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Comment Re:It is true (Score 1) 274

by kakur (#40695189) Attached to: Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+

Of course MySpace REALLY just went noplace in terms of creating features. They piddled around but it was like everything was user interface nuclear disaster. It was the ugliest site in history. I guess FB COULD screw up that bad. I think they probably won't. They'll screw up a little bit, but so will Google.

I disagree somewhat mildly.
The ugliest site in history was Geocities. Think Myspace, but web 1.0. Blink tags and marquee everywhere. Mouse cursors with trails.
Also there were 'neighborhoods' with 'numbers' and the idea of referencing a site by the username of the person who created it simply didn't exist.

Myspace was bad, very eye-searing, but I doubt it ever took the title from Geocities.

Comment Re:You don't even have this in the first world (Score 1) 93

by kakur (#39617699) Attached to: Intel Aims 'One Tablet Per Child' Program at Developing Countries

I have to agree with this sentiment. Where is the 'one laptop per child' program in America? Not all of our own children have a laptop or a tablet, and we actually have the infrastructure to effect such a program.

Sometimes I wonder if these programs are just a veil over the real problems third world countries have, like lack of food or good water, because providing technology that they often can't effectively use.

If we really wanted to help these countries we'd help them build real infrastructure and provide them with ways to purify their own water.

Our own educational system is in a shambles over here as well, if technology in the hands of kids truly helps, maybe we should concentrate on getting our own house in order first.
Microsoft

Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista 369

Posted by kdawson from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the 'pre-beta' to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests. Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a 'minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.' Memory footprint for the kernel proved eerily similar to that of Vista as well. 'In fact, as I worked my way through the process lists of the two operating systems, I was struck by the extent of the similarities,' Kennedy writes, before discussing the results of a nine-way workload test scenario he performed on Windows 7 — the same scenario that showed Vista was 40 percent slower than Windows XP. 'In a nutshell, Windows 7 M3 is a virtual twin of Vista when it comes to performance,' Kennedy concludes. 'In other words, Microsoft's follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues.'"
Education

Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers 660

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the get-what-you-pay-for dept.
Coryoth writes "While California is suffering from critical shortage of mathematics and science teachers, Kentucky is considering two bills that would give explicit financial incentives to math and science students and teachers. The first bill would provide cash incentives to schools to run AP math and science classes, and cash scholarships to students who did well on AP math and science exams. The second bill provides salary bumps for any teachers with degrees in math or science, or who score well in teacher-certification tests in math, chemistry and physics. Is such differentiated pay the right way to attract science graduates who can make much more in industry, or is it simply going to breed discontent among teachers?"

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