Exactly!
I can remember the not-so-good old days when the choices were CompuServe and GEnie. CompuServe was high dollar and the clear leader. I used GEnie because it was so cheap. Along came AOL and it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. More expensive than GEnie, but it had a great user interface and LOTS of stuff to check out. It made you want to explore it. Even when I knew where I wanted to go on GEnie I had to use the manual to get there. GEnie was a nightmare. AOL was very Macintosh friendly too. Widespread internet access came along a few years after AOL's userbase had already grown (relative to its early competitors).
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Well I'm 39 and single. Got my first Atari at the tender age of 12-13, back when they were Sears' Video Arcades. I can recall one girlfriend that my "hobby" cost me particularly clearly. I met her while I was living in London. I guess I wasn't spending enough time with her, because one night after work she called me over to a crowded pub near our workplace (she'd been there drinking since about 3pm). She proceeded to pick a fight with me and in the middle of this crowded bar she yells, "YOU WOULD RATHER PLAY WITH YOUR STUPID COMPUTER THAN HAVE SEX WITH ME!!!" Things got very quiet in the pub very fast.
Actually, it wasn't really fair. What she said was only true PART of the time.
Do the big wigs at MIT actually teach undergraduate classes? Does Sussman teach intro CS? If this is true then MIT truly is an unusual place. The only teaching link on Sussman's page is to a special grad level course he's teaching. It says ugrads are welcome but they must have the prerequisites and the course is limited enrollment, permission of the instructors required. How big of a class do you think this is?
The professors make the difference, but at most big schools the big names are NOT teaching ugrad courses, if they actually spend any time teaching at all. In the recent U.C. Berkeley strike by instructors, it was revealed that 10% of the people on campus were teaching 50% of the courses. The big names do their research, and teach some grad seminars, but they RARELY teach ugrad classes. Just check the schedules.
Having seen "Debbie Does Dallas" back in the day when you actually had to go to a movie theater for porn (if anything, this heightened the experience - ooh, I'm out doing something naughty), I think I can speak with at least a little authority on the issue.
Don't bother...
It's sort of a bad joke now, but it used to be related to "Academic Freedom." Faculty were free to teach whatever they wanted/valued. The really interesting thing was that students had freedom too. There was no General Education Requirement. If you thought Humanities courses were a waste of time, you didn't have to take any. Now the college/university forces you to take the courses it thinks you need.
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Exactly! I can remember the not-so-good old days when the choices were CompuServe and GEnie. CompuServe was high dollar and the clear leader. I used GEnie because it was so cheap. Along came AOL and it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. More expensive than GEnie, but it had a great user interface and LOTS of stuff to check out. It made you want to explore it. Even when I knew where I wanted to go on GEnie I had to use the manual to get there. GEnie was a nightmare. AOL was very Macintosh friendly too. Widespread internet access came along a few years after AOL's userbase had already grown (relative to its early competitors).
Well I'm 39 and single. Got my first Atari at the tender age of 12-13, back when they were Sears' Video Arcades. I can recall one girlfriend that my "hobby" cost me particularly clearly. I met her while I was living in London. I guess I wasn't spending enough time with her, because one night after work she called me over to a crowded pub near our workplace (she'd been there drinking since about 3pm). She proceeded to pick a fight with me and in the middle of this crowded bar she yells, "YOU WOULD RATHER PLAY WITH YOUR STUPID COMPUTER THAN HAVE SEX WITH ME!!!" Things got very quiet in the pub very fast. Actually, it wasn't really fair. What she said was only true PART of the time.
Do the big wigs at MIT actually teach undergraduate classes? Does Sussman teach intro CS? If this is true then MIT truly is an unusual place. The only teaching link on Sussman's page is to a special grad level course he's teaching. It says ugrads are welcome but they must have the prerequisites and the course is limited enrollment, permission of the instructors required. How big of a class do you think this is? The professors make the difference, but at most big schools the big names are NOT teaching ugrad courses, if they actually spend any time teaching at all. In the recent U.C. Berkeley strike by instructors, it was revealed that 10% of the people on campus were teaching 50% of the courses. The big names do their research, and teach some grad seminars, but they RARELY teach ugrad classes. Just check the schedules.
Having seen "Debbie Does Dallas" back in the day when you actually had to go to a movie theater for porn (if anything, this heightened the experience - ooh, I'm out doing something naughty), I think I can speak with at least a little authority on the issue. Don't bother...
It's sort of a bad joke now, but it used to be related to "Academic Freedom." Faculty were free to teach whatever they wanted/valued. The really interesting thing was that students had freedom too. There was no General Education Requirement. If you thought Humanities courses were a waste of time, you didn't have to take any. Now the college/university forces you to take the courses it thinks you need.