I taught a C++ course at a large university (50K+ students) in the U.S. The resources we had available, in terms of both teaching staff and computers, were/are comparable to most American universities. For approximately 160 students, we had two TAs and two instructors (me and a fellow grad. student) and multiple labs full of Solaris, Linux, and AIX machines.
The biggest complaint we got from students, semester after semester, was that we wouldn't help them solve their problems on platform XYZ (Macs running CodeWarrior, PCs running Symantec C++ or MSVC, a souped up VIC-20, you name it). There's no way you can teach the material and solve all the various platform issues. (There are enough minor details and variations in C++ alone to deal with.)
All of us were competent and able to solve all of these problems, but frankly, we got paid a fixed rate however many hours we put in. I wasn't going to waste time solving weird platform difficulties on some student's home computer when I could actually covering the vagaries of C++ instead. Especially when the university already goes to great expense to provide enough lab seats that students didn't have to sign up for machine time.
Universities don't have a lot of money to throw at support for computers they own, let alone the students' machines. I don't think this problem is limited to Australia.
Self employed people could deduct their health insurance premiums in '98, and perhaps even earlier. There are quite a few more deductions working their way through Congress. Congressmen love small businesses and are working to eliminate the differences in tax law that give larger corporations an advantage.
Look, even with these protective regulations, lots of people lose their money in risky investments, scams, frauds, etc. That's why the SEC exists, and that's why they promote these rules. The Red Hat IPO is a special case where the general rules don't apply. Bitch all you want, but without these kinds of regulatory efforts Social Security would be bankrupt next year. Without these regulatory efforts, the average old person would be eating macaroni and dirt.
If you want to actually accomplish something, get politically active about Social Security. Some 6% of your income goes to pay for a program that won't pay you a dime when you're old and need it. Support candidates whose plans encourage individual investment and investor education. If the average citizen, instead of relying on Social Security, saved for retirement and managed his own investments, you wouldn't need these regulatory efforts that prevent you from getting your share of the Red Hat IPO.
SEC recommendations carry a lot of weight, as the SEC investigates NASD and NYSE fairly often. If they don't like what they see, they get taken to court. E*Trade cannot afford the risk of being hounded by the SEC, so they follow SEC recommendations.
It's true the NYSE and NASD are self regulated, but that regulation is overseen by the SEC, which doesn't hesitate to step in when it smells something fishy.
I just bought one, and since I want to run my monitor at 1600x1200@75Hz from a couple of the machines, I put some effort into checking video performance. I ended up buying a 4-port Dakota Scout for $229 plus $40 per cable set for 10' hi-res cables.
The switch is manufactured by Cybex for Dakota, which sells them in the US and Europe. According the rep I spoke to, the box is a higher end version of the SwitchView, manufactured exclusively for Dakota.
I'm going to hook it up after I finish reading slashdot. Email me if you're interested in how well it works.
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I taught a C++ course at a large university (50K+ students) in the U.S. The resources we had available, in terms of both teaching staff and computers, were/are comparable to most American universities. For approximately 160 students, we had two TAs and two instructors (me and a fellow grad. student) and multiple labs full of Solaris, Linux, and AIX machines.
The biggest complaint we got from students, semester after semester, was that we wouldn't help them solve their problems on platform XYZ (Macs running CodeWarrior, PCs running Symantec C++ or MSVC, a souped up VIC-20, you name it). There's no way you can teach the material and solve all the various platform issues. (There are enough minor details and variations in C++ alone to deal with.)
All of us were competent and able to solve all of these problems, but frankly, we got paid a fixed rate however many hours we put in. I wasn't going to waste time solving weird platform difficulties on some student's home computer when I could actually covering the vagaries of C++ instead. Especially when the university already goes to great expense to provide enough lab seats that students didn't have to sign up for machine time.
Universities don't have a lot of money to throw at support for computers they own, let alone the students' machines. I don't think this problem is limited to Australia.
Self employed people could deduct their health insurance premiums in '98, and perhaps even earlier. There are quite a few more deductions working their way through Congress. Congressmen love small businesses and are working to eliminate the differences in tax law that give larger corporations an advantage.
Ajit
Look, even with these protective regulations, lots of people lose their money in risky investments, scams, frauds, etc. That's why the SEC exists, and that's why they promote these rules. The Red Hat IPO is a special case where the general rules don't apply. Bitch all you want, but without these kinds of regulatory efforts Social Security would be bankrupt next year. Without these regulatory efforts, the average old person would be eating macaroni and dirt.
If you want to actually accomplish something, get politically active about Social Security. Some 6% of your income goes to pay for a program that won't pay you a dime when you're old and need it. Support candidates whose plans encourage individual investment and investor education. If the average citizen, instead of relying on Social Security, saved for retirement and managed his own investments, you wouldn't need these regulatory efforts that prevent you from getting your share of the Red Hat IPO.
SEC recommendations carry a lot of weight, as the SEC investigates NASD and NYSE fairly often. If they don't like what they see, they get taken to court. E*Trade cannot afford the risk of being hounded by the SEC, so they follow SEC recommendations.
It's true the NYSE and NASD are self regulated, but that regulation is overseen by the SEC, which doesn't hesitate to step in when it smells something fishy.
I just bought one, and since I want to run my monitor at 1600x1200@75Hz from a couple of the machines, I put some effort into checking video performance. I ended up buying a 4-port Dakota Scout for $229 plus $40 per cable set for 10' hi-res cables.
The switch is manufactured by Cybex for Dakota, which sells them in the US and Europe. According the rep I spoke to, the box is a higher end version of the SwitchView, manufactured exclusively for Dakota.
I'm going to hook it up after I finish reading slashdot. Email me if you're interested in how well it works.