That's because we've grown accustom to Collectivism (corporates, unions, voting "blocks") rather than politics based on Liberties and Justice. Collectives will always bargain away the liberties of others for self serving short term "safety".
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Ben Franklin
So, when you see your "collective" attacking the liberties of others, speak out. It doesn't matter if you're (D) or (R), liberal or conservative.
As a "technology person" at a school district, here is my answers to your suggestions....
Computers: If they help people LEARN, by all means. If you're teaching "computers" to teach "computers" that is self fulfilling. You don't teach "blackboards" so people can use "blackboards". Teach knowledge. Teach Page layout, not Microsoft Word (and you'll realize how bad MSWord really is).
iPads: If they replace expensive books with and cost less than a set of textbooks for a student... then yes. If they can augment deficient learning.. then yes. Otherwise... NO. I'm actually hoping that one day to have Textbooks and created by people using Creative Commons licensing, where there is NO cost to put a copy on the iPad.
Cell Phones and iPods: NO... period. For the reasons you state.
Of course you're modded "insightful" when you're really not. You don't study counterfeits to know the real thing, you study the real thing, then you can recognize the counterfeit, regardless of the conditions. You can study nothing but counterfeits and not ever look at the real thing, and when you're finally presented with the real thing, you'll never know... unless someone told you.
So what you're saying is that we've gone from "give me liberty or give me death" to "don't throw me in jail because it will make me uncomfortable".
As to your last question. YES IT IS WORTH IT. Liberty is always worth the penalty for it, the other option is to acquiesce to slavery. This is no different. Tyranny must be fought with everything we have, because the other options aren't pretty.
Recently an effort to get 9/11 responders free healthcare coverage failed because it would have closed a tax loophole for large corporations, and some republicans said illegal immigrants could be covered.
Quite frankly, isn't everyone going to get all the healthcare they need with ObamaCare?;)
Okay, I jest. But seriously, if the bill was about doing just ONE THING, creating a healthcare fund for GZ cleanup and first responders, the (D) could have done it with Broad Bi-partisan support.
I'm sorry, the (D) are as incompetent as the (R). And for all their "good intentions", they BOTH are taking us on the proverbial road to hell.
There are no differences between the (D) and (R) parties from where I sit.
Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice.
What you call incompetence I see as Evil. Realistically the results are identical, so it doesn't matter.
And with ObamaCare, that is gonna change. And I can assure you, that I will NOT be getting a good deal with ObamaCare.
HealthCare Benefits and Retirement package are part of the reason I took a lower paying position than I would get in the private sector. If that goes away, my incentive to work for public sector quickly goes away.
Where I work, we're trying hard to come to grips with "licensing issues". I can assure you, I'm on of the biggest proponent for things like OpenOffice and other Open Source products.
The reason why people spend money on things like licensing is because they "Need" it, and IT has no say in that decision.
Most of the people in IT that I know, are not that "risk adverse", it is people in high profile and elected offices that direct the rest of us.
Well, when the race card is played, it is like crying "child molester". You can deny it all you want, but the stench of "racist" or "child molester" never goes away.
Which is why it is hurled in the first place. It makes for a nice boogieman, and everything else becomes irrelevant.
t's not what Bush and the right wingers say that I have problems with,it's what they do.
When you can say the same thing about the shenanigans of the (D) you'll have proper outlook. There is no difference between the (D) and the (R) parties in regards to how despicable the things they do are. It is called Politics.
So much for "draining the swamp". It is clear that the only way to "drain the swamp" is for us, the voters, to do it.
I wonder how charitable you'd be if all those things were... say... GWB? or some "right wing" candidate?
And by the look of the link you provided I can see you're not. I've not seen the ad by Angle, but I suppose it shows illegal immigrants flowing over the southern border and Gasp, HORROR they're all "brown", must be racism. It can't be anything else that Racist White People scared of brown people! Those Racist Teabaggers.
(never mind Rubio of Florida completely breaks the case that Tea Partiers hating "brown people").
All the real racists I know are (D), they call themselves by Racist Names. Some were even members of the KKK, but get a pass simply by being liberal enough for the left wing. I'd think you all would be past the "racist" thing by now, but you're losing so it is time to break out the old favorite card of the left. Next up, Grandma eating dog food, and "do it for the children".
But don't you realize that Murdoch is "right wing extremism" and that is bad, but people like Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr are okay because he's left wing?
When people troll on about "Faux News" and Murdock I simply point to the problems with other "news" organizations that don't report certain news stories because it doesn't fit the narrative of the left. Which is why people should get the news raw and and unfiltered.
And the internet provides a very broad voice for news accounts of important events and stories. Some are slanted left, others right, and somewhere there is the truth. It is out there, you just have to learn to filter out the bias.
I work in Public Sector, I like my job, I work hard, and I'm not paid very well for what I do (51K/yr) I haven't had a pay raise in two years, and this year they are requiring three furlough days (pay cut). Next year, they're saying four.
I realize that is is popular to criticize Public Employees as being lazy and overpaid Union drones, but guys in IT at the Public Sector are often the exception.
I realize that times are tough, and with unemployment hovering at (or hidden) above 10%, I'm just thankful I have a job.
I know exactly what kinds of posts get modded insightful, and what get modded "troll". I've had excellent Karma, and I've had bad karma. Currently it is "good". Not sure if I'll ever get "excellent" again, but here's to hoping.
I don't care about Karma too much. I care, just not too much.
Repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
As long as Microsoft is trying to shoehorn Windows anything onto a touch device, it is doomed to fail. Windows was not designed for a touch device, except possibly as an after thought. Microsoft can't stop thinking they are a "Windows" company.
One would think by now that they would do the practical thing and consider the platform from the ground up, bu they didn't do that over the last 10 years.
They can't. They are WINDOWS based, and think only in terms of WINDOWS. That is their Achilles
Which is why they are going to die a slow death. And it started two years or three years ago (if not before). I saw the warning signs in 2003. Windows is a flat stable market, it has nothing "new" to offer, nor can it.
Putting Windows anything on a tablet, because it can run "legacy" apps is just stupid. It is NOT a legacy product, and if shouldn't be treated as such.
However, Microsoft COULD have come up with a OS that could be tied to AD (their best product, as bloated as it is) and controlled by Policy that ran on Tablets that wasn't "Windows". But they didn't, and they can't. THEY are WINDOWS. Everything they do is for WINDOWS. And as long as they think in terms of WINDOWS they are doomed to eventual failure, because WINDOWS doesn't do what people need on 4x5 inch screens or 9" tablets.
In short, they've stopped being a "technology company", or "software company" and have become a "Windows Software Company". This is the same problem "railroad companies" faced, thinking they were in the Railroad business, when in fact, they were in the Transportation business.
And this is why Apple is the #2 company in the world (Market Cap) and fast approaching #1 (Exxon), they aren't in the "Macintosh" business. If I was on the board of directors with Microsoft, I'd fire Balmer and find someone that had a vision of what kind of company Microsoft could be. I'd volunteer, but I doubt they'd pick a dumb idiot from the sticks like me.
Our standard at work is XP for 32 bit (under 3.6GB Ram), and Win 7 for 64bit (>=4GB Ram).
Right now, XP barely functions in 512 or less, One Gig is needed for most, 2 GB seems to be the sweet spot.
I wouldn't run Win 7 on anything less that 3GB ram, and 4 is my minimum recommended. If you get 4, you might as well make it 64 bit to get the value.
In fact, if I were Microsoft, I would have made that distinction from the beginning. Kept selling XP for lower powered CPUs and lower RAM levels, and Win 7 64 bit only (no 32 bit version). It would have kept people happy during the transition from XP to 7.
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That's because we've grown accustom to Collectivism (corporates, unions, voting "blocks") rather than politics based on Liberties and Justice. Collectives will always bargain away the liberties of others for self serving short term "safety".
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Ben Franklin
So, when you see your "collective" attacking the liberties of others, speak out. It doesn't matter if you're (D) or (R), liberal or conservative.
As a "technology person" at a school district, here is my answers to your suggestions ....
Computers: If they help people LEARN, by all means. If you're teaching "computers" to teach "computers" that is self fulfilling. You don't teach "blackboards" so people can use "blackboards". Teach knowledge. Teach Page layout, not Microsoft Word (and you'll realize how bad MSWord really is).
iPads: If they replace expensive books with and cost less than a set of textbooks for a student ... then yes. If they can augment deficient learning .. then yes. Otherwise ... NO. I'm actually hoping that one day to have Textbooks and created by people using Creative Commons licensing, where there is NO cost to put a copy on the iPad.
Cell Phones and iPods: NO ... period. For the reasons you state.
Of course you're modded "insightful" when you're really not. You don't study counterfeits to know the real thing, you study the real thing, then you can recognize the counterfeit, regardless of the conditions. You can study nothing but counterfeits and not ever look at the real thing, and when you're finally presented with the real thing, you'll never know ... unless someone told you.
American Football fields are about 80% of the size of English Soccer (football) pitch. So the answer is .... Several American Football fields.
Hope that helps
So what you're saying is that we've gone from "give me liberty or give me death" to "don't throw me in jail because it will make me uncomfortable".
As to your last question. YES IT IS WORTH IT. Liberty is always worth the penalty for it, the other option is to acquiesce to slavery. This is no different. Tyranny must be fought with everything we have, because the other options aren't pretty.
unless you're in to that kind of thing ... just sayin
How about a bit of "finders keepers" and disassemble and report of the technology. Followed up by a "Does it Blend" episode !
Responding to undo accidental "redundant" mod ... I meant "insightful" Sorry
Quite frankly, isn't everyone going to get all the healthcare they need with ObamaCare? ;)
Okay, I jest. But seriously, if the bill was about doing just ONE THING, creating a healthcare fund for GZ cleanup and first responders, the (D) could have done it with Broad Bi-partisan support.
I'm sorry, the (D) are as incompetent as the (R). And for all their "good intentions", they BOTH are taking us on the proverbial road to hell.
There are no differences between the (D) and (R) parties from where I sit.
Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from Malice.
What you call incompetence I see as Evil. Realistically the results are identical, so it doesn't matter.
Apple did this ....
Exception that proves the rule perhaps?
Who would you rather listen to? Steve Jobs or Michael Dell?
That prediction was silly at the time, and now ... it just looks idiotic. Apple is #2 and might reach #1 here shortly (Market Cap).
I wonder how crazy THAT prediction would have been at the time.
And with ObamaCare, that is gonna change. And I can assure you, that I will NOT be getting a good deal with ObamaCare.
HealthCare Benefits and Retirement package are part of the reason I took a lower paying position than I would get in the private sector. If that goes away, my incentive to work for public sector quickly goes away.
Where I work, we're trying hard to come to grips with "licensing issues". I can assure you, I'm on of the biggest proponent for things like OpenOffice and other Open Source products.
The reason why people spend money on things like licensing is because they "Need" it, and IT has no say in that decision.
Most of the people in IT that I know, are not that "risk adverse", it is people in high profile and elected offices that direct the rest of us.
And they ARE risk adverse!
Well, when the race card is played, it is like crying "child molester". You can deny it all you want, but the stench of "racist" or "child molester" never goes away.
Which is why it is hurled in the first place. It makes for a nice boogieman, and everything else becomes irrelevant.
When you can say the same thing about the shenanigans of the (D) you'll have proper outlook. There is no difference between the (D) and the (R) parties in regards to how despicable the things they do are. It is called Politics.
So much for "draining the swamp". It is clear that the only way to "drain the swamp" is for us, the voters, to do it.
I wonder how charitable you'd be if all those things were ... say ... GWB? or some "right wing" candidate?
And by the look of the link you provided I can see you're not. I've not seen the ad by Angle, but I suppose it shows illegal immigrants flowing over the southern border and Gasp, HORROR they're all "brown", must be racism. It can't be anything else that Racist White People scared of brown people! Those Racist Teabaggers.
(never mind Rubio of Florida completely breaks the case that Tea Partiers hating "brown people").
All the real racists I know are (D), they call themselves by Racist Names. Some were even members of the KKK, but get a pass simply by being liberal enough for the left wing. I'd think you all would be past the "racist" thing by now, but you're losing so it is time to break out the old favorite card of the left. Next up, Grandma eating dog food, and "do it for the children".
But don't you realize that Murdoch is "right wing extremism" and that is bad, but people like Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr are okay because he's left wing?
When people troll on about "Faux News" and Murdock I simply point to the problems with other "news" organizations that don't report certain news stories because it doesn't fit the narrative of the left. Which is why people should get the news raw and and unfiltered.
And the internet provides a very broad voice for news accounts of important events and stories. Some are slanted left, others right, and somewhere there is the truth. It is out there, you just have to learn to filter out the bias.
I work in Public Sector, I like my job, I work hard, and I'm not paid very well for what I do (51K/yr) I haven't had a pay raise in two years, and this year they are requiring three furlough days (pay cut). Next year, they're saying four.
I realize that is is popular to criticize Public Employees as being lazy and overpaid Union drones, but guys in IT at the Public Sector are often the exception.
I realize that times are tough, and with unemployment hovering at (or hidden) above 10%, I'm just thankful I have a job.
The world has changed.
I doubt that, most people can't tell the difference between Country X's accent and Chilean (Hispanic) accent
Obligatory Youtube ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
I know exactly what kinds of posts get modded insightful, and what get modded "troll". I've had excellent Karma, and I've had bad karma. Currently it is "good". Not sure if I'll ever get "excellent" again, but here's to hoping.
I don't care about Karma too much. I care, just not too much.
What is the common definition of insanity?
Repeating the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
As long as Microsoft is trying to shoehorn Windows anything onto a touch device, it is doomed to fail. Windows was not designed for a touch device, except possibly as an after thought. Microsoft can't stop thinking they are a "Windows" company.
They can't. They are WINDOWS based, and think only in terms of WINDOWS. That is their Achilles
Which is why they are going to die a slow death. And it started two years or three years ago (if not before). I saw the warning signs in 2003. Windows is a flat stable market, it has nothing "new" to offer, nor can it.
Putting Windows anything on a tablet, because it can run "legacy" apps is just stupid. It is NOT a legacy product, and if shouldn't be treated as such.
However, Microsoft COULD have come up with a OS that could be tied to AD (their best product, as bloated as it is) and controlled by Policy that ran on Tablets that wasn't "Windows". But they didn't, and they can't. THEY are WINDOWS. Everything they do is for WINDOWS. And as long as they think in terms of WINDOWS they are doomed to eventual failure, because WINDOWS doesn't do what people need on 4x5 inch screens or 9" tablets.
In short, they've stopped being a "technology company", or "software company" and have become a "Windows Software Company". This is the same problem "railroad companies" faced, thinking they were in the Railroad business, when in fact, they were in the Transportation business.
And this is why Apple is the #2 company in the world (Market Cap) and fast approaching #1 (Exxon), they aren't in the "Macintosh" business. If I was on the board of directors with Microsoft, I'd fire Balmer and find someone that had a vision of what kind of company Microsoft could be. I'd volunteer, but I doubt they'd pick a dumb idiot from the sticks like me.
I am willing to listen to offers ;)
Our standard at work is XP for 32 bit (under 3.6GB Ram), and Win 7 for 64bit (>=4GB Ram).
Right now, XP barely functions in 512 or less, One Gig is needed for most, 2 GB seems to be the sweet spot.
I wouldn't run Win 7 on anything less that 3GB ram, and 4 is my minimum recommended. If you get 4, you might as well make it 64 bit to get the value.
In fact, if I were Microsoft, I would have made that distinction from the beginning. Kept selling XP for lower powered CPUs and lower RAM levels, and Win 7 64 bit only (no 32 bit version). It would have kept people happy during the transition from XP to 7.
I'd rather they be fubar.