I hold people that choose to teacher in high regard. Several studies have shown the variable with the highest correlation to student performance is the quality of the teacher.
In most other industries, if you do not perform, you get fired. Why should teaching be different? I bet the really good teachers feel the same way.
In most school districts the only good paying jobs are in management. I have known several good teachers that went back to school so they could stop teaching and double their salary as a principal, or curriculum director, etc. We need to rebalance the pay, raising teachers salaries, and cutting in administration roles.
Schools are government organizations. Should they file charges against another government organization for spying? If this happened in the private sector, people would already be in jail.
Airlines make money by keeping the high priced airplanes in the air full of passengers. Some are better at controlling costs than others, requiring the poor performers to charge more to stay profitable. The biggest problem is airlines have lost some of the power to control ticket prices from everyone taking the lowest fair from travel sites. The easiest way for them to overcome this is to disrupt the pricing mechanism by hiding fees.
Although I believe NASA has become an inefficient bureaucracy, I don't see how any company could possibly get work done getting redirected as often as NASA does. Off to lobby for NASA to build something we can make in MY state!
One of the disasters on Android is that handset makers are allowed to make their own custom UI. Does HTC better google in some ways? Absolutely. But users and developers both need a consistent UI to use and design for.
As a consumer I really wanted to support Google's carrier independent supply chain by purchasing a Nexus 1, but the screen was terrible. Hoping to grab a newer HTC, but they have their own custom UI. May end up with the new iPhone after all.
Time for a trading tax? A previous employer of mine implemented a hefty fee if their funds were resold within a few days, exactly to try to stop automated trading of the normal small price fluctuation that happen all day (after NY AG sued about 50 firms for allowing it). It helped. The people it hurt were the mom and pops that simply wanted to balance their portfolio after some other event, and were basically locked in for a few weeks.
Netbook sales were already leveling off. Looking at the sales figures, they have continued their downward growth trend that started months before the iPad was released. I have no idea how this is stretched into an iPad effect.
The recession is easing, and people have more to spend on electronics, and are purchasing what they really wanted.
It appears two of the biggest computer manufacturers Dell and HP are mostly exiting the netbook market.
The only way to add margin is to own the OS. Otherwise it is simply who can lean out their supply chain the most in an attempt to create a hint of profit. Besides, tablet hardware is pretty simple and generic, all the magic is in the software.
I am personally considering another desktop after years of laptops for the ease of attaching 2 huge monitors (as a secondary machine to my laptop). Desktops have a long life ahead. But the number of people that change more than memory or hard drive in a computer is very small, so except for power users this is not an issue.
Same, piling on the engineer really turned me off. We all make mistakes, but luckily a huge blog is not poking fun at mine. RSS feeds and all bookmarks to their site are now removed from every computer in our house.
My several year old Dell 17" Laptop has 1920x1200 resolution (133 dpi?). Always wanted a great desktop monitor, but they all look so fuzzy. 1920x1080 is not nearly high enough on a 24" screen.
From a business perspective, why hasn't Nintendo already chased the education market?
But seriously, it is 2010, how about a device that has reasonable screen real estate and operating system?
We can build much better devices, even at a reasonable cost. Let us start with a screen big enough to read something on, at least 5" if not bigger. Second we need a programmable OS to run on these, Android, Win 7 new mobile OS, New Palm, even an apple tablet.
A couple years ago I would have thought great. Today I would be really upset if my school district spent my tax dollars on this.
Study after study come to the same conclusion, the single biggest factor in education bar none is the quality of the teacher. Yet we continue to put up with a system that makes firing teachers almost impossible. tenure should be illegal at any school that receives public tax dollars.
The second problem is the best teachers switch to management to almost double their salary, or simply choose a better paying career. We have allowed schools to become very top heavy, with fewer and fewer dollars actually getting to the classroom. The system needs rebalanced, more money to the teachers, less for management and other other secondary activities. We need and want healthy competition.
I don't get why anyone would argue for a closed Flash from a single vendor, when there is a capable open option in HTML 5. The sooner we all move on the better.
My understanding is that to receive a student Visa in the US, you have to promise NOT to attempt to get a job here after graduation. Why are we trying to send the best(?) educated people in the world to other countries to innovate? If I was president, anyone with a master or doctorate degree from an accredited US university could live and work here as long as they like with a only a background check.
We need a more transparent system. The subsidy during contract period in a perfect world would be spelled out, and you could see your balance dropping as it is "paid off". Once the subsidy is up it should drop off your monthly bill.
But this is clearly not in the carriers best interest for 2 reasons, people like to think they are getting something free, and the carriers would lose their free money once the contract is up.
I am hoping this is a very compelling phone not sold through carriers
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I hold people that choose to teacher in high regard. Several studies have shown the variable with the highest correlation to student performance is the quality of the teacher.
In most other industries, if you do not perform, you get fired. Why should teaching be different? I bet the really good teachers feel the same way.
In most school districts the only good paying jobs are in management. I have known several good teachers that went back to school so they could stop teaching and double their salary as a principal, or curriculum director, etc. We need to rebalance the pay, raising teachers salaries, and cutting in administration roles.
Schools are government organizations. Should they file charges against another government organization for spying? If this happened in the private sector, people would already be in jail.
Airlines make money by keeping the high priced airplanes in the air full of passengers. Some are better at controlling costs than others, requiring the poor performers to charge more to stay profitable. The biggest problem is airlines have lost some of the power to control ticket prices from everyone taking the lowest fair from travel sites. The easiest way for them to overcome this is to disrupt the pricing mechanism by hiding fees.
Although I believe NASA has become an inefficient bureaucracy, I don't see how any company could possibly get work done getting redirected as often as NASA does. Off to lobby for NASA to build something we can make in MY state!
One of the disasters on Android is that handset makers are allowed to make their own custom UI. Does HTC better google in some ways? Absolutely. But users and developers both need a consistent UI to use and design for.
As a consumer I really wanted to support Google's carrier independent supply chain by purchasing a Nexus 1, but the screen was terrible. Hoping to grab a newer HTC, but they have their own custom UI. May end up with the new iPhone after all.
Time for a trading tax? A previous employer of mine implemented a hefty fee if their funds were resold within a few days, exactly to try to stop automated trading of the normal small price fluctuation that happen all day (after NY AG sued about 50 firms for allowing it). It helped. The people it hurt were the mom and pops that simply wanted to balance their portfolio after some other event, and were basically locked in for a few weeks.
Netbook sales were already leveling off. Looking at the sales figures, they have continued their downward growth trend that started months before the iPad was released. I have no idea how this is stretched into an iPad effect.
The only way to add margin is to own the OS. Otherwise it is simply who can lean out their supply chain the most in an attempt to create a hint of profit. Besides, tablet hardware is pretty simple and generic, all the magic is in the software.
I am personally considering another desktop after years of laptops for the ease of attaching 2 huge monitors (as a secondary machine to my laptop). Desktops have a long life ahead. But the number of people that change more than memory or hard drive in a computer is very small, so except for power users this is not an issue.
Same, piling on the engineer really turned me off. We all make mistakes, but luckily a huge blog is not poking fun at mine. RSS feeds and all bookmarks to their site are now removed from every computer in our house.
My several year old Dell 17" Laptop has 1920x1200 resolution (133 dpi?). Always wanted a great desktop monitor, but they all look so fuzzy. 1920x1080 is not nearly high enough on a 24" screen.
Branding.
1) Crappy Hardware. They countered this with even crappier?
2) Too slow getting real development kit out. The App store is a huge advantage for Apple, and Android is closing fast.
3) Lame marketing from TV ads to Sprint exclusivity.
4) Sending another companies USB identifier from your device, and then whining about it to the USB consortium. And they expected what to happen?
Jon may be great at software, but a great CEO he is not.
No wonder they needed budget meetings.
From a business perspective, why hasn't Nintendo already chased the education market?
But seriously, it is 2010, how about a device that has reasonable screen real estate and operating system?
We can build much better devices, even at a reasonable cost. Let us start with a screen big enough to read something on, at least 5" if not bigger. Second we need a programmable OS to run on these, Android, Win 7 new mobile OS, New Palm, even an apple tablet.
A couple years ago I would have thought great. Today I would be really upset if my school district spent my tax dollars on this.
Sad if true. Although Silicon Valley Insider is one of the least reputable blogs on the net.
We canceled our Directv a couple years ago when the rates went up. They simply priced their way out of our home.
Study after study come to the same conclusion, the single biggest factor in education bar none is the quality of the teacher. Yet we continue to put up with a system that makes firing teachers almost impossible. tenure should be illegal at any school that receives public tax dollars.
The second problem is the best teachers switch to management to almost double their salary, or simply choose a better paying career. We have allowed schools to become very top heavy, with fewer and fewer dollars actually getting to the classroom. The system needs rebalanced, more money to the teachers, less for management and other other secondary activities. We need and want healthy competition.
I don't get why anyone would argue for a closed Flash from a single vendor, when there is a capable open option in HTML 5. The sooner we all move on the better.
Very high quality realistic designs are already flying, one of my favorite is the Yuneec e430
Power Corrupts.... What was the question?
My understanding is that to receive a student Visa in the US, you have to promise NOT to attempt to get a job here after graduation. Why are we trying to send the best(?) educated people in the world to other countries to innovate? If I was president, anyone with a master or doctorate degree from an accredited US university could live and work here as long as they like with a only a background check.
So.... Apparently the site is dead on with this "childish" claim?
How about sell me the phone for a fair price, I buy cell service at a fair price? Why is this so hard?
We need a more transparent system. The subsidy during contract period in a perfect world would be spelled out, and you could see your balance dropping as it is "paid off". Once the subsidy is up it should drop off your monthly bill.
But this is clearly not in the carriers best interest for 2 reasons, people like to think they are getting something free, and the carriers would lose their free money once the contract is up.
I am hoping this is a very compelling phone not sold through carriers