I have never enjoyed elipticals. I am on my schools XC, and track teams, so i run alot, however, in the winter, i wrestle and cut weight, and whenever i have the choice between a treadmill and an eliptical the treadmill takes the win.
Treadmills are much more versitile and adaptable. I find that when i am doing a workout on an elliptical, my stride is limited.
How ellipticals limit your stride cannot be healthy. And if you run competitively, it upsets your stride badly.
Once did this very thing, except to protest some rules.
The computer lab in our school is for "academic use only". of course, it is used for any number of other things, and certainly not "academic use". However, to protest, he sent a net send message to all the computers that:
The Technology Center is for Academic use only.
Fortunately for him, the administration realized they had no clue what he had done, and called in the sysadmin who had tracked him down to basically decide his punishment.
He was only given only detention, which is the appropriate punishment for such a crime, not 3 days suspension.
I go to what a private school, and we have a very strict code and (publicly percieved) strong academics. However, my experience of 6 years has been that the teachers who care less about the little things are often those that can teach the best and care the least about the stupid memorization stuff.
However, one of the things that allows my school to have these teachers that teach so well is that we are not bound to standardized testing for our funding. Thus, since they do not need to make sure that all of us do well on the testing, they can teach at a more conceptual level. Many of these teachers who care less for rules would often get fired quickly from a public school where they have to follow strict curricula where they have no imput, since they would just not follow it.
I know that it is possible, however, most setups that i have seen use some sort of USB to Serial converter or similar between the GPS and the computer. my dad uses a Garmin (i believe) navigator and has hooked it up to his TiBook for a surveying project of his, but i don't know about navigational software...
in this past year, i had 5 very different experiences for my teachers.
in statistics the teacher was very technology savvy, we use graphing calculators and he has written some very good demonstration programs for them, however, for some of the things that the graphing calculator cannot handle, there is a LCD screen in the room hooked up to a box on the net. This is one of the most useful tools in all of technology savvy teaching. he found some java applets on the net and used them for many class lectures. my school is currently in the process of installing these lcd displays in every classroom, and it allows all the teachers who want to use them to use them.
a slightly less good use of technology was in my chem class. he would give us videos of demonstrations which he could simply have done for us, where he could show us the demonstation significantly quicker better to explain for all of us if he had done the demonstration physically.
A new initiative that my school has undertaken was to create a website that even the most technophobe teachers could write for. i helped to teach the teachers how to use the new system in june, and most of them picked up pretty quickly, but most of them were stuck for things to put up. eventually, it was found that the extent for things to put up would be syllabae, solution sets, and links. not quite as useful as would be anticipated, but useful none the less, perhaps some will find more uses.
the article has good points, but misses the mark slightly. It uses examples of people solving problems. Granted, extremely complex problems, yet the claim that most mathematical discoveries are made before age 30 i think applies more to mathematical discoveries where the discoverer opens new fields of mathematics. This continues with the winner of the siemens-westinghouse science/math high-school awards going to a senior who developed a new theory called poset-game theory. This is a rundown of it from the regional finals. Pretty cool stuff.
Unfortunately, this was not the shark commonly known as Sharkus Lazerentes which has been commonly refered to as "Sharks with little tiny lazer beams on their foreheads".
Frankly i doubt it, there must be significant regulation regarding high voltage power lines and how high they must be, so i think they're far enough away that they wouldn't cause any trouble.
First of all, install Fink if you have not yet. There are many good packages there that you should get.
Mutella is one of them. It has a fast commandline interface and can download stuff as it finds them, i often will have about 10 autogets running. It accesses only the gnutella network but i think it works fine.
my friend just did an internship at the boston metro, and gave me a rundown of how each paper is made.
the first thing they do for each paper, is can you believe it...sell advertising space...well, come on, what were you expecting.
anyways, i have found a pacifist group website/mailing list to be very helpful in getting news about civil liberties (unfortunately not electronic, gotta go eff for that). anyways, for alot of the/. croud, they may be a bit radical, but i like the stuff they do: their internation web site is www.internationalanswer.org and you can get to your local chapter, wherever that may be...ann arbor or boston.
skeeter np: "ashes in the fall" rage against the machine
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I have never enjoyed elipticals. I am on my schools XC, and track teams, so i run alot, however, in the winter, i wrestle and cut weight, and whenever i have the choice between a treadmill and an eliptical the treadmill takes the win.
Treadmills are much more versitile and adaptable. I find that when i am doing a workout on an elliptical, my stride is limited.
How ellipticals limit your stride cannot be healthy. And if you run competitively, it upsets your stride badly.
(just my humble opinion)
skeeter
Republican, of course...
Once did this very thing, except to protest some rules.
The computer lab in our school is for "academic use only". of course, it is used for any number of other things, and certainly not "academic use". However, to protest, he sent a net send message to all the computers that:
The Technology Center is for Academic use only.
Fortunately for him, the administration realized they had no clue what he had done, and called in the sysadmin who had tracked him down to basically decide his punishment.
He was only given only detention, which is the appropriate punishment for such a crime, not 3 days suspension.
I go to what a private school, and we have a very strict code and (publicly percieved) strong academics. However, my experience of 6 years has been that the teachers who care less about the little things are often those that can teach the best and care the least about the stupid memorization stuff.
However, one of the things that allows my school to have these teachers that teach so well is that we are not bound to standardized testing for our funding. Thus, since they do not need to make sure that all of us do well on the testing, they can teach at a more conceptual level. Many of these teachers who care less for rules would often get fired quickly from a public school where they have to follow strict curricula where they have no imput, since they would just not follow it.
skeeter
I know that it is possible, however, most setups that i have seen use some sort of USB to Serial converter or similar between the GPS and the computer. my dad uses a Garmin (i believe) navigator and has hooked it up to his TiBook for a surveying project of his, but i don't know about navigational software...
in this past year, i had 5 very different experiences for my teachers.
in statistics the teacher was very technology savvy, we use graphing calculators and he has written some very good demonstration programs for them, however, for some of the things that the graphing calculator cannot handle, there is a LCD screen in the room hooked up to a box on the net. This is one of the most useful tools in all of technology savvy teaching. he found some java applets on the net and used them for many class lectures. my school is currently in the process of installing these lcd displays in every classroom, and it allows all the teachers who want to use them to use them.
a slightly less good use of technology was in my chem class. he would give us videos of demonstrations which he could simply have done for us, where he could show us the demonstation significantly quicker better to explain for all of us if he had done the demonstration physically.
A new initiative that my school has undertaken was to create a website that even the most technophobe teachers could write for. i helped to teach the teachers how to use the new system in june, and most of them picked up pretty quickly, but most of them were stuck for things to put up. eventually, it was found that the extent for things to put up would be syllabae, solution sets, and links. not quite as useful as would be anticipated, but useful none the less, perhaps some will find more uses.
the article has good points, but misses the mark slightly. It uses examples of people solving problems. Granted, extremely complex problems, yet the claim that most mathematical discoveries are made before age 30 i think applies more to mathematical discoveries where the discoverer opens new fields of mathematics.
This continues with the winner of the siemens-westinghouse science/math high-school awards going to a senior who developed a new theory called poset-game theory. This is a rundown of it from the regional finals. Pretty cool stuff.
Unfortunately, this was not the shark commonly known as Sharkus Lazerentes which has been commonly refered to as "Sharks with little tiny lazer beams on their foreheads".
Frankly i doubt it, there must be significant regulation regarding high voltage power lines and how high they must be, so i think they're far enough away that they wouldn't cause any trouble.
First of all, install Fink if you have not yet. There are many good packages there that you should get.
Mutella is one of them. It has a fast commandline interface and can download stuff as it finds them, i often will have about 10 autogets running. It accesses only the gnutella network but i think it works fine.
it's just all the other stuff they're concerned with as well...
my friend just did an internship at the boston metro, and gave me a rundown of how each paper is made.
/. croud, they may be a bit radical, but i like the stuff they do: their internation web site is www.internationalanswer.org and you can get to your local chapter, wherever that may be...ann arbor or boston.
the first thing they do for each paper, is can you believe it...sell advertising space...well, come on, what were you expecting.
anyways, i have found a pacifist group website/mailing list to be very helpful in getting news about civil liberties (unfortunately not electronic, gotta go eff for that). anyways, for alot of the
skeeter
np: "ashes in the fall" rage against the machine