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1 posted on 05/06/2011 10:58:32 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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2 posted on 05/06/2011 10:59:37 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Okay, neat idea and all... but what’s with that rat’s nest of cables in the promo shot? Couldn’t they lay things out neatly to make it look less like a Frankenstein creation?


4 posted on 05/06/2011 11:01:56 AM PDT by kevkrom ("Winning The Future" = WTF = What The F*** / "Kinetic Military Action" = KMA = Kiss My A**)
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We had raspberry pie last night. It was fabulous.


8 posted on 05/06/2011 11:56:05 AM PDT by freespirited (Truth is the new hate speech. -- Pamela Geller)
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All of these “low cost” computing efforts purport to do something to aid in the education of ‘the chilruns.”

This one claims to want to assist in teaching children to “program.”

Well, I’m going to piss on the parade here. Most kids who don’t know squat about math make lousy programmers. And this device won’t do squat to teach children math.

In general, the best programmers and software jocks I know came from the era when we had to use batch processing on mainframes. This forced a programmer to desk-check their work, otherwise a card run would be wasted on things like syntax errors and easily found logic errors. Batch processing was to teaching programmers what single shot rifles are to teaching marksmanship. They force a person to actually *think* about what they’re doing, and then do it for effect.


9 posted on 05/06/2011 2:03:55 PM PDT by NVDave
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