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How about if we all just relax, take a stress pill, and buy the computer we personally prefer?

Even the guys who sit around the TV and argue the superiority of their favorite pro wrestlers admit that it's just a pastime. How many of us are willing to admit the same about our computer advocacy?

Ironically, the Powell Doctrine also calls for:

1. "...that military action should be used only as a last resort and only if there is a clear risk to national security by the intended target..."

2. "...there must be strong support for the campaign by the general public..."

3. "...and there must be a clear exit strategy from the conflict in which the military is engaged."

~http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/less on plans/iraq/powelldoctrine_short.html

Now put that into the perspective of the Iraq War, and it's obvious that Powell lost the internal fight to Rumsfeld.

Farming is not really possible with elephants. Jared Diamond's series on PBS, Guns, germs and steel mentioned in one episode that elephants have never successfully been farmed. They have work elephants in India, but they have to be caught in the wild and domesticated.

It might be possible on a free range farm the size of a huge park, but then it'd be the same thing as a nature preserve, and you might as well let them live.

Besides, do we really need a reputable ivory trade? I don't think billiard balls and piano keys are really worth killing elephants for.

Cringley is speculating that it will come with a bluetooth retina scan display.

But, you know, it's Cringley so...

I read an interesting bit on Cringely's page..

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714. html

He speculates that Apple will use retinal scanners to project the image into the eye. This actually seems plausable. Leave it to Apple to do something so cool. It would be expensive but people would want one due in part to the coolness factor.. I'd consider getting one if it could be It's at the very end of the article... Here's a snippet.

"...but what about a higher resolution display, possibly a retinal scan display, for the Video iPod? It's the only way to extend Apple's "Year of HD" to its tiniest platform.

Nearly all of the retinal scan patents are held by Bothell, Washington-based MicroVision, a company I have written about in the past. And from the look of the SEC filings, a lot is happening up there in Bothell. As always I have no insider information at all, but it wouldn't surprise me if Apple introduced a super-high-capacity iPod and a separate retinal-scan display. It will be aimed at the very high end of the price scale, just like the Apple Cinema Display originally cost $4,000 for what now costs less than $1,000. The retinal scan display won't be cheap, but it will be cool, and it will be some permutation of HD, too."

I know, I posted this link yesterday, but Cringely thinks that Apple is moving towards providing a retinal scan with the iPod. Brittany Spears projected right into your eyeball! And you thought cell phones were a distraction while driving.

In Bob Cringely's latest article "More Shoes", he surmises that retinal scan glasses are on the way:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714. html

"Nearly all of the retinal scan patents are held by Bothell, Washington-based MicroVision, a company I have written about in the past. And from the look of the SEC filings, a lot is happening up there in Bothell. As always I have no insider information at all, but it wouldn't surprise me if Apple introduced a super-high-capacity iPod and a separate retinal-scan display. It will be aimed at the very high end of the price scale, just like the Apple Cinema Display originally cost $4,000 for what now costs less than $1,000. The retinal scan display won't be cheap, but it will be cool, and it will be some permutation of HD, too."

More Shoes, his latest article.

Cringely saw this coming last Friday. The Jean Dixon of the computer industry does it again.

Wasn't there a really great conversation about the speculation of movies/videos on /. before? And didn't Cringley cover this as well (with references and links to /.)?

I'm in total agreement that watching any type of videos on an iPod is *not* the way to go. If I remember correctly, the discussion on /. was that Apple would introduce a "bridge-type" hardware that connected movies/videos bought from iTunes to your existing TV. Much like the AirPort product connects iTunes to your stereo. This would be a killer product and much more enjoyable instead of straining your eyes to watch a movie on a 2" screen.

Any second now? How about 4 days ago: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714. html

Cringley thinks that Intel is going to go exclusively with Apple and their rumoured "iTunes Movie Store."

Personally, I think the Cringe is on target, as the "iFlicks" version of iTunes has been on the radar for years now.

Of course, being on /., I suppose we have to support the conspiracy theorists...

Or for the slightly less paranoid... Cringely.

first... who the hell is "mikenew.com" and what the hell credientials does he have?
and who is the hell is Trudy Chen?

i hope you know the sources in which your stupid little article cites are all from US government related sites, and all the people that it cites are very conservative republicans who would like nothing better than the destruction of the UN.

you are easily fooled.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/18/un.reform/

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june98 /dues_3-11a.html

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/05/12/stor ies/03120001.htm

http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2003_0106_05. htm

you are a damn idiot.

want to respond to everything else?

The (partisan) Senate vote on Clinton Impeachment:

REPUBLICANS
guilty: 45, not guilty: 10

DEMOCRATS
guilty: 0, not guilty: 45

Refs:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/impeachment/vote/vote_ article1.html
For roll call, see http://pw2.netcom.com/~speaker6/lists/impeach.html

People in Nigeria need to learn to feed themselves, before they need instant messaging or blogging.

Think I'm being elitist? Nope. I'm just lucky to have been born in the USA, where food and farm labour is abundant.

I'm not defending anyone here, but I am setting the record straight because the parent is full of bull. "Remeber [sic] Cringely famously posted in 1998 that the iMac launch was going to fail." Nowhere did Cringely say in his article that the iMac launch was doomed. Here, read the whole article that the parent conveniently neglected to link. Heck, even in the quote the parent used, there's nothing about lack of demand, or the souring of consumer opinion, only concerns about initial supply. "We didn't see stories about them because it was all bull." The parent has a short memory. Anyone paying attention to Apple knew about their supply problems. Here's an article I found in 30 seconds by using Google titled "Supply problems persist for Apple" from C|Net, dated November 4, 1999. You want a complaint from 1998? Here's another that mentions, you guessed it, supply problems. "The biggest problem with the weekend festivities, as you can imagine, was that there were not enough iMacs to go around." More supply problems.

There are several for streaming. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/ 51 Frontline episodes. Some Nova stuff as well http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs.html Still no downloading due to "rights issues" though. I suppose you could use a streamripper. The quality isn't that good. Streaming is better than nothing though.

There are several for streaming. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/ 51 Frontline episodes. Some Nova stuff as well http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs.html Still no downloading due to "rights issues" though. I suppose you could use a streamripper. The quality isn't that good. Streaming is better than nothing though.

ratings dont prevent anything. they dont even work at the movies, i remember going to see all the R-rated horror fliks with my friends when we were young as twelve. they only ban children from R-fliks depending on the theatre's location. another "self-policing" scheme bites the dust. perhaps this is the reason that pornography is not just an "X" rating, pornography and the like has always been restricted to certain areas of the city. 42nd street in NY, for example. you'll also notice that all the (and there are many of them) nudey bars in NY are all in industrial areas. firm LAW, not a self-policing bs rating system, is the only way to keep porn from the general community. and i guess rockstar has merely done the inevitable by releasing pornography to children.

but rockstar is not the only porn-pushing company on the internet (computer-land, what ever you call it). there are many corperations MUCH larger than rockstar that have sponsored computer porn. yahoo is one that i know of that has sponsored sites that promote child pornography. AT&T has it's hands in the computer porn racket. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn /business/mainstream.html

so where's the law? i guess the law is waiting for the outrage? so where's the outrage? consumers are willing to trade their outrage for their orgasmatrons, i guess. its all pretty lame to me. we've never seen porn in our supermarkets, we never see porn as we drive our children to school, we dont sit and watch ads for porn at the movies, or on tv, so why is the internet so different? its different because it's new, thats all. and the test is now whether or not americans really want to remove porn from their computers, because now, the "modern" generation has the responsibility to do this, it hasnt been "taken care of" by the previous generations ;). americans are obviously enjoying their new freedoms and access to great porn, free, anonymous, diverse selections, all tastes, kicks and trips, do they really want to get rid of it? i suspect the answer is "no".

I haven't ever heard of the host...

I'd suggest you check out his weekly column from time to time. He seems to be one of the few tech pundits out there that actually has half a clue. Although sometimes it's obvious it's only half a clue...

Except that DTV and HDTV are the same size in terms of radio spectrum. HDTV = High Definition Television, which is done digitally. DTV = Digital Television. So HDTV is a subset of DTV. No one is ever going to be forced to broadcast HDTV. They are being told by the FCC to go digital. That is all. There is no cutoff to switch to HDTV. Some stations are even planning on still broadcasting at low resolutions and thus be able to fit in the same spectrum different shows (it's called multi-casting http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/digital_v_analo g/multicast.html). What resolution a broadcaster decides to send their signals in is their choice, but they must do it in digital.

The BBC is run by the british government (http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/running/)

You must be thinking of PBS (http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/).

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

I should be more specific.

I watched more than a hundred kids get pulled out by cops because of a gang-related riot. I'm not joking; you can find it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in early school 1997 - October, I think, not really sure these days.

I mean in one single incident. In retrospect what I wrote does not read that way.

Also, something that occurred to me after I hit submit: if the textbooks are digital, then the community movement - what drives OSS - can apply to it. Have you considered how many times you caught errors in your textbook as a kid, or how many things in the sciences or humanities could have used better explanations?

Another issue which I failed to touch on - I had planned to but then simply forgot - is that laptops are significantly better teaching devices than are books. They cover everything a book can do (provided electricity,) but also significantly more.

My Civics teacher brought in the few videos and many audio recordings of Martin Luther King, as well as several other historic figures, because the teacher felt that actually hearing and seeing these speeches made had a far greater impact than did reading their speeches. I was already familiar with the text of the speech "I have a dream" by the time that teacher first let me listen to Doctor King's voice read it aloud. That day, I got chills, hearing the mixture of hope, anger, faith and terror throughout that oration. I continue to get chills to this day.

Before I had heard that speech aloud, it meant very little to me. That changed in half an hour, because of a method of delivery which a book can never make possible. Whereas this may be an isolated incident - maybe I and the other people in that class were weird for being more affected by the speaker than his transcription - but I don't believe so.

Have you ever watched a Nova special alongside someone else on a topic with which either you or they were having difficulty? Particularly good examples include the four-part discourse on string theory, the origins of the universe, genetics (the title of which is "dogs," and which remains the Nova special with which I am most impressed on terms of making a difficult topic obvious,) or Archimedes' approach to Calculus in his lost work (now called the Palimpsest,) Stem Cell research, cryptography and cryptanalysis, relativity, the church's historic combat with science, Genetically modified foods, Universal shape and expansion, the relationship of economics, the environment and the third world and environmental repair options, primitive human migration (1, 2, 3,) viral propogation and epidemiology (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ) and so forth.

The reason I ask is that I have, and that having done so has given me some very strong beliefs about communication. One compelling example was my having discussed some statistics I had

Maybe he was reading about the south African region not the country named South Africa. The percentage is much higher in some of the nearby countries. Not 60%, but some are approaching 40%. Try the interactive PBS map from 2003.

The NCCAM is not real science.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ nccam.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altm ed/snake/evidence.html

Also, search within this page for NCCAM
http://www.randi.org/jr/042602.html

And that's just skimming the surface.

The NCCAM is a bunch of quackery and pseudoscience. The most you will ever get from acupuncture, reflexology, chiropracty or any other bullshit is the placebo effect. If anyone claims that any of these things are real, as them why they haven't won the million dollar challenge.

But don't believe me just on my word. Do your own research. Use google. Go to the library. Read what real scientists and various studies say about the NCCAM and the bs that is most alternative medicine. When you are done, you will become as enraged as I am that your tax dollars are spent funding this crap instead of working on real medicine.

For long-time Apple watchers, this was pretty much anticipated.

Back in the 1996, when Jobs was still at NeXT, he gave an interview where he said, "The PC wars are over. Microsoft won a long time ago. If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all it's worth and then move on the next big thing."

Granted, the Mac has come a long, long way since 1996, and for the first time is being taken seriously in the enterprise, with its Unix underpinnings. But Apple's chance of dethroning Microsoft? Practically nil, and Jobs knows it. The Mac is destined to forever be a boutique computer. But hey, it's still generating a lot of revenue for the company, and when Apple goes to the bargaining table with IBM or Intel, it allows them to factor in several million more processors that they need when arguing for a volume discount, so it serves a purpose.

I'm kind of surprised that Apple hasn't yet latched onto the idea of using the Mac Mini as a media center PC, but maybe that's still coming. Especially if Apple is developing a video iPod; record TV on your Mac Mini, upload it to your iPod for later viewing. Or connect your iPod to the Mac Mini, and stream content to your TV (rather than trying to watch it on a 2" screen).

Honestly, how popular are movies going to be on the iPod and the PSP? I really can't see that segment of the market being more than a curiosity.

"Install a WiFi Max mobile station at each WalMart and you have close to an instant cell network...."

Good idea. Sounds like something Cringely would dream up.