I think that computers and education are a good mix, but I don't think that just because people have heard they go together well, that purchasing computers should be mandated upon students. For example, the university that I attend, the University of Oklahoma, recently started a laptop program for all Engineering students. During my freshman orientation, the faculty spoke of how purchasing laptops would be soooooo beneficial to all engineering students, espically since so many courses were going to become laptop only courses. So, like a good little student I went out and bought my laptop from where they told me, the university computer store. Now I didn't particularly want to get a laptop since I already had a desktop, but I couldn't say no. Well once I had spent $2000+ on a decent laptop, the engineering college then informs all of us that we have to also get wireless network cards for our computers. Well, this wasn't much of a problem since they would loan them out. So I get a loner... Well the next semester, they decide that they can't afford to loan out cards, so now it has been mandated that all engineering students have to BUY them. They are $350 bucks. Great, more money sucked away. Well, now that I've gone through my freshman year, you know how much I use that laptop that I was *required* to purchase? Never. The last classes I used it in was a laptop section of English 2 and the 2nd semester programming course (java). It's been about a year now, and none of the other computer science courses that I've taken have even been in rooms with the wireless network!
I hate having to waste ~$2350 that I could of spent on other educational expenses.
nemoest ----------------------- No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
Is it just me, or when you try to view the release notes from xfree86's ftp and you get the window telling you to try a different server, the window that pops up (in netscape), is too large to see and impossible to close. That's what I get for using Windows I guess.
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I think that computers and education are a good mix, but I don't think that just because people have heard they go together well, that purchasing computers should be mandated upon students. For example, the university that I attend, the University of Oklahoma, recently started a laptop program for all Engineering students. During my freshman orientation, the faculty spoke of how purchasing laptops would be soooooo beneficial to all engineering students, espically since so many courses were going to become laptop only courses. So, like a good little student I went out and bought my laptop from where they told me, the university computer store. Now I didn't particularly want to get a laptop since I already had a desktop, but I couldn't say no. Well once I had spent $2000+ on a decent laptop, the engineering college then informs all of us that we have to also get wireless network cards for our computers. Well, this wasn't much of a problem since they would loan them out. So I get a loner... Well the next semester, they decide that they can't afford to loan out cards, so now it has been mandated that all engineering students have to BUY them. They are $350 bucks. Great, more money sucked away. Well, now that I've gone through my freshman year, you know how much I use that laptop that I was *required* to purchase? Never. The last classes I used it in was a laptop section of English 2 and the 2nd semester programming course (java). It's been about a year now, and none of the other computer science courses that I've taken have even been in rooms with the wireless network!
I hate having to waste ~$2350 that I could of spent on other educational expenses.
nemoest
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No matter how fast light travels it finds
the darkness has always got there first,
and is waiting for it.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
I love the new startup screen that has mozilla on it. It's about time we started seeing his face somewhere on this.
To actually see the pictures the "a" in Christinas needs to be changed to an "e"...
Here's the link I found to view all of the pictures...
Wedding Pictures
Nemo
Did anyone notice that Terry Pratchett's name is not listed on us.imdb.com under writing credits?
I read this book about a week before I saw End of Days.. while watching the movie I was waiting for two angels to appear. =)
If anybody is looking for it, a very informative site about Terry Pratchett's work is:
http://www.us.lspace.org
Is it just me, or when you try to view the release notes from xfree86's ftp and you get the window telling you to try a different server, the window that pops up (in netscape), is too large to see and impossible to close. That's what I get for using Windows I guess.