However you may still get letters from the Company Lawyers stating that if you don't stop then they will take you to court. Don't worry about these until they start coming from a lawyer in the State of Virginia.
Virginia Tech has a CAVE for VR too. The use it for everything from doing research to well... a little gaming (after all it never hurt anyone). If your interested more information can be found here. They have numerous featured projects, click here if your interested.
With 41,000 total students Henrico is pretty sure to be up there, granted that the current program is High School students, with Middle School students being entereed into the program next year. More information on the program can be viewed by clicking Here. Currently I believe the students, are just getting notes and turning in homework via the network (papers, projects, etc). They have not gone to Ebooks yet, but it is rumored that this is in the future. Though one of the finer points of the program is that students don't pay but the $50 dollars insurance for these laptops (beyond what they pay in taxes, Henrico is one of the lowest in Virginia).
This is nothing new, Henrico County Public Schools (Richmond, Va.) started this year by issueing every 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grader with an iBook. According to various students, it has been a massive disaster, students using Instant Messanger all the time, hardware failures running rampant, the latches on those things just can't take the abuse of a teenager. That coupled with the low bandwidth estimates have constantly crashed the Airport systems. It's a great Idea in theory and I'm sure after a year or two it will do a great deal of good, but for now, we are just giving out Laptops to teenages for games and the like.
I'll never pay. For one thing cause then i'd be paying an additional 20-50 dollars from pages viewed, for that price i can get several major newspapers.
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However you may still get letters from the Company Lawyers stating that if you don't stop then they will take you to court. Don't worry about these until they start coming from a lawyer in the State of Virginia.
A program such as this has been in use since prior to 1998 here at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech has a CAVE for VR too. The use it for everything from doing research to well... a little gaming (after all it never hurt anyone). If your interested more information can be found here. They have numerous featured projects, click here if your interested.
http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/ibook/index.html
With 41,000 total students Henrico is pretty sure to be up there, granted that the current program is High School students, with Middle School students being entereed into the program next year. More information on the program can be viewed by clicking Here. Currently I believe the students, are just getting notes and turning in homework via the network (papers, projects, etc). They have not gone to Ebooks yet, but it is rumored that this is in the future. Though one of the finer points of the program is that students don't pay but the $50 dollars insurance for these laptops (beyond what they pay in taxes, Henrico is one of the lowest in Virginia).
This is nothing new, Henrico County Public Schools (Richmond, Va.) started this year by issueing every 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grader with an iBook. According to various students, it has been a massive disaster, students using Instant Messanger all the time, hardware failures running rampant, the latches on those things just can't take the abuse of a teenager. That coupled with the low bandwidth estimates have constantly crashed the Airport systems. It's a great Idea in theory and I'm sure after a year or two it will do a great deal of good, but for now, we are just giving out Laptops to teenages for games and the like.
I'll never pay. For one thing cause then i'd be paying an additional 20-50 dollars from pages viewed, for that price i can get several major newspapers.