German is in general a little bit more exact, I believe. That's why every German text is at least 1/3 longer than any engish text. The German language has simply more words, I think. Take "Flummi" for example - it's a small little rubber ball that bounces like hell, kind of like Flubber.... Just my $.2 re the German language....
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Cost for college: [...] SDSU for example has a yearly tution of a whopping $5000, and that's for an engineering student who pays more per credit than other majors. Still you pay a lotof money - in other countries education is free (or almost so, we're talking about $200) - I did not say that paying for college is good or bad, I was merely stating the fact that there are many schools who have such high tuition that the "few" bucks for a laptop don't way much.
If a teacher is writing tests in such a way that all one needs to do is rephrase a quote from the internet, he is cheating the students. I wholeheartedly agree - that is not the object of any class, i assume. The teacher merely allows the students to use the information that's available to their advantage. Nobody said that just quoting some web-site earns the students an A.
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What about the fact that 99% of people out there can't afford laptops, or who could only afford a much less reliable laptop than others?
Well, this goes into a completely different direction. In the US people pay incredible amounts of money for college-education, and in relation to these amounts, the money spent on a laptop is nothing. That's why many schools assume (or requrie) that every student has a computer/laptop anyway. Now whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, is a completely different discussion, but in a class where everybody has the possibility to access the information on the web it would be wrong not to let students make use of these sources.
Yeah, that's absolutely the way it should be. In my school freshmen are also required to get a laptop and apparently people are using them now. I just had a take-home midterm in Quantum Physics and I know that without the web I would not have been able to do more than ONE problem. It's not about just searching the web for a duplicate of the problem with a solution, but about to use the information sources that are available in an efficient way. I find classes and exams where you are required to to memorize things (ie closed book/ closed notes) stupid and useless - in the *real* world you will always have the possibility to look things up in a book oron the web. By researching information one learns more than by just memorizing!
A computer generated alien who sheds a single tear for his race. Doesn't get much worse than that.
Agreed! One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The whole theater was laughing all the time. Worst lines: "50% Point of no return" "Oh, look they're leaving the planet" (as the alien ships are leaving the planet) "Oh, look, one stays behind!" (as one alien ship stays behind)
I would not WANT to have my physical address be part of my email-address. I don't want everybody to determine my normal address from my email-address and then show up on my door just like that. That's a huge privacy-thingy...
Though following the "new" German orthography it should be Donaudampfschiffarhrtsgesellschaftskapitän .
while we're at the topic, a long long time ago I came across the famous Zweihunderttausendbruttoregistertonnenöltankerunte roffizier in some Donald-Duck-comic...
Ever since I read Linus' explanation why he chose the Penguin or what the mascott should look like, I can't help but keep thinking of Tux as happy in just-got-laid-happy. This won't work with Geeko, I think...
Hmmm, that's a tough one. I can't think of anything that describes the full meaning of "geek" in German. "Geek" and "nerd" are both words that I believe are used in German, b/c if you try to translate it, you end up with something along the lines of "you know, a pale skinny guy with coke-bottle-glasses, physcially attached to a keyboard (the geek, not the coke-bottle-glasses, these are attached to the screen) of a computer, who doesn't have a life and spends all his waking hours in front of the computer, cranking code or playing MUDS. It's obviously not necessary to mention he can't get a girlfriend. Has pimply skin, most likely, too."
The German language is designed to make loooooooong long complicated sentences. Putting all this information into one short word, doesn't make sense to Germans.
Me too!;-) It seems NYU has sent out an email last night regarding Napster, as mt girlfriend also asked me just last night "if I know what Napster is". But I'm not sure in how far it is really banned, I believe the email just said something along the lines of "discourage the use of Napster" or so...
(Sadly) Babelfish does not translate vulgar slang. This person actually did know *some* German, jedoch muss ich diesem Iditoten mitteilen, dass er doch noch etwas an seiner Grammatik und Orthographie feilen sollte.
Plus any movie that has a Cameo with Jay and Silent Bob is well worth my $7.00 Plus the suprise appearance of Jaime Kennedy (Randy), even though he had died in the second movie was probably the main reason that I went.
Yeah, Jay and Bob rule! Randy was awesome - I liked his appearance as well. Pretty funny as well: Princess Leia (and with her we might even get the movie into Slashdot, hmm?).
I found Scream 3 to be a lot better than the second one, and maybe as good as the first one. It had a lot of hilarious scenes, funny guest-appearances and, as we expected, was quite witty in general. Of course, some things still don't make ANY sense. For example, why would Sidney really want to live out in the woods, all by herself, after she's been through the first two movies? At least she got a gun, now...
Oh, and we should mention that Seinfeld's Puddy had a role that was perfect for him! Now I can see him do The Tick for real!!:)
I agree. There should not be a standard. I particularly like chaning the look and feel of my desktop every now and then, playing around with different windowmanagers etc. But I believe it would be a good idea to have a graphical file-manager, not even though but rather because it's more like windows. Not *everything* in windows (or mac gui) is bad. More people will be willing to switch to Linux or other OS OS (Open Source Operating System - how do you write that? OSOS?) if they have the ease of "point and click". Isn't KDE's file manager a graphical file-manager?
You bastard! I thought I'd be the one...;-) "Last week, I gave a presentation on SurfWatch, and blocking software in general, in downtown Holland, Michigan." I always thought Holland was in Europe... -Jan
yep - smpeg played it fine. Thanks! Now could you please also make an mpeg of the Mission to mars-trailer that's also http://www.quicktime.com ??;)) -Jan
yeah - that's him. he also stole the "move" from Jerry (even though he varied it slightly, I think he did a pinch in the end... For a while he wouldn't do the move then, b/c Jerry complained he stole it, and Elaine was very unhappy. Even George could (after a while) get some success with this move (counterclockwise swing in the end).:)) -Jan
Puddy's the guy Elaine was daiting for a while - they were on and off all the time. he was hilarious: he was kind of dumb and would just sit there and stare, not do anything. Also, he's a face-painter. He's Jerry's mechanic at the garage. He lateron was a car-seller. Anything I forgot? -Jan
AFAIK - the french 'chatte' is equivalent to the english 'pussy', which of course you can feel free to translate with 'cat', but I believe the meaning is a little different....:)
I tink he ment the cheetah, which still is no leopard. Anyway, I thought the ad's sucked big-time, except for the one e-trade with the monkey... One of the worst ad's EVER was certainly the "We are the champions"-singing-thing... man!
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Here german is somewhat more exact then english.
German is in general a little bit more exact, I believe. That's why every German text is at least 1/3 longer than any engish text.
The German language has simply more words, I think. Take "Flummi" for example - it's a small little rubber ball that bounces like hell, kind of like Flubber....
Just my $.2 re the German language....
Cost for college: [...] SDSU for example has a yearly tution of a whopping $5000, and that's for an engineering student who pays more per credit than other majors.
Still you pay a lotof money - in other countries education is free (or almost so, we're talking about $200) - I did not say that paying for college is good or bad, I was merely stating the fact that there are many schools who have such high tuition that the "few" bucks for a laptop don't way much.
If a teacher is writing tests in such a way that all one needs to do is rephrase a quote from the internet, he is cheating the students.
I wholeheartedly agree - that is not the object of any class, i assume. The teacher merely allows the students to use the information that's available to their advantage. Nobody said that just quoting some web-site earns the students an A.
What about the fact that 99% of people out there can't afford laptops, or who could only afford a much less reliable laptop than others?
Well, this goes into a completely different direction. In the US people pay incredible amounts of money for college-education, and in relation to these amounts, the money spent on a laptop is nothing. That's why many schools assume (or requrie) that every student has a computer/laptop anyway. Now whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, is a completely different discussion, but in a class where everybody has the possibility to access the information on the web it would be wrong not to let students make use of these sources.
Yeah, that's absolutely the way it should be. In my school freshmen are also required to get a laptop and apparently people are using them now. I just had a take-home midterm in Quantum Physics and I know that without the web I would not have been able to do more than ONE problem.
It's not about just searching the web for a duplicate of the problem with a solution, but about to use the information sources that are available in an efficient way.
I find classes and exams where you are required to to memorize things (ie closed book/ closed notes) stupid and useless - in the *real* world you will always have the possibility to look things up in a book oron the web. By researching information one learns more than by just memorizing!
A computer generated alien who sheds a single tear for his race.
Doesn't get much worse than that.
Agreed! One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The whole theater was laughing all the time.
Worst lines:
"50% Point of no return"
"Oh, look they're leaving the planet" (as the alien ships are leaving the planet)
"Oh, look, one stays behind!" (as one alien ship stays behind)
Sooooo bad...
I would not WANT to have my physical address be part of my email-address. I don't want everybody to determine my normal address from my email-address and then show up on my door just like that. That's a huge privacy-thingy...
Though following the "new" German orthography it should be Donaudampfschiffarhrtsgesellschaftskapitän .
e roffizier in some Donald-Duck-comic...
while we're at the topic, a long long time ago I came across the famous Zweihunderttausendbruttoregistertonnenöltankerunt
Ever since I read Linus' explanation why he chose the Penguin or what the mascott should look like, I can't help but keep thinking of Tux as happy in just-got-laid-happy.
This won't work with Geeko, I think...
Hmmm, that's a tough one. I can't think of anything that describes the full meaning of "geek" in German. "Geek" and "nerd" are both words that I believe are used in German, b/c if you try to translate it, you end up with something along the lines of "you know, a pale skinny guy with coke-bottle-glasses, physcially attached to a keyboard (the geek, not the coke-bottle-glasses, these are attached to the screen) of a computer, who doesn't have a life and spends all his waking hours in front of the computer, cranking code or playing MUDS. It's obviously not necessary to mention he can't get a girlfriend. Has pimply skin, most likely, too."
:-)
The German language is designed to make loooooooong long complicated sentences. Putting all this information into one short word, doesn't make sense to Germans.
Me too! ;-)
It seems NYU has sent out an email last night regarding Napster, as mt girlfriend also asked me just last night "if I know what Napster is". But I'm not sure in how far it is really banned, I believe the email just said something along the lines of "discourage the use of Napster" or so...
Dude - the title is "Scream", and it's more than once... I would guess it runs Windows...
(Sadly) Babelfish does not translate vulgar slang.
This person actually did know *some* German, jedoch muss ich diesem Iditoten mitteilen, dass er doch noch etwas an seiner Grammatik und Orthographie feilen sollte.
Yeah, Jay and Bob rule!
Randy was awesome - I liked his appearance as well.
Pretty funny as well: Princess Leia (and with her we might even get the movie into Slashdot, hmm?).
I found Scream 3 to be a lot better than the second one, and maybe as good as the first one. It had a lot of hilarious scenes, funny guest-appearances and, as we expected, was quite witty in general.
Of course, some things still don't make ANY sense. For example, why would Sidney really want to live out in the woods, all by herself, after she's been through the first two movies? At least she got a gun, now...
Oh, and we should mention that Seinfeld's Puddy had a role that was perfect for him! Now I can see him do The Tick for real!! :)
I agree. There should not be a standard. I particularly like chaning the look and feel of my desktop every now and then, playing around with different windowmanagers etc. But I believe it would be a good idea to have a graphical file-manager, not even though but rather because it's more like windows. Not *everything* in windows (or mac gui) is bad. More people will be willing to switch to Linux or other OS OS (Open Source Operating System - how do you write that? OSOS?) if they have the ease of "point and click". Isn't KDE's file manager a graphical file-manager?
There is an SSH-Plugin for TeraTerm Pro.
is that Mignon like Filet Mignon?
You bastard! I thought I'd be the one... ;-) "Last week, I gave a presentation on SurfWatch, and blocking software in general, in downtown Holland, Michigan." I always thought Holland was in Europe... -Jan
yep - smpeg played it fine. Thanks! Now could you please also make an mpeg of the Mission to mars-trailer that's also http://www.quicktime.com ?? ;)) -Jan
yeah - that's him. he also stole the "move" from Jerry (even though he varied it slightly, I think he did a pinch in the end... For a while he wouldn't do the move then, b/c Jerry complained he stole it, and Elaine was very unhappy. Even George could (after a while) get some success with this move (counterclockwise swing in the end). :)) -Jan
Puddy's the guy Elaine was daiting for a while - they were on and off all the time. he was hilarious: he was kind of dumb and would just sit there and stare, not do anything. Also, he's a face-painter. He's Jerry's mechanic at the garage. He lateron was a car-seller. Anything I forgot? -Jan
AFAIK - the french 'chatte' is equivalent to the english 'pussy', which of course you can feel free to translate with 'cat', but I believe the meaning is a little different.... :)
And I thought the plural of Unix was Unices... ;-P
I tink he ment the cheetah, which still is no leopard. Anyway, I thought the ad's sucked big-time, except for the one e-trade with the monkey... One of the worst ad's EVER was certainly the "We are the champions"-singing-thing... man!