i own roughly 80 xbox360 games. i rarely sell back my games (i think i've turned in a total of 5), because i'm usually careful enough to buy games i'm confident i'll enjoy, and it's refreshing to go back to a game i haven't played in years. i'm also a collector, and yeah i shell out extra cash for the limited editions. i upgraded my console to the 320GB hard drive because i was running out of space just for the DLC. there's no way in hell i can store all the games i want to keep on the hard drive alone -- the discs themselves are quite useful as a means to store and organize games.
are they going to release 500PB hard drives for me store all my games and DLC for a reasonable amount of time? what happens to the collectibles in an era where games are download only?
thanks for the flamebait mod. btw, my mother and her third husband are schoolteachers, and so is a friend of a friend. i have no clue what their competency is, but they complain about their fellow teachers quite a bit. flamebait modders are obviously still in school.
3) Total cost of the device, not just initial.. you look at your average tablet plus e-books, plus apps and you have a very expensive alternative to plain ole notebooks, pencils, and textbooks
4) Management.. Schools quickly learn that just giving these things away to students quickly amounts to a management nightmare they didn't foresee.. Everything from warranty repair, broken glass, application deployment/updates and acceptable content are only possible with a well thought out plan, and school-wide participation at all levels..
"Depending on the subject, a single elementary textbook can range in price from $30 to $100. Legislation should be enacted to reduce the cost of K-12 school textbooks." $30-$100 for a single textbook? the tablets i referenced costs about as much, and you could conceivably get one that puts all your textbooks on it.
"Many college books are going digital. One major educational company plans to release 300 online titles this fall at half the price of regular textbooks, and dozens of other online textbooks and supplemental materials are already available. Digital textbooks can cut costs and streamline note taking. They also allow professors to link classroom notes to online materials for more discussion and easily update items as needed. Digital textbooks can be updated frequently, for example, history books can include information on what happened in the Legislature two weeks ago. There is no longer any need for textbooks to be out of date. Digital textbooks can save school systems money. Textbooks are easily damaged, lost and quickly outdated. Digital textbooks can always stay up-to-date, and are inexpensive to replace." -- see the Digital Books subhead on that page
let's go further. is autism an indicator of our evolution? is autism a natural progression of our minds mixing with technology before we merge with it a la kurzweil-style? the borg seem pretty autistic.
have you ever been to jail? i have. they already do this. when you strip out of your own clothes and into their jumpsuits they make you spread your cheeks to make sure you're not smuggling anything in. then you get some slippers that don't fit.
let's also ignore increase in concert/merchandise revenue from new fans who didn't pay for the music they tried out. i'm not sure that money even goes to the labels.
yeah this is my point. set aside the gripe that there are families that can't afford it (a valid reason by itself, but let's assume that problem is solved) -- the real reason they won't do this is because the teachers' incompetence will be that much more apparent. not just incompetence in technology to convey this information, but their incompetence in teaching anything at all. a lot of teachers are glad you will never know how they waste students' time every day.
agreed. a good friend of mine used this in college, i was impressed. http://www.livescribe.com./ disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with the product or company in any way.
oh they know damn well. and anyone who's tried to warn us from their public office has been murdered and/or had their face put on money, like heads on pikes.
i thought there was already an app that let you see which nightclubs the most women had checked into, so you could avoid bar hopping. this just adds the facebook information these women are already giving away freely. i don't believe women who dress provocatively deserve to be raped, but i do believe anyone who puts out their personal info and realtime location is asking to be fucked in the ass.
you're right, this isn't much different than http://pleaserobme.com/ -- and it even has a high chance of being effective. any girl stupid enough to make her facebook account public is more likely to sleep with the kind of guy that needs this app. just sayin
and were we always bad writers? i doubt it. how did we teach students to be good writers before computers? AI can recognize if sentences are grammatically sound, and spelled correctly, but do they understand what is written?
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i own roughly 80 xbox360 games. i rarely sell back my games (i think i've turned in a total of 5), because i'm usually careful enough to buy games i'm confident i'll enjoy, and it's refreshing to go back to a game i haven't played in years. i'm also a collector, and yeah i shell out extra cash for the limited editions. i upgraded my console to the 320GB hard drive because i was running out of space just for the DLC. there's no way in hell i can store all the games i want to keep on the hard drive alone -- the discs themselves are quite useful as a means to store and organize games.
are they going to release 500PB hard drives for me store all my games and DLC for a reasonable amount of time? what happens to the collectibles in an era where games are download only?
thanks for the flamebait mod. btw, my mother and her third husband are schoolteachers, and so is a friend of a friend. i have no clue what their competency is, but they complain about their fellow teachers quite a bit. flamebait modders are obviously still in school.
1) Is this a matter of taking a technology that was developed for personal entertainment and trying to make it conform to "serious education".
http://www.officehell.co.uk/uploads/items/images/The-best-memory-of-school-796.jpg
nuff said
2) If kids can't write/express succinctly on paper or read a book, what makes you think that some shiny $500 tablet will?
moot point:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_695637.html
3) Total cost of the device, not just initial.. you look at your average tablet plus e-books, plus apps and you have a very expensive alternative to plain ole notebooks, pencils, and textbooks
see if you can get a bulk discount for these:
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/10-best-tablets-for-kids/6330739?seq=3&tag=photo-frame;get-photo-roto
4) Management.. Schools quickly learn that just giving these things away to students quickly amounts to a management nightmare they didn't foresee.. Everything from warranty repair, broken glass, application deployment/updates and acceptable content are only possible with a well thought out plan, and school-wide participation at all levels..
you already deal with this:
http://cpr.ca.gov/cpr_report/Issues_and_Recommendations/Chapter_3_Education_Training_and_Volunteerism/ETV14.html
"Depending on the subject, a single elementary textbook can range in price from $30 to $100. Legislation should be enacted to reduce the cost of K-12 school textbooks." $30-$100 for a single textbook? the tablets i referenced costs about as much, and you could conceivably get one that puts all your textbooks on it.
"Many college books are going digital. One major educational company plans to release 300 online titles this fall at half the price of regular textbooks, and dozens of other online textbooks and supplemental materials are already available. Digital textbooks can cut costs and streamline note taking. They also allow professors to link classroom notes to online materials for more discussion and easily update items as needed. Digital textbooks can be updated frequently, for example, history books can include information on what happened in the Legislature two weeks ago. There is no longer any need for textbooks to be out of date. Digital textbooks can save school systems money. Textbooks are easily damaged, lost and quickly outdated. Digital textbooks can always stay up-to-date, and are inexpensive to replace." -- see the Digital Books subhead on that page
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-finger-painting-for-ipad/id388861511
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faces-imake-right-brain-creativity/id439641851
http://www.bestkidsapps.com/ages-9-12/playtime-theater/
http://www.ipadfamily.com.au/ipad-art-and-crafts.htm
i'm sorry, what were you saying? my attention span these days... oy vey
let's go further. is autism an indicator of our evolution? is autism a natural progression of our minds mixing with technology before we merge with it a la kurzweil-style? the borg seem pretty autistic.
ehhhhhhh obligatory? http://www.despair.com/committees.html
larceny and extortion, book 'em danno
not quite. there's no official story to the game that says you're defending earth. and the douchers who want to make it a movie centered the story around earth being destroyed by aliens prior. http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/video-game-movie-asteroids-off-earth-plot-revealed-emmerich/
the ultimate wave defense game
have you ever been to jail? i have. they already do this. when you strip out of your own clothes and into their jumpsuits they make you spread your cheeks to make sure you're not smuggling anything in. then you get some slippers that don't fit.
If you're basing radiation safety procedures on an internet PNG image and things go wrong, you have no one to blame but yourself.
could it be? piracy drives music sales up?!?!?!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/illegal-downloaders-spend-the-most-on-music-says-poll-1812776.html
let's also ignore increase in concert/merchandise revenue from new fans who didn't pay for the music they tried out. i'm not sure that money even goes to the labels.
yeah this is my point. set aside the gripe that there are families that can't afford it (a valid reason by itself, but let's assume that problem is solved) -- the real reason they won't do this is because the teachers' incompetence will be that much more apparent. not just incompetence in technology to convey this information, but their incompetence in teaching anything at all. a lot of teachers are glad you will never know how they waste students' time every day.
yeah that was more funnier >>
agreed. a good friend of mine used this in college, i was impressed. http://www.livescribe.com./ disclaimer: i'm not affiliated with the product or company in any way.
unamerican? is it uncanadian too? unfrench? unsamoan? in which country is this a good idea? on planet is ethnocentrism a good idea?
yep, violation of EULA
oh they know damn well. and anyone who's tried to warn us from their public office has been murdered and/or had their face put on money, like heads on pikes.
lol @ "tortuous" -- ain't that the truth
i thought there was already an app that let you see which nightclubs the most women had checked into, so you could avoid bar hopping. this just adds the facebook information these women are already giving away freely. i don't believe women who dress provocatively deserve to be raped, but i do believe anyone who puts out their personal info and realtime location is asking to be fucked in the ass.
you're right, this isn't much different than http://pleaserobme.com/ -- and it even has a high chance of being effective. any girl stupid enough to make her facebook account public is more likely to sleep with the kind of guy that needs this app. just sayin
as soon as gene therapy perfects the Immigration Delay Disease this is gonna be awesomesauce
but do they really understand what is written?
FTFM
and were we always bad writers? i doubt it. how did we teach students to be good writers before computers? AI can recognize if sentences are grammatically sound, and spelled correctly, but do they understand what is written?
actually, we took their colony away from them, but i'm totally fine with that. they really were shitting where they ate.