Comment Re:How about gobby? (Score 1) 302

by gregarei on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @01:00AM (#28766079) Attached to: Collaborative Software For Pair Programming?

There is also a KDE alternative, Kobby: http://greghaynes.github.com/kobby/ Both Kobby and Gobby can work together.

Comment s/Compte with/Help purchase (Score 1) 716

by gregarei on Monday June 08, 2009 @03:40PM (#28254909) Attached to: Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades

Even so, I would prefer an educated drug user to an uneducated one.

Comment Too late (Score 1) 716

by gregarei on Monday June 08, 2009 @03:36PM (#28254827) Attached to: Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades

Given that the current system is based on rewarding students for education (albeit with grades, not money), changing what the reward is wouldnt make a difference. The Overjustification effect has already taken place. How many of your friends in school did their homework 'Just for the sake of learning'?

Comment Mod Parent Up (Score 1) 302

by gregarei on Sunday June 07, 2009 @05:45PM (#28244353) Attached to: Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard

Now!

Comment Re:The iPhone, of course. (Score 1) 374

by gregarei on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @04:17PM (#23561453) Attached to: Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited

OS X is a solution, ive found. iChat features send message to SMS, which allows a user to respond to an apple number that forwards the message to your machine. Just login on your desktop at the same time and send a message from your laptop to link your phone number to your screen name. :)

Submission + - Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes

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NickFitz

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @01:54PM

NickFitz writes: "Students at UCSC have recreated the first level of Donkey Kong using 6,400 Post-it notes stuck to the windows of the E2 building. It took a team of about 10 people five hours to complete the work, which will remain in place until May 1. There's a time-lapse video of the construction process."