I certainly agree that experience is extremely important if not more than book smarts. I use nearly none of the technical skills I learned in school today in my job and I just graduated 6 months ago. The technical skills I learned outside of the classroom have become far more handy in my particular job. So for the most part I agree with you, but you aren't looking at the grand scheme of things beyond learning and personal education. I value my own education very highly and I enjoy it as a journey, but unless I have transferable skills I'm taking more than I'm giving. When talking about the importance of grades and the transfer of knowledge from school to the workplace the hiring process must be mentioned at some point. I've heard a hiring mistake can often cost a company twice your salary. Using this formula it costs a company just about as much to hire, then fire a recent graduate then it does for a student to get an upper pedigree, private education. Business people can't take this risk and often have to use some metric on which to rate their candidates by. Coming out of college with little to no experience the grades become very important.
Its not that an A proved indefinite proficiency in a particular subject, but it proved you were on the correct side of the bell curve (my alma mater practiced a fairly strict bell curve) from your peers and proved the ability to relay your knowledge in an acceptable manner.
Thank you! I could not agree more. It's really disheartening that these qualities are always discredited. In my opinion as a programmer these are two of the most important things you have to show for yourself.
- A relatively high GPA shows that you can stay committed even if a project(/class) doesn't interest you. This is extremely valuable in the work place as you will get many mundane projects on your way to or in between working on interesting projects. It also helps employers distinguish between a multitude of graduates who all "learned" the same languages in school.
- Being well-rounded allows a programmer to think outside the box and take ideas from other interests and hobbies and apply them accordingly in innovative ways.
While I'm at it I have another complaint about the "it doesn't take an education to succeed" attitude. It all stems from the extraordinary success of a few individuals who did not complete their college education as it was replaced by developing something more interesting, innovative, and usually profitable. These people are outliars and if you use their success to gauge the level of education you should complete then you are horribly mistaken and bound for a path of failure.
nice try, but thats not the solution according to the page. you need to move it to the UPPER-right, not the bottom right. anyone could get it to the bottom right:-). keep trying.
I was referring to highways, but as you are obviously not from America I should tell you that in most of the non-coastal states there are a lot of trucks. I would say its 30-50% of the drivers on the road. Among those trucks include every hillbilly who wants to jack their truck up so their seated position is 8-10 feet in the air. Undoubtedly someone will be talking on a cell phone and just barrel in to one of these things. I agree they shouldn't be on the road, my point was to show that it will happen to someone and that someone will not be me:-D.
I'm not sure the issue is whether or not you'll die in one of these. The issue is the fact that the SUV drivers won't see the SMART cars while they're on their cell phones and will likely run into you. Whether or not you are seriously injured is a different story. You have to remember that we are far more spread out than the UK or Europe so most of our traveling is >60 mph and most of the vehicles outside of the extremely urban areas are quite large.
I believe its the same car. The ZAPs are manufactured by Daimler-Chrysler if I'm not mistaken. (then again I'm an American and have never actually seen one in person.)
Yeah I wonder what kind of heat this device puts out... Anyone want to use a fuel burning device and carry it around in their pocket? Not to mention, bearings ought to get quite hot at 1M RPM.
Granted they can't call it DNS, but why do they have to say Digital Negative Specification, or DNG. Shouldn't it technically be Digital NeGative specification.
... and yet I know many very capable CS majors who still haven't gotten jobs that graduated with me last spring. As a computer engineer it looks like my major has been squeeked out as the highest paid. (although quite different from 2000 when I started college)
Anyone who has done any human factors know that one of the most important factors in design is a product's usage. In the case of the handset it was designed for a desk phone, nothing else.
Definitely don't do this. IIRC the CF manual says somewhere in the range of 100k write/read cycles. While this is fine for pictures/music, its horrible for an o.s. In fact, I believe it specifically says to not put os's on CF's.
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I certainly agree that experience is extremely important if not more than book smarts. I use nearly none of the technical skills I learned in school today in my job and I just graduated 6 months ago. The technical skills I learned outside of the classroom have become far more handy in my particular job. So for the most part I agree with you, but you aren't looking at the grand scheme of things beyond learning and personal education. I value my own education very highly and I enjoy it as a journey, but unless I have transferable skills I'm taking more than I'm giving. When talking about the importance of grades and the transfer of knowledge from school to the workplace the hiring process must be mentioned at some point. I've heard a hiring mistake can often cost a company twice your salary. Using this formula it costs a company just about as much to hire, then fire a recent graduate then it does for a student to get an upper pedigree, private education. Business people can't take this risk and often have to use some metric on which to rate their candidates by. Coming out of college with little to no experience the grades become very important. Its not that an A proved indefinite proficiency in a particular subject, but it proved you were on the correct side of the bell curve (my alma mater practiced a fairly strict bell curve) from your peers and proved the ability to relay your knowledge in an acceptable manner.
Thank you! I could not agree more. It's really disheartening that these qualities are always discredited. In my opinion as a programmer these are two of the most important things you have to show for yourself. - A relatively high GPA shows that you can stay committed even if a project(/class) doesn't interest you. This is extremely valuable in the work place as you will get many mundane projects on your way to or in between working on interesting projects. It also helps employers distinguish between a multitude of graduates who all "learned" the same languages in school. - Being well-rounded allows a programmer to think outside the box and take ideas from other interests and hobbies and apply them accordingly in innovative ways. While I'm at it I have another complaint about the "it doesn't take an education to succeed" attitude. It all stems from the extraordinary success of a few individuals who did not complete their college education as it was replaced by developing something more interesting, innovative, and usually profitable. These people are outliars and if you use their success to gauge the level of education you should complete then you are horribly mistaken and bound for a path of failure.
nice try, but thats not the solution according to the page. you need to move it to the UPPER-right, not the bottom right. anyone could get it to the bottom right :-). keep trying.
I was referring to highways, but as you are obviously not from America I should tell you that in most of the non-coastal states there are a lot of trucks. I would say its 30-50% of the drivers on the road. Among those trucks include every hillbilly who wants to jack their truck up so their seated position is 8-10 feet in the air. Undoubtedly someone will be talking on a cell phone and just barrel in to one of these things. I agree they shouldn't be on the road, my point was to show that it will happen to someone and that someone will not be me :-D.
I'm not sure the issue is whether or not you'll die in one of these. The issue is the fact that the SUV drivers won't see the SMART cars while they're on their cell phones and will likely run into you. Whether or not you are seriously injured is a different story. You have to remember that we are far more spread out than the UK or Europe so most of our traveling is >60 mph and most of the vehicles outside of the extremely urban areas are quite large.
I believe its the same car. The ZAPs are manufactured by Daimler-Chrysler if I'm not mistaken. (then again I'm an American and have never actually seen one in person.)
Yeah I wonder what kind of heat this device puts out... Anyone want to use a fuel burning device and carry it around in their pocket? Not to mention, bearings ought to get quite hot at 1M RPM.
so, where's the secret lair... you know every geek's dream house has one.
Granted they can't call it DNS, but why do they have to say Digital Negative Specification, or DNG. Shouldn't it technically be Digital NeGative specification.
... and yet I know many very capable CS majors who still haven't gotten jobs that graduated with me last spring. As a computer engineer it looks like my major has been squeeked out as the highest paid. (although quite different from 2000 when I started college)
Anyone who has done any human factors know that one of the most important factors in design is a product's usage. In the case of the handset it was designed for a desk phone, nothing else.
Definitely don't do this. IIRC the CF manual says somewhere in the range of 100k write/read cycles. While this is fine for pictures/music, its horrible for an o.s. In fact, I believe it specifically says to not put os's on CF's.