You make a very good point. Rather than teach the student to rely on a certain implementation of Flash or GIMP/Photoshop style graphics program, teach them the thinking behind them all.
The problem is, it must also be stimulating for the students. A kid who's taking a computer graphics course wants to DO computer graphics, and not just learn about them.
The cell phone side of things is already a big jump. The Canadian telcos wouldn't give up internet bandwidth as easily, let alone both. They're like big lumbering hungry beasts.
I use 3web(Cable) and Teksavvy(DSL); 3web buys from Rogers and Teksavvy buys from Bell. 3web's speeds drop a lot here during the busy times, and we're connected to Teksavvy directly instead of just to the nearest node. This is because while 3web and Teksavvy are both cheap and without caps, they aren't allowed as much freedom. Bell and Rogers, on the other hand, would be able to give us better service and better connection. But then we would have to deal with caps and higher prices, which is not something a household of 5 university students wants to hear; we're using all of our bandwidth all of the time.
This made my morning. If this does help the prices get competitive *cough*fair*cough*, I may actually consider getting a cellphone now. Seeing the big phone carriers around here in Ottawa quash any new startups was getting sickening to watch.
The university I attend(I'm a Canadian student at a Canadian university) only internalizes a few things. The CS department handles most of its own things, including an web-based assignment submission system written in Java, but most classes that do anything online either do it through wordpress or the webct system (contains class by class forums, email, and notices). This could be much better simplified into one internalized system, and I'm sure they have the server power/ person power for it.
I think internalizing such web-based services is definitely something that would get the attention of tech-y moms and dads sending their tech-y or non tech-y children to school.
Worries about self-maintained security are counter-intuitive, professors should want students to try to hack their systems, as long as they set up the appropriate dummy-holes.
They ought to outlaw IE6. But the people least likely to upgrade their default IE6 to IE7 are also the silly people who would do things to easily infect their computers.
What I don't understand is the connection between ODF and ActiveX...
He is definitely a cracker. Although he didn't do any real damage and may not have had any malicious intent, he basically went somewhere he wasn't supposed to go. Although what he really did wasn't incredibly impressive, it was who he did it to that has people calling it Hack Of The Year.
The traditional usage of hacker is just any computer hardware/network hobbyist. Cracker was invented to differentiate the ones using their skills for "evil". I expect everyone reading this to already know this, but I didn't expect to see an article summary ignore it. Which is fine with me, the way mainstream media sees hacker subculture as being so mystical and difficult to understand makes it more interesting.
if you were a parent. If it's designed for youngster level wear and tear, then why not? If I had a kid, I'd much rather buy him one of those than an x-box. (Yeah, I know x-boxes have gotten cheaper, but a full set with controllers and games would likely cost about the same).
The CRIA don't really have that much weight to throw around, since they lost a bunch of labels last year. Silly artists didn't want to attack their fans, what's up with that?
Besides, piracy taking place here in Canada isn't so rampant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TloG6qL3gg
Also, I read somewhere that technically it is legal for Canadians to download copyrighted content, but illegal to upload it. If that is true, it still means that downloading via torrent client/servers are illegal.
it's a sound argument that the OP makes, but it does overlook the part of minor's judgement process which the minor does not make; the outside influences. This includes what parents, authority figures, and advertisements say. If I grew up watching cigarette commercials in between my Saturday morning cartoons, I would likely have a much different attitude towards smoking than I do now. (Or if I didn't have a different attitude, I would likely be chemically addicted by now).
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I half agree with both you. Now stop it with the super-reactionary attitudes!
Has that stopped telecoms from interfering with peer-to-peer sharing (including legit p2p) before?
I hope it's not really "the poorest children" that are getting the laptops. You can't eat a laptop. Give them to the second poorest.
At least it's better than buying a copy... This way, you already know for sure that MS has a backdoor into your computer.
What the heck is the difference between "should" and "must"? Everyone, switch to Logban, now!
You make a very good point. Rather than teach the student to rely on a certain implementation of Flash or GIMP/Photoshop style graphics program, teach them the thinking behind them all. The problem is, it must also be stimulating for the students. A kid who's taking a computer graphics course wants to DO computer graphics, and not just learn about them.
I agree.
Incidently, I found reading about Colossus, and it's older hardware, more interesting.
The cell phone side of things is already a big jump. The Canadian telcos wouldn't give up internet bandwidth as easily, let alone both. They're like big lumbering hungry beasts. I use 3web(Cable) and Teksavvy(DSL); 3web buys from Rogers and Teksavvy buys from Bell. 3web's speeds drop a lot here during the busy times, and we're connected to Teksavvy directly instead of just to the nearest node. This is because while 3web and Teksavvy are both cheap and without caps, they aren't allowed as much freedom. Bell and Rogers, on the other hand, would be able to give us better service and better connection. But then we would have to deal with caps and higher prices, which is not something a household of 5 university students wants to hear; we're using all of our bandwidth all of the time.
This made my morning. If this does help the prices get competitive *cough*fair*cough*, I may actually consider getting a cellphone now. Seeing the big phone carriers around here in Ottawa quash any new startups was getting sickening to watch.
The university I attend(I'm a Canadian student at a Canadian university) only internalizes a few things. The CS department handles most of its own things, including an web-based assignment submission system written in Java, but most classes that do anything online either do it through wordpress or the webct system (contains class by class forums, email, and notices). This could be much better simplified into one internalized system, and I'm sure they have the server power/ person power for it. I think internalizing such web-based services is definitely something that would get the attention of tech-y moms and dads sending their tech-y or non tech-y children to school. Worries about self-maintained security are counter-intuitive, professors should want students to try to hack their systems, as long as they set up the appropriate dummy-holes.
... this might be only a few steps away from outright selling copyrighted songs. In a courtroom setting, of course.
They ought to outlaw IE6. But the people least likely to upgrade their default IE6 to IE7 are also the silly people who would do things to easily infect their computers. What I don't understand is the connection between ODF and ActiveX...
College kids may be portrayed as dorky and drunken, but they're smart. And chances are CS students will find a way around this.
Gives you more time to meditate
Do you swear to probably tell the truth, almost the whole truth, and not much else but the truth?
Yeah, you pay for all that, and then you still have to spend time learning all that! Outrageous!
He is definitely a cracker. Although he didn't do any real damage and may not have had any malicious intent, he basically went somewhere he wasn't supposed to go. Although what he really did wasn't incredibly impressive, it was who he did it to that has people calling it Hack Of The Year. The traditional usage of hacker is just any computer hardware/network hobbyist. Cracker was invented to differentiate the ones using their skills for "evil". I expect everyone reading this to already know this, but I didn't expect to see an article summary ignore it. Which is fine with me, the way mainstream media sees hacker subculture as being so mystical and difficult to understand makes it more interesting.
if you were a parent. If it's designed for youngster level wear and tear, then why not? If I had a kid, I'd much rather buy him one of those than an x-box. (Yeah, I know x-boxes have gotten cheaper, but a full set with controllers and games would likely cost about the same).
The CRIA don't really have that much weight to throw around, since they lost a bunch of labels last year. Silly artists didn't want to attack their fans, what's up with that? Besides, piracy taking place here in Canada isn't so rampant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TloG6qL3gg Also, I read somewhere that technically it is legal for Canadians to download copyrighted content, but illegal to upload it. If that is true, it still means that downloading via torrent client/servers are illegal.
..after all the time I see people spend tracking their orders online.
it's a sound argument that the OP makes, but it does overlook the part of minor's judgement process which the minor does not make; the outside influences. This includes what parents, authority figures, and advertisements say. If I grew up watching cigarette commercials in between my Saturday morning cartoons, I would likely have a much different attitude towards smoking than I do now. (Or if I didn't have a different attitude, I would likely be chemically addicted by now).