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I don't have a problem with OLDER children using computers. A 5 year old should not be using an iPad as their main focus of learning. They SHOULD be using paper and crayons and paint. There have been scientific studies that show children develop better with physical, tangible items as compared to learning from a computer screen. If I had time, I'd look that up again now -- maybe I'll have time tonight.

How many textbooks is your kindergarten class using...? I know we had exactly 0, aside from the ones that the teacher used to read from. I have no problem with computers in schools -- but personal tablets for a 5 year old? No.

What does that have to do with iPads for kindergarteners...?

Ridiculous. http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8586/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=3eWYwJLK

So I take it you're properly gloating to her for raising so much more money, right?

The Android marketplace does need some more refinement, that's for sure. That said, like Scraps, I haven't seen an app on an iPhone/iPad that gave better functionality than I can get on an Android... Many of my coworkers who have iPhones wish they could get Android instead as well (that wasn't a corporate option last year, but may be one next year). And there's one huge feature that Apple doesn't have -- WIDGETS! They're freak'n awesome. Basically they're apps that instead of displaying a single icon to launch, contain a preview of information for you. The ESPN app for android can display scores of your favorite team without having to load the app. The CNN app shows the top five articles and you scroll through them with your finger. Click it if you want to read. Bookmarks work the same way, as does the USA Today app. The earthquake monitoring app shows me the last quake in the world and what the severity was. All without having to load the app. That's a huge benefit that I haven't seen many people talk about. The Xoom really rocks, and Amazon's Android App store gives away a free application every day which is also really nice. No competition from Apple's store - it's Apple or nobody. That's both a plus and a minus.

And The Sisko > everyone

People said the same thing about Jesse Ventura in Minnesota... And he won and didn't do a half bad job, even though the "media jackals" focused on funny sound bytes all the time.

I agree, especially when Trump asked, "You really think the governor of the state was right there when Obama was born? Really?" It's like when my wife's car broke down and to be towed to the local Goodyear (big mistake) to fix the problem. They accidentally charged the battery backward (it flipped polarity), and when I challenged them on it they said, "No, we had our best mechanic there AND the owner of the shop was overseeing it." Really? You're wasting resources having your best mechanic charge a battery and you trust him so much that the manager was watching over him? Ummm, no.

Except it will have nothing to do with the unions; regardless of who ends up officially winning, the budget bill will be passed long before the justice is brought on in August.

I'm not sure if anyone here has been following it. There were roughly 1.5M votes cast, and the margin of victory reported yesterday was 204 votes in favor of the democratic judge, Klossenburg. Only wait, someone forgot to count 14,000 ballots -- so it looks like the republican-leaning Prosser really won! http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119410124.html It's interesting because the same thing happened in Minnesota during the Coleman/Franken election, only in favor of Al Franken. I thought that was highly suspect at the time, but maybe big mistakes like that happen all the time but nobody notices because races usually aren't that close. Interesting, nonetheless.

It wasn't 30 years ago... But I still remember it well.

If this was a crime show, the investigators would say, "It's quite a coincidence that two different people around you died in the exact same way... We need to bring you in for questioning."

Why not? There's a meteoric rise in allergies. There's a meteoric rise in obesity. Why can't a chemical imbalance in the brain be growing at an alarming rate too?

Nice job if you can get it... This week's edition -- a new stylus for touchscreens, a weird "power glove" device that can replace your keyboard/mouse, a desktop siege engine, and a 360 degree panoramic lens for the iPhone 4. http://www.neowin.net/news/kickstarter-week-in-review-iphone-lens-desk-toy-stylus-and-glove-edition

If you haven't bought the replacement, Amazon has this for $200, and you receive a $50 credit: http://slickdeals.ne...0-amazon-credit I think you can just plug your current hard drive into this one - but I'm not 100% sure with the new ones... (I know you could do that before).

Actually, it's currently in 3rd place behind Android and Symbian... http://www.neowin.ne...-iphone-by-2015 You obviously have never used the Xoom or you would know that the "20 apps" comment is completely and utterly false. I already have 21 apps installed, and have only had it for a couple of days. Now granted the Xoom is a tablet, not a phone -- but stop buying into the Apple-biased blogs that keep spewing the "20 apps" comments because it's just not true. Other things to like about the Xoom over the iPad (and I assume other Android phones vs the iPhone) - Flash support. SD card slot for extra storage. Non-proprietary HDMI connector. USB connection to PC to drag/drop files/music/videos. Ability to load programs that Apple doesn't take their 30% cut from (ie: cheaper apps from Amazon's Android App store). The iPhone's fine, but it's funny when the fanboys realize that it isn't the #1 phone in the world - it's third. That's due to Apple wanting to control everything, so I prefer a more open system. Most of my coworkers have iPhones because the choice was the iPhone or the Blackberry Bold. Half of them are hoping we switch to Android when we renegotiate our contract next year. (keep in mind I work in IT)

I heard that this book was based on the cool game, Bioshock.

More union threats. http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/118910229.html

You must have never been to Cairo....

Kinda like all of the different Kit Kat flavors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kat

I disagree that it's a knee jerk reaction. Across from my company's office building in Bangalore is a giant trash heap that people walk up to and urinate on. The smell in the city is atrocious. The respect for women is non-existent. I think you can safely say, "I don't like this place" and not have it be a knee-jerk reaction. I visited Cairo, Egypt for a couple of days a few months ago. The city smelled, there was garbage floating in the river, people were burning garbage on the side of the road. It was an interesting place to visit, but it was also a dirty dump that I have no interest in ever returning to. Is that a knee jerk reaction? No, I experienced the culture for a couple of days enough to know that I don't like it. You can appreciate a culture and still think the country (and culture) sucks.

Except that India pretty much is a dirty, ugly place from people I've talked to who have been over there....

Good luck!

I didn't like them in the first race and I didn't like this time either. They're arrogant (especially the mom). I also didn't like that the Race let them cheat on the tea challenge. At the end, you saw Luke bring up 5 cups of tea to the podium. Part of the challenge is to go back and forth to get the cups of tea and bring one up at a time...