True, as any wise guy among fools, I have experienced hundreds of occasions where people would bother me with stupid questions.
This has been extremely painful for lots of people, since I worked part-time at our faculties helpdesk, and quit after about a year, people won't get it into their thick skulls that I'm not there to help them.
Nowadays, I refer them to the helpdesk, and watch them sighingly walking away, of course, I can always lock my door if it gets too bad.
Anyway, the luxury of being savant among fools is much more rewarding than the downside.
> Yeah right. All losers blame the
> institution/educators
Not true, I had more positive that negative
experiences, especially in software eng and
computer organization, especially thanx to
Andy Tanenbaums great minix-coarses.
I was mainly deterred by many 3rd year classes
in knowledge systems, which constituted a large
and heavy part of the program. I decided I wanted
to be a coder/sysop, instead of reading ISO-*
and getting lost in something theoretical.
So, blame me for being a loser and knowing what
I want (AND doing accordingly).
As a Geology student, I've been asked by teachers, system admins and executives of our faculty to work in any direction involving computers for four years now. People come by my room at work 3 to 5 times a day to ask me about stuff or for help.
Reason? I studied CS for roughly 3 years before I decided that a decent CS education is nice, but the way It was tought there bothered me. I decided to switch to something completely different, but always stayed coding/hacking and fooling around with computers.
Now I'm still not finished in geology, but my carreer for the next 2 years has been set already, many many invitations left aside. When I start to compare the level of experience I've had for the last couple of years in computers, while studying something completely different at the same time, to someone just doing geology and trying to get around PC's, they just can't compete! Most people need a whole year of decent training before being reasonably well at coding (or even web-publishing for that case).
So, from personal experience: First learn to code (well), then do your study in (insert your favorite topic here), and then wait...:-)
Of course, now you'd have to find me for all your geology-specific coding jobs!
Some people think the MIR parts would immediately sink to the bottom of the ocean, well, think again. As we know from most airline-related sea crashes, parts may still be afloat after days, just waiting to be picked up by a radiation-not-fearing fisherman. I would suspect that large pieces of hull covered with insulation materials, pipes and more will stay floating. Although finding these pieces would be statistically impossible (like finding your car in a car park as big as the US) and more 'earth' debris will be floating around.
Now how much money do I got to bid at the scrap...
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Thousands of excellent designers work together from tens of nations, and they start mixing feet with meters again... Yikes!
Now where did I leave my babelfish...
Sofar.
True, as any wise guy among fools, I have experienced hundreds of occasions where people would bother me with stupid questions.
This has been extremely painful for lots of people, since I worked part-time at our faculties helpdesk, and quit after about a year, people won't get it into their thick skulls that I'm not there to help them.
Nowadays, I refer them to the helpdesk, and watch them sighingly walking away, of course, I can always lock my door if it gets too bad.
Anyway, the luxury of being savant among fools is much more rewarding than the downside.
sofar
> Yeah right. All losers blame the
> institution/educators
Not true, I had more positive that negative
experiences, especially in software eng and
computer organization, especially thanx to
Andy Tanenbaums great minix-coarses.
I was mainly deterred by many 3rd year classes
in knowledge systems, which constituted a large
and heavy part of the program. I decided I wanted
to be a coder/sysop, instead of reading ISO-*
and getting lost in something theoretical.
So, blame me for being a loser and knowing what
I want (AND doing accordingly).
Sofar
As a Geology student, I've been asked by teachers, system admins and executives of our faculty to work in any direction involving computers for four years now. People come by my room at work 3 to 5 times a day to ask me about stuff or for help.
:-)
Reason? I studied CS for roughly 3 years before I decided that a decent CS education is nice, but the way It was tought there bothered me. I decided to switch to something completely different, but always stayed coding/hacking and fooling around with computers.
Now I'm still not finished in geology, but my carreer for the next 2 years has been set already, many many invitations left aside. When I start to compare the level of experience I've had for the last couple of years in computers, while studying something completely different at the same time, to someone just doing geology and trying to get around PC's, they just can't compete! Most people need a whole year of decent training before being reasonably well at coding (or even web-publishing for that case).
So, from personal experience: First learn to code (well), then do your study in (insert your favorite topic here), and then wait...
Of course, now you'd have to find me for all your geology-specific coding jobs!
Some people think the MIR parts would immediately sink to the bottom of the ocean, well, think again. As we know from most airline-related sea crashes, parts may still be afloat after days, just waiting to be picked up by a radiation-not-fearing fisherman. I would suspect that large pieces of hull covered with insulation materials, pipes and more will stay floating. Although finding these pieces would be statistically impossible (like finding your car in a car park as big as the US) and more 'earth' debris will be floating around.
Now how much money do I got to bid at the scrap...