Debian Linux powers science education device
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| An education supplies company has announced a portable science education
| computer that runs embedded Debian Linux. Pasco says it designed its
| sensor-equipped Spark Science Learning System for collaborative science
| experiments by students, for example measuring cond uctivity or tracking
| temperature changes.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4450252700.html
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Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
Batavia parents to shell out for back-to-school
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| The district recently sent a letter to high school parents notifying them
| that all the computers in the district this summer are being updated with
| Microsoft Office 2007.
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| District officials could not be reached for comment.
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| The letter stressed the disadvantages of not having the new software, which
| carries a suggested retail price of $499.99.
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| “If students use an older version of Microsoft Office at home, it is usually
| possible to translate their projects back and forth between different
| versions of Microsoft Office,”the letter said. “However, this can be a
| tedious process, and information may not be always be translated properly.”
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http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2007/07/27/news/local/doc46a9cc9908105330494432.txt
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