Academic Integrity went out the door with tuition prices. Have you seen how much it costs to go to school anymore? Even state schools? Its all open to the highest bidder these days.
They are probably targeting all the new college students. All the parents want to get their kids something portable, so they "use" it more, thinking they will take it to class. The kids won't use it unless its got the latest goodies. So you might want to put them in, since a lot of people are buying computers for their kids to go to school now.
I worked at a college hooking kids up to the LAN, and there was at least a 75% increase of freshman having laptops from 2000 to 2001 where I was.
I don't remember my cable company telling me anything about no sharing. I looked over all the stuff they gave me too. So its not like ALL the cable companies are telling their customers up front about the limitations of the service.
They care cause they are greedy and want a piece of the action. They feel left out, and like they could be making even more money. Its insane what they charge us for stuff now, yet as a college student in computer science, if I want to get any programming done, and not sit in a lab. I have to pay for high speed internet access in my apartment so I can actually be productive and get my programs done.
If kids don't think they are going to use what their companies tell them, they have another thing comming. However, I know more CS graduates that refuse to run M$ things on their home pc's, unless for work.
Microsoft might as well just give away their MCSE. I have been a sys admin since I was 16, when I started I knew more about a MS network then some of those MCSE's. Though the salary increase might be nice.
I think thats part of the problem right there. We are beating kids over the head that they shouldn't do something. I know when I was younger, my parents told me all the time, "Don't smoke", "Don't drink", "Don't do 'insert common thing told not to do here'"
What did I do, I was an alcoholic by 14, hospitalized for sever depression at 15 and am still dealing with issues today and I'm 20. Alot of good controlling me did.
I think we need to mention it maybe once or so, and then leave it alone.
Its just like under age drinking in the US. Kids do it cause we tell them not to so much.
I think even here in America, not only in the UK, people are teaching children what the coperations want them to believe to be right or wrong. We are saying that copying and sharing a CD is wrong, when artists have gone out and "leaked" their material on to the internet. SO the artists themselves are "sharing" the material. If the people who are literally making the material feel they want to share it, why should we say its wrong?
Right and wrong is getting blured in society and its showing up in kids thinking its okay to shoot people and not feel anything about it, or holding up stores and stealing from people.
We need to teach kinds morals starting at home, with families, not corperate law in our classrooms.
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Academic Integrity went out the door with tuition prices. Have you seen how much it costs to go to school anymore? Even state schools? Its all open to the highest bidder these days.
They are probably targeting all the new college students. All the parents want to get their kids something portable, so they "use" it more, thinking they will take it to class. The kids won't use it unless its got the latest goodies. So you might want to put them in, since a lot of people are buying computers for their kids to go to school now.
I worked at a college hooking kids up to the LAN, and there was at least a 75% increase of freshman having laptops from 2000 to 2001 where I was.
If you're so much better than all of us at programming, why are you an Anonymous Coward??
I don't remember my cable company telling me anything about no sharing. I looked over all the stuff they gave me too. So its not like ALL the cable companies are telling their customers up front about the limitations of the service.
They care cause they are greedy and want a piece of the action. They feel left out, and like they could be making even more money. Its insane what they charge us for stuff now, yet as a college student in computer science, if I want to get any programming done, and not sit in a lab. I have to pay for high speed internet access in my apartment so I can actually be productive and get my programs done.
not many at all
It was about time that the cable companies started trying to lock down their services. Everyone else is. Music, Radio, Phone, now cable. Go figure
If kids don't think they are going to use what their companies tell them, they have another thing comming. However, I know more CS graduates that refuse to run M$ things on their home pc's, unless for work.
Microsoft might as well just give away their MCSE. I have been a sys admin since I was 16, when I started I knew more about a MS network then some of those MCSE's. Though the salary increase might be nice.
What did I do, I was an alcoholic by 14, hospitalized for sever depression at 15 and am still dealing with issues today and I'm 20. Alot of good controlling me did. I think we need to mention it maybe once or so, and then leave it alone.
Its just like under age drinking in the US. Kids do it cause we tell them not to so much.
I think even here in America, not only in the UK, people are teaching children what the coperations want them to believe to be right or wrong. We are saying that copying and sharing a CD is wrong, when artists have gone out and "leaked" their material on to the internet. SO the artists themselves are "sharing" the material. If the people who are literally making the material feel they want to share it, why should we say its wrong? Right and wrong is getting blured in society and its showing up in kids thinking its okay to shoot people and not feel anything about it, or holding up stores and stealing from people. We need to teach kinds morals starting at home, with families, not corperate law in our classrooms.