Beta?

My audio system in the living room is not top notch but definetily better than average.
In my car it's the basic version for this car (the lease budget didn't allow for more) but it's still ok.
Sound on my TV is good but I don't have any surround sound so I would say mid range.
Sound in the 'media room' (which is where the kids play their games) is pretty basic (self preservation!)

Looking through this thread I'm amazed that no one comments (or not prominently) about the time and effort needed for homeschooling.

For us homeschooling is not an option. We both work full-time and I just could not ask my wife to stop working nor can we afford it financially if I were to.

That being said, our youngest son has Autism and would certainly benefit from homeschooling. He already goes to a special school with smaller classes and extra care, but still we feel that he could progress more academically if we were to school him ourselves.

For us this is a new experience since we have exactly the opposite experience with our eldest son. He is in a normal school (I'm from Belgium, so all schools are state funded but most are privately owned). And he has struggeled enormously academically. We have invested enourmous amounts of time in helping him, only to find out that the only way we could help him was NOT to interfere. Let him go to school and do his own thing.

Conclusion (personal): If homeschooling is an option (doesn't require big sacrifices financially and emotionally) and it works really well (both academically and emotionally) for your kids, then why not? But take into account that while one of your kids may benefit hugely from homeschooling, another may actually suffer.

Well. It is.
Internet banking is made highly secure. Email is clear text (it doesn't need to be, but in practice it almost always is).

Well, I don't know. Maybe that would have fed his hatred towards elves ('allway getting away with everything'). Maybe that's just what happened.
On the other hand: it's Texas. Is their any alternative to taking the hard line?

Well, I was looking for a proper start menu (like in windows 7), not a smaller version of the start screen. And that is still out.

I guess we will have to keep downloading all types of crap to get our start menu back.

I could'nt understand why they didn't say which 'enhancements' were in this new superduper build.
After I read the 'review' I knew: it's just a bit of eye candy.
And no, we're still not getting our start menu back (despite 2 headlines on /. suggesting otherwise).
Maybe the site should be rename C>
(Sorry for that last sucker punch but I'm a bit disgusted with all the noise about a Windows version that's still more than 6 months off).

Nah. I'll just wait for the next release 5.0.2.35.32X.s25.22ish "PneumoniaPudding"
And that will solve all my problems.

Mind you: I didn't mean to imply that new technology doesn't kill certain types of jobs.
It just creates other types of job in their place. So it's not sufficient to sit back en do nothing. Most of the time the replacement jobs require higher skilled people. So you need to get your education system in order. You need training programs to reorient people towards those new jobs.

Yes, yes, but this time it's REALLY killing off our jobs!!

Alarmist articles about how the latest technologies are going to destroy all jobs is not new. Most of the time the job destruction is either overestimated or temporary.

So do I. If it's fusion, that is.

Its about GLASS! There is no abend you f**moron.

Oh. "About bending". I see. Well, never mind (sheepish grin).

Enter the internet.
People will simply compare prices and buy on-line.
So if you get them in your store half the work of selling an item off-line is already done.

Indeed, she (the woman's mind in a lego body) doesn't need too much neurons does she?