My daughter has been watching TV shows since she was very young. She just turned two in august. She can count to 20, she can sing her ABC's, she knows her colors and shapes. She sings AND dances along with the fresh beat band. She misses words and doesn't have the choreography down. When they spin she spins when they fold their arms she folds her arms. We had to get her her own ipod touch so she would stop accidentally calling people on our iphones. She opens the apps she wants and lets us know which videos she wants to watch, elmo street, olivia, the beats. She LOVES to facetime grandma and grandpa. We can't always read books to her and give her our undivided attention, but these technologies, I think, have helped her learn and develop faster than not having them, and she still plays imaginatively with the low tech toys as well. Children under two won't benefit from the Soaps, or prime time dramas, but that does not mean they will not learn from educational shows and attentive parents.

After almost 30 years, can you, with any degree of certainty, tell us whether or not they ARE or ARE NOT, in actuality, giants?

If i am gaming on a laptop i am using a mouse and not a touch pad. You don't think there is enough room in the laptop bag for a mouse do you? right or left handed even.

extreme networks: it's rock solid, as in heavy, and it's purple.

Looks like he used 20 cells on each. 10 on each side of the 45 degree array. 4 on each of the 5 branches of the tree.

The parallel in car terms is a company fleet of vehicles. You don't want to have to rent an entire fleet from the ground up every time you need it.

You gotta go to the rental agency and hope they have enough vehicles to meet your needs then you gotta return em all and hope they have enough the next time.

The packages I want are not in the synaptic package manager, I already browsed it, several times. I wish they were. I wouldn't be having this problem.

I prefer purple to maroon.

It is insightful because it is true. It was said that "people" don't use linux and there was no mention of "newbs".

I have written code in a few different languages, built several computers from spare parts, and spent years in the tech support arena.

I can download an ISO and install Linux from it. For the life of me, I cannot install the utilities or programs that I want to use. Even after reading through the cryptic forum posts related specifically to my topic of interest. I follow the instructions to orient my computer 5 degrees off north, sprinkle the blood of my first born onto the keyboard, make sure to check the hash of the files, and belt out show tunes during the entirety of the installation process. Despite going through several first born, my program will just not work.

On windows, I can download or buy the software I want to use, double click on a file that says "install", go through a few screens that tell me to click different options and viola! I am using my software in no time at all. I don't have to acquire hardware passed down from the direct descendants of Linus or only use software that was translated from the native tongue of antarcticans.

I comprehend what linux is. And if you want to come on over and type your super secret cheat codes on all the programs I want to use, I will use your linux. "People" don't have a you to help them out with the everyday operation of their computer. There is no repository of magical phrases.

People, don't use linux.

I am going to go with...They are for increasing touch sensations on the fingertips to increase detection of differences and variations in textures of objects.

With all the complex problem solving I work on you would've thought that I'd have solved a few more problems by now.

Thanks everybody. I haven't had such a good laugh in a while.

Unfortunately I cannot smell very well myself and so have not had the pleasure of experiencing these wonderful things.