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The Almighty Buck

The Video Game Industry Goes Political 187

Posted by samzenpus from the president-diablo dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The video game industry is finally forming a PAC by the end of March to get some political clout. A story in The New York Times yesterday reports that the video game industry has finally woken up and realized that in order to stay strong going forward, it can't rely on 13-year-old pimple-faced kids to promote its agenda."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - LinuxBios with graphic mode

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An anonymous reader writes: A Brazilian blog about open source is talk about a project of LinuxBios that comes with Matchbox, busybox and Kdrive. The original post is here: http://br-linux.org/linux/linuxbios-com-modo-grafi co (in portuguese), a video about is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzRsXKm_NQ, and the original post form authors are here: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11- server-completely-in-flash-rom
Education

Higher Pay for Math and Science Teachers 471

Posted by samzenpus from the thank-the-union dept.
Coryoth writes "Following up a previous story, it seems that the Kentucky effort to provide increased pay to teachers with qualifications in mathematics, physics, and chemistry has been gutted. Teachers objected to differential pay, and that portion of the bill was removed. At the same time California has just put forward a similar measure, with differential pay for teachers qualified in mathematics and science. Shockingly 40% of mathematics teachers in California are not fully qualified in the subject — a higher percentage of unqualified teachers than any other subject. Is the Californian effort any more likely to succeed, or is it destined to be similarly gutted? Is there a solution to the woeful lack of qualified mathematics teachers that the Teachers' Union will find acceptable?"

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