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God damn it, I just read page 15 like it was page 16.
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I think he meant the speed of the RAM. I was listening to This Week in Computer Hardware and I think they mentioned that the clockspeed of the RAM doesn't make a huge difference anymore. Even the $39 2x2GB DDR3 modules are pretty damn fast compared to my DDR2 that I got a couple of years back.
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Semi-content.
God, the way my Architectural drafting teacher teaches Revit is idiotic. (I'm a Freshman in High School.) He didn't take the time to learn the program. So what he does is he gives us a manual for Revit, and an assignment. He just gets mad at the students when they ask questions. When half of my class didn't finish the assignment, by the expected date, he yelled at the class.
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Most gaming laptops these days come with 8GB default/minimum these days:
MSI GT680
Sager NP8150
Sager NP8130
ASUS G53J Series (mine)
ASUS G73J Series
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Hell I could've gotten 16GB if I wanted, it has an option for that.
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November 2007
9,235 Posts
Of course, that's because latencies haven't really improved over the past decade. Yeah, the CAS numbers went up quite a bit (3-3-3-6 was quite common on DDR1 ten years ago), but the actual latencies have essentially stayed the same (CAS3 @ 100mHz (DDR-200) = 30ns, CAS8 @ 233mHz (DDR3-1866) = 30ns).
Trust me, if you could get latencies cut in half, everything would speed up significantly.
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Does anyone else consider teachers using smart whiteboards a spectator sport? At least once every single lecture, our teacher touches the screen to point to something, forgetting that clicking once advances the slide. He then gets in a fluster mumbling "don't do that...", then goes over to the mouse to click on the little left arrow at the bottom of the screen, instead of just pressing it on the whiteboard. But he does touch the whiteboard to advance to the next slide- pressing the little arrow specifically, when he could click anywhere on the screen to advance.
Last week he opened up an 88 page powerpoint, and me and my friend subsequently slit our wrists.
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huge amounts of RAM in laptops has been pretty common for the past couple years.Edited:
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November 2007
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Yep. Mine (from 2008) has 4GB, and 6-8GB seems to be standard now. I've even heard of one laptop with 32GB or something, but I can't remember the name at the moment.
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Ive had the same happen in Media, except my teacher hasnt quite got used to the oversensitive left click and practicaly non existent right click on Apple mice. Suffice it to say, every time she pressed play on Youtube, she paused it again.
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Yeah mine is an early 2009 MacBook Pro and came standard with 4gb. 8gb was optional, even then.
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Did I just got warped to 2014? :gonk:
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Our teachers just put everything into the Notebook application and have different pages for each section.
Speaking of PowerPoint, I discovered something immensely useful the other day: Presenter View
I threw together a shitty slideshow in a few minutes to demonstrate. Say you come to class/work to do a PowerPoint, you have a laptop and a projector available to you. Instead of giving a shitty presentation where you read everything from the slides, you can write your own dialog without the class/coworkers seeing it on the projector. Keep all important info on the board, but explain and go into more detail verbally. There's also the pen tool, which allows you to draw stuff on the slides on the other screen.
http://bj0.org/pictures/PowerPoint%20Presenter%20View.png
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Oh wow, that could actually be very helpful for some presentations I need to do next term. Thanks for the advice!
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Too bad most schools use projectors in "herp derp, I'm a fucking retard that can't config a projector so I'll just let it mirror my desktop" mode.
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November 2007
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I'd use that, but I've gotten too used to just memorizing the things I want to hit that aren't on the slide. Of course, the fact that I had a whole class on "public speaking" helped - for my "final" in that class, I gave a 20-minute presentation on leitmotifs, using nothing but a printed-out outline to remember things. Apparently, I aced that class - the time limit was supposed to be 10 minutes, but I was apparently so interesting that nobody noticed I went over.
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My school uses mirror desktop and uses the projector's freeze to keep the slide on. Sometimes it's not a slide and I look at the clock on there and think time's frozen/we have 182 minutes left.
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My university still uses blackboards. WHAT IS THIS!?
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Reminds me of one presentation we had, the time limit was 5 minutes.
The "forever alone" aspergers guy managed to go on for 45 fucking minutes and the teacher didn't want to interrupt him fearing he'd go batshit insane on us
Our math teacher has one of those Smart media boards, every time he clicks anywhere on it, it opens the on-screen keyboard.
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In our school, they have smart boards also, the computer connected to it has a widescreen monitor, the whiteboard is 4:3, so they put the screen in an ultra-low 4:3 resolution (looks stretched and stupid), when they could have just used the whiteboard/projector as a secondary monitor
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I've seen one SmartBoard a couple of years ago, is that essentially the same as these whiteboards you guys are talking about?
We use a Projector and a Blackboard (which is green). Also, we all know that shit's going to fuck up when the teacher opens up the web browser to show us a video.
The schools internet is too slow for that to work.
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Say my name. Say it three times and I'll slap you with some computer facts.
November 2007
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My school has a 5 megabit/second line for the entire campus (~200-300 people). Needless to say, very few people use YouTube. Hell, it takes Minecraft about 5 minutes to DL, even during non-peak times.The schools internet is too slow for that to work.
And, for some stupid reason, the school's email and Moodle page are hosted externally, at the main campus (about 130 km away). So slow...
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Woah, our school uses Moodle too. And it's also hosted externally. But our school has a fiber token-ring to link the school to.. somewhere. Shitloads of bandwidth.
I wonder how many people are out there, having to deal with Moodle. I don't think I've ever hated a piece of software that much.
Well, except for Windows ME and the scheduling software our school uses.
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I lol'd
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Say my name. Say it three times and I'll slap you with some computer facts.
November 2007
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Moodle is actually OK. I mean, it is open-source, so theoretically it should be easy to fix any problems you have with it.
The only two problems I have with it are these:
* The teachers never update properly - I still have a class from three terms ago that hasn't been "closed" yet, and some assignments have due dates listed as "2009".
* It doesn't work that well with IE. Which normally wouldn't be a problem (I usually use Chrome or Firefox), but the school computers have IE on them, and it's too big of a hassle to install Chrome every day.
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I always keep either my external HDD or a flash drive on me, with firefox/chrome on it. Although most of the computers in our department already have one of those two installed, except for one which refuses to work with anything but Opera.
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Say my name. Say it three times and I'll slap you with some computer facts.
November 2007
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My external drive is too important for me to carry with me - it literally has the only backups of some of my data. And my flash drive is a measly 256MB, most of which is occupied by documents, classwork, or source code to a game I work on instead of listening to lectures.
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For the one teacher that acutally takes advantage of the power that a Smart Board offers, there's an entire school of teachers who hate the things because they can't figure out how to operate them.
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"These fuckers don't deserve a 'humane' punishment. They don't deserve to be called human. They don't even deserve to be called shit. Gas chamber is minimum acceptable punishment."
October 2008
11,825 Posts
And yet the only way I'd be able to get that working at our school is by bringing my laptop, pulling out the back wall of the teacher's desk (requiring screwdrivers, which are banned for being "weapons"), unplugging the VGA cable, plugging it in, hoping the projector doesn't suddenly take over and force everything to be 800x600 clone display, then setting it up so the second monitor is a separate deal (at 800x600, the only thing the projector will work with), THEN turning on presenter view.
Then when I'm done, I have to reverse that entire process.
I hate my school's IT.
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Finally, I can score some points.
1000/1000. Too bad I don't have a laptop anymore.
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At my school we have inputs that are made for use of laptops. You simply just press "PC 2" on the AV selector thingy :smug:
Hell, it even has a USB plug so you can connect the board itself and use a pen with the laptop
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I used to help out an IT class for a semester and got some admin permissions in moodle. During that time, out of about 30 kids, 9 were getting a high mark, 5 getting average and the rest were failing.
~75% of the time I look at the failing kids screen at the front, I see a flash game open or minimized.
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What I'm currently doing.
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I burnt my middle and index fingers today, my middle finger's worse, using a mouse sucks and tomorrows valentines day.
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Uhh why do your worry about your fingers on valentines d- Oh you have a GF
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Took me 20 minutes but I think I got my avatar working...
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Seriously, I can't even use a mouse or type for more than 10 seconds or it starts to hurt exponentially more until I put it on ice. typing with one hand sucks.
What am I supposed to do :( I guess I could play console games or a game with a controller while holding ice awkwardly.
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Say my name. Say it three times and I'll slap you with some computer facts.
November 2007
9,235 Posts
Find a game you can play with one hand. Classic JRPGs tend to work well for that. Actually, any sort of slow, turn-based game probably would.
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Type with your toes. it really isn't that hard/
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