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Comment High school AND college - simultaneously (Score 1) 659

I went to high school with one of the founders of Excite. He took his science and math classes at the university (conveniently just a mile and a half from the high school), and took AP humanities classes with the rest of us. Seemed to work okay for him.

I also went to college with someone who started college at age 13. He's now a community college professor.

Don't underestimate the value of socialization.

Comment Re:Content Uncontrolled (Score 1) 98

I agree that what we put online should be conscious. That said, people have intentionally set up whatever is automatically publishing to Facebook. I have a Facebook account and actually use it for a active group (works like a forum, kind of like Slashdot), and to look at pictures of friends' kids. Facebook does not know my real email address, the contents of my address book, my phone number, or where I'm eating lunch.

I'm not sure why anyone thinks FB should know where you are, but there are people who enjoy these features (bless their hearts). Of course, everyone else blocks these people...

Comment Re:The way we think (Score 1) 1153

I agree completely - I took calculus and AP physics in high school, and again in college. I found the two together were quite helpful in understanding concepts and I'm glad I learned them, even though I couldn't integrate to save my life at this point.

Comment Re:From the No Duh Dept. (Score 1) 801

I commute on a street that every 10th parked car has usually been slammed into (because it's very narrow, has lots of parked cars, pedestrians, and three schools in 10 blocks, and people go 45-50). I once had someone gun it to try to pass me on the right through an intersection and they nearly slammed into the parked cars because they underestimated how slow I was going - only 5 mph over speed limit. (I had assumed when they pulled right that it was to make a right turn.)
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Submission + - Apple announces its Last Year at Macworld (apple.com)

aliloln writes: Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote at Macworld this year, and Apple will not have a presence at the event at future Macworlds.

From the article:
CUPERTINO, California--December 16, 2008--Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year's Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple's last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.

Let the speculating begin!

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