It appears that they are more concerned with the amount of oxygen present than the location of the oxygen. Does this mean that they expect a leak in there in the first place?
Is it important that he was also speaking to students rather than peers? It's one thing to say that to a peer, another to say that to someone who might take your class. If said to a student, that kind of comment could create an intimidating learning environment, which is restrictive to scholarly discourse.
"I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance." -- Bernie Ebbers, former WorldCom Inc. CEO, speaking in his defense, yes, you've got that right, in his defense during the WorldCom fraud trial.
So, to become a CEO of a major communications company, you need not know technology, accounting, or finance. Did the board of directors just need a really good shortstop for the annual softball game against the engineers?
The difference is that colleges associated with a religious denomination, certain preconceptions are at least expected. There's also a difference between disagreeing with an opinion and insulting those who hold that opinion. Disagreement, discussion, and discourse are at the heart of Seeking Truth. Insulting, badmouthing, and mockery lead to animosity, entrenched positions, and the avoidance of dialogue.
True enough - it's like going back to playing Dune on an old 486 after Starcraft, or Warcraft, or a hundred other games.
However - there's also a sense of classicism in playing Pong (or Pac-Man, or whatever), even on a emulator of some kind. I wonder if a hundred years from now, young hackers will have to learn to create a version of Pong (or whatever) in almost the same way literature students read Antigone, or Jack London, or John Steinbeck. The point is NOT that it's the greatest Literature (or Game) of the Modern Era; the point is that the Modern Era is rooted in its past, and that past, be it Pong or 'Of Mice and Men,' is worth remembering and reliving to some extent.
When I was a humble network admin at a middle school, one of my lovable children discovered a foreign game site that did quite a number....on a Win98 machine using IE. After scrubbing the machine with industrial strength spamcleaner, I put firefox on it, locked it down, and went back out to that same website. It couldn't even make a dent on the machine - not a single bit of spyware got through. It was enough to convert me to FF for life.
You forget the Root of Roots, the Game of Games, the Big Bang of the Gaming Universe, the day that the Great Gamer looked down into geekdom and said....."Let there be....PONG."
It also depends on whether or not you have undergrad research projects in progress. How disruptive will it be to your degree program to change now? What advantages would you get from changing now?
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It appears that they are more concerned with the amount of oxygen present than the location of the oxygen. Does this mean that they expect a leak in there in the first place?
Is it important that he was also speaking to students rather than peers? It's one thing to say that to a peer, another to say that to someone who might take your class. If said to a student, that kind of comment could create an intimidating learning environment, which is restrictive to scholarly discourse.
So, to become a CEO of a major communications company, you need not know technology, accounting, or finance. Did the board of directors just need a really good shortstop for the annual softball game against the engineers?
The difference is that colleges associated with a religious denomination, certain preconceptions are at least expected. There's also a difference between disagreeing with an opinion and insulting those who hold that opinion. Disagreement, discussion, and discourse are at the heart of Seeking Truth. Insulting, badmouthing, and mockery lead to animosity, entrenched positions, and the avoidance of dialogue.
True enough - it's like going back to playing Dune on an old 486 after Starcraft, or Warcraft, or a hundred other games. However - there's also a sense of classicism in playing Pong (or Pac-Man, or whatever), even on a emulator of some kind. I wonder if a hundred years from now, young hackers will have to learn to create a version of Pong (or whatever) in almost the same way literature students read Antigone, or Jack London, or John Steinbeck. The point is NOT that it's the greatest Literature (or Game) of the Modern Era; the point is that the Modern Era is rooted in its past, and that past, be it Pong or 'Of Mice and Men,' is worth remembering and reliving to some extent.
When I was a humble network admin at a middle school, one of my lovable children discovered a foreign game site that did quite a number....on a Win98 machine using IE. After scrubbing the machine with industrial strength spamcleaner, I put firefox on it, locked it down, and went back out to that same website. It couldn't even make a dent on the machine - not a single bit of spyware got through. It was enough to convert me to FF for life.
You forget the Root of Roots, the Game of Games, the Big Bang of the Gaming Universe, the day that the Great Gamer looked down into geekdom and said....."Let there be....PONG."
It also depends on whether or not you have undergrad research projects in progress. How disruptive will it be to your degree program to change now? What advantages would you get from changing now?