I got a different impression from the title: that this is a report of the first day of the (dramatically named) Microsoft Incident. In this interpretation, which is confirmed by OP's comment [0], the title matches the content.
I can only offer an emphatic YES. I think that there are enough geeks out there that would like to see this monopoly broken that I predict a Kickstarter would be a rousing success.
Even if you build a decent clone, it will be hard to break the monopoly due to one key feature: reliable factory reset. Teachers will require a device that can be reliably reset of all user data to prevent cheating. If the student can hide or mask the factory reset, it will never be approved for testing, and thus will never be approved for classroom use.
I think I would explain that it's a placebo and instead suggest verbally banning students from using their calculators for evil, then discipline them when they do so.
It won't be for a while (KnightOS can't even do math right now, but it is a passable unix system), but I will continue the research and perhaps work towards that goal. The biggest concern I have is that I am only an amateur EE and I don't know if I could take people's money for something I may not succeed at.
That distinction is likely to die out, given that lots of other English words that used to predominantly or only use the same form in singular and plural are steadily moving towards separate plural form.
This discussion hearkens back to the current investigation into John Swallow, the former Attorney General of Utah who resigned less than a year into his term and is currently the subject of multiple investigations.
I too experienced a plethora of lucid dreaming through my early twenties. Sometimes I would have a few a night for weeks. They tapered off gradually and I have maybe a few a year now (I'm 35).
Many were tied with sleep paralysis, which didn't give me the fear that most people associate with it. Sometimes I could extract my preceptual self from my body and experience walking around the room in a weird lucid dream world. All while simultaneously being aware of my pysical body lying in bed.
Wow, so similar. My first lucid dreams were initiated during sleep paralysis. Initially, these episodes were absolutely terrifying (i felt like I was suffocating). Lucid dreaming cured me of this fear .. once I realize i'm in a dream I can change the scenario to something more pleasant.
Or just fly away through the window ;)
I feel sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming are deeply linked phenomena.
