Having grown up on Meccanno, Lego Technic and Fischer-Technic, I'd say that they all have their strong and weak points, but they're all damn cool.
I miss them all:(
Meccanno was probably the best from a problem-solving perspective, because it really did take more thought to develop cool things with it.
Tho I always drooled over the cool add-ons you could get for fischer-technik - *way* cooler than lego at the time.
Come to think of it, I had more fun with that lot than I ever did with computers...
I knew I should have done Engineering instead Computer Science... *sigh*:/
I'm a 3rd year CS major, and I'd have to say that these are very different courses.
CS is about HOW and WHY computer systems work. What can be acheived by them, what can't. How to make them do things.
CIS (assuming Information Science/Systems) is about specific aspects of computers. Designing/building information systems. Not general computer systems - INFORMATION systems.
Now, these two subjects overlap in many areas - both can involve much about AI and databases, for example. But the fundamental difference remains.
take AI: CS would teach general AI concepts. How and why each strategy to solve the same problem works. Where they fail. How to apply them.
CIS would say "here are some strategies to solve this problem" - now lets learn how to use these strategies to solve a given problem. You wouldn't learn about the background theory, which might seem boring/not useful, but it helps YOU with your understanding of the problem
I'm not putting down infosci here, its simply not an intended part of the course to know WHY these things work. infosci is about how to use things, compsci is about how things work.
(in my biased opinion) CS is a much more useful major. BECAUSE its harder and more general. You're at Uni. You're here to learn dammit, not to get a token qualification to make money with.
So your original question is flawed - you should NOT be choosing a course at Uni based on what job you want to get.
You should be choosing based on what interests YOU, and what you want to do with your life - not on what the easiest way to get a given job is.
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try dillo - its not too bad, though it needs some patches for things like cookie support atm
Or failing that, I'm sure we could muster a few grand to just send a few kilo's of each person into space... ;)
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/04D EAL.html
just replace the www with archive in nytimes urls and you'll get through
you just couldn't resist, could you?
;)
/me goes back to chasing sheep like the hard Southern man that he is...
Because it is as a king among beers.
:)
Speights is good, but nowhere near the thick goodness that is Guinesss
Don't get me started on DB...
These things are supposed to pump out huge amounts of heat, right?
Couldn't that be considered an environmental problem?
From the linked Meccano page:
:)
"MECCANO® is the registered trademark of Meccano SA, Calais, France."
Not that I actually know where its from or anything, but did anyone else see the irony in this?
Wow
:)
:(
:/
I thought i was the only one to have used this
Having grown up on Meccanno, Lego Technic and Fischer-Technic, I'd say that they all have their strong and weak points, but they're all damn cool.
I miss them all
Meccanno was probably the best from a problem-solving perspective, because it really did take more thought to develop cool things with it.
Tho I always drooled over the cool add-ons you could get for fischer-technik - *way* cooler than lego at the time.
Come to think of it, I had more fun with that lot than I ever did with computers...
I knew I should have done Engineering instead Computer Science... *sigh*
yeah, the 128k is rate-limited, but they give you "unlimited" (for some ISP's) data
you can get fullspeed (on mine, in Dunedin this is about 7.6Mbps down, 800kbps up), but the bastards charge *heaps* for traffic
this is because there is basically only one dsl provider in the country :/
Anyone who uses popup windows for anyting deserves to be sued - and popup windows for advertising has to be a gross violation of basic human rights
I'm a 3rd year CS major, and I'd have to say that these are very different courses.
CS is about HOW and WHY computer systems work. What can be acheived by them, what can't. How to make them do things.
CIS (assuming Information Science/Systems) is about specific aspects of computers. Designing/building information systems. Not general computer systems - INFORMATION systems.
Now, these two subjects overlap in many areas - both can involve much about AI and databases, for example. But the fundamental difference remains.
take AI: CS would teach general AI concepts. How and why each strategy to solve the same problem works. Where they fail. How to apply them.
CIS would say "here are some strategies to solve this problem" - now lets learn how to use these strategies to solve a given problem. You wouldn't learn about the background theory, which might seem boring/not useful, but it helps YOU with your understanding of the problem
I'm not putting down infosci here, its simply not an intended part of the course to know WHY these things work. infosci is about how to use things, compsci is about how things work.
(in my biased opinion) CS is a much more useful major. BECAUSE its harder and more general. You're at Uni. You're here to learn dammit, not to get a token qualification to make money with.
So your original question is flawed - you should NOT be choosing a course at Uni based on what job you want to get.
You should be choosing based on what interests YOU, and what you want to do with your life - not on what the easiest way to get a given job is.
I remember reading about someone elses idea for an electromagnetic thruster here
I have *no* idea if this is physically possible (or even if the website is serious :)