Your comparison is shitty since I take six kids to the doctor and it's not like this. However comparing it to oil changes would be more appropriate then gas.
I looked at their site and they seem to offer both bare metal and "cloud" (virtualized?) at that price point. The bare metal has slightly better specs, but I suppose you would sacrifice some reliability.
I'm curios how that compares to the server I get from time4vps using openvz (12 EUR/ quarter):
CPU: 1 x 1.70 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Storage: 512 GB
Bandwidth: 4 TB
Port speed: 100 Mbp
It's a "storage" vm, so they don't offer backup. I use it to backup my home system with borg and I run a calibre server and website on it. It's been very stable and I've been very happy with the performance.
Family of 8 over here and all the kids need headphones for school. Let's see, 2 need computers and 3 need ipads, school clothes, school supplies, book fees (thanks indiana), etc...
So back to headphones, 7 pairs (none for the 3 year old) at $60 / pair is $420. How many do you think I'll need to replace because they got stepped on, lost, one ear quit working, etc. (all of these have happened multiple times).
Or I can buy wired headphones on sale from monoprice for $3 each and keep a few spares on hand. The kids can use them on mulitiple devices or plug into the splitters I bought so they can share music.
To keep the foul smell in when I take a dump. Plus, having used stalls without doors at my crappy high school; I don't appreciate people critiquing my wiping technique.
Centralized bandwidth is much less expensive. If everyone in your family individually pulled the video of your cat puking a hairball, it would get costly; especially on mobile. Bandwidth costs at a datacenter are practically free in comparison.
I use mobaxterm if I want a local console, they have a portable version that wraps cygwin, xserver, and a bunch of other stuff into a nice package.
Usually, I'm manipulating data and as long as both computers have access to the same data, it's irrelevant if they are the same machine.
This is aimed at developers. We have our Ruby developers on mac, so they have a unix console, but we have some pseudo developers on windows. They use putty for ssh keys and ssh tunnels (yuk), and I've been trying to get them to use mobaxterm, which has an xserver and cygwin wrapped up in one package.
I can see this as a good alternative. I wonder if it allows ssh tunnels and such to be addressed from inside windows?
OK, you ignored my comment about transparency in accounting and accountability, this is a valid reason to prefer government run schools.
Next you grabbed onto my agreement the government fucks things up sometimes. Left unsaid, but implied, is the root problem of cronyism and looting of the public monies. I forget that nothing can be left unsaid or implied with the conservatard.
Governments can do things well when they are not hobbled and twisted to enrich others. This was was the root failure of communism and is mirrored by much of America's capitalism. So, my core argument is that communities should have input and transparency into schools. This isn't always true under the existing public school structure, but is much more likely to be true then it is with charter schools run by corporations. Private schools are a different animal. They can largely choose who to admit and comparisons are not valid. IMHO, private schools should be rare and taxed heavily. Our system should strive toward equity in opportunity, not the bullshit equity in outcome that you're going to claim I'm pushing forward. As to the NWEA, I'm pretty sure the competency rating is not what you think it is, private schools are barely above 50%. It appears to be a measure to strive for and give students and opportunity to excel, with a watered down name.
So, to list your strawmen: 1 - COMMIES!! - bullshit, progressives and liberals are not communists. 2- NWEA - seems like good federal standard to hold states accountable, but your distorting it 3- my argument - not what you say it is 4 - government bad - yeah, when people make it bad. Sabotage is bad
Take your strawman arguments somewhere else. You've made zero points related to my response. Your gloating about things we agree on and pretending it means something it doesn't.
From the report, " Evidence of
financial insolvency or corrupt governance structure, less easy to dispute or defend, is much
more likely to lead to school closures than poor academic performance. And yet, as this report
demonstrates, the apparent reluctance of authorizers to close underperforming
charters ultimately reflects poorly on charter schools as a whole. More importantly, it hurts
students. "
This is clearly evidence of government interference causing poor outcomes. You don't think that if we're going to prop up institutions they should be ones that have accountability to the community and transparent book keeping?
The Nation does pretty well respected journalism, I know you don't like that. I'm pretty sure your a 'Roman Mir' alt and possibly an account for Rush Limbough. I've heard him talk about how he enjoys trolling progressive tech forums. Either way, that article has clear citations, not anecdotes. There is evidence that charters do worse with their funding and are more likely to disrupt education. The vast majority of kids go to public schools and get a great education. There are certainly problem districts, but often this goes hand in hand with reduced funding and social ills that fall heavily on the community.
You can't even scan for wifi without turning on location in the newer android releases. It pisses me of to no end that my location defaults to scanning wifi and cell, why should I be forced to update googles db of wifi?
AT&T has rolled out gigabit and 100/100 internet in my area for really compelling prices, but they require you to have other services from them to get it. Xfinity's x1 is way better then Uverse and has a much deeper catalog of on-demand on streaming shows.
I used to get drops in speed with comcast, but now that I'm on a faster plan I haven't notice it and their service has been good when there are outages.
Don't forget, to check if your health benefits are going to cost $300 or $1200 a month, especially if you have a family. When I worked for HP; they had good cost, decent benefits. Then they spun us off to DXC, put a freeze on annual raises, and doubled or tripled our benefits costs, which was essentially a 10% pay cut.
My new job doesn't have the most inexpensive benefits, but at least I knew that up front and was able to figure that into the salary negotiations.
Yeah, I think in most employees minds this is a choice between a solid top half of the norm salary and a big abnormal salary. However, you get others interpreting it as low "industry standard" salary based on 3 year old data.
Money absolutely figures into it, but won't keep you around if work satisfaction sucks, unless your an incurious clock puncher. New grads also don't realize how pay can be manipulated and how difficult it can be to compare packages from company to company. You could move jobs, get a 20% raise and end up taking home less after you figure in the cost of your Health Insurance or other benefits. Maybe the make you pay for parking or maybe the have a strict dress code that means you have to buy a new wardrobe. It's very difficult to compare pay between offers.
Every child deserves a good education, not a "good enough for Kansas", or a "good enough for a brown kid whose parents don't speak english", or even a "good enough for poor kids".
Centralized funding would go a long way towards solving this problem.
If your taking advice from Scott Adams, something has gone terribly wrong. He's not an expert on anything and clearly believes all sorts of dumb easily disproved bullshit; just check his blog.
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Your comparison is shitty since I take six kids to the doctor and it's not like this. However comparing it to oil changes would be more appropriate then gas.
I looked at their site and they seem to offer both bare metal and "cloud" (virtualized?) at that price point. The bare metal has slightly better specs, but I suppose you would sacrifice some reliability.
I'm curios how that compares to the server I get from time4vps using openvz (12 EUR/ quarter):
CPU: 1 x 1.70 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Storage: 512 GB
Bandwidth: 4 TB
Port speed: 100 Mbp
It's a "storage" vm, so they don't offer backup. I use it to backup my home system with borg and I run a calibre server and website on it. It's been very stable and I've been very happy with the performance.
Family of 8 over here and all the kids need headphones for school. Let's see, 2 need computers and 3 need ipads, school clothes, school supplies, book fees (thanks indiana), etc...
So back to headphones, 7 pairs (none for the 3 year old) at $60 / pair is $420. How many do you think I'll need to replace because they got stepped on, lost, one ear quit working, etc. (all of these have happened multiple times).
Or I can buy wired headphones on sale from monoprice for $3 each and keep a few spares on hand. The kids can use them on mulitiple devices or plug into the splitters I bought so they can share music.
hmmm... what to do...
Guess you picked the wrong profession.
To keep the foul smell in when I take a dump. Plus, having used stalls without doors at my crappy high school; I don't appreciate people critiquing my wiping technique.
Centralized bandwidth is much less expensive. If everyone in your family individually pulled the video of your cat puking a hairball, it would get costly; especially on mobile.
Bandwidth costs at a datacenter are practically free in comparison.
I use mobaxterm if I want a local console, they have a portable version that wraps cygwin, xserver, and a bunch of other stuff into a nice package. Usually, I'm manipulating data and as long as both computers have access to the same data, it's irrelevant if they are the same machine.
When I'm on windows, I like to keep a linux box available via x2go, or at least ssh.
I haven't tested this, but I use a portable version of mobaxterm for all my bash tools on windows.
This is aimed at developers. We have our Ruby developers on mac, so they have a unix console, but we have some pseudo developers on windows.
They use putty for ssh keys and ssh tunnels (yuk), and I've been trying to get them to use mobaxterm, which has an xserver and cygwin wrapped up in one package.
I can see this as a good alternative. I wonder if it allows ssh tunnels and such to be addressed from inside windows?
OK, you ignored my comment about transparency in accounting and accountability, this is a valid reason to prefer government run schools.
Next you grabbed onto my agreement the government fucks things up sometimes. Left unsaid, but implied, is the root problem of cronyism and looting of the public monies. I forget that nothing can be left unsaid or implied with the conservatard.
Governments can do things well when they are not hobbled and twisted to enrich others. This was was the root failure of communism and is mirrored by much of America's capitalism.
So, my core argument is that communities should have input and transparency into schools. This isn't always true under the existing public school structure, but is much more likely to be true then it is with charter schools run by corporations.
Private schools are a different animal. They can largely choose who to admit and comparisons are not valid. IMHO, private schools should be rare and taxed heavily. Our system should strive toward equity in opportunity, not the bullshit equity in outcome that you're going to claim I'm pushing forward.
As to the NWEA, I'm pretty sure the competency rating is not what you think it is, private schools are barely above 50%. It appears to be a measure to strive for and give students and opportunity to excel, with a watered down name.
So, to list your strawmen:
1 - COMMIES!! - bullshit, progressives and liberals are not communists.
2- NWEA - seems like good federal standard to hold states accountable, but your distorting it
3- my argument - not what you say it is
4 - government bad - yeah, when people make it bad. Sabotage is bad
Take your strawman arguments somewhere else. You've made zero points related to my response. Your gloating about things we agree on and pretending it means something it doesn't.
From the report, " Evidence of financial insolvency or corrupt governance structure, less easy to dispute or defend, is much more likely to lead to school closures than poor academic performance. And yet, as this report demonstrates, the apparent reluctance of authorizers to close underperforming charters ultimately reflects poorly on charter schools as a whole. More importantly, it hurts students. "
This is clearly evidence of government interference causing poor outcomes. You don't think that if we're going to prop up institutions they should be ones that have accountability to the community and transparent book keeping?
The Nation does pretty well respected journalism, I know you don't like that. I'm pretty sure your a 'Roman Mir' alt and possibly an account for Rush Limbough. I've heard him talk about how he enjoys trolling progressive tech forums.
Either way, that article has clear citations, not anecdotes. There is evidence that charters do worse with their funding and are more likely to disrupt education. The vast majority of kids go to public schools and get a great education. There are certainly problem districts, but often this goes hand in hand with reduced funding and social ills that fall heavily on the community.
to the rescue.., and if that's not enough.
You can't even scan for wifi without turning on location in the newer android releases. It pisses me of to no end that my location defaults to scanning wifi and cell, why should I be forced to update googles db of wifi?
AT&T has rolled out gigabit and 100/100 internet in my area for really compelling prices, but they require you to have other services from them to get it. Xfinity's x1 is way better then Uverse and has a much deeper catalog of on-demand on streaming shows.
I used to get drops in speed with comcast, but now that I'm on a faster plan I haven't notice it and their service has been good when there are outages.
Don't forget, to check if your health benefits are going to cost $300 or $1200 a month, especially if you have a family.
When I worked for HP; they had good cost, decent benefits. Then they spun us off to DXC, put a freeze on annual raises, and doubled or tripled our benefits costs, which was essentially a 10% pay cut.
My new job doesn't have the most inexpensive benefits, but at least I knew that up front and was able to figure that into the salary negotiations.
Yeah, I think in most employees minds this is a choice between a solid top half of the norm salary and a big abnormal salary. However, you get others interpreting it as low "industry standard" salary based on 3 year old data.
Money absolutely figures into it, but won't keep you around if work satisfaction sucks, unless your an incurious clock puncher.
New grads also don't realize how pay can be manipulated and how difficult it can be to compare packages from company to company. You could move jobs, get a 20% raise and end up taking home less after you figure in the cost of your Health Insurance or other benefits.
Maybe the make you pay for parking or maybe the have a strict dress code that means you have to buy a new wardrobe. It's very difficult to compare pay between offers.
I'll bet the ssd rebuilds faster too.
So this is trolling to some people... sad...
I think see why they think teachers are millionaires....
Every child deserves a good education, not a "good enough for Kansas", or a "good enough for a brown kid whose parents don't speak english", or even a "good enough for poor kids".
Centralized funding would go a long way towards solving this problem.
Interesting concept. I think this needs a short story.
If your taking advice from Scott Adams, something has gone terribly wrong. He's not an expert on anything and clearly believes all sorts of dumb easily disproved bullshit; just check his blog.
Might explain alot about police in the US vs other countries.