I got a job programming console video games after interviewing with my class project from a video game programming class, so it works! My company just hired another student out of the same class. Pretty good evidence I think!
Of course, in the course of my job, I use very little that I learned from that class, and SO much more of the solid programming and logic that I learned in the first year courses...
On another note, I assisted a second year class that encouraged students to make games in Java Swing. Some made some very cool little things, but for the majority of students it was a Swing and a miss...
I am a Comcast customer in Eugene OR, with a 6 Mb download service. I've actually gotten sustained downloads at near that speed, so I'm pretty happy, but in a lot of ways I'm more concerned about my uploads.
When I first clocked my uploads, there seemed to be a hard cap at 384 kbps, but recently, speed tests showed closer to 1.5 Mbps (yay!). So I put it to the test last week by transferring some big files from home to work via AFP. Sure enough, for the first 10 - 15 seconds I was getting a transfer rate of upwards of 200 KBps. Then suddenly the speed dropped and there was that 384 Kb hard cap again.
So I'm wondering: is there a mad conspiracy to allow large bursts of traffic for long enough for the speed meter to complete, and then cap it after?
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I got a job programming console video games after interviewing with my class project from a video game programming class, so it works! My company just hired another student out of the same class. Pretty good evidence I think! Of course, in the course of my job, I use very little that I learned from that class, and SO much more of the solid programming and logic that I learned in the first year courses... On another note, I assisted a second year class that encouraged students to make games in Java Swing. Some made some very cool little things, but for the majority of students it was a Swing and a miss...
I am a Comcast customer in Eugene OR, with a 6 Mb download service. I've actually gotten sustained downloads at near that speed, so I'm pretty happy, but in a lot of ways I'm more concerned about my uploads. When I first clocked my uploads, there seemed to be a hard cap at 384 kbps, but recently, speed tests showed closer to 1.5 Mbps (yay!). So I put it to the test last week by transferring some big files from home to work via AFP. Sure enough, for the first 10 - 15 seconds I was getting a transfer rate of upwards of 200 KBps. Then suddenly the speed dropped and there was that 384 Kb hard cap again. So I'm wondering: is there a mad conspiracy to allow large bursts of traffic for long enough for the speed meter to complete, and then cap it after?