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Comment It works? Really? (Score 1) 162

At one charter school? How did they measure the impact on teachers' time? What impact did it have on students? Was there a controlled study which compensated for Socio-economic status, age, regional differences, etc.? Was there a longitude study which tracked student performance over time? Or is this just wishful thinking and huckstering?

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 232

I have been on the receiving end of CA, CSC, IBM, and a host of smaller companies. They come in with promises spouting mumbo jumbo like "new economy", "webified", "whole new paradigm", "cloudified", "localized private cloud in a box", "XML", "webscale", "secret sauce", "Object Oriented", etc. and end up causing at least as many problems as they solve and then charge you for the privilege of fixing it.

They wear ceremonial garb (suits and ties in some cases, black t-shirts in others), often wave shine things around ("smart" phone, tablets, iWatches etc.) to show their geek cred. Ceremonial drugs are sometimes involved in the form of beer and martinis as well as ceremonial meals ("let's do lunch!").

So yeah, I see some parallels there.

Comment Why not rent the time? (Score 3, Informative) 150

You haven't said anything about your application. Do you run it continuously? Sporadically? Will the machine be sitting idle much of the time? Do you have the staff to support it? What about networking and storage? Do you have the ability to rapidly move and store data as the actual computing is only part of the story.
It may make sense to rent the time due to lower storage and maint. costs than to actually buy and maintain the infrastructure.

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