Sing it! The DC tech job scene is great. Many jobs are metro-accessible, and you can choose from huge corporations, small start-ups, government, or nonprofits. If you can get a clearance (citizenship, no drugs or excessive debt), then the recruiters call you all day. If not, then there are plenty of economics, biotech, telecom, and consulting opportunities. The social scene is great, lots of bands come through, and most museums are free. The lack of good pizza is made up for plentiful ethnic foods. The biggest downsides are expensive rent, frequent jury duty, and the occasional mass demonstration/riot.
I've tried my hardest to get the profs to teach i386 assembly and then C so that students understand how a computer works, but to no avail.
If you got a CSE degree at a lesser Ivy (Penn) in the early-to-mid 90s, you would have learned SPARC assembly in the 200-level compilers course and 68000 assembly in the 300-level digital design courses.
I love you, Delirium! The bottles have great artwork and its unexpectedly high alchohol content is almost entirely responsible for first breaking the ice between me and my girlfriend... I know a bar that has a Belgian night with those huge Delirium bottles only $8, and crepes and giant pretzels on the menu. Yeah!
Some companies appreciate your taking the time to negotiate and read through all parts of the employment agreement. It shows that you are actively engaged in the process.
I agree with you. When I was hired by SAIC, I worked closely with the HR department to get exemptions to their non-compete and IP clauses. We looked at the exact wording in their employee handbook together, and went through several revisions of the exemptions. Basically, they didn't want me to write software that competed with them, and that's not what I wanted to do, anyway. It's not like I could single-handedly write enterprise-class software on my own time! I just wanted to keep up freelance work in entertainment software and data mining. We were all reasonable and we all wanted the same goal (me as an employee). It also helped that the project was for a very specific domain, and the non-compete clauses were pretty narrow.
Alas, the project degenerated into total chaos, so I didn't stay there long.
At my school (one of the lesser Ivies), you could get a B.A.S. in Computer Science, or a B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering. Many of the courses were the same, but the Engineering degree required more credits overall (such that you would have to take five classes a semester to graduate in four years), and higher requirements in math and physics. As many other posts have mentioned, CSE also required some computer hardware courses. The reason why CSE is more attractive is pretty obvious: it is a superset of CS and a much harder curriculum.
If you already own a Playstation, what possible benefit is there (aside from a marginal space savings) to having the PS2 be backwards compatible?
The original PS and the PSOne are both top-loading, so you couldn't stack anything on top of them. The PS2 is front-loading, so the effective space saved is significantly greater than the volume of the PS/PSOne.
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But i believe that was 300 cups of coffee....big difference...
No, each cup of coffee was $3. Maybe you are thinking of stink lizards? They only cost a buck each (although, that may have been an Xmas sale).
Sing it! The DC tech job scene is great. Many jobs are metro-accessible, and you can choose from huge corporations, small start-ups, government, or nonprofits. If you can get a clearance (citizenship, no drugs or excessive debt), then the recruiters call you all day. If not, then there are plenty of economics, biotech, telecom, and consulting opportunities. The social scene is great, lots of bands come through, and most museums are free. The lack of good pizza is made up for plentiful ethnic foods. The biggest downsides are expensive rent, frequent jury duty, and the occasional mass demonstration/riot.
Let's not forget the infamous 'group room' in Final Fantasy VII.
This would be a good time to dispell the common misconception that Vincent Valentine is gay: Vincent Valentine is metrosexual, not gay.
I've tried my hardest to get the profs to teach i386 assembly and then C so that students understand how a computer works, but to no avail.
If you got a CSE degree at a lesser Ivy (Penn) in the early-to-mid 90s, you would have learned SPARC assembly in the 200-level compilers course and 68000 assembly in the 300-level digital design courses.
In the US it was published as X-Com: UFO Enemy Unknown followed up by X-Com: Terror from the deep.
The first X-COM game in the US was "X-COM: UFO Defense", followed by "X-COM: Terror From the Deep".
What else do we have in our arsenal that can take a Stinger up the tailpipe and still manage to stay airborne?
AC-130 + Hellfires! But AFAIK, it is still merely a proposal.
Several times I've implemented Tetris to learn a new GUI toolkit. Minesweeper is another good choice for that sort of thing.
I love you, Delirium! The bottles have great artwork and its unexpectedly high alchohol content is almost entirely responsible for first breaking the ice between me and my girlfriend... I know a bar that has a Belgian night with those huge Delirium bottles only $8, and crepes and giant pretzels on the menu. Yeah!
Some companies appreciate your taking the time to negotiate and read through all parts of the employment agreement. It shows that you are actively engaged in the process.
I agree with you. When I was hired by SAIC, I worked closely with the HR department to get exemptions to their non-compete and IP clauses. We looked at the exact wording in their employee handbook together, and went through several revisions of the exemptions. Basically, they didn't want me to write software that competed with them, and that's not what I wanted to do, anyway. It's not like I could single-handedly write enterprise-class software on my own time! I just wanted to keep up freelance work in entertainment software and data mining. We were all reasonable and we all wanted the same goal (me as an employee). It also helped that the project was for a very specific domain, and the non-compete clauses were pretty narrow.
Alas, the project degenerated into total chaos, so I didn't stay there long.
At my school (one of the lesser Ivies), you could get a B.A.S. in Computer Science, or a B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering. Many of the courses were the same, but the Engineering degree required more credits overall (such that you would have to take five classes a semester to graduate in four years), and higher requirements in math and physics. As many other posts have mentioned, CSE also required some computer hardware courses. The reason why CSE is more attractive is pretty obvious: it is a superset of CS and a much harder curriculum.
If you already own a Playstation, what possible benefit is there (aside from a marginal space savings) to having the PS2 be backwards compatible?
The original PS and the PSOne are both top-loading, so you couldn't stack anything on top of them. The PS2 is front-loading, so the effective space saved is significantly greater than the volume of the PS/PSOne.
Here in DC, we combine Southern efficiency with Northern charm!