Honestly no. Having learned with both a laptop (at the college level) and "in the lab", I found that having access to things on the laptop gave you a much higher degree of learning. Why? 1)You always have access to it 2)When it comes to something like Word and Excel, you can use them in conjunction with other classes outside the labs very easily. You apply the knowledge you learn.
Going through a class and learning about a piece of software then moving on to something else doesn't really leave you with any proficiency in that software. When we learned Linux a couple years ago, instead of just doing the lab work on Linux, I wiped my laptop and put Fedora Core on it and used it 100% of the time. The result? My proficiency with Linux was significantly higher than anyone else in my class. The following year whenever a Linux issue came up in class, I was the go to guy.
Had there been no laptops that likely wouldn't have occurred. Nor would some of the other independent learning that goes on with laptops. Educators need to create that environment though and encourage that kind of learning. For me, I learned it because I knew there was a great potential that I might user it in a future job as a network engineer/systems administrator. Most high school kids don't have that kind of independent forethought.
I'm all for MS bashing...but come on with the fud? It takes more resources, that drains battery life faster. You can turn aero off. I found that playing Company of Heroes drained my battery life faster than having my laptop turned off. Damn Relic. CURSE THEM!!!!
No shit...lets see, what is the business model? Take a wide range of old gaming systems with a vast number of loved games. Release those games on a regular schedule. Make the release count so low that even releasing A+ games it could take 2 or 3 years before you get through them all. Mix some lame ass, obscure and poor games (1 game, and it scores a 3.8 out of 10 as a rating, that was the sole offering a few weeks back) Charge a premium for this awesome service.
All they're doing is showing that if you release mediocre stuff, you'll get mediocre sales.
He specifically told me that customers can have exceptions put on their accounts if its for legitimate use, they just have to call the ISP and tell them. Why? Because in this case the lady wasn't sending legitimate e-mails and it did exactly what it was supposed to. Her computer had become part of a spam sending bot-net through her own ignorance, she only noticed some time later when she went to send an e-mail and was rejected. The average person probably only sends at most a few dozen e-mails a day (under 100). Given that ISPs can't rely on people to protect their machines, I'd rather have people have to call in once and say "hey I need to send X e-mails at once", then have even more compromised machines out there sending spam.
I don't work for, or use the ISP. Nor do I know what the exact threshold for triggering this system, nor is my friend likely allowed to tell me, he did describe it as taking "quite a bit". I doubt this triggers at 50 or 100 e-mails. His description indicated it was something like 1000, and people can contact the ISP if they need to legitimately send more than that at once to have an exception made in their file. The vast majority of people out there don't need to regularly fire off 1000 e-mail everyday.
Next time read a post thoroughly before shifting your knee to jerk.
My friend works for a local ISP here in town. He was telling me about their system, which will automatically shut people down. If they send a certain number of e-mails in a certain period, a flag goes on their account and their access to the mail server is blocked for 24 hours (the first time). When their access is restored, if it continues to happen they get longer and longer blocks. He told me a story about a woman who called in who just didn't seem to understand this concept and her access was currently being blocked for something like 2 weeks, which was one of the longest blocks he'd seen.
I know we're all pitchforks and torches when it comes to Microsoft around here, but if we're going to link to some blog with its biased editorializing, think we could link to maybe the Microsoft page on this? Heaven forbid someone actually want the information from the horse's mouth.
They're bumbling with virtual console to be honest. There are thousands of games for the systems they have, yet they're releasing a paltry 3 a week, give or take. A couple weeks ago, they released 1 and it scored a 3.8 out of 10 on reviews. Wow.
They need to step it up and encourage others like Sega to do the same. There are too many games out there that people want to wait and hope to get them at 3 a week.
Just for curiosities sake I took their medium light still from the Ericsson and ran it through Paint shop pro 9. Automatic photo fix and saturation adjustment (normal, with a strong enhancment) left the photos looking close enough that you'd really have to look to tell the difference. The brightness is a tad better on the fixed Ericsson shot in regards to the back figure. As someone pointed out above, its likely the N95 just does some post processing on it to give it those colours.
Well after playing for a couple weeks now, I gotta say that I'm sorry a pre-ordered. I should have realized that the last couple offerings from Turbine haven't been great (How could anyone fail to turn D&D online into a cash cow?). They're already making boneheaded decisions (they just completely destroyed farming, the kind with crops, in a nerf they admit they didn't properly think out). Unless I see something amazing from them in the next few days I'll be leaving my pre-order on the shelf at EB.
Awww. Someone couldn't handle the truth? Simple fact is, the game was done in DX9 this time. Its going to cost a lot more to port the game than it did last time. Obviously they don't think there is going to be any return on investment, so the price would have to be higher to sway them to do it.
Did you snort cocaine before writing this? The only good news that could have come about fallout was that interplay had pulled the rights and was locking them away until a developer worthy of them showed up. Fallout will not survive the Bethesda treatment.
As long as you're willing to pay $2000-$3000 for your copy, I bet they'd do it. That's a completely scientific number based on an unscientific guestimate of how much it would cost to make a port divided be the number of linux users willing to buy it.
Are you kidding me? Do they let you on the internet with that kind of brain damage? I seriously hope you were being sarcastic, because Bethesda is going to bend Fallout over whatever piece of office furniture is close enough and violate it repeatedly while laughing all the way to the bank on the backs of those who did not learn last time.
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Honestly no.
Having learned with both a laptop (at the college level) and "in the lab", I found that having access to things on the laptop gave you a much higher degree of learning.
Why?
1)You always have access to it
2)When it comes to something like Word and Excel, you can use them in conjunction with other classes outside the labs very easily. You apply the knowledge you learn.
Going through a class and learning about a piece of software then moving on to something else doesn't really leave you with any proficiency in that software. When we learned Linux a couple years ago, instead of just doing the lab work on Linux, I wiped my laptop and put Fedora Core on it and used it 100% of the time. The result? My proficiency with Linux was significantly higher than anyone else in my class. The following year whenever a Linux issue came up in class, I was the go to guy.
Had there been no laptops that likely wouldn't have occurred. Nor would some of the other independent learning that goes on with laptops. Educators need to create that environment though and encourage that kind of learning. For me, I learned it because I knew there was a great potential that I might user it in a future job as a network engineer/systems administrator. Most high school kids don't have that kind of independent forethought.
I'm all for MS bashing...but come on with the fud?
It takes more resources, that drains battery life faster. You can turn aero off. I found that playing Company of Heroes drained my battery life faster than having my laptop turned off.
Damn Relic. CURSE THEM!!!!
No shit...lets see, what is the business model?
Take a wide range of old gaming systems with a vast number of loved games.
Release those games on a regular schedule.
Make the release count so low that even releasing A+ games it could take 2 or 3 years before you get through them all.
Mix some lame ass, obscure and poor games (1 game, and it scores a 3.8 out of 10 as a rating, that was the sole offering a few weeks back)
Charge a premium for this awesome service.
All they're doing is showing that if you release mediocre stuff, you'll get mediocre sales.
He specifically told me that customers can have exceptions put on their accounts if its for legitimate use, they just have to call the ISP and tell them.
Why?
Because in this case the lady wasn't sending legitimate e-mails and it did exactly what it was supposed to. Her computer had become part of a spam sending bot-net through her own ignorance, she only noticed some time later when she went to send an e-mail and was rejected. The average person probably only sends at most a few dozen e-mails a day (under 100). Given that ISPs can't rely on people to protect their machines, I'd rather have people have to call in once and say "hey I need to send X e-mails at once", then have even more compromised machines out there sending spam.
I don't work for, or use the ISP.
Nor do I know what the exact threshold for triggering this system, nor is my friend likely allowed to tell me, he did describe it as taking "quite a bit".
I doubt this triggers at 50 or 100 e-mails. His description indicated it was something like 1000, and people can contact the ISP if they need to legitimately send more than that at once to have an exception made in their file.
The vast majority of people out there don't need to regularly fire off 1000 e-mail everyday.
Next time read a post thoroughly before shifting your knee to jerk.
My friend works for a local ISP here in town. He was telling me about their system, which will automatically shut people down. If they send a certain number of e-mails in a certain period, a flag goes on their account and their access to the mail server is blocked for 24 hours (the first time).
When their access is restored, if it continues to happen they get longer and longer blocks. He told me a story about a woman who called in who just didn't seem to understand this concept and her access was currently being blocked for something like 2 weeks, which was one of the longest blocks he'd seen.
Every day that passes my joy of living somewhere other than America grows.
sometimes when I read headlines hear I lose my mind for a second and think I'm in the tabloid section of a supermarket.
I know we're all pitchforks and torches when it comes to Microsoft around here, but if we're going to link to some blog with its biased editorializing, think we could link to maybe the Microsoft page on this? Heaven forbid someone actually want the information from the horse's mouth.
They're bumbling with virtual console to be honest. There are thousands of games for the systems they have, yet they're releasing a paltry 3 a week, give or take. A couple weeks ago, they released 1 and it scored a 3.8 out of 10 on reviews. Wow. They need to step it up and encourage others like Sega to do the same. There are too many games out there that people want to wait and hope to get them at 3 a week.
already above, the same. it seems for some reason the browser isn't even retrieving the HTML on that particular page.
Just for curiosities sake I took their medium light still from the Ericsson and ran it through Paint shop pro 9. Automatic photo fix and saturation adjustment (normal, with a strong enhancment) left the photos looking close enough that you'd really have to look to tell the difference. The brightness is a tad better on the fixed Ericsson shot in regards to the back figure. As someone pointed out above, its likely the N95 just does some post processing on it to give it those colours.
View sources give me this body and head tags, thats it. No content what so ever.
default install, the only thing I've added is flash block.
That's also what I'm using.
Your page completely and utterly fails in firefox. Shows up blank. Works in IE.
Well after playing for a couple weeks now, I gotta say that I'm sorry a pre-ordered. I should have realized that the last couple offerings from Turbine haven't been great (How could anyone fail to turn D&D online into a cash cow?). They're already making boneheaded decisions (they just completely destroyed farming, the kind with crops, in a nerf they admit they didn't properly think out). Unless I see something amazing from them in the next few days I'll be leaving my pre-order on the shelf at EB.
NWN2 failure isn't because its not on Linux or Mac. Its because its a shiny, but inferior game.
That $60 regular, ground post shipping price on a thumb drive, just went to $80, plus the seller expects half of that in cash.
Awww. Someone couldn't handle the truth? Simple fact is, the game was done in DX9 this time. Its going to cost a lot more to port the game than it did last time. Obviously they don't think there is going to be any return on investment, so the price would have to be higher to sway them to do it.
Wow... so you're going rely on the modders to provide a proper fall out game? That seems like a completely reasonable way to go about it.
Did you snort cocaine before writing this? The only good news that could have come about fallout was that interplay had pulled the rights and was locking them away until a developer worthy of them showed up. Fallout will not survive the Bethesda treatment.
As long as you're willing to pay $2000-$3000 for your copy, I bet they'd do it. That's a completely scientific number based on an unscientific guestimate of how much it would cost to make a port divided be the number of linux users willing to buy it.
Are you kidding me?
Do they let you on the internet with that kind of brain damage?
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic, because Bethesda is going to bend Fallout over whatever piece of office furniture is close enough and violate it repeatedly while laughing all the way to the bank on the backs of those who did not learn last time.
that's okay. On slashdot we allow a wide margin of error to still be considered insightful.