[QUOTE=TheTalon;34815758]It's nice stuff, but they always say Oh this helps her in school and all that
NO SCHOOL that I ever went to, allowed anything electronic except a fucking calculator. Even in 2005, my last year in high school, If you had a phone. Not if you were playing with it or it rang, but if you just had one, they'd take that shit so fast, and keep it until the end of the year.
If you brought a tablet in there holy bum fucking cheese crackers batman. They call it a disruption, even if it clearly is used to help study or something like that, it's still a disruption because EVERYONE doesn't have one.
Now college is a different story, and requires so much money that if they ever told me No, you can't have that in my class, I'd say fuck you I'm paying nearly $100 grand for these 4 years, I'll fuck in here if I want
But back in topic. It's useful because it has practical uses to make mundane shit easier, and it's light and doesn't take up any room at all. I'd like to see car windshields with this layered in between the already two layers of glass so you could put your Speed, Fuel, Mileage and shit right there so you don't have to take your eyes off the road. But they already have this in some cars as a HUD, so it's really not practical[/QUOTE]
My high school gave laptops to all the students for school and classwork. Horrible mistake on their part though lol.. Our classes just ended up playing 1.6 vs the other classes on schools network in the middle of class
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We even had a teacher join in once for some Need for Speed Most Wanted races the classes were having.
Sounds like they would be complicated to fix if broken especially in cars. Just because it's durable doesn't mean it can be broken.
Yea in the same way that a car can break today... How many front ended cars do you see get repaired?
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34826112]My high school gave laptops to all the students for school and classwork. Horrible mistake on their part though lol.. Our classes just ended up playing 1.6 vs the other classes on schools network in the middle of class
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We even had a teacher join in once for some Need for Speed Most Wanted races the classes were having.[/QUOTE]
Man fuck you guys. My high school took the cell phone of a friend of mine, and refused to give it back, even to her parents when they showed up. The girl had Respiratory Airway Disease. So good job, School, for taking a life line away. Hell, they'd take your calculator away if they found games on it
That's pretty fuckin bad, I mean they endorse technology at my school.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, do not relate your one single experience to every high school. My mother is a black haired bitch so all mothers must be black haired bitches! My school, next year, will be the first school in my county (and I think state), to supply laptops to the students at a 1:1 ratio. My school very much endorses technology, and even though a /= b, we have the highest acceptance rate and SAT scores in my county. My school has no problem with people using their electronics in class. Again, other schools may have a problem!
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That 1 to 1 ratio has been in lot's of Australian schools in the last few years. Doesn't mean things don't break. We have to screw monitors to desks to prevent them from being knocked off by the kids.
[QUOTE=reevezy67;34830054]That 1 to 1 ratio has been in lot's of Australian schools in the last few years. Doesn't mean things don't break. We have to screw monitors to desks to prevent them from being knocked off by the kids.[/QUOTE]
I understand that things break, but in that post I was talking schools endorsing technology in the first place. I don't really have any firsthand experience on how things break within schools though, the ones at mine are almost always OK, but I go to a pretty small school.
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[QUOTE=Atlascore;34830187]Are and your friends well educated scientists that do research on learning and education?
If not, your opinions on what's the best way to teach and learn is completely meaningless because you have no idea what you're talking about.
Also here's a shocker, teachers can still learn how to operate things, those things they were showing didn't look even remotely complicated, plus the real world versions of them will be a hell of a lot more user friendly.
You guys are taking the video too seriously, of course shit like the closet glass computer won't ever be made or be useful, but stuff like that tablet and the school stuff is definitely possible, and if it was reaches market it'll be polished and as user friendly (IE friendly to lazy people) as smartphones and other common shit everyone knows how to use, seriously this stuff is just concepts stop bitching because of obvious flaws that'll be fixed.[/QUOTE]
Actually the closet mirror isn't too far off because basically, it was just a display, not an entire separate entity. The tablet ran the program for the mirror, and the glass received the wireless signal and displayed it and relayed touch-sensitive information.
[QUOTE=TheDoctorz][QUOTE=Sherow_Xx]God, I'm tired of this weird obsession with touch screens.
It isn't going to be "the future" unless touch screens start becoming actually practical. Sure it's fancy as shit, but a button still does the same job more reliably.
Also if they're made of glass, you can't play tetris in school without the teacher seeing it...[/QUOTE]
I have a huge problem with this, and my problem is. NO ONE FUCKING UNDERSTANDS COMPUTING POWER IS GETTING GREATER AND GREATER. Many seem to have in mind they have to upgrade their video cards every year or two, but still hold back in their mind that this trend fucking continues into the future, at exponential rates! 20 years from now touchscreen software and hardware will have surpassed physical buttons in utility and ease of use, and matched them in reliability. You even said "unless touch screens start becoming practical". What do you think is happening? Everyone dropped their shit at the "Touchscreen Improvements Lab" and got hired at Corning?[/QUOTE]
Indeed I did say that. My beef with touch screens only applies if it keeps working like it works today. The way it is right now, buttons don't react 100% of the time, it isn't that precise, it's just impractical. On top of that, you can't normally use them if you're wearing gloves, plus you no longer have the feel of buttons to guide you when you're not looking directly at the buttons like when I'm typing on the keyboard.
I think Im Crimson worded it perfectly, and that's the sort of stuff that I've gotten frustrated with today. My touchscreen phone has like a dial wheel I have to swipe up and down for when I want to set my alarm. It looks fancy, but it is definitely a step backwards in simplicity and ease of use.
But yes, if it becomes at least as easy/simple to use as normal buttons, then I think touchscreens will and should take over. But up until now, I don't see them offering anything that buttons can't already do much simpler. Occam's Razor.
As for a rebuttal to the playing tetris part, I think I can handle that :P
At 6:24, two people hold up tablets that are not see-through. I imagine that type of tablets would be common.
Is there really any point of having a glass closet?
And what next gen is Corning going on about? It's all fine and dandy going we'll have this in the next gen of whatever the fuck but then I suppose it's easier to provide an ambiguous term than say we'll have the tech in order to produce these tablets at a decent cost by 2020 and the table and wall stuff should be cheap enough for public schools by 2035.
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[I]".. and so many birds are going to smash against it!"[/I] :v:
[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;34830840]Indeed I did say that. My beef with touch screens only applies if it keeps working like it works today. The way it is right now, buttons don't react 100% of the time, it isn't that precise, it's just impractical. On top of that, you can't normally use them if you're wearing gloves, plus you no longer have the feel of buttons to guide you when you're not looking directly at the buttons like when I'm typing on the keyboard.
I think Im Crimson worded it perfectly, and that's the sort of stuff that I've gotten frustrated with today. My touchscreen phone has like a dial wheel I have to swipe up and down for when I want to set my alarm. It looks fancy, but it is definitely a step backwards in simplicity and ease of use.
But yes, if it becomes at least as easy/simple to use as normal buttons, then I think touchscreens will and should take over. But up until now, I don't see them offering anything that buttons can't already do much simpler. Occam's Razor.
As for a rebuttal to the playing tetris part, I think I can handle that :P
At 6:24, two people hold up tablets that are not see-through. I imagine that type of tablets would be common.[/QUOTE]
I totally agree with not feeling the buttons, but I would indeed sacrifice that for fluidly functioning touchscreens. I never did think about the gloves thing, however, I wonder if something will in fact be done with that. And I do agree, that my touchscreen now pretty much blows and I would much rather have buttons, I like the concept and design behind better, and I can in fact ASSURE everyone with 100% certainty that fluidity for touch screens will be near perfect by 2030's, with massive improvements every two years or so until then. Computing power is fuckin crazy when you look at a graph of it.
If you look up Moore's Law graph or an exponential computational power graph of history you'll see what I'm talking about.
He claims that the buildings will have roofs covered in efficient solar panes, but those panels are shiny as hell, if it was really efficient it wouldn't reflect any light.
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