My parents still have a Texas Instruments TI 99-4a (c. '79 - '82) set up in the custom desk that my dad built for it. It even still has the cassette tape drive (recorder) and a bunch of game cartridges.
Whenever I'm home I play several games of Parsec and Munchman!
I taught myself to program on that thing in the 5th grade and actually learned some useful stuff! The graphics code used hex digits to control pixels on the screen. In 5th grade I had no idea what hexadecimal was, but when I got to college and the professor in Programming 101 started explaining it, I could instantly picture the little chart that gave the pattern for which pixels out of each set of 4 would be turned on or off based on the digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F. Hex to binary conversions came easy for me. As did many other programming concepts. I think the early start had a lot to do with that.
How do you know if the person is going to live to be 50? If they die before they turn 50, would they really care if they took your medal away? If they aren't already concerned about how long they will live, why would they care if they could keep the medal after they died?
50 isn't even a very long life span. Average is in the 70's, so you're giving them 20 years of grace. People in good physical shape should live longer than the average. Safe gene therapy (if it's possible) should extend life spans beyond that, so this might even encourage them to try it.
This will just make checking out books a bit easier. Walk through the RFID scanner, swipe you library card, and walk out.
It will be even easier than that. If they put an RFID in every book, then surely your card will have one as well. Just walk through the scanner and you're done.
School districts picked to apply in New Hampshire are in towns with high property tax rates and whose sixth-graders did poorly on the state assessment test, he said.
Attention all sixth-graders everywhere: If your parents pay a lot of property taxes, make sure you do poorly on your tests. Maybe next year you'll be rewarded with a laptop!
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My parents still have a Texas Instruments TI 99-4a (c. '79 - '82) set up in the custom desk that my dad built for it. It even still has the cassette tape drive (recorder) and a bunch of game cartridges.
Whenever I'm home I play several games of Parsec and Munchman!
I taught myself to program on that thing in the 5th grade and actually learned some useful stuff! The graphics code used hex digits to control pixels on the screen. In 5th grade I had no idea what hexadecimal was, but when I got to college and the professor in Programming 101 started explaining it, I could instantly picture the little chart that gave the pattern for which pixels out of each set of 4 would be turned on or off based on the digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F. Hex to binary conversions came easy for me. As did many other programming concepts. I think the early start had a lot to do with that.
How do you know if the person is going to live to be 50? If they die before they turn 50, would they really care if they took your medal away? If they aren't already concerned about how long they will live, why would they care if they could keep the medal after they died?
50 isn't even a very long life span. Average is in the 70's, so you're giving them 20 years of grace. People in good physical shape should live longer than the average. Safe gene therapy (if it's possible) should extend life spans beyond that, so this might even encourage them to try it.
It will be even easier than that. If they put an RFID in every book, then surely your card will have one as well. Just walk through the scanner and you're done.
Attention all sixth-graders everywhere: If your parents pay a lot of property taxes, make sure you do poorly on your tests. Maybe next year you'll be rewarded with a laptop!