Start 'em off by teaching them to set up a dual-booting system. That way you're introducing the OS to them in less of a "sink or swim" approach.
Stay with a simple-to-install distribution to start, like Mandrake. Once they're comfy with the KDE screens, you can introduce them to the wonder that is the command line.
I learned typing so that I didn't need to use such a painfully slow method as handwriting anymore. Why is everyone so delighted that your WPM is going down?
As far as speaking, I don't know about the rest of you, but voice processing is useless for me practically everywhere I use a computer: On the train, in meetings, and at my desk. Everytime I've heard someone use a Dragon speech product I almost immediately hear someone else asking them to turn it off because it's annoying.
I think the idea is that the schools will be able to use supported, free (speech and beer) software that's not subject to license changes and charges down the road.
So, when are the t-shirts printed with NTFS code coming out?
When the average person gets significantly fatter.
So we should be seeing them here in the US pretty soon, then?
Hey! I resent that! Why, if it weren't for all these empty cheetos bottles and 7-UP bottles that I have to clear away, and the fact that the nurse is off today so getting to an upright position is out of the question, I'd deck you!
To: Metallica Lawyers
From: University
Subj: Copyright issues
We have read your request and agree with your concern over our students obtaining and listening to illegally-produced copies of your client's music. In response, we have enacted policies stating that our students should no longer listen to your client's music.
I hope this meets to your satisfaction.
Er... You're thinking of Ralph Bakshi, the animator whose credits include Fritz the Cat, Cool World, American Pop, The Lord of the Rings and Wizards.
Don Bluth, who made TAE, is the animator behind All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of Nihm, The Land Before Time, An American Tale, and Anastasia. Not to mention the great Dragon's Lair and Space Ace arcade games...
I personally loved the movie! It was a hackneyed and time-worn plot, sure, but it had some wonderful touches and magnificent set-pieces that, for me, harkened back to the SciFi of old... Campbell, Azimov, Bradbury and the rest of the Amazing Magazine crowd. Great space opera stuff. Jon Katz was apparently never a kid. His comparison to Shaft is so bizarre and off-point that this is great evidence that as a film critic, Katz ain't no Kael.
Hey, it was a PG animated movie from Don Bluth. I wasn't looking for Akira. I wasn't looking for Alien or Star Wars. I knew what to expect from a Bluth film, got it in spades, and was delightedly surprised at the SciFi touches of the hydrogen forest, the bird-creatures, and the spectacular (no pun intended) ice rings.
If only there were more films with this much vision and innocence...
One Reed to turn them all, one Reed to hold them, One Reed to string them all and in ignorance mold them. In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.
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They're all off playing World of Warcraft! Blizzard is killing the gaming industry!
I knew about this story way back in 2008.
Start 'em off by teaching them to set up a dual-booting system. That way you're introducing the OS to them in less of a "sink or swim" approach.
Stay with a simple-to-install distribution to start, like Mandrake. Once they're comfy with the KDE screens, you can introduce them to the wonder that is the command line.
Exactly how are these features beneficial?
I learned typing so that I didn't need to use such a painfully slow method as handwriting anymore. Why is everyone so delighted that your WPM is going down?
As far as speaking, I don't know about the rest of you, but voice processing is useless for me practically everywhere I use a computer: On the train, in meetings, and at my desk. Everytime I've heard someone use a Dragon speech product I almost immediately hear someone else asking them to turn it off because it's annoying.
I think the idea is that the schools will be able to use supported, free (speech and beer) software that's not subject to license changes and charges down the road.
I kinda thought it was clever wordplay in response to Microsoft's reference to GPL being a virus...
So we should be seeing them here in the US pretty soon, then?
Hey! I resent that! Why, if it weren't for all these empty cheetos bottles and 7-UP bottles that I have to clear away, and the fact that the nurse is off today so getting to an upright position is out of the question, I'd deck you!
From: University
Subj: Copyright issues
We have read your request and agree with your concern over our students obtaining and listening to illegally-produced copies of your client's music. In response, we have enacted policies stating that our students should no longer listen to your client's music.
I hope this meets to your satisfaction.
"This is an outrage! If I were you, I wouldn't pay it!" -Groucho Marx, Night at the Opera
Er... You're thinking of Ralph Bakshi, the animator whose credits include Fritz the Cat, Cool World, American Pop, The Lord of the Rings and Wizards.
Don Bluth, who made TAE, is the animator behind All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of Nihm, The Land Before Time, An American Tale, and Anastasia. Not to mention the great Dragon's Lair and Space Ace arcade games...
I personally loved the movie! It was a hackneyed and time-worn plot, sure, but it had some wonderful touches and magnificent set-pieces that, for me, harkened back to the SciFi of old... Campbell, Azimov, Bradbury and the rest of the Amazing Magazine crowd. Great space opera stuff. Jon Katz was apparently never a kid. His comparison to Shaft is so bizarre and off-point that this is great evidence that as a film critic, Katz ain't no Kael.
Hey, it was a PG animated movie from Don Bluth. I wasn't looking for Akira. I wasn't looking for Alien or Star Wars. I knew what to expect from a Bluth film, got it in spades, and was delightedly surprised at the SciFi touches of the hydrogen forest, the bird-creatures, and the spectacular (no pun intended) ice rings.
If only there were more films with this much vision and innocence...
One Reed to turn them all, one Reed to hold them, One Reed to string them all and in ignorance mold them. In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie.