The students are adults. They've paid for the opportunity to earn a degree, and as long as the measure of their educational growth are the multiple-choice exams that are the university standard, a passing grade should get them that degree. The route that they took to complete the exam, as long as dishonesty was not a part, should not matter.
My installation of IE7 included Google as the default engine as well. Perhaps this was becasue I had Google set as my default engine in IE6. As for the argument made above that MS is utilizing "Monopolistic Power" to subvert the other engines in lieu of it's own, this may be true, but the very people that do not know enough to set Google as the default engine would not know enough to search out and establish an engine as the default were one not included from the go.
I understand that Slashdot is very Linux/OS-centric, but as soon as someone creates an OS that has a GUI with all the bells and whistles of Windows and is "grandma" user friendly rather than "programmer" or even "highschooler" user friendly, then maybe they have a shot at establishing themselves on the worldwide, or even "WalMart-wide" market. Until then, Microsoft will continue doing what they do and people will continue consuming it because it's easy and it works.
People do want an all-in-one, measured by the hype seen on/. But hand-held video and music is old news. I am the very happy owner of an iPAQ 4155 which is almost two years old. It foremost has WiFi and a full-featured IE, email, yada-yada. I've been watching feature-length movies for some time now, using DVD-2-PocketPC to rip them to an appropriate file size. And a 2GB SD card is plenty of space for a few movies and all the music you can listen to for days.
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The students are adults. They've paid for the opportunity to earn a degree, and as long as the measure of their educational growth are the multiple-choice exams that are the university standard, a passing grade should get them that degree. The route that they took to complete the exam, as long as dishonesty was not a part, should not matter.
My installation of IE7 included Google as the default engine as well. Perhaps this was becasue I had Google set as my default engine in IE6. As for the argument made above that MS is utilizing "Monopolistic Power" to subvert the other engines in lieu of it's own, this may be true, but the very people that do not know enough to set Google as the default engine would not know enough to search out and establish an engine as the default were one not included from the go. I understand that Slashdot is very Linux/OS-centric, but as soon as someone creates an OS that has a GUI with all the bells and whistles of Windows and is "grandma" user friendly rather than "programmer" or even "highschooler" user friendly, then maybe they have a shot at establishing themselves on the worldwide, or even "WalMart-wide" market. Until then, Microsoft will continue doing what they do and people will continue consuming it because it's easy and it works.
People do want an all-in-one, measured by the hype seen on /. But hand-held video and music is old news. I am the very happy owner of an iPAQ 4155 which is almost two years old. It foremost has WiFi and a full-featured IE, email, yada-yada. I've been watching feature-length movies for some time now, using DVD-2-PocketPC to rip them to an appropriate file size. And a 2GB SD card is plenty of space for a few movies and all the music you can listen to for days.