US universities/colleges still suck

[St Leo]

Not one respectable institute of higher learning among them. I guess that computer science must not be a serious academic subject.

Is Moscow State University really that bad?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
Oh rubbish.

It's playing with toys and involves very little original or creative thought.

This is why Carly drove HP into the ground, and it's why philosophers are irrelevant in technology-driven society. You just don't understand the world around you.

If a contest doesn't include the usual suspects, it's a sign it's a poor contest or one not worth worrying about. It's as if Albania had won the World Cup.

Say what? Doesn't include the usual suspects? It had 1,582 universities competing...admission is open to anyone who wants it.

All of the usual suspects were competing.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Agathon
If a contest doesn't include the usual suspects, it's a sign it's a poor contest or one not worth worrying about. It's as if Albania had won the World Cup.

Asher has a bigger penis than you.

[Riesstiu IV]

Is Asher black?

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Asher
All of the usual suspects were competing.

Apart from, as mentioned, almost all of Britain.

[Agathon]

This is why Carly drove HP into the ground, and it's why philosophers are irrelevant in technology-driven society. You just don't understand the world around you.

I don't understand. Someone has to do something worthwhile with the gadgets you make.

Society is structured so that dullards can do the peon work, like writing computer programs. It frees up other people to do intrinsically worthwhile things.

I doubt real colleges took the thing seriously. CS is a polytech subject, not really an academic subject. You can get a degree in CS without any original thought.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Agathon
You can get a degree in CS without any original thought.

I'm sure it's quite possible to make fun of Asher without lying, Agathon.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Agathon
I doubt real colleges took the thing seriously. CS is a polytech subject, not really an academic subject. You can get a degree in CS without any original thought.

Don't feed him the ammo with a silver spoon, it's not like you need that much original thought to graduate in philosophy neither.

[Riesstiu IV]

What are supposed to do with a philosophy major anyways?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
I don't understand.

Yes, that much is painfully obvious.

I doubt real colleges took the thing seriously. CS is a polytech subject, not really an academic subject.

If "real colleges" don't take CS seriously, that's their own fault. CS is a growing a necessary, and very academic subject that is misunderstood by the simpletons that would rather discuss Artistotle's sexuality than anything of importance.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Agathon

This is why Carly drove HP into the ground, and it's why philosophers are irrelevant in technology-driven society. You just don't understand the world around you.

I don't understand. Someone has to do something worthwhile with the gadgets you make.

Society is structured so that dullards can do the peon work, like writing computer programs. It frees up other people to do intrinsically worthwhile things.

Like philosophy? Yeah, that'll feed the starving millions I'm sure

Computer programming is a very good cerebral activity, it would be nice to pick it back up at some point...the last time I programmed was on a BBC micro...I could do BBC BASIC assembler on the 6502/65C12 although it is all a bit rusty now

[Spiffor]

10) POLITEHNICA University Bucharest, Hungary

*cough*

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
So their best students are obviously not as good as everyone else's.

Or don't participate. I know a number of math competitions on which my school does not rank well because it doesn't emphasize them - but on most it completely owns.

[Provost Harrison]

Let the pissing contest begin!

[Asher]

Agathon: Since Computer Science requires little to no original thought and is apparently so easy, why don't you complete all of the problem sets from the 2003 Final in 5 hours, as they are required to do in the contest:

http://icpc.baylor.edu/Past/icpc2003/Finals/problems.pdf