I have a teacher who actually worked on the operating system for the shuttle. He said the things they had to go through was insane. He said "EVERYTHING" had to be flowcharted before it could be coded. Apparently, they were spending just as much money on draftsmen as they were coders. And everytime they made a change to the software, the flow charts had to be changed. It was insane. Eventually, the coders talked them into dropping the flow charts until the code was finished.
As for who these guys are, (the coders), they would hang out in the control rooms and wait till tour groups came by. Then they would run around screaming and scare the tourists!!!
Apparently, they had some fun before the DOD got involved with NASA.
While the things on the site were all well and good, I doubt any of them compair to the line of nerf products. These things will start wars to end all wars in many cubicle farms, and only end when all ammo has been destroyed.
Dammit, I live not 30 minutes from Walmart corporate headquarters. And let me say something. If you're shopping at Walmart, your either a hick, a redneck, or just cheap. While there are many "normal" people who shop at Walmart, the "Bubba" stereotype is not misapplied.
Walmart was made be a REDNECK for REDNECKS! The company is still owned by REDNECKS!!! And something else? I go to a University full or REDNECKS that Walmart loves to give money to.
I'm a third year computer engineering major. I'll put it this way, I have had some very difficult classes. If I had not had the opportunity to work with other students on much of my homework in many of my classes, I would not have passed.
Number one example, my class on algorithms. Each week there was a written homework asignment. Each week, me and several of my peers would gather to work on this homework. We spent many, many hours teaching this material to each other. If one person did not understand a question, the others would go out of their way to teach it to him. We knew we would bomb the test if we didn't understand the homework. Yet by Georgia Tech's standards, we were cheating.
Luckily, I ended up doing very well on the tests because I studied a lot and had the help from my peers on the homework. It made the material bearable and understandable.
To deny students the ability to work together on homework denies the oppurtunity to some of the best learning opportunities of their educational careers. I would probably be much worse off without help from other students.
IMO, those who choose to cheat should be allowed to. They will not learn the material and be less inteligence for it. Even if they do graduate, these people should be washed out pretty quickly in the job market because their true skills will be apparent. This will leave more jobs available for those self motivated people who are truly good with thier work.
My University (~5000 on campus students) just upgraded it's internet connection from 20 to 50 mbits/sec. This is quite a large increase. However, my perception of speeds isn't much different then last semester. They still stink. Compared to my cable modem at home from a local indpendent coop, it's like waiding around the 'Net on a 56K.
Why is that? Because my school implement a 5 mbit/sec upload cap between all the dorm subnets. When that limit is saturated almost all the time, I can barely load pages because all my packets get dropped on the outbound connection. That with almost 20 mbits/sec of download pipe unused!!!
However, to see my school implement anymore of a logical implementation of bandwith control would probably cause me even more pain. Why? One word: DivX. This new medium is spreading through schools faster than anyone can imagine. I think mp3's are slowly going the way of the dodo when people find full screen DVD rips that look just as good as the original!!! I personally know people with hundreds of full length movies downloaded off the school's connection. (You do the math.) I guess until Layer7 switching is implement, all those bastards clogging up the pipe will continue to do so. What happened to the good old days when you could find what you wanted on IRC?
On a side note, my schools admins commented to me once that 60% of the capacity Internet2 is being used for file sharing between universities. Chew on that for a while.
As a University student currently involved with a student group called the Campus Democracy Collective, what is the best way to inform both my peers and goverenment representative that the fight for speech, liberty and freedom from oppression will be fought over bits and bytes, and not how many miles per gallon their car will get?
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I have a teacher who actually worked on the operating system for the shuttle. He said the things they had to go through was insane. He said "EVERYTHING" had to be flowcharted before it could be coded. Apparently, they were spending just as much money on draftsmen as they were coders. And everytime they made a change to the software, the flow charts had to be changed. It was insane. Eventually, the coders talked them into dropping the flow charts until the code was finished.
As for who these guys are, (the coders), they would hang out in the control rooms and wait till tour groups came by. Then they would run around screaming and scare the tourists!!!
Apparently, they had some fun before the DOD got involved with NASA.
While the things on the site were all well and good, I doubt any of them compair to the line of nerf products. These things will start wars to end all wars in many cubicle farms, and only end when all ammo has been destroyed.
Dammit, I live not 30 minutes from Walmart corporate headquarters. And let me say something. If you're shopping at Walmart, your either a hick, a redneck, or just cheap. While there are many "normal" people who shop at Walmart, the "Bubba" stereotype is not misapplied.
Walmart was made be a REDNECK for REDNECKS! The company is still owned by REDNECKS!!! And something else? I go to a University full or REDNECKS that Walmart loves to give money to.
So THERE!!!
I'm a third year computer engineering major. I'll put it this way, I have had some very difficult classes. If I had not had the opportunity to work with other students on much of my homework in many of my classes, I would not have passed.
Number one example, my class on algorithms. Each week there was a written homework asignment. Each week, me and several of my peers would gather to work on this homework. We spent many, many hours teaching this material to each other. If one person did not understand a question, the others would go out of their way to teach it to him. We knew we would bomb the test if we didn't understand the homework. Yet by Georgia Tech's standards, we were cheating.
Luckily, I ended up doing very well on the tests because I studied a lot and had the help from my peers on the homework. It made the material bearable and understandable.
To deny students the ability to work together on homework denies the oppurtunity to some of the best learning opportunities of their educational careers. I would probably be much worse off without help from other students.
IMO, those who choose to cheat should be allowed to. They will not learn the material and be less inteligence for it. Even if they do graduate, these people should be washed out pretty quickly in the job market because their true skills will be apparent. This will leave more jobs available for those self motivated people who are truly good with thier work.
My University (~5000 on campus students) just upgraded it's internet connection from 20 to 50 mbits/sec. This is quite a large increase. However, my perception of speeds isn't much different then last semester. They still stink. Compared to my cable modem at home from a local indpendent coop, it's like waiding around the 'Net on a 56K.
Why is that? Because my school implement a 5 mbit/sec upload cap between all the dorm subnets. When that limit is saturated almost all the time, I can barely load pages because all my packets get dropped on the outbound connection. That with almost 20 mbits/sec of download pipe unused!!!
However, to see my school implement anymore of a logical implementation of bandwith control would probably cause me even more pain. Why? One word: DivX. This new medium is spreading through schools faster than anyone can imagine. I think mp3's are slowly going the way of the dodo when people find full screen DVD rips that look just as good as the original!!! I personally know people with hundreds of full length movies downloaded off the school's connection. (You do the math.) I guess until Layer7 switching is implement, all those bastards clogging up the pipe will continue to do so. What happened to the good old days when you could find what you wanted on IRC?
On a side note, my schools admins commented to me once that 60% of the capacity Internet2 is being used for file sharing between universities. Chew on that for a while.
As a University student currently involved with a student group called the Campus Democracy Collective, what is the best way to inform both my peers and goverenment representative that the fight for speech, liberty and freedom from oppression will be fought over bits and bytes, and not how many miles per gallon their car will get?