I do not think that comma, belongs where you put that comma.

Actually, public transit is heavily utilized here in the Seattle area and many people support the plan for more rapid transit options over the bridge because as it stands now, due to congestion, the buses are stuck in gridlock with everyone else. More dedicated lanes for buses means less sitting in traffic and now that the light rail is complete, people are already anxious to see its extension both north and east over Lake Washington. Finishing the bridge rapidly will only increase the costs to add rail to the eastside later (or more likely cause it to not happen at all, devaluing the light rail as a transit option for many) instead of just doing it now while they are already going to to be rebuilding.

The yield sign is there to indicate that the driver moving in that direction should slow down when approaching the intersection and give way to traffic that is in the processing of crossing. These are useful for thoroughfares that have frequent cross traffic in order to make it safer for cars to cross the roadway.

Hmm maybe I was wrong. I thought they had a version (non-free) that could be locally hosted but now I'm no longer seeing that option. Dunno.

While not open source, you can get internal installations of Google Docs that run on your own server:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html#utm_medium=et&utm_source=bizsol-apps-en-us-v0_bottom_link&utm_campaign=en

For those who can't access the article, here is the information about how the system "learns":

Dr. Shih’s patients at the Mayo Clinic were asked to look at a computer screen containing a 6-by-6 matrix with a single alphanumeric character inside each square. Every time the square with a certain letter flashed, the patient focused on it and a computer application recorded the brain's response to the flashing letter. The computer software calibrated the system with the individual patient's specific brain wave patterns. When the patient then focused on a letter, the letter appeared on the screen. "We were able to consistently predict the desired letters for our patients at or near 100 percent accuracy," Shih explains. "While this is comparable to other researchers' results with EEGs, this approach is more localized and can potentially provide a faster communication rate.”

This is very true. My workplace has two different corporate cellular plans, one through AT&T and one through VZW. I had a smartphone on the AT&T network and data coverage truly was very spotty and slow. Since I swapped for a phone on Verizon the data coverage has been far more consistent and much faster. For the record, I live and work in a metropolitan area where most carriers would be expected to have thorough coverage, yet only Verizon gets consistent coverage in and around the city.

Washington residents don't pay state income tax, only federal so unless you are referring to something else, your statement isn't true.

Sorry to be pedantic but a "short i" would be like in "it". The i in "time" is a "long i", aka the vowel is pronounced like the name of the letter.

Actually, very similar systems are still in use today, especially in hospitals where paging is still common.

I think for the age range you are targeting, the style of game that would have the most educational value (as in that something is actually learned and reinforced) works around putting understanding of concepts to use to solve problems within the game. The biggest problem for many students is being taught concepts but not how to apply them or use them to critically think through a challenge. If the game centered around having to discover and then apply scientific ideas/concepts to navigate through the game to reach various goals, then students would not just learn random facts or trivia, but would actually gain experience in critical thinking and application of abstract information.

AOL's proprietary browser was, as of version 4 and higher, actually IE.

Isn't it bad karma to speak ill of the dead?

The original LOL-cows?