Sure. If that money went to the teachers.... But this actually does bring up an interresting question.
How hard *would* it be to start a "school" with that kind of money? I know IT guys who run projects, paying for all their own equioment and such for less than $60 an hour. At $2 per hour, school for 1 kid (Assuming 8 hours a day, 180 days a year) would cost $2880 a year. The Beaverton,OR school district has 35,000 students and costs $750,000 to open for one day. That's $21.42 per kid per day, or $2.67 per hour, or $3844.80 a year.
So would a teacher be able to provide a classroom and materials to teach 30 kids, and have enough left over for a comfortable living - at $60 an hour (or $120k a year not accounting for hollidays and such...)?
Just an interesting idea... Kind of a good balance between home-schooling and public schools?
Why is it always inner city schools that are under-funded and big, while suburban schools are always good? Is no one in the suburban school districts overworked? Are there no overcrowding problems in small towns schools - they can afford all the classrooms and teachers they need? Are there not *any* desirable inner city schools?
And in Portland the "inner city" is expensive. The "poor" areas are mostly outside of the "inner city" area.
My small town highschool had no money and more than 30 kids per classroom. We had really old books, crappy computers shared amongst too many kids. Yeah, us "white suburban" kids had it made. all gravy... (not)
Much as I agree with the sentiment of "start an ethical business" -- because it CAN be done, I think starting a shoe company (or any garment manufacturing company) is a dead wrong example. While you can technically create an ethical garment manufacturing company, the economy of scale will kill you. Meaning--you may be able to squeak out a living in a local or niche market, but you simply cannot produce on the scale of the existing companies or you will go out of business.
Show me any proof that Nike is charging less for their shoes since they save so much on labor - and that argument holds water. But the sad reality is that they don't. Even counting all costs it doesn't cost Nike $100 to manufacture/market sneakers. How is Payless still in business then?
I think, and I may be wrong, that the *only* reason Nike is so big is that they got popular during the 80's. In a decade where the *brand* of the item was infinitely more important than the *item*. Every kid had to have an "Air Jordan" and the Nike swoosh meant you had cool shoes. Wear a generic or off brand? No Way!
I think times are somewhat different now, more people seem to prefer rebellious (enter Dr. Martin) items, and now you can be just as cool with the Reebok (Kobe?) or other brand shoes...
But if I am so smart, I should be in marketing, eh? I think that Nike makes fine shoes, but their dominance isn't because their shoes are better and cheaper... It's because they were Nike... swoosh!
While I personally agree with many of Adbusters arguments and such - I think that often times they, and most activists, go about things the wrong way. For instance, how does graffiti help anything? It only makes people and property owners mad, and most people don't even pay attention or understand. At most it is a rallying call for people who already know and agree - but does little to help the cause.
I find that extreme behavior or unpopular behavior hurts causes. Instead of boycotting, protesting, and destroying - why not work to solve the problem. Opposed to sweat shops making shoes? Start a shoe shop and make better shoes. Tired of companies that pollute? Start a "clean" business, or a business helping them *not* pollute.
There are so many ways Liberal ideaology could be put to good use - instead of blocking freeways and hanging banners. Look at Ben & Jerrys. Start a socially, economically, and environmentally responsible company. Most companies want to do good - find a way to help them. If you can make any of it profitable, all of them will join in. Protesting and vandalizing just makes us look bad.
A system like this which helps you identify good/bad traits is always a good thing, no matter how implemented (print, web, word of mouth) - but it needs to allow for two things (which some people have mentioned as well):
1. Customizability. my.values() != your.values() 2. Verifyability. Good intentions are not always trustworthy.
Taxes will not be raised to pay for the pro stadium under any of the current proposals - unless you are a player of the pro teams that play there... The taxes to pay for the proposed ballparks is to come from the players/owners/managers/coaches salaries.
That is the theory anyway
I for one hate baseball AND hate taxes. But I can see good from having a pro team here - I just think they should use PGE park for a while to guage interest and attendence BEFORE they put up an expensive new park...
PGE park would be easy to cover the entire park with *regular* WAPs - let alone WAPs with good antennas. How much do you know about PGE Park? It is a small park with a couple open sides, and lots of businesses and apartments around - and on a hill. So it would be very easy to put a good directional antenna in a building up the hill next to the park and cover most of the stadium. Check out PortlandMaps Aerial Photo for a better context.
And what they don't show you in these stats is that the 6 of 10 that fail to make their money back *ever* tend to be obscure titles that cost less to make (with the exception of a couple rare Waterworlds).
But what about the three movies a year that cost 100million to make and recoup 500million or whatever? One profit can make up for 400 money losers - and then some....
I am sorry, I was being sarcastic. I actually agree with you.;) But it *is* a bit unreasonable to expect knowlege and intuition to play into ANYTHING anymore... Sadly... - Uncommon sense I guess.
I just got off the phone with our IBM pre-sales-tech account manager guy. He said that WSAD 5.1 is due out very shortly. (He told me a date which I am not at liberty to disclose).
He said that speed is the #1 complaint (it takes us 45 minutes to refresh/rebuild and another 45 to generate deploy/RMIC code).
To anyone looking at WSAD - make sure to try it with large code sets if you can... And be aware that the WSAD User Interface is BULKY, Confusing, and takes a good amount of adjustment too.
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I have been using WSAD for more than a year now. I would actually advise against it, our experience has been that it is really really slow - especially with large codebases. It is also a bit buggy, and I dislike that it hides too many details from the developers - but then when they break it is almost impossible to track down and fix. WSAD does not like ANY manual editing of important files related to EJBs and such. We currently have almost 20 developers using WSAD and regret our choice. Especially the code migration / porting projects.
Just one opinion though, YMMV. We currently have a few tickets open with IBM that they can't seem to resolve - that work fine in WebLogic and SilverStream and JBoss environments.
This is all under windows, I have no experience with WSAD under linux.
Apple never said that IBMs *technology* was no good. They said that IBM made boring corporate Personal Computers that didn't foster individuality and creativity amongst it's users. I would say that is still correct.
I understood perfectly. My point was that, in my *personal* experience with systems that need scalability is that 2 $10,000 boxes would *Scale* better than 1 $20,000 box. So my comment was in effect that while we don't want to use 20 of the bargain basement PC's - sometimes the big expensive ones are not much better. Usually get good reliable hardware, and several of them. Something like 4 dual processor Xeon class systems should be doable for $20k. Of course there could be more required for the $20k than just boxes. Adjust $$$ accordingly...
I don't really know an answer but I will throw in my tidbit.
But first let me apologize for all the nutheads who say "drop MS - use Linux" and all the derivitives thereof. That doesn't help anyone, and doesn't answer the question. Might as well say "use a dustmop, works great on my floors!".
My advice would be to *try* and use a cluster of some sort instead of the one server approach. Sure, you can get some great big reliable iron - that is wicked fast... But what I have found is that scaling really needs more *bandwidth*. Not network bandwidth but memory, disk, I/O, that sort of bandwidth. Of course, the more machines - the more licenses... Good luck!
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So you would be following him without a chute then?
Sure. If that money went to the teachers.... But this actually does bring up an interresting question.
How hard *would* it be to start a "school" with that kind of money? I know IT guys who run projects, paying for all their own equioment and such for less than $60 an hour. At $2 per hour, school for 1 kid (Assuming 8 hours a day, 180 days a year) would cost $2880 a year. The Beaverton,OR school district has 35,000 students and costs $750,000 to open for one day. That's $21.42 per kid per day, or $2.67 per hour, or $3844.80 a year.
So would a teacher be able to provide a classroom and materials to teach 30 kids, and have enough left over for a comfortable living - at $60 an hour (or $120k a year not accounting for hollidays and such...)?
Just an interesting idea... Kind of a good balance between home-schooling and public schools?
But it's not the local school's job to play babysitter or surrogate parent.
Too bad too... At $2 per hour per kid - babysitter rates would be cheaper than school...
Why is it always inner city schools that are under-funded and big, while suburban schools are always good? Is no one in the suburban school districts overworked? Are there no overcrowding problems in small towns schools - they can afford all the classrooms and teachers they need? Are there not *any* desirable inner city schools?
Suburban schools can have money problems too. Even a rich suburb like Lake Oswego, OR can have serious budget problems.
And in Portland the "inner city" is expensive. The "poor" areas are mostly outside of the "inner city" area.
My small town highschool had no money and more than 30 kids per classroom. We had really old books, crappy computers shared amongst too many kids.
Yeah, us "white suburban" kids had it made. all gravy... (not)
the new ipod: smaller, faster, brighter and classier too!
and with less battery life to boot!
Now I can store my entire music collection - but I have to go back to the computer every three hours anyway to recharge the dang thing.
Poor, Poor Paul Allen...
;)
My heart goes out to him.
Someone mod parent down, -4 would be appropriate. That link is gross, and not appropriate for children or viewing at work.
Much as I agree with the sentiment of "start an ethical business" -- because it CAN be done, I think starting a shoe company (or any garment manufacturing company) is a dead wrong example. While you can technically create an ethical garment manufacturing company, the economy of scale will kill you. Meaning--you may be able to squeak out a living in a local or niche market, but you simply cannot produce on the scale of the existing companies or you will go out of business.
Show me any proof that Nike is charging less for their shoes since they save so much on labor - and that argument holds water. But the sad reality is that they don't. Even counting all costs it doesn't cost Nike $100 to manufacture/market sneakers. How is Payless still in business then?
I think, and I may be wrong, that the *only* reason Nike is so big is that they got popular during the 80's. In a decade where the *brand* of the item was infinitely more important than the *item*. Every kid had to have an "Air Jordan" and the Nike swoosh meant you had cool shoes. Wear a generic or off brand? No Way!
I think times are somewhat different now, more people seem to prefer rebellious (enter Dr. Martin) items, and now you can be just as cool with the Reebok (Kobe?) or other brand shoes...
But if I am so smart, I should be in marketing, eh? I think that Nike makes fine shoes, but their dominance isn't because their shoes are better and cheaper... It's because they were Nike... swoosh!
While I personally agree with many of Adbusters arguments and such - I think that often times they, and most activists, go about things the wrong way. For instance, how does graffiti help anything? It only makes people and property owners mad, and most people don't even pay attention or understand. At most it is a rallying call for people who already know and agree - but does little to help the cause.
I find that extreme behavior or unpopular behavior hurts causes. Instead of boycotting, protesting, and destroying - why not work to solve the problem. Opposed to sweat shops making shoes? Start a shoe shop and make better shoes. Tired of companies that pollute? Start a "clean" business, or a business helping them *not* pollute.
There are so many ways Liberal ideaology could be put to good use - instead of blocking freeways and hanging banners. Look at Ben & Jerrys. Start a socially, economically, and environmentally responsible company. Most companies want to do good - find a way to help them. If you can make any of it profitable, all of them will join in. Protesting and vandalizing just makes us look bad.
A system like this which helps you identify good/bad traits is always a good thing, no matter how implemented (print, web, word of mouth) - but it needs to allow for two things (which some people have mentioned as well):
1. Customizability. my.values() != your.values()
2. Verifyability. Good intentions are not always trustworthy.
Taxes will not be raised to pay for the pro stadium under any of the current proposals - unless you are a player of the pro teams that play there... The taxes to pay for the proposed ballparks is to come from the players/owners/managers/coaches salaries.
That is the theory anyway
I for one hate baseball AND hate taxes. But I can see good from having a pro team here - I just think they should use PGE park for a while to guage interest and attendence BEFORE they put up an expensive new park...
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Especially with the free wireless...
Also PSU activities and some local high school events....
This is sort of on-topic - since is is PGE park... More info about PGE and Portland's work to fix it, here
PGE park would be easy to cover the entire park with *regular* WAPs - let alone WAPs with good antennas. How much do you know about PGE Park? It is a small park with a couple open sides, and lots of businesses and apartments around - and on a hill. So it would be very easy to put a good directional antenna in a building up the hill next to the park and cover most of the stadium. Check out PortlandMaps Aerial Photo for a better context.
And what they don't show you in these stats is that the 6 of 10 that fail to make their money back *ever* tend to be obscure titles that cost less to make (with the exception of a couple rare Waterworlds).
But what about the three movies a year that cost 100million to make and recoup 500million or whatever? One profit can make up for 400 money losers - and then some....
I am sorry, I was being sarcastic. I actually agree with you. ;) But it *is* a bit unreasonable to expect knowlege and intuition to play into ANYTHING anymore... Sadly... - Uncommon sense I guess.
There's a car *and* an animal called "Jaguar"? And all this time I thought it was just my Operating System...
can be solved by more intelligence on the part of the user
For cryin' out loud man! What the hell do you want from us?
I just got off the phone with our IBM pre-sales-tech account manager guy. He said that WSAD 5.1 is due out very shortly. (He told me a date which I am not at liberty to disclose).
He said that speed is the #1 complaint (it takes us 45 minutes to refresh/rebuild and another 45 to generate deploy/RMIC code).
To anyone looking at WSAD - make sure to try it with large code sets if you can... And be aware that the WSAD User Interface is BULKY, Confusing, and takes a good amount of adjustment too.
There are people in the US smarter than Bricks?
I have been using WSAD for more than a year now. I would actually advise against it, our experience has been that it is really really slow - especially with large codebases. It is also a bit buggy, and I dislike that it hides too many details from the developers - but then when they break it is almost impossible to track down and fix. WSAD does not like ANY manual editing of important files related to EJBs and such. We currently have almost 20 developers using WSAD and regret our choice. Especially the code migration / porting projects.
Just one opinion though, YMMV. We currently have a few tickets open with IBM that they can't seem to resolve - that work fine in WebLogic and SilverStream and JBoss environments.
This is all under windows, I have no experience with WSAD under linux.
Why is Apple+IBM such a new thing?
How about October, 1991?
More info about the PowerPC alliance.
Apple never said that IBMs *technology* was no good. They said that IBM made boring corporate Personal Computers that didn't foster individuality and creativity amongst it's users. I would say that is still correct.
I understood perfectly. My point was that, in my *personal* experience with systems that need scalability is that 2 $10,000 boxes would *Scale* better than 1 $20,000 box. So my comment was in effect that while we don't want to use 20 of the bargain basement PC's - sometimes the big expensive ones are not much better. Usually get good reliable hardware, and several of them. Something like 4 dual processor Xeon class systems should be doable for $20k. Of course there could be more required for the $20k than just boxes. Adjust $$$ accordingly...
I don't really know an answer but I will throw in my tidbit.
But first let me apologize for all the nutheads who say "drop MS - use Linux" and all the derivitives thereof. That doesn't help anyone, and doesn't answer the question. Might as well say "use a dustmop, works great on my floors!".
My advice would be to *try* and use a cluster of some sort instead of the one server approach. Sure, you can get some great big reliable iron - that is wicked fast... But what I have found is that scaling really needs more *bandwidth*. Not network bandwidth but memory, disk, I/O, that sort of bandwidth. Of course, the more machines - the more licenses... Good luck!
Ha Ha, very funny. What the heck are you talking about?
;)
It's Angelina Jolie.
There is a Boring, Oregon.
There is a city nearby called Oregon City which leads us to this wonderful sign.