>It's an unfortunate fact that our education system doesn't seem to
>distinguish between the students that simply memorize answers, and those
>that UNDERSTAND the problems. I do hope that eventually people who got
>through school without truly understanding the subjects they've taken
>either take the time to actually LEARN their subject, or wisely move to
>another industry. What scares me is some of these people are probably
>out there, designing the technology we use every day...

My senior year (U of MD, EE) I took a digital circuits lab class. I 
still remember one of the labs, we had to build a simple little TTL 
circuit interface to some memory, to work as a crude digital logic 
analyzer. My lab partner, who was a 4.0 student, dutifully added up 
the current requirements for all of the ICs we were using, which came 
to a few hundred mA as I recall. Then he noticed that the 5V power 
supply we were going to use was rated for several amps, and he said 
we had to stop and get a different power supply, as this one was 
going to destroy the circuit by forcing too much current through it.

I kid you not.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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