That's pretty much a myth since most schools don't teach kids how to use these apps except in the most rudimentary way.
Oh yes, it most certainly is a myth, but it's a universally accepted myth. Using MS products = skills in MS products. Nobody is going to listen to someone touting that using FOSS implementations are going to help you use the equivalent MS product. People are just too shallow minded for that.
Sadly, kids need skills with Windows, specifically its office applicatons for jobs and the real world(tm) in general. I can't get hired by some places because I've refused to learn how to learn some MS products.
Verily, I hear the propaganda spewing from the mouths of the less computer savvy: Somehow they've been brainwashed through the years, I assume by Intel's Blue Men.
"B-b-but, it's Pentium 4 EXTREME Edition with HT Technology!!1one"
"B-b-but, Intel's better for gaming!"
"B-b-but, If it's not Intel Inside(tm), then it's not worth a damn!"
"B-b-but, Is Windows XP even compatible with AMD?"
You don't need a thesis, dissertation, white paper, or science magazine to tell you that the closer you put things together the faster their particles can travel.
...the concept of optimizing how we talk to people has developed further throughout history. From Aristotle to Heraclitus to Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Keller to George Bernard Shaw...
I'm a high school senior right now. I have become so bored with my understimulating classes that I've completely dropped 3 and I wade out the day waiting for it to be over. There just isn't something there.
I've learned most of what I know from the early Discovery Channel, TLC, various other TV stations, and the internet.
The only reason I'll survive is because I started programming when I was 12. Hopefully, that's one redeeming quality that wont be lost in rush to get to college.
I go to school from 8:45 to 2:10 every day, I relearn the same material 3 times every 2 days, once in my Banking & Finance class, once in my Personal Finance class, and once in my Economics class. It's driving me absolutely insane.
I can't wait till college, really, when I can have internships and advanced computer science courses to really stimulate my brain...
Well, three, eight, and six consecutively is a pretty distinct pattern. I don't know about you tin-foil hatters out there, but '386' is unique enough to claim as a trademark.
If you used three numbers to identify a major product of yours, wouldn't you be a little peeved if someone else was using it too?
Google is, in fact, the device that gives you thousands of "hits" (which may or may not be relevant) in no very useful order.
Wow, what a total lack of reasearch on this guys part... Google gives you results based on the number of other sites that refer to the results. The more sites that refer to a result, the higher it's relevancy. It's an extremely efficient system, as the idea that other people can find relevancy in a site is trusted. (And it works.)
If Windows is still in C:\WINDOWS\system32, my programs still in C:\Program Files, or my documents still in C:\Documents and Settings\Devin\My Documents I wont be upgrading. What a hamper on user interface...
Give me/System,/Apps, and/Home PLEASE!
The site allows for the community to create and edit its own content. A simple voting system is in place to make sure the content that makes it into the handbook is of the highest quality. This is something that has been needed for some time and the idea of being able to edit our own material is really nice. A very unique project.
Actually, it's not unique.
The content mangement appears to be Drupal with a modified Marvin 2k theme.
I just heard the word in Catwoman (you know, that flick that sucked really bad)...
I remember back in school, when Google wasn't well known like it is today, our teachers warned us not to use them to search because they thought they had unreliable results (I mean, it's too simplistic! It couldn't possibly have reliable information). Today, however, professors prefer you use Google.
Bye-bye, AskJeeves... It was not knowing you, especially when even you started to become a part of people's speech...
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Sadly, kids need skills with Windows, specifically its office applicatons for jobs and the real world(tm) in general. I can't get hired by some places because I've refused to learn how to learn some MS products.
...What?
Verily, I hear the propaganda spewing from the mouths of the less computer savvy: Somehow they've been brainwashed through the years, I assume by Intel's Blue Men.
"B-b-but, it's Pentium 4 EXTREME Edition with HT Technology!!1one"
"B-b-but, Intel's better for gaming!"
"B-b-but, If it's not Intel Inside(tm), then it's not worth a damn!"
"B-b-but, Is Windows XP even compatible with AMD?"
Is it just me, or does the idea of a space elevator seem more science-fiction than fact, despite the amount of "scientific proof" that it's possible?
As much as I'd like to, I just can't envision a literal space elevator. Sorry.
Must be a slow news day.
Funny... this one didn't seem to mention my
pen!s size
as a contributing factor...
You don't need a thesis, dissertation, white paper, or science magazine to tell you that the closer you put things together the faster their particles can travel.
I don't even own an iPod and I'm thinking of switching.
Maybe it's time for the Slashdot editors to learn english! The wellcome trust!? I think it's ti...oh...what? That's how you really spell it? Oops...
(Laugh, because you know it went through your mind too.)
How they attack Microsoft, as their patents can apply to many other multimedia streaming. Who knows what else can be targeted? WinAmp? Hopefully not.
Companies that exist for the sole purpose of patenting ideas and sitting on them disgust me.
Absolutely rediculous. Your spelling is absolutely ridiculous.
They're going to use Windows Embedded, not Windows XP. Two completely different code bases.
Just because one has security issues does not mean the other will too.
...the concept of optimizing how we talk to people has developed further throughout history. From Aristotle to Heraclitus to Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Keller to George Bernard Shaw...
Was that some kind of sick joke...?
Jef Raskin dies and he gets a measly 64 comments? I hope I get more comments when I die...
I'm a high school senior right now. I have become so bored with my understimulating classes that I've completely dropped 3 and I wade out the day waiting for it to be over. There just isn't something there.
I've learned most of what I know from the early Discovery Channel, TLC, various other TV stations, and the internet.
The only reason I'll survive is because I started programming when I was 12. Hopefully, that's one redeeming quality that wont be lost in rush to get to college.
I go to school from 8:45 to 2:10 every day, I relearn the same material 3 times every 2 days, once in my Banking & Finance class, once in my Personal Finance class, and once in my Economics class. It's driving me absolutely insane.
I can't wait till college, really, when I can have internships and advanced computer science courses to really stimulate my brain...
Well, three, eight, and six consecutively is a pretty distinct pattern. I don't know about you tin-foil hatters out there, but '386' is unique enough to claim as a trademark.
If you used three numbers to identify a major product of yours, wouldn't you be a little peeved if someone else was using it too?
Google is, in fact, the device that gives you thousands of "hits" (which may or may not be relevant) in no very useful order.
Wow, what a total lack of reasearch on this guys part... Google gives you results based on the number of other sites that refer to the results. The more sites that refer to a result, the higher it's relevancy. It's an extremely efficient system, as the idea that other people can find relevancy in a site is trusted. (And it works.)
B-b-but it aides the terrorists!!!1!1one
Windows XP is four years old.
Thanks to Kuro5hin.org.
If Windows is still in C:\WINDOWS\system32, my programs still in C:\Program Files, or my documents still in C:\Documents and Settings\Devin\My Documents I wont be upgrading. What a hamper on user interface... Give me /System, /Apps, and /Home PLEASE!
The site allows for the community to create and edit its own content. A simple voting system is in place to make sure the content that makes it into the handbook is of the highest quality. This is something that has been needed for some time and the idea of being able to edit our own material is really nice. A very unique project.
Actually, it's not unique.
The content mangement appears to be Drupal with a modified Marvin 2k theme.
Drupal has had these features forever.
Move along now.
No.
Now it's just called US Govt. and you take it with Economics your senior year.
I just heard the word in Catwoman (you know, that flick that sucked really bad)...
I remember back in school, when Google wasn't well known like it is today, our teachers warned us not to use them to search because they thought they had unreliable results (I mean, it's too simplistic! It couldn't possibly have reliable information). Today, however, professors prefer you use Google.
Bye-bye, AskJeeves... It was not knowing you, especially when even you started to become a part of people's speech...