Was there another final debate?

After the final debate?

That followed the final debate?

That was really just childish bickering, pointing fingers, and attacks instead of an actual debate?

Toyota even gives you guides on their website for performing a few standard maintenance tasks: once others would just direct you to the dealer ship for. I know based on Haynes availability I'm more likely getting a Toyota car. Instead of buying another Jeep Patriot. There is no Haynes available for it at all, and doing anything means I need to hope someone posted a good guide on the Jeep forums (unofficial) that didn't disappear. It's a decent car (no problems mechanically), but has some interior issues: carpet easily gets torn by shoes, lid of the center armrest storage broke quickly because of a cheap plastic latch, spare needs more than a crossbar to get the bolt off (too deep down), lid covering spare is all plastic so it breaks easily, need to lean far forward to see the traffic light because of the windshield design, etc.

The instructor for my online class has an optional in class section for those that need it. Her class is the only offered at the school, so there is no choice other than online. She does this because online is for strong, independent learners. Others thrive better in a classroom setting. I'm one of those students that's either held back, or could be doing other things with my time so online is great. As for exams, I prefer the practical approach. In the business law course I took we only had a mid term and a final. Each had ten cases we were presented with, and had to argue based on the facts. There was no right or wrong position, so long as you stuck to one side, and was based on the facts and the law. A good management class I took used purely essay based questions for the tests. You had to write out short answers, and essays. The same for a history class I took. Other than those I felt multiple choice and true false were useless measurements. A student could just guess on some too easily.

Perhaps requiring a series of papers written at home on the subject would be better then?

It would be a way of examining a students knowledge and understanding. Otherwise you only test the ability to cram at the last minute.

*poll topic*

In general I think the text book model is inefficient in it's current form. Instead of one or two huge books, the system should go back to the six volume series type of books. Such as an academic history book you would find at Barnes and Noble in a format easy to hold in your hand. Textbooks always annoyed me because you just can't hold them comfortably or take them anywhere. My accounting text wasn't offered digitally, so I need to carry around a huge book that has 1,500 pages in it. Heck, it would save the textbook companies money. As I have seen the older accounting texts that were in a traditional format, and all in black and white. Most of the pages are way too busy, and there is no need for all of the color on them. With accounting all of the examples are simple tables. Journal entries and income statements don't need fancy colors.

Every time a movie is released on DVD or shown in the theaters it's copyright date is extended. This is part of the reason, other than making more money, DIsney does it's "Before it goes back in the vault" marketing: probably the second part of CD box sets too. Before copyright law was changed to allow home movie releases to extend copyright, they would release the film in theaters about every ten years. Like I said, it's the second part to the reason other than making more money. A convenience they lobbied congress for.

I attempted watching Saturday morning cartoons recently, wanted to see if any new good cartoons were on, besides the disappointment at the quality of the only two runs (Fox and CW) the ads were worse than I remember. Sometimes it barely went five minutes before a long ad break.

Do kids really have the attention span to sit through those ads?

I remember being annoyed by them when I was a kid, and getting antsy.

Landline phones are one of those funny things. A classmate remarked how theirs was helpful during that freak Oct snow storm in CT. My great uncle had no land line for over a week because *shock* the line went down. Yet with my cell phone I could go to the shelter and charge it if I needed too. So there are still people clinging too it for the reason it works in an outage...

As for a TV. The only thing it might be of use for me is a console, but I'm starting to walk away from even those. Since building a good PC for gaming is much cheaper these days. You can even stick with a laptop, and still have something great for games. It's a personal choice, but I've dropped down my moving important possessions (also fire replacement) down to my computer, clothes, and Kindle. It saves me a good deal of effort and space. Trips and school also means I can go with the entirety of my real possessions (furniture is just additional possessions that I don't care much about.)

Yeah, I was glad my parents let me play the sports I wanted to for the most part. Little league baseball was fun, but I wish I could have played ice hockey (there just wasn't a rink nearby and within their budget.) I never wanted to play football as a kid, and liked basketball as a winter sport. Though my parents were probably happy with those two because they are dirt cheap for working class parents. Just pay the fee for little league (covers the numbered shirt), and a glove lasts a few years. It was the same for basketball. The only real costs was the new cleats and basketball shoes each year.

Poor kids these days get their parents sports failures pushed on them. Sometimes my team won, mostly we lost, but we still had fun (still sore about the head of the league adding three innings five minutes before the cut off time after the standard six innings so his team could come back for a win.) In high school I switched to track to go from 80s to 90s in PE, and participate in a sport with practice that was more laid back for the throwers. Maybe I was terrible, but hanging out with people I liked more often was nice. Meets meant a great deal of sitting on your ass in the grass waiting for your event, and then warming up shortly before.

Yeah, I see right around 3MBs on Steam often. Speakeasy gives me the same results too.

We have a 24Mbit connection, and don't have issues playing games/streaming Netflix. This is a household with four people in it too (doing more than one of those at once.) So I can imagine the reason most won't upgrade.

I played DAOC, the WoW grind is nothing, and even then I hear Everquest is worse for the grind. As for WoW, they streamlined it in Cata. It's not very hard to level fast, even quicker if you're in an old guild with friends and family (mine is like that, got an IRL friend that will fit or family member then bring em in), or can get the heirloom items.

My reaction to the Mists of Pandaria thing was "WOOHOO!" To me the expansion looks fun, and that's the point of gaming for me, and I dare say most casuals.

My college uses Blackboard, and the only way to upload files from the computer is via the Java plugin (odd since a school I went to before didn't need it to upload, unless more recent versions of blackboard added it.) Once I'm done with needing it, I do plan on getting rid of it. It's another plugin I don't really care for.

I know, to me it's them going "Oh noes! We actually need evidence to prove the case."

My high school had a payphone, and so did my grammar school. Those are now gone. So if I had a kid they would need one to call in for a ride home should they walk across to the library to do research after school. I had a payphone that I could always use, but those days are gone in most areas: if not all. I used the payphone numerous times from:

1) Missing the bus (running to the locker, and then to the bus as it decides to leave in less than the ten less it's supposed to wait.)
2) Walking over to the town library after school to research.
3) Using the computer lab (we didn't have a computer until after my freshman year of high school.)

All of which required me calling my mom to let her know to pick me up after work.

I'm hoping that, since it runs Windows 8, you will be able to set it up landscape on a reading stand with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Easy to get a smaller keyboard for portability; like the Apple one: with the detriment of no number pad. I'm not saying the Apple one is the solution, just that it's a good example of a compact keyboard. One I've tested before, and found it comfortable to type on despite my normally large keyboards.

For home use, if done right, I might just have only a Windows tablet so I can use office for the needed files. Other than Office, all I need these days is a tablet (only thing I do on a computer is internet, email, Facebook, and office.)

Along with not paying outrageous fees to get the SDK. Android SDK is free, and has a $25 fee for creating an account to publish to the store: $100 for Apple (SDK requires OS X, but has no extra charge so getting a Mac Mini is sufficient for development after you make enough on the Android market.)