If you are having those kind of problems with Vista, then you have a malfunctioning piece of hardware. Seriously, my machine is nearly the same as yours score wise, in fact, my lowest score is a 4.9, yet I have no issues with redraw and no issues with playing video at my monitorâ(TM)s native resolution of 1680 x 1050.
I think you have a video card problem. Maybe it is drivers, maybe you are not telling me the real score (it is a dev machine... video is not key for most development). Update the drivers or Buy yourself the current $90 nVidia (or borrow one from a friend) and see if that fixes your problems.
I am a fan of drill and kill for the basic facts of a subject. I am also a fan of project oriented learning.
Trust me... I have no Utopian views of what students know by the time they enter High School.
I agree about the culture being the difference. Our culture is failing our kids in education. Everyone wants to blame the teachers when in 80% or more of the cases, it is the students and parents (many of which have to work too many hours)who fail to uphold their end of the bargain.
1) There is not latency issue. The UI is accelerated through the GPU so the crappy tearing and lack of redrawing content is gone. if you hate the 30ms transitions that take place when you minimize a window, then turn them off.
2)How much more native do they need to be than "install codec - > play video" ?
3) I think you have convinced yourself that Vista sucks because everyone says it does.
To add to that, directed projects have their place, but a free form project where the students don't know what type of mathematical skills will be required or where to apply those skills is where real learning happens and that lack of free form application of knowledge is why our students lack competitiveness out of high school.
But see... even knowing how to apply a formula is not really applying mathematics. If a math teacher had the time to educate the kids, they could do a lot more interesting things such as semester long projects that interact with the things they are learning in other subjects that require the kids to not only use math, but find the problems, discover which mathematical tools are best to use, etc. Then they would be learning HOW to use math.
To add to what I said before, this is not about testing for a teacher's ability to track their students' progress in the classroom. This is about the high stakes testing that takes place thanks to No Child Left Behind. Tying the life of the school to how well the kids retain information necessitates that the teachers focus on the information retention more than the information usage. The reason is not because they are crappy at teaching, but because our culture is not supportive of the educational process for a large proportion of the students. Many of the most difficult to teach students are clumped together geographically so you end up with schools that have a much higher percentage of these kids than other schools, making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) very difficult to achieve.
No... Not knowledge... ability. They are related but completely different things. Yearly standardized testing forces teachers to fill kids' heads with information to prep them to regurgitate it onto paper. Education is not about the ability to regurgitate facts, it is about taking learned facts and applying them in life.
I can cram a kidâ(TM)s head full of all the information I want, but unless I work on their ability to do something with that information, they haven't learned a damn thing.
Har har, except he is not predicting individual events, but a single event that is caused by the predicate legislation... guess what... he was right on the money.
if High school coached had to get their players ready for a standardized test every season to compare their athletes ability to do something completely unrelated to their ability to play better ball, how soon do you think it will be before people bitch and moan about the crapy athletics in this country?
Our higher education system rocks the world over, but our primary and secondary education blows donkey balls. We focus too much on silly things like yearly high stakes testing and not enough on education.... there is also a severe lack of the idea that repetition of certain things (like basic facts in mathematics) leads to better performance.
Oh... and the idea that every child should be in the exact same room setting, and the lack of parents who give a shit, and the lack of motivation from most students.... there are lots of problems in US primary and secondary education.... teachers are not it for the most part.
There is nothing like driving at night in a truly dark area... my headlights seem to end about 20 feet in front of me and illuminate almost nothing. It is creepy at first but fantastic once you are familiar with it.
The hospital I work for is implimenting a form cycle that allows forms to be printed and scaned back to the EMR. Such a system woudl allow my hospital to use the old paper system but maintain the records electronicly if there was ever a temporary interuption of the EMR.
Probably not, but Byron Dorgon Predicted this trouble in 1995 when teh derivatives markets starte to get noticed and again in 1998 when the "securities modernization act" was passed, deregulating the banks, insurance companies and investments firms.
You have a point there. I think it is due to the huge support infrastructure that was built up in corporations as IT expanded.
The copy machine, the fax, and the phones (those can be crazy complex) don't have near the amount of support (lackey ready to run to help someone on a whim)... people learned to deal with them and now only need repair support for those devices.
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If you are having those kind of problems with Vista, then you have a malfunctioning piece of hardware. Seriously, my machine is nearly the same as yours score wise, in fact, my lowest score is a 4.9, yet I have no issues with redraw and no issues with playing video at my monitorâ(TM)s native resolution of 1680 x 1050.
I think you have a video card problem. Maybe it is drivers, maybe you are not telling me the real score (it is a dev machine... video is not key for most development). Update the drivers or Buy yourself the current $90 nVidia (or borrow one from a friend) and see if that fixes your
problems.
I am a fan of drill and kill for the basic facts of a subject. I am also a fan of project oriented learning.
Trust me... I have no Utopian views of what students know by the time they enter High School.
I agree about the culture being the difference. Our culture is failing our kids in education. Everyone wants to blame the teachers when in 80% or more of the cases, it is the students and parents (many of which have to work too many hours)who fail to uphold their end of the bargain.
1) There is not latency issue. The UI is accelerated through the GPU so the crappy tearing and lack of redrawing content is gone. if you hate the 30ms transitions that take place when you minimize a window, then turn them off.
2)How much more native do they need to be than "install codec - > play video" ?
3) I think you have convinced yourself that Vista sucks because everyone says it does.
That should be "how to calculate using a formula"
To add to that, directed projects have their place, but a free form project where the students don't know what type of mathematical skills will be required or where to apply those skills is where real learning happens and that lack of free form application of knowledge is why our students lack competitiveness out of high school.
But see... even knowing how to apply a formula is not really applying mathematics. If a math teacher had the time to educate the kids, they could do a lot more interesting things such as semester long projects that interact with the things they are learning in other subjects that require the kids to not only use math, but find the problems, discover which mathematical tools are best to use, etc. Then they would be learning HOW to use math.
To add to what I said before, this is not about testing for a teacher's ability to track their students' progress in the classroom. This is about the high stakes testing that takes place thanks to No Child Left Behind. Tying the life of the school to how well the kids retain information necessitates that the teachers focus on the information retention more than the information usage. The reason is not because they are crappy at teaching, but because our culture is not supportive of the educational process for a large proportion of the students. Many of the most difficult to teach students are clumped together geographically so you end up with schools that have a much higher percentage of these kids than other schools, making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) very difficult to achieve.
No... Not knowledge... ability. They are related but completely different things. Yearly standardized testing forces teachers to fill kids' heads with information to prep them to regurgitate it onto paper. Education is not about the ability to regurgitate facts, it is about taking learned facts and applying them in life.
I can cram a kidâ(TM)s head full of all the information I want, but unless I work on their ability to do something with that information, they haven't learned a damn thing.
Har har, except he is not predicting individual events, but a single event that is caused by the predicate legislation... guess what... he was right on the money.
Dude... if Angelina Jolie's only decent future was as a whore... she would be a freaking rich one.
if High school coached had to get their players ready for a standardized test every season to compare their athletes ability to do something completely unrelated to their ability to play better ball, how soon do you think it will be before people bitch and moan about the crapy athletics in this country?
Our higher education system rocks the world over, but our primary and secondary education blows donkey balls. We focus too much on silly things like yearly high stakes testing and not enough on education.... there is also a severe lack of the idea that repetition of certain things (like basic facts in mathematics) leads to better performance.
Oh... and the idea that every child should be in the exact same room setting, and the lack of parents who give a shit, and the lack of motivation from most students.... there are lots of problems in US primary and secondary education.... teachers are not it for the most part.
those were my high beams.
It was very dark.
MathML... ick... that markup should just die.
There is nothing like driving at night in a truly dark area... my headlights seem to end about 20 feet in front of me and illuminate almost nothing. It is creepy at first but fantastic once you are familiar with it.
the i7500 will eat the G2 for breakfast.
which lead directly to Jon Stewart's Daily Show and the awsome spin off, the Colbert Report.
In all, it was a good move.
The hospital I work for is implimenting a form cycle that allows forms to be printed and scaned back to the EMR. Such a system woudl allow my hospital to use the old paper system but maintain the records electronicly if there was ever a temporary interuption of the EMR.
Probably not, but Byron Dorgon Predicted this trouble in 1995 when teh derivatives markets starte to get noticed and again in 1998 when the "securities modernization act" was passed, deregulating the banks, insurance companies and investments firms.
At the same time, other scientists have discovered how to stop stem cells from becoming cancerous.
You have a point there. I think it is due to the huge support infrastructure that was built up in corporations as IT expanded.
The copy machine, the fax, and the phones (those can be crazy complex) don't have near the amount of support (lackey ready to run to help someone on a whim)... people learned to deal with them and now only need repair support for those devices.
Or, in the case of many Doctors... they have much more important things to focus their attention on.... like learning about medicine.
capabilities and power do not make it a great debugger.
It comes down to accessing the information. I love how you can debug in VS and all the information is just there for you.
When I use the Eclipse Debugger, it feels like I have to go looking for the data.
Sorry, but Eclipse, while it is capable and extensable, drives me insane. Its debugger is a complete pain in the butt.
Oh to have an IDE for Java that worked as well as Visual Studio.
Fringe isn't paranormal, it uses science and technology for its basis of everything. there is never "ghosts did it" involved.
Heros is more fantasy, yet it still uses genetics to explain things.
Cory hanks?