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Comment: Re:Play favorites? I believe it (Score 1) 323

by Cap'nPedro (#37018036) Attached to: Computers Could Grade Essay Tests Better Than Profs

The first test was six definitions and one problem involving steam. All but one person in the class used the Ideal Gas Law to solve it. And he marked us all wrong, because -he- hadn't taught us the Ideal Gas Law yet. (Never mind that you had to have two semesters of Physics to take Thermo...)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here... But you were wrong. Steam can not be approximated to an ideal gas. You need to use your equations of state/heat capacity equations with a set of steam tables.

Comment: Re:People seem confused about Virgin, let me clari (Score 1) 258

by Cap'nPedro (#36931730) Attached to: Tens of Thousands Flee From BT and Virgin

You forgot that after using the service at full speed for more than 45 minutes (I was on the M package), you go over your download quota and are throttled to 25% speed for five hours. I've just moved and instead of Virgin 10Mbit cable I'm on Sky DSL. I get 9Mbit max down, but my average speed is much higher than 2.5Mbit. I'd get fibre if it were available, but my money will not go into VM's pockets again - this older, "inferior" DSL technology gives me a better experience because of the lack of VM's shitty traffic management policies.

Comment: Re:School bus (Score 1) 240

by Cap'nPedro (#36785468) Attached to: How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy

In the UK there aren't generally school buses for college (age 16 to 18), I used public transport (service buses) or cycled. Through secondary school (age 11 to 16) there were school-buses which would leave immediately after lessons finished however a mini-bus occasionally took people home doing after school activities. If that wasn't available you could either use public transport or do as I did and walk home (I only lived 5 miles from my secondary school).

Comment: Re:Students without broadband (Score 2) 240

by Cap'nPedro (#36785340) Attached to: How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy

Wikipedia tells me that "twelfth grade (12) [is] for 16–19-year-olds". When I was 16 and in college I was using the college library every day. I think that an effective education must involve independent learning, which will often involve a library. Younger students can't be expected to be learning independently, but once a student is 15 or 16, they should be in the library most days anyway.

Comment: Re:It certainly looks cool... (Score 1) 213

by Cap'nPedro (#35805954) Attached to: A Closer Look At Immersion Cooling For the Data Center

I have to wonder at their claim that it works well with standard OEM gear. Even most cheap consumer shit monitors the speed of at least the CPU fan and tends to freak out if a fan that is supposed to be there is either absent or performing substantially below expected speed

Enter the BIOS (hit DEL during Power On Self Test), go into the Power or PC Health (depending on what BIOS you have). Alter the value of CPU FAN to "Not Monitored" or "Ignored". Hit F10 (or whatever yor key is) to save settings and reboot.

SpeedFan (etc) will still give you a speed readout if a fan is connected, but your BIOS won't complain if one isn't.

This procedure should be similar for UEFI based systems.

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