I don't think that tablets are going to kill all of the elements of the smart classroom, particularly the projector, which is still way to useful. But it will kill many of them. The smartboard is dead. Ded. I use my iPad and my projector along with the Doceri software. My solution was 1/2 price of the smartboard in the classroom next door, and allows me to roam around the room while presenting. I can also create my presentations wherever my iPad is as opposed to needing to be in the room with the smartboard or at a PC with specialized software.
Instead of clickers I simply have all of the students twitter answers to me. Since it is not graded, it is ok if some student forgot to charge their phone on a particular day. I do have a couple of iPod Touches for use by students who don't have a phone that can tweet.
If you don't get one month (4 weeks) a year off get a new job. Standard salaried leave is at least 2 weeks vacation and 10 holidays. I personally get 12 holidays and 3.5 weeks a year though that includes my sick time. I'm considered entry level at my company at well. I can also work from home depending on my assignment.
Teachers get 2 months off sure, but they aren't exactly at the Teacher's discretion. One of my friends is a teacher, she gets 24 hours of discretionary leave a year. That includes things like doctors appointments, A/C repair guy visits so on and so forth. I've never seen it actually used for vacation. It makes taking a trip anytime but the summer quite hard.
Danger Will Robinson, Bad Statistics! Invalid Comparisons.
From your second link "note: median means that half of all households have incomes above the figure listed and half have incomes below the figure listed." Nowhere in your link does it list the average household income so I am at a loss to explain where you came up with the "average Maine household income" that you stated. Thus it is quite possible that the average Maine salary is much higher (or lower) than the median depending on the distribution.
From your first link "Secondly, these are salaries based on a 182-day or 10-month work year." Not the quite the 3 months off you attempted to quote in your post is it? Also from the page "** Salaries are from the 2006-2007 Yarmouth School District in Maine." According to your census source the Median household income in Yarmouth is 51,000.
Finally, comparing the average household income to the amount a teacher can make with a Bachelors degree is not a particularly valid comparison unless there is support that those households have a similar education level.
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The feature you are looking for are iPod Notes. The only problem is that they are rather text limited. There are programs out there that will split your text document into correctly sized chunks and embed hotlinks to the next and previous notes at the bottom of the note.
For a bare bones online converter, look here: http://www.ipod-notes.com/
Actually, it is not likely that Go will be solved in the short term. The solution space for Go is huge and defining metrics for the game is very difficult. There are 129,960 possible states for the board to be in after just two moves. Even if you get into complicated symetrical analysis to discard some of these states you are still left with a staggeringly huge number. A computer that wanted to look ahead only three moves from this state would need to calculate a paltry 17 million moves.
It is frequently asserted that the the solution space or the index of the total number of final possible states for a go board exceeds the number of particles in the universe. You can take that with a grain of salt if you wish, but it is large enough to boggle the mind and seriously challenge modern computer science and information theory.
All of them at my company. Of course I work at a government contractor. The janitor that takes out my trash has a higher security classification than I do.
When I get depressed it seems to have no effect on my ability to play FPS games and navigate the maps. Many of my friends marvel at my ability to play a map once and have my routes down. Indeed, much or my experience playing these games was while not attending class due to depression.
I've always thought this "What the?!?!? they expect me to pay money for mario again!!" stuff to be... rather short sighted. The industry has several choices on what to do with old games. They can just leave them to collect dust forever and become forgotten and unavailable as the original hardware and emulators become broken and obscure. This requires neither them or us to spend money but you will eventually lose your ability to play these games unless you are extremely technicaly inclined like oh say.. some old DOS games. They can give away the rights to emulate it to a company that can monetize those rights in such away as to ensure that the game remains playable. This means that you can continue to play the game but you must pay for it in order to compensate the company for format shifting the content. They can build legacy hardware or emulators into their current products. Hardware is expensive and could easily be labled "questionable tech shoved down our throats." Sony had to include a PS2 chip in the PS3 to enable backwards compatability and I don't intend to chunk my PS2 so I don't really need this. Either way you have to pay either for the hardware to continue to play the game or the software develepment of the emulator and any space shifting of content that must be done.
The bottom line is that you are paying money for services rendered. If you want to play Mario on your NES no one is going to charge you a dime. But if you want to play Mario on a different system don't you think the people that did the work to make this possible and distributed it deserve some compensation.
As gamers we have proved that we are not happy with any of the possible options.
The Xbox360 was lambasted for there lack of complete backwards compatibility. They tried to keep costs down by only emulating easy and desired games. The gaming community judges them for not providing what they want.
The PS3 includes a PS2 chipset to ensure complete backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1. Gamers applaud. Then we judge them for providing a console that costs 500 dollars (IMHO the 600 dollar version really only adds bells and whistles unlike the differences between the Xbox360s)
The Wii bases itself on the current hardware to ensure for backwards capability and low costs and they get lambasted for not being next-gen. THEN they provide an emulator and download service for almost all of the consoles they have ever produced and gamers fuss because we are expected to pay again for games we have already bought as if writing the emulator, format shifting the content, setting up the distribution channel and the bandwidth don't cost Nintendo anything.
We don't like No backwards compatibility. We don't like free but incomplete backwards compatibility. We don't like expensive consoles with perfect backwards compatibility. We dont like cheap consoles with good backwards compatibility. We don't like paying for backwards compatibility.
Was DVD questionable tech when Sony "shoved it down our throats"? Lord knows it was an immature technology that gave them tons of problems. I'm betting that two years down the road the Xbox360 will be dammed sorry that its developers have neither a next gen drive or a hard drive to work with since neither are standard features for the system.
I've always thought this "What the?!?!? they expect me to pay money for mario again!!" stuff to be... rather short sighted. The industry has several choices on what to do with old games. They can just leave them to collect dust forever and become forgotten and unavailable as the original hardware and emulators become broken and obscure. This requires neither them or us to spend money but you will eventually lose your ability to play these games unless you are extremely technicaly inclined like oh say.. some old DOS games. They can give away the rights to emulate it to a company that can monetize those rights in such away as to ensure that the game remains playable. This means that you can continue to play the game but you must pay for it in order to compensate the company for format shifting the content. They can build legacy hardware or emulators into their current products. Hardware is expensive and could easily be labled "questionable tech shoved down our throats." Sony had to include a PS2 chip in the PS3 to enable backwards compatability and I don't intend to chunk my PS2 so I don't really need this. Either way you have to pay either for the hardware to continue to play the game or the software develepment of the emulator and any space shifting of content that must be done.
The bottom line is that you are paying money for services rendered. If you want to play Mario on your NES no one is going to charge you a dime. But if you want to play Mario on a different system don't you think the people that did the work to make this possible and distributed it deserve some compensation.
As gamers we have proved that we are not happy with any of the possible options.
The Xbox360 was lambasted for there lack of complete backwards compatibility. They tried to keep costs down by only emulating easy and desired games. The gaming community judges them for not providing what they want.
The PS3 includes a PS2 chipset to ensure complete backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1. Gamers applaud. Then we judge them for providing a console that costs 500 dollars (IMHO the 600 dollar version really only adds bells and whistles unlike the differences between the Xbox360s)
The Wii bases itself on the current hardware to ensure for backwards capability and low costs and they get lambasted for not being next-gen. THEN they provide an emulator and download service for almost all of the consoles they have ever produced and gamers fuss because we are expected to pay again for games we have already bought as if writing the emulator, format shifting the content, setting up the distribution channel and the bandwidth don't cost Nintendo anything.
We don't like No backwards compatibility. We don't like free but incomplete backwards compatibility. We don't like expensive consoles with perfect backwards compatibility. We dont like cheap consoles with good backwards compatibility. We don't like paying for backwards compatibility.
Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
If a game in which someone can make choices to make the game less violent and has defending other kids as a key game play element actually exists how is this a bad thing. Its Art/storytelling and a slap-dash of decent morality. Free will is important. Choices between good and evil in a game allow people to explore these choices without real world impact.
Just out of curiousity... when did we drop the idea that a next gen system could really benefit by the increased game storage space granted by a next gen drive? If memory serves me there were articles coming out around the time of the XBox360 launch that said that publishers were having touble fitting everything on a DVD. The 360 has made the mistake of including neither the player nor the hard drive as standard features so the majority of game developers will not be develop games to take advantage of either feature. My only worry is that publishers will restrict themselves to games that fit on a standard DVD for cross platform purposes and thus we will not see games taking advantage of the extra space sony is offering. My hope is that those companies will take advantage of the extra space to add extra features or content to make the game more attractive.
Why don't you wear it voluntarily? It lets us protect you against terrorists. You're not a terrorist, are you?
Your use of the word terrorist is deprecated, please replace all instances of the word terrorist with Commie-Mutant-Traitor and remember, the Computer is your friend.
I sell cell phone acc. at one of those rip of kiosks in the middle of the mall... they don't really make cheap 3rd party batteries for other phones... nokias have people making these very shoddy flashing batteries which are usually the ones that explode. The market for aftermarket nokia acc. is huge because they started it and now everyone that wants a customizable phone gets a nokia. I wouldn't blame nokia... I'd blame people like me that sell unsafe products... of course I refuse to sell them but I am not the only salesperson that works that cart.
Now I know that we can't make a backup copy of our DVD's because of DECSS but why aren't we allowed to make our backuo copies of nintendo games? Nalanthi
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This is one is one of my favorite comics of all time
Nal
Can someone with a better idea of whay is going on here (like someone across the pond) throw me a bone here. If it meets the standard physical and regulatory definitions of broadband how can it be anything else? Where does this "the average consumer expects broadband to be 500 kbps or more. I just polled my dorm floor (Johns Hopkins University) about what speed they thought broadband was and the answer I got the most is 5 times dialup, which this clealy meets.
Ok... so basically what the article is saying is that RIAA hasn't hopw of winning the indirect infrigement charge and if the kid can get a decent legal representative he can eat the direct damage charges a long with those. So I have a few questions/points I want to raise.
1. Has the RIAA left themselves open to a countersuit for such a poorly founded lawsuit?
2. How can we inform the public at large at how poorly this (and other) RIAA finding is founded.
3. The author repeteadly apply's internet conventions and precedents to the lan, this makes sense to me, but will it make sense to the average computer user?
Wow, I didn't know that amazon stocked illegal Chineese imports. The 35 dollar set on ebay is an illegal import. Don't bother buying it. If you are going to pirate published anime (which I don't approve of) at keast dupport you local fansubbers and download the divx version for free.
Nalanthi
"Answer: Switch to MySQL. Wallpaper your office with all the money you saved."
Better yet, switch to MySQL, buy walpaper with the money you save, and then wall paper your wall. A room in that shade of green would be really ugly! Oh, and now you still have money.
Nalanthi
Ok, First off I am not a troll I am actually wondering this. What is the point (really) of running linux on the X-Box? Do most people want to use their X-box for something other than X-box games? I mean sure you can run mame on it or something but graphics cards with tv-outs (not to mention tv's that are also monitors) are becoming so prominent that there seems to be no point to running linux on the x-box other than the cool "Hey look what we did to M$'s toy" factor. Now I am not saying that what the hacker's did isn't cool, because I think it was. I am just wondering why we would care if we could do it without a mod chip. It seems to me that more of less the same group of people will do it anyway.
Nalanthi
I agree benford/s stuff is pretty good. I was at a sci-fi con with him this weekend and he has a new book coming out. It's about the effects of evolution on society after a million years. I believe that it is called "Beyond Infinity" wich was the title he gave to his publishers as a joke but they took it and ran with it. I am glad he is publishing again. Oh yea, he is indeed a phycist.
just my two cents.
Nalanthi
A new way to amuse myself while gridlocked in traffic. Get everyone around you to scan quickly though the entire dial and watch the sign have a nervous breakdown. "Their all listening to this, no that, no this AHHHH!!!!"
As I read through the article I found no reference to minutes. There was a quote saying that they couldn't change more than every 4 seconds and the quote below.
"Unlike their more traditional counterparts, the electronic billboards can change advertising displays every few seconds, running through a set series of video messages."
I also ran a search on the word minutes and found nothing, or for the singular. Besides, The sigh in atlanta cant chage rapidly or often. In other words changes must take 5 seconds and it must stay the same for 30 seconds. That kind of a factor could be important if traffic moves... and if it is gridlocked the sign should be fairly static anyway.
Or we could drive it insane by all scanning rapidly through the station list while we sit in traffic.
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I don't think that tablets are going to kill all of the elements of the smart classroom, particularly the projector, which is still way to useful. But it will kill many of them. The smartboard is dead. Ded. I use my iPad and my projector along with the Doceri software. My solution was 1/2 price of the smartboard in the classroom next door, and allows me to roam around the room while presenting. I can also create my presentations wherever my iPad is as opposed to needing to be in the room with the smartboard or at a PC with specialized software.
Instead of clickers I simply have all of the students twitter answers to me. Since it is not graded, it is ok if some student forgot to charge their phone on a particular day. I do have a couple of iPod Touches for use by students who don't have a phone that can tweet.
If you don't get one month (4 weeks) a year off get a new job. Standard salaried leave is at least 2 weeks vacation and 10 holidays. I personally get 12 holidays and 3.5 weeks a year though that includes my sick time. I'm considered entry level at my company at well. I can also work from home depending on my assignment. Teachers get 2 months off sure, but they aren't exactly at the Teacher's discretion. One of my friends is a teacher, she gets 24 hours of discretionary leave a year. That includes things like doctors appointments, A/C repair guy visits so on and so forth. I've never seen it actually used for vacation. It makes taking a trip anytime but the summer quite hard.
Danger Will Robinson, Bad Statistics! Invalid Comparisons.
From your second link "note: median means that half of all households have incomes above the figure listed and half have incomes below the figure listed." Nowhere in your link does it list the average household income so I am at a loss to explain where you came up with the "average Maine household income" that you stated. Thus it is quite possible that the average Maine salary is much higher (or lower) than the median depending on the distribution.
From your first link "Secondly, these are salaries based on a 182-day or 10-month work year." Not the quite the 3 months off you attempted to quote in your post is it? Also from the page "** Salaries are from the 2006-2007 Yarmouth School District in Maine." According to your census source the Median household income in Yarmouth is 51,000.
Finally, comparing the average household income to the amount a teacher can make with a Bachelors degree is not a particularly valid comparison unless there is support that those households have a similar education level.
If you did a little more research you might find that the median nationwide for a person working full time with a bachelor's degree is higher than the nationwide household median. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
The feature you are looking for are iPod Notes. The only problem is that they are rather text limited. There are programs out there that will split your text document into correctly sized chunks and embed hotlinks to the next and previous notes at the bottom of the note. For a bare bones online converter, look here: http://www.ipod-notes.com/
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Ever so appropriate.
Actually, it is not likely that Go will be solved in the short term. The solution space for Go is huge and defining metrics for the game is very difficult. There are 129,960 possible states for the board to be in after just two moves. Even if you get into complicated symetrical analysis to discard some of these states you are still left with a staggeringly huge number. A computer that wanted to look ahead only three moves from this state would need to calculate a paltry 17 million moves.
It is frequently asserted that the the solution space or the index of the total number of final possible states for a go board exceeds the number of particles in the universe. You can take that with a grain of salt if you wish, but it is large enough to boggle the mind and seriously challenge modern computer science and information theory.
Thats why I use a tactical commander. Nothing beats it.
All of them at my company. Of course I work at a government contractor. The janitor that takes out my trash has a higher security classification than I do.
When I get depressed it seems to have no effect on my ability to play FPS games and navigate the maps. Many of my friends marvel at my ability to play a map once and have my routes down. Indeed, much or my experience playing these games was while not attending class due to depression.
I've always thought this "What the?!?!? they expect me to pay money for mario again!!" stuff to be... rather short sighted. The industry has several choices on what to do with old games. They can just leave them to collect dust forever and become forgotten and unavailable as the original hardware and emulators become broken and obscure. This requires neither them or us to spend money but you will eventually lose your ability to play these games unless you are extremely technicaly inclined like oh say.. some old DOS games. They can give away the rights to emulate it to a company that can monetize those rights in such away as to ensure that the game remains playable. This means that you can continue to play the game but you must pay for it in order to compensate the company for format shifting the content. They can build legacy hardware or emulators into their current products. Hardware is expensive and could easily be labled "questionable tech shoved down our throats." Sony had to include a PS2 chip in the PS3 to enable backwards compatability and I don't intend to chunk my PS2 so I don't really need this. Either way you have to pay either for the hardware to continue to play the game or the software develepment of the emulator and any space shifting of content that must be done.
The bottom line is that you are paying money for services rendered. If you want to play Mario on your NES no one is going to charge you a dime. But if you want to play Mario on a different system don't you think the people that did the work to make this possible and distributed it deserve some compensation.
As gamers we have proved that we are not happy with any of the possible options.
The Xbox360 was lambasted for there lack of complete backwards compatibility. They tried to keep costs down by only emulating easy and desired games. The gaming community judges them for not providing what they want.
The PS3 includes a PS2 chipset to ensure complete backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1. Gamers applaud. Then we judge them for providing a console that costs 500 dollars (IMHO the 600 dollar version really only adds bells and whistles unlike the differences between the Xbox360s)
The Wii bases itself on the current hardware to ensure for backwards capability and low costs and they get lambasted for not being next-gen. THEN they provide an emulator and download service for almost all of the consoles they have ever produced and gamers fuss because we are expected to pay again for games we have already bought as if writing the emulator, format shifting the content, setting up the distribution channel and the bandwidth don't cost Nintendo anything.
We don't like No backwards compatibility. We don't like free but incomplete backwards compatibility. We don't like expensive consoles with perfect backwards compatibility. We dont like cheap consoles with good backwards compatibility. We don't like paying for backwards compatibility.
Was DVD questionable tech when Sony "shoved it down our throats"? Lord knows it was an immature technology that gave them tons of problems. I'm betting that two years down the road the Xbox360 will be dammed sorry that its developers have neither a next gen drive or a hard drive to work with since neither are standard features for the system.
I've always thought this "What the?!?!? they expect me to pay money for mario again!!" stuff to be... rather short sighted. The industry has several choices on what to do with old games. They can just leave them to collect dust forever and become forgotten and unavailable as the original hardware and emulators become broken and obscure. This requires neither them or us to spend money but you will eventually lose your ability to play these games unless you are extremely technicaly inclined like oh say.. some old DOS games. They can give away the rights to emulate it to a company that can monetize those rights in such away as to ensure that the game remains playable. This means that you can continue to play the game but you must pay for it in order to compensate the company for format shifting the content. They can build legacy hardware or emulators into their current products. Hardware is expensive and could easily be labled "questionable tech shoved down our throats." Sony had to include a PS2 chip in the PS3 to enable backwards compatability and I don't intend to chunk my PS2 so I don't really need this. Either way you have to pay either for the hardware to continue to play the game or the software develepment of the emulator and any space shifting of content that must be done.
The bottom line is that you are paying money for services rendered. If you want to play Mario on your NES no one is going to charge you a dime. But if you want to play Mario on a different system don't you think the people that did the work to make this possible and distributed it deserve some compensation.
As gamers we have proved that we are not happy with any of the possible options.
The Xbox360 was lambasted for there lack of complete backwards compatibility. They tried to keep costs down by only emulating easy and desired games. The gaming community judges them for not providing what they want.
The PS3 includes a PS2 chipset to ensure complete backwards compatibility with the PS2 and PS1. Gamers applaud. Then we judge them for providing a console that costs 500 dollars (IMHO the 600 dollar version really only adds bells and whistles unlike the differences between the Xbox360s)
The Wii bases itself on the current hardware to ensure for backwards capability and low costs and they get lambasted for not being next-gen. THEN they provide an emulator and download service for almost all of the consoles they have ever produced and gamers fuss because we are expected to pay again for games we have already bought as if writing the emulator, format shifting the content, setting up the distribution channel and the bandwidth don't cost Nintendo anything.
We don't like No backwards compatibility. We don't like free but incomplete backwards compatibility. We don't like expensive consoles with perfect backwards compatibility. We dont like cheap consoles with good backwards compatibility. We don't like paying for backwards compatibility.
Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices.
If a game in which someone can make choices to make the game less violent and has defending other kids as a key game play element actually exists how is this a bad thing. Its Art/storytelling and a slap-dash of decent morality. Free will is important. Choices between good and evil in a game allow people to explore these choices without real world impact.
Just out of curiousity... when did we drop the idea that a next gen system could really benefit by the increased game storage space granted by a next gen drive? If memory serves me there were articles coming out around the time of the XBox360 launch that said that publishers were having touble fitting everything on a DVD. The 360 has made the mistake of including neither the player nor the hard drive as standard features so the majority of game developers will not be develop games to take advantage of either feature. My only worry is that publishers will restrict themselves to games that fit on a standard DVD for cross platform purposes and thus we will not see games taking advantage of the extra space sony is offering. My hope is that those companies will take advantage of the extra space to add extra features or content to make the game more attractive.
Why don't you wear it voluntarily? It lets us protect you against terrorists. You're not a terrorist, are you?
Your use of the word terrorist is deprecated, please replace all instances of the word terrorist with Commie-Mutant-Traitor and remember, the Computer is your friend.
I sell cell phone acc. at one of those rip of kiosks in the middle of the mall... they don't really make cheap 3rd party batteries for other phones... nokias have people making these very shoddy flashing batteries which are usually the ones that explode. The market for aftermarket nokia acc. is huge because they started it and now everyone that wants a customizable phone gets a nokia. I wouldn't blame nokia... I'd blame people like me that sell unsafe products... of course I refuse to sell them but I am not the only salesperson that works that cart.
Now I know that we can't make a backup copy of our DVD's because of DECSS but why aren't we allowed to make our backuo copies of nintendo games?
Nalanthi
This is one is one of my favorite comics of all time
Nal
Can someone with a better idea of whay is going on here (like someone across the pond) throw me a bone here. If it meets the standard physical and regulatory definitions of broadband how can it be anything else? Where does this "the average consumer expects broadband to be 500 kbps or more. I just polled my dorm floor (Johns Hopkins University) about what speed they thought broadband was and the answer I got the most is 5 times dialup, which this clealy meets.
Nalanthi
Ok... so basically what the article is saying is that RIAA hasn't hopw of winning the indirect infrigement charge and if the kid can get a decent legal representative he can eat the direct damage charges a long with those. So I have a few questions/points I want to raise.
1. Has the RIAA left themselves open to a countersuit for such a poorly founded lawsuit?
2. How can we inform the public at large at how poorly this (and other) RIAA finding is founded.
3. The author repeteadly apply's internet conventions and precedents to the lan, this makes sense to me, but will it make sense to the average computer user?
Thats all folks,
Nalanthi
Wow, I didn't know that amazon stocked illegal Chineese imports. The 35 dollar set on ebay is an illegal import. Don't bother buying it. If you are going to pirate published anime (which I don't approve of) at keast dupport you local fansubbers and download the divx version for free. Nalanthi
"Answer: Switch to MySQL. Wallpaper your office with all the money you saved." Better yet, switch to MySQL, buy walpaper with the money you save, and then wall paper your wall. A room in that shade of green would be really ugly! Oh, and now you still have money. Nalanthi
Ok, First off I am not a troll I am actually wondering this. What is the point (really) of running linux on the X-Box? Do most people want to use their X-box for something other than X-box games? I mean sure you can run mame on it or something but graphics cards with tv-outs (not to mention tv's that are also monitors) are becoming so prominent that there seems to be no point to running linux on the x-box other than the cool "Hey look what we did to M$'s toy" factor. Now I am not saying that what the hacker's did isn't cool, because I think it was. I am just wondering why we would care if we could do it without a mod chip. It seems to me that more of less the same group of people will do it anyway. Nalanthi
I agree benford/s stuff is pretty good. I was at a sci-fi con with him this weekend and he has a new book coming out. It's about the effects of evolution on society after a million years. I believe that it is called "Beyond Infinity" wich was the title he gave to his publishers as a joke but they took it and ran with it. I am glad he is publishing again. Oh yea, he is indeed a phycist. just my two cents. Nalanthi
A new way to amuse myself while gridlocked in traffic. Get everyone around you to scan quickly though the entire dial and watch the sign have a nervous breakdown. "Their all listening to this, no that, no this AHHHH!!!!"
As I read through the article I found no reference to minutes. There was a quote saying that they couldn't change more than every 4 seconds and the quote below. "Unlike their more traditional counterparts, the electronic billboards can change advertising displays every few seconds, running through a set series of video messages." I also ran a search on the word minutes and found nothing, or for the singular. Besides, The sigh in atlanta cant chage rapidly or often. In other words changes must take 5 seconds and it must stay the same for 30 seconds. That kind of a factor could be important if traffic moves... and if it is gridlocked the sign should be fairly static anyway. Or we could drive it insane by all scanning rapidly through the station list while we sit in traffic.