Can schools really afford all of this high-fallutin' technology? Seems like they are addicted to spending money on stupid crap. Look at their history of wasteful spending over the last 40 years: First it was calculators. Total junk. What's wrong with long division by hand? Graph quadratic equations using graphing paper fer godssakes. That's why it's called graphic paper, right? Then it was educational videos on projectors. In my day, we drew the blood flow of the circulatory system frame by frame on papyrus and animated it ourselves using a candle in a darkened room. And just when you think it's all over, computers arrive. God knows them damn things are always breaking down - always have to be re-calibrated and updated. No one uses them in the real world anyway. And now this table. Can't see any good in getting kids to get a head start on using touch-based computing instead of the tried-and-true point-and-click. I mean, what's next? Teaching kids that the world is round?
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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Can schools really afford all of this high-fallutin' technology? Seems like they are addicted to spending money on stupid crap. Look at their history of wasteful spending over the last 40 years: First it was calculators. Total junk. What's wrong with long division by hand? Graph quadratic equations using graphing paper fer godssakes. That's why it's called graphic paper, right? Then it was educational videos on projectors. In my day, we drew the blood flow of the circulatory system frame by frame on papyrus and animated it ourselves using a candle in a darkened room. And just when you think it's all over, computers arrive. God knows them damn things are always breaking down - always have to be re-calibrated and updated. No one uses them in the real world anyway. And now this table. Can't see any good in getting kids to get a head start on using touch-based computing instead of the tried-and-true point-and-click. I mean, what's next? Teaching kids that the world is round?
Man, the 21st century is so scarrrrrrrrrry.....
Yeah, but what about your lawn?