I believe engineers generally hold non-technical departments in contempt because of the seeming inability to understand technology and the lack of common sense exercised. Here are a few reasons I have cringed when working with non-engineers over the years:

1. 1. Unable to detect phishing attempts
2. 2. Installing crap software on their workstations infesting it with trojans
3. 3. Making demands that clearly show a lack of research / thought
4. 4. Office politics devoid of reasoning / rationale
5. 5. Lack of transparency in decision making

While it is true that engineers generally value logic and reason (how else could we do the job others cannot do?), I believe engineers are more likely not to put up with people's bullshit to the extend everyone demands. There is a time and place for sentimentality and everyone shouldn't be catered to because they are a precious snowflake

I hope you live or die by that opinion Sonny. Like everyone else, I believe you and I make comments about coworkers and bosses to the same extent this teacher makes about her kids, so do these comments and feelings preventing us from being effective employees? Does gossiping with coworkers introduce instability within the ranks? Honestly, the teacher is reacting as humanly as the rest of do, so I think suspension is a little borderline as a simple reprimand might be enough. Reality is that people's kids suck, which is why wife and I are seriously thinking about raising cats.

If you actually read the article, it is fact less about the actually situation with the kid and is pure theoretical on "how" someone could cheat to cause it. This attention whoring troll really should drive back to where he is from and checkout the kid's controller before he goes slandering the poor kid. Jerk

Unfortunately, I am prevent from looking anything up as search engines, searching, and typing are all patented ... doh!

Everyone has already chimed in about the merits of learning foundational programming languages like C and C++, but I wonder if the defense of "this is what the industry is" should be the main reason for getting rid of languages. I liken this to forcing US students to learn COBOL because larger companies and universities don't want to get rid of their mainframes. Though it is the responsibility of higher education to prepare individuals for the work force, it seems this move will only stagnant the talent pool and make it harder to advance to new paradigms later.

While reading the review of the book, I thought the reviewer's comment about the history of Vim being unnecessary to be wrong. Having used Vim on various systems including RHEL, Fedora, Mac OS X, Windows (gvim), and BSD there are some differences that catch unaware users off guard. Most Linux operating systems will install Vi as a standard editor and add an alias for Vim to use Vi. This is seems all well and good, however Vi has some pain points in particular the inability to backspace / delete characters on the current line. Anyhow, I'm not sure ignorance is the best policy especially as there are so many variations out there on different OSes.

• 1987 - Final Fantasy 1 (NES)
• 1988 - Final Fantasy 2 (NES)
• 1989 - Final Fantasy 1 (MSX2)
• 2000 - Final Fantasy 1 (WSC)
• 2001 - Final Fantasy 2 (WSC)
• 2004 - Final Fantasy 1 + 2 (GBA)
• 2007 - Final Fantasy 1 (PSP)
• 2007 - Final Fantasy 2 (PSP)

The sad part is that I have been alive for all of these and have purchased over 50% of them!

Source: Final Fantasy Release Info