On the heels of Apples e-textbook announcement in New York City this week, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced the results of its “HMC Fuse: Algebra I” pilot program at Ameila Earhart Middle School in Californias Riverside Unified School District. The Algebra I digital textbook is touted as the worlds first full-curriculum algebra application developed exclusively for Apples iPad.In its test … Read More »
Forgot I watched this movie as well during our holiday break…I think that’s a good enough review. … Read More »
The kindle has been around for a long time and I’d imagine that they’d have a refined UI, it’s not the case with the Kindle Touch. There are times when navigating around gets very frustrating, at very least the touch interface makes it easier but it’s still frustrating none the less.
Since the Kindle is for reading…it’s does an excellent job, however it gets very awkward to hold with a single hand because you need to touch the screen to flip the page.
The one major complaint is how it allows for chapter navigation by swiping up or down, it’s too easy to do this accidentally and the result is … Read More »
First fiction book I’ve read in a really long time; another first, it’s the first book I’ve read on my Kindle Touch.
The story dragged in the beginning but very integrating after 20%…plots started unfolding and rooting for characters started.
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I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie since I made the goal to read the book before watching the movie. Like many book to movie translations, readers of the book will be disappointed. The changes they made to fit a 600+ page book into a two hour movie were tolerable but the changes in the story and character oversight in some critical pieces were not.
Book aside – this was a great movie and is highly recommended. … Read More »
Horrible movie only little kids that can’t watch War Horse would enjoy. … Read More »
Really great movie. The graphics take a while to get accustomed to, sort of like a 3D movie. … Read More »
Unfortunately, the system still lacks much of the fine polish that iOS users enjoy. The majority of Android users will probably think such criticism is bullshit, but that has always been the case. I imagine it’s probably hard for a Mercedes owner to describe to a Honda owner how attention to detail makes their driving experience better when both machines get them from point A to point B. As a Honda owner myself, I’m not sure I would buy it — I’d have to experience it to understand it, I imagine. And most Android lovers are not going to spend enough time with iOS to fully appreciate the differences.
Perfect.
via An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus | TechCrunch.
Interesting interview with Sheena Iyengar:
About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display, and then at the times when we had 6 different flavors of jam out on display only 40% of the people actually stopped, so more people were clearly attracted to the larger varieties of options, but then when it came down to buying, so the second thing we looked at is in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam.
What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam, whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam. So, if you do the math, people were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that’s what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.
via Daring Fireball Linked List: Too Many Choices.
I wanted to see this in the theaters and I really regret not seeing it earlier. This movie was excellent.
After reading up on the next movie I was reminded about the Planet remake a while back with Marky Mark, I’m so glad I forgot about that movie. What I do remember is the classics, it’s been a very long time but I watched every one of those Ape movies and this prequel seems to keep a lot of the tie ins to make it a true prequel. This … Read More »
