I've been running windows as a vmware workstation guest OS on linux and the Revert button is my best friend. I install whatever trial software I want, and when I'm done with it, the revert button takes me back to my last snapshot. Far easier than rebuilding a system for the nth time.
A friend of mine reads the mainstream, and not so mainstream, media and claims to have seen nothing of the voting machine issue. Neither has he heard it on TV news. Is that too part of a conspiracy?
I suspect it would be very easy to add a voice record feature to each cell phone, mabey a 15 minute circular buffer. Anyway, how do think the spin doctors would sell that to the world?
I'm posting a comment because your thread took on a teaching bent, and I've just finished a BEd. I taught grade 11 math during my last practicum and discovered that the calculator generation doesn't think about math the way the pre-calculator generation does. We, the latter, have a set of learned computational tools that have been supplanted by electronics.
I set a test and cooked the numbers so the students wouldn't need calculators, and their stress levels went nonlinear at the thought.
I talked with someone who teaches at a private school in Australia and was told calculus students normally learn to do derivates on their calculators now, no one teaches the differentiation rules down under any longer.
I wonder if it matters to any but a very small few.
Please forgive the vague generalities that follow.
I think there's a small number of people who will just learn to build websites and write software because it's fun. Those ones will probably start their own companies someday, or become the ones who inspire others. The masses who did CS thinking it was a ticket to a profession are the ones no longer flocking to the high school classrooms because the money isn't there now, or their parents are pushing that way any longer.
From what I saw, and continue to see, Canada tends to import talent rather than train it. The kids are reacting accordinly.
I've just finished a BEd and met students who could go onto any degree program they wanted. Almost all were aware of the tech meltdown and had parents or knew adults that were affected. They're also aware that jobs are being exported.
I think the bottom line is that kids aren't stupid, and they realize where there best interests lie.
I've been practice teaching in a number of Ontario schools, and most have 95/98 machines in their libraries and computer labs. Some boards rev out the old boxes and put 98 on the new ones.
The adult high school in Ottawa rebuilds old machines using donated parts and licenses, and gives them away to seniors. The machines usually run 98 and Office 2k.
My first thought when I read the posting was also to wonder why gun manufacturers aren't going to be held responsible. I also wonder if the latter isn't possible, why the former? Would that kind of legislation actually stand up in court?
I'm a student teacher just finishing a 13 week practicum in a rural high school in Southern Ontario. The computer labs are crippled on a regular basis because students steal the mouse balls. The budget is way too tight to keep fixing the machines, so it's normal for a lab to have less than half the machines running. Can someone come up with a $5 mouse with no balls?
Why doesn't normal contract law apply to domains?
This is much like allowing anyone to transfer ownership of your home without your explicit permission.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been running windows as a vmware workstation guest OS on linux and the Revert button is my best friend. I install whatever trial software I want, and when I'm done with it, the revert button takes me back to my last snapshot. Far easier than rebuilding a system for the nth time.
So if you win and the courts find against the RIAA, what's it worth when the president will commute the sentence.
Perhaps it's the result of another firefox exploit. :)
The XSS vulnerability article posted earlier left me wondering if there are any FF extensions that deal with issue, and if IE is less vulnerable.
A friend of mine reads the mainstream, and not so mainstream, media and claims to have seen nothing of the voting machine issue. Neither has he heard it on TV news. Is that too part of a conspiracy?
I suspect it would be very easy to add a voice record feature to each cell phone, mabey a 15 minute circular buffer. Anyway, how do think the spin doctors would sell that to the world?
I set a test and cooked the numbers so the students wouldn't need calculators, and their stress levels went nonlinear at the thought.
I talked with someone who teaches at a private school in Australia and was told calculus students normally learn to do derivates on their calculators now, no one teaches the differentiation rules down under any longer.
I wonder if it matters to any but a very small few.
I think there's a small number of people who will just learn to build websites and write software because it's fun. Those ones will probably start their own companies someday, or become the ones who inspire others. The masses who did CS thinking it was a ticket to a profession are the ones no longer flocking to the high school classrooms because the money isn't there now, or their parents are pushing that way any longer.
From what I saw, and continue to see, Canada tends to import talent rather than train it. The kids are reacting accordinly.
I've just finished a BEd and met students who could go onto any degree program they wanted. Almost all were aware of the tech meltdown and had parents or knew adults that were affected. They're also aware that jobs are being exported. I think the bottom line is that kids aren't stupid, and they realize where there best interests lie.
I've been practice teaching in a number of Ontario schools, and most have 95/98 machines in their libraries and computer labs. Some boards rev out the old boxes and put 98 on the new ones. The adult high school in Ottawa rebuilds old machines using donated parts and licenses, and gives them away to seniors. The machines usually run 98 and Office 2k.
My first thought when I read the posting was also to wonder why gun manufacturers aren't going to be held responsible. I also wonder if the latter isn't possible, why the former? Would that kind of legislation actually stand up in court?
Thanks, I'll pass that on to the teacher who handles the comp sci classes. He has hundreds of mice that have had their balls removed.
I'm a student teacher just finishing a 13 week practicum in a rural high school in Southern Ontario. The computer labs are crippled on a regular basis because students steal the mouse balls. The budget is way too tight to keep fixing the machines, so it's normal for a lab to have less than half the machines running. Can someone come up with a $5 mouse with no balls?
Why doesn't normal contract law apply to domains? This is much like allowing anyone to transfer ownership of your home without your explicit permission.