We had Microsoft certified technicians out to network our school. They
charged $150 an hour (their company did anyway), and took 5 hours to
network seven nodes (there were some admitted problems with three
stations). That sounds steep until you consider how much a business can
make with a network vs. not having a network for their computers and printers.
We recently figured the difference in printing a set of mailing labels on a
tractor feed dot matrix printer vs. our networked copy machine. The first
took over two hours, tied up the office computer for the whole time, and
created lots of noise. The copier took five minutes, and increased the
productivity of our secretary during that time period by over 2400%.
Programmers do the same kind of productivity boosting by creating the
software that make a business run. I can't imagine teaching without
computers as my students in math and science are involving in writing and
editing, graphics, spreadsheets, or using the Internet. Just today I had
students who are not very good at fractions comparing stocks over the
course of a week and predicting what their price should be on Friday. They
used Excel to chart and graph each stock, then used formulas to figure the
daily gain or loss and analyse patterns (if any were apparent). They could
never have accomplished this without the software.
Gregg
I can't? How do you think I can afford these toys Larry?
Tom
> Then again, you've only done this a couple of years. You can't believe
your time
> is worth _that_much... :)
>
> Larry
>
> Tom Scales wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Now, if I could the time invested, I'm hundreds of thousands in the
hole....
> >
> > Tom
> >
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