Generally speaking, there are never calculators on math exams (with very very rare exceptions) but always calculators on physics exams. This has been true in my university for the past few years, and highschool before that.
These guys are calculator hackers, not really calculator users. For the most part pretty much all of them finished highschool (and standardized testing) years ago.
People don't use Amigas still because they honestly think they are better than Intel or AMD's latest offerings (well... maybe they do...), they use them because they are limited hardware (challenging) that appeal to them for some sort of technical/artistic reasons. I know as a fact that a big part of the motivation for some of these guys is trying to best TI. Make the hardware do things that TI never thought possible, and do things that TI has already done, but do it correctly.
There are only a handful of TI calculators out there, and only a subset of those are realistically used by high school students. In my school, there were 83/84+(SEs), 83's, 85/6's, and 89's. Any math teacher that cared at all knew how to wipe those calculators, or forbade other calculators. Knowing how to wipe "every calculator on the market" is unneeded.
This is pointless though. Teachers knowing how to reset calculators doesn't do shit against anyone student that is even a little calculator savy, particularly if they are running an alternative operating system.
Not to mention, this isn't just new experimental hardware that hasn't gone mass market yet. This is new experimental medical hardware that hasn't gone mass market yet. I'm honestly incredibly surprised it is this cheap.
What would even make anyone think that "wheelchair bound rich people" is a large enough population to warrant such an involved and technologically impressive scam?
"Expanding your mind without the internet" is as backward these days as "expanding your mind without books" was years ago. It may be possible, but you are placed at a huge disadvantage. Perhaps instead of encouraging his children to play games on the internet, he should be encouraging them to visit age appropriate educational websites.
Having the benifit of being relatively young, I can tell you as a fact that at 10 years old I was exploring as much of the internet as I could manage to pull down on my 56k modem. Perhaps the absense of mind-numbing flash games back then had something to do with it.
It's not at odds with modern hardware, it is at odds with DRM schemes that may be present in modern hardware. Nothing about playing high resolution videos intristically requires DRM.
With nothing but sincerity, most qualified guy I've seen for the job in a long time. Just imagine what slashdot would be like if editors read comments and admitted to/fixed mistakes.
People could already try sueing cities for falling off regular sidewalks. Generally sidewalks are placed right next to (sometimes very heavy/highspeed) traffic!
You don't see many proposals to remove regular sidewalks for liability reasons though. Life assumes risk.
"Hell" might have religious origins but these days it's just a standard english word in nearly any use-case. I think I've used the word used a dozen or so times already today and not once was it refering to a religious concept.
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Generally speaking, there are never calculators on math exams (with very very rare exceptions) but always calculators on physics exams. This has been true in my university for the past few years, and highschool before that.
I'm having a very hard time trying to figure out any difference between those. What exactly should I be looking at/for?
These guys are calculator hackers, not really calculator users. For the most part pretty much all of them finished highschool (and standardized testing) years ago.
People don't use Amigas still because they honestly think they are better than Intel or AMD's latest offerings (well... maybe they do...), they use them because they are limited hardware (challenging) that appeal to them for some sort of technical/artistic reasons. I know as a fact that a big part of the motivation for some of these guys is trying to best TI. Make the hardware do things that TI never thought possible, and do things that TI has already done, but do it correctly.
We can do even better than that these days :) Even handing the calculator over to the teacher is unlikely to achieve anything.
http://www.brandonw.net/calculators/fake/
There are only a handful of TI calculators out there, and only a subset of those are realistically used by high school students. In my school, there were 83/84+(SEs), 83's, 85/6's, and 89's. Any math teacher that cared at all knew how to wipe those calculators, or forbade other calculators. Knowing how to wipe "every calculator on the market" is unneeded.
This is pointless though. Teachers knowing how to reset calculators doesn't do shit against anyone student that is even a little calculator savy, particularly if they are running an alternative operating system.
This. Seriously.
Not to mention, this isn't just new experimental hardware that hasn't gone mass market yet. This is new experimental medical hardware that hasn't gone mass market yet. I'm honestly incredibly surprised it is this cheap.
What would even make anyone think that "wheelchair bound rich people" is a large enough population to warrant such an involved and technologically impressive scam?
Nothing like exploiting rape and child abuse to pimp a social networking website.
Real integrity slashdot. Way to go.
"Expanding your mind without the internet" is as backward these days as "expanding your mind without books" was years ago. It may be possible, but you are placed at a huge disadvantage. Perhaps instead of encouraging his children to play games on the internet, he should be encouraging them to visit age appropriate educational websites.
Having the benifit of being relatively young, I can tell you as a fact that at 10 years old I was exploring as much of the internet as I could manage to pull down on my 56k modem. Perhaps the absense of mind-numbing flash games back then had something to do with it.
And a lot of porn out there isn't exactly "natural" either ;)
Yes of course, perfectly understandable.
Please tell me I'm about to be woooshed. Please. That'd be far better than the alternative.
It's not at odds with modern hardware, it is at odds with DRM schemes that may be present in modern hardware. Nothing about playing high resolution videos intristically requires DRM.
What we have here seems to be a fine example of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
Well I think we just saw how long it takes for someone to politicise this.
Pot, meet kettle.
First thing I thought of when I read this was Gibson's 'Virtual Light'.
Make this man an editor!
With nothing but sincerity, most qualified guy I've seen for the job in a long time. Just imagine what slashdot would be like if editors read comments and admitted to/fixed mistakes.
And millions of people got along just fine with Windows ME.
Just because it works for you, and you like it, doesn't mean that it is good.
As I'm reading TFA, it seems to me it's just a modified version of RC4. Hardly terribly interesting or new.
People could already try sueing cities for falling off regular sidewalks. Generally sidewalks are placed right next to (sometimes very heavy/highspeed) traffic!
You don't see many proposals to remove regular sidewalks for liability reasons though. Life assumes risk.
There is no forth Indy movie.
Wait, I'm confused. Is that supposed to be criticism or praise?
I'm sure you are a hit at the parties.
"Hell" might have religious origins but these days it's just a standard english word in nearly any use-case. I think I've used the word used a dozen or so times already today and not once was it refering to a religious concept.
Why do longer lens mean the camera shakes more? Shouldn't the camera shake less because it has more mass (kind of get a "steadi-cam effect")?
(not a photographer)
Yes, clearly we should ban press from all areas that Jethro finds boring.