Comment Android (Score 1) 97
I am planning on buying an HTC phone because it is good hardware with FOSS on it.
Comment Re:Gravel roads are cheap but need more maintenanc (Score 1) 717
Because anyone could miss Alaska, all tucked away down there.
Comment Re:Gravel roads are cheap but need more maintenanc (Score 1) 717
Indeed. I find it funny that people think of Michigan as small (even myself sometimes, and I'm from there!), but it takes 12 hours to drive from end to end, and, barring Alaska, has the most shoreline of any state.
Comment Re:The One True Law of Finance (Score 3, Insightful) 198
I would say he has kept this in mind: he is making (boatloads of) money teaching people how to magically mathify finance. This is infinitely less risky than investing.
Analogously: if you want to make money at a casino, get a job as a dealer.
Analogously: if you want to make money at a casino, get a job as a dealer.
Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates 414
nk497 writes "The release candidate for Microsoft Windows 7 will expire June 2010, and the software giant will let users know they need to pay to upgrade by shutting down the system every two hours for three months. According to Microsoft: "The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. You'll also need to install the programs and data that you want to use.""
Comment Re:Supply and Demand (Score 1) 1322
Probably has to do with the fact that people who are teachers in Michigan are either new, or teachers from schools that are shut down.
Citation please? I know several people with teaching degrees in Michigan who would be very strong teachers, and stay in the state waiting for a current teacher to retire or die. This is in spite of the crappy salaries that await them.
There are people who want to teach because they understand the importance and nobility of it. Unfortunately, because the systems are so bloated with bad teachers (when even mediocrity should be considered unacceptable), many of these would-be excellent educators can't find a job.
Comment Re:Though it's a small sample size so far... (Score 1) 262
Actually you can. One sixth of the world population already counts from 1 to 10 in one hand.
This would be a lot more useful if the natural choice for counting to zero on one hand wasn't reserved for 10.
Comment Re:and the land of the.... (Score 1) 674
Are you implying that they never sing past the first line of their national anthem?
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
Comment Excellent word choice (Score 5, Funny) 326
"However, it was yanked several months ago during Version 3.0's development."
Obama Would Redirect NASA Funding to Education 357
QuantumG writes "In a recent article on The Space Review, Greg Zsidisin reveals that Barack Obama plans to delay Project Constellation for at least five years, using the redirected funds to nationalize early-education for children under five years old to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten and beyond, if he is elected president. It is feared that if this happens the Vision for Space Exploration will flounder and that may be the end of human spaceflight altogether."
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