I have a local 3 screen theater that shows first run movies for $5 (matinee is $4) and another small theater 15 miles away with one screen that is pretty cheap (can't remember ticket price off the top of my head though).

I couldn't imagine these theaters combined have gross receipts for a year coming close to $60,000, let alone having those costs per month.

The other theater is transitioning to digital soon, too.

No matter how you feel toward Apple, those designs show how forward thinking they were. Keep in mind that most of those designs are from 1982. Two years before the Mac's debut, and at a time when we were all beating on our Atari 8-bits, Apple IIs, and Commodore 64s.

I'm especially intrigued with the split screen monitor designs. Dual monitors in 1982? Dual flat screen monitors? Pretty amazing.

And the baby mac resurfaces 14 years later as the iMac.

Both of those professions allow you to retire after 20 years with full pay.

I don't know where that is, in Ohio, starting in 2015 it is 35 years and age 60 before you get full benefits. Full salary is defined as the average of the final 5 years of employment, so it will always be less than what the teacher was making at retirement.

And it isn't free, teachers are paying approximately 10% of their salary.

Someone else brought up a good point, when did it become a bad thing to work and pay for a career? It's not cheap becoming a teacher, if it was so easy and such a gravy train, why aren't more people going into education?

This article is more about a botched implementation than about the inability for the iPad to function in an educational environment. The Apple TV problem is when mirroring an iPad 2 or new iPad. It won't expand it to the full size of the picture. This problem goes away when using apps that support video out.

All of the should have gotten them laptops people need to stop and realize what a school day is like. Laptops are useable when placed on a table or desk. They're awkward to use standing, they're awkward to use when collaborating, they're awkward to use on the floor. A tablet, on the other hand, can be used standing, sitting, lying, can easily be passed around, has no battery issues, etc.

Typing long form on the screen is not painful nor difficult. In fact, when I sit down at my computer, I miss all the autocorrecting. I've heard from teachers first hand on how much more productive their students became when they were issued iPod touches. Students that would not write more than a sentence were now writing paragraphs for their teachers.

When talking about Android vs iOS, it's the apps where Android falls down. I have my Nexus 7 tablet, but where is TweetBot? Garageband? iMovie? Pages? Keynote? There are so many content creation apps for iOS, especially in education, Toontastic, Sock Puppets, StoryRobe, Flixlab, Creative Book Builder, etc.

I have ICS installed on my HP Touchpad, I have my Nexus 7 tablet, I have Gingerbread installed on my Droid. The apps aren't there for me to integrate them into my daily routine. I use my iPad and my iPhone every day. Usually Textastic on my iPad for programming and iSSH. Depending on the situation, I'll use my bluetooth keyboard or just type on the screen.

Just because it won't work for you doesn't mean it won't work for someone else (along the same lines, just because it works for me doesn't me it won't work for someone else).

Apple doesn't want you to own anything, even your own personal data. OS X is the only operating system I've used where there's no way to cancel or abort registration: You have to enter a name, address, and phone number to get to the login. It tries to phone home that information right away, even while lying to you on the interface by saying you don't have to register and leaving an icon on the screen for you to do it later... as if it didn't know it already phoned home.

You've always been able to bypass that page, although on the older versions you had to know to hit command-q. In at least Mountain Lion, the skip button is right on the same page.

I think the default is to only run signed apps, no matter where they come from.

IMO doesn't require you to create an account. You just click on the service you want to use and log in.

I've been testing out Insynch (https://www.insynchq.com/) which uses Google Docs as your data store. $5 will get you 20gb of storage from Google a year. It works pretty much like Dropbox, and can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. Linux client is supposed to be released soon, and as soon as it is I'll be recommending Insynch to people over Dropbox. There is also the rumored Google Drive, which if it ever comes to fruition will eat Dropbox's lunch.

What? Smartphone pioneer? How do they figure that?

I'm pretty sure the Palm Treo 650 was the first smartphone bought by a ton of people (released in 2004, the 600 was released the year before). Touchscreen interface, tons of apps. It was the first smartphone for the masses.

Apparently, the GPL being incompatible with Apple's App store is a murky issue at best. Currently, there are several apps that are licensed with the GPL, such as the iOS Wordpress App and Doom. So what is the final word on GPL apps in the App Store?

I'm surprised more people don't just type up their ebooks in any text format using Markdown. Easy to write in whatever editor your have (for example, storing the manuscript in Dropbox, allowing one to write on their computer, their phone, their tablet, etc.) and then use Calibre to convert into whatever format you want.

I just tried it with a Lion client bound to an OS X 10.6 server using OpenDirectory, and I couldn't replicate the problem.

So is Lion doing something non-standard when connecting to OpenLDAP servers? I noticed that in the main thread it was mentioned that they weren't using the full Apple LDAP schema.

I was laughing at the look of it driving down the highway, thinking to myself how out of place it looks with the farm houses and silos. If only he was a little farther north he could have passed some Amish buggies.

All due respect to the truecrypt guys and their work (cross-platform encrypted images are awesome), but the only reason Windows and OSX need truecrypt is because they don't have something like Linux's dm-crypt.

With OS X you can use Disk Utility to create encrypted sparse images, which are nicer than Truecrypt volumes for some things. Especially since sparse disk images only take up as much space as what is stored on them. Not cross platform though. :-(

As someone mentioned before, polleverywhere.com has been doing this since it's inception, allowing votes by web or SMS, and now you can even vote by Twitter.

Most of the student response systems that have been sold in the last couple of years allow you to use multiple devices to vote, this really isn't a new idea.