Is this not the very premise that caused the Amazon cloud shutdown? A failure to communicate back proper activity illogically deduced that there was an improper activity?
Lots of bloated responses, lots of good statements. My take simply:
1. Capitalist markets center around what the customer wants, at the best price 2. American customer as a whole choose a lot of "free" phones. As a blob many/most aren't willing to pay for phones. This may currently be changing. 3. Initial development of data through copper in US was leapfrogged by European and Asian countries who pushed funding toward wireless technologies. 4. US has a much much larger footprint to maintain and upgrade (tower wise), so as we move much more slowly through wireless technologies, phone technology/lifecycle replacement moves much more slowly too. GSM, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, WCDMA... upgrades aren't as bad with a footprint the size of an american state. We have a lot of infrastructure to maintain when an architecture/standard change happens. 5. The open market rule is stick the customer for all you can, as long as they are willing to pay for it when there are few providers/competitors. Unfortunate.
Make the user's install the software, so you aren't responsible.
Any company in such a dire situation that they can't afford a group license for office probably can't afford an IT person. If they can, then someone ridiculous is at the helm.
I can see your desires to simplify your cost and environment, but put the benefit of the kids on the front burner. 'Younglings' with no Windows experience are going to be in serious trouble in a very high percentage of middle schools, high schools, tech schools, and workplaces. College is another story... By that time someone is certainly ready for multiple OS experience. Building that common foundation, as much as M$ haters may not like it, is especially important for those whose career does not necessarily include banging away coding all day, etc. Going Linux only is not much different than kids that learn MAC and no Windows (don't flame, I own lots of Pc's, a Mac, and have played with Linux distros). Its great experience, but they lose out on that 'common experience that most employers and other situations will require as a lowest common denominator-- again, especially if they do not go into any primarily IT related role.
Start with the basics of Windows incase some of them never do move up/move on to another OS. When you go beyond primary or middle school-- that's the time to grow their knowledge and expand the OS experience.
Going Linux in the grade school environment is sort of like having a grade school only taught in Spanish or Swahili or French or Klingon. It may benefit now, but in the long run, everyone will suffer from 'interoperability issues'.
I vote for multiple OS's or Windows only for gradeschool. People I know from gradeschool who never furthered knowledge of computers and do not own a computer only knew how to work on an Apple IIe. No help today...
If they are sitting there doing different things, give them computers with several OS's to experience, but wait... that's what you have today...
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Is this not the very premise that caused the Amazon cloud shutdown? A failure to communicate back proper activity illogically deduced that there was an improper activity?
Sounds a little familiar....
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/17/2115211&from=rss
Lots of bloated responses, lots of good statements. My take simply:
1. Capitalist markets center around what the customer wants, at the best price
2. American customer as a whole choose a lot of "free" phones. As a blob many/most aren't willing to pay for phones. This may currently be changing.
3. Initial development of data through copper in US was leapfrogged by European and Asian countries who pushed funding toward wireless technologies.
4. US has a much much larger footprint to maintain and upgrade (tower wise), so as we move much more slowly through wireless technologies, phone technology/lifecycle replacement moves much more slowly too. GSM, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, WCDMA... upgrades aren't as bad with a footprint the size of an american state. We have a lot of infrastructure to maintain when an architecture/standard change happens.
5. The open market rule is stick the customer for all you can, as long as they are willing to pay for it when there are few providers/competitors. Unfortunate.
Make the user's install the software, so you aren't responsible.
Any company in such a dire situation that they can't afford a group license for office probably can't afford an IT person. If they can, then someone ridiculous is at the helm.
Maybe osama is in the caves on mars...
I can see your desires to simplify your cost and environment, but put the benefit of the kids on the front burner. 'Younglings' with no Windows experience are going to be in serious trouble in a very high percentage of middle schools, high schools, tech schools, and workplaces. College is another story... By that time someone is certainly ready for multiple OS experience. Building that common foundation, as much as M$ haters may not like it, is especially important for those whose career does not necessarily include banging away coding all day, etc. Going Linux only is not much different than kids that learn MAC and no Windows (don't flame, I own lots of Pc's, a Mac, and have played with Linux distros). Its great experience, but they lose out on that 'common experience that most employers and other situations will require as a lowest common denominator-- again, especially if they do not go into any primarily IT related role.
Start with the basics of Windows incase some of them never do move up/move on to another OS. When you go beyond primary or middle school-- that's the time to grow their knowledge and expand the OS experience.
Going Linux in the grade school environment is sort of like having a grade school only taught in Spanish or Swahili or French or Klingon. It may benefit now, but in the long run, everyone will suffer from 'interoperability issues'.
I vote for multiple OS's or Windows only for gradeschool. People I know from gradeschool who never furthered knowledge of computers and do not own a computer only knew how to work on an Apple IIe. No help today...
If they are sitting there doing different things, give them computers with several OS's to experience, but wait... that's what you have today...
You could always extract the site with adobe acrobat and have a 'distilled' in tact, usable site in a single file.