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QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Do you think this new chip will be a quad core? If it's dual core, I can believe the 8 hours. I haven't had a good experience with the iPhone battery. But I do think highly of the iPad battery. I easily get 3 days of use from a full charge. I've had every version of the iPhone since the original. I've always had great battery life...there are probably some options you have enabled that should be disabled. I'd tell you where they are, but I can't, since I use iOS6, I forget where the options you need to disable exist in iOS5.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 12:47 PM) Do you think this new chip will be a quad core? If it's dual core, I can believe the 8 hours. I haven't had a good experience with the iPhone battery. But I do think highly of the iPad battery. I easily get 3 days of use from a full charge. The A5X was dual core processor quad core gfx. No idea what the A6 is yet.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 12:45 PM) lol Shack, I thought you were a dedicated Apple follower. It's right now. I'm wondering what's in this new A6 chip. Probably a slightly underclocked Exynos dual core. I doubt a quad core can get 8 hours on LTE. That estimate sounds a bit generous. Apple is historically one of the more accurate when it comes to talking about battery life. I don't doubt them.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 12:37 PM) What time is the announcement? It's already occurring. iPhone5 is 4", better quality screen, 3 mics for noise cancelation, 20% lighter and 18% thinner than the 4S. Uses an A6 chip, 2x faster/2x faster gfx than iPhone4s. LTE. Same talk time with 3G or LTE (8 Hours). Etc...etc... Same camera in 4s, despite being thinner, better low light. Can take 28megapixel panoramas. 720p facetime front facing camera.

Even if AQ had nothing to do with it, they will try to take credit, which is mostly what they do.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:38 AM) I guess that is second-hand info through the head of my local teachers union. By and large teachers don't want to give up their summers, supposedly by a ridiculous amount. Would you? I know I wouldn't.

Don't any of you have jobs?

Lake Forest High Schools just went on strike, too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:30 AM) Let's say that the strike ends this week. I'd think that 8 months or so is plenty of time for students' expectations of when they're getting out this next summer to reset to the shifted calender. Like I said, give that a shot...see how the union reacts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:29 AM) Of course you can. If you show me a baseball player who starts off as a 23 year old hitting .250 and 3 years later has turned into a .390 hitter every year, you can still say "but he still makes an out most of the time", but that doesn't disprove the claim "He's developed into an incredible hitter". The trend towards people moving into the cities has been unmistakeable. Has that taken every neighborhood in the world and made it wealthy? Of course not. Will it ever? Will a baseball player ever bat 1.000 over a season? That wasn't my point at all. So there is no point in going over it again.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:27 AM) Right, but the research shows that's a better structure. Not having enough in-class days likely isn't the central problem because we have more instructional hours than almost every other country. I agree it probably is a better structure. But while this is experimental with Etrack, I guarantee if they tried a mass rollout of this, teachers would balk...and the union would b****.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:24 AM) No, I'm responding to a claim that adding days at the end of the year is bad for education, which, assuming the facilities are usable (i.e. air conditioned) is simply false. I'll actually endorse Rahm's efforts to increase the length of the year and increase time for classroom instruction. That's one of the good educational reforms I've seen discussed, but of course, you can't just pretend that will happen for free. Sorry, I misread what you were talking about then. I think if they set the expectations, it would work better than simply extending it on the students because of an action by the teachers. But again, these CPS contracts guarantee a certain number of working days, whether you extend them into the summer or not, they will end up with the same number of days off. Instead of a 3 month summer break, students will simply get a week off every month. Perhaps that would work better, but they have to start doing it across the board.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:23 AM) FWIW some of CPS has moved to "year-round" school years that have shorter summer breaks. These schools still attend the exact same number of days, as per CPS contract. They just get more 2 week breaks throughout the year.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:22 AM) Spend a day in Oswego, or Oak Brook, and then tell me what's walkable. You have to drive from one store to the store across the street because you will be crossing an 8 lane street of insanity where cars aren't used to seeing pedestrians. You drive from one store to another in the same parking lot. There are two sides to that, places like that where walking is impossible...and places where walking is dangerous. In either case, I can go to any big city and show you places that are the exact opposite of what he claimed.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:19 AM) The data on how much summer hurts kids in the educational system has been piled up over a century and really couldn't be clearer. I'm not saying added school is bad, but warmer weather WILL affect American students when they've grown up with guaranteed vacation days all summer long. If you started new kids from K-onward with a full school year, they'd probably adapt better to this than current students. This has nothing to do with my point that American students will tend to concentrate less as their extended vacation looms closer. Also, since the teachers contract guarantees these vacations...try taking them away now. Hell, Rham tried to extend their school day by 1 hour and they flipped out and wanted huge raises. Try going to them and saying there will be no more summer vacation. LOL. Again, based on reality...their contracts, their unions...you can't just ignore these factors...which is what you're doing here.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:17 AM) I think there's merit to this largely because of expectations. If your expectaiton is you go to school until mid-june, you wouldn't have been so adversely affected. But you expect to be out in June, so it was harder to concentrate. I think it has a lot more to do with the weather than anything else.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:16 AM) I can't speak to Chicago in particular, but over the last 10 years, the exact opposite has been happening nationwide (on average). Fueled mainly by Fuel prices, but also by the fact that the neighborhoods have become more liveable/walkable, the trend has been people moving back closer to cities and urban areas rather than into the suburbs where the commutes are longer and more expensive. What neighborhoods do you live in? There are *some* neighborhoods that are livable/walkable...but there are still just as many that aren't. Again, you live in a false reality and need to take a look around. Either that, or get out more. I can take you to 500 Chicago neighborhoods and drop you off for a "walk" since they're so livable/walkable...but we'd never see you again. Try basing what you say on reality for a change.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 09:13 AM) I'm pretty sure this is completely untrue. In fact it's the opposite of reality...the long summer winds up being a setback for most kids. Or at least it would be if the Chicago Area schools reached the 1970's and had air conditioning. I recall the strike when I was in grammar school and they extended the school year...we were still in school at the end of June...it wasn't good. I remember doing/accomplishing nothing after the first week of June. It's impossible to gauge, however...but I think there is more truth to it than you want to believe. But to claim it's completely untrue? Based on what? At least I'm basing it on *something*, rather than just saying it. Kids do NOT want to be in school when the sun is shining and it's warm out. You simply said it's untrue, and opposite of reality? What reality? The fake one you try to live in where there is no poverty, everyone has a job, and is rich? Wake up. I'm going to just have to disagree with you...you've based your opinion on nothing. Edit: And getting out on time does not make the summer any shorter/longer. They get the same amount of days off.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 08:34 AM) Their summary plan talks about closing corporate loopholes to boost revenues. The crab mentality refers more to workplace conditions and rights than salary; specifically, it came up in the context of "I could be fired in ten seconds without notice and no severance or ability to contest!" I think that's a terrible system and that instead of trying to make sure everyone has to work under those same conditions, it'd be better if there were stronger employment protections. Not necessarily tenure-for-everyone systems, either. This is a classic example of misdirection. Closing corporate loopholes? You mean the ones they specifically grant these companies to come to their cities/states? Such as the sweetheart deal Daley gave Boeing to move into Chicago? History is replete with examples such as this...they grant added loopholes on top of the pre-existing ones in the tax code and then talk about closing them? It's deception...stop falling for it.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 12, 2012 -> 07:59 AM) I've been following this from afar (New Jersey) and I'm way too lazy to read this whole thread - but when I was a kid, I seem to recall the CTU would strike far more often in the 80s. Like if a lampshade looked at the Union President wrong, there was a strike! Also, generally when days are lost to a teacher's strike, they are made up at the end of the year. So the "how could you do this to the children" meme is sorta bulls***. Unless you do it on every snowday or at the beginning of every summer vacation. I think their strikes would actually be most effective, however, if it was more limited. Rather than just total walkoff, it might make more sense to say walk off one or two days a week. Tacking days onto the end of the school year does nothing for the kids...it's already summer and hot out, and their ability to learn dwindles during those times.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 08:02 PM) Some things I am going to add here as a teacher(who doesn't work for CPS or make anything close to what CPS teachers make): To the people saying these evil teachers are walking out on their students that they should be caring about. First, the strike is more about classroom conditions, resource people(nurses, counselors), smaller classroom sizes, and how they're evaluated. Of those things three of them directly effect the students. So the CTU is heartless because they want children in rooms that have air conditioning? The high school I teach at does not have air conditioning and nothing gets done on days where its over 90 degrees. Not because I can't teach in it, I pull through and suck it up, but high school students just zone out and don't pay attention and I do not blame them one bit. There's about 1000 students for each counselor in the CTU that is absolutely ridiculous as how much time and effort can they spend on the students who really need it? And class sizes that rival 50 students is ridiculous, the smaller the class the better the learning that happens end of story. But the CTU is evil cause they want more money. GMAFB they're striking because they want these things for their students. The money is already largely decided. To the people talking about how teachers should suck it up like everyone in the private sector. To that I say instead of hating on teaching unions and saying if I can't have one why should you, why don't you question "Why can't I have a union?" All of this being said as a teacher in a teachers union I would absolutely never vote to strike. There are countless student's that are absolutely being screwed academically and my number 1 priority as a teacher is my students. I dont want a union, so why would I ask why can't I have a union? Unions breed laziness because your raises are based on collective bargaining, not personal merit. They also protect worthless employees instead of just the good ones. There was once a great need for unions before workers had rights...today they're a corrupted version of what they were meant to be. So I repeat...why would I ask to be a part of that? No thanks.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 05:46 PM) Telling me to "move on" from Zune HD and "move on" from Betamax aren't even close. Zune HD is still relevant today. It's not outdated. Maybe in 20 years I will "move on" from the Zune HD when technology has completely blown past it and it's so old it's not even relevant anymore. *In before, "Zune HD was never relevant. Har har har" jokes* The zune hd IS outdated today, as are ALL stand alone MP3 players. You aren't just wrong on this, you're so wrong, you've wrapped around to the other side so you think you're right. And if it was being used as an analogy, which you originally thought, you didn't have even understood the analogy, which both of your previous posts have shown. 20 years? WTF century do you live in? Technology has about a 2-3 year lifespan today, not 20. Now, as for why the analogy WOULD make sense: BetaMax was considered better than the alternative VHS. VHS won despite this because it had better 3rd party support, and better 3rd party tape support. BetaMax people eventually moved on when the technology was abandoned, despite their correct claim that it was better. Quite like how Microsoft abandoned the Zune...which it did. It's a dead tech with no future, whether you like it or not.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 05:39 PM) Not sure you could have thought of a more terrible analogy, really. You simply missed the joke. This post shows that.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 02:46 PM) I like the Zune HD, because it's f***ing awesome. So was BetaMax. Move on.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 01:00 PM) No but we not get any choice in the matter either. I lose all of the social security I did pay for the years that I worked prior to teaching. Granted I teach at the university level not the CPS but many of us do lose alot of money due to the screwed up pension system. I don't think you do, actually. You are still entitled to what you put in. You're pension doesn't change that. You are just not eligible to contribute more or continue taking part.