It lost me at "Chrome-based"...

Which, in my experience, means it's the same thing but less polished and stable.

My first experience with Chromium was running it on a fresh install of Ubuntu, and getting the window *STUCK* on my mouse pointer when I tried to drag it around. No matter what keys or clicks, it wouldn't stop following the mouse. Even after restarting X, it wouldn't go away.

Ended up having to reboot, then when it happened a second time, uninstall Chromium.

Except that helicopter was many feet away from him for most of its use, and it was intended to be used exactly as he used it. It's sometimes not possible to be aware of exactly how far away and high up a model is just by looking, as models are small and depth perception is weak in our species.

There is only ONE 'CYA' rule for model aircraft: Try not to hit anything. Most of the time when you operate an R/C aircraft, it's something smaller and softer, where if it did hit a person, it might give them a small cut from the prop but is otherwise like getting hit by a big Nerf dart. This guy was using the metalized pro model, which was a bit more dangerous.

It sounds like he was doing some simple ground effect tricks, and the heli got too close and clipped him. It's actually a hobby and a sport, in which many hundreds of people participate. If you think doing tricks with model helis is 'documented reckless behavior', then I have nothing to say but "You must be a ton of fun at parties.."

I have an i7 3660, and with 8 threads, I still have only found a single program that would thread onto more than four of the cores: VLC Media Player. It seems only the super techy, data-intensive, community-built software can keep up with the core wars? Am I just playing the wrong games?

-Creates the most closed-walled operating system, and charges to program for it.

-Uses obscure and illogical languages for his walled garden's standard

-Perpetually disrespects other platforms and options which are open-source and available to 'teach people to think'.

What I don't understand is why, when schools are facing record-low budgets(thanks, war-profiteering asshole politicians), are they buying the most expensive option for tablets?

Why do they not have a pile of the HP TouchPads (super cheap, around $200US) and just run Android on them? They are large, the screen looks fantastic, it's cheap as dirt, and it runs the most popular mobile OS.

You can develop full APK apps for Android...from the Android platform. It's not even hard.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

I bought a TI-84+ for a sibling last month, and it still has TI-Basic and ASM(via computer) just like my 5-year-old one. $105 or so at Target.

I think for reasons of standardized tests and testing acceptance they don't change their flagship lines very much, if at all.

"paperless textbooks"

Also, "bullshit to sell more Apple nonsense and waste limited school funding".

Only recently, but that's the problem. Today's average student has become dumb and lazy. When I was in school, EVERYONE programmed their calculator, to the point that some teachers would take them away during class because we'd all be playing games on them instead of paying attention.

Nope.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/25/toshiba-excite-13-review/

Making it easy to learn is the complete opposite of the point here. We WANT it to be a challenge to learn, and to have good documentation for them to look things up in. That makes them learn HOW to program, as well as HOW to look up things they may not know yet. If it's just "Oh, click this blue button, then this red button, and suddenly I have a 'class' object I can drag around..." then you're not really teaching them anything useful.

I vividly remember how much fun it was to write chat or game programs for the TI- series, and I even once went as far as to write a chat program and later build a wireless(IR) connector system to 'pass notes' with friends in class. In all honesty, I believe that TI was the first computer I ever owned that was 100% mine.

It came with a basic-like language to program in(my new one accepts ASM as well), which is perfect for beginners, and the owner's manual was a 100-page tome of useful information on commands, programming, graphing, variables and data, etc. I think I learned more about math from that calculator and manual than from any of the nonsense homework the teachers gave.

Let's not forget how you HAVE to use OSX to write the code for iOS. I've taken to just writing a few DLLs in Windows and linking/interfacing them with as little Obj-C as possible on the Mac side.

And where do the apps you run this code from, and ostensibly any packaged code, come from? Last I checked, apps were downloaded.

There ARE some interpreted language apps, but they don't include code with them - you write that yourself.

If it's part of an app, you have to download it to run it. The reason the HP42 is allowed is that it doesn't include code to interpret - you have to write that yourself.

Emulators and interpreted-code-players are still not allowed. Thanks a bunch, iOverlords.