... I am a kid, 10h grader, and from what I've seen no, they wouldn't even know what the hell it was running. I know someone who deleted the windows folder because he installed windowblinds and thought he was no longer running windows.
Protocol, whatever, It works.
It is also possible for them to use XP, student licenses are cheapish now and the total cost would still be below a macbook.
It's been addressed elsewhere, if they do that they lose privileges. The ones that are good enough to do this subtly can do it, I'm sure they'll be responsible, or at least not retarded with it. The ones who have no idea what they're doing will be "LOL GUYS LOOK WHAT I DID" and lose their laptops.
If I could mod you +1 Me I would, I was about to make this point. A school district with this kind of spending will end up with no money and failing students (Similar to NY, we suck so bad, it's not even funny)
I haven't had linux mess up on me providing it was on stable hardware and it was installed correctly, and I wasn't doing anything odd to it.
Then again, I don't use it extensively, so it could be more common than I thought. A question for a more experienced Linux user.
As a 10th Grader in the US, and a linux observer, I do realize that, however, going by the kids I have seen in the local public schools (Thankfully I don't have to go there!), The majority are too stupid to do it subtly enough that the local admin wouldn't notice, and then their privileges are revoked.
I'm sure Asus would give an academic discount if they were propositioned by a school district for an order of 10,000+ units. I have a 701 and 901, both have excellent support for any web protocol, I get a 100 on the acid3 test with opera 10, though not smooth, as has been discussed before.
I'm rather sick of people assuming eeepc's aren't real laptops, they're just as capable as any other laptop, aside from small hard drive space (not that important for linux/OO.o, pretty much all a student would need, I get by with the 4GiB on the 701 nicely)
True. More on topic, Locking these laptops down is a bad idea. I would suggest that for the time being, while the kids are using them in school, lock them down, maybe a timer from 8 to 3 you cannot go to facebook or myspace etc, but after hours those restrictions are lifted, and when the student leaves the school you can give them the admin password to unlock everything, though that would require a spreadsheet of the computers serials and the admin password, but that's not too tough.
I just want to reiterate that unless you're required by the school board to get macs, at least look into other laptops, who knows, you could end up saving your district thousands of dollars (bonus for you hopefully:))
Why on earth are you choosing macbooks, aren't there better options for your school? Off the top of my head, the asus eee 900 line would be great, the 900A or 901 would both be great and can be loaded with linux easily, or leave the xandros that comes with it on and it'll work fine. I doubt the students will have the know how to hack linux.
Wait, are you complaining that the main character was black, and stealing cars and shit? That the developers were being racist when they were just trying to change something up a bit?
Sorry, I'm just unclear on this and if you're being an idiot I want to make sure I, and others, are aware of it.
If you're saying that people are dumb for caring what color the main character is, feel free to disregard this.
This is the game I was looking for when I first tried out EVE online, and I'm not displeased by the time I've spent with EVE, but I really wanted a dogfighting MMO, something like Battlefield 2 and 2142's dogfighting, but with more people, and in space, with cool lasers and whatnot.
My fears for the game though are that it will have limited population, and you could wander pace aimlessly for a while before finding something to do.
On the other hand, if it goes well, it'll be AWESOME.
For anyone like me needing to satisfy their space combat needs, try ICP, you can find it at http://www.infinity-universe.com/
Infinity looks similar, but possibly with more depth, and the combat prototype is awesome, though sparsley populated. The key difference I see is that Jumpgate lacks NPC bots you can hire and have do stuff for you, whereas infinity does.
Then again, JG:E has a release date planned in the near future.
If a person can generate his own electricity and sell it back to the electric company. We should get the same deal when we upload to the internet. Fair is fair.
Yes, that would be fair, if in fact you could pipe internet access back to them. Which in fact would mean they need to get access to the internet, and for some reason you have two internet connections, and are effectively crossing the tubes. You then have to deal with everyone elses internet being streamed through your other connection, which you would hit your cap on quite quickly, assuming your speeds would be fast enough in the first place.
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... I am a kid, 10h grader, and from what I've seen no, they wouldn't even know what the hell it was running. I know someone who deleted the windows folder because he installed windowblinds and thought he was no longer running windows.
Protocol, whatever, It works. It is also possible for them to use XP, student licenses are cheapish now and the total cost would still be below a macbook.
It's been addressed elsewhere, if they do that they lose privileges. The ones that are good enough to do this subtly can do it, I'm sure they'll be responsible, or at least not retarded with it. The ones who have no idea what they're doing will be "LOL GUYS LOOK WHAT I DID" and lose their laptops.
If I could mod you +1 Me I would, I was about to make this point. A school district with this kind of spending will end up with no money and failing students (Similar to NY, we suck so bad, it's not even funny)
I haven't had linux mess up on me providing it was on stable hardware and it was installed correctly, and I wasn't doing anything odd to it. Then again, I don't use it extensively, so it could be more common than I thought. A question for a more experienced Linux user.
As a 10th Grader in the US, and a linux observer, I do realize that, however, going by the kids I have seen in the local public schools (Thankfully I don't have to go there!), The majority are too stupid to do it subtly enough that the local admin wouldn't notice, and then their privileges are revoked.
Yeah, I'm not aware of any software that could do this though, though I don't look into locking down my own computers often :)
I'm sure Asus would give an academic discount if they were propositioned by a school district for an order of 10,000+ units. I have a 701 and 901, both have excellent support for any web protocol, I get a 100 on the acid3 test with opera 10, though not smooth, as has been discussed before. I'm rather sick of people assuming eeepc's aren't real laptops, they're just as capable as any other laptop, aside from small hard drive space (not that important for linux/OO.o, pretty much all a student would need, I get by with the 4GiB on the 701 nicely)
True. More on topic, Locking these laptops down is a bad idea. I would suggest that for the time being, while the kids are using them in school, lock them down, maybe a timer from 8 to 3 you cannot go to facebook or myspace etc, but after hours those restrictions are lifted, and when the student leaves the school you can give them the admin password to unlock everything, though that would require a spreadsheet of the computers serials and the admin password, but that's not too tough. I just want to reiterate that unless you're required by the school board to get macs, at least look into other laptops, who knows, you could end up saving your district thousands of dollars (bonus for you hopefully :))
Why on earth are you choosing macbooks, aren't there better options for your school? Off the top of my head, the asus eee 900 line would be great, the 900A or 901 would both be great and can be loaded with linux easily, or leave the xandros that comes with it on and it'll work fine. I doubt the students will have the know how to hack linux.
Give it time, this is only an alpha, not even a beta. I'm sure by the final launch they'll have a version.
Ok, good.
Well, to be fair, you might have patched the problem, from 1.0 to 1.0.15 I believe. I have seen no evidence of it, but you never know.
Wait, are you complaining that the main character was black, and stealing cars and shit? That the developers were being racist when they were just trying to change something up a bit? Sorry, I'm just unclear on this and if you're being an idiot I want to make sure I, and others, are aware of it. If you're saying that people are dumb for caring what color the main character is, feel free to disregard this.
Holy hell, that's hilarious!
^This^ 10000 X this. Tired of the damn double standard.
I agree, that is unfunny, and off topic.
Looking into it, thanks!
This is the game I was looking for when I first tried out EVE online, and I'm not displeased by the time I've spent with EVE, but I really wanted a dogfighting MMO, something like Battlefield 2 and 2142's dogfighting, but with more people, and in space, with cool lasers and whatnot. My fears for the game though are that it will have limited population, and you could wander pace aimlessly for a while before finding something to do. On the other hand, if it goes well, it'll be AWESOME. For anyone like me needing to satisfy their space combat needs, try ICP, you can find it at http://www.infinity-universe.com/ Infinity looks similar, but possibly with more depth, and the combat prototype is awesome, though sparsley populated. The key difference I see is that Jumpgate lacks NPC bots you can hire and have do stuff for you, whereas infinity does. Then again, JG:E has a release date planned in the near future.
http://ttyshare.com/play/nethack Play nethack online :)
True, but johno said that it was declining, not stagnant.
It's not just about the demo, it's about all games that use this type of copy protection. RTFA.
But... that graph shows an /increase/ in players!
If a person can generate his own electricity and sell it back to the electric company. We should get the same deal when we upload to the internet. Fair is fair.
Yes, that would be fair, if in fact you could pipe internet access back to them. Which in fact would mean they need to get access to the internet, and for some reason you have two internet connections, and are effectively crossing the tubes. You then have to deal with everyone elses internet being streamed through your other connection, which you would hit your cap on quite quickly, assuming your speeds would be fast enough in the first place.
There's also the fact that Apple would most likely shut down any competition to their iphone's browser. They've been known to do that sort of thing.