Or it could also be interesting that your 10 Mb/s speed is available never. How would that go over?
I'm sorry if the marketing jargon used by ISPs frustrates you. Unfortunately, you aren't paying for guaranteed service. This was in the fine print of the paper you signed. Did you read it?
Don't feel too bad, though - you can call always call your ISP and ask for a 99.999 uptime SLA and a CIR of 10 Mbps, but they'll probably just laugh at you, considering most Department of Defense bases don't even have that level of service, and I can guarantee you can't afford it. It doesn't matter which ISP you're with - residential connections are bottom the heap. You get what you pay for, and $50/mo is virtually nothing.
In a car analogy, complaining about your residential connection is like complaining to the dealership that your Honda Civic can't complete in a Formula 1 race. You didn't pay for a race car, so why do you think you can race it like one? The sooner you realize this and stop feeling entitled to something you don't pay for, the sooner you will be able to get something better.
On a side note, if they were real geeks, they would've called them credits.
Bitcoin is not a credit-based money system. That's kind of the point.
I think the parent was referring to Credits in the sense of old-school arcade machines - you know, where you insert hard coins to get Credits in the game. Not in the sense of bank credit, the money you don't actually have.
My favourite Astrology story comes from a local group of statisticians who set out to disprove it back in the 1980s. After surveying thousands of people and collecting as much information as they could over the course of several years, it didn't matter how they worked the data, it always led them to the same conclusion: the month of your birth has an impact on your outlook on life, thus proving some merit to astrology.
Seemingly disgusted by their findings, they ran it by a group of doctors who conducted a similar study. Without hesitation, one of the doctors said "Well duh, if you were born in a summer month, chances are you spent more time outside with your parents, ate healthier foods, and were exposed to more activities in a day."
The point is, there is science behind just about everything, even if it is pseudoscience. It's the people who try to sell you something that you need to watch out for.
All dogs have similar sense of smell. If this were about the high cost of dogs, they would have been using Chihuahuas years ago.
To that end, they use large breed dogs for a reason - they're intimidating and can actually neutralize someone carrying a bomb. So unless these mice have really sharp teeth... =)
Definitely outdated - but buggy whips are still used in North America by societies which solely rely on horses for transportation.
Yes, North America still has societies which solely rely on horses for transportation =)
Here are a few things which have worked in my classes:
1. Start from scratch. Give them an ISO of a command-line only Linux, like Debian netinstall.
2. Command-line only. Seriously. Give them a handout with the basic commands (man, dir, cat, touch, etc.), and ask them to figure out what they do.
3. For their midterm project (you're having them do projects, right?), ask them to build a LAMP server.
4. For their final project, have them build something to run on the LAMP server - such as a basic SNMP-based Network Management System, or maybe even a code repository if the class isn't that advanced. Either will force them to learn a scripting language, Linux networking, sudo, cron, file permissions, etc.
5. Finally, like so many other posters have pointed out, if you have some students in the class who already know Linux, turn them loose to create something of their own to show the rest.
I know it can be a bit of stretch for first year students to actually build and run a LAMP server, but really, these are things any CS student needs to know. There are a million step-by-step books on the topic, and I've had students quite regularly go from naught to Guru during a single semester. If the motivation is there, they will learn. Don't be afraid to push them.
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Or it could also be interesting that your 10 Mb/s speed is available never. How would that go over?
I'm sorry if the marketing jargon used by ISPs frustrates you. Unfortunately, you aren't paying for guaranteed service. This was in the fine print of the paper you signed. Did you read it?
Don't feel too bad, though - you can call always call your ISP and ask for a 99.999 uptime SLA and a CIR of 10 Mbps, but they'll probably just laugh at you, considering most Department of Defense bases don't even have that level of service, and I can guarantee you can't afford it. It doesn't matter which ISP you're with - residential connections are bottom the heap. You get what you pay for, and $50/mo is virtually nothing.
In a car analogy, complaining about your residential connection is like complaining to the dealership that your Honda Civic can't complete in a Formula 1 race. You didn't pay for a race car, so why do you think you can race it like one? The sooner you realize this and stop feeling entitled to something you don't pay for, the sooner you will be able to get something better.
On a side note, if they were real geeks, they would've called them credits.
Bitcoin is not a credit-based money system. That's kind of the point.
I think the parent was referring to Credits in the sense of old-school arcade machines - you know, where you insert hard coins to get Credits in the game. Not in the sense of bank credit, the money you don't actually have.
Demon's Souls. Unless you're a little girl and can't handle getting yer arse [sic] handed to you by a video game =D
Likewise Google - you have never heard them say "Web Program" before. It has always been "Web Application", or "Web App" for short.
My favourite Astrology story comes from a local group of statisticians who set out to disprove it back in the 1980s. After surveying thousands of people and collecting as much information as they could over the course of several years, it didn't matter how they worked the data, it always led them to the same conclusion: the month of your birth has an impact on your outlook on life, thus proving some merit to astrology.
Seemingly disgusted by their findings, they ran it by a group of doctors who conducted a similar study. Without hesitation, one of the doctors said "Well duh, if you were born in a summer month, chances are you spent more time outside with your parents, ate healthier foods, and were exposed to more activities in a day."
The point is, there is science behind just about everything, even if it is pseudoscience. It's the people who try to sell you something that you need to watch out for.
All dogs have similar sense of smell. If this were about the high cost of dogs, they would have been using Chihuahuas years ago.
To that end, they use large breed dogs for a reason - they're intimidating and can actually neutralize someone carrying a bomb. So unless these mice have really sharp teeth... =)
Rule #1 - never take the stand
Rule #0.5 - Never divulge important information online.
And the smart kid isn't always right. After nearly a decade in power, the limitations of Google search are starting to show at the seams.
Definitely outdated - but buggy whips are still used in North America by societies which solely rely on horses for transportation.
Yes, North America still has societies which solely rely on horses for transportation =)
Here are a few things which have worked in my classes:
1. Start from scratch. Give them an ISO of a command-line only Linux, like Debian netinstall.
2. Command-line only. Seriously. Give them a handout with the basic commands (man, dir, cat, touch, etc.), and ask them to figure out what they do.
3. For their midterm project (you're having them do projects, right?), ask them to build a LAMP server.
4. For their final project, have them build something to run on the LAMP server - such as a basic SNMP-based Network Management System, or maybe even a code repository if the class isn't that advanced. Either will force them to learn a scripting language, Linux networking, sudo, cron, file permissions, etc.
5. Finally, like so many other posters have pointed out, if you have some students in the class who already know Linux, turn them loose to create something of their own to show the rest.
I know it can be a bit of stretch for first year students to actually build and run a LAMP server, but really, these are things any CS student needs to know. There are a million step-by-step books on the topic, and I've had students quite regularly go from naught to Guru during a single semester. If the motivation is there, they will learn. Don't be afraid to push them.