[Descenterace]

Last time I bought a computer, the guy building it for me couldn't understand why the GPU would matter. All he paid any attention to was the onboard memory.

Even computer-literate people can fail to understand what part of a graphics card enables all those flashy effects.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by CP5670

you have something to do if the lecture gets boring (which it always does)

Well, let's be fair... you are doing maths after all....

[CP5670]

All the classes are a bore though, not just the math ones. I usually just ignore the professors and read the textbooks, which are a lot more clear and informative. I basically go to classes to hand in stuff and get a vague idea of what's going on (first two minutes of the lecture), and then read the material in the textbooks.

[EtherShock]

It's possible, but it's more likely your professors just suck.

[CP5670]

Some of them are actually supposed to be very highly rated (and they are much better, relatively speaking), while others indeed suck. The books are still better than any of them.

Math in particular is not the sort of subject you can pick up by listening to a professor though; you're going to miss a lot of things that way. I can learn far more effectively by reading the books myself, so the only things I try to find out when deciding on a professor is how much work there will be and the difficulty of the tests.

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by CP5670
Some of them are actually supposed to be very highly rated (and they are much better, relatively speaking), while others indeed suck. The books are still better than any of them.

Math in particular is not the sort of subject you can pick up by listening to a professor though; you're going to miss a lot of things that way. I can learn far more effectively by reading the books myself, so the only things I try to find out when deciding on a professor is how much work there will be and the difficulty of the tests.

I don't know about your books, but my diff. eq. text sucked worse than my professor did.  It was practically unreadable and gave examples for only the simplest types of problems, leaving you with absolutely no clue on how to solve anything more complex.  I hated that class more than anything in the 12 or so years of schooling prior to it.

[CP5670]

The books I've used so far have fortunately been quite good, with the exception of one, but I already had some other books on that topic anyway.

[EtherShock]

Originally posted by CP5670
Math in particular is not the sort of subject you can pick up by listening to a professor though; you're going to miss a lot of things that way. I can learn far more effectively by reading the books myself, so the only things I try to find out when deciding on a professor is how much work there will be and the difficulty of the tests.

I suppose this is true. There's quite a bit that you learn in college that you can learn for a fraction of the price from books alone. I need one-on-one with math. In class, I'm lucky if I get anything from the lesson.

[MrBig101]

Going back to earlier, do you want a great game for psp???  Then wait for WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2006.  Yes, it is a wrestling game (which I love ), but after what the PS2 version is looking like, it could very well be a freaking awesome game.  And, if you want to bang someone with a steel chair or a trash can lid, it's all yours .

[redsniper]

well... wrestling is retarded.

[aldo_14]

Wrestling is probably the only thing (I'd hesitate to call it a sport) where the computer game is more real than the actual event.

[WMCoolmon]