Don't they already? Not to sound a jerk but respecting others is the only reason people are expected to not be yelling on a plane. You shouldn't talk on a phone during a movie at the theater and for the most part this is a non issue that society ad hears to out of respect for others. Taking a flight to Miami during spring break will probably not be the quietest flight you have taken simply because most passengers are gearing up to party and they out number the norms of society at that moment. But your other flights are mostly quiet because everyone has pretty much agreed that talking loudly on a plane is rude and therefore don't engage in this behavior. Why should we treat cell phones differently? I would think most people would text anyway.
Kids crying on a plane doesn't really bother me because they are kids. By all means, as a parent please try and have some control over your kids by setting an example on how they should behave but people getting angry at kids whose world is so small and who don't know how to control their feelings and emotions is ridiculous in my opinion. Kids grow up just like we all did, mostly. As a society we will always "suffer" through their growth. I try and push past my annoyance and actually enjoy trying to figure out their behaviors at these times and think back on the stupid things I use to think were such big problems when I was a kid. I'm sure I pissed off plenty of adults in my youth. I am in a public place with tons of people operating on different time zones and I can't really expect kids, teens, and adults to respect my wishes so I need to adjust my outlook on these encounters and prepare for them. /me puts in earbuds.

What I mean is there was a height aspect or Z coordinate. http://youtu.be/kc_-31yFe_s?t=1m6s The gun auto aimed. I don't think the limitations in the map building exclude the fact that there was a 3rd dimension.

If I'm not confusing Doom with Doom2 I think it wasn't just 2D, the second or so room had imps on a shelf. Your aim automatically adjusted to kill enemies above, this was interesting in a room full of enemies on different heights but in front of each other. You are probably correct in that you couldn't have rooms below each other. The lack of aim may have also been a choice as the first one I remember that didn't use a mouse was Dark Forces. I think you aimed with page up and down. That is kind of cumbersome especially when tons of enemies stormed at you like they did in Doom. Also maybe they were trying to get as much resources out of dos by not loading mouse.

Better equip vehicles for communication. End of 2013 and the car manufactures want you to use their crappy GPS when my phone has better maps that update on the fly. Put my damn phone on my middle dash screen or better yet hud the basics. Allow buttons that can be mapped to Siri / Google Command. I have 3 buttons one with 2 states on my 2013 Honda CRV, hang up, dial and callback on single button one by short press later by long press, and voice command which maps to Honda's stupid voice command not a multi button blutooth that can map to Siri / Google Command. If you gave a way to easily communicate with my phone then the phone would continue to expand and become better.
me: "send text to wife stopping to get milk"
phone "text wife stopping to get silk"
me: "not silk milk"
phone "text wife stopping to get milk"
me: "yes"
Could be no more distracting than me talking to someone or messing with the radio all with a single button press...but its not.

So this is were a roku that caches my queue while I'm at work would be cool. Not gonna happen but I wouldn't mind an encrypted set top box. Cache 12 hours or something and continue to fill as I consume. Granted my on the fly choices are prone to buffering but my queued episodes are there. Maybe even a poor quality cache and fill higher resolution on the fly.

Doesn't work for New York. You get told you have to https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/ and cannot get any good estimates without completing the form. There is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet (wtf?) that has tries to give an estimate but it doesn't let you see plans platinum, gold, silver etc. The valuepenguin site works, ty but why do I have to learn about some obscure website just to find information?

I just bought a car after driving several. How would online options really help with determining what has good feel/performance for a customer. Some people like to feel the road others like a smooth ride. The terrible blutooth integration with my purchased car (though I dont think many cars support Google commands/Siri) makes me wish I played with it more at the dealership instead of just trying to make a call. Colors look different in daylight. Some plastics feel cheaper than others, the list goes on and on. You must have bought something online, opened the box and went "ugh I thought it looked different" So why would you want to put down so much on a car only seen online?

I don't understand your point. If someone is blind or visually impaired or just cant look at a screen atm you feel they shouldn't have an option of text on a webpage being read to them?

Ask me how I can tell you don't ride the subway to work with earbuds

You shouldn't have to. What we should be/are concentrating on is better reflow and text to speech. Higher resolution should be a benefit as text becomes less blocky making shape recognition easier. Just because resolutions are higher doesn't mean you should have smaller text if you don't want it. With so many different size devices you should be able to load and manipulate content on demand. So if you don't want images because of connection or space constraints, your choice. Images should also be vectored whenever possible. Currently I have 20/10 in one eye and 20/15 in the other at 33, I am hoping to hold onto this as long as possible but it will eventually decrease, that is life. Content should be able to handle all cases as the person desires. If I can only see 1 inch icons that should be my choice and my phone should have desktops with 4 icons.

I think a lot of the reason also stuff like in the article

Interactive whiteboards that only have features written for MS Office, teacher resources that are windows only, and things like mental health/nursing applications that are mandated and windows only. There are replacements for some of this stuff but sometimes not.

Sure but they screwed everyone's library by importing all their CDs at a terrible bitrate as their default

In the US and in the state I reside you are certified to teach for a range of grade levels. The higher up the grades you are certified in the more you are expected to be an expert in one discipline. So for grade schools you have a broad certification in Math, English, Social Science because you will teach all these disciplines to your group or students or maybe share with another teacher in the same grade if a more advanced Math class is needed or something. Once you get to the secondary schooling / high school, I believe you are certified for 8th grade as well, you teach Math or you teach English not both. You will have advanced classes in that discipline and normal classes. Where do advanced computer skills fit into that? Several students in high school may know C or Python so you expect that English teacher to know them as well?
If that is what you expect then they should be making more than 90K (which they only make after moving up through their steps or like 15 years down the road) when a masters degree is required which would often allow you a better paying job if you did not enter the teaching profession. My district tops out at 110K after longevity is factored in. Many in the IT field make 100K but no one seems to give a shit that they don't know every nuance about accounting that the accounting department knows.

I can't agree with that. School is like jail in some ways, kids get bored and figure out how the "routines" work and take advantage of them when its fun or beneficial. In reality I'd wager a bunch of regulars here got started in their careers breaking stuff like this even if by accident. For that reason I think the initial reaction from administration is on par with what it should be. I think this is a great opportunity to demonstrate that tinkering/learning is great but should not be done to the detriment of others and continue on as normal.

Teachers are forced to use more modern tools like interactive whiteboards and computers and most have adapted well to the task but you can't expect them to be experts in everything. Most will simply learn the portions that are relevant to their normal tasks as they should.

I don't think anyone can be faulted for falling for a well executed phishing scam. If anything why are teachers responsible for updating their computers?

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