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I HAVE A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

JasonJason
edited August 2007 in Everything Else
I have hereby nominate WaterIsPoison for super-awesome status. He just AIMed me while sitting in a college CS lecture. That's 21 slacking-off points and a disrespect bonus of +2.

Such things were not possible in my days in college, because wi-fi was not yet widespread. In my senior year, I worked for the IT department, and helped wire most of campus as a wireless hots pot, but that capability had not yet been implemented in most lecture buildings when I graduated.
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  • AndrewAndrew
    i'm in ur lecturz, chattin wit me friendz
  • AprecheApreche
    You know you're old when...
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    He would have been super awesome if he had done this back when YOU were in college. What he has done is common today and not worthy of awesomeness.
  • JasonJason
    You know you're old when...
    ...you have sex on a regular basis?
  • SailSail
    That's just plain upsetting. How long until high schools get wifi in every building?
  • ColdfireSergeColdfireSerge
    Man, I feel sad just typing this in a computer classroom during the lecture.   I wish I was as cool as WiP.
  • DaveDave
    ...you have sex on a regular basis?
    DO YOU GET THAT WHEN YOU'RE OLD??

    I need to get on that. :(
  • JasonJason
    ...you have sex on a regular basis?
    DO YOU GET THAT WHEN YOU'RE OLD??

    I need to get on that. :(
    No, but it's a convenient myth to propagate. You'd be hitting it more if it weren't for all of the dino-sympathizers in Philly.
  • LusankyaLusankya
    Best thing ever is to find a prof who uses MSN and leaves it set to auto-login. Then, during lecture, send him/her a custom emoticon of whatever you desire (goatse is a favorite) and watch it pop up in the bottom right of the projector. Always a hit.
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    How long until high schools get wifi in every building?
    That would be awesome. Then next year I could just play some Mario Kart DS or do whatever you can with the DS Browser!

    Or I could save up for a laptop...
  • JasonJason
    How long until high schools get wifi in every building?
    That would be awesome. Then next year I could just play some Mario Kart DS or do whatever you can with the DS Browser!

    Or I could save up for a laptop...
    Back in my day, we didn't allow the whippersnappers to have any kind of electronics in the classroom. No cell phones, no video games, no PDAs. The kid with cerebral palsy had a laptop to help him get around his disability. We weren't really allowed to have playing cards or anything of an entertaining nature. We were there to LEARN, DAMMIT!
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Yeah, did you get to use calculators? We didn't have calculators. We couldn't even use Napier's Bones.
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    edited August 2007
    Heh, that's what my school keeps on saying (No Cellphones! No Digital Cameras! No Handheld Games!), while the group of kids behind them are taking MySpace pictures and listening to their iPods.
    Yeah, did you get to use calculators? We didn't have calculators. We couldn't even use Napier's Bones.
    TI-81z.
    Even in the lame math class, that sadly, I'm in...
    If only I turned my work in on time! I could be in Algebra!
    Post edited by JukeBoxJosh on
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    We used TABLES. Trig Tables. Log Tables. And when we couldn't find what we needed in the table, we had to interpolate! And we liked it.
  • JasonJason
    edited August 2007
    We were able to use graphing calculators only on portions of standardized exams where calculating the sums was less important than showing we knew the abstract concepts behind the math. However, I declined to use a calculator on the SAT, because I thought it would only get in the way. And because I forgot it at home.
    Post edited by Jason on
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Hey, I took the SAT! Apparently I'm better than most at... math? Reading? I think it was reading...
    But it wasn't a "real" one, I don't think. It was like something for the magnet students or whatever.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited August 2007
    To be truthful, after a certain amount of time with the tables, we were allowed to use slide rules. I might very well be the only one here who owns a slide rule and who knows how to use it.
    Post edited by HungryJoe on
  • LusankyaLusankya
    We had calculators in high school. Not so in university.

    Identities are incomparably harder when you don't have a calculator to save the tables in. It's all memorization now. Mind you, knowing the identities off by heart is an important skill, but the learning curve sucks. :P
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Identities...?
    That sounds familiar.
    (I hope this isn't like when I asked what "CG" stood for in BitTorrents...)
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    You won't have to worry about identities until you hit Trig. Then you'd better learn them cold if you want to get through the second semester of Calculus.
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Oh god... right now I just have to worry about a2+b2=c2, I'm assuming that identities would make my brain explode.
  • LusankyaLusankya
    When you replace a mathematical function with a known equivalent. Usually when you say identities, you're speaking strictly trigonometry, but technically any substitution qualifies as an identity.

    tanx = (sinx/cosx) is a fundamental trig identity. As well,
    .5 = 1/2 is a fundamental algebraic identity.

    They get a LOT more complex as you start deriving more and more identities to "simplify" the process
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Oh yeah! We did stuff like that in Algebra...
  • LusankyaLusankya
    When you do trig, take it to heart when your teacher tells you to memorize them. It'll come back to haunt you hardcore if you don't :P
  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Man... I hope I get a whole lot better at memorizing things by then...
  • AndrewAndrew
    Today I reviewed parametric surfaces and vector calculus. Yay math!
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Q: What do you get when you cross a mouse with an elephant?

    A: The magnitude of the mouse multiplied by the magnitude of the elephant multiplied by the sine of the angle between the two.

    Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a mountain climber?

    A: Nothing. The mountain climber is a scalar.
  • SailSail
    Q: What kind of .mp3 player does a mathematician have?

    A: A square-root-of-negative-one-Pod.
  • AndrewAndrew
    edited August 2007
    Last year I played the BF2142 beta while in Psychology lecture for about two weeks. I still aced teh class.
    Post edited by Andrew on
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark


    Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a mountain climber?

    A: Nothing. The mountain climber is a scalar.
    If you could hit somebody through the internets, I'd be hitting you right now.
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