I see the same thing in education. My school system bought into Apple very heavily years ago, and now can't get out. Our servers our Apple. Most teachers use iMac laptops. However, need to teach business classes -- need a PC. Want to run the district accounting software? Need a PC. Now, need those PCs to play nice with the servers? That's a problem. My state just received word of a 3.5% reduction in state funding. But will we go to a FOSS server? Nope. Will we leave MS Office behind (along with its horrible fees) in favor of Open Office? Nope. Will we continue to manage our own email system when Google gives management away for free to education? Of course not. It's Baby Duck Syndrome (BDS); implant on the first thing you see. Without education's slavish attachment to Apple, I'm not sure where they would be either.
Have you ever tried to get into an area where the flight is going to Israel? Drop by the Frankfurt airport and try to dawdle around the secure areas. Even a transit in Turkey can be a bit painful. Those armed vehicles outside the airport in Athens aren't the most welcoming of sights. It's just a condition of wanting to fly into/our of those places. As someone already said, if you don't want the hassle of U.S. rules, just avoid us. Lots of very nice boats can get you where you want to go. We won't fly over sovereign air space (look at the hoops we have to jump through to get planes into Afghanistan -- but don't start please on that thread); we respect, for example, Russia's right to keep us out of their air. Yes the TSA people could do with a bit more professionalism at times, but I've found the bulk of them to be courteous and professional. And yes, we Americans need to get over ourselves. And yes, we need a better world view when it comes to simple things like understanding people's names. But can and should we set rules and procedures that we feel protect our country? You bet.
Again, I agree their pay is abysmal when compared to their responsibilities and the qualifications we need from them. I can't help but feel our schools'd be in far better shape if we fired, say, 80% or so of the administration and gave their salaries to the teachers.
I'm a teacher. I don't get paid what I deserve. I do not get summers off. We have to attend professional development courses to keep our licenses current -- paid for by us. We have to get ready for the new year and the new classes. The summer is full of work-related stuff: course preparation, reading new texts, developing new lesson plans, getting the technology in place and ready to go the first day students sit down to it. In short, yes there are lot of other people who work long hours, but I challenge any one of them to my 11 hour day, then another 2/3 hours of grading most evenings. The grading continues into the weekend. Don't forget the teachers who take on the added responsibility of summer school.
Sorry, you're "don't work year-round" statement hit a button.
Jewels of information like this are called EEIFIs (E - Fees) -essential elements of friendly information. They are bits of unclassified information that combine to become real intelligence. Some tool was responsible for the leak of the designs of the Presidential helicopter awhile back. They can have serious consequences when all brought together. Stuff like this is why we need a cyber-command; too many idiots doing idiot things. This stuff is real. You can bet there's some serious work being done to revamp emergency plans. Don't get me started on the integrity of the people who freely release this information.
but what about all those "Law and Order" episodes dealing with the subject. What better, more reliable source material could you possibly be asking for?
By that argument we should probably require all employees of any publicly traded company to make their genetic sequence available publicly, plus briefs about any potentially dangerous hobbies they may have. Better throw in data about their relationships too. Nothing impairs performance like trouble at home.
This "publicly traded company" nonsense is used to justify too much. "Medical problems" is more than enough for the shareholders and the public.
But isn't the fact that so much of Apple is tied up in Jobs (will Apple even survive without his innovation) the thing that makes him "different" from other companies?
The High School English book I teach from coses $59.00. We use the book for seven years. Cost of the text is spread out over those 7 years. Cost to student $9 or so. In Indiana, we charge the parent for the books their child[ren] use/s. There's the initial outlay but much of that is recouped through the annual rental fees.
Sorry to pick on you grammer nazi but if your going to do it right you should follow your own advice
Yes, "YOUR" right his "GRAMMER" was teh sux, also while we're at it when you say you could care less you imply that you do care about the issue, as you have the ability to care less than you currently do about it.
Get a brane, moran!
believe you meant to say "YOUR (sic) CORRECT. Right implies directionality.
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I see the same thing in education. My school system bought into Apple very heavily years ago, and now can't get out. Our servers our Apple. Most teachers use iMac laptops. However, need to teach business classes -- need a PC. Want to run the district accounting software? Need a PC. Now, need those PCs to play nice with the servers? That's a problem. My state just received word of a 3.5% reduction in state funding. But will we go to a FOSS server? Nope. Will we leave MS Office behind (along with its horrible fees) in favor of Open Office? Nope. Will we continue to manage our own email system when Google gives management away for free to education? Of course not. It's Baby Duck Syndrome (BDS); implant on the first thing you see. Without education's slavish attachment to Apple, I'm not sure where they would be either.
Have you ever tried to get into an area where the flight is going to Israel? Drop by the Frankfurt airport and try to dawdle around the secure areas. Even a transit in Turkey can be a bit painful. Those armed vehicles outside the airport in Athens aren't the most welcoming of sights. It's just a condition of wanting to fly into/our of those places. As someone already said, if you don't want the hassle of U.S. rules, just avoid us. Lots of very nice boats can get you where you want to go. We won't fly over sovereign air space (look at the hoops we have to jump through to get planes into Afghanistan -- but don't start please on that thread); we respect, for example, Russia's right to keep us out of their air. Yes the TSA people could do with a bit more professionalism at times, but I've found the bulk of them to be courteous and professional. And yes, we Americans need to get over ourselves. And yes, we need a better world view when it comes to simple things like understanding people's names. But can and should we set rules and procedures that we feel protect our country? You bet.
why not run in *NIX too?
Teachers on average make less than $50,000/year doing one of the most publicly scrutinized, emotionally demanding jobs in the USA.
Wrong link. You meant to point to this page, I think. (Your page addresses the salaries of probation officers, agricultural inspectors, and lots of other jobs, but not teachers.) The AFT's numbers show that schoolteachers, on average, make -slightly more- than $50,000/year. While I agree they're badly underpaid, one should also bear in mind that they don't work year-round and get much more vacation than most workers. They do work long hours, but so does everyone else.
Again, I agree their pay is abysmal when compared to their responsibilities and the qualifications we need from them. I can't help but feel our schools'd be in far better shape if we fired, say, 80% or so of the administration and gave their salaries to the teachers.
I'm a teacher. I don't get paid what I deserve. I do not get summers off. We have to attend professional development courses to keep our licenses current -- paid for by us. We have to get ready for the new year and the new classes. The summer is full of work-related stuff: course preparation, reading new texts, developing new lesson plans, getting the technology in place and ready to go the first day students sit down to it. In short, yes there are lot of other people who work long hours, but I challenge any one of them to my 11 hour day, then another 2/3 hours of grading most evenings. The grading continues into the weekend. Don't forget the teachers who take on the added responsibility of summer school. Sorry, you're "don't work year-round" statement hit a button.
Jewels of information like this are called EEIFIs (E - Fees) -essential elements of friendly information. They are bits of unclassified information that combine to become real intelligence. Some tool was responsible for the leak of the designs of the Presidential helicopter awhile back. They can have serious consequences when all brought together. Stuff like this is why we need a cyber-command; too many idiots doing idiot things. This stuff is real. You can bet there's some serious work being done to revamp emergency plans. Don't get me started on the integrity of the people who freely release this information.
but what about all those "Law and Order" episodes dealing with the subject. What better, more reliable source material could you possibly be asking for?
By that argument we should probably require all employees of any publicly traded company to make their genetic sequence available publicly, plus briefs about any potentially dangerous hobbies they may have. Better throw in data about their relationships too. Nothing impairs performance like trouble at home.
This "publicly traded company" nonsense is used to justify too much. "Medical problems" is more than enough for the shareholders and the public.
But isn't the fact that so much of Apple is tied up in Jobs (will Apple even survive without his innovation) the thing that makes him "different" from other companies?
The High School English book I teach from coses $59.00. We use the book for seven years. Cost of the text is spread out over those 7 years. Cost to student $9 or so. In Indiana, we charge the parent for the books their child[ren] use/s. There's the initial outlay but much of that is recouped through the annual rental fees.
Sorry to pick on you grammer nazi but if your going to do it right you should follow your own advice
Yes, "YOUR" right his "GRAMMER" was teh sux, also while we're at it when you say you could care less you imply that you do care about the issue, as you have the ability to care less than you currently do about it. Get a brane, moran!
believe you meant to say "YOUR (sic) CORRECT. Right implies directionality.