I completely agree. It is idiotic to ask someone to write code completely right the first time on paper. I took the AB CompSci exam, and though I pulled a 4, I was annoyed that they had asked me to write out this complicated piece of code on paper. When you code, you dont sit down to some paper and start writing code. No, you sit down to a computer (after skeching out some ideas)and start writing code. Then you compile, see if it works, and if it doesnt, you go back and try and fix the problem and compile again. On paper, you cant do that.
Quite a few postings above have been from a netadmin's point of view, and I understand their pov. BW is expensive. I however, am a student, and would like to give my perspective. Capping is a pain for users. Asymmetric capping is even worse. I can't convey how annoying it is when your trying to send something to a friend (Large powerpoint presentation from last week comes to mind) and it goes SLOW (course slow is 24KB/sec). People can normally DL here at about 100KB/sec, which means that 3/4 of the bandwidth is going unused, and roughly quadrupling the DL time. I hate that. And as for quotas... ewwww. 1.5 GB a WEEK... I go over that in a day. Mirc, Webrowsing and a little dl really add up.
As for Morpheus and Gnutella... I'm a college student. I'm not rich, and I'm tired of price gouging ($500 for BOOKS!!!!! COME ON!!!!). It is a natural response to it. Leave it be.
PS, If anyone from University of Kentucky IT is reading this, North Campus would kill for a T3 right now.
It would be interesting to see if they could pull this off with repeater stations, the only problem being cost for putting up the antenas needed. Not sure how much that would cost, but I'm guessing a lot!
Speaking of MP3 vs Ogg, has anyone heard new info about MP3 pro? When I did some experiments with it a couple of months ago, I was inpressed with the inprovements over regular MP3, with many of the issues that people have stated in this forum being reduced greatly.
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I completely agree. It is idiotic to ask someone to write code completely right the first time on paper. I took the AB CompSci exam, and though I pulled a 4, I was annoyed that they had asked me to write out this complicated piece of code on paper. When you code, you dont sit down to some paper and start writing code. No, you sit down to a computer (after skeching out some ideas)and start writing code. Then you compile, see if it works, and if it doesnt, you go back and try and fix the problem and compile again. On paper, you cant do that.
As for Morpheus and Gnutella... I'm a college student. I'm not rich, and I'm tired of price gouging ($500 for BOOKS!!!!! COME ON!!!!). It is a natural response to it. Leave it be.
PS, If anyone from University of Kentucky IT is reading this, North Campus would kill for a T3 right now.
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It would be interesting to see if they could pull this off with repeater stations, the only problem being cost for putting up the antenas needed. Not sure how much that would cost, but I'm guessing a lot!Speaking of MP3 vs Ogg, has anyone heard new info about MP3 pro? When I did some experiments with it a couple of months ago, I was inpressed with the inprovements over regular MP3, with many of the issues that people have stated in this forum being reduced greatly.