TinMan47's Lounge²

MiniMax · Post by **MiniMax** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:22 am

Check-Mate wrote:What? You actually don't know what a math class is??
Is this like, a language thing?

No, it is a way of teaching. By asking the student to explain the question in detail, the student will often discover for him/herself what the solution is.

It is a time-consuming method and therefore not used often, but in a forum like this I think it is the perfect way to teach. Instead of putting all the burden on the teacher, it forces the student to work it out himself (with a little guidance). A reasonable way of sharing the burden I think, since I am doing this on a volountering basis. If tinman47 paid for my time, I would/could have provided him with a straight yes/no answer, but he would not have learned anything substantial.

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:15 am

MiniMax wrote:
Check-Mate wrote:What? You actually don't know what a math class is??
Is this like, a language thing?
No, it is a way of teaching. By asking the student to explain the question in detail, the student will often discover for him/herself what the solution is.

It is a time-consuming method and therefore not used often, but in a forum like this I think it is the perfect way to teach. Instead of putting all the burden on the teacher, it forces the student to work it out himself (with a little guidance). A reasonable way of sharing the burden I think, since I am doing this on a volountering basis. If tinman47 paid for my time, I would/could have provided him with a straight yes/no answer, but he would not have learned anything substantial.

Hey, that was really deep what you said MiniMax,but I know a substanstial amount of code you know.

Just because I have been a programmer for only 1 year doesn't mean I don't know alot.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:21 am

No, it is a way of teaching. By asking the student to explain the question in detail, the student will often discover for him/herself what the solution is.

Or, when the student already knows the answer, just wastes his time and makes you look a little stupid and more than a little bit strange? There're ways to teach by asking questions while still making it obvious that you're trying to teach, that way people who aren't your "pupils" aren't trying to answer your questions, Socrates.

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:22 am

And I quote:

Don't mock my intellegence :B

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:42 am

tinman47 wrote:And I quote:

Don't mock my intellegence :B

intelligence. Who were you quoting, again?

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:45 am

|:B Me...

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:56 pm

... Right!

Who the hell deleted Gamer_V's double [edited] posts?

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:57 pm

Me! Do not under estimate the power of a noob! He may do something and has no idea what he is doing and will get results.

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:07 pm

Larry Laffer wrote:Who the hell deleted Gamer_V's double [edited] posts?

Me, as it was going to be an endless story, as he re-edited them, you also re-edit and so on. I also deleted Tinman47's triple post. It is put clearely in the forum rules that they shouldn't double-triple post. I've already warned enough about that.
Sue me.

And I officially warn all the peons here, double-triple-quadruple-whatever postings in a short time span will be deleted. If you want to rise your post count post in an intelligent manner.

Mods and of course Admins are excluded from this rule.
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LOLZ..

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:19 pm

Let there be known: I'm suing dosraider!

Anyway, this is really straying off that thin and obscure topic it had. Get back on it!

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:21 pm

May I split it? I really love to split topics.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase ?

Not yet! Let people know that we first shoot to kill , and then lock threads!

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:56 pm

You can't split a lounge topic! It'll just make Tinman think he can have more than one useless thread running at a time!

GAMER

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:20 am

Oh, but it can be splitted with someone else as first poster -(topic starter)-.

Would Gamer also want a 'lounge' topic?

Did you peeps realise we have a new smiley?

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:38 pm

I've been waiting for people to find that for a while now.

(there're a lot of "extras" I hide in various places as rewards for diligent searchers)

GAMER · Post by **GAMER** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:28 am

You announced it in a thread about 4 weeks ago. You said - "We need a lolcat smiley"...

GAMER

EDIT : Found the post. (Thursday 12th July)

Dogbreath wrote:Yeah, if I had wanted to be really sneaky, I could've just put it in the forum images directory, but I wanted it to be a bit obvious.

If I had no life, I'd add secret messages in every "normal" single smiley, and constantly change the file size... maybe put a part of the "secret code" in each one, and change it weekly. But for now, I think I'll just add a lolcat smiley. (cause we need one)

tinman47 · Post by **tinman47** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:20 pm

Hey guys,what do you all think about that $100 dollar computer?

Post by **emmzee** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:08 pm

More info on the OLPC is available here (among many other places) http://laptop.org/

Pic:
http://laptop.org/en/img/specs_dimensions.jpg

I dunno, I think on one hand it's great that kids who never had an opportunity to have a computer before will finally be able to have one. But I have to wonder how many of these will end up in kids' hands and not taken by corrupt governments nstuff ... hopefully that won't happen.

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:45 pm

What kind of corrupt government official would want to be seen carrying around a MyFirstLaptop like that?

And come on, we all know that the kids will just use them for porn, anyway.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:50 am

Corrupt governments nstuff? With those specs? pshaw!

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:13 am

nastypoisonspikes wrote:What kind of corrupt government official would want to be seen carrying around a MyFirstLaptop like that?

Some African ones?
Ya know, those in the jungle? Best thing they've ever seen, and bright colors.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw.
Me colorific box is WiFidelity in stereo, man, gonna catch your spirits in it, me gonna be boss around here now. Bring me woman and goats, or I will delete your spirit.