Actually, Shakespherian language was not what was normally spoken at the time at all, in fact it was more or less as comprehensible then as now. It's simply there for dramatic and poetic value.
Within your needlessly knee-jerk response, you completely missed the important point made. No matter which side you vote for, no matter which issues you represent, campaign finance reform is vitally important to the success of both digital and real-world rights and voice.
And, er, what exactly do you plan to do with these legions of next-generationers that lack all these great educational opporunities that come with computers and the internet? And the teachers you've unemployed? And those with no computers at home, that depend on schools for access?
I have to chime in to this post. Right now Oregon's schools are begging absolutly hammered by tax cuts, recession, etc, with people like our wonderful Mr. Seizemore trying to pass at least six new tax cut measures every election. Believe me, we'd love it if people cared that much about their schools.
Back to the post, this is at the absolute worst possible time. I can seriously see absolutly no value in Microsoft doing this, and it will hurt the schools severely. It's the end of the year, our technology program is shot already (switching to Linux is seriously not an option, getting the staff, training for everyone, etc, would be a nightmare), massive tax problems are shredding all budgets, etc. There is no possible positive motive here. Instead of this incredibly horrible thing to do, couldn't Microsoft have done something like, I dunno, HELP THESE PLACES?
I don't see why anyone would mod this down, I found it quite insightful. It seems that part of the culture here is "tech support is dumb", not exactly realizing the circumstances that are being created for them...
I'm not exactly sure this is a brilliant solution, as it would simply cause the music companies to stop giving their releases to libraries, or charge more of a fee to them, or something. Libraries are GOOD. Try and keep them that way!
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Actually, Shakespherian language was not what was normally spoken at the time at all, in fact it was more or less as comprehensible then as now. It's simply there for dramatic and poetic value.
Within your needlessly knee-jerk response, you completely missed the important point made. No matter which side you vote for, no matter which issues you represent, campaign finance reform is vitally important to the success of both digital and real-world rights and voice.
Since when is Tom Clancy considered an authority on this topic?
And, er, what exactly do you plan to do with these legions of next-generationers that lack all these great educational opporunities that come with computers and the internet? And the teachers you've unemployed? And those with no computers at home, that depend on schools for access?
I have to chime in to this post. Right now Oregon's schools are begging absolutly hammered by tax cuts, recession, etc, with people like our wonderful Mr. Seizemore trying to pass at least six new tax cut measures every election. Believe me, we'd love it if people cared that much about their schools. Back to the post, this is at the absolute worst possible time. I can seriously see absolutly no value in Microsoft doing this, and it will hurt the schools severely. It's the end of the year, our technology program is shot already (switching to Linux is seriously not an option, getting the staff, training for everyone, etc, would be a nightmare), massive tax problems are shredding all budgets, etc. There is no possible positive motive here. Instead of this incredibly horrible thing to do, couldn't Microsoft have done something like, I dunno, HELP THESE PLACES?
What exactly defines a real OS? Are there fake OSes?
I don't see why anyone would mod this down, I found it quite insightful. It seems that part of the culture here is "tech support is dumb", not exactly realizing the circumstances that are being created for them...
I'm not exactly sure this is a brilliant solution, as it would simply cause the music companies to stop giving their releases to libraries, or charge more of a fee to them, or something. Libraries are GOOD. Try and keep them that way!