User: downmagic

Thank Allah

On: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

Finally. after 10 years he is gone.

True respects

On: Father of the CD, Norio Ohga, Dead At 81

digitize him and compress him to an ISO file

too much trust in the tech

On: Are Graphical Calculators Pointless?

I personally think teachers are placing too much into trust into the calculator. hey I started on a slide rule because it taught me that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Not that I promote skinning cats or using slide rules instead of calculators, but knowing how the damn thing works can really do a hell of a lot in how one uses their technology. Calculators are easy and work most of the time. If teachers really wanted to be jerks they could give problems that involve lots of work and have the student show their process. Write out each step and explain it, thus showing an understanding of the material and a certain comfort level with it. Instead of training them to automatically punch every problem into a piece of software spit out an answer.

Now what happens when they tweet

On: Facebook Boosts Your Self-Esteem

If Face Book has a measurable change in self esteem. I can only imagine what Twitter does

Great

On: The Matrix Re-Reloaded

More robot uprisings......IN 3D

VGA gone

On: Goodbye, VGA

I have always used VGA until recently when I moved over to display port. It seemed to me that this standard took a long time to actually be abolished. well DVI and display ports will hopefully last as long. I don't want to buy another video card for awhile.

its about time

On: The Queen Joins Facebook

Hey it is about time

awesome

On: Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe)

I think I might go try that.