The problem with a 4k screen is not the price, it is the usefullness of it. There are charts out there that show the limits of our vision at different distances. A 4k screen would have to be huge to have a noticable difference in clarity at 3m for most people. I lookup up on Wikipedia the optimal viewing distances are for a 1080p screen, and for a 55" like listed above, the optimal viewing distance for 1080p (limited by human eye resolution) is 2-5m. For a 4k screen, it would have to be closer, and there was also noted in that article a mention that being too close to big screens can cause motion sickness.

I think for most people, a 4k screen is way overkill unless you have a HUGE (I would say 100" or above) screen.

I live in Illinois, and we have zero in the way of education as a second career without getting a full education degree (my BS is Electrical Engineering, and started grad school for Secondary Ed. Physics and Math). I have been teaching basic networking, college algebra, and intro to stats for over 10 years at a couple of small tech colleges, in addition to other systems admin work. I know more about applied math, physics and computers than any teacher in my relatively small district, yet, I can't teach.

When I left grad school due ot personal issues with less than two semesters left. I needed one methods class for teaching, 6-7 (don't remember exactly) classes on history of education and Ed Psych, three 3rd world cultures classes, biology, poetry, American and Illinois Government (yes, the exact same tests I took in High School, but I need to take a class on it anyway) and I don't remember what else. By the time I was done, if everything was done as an undergrad, I would have had a BS in EE, Math, and one class away from a Physics degree too. Yet, Illinois says no way.

Until education requirements are less politicized (and I realize Illinois is one of the worse in that category) and truly qualified people can teach without the BS, you will not really get the best teaching.

One last thing, we really need to get back to fundamentals. Drill drill drill on math, make sure they can write a sentance, paragraph and have an organized thought. Calculators are not needed until you get to roots, exponents, logs, and trig functions. Make the kids have the basics memorized and MAKE THEM THINK AND ORGANIZE!!

My first computer was a Tandy 1000EX (then a 1000TX, 286, yeah baby). I got an expanded memory card for my 1000TX all the way up to1.5MB total RAM. Setup a RAM drive on the memory card and wrote a batch file to copy the OS and commonly used utilites to the RAM drive, then set the COMSPEC to it. Was really useful until I got a hard rive. I was working at Radio Shack at the time and made full use of my measly employee discount.

I sorta miss the days off Plug'n'Pray ISA cards (normally just manually set them anyway, as it never seemed to work). My experience with DOS 1.0 was on my uncles Zenith computer. I remember DOS 2.x needed the hard drive driver loaded to work off a hard drive. I used every version of MS-DOS from 2.11 on up. I hated the built in compression, in the later versions, too flaky. Version 5 and 6.22 were my favorites.

I live in a small town in rural Illinois. I have cell, but service stinks in town due to being close to a boundary between two different providers (the small family owned one goes nutsy whenever the big company signal hits their turf). There is only one provider that has good service in my town. I have a phone through the cable company, which sounds good and has a lot of features, but has an unacceptable amount of down time (we have some medical problems that make it so that we need something reliable). What is left, PSTN through the phone company. The only time we have lost access, it was only long distance when a contractor cut a fiber line. Until broadband reliability is in the many 9's category like PSTN, I want to keep it.The entirety of the US is not big cities, there is a lot of middle of nowhere with a decent amount of population also, and, along with that, unreliable wireless and broadband infrastructure.

My first e-mail account was a fido-net based through a local bbs in the town I went to college in. This was in 1988 I believe. My first real Internet e-mail address was a prodigy address a couple of years later.

To be fair, my family and I did not print most of the pages. My main printer is an HP LaserJet 2100 that was retired from work and I got for free, along with 4 toner cartridges, being it was the last 2100 in service. I much prefer my kids print to that than the color inkjet with WAY higher cost per page (after all, can't get lower than a free printer with free toner!).

What, you expect Apple to really even acknowledge VLC?? Don't you know that Quicktime just plays EVERYTHING!! And Firefox, Chrome, come on, Safari is the Shiznit! What could be better than Apple made software!

I would tend to agree with that, except with the subnetting. I have seen a lot of people have problems with it. Of course, being a programmer gives you a leg up, as you have probably dealt with binary and Boolean before also.

Actually, iCarly is on Nickelodeon, not Disney, but agreed with the concept. Most Disney shows also do something similar.

I am curious, do you have a link showing the distribution of financial aid from the government figure?? Also, what are you calling financial aid?

Wow, I am glad I do not live in the UK. When will politicians realize that the more you try to regulate and squeeze something out, the more it oozes out around the edges. And, how exactly are they going to block porn?? Heuristic image recognition?? Banning all torrents, usernet access, or file shareing sites such as Rapidshare, Uploading, DepositFiles, etc??? How would they do this without killing almost all of the internet??