Boys (specifically) NEED physical exercise to get that energy out for them to learn
You bring up something that, I think, needs to get talked about. You know what I noticed towards the end of high school? The difficulty I had in school was proportional to the amount of excercise I got. If I was getting regular, strenuous excercise, I felt better and could go home and do homework. I could concentrate. If I wasn't, studying became difficult, motivating myself became difficult, and I'd wind up wasting the hours away at home.
Still, I'm not sure more recess or more PE is the answer. In elementary school I read during recess. Most PE classes (grammar school and high school) are worthless, the excercise is modest at best because it's too hard to get the kids moving. The less physically fit boys (and, with very few exceptions, all of the girls) will lag, simply because they don't want to embarrass themselves.
That said, some PE classes seem to work. I remember getting quite alot of excercise in my weight-training class, but then, I was one of the more motivated students...
Smaller GTK widgets (Maybe its just perceived, but GNOME, and GTK apps in general seem to waste waay to much real estate... not everyone has a 21' monitor..)
A decent default theme (Grey is ugly. Get over it.)
In my experience, it doesn't actually matter if you have a robotics club or a programming club. Simply because there are robots on television doesn't mean there is a built in audience for robot-builders. And in the end, it doesn't MATTER what your presentation is- it needs to be well done. If you stand up and sound like a moron or a neophyte, noone will sign up. This is America, the kids are used to ads, and just because it's 'robotics' doesn't mean shit.
BTW, where I go to school, the robotics club died and the programming geeks are still rather active.
I doubt you would get many attendees. The robotics club at my school collapsed after all the programming geeks left and there was no one there but the unmotivated geek scum that normally accumulates around games of Magic: The Gathering.
I've found that it depends less on the stats of the system, and more on the OS. On NT 4 (Damnit, I know...) systems, Firefox can take almost a minute to startup, far longer than IE. On the same box, running Win2k, FF takes about the same amount of time as IE to load. On my box at home (XP SP2 dual booting with Slack 10), Mozilla 1.7.5 loads much faster on windows than on Linux, but FF on Linux loads faster than IE on windows... and Opera (on Windows) beats the hell out of all of them:P.
Holy crap... I've been looking for a copy of Pharaohs Tomb for ages. I never could find a copy of it legit or illegal... one of the first game I ever played. Meh. Good times:).
I heard somewhere that if you stand in the middle of the road and spin your wheels fast enough (with the wheel OFF the ground:P) you could trip the sensor... still, it involves standing in the middle of the road holding a bicycle, and generally there is enough traffic that I'll only have to wait a minute or two for a nice, big SUV to change the light for me.
How much bandwidth were you getting, and what were your ping times (I've heard horror stories about minute+ ping times for certain satellite services... probably bogus, but this is/.;)
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Yes! My god, someone else noticed that and despises it. The first DVD player I owned omitted that feature (It was a cheapo;), but when it broke down... bah. Ever since, I've been cursed with unskipable, repetitive FBI warnings >:/.
Yes. This is sort of embarrassing, but the official in-universe explanation is that Kessel is surrounded by a colony of black holes. You can go all the way around, close to the edge, or straight through- and straight through is 12 parsecs. You can't just go through via hyperspace because black holes are bad news there as well...
Damn. My girlfriend just slapped me and walked off. Is that a bad sign?
How is this news? I'm sure anyone who has kept up with tech news knows this already. Ok, ok, it's a nice summary, and for the kid who just discovered Slashdot today it's great... but it isn't news.
Not those little Canadian geese, the ones with the three foot long necks (I can't remember what they're called. Damnit. Someone help me out here). I have a friend who lives in a... bad area, and trust me, NOONE messes with their three geese. Those suckers will A) Wake up the entire neighborhood B) Rip off a finger C) Crap on your shoe and D) Go for the gonads, all within ten seconds. They're kind of messy, but trust me, nobody is messing with them.
Is this a software protection? A firmware protection? Will older devices be able to connect to WPA2 networks? That article is a bit... scarce on the details.
That's true. I'm just trying to point out that technological evangelism is useless when, in the end, the big decisions are all made by a single entity. This is, of course, barring a massive increase in computing cluefullness by the general public, something that doesn't look like it will be happening any time soon.
Y'all are missing something. The browser market is dominated by IE, and, if I remember correctly, IE doesn't even support non-animated PNG's perfectly. What are the chances that APNG gets added? And if it doesn't get added, what web designer will use a format that can't be viewed by 93% of their users? I'm not trolling, I'm not dissing Moz, but the reality of the market is there...
Try downloading and installing Intel's drivers (There website is pretty good). I did it, haven't had a problem since. (Well, actually, not true. X tends to crash when I CTRL+ALT+F1 out to do something in the console, but what the hey. Xterms ain't so bad...)
Actually, the 'softies have fixed that. Use one of the newer NT based OS's- XP comes to mind- and you'll find that a crashed/stalled app can simply be tucked away until it crashes, or you kill it. No more of the wait-10-minutes-for-windows-to-wake-up thang you had to do for '98.
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You bring up something that, I think, needs to get talked about. You know what I noticed towards the end of high school? The difficulty I had in school was proportional to the amount of excercise I got. If I was getting regular, strenuous excercise, I felt better and could go home and do homework. I could concentrate. If I wasn't, studying became difficult, motivating myself became difficult, and I'd wind up wasting the hours away at home.
Still, I'm not sure more recess or more PE is the answer. In elementary school I read during recess. Most PE classes (grammar school and high school) are worthless, the excercise is modest at best because it's too hard to get the kids moving. The less physically fit boys (and, with very few exceptions, all of the girls) will lag, simply because they don't want to embarrass themselves.
That said, some PE classes seem to work. I remember getting quite alot of excercise in my weight-training class, but then, I was one of the more motivated students...
Smaller GTK widgets (Maybe its just perceived, but GNOME, and GTK apps in general seem to waste waay to much real estate... not everyone has a 21' monitor..)
A decent default theme (Grey is ugly. Get over it.)
May I mod you -1, nonsensical?
BTW, where I go to school, the robotics club died and the programming geeks are still rather active.
I doubt you would get many attendees. The robotics club at my school collapsed after all the programming geeks left and there was no one there but the unmotivated geek scum that normally accumulates around games of Magic: The Gathering.
I've found that it depends less on the stats of the system, and more on the OS. On NT 4 (Damnit, I know...) systems, Firefox can take almost a minute to startup, far longer than IE. On the same box, running Win2k, FF takes about the same amount of time as IE to load. On my box at home (XP SP2 dual booting with Slack 10), Mozilla 1.7.5 loads much faster on windows than on Linux, but FF on Linux loads faster than IE on windows... and Opera (on Windows) beats the hell out of all of them :P.
Holy crap... I've been looking for a copy of Pharaohs Tomb for ages. I never could find a copy of it legit or illegal... one of the first game I ever played. Meh. Good times :).
I heard somewhere that if you stand in the middle of the road and spin your wheels fast enough (with the wheel OFF the ground :P) you could trip the sensor... still, it involves standing in the middle of the road holding a bicycle, and generally there is enough traffic that I'll only have to wait a minute or two for a nice, big SUV to change the light for me.
Now we know why the plot of the DOOM movie is what it is...
How much bandwidth were you getting, and what were your ping times (I've heard horror stories about minute+ ping times for certain satellite services... probably bogus, but this is /. ;)
Yes! My god, someone else noticed that and despises it. The first DVD player I owned omitted that feature (It was a cheapo ;), but when it broke down... bah. Ever since, I've been cursed with unskipable, repetitive FBI warnings >:/.
Hehe. Ah yes, that wonderful feature... you do know that if you boot up, say, Knoppix, you can read that 'encrypted' folder perfectly?
Damn. My girlfriend just slapped me and walked off. Is that a bad sign?
Not that everyone agrees it's a good thing...
I, for one, welcome our new Arch Lord...
How is this news? I'm sure anyone who has kept up with tech news knows this already. Ok, ok, it's a nice summary, and for the kid who just discovered Slashdot today it's great... but it isn't news.
Really? I use direct IM often with GAIM... seems to work fine. Linux and win32. Did you really try the 1.0.0 release?
A single exchange student? A brave, brave lad... if not very bright.
Not those little Canadian geese, the ones with the three foot long necks (I can't remember what they're called. Damnit. Someone help me out here). I have a friend who lives in a... bad area, and trust me, NOONE messes with their three geese. Those suckers will A) Wake up the entire neighborhood B) Rip off a finger C) Crap on your shoe and D) Go for the gonads, all within ten seconds. They're kind of messy, but trust me, nobody is messing with them.
Is this a software protection? A firmware protection? Will older devices be able to connect to WPA2 networks? That article is a bit... scarce on the details.
Yes... you could :P. But, on the other hand, it would do NOTHING for Moz evangelism, just piss off the poor dial-up users.
That's true. I'm just trying to point out that technological evangelism is useless when, in the end, the big decisions are all made by a single entity. This is, of course, barring a massive increase in computing cluefullness by the general public, something that doesn't look like it will be happening any time soon.
Y'all are missing something. The browser market is dominated by IE, and, if I remember correctly, IE doesn't even support non-animated PNG's perfectly. What are the chances that APNG gets added? And if it doesn't get added, what web designer will use a format that can't be viewed by 93% of their users? I'm not trolling, I'm not dissing Moz, but the reality of the market is there...
Try downloading and installing Intel's drivers (There website is pretty good). I did it, haven't had a problem since. (Well, actually, not true. X tends to crash when I CTRL+ALT+F1 out to do something in the console, but what the hey. Xterms ain't so bad...)
Actually, the 'softies have fixed that. Use one of the newer NT based OS's- XP comes to mind- and you'll find that a crashed/stalled app can simply be tucked away until it crashes, or you kill it. No more of the wait-10-minutes-for-windows-to-wake-up thang you had to do for '98.