How do they know it's been read? Like the others, I'm sure where there's a will, there's a way, through screenshots or something. It's a nice thought, but my mama always told me never to write down anything I didn't want to be shown. You can't always prove what someone said but you can show what someone has written. I know I'm saving a few choice words that could conceivably come back and bite the person who sent the email to me.
That was my point; my favorite math major (my boyfriend) works at Starbucks. His boss is a CS major from Georgia Tech.
Myself, I'm an undecided liberal arts major, so I'm even more useless:)
You should be able to give them a laptop loaded up with Windows or Knoppix or SkyOS, and they should be able to quickly muddle their way over to myspace.com.
...and bonus points to the user who muddles his way over to Slashdot.
Parent, although obviously intended to be funny, is spot on.
At my university (and, granted, it's a small, private, liberal arts school that tends to attract off-center kids), more than half of my acquaintances claim to have ADD. Everyone has different ways of coping with it--some study in groups, some allow themselves to be distracted and beg huge extensions from over-lenient professors, and some take vast quantities of Adderall/Ritalin (their own or 'borrowed.')
Having such a large percentage of the population claim to be affected by ADD makes one wonder where the line is between being distractable/absent-minded and truly being affected by an illness (or, if that's not the right word, a diagnosable issue.)
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How do they know it's been read? Like the others, I'm sure where there's a will, there's a way, through screenshots or something. It's a nice thought, but my mama always told me never to write down anything I didn't want to be shown. You can't always prove what someone said but you can show what someone has written. I know I'm saving a few choice words that could conceivably come back and bite the person who sent the email to me.
That was my point; my favorite math major (my boyfriend) works at Starbucks. His boss is a CS major from Georgia Tech. Myself, I'm an undecided liberal arts major, so I'm even more useless :)
...at least, that's what my favorite math major does with all those 1337 calculus skillz.
You should be able to give them a laptop loaded up with Windows or Knoppix or SkyOS, and they should be able to quickly muddle their way over to myspace.com.
...and bonus points to the user who muddles his way over to Slashdot.
Parent, although obviously intended to be funny, is spot on. At my university (and, granted, it's a small, private, liberal arts school that tends to attract off-center kids), more than half of my acquaintances claim to have ADD. Everyone has different ways of coping with it--some study in groups, some allow themselves to be distracted and beg huge extensions from over-lenient professors, and some take vast quantities of Adderall/Ritalin (their own or 'borrowed.') Having such a large percentage of the population claim to be affected by ADD makes one wonder where the line is between being distractable/absent-minded and truly being affected by an illness (or, if that's not the right word, a diagnosable issue.)