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Comment Re:Ok. Why weak. (Score 1) 313

by pinkj (#35384444) Attached to: Episode I 3D Release Date Announced
I agree completely. I watched The Phantom Menace again not long ago with my 3 year old with the assumption that I was going to hate it as much as I hated it the first time I saw it when it came out. Surprisingly, I didn't find it as bad as I remembered it and the acting reminded me of the wooden acting of the original trilogy as well. Was Marc Hamill really that much better as the centre role? Is Jar Jar really that much more annoying than C3PO? After an hour or so, my son was disinterested (especially during the dialogue scenes) and I actually coaxed him to watch the rest of it because I was still curious to see rest of the film!

Comment Re:Actually.. (Score 1) 390

by pinkj (#33443776) Attached to: AT&T Says Net Rules Must Allow 'Paid Prioritization'
They're not outright saying they are limiting access to information but to give customers the option to prioritize certain services. From TFA:

Today that concept of "differentiated services" is referred to as DiffServ. It's part of quality-of-service technologies that companies like AT&T offer, usually to business customers, that rely on DiffServ packet headers to group different types of classes of service together. Real-time voice communication may be ranked the highest, followed by financial transactions, then e-mail, and finally bulk file-transfer protocols that aren't as sensitive to brief slowdowns.

Comment History (Score 1) 462

by pinkj (#33409586) Attached to: What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders?

Which other notions from computer science can be introduced to this audience in this manner?

I think an introduction to the history of computer science would be worthwhile. Knowing the history of a subject helps with understanding the present state of it and helps give context for the content to be learned.

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