As far as I can remember Kindergarten involved learning the alphabet, numbers and writing english, so I think that the sooner children are taught to touch-type they'll more easily adopt any computer-related technology later on. Obviously learning to touch-type perfectly at any great speed is out of the question, but if they can get the fundamentals of typing, not to me mention loss of fear and novelty, they'll be on equal footing with writing - an equal skill in these modern times.
Not only that; imagine it the other way around. Your guest(s) arrive as planned, seem nice and stay the night. Only when you wake up all your easily pawn-able goods are gone and the "travellers" are nowhere to be found.
Great in theory, though;)
... does Wikipedia have to be written off as a be-all-end-all 100% accurate encyclopedia? With just short of one and a half million entries, I'm sure there's at least 10,000 partial or even complete fictional articles. Does it affect the encyclopedia as a whole? Not at all. The only people it affects clearly believe *everything* they read on the internet, irregardless of source.
Saying that a certain percentage of articles undermines the whole encyclopedia is likening everybody to criminals just because some of us are.
I just can't believe people are still beating this drum - when will individual cases like this stop making/. news?
Unless there was only one variable at fault, the odds of a collision in space would be (for lack of a better pun) astronomical. So while they might have wasted money, at the end of the day the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack collision is well worth bragging about.
For a second there when I saw "Google and NASA collaborating on technology" I had a vain hope that it would be a reference to NASA World Wind. For those unsure (any Google Earth users), NASA World Wind is basically the same thing, only that it was around much earlier and (more importantly) it's open source software. On the down side, no expensive up-to-date imagery.
Interestingly enough, the main gripe users had with the backlight was the discolouration it had on the screen, tinting everything slightly blue. If this fixes that problem I could see merit in it - but if it not only is just brighter, but uses x amount of battery life to power that, what is the benefit?
Personally, what the SP needed was a brightness adjustment, as anybody who has used it late at night will no doubt agree.
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... has written a heartfelt and thoughtful obituary:
http://www.gutenberg.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_S._Hart
If you want to honour Michael, go and proof a page at http://www.pgdp.net/ - the literary equivalent of pouring one out for this internet giant.
This shouldn't be considered an easter egg - it was developed solely for the Australian market. Really.
As far as I can remember Kindergarten involved learning the alphabet, numbers and writing english, so I think that the sooner children are taught to touch-type they'll more easily adopt any computer-related technology later on. Obviously learning to touch-type perfectly at any great speed is out of the question, but if they can get the fundamentals of typing, not to me mention loss of fear and novelty, they'll be on equal footing with writing - an equal skill in these modern times.
Not only that; imagine it the other way around. Your guest(s) arrive as planned, seem nice and stay the night. Only when you wake up all your easily pawn-able goods are gone and the "travellers" are nowhere to be found. Great in theory, though ;)
Saying that a certain percentage of articles undermines the whole encyclopedia is likening everybody to criminals just because some of us are.
I just can't believe people are still beating this drum - when will individual cases like this stop making /. news?
Unless there was only one variable at fault, the odds of a collision in space would be (for lack of a better pun) astronomical. So while they might have wasted money, at the end of the day the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack collision is well worth bragging about.
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For a second there when I saw "Google and NASA collaborating on technology" I had a vain hope that it would be a reference to NASA World Wind. For those unsure (any Google Earth users), NASA World Wind is basically the same thing, only that it was around much earlier and (more importantly) it's open source software. On the down side, no expensive up-to-date imagery.
Interestingly enough, the main gripe users had with the backlight was the discolouration it had on the screen, tinting everything slightly blue. If this fixes that problem I could see merit in it - but if it not only is just brighter, but uses x amount of battery life to power that, what is the benefit? Personally, what the SP needed was a brightness adjustment, as anybody who has used it late at night will no doubt agree.
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