Why would Verizon care? The V phone won't work on almost any other network at LTE speeds, because the antenna/firmware hasn't been tuned to allow it to work on ATT bands. Your minimum contractual commitment is 24 months at $50+/mo, even for high end corporate clients, so $200+1200>>sales price, and if you go anywhere else with the phone you're not using their network so it's like free money.
FWIW, this is identical to the way Verizon iPads are provisioned. I can drop in a Verizon SIM or an AT&T SIM and it works with both carriers (though on the 3G/GSM network for AT&T). It's why I bought the Verizon iPad to begin with.
Of course, you'll have to go cut down a SIM to fit in the !@#@#^ microsim slot if you want to switch.
Odd bit of trivia: did you know that really big corporate clients get unlimited data on the iPhone (well, probably any phone) for $20/mo? Strange but true.
That $5k is an average number for call center training. For professional positions, it's between 1 and 1.5x annual salary.
Sadly, your brother needs to adopt better parents, because that's how you get jobs. Do you think Mitt Romney, son of a Mexican immigrant who was a migrant farmer and never made more than a subsistence wage and never interacted outside of the migrant community would have had job offers in big firms or ready-made partnerships with well-connected businessmen? Of course not. Take your brother, add in a network of hundreds of friends and colleagues in various fields, have someone prominent in the community and in business vouch personally for his abilities, and I can almost guarantee him a job in under a month, and a 6 figure job in under 5 years - far less if it turns out your brother is both personable and responsible. Add in some ability (numbers, management skills, sales ability) - it doesn't even need to be technical in any way, and he'll be on his way to a very comfortable lifestyle.
Can you claw your way up from the bottom? Yes, but you have to be exceptionally lucky in finding a job with growth and a manager who sees ability and is not threatened by it. Or you have to just be downright good and start your own enterprise from the ground up. The latter generally requires the moral flexibility to spend a lot of time in the gray area of the law (skirt regulation as much as you can) and personal relationships (be a ruthless backstabbing sonofabitch).
Actually, it's the software development company who should be scared. These algorithms are proprietary, and a good purchaser will require - in writing - that the software comply with all hiring laws and likely include an indemnification clause for the business before their legal department will cut the software company a check. It's a get out of court free card for the business. If the software makes all the decisions, and the software complies with the law, and the software company indemnifies the business, then the business has a pretty firm ground.
Now, for the software company, this becomes a huge liability. Not just in the actual indemnification - and, trust me, no firm larger than 1000 people would ever buy software like this without such a clause. If they have to defend their software in court, they will have to release the parameters and decisions - their proprietary data. If much of that leaks, it becomes a field day for Resume Optimization Services. Imagine if Google had to publish their ranking algorithm. I foresee a serious resume arms race.
That's why being connected means so much more than being qualified. If you know someone on the inside, they can side step that requirement for you and get it fixed.
No, it can't be job creation. Every Republican worth mentioning these days is beating the mighty drum of smaller government. Now, that means eliminating either federal jobs or contractor jobs because, surprise - most federal dollars buy labor domestic things, with a relatively small fraction going to imported things - or are handouts to people who spend the money almost instantly (not many welfare recipients sitting on huge bank over seas accounts or investment portfolios).
I think they're hawkishness blinds them from the inefficiency, just as it does when the pentagon budget comes up.
I'm okay with putting Ron Paul on "the right" but I really think he needs to be identified as either very high or very low on the imaginary axis as well.
FWIW, I happened to luck into a FC ticket last year, and the security line was a breeze. I also agree that there is little outrage from the driving voices in the party because private jet service is exempt. Thank goodness it's impossible to hijack a private jet and fly it into a building. O.o
In the case of the Kindle, it's not a traditional product, but rather a reduced-price conduit for consumption from the store who sells it. Kind of like the iPad, except without the reduced price.
And here's the thing - most people don't care. Enough, in fact, that it's not cost competitive (including captured sales and support costs) to create an unlocked version.
Talk about a huge cost to US businesses. The number of additional man-hours lost daily is staggering. With the "enhanced" security you can plan on an extra 1-1.5 hours of transit time each way on every single trip. That almost 1.8 billion hours spent every single year on worthless "security". At typical billing rates, that's over 100 Billion dollars a year of wasted time.
I don't hear any outrage from the right. I wonder why...
Why? Because MOST of the users (and potential) out there understand these things. You can make an interface bare and functional, eschewing all references to physical or mechanical analogs, and you will make the computer literate crowd swoon. Compare that 2-4% market share with the "rest" of the population, and you can see why people are buying this "poorly designed" Apple hardware. It's familiar and comfortable - and it's (mostly) well-done and visually pleasing from a graphic design standpoint. Never, ever underestimate the power of good graphic design work.
Look at high powered businessmen, CEOs, lawywer - they wears suits that cost what I make in a month to enhance their credentials without any indication of ability, and people believe them to be smart. Real geniuses (no Val Kilmer reference intended) can walk around in T-shirts and jeans because they really are awesome and don't need that kind of window dressing. Thing is, there are very, very few real geniuses out there, and if you dress up a "pretty smart" person, people will happily pay genius rates.
You have effectively eliminated all of the commercial solutions with your boundary conditions. You indicate that you don't have reliable power - that means you need a power generation device - or a power storage device - as part of your kit, or a device which does not require external power, but you have ruled out typewriters.
You have $50, total, per piece, into which you would like to provide a monitor of some type. Given that you need a display device, a power supply, and a usable input interface, you have nearly priced yourself out of the market with this parameter alone. To that you need to add a keyboard and an interface (a raspberry pi would work) to the display. But even at the rock bottom price of a Pi, you've in for $30-35 between these two devices.
I suppose if you can come up with a display with a DVI or HDMI input, plus a power supply, for under $20, you can get close. With the world market these days, if you need it to be cheaper than a COTS solution (commercial off the shelf) - you need a different budget or enough units to justify hardware production runs.
Have you considered seeing if Dell will ship you a crate of 6 year old laptops for $40 a piece, and you can throw away or keep for salvage the ones which don't work?
Because the iPad has tethering built in and enabled by default, for no additional fee, on the Verizon network. It's the biggest reason I selected the VZ version over the ATT version (well, that at the VZ version can still use ATT 3G network, but not visa versa).
You do know that inflation is set by the CPI, which is (wait for it) a basket of commodity prices. The basket contents change periodically, but are relatively stable. If inflation were going up 11-15% per year, I would have seen my real purchasing power go down by half in the past 6 years, and yet it hasn't been anywhere close to that. Most of the stuff I buy is probably averaging 20% higher than it was 5-6 years ago which is (surprise!) about 3.5%. If you just look at gold and gasoline, you're going to get a mighty skewed picture of what "inflation" is.
Now, if you want to talk about the purchasing power of the dollar against some foreign currencies - sure, the dollar has lost ground. I remember a dollar north of 200yen (in the 80s) and at parity with the British pound. Then again, looking over the mid term, the Euro was introduced at $1.25, fairly quickly dropped, then gained ground in the 2000s, peaking during the US financial crisis and when the congress was staring at default, and has settled back to $1.30.
(BTW - I have an old friend who does work on the CPI and PPI, and I can tell you without a doubt that there is no collusion or conspiracy going on. You're welcome to argue what "inflation" means, but I promise they are not cooking the books)
I happen to have two nearly identical laptops - both low end $300 Acers. One is mine, and I put an SSD in it last spring; the other is my daughters, and it has the stock 5400RPM drive. The usability, top to bottom / in practically every way, is an order of magnitude better on my machine. It's night and day.
One thing that makes a huge difference is the power consumption. Not the actual drive, but if you allow the HDD to spin down to save power, you have to wait for it to spin up every time you have to access it. 8ms in seek adds up over a couple hundred ops, but waiting for 2-4 seconds for the drive to spin up from a low power state is like watching grass grow.
Apparently, they're fashion statements first, and investment protection devices second. Most people seem to feel they need one to express themselves through their phone. Still, when a pristine iPhone 4 is going for close to $300 on ebay, and a brand new one is $150-200 (subsidized) - it may just be worth keeping your phone looking new. OTOH, if you're phone is only going to be worth $60-80 in 2 years, it may not matter.
Then again, maybe iPhone users are just clumsier than most Android users...ever think of that?
I know I have a lot of money tied up in software for my phone. Whether it be remote control software, or specialty apps which are only available for a premium, or just games I paid for - there's a $100-150+ in software I would have to re-buy. I don't want to have to think about switching my media management over. Not that iTunes isn't a steaming pile of shit on Windows, but I've finally gotten it to work acceptably (most of the time) with my 80+GB of music, 400+GB of movies, audio and ebooks, podcasts, etc. I'm sure there are better managers, but the number of hours required to switch that stuff into another management app just makes my insides curl. I'm doubly tied as I have an iOS tablet.
At this point, the "competitor" from Android would have to be pretty fucking amazingly better to make it worth while to switch, and while the S3 is very nice and there are things about it I like better, it's hard to find a reason for the extra expense and time to switch.
At least in the US, the carriers seem determined to ensure that you upgrade every two years anyway, so it's not like you're going to be stuck with a phone which is all that old. It seems more like "fast enough" is simply a responsive GUI and a generally imperceptible execution time for the kinds of activities you do on a phone. I'm not running CFD models, transcoding movies, or running a popular web service on the thing - I'm tweaking photos, or asking it to make simple calculations my HP48 might do, streaming media or rendering a web page (without flash; thanks Steve).
Now that a couple of generations have past for Android and iOS, the options for switching are getting far more expensive and time consuming. Switch all my media to a new program for syncing - major PITA. Re-buy all my apps (not an insignificant endeavor) for the other platform - $$$. Learn where the fuck the Android/iOS developers decide to put some obscure setting I want to change? Heck, even just setting up my icons and replicating a useful look & feel means dropping at least a couple, if not several, hours.
Megapixels, streaming video chat, resolution, memory amount, memory speed - the numbers mean almost nothing. They mean even less when you can't even run the opposing OS on the hardware. But I suppose everybody has to have a ruler handy at some point.
So...what was the code for "filling out a time sheet?" I mean, unless you filled it out only second or third item, or had to call to look up a number, it would take more than 36 seconds, right?
The reason we don't raise $100,000s to repeal foolish laws is because that's somewhere in the neighborhood of three to five orders of magnitude too low two actually have an impact on the way IP law is written in the US.
There are ~470 members of congress, all of which need to fund multi-million dollar campaigns every 2 years, and we're looking at probably a 10 year time horizon to enact real, meaningful change. At the same time, there are multiple Billion dollar a year industries which reply on patents and copyrights to protect their business model and cash flow.
Thank God for this. I've replaced my glass cover twice on my 4. The camera is very, very good for photos in decent lighting, but the cover gets scratched if you look at it sideways. Between this and the all-band multi-mode phone (if it really is...I'll be interested to see if they separate the LTE/HSPA+ versions for the two major carriers) it's a win for me. Besides, with 2 years on my 4 I need a new battery anyway, and it's almost as cheap to just re-up for a new phone!
"iPhone" data plans? do people actually have "iPhone" data plans anymore? Actually, the only "iPhone" data plans I know of are the legacy unlimited plans which are unavailable to new subscribers. Now it's all "smart phones" that require $30/mo data commitments.
By the way - I happen to have the cheapest modern data plan for an iPhone - $15/mo. Yes, it's only 200MB and, yes, it costs $15 for another 200MB. You know how many times I've used more than 200MB/mo on my phone in the last three years (and I do all my email, messaging, voip, maps, etc on it)? Exactly zero times. Since I don't stream audio or video, it never affects me. Hell, I've only come close once.
You mean opening MS Word and Powerpoint documents residing on a corporate server so they could edit and resave back to the server directly from an iPad. Do tell the secret of these 5 year old wizards.
If you had stopped there, you would have nailed it. iPads are not mean for industrial environments. Yes, they can be altered, but they are really a single user consumption device. They happen to work in limited ways for certain business uses, but there are usually better solutions.
Android tablets are almost as walled off from the rest of your IT infrastructure, and have the same input problems. Unfortunately, the advantages of Android tablets - the stuff that could make them better than iOS tablets - is entirely lost on nearly all IT professionals. Also, the cost to properly customize a school-wide roll out of tablets with a proper back end, remote projection, translation from MS documents on servers to editable documents on the tablet, is far beyond not just the skill of most IT groups but the budget of nearly all schools.
Nice troll, there. IT staff rarely teach anything to anyone on a daily basis.
More like IT workers should be competent in operating a modern photocopier. Not repair it or set one up from scratch, but be able to make multiple copies, set the staple options, go between duplex and non-duplex, and change the scale of the output. They should even be able to clear a jam or replace a toner cartridge with instructions.
That's all we're asking the teachers to do - be able to operate the machinery which is necessary for your job on a daily basis.
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Why would Verizon care? The V phone won't work on almost any other network at LTE speeds, because the antenna/firmware hasn't been tuned to allow it to work on ATT bands. Your minimum contractual commitment is 24 months at $50+/mo, even for high end corporate clients, so $200+1200>>sales price, and if you go anywhere else with the phone you're not using their network so it's like free money.
FWIW, this is identical to the way Verizon iPads are provisioned. I can drop in a Verizon SIM or an AT&T SIM and it works with both carriers (though on the 3G/GSM network for AT&T). It's why I bought the Verizon iPad to begin with.
Of course, you'll have to go cut down a SIM to fit in the !@#@#^ microsim slot if you want to switch.
Odd bit of trivia: did you know that really big corporate clients get unlimited data on the iPhone (well, probably any phone) for $20/mo? Strange but true.
That $5k is an average number for call center training. For professional positions, it's between 1 and 1.5x annual salary.
Sadly, your brother needs to adopt better parents, because that's how you get jobs. Do you think Mitt Romney, son of a Mexican immigrant who was a migrant farmer and never made more than a subsistence wage and never interacted outside of the migrant community would have had job offers in big firms or ready-made partnerships with well-connected businessmen? Of course not. Take your brother, add in a network of hundreds of friends and colleagues in various fields, have someone prominent in the community and in business vouch personally for his abilities, and I can almost guarantee him a job in under a month, and a 6 figure job in under 5 years - far less if it turns out your brother is both personable and responsible. Add in some ability (numbers, management skills, sales ability) - it doesn't even need to be technical in any way, and he'll be on his way to a very comfortable lifestyle.
Can you claw your way up from the bottom? Yes, but you have to be exceptionally lucky in finding a job with growth and a manager who sees ability and is not threatened by it. Or you have to just be downright good and start your own enterprise from the ground up. The latter generally requires the moral flexibility to spend a lot of time in the gray area of the law (skirt regulation as much as you can) and personal relationships (be a ruthless backstabbing sonofabitch).
I'd never heard of that "problem." Interesting read, though. Thanks for the link.
Actually, it's the software development company who should be scared. These algorithms are proprietary, and a good purchaser will require - in writing - that the software comply with all hiring laws and likely include an indemnification clause for the business before their legal department will cut the software company a check. It's a get out of court free card for the business. If the software makes all the decisions, and the software complies with the law, and the software company indemnifies the business, then the business has a pretty firm ground.
Now, for the software company, this becomes a huge liability. Not just in the actual indemnification - and, trust me, no firm larger than 1000 people would ever buy software like this without such a clause. If they have to defend their software in court, they will have to release the parameters and decisions - their proprietary data. If much of that leaks, it becomes a field day for Resume Optimization Services. Imagine if Google had to publish their ranking algorithm. I foresee a serious resume arms race.
That's why being connected means so much more than being qualified. If you know someone on the inside, they can side step that requirement for you and get it fixed.
Just knowing the article (sidebar?) is NSFW probably resulted in an order or magnitude more /.ers clicking through the link.
No, it can't be job creation. Every Republican worth mentioning these days is beating the mighty drum of smaller government. Now, that means eliminating either federal jobs or contractor jobs because, surprise - most federal dollars buy labor domestic things, with a relatively small fraction going to imported things - or are handouts to people who spend the money almost instantly (not many welfare recipients sitting on huge bank over seas accounts or investment portfolios).
I think they're hawkishness blinds them from the inefficiency, just as it does when the pentagon budget comes up.
I'm okay with putting Ron Paul on "the right" but I really think he needs to be identified as either very high or very low on the imaginary axis as well.
FWIW, I happened to luck into a FC ticket last year, and the security line was a breeze. I also agree that there is little outrage from the driving voices in the party because private jet service is exempt. Thank goodness it's impossible to hijack a private jet and fly it into a building. O.o
In the case of the Kindle, it's not a traditional product, but rather a reduced-price conduit for consumption from the store who sells it. Kind of like the iPad, except without the reduced price.
And here's the thing - most people don't care. Enough, in fact, that it's not cost competitive (including captured sales and support costs) to create an unlocked version.
Talk about a huge cost to US businesses. The number of additional man-hours lost daily is staggering. With the "enhanced" security you can plan on an extra 1-1.5 hours of transit time each way on every single trip. That almost 1.8 billion hours spent every single year on worthless "security". At typical billing rates, that's over 100 Billion dollars a year of wasted time.
I don't hear any outrage from the right. I wonder why...
Why? Because MOST of the users (and potential) out there understand these things. You can make an interface bare and functional, eschewing all references to physical or mechanical analogs, and you will make the computer literate crowd swoon. Compare that 2-4% market share with the "rest" of the population, and you can see why people are buying this "poorly designed" Apple hardware. It's familiar and comfortable - and it's (mostly) well-done and visually pleasing from a graphic design standpoint. Never, ever underestimate the power of good graphic design work.
Look at high powered businessmen, CEOs, lawywer - they wears suits that cost what I make in a month to enhance their credentials without any indication of ability, and people believe them to be smart. Real geniuses (no Val Kilmer reference intended) can walk around in T-shirts and jeans because they really are awesome and don't need that kind of window dressing. Thing is, there are very, very few real geniuses out there, and if you dress up a "pretty smart" person, people will happily pay genius rates.
You have effectively eliminated all of the commercial solutions with your boundary conditions. You indicate that you don't have reliable power - that means you need a power generation device - or a power storage device - as part of your kit, or a device which does not require external power, but you have ruled out typewriters.
You have $50, total, per piece, into which you would like to provide a monitor of some type. Given that you need a display device, a power supply, and a usable input interface, you have nearly priced yourself out of the market with this parameter alone. To that you need to add a keyboard and an interface (a raspberry pi would work) to the display. But even at the rock bottom price of a Pi, you've in for $30-35 between these two devices.
I suppose if you can come up with a display with a DVI or HDMI input, plus a power supply, for under $20, you can get close. With the world market these days, if you need it to be cheaper than a COTS solution (commercial off the shelf) - you need a different budget or enough units to justify hardware production runs.
Have you considered seeing if Dell will ship you a crate of 6 year old laptops for $40 a piece, and you can throw away or keep for salvage the ones which don't work?
Because the iPad has tethering built in and enabled by default, for no additional fee, on the Verizon network. It's the biggest reason I selected the VZ version over the ATT version (well, that at the VZ version can still use ATT 3G network, but not visa versa).
You do know that inflation is set by the CPI, which is (wait for it) a basket of commodity prices. The basket contents change periodically, but are relatively stable. If inflation were going up 11-15% per year, I would have seen my real purchasing power go down by half in the past 6 years, and yet it hasn't been anywhere close to that. Most of the stuff I buy is probably averaging 20% higher than it was 5-6 years ago which is (surprise!) about 3.5%. If you just look at gold and gasoline, you're going to get a mighty skewed picture of what "inflation" is.
Now, if you want to talk about the purchasing power of the dollar against some foreign currencies - sure, the dollar has lost ground. I remember a dollar north of 200yen (in the 80s) and at parity with the British pound. Then again, looking over the mid term, the Euro was introduced at $1.25, fairly quickly dropped, then gained ground in the 2000s, peaking during the US financial crisis and when the congress was staring at default, and has settled back to $1.30.
(BTW - I have an old friend who does work on the CPI and PPI, and I can tell you without a doubt that there is no collusion or conspiracy going on. You're welcome to argue what "inflation" means, but I promise they are not cooking the books)
I happen to have two nearly identical laptops - both low end $300 Acers. One is mine, and I put an SSD in it last spring; the other is my daughters, and it has the stock 5400RPM drive. The usability, top to bottom / in practically every way, is an order of magnitude better on my machine. It's night and day.
One thing that makes a huge difference is the power consumption. Not the actual drive, but if you allow the HDD to spin down to save power, you have to wait for it to spin up every time you have to access it. 8ms in seek adds up over a couple hundred ops, but waiting for 2-4 seconds for the drive to spin up from a low power state is like watching grass grow.
Apparently, they're fashion statements first, and investment protection devices second. Most people seem to feel they need one to express themselves through their phone. Still, when a pristine iPhone 4 is going for close to $300 on ebay, and a brand new one is $150-200 (subsidized) - it may just be worth keeping your phone looking new. OTOH, if you're phone is only going to be worth $60-80 in 2 years, it may not matter.
Then again, maybe iPhone users are just clumsier than most Android users...ever think of that?
I know I have a lot of money tied up in software for my phone. Whether it be remote control software, or specialty apps which are only available for a premium, or just games I paid for - there's a $100-150+ in software I would have to re-buy. I don't want to have to think about switching my media management over. Not that iTunes isn't a steaming pile of shit on Windows, but I've finally gotten it to work acceptably (most of the time) with my 80+GB of music, 400+GB of movies, audio and ebooks, podcasts, etc. I'm sure there are better managers, but the number of hours required to switch that stuff into another management app just makes my insides curl. I'm doubly tied as I have an iOS tablet.
At this point, the "competitor" from Android would have to be pretty fucking amazingly better to make it worth while to switch, and while the S3 is very nice and there are things about it I like better, it's hard to find a reason for the extra expense and time to switch.
At least in the US, the carriers seem determined to ensure that you upgrade every two years anyway, so it's not like you're going to be stuck with a phone which is all that old. It seems more like "fast enough" is simply a responsive GUI and a generally imperceptible execution time for the kinds of activities you do on a phone. I'm not running CFD models, transcoding movies, or running a popular web service on the thing - I'm tweaking photos, or asking it to make simple calculations my HP48 might do, streaming media or rendering a web page (without flash; thanks Steve).
Now that a couple of generations have past for Android and iOS, the options for switching are getting far more expensive and time consuming. Switch all my media to a new program for syncing - major PITA. Re-buy all my apps (not an insignificant endeavor) for the other platform - $$$. Learn where the fuck the Android/iOS developers decide to put some obscure setting I want to change? Heck, even just setting up my icons and replicating a useful look & feel means dropping at least a couple, if not several, hours.
Megapixels, streaming video chat, resolution, memory amount, memory speed - the numbers mean almost nothing. They mean even less when you can't even run the opposing OS on the hardware. But I suppose everybody has to have a ruler handy at some point.
So...what was the code for "filling out a time sheet?" I mean, unless you filled it out only second or third item, or had to call to look up a number, it would take more than 36 seconds, right?
The reason we don't raise $100,000s to repeal foolish laws is because that's somewhere in the neighborhood of three to five orders of magnitude too low two actually have an impact on the way IP law is written in the US.
There are ~470 members of congress, all of which need to fund multi-million dollar campaigns every 2 years, and we're looking at probably a 10 year time horizon to enact real, meaningful change. At the same time, there are multiple Billion dollar a year industries which reply on patents and copyrights to protect their business model and cash flow.
$100,000 is like pissing into a hurricane.
Thank God for this. I've replaced my glass cover twice on my 4. The camera is very, very good for photos in decent lighting, but the cover gets scratched if you look at it sideways. Between this and the all-band multi-mode phone (if it really is...I'll be interested to see if they separate the LTE/HSPA+ versions for the two major carriers) it's a win for me. Besides, with 2 years on my 4 I need a new battery anyway, and it's almost as cheap to just re-up for a new phone!
"iPhone" data plans? do people actually have "iPhone" data plans anymore? Actually, the only "iPhone" data plans I know of are the legacy unlimited plans which are unavailable to new subscribers. Now it's all "smart phones" that require $30/mo data commitments.
By the way - I happen to have the cheapest modern data plan for an iPhone - $15/mo. Yes, it's only 200MB and, yes, it costs $15 for another 200MB. You know how many times I've used more than 200MB/mo on my phone in the last three years (and I do all my email, messaging, voip, maps, etc on it)? Exactly zero times. Since I don't stream audio or video, it never affects me. Hell, I've only come close once.
You mean opening MS Word and Powerpoint documents residing on a corporate server so they could edit and resave back to the server directly from an iPad. Do tell the secret of these 5 year old wizards.
Apple's iPad software is targeted at home users.
If you had stopped there, you would have nailed it. iPads are not mean for industrial environments. Yes, they can be altered, but they are really a single user consumption device. They happen to work in limited ways for certain business uses, but there are usually better solutions.
Android tablets are almost as walled off from the rest of your IT infrastructure, and have the same input problems. Unfortunately, the advantages of Android tablets - the stuff that could make them better than iOS tablets - is entirely lost on nearly all IT professionals. Also, the cost to properly customize a school-wide roll out of tablets with a proper back end, remote projection, translation from MS documents on servers to editable documents on the tablet, is far beyond not just the skill of most IT groups but the budget of nearly all schools.
Nice troll, there. IT staff rarely teach anything to anyone on a daily basis.
More like IT workers should be competent in operating a modern photocopier. Not repair it or set one up from scratch, but be able to make multiple copies, set the staple options, go between duplex and non-duplex, and change the scale of the output. They should even be able to clear a jam or replace a toner cartridge with instructions.
That's all we're asking the teachers to do - be able to operate the machinery which is necessary for your job on a daily basis.