Regarding how it's taught, there needs to be some kind of feedback or reward for the student. Negative reinforcement (you won't get a good grade) needs to be offset with something positive. Where the class will do for it I've seen teachers use peer recognition, and where the class won't (too many students who don't care) they've used parental recognition, donated gift certificates to restaurants or amusement parks, and stuff like that.
It also helps if the teacher can make the material not boring to the students. I don't mean that he or she has to make every exercise exciting, but the students need a golden nugget of cool information dropped in their brains from time to time, something to make all of this is "cool", or at least justifiable. Remember, in the fourth grade, one doesn't understand what really goes into things like video games, computers, race cars, or even basic things like action figures and nerf toys. If the students are shown just a little of how the math that they are learning applies to the things that they like, it just might help motivate them to keep with it.
That being said, the quality of teachers at secondary levels is important too. I had what I thought was the worst science teacher for Advanced Chemistry when I was in high school, only to find out when I got to AP Physics that the Physics teacher was the best friend of the Chem teacher and equally bad at the job. I dropped the class at the semester and ended up learning more Physics in my Calculus class than I learned in the science class. And I actually like science, just not the way that it is taught.
Parents also need to learn how to best establish an environment for the children to learn in. My parents made me turn off the video games, turn off the T.V., and actually do some reading every night. We had a set of encyclopedias. Granted, they were the more inexpensive Funk and Wagnalls set, but they were still much better than nothing. I was encouraged to read through positive reinforcement, and the city library had summer reading programs that had me burn through sometimes 200 books a summer, depending on the reading level that I was at. My parents worked very hard to try to give me every advantage that they could think of, and considering they were the children of farmers they did a pretty damn good job.
There's no one fix to the problem, but many things that can improve to give children the best opportunities.
" You are aware that you can get any USB 2 button mouse, assign the 2nd button to Ctrl-Click to pull up the "Contextual Menus" right."
Yes. This is not very useful on a laptop though, when the idea is to have a machine that doesn't need any external peripherals for at least two hours at a time...
"On the other hand, Mac users, which probably much more artistic, are generally more knowledgable about what's going on with the internet and technology. I'm not saying mac users are really smarter, but I think they are overall more plugged in to what's going on. Especially with the advent of OS X, Unix geeks like myself are switching in droves to OS X."
Say what?!
Everyone that I know that does the Apple thing is into it because they don't know anything about computers and don't want to know anything. They use Apples because they function and don't require digging for settings, by and large.
I'll consider buying a Mac when I see one connect into my NFS server properly. So far, 10.1 and 10.2 failed to connect in, while friggin' Microsoft Services for UNIX was able to connect.
Oh, and the whole one button thing still is a barrier for me. I don't care if it's for ease of use. For the prices they charge, they should offer multibutton options for the trackpads on the laptops.
Let's see... Sun's hardware is awesome, has been 64 bit for some time, and is built with a high degree of reliability. So, rather than keep the Sparc line alive for high-end servers and workstations, and using the AMD for the medium and low-end systems, let's discard it.
I know, I know, if they don't make any money on it then there's no reason for it to stick around. Thing is, they've made sales with it up till now, even if they're not necessarily the best figures, and now that they'd go to AMD they don't have much for product differentiation from any beige-box PC built with quality components. I wouldn't spend the extra money for a Sun if it's not much different than what I can order as parts...
Well, when id software released one of the Quake titles, Quake 2 if I remember correctly, they released it with an install code feature to reduce piracy. Once the game had made its money, they removed that from new copies going into distribution. Remember, id software is one of the most heavily pirated-against software companies on the planet, but they're also one of the most successful when they sell their games, due to the quality of the game. For me, for a long time I didn't play anyone elses' third-person shooters, because id's were just better. They didn't always get my money up front either, but after a few lan parties I'd pony up and buy the game if I enjoyed it that much.
Granted, software doesn't have the massive free-to-the-public exposure that music has through the radio, but the very limited amount of what we here versus what is available to hear really doesn't make radio viable for most musicians to promote with anyway.
I wish that the RIAA would "get it". Their sibling organization, the MPAA, has at least realised that if the merchandise is inexpensive enough, people will buy it, despite their objections on DRM (region codes) and forced things like the startup commercials. I don't like what the MPAA did to try to get DeCSS, but their products are cheap enough that I feel that I'm getting my money's worth by buying them.
The RIAA charges as much for a CD as the MPAA for a movie. I don't feel that this is worthwhile, and thus I don't buy music, while I'll buy a DVD once a month. There's no reason to charge more than $10 for a regular CD. $17.99 is just ridiculous to expect from someone for twelve songs, with only two of those being particularly memorable.
It's all right. They haven't been received yet due to the advanced screening procedures that they use to ensure mail is safe. They'll be delivered sometime in 2029.
I have a trackpoint eraser-head type pointer on my Toshiba Satellite 1755. I like it. It's positioned so that I don't have to move very far to use it, is centered right between the hands (I'm left handed), is only about a millimeter higher than the G, H, and B keys around it so that it doesn't get in the way while typing, and the buttons below the spacebar aren't on a right/left setup, they're stacked forward and back, the primary being closer to the spacebar and the secondary farther away. The scroll buttons are also easy to get to without much movement. It works quite well in this setup. All that I have to do is move my left hand one inch to the right and the resulting tendons and ligaments pull the thumb down to the buttons and the index finger to the pointer.
I also have a trackball (center layout for the ball, not a thumb control) for when I need more buttons. It works.
I can't stand trackpads. They feel inefficient because they have borders. Trackballs just roll until the cursor reaches the desired location, and the eraser-head types work as a joystick. I stopped using regular mice for the same reason that I don't like trackpads- I don't want to have to pick up in the middle of directing the cursor to reposition.
Wow. That was a lot longer than I thought it would be.
Yeah, but what are the odds that proper accounting of the license materials will occur? Remember, you have to keep the booklet with the weird printed certificate thing, or else have the sticker on the side of the case in order to remain in compliance.
Saying that you received it in the mail means nothing. Technically, receiving it in the mail means nothing, because you could have sold it or given it away, which would mean that you don't have the license anymore anyway.
The beauty of software released under the GPL is that end users really cannot pirate it, no matter how hard they try.
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A friend of mine is a planetary geologist, working at ASU's Space Photography Labratory and for various NASA projects. He is in favour of a mission to Europa, but taking precautions to ensure that we don't contaminate Europa with Terran life, and that we don't cause a significant impact on any life that we find there. If I remember correctly, he said that those conceiving a mission to Europa were considering a system that would heat the probe up to a high enough temperature to sterilize it.
When he presented some of his stuff that I got to see, he said that the ice covering Europa was thick. VERY thick. Probably on the 1000 feet or greater kind of thick, though I admit that I cannot remember exactly.
I think that communcations was going to be a relaying deal, with something on the surface of Europa relaying back to Earth, so the ROV wouldn't have to try to transmit on its own.
...it's nice to see that Ms. Jones is seeing some kind of financial benefit indirectly from her assistance to the community at large. Hopefully this doesn't turn into the sham that it sounds like it's destined for, unfortuntely.
"If it pisses you off, do nothing (huh? but seriously) - when your car gets older and starts having problems, don't take it to the dealer. Take it to your local mechanic, and tell him you want a carberator installed and to go ahead and throw out the fuel injector."
huh?
Many people are doing this the other way around. Companies that sell superchargers for engines like the Chrysler Magnum engine also include a full replacement computer. The Magnum engine (5.2L, 5.9L of '92-'02) was based very heavily on the LA Engine (273, 318, 340, 360 of '60s-'01) to the point that a Magnum top end (cylinder heads, intake manifold, fuel delivery) will fit on a stock LA engine without any further modification.
Take those Magnum heads (with aftermarket injectors), an aftermarket Weiland or Edelbrock intake manifold, a modern supercharger, the computer, and a proper distributor and you can build yourself a '70s muscle car with all the power the big blocks originally had and with modern fuel economy and refinement.
The aftermarket computer is going to be much easier to deal with than the OEM computer anyway, and is designed to allow you to tune the car different than the factory. And you get more than ten miles per gallon.
"... as the time I slapped a Type-R sticker on my Casio FX-1000 solar-powered calculator. Before I did that, it took 950 milliseconds to calculate 69! Afterward, it calculated 69! in 940 milliseconds flat."
Personally, I prefer my sixty-nine bangs to take a little longer than that...
"Please don't think for even the briefest second that Bush Lite(Kerry) is going to make any meaningful changes."
At least Kerry doesn't seem to want to turn my country into the Christian Republic of North America, and didn't tell everyone in the country to place little American flags on our vehicles.
In that sense I agree with Bill Maher's When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden concept. Rather than put stupid little flag stickers on our cars, we should have been encouraged to depend less on Muslim countries and their exports. It would fix the Jihad problem several ways. We would stop giving them large sums of money for energy, and we would physically not have to have presence in their countries, which seems to be part of their beef. They still may hate our guts and want to see every one of us who doesn't believe in their god in their ways dead, but without nearly as much money they can't really do anything about it, and we could keep an eye on things for our own safety.
And before anyone goes spouting off about how this makes everyone who is Muslim sound like psycho killers, yes, I am aware that the vast majority of Muslim people don't feel this way, and even a large number of those that do won't actually do anything about it. The trouble is those who are extremist have been able to get enough power to do what they will do, to the detriment of us and to the rest of their religion.
If I interpret this correctly, some of Ellison's work was posted on Usenet, from AOL. So, is it copyright infringement if no one wants to read it?
Look up the history of things surrounding "City on the Edge of Forever" if you want to hear about what Ellison wanted to do to Star Trek, compared to what they ended up having to revise to make actually work.
That's why the first thing that I do when making a desktop support visit that isn't obviously a bad piece of hardware is to run both spyware removal tools and antivirus tools. Most of our users have finally learned the "don't click on the MS-DOS looking icon in an email message", and have learned that downloading screensavers, "Internet Speed Enhancers" and the like are all bad things, but a few always persist and spread things to the rest of the users. It's bloody annoying, and ultimately a giant money-hole to sink funding into, but there doesn't seem to be any real way around it.
>>to 'impound... all Linux software products in the custody or control of Defendant through the pendency of these proceedings'
>That could at least slow things down for a bit for a major player like CA. If no unlicensed property is found, they counter sue to get their cash back.
I would be absolutely amazed if such a motion on the part of the plaintiff were granted. All that the defendant would have to do is to cite SCOX versus IBM and SCOX versus Novell to demonstrate ambiguity in whether or not SCOX even owns what they are suing for.
In this current filing against Daimler Chrysler, SCOX is left in the dubious position of suing a partially German company, whose national courts have told SCOX to go pound hot sand. Daimler Chrysler can just shift alll Linux-related stuff to Germany and it'd be difficult for SCOX to do much through the US courts.
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Regarding how it's taught, there needs to be some kind of feedback or reward for the student. Negative reinforcement (you won't get a good grade) needs to be offset with something positive. Where the class will do for it I've seen teachers use peer recognition, and where the class won't (too many students who don't care) they've used parental recognition, donated gift certificates to restaurants or amusement parks, and stuff like that.
It also helps if the teacher can make the material not boring to the students. I don't mean that he or she has to make every exercise exciting, but the students need a golden nugget of cool information dropped in their brains from time to time, something to make all of this is "cool", or at least justifiable. Remember, in the fourth grade, one doesn't understand what really goes into things like video games, computers, race cars, or even basic things like action figures and nerf toys. If the students are shown just a little of how the math that they are learning applies to the things that they like, it just might help motivate them to keep with it.
That being said, the quality of teachers at secondary levels is important too. I had what I thought was the worst science teacher for Advanced Chemistry when I was in high school, only to find out when I got to AP Physics that the Physics teacher was the best friend of the Chem teacher and equally bad at the job. I dropped the class at the semester and ended up learning more Physics in my Calculus class than I learned in the science class. And I actually like science, just not the way that it is taught.
Parents also need to learn how to best establish an environment for the children to learn in. My parents made me turn off the video games, turn off the T.V., and actually do some reading every night. We had a set of encyclopedias. Granted, they were the more inexpensive Funk and Wagnalls set, but they were still much better than nothing. I was encouraged to read through positive reinforcement, and the city library had summer reading programs that had me burn through sometimes 200 books a summer, depending on the reading level that I was at. My parents worked very hard to try to give me every advantage that they could think of, and considering they were the children of farmers they did a pretty damn good job.
There's no one fix to the problem, but many things that can improve to give children the best opportunities.
" You are aware that you can get any USB 2 button mouse, assign the 2nd button to Ctrl-Click to pull up the "Contextual Menus" right."
Yes. This is not very useful on a laptop though, when the idea is to have a machine that doesn't need any external peripherals for at least two hours at a time...
"On the other hand, Mac users, which probably much more artistic, are generally more knowledgable about what's going on with the internet and technology. I'm not saying mac users are really smarter, but I think they are overall more plugged in to what's going on. Especially with the advent of OS X, Unix geeks like myself are switching in droves to OS X."
Say what?!
Everyone that I know that does the Apple thing is into it because they don't know anything about computers and don't want to know anything. They use Apples because they function and don't require digging for settings, by and large.
I'll consider buying a Mac when I see one connect into my NFS server properly. So far, 10.1 and 10.2 failed to connect in, while friggin' Microsoft Services for UNIX was able to connect.
Oh, and the whole one button thing still is a barrier for me. I don't care if it's for ease of use. For the prices they charge, they should offer multibutton options for the trackpads on the laptops.
Let's see... Sun's hardware is awesome, has been 64 bit for some time, and is built with a high degree of reliability. So, rather than keep the Sparc line alive for high-end servers and workstations, and using the AMD for the medium and low-end systems, let's discard it.
I know, I know, if they don't make any money on it then there's no reason for it to stick around. Thing is, they've made sales with it up till now, even if they're not necessarily the best figures, and now that they'd go to AMD they don't have much for product differentiation from any beige-box PC built with quality components. I wouldn't spend the extra money for a Sun if it's not much different than what I can order as parts...
Well, when id software released one of the Quake titles, Quake 2 if I remember correctly, they released it with an install code feature to reduce piracy. Once the game had made its money, they removed that from new copies going into distribution. Remember, id software is one of the most heavily pirated-against software companies on the planet, but they're also one of the most successful when they sell their games, due to the quality of the game. For me, for a long time I didn't play anyone elses' third-person shooters, because id's were just better. They didn't always get my money up front either, but after a few lan parties I'd pony up and buy the game if I enjoyed it that much.
Granted, software doesn't have the massive free-to-the-public exposure that music has through the radio, but the very limited amount of what we here versus what is available to hear really doesn't make radio viable for most musicians to promote with anyway.
I wish that the RIAA would "get it". Their sibling organization, the MPAA, has at least realised that if the merchandise is inexpensive enough, people will buy it, despite their objections on DRM (region codes) and forced things like the startup commercials. I don't like what the MPAA did to try to get DeCSS, but their products are cheap enough that I feel that I'm getting my money's worth by buying them.
The RIAA charges as much for a CD as the MPAA for a movie. I don't feel that this is worthwhile, and thus I don't buy music, while I'll buy a DVD once a month. There's no reason to charge more than $10 for a regular CD. $17.99 is just ridiculous to expect from someone for twelve songs, with only two of those being particularly memorable.
" Anybody who needs that much boring can just borrow my girlfriend for a few minutes..."
dude, lending your girlfriend out for some boring is okay if that's your thing, but you might not want to announce it on Slashdot...
It's all right. They haven't been received yet due to the advanced screening procedures that they use to ensure mail is safe. They'll be delivered sometime in 2029.
(yes, I saw your other post down a bit too)
I have a trackpoint eraser-head type pointer on my Toshiba Satellite 1755. I like it. It's positioned so that I don't have to move very far to use it, is centered right between the hands (I'm left handed), is only about a millimeter higher than the G, H, and B keys around it so that it doesn't get in the way while typing, and the buttons below the spacebar aren't on a right/left setup, they're stacked forward and back, the primary being closer to the spacebar and the secondary farther away. The scroll buttons are also easy to get to without much movement. It works quite well in this setup. All that I have to do is move my left hand one inch to the right and the resulting tendons and ligaments pull the thumb down to the buttons and the index finger to the pointer.
I also have a trackball (center layout for the ball, not a thumb control) for when I need more buttons. It works.
I can't stand trackpads. They feel inefficient because they have borders. Trackballs just roll until the cursor reaches the desired location, and the eraser-head types work as a joystick. I stopped using regular mice for the same reason that I don't like trackpads- I don't want to have to pick up in the middle of directing the cursor to reposition.
Wow. That was a lot longer than I thought it would be.
mainly just Common Unix Printing System...
Though the wardriving software for Linux wasn't as easy to use as the wardriving software for OSX, last time I looked at both.
That's about it so far...
Yeah, but what are the odds that proper accounting of the license materials will occur? Remember, you have to keep the booklet with the weird printed certificate thing, or else have the sticker on the side of the case in order to remain in compliance.
Saying that you received it in the mail means nothing. Technically, receiving it in the mail means nothing, because you could have sold it or given it away, which would mean that you don't have the license anymore anyway.
The beauty of software released under the GPL is that end users really cannot pirate it, no matter how hard they try.
"...allow a spacecraft to orbit for MUCH longer at lower orbits due to reduced drag."
Oh yeah? Tell that to this guy...
A friend of mine is a planetary geologist, working at ASU's Space Photography Labratory and for various NASA projects. He is in favour of a mission to Europa, but taking precautions to ensure that we don't contaminate Europa with Terran life, and that we don't cause a significant impact on any life that we find there. If I remember correctly, he said that those conceiving a mission to Europa were considering a system that would heat the probe up to a high enough temperature to sterilize it.
When he presented some of his stuff that I got to see, he said that the ice covering Europa was thick. VERY thick. Probably on the 1000 feet or greater kind of thick, though I admit that I cannot remember exactly.
I think that communcations was going to be a relaying deal, with something on the surface of Europa relaying back to Earth, so the ROV wouldn't have to try to transmit on its own.
...it's nice to see that Ms. Jones is seeing some kind of financial benefit indirectly from her assistance to the community at large. Hopefully this doesn't turn into the sham that it sounds like it's destined for, unfortuntely.
"If it pisses you off, do nothing (huh? but seriously) - when your car gets older and starts having problems, don't take it to the dealer. Take it to your local mechanic, and tell him you want a carberator installed and to go ahead and throw out the fuel injector."
huh?
Many people are doing this the other way around. Companies that sell superchargers for engines like the Chrysler Magnum engine also include a full replacement computer. The Magnum engine (5.2L, 5.9L of '92-'02) was based very heavily on the LA Engine (273, 318, 340, 360 of '60s-'01) to the point that a Magnum top end (cylinder heads, intake manifold, fuel delivery) will fit on a stock LA engine without any further modification.
Take those Magnum heads (with aftermarket injectors), an aftermarket Weiland or Edelbrock intake manifold, a modern supercharger, the computer, and a proper distributor and you can build yourself a '70s muscle car with all the power the big blocks originally had and with modern fuel economy and refinement.
The aftermarket computer is going to be much easier to deal with than the OEM computer anyway, and is designed to allow you to tune the car different than the factory. And you get more than ten miles per gallon.
" ... as the time I slapped a Type-R sticker on my Casio FX-1000 solar-powered calculator. Before I did that, it took 950 milliseconds to calculate 69! Afterward, it calculated 69! in 940 milliseconds flat."
Personally, I prefer my sixty-nine bangs to take a little longer than that...
So I just have to have the bill sent to Uzbekistan and that'll get around the whole state sales tax thing?
Cool!
"Please don't think for even the briefest second that Bush Lite(Kerry) is going to make any meaningful changes."
At least Kerry doesn't seem to want to turn my country into the Christian Republic of North America, and didn't tell everyone in the country to place little American flags on our vehicles.
In that sense I agree with Bill Maher's When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden concept. Rather than put stupid little flag stickers on our cars, we should have been encouraged to depend less on Muslim countries and their exports. It would fix the Jihad problem several ways. We would stop giving them large sums of money for energy, and we would physically not have to have presence in their countries, which seems to be part of their beef. They still may hate our guts and want to see every one of us who doesn't believe in their god in their ways dead, but without nearly as much money they can't really do anything about it, and we could keep an eye on things for our own safety.
And before anyone goes spouting off about how this makes everyone who is Muslim sound like psycho killers, yes, I am aware that the vast majority of Muslim people don't feel this way, and even a large number of those that do won't actually do anything about it. The trouble is those who are extremist have been able to get enough power to do what they will do, to the detriment of us and to the rest of their religion.
If I interpret this correctly, some of Ellison's work was posted on Usenet, from AOL. So, is it copyright infringement if no one wants to read it?
Look up the history of things surrounding "City on the Edge of Forever" if you want to hear about what Ellison wanted to do to Star Trek, compared to what they ended up having to revise to make actually work.
That's why the first thing that I do when making a desktop support visit that isn't obviously a bad piece of hardware is to run both spyware removal tools and antivirus tools. Most of our users have finally learned the "don't click on the MS-DOS looking icon in an email message", and have learned that downloading screensavers, "Internet Speed Enhancers" and the like are all bad things, but a few always persist and spread things to the rest of the users. It's bloody annoying, and ultimately a giant money-hole to sink funding into, but there doesn't seem to be any real way around it.
>to avoid the major inconvenience of all this
... all Linux software products in the custody or control of Defendant through the pendency of these proceedings'
>>to 'impound
>That could at least slow things down for a bit for a major player like CA. If no unlicensed property is found, they counter sue to get their cash back.
I would be absolutely amazed if such a motion on the part of the plaintiff were granted. All that the defendant would have to do is to cite SCOX versus IBM and SCOX versus Novell to demonstrate ambiguity in whether or not SCOX even owns what they are suing for.
In this current filing against Daimler Chrysler, SCOX is left in the dubious position of suing a partially German company, whose national courts have told SCOX to go pound hot sand. Daimler Chrysler can just shift alll Linux-related stuff to Germany and it'd be difficult for SCOX to do much through the US courts.
That's probably still just "use". Remember, the terms of the GPL are for distribution, not for use.
"Well, EV1 is a haven for spammers and porn, so it won't be much of an effort to avoid their customers."
That's easy for you to say...
... what did they do right that Skylab did wrong? Except not be a part of NASA, of course...
"Setting up printers is the most horrendous, arcane, maniacally twisted experience you'll ever have on a Unix box, except for sendmail."
Hear Hear! I've always felt that email should be the hardest thing to configure on a computer. I mean, it's not as if it's been around for 30 years...