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Comment Re:Witless stenographers? (Score 1) 664

by timbur on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @10:33AM (#31425844) Attached to: Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall

While I find the same is true, I find having my notes and other documents searchable via Google Desktop Search invaluable.

If I were in school today, I would use a TabletPC. Hand-writing notes in either OneNote or EverNote together with the audio recording is fabulous with these programs. (At least with Onenote, it will sync the audio with your notes. I think Evernote will do that too.) And then my notes would also be searchable using whichever desktop search utility I prefer.

Teens Losing Interest In Gaming? 227

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 10, 2006 @04:28PM from the come-back-to-us-kids dept.

Survey firm Piper Jaffrey has results saying that teenagers are losing interest in videogaming. From the Gamasutra article: "Interestingly, almost 80 percent of teens indicated that they intend to spend less time playing video games in 2006 and nearly 70 percent indicated that their interest in playing video games is decreasing." What do you think could be causing this drop in interest from young people? Sequels? Mature themes? Sequels?

Does Age Really Matter? 542

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday February 07, 2001 @03:08PM from the it's-all-about-the-experience dept.

ageless asks: "At my current job, age seems to be a major factor when it comes to listening to what I have to say and believing that what I say is true. I've done so many different things, like filling bosses' requests to build an online app that does something complex in a short time, building and maintaining servers and security, and act as a consultant for authentication code and security on various platforms. Yet, none of them respect me because I'm still in school and because I'm young. It's very frustrating. Does anyone else see this as a problem? Does anyone else have this problem?" I think it all should boil down to experience, however many people mistakenly believe that experience is proportional to age. This belief is faulty, however, when you consider that tomorrow's computer professionals start gaining experience in their teens, not in their twenties or thirties.

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