How much does any minor matter? Or any major for that matter. Plenty of people don't end up doing what they majored in college. Otherwise there'd be about a billion anthropologists running around everywhere. If you enjoy the subject, then by all means go for it. That's what a minor is for. Don't rush out of college, because you've got the rest of your life to not be in college.
On an unrelated note, it's a little sad that college has become nothing but vocational training. You should go to college to learn how to think and find out who you are, not just to get a piece of paper that will give you the privilege of becoming a corporate drone. Don't define yourself by your degree or your job. Be your own person so that when the day comes when they ship your job to some far away land you will be able to get back on your feet and move on with your life.
It's not always a bad thing to fool the user if you can get away with it. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat system did exactly that. On starting up it would show the user a bitmap of what the user was last working on while it loaded up the actual data in the background. Then when it's ready, it would replace the bitmap with the actual display. The thing that Raskin figured out to make it work was that it took users a couple of seconds to reorient themselves and recall what they were doing, so they would just sit and stare at the screen for a bit. And the Cat can *always* load up the real data and be ready for input before the users themselves were "booted up."
But from TFA, it doesn't sound like the redhat guys are going to do it the right way, which means the users will figure out they've been fooled and you've just gone through all that trouble to piss them off.
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How much does any minor matter? Or any major for that matter. Plenty of people don't end up doing what they majored in college. Otherwise there'd be about a billion anthropologists running around everywhere. If you enjoy the subject, then by all means go for it. That's what a minor is for. Don't rush out of college, because you've got the rest of your life to not be in college.
On an unrelated note, it's a little sad that college has become nothing but vocational training. You should go to college to learn how to think and find out who you are, not just to get a piece of paper that will give you the privilege of becoming a corporate drone. Don't define yourself by your degree or your job. Be your own person so that when the day comes when they ship your job to some far away land you will be able to get back on your feet and move on with your life.
It's not always a bad thing to fool the user if you can get away with it. Jef Raskin's Canon Cat system did exactly that. On starting up it would show the user a bitmap of what the user was last working on while it loaded up the actual data in the background. Then when it's ready, it would replace the bitmap with the actual display. The thing that Raskin figured out to make it work was that it took users a couple of seconds to reorient themselves and recall what they were doing, so they would just sit and stare at the screen for a bit. And the Cat can *always* load up the real data and be ready for input before the users themselves were "booted up."
But from TFA, it doesn't sound like the redhat guys are going to do it the right way, which means the users will figure out they've been fooled and you've just gone through all that trouble to piss them off.