Asterisk + Wireless network + Laptops + Webcams + Subscriptions + Nationwide (Worldwide?) network of on-call interpreters for lots of languages.
They were surprised to find that people using ordinary calculators got the wrong answer 51% of the time. […] For example when working out the answer to 4 x -5 it is easy to end up with the answer -1 instead of the correct answer of -20. People using the new device, by comparison, got wrong answers only 19% of the time and this was due to inaccurate character recognition, an error that is easy to spot and so correct.
For the past decade the Faculty has had a serious attrition problem, which is now about to become disastrous. These changes will allow some students to fail more courses before being required to leave Honours or the Faculty, but will also encourage students to repeat courses with poor grades that are prerequisites for other required courses. It will allow students who begin disastrously to recover without having seriously impaired averages dragging them down. It will also allow students who discover in second or third year that they are in the wrong major to eliminate some of the bad grades from their effective record, to avoid carrying that burden into a new major.
So how much will you get? And is it worth the work? As I said, I don’t know how much you’ll get. I can give you a few tools for making a Wild Assed Guess.
An idea for a new business can strike anywhere: In the shower, in the car, even in a dream. Mike Jetter got his in a cancer ward.
Lesson number one from Excite is about timing in a technology business.
“Being early is the same as being wrong,” says Mr Kraus.