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Too Many Computers Hurt Learning
An anonymous reader writes "The Christian Science Monitor is running a story on a recent University of Munich study of school children in 31 countries that found a correlation between frequent computer usage and poor academic performance. Having more than one computer in the home was found to be particularly bad news! For those Slashdotters with children, how do you deal with your kids' computer use?"
My father tricked me into programing by buying a computer that had very few games that i could get easily for it. Ahhhh the days of Basic and a TI/99 4A .
Oh well i can't program anything useful anymore, but I can use and configure any computer. I can sit down at any machine and start working my way around it in no time. What is really scary is I can then apply that knowledge faster.
Actually learning multiple computer OS's is like learning multiple languages, The first couple are a pain but after that they start to get easier. The more you learn, the more you see the minor flaws in between the different systems, and you then chose the system with the flaws you can live with the easiest.
Well this is way off-topic but it's so far down the chain no mod will ever see it.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Why do people think all kids have the same potential? They don't, no matter how hard you try to educate some kids, they have hard "hardware limits" just like if you were trying to run Windows XP on a 486 33mhz with 8MB of ram.
This is why there are psychological and intelligence tests to test performance of intelligence, speed, memory and overall ability.
Lets face facts, even if everyone could be a genius that doesn't mean there are enough seats for all the jobs people would like to do. In any system of things all things being equal there will always be someone that "loses out" even when they succeed.
You just infringed on Microsoft's pending patent on IsNot.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.