Comment Re:single page link... (Score 1) 297
The iPad 2 is being anounced, not released.
I also hate the stupid little touch pad or trying to find somewhere to set a mouse.
My iPad on the other hand, takes about 6 seconds to open up and if I need a keyboard i can pull out my full size folding bluetooth keyboard with 10-key and avoid the hand cramps. No messing with a tiny touch pad or a mouse. It does everything i ever asked of my netbook. I also enjoy the wide range of cheap apps.
The subscription will be 99c but this cannot be implemented until Apple releases iOS 4.3.
iOS 4.3 has a feature that allows apps to charge a recurring subscription. The Daily is not the only app that will be using this. The New York Times app is also giving free trial access in some sections until "early 2011". My local paper is doing the same.
Why pay for what you can get for free? easy, they are not going to offer it for free on the website any more.
My local paper is going to a subscription where you have to pay for some of the news their reporters write. You can have free access to AP news and some articles, but if you want to see what local reporters are investigation you have to pay for it. That is information you cannot get somewhere else for free
The advantages of the app? Offline reading. Open it in the morning, hit refresh and you can read all the content without waiting for download and while you're away from internet access.
>While states like California might be bigger textbook markets than Texas, Texas selects its curriculum and texts state wide.
The Texas board selects and will purchase the books for all districts that want to use them. If a district does not want these books they must pay for their books out of their own budget.
given that text books are a significant expense, most (especially the poorer districts) use whatever the state picks
On the up side, it is not uncommon for teachers to teach beyond the book by bringing in other sources. History is not one of those subject where you have to teach to the standardized test every day to get your students to pass.
>So while the government of the United States might not be Christian, the opinion at the time was that Christianity was necessary to preserve it.
I would like to point out to you that your quotes say "religion" and "morality" not Christianity.
We know that the founding fathers were aware of non-Christian religions and non-religious people and sought to be inclusive of them in government.
Yeah, but am I the only one here who thinks that a lot of those tasks could have been done with machinery orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper than this robot? Seriously, half their examples of 'real world' usage were moving things from one conveyor to the other, with no sorting or filtering required. Some of their examples (like placing the chocolates in the correct locations in the box) were impressive, but it just felt to me like they were showing off when much simpler designs could have been used.
as far as I can tell the other video is a promo video, not real world applications.
Currently most of the tasks show are done (faster and at a considerably lower price) by a high speed conveyor belt, a couple of metal fences, a little physics and an electric eye to sort the backward from the forward.
The machines ability to quickly find and organize is impressive.
The inability of a person to out maneuver the machine using a mechanized tray on a linear track, moving at a fixed speed that is slower than the robot is not impressive.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
