I am not sure where you went to school, but I had very few teachers who tested out of the book. Some hardly used it at all except for the exercises.
You had to know everything they brought up in class or be screwed at test time. That meant frantically scribbling down notes, or if they provided their 'lecture notes' then you could listen, highlight, and learn.
Although some old schoolers will disagree, taking notes is a waste of time. She needs to go one step further and give the students the notes in the first place. Then, if necessary, the students can add their own comments and annotations.
My high school AP Physics teacher did this and I have kept those notes for 15 years. I loved that class because I could pay attention to what he was saying and really LEARN.
I bought a $100 eBookWise(old geb1150 reborn) device last year and I love it. However, one of the best features is I can read it in the dark, and I still get up to 20 hours/charge out of it. I can read it for hours on end without any strain at all.
I deliberately chose a dedicated device over a PDA for screen size and battery life. However, the ergonomics of this sony look horrible by comparison. Sure the screen is nicer and a touch bigger, but I will stick with the $100 device I can read anytime, anywhere. The gemstar is heavier and thicker because of the battery compartment, but I like the feel of it in my hand. It has a rubber grip, is searchable, has top to bottom symmetry so it can be switched for lefties, and I can convert just about anything using their software to read on it.
Sony missed the boat. The device I have was technically a failure that was given an extended life by another company, and it is still better that this sony.
That's the basic problem with civilization. It hampers the much needed forces of natural selection. I think breeding licenses is a wonderful way to offset this trend, as long as I get to pick who gets them. Put such a program under government control and the species is headed for extinction.
Yes, just some. This whole issue is retarded. I see 100s of people every day who drive like they are drunk without cell phones. They are just poor drivers.
Driving is a learned skill. Some are better at it than others. Driving and talking on a cell phone is also a learned skill and some people are better at it than others. Do you think fighter pilots don't learn to fly and communicate with non-visible people (other pilots, back seat, etc) and do so effectively?
That must be why I drive like a fighter pilot. Fox One, firing!
>>All that said, perhaps the future lies in alleviating some of the bottle necks to human thinking and expanding our capabilities in new ways by merging with machines.
This is exactly the course that the future is likely to take. I personally don't believe they will ever achieve something akin to animal consciousness in a computer simulation/robot brain. The cyborg route is much more likely and will probably start they way you say, by merging man with machines. However, where this will lead is to taking only the necessary animal elements and incorporating them into the machine. Maybe they won't be using human brains at first, but it will come eventually, ethical issues aside.
I like the whole human part machine concept. The whole machine, part human concept is the scary part. The cabbage patch doll of 2040 will be a Monkey brained robot. You can name him yourself and feed him high glucose syrup everyday. Just make sure you do feed him, or he may turn into evil cranky monkey brained robot and turn on you.
I read an article or something once about programming your brain. You can teach yourself to do all kinds of things. One of the examples was counting the number of windows when you walk in a room. Eventually you will know how many windows there are without consciously counting. A silly example, but a powerful concept.
In college I made and edited version of the very first Doom level in the game for multiplayer. It got to the point we knew the map so well just from small sounds. Eventually, you did really think about the sounds you just knew where people were and which way they were headed.
I am still amazed at how well I remember maps and game levels from games I played years and years ago.
Yeah, I don't have a clue where my TI-99/4a ended up. I got it when I was like 10 and learned basic Basic programming. Amazing what a 10 year old could make it do when bored enough, since my parents only bought the accounting cartidge to go with it. The best was taking my hard earned programming skills to the mall and programming their computers to ask people for their name and then loop saying something nasty about them over and over. Great fun when you're 11.
We had something pong similar to what you describe, but it was all plastic. Big black gun and a handful of pong games on two dial controllers - One big and a smaller secondary. Great fun before Atari was invented.
Even if all the Bush supporter understood the rest of the world position on things, I wouldn't change their support for Bush.
The point being in their (and my) mind that whatever the rest of the world wants us to do is probably not in our best interest. Multi-lateral whining is the obvious position of weaker nations. I for one am glad that we have a president who isn't swayed by international opinion. If that makes the US a bully so be it. Better a bully than the geek with a bloody nose.
For heaven's sake man, if you can, beg him for me to write more books. I have been waiting for years for more of his books and nothing seems forthcoming.
And if you know David Brin tell him to get moving as well.
One of my co-workers maintains his jobs security(at not a very high level obviously), by being the official fish tank cleaner - refiller - maintainer. It is a crap job, but someone has to do it, and it apparently falls to those most in fear of losing their jobs.
I remember my first time with slackware way back when in college. I couldn't download it, because I needed to get linux up and running in the first place so I could dial-up to the CS modem pool and PPP. So I went the bookstore, bought a huge stack of floppies and tried 3 times to copy all the distro disks before I got it right - back and forth all day to campus.
Problem was I was copying *.* instead of * to the each floppy having come from a DOS background. That wasn't nearly as bad as blowing my $800 monitor the next day trying to setup X timings. Ahh, the good old days.
In case someone doesn't actually know why we call it 'spam' (spam spam spam).
"The original Spam was coined in 1937 by the Hormel corporation as a name for its potted meat product. This brand name is a blend of spiced ham.
From there, the transition from meat product to internet term has a stop with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1970, that BBC comedy show aired a sketch that featured a cafe that had a menu that featured items like "egg, bacon, and spam;" "egg, bacon, sausage, and spam;" " spam, bacon, sausage, and spam;" "spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam;" and finally "lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and spam." To make matters sillier, the cafe was filled with Vikings who periodically break out into song praising Spam: "Spam, spam, spam, spam... lovely spam, wonderful spam..."
Computer people adopted the term from the Python sketch to mean overrunning a fixed-sized buffer with too much data, in other words the data was like the Spam in the sketch, something excessive and undesirable. With the commercialization of the Internet, the term expanded to include the unwanted commercial messages and that became the primary meaning."
Deficit spending does not necessarily mean spending more money. It means spending more money than you have. The chart simply shows that Clinton was taxing the hell out of us and had more to spend, more than he needed even!
Sure GW could get rid of deficit spending the way the democrats do, by raising taxes. But if you guys are complaining now, I would hate to be around to hear you then.
Others complain about the lack of human interaction and perceive it as dehumanizing.
I only go to gas stations that have credit card pumps just to avoid this 'human interaction', as I am sure a lot of others do also. Sorry, but talking to the convenience store clerk is not the highlight of my day.
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I am not sure where you went to school, but I had very few teachers who tested out of the book. Some hardly used it at all except for the exercises.
You had to know everything they brought up in class or be screwed at test time. That meant frantically scribbling down notes, or if they provided their 'lecture notes' then you could listen, highlight, and learn.
Although some old schoolers will disagree, taking notes is a waste of time. She needs to go one step further and give the students the notes in the first place. Then, if necessary, the students can add their own comments and annotations.
My high school AP Physics teacher did this and I have kept those notes for 15 years. I loved that class because I could pay attention to what he was saying and really LEARN.
I bought a $100 eBookWise(old geb1150 reborn) device last year and I love it. However, one of the best features is I can read it in the dark, and I still get up to 20 hours/charge out of it. I can read it for hours on end without any strain at all.
I deliberately chose a dedicated device over a PDA for screen size and battery life. However, the ergonomics of this sony look horrible by comparison. Sure the screen is nicer and a touch bigger, but I will stick with the $100 device I can read anytime, anywhere. The gemstar is heavier and thicker because of the battery compartment, but I like the feel of it in my hand. It has a rubber grip, is searchable, has top to bottom symmetry so it can be switched for lefties, and I can convert just about anything using their software to read on it.
Sony missed the boat. The device I have was technically a failure that was given an extended life by another company, and it is still better that this sony.
Think of comparing a decent hardware modem to a software based WinModem
*shudder* I try not to.
That's the basic problem with civilization. It hampers the much needed forces of natural selection. I think breeding licenses is a wonderful way to offset this trend, as long as I get to pick who gets them. Put such a program under government control and the species is headed for extinction.
Yes, just some. This whole issue is retarded. I see 100s of people every day who drive like they are drunk without cell phones. They are just poor drivers. Driving is a learned skill. Some are better at it than others. Driving and talking on a cell phone is also a learned skill and some people are better at it than others. Do you think fighter pilots don't learn to fly and communicate with non-visible people (other pilots, back seat, etc) and do so effectively? That must be why I drive like a fighter pilot. Fox One, firing!
Because that demographic has a high percentage of active voters, and no one wants to piss them off.
>>All that said, perhaps the future lies in alleviating some of the bottle necks to human thinking and expanding our capabilities in new ways by merging with machines. This is exactly the course that the future is likely to take. I personally don't believe they will ever achieve something akin to animal consciousness in a computer simulation/robot brain. The cyborg route is much more likely and will probably start they way you say, by merging man with machines. However, where this will lead is to taking only the necessary animal elements and incorporating them into the machine. Maybe they won't be using human brains at first, but it will come eventually, ethical issues aside. I like the whole human part machine concept. The whole machine, part human concept is the scary part. The cabbage patch doll of 2040 will be a Monkey brained robot. You can name him yourself and feed him high glucose syrup everyday. Just make sure you do feed him, or he may turn into evil cranky monkey brained robot and turn on you.
I read an article or something once about programming your brain. You can teach yourself to do all kinds of things. One of the examples was counting the number of windows when you walk in a room. Eventually you will know how many windows there are without consciously counting. A silly example, but a powerful concept.
In college I made and edited version of the very first Doom level in the game for multiplayer. It got to the point we knew the map so well just from small sounds. Eventually, you did really think about the sounds you just knew where people were and which way they were headed.
I am still amazed at how well I remember maps and game levels from games I played years and years ago.
Yeah, I don't have a clue where my TI-99/4a ended up. I got it when I was like 10 and learned basic Basic programming. Amazing what a 10 year old could make it do when bored enough, since my parents only bought the accounting cartidge to go with it. The best was taking my hard earned programming skills to the mall and programming their computers to ask people for their name and then loop saying something nasty about them over and over. Great fun when you're 11.
We had something pong similar to what you describe, but it was all plastic. Big black gun and a handful of pong games on two dial controllers - One big and a smaller secondary. Great fun before Atari was invented.
Even if all the Bush supporter understood the rest of the world position on things, I wouldn't change their support for Bush. The point being in their (and my) mind that whatever the rest of the world wants us to do is probably not in our best interest. Multi-lateral whining is the obvious position of weaker nations. I for one am glad that we have a president who isn't swayed by international opinion. If that makes the US a bully so be it. Better a bully than the geek with a bloody nose.
For heaven's sake man, if you can, beg him for me to write more books. I have been waiting for years for more of his books and nothing seems forthcoming. And if you know David Brin tell him to get moving as well.
One of my co-workers maintains his jobs security(at not a very high level obviously), by being the official fish tank cleaner - refiller - maintainer. It is a crap job, but someone has to do it, and it apparently falls to those most in fear of losing their jobs.
... while you look for a job.
I remember my first time with slackware way back when in college. I couldn't download it, because I needed to get linux up and running in the first place so I could dial-up to the CS modem pool and PPP. So I went the bookstore, bought a huge stack of floppies and tried 3 times to copy all the distro disks before I got it right - back and forth all day to campus.
Problem was I was copying *.* instead of * to the each floppy having come from a DOS background. That wasn't nearly as bad as blowing my $800 monitor the next day trying to setup X timings. Ahh, the good old days.
In case someone doesn't actually know why we call it 'spam' (spam spam spam).
... lovely spam, wonderful spam ..."
"The original Spam was coined in 1937 by the Hormel corporation as a name for its potted meat product. This brand name is a blend of spiced ham.
From there, the transition from meat product to internet term has a stop with Monty Python's Flying Circus. In 1970, that BBC comedy show aired a sketch that featured a cafe that had a menu that featured items like "egg, bacon, and spam;" "egg, bacon, sausage, and spam;" " spam, bacon, sausage, and spam;" "spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon, and spam;" and finally "lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and spam." To make matters sillier, the cafe was filled with Vikings who periodically break out into song praising Spam: "Spam, spam, spam, spam
Computer people adopted the term from the Python sketch to mean overrunning a fixed-sized buffer with too much data, in other words the data was like the Spam in the sketch, something excessive and undesirable. With the commercialization of the Internet, the term expanded to include the unwanted commercial messages and that became the primary meaning."
Deficit spending does not necessarily mean spending more money. It means spending more money than you have. The chart simply shows that Clinton was taxing the hell out of us and had more to spend, more than he needed even!
Sure GW could get rid of deficit spending the way the democrats do, by raising taxes. But if you guys are complaining now, I would hate to be around to hear you then.
Others complain about the lack of human interaction and perceive it as dehumanizing. I only go to gas stations that have credit card pumps just to avoid this 'human interaction', as I am sure a lot of others do also. Sorry, but talking to the convenience store clerk is not the highlight of my day.