At $30 000 a year over 4 years, using that $38.6M you could hire 320 more teachers. Add that on to the 1280 teachers and you get 1600 teachers. With 38 600 students you now only have 24 students per class rather than 30 per class. By adding more teachers, teachers have more time to spend on students. Is this better than a laptop for each student?
Part of the problem is it looks like they intend to put the cameras in each end of the ball. This will make it hard to balance and the picture will spin as the ball rotates. If the ball itself was transparent you could put one self levelling camera (or more) in the centre of the ball. This would give a level picture with little spin (you would need to refine on this). You could weight the ball to the standard weight by adjusting the density of the transparent material. You might need to colour the material (so the ball can be seen easier) but perhaps with image processing software you could correct the image back to real colours.
You should try reseating memory, cpu etc. One thing you should look for is if the socket where you plug the memory into is gold or tin. If the memory contacts are different to the socket then you could be getting corrosion between where the two surfaces meet. Apparently six months is about the time you start to see errors such as you mentioned.
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At $30 000 a year over 4 years, using that $38.6M you could hire 320 more teachers. Add that on to the 1280 teachers and you get 1600 teachers. With 38 600 students you now only have 24 students per class rather than 30 per class. By adding more teachers, teachers have more time to spend on students. Is this better than a laptop for each student?
Part of the problem is it looks like they intend to put the cameras in each end of the ball. This will make it hard to balance and the picture will spin as the ball rotates. If the ball itself was transparent you could put one self levelling camera (or more) in the centre of the ball. This would give a level picture with little spin (you would need to refine on this). You could weight the ball to the standard weight by adjusting the density of the transparent material. You might need to colour the material (so the ball can be seen easier) but perhaps with image processing software you could correct the image back to real colours.
You should try reseating memory, cpu etc. One thing you should look for is if the socket where you plug the memory into is gold or tin. If the memory contacts are different to the socket then you could be getting corrosion between where the two surfaces meet. Apparently six months is about the time you start to see errors such as you mentioned.
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