Asterix is nice - that's just scratching the surface of Belgian/French cartoon though. In the same vein, I'd recommend you to dive into the work of masters like Franquin, I really recommended it - the Marcinelle school let emerge many great talents.
Thank you - this is quite a find. I remember banging my head against the limitations of the HIRES mode and eventually doing everything in text mode with redefined characters - I was working on a windowing system at the time.
Best thing in for summer was two weeks with my grand father, my Atmos and my monitor - and certainly not my mom telling me to get out in the sun (and my grand father couldn't care less.)
Great to encounter another Atmos fan on HN .. have you been following the OricExos project? Its a system consisting of 4 Oric's, tied together, sharing duties for graphics and sound .. pretty amazing hack, if I do say so myself:
Check out some of the demo's at the end of the thread .. it was recently booted up and demonstrated adding new color resolutions to the system. Truly mind-boggling!
> That's not how France works ;-) Schools don't decide much, everything is decided by the central government in Paris and then implemented everywhere.
Citation needed - that's not the case.
Schools are ran in a collegial manner (PTA + Teachers + Admin - I sit in my son's school board) What's imposed is pedagogical content (over a teaching cycle - three years long - kids should have learned this and that.) Then how it's done is really not the state's business. Schools implement it the way they want.
Yes, that is absolutely the case. Every detail of the curriculum is decided by the Ministère de l'Éducation, as well as, for example, holiday dates.
Other matters can be negotiated between the Ministry and the town council, like the number of teachers or number of classes.
What a school can decide, maybe (and provided the mayor of the town where it is located, agrees), are super trivial matters like the timing of recess, etc.
You've asked this several times and it will attract downvotes every time as it's against the guidelines. People have been worried about HN "becoming like Reddit" since soon after it launched over 10 years ago.
People generally downvote because they don't find the comment convincing or enlightening.
Downvotes are less likely when commenters explain their position with thoughtfulness and effort to help the community understand and learn things.
> It seems to me that the main result of having an actual legal ban is that teachers are now prevented from using smartphones in class for teaching purpose if they wanted to.
All middle schools and up in France will soon be equipped with tablets. There's one large pilot happening in my region: books, assignments, quizzes, homework, etc... lots of it is done (at the teacher's discretion) on the tablet. It's great.
Music classes for instance are producing homework using garage band, etc...
Schools can pick their tablet. My son's school went with Apple. The high-school next door went with Android.
Agreed - and it's been proven (citation needed) that a low calorie diet prolonges life.
But here we are, needing to consume more energy because we do things (good, bad, useless or wasteful) with our time (and these things aren't directly looking for food.)
