Students here at Penn State (where I just graduated from) have access to the Internet2 from anywhere in the university's network. Packets destined for other universities on the VBNS (Internet2) are routed through the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center and over Internet2. However, there are two connections to the PSC, a DS-3 and a new OC-3. The students (and mostly everyone else who's not doing special research) get the DS-3, which also routes traffic to the commercial internet...still, I was able to max out the 10Mbit ethernet in my dorm.
In fact, I'm still running RH 5.2 (2.2.13-rtl2.0) which I downloaded from uiuc and installed in fifteen minutes when I was on campus last spring...
Negatives: 1) Idea of night life is Denny's 2) Too many old people 3) Absolutely no tech companies, although you can find a job doing cheesy business programming 4) Nothing to do 5) An hour away from other "cities" like State College and Johnstown, where there is also nothing to do 6) Two or more hours away from crappy cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore 7) No DSL...we might be getting cable modems, although, for some reason, there is an OC-3 backbone running through here 8) No tourist attractions, unless you consider trains interesting 9) Voted least physically fit city in United States == ugly chicks 10) People leave old kitchen appliances out in their yards, and there are lots of pick-up driving hillbillies 11) People cannot hold an intelligent conversation Positives: 1) Nice scenery when driving to State College on Rt 45. (i.e. lots of cows) Mooooooooo! 2) Penn State 3) Housing is cheap. 2000 sq. ft house is about $130,000 4) Always can find a place to park 5) Out of the range of Chinese ICBMs
All objects in Java are references (much like C pointers) but with the pointer semantics of C hidden. I know many people who claim you cannot code a binary tree, linked list, etc in Java because it lacks pointers. This is simply not true. Java's primitive types (int, float...) are, of course, not pointers.
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Students here at Penn State (where I just graduated from) have access to the Internet2 from anywhere in the university's network. Packets destined for other universities on the VBNS (Internet2) are routed through the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center and over Internet2. However, there are two connections to the PSC, a DS-3 and a new OC-3. The students (and mostly everyone else who's not doing special research) get the DS-3, which also routes traffic to the commercial internet...still, I was able to max out the 10Mbit ethernet in my dorm.
In fact, I'm still running RH 5.2 (2.2.13-rtl2.0) which I downloaded from uiuc and installed in fifteen minutes when I was on campus last spring...
Negatives: 1) Idea of night life is Denny's 2) Too many old people 3) Absolutely no tech companies, although you can find a job doing cheesy business programming 4) Nothing to do 5) An hour away from other "cities" like State College and Johnstown, where there is also nothing to do 6) Two or more hours away from crappy cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore 7) No DSL...we might be getting cable modems, although, for some reason, there is an OC-3 backbone running through here 8) No tourist attractions, unless you consider trains interesting 9) Voted least physically fit city in United States == ugly chicks 10) People leave old kitchen appliances out in their yards, and there are lots of pick-up driving hillbillies 11) People cannot hold an intelligent conversation Positives: 1) Nice scenery when driving to State College on Rt 45. (i.e. lots of cows) Mooooooooo! 2) Penn State 3) Housing is cheap. 2000 sq. ft house is about $130,000 4) Always can find a place to park 5) Out of the range of Chinese ICBMs
All objects in Java are references (much like C pointers) but with the pointer semantics of C hidden. I know many people who claim you cannot code a binary tree, linked list, etc in Java because it lacks pointers. This is simply not true. Java's primitive types (int, float...) are, of course, not pointers.