I am an Asian female graduating in MIS (laugh at me, I know, this comment made yesterday made me laugh) this coming spring. I'm currently looking for a job upon graduation. Does being both a female, a person of a minority race with little real life experience make a difficult job search for me? No, I really don't want to be just managing/outsourcing people for a job.
(I mean, I like to fool around on my computers, one running XP and the other a Ubuntu server, some web programming, reading/. and all that . ..)
"Geek" in the mainstream is just a fad. Geek as many of you know it, can refers to the poor skinny white kid with glasses who have a hard time ever get any. What's the difference between something like The Real World (real show on MTV) or like Geeks in a Basement (something I just made up). It just exposes us to something that we're not normally accustomed to seeing, that's all. Isn't the reason why we watch tv? To be in our own fantasy world or to laugh at others?
Having a degree in computer science isn't necessarily the only way to get a computer related job when one graduates college. At my school, there are other computer related majors such as information studies (IS) and management information systems (MIS), which have different roots. I am a female MIS major at my school. The ratio of males to females in my major classes is around 60/40.
I could be a programmer when I graduate, though someone with a degree in CS would typically be more equipped to be able to do a better job than I am. I think most of the MIS girls here are going to be the project manager types as opposed to computar geeks (me). Most of the guys I know who drop out of CS go to IS or MIS (they mostly go IS because it has less prereqs).
It's not about lightening the penalties. People will still continue to pirate as they please. Naturally, they will just go farther underground to the depths of the internet, or do it old school and borrow/rent (insert media name) and make a copy of it circumventing any copy protection software.
I don't like the idea also that they are potentially making the casual copier who wants to make a mix cd or something in the same league as an arsonist (I'm exaggerating) or something.
There are other options too. Some major universities offer courses exclusively online in addition to the traditional classroom so you may want to consider that.
Well, I have a Model M in which I moved all the keycaps to Dvorak. My typing has gone from about 80 wpm to like 10. I've only had about three days practice on it.
I wish to keep both under my hands. I keep reading how most people stick with either/or but not both. I know how to play a few musical instruments and they have different fingerings. How is keyboard touch typing any different?
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I am an Asian female graduating in MIS (laugh at me, I know, this comment made yesterday made me laugh) this coming spring. I'm currently looking for a job upon graduation. Does being both a female, a person of a minority race with little real life experience make a difficult job search for me? No, I really don't want to be just managing/outsourcing people for a job. (I mean, I like to fool around on my computers, one running XP and the other a Ubuntu server, some web programming, reading /. and all that . . .)
"Geek" in the mainstream is just a fad. Geek as many of you know it, can refers to the poor skinny white kid with glasses who have a hard time ever get any. What's the difference between something like The Real World (real show on MTV) or like Geeks in a Basement (something I just made up). It just exposes us to something that we're not normally accustomed to seeing, that's all. Isn't the reason why we watch tv? To be in our own fantasy world or to laugh at others?
Having a degree in computer science isn't necessarily the only way to get a computer related job when one graduates college. At my school, there are other computer related majors such as information studies (IS) and management information systems (MIS), which have different roots. I am a female MIS major at my school. The ratio of males to females in my major classes is around 60/40.
I could be a programmer when I graduate, though someone with a degree in CS would typically be more equipped to be able to do a better job than I am. I think most of the MIS girls here are going to be the project manager types as opposed to computar geeks (me). Most of the guys I know who drop out of CS go to IS or MIS (they mostly go IS because it has less prereqs).
It's not about lightening the penalties. People will still continue to pirate as they please. Naturally, they will just go farther underground to the depths of the internet, or do it old school and borrow/rent (insert media name) and make a copy of it circumventing any copy protection software. I don't like the idea also that they are potentially making the casual copier who wants to make a mix cd or something in the same league as an arsonist (I'm exaggerating) or something.
There are other options too. Some major universities offer courses exclusively online in addition to the traditional classroom so you may want to consider that.
Well, I have a Model M in which I moved all the keycaps to Dvorak. My typing has gone from about 80 wpm to like 10. I've only had about three days practice on it.
I wish to keep both under my hands. I keep reading how most people stick with either/or but not both. I know how to play a few musical instruments and they have different fingerings. How is keyboard touch typing any different?
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