The predictions mention that there were Robolympics held last year in Japan?
Wow it was accurate! And weren't those Robolympics fun?!
I sure am glad they sorted through the Russian/Canadian skater-bot controversy! Erm... waitaminute....
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I agree, but the absolute biggest gripe I have about this article (aside from the fact that it was written by an obvious MS groupie- the dude wrote a book on Visual Basic, I mean come on!) is that the author either ignores or is unaware of the horrible security problems in Passport:
The author dismisses any security issues with the flippant remark that Passport is a "thoroughly tested and validated service that works just fine with 160 million user accounts around the globe". Yeah, but if you crack it now, all you get is access to some dork's e-mail. I'd wager things will be a bit different once it's used to store credit card numbers and financial info as well.
One that I personally think is very timely would be one on using Linux and/or Open-Source in the classroom. I'm thinking specifically for K12 usage, since that's where the really low budgets which OSS can help with typically are.
All you have to do is do a search on Google and you'll find tons of educational apps and utilities for Linux.
I personally have been working on some titles over at Tux4Kids, and have really seen the potential in the comments and feedback I've gotten from the project.
Hell, my wife, who's currently and elementary school teacher and has used Linux in the classroom for a couple of years now, would be very interrested in this sort of book (she could probably even write it! She'd be much better with words than I am;-)
....It was called the Virtual Boy... I'm staring at my ill-fated little red monstrosity of a gaming system right now. The Virtual Boy was 32-bit.... granted it wasn't handheld (lest you had very big hands indeed;). Anyway... I'm being pissy and nitpicky... but hey! This is slashdot, afterall...;)
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The predictions mention that there were Robolympics held last year in Japan?
Wow it was accurate! And weren't those Robolympics fun?!
I sure am glad they sorted through the Russian/Canadian skater-bot controversy! Erm... waitaminute....
I agree, but the absolute biggest gripe I have about this article (aside from the fact that it was written by an obvious MS groupie- the dude wrote a book on Visual Basic, I mean come on!) is that the author either ignores or is unaware of the horrible security problems in Passport:
http://alive.znep.com/~marcs/passport/
The author dismisses any security issues with the flippant remark that Passport is a "thoroughly tested and validated service that works just fine with 160 million user accounts around the globe". Yeah, but if you crack it now, all you get is access to some dork's e-mail. I'd wager things will be a bit different once it's used to store credit card numbers and financial info as well.
One that I personally think is very timely would be one on using Linux and/or Open-Source in the classroom. I'm thinking specifically for K12 usage, since that's where the really low budgets which OSS can help with typically are.
;-)
All you have to do is do a search on Google and you'll find tons of educational apps and utilities for Linux.
I personally have been working on some titles over at Tux4Kids, and have really seen the potential in the comments and feedback I've gotten from the project.
Hell, my wife, who's currently and elementary school teacher and has used Linux in the classroom for a couple of years now, would be very interrested in this sort of book (she could probably even write it! She'd be much better with words than I am
....It was called the Virtual Boy... I'm staring at my ill-fated little red monstrosity of a gaming system right now. The Virtual Boy was 32-bit.... granted it wasn't handheld (lest you had very big hands indeed ;). Anyway... I'm being pissy and nitpicky... but hey! This is slashdot, afterall... ;)