But the idea that student ("customer") betterment should be the one and only thing on which everything rests is a little misguided. Not only is it not a very good judge of an employees quality as they have limited control over some of the most important parts of learning (ie. parental involvement, student interest in the subject, local funding resources), but it's also not great for the students' education itself.
The student is not the customer. Society is. The student is the product, and, at the car factory I work we don't ask the car how well we've done it. Asking lazy teens to evaluate their teachers is like asking taxpayers to evaluate their IRS inspectors.
It's surprising that they want to use their toys. In the end, what do they want it for? Email, agenda, calendar and intranet surfing? What a bunch of loosers, that's why we give'em laptops, so they can carry them arround.
See, i have a 2 yr old daughter. I purchased Talking Tom, which is a f***ing talking cat. A simple toy, with which she laughs a lot. I checked every option, no risk invovled. I've seen that now, in-game, you can buy him glasses for 1$ a piece. Should I check every update if they've added scam features? That's why I paid apple "no-worry" premium? It's a game specifically targeted for children, and frankly, you don't want parents to supervise every minute of their children's wake time; they grow assholes.
cover interception by a third party of communications between two other non-consenting parties
Ok, entirely different. It's one other non-consenting party. If you call a company you wouldn't like next calls to be registered, right? And laws should be used to cover any behavior we don't like, that's why we make laws in the first place.
I work in a car plant, and we still discuss if it is better to have poison in electrical cabinets or not. We suspect they are attracted by the f***ing thing but still have the time to eat the wiring anyway. It is a very common breakdown, normally easy to diagnose (by the barbecue smell)
What? An underfunded public organisation has made this breakthrough before big pharmas? These spanish boffins are very smart or big pharmas don't have much interest in a HIV vaccine...
On one hand I find a bit sad that a company as broad as Motorola is bought just for the sake of smartphone patents. It's logical given that Apple has turned from an almost bankrupt company to the biggest one with a single phone, but it's discouraging anyway. On the other, what do we have now, 3 behemoths in the playground, Apple, Motoogle and Nokiasoft. I'm not sure if this is going to be the best thing for us the consumers...
They invented the powerbalance and the cold fusion reactor, right? If they didn't benefit from their education, they didn't learn math, so as engineers they are useless.
The future? No warrant wire tapping, naking you to get to a plane, break a leg and go bankrupt, big corps writing laws, electing between 2 already bought candidates... That's enough to consider it a police state now?
But think about it: In future when the working population comes home in the evenings, they will want to recharge their cars for the trip to work next morning.
Not if you can recharge at the parking lot. If chargers get intelligent and widespread, EVs can in fact make distribution easier: they can turn into accumulators to use on peak hours: for example, have cheaper electricity bills if you allow your battery to be used by the grid at peak hours, etc.
That's so far from the truth. How comes that Sweden has way more governement than US and hosts the pirate bay? Nordic countries tax heavier, but spend wiser; they get what they pay for. It's "better government" or "worse government", and I've found that it's got more to do on how educated is the population of the country. Which for your (probably US) and my (Spain) case, has become borderline...
1) As a Spanish employee of a french company, I can honestly say that they're quite polite in language misuse, if you are polite to them 2) Applies to every capital city of the countries I've visited: England, Germany, France... and Spain is no exception: the "capitalers" are assholes.
What do you mean by savings? Here, in my small -80k- town, you could live on ~450 (sharing a cheap apartment, no car, etc.) I earned 800 working as a junior programmer in a nearby city, but senior programmers, db managers, etc., with 6 years experience, earn as low as 1000, lately; things are not very well in IT, in our region...
In fact, the country that invented guerrilla warefare is mine, Spain. That's why you call it "guerrilla", and not "little war". It was invented in our war against the French (Napoleon), for our independence.
I do that, and the only problem is that in certain email clients (MS flavored), the From: appears as "John Smith (js@gmail.com) on behalf of John Smith (John@smith.com)". Which is a PITA.
There are some things you got wrong: cell phones market is still a relatively high margin market, if you compare it to, eg. computers: sure there are cheap cell phones, but there's a high end market which is very profitable. Yet there is another (also attractive) market: the PDA phones or smartphones, which still no one has got completly right; i-mate Jam is almost quite there, but yet... Apple's lack of experience can be covered by an experienced partner like HTC: don't forget apple is not a manufacturer, they really know how to partner. And well, service providers are far far away from fearing cellphone manufacturers: they are trying to get rid of them by offering their own phones, but strong brands sell better (and that's exactly what Apple is, a strong brand).
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But the idea that student ("customer") betterment should be the one and only thing on which everything rests is a little misguided. Not only is it not a very good judge of an employees quality as they have limited control over some of the most important parts of learning (ie. parental involvement, student interest in the subject, local funding resources), but it's also not great for the students' education itself.
The student is not the customer. Society is. The student is the product, and, at the car factory I work we don't ask the car how well we've done it.
Asking lazy teens to evaluate their teachers is like asking taxpayers to evaluate their IRS inspectors.
You misspelt cattle.
It's not a day longer. In my country they do it in two hours, so we've never seen the advantages.
You nailed it. I don't care for the 1$ apps I can live without. But for a 80$ tomtom I want the right to transfer it to an android device.
Corporatocracy. In europe we call that fascism, I guess it's like the subway/metro/tube thing.
It's surprising that they want to use their toys. In the end, what do they want it for? Email, agenda, calendar and intranet surfing? What a bunch of loosers, that's why we give'em laptops, so they can carry them arround.
See, i have a 2 yr old daughter. I purchased Talking Tom, which is a f***ing talking cat. A simple toy, with which she laughs a lot. I checked every option, no risk invovled. I've seen that now, in-game, you can buy him glasses for 1$ a piece. Should I check every update if they've added scam features? That's why I paid apple "no-worry" premium?
It's a game specifically targeted for children, and frankly, you don't want parents to supervise every minute of their children's wake time; they grow assholes.
cover interception by a third party of communications between two other non-consenting parties
Ok, entirely different. It's one other non-consenting party. If you call a company you wouldn't like next calls to be registered, right?
And laws should be used to cover any behavior we don't like, that's why we make laws in the first place.
I work in a car plant, and we still discuss if it is better to have poison in electrical cabinets or not. We suspect they are attracted by the f***ing thing but still have the time to eat the wiring anyway.
It is a very common breakdown, normally easy to diagnose (by the barbecue smell)
What? An underfunded public organisation has made this breakthrough before big pharmas?
These spanish boffins are very smart or big pharmas don't have much interest in a HIV vaccine...
What's the green light seen on sec. 30?
On one hand I find a bit sad that a company as broad as Motorola is bought just for the sake of smartphone patents. It's logical given that Apple has turned from an almost bankrupt company to the biggest one with a single phone, but it's discouraging anyway.
On the other, what do we have now, 3 behemoths in the playground, Apple, Motoogle and Nokiasoft. I'm not sure if this is going to be the best thing for us the consumers...
Put them into floor reinforcements. Hollow, very hard to break, and EMS will avoid them anyway when doing the cutting part.
Pints?
In my country our favorite is football fields...
They invented the powerbalance and the cold fusion reactor, right?
If they didn't benefit from their education, they didn't learn math, so as engineers they are useless.
The future? No warrant wire tapping, naking you to get to a plane, break a leg and go bankrupt, big corps writing laws, electing between 2 already bought candidates... That's enough to consider it a police state now?
But think about it: In future when the working population comes home in the evenings, they will want to recharge their cars for the trip to work next morning.
Not if you can recharge at the parking lot.
If chargers get intelligent and widespread, EVs can in fact make distribution easier: they can turn into accumulators to use on peak hours: for example, have cheaper electricity bills if you allow your battery to be used by the grid at peak hours, etc.
That's so far from the truth.
How comes that Sweden has way more governement than US and hosts the pirate bay? Nordic countries tax heavier, but spend wiser; they get what they pay for.
It's "better government" or "worse government", and I've found that it's got more to do on how educated is the population of the country.
Which for your (probably US) and my (Spain) case, has become borderline...
1) As a Spanish employee of a french company, I can honestly say that they're quite polite in language misuse, if you are polite to them
2) Applies to every capital city of the countries I've visited: England, Germany, France... and Spain is no exception: the "capitalers" are assholes.
What do you mean by savings?
Here, in my small -80k- town, you could live on ~450 (sharing a cheap apartment, no car, etc.)
I earned 800 working as a junior programmer in a nearby city, but senior programmers, db managers, etc., with 6 years experience, earn as low as 1000, lately; things are not very well in IT, in our region...
After taxes?
I got the same in Spain! -in a small city, but...-
I thought India was cheap...
And in Europe, it's much cheaper than oil...
In fact, the country that invented guerrilla warefare is mine, Spain. That's why you call it "guerrilla", and not "little war". It was invented in our war against the French (Napoleon), for our independence.
I do that, and the only problem is that in certain email clients (MS flavored), the From: appears as "John Smith (js@gmail.com) on behalf of John Smith (John@smith.com)".
Which is a PITA.
There are some things you got wrong: cell phones market is still a relatively high margin market, if you compare it to, eg. computers: sure there are cheap cell phones, but there's a high end market which is very profitable.
Yet there is another (also attractive) market: the PDA phones or smartphones, which still no one has got completly right; i-mate Jam is almost quite there, but yet...
Apple's lack of experience can be covered by an experienced partner like HTC: don't forget apple is not a manufacturer, they really know how to partner.
And well, service providers are far far away from fearing cellphone manufacturers: they are trying to get rid of them by offering their own phones, but strong brands sell better (and that's exactly what Apple is, a strong brand).