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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 537

by ssarasin (#41739751) Attached to: Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old?
Agreed. I don't think it is really a matter of not being able to learn it. It is more along the lines that we don't really want to, or need to. Windows 7 works great for my needs. I'll be sticking with it until it becomes necessary to move to Windows 8. (Or an alternative OS... I have a couple machines running OSX, and a few Linux boxes as well...)

Comment Re:We live in a multimedia word (Score 1) 414

by ssarasin (#33137414) Attached to: Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

If your parents read to you, more chance you'll grow up liking books & reading.

My 3yr old son already has quite a library. We have a full bookcase both upstairs in his room, and downstairs in the family room. He is constantly pulling books off the shelves and bringing them to us to read. Hopefully he'll follow in daddy's footsteps and be a voracious reader well into his adult life. :)
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3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

Posted by samzenpus from the step-away-from-the-candy dept.
theodp writes "A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."
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Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Law Now Reality? 735

Posted by samzenpus from the not-that-there-is-anything-wrong-with-that dept.
e3m4n writes "The fictitious 'good samaritan' law from the final episode of Seinfeld (the one that landed them in jail for a year) appears to be headed toward reality for California residents after the house passed this bill. There are some differences, such as direct action is not required, but the concept of guilt by association for not doing the right thing is still on the face of the bill."
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Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop 1365

Posted by timothy from the choose-your-own-misadventure dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Every now and then a new- or old-media journalist tries to explain to everyone why Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. However all those men who graduated from their engineering universities years ago have only superficial knowledge about operating systems and their inner works. An unknown author from Russia has decided to draw up a list of technical reasons and limitations hampering Linux domination on the desktop." Some of the gripes listed here really resonate with me, having just moved to an early version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my main testing-stuff laptop; it's frustrating especially that while many seemingly more esoteric things work perfectly, sound now works only in part, and even that partial success took some fiddling.

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It isn't easy being the parent of a six-year-old. However, it's a pretty small price to pay for having somebody around the house who understands computers.

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