IMHO hoth are guilty. M$ are, as you said guilty of loading it with DRM junk. They are also guilty of other generally consumer and competition unfriendly business practices. Whether or not it is nvidia's fault that their product does not work well in vista, they should not put on the box that it works in vista if it does not.
Seconded. Perhaps a network booting system with a server running an nfs daemon for storing students files and maybe nis for logons? Maybe something nice and user friendly like suse or ubuntu? If you set the machines up for network booting, they will be virtually 0 maintainance and security is not really needed as a reboot removes any potential damage. If you need internet access then it wouldnt be hard to set up squid or a similar proxy server which can easily handle content filtering.
Plan B: Leave things as they are but yell at the students more and tell them the computer will kill them if they mess with it.
The great thing about the net as a communication medium is that it is open to all and very difficult to censor/regulate. I strongly doubt anyone would care if it was required to have a license, it would be impossible to enforce. Sites like youtube and google vids would obtain licenses soon enough and they would still be accepting content from anyone, so people could still use these services to distribute their content.
On the other hand: Surely this would mean that any software developer who provides a video tutorial or similar would require a license? How do you define video content? Surely videos distributed in adobe flash format would be affected, what about flash menu bars on sites? animated gifs?
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this is an intentional feature, many msn clients (inc amsn, gaim) have it, can be turned on or off mostly.
Yeah, it is entertaining
robots.txt? NOARCHIVE?
People should have to take an exam or at least an IQ test before being allowed near a computer, Women doubly so
IMHO hoth are guilty.
M$ are, as you said guilty of loading it with DRM junk.
They are also guilty of other generally consumer and competition unfriendly business practices.
Whether or not it is nvidia's fault that their product does not work well in vista, they should not put on the box that it works in vista if it does not.
Seconded.
Perhaps a network booting system with a server running an nfs daemon for storing students files and maybe nis for logons?
Maybe something nice and user friendly like suse or ubuntu?
If you set the machines up for network booting, they will be virtually 0 maintainance and security is not really needed as a reboot removes any potential damage.
If you need internet access then it wouldnt be hard to set up squid or a similar proxy server which can easily handle content filtering.
Plan B:
Leave things as they are but yell at the students more and tell them the computer will kill them if they mess with it.
The great thing about the net as a communication medium is that it is open to all and very difficult to censor/regulate.
I strongly doubt anyone would care if it was required to have a license, it would be impossible to enforce.
Sites like youtube and google vids would obtain licenses soon enough and they would still be accepting content from anyone, so people could still use these services to distribute their content.
On the other hand:
Surely this would mean that any software developer who provides a video tutorial or similar would require a license?
How do you define video content? Surely videos distributed in adobe flash format would be affected, what about flash menu bars on sites? animated gifs?
In summary: bad news, but noone would care.
No body? No evidence? M$ conspiracy theory anyone?