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kuru 
Detonate.net's 9mm wielding geek-hit-Goddess
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,20:30 |
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So. Some of you guys are aware that I am now a post-secondary instructor for technical (read: computer) majors. I have to teach them how to be nerds.
If anyone can tell me a way to communicate integrated circuits and computer architecture to people who, in some cases, have never even seen a computer before.. that'd be great.
Aside from ripping apart every machine in the lab, I have tried it all. They're still looking for the 'buses'.
Everything I say seems to wash right over them. It goes in their ears and is never actually stored to disk. I've even ripped a computer apart in front of them. Nothing.
I can't wait till we get to machine code programs. Any idea how to make that a little more palatable to complete binary virgins?
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ic0n0
I have become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,20:42 |
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Wow that’s rough, um, tell them…… that………..i don’t know…your on your own.
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Jynx
resident n0b0dy
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Posted on: Feb. 14 2002,23:18 |
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Use one-syllable words and cute cartoony pictures.
If that doesn't work, I'm sure Wolfguard can suggest the proper ordinance. 
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Rshias
The Insomniac
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,00:39 |
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<Wolfguard> Fuck 'em. </Wolfguard>
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Dark Knight Bob
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,01:55 |
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"so who doesnt understand?"
"me"
BOOOM
"right who ELSE doesnt understand?....noone? good let us continue!"
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fatalbert
ism you is, or ism you ain't mine maybe...
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,01:59 |
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you think that's hard??
try teaching geriatrics how to double-click fast enough!
at least I get $20 can. an hour
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veistran
We don't listen to people that don't like us.
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,07:42 |
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electroshock... anyone gives aw rong answer they all get shocked...if they wait too long to answer they get shocked.
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BlackFlag
Objections noted; Notes discarded.
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,17:30 |
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Try humanizing the parts of the computer. Explain the processes that go on in a computer as the different chips talking to each other. Try as much as you can to put things in terms that are used in everyday life.
Make analogies between a computer and the human brain; "What were we just talking about?"(ram). "What's your name, where were you born?"(HD) "what's 2+2?"(cpu) "how come you know how to breath and maintain a regular heartbeat when no one ever taught you?" (bios) "Near death experience" (format c:All data in non-removable drive C: will be deleted (Y/N) ) etc.
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Dark Knight Bob
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,18:35 |
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cancer...windows
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damien_s_lucifer
Emperor of Detnet
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Posted on: Feb. 15 2002,20:44 |
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computers and old ppl don't mix. all we can do now is wait for our generation to inherit the earth.
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