I began my college life majoring in engineering physics. In my second year, I switched to mathematics. Throughout my undergraduate years I held a number of CS related jobs: writing I/O routines for a Fortran Compiler, converting the university accounting programs from Autocoder to COBOL (the beginnings of grey hair), and doing programming projects for dull minded business majors who were willing to trade $ for their grades in basic CS classes.
I then entered law school, graduated, and practiced law for 20+ years.
I now am a Linux SysAdmin for a web hosting firm, and run a commercial salmon fishing boat in Alaska during the summer months.
I would say it doesn't make a damn what you major in, unless you're a dull headed business major who has to pay for class projects.
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While I have seen comments relating to issuing pilots sidearms and the use of rubber bullets in aircraft, it seems to me that one solution would be the use of "sticky foam". Sticky foam could immobilize any prospective hijacker. For that matter the area immediately outside the cockpit could be fitted with a spray dispenser that would immobilize anyone and everyone trying to gain entry to the cockpit. It is effective and can be removed using a non toxic solvent! See, "What price Sticky Foam"
Suggestion made in the Nation(http://www.msnbc.com/news/340545.asp) "To make Linux a full competitor with Windows would require small changes in Microsoft's rules for dispensing information about how others' programs use the Windows APIs. If those and similar legal and technical obstacles are removed, Linux-based systems would be able to run all programs written for Windows computers. Existing users could switch operating systems without changing the programs they use every day."
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I began my college life majoring in engineering physics. In my second year, I switched to mathematics. Throughout my undergraduate years I held a number of CS related jobs: writing I/O routines for a Fortran Compiler, converting the university accounting programs from Autocoder to COBOL (the beginnings of grey hair), and doing programming projects for dull minded business majors who were willing to trade $ for their grades in basic CS classes.
I then entered law school, graduated, and practiced law for 20+ years.
I now am a Linux SysAdmin for a web hosting firm, and run a commercial salmon fishing boat in Alaska during the summer months.
I would say it doesn't make a damn what you major in, unless you're a dull headed business major who has to pay for class projects.
While I have seen comments relating to issuing pilots sidearms and the use of rubber bullets in aircraft, it seems to me that one solution would be the use of "sticky foam". Sticky foam could immobilize any prospective hijacker. For that matter the area immediately outside the cockpit could be fitted with a spray dispenser that would immobilize anyone and everyone trying to gain entry to the cockpit. It is effective and can be removed using a non toxic solvent! See, "What price Sticky Foam"
Suggestion made in the Nation(http://www.msnbc.com/news/340545.asp) "To make Linux a full competitor with Windows would require small changes in Microsoft's rules for dispensing information about how others' programs use the Windows APIs. If those and similar legal and technical obstacles are removed, Linux-based systems would be able to run all programs written for Windows computers. Existing users could switch operating systems without changing the programs they use every day."