Even if a student used a cell phone only for emergencies and thus kept it in his/her car outside of school, the school is still able to search any car in its parking facilities* so the only way to keep your cell phone out of the school's jurisdiction is to not bring it onto campus at all, which prevents you from using it in an emergency situation like a car accident off school property.
*I'm not sure schools can search students' cars on a total whim, but I know (from experience) that they aren't held to police standards for suspicion before searching.
So in closing - ask yourself, do you really NEED your phone, or is it a case of WANTING your phone?
If you get in a car accident and you're bleeding to death all over the interstate, I bet you'd really like to borrow my cell phone. Is it just possible that we're not all pompous materialists, and that cell phones actually have legitimate uses?
It is also not reasonable to say that people should know this stuff to use the www. Nonsense! Do you need to know the difference between a knit and purl stich to wear a sweater? Do you need to know what advance and retard are to drive a car? Why the hell should you know what a hosts file is to use the www?
Because sweaters and cars work just fine without knowing much about their inner workings, and computers don't. Maybe it would be nice if the www didn't require competent users, but unfortunately it does.
The whole book is searchable but you can't download it.
What's to stop someone from writing a bot that downloads the whole book by using the last words in a blurb as the next search term and concatenating the blurbs?
It's at least 9 clicks. You open the browser then what? Then the "desired information from your list". That's another click. And another click for the "next thing on the list" then another and another and another etc etc.
Oh, you meant the number of cicks to access *all* the information in the list at once? Yes, that would be more than 2 clicks. I thought you meant 9 clicks to acesss any one piece of information on the list.
You're browser does show the information that Dashboard does, but not all at once in one place where you can see everything on one page.... All at once place.
This is true. Perhaps this is more a philosophical difference than a functional one. Do you keep lots of icons/shortcuts on your desktop? Some people do and some people don't. I keep only the recycling bin on the desktop--nothing else. When I want something, I would rather spend a bit of time accessing it rather than looking at it all those times I don't want to see it. If that's not how you do things, then we're never going to reach an agreement on the value of Dashboard. I guess that being said, Dashboard is a good thing if it expands computer functionality for users, even if not for all users.
Oh sure, I used to use the browser for everything too, having like 20 tabs open for many things. But this cuts down BIG time on the clutter.
Hrm, yes, I do love my tabs. Maybe I'll check Dashboard out if they ever make a Windows knock-off....grrr I hates Windows....
Do things the way you want, I do things the way I want...but don't you DARE call me wrong for the way I do them, as I don't call you wrong. There is not right/wrong with this shit.
My intention was never to offend you, and if I did I appologize.
I don't see how you get the figure 9 mouse clicks. I count 2 mouse clicks: one to open the browser from the quickstart bar and one to open the desired information from your list. Since most of the information we're discussing is only available via the Internet, I don't know why it is such a shock that my browser already provides the "new" functionality of Dashboard.
Actually, every webpage that I browse has all of this information (except #5) one click away. It is called a favorites bar. For #5 I hit ctrl-alt-delete (no, I don't use the default task manager).
I'm not sure if this answers the question decidedly, but I am actually also PADI certified. Here are the steps to getting each certification:
SSI: Take a 4-week class with a total of 32 combined hours in the classroom and in the pool. Take an examination. Complete 5 open-water dives with instructor. Receieve SSI Certification.
PADI: Go on a dive with PADI dive master. Mention to dive master that I am not PADI certified. Receive PADI Certification.
If you were referring to the post-"open water diver" certifications, however, that might be a different story. I don't know anything about PADI's advanced certifications, but I know that SSI has a heirarchy of them (and classes that go with them $$$) to rival Alpha Centauri.
I am SSI certified and they teach the same thing about no decompression diving. It seems like a good standard to have and I bet that NAUI teaches the same.
IMO, after a certain point, a person doesn't even feel the money anymore, and everything in the stratosphere should be taxed at 100%(!) to help reduce the widening wealth gap.
That sounds like a nice idea until you're dying on the operating table because all of the doctors have reached the "stratosphere" income for that fiscal year and have no motiviation to operate on you...
You are probably a stronger visual, audio learner so you can easily finish your homework because you have a clear memory of the lecture or from the reading.
Sounds like you've done some research on learning. You're right about my learning style anyway.
For next year when you say that you were a valedictorian in your college they will just look at you and gracefully smile thinking to themselves whoodedoo!
Oh, yes, I am fully aware that not a soul at my college is going to care about my previous class rank. Just like no one is going to care what my college class rank will be. It's a temporary spotlight, like any other.
After you get you first job after college your GPA in college will likewise increasingly diminished.
Yes, I am fortunate that I can work during the summer and take time off during the school year. College is going to be more difficult in that respect!
I play about 4 hours of computer games a night (more on weekends of course), and I might very well be my high school's valedictorian next semester. I think those kids weren't playing enough computer games.
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Even if a student used a cell phone only for emergencies and thus kept it in his/her car outside of school, the school is still able to search any car in its parking facilities* so the only way to keep your cell phone out of the school's jurisdiction is to not bring it onto campus at all, which prevents you from using it in an emergency situation like a car accident off school property.
*I'm not sure schools can search students' cars on a total whim, but I know (from experience) that they aren't held to police standards for suspicion before searching.
So in closing - ask yourself, do you really NEED your phone, or is it a case of WANTING your phone?
If you get in a car accident and you're bleeding to death all over the interstate, I bet you'd really like to borrow my cell phone. Is it just possible that we're not all pompous materialists, and that cell phones actually have legitimate uses?
But I've watched enough 24 to know that the Big Disaster can only happen at the top of the hour. If you survive to 1:01 you're good for another hour!
Somebody needs to read 1984...
Ah, my mistake. A good point.
My argument wasn't that geeks don't know about cars but that geeks don't have to know about cars to use them properly.
It is also not reasonable to say that people should know this stuff to use the www. Nonsense! Do you need to know the difference between a knit and purl stich to wear a sweater? Do you need to know what advance and retard are to drive a car? Why the hell should you know what a hosts file is to use the www?
Because sweaters and cars work just fine without knowing much about their inner workings, and computers don't. Maybe it would be nice if the www didn't require competent users, but unfortunately it does.
The whole book is searchable but you can't download it.
What's to stop someone from writing a bot that downloads the whole book by using the last words in a blurb as the next search term and concatenating the blurbs?
It's at least 9 clicks. You open the browser then what? Then the "desired information from your list". That's another click. And another click for the "next thing on the list" then another and another and another etc etc.
... All at once place.
Oh, you meant the number of cicks to access *all* the information in the list at once? Yes, that would be more than 2 clicks. I thought you meant 9 clicks to acesss any one piece of information on the list.
You're browser does show the information that Dashboard does, but not all at once in one place where you can see everything on one page.
This is true. Perhaps this is more a philosophical difference than a functional one. Do you keep lots of icons/shortcuts on your desktop? Some people do and some people don't. I keep only the recycling bin on the desktop--nothing else. When I want something, I would rather spend a bit of time accessing it rather than looking at it all those times I don't want to see it. If that's not how you do things, then we're never going to reach an agreement on the value of Dashboard. I guess that being said, Dashboard is a good thing if it expands computer functionality for users, even if not for all users.
Oh sure, I used to use the browser for everything too, having like 20 tabs open for many things. But this cuts down BIG time on the clutter.
Hrm, yes, I do love my tabs. Maybe I'll check Dashboard out if they ever make a Windows knock-off....grrr I hates Windows....
Do things the way you want, I do things the way I want...but don't you DARE call me wrong for the way I do them, as I don't call you wrong. There is not right/wrong with this shit.
My intention was never to offend you, and if I did I appologize.
I don't see how you get the figure 9 mouse clicks. I count 2 mouse clicks: one to open the browser from the quickstart bar and one to open the desired information from your list. Since most of the information we're discussing is only available via the Internet, I don't know why it is such a shock that my browser already provides the "new" functionality of Dashboard.
Actually, every webpage that I browse has all of this information (except #5) one click away. It is called a favorites bar. For #5 I hit ctrl-alt-delete (no, I don't use the default task manager).
I'm not sure if this answers the question decidedly, but I am actually also PADI certified. Here are the steps to getting each certification:
SSI: Take a 4-week class with a total of 32 combined hours in the classroom and in the pool. Take an examination. Complete 5 open-water dives with instructor. Receieve SSI Certification.
PADI: Go on a dive with PADI dive master. Mention to dive master that I am not PADI certified. Receive PADI Certification.
If you were referring to the post-"open water diver" certifications, however, that might be a different story. I don't know anything about PADI's advanced certifications, but I know that SSI has a heirarchy of them (and classes that go with them $$$) to rival Alpha Centauri.
I am SSI certified and they teach the same thing about no decompression diving. It seems like a good standard to have and I bet that NAUI teaches the same.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
IMO, after a certain point, a person doesn't even feel the money anymore, and everything in the stratosphere should be taxed at 100%(!) to help reduce the widening wealth gap.
That sounds like a nice idea until you're dying on the operating table because all of the doctors have reached the "stratosphere" income for that fiscal year and have no motiviation to operate on you...
Those advantages are fine, but I would trade them all for electronic media: Books take up too much space.
He answered that question in his post:
Truth be told, I learned most of what I use in the workplace either on the job or on my own.
Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about a high school schedule.
upper level Calculus, e.g.
I would have loved to have taken two years of Calculus in high school, but they forced me to take pre-calc as a junior.
You are probably a stronger visual, audio learner so you can easily finish your homework because you have a clear memory of the lecture or from the reading.
Sounds like you've done some research on learning. You're right about my learning style anyway.
For next year when you say that you were a valedictorian in your college they will just look at you and gracefully smile thinking to themselves whoodedoo!
Oh, yes, I am fully aware that not a soul at my college is going to care about my previous class rank. Just like no one is going to care what my college class rank will be. It's a temporary spotlight, like any other.
After you get you first job after college your GPA in college will likewise increasingly diminished.
Yes, I am fortunate that I can work during the summer and take time off during the school year. College is going to be more difficult in that respect!
How am I going to climb the clock tower if I can't climb a tree?
Isn't there some saying about not having to outrun the bear?
I feel like I know you...
You did manage to spell valedictorian correctly.
:)
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I play about 4 hours of computer games a night (more on weekends of course), and I might very well be my high school's valedictorian next semester. I think those kids weren't playing enough computer games.