I work for a school system with 21,000 student/teacher machines. We are just now moving to XP (we REQUIRE stable platforms) and some of our machines choke on the amount of software loaded with XP on a 512MB box (5 years old). For us to go to Vista would be a FOUR YEAR conversion and cost much bucks for the hardware requirements. Remember we are funded from YOUR taxes so we have to get by with minimum platforms, unlike a business.At home I have a high end machine with a vista license running XP, and will NEVER run Vista. Oh, one more thing, with multiple (up to 200 user profiles in the labs) user environment and the user controls in vista, it is my belief that Vista would be a HUGH impact in our "customers" usage especially with the k-4 grade users. Try vista with your kids..... BTW we support the 21k(soon to be 22k) machines with 4 engineers, 12 Network specialists and 12 PC technicians (28 people/22000 machines=786 machines/person in 76 locations)
this IS censorship. In the general sense most of you are correct, this is NOT censorship. HOWEVER, if the only internet access you have is through a "G" rated ISP, then they are censoring your internet. An for all of you that will say get dialup, been there and done that and it sucks. To me it is not a question of whether I want to search for p0rn or not, and I do not, but sometimes my former job required me to look at certain sites that hide behind the p0rn sites (white hat tracking of exploits from hacker/cracker sites). As an adult, I can make the choices to view or not view ANY site. This is "feel good" legislature, as was stated by a previous poster. I also believe that it will be tough to impose the fines. If parents are concerned about what little Johnny or Suzie is seeing on the internet, there are programs to monitor that and they should be aware of what they are doing on the web. THAT is part of parenting. And to those of you that will say I do not know what it is to parent, I have two children who grewup with the internet and I currently work in a school system and have made this presentation more then once.
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I work for a school system with 21,000 student/teacher machines. We are just now moving to XP (we REQUIRE stable platforms) and some of our machines choke on the amount of software loaded with XP on a 512MB box (5 years old). For us to go to Vista would be a FOUR YEAR conversion and cost much bucks for the hardware requirements. Remember we are funded from YOUR taxes so we have to get by with minimum platforms, unlike a business.At home I have a high end machine with a vista license running XP, and will NEVER run Vista. Oh, one more thing, with multiple (up to 200 user profiles in the labs) user environment and the user controls in vista, it is my belief that Vista would be a HUGH impact in our "customers" usage especially with the k-4 grade users. Try vista with your kids..... BTW we support the 21k(soon to be 22k) machines with 4 engineers, 12 Network specialists and 12 PC technicians (28 people/22000 machines=786 machines/person in 76 locations)
this IS censorship. In the general sense most of you are correct, this is NOT censorship. HOWEVER, if the only internet access you have is through a "G" rated ISP, then they are censoring your internet. An for all of you that will say get dialup, been there and done that and it sucks. To me it is not a question of whether I want to search for p0rn or not, and I do not, but sometimes my former job required me to look at certain sites that hide behind the p0rn sites (white hat tracking of exploits from hacker/cracker sites). As an adult, I can make the choices to view or not view ANY site. This is "feel good" legislature, as was stated by a previous poster. I also believe that it will be tough to impose the fines. If parents are concerned about what little Johnny or Suzie is seeing on the internet, there are programs to monitor that and they should be aware of what they are doing on the web. THAT is part of parenting. And to those of you that will say I do not know what it is to parent, I have two children who grewup with the internet and I currently work in a school system and have made this presentation more then once.