We're talking roofing and HVAC Maintenance, budgeting for that is Accounting 101.
The thing you are missing is that school districts can't take tax revenues this year and put them aside for next year - they can't budget to put aside 5% of the cost of a new HVAC system each year over the projected 20 year life of the unit.
I worked for a school district in NJ that had built up a 'rainy-day' fund of about $1M to handle 'emergency expenses', but once the state found out about it the district was forced to fold the money back into the annual budget, which reduced tax increases because of the additional funds. Once the additional funds were exhausted, the district was limited in the size of annual budget increases such that it took several years to get back to where tax revenues used to be.
Bottom line, the school district was punished for saving for a rainy day, and residents blamed the district, not the state.
Schools don't fix iOS devices, they buy AppleCare and have Apple fix them. After 3 years they start ditching devices when they break, replacing them with new devices that also come with 3 year warranties.
Buying half-price Apple devices (compared with windows 10 tablet from HP) allows schools to have a device that costs as much as the HP tablet, has a 6 year lifespan, and is bought in two separate payments 3 years apart.
The math:
Buy 1st iPad w/ AppleCare $350 Three years later, buy 2nd iPad w/ AppleCare $350
Total cost, $700 Total usable life, 6 years
Compare those numbers to buying the $600 HP Windows 10 devices.
IPads that fit in your pocket (cellphone) IPads that are page size (tablet) iPads that have built-in keyboards (laptops) IPads that have built-in power supplies (desktops)
How will Apple avoid the perception that your MacBookPro and MacPro are more than glorified iPads?
I have a hard time believing Apple can ship a comparable CPU (let alone a superior CPU) to any of Intel's offerings, along with all required 'glue' components Intel also supplied, after just two years of engineering.
Maybe they can, I don't know, but I think there will be Xeons in MacPros well after 2020.
You literally have no idea what you are talking about.
Have you ever read Gate's letter to hobbyists?
The miracle of Microsoft, the thing that propelled them into near total market dominance was started with MS BASIC in ROM on every PC (Radio Shack, atari, commodore, etc), then IBM picked MS-DOS over CP/M, and then Windows server sealed the deal - it was stable enough, had a huge developer base, and had a major support organization behind it. Unix was fractured across multiple companies and everything else was marginal at best (Pick?).
But how would a high school student taking AP Computer Science complete his homework using Chrome OS?
104K students enrolled in AP CS classes last year, that's between 1-3,000 students per state/year - that is not a meaningful percentage of high school students in America.
Apple makes its money selling CONTENT to the user. Sure, they make money on hardware sales, but they make much, much more selling $1 apps and songs to end-users.
Why not install Ubuntu on a USB drive and simply boot from it? Why require a second, lesser processor, less memory, and greatly limited storage be included inside the laptop?
If you want to run Windows on the hardware securely, take a look at Microsoft's "Windows to go" offering?
Wouldn't it be worth sticking a 200 Dollar Android or Linux SOC computer into a laptop computer if that enables you access internet anywhere, without any worries that your main OS and hardware can be compromised by 3rd parties while you do this?
So the idea is to stick a second, much less powerful computer, like a raspberry pi, inside a mainstream laptop to avoid exposure of proprietary data on untrusted networks?
Microsoft and Ubuntu already addressed this isdue, but no one cares - Ubuntu called it "running from a USB stick", Microsoft called it "Windows to go" - a complete computing environment on a USB drive.
Take your laptop, boot off the USB drive, enjoy a computing environment completely isolated from your laptop HD. You can place this environment on an SDXC flash card or low-profile USB device that barely projects out the side of your laptoop, then choose how to boot.
Apparently it isn't the units under test, it appears to be new phones in boxes - Apple would love to disable the ability to call 911 from an inactivated phone, but it's an FCC requirement that any phone be capable of dialing 911, activated or not, including home lines when there is no service.
11 legit calls to 911 from the same number for whatever reason
See, that's the problem, it isn't the same number, that would be an easy problem to fix, it's all the random numbers for the phones sent to the repair facility.
Cheaper isn't the issue, manageability and survivability are the issues.
These devices add nothing to education, they provide distractions for bored students and incentives for teachers to offer children that finish tasks early.
Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say
"Could have" isn't the same as "would have" - that in hindsight you can imagine a different reaction doesn't mean you could have had that different reaction in this exact situation.
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) is a non-profit political organization, it has literally nothing to do with the governance of the United States.
The DNC hack was detected by federal organizations, advice and assistance was offered, but declined by the DNC at the time.
As I recall, the RNC was similarly attacked, but when advice and assistance was offered, it was accepted and the impact was mitigated.
In the after-attack analysis, the DNC chose to send their hacked server to a private firm for analysis, corrupting any evidence federal agencies could gleen from the DNC server.
I can't think of one thing Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton, Hillary's campaign manager Podesta, and the DNC did to protect their emails from prying eyes:
Hillary consciously choose to eschew secure federal email and instead contracted a consultant to arrange a private server for all work-related emails - care to argue her private server was more secure than the State Department's servers?
Podesta used a GMAIL account for work-related emails, chose "password" as his account password, and had incompetent assistants and IT staffers that mis-communicated about the legitimacy of a spearfish email.
DNC ignored FBU alerts that their email servers/network were under attack during the campaign.
And this is the team that felt ready to lead the free world?
He may not have even used the spearfishing since the password was easy to guess and that may have been a completely different attack.
As I recall, the story is Podesta got a spearfish email asking him for his email password.
Podesta assistant asked IT staffer if it was legit, staffer assured him it was "legitimate".
Podesta's gmail account was scooped up by hackers.
Podesta's emails were put on selective public display.
Podesta's IT staffer that assured him the spearfish email was a "legitimate" email blamed a typo, he meant to say "it was illegitimate", but only typed "it is legitimate".
You do realize that student loans are federally-insured, and every student that defaults or goes bankrupt incurs a cost to the American taxpayer, right?
The reason student loans can not be discharged by bankruptcy is that it used to be very common for students to take out student loans, declare bankruptcy after graduation, then simply rent an apt until their bankruptcy was 'over' so they could buy a house...
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We're talking roofing and HVAC Maintenance, budgeting for that is Accounting 101.
The thing you are missing is that school districts can't take tax revenues this year and put them aside for next year - they can't budget to put aside 5% of the cost of a new HVAC system each year over the projected 20 year life of the unit.
I worked for a school district in NJ that had built up a 'rainy-day' fund of about $1M to handle 'emergency expenses', but once the state found out about it the district was forced to fold the money back into the annual budget, which reduced tax increases because of the additional funds. Once the additional funds were exhausted, the district was limited in the size of annual budget increases such that it took several years to get back to where tax revenues used to be.
Bottom line, the school district was punished for saving for a rainy day, and residents blamed the district, not the state.
Schools don't fix iOS devices, they buy AppleCare and have Apple fix them. After 3 years they start ditching devices when they break, replacing them with new devices that also come with 3 year warranties.
Buying half-price Apple devices (compared with windows 10 tablet from HP) allows schools to have a device that costs as much as the HP tablet, has a 6 year lifespan, and is bought in two separate payments 3 years apart.
The math:
Buy 1st iPad w/ AppleCare $350
Three years later, buy 2nd iPad w/ AppleCare $350
Total cost, $700
Total usable life, 6 years
Compare those numbers to buying the $600 HP Windows 10 devices.
The only way I could see this happening is if Apple are developing or have developed an x86_64 compatible processor.
That doesn't infringe on any Intel/AMD intellectual property?
Is AMD for sale?
Come 2020, Apple will be offering:
IPads that fit in your pocket (cellphone)
IPads that are page size (tablet)
iPads that have built-in keyboards (laptops)
IPads that have built-in power supplies (desktops)
It'll be awesome.
How will Apple avoid the perception that your MacBookPro and MacPro are more than glorified iPads?
I have a hard time believing Apple can ship a comparable CPU (let alone a superior CPU) to any of Intel's offerings, along with all required 'glue' components Intel also supplied, after just two years of engineering.
Maybe they can, I don't know, but I think there will be Xeons in MacPros well after 2020.
You literally have no idea what you are talking about.
Have you ever read Gate's letter to hobbyists?
The miracle of Microsoft, the thing that propelled them into near total market dominance was started with MS BASIC in ROM on every PC (Radio Shack, atari, commodore, etc), then IBM picked MS-DOS over CP/M, and then Windows server sealed the deal - it was stable enough, had a huge developer base, and had a major support organization behind it. Unix was fractured across multiple companies and everything else was marginal at best (Pick?).
I see a continued rise with Linux taking over just about everything.
Except, of course, the desktop.
But how would a high school student taking AP Computer Science complete his homework using Chrome OS?
104K students enrolled in AP CS classes last year, that's between 1-3,000 students per state/year - that is not a meaningful percentage of high school students in America.
Apple makes its money upfront from the user.
Apple makes its money selling CONTENT to the user. Sure, they make money on hardware sales, but they make much, much more selling $1 apps and songs to end-users.
Why not install Ubuntu on a USB drive and simply boot from it? Why require a second, lesser processor, less memory, and greatly limited storage be included inside the laptop?
If you want to run Windows on the hardware securely, take a look at Microsoft's "Windows to go" offering?
Wouldn't it be worth sticking a 200 Dollar Android or Linux SOC computer into a laptop computer if that enables you access internet anywhere, without any worries that your main OS and hardware can be compromised by 3rd parties while you do this?
So the idea is to stick a second, much less powerful computer, like a raspberry pi, inside a mainstream laptop to avoid exposure of proprietary data on untrusted networks?
Microsoft and Ubuntu already addressed this isdue, but no one cares - Ubuntu called it "running from a USB stick", Microsoft called it "Windows to go" - a complete computing environment on a USB drive.
Take your laptop, boot off the USB drive, enjoy a computing environment completely isolated from your laptop HD. You can place this environment on an SDXC flash card or low-profile USB device that barely projects out the side of your laptoop, then choose how to boot.
Why shove a raspberry pi in an i5 laptop?
These are unactivated phones, new in the box - but to know that you'd have to read the linked-to article.
Apparently it isn't the units under test, it appears to be new phones in boxes - Apple would love to disable the ability to call 911 from an inactivated phone, but it's an FCC requirement that any phone be capable of dialing 911, activated or not, including home lines when there is no service.
11 legit calls to 911 from the same number for whatever reason
See, that's the problem, it isn't the same number, that would be an easy problem to fix, it's all the random numbers for the phones sent to the repair facility.
Apple needs to set up a stingray at the factory, filter out 911 calls from unknown devices, allow employee phones to dial through to 911 if needed.
Does the Raspberry Pi offer iLo or other remote system management options? Battery-backed hardware RAID?
Cheaper isn't the issue, manageability and survivability are the issues.
These devices add nothing to education, they provide distractions for bored students and incentives for teachers to offer children that finish tasks early.
I can't help but wonder if New York City councilman Rafael Espinal's staff will be allowed to opt-out of after-hours emails without consequences?
I suspect not, just as OSHA regulations don't apply to congressional staffers.
What, exactly, did the victim in this accident do to avoid getting run over by a car?
She wore dark clothes,
She had no lights or reflectors,
She wasn't looking where she was going,
She walked into the middle of the road.
It's fair to give the victim a slightly greater responsibility for the accident.
Human Driver Could Have Avoided Fatal Uber Crash, Experts Say
"Could have" isn't the same as "would have" - that in hindsight you can imagine a different reaction doesn't mean you could have had that different reaction in this exact situation.
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) is a non-profit political organization, it has literally nothing to do with the governance of the United States.
The DNC hack was detected by federal organizations, advice and assistance was offered, but declined by the DNC at the time.
As I recall, the RNC was similarly attacked, but when advice and assistance was offered, it was accepted and the impact was mitigated.
In the after-attack analysis, the DNC chose to send their hacked server to a private firm for analysis, corrupting any evidence federal agencies could gleen from the DNC server.
I can't think of one thing Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton, Hillary's campaign manager Podesta, and the DNC did to protect their emails from prying eyes:
Hillary consciously choose to eschew secure federal email and instead contracted a consultant to arrange a private server for all work-related emails - care to argue her private server was more secure than the State Department's servers?
Podesta used a GMAIL account for work-related emails, chose "password" as his account password, and had incompetent assistants and IT staffers that mis-communicated about the legitimacy of a spearfish email.
DNC ignored FBU alerts that their email servers/network were under attack during the campaign.
And this is the team that felt ready to lead the free world?
He may not have even used the spearfishing since the password was easy to guess and that may have been a completely different attack.
As I recall, the story is Podesta got a spearfish email asking him for his email password.
Podesta assistant asked IT staffer if it was legit, staffer assured him it was "legitimate".
Podesta's gmail account was scooped up by hackers.
Podesta's emails were put on selective public display.
Podesta's IT staffer that assured him the spearfish email was a "legitimate" email blamed a typo, he meant to say "it was illegitimate", but only typed "it is legitimate".
Podesta's IT staffer feels really bad about typo.
Solaris zones? Kids! IBM mainframes has an os called VM in the late 70s - guess what VM stood for?
Exactly what role would the US Secretary of Education play in the sale of a small university to a foreign concern?
Is Westminster Choir College a strategic national asset?
The US Dept of education has no regulatory or oversight responsibilities in colleges or universities, public or private.
You do realize that student loans are federally-insured, and every student that defaults or goes bankrupt incurs a cost to the American taxpayer, right?
The reason student loans can not be discharged by bankruptcy is that it used to be very common for students to take out student loans, declare bankruptcy after graduation, then simply rent an apt until their bankruptcy was 'over' so they could buy a house...