My University in Chile had Windows and Linux labs for the computer department. You could use either depending of what kind of assignment/programming you needed to do. I had classes where we focused on Microsoft stuff (VB, ASP, etc) or we wanted to use macromedia products, so we used the windows lab. But for others, specially in C programming and similar, was much better to use the linux lab. The ambient in both was very different too hehe.
As far as I know, we had NO support in Macs. Who cares about macs? You can do whatever is needed for computer and software dev in either windows or linux. I *think* the Design department had some, but eh.
What? I'm one and I don't even understand them. I don't even understand myself, those days when I do things that in a logical way I would never do. That's what I get for being a geeky lady: you do brain stuff, and still there are days where my female hormones reign. Is hell, believe me, hell!
And this is not only true for attractive females, but for attractive males as well. I, for one, prefer to have hot sex with the average joe than pretending to feel "in awe" cause I scored with a hot guy. Hell yes.
What way, like getting good grades because I should? well, I thought like that when I was in school. When I was in grad school, I wanted good grades (or decent at least) so I could get my degree, and also because I felt like I should. I don't need someone paying me to get them, I did it for myself.
I'd mod you up if I didn't have posts in this topic already.
There are things in life you should be doing good no matter if you get a reward or not. Getting decent grades at school (specially if your parents are paying for it, is a way to let them know you actually care about their efforts), is one of them. There are so many things that go wrong when you start rewarding things that just shouldn't. It would be like paying people to be good. How wrong is that.
Well in my knowledge, bribes have always been there to make kids with low scores attempt to get higher ones, like parents promising the kid to buy them whatever they want, or taking them wherever they want, or similar. I bet money has been there too. But that seems to be ok for kids with very low interest in learning. Like someone wrote several posts above, you don't need to do that with kids that get high scores, they already have their own motivation to do so. If you pay them, those motivations will be crushed by the incentive of money, and that sounds like corrupting to me. If those kids get used to be bribed like that, what stops them from taking bribes once they have jobs, to do something not very, eh, ethical perhaps?
Oh, if I had mod points I'd give one to you, because what you say is completely true. I've lived some of that discrimination and predisposition against me for being a woman in the math and physics fields. Of course I like to prove everybody wrong so if I have to work twice as much to achieve that, I'll do it just to rub their own words in their faces. I think that's what has motivated me the most when it comes to science. Science itself is very interesting to me, but proving everybody wrong is priceless:).
And I always thought that females were conditioned by society to not to be interested in the hard science fields. I have yet to see how much influence does environment and culture have, compared to the fact of having a XX chromosome, when it comes to math.
chronic bitterness poisons a person's health in many ways, but often it needs outside impulses to break the feedback loop.
I completely agree with you on that. Usually problems like bitterness and depression are affected by a constant negative loop that they can't break through. Giving them a way to stop it and look at things in a different way makes things much better. But I'm still not quite sure that drugs are the answer to that.
The problem with some of the mental "suffering" you can find in people, is that sometimes is provoked by the environment, i.e. shitty society we live in (leaving aside REAL mental problems). Then you have to fix the society, and you'd cure many many people. But that's a much harder task to do, sadly.
Believe me, if you want to keep your relationship out of fights for a computer, get a new one. I say it by experience. You *do not want* yet another reason to go to bed mad at her, or she mad at you:P
My thoughts exactly. In my whole university life, I never saw a scientific paper wrote in word. They were all in TeX. So I just assume that's the standard for publishing that kind of work, and it makes sense to me that my teacher was that strict when it came to our own work.
Naa it was fine, it was a way to make us really good at doing scientific papers in LaTex, otherwise nobody would have ever learnt it. We had a crash course on basic LaTex at the beginning of the semester, so we could work on it and not be completely clueless. If they made a LaTex course, and then never use it again, then we'd forget. This way, we really don't. Plus, several other courses after this one (math related courses) required papers to be presented and let's face it, math equations in LaTex look nicer than in Word (at least in my opinion)
Mwahahah, I had a teacher back in the university who gave instant 0 grades to those who were so lazy that they presented their papers made in Word but looked like LaTex. You can really tell the difference. I wonder if with the new version of Word, the difference is not going to be that obvious anymore.
We still call it quarter pounder (Cuarto de libra con queso, in spanish). But I honestly believe very few people know why is called that way. They just assume is the burger's name.
While what you say is true, is also true that franchises make differences when it comes to locations, just look at the menues of McDonalds in different countries. They have the "core" products (BigMacs, Quarter pound -which to be honest, in Chile doesn't make one sense because we use METRIC system hehe-), but they also add different items more according to the culture. I think if they can do that, they could also adjust things like WiFi for places where the local mcdonalds doesn't really need to provide that.
Is the reason why I don't generally watch movies based in books either. Much, much better to sit in my couch, cuddle with a cup of tea, and read, than go to the movies to watch something that is surely going to butcher the book, surrounded by people who don't shut up or have the courtesy to turn off their cellphones.
Agree. When I'm in silence, I have so much stuff inside my head that I end up being in my own way when it comes to thinking. Music puts my ideas in order and it lets them flow, like the spice, oh yeah. Also it has to be music with no lyrics, cause I end up singing and I can't sing and code. Must be something in my brain:P.
XP will still be the most pirated windows OS. I don't care what they say about vista, I'm holding to my Xp 64 until win7 is released. And even then I'll take my time, I take so much personalizing my screen/sounds/etc *sigh*
Dunno. For me, english seems far more simple than spanish. I do love the fact that in spanish, you write as it sounds, I always hated that fact in english. But there are many subtle things in spanish that actually (I think) makes it more difficult. Like someone stated some posts ago, it really depends on context. There are a lot of hidden "words" that depends on the phrase you're using, to really tell what they are. And yes, we don't have much irregular verbs, but man, have you SEEN all the conjugations ONE verb has? like 15! And of course, there are rules, and once you grasp them, is pretty easy, but so are english verbs:)
And yes, we don't have spelling bees competitions, but you should see the amount of bad spelling some people have anyways... horrendous.
I, for one, am glad the "x86" language is english and not, let's say, chinese.
Speaking as a south american living in the US, I have to say that I'm glad english is the main programming language. I don't know about other languages, but with spanish, you have too many words to say the same thing. A code in english would probably gain a few hundred lines if it was written in spanish hehe
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My University in Chile had Windows and Linux labs for the computer department. You could use either depending of what kind of assignment/programming you needed to do. I had classes where we focused on Microsoft stuff (VB, ASP, etc) or we wanted to use macromedia products, so we used the windows lab. But for others, specially in C programming and similar, was much better to use the linux lab. The ambient in both was very different too hehe.
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As far as I know, we had NO support in Macs. Who cares about macs? You can do whatever is needed for computer and software dev in either windows or linux. I *think* the Design department had some, but eh.
Oh wait, the language lab had macs
What? I'm one and I don't even understand them. I don't even understand myself, those days when I do things that in a logical way I would never do. That's what I get for being a geeky lady: you do brain stuff, and still there are days where my female hormones reign. Is hell, believe me, hell!
And this is not only true for attractive females, but for attractive males as well. I, for one, prefer to have hot sex with the average joe than pretending to feel "in awe" cause I scored with a hot guy. Hell yes.
What way, like getting good grades because I should? well, I thought like that when I was in school. When I was in grad school, I wanted good grades (or decent at least) so I could get my degree, and also because I felt like I should. I don't need someone paying me to get them, I did it for myself.
I'd mod you up if I didn't have posts in this topic already. There are things in life you should be doing good no matter if you get a reward or not. Getting decent grades at school (specially if your parents are paying for it, is a way to let them know you actually care about their efforts), is one of them. There are so many things that go wrong when you start rewarding things that just shouldn't. It would be like paying people to be good. How wrong is that.
Well in my knowledge, bribes have always been there to make kids with low scores attempt to get higher ones, like parents promising the kid to buy them whatever they want, or taking them wherever they want, or similar. I bet money has been there too. But that seems to be ok for kids with very low interest in learning. Like someone wrote several posts above, you don't need to do that with kids that get high scores, they already have their own motivation to do so. If you pay them, those motivations will be crushed by the incentive of money, and that sounds like corrupting to me. If those kids get used to be bribed like that, what stops them from taking bribes once they have jobs, to do something not very, eh, ethical perhaps?
You DO need a lot of study if you wanna be a musician. A REAL musician. Not those instant teen singers.
Oh, if I had mod points I'd give one to you, because what you say is completely true. I've lived some of that discrimination and predisposition against me for being a woman in the math and physics fields. Of course I like to prove everybody wrong so if I have to work twice as much to achieve that, I'll do it just to rub their own words in their faces. I think that's what has motivated me the most when it comes to science. Science itself is very interesting to me, but proving everybody wrong is priceless :).
And I always thought that females were conditioned by society to not to be interested in the hard science fields. I have yet to see how much influence does environment and culture have, compared to the fact of having a XX chromosome, when it comes to math.
I completely agree with you on that. Usually problems like bitterness and depression are affected by a constant negative loop that they can't break through. Giving them a way to stop it and look at things in a different way makes things much better. But I'm still not quite sure that drugs are the answer to that.
The problem with some of the mental "suffering" you can find in people, is that sometimes is provoked by the environment, i.e. shitty society we live in (leaving aside REAL mental problems). Then you have to fix the society, and you'd cure many many people. But that's a much harder task to do, sadly.
Believe me, if you want to keep your relationship out of fights for a computer, get a new one. I say it by experience. You *do not want* yet another reason to go to bed mad at her, or she mad at you :P
LOL please, no more salt in the wound, please? :P
Fixed it again for you.
;)
Hey, don't look at me that way. I'm chilean. We chileans and argentineans have this "healthy" rivalry going on, you know
My thoughts exactly. In my whole university life, I never saw a scientific paper wrote in word. They were all in TeX. So I just assume that's the standard for publishing that kind of work, and it makes sense to me that my teacher was that strict when it came to our own work.
Naa it was fine, it was a way to make us really good at doing scientific papers in LaTex, otherwise nobody would have ever learnt it. We had a crash course on basic LaTex at the beginning of the semester, so we could work on it and not be completely clueless. If they made a LaTex course, and then never use it again, then we'd forget. This way, we really don't. Plus, several other courses after this one (math related courses) required papers to be presented and let's face it, math equations in LaTex look nicer than in Word (at least in my opinion)
Mwahahah, I had a teacher back in the university who gave instant 0 grades to those who were so lazy that they presented their papers made in Word but looked like LaTex. You can really tell the difference. I wonder if with the new version of Word, the difference is not going to be that obvious anymore.
We still call it quarter pounder (Cuarto de libra con queso, in spanish). But I honestly believe very few people know why is called that way. They just assume is the burger's name.
While what you say is true, is also true that franchises make differences when it comes to locations, just look at the menues of McDonalds in different countries. They have the "core" products (BigMacs, Quarter pound -which to be honest, in Chile doesn't make one sense because we use METRIC system hehe-), but they also add different items more according to the culture. I think if they can do that, they could also adjust things like WiFi for places where the local mcdonalds doesn't really need to provide that.
Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160ÂF kills the swine flu virus
Good! now I know what to do if I get swine flu!!
... oh wait
Is the reason why I don't generally watch movies based in books either. Much, much better to sit in my couch, cuddle with a cup of tea, and read, than go to the movies to watch something that is surely going to butcher the book, surrounded by people who don't shut up or have the courtesy to turn off their cellphones.
Agree. When I'm in silence, I have so much stuff inside my head that I end up being in my own way when it comes to thinking. Music puts my ideas in order and it lets them flow, like the spice, oh yeah. Also it has to be music with no lyrics, cause I end up singing and I can't sing and code. Must be something in my brain :P.
XP will still be the most pirated windows OS. I don't care what they say about vista, I'm holding to my Xp 64 until win7 is released. And even then I'll take my time, I take so much personalizing my screen/sounds/etc *sigh*
Meh, there are too many dicks in charge. And I'm not talking about the male body part, sadly (or gladly?)
Dunno. For me, english seems far more simple than spanish. I do love the fact that in spanish, you write as it sounds, I always hated that fact in english. But there are many subtle things in spanish that actually (I think) makes it more difficult. Like someone stated some posts ago, it really depends on context. There are a lot of hidden "words" that depends on the phrase you're using, to really tell what they are. And yes, we don't have much irregular verbs, but man, have you SEEN all the conjugations ONE verb has? like 15! And of course, there are rules, and once you grasp them, is pretty easy, but so are english verbs :)
And yes, we don't have spelling bees competitions, but you should see the amount of bad spelling some people have anyways... horrendous.
I, for one, am glad the "x86" language is english and not, let's say, chinese.
Speaking as a south american living in the US, I have to say that I'm glad english is the main programming language. I don't know about other languages, but with spanish, you have too many words to say the same thing. A code in english would probably gain a few hundred lines if it was written in spanish hehe