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New I'd like the kids' PC to be a mini-Mac
however the school distrcit teaches them with Word & PowerPoint, and they're not quite ready to learn how to manage homework files between the operating systems and apps. And I'm generally too busy at night to help them out.
lincoln

"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow


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New Word/PowerPoint run on OSX
And without any faffing about WRT file compatibility, either.


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New my son uses a USB flashdrive
Does his homework in Word and PowerPoint on his mac then brings the USB flashdrive to school and uses the windows machines there. He hasn't had any problems.
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New I'll ask if the USB ports at school are active
if so, I'll buy them their own flashdrives for Sneakernet
lincoln

"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow


Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.


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New OK, I'll be the one ...
... to ask what the FUCK are they doing teaching them with PowerPoint? <rant> [link|http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1|$rant] </rant>
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New It's actually a good idea.
Because although it teaches them how to do all those gooshy effects and shit, it also usually teaches restraint in using them. That's the key, of course.

Wade.


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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please



-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

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New Exercise in futility?
Teaching kids to use restraint with "gooshy effects and shit"? I reeeeeally don't think that's going to work.
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New No, it does.
I was surprised when I saw it, too.

There's a kid at church, son of the worship minister, who runs the computer sometimes for the songwords. He'd learnt a bit about PowerPoint at school and I was impressed at his attitude. They teach a lot about how to use the program, obviously, but they also teach mundane things that make a presentation look professional. And he understood on his own why you don't go overboard.

I think experience helps a lot and if you give them experience, they learn past most of the newbie mistakes. And really, most of the mistakes people make in PowerPoint with 'too much' are newbie mistakes.

Wade.


Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please



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     Switchers roll-call - (pwhysall) - (33)
         I have not changed - (bepatient) - (1)
             I will add, though, that Vista will never be in my portfolio - (bepatient)
         actually backslid - (boxley)
         Not really - (JayMehaffey)
         No change - still running OS/2 - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
             Still running OS/2 as well........ since 1994, in fact. -NT - (n3jja)
         You might not need it just for support - (drewk) - (2)
             Looks nifty... - (pwhysall) - (1)
                 Mostly, yes - (drewk)
         Still a combo of warp and windows - (jake123) - (1)
             (Dis)agree - (drewk)
         Unfortunately, Mac/Windows lacks engineering design tools - (tonytib)
         No change. - (Silverlock)
         Slight change - (Steve Lowe) - (1)
             Ditto - (admin)
         Possibly a change coming soon - (drewk)
         A bit - (crazy)
         I don't think I had a work laptop 12 months ago. - (static)
         Re: Switchers roll-call - (tjsinclair)
         I'd like the kids' PC to be a mini-Mac - (lincoln) - (7)
             Word/PowerPoint run on OSX - (pwhysall)
             my son uses a USB flashdrive - (Steve Lowe) - (1)
                 I'll ask if the USB ports at school are active - (lincoln)
             OK, I'll be the one ... - (drewk) - (3)
                 It's actually a good idea. - (static) - (2)
                     Exercise in futility? - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                         No, it does. - (static)
         Re: Switchers roll-call - (jb4)
         Still XP, Win2K and OpenBSD - (lister) - (4)
             Had the bullet in warp for about a year - (jake123) - (3)
                 Which Flash? 7a? -NT - (n3jja) - (2)
                     Exactly - (jake123) - (1)
                         No, but I can still watch YouTube..... for now. - (n3jja)

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