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Boy now weren't most of those international domains?

Interesting question. From back in the day, I thought that they were all US only. (And it's pretty believable that the US would have an ego like that, isn't it?) But RFC1591 and IANA seem to agree with you. .com, .org, and .net are all intented to be international in nature.

To save you a click, IANA says:

• GOV = US only
• EDU = US only
• MIL = US only
• COM = anybody
• NET = anybody
• ORG = anybody
• INT = organizations established by international treaties between governments

But you can find plenty of people that state or imply that .com is for US commercial interests, so I don't feel too bad for being confused.

Oh well. I'm going to try to get myself registered as a .int just for the hell of it.

Boy now weren't most of those international domains?

Interesting question. From back in the day, I thought that they were all US only. (And it's pretty believable that the US would have an ego like that, isn't it?) But RFC1591 and IANA seem to agree with you. .com, .org, and .net are all intented to be international in nature.

To save you a click, IANA says:

• GOV = US only
• EDU = US only
• MIL = US only
• COM = anybody
• NET = anybody
• ORG = anybody
• INT = organizations established by international treaties between governments

But you can find plenty of people that state or imply that .com is for US commercial interests, so I don't feel too bad for being confused.

Oh well. I'm going to try to get myself registered as a .int just for the hell of it.

I would wholeheartedly suggest going for an education like many of the above posters suggest...

However, your choice of school can be the most important factor in your college life. Do you want to learn something for the here and now... or do you want to gain the requisite skills to make a career as a computer scientist?

A school's technology for a potential computer science major is important. But almost as important as the technology the school employs, is the opportunities the school offers to its students. Does the school offer cooperative education or an intern program where you can go work for companies gaining valuable experience while you're still learning the skills to be successful in the industry?

I'm just about finishing my undergraduate degree this year. I've had the opportunity to work for IBM as an intern, and at the moment...working as a part-time perl programmer with a possibility of full time employment when I graduate.

I guess my point is that the school can have the greatest technology, but there are other factors that you should watch out for.

And in case you were wondering, the school I go to is New Jersey Institute of Technology It was rated by Yahoo America's Most Wired Public University... so the technology here is up to date. Look into it if interested.

My school (NJIT) offers most of their classes in a "virtual classroom" as they call it. I have taken one of these classes in the past and I am currently taking one on distributed operating systems right now. The way the classes work is that the teacher usually has a series of I think are slowly being moved over to real video, but without high bandwidth it wouldn't work as well. To keep in contact with your professor there is a message base system. This same system is used to give out the assignments where you send back your answers and the grades are later tabulated. Now, when I took my last course I have to admit that I never once watched any of the videos. You either had to pay some exorbitant amount of money (something like 60 dollars to borrow the videos plus 18 dollars shipping) or find time to go to the schools library and watch the videos there. So basically I read of skimmed over most of the book and did the few assignments and then we had to go and take an actual final exam in person. I don't really think I learned as much as I would have in an in person class. Until broadband connections are more affordable and common I don't really see learning over the internet as effective as the real thing. It allowed me to slack in learning and still end up getting an A. It might have been the subject matter however, it was a lot of information systems speak where they give new terms for topics you could think of normally. Maybe the class I am taking now will be a better learning experience, but I still think you would learn more having real discussions.

i wish i could be plucked away, my school njit is supposedly the "most wired" according to yahoo, but the computers in the lab still dont work... and the engineers get the workstations to use, the CS kids get windows for workgroups, sparce amount of NT machines and a half working terminals... but anyway.... they havent helped me find a job and all the students who got jobs because of their parents or friends of parents owning stores have experience of some sort so they get the employment... not to mention i dont own a good suit.