"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Like this? I have one, works ok... Not extatic about it, but does the job. Was damn cheap too. I have the smaller model, the bigger model promises 10 hours. My initial review. Haven't played much with it. It lies by my bed for the occasional sysadmin tasks when I get alerts.

Classroom lectures are, literally, old school. Using online presentation tools instead of adhering to the old physical classroom format means you don't have to deal with chalk dust, for example, or taking the time to erase a black-or-white board. You can do retakes. Distracting coughs, etc. from the audience can be eliminated. And the teachers can be more themselves, more in control of what they present. They can take themselves out of the picture and focus on what they're trying to communicate on the screen, instead of having to worry about obscuring someone's (or the camera's) view while writing on a physical blackboard.

What if you could present the chapter in such a way that I didn't fall asleep when reading it?

" If you don't like it, you march yourself down to the registers office, and un-enroll and get your money back."

Can we also complain about it and point out why we think teachers keeping a closed fist around knowledge is counterproductive?

http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.php

From "The Case Against Grades":

In the 1980s and '90s, educational psychologists systematically studied the effects of grades. As I've reported elsewhere (Kohn, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c), when students from elementary school to college who are led to focus on grades are compared with those who aren't, the results support three robust conclusions:

* Grades tend to diminish students' interest in whatever they're learning.
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* Grades create a preference for the easiest possible task.
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* Grades tend to reduce the quality of students' thinking.
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It follows that all assessment must be done carefully and sparingly lest students become so concerned about their achievement (how good they are at doing something -- or, worse, how their performance compares to others') that they're no longer thinking about the learning itself.

I love KDE - but I'm not objective about it at all. It can have issues too - but honestly I tend to brush past those and not worry about it. I like QT (well PyQT or PySide - but close enough) and I enjoy how it all works for the most part. Though I still don't really get "activities". I've read about them, messed with them - but I don't get what is great about it. They say it isn't virtual desktops - but it pretty much works the same as far as I can tell.

Just read it. Made me chuckle. I used gnome for a week or two, the first time I installed Red Hat - which was I think in 1999 or 2000. Prior to that I'd been a Suse user. So I switched my Redhat box to KDE pretty quick and never looked back.

Ehm, no, that is not backup. As a matter of fact, you might get robbed and then all your precious storage is gone. What about accidental damage (water damage: bag falls in water). No, the the best way is network backup, and I'd do it with rsync. What you suggest is not avoiding the problem: it's thinking that you avoid the problem.

For me, when I'm on travels: my devices need to be completely destroyable, losable and robable.... without losing much (max one day).

Yea, it's fine w/ me.
What's not fine is that it took /. two days to notify me by email for your reply.