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[DerbyDad03]

Kissing cows is not normal, no matter how many times they sneak that kind of material into a TV show.

[dgk]

Just knowing physics doesn't mean someone has any idea how to teach it. My best teachers didn't just know the subject; they knew kids. They knew how to interest us and motivate us. It wasn't easy by any means, and we were far from difficult students. Go and try to teach a class of hormone saturated kids some time. You don't remember what it was like when a substitute teacher walked in?

[dgk]

Blue.

[RicodJour]

I had forgotten about the insidious bovine agenda. Thanks for the heads up. ;)

R

[aemeijers]

My screen ain't that big, to spare a corner. I prefer my computer windows full-screen. At work, I have the company laptop set up as dual-head when it is in the docking station- I keep mail open on the little laptop screen, and use the external screen as the main workspace. I also don't like bogging the machine down, since my boxes aren't that fast anyway. (fastest is only 2.8)

Other than for traveling, I never saw much point in tuner cards or dongles. As a TV, a computer makes a pretty good computer. A buddy gave me one of his old SD hauppage cards, and I stuck it in a spare machine, supposedly fast enough to handle it. I wasn't impressed. Not sharp, lousy color and sound, etc. TVs are cheap. Including the guy that gave me his old card, I know a couple of three guys that are way into the whole TV/computer convergence thing, and actually built their own PC-based media servers, run Myth-TV and all that. Way too much expense and fuss for me- most TV content simply isn't worth that much work. Unless you just like collecting shows, or have rug rats to keep entertained, much lesss painful to just go rent, or buy specific DVDs of the few things you actually may want to watch again. I can't even keep my DVR queue emptied out.

YMMV, of course. As hobbies go, I guess it is better than a lot of others they could have picked.

-- aem sends...

[RicodJour]

If she was one of the hot ones - yeah, I remember it clearly.

R

[RicodJour]

Why are you dragging my dog into this...? ;)

R

[DerbyDad03]

Sorry for the misunderstanding..I wasn't extolling the qualities of the TV cards in PCs.

I don't have a TV in my office at home or at work, but I occasionally like to watch some sports or even a regular show when I'm surfing or doing some work that doesn't require a whole lot of concentration. Most times it's just there for company.

I'll sometimes make the TV window as small as a couple of inches square and set to Always on Top, which allows me to leave my app windows set to full screen. A right-click on the TV expands it if something interesting happens, and another right click sends it back to its corner.

I'm not trying to convince you to get one...I'm just telling you how I use mine. :-)

[RicodJour]

You only have the one monitor hooked up to your puter?

R

[aemeijers]

RicodJour wrote: (snip)

At home, yeah. Older machines, whose value would be doubled if I put a fancy 2-hole video card in them. My monitors are all still glass 4x3 (or so) format. I'd like a modern wide monitor, but these all still work fine, and I have a bunch of them- 2 19" and half a dozen 17", one for each PC plus a couple of spares. I used to deal in junk PCs, back when where there was money to be made in that niche. I can't GIVE these PCs or monitors away at this point. Being a cheap SOB, er, FRUGAL, I can't justify upgrading as long as all these still work well enough for my now-limited requirements.

-- aem sends...

[HeyBub]

But the converse is also true: just knowing HOW to teach - without knowing the subject - generates the same results.

In my state it is possible to be "certified" to teach high school mathematics without ever having taken a university course in Calculus.

Consider, too, the retired PhD Chemical engineer. Is there any doubt he couldn't teach high school chemistry off the top of his head? As for experience, he has what, 20+ years as a student and, in most graduate programs, 3-5 years of teaching undergraduates.

He's a hell of a lot more qualified than the PE coach.

[Mark Lloyd]

I will too. I seldom watch those local channels.

[Ed Pawlowski]

You don't know that for sure, he may be qualified. But that does not make teacher special. None of those mentioned is allowed to turn on the boilers in my plant either, nor are 99,99%+ of all teachers. Or be a hairdresser. Meet the qualifications, pay the fee and you are good to go.

[George]

Absolutely, but you totally missed my point. We are supposed to thing og liberals ans wonderful and caring for their fellow man and conservatives as evil. Reality is it doesn't matter.

[RicodJour]

I didn't miss you point. You related an anecdote of a single situation. I generalized.

Search for "two types of people" in my posts and you'll have my view on the matter.

R