In every profession there are nasty personalities. And we've all met nasty teachers. But in my experience they are few and far between.
Most teachers I have met are very interesting people, if only because they spend their day interacting with inquisitive and somewhat innocent minds. At least, it is interesting to me because I haven't raised children. I wouldn't know how to handle to room full of 10 year olds.
It's also a teachers job to set limits in the classroom.. so they may be more likely to slip and call you out on something rather than being polite and letting it slide.. maybe that is what is offending you?
I have the same problem as the OP with random 5th graders constantly signing me up for mail lists or services when they forget their correct email address. Very very few of these lists are sending a confirmation email with a link used to confirm.
IQ tests are highly sensitive to timing and setting. The time allowed on the online ones is often generous. Also the online ones are often not the offical standardized tests, but are instead a ploy meant to flatter you into buying whatever they are selling.
Easier said than done. My neighbor has Windows7, and I tried to get her laptop to connect to her cable companies provided access point using WPA/WPA2 and it simply would not work. It would only work using WEP.
Depending on where you live, there might be good programming in over the air HDTV. The cable company has unfortunately manage to get a monopoly on a couple sports channels (and baseball games) that I can't get anywhere else, but I just decided that I am not giving comcast $100/month to watch approximately 20 hours of exclusive content per month.
Nah, we have all those here in US. The problem is that the ones that do fit an incandecent space are too dim. There is no true 100 W equivalent that will fit the space of an incadecent. Manufacturers also lie about the bulb being equivalent to a certain incandecent wattage.
Finally, reflector bulbs are fairly comom here (light only comes out of the top and the rest of the bulb is a reflectable material). These bulbs have been completely banned at the 85w and 100w level and the only replacements have a equivalent light output as about a 50W bulb.
The inability of CFLs to turn on to full brightness instantly makes them a dealbreaker for a few uses in my house. I've stockpiled incandecent bulbs fortunately. It's already impossible to buy 85 or 100 watt small reflector bulbs because they are so inefficient.
In remember when I only heard the word "narcissist" and "narcissism" in the college classroom and in self help books. But in the last 2 years I think its usage has been climbing dramatically. Anyone with Lexus-Nexus access care to check? I think it was a lyric in a few pop songs so maybe that's the cause.....
This was actually a big problem at my university. We had woeful teaching staff (TAs) and at the same time we had tons of students like you who were retaking material that they had already learned well in high school for excellent teachers. Add to that the fact that everything was graded on a curve, and you virtually guaranteed that students who were taking the material for the first time were at a huge disadvantage.
I tried this once. I'd been heavily using caffeine for 20 years. For a couple days I was actually nauseous (I'm heavily addicted) but I got through it with ibuprofen. Problem is, after three weeks passed, I still hadn't regained the alertness level of my caffeinated state. And in the morning, I was practically demented. I could barely do my job.
So I gave up, and I have more than a hunch that this scientific study is not correct.
Don't parents have authority anymore? Quit being your kids best buddy and tell him to get his butt outside and get some exercise and meatspace socialization.
What are you talking about? I *never* organize anything. I rely on powerful search engines (Google Desktop) to find what I want in my inbox. I am the king of laziness.
As one more example, I have 90,000 messages in my inbox. Some I have never read. I don't use the trash. What I do use are very intelligent filtering and flagging and google searching to find stuff I need. This is different from you 15 messages and orderly sorted folders I am sure, but you can't say one is superior to the other. Its the way ones mind works. We are not all the same.
There you go again, posting with a judgement about how people use their software. Let it go. You are not superior in your orderliness. I am not superior with my currently open 150 tabs. Everyone uses software differently. That is why there are preferences pages and plug ins.
Open your mind and understand that brains process things differently. Some require order, some struggle under excessive orderliness. When you accept that, you can learn to be a UI designer.
I don't think it is helpful to tell people to change their browsing habits (I have 150 tabs open right now, many from the same sites and I like it like that). People use software in many different ways that suit them. Better to just fix this problem in the browser.
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In every profession there are nasty personalities. And we've all met nasty teachers. But in my experience they are few and far between.
Most teachers I have met are very interesting people, if only because they spend their day interacting with inquisitive and somewhat innocent minds. At least, it is interesting to me because I haven't raised children. I wouldn't know how to handle to room full of 10 year olds.
It's also a teachers job to set limits in the classroom.. so they may be more likely to slip and call you out on something rather than being polite and letting it slide.. maybe that is what is offending you?
Many many baseball teams have a nearly exclusive contract with cable tv.
I have the same problem as the OP with random 5th graders constantly signing me up for mail lists or services when they forget their correct email address. Very very few of these lists are sending a confirmation email with a link used to confirm.
Boggles the mind.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A27WFYW9ZJ5DN1
For some reason the Washington Post did not include it.
IQ tests are highly sensitive to timing and setting. The time allowed on the online ones is often generous. Also the online ones are often not the offical standardized tests, but are instead a ploy meant to flatter you into buying whatever they are selling.
Easier said than done. My neighbor has Windows7, and I tried to get her laptop to connect to her cable companies provided access point using WPA/WPA2 and it simply would not work. It would only work using WEP.
Seems to be a common problem....
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/windows-7-wireless-network-problem-windows-7-fails/ce399590-1c0d-482e-bc7e-bd4016e154b2
You *don't* want 2.2 on that phone. Trust me. http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/147226-2-2-slow-icon-refresh.html
If I remember right, the NCAA basketball tournament and the olympics required it for online viewing...
Depending on where you live, there might be good programming in over the air HDTV. The cable company has unfortunately manage to get a monopoly on a couple sports channels (and baseball games) that I can't get anywhere else, but I just decided that I am not giving comcast $100/month to watch approximately 20 hours of exclusive content per month.
Nah, we have all those here in US. The problem is that the ones that do fit an incandecent space are too dim. There is no true 100 W equivalent that will fit the space of an incadecent. Manufacturers also lie about the bulb being equivalent to a certain incandecent wattage. Finally, reflector bulbs are fairly comom here (light only comes out of the top and the rest of the bulb is a reflectable material). These bulbs have been completely banned at the 85w and 100w level and the only replacements have a equivalent light output as about a 50W bulb.
Not small high wattage reflectors (eg 85 or 100). Those are already impossible to buy.
The inability of CFLs to turn on to full brightness instantly makes them a dealbreaker for a few uses in my house. I've stockpiled incandecent bulbs fortunately. It's already impossible to buy 85 or 100 watt small reflector bulbs because they are so inefficient.
In remember when I only heard the word "narcissist" and "narcissism" in the college classroom and in self help books. But in the last 2 years I think its usage has been climbing dramatically. Anyone with Lexus-Nexus access care to check? I think it was a lyric in a few pop songs so maybe that's the cause.....
This was actually a big problem at my university. We had woeful teaching staff (TAs) and at the same time we had tons of students like you who were retaking material that they had already learned well in high school for excellent teachers. Add to that the fact that everything was graded on a curve, and you virtually guaranteed that students who were taking the material for the first time were at a huge disadvantage.
Crime is easier because there is less competition - fewer qualified people willing to do the same thing.
Click my link.. it is not the same as the book. It's a digital download in many volumes.
Best of Byte - downloadable for $5 a volume:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-BYTE-Vol-Programming-Languages/dp/B000BQJ4U0
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So I gave up, and I have more than a hunch that this scientific study is not correct.
Don't parents have authority anymore? Quit being your kids best buddy and tell him to get his butt outside and get some exercise and meatspace socialization.
I just went to the Android Market, searched for it, found it, and downloaded it.
What are you talking about? I *never* organize anything. I rely on powerful search engines (Google Desktop) to find what I want in my inbox. I am the king of laziness.
As one more example, I have 90,000 messages in my inbox. Some I have never read. I don't use the trash. What I do use are very intelligent filtering and flagging and google searching to find stuff I need. This is different from you 15 messages and orderly sorted folders I am sure, but you can't say one is superior to the other. Its the way ones mind works. We are not all the same.
There you go again, posting with a judgement about how people use their software. Let it go. You are not superior in your orderliness. I am not superior with my currently open 150 tabs. Everyone uses software differently. That is why there are preferences pages and plug ins. Open your mind and understand that brains process things differently. Some require order, some struggle under excessive orderliness. When you accept that, you can learn to be a UI designer.
I don't think it is helpful to tell people to change their browsing habits (I have 150 tabs open right now, many from the same sites and I like it like that). People use software in many different ways that suit them. Better to just fix this problem in the browser.