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Dumbass MIS professor...

So I took a test last Thursday in my management information systems class. Here's one of the true/false questions:

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13) When you attach a file to an e-mail, you are using the file transfer protocol (FTP).

Having been using both e-mail and FTP for about 8 years now, I marked false. Apparently the professor says it's true. His powerpoint slides even say that e-mail attachments are sent via FTP. No.

I really don't think it's much to ask of a university professor that they put correct content on the slides.



just wanted to bitch. kthx.

LOL isn't it the 'smtp' protocol

computer nerdy talk

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Originally posted by Matt Jay LOL isn't it the 'smtp' protocol

yep, that's the protocol. and the attachments get embedded into different portions of the message (MIME portions, marked by MIME boundaries, blah blah blah) and the actual file gets encoded and stuck into one of those portions.

my professor is SPECIAL

i think its SFTP and/or FTP, but im not completely sure.


if you wanna find out, get a software firewall monitor what ports are being used when you send an email with an attachment. Or try blocking port 21 and SFTP port.


edit: aw forget that, im probably wrong

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Originally posted by brian yep, that's the protocol. and the attachments get embedded into different portions of the message (MIME portions, marked by MIME boundaries, blah blah blah) and the actual file gets encoded and stuck into one of those portions. my professor is SPECIAL

Then why not show him why he's wrong? If you're afraid of retribution just make sure you take note of everything and then present it to the dean of that school.

i dunno if this makes sense or not:

http://www.dogstar.com/Sirius/Newsletter/InterMail.html

man, it happens all the time with some university professors... they're so fucking stubborn some times its ridiculous...

after u show him up in class hold up a fat sign saying "PWNED!!1"

Screw the professor. Screw the dean. Go straight to the press and show the world why the American educational system is failing. Be sure to specifically name your professor. That'll teach him.

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Originally posted by Ondrayce Screw the professor. Screw the dean. Go straight to the press and show the world why the American educational system is failing. Be sure to specifically name your professor. That'll teach him.

word

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Originally posted by Ondrayce Screw the professor. Screw the dean. Go straight to the press and show the world why the American educational system is failing. Be sure to specifically name your professor. That'll teach him.

reading that while looking at the guy shake his head like crazy cracked me up. i hate when i drink coke when things like this happen.

Re: Dumbass MIS professor...

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Originally posted by brian So I took a test last Thursday in my management information systems class. Here's one of the true/false questions: Having been using both e-mail and FTP for about 8 years now, I marked false. Apparently the professor says it's true. His powerpoint slides even say that e-mail attachments are sent via FTP. No. I really don't think it's much to ask of a university professor that they put correct content on the slides. just wanted to bitch. kthx.

Go to your CIS/CS department heads and have them explain it to him.

you should get a load of a 'professor' who wants us all to fail


he wants to go through the whole MIT book with us, which even MIT doesn't do and they explicitly state in the book that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO COVER THE WHOLE BOOK IN ONE SEMESTER


he doesn't teach us anything
when a student asked him to clarify something he went to the board and then said, "by the way, this would make a great quiz question" - take a student question and make it a quiz?


or

"we've never done sorting but i think we should have a quiz on it"

wtf?


and he gives us like 4 hours of homework 3 times a week and we just HATE HATE HATE him, but there's nothing really that we can do, only hope that he curves the grades, half of which are below failing




/rant

^^^ take what you have, apply it to ALL EIGHT classes PER semester, and you have my year at this university.

And it's no joke, our year really does get screwed - I'm taking one 3rd-year class along with my 4th-year classes, which was apparently one of the hardest classes last year (many people failed), and it was a JOKE. Easier than any of the 3rd-year classes I took, didn't even have to really learn any theory at all. The working theory is that someone in our graduating class dumped the Associate Dean's daughter, or something like that.

As for the MIS professor, he's an idiot, but so are a lot of professors. Especially when you're in a first or second year class (which I guess is any class if you're in college, you didn't specify college or university), half of these professors don't even specialize in the area that they teach. So you can pretty much expect the worst. Just take it to the department head, and if you don't get a response, take it to the dean (or the media ).

http://www.universityreportcard.com...sponsor=1&tid=1


http://www.universityreportcard.com...1&worst=1&ptid=

Category: Quality of Education
The bottom ten schools are



38. University of Toronto - Mississauga
37. University of Toronto - St. George Campus
36. University of Toronto - Scarborough
35. University of Windsor
34. University of British Columbia
33. University of Alberta
32. University of Calgary
31. University of Saskatchewan
30. University of Ottawa
29. Universit� de Montr�al

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Originally posted by ASOT100 after u show him up in class hold up a fat sign saying "PWNED!!1"

I'd pay good money to see that.

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Originally posted by Dmatrox http://www.universityreportcard.com...sponsor=1&tid=1 http://www.universityreportcard.com...1&worst=1&ptid= Category: Quality of Education The bottom ten schools are 38. University of Toronto - Mississauga 37. University of Toronto - St. George Campus 36. University of Toronto - Scarborough 35. University of Windsor 34. University of British Columbia 33. University of Alberta 32. University of Calgary 31. University of Saskatchewan 30. University of Ottawa 29. Universit� de Montr�al

W00t, number 3.

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Originally posted by Lephaid W00t, number 3.

32.

do you think this is accurate? I do.

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Originally posted by ASOT100 after u show him up in class hold up a fat sign saying "PWNED!!1"

LMAO...i should do that. would be fun.

In all seriousness I do have every intention of going to him and telling him he's wrong -- problem is, he keeps bad office hours. If all else fails, I'll just show him up in class I don't care about the two points on the test that I lost -- I just want him to have the correct information.

This is also a professor that won't switch to one of the newer editions of the MIS textbook because he's too lazy to update his notes and tests.

whats mis

management information systems

what do you learn to do in that?
and what kind of a job does it prepare you for?

I have the best one:

ok if:
yr=1/R and yc = 1/xc and yt=1/z
also
yt = yr + yc

Apparntly this is wrong
z = R + xc

WTF


The right answer
yt = yr + yc
1/z = 1/R + 1/xc <- subsutution
(1/z)^-1 = (1/R + 1/xc)^-1
z = (1/R)^-1 + (1/xc)^-1
z = R + xc
therefore
z = R + xc.

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Originally posted by Dr. Cfire (1/z)^-1 = (1/R + 1/xc)^-1 z = (1/R)^-1 + (1/xc)^-1 z = R + xc therefore z = R + xc.

wait... can you do that?

wouldnt it be:
(1/z)^-1 = (1/R + 1/xc)^-1
z = ((R + xc)/(Rxc))^-1
z = Rxc/(R + xc)

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