Am I the only one wondering what the odds are that the dog would come back evil like in Pet Cemetery? I read through the FAQs on the site and I didn't see anything about this. They would have to disclose it if there were, say, a one in ten chance that the cloned dog would turn on its master and try to kill your family, right? Right?!
Did anyone else read that and see John Shaft instead of John Shalf?
Who's the computer scientist who's a sex machine to all the chicks? Shalf!
He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors.
Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc.
Having to verify my identity with Microsoft makes me a little uneasy and is enough of a hassle to turn me away from this program. They should really make it easier. Microsoft offered free software to students a few years ago when I was in university only they had a much more effective way of distributing it. They put signs up all over the CS faculty buildings advertising a Microsoft seminar where they would hand out the software along with free pizza! They had to book a bigger room because too many people showed up.
Greenpeace was upset at Apple a while ago because of all the packaging they used for their products. Perhaps this was no simple mistake but an attack on Apple by the environmentalists. Start your conspiracy theories now! Bonus points if it involves Freemasons or inheriting money from the deposed king of Nigeria!
In university I took a discrete logic course taught by a tenured professor who was one year away from retirement. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday he showed up to class, opened the textbook, and proceeded to read it to the class in the most monotone voice I've ever heard. There were over 100 students in the class and the average attendance was about 5. Despite the effort involved in keeping my eyes open, I went to nearly every class.
There were two midterms that were each worth about 20% of the final mark. On midterm days everyone had trouble finding a seat. The best part was during the second midterm the guy sitting next to me turned to me and asked "So... like... when do we have to write the second midterm after this one?" When I told him that this was the second midterm and that he'd missed the first he turned as white as a ghost, put his head on the desk and started shaking. It made sitting through all those boring classes worth it.
I used to work at university with a similar laptop initiative. The comments above are accurate, you will have problems, it won't work well at the beginning. It seems as though your university is barrelling ahead without realizing what they're getting into. Rather than jumping from a computer lab model to a laptop model in one year, I would suggest phasing it in more slowly. Set up a laptop support program for users who already have laptops. Then start offering a standardized laptop that students can purchase at a discounted price and receive support for. Then implement your mandatory laptop program (preferably with a standardized laptop provided by the college). At each stage re-evaluate your approach and fine tune your support program as this will be the main issue. It will go much more smoothly if you give yourself enough time to work out the problems.
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Am I the only one wondering what the odds are that the dog would come back evil like in Pet Cemetery? I read through the FAQs on the site and I didn't see anything about this. They would have to disclose it if there were, say, a one in ten chance that the cloned dog would turn on its master and try to kill your family, right? Right?!
Did anyone else read that and see John Shaft instead of John Shalf?
Who's the computer scientist who's a sex machine to all the chicks? Shalf!
He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors.
They're obviously not very good at maths
9/11 changed everything... even multiplication.
Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc.
Having to verify my identity with Microsoft makes me a little uneasy and is enough of a hassle to turn me away from this program. They should really make it easier. Microsoft offered free software to students a few years ago when I was in university only they had a much more effective way of distributing it. They put signs up all over the CS faculty buildings advertising a Microsoft seminar where they would hand out the software along with free pizza! They had to book a bigger room because too many people showed up.
Greenpeace was upset at Apple a while ago because of all the packaging they used for their products. Perhaps this was no simple mistake but an attack on Apple by the environmentalists. Start your conspiracy theories now! Bonus points if it involves Freemasons or inheriting money from the deposed king of Nigeria!
In university I took a discrete logic course taught by a tenured professor who was one year away from retirement. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday he showed up to class, opened the textbook, and proceeded to read it to the class in the most monotone voice I've ever heard. There were over 100 students in the class and the average attendance was about 5. Despite the effort involved in keeping my eyes open, I went to nearly every class.
There were two midterms that were each worth about 20% of the final mark. On midterm days everyone had trouble finding a seat. The best part was during the second midterm the guy sitting next to me turned to me and asked "So... like... when do we have to write the second midterm after this one?" When I told him that this was the second midterm and that he'd missed the first he turned as white as a ghost, put his head on the desk and started shaking. It made sitting through all those boring classes worth it.
I used to work at university with a similar laptop initiative. The comments above are accurate, you will have problems, it won't work well at the beginning. It seems as though your university is barrelling ahead without realizing what they're getting into. Rather than jumping from a computer lab model to a laptop model in one year, I would suggest phasing it in more slowly. Set up a laptop support program for users who already have laptops. Then start offering a standardized laptop that students can purchase at a discounted price and receive support for. Then implement your mandatory laptop program (preferably with a standardized laptop provided by the college). At each stage re-evaluate your approach and fine tune your support program as this will be the main issue. It will go much more smoothly if you give yourself enough time to work out the problems.