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Journal: Can't read the damn teasers

Journal by Wokan

Every time Slashdot hides the teaser, showing only the title, of a story I want to read and I click on that title, I see the teaser for a moment while I'm taken to the story page. I didn't want to leave the Slashdot home page. I just wanted to read the damn teaser without having to click the back button afterward.

Comment: Heard from a graduate of both (Score 1) 557

by Wokan (#35406450) Attached to: Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted?

My father has attended both "public" colleges and for-profit colleges and says that both seem to offer very similar educations and difficulty of completion. He's gotten degrees from each (a bit of an over-achiever at times) and hasn't had any problems regarding the pedigree of his degrees when it comes to finding jobs or contracts.

Maybe for-profit colleges do lead to a higher loan default rate, but that could be because a lot of the people defaulting on the loans are people who just weren't ready or able to learn at the pace required for college study. More scholarships and grants that don't turn their noses up at the for-profits could help reduce those loan defaults, but it wouldn't help those who enroll who just aren't prepared to learn.

You've got to WRITE stuff, baby...

Submitted by jhoomjhoom
jhoomjhoom writes "Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can improve idea composition and expression, and may aid fine motor-skill development.

Studies suggest there's real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting's demise. But in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the iPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice."
Power

Solar Winds Hold 100B Times Earth's Energy Needs-> 2

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes "Researchers from Washington State University have published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology stating that energy from solar winds could replace conventional forms of renewable energy produced on Earth such as solar, wind and biofuel power. In the article, the scientists theorize that a giant solar sail, designed to harness solar winds, could generate 1 billion gigawatts of electricity. If implemented, these Dyson-Harrop satellites (named after the inventors) could tap a solar resource containing 100 billion times as much power as the Earth currently needs. The only problem is how to get the energy from space to Earth. Oh, and the fact that the solar sail would have to be 8,400-kilometer (5,220 miles) wide."
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Portables

First MeeGo-based tablet to ship next week->

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes "WeTab will next week release the world's first tablet based on the MeeGo operating system (there is a full review of MeeGo 1.0 here). At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, WeTab showed off the device, which boasts a boot-up time of only 16sec along with a stand-by recovery time of 1sec. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the opening of the new AppUp store, which sells applications for Windows 7- and MeeGo-based products that use Intel Atom CPUs. The WeTab features an Intel Atom N450 CPU and 1GB of RAM, and it can be configured with either 16GB or 32GB of storage space. It also has an SDHC expansion slot — full specs are available on the vendor's website."
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