Comment: Re:Math begins with counting, right? (Score 1) 271
What about that cool pinball animation from the 1970s? 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12!
The whole reason they went to 12 in that song (which they NEVER should have retired) is that, after 12, everything is pretty much repeated ad-infinium (with slight variations given to THIR-teen and FIF-teen as opposed to THREE-teen and FIVE-teen); kids just needed to learn the roots (TWENTY, THIRTY, etc...). Both ideas (essentially, pattern recognition -- a key to mathematics) were taught on the show (to 50 I believe).
Sesame Street Math is not new, thankfully.
Comment: Re:Some(?) are on YouTube already. (Score 1) 271
Check the latest uploads in https://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet
Sadly, in that clip, they are teaching the imperial measurement system (that is, feet and inches) instead of the standard used in all but barely-a-handful of countries in the world, Metric. Granted, one of those countries is the United States (still? really?!?), where Sesame Street originates; but honestly, seize the opportunity to teach METRIC to young kids with this show. It makes so much more sense. Have The Count count to 10 along with the new math-teaching muppet (who SHOULD be The Count, IMHO -- The Count rules!); boom, there's metric. 10mm in a cm, 10cm in a dm, 10dm (or 100cm) in a m.
Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists->
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IllogicalStudent writes "The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tightened+muzzle+scientists+Orwellian/3515345/story.html#ixzz0zR0j3A00"
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Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tightened+muzzle+scientists+Orwellian/3515345/story.html#ixzz0zR0j3A00"
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Comment: Lawyers do their clients' bidding. (Score 2, Insightful) 587
My karma's going to burn for this thought, but lawyers generally do what's in the best interest of whomever their client is... if the *AAs said, "make a rock-solid contract that essentially screws the artists while ensuring we rake in the dough," then that's what the lawyers will (and do) do. Who's to say those lawyers will maintain their practices when not in the employ of the labels anymore....... never mind, who am I kidding?
Microsoft forces automatic updates yet again 2
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Bryant writes "Microsoft has done it again with another forced update and reboot for Windows Vista users on patch tuesday. This comes despite people setting Automatic Updates so that the updates do not install without a user's consent."
Whistle While You Work? Not in Space.
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Ant writes "ABC News report that astronauts on spacewalks will never, ever be able to whistle while they work in space.
Former NASA astronaut, Dan Barry has seven hours of spacewalking time to his credit. He tried whistling during his spacewalk on STS-96 in May 1999. "It wasn't something I hadn't planned — I thought of it on the fly. It turned out that it didn't work." he said. "You can't whistle because the air pressure in the suit is only 4.3 [pounds per square inch], and normal atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi, so there are not enough air molecules blowing by your lips to make a sound," he said.
Seen on Blue's News."
RFID Chips Shrink to Powder Size->
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Hitachi's new tags measure 0.002 inches square, but store as much information as their much-larger predecessors. The company's still investigating possible uses. By the Associated Press.
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isohunt.com down
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AP23 writes "As of 9:45 CST isohunt.com is down, there is an small notice in their site:
Update, Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt about our lawsuit brought by the MPAA. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from another ISP (already working on that).
Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time. While it last.
— The isoHunt crew
Where am I supposed to get that Serenity torrent now?"
Update, Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt about our lawsuit brought by the MPAA. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from another ISP (already working on that).
Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time. While it last.
— The isoHunt crew
Where am I supposed to get that Serenity torrent now?"
Beginner's HTML and CSS
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jerquiaga writes "My little sister inadvertently signed up for a class on HTML and CSS, but she doesn't have any real HTML knowledge to speak of. To complicate matters, her teacher sent out a syllabus that told the students they need to find their own textbook. So I ask you, the Slashdot crowd, what would be a good book that addresses both HTML 4 and CSS in a way that a beginner would understand?"