuff like this...
This looks more like free advertising than a top story.... and this is fale advertising! They aren't first;P
Instead, lets do Buffalo Tech a faovr.... I'm going to tell them to:
RUN!!!!
Hareware isn't a profitable business unless you are Cisco, 3Com, HP, Sun, or Compaq. And besides, I'm sure that Micro$haft will beat them out of the market by taking a loss on their hardware until they control the market....
Here are some original opinions (hopefully ou agree) about the so called "Top 25 stories" of the scientific community:
25.) Controlling Robots with the Mind - Are these in stores yet? When do I get to do this? Did anyone else hear about this?
24.) Scientists Sequence Genomes of Malarial Parasite and Mosquito - Big news for people in Africa... but I think they have a bigger problem... its called AIDS!
23.) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation's Polarization Detected at Last - Oh goody... raditation old enough to collect social security!
22.) Mouse Genome Sequenced - those poor hairless mice.... how are they gonna pick up a mouse chick if they don't even have their hair when they are young? Considering m own personal situation, I can say I feel for them ('m loosing my hair!)
21.) Astronomers Discover Icy World Far Past Pluto - 'bout time all that investment into telescopes got us something! We now have 10 planets!!!.... *yea*
20.) Stamp-Size Plastic Chip Provides New Approach to Cryptography - A new mountain for te hackers to climb! Sounds pretty cool though...
19.) Meet the Oldest Member of the Human Family - This is depressing... this helps to further prove that you and I are nothing more than a chimp!
18.) Attacking Anthrax - Yea! Eat that bin Laden!! That idea won't work on the U.S.!
17.) Crafty Crow Rivals Primates in Toolmaking - Proves you can teach an old bird new tricks... nothing neat hear... move on
16.) New Findings Fan Debate over Origin of Vinland Map - Just sell the damn thing on Ebay and debate this later.... face it fokes, its a fake:)
15.) Avoiding the Impact - Ok, this is news... people!! wake up! We need to defend ourselves as a race, as a planet, from this kind of,really bad shit! This should be in the top 3!!!
14.) Element 118 Dropped from Periodic Table - I needed some of this stuff next week... again, nice to see how "real" some of these so called findings are, but even better to see that someone was honest enough to retract their false findings! Way to embarass the community!!
13.) First Humans to Leave Africa Weren't Necessarily a Brainy Bunch - I disagree! They won't get infected with AIDS!
12.) Study Casts Doubt on Cell from Hell's Role in Fish Kills - *yawn*
11.) Light's Information-Carrying Capacity Doubles - So now more senceless data from Microshaft can travel at "the speed of light"... great!
10.) Study Shows How Far GM Pollen Spreads - and three eyed fish will roan the seven seas.... right... nothing here.. move on!
9.) Gladiators: A New Order of Insect - They're going to get us, just like in Starship Troopers!! We're all gonna die!!! Seriously, this is worthy of its position in the top stories of the year.
8.) Scientists Sequence Rice Genome - Don't need the Chineese anymore!
7.) Climate Warming Causes Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf - So put less stuff on it! (end bad joke) This is VERY serious! However, this may be a natural phenomenon. No need to panic.. yet
6.) Chinese Fossil May Be Mother of All Placental Mammals - Grandma!
5.) Scientists Spin Spidery Silk - in other news, silk prices bottom out! New silk that doesn't have to be washed in the "gental" cycle is now available!
4.) Physicists Create a New State of Matter - Sorry, call me short sighted, but I just don't see how this is useful
3.) T. rex Not Fleet of Foot, Study Shows - Time to remake Jurasic Park!
2.) Scientists Succeed in Transplanting Cloned Cow Tissue Moo! Moo! (in sync... Moo!!!!)
... and finally...
1.) Mars Odyssey's Measurements Reveal a Wet, Red Planet - This is huge! See #15!! If we get hit by a large rock from space, the ability to have the human race move forward would be nice. However, in order for humans to live, we need water! Also, if we get too stupid and nuke most of the planet, we still might have a second chance! I agree that this is the #1 story... and that is about all that I agree with when it comes to their rankings.
The end.
If you don't agree, please post... don't moderate!
Although it is pricey, all the "MacHeads" still are trained on (and prefer) Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately, that is still a superior product when it comes to image manipulation. Yes, GIMP has come quite a ways (and I use it for personal stuff since Adobe P.S. is so pricey), but it is hard to compete with a product that does such a great job and that has become an industry standard.
Nice thought, but it ain't gonna happen! Too many graphi designers have spent too many years of their lives learning how to use all of the features of Photoshop.... they're not goning to convert just because GIMP is suddenl available for OSX. If they wanted GIMP, they would have installed Linux on their Mac years ago and used it then.
Although I think it is great that GTK is now on Mac, I don't think it will change "things" that much...
This way, perhaps, we can get Ralsky in jail, and stripped of his money from the SPAM
So what you are saying is that we can get Ralsky put in jail, which will become his new company H.Q.... and he will generate enough $$$$ spamming from jail to provide all of the prison population enough cigs and workout equipment that they will stop making license plates for us.... hmmmm... this sounds like a bad deal for us (except if you'd like to make license plates) and a great deal for the inmates of our country....
However, if he makes enough money spamming, we could use the money to make bigger jails so that we can imprision the other spammers....
It is my spell'en that always ruins some of my most witty comments!
Besides, it doesn't say you have to be able to spell to post on slashdot...
I'm just here to try to defend game players from around the worl from the evil forces of MAVAV!!!! My point is this: they need to do more research before attacking a group of people and probably find another cause that would better utilize their talents... like the war on spam email!
Still, its kinda funny.... they are "fighting the war" on violence.... that has to make you chuckle...
These people should be less worried about violence and more worried about educating the youth of the world...
It was because of video games that I have had MANY friends drop classes because it "iterfeared with my game plaing time" or even totally drop out of school. These "kids" would spend hours upon hours in the University computer labs, just plaing video games...
Maybe they should form "Mothers Against Computer Labs" (MACL) instead of waisting their time "fighting" a battle against violence...
1) It has apache 2.0... threads are great for large apps... keeps server load down on RH 8.0 web servers
2) Wine w/ OpenGL allows you to play WarCraft III on RH 8.0 work stations
3) Still has journal file system... which is good
4) Grub still sucks:)
Buy a discounted book on RH 7.x for the rest (not much else is worth reading on IMHO) and send me an email thanking me for saving you some $$$$, especially if ou live in Soviet Russia where $$$$ owns you:)
I was encouraged in high school to use calculators since my H.S. was trying to go "high tech". In fact, we were REQUIRED to use them on tests.... if you didn't, you were going to fail due to a lack of time to complete the exam.
Then I got to college...
Now keep in mind, I was a pretty good math student (scored perfect on the SATs in Math... English was another issue... and why I didn't get into a good school), so this is a good example in my opinion.
I took my first college Calc II exam, and of course, used my calculator for it. In all fairness, it was a difficult exam, but a fair exam. I thought I would be "joe slick" and finish quickly by using the latest and greatest graphing calc. available... and I finished WAY before the other students in the course. HOWEVER, when I got my exam back, I got a 54%!!! Every answer was correct, but in big, red letters at the top of the paper, the prof wrote "This is what you get for looking at your calculator so much!"... then he wrote "I need to see a few more steps and where you got some of these answers".
Needless to say, that was the last time I used that calculator for anything but to check answers (or to get answers and reverse engineer them):)
My prof was right though... kids today need to learn to think for themselves BEFORE they begin to use technology as a crutch....
.... but at the same time, we live in a technology laced society... so which is more evil... to force kids to learn, but not teach them technology, or to teach then technology, but make them helpless without it....
It is an evil world we live in....
It looks like technology is like women... can't live with it, can't live without it...
Apple is applying for a patent to release "devices capable of dynamically changing their ornamental or decorative appearance.
As mentioned before, this sounds like an LCD, but there are other things that this would infringe upon...
Paint for automobiles that you can hook up to an E.Q. that will change colors based on the electric current that passes through the paint already exists...
... so I guess Apple is getting into pimping out cars as well....
I was encouraged in high school to use calculators since my H.S. was trying to go "high tech". In fact, we were REQUIRED to use them on tests.... if you didn't, you were going to fail due to a lack of time to complete the exam.
Then I got to college...
Now keep in mind, I was a pretty good math student (scored perfect on the SATs in Math... English was another issue... and why I didn't get into a good school), so this is a good example in my opinion.
I took my first college Calc II exam, and of course, used my calculator for it. In all fairness, it was a difficult exam, but a fair exam. I thought I would be "joe slick" and finish quickly by using the latest and greatest graphing calc. available... and I finished WAY before the other students in the course. HOWEVER, when I got my exam back, I got a 54%!!! Every answer was correct, but in big, red letters at the top of the paper, the prof wrote "This is what you get for looking at your calculator so much!"... then he wrote "I need to see a few more steps and where you got some of these answers".
Needless to say, that was the last time I used that calculator for anything but to check answers (or to get answers and reverse engineer them):)
My prof was right though... kids today need to learn to think for themselves BEFORE they begin to use technology as a crutch....
.... but at the same time, we live in a technology laced society... so which is more evil... to force kids to learn, but not teach them technology, or to teach then technology, but make them helpless without it....
It is an evil world we live in....
It looks like technology is like women... can't live with it, can't live without it...
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I used to have direct TV (I'm going to try again since Time Warner cable doesn't broadcast digital for the lower 90 channels), and I got rid of it for 2 reasons ...
.... I don't have trees anywhere near my dish this time, so hopefull that will help a little ...
... must have good taste in video and audio equip.) ...
... so what is there to discuss? I'm also a huge sports fan, but I don't have time to watch more than the home team's game on Sunday (I get the rest of my stats from espn.com or on espnews). So why would anyone but someone affiliated with a major cable company care about the rest of this bull shit? Face it, Direct TV has whooped your asses! Better product at a lower cost ... a no brainer IMHO.
1) I hate it when I lost reception in a bad rain or snow storm
2) (this is petty, but important to me) The dish looks like SHIT! I am one of the few techies that values the appearance of my house, and that damn dish is just butt ugly! I also wonder if it helps to paint a target on me for potential theifs (has good taste in TV programing
Other than that, it is cheaper and has a better picture than regular cable
I knew I shouldn't have listened to that damn Jedi
Now I am poor and in a very deep, self inflicted depression
I never realized my life sucked so much!
I'm joining the Dark Side!
Hmmm
Nvidia GeForce4 TI : approx $100
ATI 9700 : around $300
Games or software that need 9700 over GeForce4 : 0
Maybe I'll wait until the cost comes down and until there is a true need for that card
9700
You must be making a buck
Who ever wrote this was smoking crack!
People will find a way around this! They will either find some tech way around it, or they will simply stop visiting sites that make you do that.
I run a web site that rely's on ad revenue, but if these annoying forms of advertising don't come to an end, it could be the end of the Internet for everyone except big business. I know that there are VERY few sites that I would tolorate if they had annoying ads that "made" me do something.
Honestly, I think that the person that wrote this was just looking to get a rise out of people. (He got one out of me) Hopefully he will wake people up about this BEFORE this kind of thing becomes reality. What happened to simple, NON-POP-UP banners? Yes, they didn't work well, but they got sites exposure! I make it a point NOT to visit sites with annoying ads
The prof wasn't "legally" blind, but his eye sight wasn't so good ....
... but that is a totall different topic. If you can't speak CLEAR English, you shouldn't teach in an English speaking University. Why do you think that my lecutes went so much better than those of people that are more intelligent than I am, but that can't speak a lick of English? I also lectured about cooler topics, usually web related ...
He is a retired (and very well respected) prof that came back (really cheaply, I might add) to teach. He probably should have stayed in retirement because of his health problems, but he had nothing else to do. However, even though his courses could be very boring at times, I learned more practial knowledge in his courses than in most of the other courses I took.
As for the language thing, I agree
How can a prof's lecture compare to playing a nice game of WarCraftIII or Age of Empires?
... so this wasn't hard to do ...
... on the other hand ... I have given pleantly of lectures myself to college students ....
.... and one day, I did catch a kid playing a game on his PC during one of my talks (I was giving the talk in a PC lab). I was pretty pissed off, but I understood ... he didn't want to listen to that any more than I wanted to talk about it ... it was a BORING topic! I tried to spice it up and ask people questions so that they didn't fall asleep, but nothing could have saved that talk ...
... and since they paid for the course, you'd think that they'd want to get what they paid for by listening to the information being passed from the professor to them. However, if it is convenient for them to screw around and day dream (or play on a machine in this case), then they will!
... this is an easy one that only requires prof by observation ... QED.
...
I have been on both sides of the coin, so I think I have a very unique perspective on this.
I was in a class with a boring prof, and I will (reluctantly) admit that I played Age of Empires in the back row of class one day. What can I say, I wasn't learning anything new and it was BORING! And to top that off, the prof had two hearing aids and is half blind
I pride myself on giving very interactive presentations, but sometimes you just can't spice up a lecture that is about as fun to listen to as it is to watch paint dry
So lets just get down to it and give the solution:
Students should only be permitted to use PC's, Palms, etc during LAB SESSIONS!
Seriously, there really is no need for students to bring a lap top to a lecture unless they don't plan on paying attention
Bottom line: Listen to lecture or (play video game, chat with friends about how silly the prof's hair looks)
Just my $0.02 cents
Check linksys.com before posting stuff like this ...
.... and this is fale advertising! They aren't first ;P
.... I'm going to tell them to:
....
This looks more like free advertising than a top story
Instead, lets do Buffalo Tech a faovr
RUN!!!!
Hareware isn't a profitable business unless you are Cisco, 3Com, HP, Sun, or Compaq. And besides, I'm sure that Micro$haft will beat them out of the market by taking a loss on their hardware until they control the market
Get out, while you still can!!
Here are some original opinions (hopefully ou agree) about the so called "Top 25 stories" of the scientific community:
... but I think they have a bigger problem ... its called AIDS!
... raditation old enough to collect social security!
.... how are they gonna pick up a mouse chick if they don't even have their hair when they are young? Considering m own personal situation, I can say I feel for them ('m loosing my hair!)
.... *yea*
...
... this helps to further prove that you and I are nothing more than a chimp!
... nothing neat hear ... move on
.... face it fokes, its a fake :)
... people!! wake up! We need to defend ourselves as a race, as a planet, from this kind of ,really bad shit! This should be in the top 3!!!
... again, nice to see how "real" some of these so called findings are, but even better to see that someone was honest enough to retract their false findings! Way to embarass the community!!
... great!
.... right ... nothing here .. move on!
.. yet
... Moo!!!!)
... and finally ...
... and that is about all that I agree with when it comes to their rankings.
... don't moderate!
25.) Controlling Robots with the Mind - Are these in stores yet? When do I get to do this? Did anyone else hear about this?
24.) Scientists Sequence Genomes of Malarial Parasite and Mosquito - Big news for people in Africa
23.) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation's Polarization Detected at Last - Oh goody
22.) Mouse Genome Sequenced - those poor hairless mice
21.) Astronomers Discover Icy World Far Past Pluto - 'bout time all that investment into telescopes got us something! We now have 10 planets!!!
20.) Stamp-Size Plastic Chip Provides New Approach to Cryptography - A new mountain for te hackers to climb! Sounds pretty cool though
19.) Meet the Oldest Member of the Human Family - This is depressing
18.) Attacking Anthrax - Yea! Eat that bin Laden!! That idea won't work on the U.S.!
17.) Crafty Crow Rivals Primates in Toolmaking - Proves you can teach an old bird new tricks
16.) New Findings Fan Debate over Origin of Vinland Map - Just sell the damn thing on Ebay and debate this later
15.) Avoiding the Impact - Ok, this is news
14.) Element 118 Dropped from Periodic Table - I needed some of this stuff next week
13.) First Humans to Leave Africa Weren't Necessarily a Brainy Bunch - I disagree! They won't get infected with AIDS!
12.) Study Casts Doubt on Cell from Hell's Role in Fish Kills - *yawn*
11.) Light's Information-Carrying Capacity Doubles - So now more senceless data from Microshaft can travel at "the speed of light"
10.) Study Shows How Far GM Pollen Spreads - and three eyed fish will roan the seven seas
9.) Gladiators: A New Order of Insect - They're going to get us, just like in Starship Troopers!! We're all gonna die!!! Seriously, this is worthy of its position in the top stories of the year.
8.) Scientists Sequence Rice Genome - Don't need the Chineese anymore!
7.) Climate Warming Causes Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf - So put less stuff on it! (end bad joke) This is VERY serious! However, this may be a natural phenomenon. No need to panic
6.) Chinese Fossil May Be Mother of All Placental Mammals - Grandma!
5.) Scientists Spin Spidery Silk - in other news, silk prices bottom out! New silk that doesn't have to be washed in the "gental" cycle is now available!
4.) Physicists Create a New State of Matter - Sorry, call me short sighted, but I just don't see how this is useful
3.) T. rex Not Fleet of Foot, Study Shows - Time to remake Jurasic Park!
2.) Scientists Succeed in Transplanting Cloned Cow Tissue Moo! Moo! (in sync
1.) Mars Odyssey's Measurements Reveal a Wet, Red Planet - This is huge! See #15!! If we get hit by a large rock from space, the ability to have the human race move forward would be nice. However, in order for humans to live, we need water! Also, if we get too stupid and nuke most of the planet, we still might have a second chance! I agree that this is the #1 story
The end.
If you don't agree, please post
I don't think so!
Although it is pricey, all the "MacHeads" still are trained on (and prefer) Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately, that is still a superior product when it comes to image manipulation. Yes, GIMP has come quite a ways (and I use it for personal stuff since Adobe P.S. is so pricey), but it is hard to compete with a product that does such a great job and that has become an industry standard.
Nice thought, but it ain't gonna happen! Too many graphi designers have spent too many years of their lives learning how to use all of the features of Photoshop
Although I think it is great that GTK is now on Mac, I don't think it will change "things" that much
Just my $0.02 cents
So what you are saying is that we can get Ralsky put in jail, which will become his new company H.Q.
However, if he makes enough money spamming, we could use the money to make bigger jails so that we can imprision the other spammers
Uhhh!! Gamer .... not gammer ...
...
... like the war on spam email!
.... they are "fighting the war" on violence .... that has to make you chuckle ...
It is my spell'en that always ruins some of my most witty comments!
Besides, it doesn't say you have to be able to spell to post on slashdot
I'm just here to try to defend game players from around the worl from the evil forces of MAVAV!!!! My point is this: they need to do more research before attacking a group of people and probably find another cause that would better utilize their talents
Still, its kinda funny
These people should be less worried about violence and more worried about educating the youth of the world ...
...
...
... "fighting the war" on violence ...
It was because of video games that I have had MANY friends drop classes because it "iterfeared with my game plaing time" or even totally drop out of school. These "kids" would spend hours upon hours in the University computer labs, just plaing video games
Maybe they should form "Mothers Against Computer Labs" (MACL) instead of waisting their time "fighting" a battle against violence
The irony
The orcs in War Craft III aren't violent,
they're misunderstood
They just want to be your friend!
Who playes EQ with a joystick?
... they don't evn understand gammers ...
These people need to go back and do some more research before bitching up a storm like this
shheeessshhh!!!
br
Masta Bates!
I guess this means this won't work in my 1 U rackmounted servers, eh?
By far, the most hillarious sig I have ever seen!
And the Lill Lates comment wasn't bad either!
All though you may get sued by Bill for giving advice to the owner of Lindows on how not to get sued by Bill
1) It has apache 2.0 ... threads are great for large apps ... keeps server load down on RH 8.0 web servers
... which is good
:)
:)
2) Wine w/ OpenGL allows you to play WarCraft III on RH 8.0 work stations
3) Still has journal file system
4) Grub still sucks
Buy a discounted book on RH 7.x for the rest (not much else is worth reading on IMHO) and send me an email thanking me for saving you some $$$$, especially if ou live in Soviet Russia where $$$$ owns you
1) The sky (esp. sunsets) ...
...
.... gimme a break here!!!
2) Disco floors
3) Those cool fish tanks with rotating lights
4) Cop sirens (no more tickets for me)
I was encouraged in high school to use calculators since my H.S. was trying to go "high tech". In fact, we were REQUIRED to use them on tests .... if you didn't, you were going to fail due to a lack of time to complete the exam.
...
... English was another issue ... and why I didn't get into a good school), so this is a good example in my opinion.
... and I finished WAY before the other students in the course. HOWEVER, when I got my exam back, I got a 54%!!! Every answer was correct, but in big, red letters at the top of the paper, the prof wrote "This is what you get for looking at your calculator so much!" ... then he wrote "I need to see a few more steps and where you got some of these answers".
:)
... kids today need to learn to think for themselves BEFORE they begin to use technology as a crutch ....
.... but at the same time, we live in a technology laced society ... so which is more evil ... to force kids to learn, but not teach them technology, or to teach then technology, but make them helpless without it ....
....
... can't live with it, can't live without it ...
...
Then I got to college
Now keep in mind, I was a pretty good math student (scored perfect on the SATs in Math
I took my first college Calc II exam, and of course, used my calculator for it. In all fairness, it was a difficult exam, but a fair exam. I thought I would be "joe slick" and finish quickly by using the latest and greatest graphing calc. available
Needless to say, that was the last time I used that calculator for anything but to check answers (or to get answers and reverse engineer them)
My prof was right though
It is an evil world we live in
It looks like technology is like women
Just my 2 cents
As mentioned before, this sounds like an LCD, but there are other things that this would infringe upon
Paint for automobiles that you can hook up to an E.Q. that will change colors based on the electric current that passes through the paint already exists
I was encouraged in high school to use calculators since my H.S. was trying to go "high tech". In fact, we were REQUIRED to use them on tests .... if you didn't, you were going to fail due to a lack of time to complete the exam.
...
... English was another issue ... and why I didn't get into a good school), so this is a good example in my opinion.
... and I finished WAY before the other students in the course. HOWEVER, when I got my exam back, I got a 54%!!! Every answer was correct, but in big, red letters at the top of the paper, the prof wrote "This is what you get for looking at your calculator so much!" ... then he wrote "I need to see a few more steps and where you got some of these answers".
:)
... kids today need to learn to think for themselves BEFORE they begin to use technology as a crutch ....
.... but at the same time, we live in a technology laced society ... so which is more evil ... to force kids to learn, but not teach them technology, or to teach then technology, but make them helpless without it ....
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... can't live with it, can't live without it ...
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Then I got to college
Now keep in mind, I was a pretty good math student (scored perfect on the SATs in Math
I took my first college Calc II exam, and of course, used my calculator for it. In all fairness, it was a difficult exam, but a fair exam. I thought I would be "joe slick" and finish quickly by using the latest and greatest graphing calc. available
Needless to say, that was the last time I used that calculator for anything but to check answers (or to get answers and reverse engineer them)
My prof was right though
It is an evil world we live in
It looks like technology is like women
Just my 2 cents
C'mon, back in those days, what else were you going to do, play more pitt fall or missle command?