Hell, all of the scientific inaccuracies aside, I couldn't take Kirk being promoted from boot ensign to commander of the Enterprise after no time on board. What happened to all of the other officers in the chain of command with seniority and more experience? Maybe it's just my Navy (which Starfleet emulates) background, but that was pretty dumb.
I work at a business school. One of our graduate programs buys tablets for their students, who start each January. In January 2012, they purchased ThinkPad X220t tablets. They had bought ThinkPads in the previous couple of years, too. Price was the main consideration. We've had problems with the Lenovo systems and the support every year. Frequent hardware failures, lousy on-site support. We are a Dell shop, so that's what I am comparing the Lenovo experience with.
We create the Windows image for the program each year, using a fresh copy of Windows 7, Office, anti-virus, etc. which is burned to the 35-40 systems we get in. We do this with every Dell we get in year round for faculty and staff with no issues. Dell provides easy access to the right drivers, and after the OS is installed, the Dell and third-party drivers work on the fresh build.
Not on the Lenovo X220t systems. After a fresh OS install, pulling the "current" drivers from Lenovo's site resulted in many issues, especially with the Wacom tablet drivers. Quite a few of the drivers on their site listed for this specific model did not work, not just the Wacom drivers. Just for the Wacom drivers (the most difficult to remedy), my engineers jumped through many hoops before finding an old, legacy set of drivers buried deep on Wacom's site to make the tablet interface work correctly. No Wacom drivers from Lenovo's site worked. The wireless adapter drivers were also a problem.
Lenovo's support told us that we shouldn't have created a fresh image and should have stuck with the bloated crap the systems shipped with, and basically refused to help us. That's crap that you can't rely on the drivers that they make publicly available to work if you rebuild the system for any reason.
Bottom line is that we do this all the time with our Dells, and the drivers we get from their site always work on a fresh Windows install on their hardware. Lenovo - not so much. This past January I was able to convince this graduate program to go with Dell XT3's. We built a fresh image for them, using the drivers from Dell's site, and they've worked flawlessly. And we haven't had one XT3 in for hardware issues whereas in past years we typically saw three or four Lenovos in the first couple of months for hardware issues.
No, I don't work for Dell. It's just what I have to compare to.
If you saw the blurry images of the Asteroid 2012 DA14, it was tumbling at a pretty good rate. Good luck contacting that safely and thrusting it in any predetermined direction...
As an IT director at a university, I've dealt with this issue firsthand. The key take-aways from all that's been said here (and some I'm adding) are:
1. This is a class policy issue, not a technology issue. You must set the policy for your class. 2. Wireless/broadband access is ubiquitous. 3. There is no reasonable way to turn off wireless/broadband access in a classroom. 4. Paper language dictionaries are inexpensive. 5. Most universities have an honor code. 6. Some students will cheat anyway, given the opportunity. 7. Newer iPods do NOT fall under the non-wireless category. My iPod Touch browses the Web quite well, and has all of the major instant messenger apps on it.
So, with that information in hand, my suggestion is that you stress the school's honor code (hang it in the room if it isn't already there), set your expectations (rules) for class and the exams (no open laptops, no cell phones, no wireless capable devices, etc.), either buy the el cheapo calculators for the exam (if they can complete the exam with them) or you or your SA approve/disapprove any electronic devices that students want to use before the exam (this will require some time to research the capabilities of the devices), and tell ESL students to buy a paper language dictionary if they feel they need one.
I'll leave the discussions of training vs. teaching and the benefits of open-book exams to the other experts.;^)
Gotta wonder about a flying car whose company's Web site is parked at GoDaddy.com. If they skimped on their Web site, what did they skip on designing and building the car/plane???
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How am I supposed to be different if my phone's screen looks like everyone else's?
It's OK. The NSA knows the difference between you and the other phone users.
Hell, all of the scientific inaccuracies aside, I couldn't take Kirk being promoted from boot ensign to commander of the Enterprise after no time on board. What happened to all of the other officers in the chain of command with seniority and more experience? Maybe it's just my Navy (which Starfleet emulates) background, but that was pretty dumb.
Justin's brother, maybe? Fits the mold.
Threshold:Win8.1::Win7:Vista?
"What color was George Washington's favorite white horse?"
80% of users can't even correctly answer "Who's buried in Grant's tomb."
FWIW, the shoddy quality of knock-off chargers is well-documented. Bottom line: stay away from them.
http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html
I work at a business school. One of our graduate programs buys tablets for their students, who start each January. In January 2012, they purchased ThinkPad X220t tablets. They had bought ThinkPads in the previous couple of years, too. Price was the main consideration. We've had problems with the Lenovo systems and the support every year. Frequent hardware failures, lousy on-site support. We are a Dell shop, so that's what I am comparing the Lenovo experience with.
We create the Windows image for the program each year, using a fresh copy of Windows 7, Office, anti-virus, etc. which is burned to the 35-40 systems we get in. We do this with every Dell we get in year round for faculty and staff with no issues. Dell provides easy access to the right drivers, and after the OS is installed, the Dell and third-party drivers work on the fresh build.
Not on the Lenovo X220t systems. After a fresh OS install, pulling the "current" drivers from Lenovo's site resulted in many issues, especially with the Wacom tablet drivers. Quite a few of the drivers on their site listed for this specific model did not work, not just the Wacom drivers. Just for the Wacom drivers (the most difficult to remedy), my engineers jumped through many hoops before finding an old, legacy set of drivers buried deep on Wacom's site to make the tablet interface work correctly. No Wacom drivers from Lenovo's site worked. The wireless adapter drivers were also a problem.
Lenovo's support told us that we shouldn't have created a fresh image and should have stuck with the bloated crap the systems shipped with, and basically refused to help us. That's crap that you can't rely on the drivers that they make publicly available to work if you rebuild the system for any reason.
Bottom line is that we do this all the time with our Dells, and the drivers we get from their site always work on a fresh Windows install on their hardware. Lenovo - not so much. This past January I was able to convince this graduate program to go with Dell XT3's. We built a fresh image for them, using the drivers from Dell's site, and they've worked flawlessly. And we haven't had one XT3 in for hardware issues whereas in past years we typically saw three or four Lenovos in the first couple of months for hardware issues.
No, I don't work for Dell. It's just what I have to compare to.
If you saw the blurry images of the Asteroid 2012 DA14, it was tumbling at a pretty good rate. Good luck contacting that safely and thrusting it in any predetermined direction...
Really? I would LOVE it if the technology existed to get me there and back safely! Send me!
He yells the loudest because his addiction made him deaf.
I clearly missed the laugh track.
Isn't less impossible like being less pregnant? It's either impossible or it's not.
The DoJ is posing as an entity that knows something about technology security.
Been using PAF for years to document my genealogical research. Excellent tool! And I'm not Mormon, so no bias here. ;^)
As an IT director at a university, I've dealt with this issue firsthand. The key take-aways from all that's been said here (and some I'm adding) are:
1. This is a class policy issue, not a technology issue. You must set the policy for your class.
2. Wireless/broadband access is ubiquitous.
3. There is no reasonable way to turn off wireless/broadband access in a classroom.
4. Paper language dictionaries are inexpensive.
5. Most universities have an honor code.
6. Some students will cheat anyway, given the opportunity.
7. Newer iPods do NOT fall under the non-wireless category. My iPod Touch browses the Web quite well, and has all of the major instant messenger apps on it.
So, with that information in hand, my suggestion is that you stress the school's honor code (hang it in the room if it isn't already there), set your expectations (rules) for class and the exams (no open laptops, no cell phones, no wireless capable devices, etc.), either buy the el cheapo calculators for the exam (if they can complete the exam with them) or you or your SA approve/disapprove any electronic devices that students want to use before the exam (this will require some time to research the capabilities of the devices), and tell ESL students to buy a paper language dictionary if they feel they need one.
I'll leave the discussions of training vs. teaching and the benefits of open-book exams to the other experts. ;^)
Gotta wonder about a flying car whose company's Web site is parked at GoDaddy.com. If they skimped on their Web site, what did they skip on designing and building the car/plane???