jgerman

That was the selling point for me. The Steam Deck lives next to my chair in the den so when I want to play a game I'm up in the family room with everyone else. It's super convenient.

We actually have two, one for me and one for my son (though he has a gaming laptop and tends to use that).

I've docked the deck and played games just fine on it as well, no regrets here, I love the thing.

You're correct. This project has a nominal goal and plan.

I'll be surprised if Kickstarter doesn't pull it.

Yes, there are certainly better ways to spend money if your goal is to educate kids than to throw thousands at one kid.

I'm actually shocked no one has reported it.

I don't buy it at all.

The text was clearly written by the mother, a self described entrepreneur.

I find it very hard to believe that this woman:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanawilson

Didn't come up with this as a scheme to make money, or that she couldn't afford to send her daughter to an $800 camp.

It smacks of a stunt to grab money. Anyone with any familiarity with kickstarter knows damn well that it's a lottery where some projects get vastly overfunded. What better way to make that happen than to make an emotional appeal to get people to give their money away. This is begging plain and simple.

I'd probably bet that they are. I use the iPad exclusively for my eBooks and 80-90% of my non-free books are on through the Kindle app.

Exact same situation with my wife as well as a few others we know.

It depends on if you have to switch to the tiered plan on upgrade.

It's a foolish purchase if you do, or if this is your first iPhone. 2Gb is nothing, particularly when they're pushing ads at you, and don't forget the game network is coming.

I'm installing an in dash GPS receive this week that will let me stream Pandora in my car, that's next to useless without unlimited.

Hell a poorly written app could blow through wads of data while you're at the doctor's office and you wouldn't know until too late.

The iPhone (and realistically all phones of this nature) need unlimited plans. AT&T is really screwing the customer here, and Apple as well.

At the very least they should have offered a $50 a month unlimited (or practically unlimited) plan.

They really need to open up the market and get some competition going.

Yes it can. It's not a cell phone, but it is capable of VOIP, even on 3G.

I've been reading on the iPad since release. It's not difficult to read on at all and I have yet to suffer any eye strain. You can read just fine in natural light, direct sunlight is the only real issue...sit under a tree.

The idea that the iPad is difficult to read on has been spread mostly by.. surprise surprise... people that haven't actually read on it.

I'm sure some people may not be able to look at the screen for long. They're the same people that can't look at any computer screen for long.

Yes, you can have glare issues on rare occasion. They're usually solved by shifting the iPad slightly.

Most of us stare at screen over 8 hours a day. I can understand if you want to go home and look at something else but honestly, it has yet to bother me.

The reason so few eBooks have been sold is because the selection is weak. The books I want are almost always in the Kindle store and are rarely in iBooks. However I still use my iPad to read those Kindle books.

Additionally, that's 1.5 books a person via iBooks alone, over a 4 week period, that doesn't count the Kindle purchases. That number seems pretty good to me.

I'm sure she's had a little experience, but the touch interface is really intuitive.

My daughter was less than a year old when we watched her unlock my wife's iPhone and start playing with it. It wasn't taught to her, it was just natural "mommy did this, then this, so I will too and it works".

This is precisely why I was waiting for this device, or one like it, and why my daughter is getting her own ;)

Nope, they are in transit. UPS could hold them when they get to the US, but currently they are on trucks and planes.

I'm getting tired of both sides of this argument, I'll be happy when the whole back and forth dies :). Rarely do you see a balanced opinion. Sometimes it's people that are fanatical about the new-ish NoSQL idea. Other times, like this, it's someone so stuck in their ways they think that everything but what they like is a fad and nothing will ever change.

One of the key things I look for when I interview developers is that they can recognize the right tool for the job. Potentials that get married to a technology or language are shown the door pretty quickly.

Also, as others have pointed out, this particular article seems to not quite understand the decisions involved, to the point of getting some things backwards.

OT but the bronze statue of the two "guys" with the coin... anyone know what that is? There is a similar style statute outside of the ICC in Indianapolis.