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Notice right after he says don't bring laptops and use them in class the camera gets turned off and hidden pretty quickly...lol]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
exactly what i was thinking lol.]]>Feb 21st 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
Oh well, this is not the way how to treat a laptop.. And another, 'laptop-brutality': http://bit.ly/macbook-gundown-israel-airport]]>Feb 21st 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
This reminds me of teachers I've had in the past who tried too hard to be cool or hipp.]]>Feb 21st 2010 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
Yup, I'm at GT and taking his class right now CS 4290 - Advanced Computer Organization.]]>Feb 21st 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
That being said, I'm surprised at how many people in my classes DON'T bring laptops to class; I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in all of my classes except Computer Science....]]>Feb 21st 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
I'm surprised OU can't afford professors who don't get as easily distracted as this douche.

Another point which makes UT >>>>>> OU]]>Feb 21st 2010 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
oh yes, because we all know that OU is the pinnacle of higher education. give me a break.]]>Feb 21st 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
What does OU's reputation as a school have anything to do with anything? Not only is OU a great school, but nothing would have changed had this taken place at one of your so-called "pinnacle" institutions such as Rice, MIT, or Caltech. As you say - "give me a break".


I am actually in this class, and was present for this incident (i was in fact 2-3 rows behind the kid taking video) . Dr. Mullen is actually a GREAT professor for the most part. He is able to get students actively involved in a discussion and gives genuinely interesting lectures (even for a basic mechanical physics class). This is the only time i can even remotely consider to be a "power trip" (as one commenter put it) or of him "going cold" (as another said). It was made clear from the beginning of the class (as in day #1) that no laptops were allowed, and he did what he needed to to drive the point home.]]>Feb 21st 2010 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
We're all sorry you're taking his class, on the fact that the rest of the world thinks he's a douche for doing what he did to drive the point home of no laptops.

I hope this traumatic incident does not affect you passing his class.

Frankly, with physics, it's not really easy to get all the symbols you need without having to point-click them on the PC. Only if one knew every ASCII key combo to get every symbol would a PC be useful in a physics class. I prefer drawing symbols and writing equations down on paper myself, and I'm sure a lot of others do as well. I use a laptop in other classes otherwise. ]]>Feb 21st 2010 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
Stop right there... before someone makes a crack at the majority of meteorologists who make a living not knowing what the fuck is going on up in the sky most of the time... ah, there it goes...]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
and who knows, if he really confiscate one students laptop(from other class, because if i was there and this was my laptop, it were his head in the nitrogen not my pc) and destroyed it like that, he has to be fired, like one of my teachers 8 years ago who broke someones cellphone by throwing it in the trash can. long live YOUTUBE that will provide the proof.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
During both of my degrees (Electronics and Comp Eng BEng (Hons) and MSc (Dist) Mechatronics), I always took my laptop to class and made notes with LaTeX. Of course, I'd also take down handwritten notes of longer derivations and diagrams.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
"Frankly, with physics, it's not really easy to get all the symbols you need without having to point-click them on the PC. Only if one knew every ASCII key combo to get every symbol would a PC be useful in a physics class. I prefer drawing symbols and writing equations down on paper myself, and I'm sure a lot of others do as well. I use a laptop in other classes otherwise."

I am using a laptop in physics class this semester, I used one last semester, and when it gets to be too much to keep up with using the equation editor and the character map, I just spell out the symbols. Writing delta-rho instead of Δρ is just not that big of a deal. The only class that I broke down and started taking paper notes in was Calc II, and if there'd been a reliable, affordable tablet available when I made my laptop purchase, I would have been just fine there too.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
No, definitely agree with ya there.

Now you've reminded me to look for a decent tablet PC now. Great... I was just narrowing my search for a new lappy. Thank you, thank you very much. LOL]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://bit.ly/how-to-kill-a-laptop

Its about destroying a laptop, but this time by shooting it with a gun. OMG]]>Feb 22nd 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/is the no laptop rule his or the schools? This is more like a control freak than power tripp.

If I was a student who used a laptop for notes and in this class I would definitely make a stink about this. You are paying (alot) to be there. How much money just got wasted? Liquid Nitrogen can't be cheap. Did he pay for it? ]]>Feb 22nd 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 22nd 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/He's clearly an attention whore, so cameras are encouraged I presume.
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Granted, in my physics classes I never used my laptop, but it was very useful for me to take notes in many of my other courses. Even at public schools now you are not often the minority as a student with a laptop.]]>Feb 23rd 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/funny how fast the guy shut down the video recording scared to loose his cell the same way xD

]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
There's no such thing as multi-tasking.
]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
"There's no such thing as multi-tasking."
-Steve Jobs]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/
But Droid Does]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Steve Jobs agrees!]]>Feb 21st 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/21/ou-professor-submerses-laptop-in-liquid-nitrogen-smashes-it-to/Feb 21st 2010 3:33PM