omg what a nerd

[programmer2k]

This guy brings a laptop to his school
and starts to upload his webpage
He looks at html codes
he looks like a nerd
and surfs a site like freewebspace.net while using the laptop AT SCHOOL


you guys aren't like that
are you?

[Canuckkev]

And I thought programming on my TI-83 was geeky...

[Omari]

when im in keyboarding class i find myself typing in the url to a site like this or a wrestling site but i delete it and go to a games or basketball site :)

[Coolin]

Did the teacher say anything about this action? I would have gotten into deep trouble if I did that.

[Toefur]

Whats so bad about that?

If thats what someone enjoys doing... let them do it. At least he's being productive.

[LeX]

I prolly would've gotten suspended if I tried to bring that to school... where does he hook up his laptop? Even if I brought a laptop to school, I still wouldn't be able to go online, 'cause there are no phoneline jacks.

He's surfing the net when he's supposed to be staring at the dull textbooks and figuring out what to add to 1 to make 2, so yes, it IS bad!

[Gayowulf]

one guy brought his laptop to school, and was flaunting it around, and using the cellular modem to connect to the internet. one of the non nerds "accidentally" knocked it off the desk. it broke, but for some reson the nerd didnt cry or anything. he just picked up all the pieces. and took them to a used electronics shop. it turned out he stole the laptop from the school. he got suspended for awhile and all computer privleges revoked.

I could write a book of nerd stories i have so many.

[stu]

Originally posted by Coolin
Did the teacher say anything about this action? I would have gotten into deep trouble if I did that.

why get in trouble? maybe if he was surfing porn sites, but not freewebspace.net

if he was using it to cheat on a test, then i'd say he'd be in deep trouble..

[Robert]

We are allowed to bring Laptops to school and each class room has a hub connected to a T3 that we can connect our laptops to. Most teachers prefer laptops over paper since we can save our notes and use them at the end of the year for the Mid-term. Face it, technology is changing. As for the comment of the "nerd", he's not a nerd, he's a regular teenager. It's the way of the future, kids having laptops. Matter of fact, there is a school located near my home that requires the use of a laptop. No laptop, no acceptance letter. They don't have textbooks or paper, it's all on a 3 1/2 disk.

[programmer2k]

what I'm saying is
I would come to school
1) learn
2) chill with my friends


I don't spend my lunch time looking at html codes and making webpages for fun

maybe at home
but not at school

[gyrbo]

I used to spen my lunch time behind the schools computers to upload my webpages to yahoo. Gee, that was a long time ago(3months). Back then, I didn't had internet at home.
:):):)At school there are about 30 comps on a 56k modem :):):)

[Robert]

Originally posted by gyrbo
At school there are about 30 comps on a 56k modem

Your school is outdated. Only 30 comps and all on a 56k modem? So each one dials up? hmm..

[RonDoubt]

Most of the computers in my school are IBMs with Pentium 2 processors running Windows 98. We have one room with Macs using Mac OS 8.6 (I think) and we always have to use Virtual PC. Oh, and we're only on a T1.

[cowax]

There's a kid in my school who brings a laptop to school, but never really uses it, just carries it around like a breif case... pityfull

Our school has about 50 PCs using Win 95 on T1s; they are totally outdated and crash all the time. Also have about 20 new iMacs run on 56k connections.

[akashik]

You guys have it pretty good :)

Back when I was in school we had to use these great hulking masses running DOS. They only had monochrome monitors (green on black). Modems for a personal computer were a few years away yet. Everyone was pretty excited when they got a chance to use the Apple IIE's as they looked better.

That was around 1988 - we've come a long way huh? :)

Greg Moore

[Rodie]

Why in the world would any of your schools use 56K modems for individual computers to be connected to the internet? After paying for 20-30 phonelines, and an ISP account for every computer, the price would have to be ridiculous. With the price for T1's and T3's falling dramatically recently, that just strikes me as very odd. Especially when some of you say they already have Windows PC's hooked up to a network. Every imac ever made has come with a built-in ethernet port! Oh well, I will stop being nerdy now

[cowax]

It's a SCHOOL. What do you expect?

BTW, how much is a t3 nowadays?

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Rodie
Why in the world would any of your schools use 56K modems for individual computers to be connected to the internet?It's probably an entire ethernet network connected to each other, but the access to the internet is 56k.

[LeX]

Oh, I remember the old computers of my old school... well, they were spankin' new then. They were these real sad IBM computers that runs on DOS I believe? They have it configed so that whenever you boot up, this proggy runs and it has something do to with education. Naturally. Really boring and useless IMO.

[programmer2k]

I think T3 is like only $15,000 per month now

[LeX]

Still real expensive.

When would the internet be really free? *sigh*

[gyrbo]

After the vacation whe have cable in our school! 25 comp run win98. 10 have P2-300. the rest has P3-650. The 15 other ones are P-66s.

[Coolin]

We have about 30 Pentium 1 233MHz with 32 megs of RAM and *argh* DeepFreeze.

[Rodie]

We have a million imacs, about 4 powermac G3's for video editing purposes (Avid Cinema). Then we have about 20 Gateway PII 233's for drafting, and some crappy Micron 600mhz celeron's for our networking class. But hey, it's better than what we used to have in there (old 486's)

[atlas]

Originally posted by LeX

When would the internet be really free? *sigh*

As soon as the cost of building worldwide fiberoptic networks costs nothing :) -- so the answer is that it won't......

-mk

[RonDoubt]

I think I know someone nerdier (heh, thats not a word..) than the kid originally mentioned in the thread.

My friend Michael is 14, wears nothing but white turtlenecks and blue jeans, has 4 computers (2 on cable, 2 on 56k), brings print outs of computer prices to school, weighs about 115 lbs, has glasses, braces, and goes to remedial gym. He also takes PASCAL, HTML, Keyboarding and C++.

[Rodie]

Remedial gym? wow that is really sad :0

[RonDoubt]

I dunno, maybe hes just weak? The kid is practically a walking toothpick.

[Canuckkev]

Internet be free? Well the aparently Canada has plans to give high speed i-net access to everyone. Or was that just AB? And schools and Libraries too. Right now, the 400 gazillion computers in my high school are on a giant network, and load web pages slower than my old 14.4 . And all freewebspace sites like angelfire, tripod, geocities are blocked out because they think kids might go to "bad" sites because anyone can get a site for free there. Problem is, all sites that contain good information for research are located there. There isn't exactly a "17th century British Explores".com . What is really bad is that if you had the urge, typing in an address like "porno.com" would work.(I haven't really tried that. They monitor all the users history, and make you log in with your student ID before even getting on).

What else? Okay, more on nerds. There is this one kid in m Info Pro. class that is looks pretty geeky. He has glasses, really skinny and pale, and well, ugly, but at the same time he is pretty funny. Kinda cool actually. He doesn't bring his laptop to school though. This kid last semester in Auto Tech. always brought his laptop to school, and he was pretty nerdy. He always wore a computer affliated t-shirt...he kind of reminds me of the comic book store owner on the simpsons. But he was also funny, at times, but still geeky for playing roller coaster tycoon at school. This other kid always has a laptop, but he needs it because he can't write properly, so he has to type. He isn't really mentally retarded, but...slow. And there is freaks that are always talking about computer programming(my locker partner and his friends...well friend...). But that doesn't make sense. School is time for socializing, not talking about the source code for their current project. They obliviously don't do anything outside of school except enter information into a computer, because they are either really fat(it's glandular!), or a toothpick's splinter. Anyways...that's all for me.

[RonDoubt]

Yes, the "nerdy" do tend to be funny, even if they dont have much of a life.

[Gayowulf]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
Internet be free? Well the aparently Canada has plans to give high speed i-net access to everyone. Or was that just AB? And schools and Libraries too.


would the
Internet free for everyone, or for schools, libraries and such? Most of the local schools run off of a satellite connection, as cable isnt available here yet.


Originally posted by Canuckkev

And all freewebspace sites like angelfire, tripod, geocities are blocked out because they think kids might go to "bad" sites because anyone can get a site for free there. Problem is, all sites that contain good information for research are located there. There isn't exactly a "17th century British Explores".com . What is really bad is that if you had the urge, typing in an address like "porno.com" would work.(I haven't really tried that. They monitor all the users history, and make you log in with your student ID before even getting on).


Hotmail and other services, i think, are banned here but everyone uses them anyways.

Just get a redirect account and make it redirect to your favourite angelfire-geocities etc. site.


I think nerds are dumb. They are almost always ugly, or if not just plain annoying. i know i am probably either describing or openly offending 85% of the people here.

oh well

[Koolguy]

In my high school we have about 200 old power macs and about 100 new IBM's linked up through a fiber line to the school district offices. They use Novell to control acess to stuff but its buggy and easy to get around.

[Rodie]

I don't mind nerds much. The people I really think are dumb are the "goths" or "non-conformists" (which is one of the stupidest words out there, since everyone in the world is conformed to something).

I don't have anything against people who listen to "goth" music and stuff, but geez, do you have to dress up and act like that? I mean, I don't know of too many jobs out there that let you dress and act like that. It just seems they either have no self-respect or like being dirty or something. At our school they all sit at this corner table in the cafeteria and do all this weird sh*t. Half the time if you look over there they are sitting on each other or tonguing the hell out of each other's mouths. That's really what I want to see when I'm eating! LOL

I apologize if I offended anyone with the above, and I realize not all of those types of people are like that, but damn the ones that are annoy me.

[cowax]

The people I hate are the group of people who 'hang out' at the corner of the street across from school doing ... whatever and in school, acting like dumbass 2nd graders and failing every class they take. I can bet most 2nd graders are more mature then they are. You probally know who I'm talking about... ;)

[Canuckkev]

Yeah goth's are annoying. It seems like they just dress strange to draw attention to themselves. I don't see the need for all the accesories they have(spike collar, piercings, leather whips...). And the punk kids who hang across the street cowax, you mean the druggies? Well, everyone's a druggie in my school. Okay, not everyone, but the school cop knows that lots of people just goes out in the field and smoke up, and he doesn't care. He's does stuff like deal with the hundreds of fender benders in the parking lot. Kids just go into the washroom to smoke up too. I am glad that there aren't many "hard" drugs. Mostly weed and shrooms. Most kids can grow them themselves, so easy access. Or their parents do, and the steal from them. I doubt it will be long till Canada has as lax a drug policy as the Netherlands.

And to keep on track, nerds...meh,I said all I have to say.

[programmer2k]

there's a difference between cool and weird

those guys who look like punks
spike collar, piercings, leather whips, doing drugs
they are idiots


I don't consider them cool
in fact
I consider them as a loser


cool people are
people who are clean
wears good fashion
have some morals
respect others
can chill
smart

you know
the usual...

[saneseth]

So fashion makes you cool huh? maybe we should tell all the kids who kill their schoolmates to buy some nikes and fit in.

[programmer2k]

anyways
Me and my friends are all rich
so we all think fashion is ONE OF MANY being cool

also the hairstyle

I guess that's fashion too



FASHION is cool
basically



[Edited by programmer2k on 04-16-2001 at 04:24 AM]

[Gayowulf]

lol. I guess it would be pretty uncool if i had a mullet and wore tight jeans and the same shirt everyday, and had a bad acne problem, and smelled funny and complaind about the price of hot water and had a pocket protector and a holster for my calculator and my glasses perscription was -11.00.

lol

[programmer2k]

fashion is cool to me
that's my opinion

We're all different


I guess we all have different opinion on what's cool

heh

[stu]

Originally posted by Gayowulf
lol. I guess it would be pretty uncool if i had a mullet and wore tight jeans and the same shirt everyday


mullets rule! too bad the style has died out since the eighties. otherwise i'd still have a mullet today..

[LeX]

The idoits: people who pour loads of perfume onto their bodies
The coolies: people who be themselves to the extreme! (That'll be me... *ahem* ;))

[Jerry]

at my school we have a laptop course.. its basically calculus without a fatty textbook.. the textbook is an interactive program installed on your laptop..

of course we have the regular calculus also.. this class is sort of a trial kind of thing.. because next year my school is starting to have laptop courses for everything.. supposedly they are going to make it mandatory for the freshman to have laptops..

its sort of an excuse for kids to get their parents to buy them laptops.. according to the calculus students, the textbook calculus class does better on the written tests..

[Rodie]

I would hate having to read my text books on a computer. For whatever reason, I just can't concentrate well enough to read stuff when I'm on a computer.

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Rodie
I would hate having to read my text books on a computer. For whatever reason, I just can't concentrate well enough to read stuff when I'm on a computer. Same with me. My teacher has a Science test on his website.

My mark on the website: 60%
My mark in real life: 97%

I see a problem there.

[LeX]

Yeah.... the problem is likely human error for the real-life test. ;)

[Jerry]

the textbooks on the computer aren't really textbooks though.. they are supposedly like games that make you learn whatever subject its about..

sort of like going out and buying math blaster and if you solve all the problems in a certain amount of time.. the world blows up or something.. :)

i'm not sure really.. i haven't had one of those classes.. but my friend in calculus told me the program is fun and he learns a lot from it..

[LeX]

*lol* That's how they taught us some of the subjects in elementary. There was a "computer" period, and everybody got on these old, clunky IBMs with loud keyboards with software sorta like the one you described above, only you don't get to save the world or destroy it. (Technology back then was real sorry)

There were these stupid typing exercises, math problems and reading comprehension and junk like that, and if you complete it, you can either see a dumb animation or play a boring game.

[Rodie]

I remember in Kindergarden we used to have some Old Apple IIe computer that we played this muppet math game on. IT was like my favorite game and I always came in early to school to play it lol

[Gayowulf]

Lol got started early ;) we had the old apple ][s no games on those then the newer ones with odell lake and cross country canada. lol

[Jerry]

oo.. i remember cross country usa now. and qwerty and number chompers..

all on apple IIgs..

they need to make those games for windows.. i wouldn't play them.. but i'm sure little kids would..

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Jerry
oo.. i remember cross country usa now. and qwerty and number chompers..Hmm... Cross Country Canada is the newest game in our school...

[Gayowulf]

Must be a newer version?? if not your school has some pretty outdated computers, or old games

[phatdood9]

lol, those guys w/ pants that stop at their thighs ... tight pants ... eeewww and those fat ones that smell like ----

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Gayowulf
Must be a newer version?? if not your school has some pretty outdated computers, or old games Well, it does have colour and okay graphics. But it pretty much sucks as a game. Our computers are only Pentium 1 233MHz. Pretty slow.

[bigperm]

I just read this whole thread, and I am wondering if anybody here ever did that thing on the computer (yeah be a little more vaugue?) Well, it was a little triangle on the screen and you typed in commands to make it go in boxes and circles and stuff... Does anybody remember that?

Yeah, and I dug out my 386, from the OLD days. What a trip. Makes you glad that we aren't using win 3.1 anymore. And qbasic? Damn.

[Coolin]

Oh that program! I used it on those really old macs in about 4 years ago. You typed in commands that made shapes. The program, if I remember right, is called LOGO. The commands looked like this:

forward 40 right 90 forward 40 right 90 forward 40 right 90 forward 40

That made a square.

[atlas]

Originally posted by bigperm
I just read this whole thread, and I am wondering if anybody here ever did that thing on the computer (yeah be a little more vaugue?) Well, it was a little triangle on the screen and you typed in commands to make it go in boxes and circles and stuff... Does anybody remember that?


The "little triangle" is called the turtle in Logo :)

[Coolin]

I remember some people a year older than me doing all these really cool swirly shapes and designs. I wonder if there's a Windows Emulator for Logo. It'd be nice to have.

[bigperm]

Yes! LOGO, that was it. You had to boot up with those 5 1/2" discs. It was called a tutle too... It would be nice to see that again.

[rmsharpe]

I don't really think it's appropriate to label people's personalities. People, to me, that use labels are just too dumb or too lazy to figure out what a person is really like.