I'm not sure McGrew proposed "games of learning at dinnertime" as a substitution for schooling, but in addition to schooling.
I am not homeschooling my kids (its sort of illegal here, for starters), but me and my wife are always vigilant of what they are learning and make sure they get support and help from us.
The kid's teachers are only going to teach them stuff. It is your responsibility to educate them.
For those in the US who may have not heard about it, the Honduran conservatives the Army and Congress kidnapped the democratically-elect president and deported him to Costa Rica, taking over the goverment and repressing those who dissented.
Everybody, except the US, is calling it a military coup d'etat
Isn't this reasoning similar to the Broken Window Fallacy?
If MP3 didn't have patents, we wouldn't have ogg, true. Which means the talent used to REINVENT THE WHEEL in the ogg codecs would have instead been used to improve the patent-free MP3 instead (or to work on other projects).
I found the windows7sins.org website estrident and unprofessional, similar to a tin-foil hat conspiracy nutcase's.
How about, instead of loudly yelling about Microsoft's "sins" against its users, make an attractive marketing campaign about the "virtues" of free software?
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play.
I wonder how many people play WoW offline?
Those are called "Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games", son.
Dungeons and Dragons is the most popular one. If it seems superficially similar to WoW, it is because it predates it for 30 years and many of the WoW concepts were inspired by it.
Sorry, but you can certainly get much more computing power out of $599.00USD than buying a Mac Mini.
Apple has very respectable workstations in the mid/high end, but the mini is just not competitive (outside the fact that it is the cheapest way to have legal MacOS X).
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Is it ok to change "11.6%" to "16.3%" based on a "hunch"?
I'm not a statistician, this is an honest question
This.
As I said upthread, your kids go to school to receive knowledge, but education is something that you get at home, from your family.
The president's opponents claim he intended to remove reelection limits, but there is no proof at all of this.
The fact that the Honduran constitution had no impeachment procedures is just another proof of the fact that it needed to be revised and rewritten!
I'm not sure McGrew proposed "games of learning at dinnertime" as a substitution for schooling, but in addition to schooling.
I am not homeschooling my kids (its sort of illegal here, for starters), but me and my wife are always vigilant of what they are learning and make sure they get support and help from us.
The kid's teachers are only going to teach them stuff. It is your responsibility to educate them.
Sounds like a fancy name for goofing off, skiving and truancy.
Naw, we're jus teachin' the kids to run the farm an read the Bible, thas all they need!
Exactly.
For those in the US who may have not heard about it, the Honduran conservatives the Army and Congress kidnapped the democratically-elect president and deported him to Costa Rica, taking over the goverment and repressing those who dissented.
Everybody, except the US, is calling it a military coup d'etat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reaction_to_the_2009_Honduran_military_coup
> I just met this guy in the Palantir, he was like, really cool, but shy
> But he wouldn't, like, send me his picture, only a flaming eye
> So I asked "ASL?"
> But he just said: "Build me an army worthy of Mordor"
> and I was like "WTF? KThxBye!"
And, in other news in the "that's obvious" department, Slashdot still does not have proper Unicode support!
Isn't this reasoning similar to the Broken Window Fallacy?
If MP3 didn't have patents, we wouldn't have ogg, true. Which means the talent used to REINVENT THE WHEEL in the ogg codecs would have instead been used to improve the patent-free MP3 instead (or to work on other projects).
Has it stopped being relevant?
Exactly.
How the heck are those astro/cosmo/taikonauts going to find food and drinking water to subsist, let alone colonize?
I suggest using intelligent robots to manage the Space Power Plant.
Of course, you need to be careful that they don't develop their own religion...
Yeah, well I copyrighted "get offa my lawn" so you owe me like a million dollars.
Actually, Clint Eastwood would like a word with you... Or my buddy McGrew
Oh, I did know he was a spy and that he greately contributed to the science of computing.
What I didn't know (until I RTFA) was that he was prosecuted and chemically castrated just for being gay.
So, where do we sign the online petition?
In some ways this internet culture is a throwback to Victorian times when people wrote letters to each other constantly.
Now we only need matter compilers and we will be ready for the Diamond Age!
Indeed.
I found the windows7sins.org website estrident and unprofessional, similar to a tin-foil hat conspiracy nutcase's.
How about, instead of loudly yelling about Microsoft's "sins" against its users, make an attractive marketing campaign about the "virtues" of free software?
A return to the old wardriving days of yore?
Yeah, my Asus Aspire one lasts for about 3 hours on a charge under Linux.
Could you post the distro/tweaks you did to get that? Mine gets about 2 hours with Ubuntu Jaunty Netbook Remix...
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play.
I wonder how many people play WoW offline?
Those are called "Pen and Paper Roleplaying Games", son.
Dungeons and Dragons is the most popular one. If it seems superficially similar to WoW, it is because it predates it for 30 years and many of the WoW concepts were inspired by it.
True that.
For similar giggles, try reading a Wired magazine from ten years ago...
Sorry, but you can certainly get much more computing power out of $599.00USD than buying a Mac Mini.
Apple has very respectable workstations in the mid/high end, but the mini is just not competitive (outside the fact that it is the cheapest way to have legal MacOS X).
However, all the major changes in the movie script were penned by Adams himself.
The radio, book and movie versions of HHGTTG were all supposed to be different in their own way.
But, if I understand correctly, the article refers to code contributed during the last year
Dunno... Fujitsu doing Linux coding was kinda new to me
Its the second time you respond with the same copy/paste post.
Does this mean I now have my own personal troll? How cute!