I routinely use 20-30 GB/month, and that's when I don't use BitTorrent. 5 GB/week would keep me pretty much perpetually bandwidth-limited.
How many Linux distributions can you download and USE in one day?
The last Debian release alone was 8.5 GB, and that's only for i386. Source code is another 8.8 GB. (These links are for reference only, if you want to download Debian CD/DVDs, go here to avoid flooding the kernel.org mirror.)
On top of that, you'll probably want to download a live CD such as Knoppix.
But to partly answer your question, I've recently downloaded 5 distros in one day. It was 3 different versions of Mandriva (which is a terribly-designed OS, IMHO), Fedora Core 5, and Knoppix. Coincidently, it was because I was doing some work my university hired me to do (though I don't live on campus).
Personally, though, I'm not sure that all students in residence should be required to pay for more bandwidth than is reasonably considered necessary for their education, so 5 GB/week is probably fine as a baseline, as long as:
No punitive actions are taken for exceeding this bandwidth. (Just throttle the connection once usage gets too high, which will happen legitimately from time to time);
The traffic is metered outside the local network (local traffic is exempt); and
Individual students have the option of paying for better service at a rate comparable to what is offered by high-speed Internet providers in the local area. Alternatively, students could have the option of getting third-party high-speed service to supplement the baseline service provided by the university.
Basically, people in university residences should have access to decent bandwidth, but it doesn't necessarily need to be provided automatically.
That's true, but I have never seen any slide show where this would be a problem, and I have seen some pretty complicated slides.
I have, on slides with large images, either when loading directly from a CD, or on the less-than-cutting-edge machine that happens to be connected to the projector.
If you give a 15-minute mini-exam at the end of every lesson, this will quickly become routine.
Yup. I had a few classes where the profs did that, although they were usually weekly 5-minute exams at the beginning of class on the material that had been covered a week or two ago (so if you were a little slow, you would have had time to ask questions/get clarification before you had to write an exam on the topic). I think it worked quite well. Some idiots tried to cheat on those exams, but an assigned seating plan and a little statistical analysis weeded them out pretty quickly.
(btw, I'm not even going to get into the 'woman' comment you made.)
Why would you? It's quite possible that that's what he observed.
Or call them in at random to defend their work. This is particularly easy with engineering design and computer programming. Ask them, "Why did you do it this way?". It won't even matter if they cheated or not, because if they repeatedly can't that answer, they deserve a lower grade anyway.
But yeah, if you take away the advantage that the cheating provides, it won't happen much anymore.
I only have three complaints about Windows, so Windows must be better:
It works, or at least looks it works, most of the time. The rest of the time, it's silently failing to do what the documentation says it will, and usually your only recourse (even if you're a programmer) is to poke around trying different things until hopefully something you've tried seems more reliable than what you were using before.
It's proprietary, which explains #1.
As a result of #1, software costs many times more than it should, for what it does.
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Yes, Windows works until it doesn't. Then you're screwed.
Which is fine unless you want to do kernel development, or follow kernel development, or follow X development, or work on alternative operating systems, or use alternative processor architectures.
Proprietary drivers are great when they do exactly what they want, and then they sharply drop to borderline-useless as soon as any of the assumptions the vendor made turn out to be wrong.
I just got an older Radeon board to work in my computer, after commenting-out one line of code in the free radeon drivers (X erroneously thinks that there is a resource conflict on the machine, and disabling the ignoring the error fixes the problem). ATI's proprietary drivers do not work.
I've had similar problems with NVidia boards. Sometimes the proprietary drivers work, but when they don't---no matter how small the problem---you're screwed. Never mind the security implications.
Using proprietary drivers on a free OS is like smoking. You can point to a lot of people who apparently aren't being harmed by it. That doesn't make it any less dumb.
PHP is one of the most poorly-designed languages ever created, and there's no evidence that its designers have really improved much (even some of PHP5's improved features have stupid defaults, for example). It doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't know a good design if they saw one.
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Great, so apparently public IP addresses have "legal issues" now. What a bunch of crap.
I routinely use 20-30 GB/month, and that's when I don't use BitTorrent. 5 GB/week would keep me pretty much perpetually bandwidth-limited.
The last Debian release alone was 8.5 GB, and that's only for i386. Source code is another 8.8 GB. (These links are for reference only, if you want to download Debian CD/DVDs, go here to avoid flooding the kernel.org mirror.)
On top of that, you'll probably want to download a live CD such as Knoppix.
But to partly answer your question, I've recently downloaded 5 distros in one day. It was 3 different versions of Mandriva (which is a terribly-designed OS, IMHO), Fedora Core 5, and Knoppix. Coincidently, it was because I was doing some work my university hired me to do (though I don't live on campus).
Personally, though, I'm not sure that all students in residence should be required to pay for more bandwidth than is reasonably considered necessary for their education, so 5 GB/week is probably fine as a baseline, as long as:
Basically, people in university residences should have access to decent bandwidth, but it doesn't necessarily need to be provided automatically.
This is offtopic spam. I don't see anything about Linux or free software on that site.
I have, on slides with large images, either when loading directly from a CD, or on the less-than-cutting-edge machine that happens to be connected to the projector.
Yes, because America never extends its influence outside its own borders. And no, I'm not talking about Iraq. *cough*DMCA*cough*patents*cough*.
AAARGH, not again!
... You misspelled "blogosphere!" (-:
Touché
It's still plagiarism in Real School (if there is such a thing) if you don't cite your sources.
Yup. I had a few classes where the profs did that, although they were usually weekly 5-minute exams at the beginning of class on the material that had been covered a week or two ago (so if you were a little slow, you would have had time to ask questions/get clarification before you had to write an exam on the topic). I think it worked quite well. Some idiots tried to cheat on those exams, but an assigned seating plan and a little statistical analysis weeded them out pretty quickly.
Why would you? It's quite possible that that's what he observed.
Or call them in at random to defend their work. This is particularly easy with engineering design and computer programming. Ask them, "Why did you do it this way?". It won't even matter if they cheated or not, because if they repeatedly can't that answer, they deserve a lower grade anyway.
But yeah, if you take away the advantage that the cheating provides, it won't happen much anymore.
Looks like Netcraft was right. I always prefered grub anyway. :-P
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Enough with the euphemisms, already. Just say that he died. "Passing" is something you do with yesterday's lunch shortly after you've eaten today's.
I only have three complaints about Windows, so Windows must be better:
Yes, Windows works until it doesn't. Then you're screwed.
Which is fine unless you want to do kernel development, or follow kernel development, or follow X development, or work on alternative operating systems, or use alternative processor architectures.
Proprietary drivers are great when they do exactly what they want, and then they sharply drop to borderline-useless as soon as any of the assumptions the vendor made turn out to be wrong.
I just got an older Radeon board to work in my computer, after commenting-out one line of code in the free radeon drivers (X erroneously thinks that there is a resource conflict on the machine, and disabling the ignoring the error fixes the problem). ATI's proprietary drivers do not work.
I've had similar problems with NVidia boards. Sometimes the proprietary drivers work, but when they don't---no matter how small the problem---you're screwed. Never mind the security implications.
Using proprietary drivers on a free OS is like smoking. You can point to a lot of people who apparently aren't being harmed by it. That doesn't make it any less dumb.
Since when is 99.95% a big number when we're dealing with astronomy? I think Newton's laws are precise within 99.95%.
99.95% of what?
It's not. Check it again.
Python more-or-less has namespaces. PHP still doesn't.
PHP is one of the most poorly-designed languages ever created, and there's no evidence that its designers have really improved much (even some of PHP5's improved features have stupid defaults, for example). It doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't know a good design if they saw one.
Heh. Classic understatement.
You could probably find some on Google.
Every time a watt-hour (3600 Joules) is consumed, an LED blinks. What is your problem?
Likewise, if in 2006 you still think that everyone must be running Wintel.
Isn't there a NULL pointer dereference in there?
According to Wikipedia, it was an integer overflow, among other things.