When the first netbook shipped, it ran Xandros (a GNU/Linux distro) instead of Microsoft Windows, partially because the Windows OS was too demanding of the hardware a partially because the license fees wiped out then entire profit margin for the manufacturer. Sales were briesk at first, but then Microsoft dropped the license fees (sellings Windows at a loss to muscle in to an emerging market) and demanded that the manufacturers up the specs to that of a small notebook so their XP product would run. People immediately abandoned their Linux netbooks because, according to the feedback we received at Xandros, "it didn't run Photoshop."
I suspect when folks find out Windows RT doesn't run the copy of Photoshop or Office they's brought home from wor, borrowed from a friend, or downloaded, they're going to raise a stink and abandon it for a "real" computer. If it has a screen and a keyboard and says Microsoft on a sticker on the front it had better run that free copy of expensive software otherwise it's just not going to work. If it doesn't have a keyboard, why don't iPad or Android apps work on it?
Micrisoft has never, ever been a technology leader. They're been a very, very successful marketing and channel sales leader. They have always succeeded by taking technology developed by others that has proven successful, tweaking it to call it their own, and levaraging their sales skills to dominate the reseller channel. Part of it was luck: their competition had a tendency to implode.
Watch for this strategy to continue with the newer tech, unless Microsoft themselves implode.
It does not matter what books you choose.
Sit down in a comfy environment or curl up in bed all together as a family, and read aloud. A chapter or two a night (always leave them wanting more). At first they will probably not listen. Keep at it: by the end of the book they'll probably be able to tell you exactly what happened even if they don't appear to be paying attention.
Repeat with a different book.
Choose books you like. Use different voices for different characters. Don't read aloud too fast. Make the magic happen.
Next thing you know, they're rereading the same books, then moving on to similar books.
Or, they just don't like you books and start gobbling up regency-era comedies of manners. That's OK too.
First, you need to light the spark by taking the words from the page and putting the voices into ther heads.
... or at least Linux developers and their filthy depraved habits. As if they could find females, dead or alive.
Most moder proofers are 600 or 700 dpi. Most modern presses are 1200 dpi or more.
A printer is someone with ink stains on their sleeve and who wears a funny paper hat.
Microsoft could never buy the kind of publicity in the developer community that this kind of announce/recind behaviour will get them for free.
Man, they're good.
Fundies aside, there is no "consensus" at all on evolution
Sure there is. The consensus is: species have changed and diverged over time and are continuing to change and diverge.
Nice removal of context. Always a useful way to provide a logical fallacy in the course of rhetoric.
The consensus is that there are species, and that it appears many species are closely related and a good explanation for that is that they share a common ancestor. Evolution is an excellent, abstract, hand-wavy way of explaining this observation, on its own conveniently devoid of useful scientific information but by gum if you don't believe it, whatever it is, you're a kook! Nobody has ever in fact observed speciation taking place, and that's where the consensus breaks down. Ask an evolutionary biologist how speciation takes place, you will probably get an awnser. Ask another one, you will probably get a completely different answer. Nice consensus, if everybody is busy disagreeing.
Here's a question for you, then: how have species changed and diverged over time, and how do they continue to change and diverge? Will you quote Huxley? Gould? have you even read them? Was this taught in school, or was it considered too policially risky to not toe the consensus?
What the hell is a "post-hoc" science?
I did give four examples. There are dictionaries available on the internet for those of you who know how to use them. Here's a brief background, chosen at random from a google search.
Is anthropology not a "real" science?
Anthopology is clearly a post-hoc science, as are sociology, most of behavoural psychology, and a good chunk of medicine.
What about cosmology?
Find out the difference between a hard science and a post-hoc science and decide for yourself.
Reading the comments here it seems to me that a certain degree of debate is warranted.
Fundies aside, there is no "consensus" at all on evolution. Oh, sure, evolution is an observation of fact, it can only be denied by the willfully blind and they can have their cosy little padded cells. But how does evolution work? Which theory is correct? Is it punctuated equilibrium? Darwin's gradual descent by means of natural selection? How does speciation occur? If high school science is not teaching the debate (and evidently, it does not) then it's not teaching science. Consensus my big red babboon behind.
Teaching climate change as science? I have never heard of any high school teaching a fundamental understanding of post-hoc 'science', and my kids are in or have been through high school. The post-hoc 'sciences' like economics, climate science, political science, criminology, and so forth are not the same as the so-called 'hard' sciences like physics and chemistry. It is important nay, fundamental, to teach how they differ and how we can never have any great degree of confidence in or reliability on the predictive power of post-hoc 'sciences'. A consensus among soothsayers does not have more predictive power than reading chicken entrails, no matter how many win valuable Scandanavian prizes.
If posters here, or political activists everywhere, believe otherwise, there is your evidence of the failure of the school system.
And a cavity search.
Because maintining good oral hygeine is always of the utmost importance.
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