On May 12, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > On 5/12/13 4:01 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You find it a cool idea to learn students how to drive a moped and to >> steer well with a moped >> in order to let them understand the problems of how to fly an >> airplane, meanwhile at home they got a car? >> >> They will never respect you in this manner, and they are da*** right >> doing that. >> >
[SNIP] <lawnmoyers and such> Jim, If you want to train a new jetfighter pilot, you're going to just give them a course how to drive a moped, and after they can drive a moped, you are going to give them a pilot license and wave good bye to them: "good luck to you flying your own Cessna". You gotta be joking with what you write here. > I think that if we want people to design and fix automobile and jet > engines, it is a wise thing to start them with lawnmower and moped > engines > first, rather than have their first hands on experience be with a > hypersonic SCRAMjet burning hydrazine and FOOF. > > Or in this case, if you want students to learn about network > topologies, > fault tolerance, etc.: I'd rather they do it on something that fits > on a > desktop, is tangible (I can pull a cable and cause a "link > failure") than > try to turn them loose managing the internet. > > > > If they make a mistake and screw up that Arduino, it's cheap to fix or > replace. It gets "reflashed" every time you load a new program. You > may > have the best PC support organization in the world, but reloading > someone's boot drive, or managing thin clients with net boot, is > going to > be more timeconsuming and expensive. > >> > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
