I believe it was over $150,000 total cost for the final model that he never found a bear to attack him in. I rented the CBC production video a couple of years ago. There must be a new one since he didn't manage to find any bears in the video I saw.
Still worth the rent to hear the story of what inspired the suit and to see him getting hit with trucks,logs and 2x4's.
Excellent. I'm glad you find the virtual school a valuable supplement to your regular education. I would think the Canadian virtual schools I mentioned got the idea from a U.S. model like the one you are enrolled in.
Currently in Alberta (way up here in Canada) I am aware of two virtual High School programs. rvvs.com is the Rockyview Virtual School and schoolofhope.org is another home schooling program. Combined with a cable modem and a P2 the RVVS is filling an education need for kids that have kids already and those for whom whatever reason cannot attend regular classes.
Of course the parents are also involved in the child's online education and is kept up to date on lesson plans and what is due when via email.
In some cases I see the parents needing to learn about the Internet in order to keep up with thier children learning online. Seems like a good opportunity for parent and child to share time and knowledge with each other. I have even had some of the parents tell me they are so excited with the experience they are looking for continuing adult education courses online.
Anything that promotes learning and the shunning of Jerry Springer and rest of that genre of television is a good thing to me.
I am one of the fortunate few to have a Linux babe that fixes anything I can break and then explain how she fixed it so I don't do it more than 3 more times.
She is incredibly patient with me and only gently suggests I read the Readme or Install files before simply charging ahead and installing packages and expecting them to work the first time.
Citizenship and the right to vote are privileges that come with responsibilities. I believe everyone wants to have some level of input to their government and yet have some checks and balances to avoid the passing of frivolous laws and taxes.
I'm sure I ran across this link to a Cyber-Nation off/. Several months ago http://www.juga.com/
Basically in order to maintain citizenship you have to vote on a percentage of all votes and also contribute by being a "Minister" of something. I think it's an interesting model anyway. People should take a greater interest in the workings of their Country's infrastructure rather than assuming the machine is running just fine without any input.
While I'm still fairly new to the whole Linux/Unix world it seems to me that SCO spent the last few years studying the finer points of FUD from MS.
I quite like the fact there are many different flavors of Linux/Unix and lets not forget the Open BSD thing. I'm quite looking forward to getting as many flavors and O/S's installed on various machines on my LAN. So far it's just a Linux/Win98 mix but I'm saving my pennies for a MAC of some kind.
I prefer to 'make it so' than 'make it sell'. Much like Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do from many styles using only what was effective I believe a network should evolve in the same way. NT didn't last long on my LAN though;)
I haven't seen how the SCO product performs so I'll reserve judgement on it. As for their business practices apparent from that newsletter I already have a bad taste in mouth.
I may be ignoring the fact it's just a business trying to survive I just dislike FUD.
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I believe it was over $150,000 total cost for the final model that he never found a bear to attack him in. I rented the CBC production video a couple of years ago. There must be a new one since he didn't manage to find any bears in the video I saw.
Still worth the rent to hear the story of what inspired the suit and to see him getting hit with trucks,logs and 2x4's.
Excellent. I'm glad you find the virtual school a valuable supplement to your regular education. I would think the Canadian virtual schools I mentioned got the idea from a U.S. model like the one you are enrolled in.
Currently in Alberta (way up here in Canada) I am aware of two virtual High School programs. rvvs.com is the Rockyview Virtual School and schoolofhope.org is another home schooling program. Combined with a cable modem and a P2 the RVVS is filling an education need for kids that have kids already and those for whom whatever reason cannot attend regular classes.
Of course the parents are also involved in the child's online education and is kept up to date on lesson plans and what is due when via email.
In some cases I see the parents needing to learn about the Internet in order to keep up with thier children learning online. Seems like a good opportunity for parent and child to share time and knowledge with each other. I have even had some of the parents tell me they are so excited with the experience they are looking for continuing adult education courses online.
Anything that promotes learning and the shunning of Jerry Springer and rest of that genre of television is a good thing to me.
I am one of the fortunate few to have a Linux babe that fixes anything I can break and then explain how she fixed it so I don't do it more than 3 more times.
:)
She is incredibly patient with me and only gently suggests I read the Readme or Install files before simply charging ahead and installing packages and expecting them to work the first time.
So I repeat....Nya Nya ! I got a Linux babe
Citizenship and the right to vote are privileges that come with responsibilities. I believe everyone wants to have some level of input to their government and yet have some checks and balances to avoid the passing of frivolous laws and taxes.
/. Several months ago http://www.juga.com/
I'm sure I ran across this link to a Cyber-Nation off
Basically in order to maintain citizenship you have to vote on a percentage of all votes and also contribute by being a "Minister" of something. I think it's an interesting model anyway. People should take a greater interest in the workings of their Country's infrastructure rather than assuming the machine is running just fine without any input.
I guess won't be finding out how their product runs on any of my computers anytime soon then.
I think maybe a Slackware or Debian distro of Linux on the next Frankenbox I can piece together from scrap then.
No SCO stock in my RRSPS either!
While I'm still fairly new to the whole Linux/Unix world it seems to me that SCO spent the last few years studying the finer points of FUD from MS.
;)
/. oh joy for me
I quite like the fact there are many different flavors of Linux/Unix and lets not forget the Open BSD thing. I'm quite looking forward to getting as many flavors and O/S's installed on various machines on my LAN. So far it's just a Linux/Win98 mix but I'm saving my pennies for a MAC of some kind.
I prefer to 'make it so' than 'make it sell'. Much like Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do from many styles using only what was effective I believe a network should evolve in the same way. NT didn't last long on my LAN though
I haven't seen how the SCO product performs so I'll reserve judgement on it. As for their business practices apparent from that newsletter I already have a bad taste in mouth.
I may be ignoring the fact it's just a business trying to survive I just dislike FUD.
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