How can you conclude that? AS I've mentioned twice now, when I went back and talked to him more explicitly (after doing more research myself) he knew what I was talking about and indicated it just didn't matter in terms of what he does. I threw a few terms at him once, he blanked, I came back and talked to him with some modicum of knowledge and he knew what I was talking about.
Also, those ballistic missile guys, a lot of them get jobs here with Raytheon. They offered my roommate a job and he passed. He can't be that dumb if they were willing to hire him on to program missile guidance systems or some equally high-tech thing.
I guess the real problem here is that, by not being explicit, I as a layman could not begin to reiterate what I had read and had to do more research. More of a fail on my part, still calling a fail on their part for not being explicit as most other formal research papers would be.
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SuperNiceDog had a super nice bracket too.