That comes out to ~ 100 MB a day, which is exceedingly low in my opinion. If it were me, I would fight it, assuming you have some sort of legal recourse ( a service contract or something)
When I lived in the dorms, we had a limit of 2 GB a week, and I knew people who regularly exceeded that.
What about people who split their DSL line and share the connection between two or more computers?
I took a CSE/Math hybrid course last semester entitled Factorization and Primality Theory. The professor was a Math teacher, who know nothing about programming. Anyway, she said we could turn in our assignments in any language.
She had to revamp her ideas after people starting turning in programs in Mathematica that made heavy use of all the number crunching routines it provides. Not exactly cheating, but when you are supposed to write a program to test the primality of a given number, you shouldn't be able to just call the Mathematica routine isPrime() (or whatever it is called)
Doing it from scratch is how you learn to do things in the first place.
Oh yeah, I entirely agree that the network needed to be fixed, but I still think that there are a lot of people who installed Napster without knowing how to use it, thus letting it run in the taskbar all the time.
BTW, if you wanna get fast connections from PSU, try going through CMU. Penn State's ISP is the SuperComputer center in Pittsburgh, which also serves CMU.
I installed RedHat from a mirror at CMU and I got everything downloaded (~700MB) in under 20mins. God I love the ethernet.
All that Penn State is doing is complaining when they see lots of data going to one specific computer, even then, they will probably just give you a warning. I just installed Linux last night over the Penn State network (~700MB) and I haven't heard anything from any of the computer people, so I assume that you have a fairly high allottment of bandwith before they complain.
And besides, I think Penn State has every right to stop people who are sucking up tons of bandwith. When I got to campus this fall, the network was incredibly slow, and everyone from the Office of Telecommunications seemed to think that it was people who running Napster. The problem is mainly that people who didn't know what they were doing with Napster and would think they were closing Napsterwhen in fact it was running in their taskbar 24/7.
Now, the network is running much better, and personally, I couldn't be happier.
Now, truly, the open source community has reached its pinnacle.:)
Seriously though, I think that programs such as these that allow users to visualize more complicated computer concepts in a simpler form are truly a great idea.
You wouldn't have to train anyone to use a word processor if the word processor could be abstracted to the (virtual) user picking up a pen and paper and starting to write. Drawing a line under your text is much more intuitive than highlighting the text and clicking Format . . . Underline.
Similarly, if you want a bigger font, just write bigger.
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That comes out to ~ 100 MB a day, which is exceedingly low in my opinion. If it were me, I would fight it, assuming you have some sort of legal recourse ( a service contract or something)
When I lived in the dorms, we had a limit of 2 GB a week, and I knew people who regularly exceeded that.
What about people who split their DSL line and share the connection between two or more computers?
Sounds to me like it is time for a new ISP.
I realize these ads are annoying, but so are commeercials during broadcast TV.
Would you rather the site you are viewing goes bankrupt from lack of advertising revenue? Or charge you to view the site?
In other words, if I am told to code a hash table in any language and I choose Java and use java.util.Hashtable, is that cheating? Or just laziness?
JohnnyO
I took a CSE/Math hybrid course last semester entitled Factorization and Primality Theory. The professor was a Math teacher, who know nothing about programming. Anyway, she said we could turn in our assignments in any language.
She had to revamp her ideas after people starting turning in programs in Mathematica that made heavy use of all the number crunching routines it provides. Not exactly cheating, but when you are supposed to write a program to test the primality of a given number, you shouldn't be able to just call the Mathematica routine isPrime() (or whatever it is called)
Doing it from scratch is how you learn to do things in the first place.
JohnnyO
BTW, if you wanna get fast connections from PSU, try going through CMU. Penn State's ISP is the SuperComputer center in Pittsburgh, which also serves CMU.
I installed RedHat from a mirror at CMU and I got everything downloaded (~700MB) in under 20mins. God I love the ethernet.
JohnnyO
And besides, I think Penn State has every right to stop people who are sucking up tons of bandwith. When I got to campus this fall, the network was incredibly slow, and everyone from the Office of Telecommunications seemed to think that it was people who running Napster. The problem is mainly that people who didn't know what they were doing with Napster and would think they were closing Napsterwhen in fact it was running in their taskbar 24/7.
Now, the network is running much better, and personally, I couldn't be happier.
JohnnyO
Now, truly, the open source community has reached its pinnacle. :)
Seriously though, I think that programs such as these that allow users to visualize more complicated computer concepts in a simpler form are truly a great idea.
You wouldn't have to train anyone to use a word processor if the word processor could be abstracted to the (virtual) user picking up a pen and paper and starting to write. Drawing a line under your text is much more intuitive than highlighting the text and clicking Format . . . Underline.
Similarly, if you want a bigger font, just write bigger.
JohnnyO