At my Alma mater, I entered my freshman year being asked to take a course on how to use Microsoft Office and windows tools. When I graduated, the entire math/cs department was raving about Linux and even teaching kernel courses on Linux. But in the end, it was a dual (duel?) boot environment. The media department was still into Windows, and whenever you booted up Linux on the, yes, dual boot lab computers they looked at you as if you had two heads. They were fine with you using Linux, but whenever you were doing so they behaved like Dell tech support when you install additional hardware: You can do that, but it voids your chance of an A in this course if it doesn't work for you, and we can't help you until you go back to Windows. To this day I hate one of the professors in the CS department who lives and breathes Powerpoint presentations and continues to be in the department because of their ability to give the school media attention, but teaches their courses in Windows while everyone else is doing the Linux dance.
Very true. Typing speed is definitely the only thing that matters. For about 7 years I learned to type on a keyboard without any formal training. Then touch-typing was forced on me in high school. It took me several years to re-learn how to type using proper formation at the typing rate I had before I learned to type the 'correct' way. I'm still bitter. I still wonder some days if my typing speed would be better if I didn't have to re-learn the whole thing. Everyone knows that an excellent pianist starts off at a very young age, but if that training is interrupted at any point they will never reach the level they could have if they had kept with it. I might be able to type 90 words per minute now, but that change in formation is the main reason I am not typing faster.
Of course, if a kid only learns to type with their index fingers, they'll never be any good, but maybe that's why they don't trend toward computer-related jobs. If your child is a wiz-kid on the computer and has never learned to touch type, is it really necessary to shove Mavis Beacon in their face?
I would mod this up if it weren't for the fact I haven't had mod points for months.
I agree, I don't think our education system is keeping up with standards as well as it ought. I still don't see the importance of cursive writing now that Helvetica has dominated our culture. Cursive is now associated with prissy ladies and formal signature documents. By the time everyone's required to touch-type on a QWERTY keyboard, someone will somehow solve carpel tunnel syndrome and the whole system will be completely different.
I have some ancient version of MS Money that I've used for 10 years or so and it has been working perfectly even on IE7, but IE8 breaks it, so I'm staying on IE7 until I find an OSS money management program that is as good or better than Money and/or Quicken that has Money data file import features. Not much luck so far, sadly. Any good suggestions?
Identifying one-way streets, wrong-way signs, and street names in general. Road construction. Sink holes. Merging onto highways. Two-way streets with no center divider. Snowy weather. Just to name a few.
Schedule some maintenance work or emergency preparedness exercises where you have to move 2U+ servers around the facilities. Work yourself up to 4U+ as you go along.
Or you could just bring a couple dumbbells to work and lift while at your desk.
True, but the real point is to confuse marketing lingo so people can sell you a SATA 3Gbps drive as a SATA 3.0 drive and cause consumers to become even more stupid and thus eliminate the build-your-own-computer market.
Yes, I played 1 & 2 and they were awesome, but the disappointments leading up to 3 were so awful that I skipped that one entirely. Unless they bring back LGS, I won't have any expectations for 4, nor will I have much interest in it.
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Yeah, crazy kids. Get off my lawn, er... website!
You've given the twittersphere dedicated screen time. We'll never hear the end of it now.
/ Get of my lawn you twats.
I'm sorry, I thought this article was about Stallone, in space.
for Tom Bombadil...
Look for "Yttrium-free" stickers on all your LED products. None of them will have red LEDs, but who cares, it's yttrium-free.
At my Alma mater, I entered my freshman year being asked to take a course on how to use Microsoft Office and windows tools. When I graduated, the entire math/cs department was raving about Linux and even teaching kernel courses on Linux. But in the end, it was a dual (duel?) boot environment. The media department was still into Windows, and whenever you booted up Linux on the, yes, dual boot lab computers they looked at you as if you had two heads. They were fine with you using Linux, but whenever you were doing so they behaved like Dell tech support when you install additional hardware: You can do that, but it voids your chance of an A in this course if it doesn't work for you, and we can't help you until you go back to Windows. To this day I hate one of the professors in the CS department who lives and breathes Powerpoint presentations and continues to be in the department because of their ability to give the school media attention, but teaches their courses in Windows while everyone else is doing the Linux dance.
Next up, outsource your cry for help to Google or Amazon Turk. Why call 911 yourself when you can have the Internet do it for you?
Very true. Typing speed is definitely the only thing that matters. For about 7 years I learned to type on a keyboard without any formal training. Then touch-typing was forced on me in high school. It took me several years to re-learn how to type using proper formation at the typing rate I had before I learned to type the 'correct' way. I'm still bitter. I still wonder some days if my typing speed would be better if I didn't have to re-learn the whole thing. Everyone knows that an excellent pianist starts off at a very young age, but if that training is interrupted at any point they will never reach the level they could have if they had kept with it. I might be able to type 90 words per minute now, but that change in formation is the main reason I am not typing faster.
Of course, if a kid only learns to type with their index fingers, they'll never be any good, but maybe that's why they don't trend toward computer-related jobs. If your child is a wiz-kid on the computer and has never learned to touch type, is it really necessary to shove Mavis Beacon in their face?
I would mod this up if it weren't for the fact I haven't had mod points for months. I agree, I don't think our education system is keeping up with standards as well as it ought. I still don't see the importance of cursive writing now that Helvetica has dominated our culture. Cursive is now associated with prissy ladies and formal signature documents. By the time everyone's required to touch-type on a QWERTY keyboard, someone will somehow solve carpel tunnel syndrome and the whole system will be completely different.
I have some ancient version of MS Money that I've used for 10 years or so and it has been working perfectly even on IE7, but IE8 breaks it, so I'm staying on IE7 until I find an OSS money management program that is as good or better than Money and/or Quicken that has Money data file import features. Not much luck so far, sadly. Any good suggestions?
That's only if they decide to study it with the Uranium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator instead of the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer.
There goes my idea for a thesis.
Identifying one-way streets, wrong-way signs, and street names in general. Road construction. Sink holes. Merging onto highways. Two-way streets with no center divider. Snowy weather. Just to name a few.
Or you could invent laser emitting diodes. Burn out the retinas of any unsuspecting thieves.
>Get a seagate momentus FDE and do pre-boot authentication. >encryption is done in hardware, on the drive, viola.
Seagate momentus disks use string instruments for data encryption?
Clearly you have not read the Cryptonomicon. You should know that cryptography is all derived from studying musical instruments.
I tried reading the web from the cable modem TV channel once, but it put me to sleep.
Schedule some maintenance work or emergency preparedness exercises where you have to move 2U+ servers around the facilities. Work yourself up to 4U+ as you go along.
Or you could just bring a couple dumbbells to work and lift while at your desk.
I'm sorry, but Lynx is still faster than all of the above. When will we see fair treatment of all browsers? That's racist.
I always wondered how we'd use up all the power of the sun. Now I know.
What, you think you know better than MICROSOFT what should be on your machine?
Well they did release Vista.
Well, they did release Bob.
Well, they did release Office Fast Search.
True, but the real point is to confuse marketing lingo so people can sell you a SATA 3Gbps drive as a SATA 3.0 drive and cause consumers to become even more stupid and thus eliminate the build-your-own-computer market.
Yes, I played 1 & 2 and they were awesome, but the disappointments leading up to 3 were so awful that I skipped that one entirely. Unless they bring back LGS, I won't have any expectations for 4, nor will I have much interest in it.
+1 for flying pig flu. Now we really know what happens when pigs fly.
Heracles called. He wants his glory back.
That'd only survive in an Australian market. I was thinking iFone, iFon, iPhon, iCell, iTone, iZon.