From the 2nd Edition PH: "This is a derivative work based on the original AD&D PH and DMG by Gary Gygax and Unearthed Arcana and other materials by Gary Gygax and others."
I hate it when people say this and take the moral high road. Many big companies only look at the bottom line (formal degrees held), and while this practice is unfortunate, it is reality. I hold a BSEE, but I held a co-op job at a small software development company, and chose to take my career in that direction. There's a guy I work with who is a better coder than I am, but is hitting the company's glass ceiling because he lacks the piece of paper.
I haven't even thought about FETs or parasitic capacitance since I graduated, but that degree has helped me in ways that even practical experience could not.
For the same reason we have an electoral college: the founding fathers wanted the states to be more autonomous. They were afraid of a totally centralized guvmint. I agree with you, I think it's somewhat wasteful to have 50 different ways of doing everything (driver's licenses, voting methods, etc.), but to quote Bruce Hornsby: "That's just the way it is, some things will never change"
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From the 2nd Edition PH:
"This is a derivative work based on the original AD&D PH and DMG by Gary Gygax and Unearthed Arcana and other materials by Gary Gygax and others."
remake? I'd be content with a version that I could run without special DOS memory management.
I hate it when people say this and take the moral high road. Many big companies only look at the bottom line (formal degrees held), and while this practice is unfortunate, it is reality. I hold a BSEE, but I held a co-op job at a small software development company, and chose to take my career in that direction. There's a guy I work with who is a better coder than I am, but is hitting the company's glass ceiling because he lacks the piece of paper. I haven't even thought about FETs or parasitic capacitance since I graduated, but that degree has helped me in ways that even practical experience could not.
For the same reason we have an electoral college: the founding fathers wanted the states to be more autonomous. They were afraid of a totally centralized guvmint. I agree with you, I think it's somewhat wasteful to have 50 different ways of doing everything (driver's licenses, voting methods, etc.), but to quote Bruce Hornsby: "That's just the way it is, some things will never change"
IANABrit, but I was under the impression that even though there might be unmetered ISPs, aren't the phone lines still metered?