RTVE, Spanish Radio and TV, has a huge offer of programs one can see streamed, i.e. on demand, or a la carta, without any ads.
“Españoles en el mundo” is one of them. More than 900 videos showing how Spaniards have settled around the globe.
Another is “Universo matemático“:
Serie documental que recorre la historia de las matemáticas, desde los pitagóricos hasta los investigadores del presente. Su objetivo es enseñar como la aparición de nuevas ideas matemáticas responde a los problemas concretos de cada época y contexto.
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New York Times is trying, for the second time, to charge its readers for reading their online version. The comments of its readers has been largely negative. From: you are charging way to much, to, goodbye NYT, I enjoyed the journey, but now I am going to other free sources.
Today I was met with the notice above when I had reached my 20 articles per month limit. What did I do? Did I sign up? Did I go elsewhere”? Did I create a new account for free?
None of the above. I simply clicked a button on my browser’s toolbar made by a Canadian programmer. It is called NYTClean and gives me free access as before.
The joke is on you, NYT!
When we call a land line in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, we have three options, each with different charges per minute:
So far we have used Skype online, but as the above shows, it is the most costly way.
Every morning I skim NY Times online? Why? Because it is free for “strangled her baby and then her four cats” and “see what famous1 eats for breakfast.” Instead, I can read interesting stuff on why iPad, who was slaughtered in the tech press, sells better than warm loaf and how the standard of time has evolved over the years, just to mention two recent articles.
Yes, it does cover Libya and the tsunami in Japan as well, but there is so much more to news than war and catastrophes. A secret not realised by most news papers.
Ah, one more thing. NY Times filters the comments from readers, making those who are published sometimes more valuable than the article itself, compared to unfiltered comments in other places that read like pure and poor garbage.
One sad thing about NY Times is that they are planning on going commercial, charging for access. They tried it once before and failed. I hope they fail again.
Another sad thing is that their videos can’t be embedded in blogs. Here is a must see video on iPad.
I am throwing away old disks, but before I do I see if they are worth keeping. I just installed MS Encarta 2000, but it would not run. When I went to the control panel to remove it this is what I saw:
When I start up the Add/Remove Programs applet, it shows a number of programs, then has a huge amount of empty space between two entries (we’re talking dozens of page down keystrokes to find the next one), then some more entries, and another huge gap.
How to undelete a program if it is not listed in control panel and the folder does not have a file called uninstall.exe?
I searched the Internet and found this solution:
here is the actual location in the registery that helped me [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{5783F2D7-0101-0409-0000-0060B0CE6BBA}] the key was called “DisplayIcon”
When I went down this folder I found, lo and behold, MS Encarta and MS Reference (or whatever it was called) and one of the keys was called ‘Undelete file’ (or something of the sort). I ran both undeletes and the gap in Add/Remove Programs was gone!
The page that helped me.
Per Øyvind Heradstveit, a famous political reporter in Norwegian TV, did a lot to give seniors ICT skills, partly through the webiste http://www.treffpunkt.no. Heradstveit died in 2004 and the site seems to have died with him.
When I search for the url or his name I get few pages as a result. I found a newspaper article from 1999 and a Wikipedia entry, but little more.
So what is a poor guy supposed to do? Think about it if you like before reading on.
The answer:
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
Here is the site from August 04 2003.
Why the interest? Two things, I am fascinated by how one individual can move mountains and how the mountains stop moving without him. Secondly, as an ICT educator I am interested in how seniors can attain ICT skills.
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I skim New York Times every morning after having given up on Aftenposten and Dagbladet (Norwegian major newspapers) due to their nauseating tabloid style.
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