Another thing I would push if I had the chance is oculus rift. On 8/22/16 5:58 PM, Sandwhich Eyes wrote: > I really like this wireless mesh stuff. I am very interested. doing > some deep reading now. > > http://qmp.cat/Overview > > also check out how it has cat in the domain name. facebook flagged it > as dangerous so i had click a few pictures of cats and what not to get > it to publish. this is the site off of the nyc mesh link from tom poe. > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Sandwhich Eyes > <sandwhicheyes at gmail.com <mailto:sandwhicheyes at gmail.com>> wrote: > > r hayman very nice. you just can't argue with that! > Should i give people credit for some of these ideas? is that > something anyone would want? i think it would build up the > community aspect, because that is exactly what this is. > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:50 PM, r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com > <mailto:rhayman at pureice.com>> wrote: > > Relevancy. > To remain relevant in many job fields, students must learn > about open source software and Linux. To prepare our students > and our future work force to be relevant when they enter the > work force, academia and the business world need to be aligned > and that alignment, in many ways is with open source software. > > Running open source or COTS software is seldom a business > differentiator today, it may only be a (negative) > differentiator based on licensing and support costs. > > Pharmaceutical research, weather forecasting, climate and > environment research, simulations of all types, manufacturing, > design, you name it, it predominantly runs on Linux and open > source. > > For example, visit https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/ > <https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/> and filter on TOP500 > Release: June 2016; then Category(ies): Operating System, > Application Area, and Segments. > > You will find that of the top 500 supercomputer sites in the > world, not a single one runs either Windows or Mac OS X. Only > 16 - just a hair over 3%, run something other than some > obvious distribution of Linux. > > > > On Mon, 2016-08-22 at 15:22 -0500, Rick Engebretson wrote: >> When my kids were in High School I tried working with our school >> district (Mora, MN.) in about 1998 just to get programming taught, >> somewhere. The school used all Macs but had at least one MSWindows 95 in >> some kind of lab. On a day they canceled school because of an ice storm >> I called and they said I could install the QBasic from Windows, along >> with program examples galore. So I left my kids home and drove to town >> and installed it all. I later went to school board meetings and they >> fought me until my kids all graduated. "Political" is an understatement. >> >> I use Linux because I can program it. I don't know how kids can make it >> in the future without knowing electronics and programming. It seems they >> are trying to cripple kids with sports, and retard them intellectually. >> It sure wasn't that way in the 1960s. >> >> Linda Kateley wrote: >>> I started working with my school district about 10 years >>> ago. The problems I find there are always political and >>> never about technology. What worked for me is to find one >>> champion in the system that speaks the administrations >>> language. I found there were a ton of people who wanted to >>> know, just not at the top. I introduced scratch to the >>> elementary STEM school about 5 years ago, >>> https://scratch.mit.edu/. It was the districts first >>> involvement with opensource or community. The project has >>> been very very successful and it opened the doors to more. >>> But then they hired a new superintendent that thought it was >>> stupid so..that happened ;( linda On 8/21/16 10:43 AM, >>> Sandwhich Eyes wrote: >>>> I have already given one presentation at the Blair Taylor >>>> School with the principal and an IT guy and have been asked >>>> to give a follow up talk to them and the head of the IT >>>> department. They had macbook air for the older kids and >>>> ipads for the younger ones. They bring these home at the >>>> end of the school day. This time they decided to go with >>>> cromebooks. It one of the best.. rated or testing, can't >>>> think of an appropriate word, but with the quality of the >>>> teachers out here i am pretty sure they could give my kids >>>> sticks and a box of sand and they would still be well >>>> prepared for life on their own/college. I am 100% positive >>>> they will be much better off if they can learn without >>>> restrictions from open source hardware, software, classes >>>> (like MIT offers open courseware) and the ability to >>>> choose, to not be scolded for breaking some license >>>> agreement or for reading and modifying code should that be >>>> an interest. I want them to have Linux. I have gave a >>>> compelling argument in the last meeting. This time I want >>>> to have as many resources available to provide for them, >>>> including reasons why schools frequently choose to not use >>>> Linux. Anything will help. I had quite the presentation >>>> last time and the IT guy didn't know what Unix or BSD 4.4 >>>> was; or Linux, BSD, Solaris. Seems Ubuntu provides >>>> computers reloaded with Linux and tablets so how they >>>> didn't find anything about open source or Linux/BSD/ETC is >>>> beyond me. I gave them a live Ubuntu OS on a thumb drive. I >>>> wanted to make some more and use persistence to load up >>>> some information to give to the IT people who are possibly >>>> way under informed, to give them plenty of time on their >>>> own to absorb what open source has to offer; mostly >>>> community! They asked many questions about community. 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