This is absolutely amazing. I never even thought of this as being one of the benefits of mass smart phone deployment.

McSweeney, what you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your…

If they REALLY want to shut people up they need to release a video of their beef being prepared in whatever factory/facility that's actually used for the stuff the public eats.

@Platypus Man: I just hope they implement them correctly because I'm sure a LOT of people are watching them. And they aren't just kids like us talking about it in tech blogs, they're people that actually make these decisions. It really could effect the implementation of computers/tablets into schools.

@Rich J: Ha, howe'd that conversation go? "Hey dick head, that was my car you just hit, thanks for being a stand up guy and not just taking off"

@Erik The Red: No I'm just referring to the general 16 year old ;)

@rlong: Well I'll just explain where I'm getting that statement from.

Being someone that lives in Utah, I can easily explain Salt Lake's SEEMINGLY terrible score.

@yoda2: Ha yeah, he saw that it was me that owned the car and had his (much larger) friend walk up to give me the news. I kept on telling him how awesome it was that he actually waited for me and manned up to it, and that I would make sure everything went as smooth as possible so he didn't regret it. I took a picture…

@Platypus Man: [WARNING! TL;DR ALERT!]

Sorry but when I see people bitch about trivial aspects like this on expensive cars, it just makes the person bitching sound incredibly jealous. If it was some Mazda that had no business on the ring, then yeah it's lame, but not on this car.

ZERO wasted energy on wheel slip.. Might not sound as exciting as sitting there and peeling out, but it's a LOT harder to launch that perfectly.

One time I was driving my 335i around town and I passed by a new empty parking lot with really good lighting so I decided to pull into it and take some night shots I'd wanted for a while. I took a couple of the driver side bumper/hood and some closeups of the driver side angel eye headlights. Right after I finished, a…

@daschupa: That's the beauty of the iPad. Put on a thick rubber case and you could throw it at the ground without anything breaking because there's ZERO moving parts inside.

@icfan: If you're seriously arguing that making kids use outdated text books because the digital ones might be "compromised", all I can say is that you're very clearly paranoid beyond a reasonable level.

@Platypus Man: No decent ways to lock them down? Without an account password you can't install or update ANYTHING.

@schunniky: The problem isn't so much the hardware, it's the content. The reason a "magical" device is so important is because it generates interest in the idea. If schools start to take after the one mentioned in the post it will send a direct message to the educational content creators that they need to get with the…

@shimanopower: Did you SERIOUSLY just get on here and leave a comment like that? You might as well have said the same thing back in 2000 about Google. Tablets, whether from Apple or not, are ABSOLUTELY the future of computing in general. Every major player in the industry knows that. Why do you think there was…

@kafka666: That is totally, completely, FALSE. They are absolutely designed for producing. The ONLY way I could see someone saying that is if the only exposure to one they've had is maybe playing with one for a minute or two and reading about them on tech blogs.

This is an asinine argument. It's a chicken or the egg scenario. Until schools show REAL demand, not just wishful thinking, school oriented content will take forever to make it's way to the iPad/tablets. The fact is iPads have HUGE potential to help students learn far more efficiently than any methods we've ever known…