A huge part of vietnam was fought on the water and in the air. Vehicle commanders, air and water, are, by default, officers, albeit fighting officers. If you took those figures and eliminated the pilots and boat commanders, your officer fatalities fall way down...
yes the download or the media costs $20, but have you seem how big that thing is? Sun has costs like everyone else, and from my reading of the eula, it seems like once I buy the cd I can make copies or loan the cd to anyone I want as long as they have noncommercial use in mind, I don't see this as a big deal...
I have heard that it is true that engineering is graded much harder than other disciplines even in the same school, but in MIS, that is not true.
I recently taught two semesters at my local college and you would have thought that I suggested bayonetting baby girls the way the students bitched when I promised I would fail anyone who did not submit a final project.
I was later taken aside by the departmental chair and told that my role was to help the students succeed, and his vision was of a department where every student got at least a B in every class, because recruiters don't want to come to a school with a 2.5 average GPA.
I tried to explain to him that programming is not basket weaving, that not everyone could get it, and that I didn't know if I could respect any IT/IS program that wasn't flunking at least a certain percentage of their students in some of the core classes. (I mean really, even if everyone there is really bright, then you should raise the bar so that you can GASP! _challenge_ the students.) Needless to say, although I received the highest teacher evaluation of any in the department that year, I no longer teach there.
What is your friggin idea of acceptable? You can get the entry-level dell or compaq or gateway for the same as that Athlon, and despite the fact that it isn't a 2.2 Ghz machine, the dell at 1.7 Ghz still blows the doors off of what you have now, not to mention a warranty, not to mention the whole pesky "what-do-you-need-that-much-horsepower-for-really? " issue.
I think we are all aware that $100 in ram counts for more than a $300 faster processor these days especially since, the processor is rarely the bottleneck anymore. It is the bus or the amount of ram (dictating the need for virtual mem) or the speed of the HD. Jeez. How long have you been making the decisions?
I know everyone says it can't be possible, but it is, sort of.
Excelsior University (accredited by Middle States, like almost every other school on the Eastern Seaboard) offers a BS in CIS ( i know not the same but most HR depts don't know the diff and it will get you into grad school).
Now you can complete with a combination of Transfereed credits, credit by examination, life experience, and certifications.
Depending on what you already have (like an associates or bachelors in... english) you can complete in like a year.
www.itdegree.com
www.excelsior.edu
Re:Why are there so few blacks in high tech?
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Many of the people here went through the problem of being thought a geek by your peers in high school. This fact would go on to color the majority of your adolescent existence. You were probably marginalized and belittled, not to mention victimized for your second class stature.
It seems that the same is not true (i think) for Asians and Indians. So that would probably explain why there seems to be more indian and asians techs as a percentage of middle class individuals than even whites.
However, for a black student in the inner-city (or probably any poor american student in a rough neighborhood) being labeled a geek (rhymes with weak) can get you hurt. So if there is some other label that you can assume (jock, tough guy, church kid, etc.) it makes sense to do so.
I grew up in a middle-class/upper-middle class home. Between 8th and 9th grades we moved to a different city and I went from a majority white school (actually the percentages were probably representative of america as a whole) to a majority black school even though my new school was part of a magnet program I was far more ostracized and far more of an outsider than I had ever been at my previous school. In retrospect, I can see that my Jr. High friends were all geeks and my Sr. High didn't have enough geeks to fill a mid-sized sedan.
I am not apologizing for blacks. But given choices like those. How many kids are going to explore their technical leanings? Or would the better choice be to try REAL hard to be "normal"?
Most geeks I know know, technical or otherwise tried the normal thing but it just didn't work for them. The thing was though, there was no serious downside to choosing to be different. Not really. However, most poor kids (i mean real poor) don't feel that they can afford to make that choice.
Just my $.02.
Re:Why are there so few blacks in high tech?
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Many of the people here went through the problem of being thought a geek by your peers in high school. This fact would go on to color the majority of your adolescent existence. You were probably marginalized and belittled, not to mention victimized for your second class stature.
It seems that the same is not true (i think) for Asians and Indians. So that would probably explain why there seems to be more indian and asians techs as a percentage of middle class individuals than even whites.
However, for a black student in the inner-city (or probably any poor american student in a rough neighborhood) being labeled a geek (rhymes with weak) can get you hurt. So if there is some other label that you can assume (jock, tough guy, church kid, etc.) it makes sense to do so.
I grew up in a middle-class/upper-middle class home. Between 8th and 9th grades we moved to a different city and I went from a majority white school (actually the percentages were probably representative of america as a whole) to a majority black school even though my new school was part of a magnet program I was far more ostracized and far more of an outsider than I had ever been at my previous school. In retrospect, I can see that my Jr. High friends were all geeks and my Sr. High didn't have enough geeks to fill a mid-sized sedan.
I am not apologizing for blacks. But given choices like those. How many kids are going to explore their technical leanings? Or would the better choice be to try REAL hard to be "normal"?
Most geeks I know know, technical or otherwise tried the normal thing but it just didn't work for them. The thing was though, there was no serious downside to choosing to be different. Not really. However, most poor kids (i mean real poor) don't feel that they can afford to make that choice.
Just my $.02.
In case noone else has been reading the posts on slashdot, the tech industry is rife with racism. Against blacks, asians, and indians just to name a few. As a 32year old systems integrator (who fell in love with computers playing net trek at FIU at the ripe age of 11), I have seen more than my share of people that believe that believe that white skin is a prerequisite for technical skill AND fair pay. That being said, $5,000,000,000 is so totally ridiculous as to be obscene. I have to believe that it is just a negotiation starting point. Isn't bill so poor now that 5 billion would be 10% of his net worth?
I am surprised noone else listed this one. I was the MIS director at my college's business school right after Starcraft came out. After we closed the labs. Me and all the assistants (and some of my friends and even my cousin) would congregate in one of the instructional labs (stadium style in a semi-circle, nothing quite like spanking the tar out of someone and seeing the look on their face when a Sh**load of 'goons descended on their last base) and we would spend hours playing Starcraft sometimes on the weekend we would start at 6pm (after working since 10am) and stagger out at 3am in the morning cause we were dehydrated, hungry and sore.
Even after we discovered Tribes, we kept going back to Starcraft and at one point my addiction was so bad I spent about 3 months learning how the computer played and reacted enough beat 6 computers on melee (using the Hunters map if you must know). I am still recovering from what StarCraft Broodwar did to me. I had to break the CD's and undelete it from my machine....
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A huge part of vietnam was fought on the water and in the air. Vehicle commanders, air and water, are, by default, officers, albeit fighting officers. If you took those figures and eliminated the pilots and boat commanders, your officer fatalities fall way down...
yes the download or the media costs $20, but have you seem how big that thing is? Sun has costs like everyone else, and from my reading of the eula, it seems like once I buy the cd I can make copies or loan the cd to anyone I want as long as they have noncommercial use in mind, I don't see this as a big deal...
I have heard that it is true that engineering is graded much harder than other disciplines even in the same school, but in MIS, that is not true.
I recently taught two semesters at my local college and you would have thought that I suggested bayonetting baby girls the way the students bitched when I promised I would fail anyone who did not submit a final project.
I was later taken aside by the departmental chair and told that my role was to help the students succeed, and his vision was of a department where every student got at least a B in every class, because recruiters don't want to come to a school with a 2.5 average GPA.
I tried to explain to him that programming is not basket weaving, that not everyone could get it, and that I didn't know if I could respect any IT/IS program that wasn't flunking at least a certain percentage of their students in some of the core classes. (I mean really, even if everyone there is really bright, then you should raise the bar so that you can GASP! _challenge_ the students.) Needless to say, although I received the highest teacher evaluation of any in the department that year, I no longer teach there.
What is your friggin idea of acceptable?? " issue.
You can get the entry-level dell or compaq or gateway for the same as that Athlon, and despite the fact that it isn't a 2.2 Ghz machine, the dell at 1.7 Ghz still blows the doors off of what you have now, not to mention a warranty, not to mention the whole pesky "what-do-you-need-that-much-horsepower-for-really
I think we are all aware that $100 in ram counts for more than a $300 faster processor these days especially since, the processor is rarely the bottleneck anymore. It is the bus or the amount of ram (dictating the need for virtual mem) or the speed of the HD. Jeez. How long have you been making the decisions?
It kills me how we are tearing this guy a new one about skipping Cal II or diff and then we talk about his 760% increase in pay.
NEWS FLASH
5 years of working
means only 4 years of raises
means that he hasn't gone up 760%
if you start at $20,000
you end up at about $100,000
not $151,000
have we ever heard of word problems????
I know everyone says it can't be possible, but it is, sort of.
... english) you can complete in like a year.
Excelsior University (accredited by Middle States, like almost every other school on the Eastern Seaboard) offers a BS in CIS ( i know not the same but most HR depts don't know the diff and it will get you into grad school).
Now you can complete with a combination of Transfereed credits, credit by examination, life experience, and certifications.
Depending on what you already have (like an associates or bachelors in
www.itdegree.com
www.excelsior.edu
It seems that the same is not true (i think) for Asians and Indians. So that would probably explain why there seems to be more indian and asians techs as a percentage of middle class individuals than even whites.
However, for a black student in the inner-city (or probably any poor american student in a rough neighborhood) being labeled a geek (rhymes with weak) can get you hurt. So if there is some other label that you can assume (jock, tough guy, church kid, etc.) it makes sense to do so.
I grew up in a middle-class/upper-middle class home. Between 8th and 9th grades we moved to a different city and I went from a majority white school (actually the percentages were probably representative of america as a whole) to a majority black school even though my new school was part of a magnet program I was far more ostracized and far more of an outsider than I had ever been at my previous school. In retrospect, I can see that my Jr. High friends were all geeks and my Sr. High didn't have enough geeks to fill a mid-sized sedan.
I am not apologizing for blacks. But given choices like those. How many kids are going to explore their technical leanings? Or would the better choice be to try REAL hard to be "normal"?
Most geeks I know know, technical or otherwise tried the normal thing but it just didn't work for them. The thing was though, there was no serious downside to choosing to be different. Not really. However, most poor kids (i mean real poor) don't feel that they can afford to make that choice.
Just my $.02.
Many of the people here went through the problem of being thought a geek by your peers in high school. This fact would go on to color the majority of your adolescent existence. You were probably marginalized and belittled, not to mention victimized for your second class stature. It seems that the same is not true (i think) for Asians and Indians. So that would probably explain why there seems to be more indian and asians techs as a percentage of middle class individuals than even whites. However, for a black student in the inner-city (or probably any poor american student in a rough neighborhood) being labeled a geek (rhymes with weak) can get you hurt. So if there is some other label that you can assume (jock, tough guy, church kid, etc.) it makes sense to do so. I grew up in a middle-class/upper-middle class home. Between 8th and 9th grades we moved to a different city and I went from a majority white school (actually the percentages were probably representative of america as a whole) to a majority black school even though my new school was part of a magnet program I was far more ostracized and far more of an outsider than I had ever been at my previous school. In retrospect, I can see that my Jr. High friends were all geeks and my Sr. High didn't have enough geeks to fill a mid-sized sedan. I am not apologizing for blacks. But given choices like those. How many kids are going to explore their technical leanings? Or would the better choice be to try REAL hard to be "normal"? Most geeks I know know, technical or otherwise tried the normal thing but it just didn't work for them. The thing was though, there was no serious downside to choosing to be different. Not really. However, most poor kids (i mean real poor) don't feel that they can afford to make that choice. Just my $.02.
In case noone else has been reading the posts on slashdot, the tech industry is rife with racism. Against blacks, asians, and indians just to name a few. As a 32year old systems integrator (who fell in love with computers playing net trek at FIU at the ripe age of 11), I have seen more than my share of people that believe that believe that white skin is a prerequisite for technical skill AND fair pay. That being said, $5,000,000,000 is so totally ridiculous as to be obscene. I have to believe that it is just a negotiation starting point. Isn't bill so poor now that 5 billion would be 10% of his net worth?
I am surprised noone else listed this one. I was the MIS director at my college's business school right after Starcraft came out. After we closed the labs. Me and all the assistants (and some of my friends and even my cousin) would congregate in one of the instructional labs (stadium style in a semi-circle, nothing quite like spanking the tar out of someone and seeing the look on their face when a Sh**load of 'goons descended on their last base) and we would spend hours playing Starcraft sometimes on the weekend we would start at 6pm (after working since 10am) and stagger out at 3am in the morning cause we were dehydrated, hungry and sore. Even after we discovered Tribes, we kept going back to Starcraft and at one point my addiction was so bad I spent about 3 months learning how the computer played and reacted enough beat 6 computers on melee (using the Hunters map if you must know). I am still recovering from what StarCraft Broodwar did to me. I had to break the CD's and undelete it from my machine....