My (private australian) middle school introduced laptops from 4th grade onwards. I was in 7th grade when it started (1997) but was already very familiar with computers by then. By 98 They wired the entire middle school and high school with ethernet and power sockets all over the floor (under little latches so you could still walk and place desks etc.) So of course this lead to quake I deathmatches in class:-) Because it was such an early adoption though, most of the teachers did NOT know how to integrate the laptops into the classes very productively. The few that did though gave us an early introduction to some very useful things, and ive been comfortable with programming and more computer savvy in general since then. One things though, buying a kid a laptop still sounds like a bad idea to me. In my situation it was ok, because every pupil had one, but if your kid is the only kid that shows up to class with a laptop, that will be a major distraction. a desktop at home would be just as useful (and far less breakable, although the 4th graders who got laptops were surprisingly careful of theirs)
In my (then) 5th grade class laptops were phased in. My class was the 2nd year to get them, so since 1994 it started, and was fully completed by 1997. This was in Australia though. And before wireless was invented, so I guess I can't claim that. Playing quake 1 and the various mods of it at the time in class, as well as my own personal interests in programming etc. were about the most useful thing I did with mine, because our teachers were clueless.
I am a Belgian citizen, studying in the US... so I guess I can reply to both angles of your post. It is true that Belgian has a large, mostly northern African, immigrant population. We allow foreigners with five years of residency to vote. So they do wield significant political power, but this is not necessarily a bad thing as you seem to insinuate. I have no idea what you mean by, "accelerating destruction of Western values and Western society", because values are not something the government should be involved with in the first place. However, there are a bunch of people who think along your lines, and they have formed the 'Vlaams blok' (http://vlaamsblok.be/site_engels_index.shtml if you want the English site). It is an anti-immigration party. It was recently declared illegal due to anti-racism laws. Immigration does cause many problems, and even though I don't support vlaams blok type thinking, I'm reasonably sure they will win an election in the near future. And it will be a good thing, because they will mess things up so badly that they wont gain support in the future, and in the meantime things will finally be fixed without going to either extreme.
If you are really that worried about high (US-) educated foreigners staying in the US and destroying your precious western civilization... don't worry too much, we already have much stricter controls on us than the Belgian citizens in the article do. We have to pay for the government to track us (SEVIS), we get fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival in the US, we have to check in at the start of every year, and to do any work at all we need more approval than Michael Moore has here in Berkeley.
Several hours? Im at an internet 2 school... at I can download from a school on the opposite coast at 4mbs... a movie takes minutes, not hours to download.
Pirating? one guy in his house? I live in south east asia. Pirating is going to the mall and seeing thousands upon thousands of pirated DVD's of all the movies ever made being sold for profit. A dude in his house wanting to wath a DVD on his linux box is not pirating. Go after the people that make money off it.
Hey, I was wondering about that - I start up linux, I dont do anything, and then after a while I hear heavy hard drive load... the free memory goes away, it uses up 1gb of ram... and then writes about 2 mb to swap... and then stops.
The fact that the lasers use 500 trillion watts is not related at all as to whether this is the first fusion plant 'that gives off more energy than it takes in', since watts is not a measure of energy, rather, of power (energy/time).
Why cant you carry a pocket knife on the plane any more? You can in most places except the US, and even if you cant, most have stores in the boarding areas that sell the knives even if they dont let you through the security check points with them... I find that rather strange.
You change your light bulbs dont you? I think the point is to make it cheap enough to be consumable.
Or one point.
The point I want it for is to wall (and floor and ceiling) paper my house with it and have a totally immersive entertainment experience... aww, who am I kidding, its all about the pr0n!
i used floccinaucinihilipilificate and hippopotomonstrososophobia or something close to it in my application letter to MIT... Gee, I wonder why i got wait listed and eventually rejected?
I dont know what you mean...
I was trained in emergency care (I am a rescue diver), and in our training we were told that as long as we told the person (whether or not they were concsious) that we were medically trained we would not be liable.
I used partition magic 8.0 to create a partition for my new fedora install, and it did that just fine... but it messed something in the windows registry so that now when I boot to xp it starts booting, then stops with some error about 'xmnt2002.exe' failing autocheck...
Online help forums say I need to edit the registry but I cannot do that from any where else...
or can I?
will this enable me to do it? does anyone else know how to fix this?
Similarly to the actual event, I would like to retract my claim of the discovery of element 118. In the interest of science and all that. Whatever excuse the guys at Berkeley used.
Where I used to live (Jakarta, Indonesia) DVD's cost 20000 rupiah, back then, about $2. That is in a store, with 3-4 salespeople. The DVD's on sale were indistinguishable (apart from the case... as my 'tomraided' DVD nicely illustrates) from the real thing.
Actually, element 118 was recently discovered at Berkeley Labs. And some of the women around here (berkeley), what, with their hippy 'we dont need to shave attitude', could be mistaken for bigfoot... there are also some non buggy M$ products. I mean, the BSOD works pretty damn well. So I guess that means you like justin timberlake?
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My (private australian) middle school introduced laptops from 4th grade onwards. I was in 7th grade when it started (1997) but was already very familiar with computers by then. By 98 They wired the entire middle school and high school with ethernet and power sockets all over the floor (under little latches so you could still walk and place desks etc.) So of course this lead to quake I deathmatches in class :-) Because it was such an early adoption though, most of the teachers did NOT know how to integrate the laptops into the classes very productively. The few that did though gave us an early introduction to some very useful things, and ive been comfortable with programming and more computer savvy in general since then. One things though, buying a kid a laptop still sounds like a bad idea to me. In my situation it was ok, because every pupil had one, but if your kid is the only kid that shows up to class with a laptop, that will be a major distraction. a desktop at home would be just as useful (and far less breakable, although the 4th graders who got laptops were surprisingly careful of theirs)
In my (then) 5th grade class laptops were phased in. My class was the 2nd year to get them, so since 1994 it started, and was fully completed by 1997. This was in Australia though. And before wireless was invented, so I guess I can't claim that. Playing quake 1 and the various mods of it at the time in class, as well as my own personal interests in programming etc. were about the most useful thing I did with mine, because our teachers were clueless.
I am a Belgian citizen, studying in the US... so I guess I can reply to both angles of your post. It is true that Belgian has a large, mostly northern African, immigrant population. We allow foreigners with five years of residency to vote. So they do wield significant political power, but this is not necessarily a bad thing as you seem to insinuate. I have no idea what you mean by, "accelerating destruction of Western values and Western society", because values are not something the government should be involved with in the first place. However, there are a bunch of people who think along your lines, and they have formed the 'Vlaams blok' (http://vlaamsblok.be/site_engels_index.shtml if you want the English site). It is an anti-immigration party. It was recently declared illegal due to anti-racism laws. Immigration does cause many problems, and even though I don't support vlaams blok type thinking, I'm reasonably sure they will win an election in the near future. And it will be a good thing, because they will mess things up so badly that they wont gain support in the future, and in the meantime things will finally be fixed without going to either extreme. If you are really that worried about high (US-) educated foreigners staying in the US and destroying your precious western civilization... don't worry too much, we already have much stricter controls on us than the Belgian citizens in the article do. We have to pay for the government to track us (SEVIS), we get fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival in the US, we have to check in at the start of every year, and to do any work at all we need more approval than Michael Moore has here in Berkeley.
Several hours? Im at an internet 2 school... at I can download from a school on the opposite coast at 4mbs... a movie takes minutes, not hours to download.
I always wondered, why dont we spin the laser? or have multiple laser heads so we can read more data at the same time?
Im a UCB Chem E/Mat Sci major. go bears!
Exactly. They give one side, fox gives the other. The truth lies somewhere in between. That is why it's important to have both.
Against people without eyes. But there aren't many people without eyes I guess.
Pirating? one guy in his house? I live in south east asia. Pirating is going to the mall and seeing thousands upon thousands of pirated DVD's of all the movies ever made being sold for profit. A dude in his house wanting to wath a DVD on his linux box is not pirating. Go after the people that make money off it.
Hey, I was wondering about that - I start up linux, I dont do anything, and then after a while I hear heavy hard drive load... the free memory goes away, it uses up 1gb of ram... and then writes about 2 mb to swap... and then stops.
Dont forget the RIA prefix too! russia soviet you sig sigs in. Or something.
The fact that the lasers use 500 trillion watts is not related at all as to whether this is the first fusion plant 'that gives off more energy than it takes in', since watts is not a measure of energy, rather, of power (energy/time).
Why cant you carry a pocket knife on the plane any more? You can in most places except the US, and even if you cant, most have stores in the boarding areas that sell the knives even if they dont let you through the security check points with them... I find that rather strange.
You change your light bulbs dont you? I think the point is to make it cheap enough to be consumable. Or one point. The point I want it for is to wall (and floor and ceiling) paper my house with it and have a totally immersive entertainment experience... aww, who am I kidding, its all about the pr0n!
i used floccinaucinihilipilificate and hippopotomonstrososophobia or something close to it in my application letter to MIT... Gee, I wonder why i got wait listed and eventually rejected?
I dont know what you mean... I was trained in emergency care (I am a rescue diver), and in our training we were told that as long as we told the person (whether or not they were concsious) that we were medically trained we would not be liable.
Im posting this from a fresh fedora install that supported my ATI mobilitiy radeon without any problems.
I used partition magic 8.0 to create a partition for my new fedora install, and it did that just fine... but it messed something in the windows registry so that now when I boot to xp it starts booting, then stops with some error about 'xmnt2002.exe' failing autocheck... Online help forums say I need to edit the registry but I cannot do that from any where else... or can I? will this enable me to do it? does anyone else know how to fix this?
Thank you too! That search 'thing' bugged me no end
University of California, Berkeley, but not schoolwide, determined by the professor.
Joke != serious
Similarly to the actual event, I would like to retract my claim of the discovery of element 118. In the interest of science and all that. Whatever excuse the guys at Berkeley used.
Where I used to live (Jakarta, Indonesia) DVD's cost 20000 rupiah, back then, about $2. That is in a store, with 3-4 salespeople. The DVD's on sale were indistinguishable (apart from the case... as my 'tomraided' DVD nicely illustrates) from the real thing.
Actually, element 118 was recently discovered at Berkeley Labs. And some of the women around here (berkeley), what, with their hippy 'we dont need to shave attitude', could be mistaken for bigfoot... there are also some non buggy M$ products. I mean, the BSOD works pretty damn well. So I guess that means you like justin timberlake?
that post wasn't sarcastic at all... and neither would anyone not notice the sarcasm that wasn't there... because everyone gets sarcasm. or something.