I wouldn't mind seeing both of these consoles delayed for a year or so. It seems like both systems were hyped far too much to even begin meeting the expectations of gamers and programmers. This way the hardware might be upgraded some and developers would have more time to fiddle with it. This actually seems like a good move for overall quality.
Netscape, Real and others have all fallen victim to the Microsoft bundling machine
Netscape I can sympathize with, but Real was going to hell long before MS got involved.
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Sounds like cleaning house would be a more effective solution. Get rid of the management, get rid of the money going to the ancilary staff and redirect it towards the teachers and valuble supplies. One kills leaches by sprinkling salt on them, not by cutting the leg off.
Education is never good enough, especially public education. No matter how well the class is prepared, how much we study, how well trained the teachers, or what is focused on it can always be done better. Refining and improving educational methods is a continuously ongoing process which needs to be updated and evaluated constantly.
Public schools are limited by overcrowding and gross underfunding. Before we start talking about overhauling the existing system we might want to give thought to funding it adequately first. Teachers need all the help they can get if the quality of education is to rise. Outated textbooks, old computers, limited supplies for labs, budgets redirected to cope with lawsuits, 40 children to a class and woefully underfunded , dramatically overworked, councilors who can no longer sustain the will to care about their charges. While the suggestions in the previous article make good sense they are only one part of the problem.
Furthermore, the lack of attention to special needs and learning disabled students (me included) is severely lacking in most public education systems. All children learn differently and for those way out on the ends of the spectrum learning in a traditional fashion is difficult, frustrating, and only serves to drain enthusiasm and energy from the assigned task. There are alternatives which can be effective for these students, however they fail to appear in most of the public (and some private) schools I have attended or visited.
That's a great solution, extra. However, what I found to cause the most trouble was the auto-recovery in microsoft word (I know, I've since swtiched to something more stable. Like notepad). Since we were instructed to use removable media (ie. a floppy) to save most of our data anyway this would only affect us when we failed to save every thirty seconds. Deep Freeze was not configured to leave the recovery files alone so when the systems crashed (and they did...frequently) we would be left staring at the frozen image of the work we were about to lose.
The solution you propose probably could have been applied to the proper recovery files by our deputy network admin (a student, really nice guy, but overworked and not paid) but it never ended up happening.
My high school used Deep Freeze (back in '03) to keep the students from tampering with the machines too much. For the most part I didn't mind it (I lost several hundred words of homework because of crashes/reboots, but no biggie). It seemed like a reasonable balance between security and productivity. The physics teacher (it was a small school) had long ago put the quake II install files in a safe place for any student to access them and often used it as an incentive for us to finish our work in class instead of studying for some other subject. Then it was a quick reboot and the machine was ready for the next class.
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I can think of a few interesting things I'd like to do with that wifi card.
I wouldn't mind seeing both of these consoles delayed for a year or so. It seems like both systems were hyped far too much to even begin meeting the expectations of gamers and programmers. This way the hardware might be upgraded some and developers would have more time to fiddle with it. This actually seems like a good move for overall quality.
Netscape, Real and others have all fallen victim to the Microsoft bundling machine Netscape I can sympathize with, but Real was going to hell long before MS got involved.
Sounds like cleaning house would be a more effective solution. Get rid of the management, get rid of the money going to the ancilary staff and redirect it towards the teachers and valuble supplies. One kills leaches by sprinkling salt on them, not by cutting the leg off.
Education is never good enough, especially public education. No matter how well the class is prepared, how much we study, how well trained the teachers, or what is focused on it can always be done better. Refining and improving educational methods is a continuously ongoing process which needs to be updated and evaluated constantly.
Public schools are limited by overcrowding and gross underfunding. Before we start talking about overhauling the existing system we might want to give thought to funding it adequately first. Teachers need all the help they can get if the quality of education is to rise. Outated textbooks, old computers, limited supplies for labs, budgets redirected to cope with lawsuits, 40 children to a class and woefully underfunded , dramatically overworked, councilors who can no longer sustain the will to care about their charges. While the suggestions in the previous article make good sense they are only one part of the problem.
Furthermore, the lack of attention to special needs and learning disabled students (me included) is severely lacking in most public education systems. All children learn differently and for those way out on the ends of the spectrum learning in a traditional fashion is difficult, frustrating, and only serves to drain enthusiasm and energy from the assigned task. There are alternatives which can be effective for these students, however they fail to appear in most of the public (and some private) schools I have attended or visited.
That's a great solution, extra. However, what I found to cause the most trouble was the auto-recovery in microsoft word (I know, I've since swtiched to something more stable. Like notepad). Since we were instructed to use removable media (ie. a floppy) to save most of our data anyway this would only affect us when we failed to save every thirty seconds. Deep Freeze was not configured to leave the recovery files alone so when the systems crashed (and they did...frequently) we would be left staring at the frozen image of the work we were about to lose. The solution you propose probably could have been applied to the proper recovery files by our deputy network admin (a student, really nice guy, but overworked and not paid) but it never ended up happening.
My high school used Deep Freeze (back in '03) to keep the students from tampering with the machines too much. For the most part I didn't mind it (I lost several hundred words of homework because of crashes/reboots, but no biggie). It seemed like a reasonable balance between security and productivity. The physics teacher (it was a small school) had long ago put the quake II install files in a safe place for any student to access them and often used it as an incentive for us to finish our work in class instead of studying for some other subject. Then it was a quick reboot and the machine was ready for the next class.