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Comment Wished it had been more "local". (Score 1) 8

I thought it was interesting, but frankly I wish it had been scaled to essentially inside a player's living room? Something more like the Hololens demo videos. I'd have been happy to just fire it up on my coffee table, and pinch/zoom to poke around, instead of walking/driving around the neighborhood to do anything.

Comment Just dumped our U-Verse service... (Score 4, Insightful) 44

I had an 18Dn/1Up plan (living in the sticks Indiana), and on their little exit interview they asked why I'm leaving:

"Well, your service went down at least a full day of every month, and the new local provider offers fiber to my house, 50Dn/10Up speeds, and costs less."

The girl didn't even try. "Ok, well that makes sense."

Comment Waiting for lightning to strike me.... (Score 1) 223

Sat down to this article after coming back from the break room, where I found out our vending machine has an issue. If I feed it a very new quarter 50% of the time it spits it out, and the other 50% it will increment by .25 and STILL spit it out. Bought a $1.10 candy bar and got .15 in change. So I guess I'm doing better than the analogy?

Comment Warning, old guy questions... (Score 1) 57

Ok, so I've been all over the minecraftedu site, and I can't figure out what a school would actually "do" with this? I mean, are kids supposed to be begrudgingly unplugged from all their shit at home, ferried to their school with their Beats on, then jacked right the hell back in for additional screen time? What could be in there? "Today in school I dug a hole to bedrock then fell in it to kill myself, so I missed the assignment. That's why I had after school detention."

So seriously, is it for like virtual classrooms or something? Or will kids be in a physical classroom, at a computer, to just be in a virtual classroom with the people right next to them, to do the same homework they could do physically?

Anyone that says "hand-eye coordination and map reading skills" has never been kissed.

Comment Do people live their careers? (Score 1) 132

I know there's the proximity issue of his job title to the issue, but really do people expect everyone to "live" their job? Sometimes a mechanic's car is shitty. Sometimes a doctor has poor health habits. Sometimes directors of national intelligence has a family and none of them work too hard for home IT security.

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