For a long time, all parents agree that the computer games their children are just a waste of time. Much better would be all that time invested in it, to do something for the school, or at least once to read a "really good" book (which in turn determines good for the school performance would be), right?

Although I myself am really not a gamer (not even the better ... "), I found the following thought experiment of great interest, the author Steven Johnson in his bestseller Everything Bad Is Good for You is described by the U.S.. I myself came out with the Lekue the very recommendable book, we call it work of Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo. Johnson argues that many aspects of today's youth culture - as is usually claimed - are soul-destroying, but very beneficial for understanding and intelligence. The aforementioned thought experiment asks what would happen if the first computer games, and only then the printing press had been invented. Since new is usually considered suspicious, according to Johnson it would probably soon to statements such as:

"Books among Ford chronic senses. Contrary to the long tradition of computer games - children living in three-dimensional worlds filled with moving images and musical impressions kidnap, through which they controlled with complex muscular movements - books are simply a series of words on a page. Only a small part of the brain is activated by appeal to computer games during the entire spectrum of sensory and motor brain functions. In addition, books make tragically lonely. While games make young people for a long time to build their own worlds with their friends and explore and force books to the seclusion of a quiet place, shut off from the rest of the world. This newly created 'libraries' that encourage reading, should provide a frightening picture: Dozens of children who usually maintain an active and lively exchange to sink in silence and apathy in reading ... "

This thought experiment shows us the importance of an unbiased approach, particularly in complex situations which are difficult to capture in its entirety. All too quickly solidify generalizations and half-truths. Who knows what one thing has long term consequences?

The ongoing digitalization of our entire life is one of the biggest upheavals with which the humankind has ever faced. And who knows what in the lives of our children will be crucial in a few decades? Why speak So let's - we, the partial nichtmalsr skype or SMS-en can, whether on Facebook or MySpace to find them and know the difference between a blog and a wiki does not - to tell our children what for them is good and what will be bad?

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After I recently by the remarkable special offers at Real have written, I found that quite a few surfers in my blog end up on Google, the Odys MP X29 have googled investigate the matter and something like a review looking Sun So that all these do not end up here for nothing, I would like to hereby make such posting.

I'm straight to the point: for the 25, - € is the real thing fully OK, now we have even bought a second of it (so have to fight Tim Silvia and no longer at the thing). I myself have also an older Odys MP X10 i, and there is the x29 if only from the display and the menu her much better. My X10 i also has a 2.5 mm jack for headphones, so that either the included earphones (flying around the course, is worse than the many that I have mitlerweile) or an adapter needs to use (default is 3.5 mm, namely , and the adapter is always a bad connection when moving candidate).

The possibility of expanding the internal memory with micro SD card to be able to, is also quite thoughtfully. So one can not only expand the memory, you can have several cards in use - here are the audio books, because this music, that there - and change them quickly. However, I try not to, how many GB per card are possible.

The USB speed feels like such mediocrity, have already seen faster and slower.

Nice is the ability to watch videos. Here the Odys supports only AVI with a specific resolution - namely, the very ones who delivers his display. So you must use the supplied tool that converts any video fairly straightforward in this same format.

So, for the money he is fully as I said all right.

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Recently, the terrarium in the living room was once again off with a "general overhaul", ie some plants were no longer fresh and suggested an exchange. Since then Terraium looked much better, I took some photos that you can see in the slideshow.

A special concern is to show me the way that a) as a terrarium can be very beautiful with lots of real plants and b) that the "bio-Terraium" works!, So the Terraium without sterile furnishings, food from the food bowl and poison against Pests, etc.

More on both of my terrarium and I held by giant green lizard (Lacerta trilineata) essentially very similar attitude claims like normal green lizards (Lacerta viridis Lacerta bilineat respectively) represent, can be found here on my homepage. Enjoy the photos:

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Yesterday I replaced the 60GB hard drive of my good old Toshiba notebook with a larger one. The old one was for some time already filled to the brim, so I have often weed out or move files to external USB hard drives needed. Added to our son Tim, the hard-won free 5GB immediately wanted to fill it again with his latest computer game ...

Now, a new, Göss hard drive costs really not the world, but I had no desire to have to set up the system from scratch and address books, e-mails and dozens of programs to reinstall (after a laptop has indeed only one hard disk, the Desktop one can always as the new second, install non-system drive).

The solution was extremely simple with Acronis True Image can clone the old hard drive (where the partitions can be stretched flexibility of the old to the new disk). So I had to buy only one new drive (250GB, EIDE, for about 80 €) and to a suitable external USB enclosure. The new record came temporarily to the new housing (3 min installation), then the old disk to the new clone (about 1 hour where they do not stick to it had, the service was quite easy by the way thanks wizard, only default and leave " continue "), the old board out (you had to do was screw on the notebook, to remove the cover plate of the hard drive and extract the hard drive only, inserted new disk, do not switch with jumpers or the like), and ... ...

.... it went !!!!! Without anything, no error message, no reconfiguration, no newly detected hardware, nothing, just like that!

The old record is found naturally in the external USB enclosure.

Had I known that it is so easy, I would have taken this step long ago. But now consider the first time what I pack up everything on notebook, perhaps a part of the film library so many GB do not even go unused.

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I love the number puzzle by Michael Pousen. These appear for many years in the TV magazine Hörzu. This link takes you to his website, where each View / Reload the page a new version of this puzzle is generated at. The solution is also displayed there.

As many have certainly come at the sight of these puzzles in a panic, I would like to explain this puzzle for one example of how to solve it. This example puzzle is indeed a very easy copy, but the principle is certainly clear. Here's the example puzzle:

So, by design they are always the same: a total of 9 two-to four-digit numbers are mathematical operations linked horizontally and vertically. It is a symbol for each digit, that is, there are 10 icons instead of the 10 digits 0 to 9 Task is, of course, find out which symbol represents which number.

First, I look "just about the mystery about it" and look for abnormalities. Such abnormalities are produced for example by the numbers 0 and 1. The zero can be found, for example, often by scanning the last digits of the addition or subtraction: Here you can see, for instance, that the white circle (red) plus the thick-rimmed circle (green) again is the white circle (ie a + b = a). Thus, we know that the highlighted circle will be zero.

So we replace the thick circle around the zero:

Let us continue to the last digit of the numbers (in this case the computational laws are directly applicable, as no transfers can be added for the following posts). The last line is that blue-green times is zero, as is sometimes pink green zero.

This at a Malaufgabe in the last place one stands 0, there are blue and green, only the two possibilities (a) is an even number of times the 5 - or (b) any number times zero. Option (b) is eliminated since there would in this case the symbol for the zero must be, but this is not the case. So the only (a), where it ("just five" or "5 times now) is still unclear. However, since the pink green times is zero, the green must be zero, since otherwise the even number would be green, but which both blue and pink that would be 5, and both are now no time. So, green is the 5th If we replace this symbol everywhere by 5:

Let us now consider the quartered circle (green), which is somewhat common. As is: top left number + number = number in the top right top center, this middle right = turn + number five-thousand-something, it follows from this that the green circle can only be a 1 or 2. If he namely 3 or greater, could not be below the 5xx0, for two times in a row which would be adding up three just six. So 1 or 2

Looking at the number below to be in the middle and about in the 2 Line center, we see that 2 is not possible, because 25 times 25x would be about 6250 ("once" because I am at work shared like this always "turned around" look), which would be much too large, it might not go down right the 5xx0 stand. So, no 2, ie it is the first

ABB is now cracked the riddle almost 15 times 15 times results in a number of 2250-2385, as here (top center) the first two digits are different symbols, it must be containing 2310:

First line: 1xxx 2310 plus what must be a three or four thousand (if transfer) are, 3 is already gone, remains only 4 This is right above the white circle, a 6, because 6 + 4 = 10 results (zero rear). The rest is easy, and it gives the following solution:

This example was pretty simple, as many numbers occurred in "verrätersichen" positions, and also lacked the 7 (there are usually almost always represent all digits). As I said, try it on the homepage of Michael Pousen there is always such a new puzzles and costs nothing. In the beginning it will probably take a little longer, go with a little practice, then much faster. I need some minutes to a maximum of fifteen minutes. Have fun tinkering!

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Two days ago I had a REAL MP3 player from the specials of the same week bought a: ODYS MP X28 , 2 GB, for 29,90 €. Today I had to get back to the mall (since I am next door in Promarkt the powerline network adapter had to exchange went smoothly by the way, congratulations for Promarkt), and what I see in REAL? Just this ODYS MP3 Player for 24.95 €! This week is the offer still does not pass?

First time on the box looked more closely, if I have overlooked what yet, and yes, it is not the same, but almost the same model, namely the MP X29 FM 2 GB. What are the differences and what is missing from where he still 5, - € is cheaper? Here it comes, lacking nothing, but on the contrary, he has significantly improved features: all the same, but also video playback and built-in FM radio!!

(It update a more detailed review for this thing: are here )

So the first time turned on the seller what that is and how this could be. The poor man understood me well and admitted that there probably is with them what went wrong. The X28 was the way the week in the offer, the X29 over the month, as thoughtfully ...

Well, I took the better with the same and have 4 weeks to bring the others back (luckily not yet unpacked). But one wonders on ...

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