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Seems many Google executives have children enrolled in the Waldorf schools in Los Altos where computers are not used until the 8th grade and even then only on a limited basis.
As the New York Times reported, computers “are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home,” and from the number of Silicon Valley executives’ families attending the schools seems this double standard is popular.
While Google executive Alan Eagle may “fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school,” four plus years ago the company joined the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation which sponsored giving laptops to children in third World countries.
“OLPC’s mission is to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education.”
So give them to everyone except their own children? do Google execs know something different about child development? Did they themselves not have them and were drawn to the industry because they missed what others had?
Eagle proudly said his fifth grade daughter doesn’t know how to use Google and his eighth grade son is just learning his way around the search engine. Guess he doesn’t know CEO Larry Page grew up in a house filled with computers and even built a printer out of Legos. Or that Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin got his first computer – a Commodore 64 – at age 9.
Steve Jobs, the founders of Yahoo and many others were early users of computers. Eagle’s stance seems a little harsh and even a little insulting to Google and its users.
“At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain-dead easy to use as possible,” Eagle told the Times.
So who are these ‘brain-dead’ users? The rest of us who cannot afford to spend over $17,000 a year on elementary school? The children in third world countries?
The school backs its methods with high rates of graduates going to college and gaining post graduate degrees – not for an instance thinking it could be the influence of the educated parents who would see this not happening as failure.
Guess the Doodle 4 Google program will be dropped some time soon. The “competition where we invite K-12 students to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. At Google, we believe that dreaming about future possibilities leads to tomorrow’s leaders and inventors, so this year we invited U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “What I’d like to do someday…”
Guess the Waldorf kids’ answers would be use a computer.
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THURSDAY
Community
Strut: 9 a.m. at YMCA, 1684 Robinson St., 533-9622. Weekly. Also Tuesdays.
Tops 2249: 8-9:30 a.m. game room, Olive Hill Mobilehome Community Park, 2921 Wyandotte Ave. 533-8482. Weekly.
Butte County Historical Society Archives: 9 a.m.-noon, 2335 Baldwin Ave. $3 per person per day to research. 533-9418. Weekly. Also Friday.
Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program: 9:45 a.m. Grange Hall, 1477 Bald Rock Road. Cosponsored by Berry Creek Grange 694. 589-2695. Weekly.
Oroville Library: 11 a.m. Babies love Books for newborns to age 3 at 1820 Mitchell Ave. 538-7641. Weekly.
Bolt Antique Tool Museum: 10 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Unique museum with close to 10,000 tools collected by Carl “Bud” Bolt. Located at 1650 Broderick St., one block from Chinese Temple. $3. Group tours by appointment. 538-2528; Museum, 538-2406. Monday through Saturday; Sunday, 11:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
Artists of River Town Gallery and Gifts: noon-4 p.m. 1435 Myers St. Display changes monthly. Receptions on the first saturday of each month during regular hours. call during open hours, 534-3227. Tuesday through Saturday.
Fire House Certified Farmers Market, Heart of Southside Neighborhood: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 3515 Myers St. Fresh foods, free garden exchange, EBT SNAP (food stamps) accepted. Free stall spaces for produce growers, crafters and social service groups. Sponsored by cChaos, nonprofit nutrition and lifestyle education organization. Year round, rain or shine. 624-8844 or cChaos.org. Weekly.
Chinese Temple: Noon-4 p.m., 1500 Broderick St. $3. Group tours by appointment. 538-2406. Temple: 538-2496. Daily.
Write on! Creative Writing Class: 12:30-2 p.m., Family Resource Center, 1720 Daryl Porter way. Learn to write or keep a journal or diary. All ages; taught by local author. 533-1576. First, third Thursdays.
Bingo and Games: 1-3:30 p.m., Feather River Senior Citizen’s Assoc., 1335 Myers St. $8 buy-in for 10 regular games, plus $1 specials. Free cup of coffee; soda, snacks sold. Building also available for rentals. 533-8370. Weekly. Also Tuesday and Saturday.
Oroville Blood Bank: 1-5 p.m., Oroville Sports Club, Washington and Mitchell streets. Have a good breakfast and lunch. Must be at least 17 years of age, 110 lbs. First Thursday.
Pilates: 5:30 p.m. YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. Fees, 533-9622. Weekly. Also Tuesdays.
Oroville Peace Project: 7-8:30 p.m., Oroville Library, 1820 Mitchell Ave. All welcome. 533-8941. First, third Thursdays.
Thermalito Grange: 7 p.m. regular business meeting, at 479 Plumas Ave. Looking for new members. Guests welcome. 532-4539. First Thursday.
Clubs
Oroville Toastmasters: Noon, ARC of Butte County, 2745 Oro Dam Blvd. Learn to listen, speak and lead. Visitors welcome. 533-1385. Weekly.
Oroville Duplicate Bridge Club: Noon, Municipal Auditorium. Sessions open to partners. $3. 533-1957. Weekly.
Southern Butte County Legal Secretaries: Social 5:30 p.m., speaker 6 p.m. at the Depot. RSVP: 538-2451. Membership information: 872-1074. First Thursday.
Paradise Spinning Guild: 6-8 p.m., Feather Canyon Gracious Retirement. Free introductory lessons on how to spin wool and other fibers into yarn. Brooke, 519-1541. First, third Thursday.
Health/emotional support
Early Bird Fellowship, Alcoholics Anonymous: Open meetings, 6:30-7:30 a.m., Oroville Family Resource Center, 2085 Baldwin St. Weekly.
New Beginnings AA: 6:30-7:30 a.m., Alano Club, 2471 Bird St. Open meeting. 534-9960. Weekdays.
Public Health Clinic: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Confidential reproductive health services for men and women. 78 Table Mountain Blvd. 538-7341.
Ultimate Balance Fitness Program: 11 a.m. Grange Hall, 1477 Bald Rock Road. Free class includes yoga, high and low-impact aerobics, stretching. Sponsored by Berry Creek Grange No. 694.
Parkinson’s Disease Support Group: 2-3:30 p.m., Oroville Family Resource Center, 1720 Daryl Porter way. 534-5519. First Thursday.
Alzheimer’s Support Group: 5:15 p.m. Prestige assisted Living, 400 Executive Parkway. Refreshments. 534-8160. First Thursday.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Feather River Fellowship: 5:30 p.m., 2471 Bird St. 538-8180. Weekly.
Gamblers Anonymous: 7 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 711 Ocasia Blvd., Oroville. 844-4435. Weekly.
Men’s Recovery Group: 7-9 p.m., Feather River Indian Health Center, 2167 Montgomery St. 534-5394. Weekly.
Alcoholics Anonymous: 8 p.m. in summer, Forbestown Community Center. 589-5573. Weekly.
To submit an item for “Oroville Calendar,” please email the pertinent information to calendar@orovillemr.com, fax it to 342-3617 or mail it to: Oroville Community Calendar, P.O. Box 9, Chico, CA 95927. please include your name and telephone number on all correspondence.
Ok, I went on the internet, and I read about a Windows tool called Direct X Diagnostic. it tells you information about your computer, so I used this.
Here is the information:
System
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A13
Processor: Intel Celeron CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM#
Display:
Name: Mobile Intel 45 Express Chipset family
Manufacturer Intel Corporation
Chip Type: Mobile Intel 4 Express Chipset Family
DAC Type: Internal
Approx. Total Memory: 1292MB
I have absolutely no idea what any of that means. I have a game I want to install called MS Flight Simulator X. Will this game run well with my current setup.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 Laptop computer.
1=The power of the Commodore 64
5= Average computer capable of running slightly older games
10= Capable of extremely demanding games like Crysis
8. Crysis is for 3.0 Ghz Computers that are loaded with 4 gb ram and GeForce graphics. you are capable of running Flight Sim X, And perhaps Halo: Combat Evolved.
systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srt…
(More than 100 games to tell you if you can run them in the link above)
The answer is pretty much #5.
The Celery (er Celeron processor) is not know for speed.
The onboard graphics are limiting.
The requirements to run MS Flight Simulator are not that demanding and you should be able to run that game with no problem.
I think it should work.
