I realized sadly once when I was helping out a large intro CS course at a major university that for fall semester, 6 of the new TAs that were responsible for giving students an introduction to computer science had just stepped off the plane 2-3 days before with little or no "spoken english." These masters/doctoral students were great people and some of them were even good teachers, but their grasp on english was horrible, and I have to believe this directly harmed both what the students thought of CS and their grades too.
In theory that university has an spoken english test which must be passed, but when push comes to shove, if they don't have enough english-speaking TAs for the courses they have students enrolled in, they throw them in regardless. The math department was even worse than CS.
Why would being able to speak the language be such a horrible requirement for TAs?
Which means that Slashdot is about 75 miles from the one double reactor they actually mention, and about 30 miles from one that even if it is Y2k compliant, still worries me. The bottom line is even if they say they are Y2k compliant, and they've tested every scenario THEY can think of, generally mother nature or chaos or WHATEVER thinks of a new one.
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That's the truth. My in-laws have a dish PVR, and it is a sorry thing indeed.
My DirecTivo is incredible.
gMud was always what I used. It was a clean, simple design, doesn't beat you over the head with features you don't use. Good stuff.
I wonder if any of the MUDs I used to play still exist...
I realized sadly once when I was helping out a large intro CS course at a major university that for fall semester, 6 of the new TAs that were responsible for giving students an introduction to computer science had just stepped off the plane 2-3 days before with little or no "spoken english." These masters/doctoral students were great people and some of them were even good teachers, but their grasp on english was horrible, and I have to believe this directly harmed both what the students thought of CS and their grades too.
In theory that university has an spoken english test which must be passed, but when push comes to shove, if they don't have enough english-speaking TAs for the courses they have students enrolled in, they throw them in regardless. The math department was even worse than CS.
Why would being able to speak the language be such a horrible requirement for TAs?
Which means that Slashdot is about 75 miles from the one double reactor they actually mention, and about 30 miles from one that even if it is Y2k compliant, still worries me.
The bottom line is even if they say they are Y2k compliant, and they've tested every scenario THEY can think of, generally mother nature or chaos or WHATEVER thinks of a new one.