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Honestly, I was really looking forward to that program. I started the process, but was deterred by: 1) The need for official Transcripts (I attended 3 undergrad schools - 2 of which require in person forms/snail mail and a 2-4 week waiting period) I have unsealed formal transcripts I can send in - I don't understand why those arn't enough for a conditional acceptance.(based on verification)

2) The need for letters of recommendation (As I mentioned in the post - I've recently asked my employer/co-workers for letters twice, I hate to impose that again)

It might be worth revisiting GT's program.

I agree with you that most schools suggest this, and it seems to be effective on improving acceptance (From what I've read).

I have exceptional difficulty dedicating a significant amount of my time to highschool level work (My experience is that the community college classes are often Busy/foolish work - I could make an entire new post on the CC prof that scored me negatively for correcting the java code on the questions from his test generator.)

Do you have a Computer Science program?

I'll bet - Sounds very exciting. Hopefully someday one of my own projects takes off.

Update: Not sure if someone actually read my reply, but I just received this from Drexel, unprompted.

http://i.imgur.com/JP8c0i6.png

I agree - I'm not holding my breath. I replied to the general email, and would love if this post found it's way back to someone in the admissions office.

My situation is very similar to yours.

(Although if I'd founded a multi-million dollar start-up I don't think I"d be interested in continuing school)

True enough - I suppose my search for an interesting program (That I could 'qualify' for) has soured me towards Higher Education in general.

Needless to say, their email was not well received...

I wish I could find a legitimate school, with an online program, that would accept me.

>I wouldn't be surprised if some schools create entire "pre-disqualified" marketing funnels specifically designed to automatically reject everyone.

That thought really just rocked my world. It's just crazy enough to be true.

Why else would they turn away a paying customer?

My Pixel runs pure ChromeOS (I have Crouton installed as well, but that was when I was still transitioning into a full time Chrome environment)

As others have mentioned: -I can ssh into any linux box I need.

As others haven't mentioned: -I can RDP via chrome app to any Windows server I need (Or more commonly I RDP to a "command" server and do all my other work from there.) This gives the added benefit of keeping my device outside the general workflow of things. I still have a windows laptop loaded with the same image as the average user, but there's really only for dogfooding.

We are a Google Apps heavy shop - so there's that.

I'm missing the logical connection you make between what my school district should and shouldn't pay for... Should your employers not buy Macbooks?

Chromebooks solve 90% of the issues the average school district faces (How do I build collaborative works?(Docs/Drive) How do I ensure student files are protected? (Drive) How do I handle deployment? Imaging and servicing 3000-7000 windows computers requires a pretty substantial professional IT department in the business world - I've worked in several schools that handle that volume with teams ranging from 2 to 5.

So when Google comes along and says "Hey, for $199 here's a system that has an expected life of 2 years, minimal deployment overhead and integrated services that connect to your existing AD infrastructure"

It's a no brainer. Chromebooks will, without question, be dominant in schools everywhere in the next 2 years.

I can't help but feel that this is typical of Microsoft's sales/PR team.

Generate a false problem: "You don't wan't ads on your search engine do you!?"

Claim to have a solution: "You can use Bing! We don't have ads for students!"

As a systems admin for a large school district, I'm very comfortable stating that what Microsoft and Apple offer to education is a joke compared to Google's offerings.

Not even comparable products.

I'm a system admin for a large school district. My daily device for day to day work is a pixel.

Before that I functioned just fine on a Samsung chromebook ($199) for 6 months.

I can assure you, Chromebooks are most definitely a computers. (They cover far more than the needs of the average user)

Not at all, I don't support what happened in any way.

The parent comment was stating that making a resource scare only makes it more valuable... my point was that the market for child porn is so small that using the scarcity argument is not a great comparison.

I imagine the market for drugs is substantially larger than the market for child porn.

Who is the finnish guy?

I can say with a good deal of certainty there is nothing true about your statement regarding the KKK.

Someone found the humor =)

I'll suck on the -2 Karma for a while...

But.. Does it work in Kerbal space?

The first hit off google seems to come from this site... http://whysocreative.com/2013/04/07/10-most-creative-black-w...

Are you associated with them?

How could these guys have known it was "yours" ?

This is probably the most interesting comment I've read on this entire article.

Really not a problem.. The power cord is only required on certain HDMI ports.. and it likely won't be needed on future/modern HDMI ports.

Why is this even an issue?

This product exists- its called space monkey. http://m.spacemonkey.com

OVH is a french company. Their NA data center is relatively new.

There's no real direct comparison on hardware between the 2 vendors, but there seems to be little exciting about the price point in the OP.

Why is this making headlines? It's European, so you suffer the transcontinental latency, and OVH offers superior dedicated servers in either their North American or European Data centers. EU: http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/

NA(Canada): http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/

That's a very well written FAQ.

Makes me feel much better about using their DNS.

Just piecing together known data here but...

My IP address requests a particular site form DNS, in theory that request could be recorded. Even if Google doesn't know that I'm at that IP (which they could have gotten from some other site I'm logged into (say Amazon)) they know that my particular ip address has requested certain sites. They can then serve ads to that IP based on context

HN effect on the site?

isn't dropbox built on top of amazon?

Isn't it a platform on a platform at that point?

Much of this is over my head, but 1kb/s across 2.5 feet seems like a very small step.

Is the significant value in this it's ability to function at low power?