The EBook Reader Debate.
Friday 27 February 2009 at 8:17 pm
Been reading up on this, and of course a quick discussion with morduun too. For those who have missed it, the publishing business is all up in arms about the fact the Kindle2 does Text To Speech. And quite simply i think that this whole debate could have been 100% absolutely avoided if the advertising people behind the Kindle2 had a clue. If they'd just advertised it as a accessibility feature for the partially blind/blind people then no one wouldn't even looked twice at it. But nope instead they advertised it as a text to speech system on a ebooker reader. What can i say beyond "Idiots"
Anyway, in Course land another Computing and a Maths assessment turned in. Don't have the results back for the computing one yet. But on the maths i lost a few points because of not using "Mathematical English"
They were looking for something like:
The is a triangle, so has the area = 1/2 of base x height
= 1/2 x 10m x 12m
= 60m squared
and i wrote something like
10 x 12 = 120
120 / 2 = 60
So the area of the triangle is 60m squared
Stupidity loosing marks for that, but meh if I'd had my coursework BEFORE I'd done the assessment I'd have know how they'd wanted it.
Either way, i only actually lost 3 marks out of the entire assessment for it, just grating that absolutely none of them where for my actual maths solutions.
The above is purely an example btw, i way to lazy to type out a real one!
lol
Shadee - 02-03-’09 11:54kindle 2. I wish I was surprised but after hearing about the advertising business from Mord I can't say that I am XD And dohlosing points for that. that is kinda lame. Even if you didn’t put the exact terminology they wanted in, the method used is still very obvious and that’s all that should matter.