Name the show that the title’s phrase references and you get 5 points. Name the character that says it, and you get another 12 points.
UPDATE: I read this afternoon in the LSJ that DeWitt just spent $500,000 on 600 new computers for their district. Seriously, half a million dollars? I’ll save you the time spent grabbing a calculator: the breakdown is $833.33 each. Some of the machines they are replacing are as much as eight years old. Why is DeWitt spending so much money in one year to get 600 machines instead of buying as many machines incrementally, providing a cycle that does not allow any machine in the building to be say, more than six years old?
AND…
“…the district had to cut staff, programs and services in order to come up with money for new computers.”
What could haggling with Dell do for the situation? Potentially land as much as 40% more computers for the same money. Or why not spend significantly less and be able to provide the same staff, programs and services to your students. I hope there are circumstances I am not aware of that dictated these decisions.
WOW! That is definitely a plan coming together,all right! Think about saving the boxes for Michelle’s move, eh?
Congratulations on your investment in Dell Computers. May the dividends be great.
Love,
Mum
Comment by Mum
— July 26, 2007 @ 10:15 am
I believe it was from the A-Team. As I recall, Hannibal would say it at the end of the show while lighting a cigar.
BTW Nice boxes, can I have some?
-They Call Me Mr. Know-it-all.
Know what that’s from?
Comment by Michelle
— July 26, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
Primus.
Comment by The Dude
— July 27, 2007 @ 1:15 am
Might I also add that Dell probably has a juicy service and warranty program attached to those machines. Most vendors will take a hit on the unit price if they get a chance to make it up on service and parts.
Comment by The Dude
— July 28, 2007 @ 1:56 am
There’s a 3-year warranty associated with pretty much all small business purchases through Dell. I picked up Optiplex 320n’s with 17″ LCD monitors and licensing for either XP or Vista. My total was around $560 for each machine. I also got about a dozen without monitors, so the cost on those was $410. For $833 I hope DeWitt got computers that will last them 33% longer than ours, but I doubt it.
Comment by Nate
— July 28, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I am apart of the DeWitt High school Tech club and we were consulted about this new investment and offered many other options than this but they love their Dells what can I say :/ This move got rid of the Technology clubsbabay the Linux lab, which at the time was running an older version of Fedora Core. The lab was about 30 computers and now is lying in my friends basement. But the good thing is We are not running Microsoft Office and have fully switched, thanks to pain staking labor by your truly and a few others to Open Office
-Peace
Comment by Casey C.
— July 31, 2007 @ 9:37 pm
Casey,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my site. How’d you find my post?
It is nice to know that interest in alternatives was shown at least to some degree. My frustration in part is with the LSJ article and the total lack of important information. While I think it is great that DeWitt is providing new technology to its students and staff, there was no mention at all about cycle periods, maintenance agreements, hardware (other than model and CPU speed… neither of which necessarily very informative.) or what plans they have for educational software on those machines.
Which build of Fedora were you using in your club lab?
I know there is a lot of pressure when making half-million dollar purchasing decisions, so I’m certain the details were worked out. I just hope the right people were involved and their plan will result in a stable and effective outcome for the school system.
Comment by Nate
— July 31, 2007 @ 11:16 pm
“there was no mention at all about cycle periods, maintenance agreements, hardware (other than model and CPU speed… neither of which necessarily very informative.) or what plans they have for educational software on those machines.”
Yawn. What kind of geek would read that tripe? Huzzah, they spent a half mil, now give me the latest update on Paris Hilton!!!
Public/Gov’t/Education contracts are always juicy since there’s no incentive for anyone to fight at the bargaining table. Dell pry lost money on your deal, but they might make it back on student exposure and goodwill. If they smelled that LCHS had deeper pockets they would have held out for more $$$
Casey, a Tech club? How would you like to roll out a bunch of new Dell machines… for fun?
Comment by The Dude
— August 1, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
This is simply just sad, very sad to me and my family; while also being horrifyingly ironic, and humorous. Being that my wife, is an aspiring school teacher and I’m a former help desk and techno-file, at the time of the planning of the procurement. And when during the time that this actually happened i was actually employed by a Dewitt financial firm to build them a website.. ooo the irony.
Comment by The intern
— February 20, 2008 @ 11:13 am