I just finished high school at a public school. This is not at all uncommon. They spent $50k on a lab for the CCNA students and found the two worst teachers I have ever had to teach it. Both were underqualified and took the same 4 semester course over the space of 2 weeks. Obviously, they passed the class instead of learned the material, and it showed. Of the 18 students who started the first year (myself included), only 3 made it to the next year, Semester 3. Cheating was rampant on tests as the teacher thought his time was better spent ticking out emails and doing lesson plans for his biology classes than enforcing anti cheating measures.
After the 15/18 failure rate, he was replaced the next year. This new teacher was even more awful. He took the course the same way, and used us remaining 3 students to "help him" rebuild the lab. This involved taking old donated computers from the A+ lab and making them seaworthy for the class. Oh, and grabbing some old desks from the woodshop on the other side of the campus and doing chimp work with a drill to make them able to stand. Of the 3 remaining second year students, all of us dropped out. Of his 24 first year students, all of them dropped out as well.
These wastes of money were apparant, we got these expensive routers and bridges and our teachers were unable to answer simple questions about them. Useless, I think the routers ended up being shipped to another school so they could try their hand at the CCNA program.
Oh, and other schools in the district have had the CCNA program for a few years, and are turning out graduates due to good (suprise!) teachers.
One thing's for sure, I'm not going to stop using my older computers or buy $40+ power supplies for them. Maybe many businesses will do the same. It may be cheaper for them to lose the extra $$ a month in power costs than pay someone to upgrade all their current hardware. Posting this from an old Gateway P3 450mhz with a measly 230 watt power supply on a CRT that's probably even older, 7 years or so. Probably eating power pretty decently, but I can't imagine moreso than my 480 watt Antec TrueBlue in the other computer in this room.
Cue the "I'm posting this from (Amiga, Palm, Windows 3.1, stone tablet), you insensitive clod!" jokes.
SuSe will NOT do better with a slicker box. This Joe Sixpack is likely to think there are two computers, Windows and Mac. He's likely never heard of Linux, or SuSe for that matter, or even deeper any alternative to Windows. To him, computers run Windows. That's it.
More importantly, nobody goes to a store to shop around for operating systems. He's already settled himself to spend $100 on the new upgrade CD, so a $40 or less operating system looks cheap and unreliable to him, no matter the box.
Really, if one knows enough to know they want Linux, they likely know enough to know where to find it and not care what box it is in if they do buy it.
I saw the headline "Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations" and thought it was about a video game (Railroad Tycoon-esque) with hotels where you could build inflatable space hotels too.
I've got a Kyocera 2135 given to me by my boss. AFAIK, its the cheapest, featureless phone Verizon offers.
I don't mind, I use it to send/receive calls for 8 hours a day and it fits snugly in my pocket, battery lasts for probably 3 solid days on a night's charge.
Simple is sometimes better.
Exactly. I find it's fun at the end of the day to write down what you did, it adds closure and inspires you to do more the next day. Because "I ate Apple Jacks in my boxers, read Slashdot, and built a wall out of pudding cups" is a bit underwhelming, you feel like you have to do something more to justify your existance.
Plus, it is a great repository to tell a story to your friends, the kind like "a funny thing happened on the way to work today" that you don't want to repeat 12 times, just have your pals read them.
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I just finished high school at a public school. This is not at all uncommon. They spent $50k on a lab for the CCNA students and found the two worst teachers I have ever had to teach it. Both were underqualified and took the same 4 semester course over the space of 2 weeks. Obviously, they passed the class instead of learned the material, and it showed. Of the 18 students who started the first year (myself included), only 3 made it to the next year, Semester 3. Cheating was rampant on tests as the teacher thought his time was better spent ticking out emails and doing lesson plans for his biology classes than enforcing anti cheating measures.
After the 15/18 failure rate, he was replaced the next year. This new teacher was even more awful. He took the course the same way, and used us remaining 3 students to "help him" rebuild the lab. This involved taking old donated computers from the A+ lab and making them seaworthy for the class. Oh, and grabbing some old desks from the woodshop on the other side of the campus and doing chimp work with a drill to make them able to stand. Of the 3 remaining second year students, all of us dropped out. Of his 24 first year students, all of them dropped out as well.
These wastes of money were apparant, we got these expensive routers and bridges and our teachers were unable to answer simple questions about them. Useless, I think the routers ended up being shipped to another school so they could try their hand at the CCNA program.
Oh, and other schools in the district have had the CCNA program for a few years, and are turning out graduates due to good (suprise!) teachers.
So...
The aliens get to play Doom III before I do, this is just great.
One thing's for sure, I'm not going to stop using my older computers or buy $40+ power supplies for them. Maybe many businesses will do the same. It may be cheaper for them to lose the extra $$ a month in power costs than pay someone to upgrade all their current hardware. Posting this from an old Gateway P3 450mhz with a measly 230 watt power supply on a CRT that's probably even older, 7 years or so. Probably eating power pretty decently, but I can't imagine moreso than my 480 watt Antec TrueBlue in the other computer in this room.
Cue the "I'm posting this from (Amiga, Palm, Windows 3.1, stone tablet), you insensitive clod!" jokes.
SuSe will NOT do better with a slicker box. This Joe Sixpack is likely to think there are two computers, Windows and Mac. He's likely never heard of Linux, or SuSe for that matter, or even deeper any alternative to Windows. To him, computers run Windows. That's it.
More importantly, nobody goes to a store to shop around for operating systems. He's already settled himself to spend $100 on the new upgrade CD, so a $40 or less operating system looks cheap and unreliable to him, no matter the box.
Really, if one knows enough to know they want Linux, they likely know enough to know where to find it and not care what box it is in if they do buy it.
My killer app is W32.Sasser.Worm
Runs pretty decently on newer hardware.
Are you comparing apples to apples?
No you Mac zealot, they are comparing Windows to Linux.... sigh..
Don't hurt me, it was a joke.
I saw the headline "Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations" and thought it was about a video game (Railroad Tycoon-esque) with hotels where you could build inflatable space hotels too.
Disappointment runs rampant!
I've got a Kyocera 2135 given to me by my boss. AFAIK, its the cheapest, featureless phone Verizon offers.
I don't mind, I use it to send/receive calls for 8 hours a day and it fits snugly in my pocket, battery lasts for probably 3 solid days on a night's charge.
Simple is sometimes better.
Exactly. I find it's fun at the end of the day to write down what you did, it adds closure and inspires you to do more the next day. Because "I ate Apple Jacks in my boxers, read Slashdot, and built a wall out of pudding cups" is a bit underwhelming, you feel like you have to do something more to justify your existance.
Plus, it is a great repository to tell a story to your friends, the kind like "a funny thing happened on the way to work today" that you don't want to repeat 12 times, just have your pals read them.
If all those 15 year old girls have a tragedy happen to them like this, where are they going to put it? No blog!
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Trippy
The new Verizon commercials show it:
Guy with glasses: "C4N j00 h4> m3 n0\/\/? g00d, WTF!!!1111
A mobile phone virus that infects the N-Gage Nokia models has disabled all N-Gage models across the US.
8 users are affected and "devastated" by the attack.
Haven't seen close to $0.50/gb. Closest I got was $100 for a 160gb drive, but that was post rebates.
80 gigs for $60? That's $0.75 per GB(as the manufacturers call it)
Place the dunce cap firmly on your head and sit facing the wall.
If slashdotters knew where to find interesting tech news, they wouldn't be slashdotters.
I kid, I kid..... mostly
I thought AC was user #666 ?
$35/month here from the plain vanilla ISP.
I think you are confusing bandwidth and throughput.
Exactly.
I have a good friend who lived in Hong Kong until he was 15. He spells exactly like this guy's auction and uses similar phrases.
He is absolutely brilliant though, and his goofs at English on occasion are nothing compared to how he storms through classes at the U of A.
More likely it's referring to a suggested use, like putting all that crap in a museum.
AND THE OPENING BID IS $100,000 for the math/reading inept. Costs $100,000 Weighs over 100KG It can do both!
Don't forget "Impressive, but does it run linux?" The answer is actually yes for some of them.
Umm... The guy who's hosting the images got slashdotted, text showed up fine for me.
Backwards too.
I know you mean University of Texas, but every time I see UT I think of the announcer guy from Unreal Tournament saying "HEADSHOT!"
Someone slacked off of the "Missile Command" budget and one little city of 5 got destroyed.