I wish our college professors respected us as human beings. My Discrete Mathematics professor disliked me because I was taking math notes on my laptop. Surely I was ignoring her lesson and surfing the net! No, if I wanted to surf the net, I wouldn't have bothered showing up to class. Anyway, she didn't start liking me until I got the highest grade on our first exam. During our second exam yesterday, I actually thought she would go back to questioning my laptop-note-taking if I didn't get an A+ again. To her, I'm just a grade.
I took a break from college for a couple of years. During that time, I had respectful bosses that actually cared about my life. I went back to college, and the instructors treated us like XBOX-playing, homework-ignoring, party animal brats. No respect at all.
The problem is with education in the United States.
I am not talking about the education system (i.e. k-12 public schooling). I'm talking about parents not trying to teach their children in the home before they even start kindergarten. Too many parents here are just letting the public schools teach their children everything they need to know. That should not be the case. The parents should be the first educational source for our children and the public school system a secondary educational tool.
Public school should supplement (and insure a certain level of) a child's education. As a minority, I see all of my minority friends and my minority in-laws teaching their children math (e.g. multiplication) and such before kindergarten whereas some of the... "non-minority kids" are seeing multiplication for the first time in second grade, and they're falling behind because of it. If the minorities focused on teaching their children proper English as well, they'd come out ahead!
Never let school get in the way of education, seriously.
Ah, now I get it. You couldn't play games on your Macs.
My favorite game is Tetris Max 2.9, available only in Classic (OS 8/9).
As far as the multiple users issue goes, imagine using a computer with just one profile with five other users (who are idiots). That's not going to be any fun. The first time I set up OS X, I had it auto login into a guest account, and I had a separate login for me.
The most annoying issue for me was the stickies. I'd want to make a small note of something, and someone else would eventually open up Stickies (without knowing what it was) and close all of the stickies (never saving them, of course). Gah!
Hating PCs or an OS is absurd. Well, maybe if you're forced to use it...
I was forced to use them at school, they did a horrible job at handling everything I needed to do with them, they didn't work well in multiple user environments, they didn't have nearly enough of the software I was allowed to use under Windows, and I think it's absurd to hate a perfect stranger, but plenty of people do that!
It wasn't the most usable OS available. Perhaps most usable in a home environment, but not in a work or school environment IME. I didn't hate Mac just for the sake of hating Mac. Once they got their act together with OS X, I jumped on board.
You hated a specific brand of personal computers, yet you think Mac users were the ones smoking something?
What's so difficult to understand? I didn't like a product, and I don't understand those that did. Since we're all hip here on/., I said they must have been smoking something.
What did those poor Macs do to you? Steal your lolly when you were in kindergarden?
They didn't do what I wanted them to do. Plain and simple.
Man, you think these guys would have learned something from Rocketboom.
Or X-Play. If you're going to show a bunch of video game stuff, you'll need a woman. Maybe a guy if he's funny. Of course, a friend of mine said Morgan Webb looked like a guy, and since then I've been unable to find her attractive.:mad:
Also, who the hell wants to see a 5 on 5 battle when a 150 person fleet battle would be much more interesting, especially since it would mean I could see a battle between 300 people and not worry about being killed like last time...
Slashdot Mirror
Tell me when they take it to 11.
I don't even own a TV^H^H^H^H an HDTV!
Very true.
I wish our college professors respected us as human beings. My Discrete Mathematics professor disliked me because I was taking math notes on my laptop. Surely I was ignoring her lesson and surfing the net! No, if I wanted to surf the net, I wouldn't have bothered showing up to class. Anyway, she didn't start liking me until I got the highest grade on our first exam. During our second exam yesterday, I actually thought she would go back to questioning my laptop-note-taking if I didn't get an A+ again. To her, I'm just a grade.
I took a break from college for a couple of years. During that time, I had respectful bosses that actually cared about my life. I went back to college, and the instructors treated us like XBOX-playing, homework-ignoring, party animal brats. No respect at all.
The problem is with education in the United States.
I am not talking about the education system (i.e. k-12 public schooling). I'm talking about parents not trying to teach their children in the home before they even start kindergarten. Too many parents here are just letting the public schools teach their children everything they need to know. That should not be the case. The parents should be the first educational source for our children and the public school system a secondary educational tool.
Public school should supplement (and insure a certain level of) a child's education. As a minority, I see all of my minority friends and my minority in-laws teaching their children math (e.g. multiplication) and such before kindergarten whereas some of the... "non-minority kids" are seeing multiplication for the first time in second grade, and they're falling behind because of it. If the minorities focused on teaching their children proper English as well, they'd come out ahead!
Never let school get in the way of education, seriously.
My favorite game is Tetris Max 2.9, available only in Classic (OS 8/9).
As far as the multiple users issue goes, imagine using a computer with just one profile with five other users (who are idiots). That's not going to be any fun. The first time I set up OS X, I had it auto login into a guest account, and I had a separate login for me.
The most annoying issue for me was the stickies. I'd want to make a small note of something, and someone else would eventually open up Stickies (without knowing what it was) and close all of the stickies (never saving them, of course). Gah!
I was forced to use them at school, they did a horrible job at handling everything I needed to do with them, they didn't work well in multiple user environments, they didn't have nearly enough of the software I was allowed to use under Windows, and I think it's absurd to hate a perfect stranger, but plenty of people do that!
It wasn't the most usable OS available. Perhaps most usable in a home environment, but not in a work or school environment IME. I didn't hate Mac just for the sake of hating Mac. Once they got their act together with OS X, I jumped on board.
What's so difficult to understand? I didn't like a product, and I don't understand those that did. Since we're all hip here on /., I said they must have been smoking something.
They didn't do what I wanted them to do. Plain and simple.
Years ago I hated Mac. When a coworker told me to try OS X, I loved it! I'm a huge Mac fan now; I only own Macs (iMac G5 and a MBP).
I always knew the pre-OS X Mac fans were smoking something... ;-)
Or X-Play. If you're going to show a bunch of video game stuff, you'll need a woman. Maybe a guy if he's funny. Of course, a friend of mine said Morgan Webb looked like a guy, and since then I've been unable to find her attractive. :mad:
Also, who the hell wants to see a 5 on 5 battle when a 150 person fleet battle would be much more interesting, especially since it would mean I could see a battle between 300 people and not worry about being killed like last time...