Actually, one of the reasons for the electoral college was to PREVENT rich old white men from England from controlling the outcome of a vote. Many U.S. citizens at that time were still loyalists (close to 40%), and a Presidential canidate ran who supported re-colonization of the United States, he would capture the loyalist vote, and if he could get part of the undecided vote (people who didn't care either way about continuting to be a colony constituted about 30% of the population), the U.S. would once again fall under the rule of George III. Futhermore, the electoral college consisted of Patriots anyway. Why would a newly formed government put members of their ex-oppressors in their system?
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From the ages of 10-15, I used an 8088 with two 360K floppy drives, and amber monitor. By learning how to use an older computer, I am now much more adept at things like command lines, programming, and software/hardware troubleshooting. Usually, newer technologies are used to further distance the user from the machine, not to increase productivity. It is very, very easy to learn DOS (or *nix) first, then learn Windows later on. However, it is nearly impossible to go from Windows to an OS with a command line interface. Another example of this is programming. It is difficult to learn C or ASM if you only know VB, but trivial to learn VB if you have even a rudimentry knowledge of C. Let the kid have linux (or DOS or whatever) and when they want windows they'll install it themselves.
I got mine for $150 from Staples, but you can get one for $129 if you ask your math/science/comp sci teacher. My calc teacher gets them for $129 cuz he buys them in quantities of 10+.
i got a TI-89, and I love it. I use it for math only, but I've heard that most of the games are cool. If your'e taking the AP calc exam, you need to have this calculator.
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Actually, one of the reasons for the electoral college was to PREVENT rich old white men from England from controlling the outcome of a vote. Many U.S. citizens at that time were still loyalists (close to 40%), and a Presidential canidate ran who supported re-colonization of the United States, he would capture the loyalist vote, and if he could get part of the undecided vote (people who didn't care either way about continuting to be a colony constituted about 30% of the population), the U.S. would once again fall under the rule of George III. Futhermore, the electoral college consisted of Patriots anyway. Why would a newly formed government put members of their ex-oppressors in their system?
From the ages of 10-15, I used an 8088 with two 360K floppy drives, and amber monitor. By learning how to use an older computer, I am now much more adept at things like command lines, programming, and software/hardware troubleshooting. Usually, newer technologies are used to further distance the user from the machine, not to increase productivity. It is very, very easy to learn DOS (or *nix) first, then learn Windows later on. However, it is nearly impossible to go from Windows to an OS with a command line interface. Another example of this is programming. It is difficult to learn C or ASM if you only know VB, but trivial to learn VB if you have even a rudimentry knowledge of C. Let the kid have linux (or DOS or whatever) and when they want windows they'll install it themselves.
I got mine for $150 from Staples, but you can get one for $129 if you ask your math/science/comp sci teacher. My calc teacher gets them for $129 cuz he buys them in quantities of 10+.
i got a TI-89, and I love it. I use it for math only, but I've heard that most of the games are cool. If your'e taking the AP calc exam, you need to have this calculator.