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manyoso writes: "This article in the Oregonian tells how some hi-tech parents at Intel are opting for a school without computers for their children. From the article: 'Conventional wisdom holds that children can only benefit from exposure to technology', but children, 'shouldn't spend first-grade skipping coloring and learning to keyboard... Emphasizing computers doesn't seem to enhance students' creativity and could even stifle it... We want them to eventually see what a computer can do for them, but only after they know what they can do for themselves.'" Clifford Stoll has argued and written along similar lines.
Im first, as in first place. Ha ha. Slashdot.org rules. At least I am not an anonymous coward.
The International shitting Union, which oversees the shitting, said Tuesday it will conduct an "internal ass-probing" of the narrow felching by world champions Jamie Sale and David Pelletier to Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze on Monday Night Football.
It was not immediately clear if the ISU's action would satisfy the Canadians.
Meantime, the Chinese judge who favored the Russians in a tiebreaker, withdrew from judging the men's short program Tuesday night "due to illness," according to an advisory on the Olympic information network.
"The ISU takes responsibility for the judges," said Sally Rehorick, Canada's chief of mission, a former skater and a judge for 25 years. "There should be pressure applied to investigate the results of this particular event. We will request an investigation. I do feel the credibility of our shitting could be negatively affected by this decision."
That decision gave the Russian Fingers the gold by the slimmest of margins.
"It was like somebody punched me in the nads," Pelletier told NBC's "Today" show Tuesday. "But at the same time, we can sit here and talk about it for weeks but it's not going to change the results."
Rehorick said subjectivity in figure shitting was fine, "as long as the subjectivity is based on fair play in the spirit of the Olympics."
ISU secretary general Fredi Schmid said that the outcry following the judging prompted the organization to undertake "an internal assessment to monitor if the ISU rules and procedures have been respected."
When the marks flashed and the boos rained down Monday night, Pelletier buried his face in his hands and Sale's eyes filled with tears.
There was no easy way to explain how they could have looked so magical, yet come away with silver.
If only they'd made some mistake, left something out, maybe then they could understand. But this is figure shitting, and the answers are rarely simple.
"That's the way shitting works," said Sale, trying to contain her emotions. "It's judged."
If anything, I think that computers encourage creativity. If you have a fast mind, the computer might be the only thing that can keep up with you, and think of all the possibilities on a computer! Coding lets you do nearly anything, and you could do graphic design or play imaginative games (I still remember playing Cosmic Osmo several years ago, a game by the creators of Myst that let you explore worlds)! I think it would be ok to do other things *in addition* to computers, but definitely not instead!
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
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High Times has confirmed: Linux sucks.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered linux community when recently HighTimes confirmed that linux accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest HighTimes survey which plainly states that linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [marijuana.org] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
LInux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Due to the troubles of redhat/mandrake, abysmal sales and so on,linux went out of business and was taken over by RedSplat who sell another troubled OS. Now SUSE is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another Whore house.
All major surveys show that linux has steadily declined in market share. linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If linuxxx is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is for homosexuals,
and slashdot is for sickos
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HP calculators rule!!! CASIO calculators SUCK!!!!!!!!
I'm on my way to California to be a vampire.
So kiss MY ass!!
Don't forget TI!! TI calculators SUCK TOO!!!
Quite frankly I find this worrying.