Well, I like more than ebooks because of the following: no load times, tactile sensation, no system crashes, no distractions, and the book won't die if I run out of batteries or can't get to a outlet. A book won't make me a target for muggers on the subway as much as a PDA or Laptop.
I'm a high school student and I've ended up reading with my powerbook next to me so that I can use the dictionary on it when I come across a word I'm not sure about. I've noticed other students go the considerably cheaper route and buy a hand-held electronic dictionary because it's so much easier than actually using the dictionary, and odds are that the electronic one has more words than the abridged class version.
What would be a good idea for anyone doing ebooks for students would be a click-on-word-and-see-definition-in-bubble function. Then again you couldn't annotate well in an ebook until tablets become widespread, so it wouldn't work great for school classes.
There's a reason why schools end up with 47 Validictorians, and it's because they stupidly have anyone who attains above a 4.0 be a validictorian. Doesn't work anymore because of so many AP/IB classes that need to count more than the regular ones.
For example, my IB Physics class was a block period(2 periods instead of one) and we go through Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Waves, Relativity, Astrophysics, and Thermodynamics. Obviously we didn't do them to the depth one would get from a college class about the particular area of physics, but the regular class only got through Mechanics and Electromagnetism, and from what I saw from my friends in the regular class they didn't do anything beyond what we did in those topics.
Valedictorians should be the highest GPA, not everyone above 4.0. Weighted grades help to differentiate between the people taking hard classes and getting B's because they're hard classes and those getting straight B's in the easy classes.
But the other thing is that we need teachers that can realize when a kid is beyond what they're teaching, and be secure enough to let that kid do independant study. Make sure they keep doing work, but let them go at their own pace.
Perhaps it would do you good to realize that when you say RF you also mean all Wifi, all Bluetooth, and that RF being thrown off from a high-power line could possibly knock out nearby electronics.
My guess is that they're already dealing with some of these problems, but even then I would wonder how good for your electronics could it be that part of the constant flow of energy fluctuates a bit.
One does not preclude the other. If they find that with the replay shows and the movie that there is a large enough audience, they will probably bring it back and bump Andromeda from the Friday lineup (which they should have done a while ago). This show is right up SciFi's alley, the market might be too small for Fox but just right for a Cable channel.
And Fark. And CNN.com. And other news sources. The website is based on the principle that someone else writes an article and it gets blurbed and linked here, what do you expect?
The other explination that's always made sense to me was that the Kessel run meant you needed to skirt the Maw, a cluster of Black Holes. The faster the ship is, the closer it can get to the Black Holes without getting sucked in by the gravitational forces. Therefor 13 parsecs shows that it's fast enough to be only x distance from the Black Holes and get out fine. Ignoreing of course the relativistic implications, which the series as a whole ignores as well. Hyperspace isn't exactly another dimension, as you can't jump that close to a planet and you can get pulled out of hyperspace by a strong enough gravic field.
So it makes a twisted sort of sense once you ignore the improbablility of FTL travel.
You're joking, but I heard this guy speak at HOPE and apart from his choice of shirts it was a great talk. He really knows what he's talking about and he's dedicated to the project; he mentioned having to use a flashbulb to read dot-matrix printouts of the first few months of posts on the first BBS because the ink had faded by now.
The talk ("Preserving Digital History") is availible here.
This Internetwork of which they speak sounds strangly... familiar. I think I've heard of this internetworking before somewhere, now if only I could put my finger on it.../sarcasm.
Well, no, not really. Nominations are still significant, and while not as nice as the golden object in hand, still make for a bit of an awarding of recognition. So not really that misleading, especially considering the number of nominations.
Not enough emphasis on the ugly. It should be a bit more like this:
"I have seen the new X-Box, and it is ugly. And I mean UGLY. Take it out back and put it out of it's misery ugly. Hit with not only an ugly stick, but an ugly pole and an ugly mace. It's like they tried to steal Apple's iPod white with none of Apple's design taste. Again, it's ugly. "
Lucas has never, unless my memory is failing me, sued anyone for using Star Wars characters. If I remember correctly, his policy is do whatever you want, but it's not canon.
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Well, I like more than ebooks because of the following: no load times, tactile sensation, no system crashes, no distractions, and the book won't die if I run out of batteries or can't get to a outlet. A book won't make me a target for muggers on the subway as much as a PDA or Laptop.
I'm a high school student and I've ended up reading with my powerbook next to me so that I can use the dictionary on it when I come across a word I'm not sure about. I've noticed other students go the considerably cheaper route and buy a hand-held electronic dictionary because it's so much easier than actually using the dictionary, and odds are that the electronic one has more words than the abridged class version.
What would be a good idea for anyone doing ebooks for students would be a click-on-word-and-see-definition-in-bubble function. Then again you couldn't annotate well in an ebook until tablets become widespread, so it wouldn't work great for school classes.
There's a reason why schools end up with 47 Validictorians, and it's because they stupidly have anyone who attains above a 4.0 be a validictorian. Doesn't work anymore because of so many AP/IB classes that need to count more than the regular ones.
For example, my IB Physics class was a block period(2 periods instead of one) and we go through Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Waves, Relativity, Astrophysics, and Thermodynamics. Obviously we didn't do them to the depth one would get from a college class about the particular area of physics, but the regular class only got through Mechanics and Electromagnetism, and from what I saw from my friends in the regular class they didn't do anything beyond what we did in those topics.
Valedictorians should be the highest GPA, not everyone above 4.0. Weighted grades help to differentiate between the people taking hard classes and getting B's because they're hard classes and those getting straight B's in the easy classes.
But the other thing is that we need teachers that can realize when a kid is beyond what they're teaching, and be secure enough to let that kid do independant study. Make sure they keep doing work, but let them go at their own pace.
1. Gift them ...
2. Beowulf cluster
3.
4. Profit!?
Seriously though, you'd run out of people you felt close enough to to give them an iPod before you ran out.
And I think 10,500 songs counts as a lifetime supply.
Perhaps it would do you good to realize that when you say RF you also mean all Wifi, all Bluetooth, and that RF being thrown off from a high-power line could possibly knock out nearby electronics.
My guess is that they're already dealing with some of these problems, but even then I would wonder how good for your electronics could it be that part of the constant flow of energy fluctuates a bit.
Is it just me or is every big scientific breakthrough we're making an 'already been done by the Russians' discovery?
Or they were both submitted by the same person hiding under the AC mask?
One does not preclude the other. If they find that with the replay shows and the movie that there is a large enough audience, they will probably bring it back and bump Andromeda from the Friday lineup (which they should have done a while ago). This show is right up SciFi's alley, the market might be too small for Fox but just right for a Cable channel.
And Fark. And CNN.com. And other news sources. The website is based on the principle that someone else writes an article and it gets blurbed and linked here, what do you expect?
Well, they probably stand to profit more off the hardware anyway, especially if they can market it as a real computer.
The other explination that's always made sense to me was that the Kessel run meant you needed to skirt the Maw, a cluster of Black Holes. The faster the ship is, the closer it can get to the Black Holes without getting sucked in by the gravitational forces. Therefor 13 parsecs shows that it's fast enough to be only x distance from the Black Holes and get out fine. Ignoreing of course the relativistic implications, which the series as a whole ignores as well. Hyperspace isn't exactly another dimension, as you can't jump that close to a planet and you can get pulled out of hyperspace by a strong enough gravic field.
So it makes a twisted sort of sense once you ignore the improbablility of FTL travel.
Is there really that much story there?
Yes.
You're joking, but I heard this guy speak at HOPE and apart from his choice of shirts it was a great talk. He really knows what he's talking about and he's dedicated to the project; he mentioned having to use a flashbulb to read dot-matrix printouts of the first few months of posts on the first BBS because the ink had faded by now.
The talk ("Preserving Digital History") is availible here.
No no no no no. It's Spaceball 3; The Search For Spaceballs 2.
I'm not sure the girlfriends will be happy, but the blond, hot, swedish, twins will be.
Probably about a year after it gets implemented in either Open Office or iWork.
This Internetwork of which they speak sounds strangly... familiar. I think I've heard of this internetworking before somewhere, now if only I could put my finger on it... /sarcasm.
Now that IS getting evil.
Not if you opt in and have control over access lists.
Well, no, not really. Nominations are still significant, and while not as nice as the golden object in hand, still make for a bit of an awarding of recognition. So not really that misleading, especially considering the number of nominations.
Not enough emphasis on the ugly. It should be a bit more like this:
"I have seen the new X-Box, and it is ugly. And I mean UGLY. Take it out back and put it out of it's misery ugly. Hit with not only an ugly stick, but an ugly pole and an ugly mace. It's like they tried to steal Apple's iPod white with none of Apple's design taste. Again, it's ugly. "
Lucas has never, unless my memory is failing me, sued anyone for using Star Wars characters. If I remember correctly, his policy is do whatever you want, but it's not canon.
Are nanotubes really quantum? They're very small, but I don't think they're actually at the quantum level of physics.
By the way, Gaim is correctly written either gaim or Gaim, not GAIM, gAIM, gAim, et all.
(moderation: -1, Hasn't seen Spaceballs)
I have modpoints and I was going to mod you down, but instead I'll just kindly suggest you follow the above moderation.
moderation: -0.5, took story entirely too seriously