That is still much less money than I spent on textbooks in college with a thousand times more value.

How many people did you know with an iPod when iTunes was launched?

They just announced HS textbooks will be $14.99 or less. That is much cheaper.

They just announced $14.99 or LESS for High School textbooks. That is ridiculously cheap.

$14.99 or less. That is MUCH cheaper.

Are you seriously complaining that they dropped the price of textbooks from regularly being over a $100 to being under $15?

It depresses me how pessimistic and hateful comments are on tech sites. For once I want to see responses that are optimistic, idealistic, and hopeful for the future.

The textbooks will probably be much cheaper than that as well as staying up to date instead of becoming old and ratty and only getting $10 back when you return it to the school store.

Ignoring the cost of the iPad, they should actually become a lot cheaper.

Well updating books should be cheaper on this after the initial investment. The textbooks are cheaper in the first place, and you don't have to buy a whole new edition every year to be up to date.

How is this at the cost to the taxpayer?

Yet it still does 99% of what 99% of people want a computer to do. That's all that matters.

The way data is sold in the US (I dunno how they do it elsewhere) is such bullshit.

Good, Yelp is not doing any significant feature development. They need some proper competition to kick them in the ass. The interface at www.foursquare.com/explore is much nicer than Yelp's search and results.

It should say that this is all opt-in, not opt-out.

No it's because people are stupid and just click through whatever they see to get to their article. A number of news sites have a portal when linking from Facebook that asks if you want to turn on Timeline notifications. You can say no, but people clearly just hit the big blue yes button.

So hearted for that. For a second I thought you were being serious.

Yeah, that's the one! I also bought the guide to droids, planets/moons, people, and weapons maybe? I was a Star Wars obsessive when I was young.

It is a good place to start and find primary/scholarly sources. It is also a good place to brainstorm ideas for a paper or project. Most students know that citing wikipedia will get them a massive fail from their professor.

Is it the orange one? They made a new edition later that replaced the awesome technical drawings with some silly 3D renders to appeal to kids who don't understand what 2D is.