there are a lot of people who will continue to react towards technology in general with a skeptical and very negative attitude. There are still people today who think a microwave is scary. However, as the devices become more prevalent, and as more of them assume more autonomous capabilities, each new generation will be less and less likely to hold prejudice against robotic humanoids. Prejudice as has been explored in such science fictional characters as Data and iRobot also helps society understand that potential before it actually happens. There are likely still numbers of people in the billions who would be extremely uncomfortable, many to the point of violent action, with the creation of a very human-like artificial lifeform that for many purposes replaces a human.

You could try that stuff they have for nail biters. horribly bitter taste. Not sure if it would be safe for the plastic of a tablet though.

This is a very helpful and applicable response to the asker's question. If I had mod points, I'd be modding you up.

So are there any android apps that are fun to play with parent involved? Even those simple piano apps are a lot of fun for very young children and parent to play together. I sure as heck wouldn't have left a tablet in the 100% are of my infant, but playing simple games with them with me in control? Absolutely. Tablet provides audio and visual stimulation that is an important part of a child's development and assimilation into the society they will become part of later in life. Tablet doesn't provide a good tactile stimulation, so those crinkly sounding stuffed animals/toys with high contrast coloring and different surface types to chew are still very much a good thing. Think about it that way, which you KNOW was what the person was asking about anyway but you and all these other outspoken "defenders of the children" here pretend not to have understood. So think about times where you interacted with your child using a stuffed animal. Similar use case for android tablet app question. A tablet by itself is a horrible toy to play with an infant, but as a slick way to have a POTENTIAL multitude of visual and audio interactions to augment parent-child interaction it is a great toy. Now if only there were a group of tech minded people that could be asked to discuss what android apps are available that may qualify....

Did a TRS-80 touch you when you were young?

Because those who responded in that way (high percentage of respondents that I've browsed through) don't have any experience with the subject, so they default to berating the question asker as a way to participate in the discussion. Advanced karma whoring for dummies.

But every parent on slashdot carries their child around 100% of the time, especially during such activities as cooking with boiling oil, fighting fires, weeding, installing new drywall in the ceiling, replacing an engine in a 68 vette...etc... oh and lighting fireworks on 4th of july...gotta have the kid on your hip then too.

The problem is people come to slashdot for tech advice that happens to connect to their children and INSTEAD they get 99% "parenting" advice as responses that almost entirely are telling you how stupid a parent you are to even ask the question. Slashdot is a great haven for an amazing number of expert parents. Alas, asking if there are any Android apps that make a tablet more than just a plastic brick for a toddler to chew on and throw around is treated as felony child abuse here.

This may have been a good joke if you'd just given it a few more minutes of thinking.

Well that still applies here too. But many people do have something they want to hide when they're in their own home. Because walking around naked, getting it on with your sig other, picking your nose and eating it, are all activities you can freely do in your own home because you're not exposing those activities to others. People do things in their home that they wouldn't do if other people were watching them. Not because it's a crime though...

No, you would likely have your legs removed for filing such a lawsuit.

The idea that at least portions of an otherwise potentially more expensive college degree could commonly be accomplished with less expensive "outside" courses is an interesting one. One that most universities aren't going to be all that interested in beyond their existing credit transfer policies. And that won't change until people do like this guy and show a demand for it in enough numbers that cause competition to push it that way.

And I actually replied to you because you hail from the city I was born and I don't generally expect to run across someone else from there on any given visit to the slashdot forums.

When McDonald's starts rejecting midnight drive-through shiftworkers because they don't have PhD, then I'll be concerned :)

Yeah he proved he can used a technicality to appear to have accomplished a goal. So if you don't tell him in exquisite detail what you need him to do, he'll spend a bunch of time figuring out the cheapest way to have "done" what you asked for, but possibly not actually accomplish what you wanted.

So you're saying you don't like DRM because it makes it harder to break the law...clever? That's a pretty weak argument for DRM-free streaming movies.