I am going to graduate from the Computer Engineering program at the University of Waterloo in April.
It seems that many companies are looking for computer scientists, but would they be desperate enough to accept computer engineers?
I find this a little funny because no one in my class is worried about getting a job, so I guess companies are desperate enough.:-) If you are just looking to land a job, either one will get you one as long as you are competant (and I assume that you are).
If you are really interested in just doing software I would suggest going into Computer Science. If you are interested at all in hardware, Computer Engineering might be good for you. At Waterloo we take both hardware and software courses, but most of the emphasis is on hardware unless you are taking the Software Engineering option (which I am not).
As far as software courses go, the core courses here include Java, data structures and algorithms, an OS course, and a software engineering course. 4th year elective courses include AI, database, distributed systems programming and more software engineering courses (I've probably forgotten some).
On the hardware side, our core courses include circuit analysis, control systems, microelectronic devices, digital design, communications systems and microprocessor structure. 4th year electives are more advanced/detailed versions of the above includeing wireless, VLSI systems, computer architecture, wireless communication and more.
I guess it kind of boils down to decideing if you want to focus on software only or do you want a bit broader education that includes some hardware/circuit stuff. I like doing software, but hardware also interests me a lot and that is why I chose Computer Engineering over Computer Science.
no matter what kind of arguments Canadian (who do NOT live in a capitalistic economy, they have something called "democratic socialism" up there, and it doesn't work like our system does, no matter what they may claim)
This is absolutely absurd. Do you know anything about Canada? This type of post reminds me of the segments on This Hour has 22 Minutes (Canadian comedy program) where they go to the US and ask questions like "What do you think about the war in Saskatchewan?"
capitalism n.
An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
Are you saying that production and distribution in Canada is not privately owned? Or are you suggesting that there is no free market here?
Canada's economy is very much capitalist. Our goverment may provide "socialist" programs such as universal health care, but we are far from being a socialist county. Maybe you should do a little more research before posting such ludicrous claims.
Sounds like you live in Waterloo. If so, DSL has been available in at least some areas for over a year. I may have been lucky that it was in my neighbourhood. It may be that Bell is just slow in getting it to the newer neighbourhoods (the tend to be slow with everyting as I'm sure you know). But then again, you may not live in Waterloo, so in that case just ignore me:)
I believe what he is saying is that the benchmarks should be optimized for whatever processor they are running on. P4 for P4 and Athlon for Athlon rather than P3(or whatever) for P4 and Athlon for Athlon.
What's funny is that some of the reviews indicate that the VSA-100 chip used for Voodoo4/5/6 is capable of 32 processor configurations. So, the 23-way Voodoo here doesn't even come close to the maximum configuration. Still a pretty nicely done photo.:)
I would hardly call Bruce's post a smear campaign. He explained how Be made a mistake and is now fixing it. If anything, I think that it casts Be in a good light, as a company that respects the GPL and will not hesitate to correct any oversights.
I think you may have misunderstood the post. I think that the "they" he was referring too was the corporations inverting heavily in the net. The reference to Libertarians, I think, was to indicate that the corporations were going to have things their way, opposite to what Libertarians would like. Then again I might be the one misunderstanding his post.
If machines were ever made that were intelligent enough to exterminate humans and take over the planet, they never would. They would think about it and realize how pointless it would be to rule some planet orbiting some star in some galaxy out there in the great big universe. They would then proceed to shut themselves off.
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I find this a little funny because no one in my class is worried about getting a job, so I guess companies are desperate enough.
If you are really interested in just doing software I would suggest going into Computer Science. If you are interested at all in hardware, Computer Engineering might be good for you. At Waterloo we take both hardware and software courses, but most of the emphasis is on hardware unless you are taking the Software Engineering option (which I am not).
As far as software courses go, the core courses here include Java, data structures and algorithms, an OS course, and a software engineering course. 4th year elective courses include AI, database, distributed systems programming and more software engineering courses (I've probably forgotten some).
On the hardware side, our core courses include circuit analysis, control systems, microelectronic devices, digital design, communications systems and microprocessor structure. 4th year electives are more advanced/detailed versions of the above includeing wireless, VLSI systems, computer architecture, wireless communication and more.
I guess it kind of boils down to decideing if you want to focus on software only or do you want a bit broader education that includes some hardware/circuit stuff. I like doing software, but hardware also interests me a lot and that is why I chose Computer Engineering over Computer Science.
This is absolutely absurd. Do you know anything about Canada? This type of post reminds me of the segments on This Hour has 22 Minutes (Canadian comedy program) where they go to the US and ask questions like "What do you think about the war in Saskatchewan?"
Are you saying that production and distribution in Canada is not privately owned? Or are you suggesting that there is no free market here?
Canada's economy is very much capitalist. Our goverment may provide "socialist" programs such as universal health care, but we are far from being a socialist county. Maybe you should do a little more research before posting such ludicrous claims.
Sounds like you live in Waterloo. If so, DSL has been available in at least some areas for over a year. I may have been lucky that it was in my neighbourhood. It may be that Bell is just slow in getting it to the newer neighbourhoods (the tend to be slow with everyting as I'm sure you know). But then again, you may not live in Waterloo, so in that case just ignore me :)
I believe what he is saying is that the benchmarks should be optimized for whatever processor they are running on. P4 for P4 and Athlon for Athlon rather than P3(or whatever) for P4 and Athlon for Athlon.
They're still in business because people put up with their crap. Take yourself as an example. You got terrible service but you still went back.
What's funny is that some of the reviews indicate that the VSA-100 chip used for Voodoo4/5/6 is capable of 32 processor configurations. So, the 23-way Voodoo here doesn't even come close to the maximum configuration. Still a pretty nicely done photo. :)
I would hardly call Bruce's post a smear campaign. He explained how Be made a mistake and is now fixing it. If anything, I think that it casts Be in a good light, as a company that respects the GPL and will not hesitate to correct any oversights.
I think you may have misunderstood the post. I think that the "they" he was referring too was the corporations inverting heavily in the net. The reference to Libertarians, I think, was to indicate that the corporations were going to have things their way, opposite to what Libertarians would like. Then again I might be the one misunderstanding his post.
If machines were ever made that were intelligent enough to exterminate humans and take over the planet, they never would. They would think about it and realize how pointless it would be to rule some planet orbiting some star in some galaxy out there in the great big universe. They would then proceed to shut themselves off.
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I'm now very glad that my parents got a mini dish. My Canada does not include MSRogers.