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How can I download an interfrance?
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What? Never heard of Tesla? You better thank him the next time you're listening to radio, using a cell phone, are on a wireless network.
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It does kinda look like The Mall, right around the corner from the Trabant center.
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I doubt the ability to true a bicycle wheel would much benefit your average professional lecturer. On the other hand, using PowerPoint is very simple (as you have indicated) and apparently in this case a requisite part of their job--WTF.
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The professor is real. I had him in Fall '04 for Computer Organization (MIPS assembly and some C programming). He's actually a very smart guy, despite being quite a character.
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This guy sounds like one of my old professors. Bugger only had an associates. EVERYONE hated his classes. Ofcourse, the school only offered BSETs and not BSEs, though MS recruited heavily there.
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I remember an AOL "coaster" I had a few years back that advertised that it contained "The entire Internet plus exclusive content". Given that I was working at an ISP at the time I thought it was very apropos to hold my coffee cup.
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Some favourite quotes received during my ISP days:
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Were there not any local ISPs at the time? (This being 1994, I suppose there might not have been.)
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He still teaches... I've had other professors comment on his alcoholism too.
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We had 'em at the University of Oregon, too. But they aren't called professors if they don't have a Ph.D. They are called "instructors" instead.
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WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!
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Whenever I've had trouble with it, it's been getting the projector to do what I want, not with powerpoint. It seems like every conference room or lecture hall is set up differently, and it's not like I have to drive all that often. Things we rarely do often need some time to shake all the neurons back into the right tracks.
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Hooray for UUCP and bang-paths!
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One of my best comp sci profs actually started teaching for my school the fall after he graduated. Granted he did graduate Magna Cum Laude and by the time I went there he had his Masters, still kind of impressive.
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Could this be our man? http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/faculty/jcasey.html
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Pathetic!
352 words and no decent punch line.
The article mentions Pentium 200 MMX - this places the timeframe somewhere around 1997. So where is the WTF? The guy had justed started playing with the internet - much more believable than say if this occurred in 2000. When talking about the internet, a period of 3-4 years is a significantly long time.
Captcha: waffles (this article sure did)
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I don't know about you -- there are days that I would like to shut down the Internet.
(captcha: alarm!)
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Please don't remind me of the Computer Science department at Delaware. There is good reason why I transferred out of that university.
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No you didn't. Anonymity
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Oh, you think it's 1997 because there were Pentium MMX's ??? Somewhere it is mentioned that it is 2000. And ... my university had freakin' 486's back in '97 cringe
Of course, there were Pentiums too ... but I'd say 166 P1's ... not even the MMX type.
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I can't search the forums with CTRL-F either, but that doesn't surprise me. I don't have any problems searching the current page, though.
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Hmm, works for me, must be user error.
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No, because URLs were invented together with HTTP.
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Actually, according to a number of sources, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn had a TCP/IP network running in 1975. Though not until 1983 was the entire ARPANet converted to TCP/IP.
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Shuuuuut uuuuuup. You are such a Dumas. You don't even know this professor and you're already talking sh**. Why don't you sit on a bottle and spin, you arrogant prick, with your sighs. sigh
On a different note, this professor, as it's been stated, is very real. (I had him sophmore year in Fall 2000). I don't see how being 'P'iled 'H'igher and 'D'eeper necessarily gets you. It's not some exclusive right for PhD's. He's very good at what he does. He is though quite the character. However, he is certainly not the only one.
PS. Funny someone should mention Eastern European universities. Central and Eastern European computer science students beat the pants off people here any day. Preemptive response: It's worth admitting it instead of getting all cocky and "USA #1!!!" on yourself.
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Shuuuuut uuuuuup. You are such a Dumas. You don't even know this professor and you're already talking sh**. Why don't you sit on a bottle and spin, you arrogant prick, with your sighs. sigh
On a different note, this professor, as it's been stated, is very real. (I had him sophmore year in Fall 2000). I don't see how being 'P'iled 'H'igher and 'D'eeper necessarily gets you. It's not some exclusive right for PhD's. He's very good at what he does. He is though quite the character. However, he is certainly not the only one.
PS. Funny someone should mention Eastern European universities. Central and Eastern European computer science students beat the pants off people here any day. Preemptive response: It's worth admitting it instead of getting all cocky and "USA #1!!!" on yourself.
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England does have a connection with France. We built 3 great fat pipes to link us at the end of the last century!
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We'll have no more of that punning ada you. We C through your schemes.
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At most good universities the prerequisite for being a lecturer is oustanding research. And academics have been lecturing for thousands of years without ppt. I have attended many talks by prospective faculty members and technology problems are common. It's often the candidate, their sponsor, and the department chair squawking around a laptop until some student pushes the usb key the rest of the way in or something equally simple. The evaluation is based on the content of the slides (possibly prepared by a secretary or grad student) and the talk itself, not their technical proficiency.
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Anonymize much?
That Josh guy definitely has an account on the Northeastern CCIS system. The prof. describe definitely fits one of the profs. there. I've had him, he's a good guy. Much better than some other profs. I've had.
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The image accompanying this article looks a heck of a lot like my alma mater, WMC (now known as McDaniel College) - specifically, it looks like the dorm I lived in. Anybody know where the picture was taken?
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I don't get what the WTF is here. Being connected to another planet is pretty impressive.
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Back in 2000??? Seriously, internet at home was starting to be common way back in 1995 or so; 2000 was "boom years". And in college setups it was commonplace way before that ....
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As long as it's only the CD, not the drive...
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He's just java-in' a laugh.
Captcha: ewww (my pun is that bad)
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Never mind them, I've worked with Professors (and, yes, genuine Rocket Scientists) who were incredibly clever but couldn't reliably walk through a doorway without touching the sides*, or manage basic personal hygiene...
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Click on the main body of the page, outside a post, and see if it works.
Fast forward 25-30 years and the Internet will be that much bigger.
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Well, my bad. Since BSc degrees are still rare where I come from I assumed he didn't have a degree at all. And I supposed there are regulations against people people without a degree teaching at a uni.
Well, it depends if you mean academic merit or preparation for doing actual work. Since education here is generally more theoretical, Eastern European students tend to do well in programming constests where they solve abstract problems but this doesn't mean they have any idea about the reality of the industry. We have huge problems with proper teaching staff who are mostly Electrical Engineers who don't understand what CS is about. One could hope that those who graduated recently (and actually studied CS not EE) would be better prepared but since the salaries at a uni are 1/5 of what an average programmer earns those who stay to teach are not exactly the best. Come to think of it, I could scrape up at least a few sidebar wtfs from my courses.Admin
O Draconian Devil! Oh, Lame Professor! OMFG! -_-' Where did they get a professor like this?
CAPTCHA: tesla... let's get electrified :P
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The reason that the (alcoholic) Professor was so happy to be connected to France, is that he had previously seen some kindred spirits...
"We are from France. Let us consume mass quantities...."
Ok, Ok, you gotta be pretty old to get it, 'cause it goes back to the original cast of Saturday Night Live, but I know there are some old farts reading this :-)
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The Real WTF™ is that the professor didn't use PHP and XML.
Captcha = alarm (ring ring ring ring ring).
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I think my mother would probably be astounded by a revelation such as that.
captcha: kungfu (crap, now I'm going to be singing that song...)
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I don't know what kind of system you have in the US, I've never attended uni there.
Here in the UK, one cannot become a professor without at least one Ph.D. You can become a lecturer fine, as long as you have a teaching qualification. Although people are generally expected to have a Masters in the area they're teaching in.
To win a professorship you must demonstrate yourslef to be ont of the top researchers in your field. (Most likely by having a lot of published work, and having attanied a few Ph.D.s.)
Professorships are given out based on research ability, and ability to manage a team of researchers. It has little to do with being able to teach.
In the industry professional vs professor debate, as to who is a better lecturer, it really depends on what you're trying to teach.
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Your comments certainly are.
Do you reply to posts without reading other responses? This took place in 2000.
Ummm... In your post?
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Reminds me of when my wife and I were looking to buy a house back in 2002. My wife's out-of-state mom, who is a realtor, was talking to us on the phone and said "I'm not sure if they have it down there, but up here we use a thing called realtor.com. It shows us home listings by zip code. Maybe you can look for a place like that for your area."
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The education is theoretical around here and dull to death, but this all benefits in understanding why you must do what you do and thus we make less WTF-s at our first job than most. At least none of my proffesors shined about being connected to france, they were serious scientsits at their field... None of them had a degree in CS tho, math of all kinds, physics in heaps, a few general lectures, but no CS.