The "back side of the Internet", the opposite of Al Gore's Information Superhighway. The meeting place for all the defecations of information that are the byproduct of giving billions of people unfettered access to the World Wide Web. Tends to overflow when certain events occur such as the capture of a terrorist or celebrity motorcycle accidents. Flows downhill to nowhere in particular.
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Boy .. they were wrong.
So what is an information system?
It is a fancy name for a database, most commonly found in the Yellow Pages.
Fortunetly for the natives of Scotland, their examination authority offer qualifications in the subject on a normal and higher level.
One more step towards an education system made up of simple, skivvy subjects.
Boy .. they were wrong.
So what is an information system?
It is a fancy name for a database, most commonly found in the Yellow Pages.
Fortunetly for the natives of Scotland, their examination authority offer qualifications in the subject on a normal and higher level.
One more step towards an education system made up of simple, skivvy subjects.
Most people believe that ghosts are examples of Higher Information Systems, thus non existant.
Like MI6 and Jesus.
Like MI6 and Jesus.
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Pete, the pimp and an IS major, manages a campuswide network during the day, and then runs an escort service for hookers at night, while driving a c55 amg (mercedes). In the meantime, the cs major will sit behind his dull-glowing screen at home and talk to other pathetic code-typing weirdos.
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Typically involving idiots that want to work for a large company, sit in a cubicle, and work for people that don't typically understand a thing about computers (other than the fact that they can look at pr0n with them).
This is usually ok as a typical IS major is only a notch or two above their computer illiterate coworkers.
Typical IS tasks: Helping their boss figure out how to change the font on their word document, creating a 'database' using an Excel spreadsheet, helping their boss erase the lemonparty.com history item off their workstation.
While not all IS majors are bad or stupid people, the sad truth is that the bad and stupid ones often end up in charge of actual computer scientists because they 'know tech'
Typically involving idiots that want to work for a large company, sit in a cubicle, and work for people that don't typically understand a thing about computers (other than the fact that they can look at pr0n with them).
This is usually ok as a typical IS major is only a notch or two above their computer illiterate coworkers.
Typical IS tasks: Helping their boss figure out how to change the font on their word document, creating a 'database' using an Excel spreadsheet, helping their boss erase the lemonparty.com history item off their workstation.
While not all IS majors are bad or stupid people, the sad truth is that the bad and stupid ones often end up in charge of actual computer scientists because they 'know tech'
I wanted to work in computers but all that math, science, and actually understanding shit was too hard, so I went into Information Systems.
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