It's really a shame that there weren't some existing media in which short stories were popular --- they could have been made available on the Kindle in some periodic fashion, grouped by topic/subject, and to which folks could have subscribed....

Ultimately if you want to do one device per child, cost per unit is probably the deciding factor for most schools. A close second is that non-technical staff can usually be taught enough about the google education ecosystem to accomplish what they need to in their classrooms in a 60 minute session. A student dropped it off a table? Hand them another one and have them log in again.

Folks have been trying to bring this to the table since computers were first rolled out.

The problem is, any sort of taxes/fees will impact corporate profits (or be inflationary) so are pretty much a non-starter in the current political climate.

We need a trust-busting President who can get a political ground-swell of support who actually has a moral backbone, not a pot-smoking or bar-tending woman-chasing draft-dodger.

"Maker" == geek who missed shop class.

Which is why DEK named his programming system Literate Programming:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook...

I really wish this was more prevalent, and better supported --- that said:

http://www.literateprogramming...

makes for interesting reading and has some really cool texts such as:

http://www.literateprogramming...

That would take centuries.

Not just this, but the OS vendors cripple them as well --- I've had to roll back to 1703 on my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 running Windows 10 twice now --- I simply can't use the machine w/ the digital stylus reduced to an 11th touch input as Fall Creators Update implements.

I've long preferred pen computers (started w/ PenPoint on an NCR-3125) and enjoyed a steady stream of improvements (w/ a few dead ends such as Apple's Newton and PalmOS)) but for some reason, Microsoft made it impossible to select text, choosing instead to have the stylus scroll --- which was easily done w/ a fingertip when holding a stylus.

If Apple doesn't get the Apple Pencil to a usable level on a tablet Mac in the near future, I despair of what machine I'll buy running what OS.

Lineage brought new life to a couple devices for me. It isn't perfect but their site offers decent walkthroughs for both devices I tried (Amazon FireHD and Nexus 6.)

I have with a similar setup to yours, anything on 2.4Ghz is too noisy in my apartment building, it is great but not flawless on 5Ghz N

Maybe we can build things up again someday

And maybe more importantly, if it disagrees with the humans, can we figure out why? This is a problem with a lot of machine learning applications, but there aren't many where understanding the decision-making process is more vital than it is here.

This is sloppy legal analysis. If the court was even remotely consistent then the vast number of times that I have had to deal with that answer (and, the followup objection by defense counsel: asked and answered) to subjects that the witness does not want to discuss in deposition would disappear in a puff of legal logic.

On occasion I've let the weasel slide and during the body of the deposition I've inserted questions along the line of:
Are your parents still living? When did your father pass? When did your mother pass?
What was the address that you lived at when you left for college?
Please state all of your past employers that paid you enough to require that you file a tax return?
What is your wedding anniversary?
What is the day and month of your spouse's birthday? (each of the kids follow)
Who was your favorite college prof? What class or classes did you take? Do you remember your grade(s)?

When did you receive the notice of this deposition?

What did you have for breakfast?

What color tie is your attorney wearing?

I toss those in over 2-3 hours and then ask the question that the deponent could not remember (so conveniently).

I draw two objections - asked and answered and argumentative.

I always ask that we call the judge to get a ruling.

I explain that I've just asked the deponent questions covering many decades about minutia that most people would not recall and the deponent has answered each question without objection from defense counsel. I wish to explore the "memory hole" and how only the fact critical to the case is the ONLY matter that the deponent cannot remember.

Usually the judge gives me a little leeway - but, the record is clear - the deponent's memory is just fine until the fact that will hurt is brought up.

Of course a 5th Amendment objection ends the inquiry (I'm a civil litigator).

The willingness to tolerate the mendacity of poor memory on a daily basis in civil actions puts the lie to this "convenient" ruling.

He says. On the internet.

It would be really nice if someone would do something meaningful w/ all the code for PenPoint --- it was one of my favourite operating systems, and amazingly capable for its time, and interface-wise, is still nicer than pretty much anything other than the Newton OS, or NeXTstep (or maybe HP's NewWave).

For those who don't remember it: http://www.digibarn.com/collec...

One thing I've been surprised at is that there isn't a continuation of Logo into CNC --- the closest thing to it I've found is to use a tool such as Asymptote, MetaPost or NodeBox to create a .pdf, then pull that .pdf into some tool suited to CAM --- it would be nice if there were some more direct option / connection.

For that matter, I'd be glad of a programming tool which would directly translate part geometry into tool motion (w/ suitable offsets) --- I hate having a cylinder in OpenSCAD rendered as a triangular mesh and having to process a .stl in a CAM tool --- wish ImplicitCAD were being supported and was easier to install.