There are hundreds, thousands maybe millions of mini-games out there. I believe what you need are mini-games for different areas of education, that will help students use what they are learning and understand what it's good for.

For example a physics game that has objects which all have standard properties and which are put into different situations. Easiest one could be you have the ground with a gravity constant (maybe the earth's or the moon's), a propulsive device with a customizable force, an object with properties like weight, size, etc. Goal is to input a formula that uses the right properties and that let's the ball fly into a target.

I find it would be especially helpful in math to see the applications of that you're learning.

So yes, if done properly e-learning is a viable and valuable option.

from what's supposed to be the greatest country in the world

Even if we do succeed to convince them not to vote for this shit, it's high time for a public network accessible by anyone for free. A true peer network. The technology is there. What's missing is a public (non-government, fully democratic) body that agrees on open standards, tech ( network structure, access, protocols, etc.) to create a network that mostly (of course the optimal would be completely) bypasses anything that can be controlled by government (ISPs, DNS servers, etc.) . These should be optimally applicable by anybody (even those who are not tech savvy) aka. the general population.

Just a thought...

Since no windows version agrees with my hardware and presence of linux on the hd, it runs in a vm but only to run programs that don't run on wine (except games :( )

Looks like it's time for everybody to build a node (like so) to join a new free internet, free from all the paranoia and injustice.

A republican might argue that not supporting the police force is un-American...

This is a question of management I guess. If you build upon a buggy product and somewhere in the high-level you access a buggy function it may create a cascade of accesses to buggy functions. Debugging will be quite a bitch

If they want to make bad decisions that will only harm them and the company, let them be. They will catch on soon enough that without new products and innovations in their field, they won't sell shit.

The judge doesn't have one.

The whole point was trying to make is vendors write drivers for windows first, therefore it is logical that windows supports more hardware than linux.

Sorry but I have to agree, a big part of the support community is like a conglomeration of elitist hackers with a mindset of "linux is for hackers", "linux shouldn't become too user-friendly", "if you can't use it don't try" and "stop noobifying linux". Sad as it is, they are also the ones that propogate the image, that linux is for pros only.

Since most hardware is available for operating systems with the biggest user-base (Windows and Mac) your statement is simply not true. I could pick any hardware store around, walk in and ask them for linux compatible hardware and most of the time they'll just give me a blank stare or respond with "you simply have to try it out". Why else are there databases on the web of linux-compatible hardware ?

To trash something that looks like an explosive

It's a "CD-R" so still clunky, cumbersome for transport of big amounts of data and write-once read-only. Personally I'm sick of CDs and DVDs mainly because the CD and DVD drives still have problems with them (not all DVDs are recognized/can be read) and they represent an era I'd like to leave behind. This may be great for archivists but for normal users it'll be like a step back.

And how do you know this ?