That's very much an "it depends". Some people get their energy from coal, others from hydro or nuclear. In any case, building a new power plant is easier than replacing millions of cars.
What is it about NYC that stops one from riding a bike? I mean, aside from outright fear. I don't recall seeing a bunch of bikes in the middle of Tokyo, though Japan is in general much more of a bike riding culture. Even my hotel in Beppu had bikes available gratis - though that was a tourist hotel. When I was at the business hotel, there was no provision for bikes (nor movement in the room, but I digress). Americans definitely are not into riding.
I do appear in a truther video, but they use me as an example of the deluded masses! LOL, I was living in NYC at the time and happened to be shopping at Century 21 near ground zero. I walked by and they interviewed me with my 2-year old on my shoulders.
Only the most senior in well-paying districts make anything near that in pure salary. But the pension, health care, and other overhead costs add up to over $100,000 very easily. For some reason, people in the US have been conditioned to ignore health care and pension when looking at their total compensation. It is lunacy, as those things can easily add up to rival salary.
We do NOT pay teachers shit. Teachers are paid very, very well. How many occupations can you list where you can get out after 20-25 years with a generous pension while having your summers free? Depending on where you work, they will even pay for your master's degree. Teaching positions can attract 600+ resumes. We spend more per student than almost any other country in the world. While distribution of that money is a serious problem (much of it comes from local sources, so richer areas have more money for their schools), the absolute dollars spent on primary and secondary education is objectively not a problem.
I would rather not increase the class size, but use them to personalize teaching.
Naturally. In general, any improvement in productivity can be used to either improve results or reduce costs. Either way, fewer teachers are required for the same result. If the iPad does not improve results, then it is a pointless expense.
I find it very hard to believe that anywhere in the world is any better than NYC. Now granted, I haven't been to London or Paris. But I have been to Amsterdam, Bonn, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taipei. Many of those cities had excellent transit with little need for a private vehicle or taxi, but the same can be said for NYC. You don't "need" a taxi or ZipCar in NYC, but there are times when it is fun to exit the city and visit friends in Jersey. You can save some money and time by renting a ZipCar and heading to Brooklyn to stock up at Target. Sometimes my wife didn't want to walk far in heels or in the rain if we were going out. Or maybe you got a little too drunk and the taxi will whisk you home quickly and safely.:) I dare say my total carbon use due to cabs and ZipCars for my entire 5 years in NYC was probably so low that you wouldn't bother measuring it. And I lived "way out" on the Upper East Side, where it was a 10-15 minute walk to the subway. I don't think I was atypical... the only people I knew with a personal car were either so rich that you could safely ignore them as anomalous, were migrants from somewhere that not having a car was unthinkable, or had some legitimate business purpose. Incidentally, the couple I knew from the midwest with the car had to keep it about half-an-hour away just to afford the parking! So not worth it.
The rest of the US has relatively poor public transit. There just isn't the density to warrant it. Nevertheless, I know people who live in downtown Philadelphia, Boston, DC, and Chicago who do not have cars. My wife had no car when she lived downtown in Philadelphia. I _technically_ owned a car when I lived there, but it was parked 2 hours away at my parents in New Jersey most of the time. According to news reports, this is becoming much more common as young people flood the city centers. Gasoline demand is down to 2001 levels, almost entirely due to the East Coast. This article explains the phenomenon in some detail.
By the way, I personally suck and have two cars that are larger than what I need. I partially make up for it by living a short commute from both my wife's work (5 miles) and mine (10 miles). Combined we put maybe 10,000 miles on our cars each year. My wife could technically take public transit, but she works odd hours and it would be very dangerous for her. Since my office is in the 'burbs, the only public transit option is a single train which leaves before my kids go to school. There is a single return train that would force me to leave work far earlier than I would like (I'm paid hourly). I could do a 10 mile bike ride (we have a shower at work), but frankly I think I'd probably get seriously hurt on the narrow, twisty, shoulder-less suburban streets and rain or snow would cramp my style.
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If that is true, it seems amazing that they couldn't manage to translate existing articles profitably. You'd expect that to require perhaps one technically adept bilingual person. Their readership must have been very, very low.
The teacher's union already has class size limits in place.
That kind of stuff is negotiable, at least. Pensions and tenure are not, as they are often codified in law. The result is school districts desperately seeking ways to eliminate staff. Philly schools are pretty much down to staff required by law, but that's a whole different conversation.
Anyway, I fell into a role of defending cabs, which was not really my original intent. They are quite obviously the least-desirable public transit option in NYC, but they are still better than private vehicle ownership, even if only marginally. Think of all the resources spent just on parking lots. People use cabs or ZipCars a lot less than they would use their own cars, which accounts for most of the benefit.
Check out my link, which was to a 4k cart. Now, granted, this guy seems really talented and has 2010-era knowledge to play with. But it is still possible to do a decent 4k port.
I find my TV useful for watching movies on Amazon Prime while sitting on a couch.
The only way to get all of the content from the internet on a TV is to hook the TV up to a computer. At that point, what is the point of using the TV when the computer has it's own screen?
There was an era that only recently ended... say 3 years ago... where people would have TVs all over the house. We even had a flip-down in our eat-in kitchen. With all of the i-things in our house, we didn't bother to replace it when it died. If you really want to watch something while in the kitchen, just put it on the tablet. Or sit at the table and read/watch the news on any of the other i-things. We only have one TV in the house now, and honestly we could probably have zero, but it seems odd so we'll probably keep buying them. As it is, we pretty much only watch Netflix and movies on it.
This is simply not true and is easily rebuked by introducing a tablet to a home where people use laptops. You will see those people gradually shift all of their couch time towards the tablet and away from the laptop. Things like: web browsing, reading, watching videos, social media, game playing, checking and responding to email. A new tablet of decent quality can be had for less than $200, whereas the cheapest reasonable x86 laptop with any battery life will probably run you more like $400, and the tablet is more comfortable on the couch and will have much better battery life.
For content creation, the laptop will always win. Gamers will want a desktop rig. For typical entertainment, the tablet seems to have the edge.
Price is probably not all that important. Most school districts spend 70% or more on salaries. If you can use a tool to cut down on the need for an additional teacher, you only need to be cheaper than a teacher. You can buy a lot of iPads for $100,000+.
I'm not weighing in on whether or not iPads let you increase class size, but if they do not then why are they buying them at all?
When I buy a product, I compare it to the competitors. I could see buying a Surface Pro if one of the things I wanted to do was run legacy Windows programs.
The Surface RT has no such capability. I'm not sure how one would justify the purchase of an RT unless they absolutely LOVED the interface enough to make up for the lower number of apps available, or if the price was significantly lower.
The sad thing is that there are homebrew versions of PacMan for the 2600 that blow away the original. Granted, some just tweak the more capable Ms PacMan port, but it still demonstrates how awful PacMan was.
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That's very much an "it depends". Some people get their energy from coal, others from hydro or nuclear. In any case, building a new power plant is easier than replacing millions of cars.
What is it about NYC that stops one from riding a bike? I mean, aside from outright fear. I don't recall seeing a bunch of bikes in the middle of Tokyo, though Japan is in general much more of a bike riding culture. Even my hotel in Beppu had bikes available gratis - though that was a tourist hotel. When I was at the business hotel, there was no provision for bikes (nor movement in the room, but I digress). Americans definitely are not into riding.
Yeah, it would require a billionaire :)
I do appear in a truther video, but they use me as an example of the deluded masses! LOL, I was living in NYC at the time and happened to be shopping at Century 21 near ground zero. I walked by and they interviewed me with my 2-year old on my shoulders.
Oh, that would be awesome. I don't see why not... people buy and fly these old fighter jets. I don't imagine the plans are available, though.
That shore made it clear!
A better analogy would be a 44-year-old jet engine that was never a weapon. An original 747 engine, for instance.
Right, but he's building rockets right now.
Well, let me amend that to say that in 44 years you could build it :)
I don't qualify as a 1%er, but some of my friends do. I can tell you that Jeff ain't just a 1%er :)
I don't think they are selling weapons... You could build a B-1 with passenger seats and no radar-evading skin and sell it if you wanted.
All those teacher making 100,000+ dollars.
Only the most senior in well-paying districts make anything near that in pure salary. But the pension, health care, and other overhead costs add up to over $100,000 very easily. For some reason, people in the US have been conditioned to ignore health care and pension when looking at their total compensation. It is lunacy, as those things can easily add up to rival salary.
We do NOT pay teachers shit. Teachers are paid very, very well. How many occupations can you list where you can get out after 20-25 years with a generous pension while having your summers free? Depending on where you work, they will even pay for your master's degree. Teaching positions can attract 600+ resumes. We spend more per student than almost any other country in the world. While distribution of that money is a serious problem (much of it comes from local sources, so richer areas have more money for their schools), the absolute dollars spent on primary and secondary education is objectively not a problem.
I would rather not increase the class size, but use them to personalize teaching.
Naturally. In general, any improvement in productivity can be used to either improve results or reduce costs. Either way, fewer teachers are required for the same result. If the iPad does not improve results, then it is a pointless expense.
I find it very hard to believe that anywhere in the world is any better than NYC. Now granted, I haven't been to London or Paris. But I have been to Amsterdam, Bonn, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taipei. Many of those cities had excellent transit with little need for a private vehicle or taxi, but the same can be said for NYC. You don't "need" a taxi or ZipCar in NYC, but there are times when it is fun to exit the city and visit friends in Jersey. You can save some money and time by renting a ZipCar and heading to Brooklyn to stock up at Target. Sometimes my wife didn't want to walk far in heels or in the rain if we were going out. Or maybe you got a little too drunk and the taxi will whisk you home quickly and safely. :) I dare say my total carbon use due to cabs and ZipCars for my entire 5 years in NYC was probably so low that you wouldn't bother measuring it. And I lived "way out" on the Upper East Side, where it was a 10-15 minute walk to the subway. I don't think I was atypical... the only people I knew with a personal car were either so rich that you could safely ignore them as anomalous, were migrants from somewhere that not having a car was unthinkable, or had some legitimate business purpose. Incidentally, the couple I knew from the midwest with the car had to keep it about half-an-hour away just to afford the parking! So not worth it.
The rest of the US has relatively poor public transit. There just isn't the density to warrant it. Nevertheless, I know people who live in downtown Philadelphia, Boston, DC, and Chicago who do not have cars. My wife had no car when she lived downtown in Philadelphia. I _technically_ owned a car when I lived there, but it was parked 2 hours away at my parents in New Jersey most of the time. According to news reports, this is becoming much more common as young people flood the city centers. Gasoline demand is down to 2001 levels, almost entirely due to the East Coast. This article explains the phenomenon in some detail.
By the way, I personally suck and have two cars that are larger than what I need. I partially make up for it by living a short commute from both my wife's work (5 miles) and mine (10 miles). Combined we put maybe 10,000 miles on our cars each year. My wife could technically take public transit, but she works odd hours and it would be very dangerous for her. Since my office is in the 'burbs, the only public transit option is a single train which leaves before my kids go to school. There is a single return train that would force me to leave work far earlier than I would like (I'm paid hourly). I could do a 10 mile bike ride (we have a shower at work), but frankly I think I'd probably get seriously hurt on the narrow, twisty, shoulder-less suburban streets and rain or snow would cramp my style.
Agony would have been funnier.
If that is true, it seems amazing that they couldn't manage to translate existing articles profitably. You'd expect that to require perhaps one technically adept bilingual person. Their readership must have been very, very low.
That would be called "The Big Tentacle".
The teacher's union already has class size limits in place.
That kind of stuff is negotiable, at least. Pensions and tenure are not, as they are often codified in law. The result is school districts desperately seeking ways to eliminate staff. Philly schools are pretty much down to staff required by law, but that's a whole different conversation.
Same thing happens to the cab eventually.
Anyway, I fell into a role of defending cabs, which was not really my original intent. They are quite obviously the least-desirable public transit option in NYC, but they are still better than private vehicle ownership, even if only marginally. Think of all the resources spent just on parking lots. People use cabs or ZipCars a lot less than they would use their own cars, which accounts for most of the benefit.
Check out my link, which was to a 4k cart. Now, granted, this guy seems really talented and has 2010-era knowledge to play with. But it is still possible to do a decent 4k port.
I find my TV useful for watching movies on Amazon Prime while sitting on a couch.
The only way to get all of the content from the internet on a TV is to hook the TV up to a computer. At that point, what is the point of using the TV when the computer has it's own screen?
There was an era that only recently ended... say 3 years ago... where people would have TVs all over the house. We even had a flip-down in our eat-in kitchen. With all of the i-things in our house, we didn't bother to replace it when it died. If you really want to watch something while in the kitchen, just put it on the tablet. Or sit at the table and read/watch the news on any of the other i-things. We only have one TV in the house now, and honestly we could probably have zero, but it seems odd so we'll probably keep buying them. As it is, we pretty much only watch Netflix and movies on it.
Most people have no use for a tablet.
This is simply not true and is easily rebuked by introducing a tablet to a home where people use laptops. You will see those people gradually shift all of their couch time towards the tablet and away from the laptop. Things like: web browsing, reading, watching videos, social media, game playing, checking and responding to email. A new tablet of decent quality can be had for less than $200, whereas the cheapest reasonable x86 laptop with any battery life will probably run you more like $400, and the tablet is more comfortable on the couch and will have much better battery life.
For content creation, the laptop will always win. Gamers will want a desktop rig. For typical entertainment, the tablet seems to have the edge.
True, but completely out of context.
Price is probably not all that important. Most school districts spend 70% or more on salaries. If you can use a tool to cut down on the need for an additional teacher, you only need to be cheaper than a teacher. You can buy a lot of iPads for $100,000+.
I'm not weighing in on whether or not iPads let you increase class size, but if they do not then why are they buying them at all?
I have a Surface Pro
When I buy a product, I compare it to the competitors. I could see buying a Surface Pro if one of the things I wanted to do was run legacy Windows programs.
The Surface RT has no such capability. I'm not sure how one would justify the purchase of an RT unless they absolutely LOVED the interface enough to make up for the lower number of apps available, or if the price was significantly lower.
The sad thing is that there are homebrew versions of PacMan for the 2600 that blow away the original. Granted, some just tweak the more capable Ms PacMan port, but it still demonstrates how awful PacMan was.
Here is the most impressive homebrew.