Couple points to add: 1) Fuck up and you're out doesn't always hold even in private schools. It certainly holds more often than in public schools, but I can tell about instances at the private high school I attended where students deserved expulsion, but delayed or avoided it because their parents were prominent alums. This sort of thing certainly happens in colleges too. 2) It seems that the point of public schools is to finish what is required by law and get the students out, regardless of whether any actual learning took place. I base this on dinner-table conversation with my father, a public school physics teacher. I've heard the same story quite a few times over the years, in which he gives a senior a failing grade, and is pressured to change it so the student can graduate. Occasionally the grade will even get changed without his consent, by someone over his head. 3) Someone above posted about a religious school that focused more on liberal arts and had minimal tech classes. On the flip-side, I went to a catholic high school that had great math and science departments and offered more than enough technology classes to keep me occupied. Even allowed students to apply to work on the computer lab/network. That job was the first time I got to crawl around under a raised floor, fun stuff!
So then your iPod will not play your Real purchased library, until Real reverse-engineers it again, and who knows how long that'd take. So you'd have perhaps hundreds of dollars of songs on your iPod that you couldn't get to for an indefinite period of time; and Apple would just shrug their shoulders when you complain.
Would Apple just shrug their shoulders? That really depends on the number of complaints. Apple is still a business, and at some point it comes down to responding to your consumers.
I've just accepted an offer for a little more than 50K a year (before taxes), in a suburb of a medium-sized city where cost of living should be relatively low.
The offer is from a very large company. I'll be graduating in May with a degree in Computer Science from psu.
I am a student at Penn State and I work for Rescom which is a group of tech-interested students who others can come to (free) if they have computer trouble. Viruses are by far the most common thing that we have to deal with. In the interest of privacy the University does not filter emails or attachments, so there's a danger that students will get viruses, but whenever we remove a virus we tell students to get a virus scanner and to keep it updated. It seems like people listen when a human being tells them to get virus protection instead of just a web page. Of course no matter what we say not everyone will get scanners, and if there is a new virus it still takes a little while before the scanner-makers will release an update. We actually wrote one virus fix ourselves for Romeo and Juliet becuase it happened to hit Penn State very hard and we couldn't wait for anyone else to come up with a fix. Do any other schools out there offer free tech support like this? It seems to work pretty well for us.
Comp Eng at the unergrad level is gonna deal mostly with traditional stuff and not give you much about quantum. If you really wanna get into quantum computing research, learn about quantum physics first. A friend here at my school also wants to do quantum computing work, and he's dual majoring in physics and math and going to do his masters in comp sci afterwards.
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How many % are running Microsoft Windows ?
Probably about the same as the % of all home PCs running Microsoft Windows.
Zombie Macs and Zombie Linux boxes are about as common as Plain Old Macs and Linux boxes, it would seem.
Couple points to add:
1) Fuck up and you're out doesn't always hold even in private schools. It certainly holds more often than in public schools, but I can tell about instances at the private high school I attended where students deserved expulsion, but delayed or avoided it because their parents were prominent alums. This sort of thing certainly happens in colleges too.
2) It seems that the point of public schools is to finish what is required by law and get the students out, regardless of whether any actual learning took place. I base this on dinner-table conversation with my father, a public school physics teacher. I've heard the same story quite a few times over the years, in which he gives a senior a failing grade, and is pressured to change it so the student can graduate. Occasionally the grade will even get changed without his consent, by someone over his head.
3) Someone above posted about a religious school that focused more on liberal arts and had minimal tech classes. On the flip-side, I went to a catholic high school that had great math and science departments and offered more than enough technology classes to keep me occupied. Even allowed students to apply to work on the computer lab/network. That job was the first time I got to crawl around under a raised floor, fun stuff!
So then your iPod will not play your Real purchased library, until Real reverse-engineers it again, and who knows how long that'd take. So you'd have perhaps hundreds of dollars of songs on your iPod that you couldn't get to for an indefinite period of time; and Apple would just shrug their shoulders when you complain.
Would Apple just shrug their shoulders? That really depends on the number of complaints. Apple is still a business, and at some point it comes down to responding to your consumers.
I've just accepted an offer for a little more than 50K a year (before taxes), in a suburb of a medium-sized city where cost of living should be relatively low. The offer is from a very large company. I'll be graduating in May with a degree in Computer Science from psu.
I am a student at Penn State and I work for Rescom which is a group of tech-interested students who others can come to (free) if they have computer trouble. Viruses are by far the most common thing that we have to deal with. In the interest of privacy the University does not filter emails or attachments, so there's a danger that students will get viruses, but whenever we remove a virus we tell students to get a virus scanner and to keep it updated. It seems like people listen when a human being tells them to get virus protection instead of just a web page. Of course no matter what we say not everyone will get scanners, and if there is a new virus it still takes a little while before the scanner-makers will release an update. We actually wrote one virus fix ourselves for Romeo and Juliet becuase it happened to hit Penn State very hard and we couldn't wait for anyone else to come up with a fix. Do any other schools out there offer free tech support like this? It seems to work pretty well for us.
Comp Eng at the unergrad level is gonna deal mostly with traditional stuff and not give you much about quantum. If you really wanna get into quantum computing research, learn about quantum physics first. A friend here at my school also wants to do quantum computing work, and he's dual majoring in physics and math and going to do his masters in comp sci afterwards.