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Comment: Re:Was the teacher tutoring a single student? (Score 1) 76

by Idbar (#40109983) Attached to: Machine-Guided Learning Matches Teachers In Study

Now matter how good a teacher is, no student is going to ask them to repeatsomething four times. The student will just nod and feign understanding, and the teacher will move on.

And how is this a teaching problem? Instead of a learners problem? If people think they are being "tracked" on their computer based study, they probably will feign understanding as well, just not to be label stupid... by a computer.

If a student is not capable of stopping by the teacher's office and ask for an in deep explanation, or if it's stubborn to keep asking and asking holding everyone behind, then there's a learning problem. The teacher is there to help for sure. I had plenty of help from my teachers, rephrasing, and using different examples that help me better understand what I was missing from the picture.

Overall, and as usual, the problem comes from the intolerance from people that think others are annoying for asking, and the shame of others thinking they may annoy someone else with their questions. Plain and simple, it's just cultural.

Comment: Re:My humble theory (Score 1) 449

by Idbar (#40070073) Attached to: Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser
And many of the ones still using Firefox like me, very likely uses NoScript together with AdBlockPlus (plus other more), so many JS scripts from tracking pages, are automatically removed. Which I assume also shifts some of those the statistic sites.

On the contrary, less people changes their Agent strings, so webmasters tend to have more accurate information about their visitors.
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Ask Slashdot: Wrist Watch For the Tech Minded 465

Posted by samzenpus
from the more-than-time dept.
NNUfergs writes "Sure, my smartphone can deliver just about any piece of information I could want in under 30 seconds, but I miss being able to just look at my wrist to get the time, date etc. I've been shopping around for a while and haven't come across anything particularly inspiring. There are loads of various features that have been incorporated into watches, but you usually only see a small, specialized set in a given watch. Budget is always a concern, but I am willing to invest in a quality time piece. In short, I'm not looking for a piece of jewelry; I'm looking for a gadget to wear on my wrist. Are there any neat, fun or just plain cool watches out there for techies? What do you have?"

Comment: Re:"Old people icons" (Score 1) 713

by Idbar (#39985889) Attached to: Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
I couldn't agree more. They could replace the save icon with the picture of an SSD drive, and people wouldn't know what it is, and still they would have to learn the meaning.

in the same way people learn when they are kids that hearts are love (even though they don't tend to be loyal representations of hearts) or how people relate stars to "favorites" (how did that happen?).

I was thinking about this the other day, and many icons make no sense whatsoever (Safe for backups makes no sense if you technically compare the objects) . But I got tobthe conclusion, that the save icon could be replaced with a parachute picture, at least until gravity becomes obsolete.

Comment: Re:Good job not reading (Score 3, Interesting) 131

Not also that according to the table (Exhibit 10.20.8 Lithium Battery Mailability Chart). The ones non-mailable are the called primary, which seem to refer to the lithium batteries, not "Secondary" which seem to refer to the Lithium-Ion (rechargeable) batteries.

Am I confused about this?

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