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Here is a more in-depth presentation he gave on the same subject at a Google Tech Talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk (April 11, 2011)

I've found that this works great when you're sincerely interested in the class but not as well otherwise. I did this for Pattern Recognition, arguably the hardest class I took, with great success. However, for classes like Materials and Fluid Dynamics, which I was much less interested in, it didn't work so well. This is likely due to the fact that I didn't stay as on top of things due to a lack of interest in those classes and had to compensate for it near the end.

I definitely agree with you on the "don't care about grades" issue. The reason you go to school shouldn't be to get a high score but rather to learn and better yourself.

Many of you have claimed that a keyboard is faster/'superior' but it really depends on your form of mouse and the application at hand. I recently got a new Macbook and have happily replaced some of my previous keyboard shortcuts with multitouch gestures. With the aid of Jitouch and hotkeys I can easily navigate web history (and go back and forth in folders and other programs), switch spaces, maximize/minimize windows, show all applications, hide all applications, show all spaces+applications, snap windows to the left or right half of the screen, zoom in on pictures or web pages, and other less-used actions.

I am not trying to say that multitouch+jitouch+hotcorners is the best solution for all interactions. Surely for activities like coding it's probably not. But over the past few weeks I've grown to prefer it for web browsing and general navigating the OS.

http://www.jitouch.com/index.php?page=jitouch

I totally agree and think that even if these awards aren't going to the "right" people it is still a worthwhile process for all of those involved. I was nominated by my school for the Goldwater scholarship and also applied to the NSF Graduate Fellowship and found both to be incredibly worthwhile. It wasn't until I wrote (and rewrote) my Goldwater essays that I had a good grasp of what I really wanted to do with life. Sure, at that point I had been doing 'research' and other creative activities, but I had never forced myself to really self-reflect and figure out how my interests come together.

"Who care's if Mozilla has more extensions? They cause too much trouble when you upgrade."

Exactly. I switched to Chrome because of this and Chrome's better (less buggy!) Sync features.

I even got one of those as my local dollar store. Not the best quality, but good enough to do the job.

LaTeX Labs allows you to write LaTex and is hosted through Google Docs.

http://docs.latexlab.org/docs

On the website he claims it's a fairly standard dual core setup and you can see the number of frames per second in the video. I noticed at one point it was staying around 15fps. It may not work at this point for an FPS (Especially because it would have to be done in conjunction with graphics and other game-related processes), but it would likely be fine with other less fast-paced games.