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Fucking hate the calculator rules. Bitch I want to save 16€, I already have a smartphone what can calculate better than the calculator because it is easier and shit. And I always have it with me, not like the calculator what is bigger than my pocket. I am going to take my old droid and use it as a calc. A calculator in estonian is called a "Pocket computer". Well, my old phone atleast fit in my pocket and is more like a computer than a calculator tyvm. [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] 5 coffees a day fucks you up. I managed to mistype calculator as calucator each time in that post... And I just had my last coffee. It is the only one what hit me like a coffee should.
I much prefer using a dedicated calculator, and as we can use Maple on our PCs at the exam, it's enough to have a basic scientific one.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;40369855]Except one is allowed on an exam and the other one isn't. Assuming you're in high school that is[/QUOTE] Not at my school. My math teacher lets you use your phone for a calculator. Hell, in Algebra 2 he lets you use your laptop for whatever you want.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;40369986]Not at my school. My math teacher lets you use your phone for a calculator. Hell, in Algebra 2 he lets you use your laptop for whatever you want.[/QUOTE] Must be a really shitty school :v
My graphing calculator (TI-83+ Silver Edition that I got for $0.25 at a garage sale) was dead all last year so I just used my ipod touch's calculator for everything
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;40370016]Must be a really shitty school :v[/QUOTE] 4th best in the state. And i think you can't use your laptop for exams btw.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;40369986]Not at my school. My math teacher lets you use your phone for a calculator. Hell, in Algebra 2 he lets you use your laptop for whatever you want.[/QUOTE] I had the same when i took my math courses (i'v since escaped) I can see why they would not allow it in exams though, especially at my school. Giving IT and tech students access to any tech more advanced then pen and paper is just asking for creative cheating :v:
I've always held that the best way to stress test the usefulness of your internet filtering system is to use it in a public school (because we WILL find a way around it) [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] I have to remote into my computer with a remote connection .exe that's 2 versions old for example
try in our school - we figured out how to modify all the public area tv's they have [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] i wrote 10 page word doc on how to access it, as well as the format it uses so someone savvy can replace the news feed and stuff they also multicast bbc news, which i pick up in class using VLC :v:
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;40370016]Must be a really shitty school :v[/QUOTE] stop
Gave back my uncles Dell 6400, now my two cousins gave me their laptops to fix, now I have more things to order. This is fun. And my aunt accidentally drops a book and snapped and chipped a few keys, but they're not gonna be that expensive. So yeah, I love my hobby.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;40369531]wow, i forgot how much of an adrenaline rush trying to win an auction with 1 minute left is.[/QUOTE] It's more tense when you bid with like 3 seconds left with slow internet and the bid finally gets through just as the auction ends. Feels fucking awesome.
Gonna take my moms laptop to school tomorrow (Because it is the lightest, smallest and has the best battery) What could I do with it other than the thing I took it for with me? I have to write a paper in Word, teacher said that you should bring your own laptop if you could, so it'd be easier. But I already have a mouse, a flash drive with Hotline Miami and other awesome stuff and something more.
Oh neat I got a little reddit hat from the dumb april fools thing! that almost makes me want to play tf2 again almost
I remember when my netbook's windows installation broke just before i went to college, so i brought this beast for the day. [img]http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/t1100plus/images/pp_t1100plus.jpg[/img] 7MHZ 8086 based CPU 384KB RAM MS dos 4 on DUAL 720KB FLOPPY DISKS Straight from 1986 Writing english notes is really nice on it with the mechanical keyboard.
[QUOTE=spinpoint F3;40370651]I remember when my netbook's windows installation broke just before i went to college, so i brought this beast for the day. [img]http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/t1100plus/images/pp_t1100plus.jpg[/img] 7MHZ 8086 based CPU 384KB RAM MS dos 4 on DUAL 720KB FLOPPY DISKS Straight from 1986 Writing english notes is really nice on it with the mechanical keyboard.[/QUOTE] Pepper confirmed for hipster.
Buckling spring? I call bullshit, you'd have been kicked right out from how much noise that would have made.
[QUOTE=rhx123;40370685]Pepper confirmed for hipster.[/QUOTE] It's all i had working at the time :v: [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=latin_geek;40370686]Buckling spring? I call bullshit, you'd have been kicked right out from how much noise that would have made.[/QUOTE] I think i did piss the teacher off a [i]little[/i] with the noise.
what is this magic, being allowed to take notes on an electronic device?? shit, some teachers in my school used to get pissed when you printed out your essays (then they would insult my shit handwriting)
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;40370150]I've always held that the best way to stress test the usefulness of your internet filtering system is to use it in a public school (because we WILL find a way around it) [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] I have to remote into my computer with a remote connection .exe that's 2 versions old for example[/QUOTE] My school just uses OpenDNS for blocking stuff, and it still doesn't block stuff like porn sites. Although, it does block wallbase.cc. The thing is, if you want to use the WiFi, you have to set your own IP, which means, you also have to set your own DNS. Thank dog for google DNS!
[QUOTE=spinpoint F3;40370651]I remember when my netbook's windows installation broke just before i went to college, so i brought this beast for the day. [IMG]http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/t1100plus/images/pp_t1100plus.jpg[/IMG] 7MHZ 8086 based CPU 384KB RAM MS dos 4 on DUAL 720KB FLOPPY DISKS Straight from 1986 Writing english notes is really nice on it with the mechanical keyboard.[/QUOTE] Nowadays we get rubbish, everything is all simplified and breaks down faster. Well maybe not everything is rubbish, but some of them are badly built and not sturdy. I've always wondered how tech from 1986 still function to this day.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40371187]Everything is built on a smaller process now, it has far lower tolerances than the older gear.[/QUOTE] No wonder I prefer proper legacy devices, I should dare myself to take the 1999 vaio into college instead of something quite modern.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;40370150]I've always held that the best way to stress test the usefulness of your internet filtering system is to use it in a public school (because we WILL find a way around it) [editline]21st April 2013[/editline] I have to remote into my computer with a remote connection .exe that's 2 versions old for example[/QUOTE] We just had to use Firefox portable connected to a proxy server, or find a proxy site that hadn't been blocked.
[QUOTE=TonyTheBean;40371154]My school just uses OpenDNS for blocking stuff, and it still doesn't block stuff like porn sites. Although, it does block wallbase.cc. The thing is, if you want to use the WiFi, you have to set your own IP, which means, you also have to set your own DNS. Thank dog for google DNS![/QUOTE] Mine uses both gateway filtering (so proxies won't work even) and local filtering, and also uses local blacklist executable filtering (they can stop blacklisted executables from running hence why I have to use a remote desktop that's 2 versions old).
Mine uses a dumb content-aware filter that slows down webpage loading, completely cancels anything that isn't webpage loading (chatting, FTP, etc) and has the default filter on, which was designed for an [I]ELEMENTARY SCHOOL[/I] it makes me mad, good thing that's only on four of the six APs in the school.
My HS blocked Firefox one year. I got around it by renaming to "notfirefox.exe". Aside from that the actual websites they blocked were somewhat reasonable (anything "social", including Facebook and I believe Facepunch, game websites, porn). They basically had a policy of "you're going to use these computers for schoolwork goddammit". Although apparently their answer to idiots looking up porn and shit on Google Images is to block the entirety of Google Images. We got around it somehow in senior year though, I forget how.
I just went to test that old laptop now. It won't turn on anymore. aw [editline]22nd April 2013[/editline] well it lasted 27 years
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;40371665]Mine uses both gateway filtering (so proxies won't work even) and local filtering, and also uses local blacklist executable filtering (they can stop blacklisted executables from running hence why I have to use a remote desktop that's 2 versions old).[/QUOTE] Oh man, mine uses [URL="http://www.imperosoftware.com/classroommanagement.aspx"]Impero[/URL] and a government list of blocked websites, the school literally had to phone the local council one day to ask them to unblock some keywords from being searched (e.g: "bomb" was blocked, so anything like "how to make a water bomb" for science, blocked, this was pretty bad one day a couple of years ago, something happened somewhere related to a bombing, so naturally teachers were trying to search for it and so were students, they couldn't even get to news pages about it. The USB ports on some computers don't work, so they've had to keep a supply of the older mice, I'm too young to remember what the connector is called (PS/2)? The teachers have spies among the students who get bribed with chocolate for telling teachers what proxies we're using, what games websites, etc. Downloading and installing anything is totally blocked, though someone found a website to download films, they managed to get 12 or so films down before the school realised there was a massive spike in usage. As soon as our teachers catch on to whatever we're doing, they wait about a week and then block it.
[QUOTE=lavacano;40372292]My HS blocked Firefox one year. I got around it by renaming to "notfirefox.exe". Aside from that the actual websites they blocked were somewhat reasonable (anything "social", including Facebook and I believe Facepunch, game websites, porn). They basically had a policy of "you're going to use these computers for schoolwork goddammit". Although apparently their answer to idiots looking up porn and shit on Google Images is to block the entirety of Google Images. We got around it somehow in senior year though, I forget how.[/QUOTE] My old highschool had some pretty strict filtering, enough that teachers could apply to use an alternate proxy that would not filter anything. Interestingly, if you told Firefox to auto-detect proxy settings, it would use the unfiltered one. The admins were fully aware, but they figured anyone able to do that would be smart enough not so abuse it.
The filtering at my school has blocked wikipedia pages about wildfires under drugs. It ended up messing up two classes worth of student's work.
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