TechCombo » Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com Technology, Health and News Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:16:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes (Matt Cutts/Gadgets, Google, and SEO) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/open-kinect-contest-2000-in-prizes-matt-cuttsgadgets-google-and-seo-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/open-kinect-contest-2000-in-prizes-matt-cuttsgadgets-google-and-seo-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:59 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/open-kinect-contest-2000-in-prizes-matt-cuttsgadgets-google-and-seo-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes  —  I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect.  See the details below.  —  Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners-basically any neat or unusual sensing device.


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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/open-kinect-contest-2000-in-prizes-matt-cuttsgadgets-google-and-seo-123/feed/ 0 And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org (Ricky/Digitizor) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org-rickydigitizor-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org-rickydigitizor-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:58 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org-rickydigitizor-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

Ricky / Digitizor:
And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org  —  We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened – 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days.  —  The History


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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org-rickydigitizor-123/feed/ 0 Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/Computerworld) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-changes-its-desktop-from-gnome-to-unity-steven-j-vaughan-nicholscomputerworld-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-changes-its-desktop-from-gnome-to-unity-steven-j-vaughan-nicholscomputerworld-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:57 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-changes-its-desktop-from-gnome-to-unity-steven-j-vaughan-nicholscomputerworld-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity  —  Orlando, Fla.—Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system …


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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-changes-its-desktop-from-gnome-to-unity-steven-j-vaughan-nicholscomputerworld-123/feed/ 0 Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity (Joey Sneddon /OMG!) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/short-video-shows-off-utouch-on-ubuntu-unity-joey-sneddon-omg-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/short-video-shows-off-utouch-on-ubuntu-unity-joey-sneddon-omg-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:56 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/short-video-shows-off-utouch-on-ubuntu-unity-joey-sneddon-omg-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

Joey Sneddon / OMG!:
Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity … If you thought multi-touch merriment was the sole preserve of those with vowel-prefixed devices then think again.  —  Canonical’s Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10′s new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity interface.


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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/short-video-shows-off-utouch-on-ubuntu-unity-joey-sneddon-omg-123/feed/ 0 Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense (Cade Metz/The Register) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/gosling-blows-lid-off-jobs-java-nonsense-cade-metzthe-register-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/gosling-blows-lid-off-jobs-java-nonsense-cade-metzthe-register-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:56 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/gosling-blows-lid-off-jobs-java-nonsense-cade-metzthe-register-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

Cade Metz / The Register:
Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense  —  Java daddy deprecates Apple cult leader  —  Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple’s decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by Java founder James Gosling.


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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/gosling-blows-lid-off-jobs-java-nonsense-cade-metzthe-register-123/feed/ 0 Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” (The H Open Source) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/canonical-releases-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-the-h-open-source-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/canonical-releases-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-the-h-open-source-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:55 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/canonical-releases-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-the-h-open-source-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

The H Open Source:
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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/canonical-releases-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-the-h-open-source-123/feed/ 0 Ubuntu Extends Cloud Service to Smartphones (Ryan Kim/GigaOM) http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-extends-cloud-service-to-smartphones-ryan-kimgigaom-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-extends-cloud-service-to-smartphones-ryan-kimgigaom-123/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:37 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-extends-cloud-service-to-smartphones-ryan-kimgigaom-123/ Ubuntu Real-Time News:

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]]> http://techcombo.com/2010/11/16/ubuntu-extends-cloud-service-to-smartphones-ryan-kimgigaom-123/feed/ 0 Mother’s Literacy has Effect on Child’s Achievements and School Effort http://techcombo.com/2010/10/25/mothers-literacy-has-effect-on-childs-achievements-and-school-effort-123/ http://techcombo.com/2010/10/25/mothers-literacy-has-effect-on-childs-achievements-and-school-effort-123/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:06:58 +0000 Cpt Longthumb http://techcombo.com/?p=14276 Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement of children from low income neighborhoods might be more successful if they also provided adult literacy education to parents.

The analysis, performed by Narayan Sastry, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, and Anne R. Pebley, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, examined data on more than 3,000 families.

The study, appearing in Demography, was supported by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The researchers based this conclusion on their finding that a mother’s reading skill is the greatest determinant of her children’s future academic success, outweighing other factors, such as neighborhood and family income.

After mother’s reading level, neighborhood income level was the largest determinant of children’s academic achievement.

“The findings indicate that programs to improve maternal literacy skills may provide an effective means to overcome the disparity in academic achievement between children in poor and affluent neighborhoods,” said Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH institute that funded the study.

The researchers undertook the study to isolate factors contributing to the disparity in academic achievement that other studies have found between children in low income and affluent neighborhoods.

Sastry and Pebley noted that neighborhood income had the largest impact on achievement for children ages 8 to 17, who are at the middle and higher end of the age range. This is consistent with the idea that the environment outside the home becomes more important as children grow older, they said.

Sastry and Pebley’s analysis was based on data collected between April 2000 and December 2001 as part of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, an ongoing examination of families in 65 LA county communities. The information included the results of reading and math assessments of 2,350 children ages 3 to 17, their mothers’ education level, census records of neighborhood income, and family income and assets. The participants in the study were representative of the larger Los Angeles community.

“This analysis gives us a chance to isolate the different factors that affect children’s achievement,” Dr. Sastry said. “Policy measures to encourage mixed-income neighborhoods, improve early childhood education, and build mothers’ reading skills each could have positive effects on children’s achievement scores.”

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