School invested in new mouspads

[truecrafting]

My schol recently upgrade the Computer Lab and we got new periphirals what do you think about our mouspads

[Enderman]

Ew it seems to have a green slimy logo on it.

[Bigbootyjudy]

LOL, Our school doesn't even have mouse pads and the mice are trash. 

[bleedblue]

I used an A4 sheet of paper most of the time. Would you believe it there was a lab where I got assigned a pc still using a ball mouse.

[Semper]

52 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

I used an A4 sheet of paper most of the time. Would you believe it there was a lab where I got assigned a pc still using a ball mouse.

I can.

The C.I.T. courses I took at a local community college five years or so ago were still running XP on Northwood (128) Celeron's in literally all of their rigs. I'm about 137% certain even the fine arts courses had more up-to-date systems.

[wojtepanik]

1 minute ago, Semper said:

I can.

The C.I.T. courses I took at a local community college five years or so ago were still running Northwood (128) Celeron's in literally all of their rigs. I'm about 137% certain even the fine arts courses had more up-to-date systems.

you can learn how to code on celeron, but you can't use PS on celeron now, so I think thats reasonable 

[bleedblue]

2 minutes ago, Semper said:

I can.

The C.I.T. courses I took at a local community college five years or so ago were still running XP on Northwood (128) Celeron's in literally all of their rigs. I'm about 137% certain even the fine arts courses had more up-to-date systems.

Same. Some rich alumni donated imac pro's for use of the Fine Arts students. Thing is they were housed in the Computer Studies building. We only had access to them every Tuesdays and Thursdays.

1 minute ago, wojtepanik said:

you can learn how to code on celeron, but you can't use PS on celeron now, so I think thats reasonable 

My web dev classroom had celeron powered pc's. Jesus christ imagine trying to render javascript and css using a dual core celeron.

Thank god we were allowed to bring our own laptops. 

[Semper]

8 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

you can learn how to code on celeron, but you can't use PS on celeron now, so I think thats reasonable 

I'd agree with you, but I also realized I left out my perspective on the courses themselves. They were a joke in the very best of situations. They were developed by someone (or someones) who didn't really know what they were doing.
The rigs they had were just the icing on the cake.

On a daily basis, I was having to dispute coursework as being overtly outdated. One such instance I very clearly remember, as I was thrown out of class for it, was disputing that IDE was still an industry standard. That was the day I dropped the program and left the school, found out a few years later they lost accreditation and dropped several programs, including CIT from their roster.

Required classes (as in, not prerequisites) for the program also included individual classes dedicated to the Office Suite of programs, Word, Excel, and Power point, as well as what could basically be compared to music theory; "what is a computer". Menu navigation, UI, hotkeys, and features have all changed fairly drastically across all three since the XP days, so the "experience" we were gainig in class was archaic at best.

[wojtepanik]

2 minutes ago, Semper said:

I'd agree with you, but I also realized I left out my perspective on the courses themselves. They were a joke in the very best of situations. They were developed by someone (or someones) who didn't really know what they were doing.
The rigs they had were just the icing on the cake.

On a daily basis, I was having to dispute coursework as being overtly outdated. One such instance I very clearly remember, as I was thrown out of class for it, was disputing that IDE was still an industry standard. That was the day I dropped the program and left the school, found out a few years later they lost accreditation and dropped several programs, including CIT from their roster.

Required classes (as in, not prerequisites) for the program also included individual classes dedicated to the Office Suite of programs, Word, Excel, and Power point, as well as what could basically be compared to music theory; "what is a computer". Menu navigation, UI, hotkeys, and features have all changed fairly drastically across all three since the XP days, so the "experience" we were gainig in class was archaic at best.

as I understand, community collage is a place which you don't pay 5-6 figures a year to study, so it is way worse funded, I think in harvard you get your own macbook for the time of studying

[Semper]

5 minutes ago, wojtepanik said:

as I understand, community collage is a place which you don't pay 5-6 figures a year to study, so it is way worse funded, I think in harvard you get your own macbook for the time of studying

This is entirely the case, but it's also a place where you start your secondary education foundations, and/or attend classes because you just want to learn. I was paying about $1500/semester in course fees, another couple hundred in materials. These courses were neither a foundation for anything but failure, nor educational in anything but legal robbery.

I regularly take courses at a couple of different community colleges just because I like learning. I've got more credits under my belt than is required for a doctorate, but they hold no "value" on a CV/resume/job application as they're scattered all over the place; see a course that interests me, and take it. I couldn't afford to do that at the university I graduated from.