Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality. Adult content, but this is just too funny to
pass up.
http://www.wservernews.com/1VIVGK/060724-Net_Neutrality
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Furthermore, although technology use increased in the first year and
surpassed control schools, laptops were used infrequently for learning in
core subject classes, especially mathematics .
Really, and the math scores didn't improve? What a surprise.
This seems like an indictment of the school
microsoft in the past has resorted to all sorts of underhanded
tactics. i don't know if they're resorting to paying barnes and noble to
not stock openoffice.org books, but it would not surprise me if they were.
Phil,
Saying something like this as fact and not as an opinion, not to mention
This brilliant guy who many see as evil is going to spend most of the rest
of his life giving most of his money away and making a real difference in
the pathetic US public high school system and in serious health care issues
in developing countries that most don't care about.
Not a bad legacy, me
That said, I do wish Microsoft luck in releasing anything soon, and I
certainly hope that whatever they release doesn't permit the continued
plague of flaws and vulnerabilities that the general population of the world
has become familiar with.
This opinion of course ignores the fact that that
facts take a little reading and thinking too.
md
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That said, I do wish Microsoft luck in releasing anything soon
Skip ahead to the 43 minute mark for an interesting short perspective on
this issue.
Bill Gates Speech at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Americas 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx
Mike
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Special Olympics collects them.
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Considering the Mobile Command Vehicle will be for long term use, and
we are using computers 1-2 years old (recycled) we are curious if;
1) It is true older computers will soon become totally obsolete
2) Will there be interoperability issues
3) What is the best avenue to take to ensure that the
Some people on the list will disagree with me as they have in the past,
but the future is literally in your hand. Your cell phone,
Good to know that you and Bill Gates agree on something. At least for the
developing world.
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While we may have lost her on the OS side
Who is we and I didn't realize that there was some kind of a conversion
going on in this list?
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versions.
In any case, try pulling down a version of Fedora or SuSE 10.0 and putting
that on the machine, making sure DMA is turned on for the hard drives after
installation.
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Does education have problems? Of course. Which of our institutions, from
the family to the workplace to the polling place doesn't?
I think that K-12 public education will change when:
* The parents of the 16 and 17 year olds coming to us, (with 3rd grade
reading and 2nd grade spelling)
Andy,
Wonder if they won't take these classes at school. Like some schools do with
AP classes now.
Still not all schools have connections to facilitate this.
Mike
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You ask me, and presumably others, to point you to evidence connecting the
use of computers in education to higher levels of adult literacy: the
implication of this request is that there is none.
To believe that these results transfer, you need to believe that educational
and employment are
, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Executive Director wrote:
but I don't follow why one would think that access to computers and
the Internet would by itself result in increased basic literacy.
No more or less than one would think that reading books and writing
papers with a Bic word processor would improve
However, often these results are achieved in conjunction with other
educational elements, such as highly trained teachers, and therefore it is
difficult to measure the specific impact of the technology itself.
This simple statement ignores that fact that highly trained teachers using
but I don't follow why one would think that access to computers and the
Internet would by itself result in increased basic literacy.
No more or less than one would think that reading books and writing papers
with a Bic word processor would improve basic literacy.
Require that you subscribe to
After ten such digital-divide-narrowing years, the ability of students to
read prose and documents has dropped slightly for all levels of education.
I am not an academic researcher nor a PhD, but I am a teacher. I know that
to teach writing effectively, students need to write and to teach
Divide Network discussion group
Subject: Please be more resourceful was: [DDN] Taking the $100
laptopdiscussion off-list
Executive Director wrote:
We scrap anything below a PII 300.
What a waste please use them as LTSP clients in Schools, all you need
is one very high spec server
Good question. The answer varies by the part of the US you are in, but here
in the Midwest:
Desktops
We scrap anything below a PII 300. Above we use for low income families.
Windows 98SE
PIII 450 and above, we put in networked environments, schools, non-profits
etc. Windows 2000
Laptops
P1 266 and
Quanta has a good name in white book and OEM notebooks and I am sending this
from one I built myself.
Mike
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Taran,
There is no evidence to support what you are saying.
If they had the capacity or capital to build the capacity don't you
think that they would try to supply Dell?
Well
competitive stature in the processor market.
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Andy,
You of course realize that this may never become anything at all.
AMD doesn't have the fabrication plants to compete with Intel, or even
supply Dell, much less provide these chips for a worldwide market.
Only Intel spends
believe that reuse is the bridge which spans the digital divide both
nationwide and worldwide.
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Tech Corps Wisconsin, Inc. is a statewide, non-profit volunteer
organization
with
donated machines, you'll likely have a random mixture of makes and models.
Or you could buy from a US refurbisher who will give you all identical
models and repair them for the cost of the shipping.
Mike
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So far, I have been unable to figure it all out.
I will echo your sentiments about training, and add another one, support.
We have two 24 computer training labs and we provide one year of free
support. At the end of the year they can trade up for a newer faster
computer and the process
I don't think we have to create the $100 laptop, and reinvent the wheel.
We already have the $100 refurbished PII laptop. All we need to do is
distribute them.
Mike
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Subject: RE: [DDN] verizon's new 768kbps dsl service for $15/month
Well Phil, when you consider
Well Phil, when you consider that Hong Kong gets gigabit speed for $20 a
month and Korea gets 100 mb for $20 a month, it is not such a good deal and
in fact is indicative of a monopoly that actually hurts people as opposed to
say, the Microsoft monopoly. Except this one is based on publicly owned,
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