I wish I had a nickel for every MCSE I ever interviewed who didn't know the basics of troubleshooting, or the college graduate who couldn't put together a resume without glaring, obvious typo's that any spell check would pick up
Heehee, I remember how Netscape 4 would get into what appeared to be an infinate resource-hogging loop all the time, consuming 100% of your memory and CPU if you weren't careful.
I see. I think people are ranting because the editor that posted the story mentioned "CS", but there is nothing in the degree that would prepare people for graduate study of Computer Science, as I'm sure you already knew. However, I think that one class in algoritms and data structures would be appropriate for this degree. The class doesn't have to involve any theory at all, and knowing how trees, hash tables, linked lists, and other data structures are implemented (even if they are implemented already by most modern programming languages) is really required to write any significant program nowdays. I also wonder if the order of C++ and Java should be enforced -- the way things are set up now, both the C++ and Java intro classes will have to teach the students what a variable is and what a loop is, and that's a waste of time.
What kind of degree is this curriculum supposed to produce? The editor mentioned "CS Students" as the people who would take classes like these, but this curriculum has very few Computer Science courses in it, so I have my doubts that it was intended to result in a BS or BA in Computer Science.
I hope that your 4-year college will actually want a class like that. I took such a class at a community college while in high school, but my university would not accept the credits for that class because the university doesn't offer a class that teaches Office. All engineering majors must take a class on C++ programming, and nobody else (science, social science, humanities) needs a "computer" class. Of course, typing in Office 2 days a week and having it count as a high school class was great:)
When I was growing up in the 80s, all the inexpensive cameras that kids would use had 110 film (and replacable flashes that only worked once!) Building a film transport mechanism for 110 film was probably a lot cheaper.
There was also something like brown or red plastic girders and green plastic sheets which could be used to make buildings, houses, etc. which were really cool, but I can't remember the name of. I'd buy them if they were still for sale.
That reminds me of the "American Bricks" building set from the 1960's. There were brick, door, window, roof pieces to make many realistic-looking brick buildings. I would have bought that one if they were still selling it.
In the US, the ATMs that I've seen give you your cash before your card, but if you leave your card in for an excessive amount of time after taking the cash, the card will be disabled.
On some days, T-Mobile will drop my calls once every 5-10 minutes. My phone will report a full signal..then suddenly, the signal goes down to 0 for about 10 seconds, drops my call, then comes back up to full signal. I'm started to get pretty annoyed.
They have virtually no coverage away from large or medium-sized cities. I only went with them because of their cheap nationwide plans. (I was moving around a lot.) I'm thinking about moving to Verizon or Sprint, two companies that actually have coverage in an rural area that I frequently visit.
You might want to try to work for a large company and get into customer education. Many of our instructors travel around the world, delivering education to customers on using our server software.
Java Developers that I've worked with called them "view beans." You pull your data from your model layer, put it in view beans, and ship it off to the presentation layer.
I remember that Zak McCraken and the Alien Mindbenders had plenty of ways to spoil your chances. (For example, you could "burn" any paper with the lighter and then the object would be gone..forever!) Maniac Mansion was the same way but not quite as bad (you could kill your characters with maybe 5 or 10 different methods, but you really had to TRY to accomplish this.) Thankfully, Day of the Tentacle (one of the greatest games ever created!) did not have this limitation.
The one thing that I'm still getting used to in MN is all the "Frontage Roads." North Frontage road, East Frontage Road, West Frontage road...and nobody knows what in the hell "frontage" is!!
Google had something like this last month. You would search for "severed head" and you would get an ad along the right side for "severed head on Ebay".
I also found "Steal this Computer Book" to be quite outdated and uninformative, even right after it was published. Additionally, I seem to remember that some of the stories were copied word-for-word from the Jolly Roger cookbook!
Ugh, CRT whine. When I was in the 4th grade, I could tell my teacher if our computer's monitor was turned ON or OFF by listening to it (the monitor power light was broken, and the picture was totally black when the Apple 2 was turned off.) Everybody was amazed!
Could hearing the whine be a skill acquired at by computer use at a very young age? To this day, I can still hear TVs and monitors that nobody else can.
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I wish I had a nickel for every MCSE I ever interviewed who didn't know the basics of troubleshooting, or the college graduate who couldn't put together a resume without glaring, obvious typo's that any spell check would pick up
Heh.
Haha, I was about to apply for a job there when something else came up and I decided not to. Maybe I made the right decision.
Heehee, I remember how Netscape 4 would get into what appeared to be an infinate resource-hogging loop all the time, consuming 100% of your memory and CPU if you weren't careful.
I see. I think people are ranting because the editor that posted the story mentioned "CS", but there is nothing in the degree that would prepare people for graduate study of Computer Science, as I'm sure you already knew. However, I think that one class in algoritms and data structures would be appropriate for this degree. The class doesn't have to involve any theory at all, and knowing how trees, hash tables, linked lists, and other data structures are implemented (even if they are implemented already by most modern programming languages) is really required to write any significant program nowdays. I also wonder if the order of C++ and Java should be enforced -- the way things are set up now, both the C++ and Java intro classes will have to teach the students what a variable is and what a loop is, and that's a waste of time.
What kind of degree is this curriculum supposed to produce? The editor mentioned "CS Students" as the people who would take classes like these, but this curriculum has very few Computer Science courses in it, so I have my doubts that it was intended to result in a BS or BA in Computer Science.
I hope that your 4-year college will actually want a class like that. I took such a class at a community college while in high school, but my university would not accept the credits for that class because the university doesn't offer a class that teaches Office. All engineering majors must take a class on C++ programming, and nobody else (science, social science, humanities) needs a "computer" class. Of course, typing in Office 2 days a week and having it count as a high school class was great :)
When I was growing up in the 80s, all the inexpensive cameras that kids would use had 110 film (and replacable flashes that only worked once!) Building a film transport mechanism for 110 film was probably a lot cheaper.
There was also something like brown or red plastic girders and green plastic sheets which could be used to make buildings, houses, etc. which were really cool, but I can't remember the name of. I'd buy them if they were still for sale.
That reminds me of the "American Bricks" building set from the 1960's. There were brick, door, window, roof pieces to make many realistic-looking brick buildings. I would have bought that one if they were still selling it.
Notes isn't really "older stuff", though. Notes Version 6 is new. It's not really "older" stuff any more than SMTP is old.
In the US, the ATMs that I've seen give you your cash before your card, but if you leave your card in for an excessive amount of time after taking the cash, the card will be disabled.
On some days, T-Mobile will drop my calls once every 5-10 minutes. My phone will report a full signal..then suddenly, the signal goes down to 0 for about 10 seconds, drops my call, then comes back up to full signal. I'm started to get pretty annoyed.
They have virtually no coverage away from large or medium-sized cities. I only went with them because of their cheap nationwide plans. (I was moving around a lot.) I'm thinking about moving to Verizon or Sprint, two companies that actually have coverage in an rural area that I frequently visit.
You might want to try to work for a large company and get into customer education. Many of our instructors travel around the world, delivering education to customers on using our server software.
YHBT (You have been trolled.) The article was made up.
Do you work for IBM? IBM does this.
Java Developers that I've worked with called them "view beans." You pull your data from your model layer, put it in view beans, and ship it off to the presentation layer.
I remember that Zak McCraken and the Alien Mindbenders had plenty of ways to spoil your chances. (For example, you could "burn" any paper with the lighter and then the object would be gone..forever!) Maniac Mansion was the same way but not quite as bad (you could kill your characters with maybe 5 or 10 different methods, but you really had to TRY to accomplish this.) Thankfully, Day of the Tentacle (one of the greatest games ever created!) did not have this limitation.
Pango... heehee, I used to play the DOS version on my 286 with CGA. Good game!
I'm using IE6. 404 messages are not edited or manipulated in any way. Yes, my error message settings are set to the default.
The one thing that I'm still getting used to in MN is all the "Frontage Roads." North Frontage road, East Frontage Road, West Frontage road...and nobody knows what in the hell "frontage" is!!
> It takes several hours to download a movie from MovieLink.
FYI, Movielink recently posted a software update allowing all the movies to be watched during the download. (It still takes several hours, though.)
I think the Cone of Silence would be more useful in this situation.
Google had something like this last month. You would search for "severed head" and you would get an ad along the right side for "severed head on Ebay".
I also found "Steal this Computer Book" to be quite outdated and uninformative, even right after it was published. Additionally, I seem to remember that some of the stories were copied word-for-word from the Jolly Roger cookbook!
Ugh, CRT whine. When I was in the 4th grade, I could tell my teacher if our computer's monitor was turned ON or OFF by listening to it (the monitor power light was broken, and the picture was totally black when the Apple 2 was turned off.) Everybody was amazed!
Could hearing the whine be a skill acquired at by computer use at a very young age? To this day, I can still hear TVs and monitors that nobody else can.