>> One current problem 'is that TFT displays like the iPad uses suck for reading because they aren't outdoor viewable and are very power hungry.

It's not a TFT display. It's IPS.

Geez...and this isn't news either.

You're making the assumption that the student needs to pay attention to learn.

My school was so boring and had such a lack of any extra opportunities that I slept through classes and taught myself more difficult subject matter at home. I frequently did my 'homework' in class. It was sad that it was too dreadfully easy.

"school time" is not their time, it is the student's time to learn. If the most productive way for the student to learn is to ignore you, then so be it.

The sad part is that throughout my school career I had to serve several detentions for being too productive: usually because a teacher insisted I copy their notes word for word off the projector, and I would refuse - citing my short notes as sufficient enough to retain all the important information.

Nothing of value was lost.

VLC will continue to be the swiss army knife media player, and AOL will continue to lose customers to their horrible business practices.

"Sir, we absolutely cannot allow a casual-hardcore gap!"

"MEIN FURHER! I CAN WALK!"

Of course, "hacker" isn't necessarily evil, but the context of post certainly implies these guys were up to no good.

These guys aren't hackers. They are security advisors. They are the good guys. I suppose the editors didn't bother, you know, clicking a few links?

Here, I've done your homework. Was it that hard?

http://security.goatse.fr/blog/

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"Anyways, there was no illegal activity or unauthorized access, this was not a shady backroom hookers and blow deal with Nick Denton as revenge for the iPhone raid (though that would be totally sweet), we did not sell your data to spammers (on the contrary, we destroyed it after Ryan used it; it had served its purpose to us) and we did not try to hack your iPads. Your iPads are safer now because of us."
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The Kno will be a serious failure.

Publishers damn well could spend a tiny bit of time publishing .epubs that ran well on Kindles and iPads alike. Of course, when you publish electronically, you can't justify $149 for a copy of Organic Chemistry 14th edition, and you can't publish new editions every year to force the used market out of business. Who cares about the consumer when the market is inelastic and professors are forcing you to buy books that equate to the yearly incomes of people in third world countries?

If publishers won't bother doing such a simple thing for popular devices, do you honestly think they are going to support this monstrosity?

The article assumes one things: Going to college is a trade off for wages. Either you get student loans and study, or you work full time.

That's not true at all. I would argue that it's barely a trade off to get a low wage job full time, or be a student and part time earn a low wage job. Either way, you'll likely need government / parent assistance or want it.

So I pose a better solution: Let HR departments toss non-college degrees in the trash, but students should differenciate themselves on experience, not GPA.

In other words: CS grad with 4.0+ vs CS grad with 3.2 + work experience -- who do you think will win?

How do you get work experience? Well fortunately it's pretty easy -- go do stuff for free, then market your free work to a real low paying job -> Then graduate and tout your experience.

The one thing developers fail to understand (if they haven't tested before), is that developing for a single piece of hardware for a single platform using a single language and api calls is very, very easy to test, and test alot. More testing = more bugs found = more bugs fixed = higher quality.

This is why the experience of playing a game on console is consistance and bug free. While you (may) get improved function on a PC, your quality is going to go down significantly.

The same principle can be applied to any product that caters to a specific platform.

Note also, that this is why (for crossplatform applications) open source is so strong. It takes A LOT of eyes to make sure everything is quality across platforms, devices, hardware, etc.

Funny, I was looking at wikipedia on my iPad. It's a pretty awesome form factor, and there's nothing else required.

Oddly enough, PBS is one of my favorite stations. I didn't even realize this fact.

Funny how that works.

The anonymous coward watches high def movies on his netbook and never, ever has any problems.

Ever.

This is exactly the reaction that Trey Parker and Matt Stone were looking for.

If you watch the episode, the members of South Park conclude that the only way to _NOT OFFEND_ Muslims is to put him in a bear suit.

Unfortunately, it looks like in the real world, the Muslims are even more crazy than South Park has depicted them to be. It shows exactly how wacko the muslim community is.

It's similar to the Scientology episode...except, they didn't actually get sued by Scientologists. I daresay, that Scientologists are more sane in this regard than Muslims.

I agree with the grandparent, and I went to public schools.

The teachers were so bad, so unenthusiastic, and the curriculum so dumb, that I decided by my 10th grade year to sleep during school and learn on my own at home.

Thank god for the internet, or I would have never had the education that I decided to take for myself.