I think this guy may be taking himself a little too seriously:
"So why listen to the voice of one who is not Ishmael, not Cassandra, not even Ralph Nader? Because I can tell you something that no one else can. I can tell you the exact moment when Homo sapiens will cease to exist. And I can tell you how the end will come. I can show you the exact design of the device that will bring us down. I can reveal the blueprint, provide the precise technical specifications."
Are they doing the same thing that George Smoot did when he won the Nobel Prize?
He found/mapped out Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, the radiation left over from the expansion and cooling of the universe right after the big bang. It sounds as though the Mexican telescope is doing the same thing...
Yeah, see you get some of my point about it being too popular.
Maybe it's because I'm a student and get to see everybody walking around with the white wire hanging out of their pocket. Maybe it's because I see groups of girls sitting around looking at each other's iPods. Maybe it's because I see and hear people gawking over "ZOMG look how thin the new one is!"
iPods are also reaching a saturation point. Everybody I know either has an iPod or something else to listen to MP3's for. And once everybody has one, it loses the "cool" factor.
Actually no, it still has its cool factor but nobody is going to "play" with yours because they already have one. It's now just a "keeping up with the Joneses" type of phenomenon. I don't have one because I hate Apple and don't like getting something jsut because everyone else has it.
PSP is too expensive and too niche-ey to become really mainstream. And the fact that Sony sucks at marketing because they won't share any formats. All the people in the know like slashdoters know that in the long run the DRM stuff and format issues become a pain in the ass.
When are PVP's going to become the thing to have? Archos AV500?
I think that people need to remember that their high school experience is going to be way different than anyone elses. Some people will have the partying schools where the overwhelming majority of the school drinks and does drugs all the time, while the "nerds" and smart people are frowned upon. Other people have mentioned schools where the drug-users are the "losers" and the clean people dominate (Isn't that how California mostly is?)
Anyways, I don't think it's easy to say in general that math and science are failing in the US. I just graduated from high school as a pretty well-decorated student. Outstanding achievement awards in math, science, and physics. I won multiple awards for 1st and 2nd in the state Science Olympiad meet. My school took 1st place in the state math competition. Good teachers all around for my science and math classes.
But I will say that if you're not in Honors or AP level classes in my school, you'll generally get shit teachers. The ones who fit the "those who can't do, teach" mantra. That's what I think hurts education the most, that the students who aren't the "best" get shoddy teachers and nobody really pays attention to them. Hell, even I'm guilty of it.
When it comes down to it, the teachers are what matter the most, and good teachers are getting harder and harder to come by.
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Come on man, I just finished Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming and I loved it! How could you not love the flexibility of Lisp/Scheme.... Mod points for you buddy!
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I think this guy may be taking himself a little too seriously:
"So why listen to the voice of one who is not Ishmael, not Cassandra, not even Ralph Nader? Because I can tell you something that no one else can. I can tell you the exact moment when Homo sapiens will cease to exist. And I can tell you how the end will come. I can show you the exact design of the device that will bring us down. I can reveal the blueprint, provide the precise technical specifications."
Are they doing the same thing that George Smoot did when he won the Nobel Prize?
He found/mapped out Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, the radiation left over from the expansion and cooling of the universe right after the big bang. It sounds as though the Mexican telescope is doing the same thing...
Yeah, see you get some of my point about it being too popular.
Maybe it's because I'm a student and get to see everybody walking around with the white wire hanging out of their pocket. Maybe it's because I see groups of girls sitting around looking at each other's iPods. Maybe it's because I see and hear people gawking over "ZOMG look how thin the new one is!"
iPods are also reaching a saturation point. Everybody I know either has an iPod or something else to listen to MP3's for. And once everybody has one, it loses the "cool" factor.
Actually no, it still has its cool factor but nobody is going to "play" with yours because they already have one. It's now just a "keeping up with the Joneses" type of phenomenon. I don't have one because I hate Apple and don't like getting something jsut because everyone else has it.
PSP is too expensive and too niche-ey to become really mainstream. And the fact that Sony sucks at marketing because they won't share any formats. All the people in the know like slashdoters know that in the long run the DRM stuff and format issues become a pain in the ass.
When are PVP's going to become the thing to have? Archos AV500?
I think that people need to remember that their high school experience is going to be way different than anyone elses. Some people will have the partying schools where the overwhelming majority of the school drinks and does drugs all the time, while the "nerds" and smart people are frowned upon. Other people have mentioned schools where the drug-users are the "losers" and the clean people dominate (Isn't that how California mostly is?) Anyways, I don't think it's easy to say in general that math and science are failing in the US. I just graduated from high school as a pretty well-decorated student. Outstanding achievement awards in math, science, and physics. I won multiple awards for 1st and 2nd in the state Science Olympiad meet. My school took 1st place in the state math competition. Good teachers all around for my science and math classes. But I will say that if you're not in Honors or AP level classes in my school, you'll generally get shit teachers. The ones who fit the "those who can't do, teach" mantra. That's what I think hurts education the most, that the students who aren't the "best" get shoddy teachers and nobody really pays attention to them. Hell, even I'm guilty of it. When it comes down to it, the teachers are what matter the most, and good teachers are getting harder and harder to come by.