There was not nearly enough time in the lectures to both take good notes and listen to the course at the same time. So, if this lecturer is claiming it is extra effort to produce lecture notes, then he is not doing his job, frankly.
Here here!
There's not a single person who went to university who would disagree with that. Every Lecture I attended covered a wide spectrum of topics and of high complexity. That's why they call it 'higher education.'
To expect that a student have ample time to take down a plethora of detailed notes, ample energy from not being up most the night before in the student bar, and ample patience to stay focused during a typical 2 hour session... and still have the cheek to charge these poor sods, who are most likely dirt poor (ref: student bar again) to begin with, for the lecture notes is clearly over the top and downright unfair.
1. A spiritual side of the branding experience. A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now concious and ready to react. You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says.
2. Volume control in a Windows machine is a wild west. A mess. The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine. Let's say you muted your machine, and you don't hear your startup sound, you know you aren't ready to listen to stuff. The Xbox has a hard-wired startup sound. There is one way to mute it: to turn down the speakers that are connected to your Xbox. Same will be true for Windows Vista.
Fact of the matter is: the massive target base of Windows users are stupid. They need and like this sort of thing. Like it or not. If you are the latter, then don't install it, use linux like i'm sure you already do. On the other hand if you still wish to install it, i'm sure there will be a fix/patch/whatever which will satisfy your needs.
An interesting suggestion, although, as much as we don't want to admit it, there are hazards involved with providing these sorts of miniature equipment. Be it for the health and wellbeing of the captive test subject, or not.
Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of the whole "Obligatory" Futurama or Simpsons reference to every single article that may come anywhere near a reason to make one.
The same goes for "I for one accept our new overlords" or those that race just to be the first poster.
Evolve people. These jokes are becoming stale and tiresome. Does anyone physically laugh at these anymore? I suspect not.
Now, i'm not having a dig at anyone personally, and this is my personal opinion, but i believe that there will be a magnitude of other users which would agree.
My Grandfather (94 years of age) grew up in much different circumstances to what we experienced as kids, and what today's kids are experiencing. I.e. He most likely never listened to loud music in his lifetime on purpose, or intimately through the use of headphones.
He is now as deaf as a door knob, and has been for quite some time now. Having to repeat everything thrice even with the mechanical help of the hearing-aid. It just makes me wonder if our generation and, worse, our children's generation will be deaf by the time they are 40.
FACT: Listening to loud deafening music for extended periods of time will cause Tinnitus
I, for one, agree with Apple's implementation. Children don't know what's good for them. Their parents do.
but in practice it should lower the volume if I leave my earphones stuffed into my head for an entire afternoon.
While i agree that continuous levels of music being pumped into your ears for an entire afternoon can't do you any good, you could never remove the user's be-all and end-all control over what level they want to listen to their music at.
I actually use my Ipod to DJ sometimes, plugging it into an external mixer, and if my ipod were to suddenly take a dive in volume because i'd been playing it for an extended period of time then i'd sh*t myself.
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A-fucking-MEN to that.
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter which medium the lecturer is providing this post-lecture information. The point is, he's selling it.
There's not a single person who went to university who would disagree with that. Every Lecture I attended covered a wide spectrum of topics and of high complexity. That's why they call it 'higher education.'
To expect that a student have ample time to take down a plethora of detailed notes, ample energy from not being up most the night before in the student bar, and ample patience to stay focused during a typical 2 hour session... and still have the cheek to charge these poor sods, who are most likely dirt poor (ref: student bar again) to begin with, for the lecture notes is clearly over the top and downright unfair.
Fact of the matter is: the massive target base of Windows users are stupid. They need and like this sort of thing. Like it or not. If you are the latter, then don't install it, use linux like i'm sure you already do. On the other hand if you still wish to install it, i'm sure there will be a fix/patch/whatever which will satisfy your needs.
An interesting suggestion, although, as much as we don't want to admit it, there are hazards involved with providing these sorts of miniature equipment. Be it for the health and wellbeing of the captive test subject, or not.
> Proportionally, 1mm is a very small change.
Proportionally, Ants are very small.
Too true... The fucking idiot can't even pronounce the bleeding word.
...is much better than an owner of a broken heart
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http://www.internetdj.com/watch_video.php?op=watc
Slightly OTT, yes. But you won't be disappointed. Great tune too. Or if you're a closet case 80s fanatic like me.
Is it just me, or is anyone else sick of the whole "Obligatory" Futurama or Simpsons reference to every single article that may come anywhere near a reason to make one.
The same goes for "I for one accept our new overlords" or those that race just to be the first poster.
Evolve people. These jokes are becoming stale and tiresome. Does anyone physically laugh at these anymore? I suspect not.
Now, i'm not having a dig at anyone personally, and this is my personal opinion, but i believe that there will be a magnitude of other users which would agree.
Someone has to say it.
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/APPLETS/2 0/20.html
No information ever acutally travels faster than the speed of light.
Nice visual explanation anywho.
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My Grandfather (94 years of age) grew up in much different circumstances to what we experienced as kids, and what today's kids are experiencing. I.e. He most likely never listened to loud music in his lifetime on purpose, or intimately through the use of headphones.
He is now as deaf as a door knob, and has been for quite some time now. Having to repeat everything thrice even with the mechanical help of the hearing-aid. It just makes me wonder if our generation and, worse, our children's generation will be deaf by the time they are 40.
FACT: Listening to loud deafening music for extended periods of time will cause Tinnitus
I, for one, agree with Apple's implementation. Children don't know what's good for them. Their parents do.
but in practice it should lower the volume if I leave my earphones stuffed into my head for an entire afternoon.
While i agree that continuous levels of music being pumped into your ears for an entire afternoon can't do you any good, you could never remove the user's be-all and end-all control over what level they want to listen to their music at.
I actually use my Ipod to DJ sometimes, plugging it into an external mixer, and if my ipod were to suddenly take a dive in volume because i'd been playing it for an extended period of time then i'd sh*t myself.