If you are a Mac or a Linux user, or if you lack the computer nerdiness gene, you’ll want to skip this post. But if you are tempted by the current hoopla to upgrade your Windows XP machine to Windows 7, read on. It is a cautionary tale.
I have a reasonably peppy 18-month-old Dell OptiPlex [...]
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Here’s a cool new way to learn about ancient Rome: Google has teamed up with the Rome Reborn Project to offer a virtual fly-through of ancient Rome.
The focus is architectural. You’ll see 6,700 3D models of Roman buildings in the time of Emperor Constantine, but they are all eerily empty — no people, no [...]
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Are the massively popular online games like World of Warcraft part of a new narrative art form? A structured rules-based environment? A colossal waste of time?
Jay Clayton and Matthew Hall, two Vanderbilt University professors, explore these questions and more in a quirky offering on iTunesU called Worlds of Wordcraft (iTunes). This course combines the study [...]
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A classy new website, Stanford Engineering Everywhere, is now online and open for business, with 10 free computer classes, ready for watching or download.
This new university course portal, funded by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, sets a new standard in free online courses. Not only can you watch the course videos online, or download [...]
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Updated Sept, 24, 2008: Harvard wrote in with a correction. See Harvard Extension: “We still give free samples.”
Not too long ago, Harvard extension school would let you browse through its online offerings, and listen to the first couple of weeks of each class without paying. No more.
Maybe they thought there were just too many [...]
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So, do you feel at a loss when your geeky friends start discussing things like net neutrality, TCP/IP and throttling bandwidth? Do you wonder why your Internet speed sometimes slows to a crawl? Learn about all this and more from Stanford University’s short course, The Future of the Internet, taught by Ramesh Johari, and [...]
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