Now, some profs distribute their lectures in PDFs/Word Documents/HTML files, which makes it much easier, but then many students just download the lecture notes and skip class, which professors tend to hate.
I'd argue that this is a problem not worth solving. If a professor can't add any value to the PowerPoint etc. the students who do come to class are wasting their time (and probably money). Require all professors to hand out notes and it will quickly become evident who the best teachers are.
Having lived in Nevada for 8 years, Vegas is the last place someone with OCD should live. That is, I'm guessing he has OCD. Anyone that spends that much time playing a game to the detriment of his business, and the financial health of his family I'll take a chance and label him with OCD.
Peace-/ameri-corps are non-military service orginizations, with international and national (American) focus respectively. Volunteers spend their time doing good deeds, and helping the world / America be a better place.
Peace-/ameri-corps are seen in some circles as a way to "give back" to the world / your country (America) without the ethical considerations / risk of joining the military.
Cute, but what happens when the majority of the voters start voting for the candidate that they belive is least likely to win (i.e. the most unqualified candidate) so they won't have to pay tax?
I mean, why bother buying a computer when you already have this nice little Minitel terminal that does just about everything you need without any unnecessary complications?
I'm not sure about the why, but I've been in houses where Minitel was still used despite the existance of an internet connected computer. Perhaps Minitel is used because it is familiar, or because it does the job better / quicker / more simply? Knowing the French Minitel could be popular pureley because it is French.
On the flip side, though, I find it strange that they haven't figured out how to properly shield the planes to allow for this sort of thing
Part of the problem is that planes have a lifespan of upwards of 15 years. This means that well into the next decade we will be flying planes that were not explicitly designed to be safe with wireless devices.
While it is more than likely that no harm will come from a stray wireless device It is quite reasonable for the FAA to require planes to be operated within their design peramaters. (And as mentioned elsewhere a phone hopping from ground cell to ground cell at a high rate is a hassle to the Phone companies.)
... legal punishments have two purposes only: deterrence and keeping dangerous people off the streets
That is a very limiting way to look at modern legal systems. In one of the cases mentioned above, a person driving in a cautious and legal manner accidentally hits and kills a child in the street. While the driver is legally culpable for the death his punishment serves neither to deter future accidents, nor to keep a person that is exceptionally dangerous off the street.
Clearly accidents happen, and can not be deterred, and people involved in true accidents are not a future risk to society. Punishment in this case serves only to engender a sense of fairness and prevents the family of the victim from seeking their own form of retribution.
Our legal systems are intellectual masterworks, but they have a very real and important pragmatic basis as well.
You know stuff where each mono-block amp costs more than the most expensive D&M box. Or when your system has a phono cartridge that costs 5-15,000 bucks, that's high-end.
I'd argue that when your system sounds good it is high end. Thousand dollar phono cartridges only guarantee that your system is expensive. High end systems take more than just money.
But Princeton, along with all of the other Ivies, are need-blind. (The exception is Brown...)
While it is nice for Princeton to use this need-blind term in their promotional literature, the reality is that admissions at all top schools are heavily skewed towards the wealthy. Even if wealth (i.e. income tax returns, assets etc.) is not directly measured during admissions, the other measurements which are used do almost as good a job at finding and admitting the wealthy (and only the wealthy).
Guess who gets the best SAT scores? The wealthy. Guess who comes from the most prestigious Prep schools, and the non-failing public schools? The wealthy again. Who is most likely to write admissions essays which convey the "right" tone and allude to the "right" experiences. The wealthy.
The few token poor who are admitted for the sake of socio-economic "diversity," no doubt receive a degree, but tend to miss out on a good deal of what makes a top school worthwhile to the elite, because they are sequestered in their rooms, or the library, trying to keep up.
At best it is disingenuous to assert that because a school says that it is need-blind, and because they give a couple of thousand dollars out of $150,000+ to 50% of the students, that is is not a classist enclave of the rich.
If you don't do your work in the real world, you don't have a job (unless you are management) and thus don't get to eat.
As long as you are not an idiot, in the real world you go to a job where the work is interesting, informatave or pays well. In other words there is a return on your effort.
Most schools today are still modeled on assembly line which was cutting edge in the 1900's. Unfortunately this means the same lesson plans including the same reading, and the same homework are given to each student. It should not be surprising that much of this work is of little value to an individual student, and there is minimal incentive to do the work.
Unless a student is one who plans to skate by on their academic credentials because they lack actual tallent, or one who thinks their time can not be more constructively spent pursuing their own interests, there is no reason to think they won't do well in "the real world" if they don't do their schoolwork.
You sir, sound like one who was taken in by the joke that is our poor public school system and are embittered because of it.
Kids, Listen up! You can do better than EFGearman!
Joe Downloader who decides he wants to run Windows 2003 on his piddly two generation old machine just to show how cool he is would never ever pay for 2003 in the first place
Well, that is sort of the point. With a leaked key Joe Downloader no longer needs to buy the server edition; he has the key.
Additionally if you had bothered to RTFA you would have noticed that this is a key that is believed to be good for multiple versions of Win2003, so Joe could not buy other versions of Windows.
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IE is not a core part of the core Linux operating system no matter what you've heard.
How 'bout we call you call you hourglass-half-empty?
I'd argue that this is a problem not worth solving. If a professor can't add any value to the PowerPoint etc. the students who do come to class are wasting their time (and probably money). Require all professors to hand out notes and it will quickly become evident who the best teachers are.
You mean falling down more often than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
C:\ rm -rf windows/ as the servers go flying out the roof.
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Read this part very carefully: This is NOT legal advice. I am NOT a lawyer, much less a lawyer licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.
God help anyone who takes legal advice from cpt_kangarooski!
Sounds dangerous.
OCD. OCD. OCD. OCD. OCD. OCD. OCD. OCD. ...
Peace-/ameri-corps are seen in some circles as a way to "give back" to the world / your country (America) without the ethical considerations / risk of joining the military.
I'm not sure about the why, but I've been in houses where Minitel was still used despite the existance of an internet connected computer. Perhaps Minitel is used because it is familiar, or because it does the job better / quicker / more simply? Knowing the French Minitel could be popular pureley because it is French.
That's a lot of PP.
I don't think you understand.
"...you don't change human nature as a whole by chastising and scolding the already-converted-to-responsible-behavior."
Part of the problem is that planes have a lifespan of upwards of 15 years. This means that well into the next decade we will be flying planes that were not explicitly designed to be safe with wireless devices.
While it is more than likely that no harm will come from a stray wireless device It is quite reasonable for the FAA to require planes to be operated within their design peramaters. (And as mentioned elsewhere a phone hopping from ground cell to ground cell at a high rate is a hassle to the Phone companies.)
That is a very limiting way to look at modern legal systems. In one of the cases mentioned above, a person driving in a cautious and legal manner accidentally hits and kills a child in the street. While the driver is legally culpable for the death his punishment serves neither to deter future accidents, nor to keep a person that is exceptionally dangerous off the street.
Clearly accidents happen, and can not be deterred, and people involved in true accidents are not a future risk to society. Punishment in this case serves only to engender a sense of fairness and prevents the family of the victim from seeking their own form of retribution.
Our legal systems are intellectual masterworks, but they have a very real and important pragmatic basis as well.
Yao!
I'd argue that when your system sounds good it is high end. Thousand dollar phono cartridges only guarantee that your system is expensive. High end systems take more than just money.
While it is nice for Princeton to use this need-blind term in their promotional literature, the reality is that admissions at all top schools are heavily skewed towards the wealthy. Even if wealth (i.e. income tax returns, assets etc.) is not directly measured during admissions, the other measurements which are used do almost as good a job at finding and admitting the wealthy (and only the wealthy).
Guess who gets the best SAT scores? The wealthy. Guess who comes from the most prestigious Prep schools, and the non-failing public schools? The wealthy again. Who is most likely to write admissions essays which convey the "right" tone and allude to the "right" experiences. The wealthy.
The few token poor who are admitted for the sake of socio-economic "diversity," no doubt receive a degree, but tend to miss out on a good deal of what makes a top school worthwhile to the elite, because they are sequestered in their rooms, or the library, trying to keep up.
At best it is disingenuous to assert that because a school says that it is need-blind, and because they give a couple of thousand dollars out of $150,000+ to 50% of the students, that is is not a classist enclave of the rich.
It seems as If I have read this comment somewhere before...
How about LOL (Liberation On Line)?
If you don't do your work in the real world, you don't have a job (unless you are management) and thus don't get to eat.
As long as you are not an idiot, in the real world you go to a job where the work is interesting, informatave or pays well. In other words there is a return on your effort.
Most schools today are still modeled on assembly line which was cutting edge in the 1900's. Unfortunately this means the same lesson plans including the same reading, and the same homework are given to each student. It should not be surprising that much of this work is of little value to an individual student, and there is minimal incentive to do the work.
Unless a student is one who plans to skate by on their academic credentials because they lack actual tallent, or one who thinks their time can not be more constructively spent pursuing their own interests, there is no reason to think they won't do well in "the real world" if they don't do their schoolwork.
You sir, sound like one who was taken in by the joke that is our poor public school system and are embittered because of it.
Kids, Listen up! You can do better than EFGearman!
Well, that is sort of the point. With a leaked key Joe Downloader no longer needs to buy the server edition; he has the key.
Additionally if you had bothered to RTFA you would have noticed that this is a key that is believed to be good for multiple versions of Win2003, so Joe could not buy other versions of Windows.
WHAT!? Have you ever heard of increased demand directly decreasing prices?
Perhaps the increase in demand would spur competition which would ultimately drive prices down, but otherwise you are way off base.
Because they think they can make more selling electronics than they think they will loose from theit movie / music business.