Cyber Monday is a poor comparison also since it immediately follows and is a continuation of Black Friday. {it's an attempt to catch extra sales from those people put off by the large crowds associated with Black Friday in retail stores}
Schools implement strict {often stupid} rules all the time and then resend them after a month or two in order to create peer pressure when dealing with parents fail. This may or may not be what they are doing we are talking about kindergarten.
Our local high school allows students to leave campus over their lunch hour they call it open lunch and they take them away for the last month of the second semester every few years when the number of students skipping class to spend lunch with a friend that has a different lunch schedule gets to high. When they reinstate their open lunch policy for the second half of the year peer pressure takes care the problem for them.
I'm sure they could come up with a better solution as well, I was just pointing out that it wasn't a random idea, there was motivation.
When Jeffery trips all the kids, Billy smacks all the girls on the butt, Steve and Suzy bites everyone, and Sally kisses all the boys you have to do something so when you call the parents and they don't do anything to curb the behavior you end up with what happened here.
Your fuel cost calculation is spot on $1400/ yr my insurance cost $280/yr {paid off economy car 99 with liability and roadside} maintenance $500-$700 {understand I do most of my own work and this is a high estimate (last year 4 oil changes $15, 1 alternator $60, $360 for tires but should last at least 3 yrs)} {Depreciation $3000/yr is more than I paid for the car}
So I estimate my cost to be about $2.5k a year.
No trains, buses, or subways to speak of and an average cab ride is around $15 {$20 to my office}
A friend of mine had his car break down he couldn't afford to fix it immediately so he rode his bike to work for a month and at first it was rough but by the end of the month he had trimmed off a little weight and was feeling really good so he decided to junk the car and rode his bike to work for 3-4 years before he finally bought a new car. He says it's one of the best things that ever happened to him. {He's probably right office jobs aren't really good exercise, he still rides his bike when there is good weather}
I live in the US mid-west there are no trains, subways, and bus schedules are extremely limited {worthless for anything but getting to the airport}. A taxi ride to work and home would cost me around $10k a year that doesn't include my wife going to work, trips to the store, etc... The houses are spread out most have a drive or garage, I don't even know of a place where I would be charged to park aside from the airport.
My paid off economy car costs about 2.5k a year in gas, insurance, and maintenance {oil changes, tune ups, tires} if I bought a new one and added a $500/mo payment that would still only be about $8.5k
Occasionally some {clueless} middle manager asks if I can go to a users home {usually 800 miles away} sure that requires air travel, car rental, and hotel but if you really want to help them out since it's their laptop they could just take it to best buy and you can reimburse them.
I drive by a Blockbuster everyday I hadn't thought about it but I never see cars there and just went to their site to look it up on their store locater apparently it's already closed.
You are correct in endpoints not storing anything, but if the endpoint is not secure it can experience downtime which == loss.
The real question is how much loss sometimes it just costs less to supply the device. {I've worked placed where they measured profits in staff per 15 minute interval}
BYOD not so sure... Some places it might be alright but Imagine a large business with tens of thousands of underpaid non-technical customer service/sales types using a random bunch of devices they are responsible to maintain and secure.
How many commercial consumer desktops would that leave? I don't know sounds like a bad idea....
With Win 8 and it's not so good reception what are we going to be doing in 5 yrs? Who knows, it's up in the air... Will Apple take over the business desktop, will MS pull it out of the toilet, or will super cheap super small ARM Android workstations sucker punch everyone {I say sucker punch because I don't think it is very likely but then again I also thought the CD was a stupid idea}.
The last few phones my son had to replace where due to cracked screens... He will probably jump on a flexible screen that doesn't shatter when dropped.
I thought what limped the N64 along was that the cartridges ran so much smoother than the DVDs... I had PS2 that only worked if you held it at the right angle.
No clue... the only person I know that uses twitter is my brother and he only tweets about silly things his wife does because he knows it annoys her. Oops, she tripped up the stairs. Oops, she put her shirt on wrong side out. Oops, she dropped her lipstick and it went in the toilet.
I still don't see them in the near future more like a gradual transition with of course regulatory and legal liability issues along the way to iron out. I think we are already starting that gradual transition with self parking cars, self braking cars, and cars that warn of possible accident situations.
I'm sorry, I find the prospect of a fully autonomous car to be laughable not due to technology but liability to the manufacture. Imagine if every fatal accident ended with a lawsuit. They would be advertised on TV... "Where you or a loved one in a car accident while in {insert model} autonomous car that result in injury or death? Call our law offices as you may be entitled to a substantial award. Including medical expenses, time off from work, property damages, and more..."
I will agree that I don't like playing games on the tablet or phone for just the reason you stated. My son on the other hand has an xbox 360 that has primarily been used to watch netflix since all of his gaming is done on either a tablet or android phone. I don't think it is the quality of the games that has caused him to ignore the xbox it is more likely because he can play anywhere anytime {except school} even riding in the car. Add facebook and texting and he pretty much lives on his android phone or the tablet.
if he had some kind of charging/hdmi dock with wireless keyboard and touchpad that would let him take the tablet off the dock and keep watching netflix while he made a snack and then return it to the dock without missing a beat... I'm fairly sure the xbox 360 would end up in the closet
I'm not sure you can lump the entire US into a single cultural box. Although we may share federal laws and a single language, states that border each other will likely be very similar, but as you put more distance between the states you are comparing they become more dissimilar. The US is roughly 9 million km2 and Europe is roughly 10 million km2.
When I hear people talk about US or American culture I often times find myself thinking maybe in some other state {over 1,000 miles away} but not here.
I have on more than one occasion started working on something that had me stumped only to look up and find it had consumed me for hours and there were voice mails because I hadn't noticed the phone ringing. I really enjoy those type problems.
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Cyber Monday is a poor comparison also since it immediately follows and is a continuation of Black Friday. {it's an attempt to catch extra sales from those people put off by the large crowds associated with Black Friday in retail stores}
Schools implement strict {often stupid} rules all the time and then resend them after a month or two in order to create peer pressure when dealing with parents fail. This may or may not be what they are doing we are talking about kindergarten.
Our local high school allows students to leave campus over their lunch hour they call it open lunch and they take them away for the last month of the second semester every few years when the number of students skipping class to spend lunch with a friend that has a different lunch schedule gets to high. When they reinstate their open lunch policy for the second half of the year peer pressure takes care the problem for them.
I'm sure they could come up with a better solution as well, I was just pointing out that it wasn't a random idea, there was motivation.
When Jeffery trips all the kids, Billy smacks all the girls on the butt, Steve and Suzy bites everyone, and Sally kisses all the boys you have to do something so when you call the parents and they don't do anything to curb the behavior you end up with what happened here.
No it was literature and creative writing.... just kidding.
I was never picked last in PE {I played all the school sports}
I always had a date.
Excelled in class.
Most of the teachers I know don't fit your description {I did however leave education because computer pay more so..}
if you RTA it's a response to an increase in injuries on the playground
jellyfish terminators.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/10/04/0334216/
I thought the terminators were going to take of them.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/10/04/0334216/
Your fuel cost calculation is spot on $1400/ yr my insurance cost $280/yr {paid off economy car 99 with liability and roadside} maintenance $500-$700 {understand I do most of my own work and this is a high estimate (last year 4 oil changes $15, 1 alternator $60, $360 for tires but should last at least 3 yrs)}
{Depreciation $3000/yr is more than I paid for the car}
So I estimate my cost to be about $2.5k a year.
No trains, buses, or subways to speak of and an average cab ride is around $15 {$20 to my office}
A friend of mine had his car break down he couldn't afford to fix it immediately so he rode his bike to work for a month and at first it was rough but by the end of the month he had trimmed off a little weight and was feeling really good so he decided to junk the car and rode his bike to work for 3-4 years before he finally bought a new car. He says it's one of the best things that ever happened to him. {He's probably right office jobs aren't really good exercise, he still rides his bike when there is good weather}
I live in the US mid-west there are no trains, subways, and bus schedules are extremely limited {worthless for anything but getting to the airport}. A taxi ride to work and home would cost me around $10k a year that doesn't include my wife going to work, trips to the store, etc... The houses are spread out most have a drive or garage, I don't even know of a place where I would be charged to park aside from the airport.
My paid off economy car costs about 2.5k a year in gas, insurance, and maintenance {oil changes, tune ups, tires} if I bought a new one and added a $500/mo payment that would still only be about $8.5k
We have remote users some are BYOD.
Occasionally some {clueless} middle manager asks if I can go to a users home {usually 800 miles away} sure that requires air travel, car rental, and hotel but if you really want to help them out since it's their laptop they could just take it to best buy and you can reimburse them.
My son watches Netflix on his cell phone... talk about a tiny screen.
I drive by a Blockbuster everyday I hadn't thought about it but I never see cars there and just went to their site to look it up on their store locater apparently it's already closed.
You are correct in endpoints not storing anything, but if the endpoint is not secure it can experience downtime which == loss.
The real question is how much loss sometimes it just costs less to supply the device. {I've worked placed where they measured profits in staff per 15 minute interval}
BYOD not so sure... Some places it might be alright but Imagine a large business with tens of thousands of underpaid non-technical customer service/sales types using a random bunch of devices they are responsible to maintain and secure.
How many commercial consumer desktops would that leave? I don't know sounds like a bad idea....
With Win 8 and it's not so good reception what are we going to be doing in 5 yrs? Who knows, it's up in the air... Will Apple take over the business desktop, will MS pull it out of the toilet, or will super cheap super small ARM Android workstations sucker punch everyone {I say sucker punch because I don't think it is very likely but then again I also thought the CD was a stupid idea}.
you and my brother.... get a blue-tooth "Hands free to pee"
The last few phones my son had to replace where due to cracked screens... He will probably jump on a flexible screen that doesn't shatter when dropped.
I thought what limped the N64 along was that the cartridges ran so much smoother than the DVDs... I had PS2 that only worked if you held it at the right angle.
No clue... the only person I know that uses twitter is my brother and he only tweets about silly things his wife does because he knows it annoys her. Oops, she tripped up the stairs. Oops, she put her shirt on wrong side out. Oops, she dropped her lipstick and it went in the toilet.
I still don't see them in the near future more like a gradual transition with of course regulatory and legal liability issues along the way to iron out. I think we are already starting that gradual transition with self parking cars, self braking cars, and cars that warn of possible accident situations.
I'm sorry, I find the prospect of a fully autonomous car to be laughable not due to technology but liability to the manufacture. Imagine if every fatal accident ended with a lawsuit. They would be advertised on TV... "Where you or a loved one in a car accident while in {insert model} autonomous car that result in injury or death? Call our law offices as you may be entitled to a substantial award. Including medical expenses, time off from work, property damages, and more..."
I will agree that I don't like playing games on the tablet or phone for just the reason you stated. My son on the other hand has an xbox 360 that has primarily been used to watch netflix since all of his gaming is done on either a tablet or android phone. I don't think it is the quality of the games that has caused him to ignore the xbox it is more likely because he can play anywhere anytime {except school} even riding in the car. Add facebook and texting and he pretty much lives on his android phone or the tablet.
if he had some kind of charging/hdmi dock with wireless keyboard and touchpad that would let him take the tablet off the dock and keep watching netflix while he made a snack and then return it to the dock without missing a beat... I'm fairly sure the xbox 360 would end up in the closet
I'm not sure you can lump the entire US into a single cultural box. Although we may share federal laws and a single language, states that border each other will likely be very similar, but as you put more distance between the states you are comparing they become more dissimilar. The US is roughly 9 million km2 and Europe is roughly 10 million km2.
When I hear people talk about US or American culture I often times find myself thinking maybe in some other state {over 1,000 miles away} but not here.
I have on more than one occasion started working on something that had me stumped only to look up and find it had consumed me for hours and there were voice mails because I hadn't noticed the phone ringing. I really enjoy those type problems.