How Stuff Works.com -VS- Actually Paying Attention in School

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:10 am

yeah, your right they're imacs. Also, I was using one of the top rated GB emulators for a mac.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:28 am

could it be that it was top-rated because of its features, which slow it down for not so fast computers?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:34 pm

Wow. My school really sucks.

I wish I could go to Spongey's school...

That sounds frickin' awesome with all the LASER BEAMS! Lol. Man, my school has these super slow computers (some veriety of celeron), but luckily Im not in the school I was in last year. They had all 20 or so of the computers (Thats all my school had) running off of a 56k connection! You try to go anywhere and unless you were the only person in the computer room, it took forever to find anything.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:40 pm

ya know, I'm gonna say what else the school has just to piss you guys off

there is also a metals shop (not sure if I mentioned it) a photo class complete with 25-enlarger darkroom (and another smaller one I've never been in) a 3d art room, a 2d art room, a wood shop, graphic design class (which has the laser engraver, though the wood shop uses it now and then) an electronics class, a programming class, computer software class (intro to iMovie, Dreamweaver, Flash, GarageBand, Fireworks) web design class (continued work with Dreamweaver) Multimedia (continued work with Flash) and several languages (I know there is French, Spanish, Japanese, German, and maybe Latin)

am I missing anything?

edit: yes I am: computer tech training (build and troubleshoot computers) aviation, some car classes (with a garage, some kids even work on their cars in class) and about 6 computer labs + library

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:43 pm

Noooooo!

Stop! Stop! Stop!
My highschools best copmputer course (in gr 12) is stuff that I can do now (Im in gr 9). Luckily theres a 90% chance Im getting homeschooled next year. (Yess!!!)

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:50 pm

I'm moving in with spongey!

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:52 pm

lol. Hope you like my edit, HK-47

the funny thing is, people still go to private schools around here. I guess I can see why some people would want to in other areas, though.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:01 pm

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:17 pm

you know what i passed all the computer corses in my school by being the guy who fixed every thing... the teachers freak out and quarenite any broken computers and are all paranoid, when its like a realy easy fix. (never ever any thing hardware) the most ive had to do to was reformat. one year a teacher gave me so much stuff to "fix" i didnt have to do the next years corse...

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:01 pm

cennar wrote:you know what i passed all the computer corses in my school by being the guy who fixed every thing... the teachers freak out and quarenite any broken computers and are all paranoid, when its like a realy easy fix. (never ever any thing hardware) the most ive had to do to was reformat. one year a teacher gave me so much stuff to "fix" i didnt have to do the next years corse...

Sounds familiar. At my old school the teachers whould freak out whenever anything happened. I was always getting called from class to fix little things...

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:26 pm

yeah but i have no idea what we did all year. if they ever tested me on it i wouldnt know. then again they where teaching kids how to open microsoft office, im sure i could have made it.

Post by **Black Six** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:22 pm

SpongeBuell wrote:could it be that it was top-rated because of its features, which slow it down for not so fast computers?

Nah, gannon just doesn't know what he's doing. I've run full-speed GBC emulators on my old G3 350 with no problems. Heck, I ran PSX emulators on that with no problem, don't know what gannon thought he was doing.
Also, Sponge, your school is awesome. I just took a class at mine in "Computer Graphics," which was how to use Photoshop, and was a joke. We also have Java, VisualBasic, and CAD classes, which are fun and fairly easy, I've managed to take all of them at least once.

Post by **gannon** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:25 pm

Black Six wrote: Nah, gannon just doesn't know what he's doing. I've run full-speed GBC emulators on my old G3 350 with no problems. Heck, I ran PSX emulators on that with no problem, don't know what gannon thought he was doing.

It's not my fault the macs at my school suck :p

dragonhead · Post by **dragonhead** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:24 pm

SpongeBuell wrote:
dragonhead wrote:better or worse

if i took the time to explain the whole deal, you'd see that my school is one of the worst
much, much better. We have a [insert doctor evil voice from Austin Powers] fricken laser beam [/dr. evil] and when I say a laser beam, I mean a graphic arts class with a laser engraver. Not only that, but the library is full of eMacs free for student use, and about 50 iBooks if you ask nicely and the eMacs are taken. Oooh, and all the classes have a projector.

o we have the emacs, projectors, and ibooks, but we can never use em, we dont have a computer lab, we have the library (pathetic) with like 12 computers. theyre the only ones we can really use. and even then, not for anything but research and typing.

I HATE MY SCHOOL!

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:28 am

Seems everyone but spongey does too..

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