The biggest problem is most schools deploy IT just for the sake of being "technological." At my high school, we have over one hundred computers (which just replaced the old ones from a few years ago), fiber optic lines to every class so that they can access the internet at T1 speeds, and we recently just purchased half a million in video equipment so that we can have "video announcements" one day a week rather than over the intercom. At the same time, the buildings are falling apart and teachers are being laid off by the bucket loads.
In my experience as a student, technology in schools is a pure hype and misdirected money. Most of my teachers do use technology effectively in education, but after a certain point the money is better spent elsewhere.
Well, with their Palladium and Longhorn initiatives, it seems to me Microsoft is integrating their software directly with hardware (rather than the OS).
Depending on the exact implementation details, they will have the DMCA and DRM to prevent Linux/BSD/other competition from also integrating into these hardware components. Just like Netscape was kicked out because of IE integration with the operating system, so too could all other competing OSes be eliminates by Windows integration with hardware.
And this would be very easy fro Microsoft to do: simply force all vendors to ship with the hardware/software combo with its new "features" and stop supporting the old platforms. Former posters have noted this was why their companies HAD to upgrade to winXP.
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In my experience as a student, technology in schools is a pure hype and misdirected money. Most of my teachers do use technology effectively in education, but after a certain point the money is better spent elsewhere.
Actually, that would be his/her/hier problem.
BTW:heir (i after e) would be far more pleasing IMHO as it would conform to the pronoun i after e standard set by the word their.
Well, with their Palladium and Longhorn initiatives, it seems to me Microsoft is integrating their software directly with hardware (rather than the OS).
Depending on the exact implementation details, they will have the DMCA and DRM to prevent Linux/BSD/other competition from also integrating into these hardware components. Just like Netscape was kicked out because of IE integration with the operating system, so too could all other competing OSes be eliminates by Windows integration with hardware.
And this would be very easy fro Microsoft to do: simply force all vendors to ship with the hardware/software combo with its new "features" and stop supporting the old platforms. Former posters have noted this was why their companies HAD to upgrade to winXP.
Microsoft's up to its same old schemes.