Comment NPR: On The Media (Score 2, Informative) 127
NPR On the Media covered this last week with a pretty good story: http://onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/09/10/05
Comment Re:Thoughts. (Score 1) 527
I wish I could mod this up, but alas no points to spend... I'll just second the vote for that segment on This American Life - one of the best they've done, I thought. (And that's saying something.)
Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal 234
An anonymous reader writes "Windows-based netbooks aren't too expensive to be ruled out of the Aussie government's billion dollar promise to give a laptop to every school-aged child, according to several education departments. The admission follows an earlier report that open source machines based on Ubuntu or Mandriva are the only option to deliver up to four million computers to students for under $2 billion. Microsoft itself claimed it will keep costs per unit down by hosting a lot of the educational software in the cloud rather than on the netbook devices."
Comment Re:In other news.. (Score 1) 262
Well, typically I use Windows, I've played around with Linux a bit, and might get a Mac the next time I'm due for a new laptop... But I have to admit I've never even really considered BSD. Isn't it dead or dying or something?
