Bull! PCs are for balancing check books and storing recipes. Buy Pong or head to your local arcade if you want games.
wow! Lol I had forgotten that's what they would advertise home computers for in the 80s. Man that takes me back... and to all of you not over 40, in the early and mid 80s most ads would show the main benefit of a $3,000 (closer to $6k in today's money) home computer is that it can balance the check book or (to get wives interested) store cooking recipes. Wow we have come a long way.
Just yesterday I downloaded a Disney game about a showering alligator which is actually pretty educational about hydraulics, obviously a large investment in time and money by Disney and worthy of earning a ton of money.
I LOVE that showering alligator game!!.... er, I mean, my children love that game!... aw crap this is/. we know no one here will ever breed.... yeah, it's me, simple 99 cent game, levels take less than 30 seconds with little thought required. Sometimes I like dumb simple games, and with 3,000+ 5-star reviews I figured what the hell why not? Think the game's called where's my water.
It's normal that the top 20% takes 80% of sales. Like 20% of the products in a typical supermarket create 80% of turnover. Though in the app market it may be even more skewed.
I was thinking that too and wondering why this was a shock to anyone. Top 20% of smartphones probably make up 80% of sales, top 20% of OSes probably make 80% of sales, top $SmallNumber of $Anything probably make $LargeNumber of sales. That's just how it's going to be with everything in life, there will always be a few leaders that rise to the top while everyone else shares what the leaders can not accommodate. To the victor goes the spoils.
It would actually be more reasonable to charge less (as a percentage) - a lot of the overhead of providing an app store is fixed cost and doesn't scale with the number of downloads you provide.
That's how most places do it, the more you make the less the percentage they take is. Like Paypal, once you have over $10,000 a month in sales they lower the percentage they take from each sale. Kind of an incentive to get to that level.
^----- this. When all that's left is a pile of melted aluminum there is nothing to recover. Even with a hole in the drive or a shredded drive there's still intact pieces, if you really want to do it right you have to melt it down to just aluminum.
"ou could have dropped it to $199 and sold all your inventory, made twice as much money and not piss off customers. "
based on what? WTF do you base 199 would sell out? hmm? fucking nothing, that's what. Idiot.
When I look at their sales, their sales channel, I can see exactly why they chose 99 dollars.
No other 99 dollar table sells that fast, and 199 tables are even worse.
But no, you don't look at the industry, and your hubris doesn't let you think "hmmm, I wonder why they chose 99 dollars?" no, you just go to 'stupid'.
Oops I forgot about this update: from Hewlett-Packard us-bulletins@customer.hp.com
reply-to us-bulletins@customer.hp.com
to (removed)
date Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM
subject Your HP TouchPad will be delivered in 6-8 weeks
P Small and Medium Business Customer,
Thank you for your interest in webOS and the HP TouchPad – the response to our price reduction has been overwhelming – both in terms of volume and in the energy and enthusiasm it has generated in our customers.
It has taken us longer than anticipated to work through the high volume of orders that were received. We apologize for any uncertainty this caused, but we are now in a position to understand our ability to fulfill your order.
Your order will be fulfilled at the discounted price. However, we do not have enough stock to satisfy your order at this time. It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping. You will receive a shipping notification with tracking number once your order has shipped. We apologize that these timelines are longer than indicated on the website at time of purchase.
At the significantly reduced price, the HP TouchPad does not qualify for our standard 30 day return policy and is not returnable.
If this delay is not acceptable, please send an email to TouchPadCancel@hp.com with your instructions for cancellation within a week. Be sure to include your HP order number and the name and ship-to address on the order. Also please indicate clearly if this is the only order requiring cancellation or if you wish all orders in your name to be canceled. You will receive an automated cancel notification when your order cancellation request has been processed. Please be aware, however, that cancellations cannot be reversed, and our US SMB store has sold out of HP TouchPad and will not make any further available for sale.
We are pleased that we will be able to fulfill your order and look forward to you joining the exciting community of webOS!
Sincerely,
Your HP Small and Medium Business Team
www.hp.com/go/touchpadFAQ
According to this email don't have any to sell right now (not for another 3 to 5 weeks) but they're "selling" them to their employees? Went from "few weeks" to 6-8 weeks and haven't heard anything in the past 3 weeks, good thing I'm not holding my breath.
I'd like to point out that this HP Firesale was probably the biggest failure of 2011. Going from $399 to $99... ?? Really? Who didn't see that being a colossal blunder? You could have dropped it to $199 and sold all your inventory, made twice as much money and not piss off customers. But instead we have this. Sorry HP but you're stupid, there's really no nice putting it. You don't think, you're like that person that just blurts out whatever comes to mind and everyone's thinking "OMG did he just say that? I can't believe he's such a idiot..."
from Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard@research.americas.hp.com
reply-to Hewlett-Packard.6gqm6ckb6.d3s3@research.americas.hp.com
to (removed)
date Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM
subject Important Update about HP TouchPad
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your interest in the HP TouchPad and webOS. The overwhelming demand for this product in recent days has made it difficult to fulfill your request at the present time, and we are working to make more available as soon as possible. While we do not yet have specific details, we know it will be at least a few weeks before we have a limited quantity available again. We will keep you informed as we have more specifics that we can communicate, and we encourage you to join the conversation here for the latest information.
In light of this and other recent HP news, we want you to know that we remain committed to you. We will continue to honor our warranties now and in the future. We will continue delivering products that make a difference in your life and we will continue to provide the best possible service to you every day.
We are grateful for your patience and loyalty and to show our gratitude, we are offering you an exclusive one-time opportunity to save an additional amount on all of our products, valid through the end of the day tomorrow, Wednesday, August 31, 2011. You'll save 25% off all printers, ink, HP accessories, and PCs starting at or above $599. To take advantage of this offer, use your unique coupon code 1428607206 at checkout, and for more information on the details of this offer, please look at the bottom of this email.
Sincerely,
hpdirect.com
a few weeks is up.... although I think it was kind of funny that they wanted me to send them more money when they hadn't delivered the item I already paid for. Classy HP! Got any bridges or swampland in Florida for sale?
Um, HP? Remember me? The guy that paid you $131.95 at 3am on August 21st? Yeah, haven't received my TouchPad yet and you haven't refunded my money. Every day you update it with a new ship date and delivery date, now it says Sept 27th ship date.
How can you be selling these to your employees when you haven't even shipped the ones you still owe your customers?
Because surely those electrical car batteries would be set to drain until depletion by default because you know, engineers are really fucking retarded
So what is a good limit? I understand they'll only take when they need it, and I probably wouldn't miss 1%, but 10% might be a problem, and 20% seems like definitely too much.
Current electric vehicles only have about a 100 mile range. If you drop that to 90 or 80 miles that might leave someone stranded.
Yes I understand they'll charge the cars back up as soon as the peak demand isn't needed but charging takes hours and I might need the car in the meantime.
For those that don't understand this: it's sort of like a distributed computing project i.e. folding@home. Basically they're going to use the batteries of hundreds or thousands of privately owned electric vehicles to store electricity for when the power grid needs it. Thousands of batteries from electric vehicles could be used to prevent brownouts during peak energy usage.
But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
reason for keeping logs: "16:32 edit: We have had a few queries as to our logging policies. We only log the time you connect and disconnect from our service, we do not log in any shape or form your actual internet traffic.
21:05 edit: Why do we log the above^ information? Being able to locate abusive users is imperative for the survival of operating a VPN service, if you can not take action to prevent abuse you risk losing server contracts with the underlying upstream providers that empower your network. Common abuse can be anything from spam to fraud, and more serious cases involve terrorism and child porn. The main type of logging is session logging – this is simply logging when a customer connects and disconnects from the server, this identifies who was connected to X IP address at X time, this is what we do and all we do."
makes sense, they have to protect their other customers and themselves, if someone logs in and does kiddie porn or terrorism and HMA doesn't have the logs they'll lose relationships with the other VPN servers they're using. Govt might even just come in and take what servers they do have and shut down the website if HMA doesn't cooperate.
Honestly I think lulzsec was stupid for using their credit card on a VPN service for hacking online, if they thought "Let's be safe, I'll just enter my credit card number...." then they're stupid and deserve what they got. Should have gone anonymous (no credit cards, or at least prepaid) and should have gone through several VPNs in other countries.
Wanna hack anonymously? Buy a used PC, wipe the drive (or install new HD), install OS, use it only for hacking, never put any personal information on it, never check personal email, facebook, forum accounts, bank, credit card, paypal, etc. Create fake email on PC, use fake email to create fake accounts, find free VPNs and go through several of them (at least three). Wipe cookies, temp files, etc after every session. Even better if you buy a used laptop and use wifi at starbucks, mcdonalds, B&N, or open networks from wardriving and switch networks daily.
That Supreme Court ruling is class action only though, you can still sue privately. Yes I know EA thinks they're smart by saying "no jury trials, it's in the contract" but that hasn't been decided by the supreme court.
I can understand the supreme court saying no class action lawsuits but I can't imagine them enforcing no jury trials, might as well say no lawsuits at all at that point.
You are guys are the reason the USA is screwed in the long term - loads of people moaning when a 17 year old or so kid pushes himself and gets something like this happening? A better place would have praised the kid, I think it's great teenagers are trying to come up with technological hacks that are new to them and dreaming great goals.
No, you're the reason the USA is screwed up. This kid did not push himself, he watched a youtube video or googled it. Why should we praise a 17 year old for doing what he saw in a youtube video?
So you should not praise a kid that did the same or worse than other kids else, praise should only be given when the child actually excels or achieves something few of their peers have achieved.
Consider 2 terabyte hard drives are under $100, $500 sounds like a mountain of cash for a storage solution. $500 is more than your average decent desktop costs now days.
FTFA: ``For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, it would be impossible for it to sell its i-branded products without using our patents. We will stick to a strong stance against Apple during the lingering legal fights.’’
Samsung owns mobile telecommunications? So every cellphone infringes? Wow, how'd they get that patent?
Agreed. Aren't their better places to ask for the best gigabit 802.11n router supporting DD-WRT and OpenWRT? Not really "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters". I'm sure any number of a hundred forums would be better, maybe the dd-wrt forum or openwrt forum would good places to start since you require a router that support both of those.
I thought we discussed this two weeks ago, when the New York Times published an article about how all the computers we have dumped into the school system have had negligible results in terms of improving education. Now we are trying the same strategy, but with a different form factor? Are these decision makers even bothering to give thought to how iPads are going to help kindergarden students?
Also I love how the article says: "Soon, the school will find out if the iPads help or hurt, when they test the kindergarteners' reading and math skills in November."
more than $200,000 to find out if the iPad help or hurt? What if they hurt? $200,000 wasted? Oh no, nevermind, November, and what happens in December? Christmas! All the teachers and their families are getting new iPads!
This is complete and utter BS. They couldn't figure out a way to spend less than $200k to do this little test? Must be nice to burn money like that.
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Bull! PCs are for balancing check books and storing recipes. Buy Pong or head to your local arcade if you want games.
wow! Lol I had forgotten that's what they would advertise home computers for in the 80s. Man that takes me back... and to all of you not over 40, in the early and mid 80s most ads would show the main benefit of a $3,000 (closer to $6k in today's money) home computer is that it can balance the check book or (to get wives interested) store cooking recipes. Wow we have come a long way.
Just yesterday I downloaded a Disney game about a showering alligator which is actually pretty educational about hydraulics, obviously a large investment in time and money by Disney and worthy of earning a ton of money.
I LOVE that showering alligator game!!.... er, I mean, my children love that game!... aw crap this is /. we know no one here will ever breed.... yeah, it's me, simple 99 cent game, levels take less than 30 seconds with little thought required. Sometimes I like dumb simple games, and with 3,000+ 5-star reviews I figured what the hell why not? Think the game's called where's my water.
It's normal that the top 20% takes 80% of sales. Like 20% of the products in a typical supermarket create 80% of turnover. Though in the app market it may be even more skewed.
I was thinking that too and wondering why this was a shock to anyone. Top 20% of smartphones probably make up 80% of sales, top 20% of OSes probably make 80% of sales, top $SmallNumber of $Anything probably make $LargeNumber of sales. That's just how it's going to be with everything in life, there will always be a few leaders that rise to the top while everyone else shares what the leaders can not accommodate. To the victor goes the spoils.
He's AC, they rarely say anything worth mentioning. Best to ignore all AC posts, makes life simpler and more enjoyable.
It would actually be more reasonable to charge less (as a percentage) - a lot of the overhead of providing an app store is fixed cost and doesn't scale with the number of downloads you provide.
That's how most places do it, the more you make the less the percentage they take is. Like Paypal, once you have over $10,000 a month in sales they lower the percentage they take from each sale. Kind of an incentive to get to that level.
Drive slagging. http://eecue.com/c/driveslag
^----- this. When all that's left is a pile of melted aluminum there is nothing to recover. Even with a hole in the drive or a shredded drive there's still intact pieces, if you really want to do it right you have to melt it down to just aluminum.
"ou could have dropped it to $199 and sold all your inventory, made twice as much money and not piss off customers. " based on what? WTF do you base 199 would sell out? hmm? fucking nothing, that's what. Idiot.
When I look at their sales, their sales channel, I can see exactly why they chose 99 dollars. No other 99 dollar table sells that fast, and 199 tables are even worse. But no, you don't look at the industry, and your hubris doesn't let you think "hmmm, I wonder why they chose 99 dollars?" no, you just go to 'stupid'.
Are you kidding? There is no other tablet even close to the Touchpad's specs for under $200. Dual core 1.2ghz, 9.7" multi-touch capacitive screen, 16gb, webcam, 802.11a/b/g/n, bluetooth. Closest thing with those specs is a $500 iPad 2.
They're still selling for over $200 on Ebay now even though everyone knows people bought them for $99
$99 was so low that HP is being sued by stockholders for misleading them.
ah you're AC! dammit i shouldn't even respond to you trolls
Oops I forgot about this update:
from Hewlett-Packard us-bulletins@customer.hp.com
reply-to us-bulletins@customer.hp.com
to (removed)
date Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM
subject Your HP TouchPad will be delivered in 6-8 weeks
P Small and Medium Business Customer,
Thank you for your interest in webOS and the HP TouchPad – the response to our price reduction has been overwhelming – both in terms of volume and in the energy and enthusiasm it has generated in our customers.
It has taken us longer than anticipated to work through the high volume of orders that were received. We apologize for any uncertainty this caused, but we are now in a position to understand our ability to fulfill your order.
Your order will be fulfilled at the discounted price. However, we do not have enough stock to satisfy your order at this time. It will take 6-8 weeks to build enough HP TouchPads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping. You will receive a shipping notification with tracking number once your order has shipped. We apologize that these timelines are longer than indicated on the website at time of purchase.
At the significantly reduced price, the HP TouchPad does not qualify for our standard 30 day return policy and is not returnable.
If this delay is not acceptable, please send an email to TouchPadCancel@hp.com with your instructions for cancellation within a week. Be sure to include your HP order number and the name and ship-to address on the order. Also please indicate clearly if this is the only order requiring cancellation or if you wish all orders in your name to be canceled. You will receive an automated cancel notification when your order cancellation request has been processed. Please be aware, however, that cancellations cannot be reversed, and our US SMB store has sold out of HP TouchPad and will not make any further available for sale.
We are pleased that we will be able to fulfill your order and look forward to you joining the exciting community of webOS!
Sincerely,
Your HP Small and Medium Business Team
www.hp.com/go/touchpadFAQ
According to this email don't have any to sell right now (not for another 3 to 5 weeks) but they're "selling" them to their employees? Went from "few weeks" to 6-8 weeks and haven't heard anything in the past 3 weeks, good thing I'm not holding my breath.
I'd like to point out that this HP Firesale was probably the biggest failure of 2011. Going from $399 to $99... ?? Really? Who didn't see that being a colossal blunder? You could have dropped it to $199 and sold all your inventory, made twice as much money and not piss off customers. But instead we have this. Sorry HP but you're stupid, there's really no nice putting it. You don't think, you're like that person that just blurts out whatever comes to mind and everyone's thinking "OMG did he just say that? I can't believe he's such a idiot..."
from Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard@research.americas.hp.com
reply-to Hewlett-Packard.6gqm6ckb6.d3s3@research.americas.hp.com
to (removed)
date Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM
subject Important Update about HP TouchPad
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your interest in the HP TouchPad and webOS. The overwhelming demand for this product in recent days has made it difficult to fulfill your request at the present time, and we are working to make more available as soon as possible. While we do not yet have specific details, we know it will be at least a few weeks before we have a limited quantity available again. We will keep you informed as we have more specifics that we can communicate, and we encourage you to join the conversation here for the latest information.
In light of this and other recent HP news, we want you to know that we remain committed to you. We will continue to honor our warranties now and in the future. We will continue delivering products that make a difference in your life and we will continue to provide the best possible service to you every day.
We are grateful for your patience and loyalty and to show our gratitude, we are offering you an exclusive one-time opportunity to save an additional amount on all of our products, valid through the end of the day tomorrow, Wednesday, August 31, 2011. You'll save 25% off all printers, ink, HP accessories, and PCs starting at or above $599. To take advantage of this offer, use your unique coupon code 1428607206 at checkout, and for more information on the details of this offer, please look at the bottom of this email.
Sincerely,
hpdirect.com
a few weeks is up.... although I think it was kind of funny that they wanted me to send them more money when they hadn't delivered the item I already paid for. Classy HP! Got any bridges or swampland in Florida for sale?
christ has this term turned into something stupid like 'photoshopped' ?
Yes
"The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic."
Um, HP? Remember me? The guy that paid you $131.95 at 3am on August 21st? Yeah, haven't received my TouchPad yet and you haven't refunded my money. Every day you update it with a new ship date and delivery date, now it says Sept 27th ship date.
How can you be selling these to your employees when you haven't even shipped the ones you still owe your customers?
Because surely those electrical car batteries would be set to drain until depletion by default because you know, engineers are really fucking retarded
So what is a good limit? I understand they'll only take when they need it, and I probably wouldn't miss 1%, but 10% might be a problem, and 20% seems like definitely too much.
Current electric vehicles only have about a 100 mile range. If you drop that to 90 or 80 miles that might leave someone stranded.
Yes I understand they'll charge the cars back up as soon as the peak demand isn't needed but charging takes hours and I might need the car in the meantime.
For those that don't understand this: it's sort of like a distributed computing project i.e. folding@home. Basically they're going to use the batteries of hundreds or thousands of privately owned electric vehicles to store electricity for when the power grid needs it. Thousands of batteries from electric vehicles could be used to prevent brownouts during peak energy usage.
But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.
Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?
reason for keeping logs:
"16:32 edit: We have had a few queries as to our logging policies. We only log the time you connect and disconnect from our service, we do not log in any shape or form your actual internet traffic.
21:05 edit: Why do we log the above^ information? Being able to locate abusive users is imperative for the survival of operating a VPN service, if you can not take action to prevent abuse you risk losing server contracts with the underlying upstream providers that empower your network. Common abuse can be anything from spam to fraud, and more serious cases involve terrorism and child porn. The main type of logging is session logging – this is simply logging when a customer connects and disconnects from the server, this identifies who was connected to X IP address at X time, this is what we do and all we do."
makes sense, they have to protect their other customers and themselves, if someone logs in and does kiddie porn or terrorism and HMA doesn't have the logs they'll lose relationships with the other VPN servers they're using. Govt might even just come in and take what servers they do have and shut down the website if HMA doesn't cooperate.
Honestly I think lulzsec was stupid for using their credit card on a VPN service for hacking online, if they thought "Let's be safe, I'll just enter my credit card number...." then they're stupid and deserve what they got. Should have gone anonymous (no credit cards, or at least prepaid) and should have gone through several VPNs in other countries.
Wanna hack anonymously? Buy a used PC, wipe the drive (or install new HD), install OS, use it only for hacking, never put any personal information on it, never check personal email, facebook, forum accounts, bank, credit card, paypal, etc. Create fake email on PC, use fake email to create fake accounts, find free VPNs and go through several of them (at least three). Wipe cookies, temp files, etc after every session. Even better if you buy a used laptop and use wifi at starbucks, mcdonalds, B&N, or open networks from wardriving and switch networks daily.
That Supreme Court ruling is class action only though, you can still sue privately. Yes I know EA thinks they're smart by saying "no jury trials, it's in the contract" but that hasn't been decided by the supreme court.
I can understand the supreme court saying no class action lawsuits but I can't imagine them enforcing no jury trials, might as well say no lawsuits at all at that point.
Pretty impressive if you ask me. Simply no helium, hydrogen or anything but basic Physics.
Next time, kids, why not start from this idea?
it's called a solar balloon
here's a video with instructions to make your own
You are guys are the reason the USA is screwed in the long term - loads of people moaning when a 17 year old or so kid pushes himself and gets something like this happening? A better place would have praised the kid, I think it's great teenagers are trying to come up with technological hacks that are new to them and dreaming great goals.
No, you're the reason the USA is screwed up. This kid did not push himself, he watched a youtube video or googled it. Why should we praise a 17 year old for doing what he saw in a youtube video?
This generation has been brought up to believe that every child is a winner. Awards aren't just given to the top of the class anymore, they give awards to every kid, no matter what they do or fail to do. Brookings Institution 2006 Brown Center Report on Education finds that countries in which families and schools emphasize self-esteem for students—America for example—lag behind the cultures that don’t focus on how students feel about themselves.
All this praise has resulted in overconfident college grads, who believe they should be given larger salaries than their peers without working for it.
So you should not praise a kid that did the same or worse than other kids else, praise should only be given when the child actually excels or achieves something few of their peers have achieved.
Consider 2 terabyte hard drives are under $100, $500 sounds like a mountain of cash for a storage solution. $500 is more than your average decent desktop costs now days.
Agreed. Looks like it would be a bit easier if it wasn't so wide. I looked at the original scene from the movie and they don't look that wide.... or maybe the guy in the ParkerBrosChoppers video is really short and small.
Are you serious? The guy is complaining about a notebook that looks *completely different than Macbooks".
Sony is more guilty of ripping off Macbooks.
Sony laptops have looked like that for at least 10 years, if not more.
Actually you're right, this is a 2006 story:
Sony rips off MacBook design
Sony's MacBook Pro, the VAIO VGN-N17L
Are you serious? The guy is complaining about a notebook that looks *completely different than Macbooks".
Sony is more guilty of ripping off Macbooks.
Sony laptops have looked like that for at least 10 years, if not more.
pics or it didn't happen.
FTFA:
``For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, it would be impossible for it to sell its i-branded products without using our patents. We will stick to a strong stance against Apple during the lingering legal fights.’’
Samsung owns mobile telecommunications? So every cellphone infringes? Wow, how'd they get that patent?
Are you serious? The guy is complaining about a notebook that looks *completely different than Macbooks".
Sony is more guilty of ripping off Macbooks.
really slashdot? Slow day?
Agreed. Aren't their better places to ask for the best gigabit 802.11n router supporting DD-WRT and OpenWRT? Not really "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters". I'm sure any number of a hundred forums would be better, maybe the dd-wrt forum or openwrt forum would good places to start since you require a router that support both of those.
I thought we discussed this two weeks ago, when the New York Times published an article about how all the computers we have dumped into the school system have had negligible results in terms of improving education. Now we are trying the same strategy, but with a different form factor? Are these decision makers even bothering to give thought to how iPads are going to help kindergarden students?
Those were computers, these are iPads.
Completely different.
+5, Funny
Also I love how the article says:
"Soon, the school will find out if the iPads help or hurt, when they test the kindergarteners' reading and math skills in November."
more than $200,000 to find out if the iPad help or hurt? What if they hurt? $200,000 wasted? Oh no, nevermind, November, and what happens in December? Christmas! All the teachers and their families are getting new iPads!
This is complete and utter BS. They couldn't figure out a way to spend less than $200k to do this little test? Must be nice to burn money like that.