Unless things have changed a lot since I went through the process, it is necessary to pick a research problem and get it approved by the faculty of your department to be worthy of research. I don't think most people know what their problem will be the summer before they start the graduate program. I sure did not. I had to get some experience before I could identify a good topic.
And New Zealand does have an army (and an air force) in addition to a navy. All organizations are very small, and are not set up for offensive warfare. They are most often used for humanitarian missions. There is a contingent of the NZ Army SAS active in Afghanistan for several years now.
And, going back to the original posting, the proper term for the navy of NZ is "Royal New Zealand Navy", not "New Zealand Royal Navy". "Royal Navy" is British.
As a US citizen living in a small foreign country subject to the bullying of the US over these kinds of matters, I feel ashamed of what the US is doing. AND it is not funny!
Compilers compile to "object code" or "machine code", not "assembler language". It may be that some simple compilers produce output in assembler language that has to be separately "assembled". And the object code generated by some compilers may have to be interpreted by another program, such as the Java virtual machine.
In American English, one says and writes "oriented". In British English, the word "orientated" is used for the same purpose. Something I had to learn when I left the USA.
Of course you can write object-oriented code in C. It has been done many times.
An object-oriented language has lots of syntactic help for the purpose, but all languages compile to some type of runtime code structure. If you understand what code gives the object-oriented behavior you want, then you can write it in C.
And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language, I would guess. I do remember writing a C routine once which had an initialized array containing hex representations of machine code to do a particular highly specialized task, and then using some coding wizardry to get the locus of control into that array when needed. Ah, those were the days.
In many different forms of printed material I see today, it seems quite apparent that "editor" means "spell checker program". I rarely see misspelling typos any more, but I see many, many instances of misused words that are correct, well-defined words, just not suitable for the context in which they appear. The odd instances in this article are of that type.
Exactly right! You only have a couple of months, so why spend it all trying to find work? If you don't have something lined up already, then what are your chances?
Let him find his own way. At 8 years he has plenty of time to discover what he likes. Of course you want to be sure he has opportunity and access to sample many things.
I have been a SF and Fantasy reader most of my life ( pushing 70 now), but I also remember that I did not really find my way there until I was 10 or 12. Before that I read encyclopedias. First SF for me were HG Wells and J Verne. Then Edgar Rice Burroughs. Those are really old fashioned, but still good reads today.
After 39 years, you likely should be retiring. I retired after a 38-year career, and it was the best thing I ever did! Go apply for Social Security and begin tapping into those IRAs and 401Ks. You are set.
If, after you retire, you still feel the urge to do something creative, Get involved with an open source project or go help some local community-service organization with its website or something like that.
A very long time ago I was in a work group whose IT guy had decided to name the servers after mountains in the Bay Area. That worked very well in general, but no one could ever spell Umunhum correctly, and it was forever a problem! So be careful when you choose place names.
I live in NZ, a country where tipping is very seldom done. The service is generally very bad because there is no incentive to do better. I am always happy to return to the US and dine where I am treated better.
And on the coinage topic: NZ dropped the 1-cent coin maybe 12 years ago, and the 5-cent coin was dropped in 2006. Prices are NOT written in multiples of 10 cents. They are written as 4.99 or 12.34, or whatever. Tax is not an issue, although every price includes a national tax. Electronic transactions (credit or debit card) are charged the exact price. Rounding happens only when one pays cash, and then on the total amount, not each individual item. There are 2 or 3 approved rounding methods, and the store must publicly post which method they use.
The OP's assessment of "Overly-Restrictive" seems rather naive. During my entire career, just about every job I held had such provisions about intellectual property rights. I would not call it "overly-restrictive" at all.
And that said, I found it usually possible to get some "wiggle-room" by up-front telling them exceptions that I wanted to preserve my sole rights in. Renegotiate, though it is harder to do once you are onboard.
This comment is spot-on. Generally no one really cares about degrees or qualifications except that you have some. An advanced degree basically means you have demonstrated persistence, little more. If your job requires some particular arcane knowledge (rare), then you employer should provide the training. (I know, many cheapskates do not.)
What really matters is "can you deliver the needed results?" Make that happen however you can.
Federal judges are not elected. They are appointed for life. But, if you read the TFA you will discover that the court in discussion is NOT a federal court. It is a state court, and judges ARE routinely elected for state courts.
The USA IS the only country which taxes citizens that way. Many (most?) countries do tax the worldwide income of their citizens, but only while those citizens are tax residents of their home country. Most countries stop taxing citizens when they move away from the home country for a period of time. The US is the only country which never gives up. A US citizen is taxed on worldwide income no matter where they live and how long they have lived there.
The $87000 exemption you mention is there, but applies only to earned income. I live offshore, am retired and have no earned income, so that exemption certainly does not apply to me (wish it did). Yes, there are exemptions for taxes paid to foreign countries, which follow generally from the idea of not taxing a tax.
My country of residence also taxes my worldwide income. Thankfully there are some tax agreements between the countries which alleviate potential double taxation, so the bite is not as bad as it could be.
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Unless things have changed a lot since I went through the process, it is necessary to pick a research problem and get it approved by the faculty of your department to be worthy of research. I don't think most people know what their problem will be the summer before they start the graduate program. I sure did not. I had to get some experience before I could identify a good topic.
How sad it is to discover someone young enough and ignorant enough to not know who Dave Winer is.
Way off topic post. What on earth do you think you are trying to say? I certainly cannot make any sense of this post.
And New Zealand does have an army (and an air force) in addition to a navy. All organizations are very small, and are not set up for offensive warfare. They are most often used for humanitarian missions. There is a contingent of the NZ Army SAS active in Afghanistan for several years now.
And, going back to the original posting, the proper term for the navy of NZ is "Royal New Zealand Navy", not "New Zealand Royal Navy". "Royal Navy" is British.
Disagree! "Orthagonal" would be pronounced quite differently from "Orthogonal". But I hope you wouldn't try, because "orthagonal" is not a word.
When I saw this, my first thought was that it looked a lot like suits that sci-fi moviemakers have imagined over the years.
As a US citizen living in a small foreign country subject to the bullying of the US over these kinds of matters, I feel ashamed of what the US is doing. AND it is not funny!
Compilers compile to "object code" or "machine code", not "assembler language". It may be that some simple compilers produce output in assembler language that has to be separately "assembled". And the object code generated by some compilers may have to be interpreted by another program, such as the Java virtual machine.
In American English, one says and writes "oriented". In British English, the word "orientated" is used for the same purpose. Something I had to learn when I left the USA.
Perhaps you cannot remember a time before C++ existed. Object-oriented ideas existed before C++ and some people wanted to use them in their code.
Of course you can write object-oriented code in C. It has been done many times.
An object-oriented language has lots of syntactic help for the purpose, but all languages compile to some type of runtime code structure. If you understand what code gives the object-oriented behavior you want, then you can write it in C.
And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language, I would guess. I do remember writing a C routine once which had an initialized array containing hex representations of machine code to do a particular highly specialized task, and then using some coding wizardry to get the locus of control into that array when needed. Ah, those were the days.
No, I do not recall that incident, but as you tell it, I can visualize the result. That is a good story.
In many different forms of printed material I see today, it seems quite apparent that "editor" means "spell checker program". I rarely see misspelling typos any more, but I see many, many instances of misused words that are correct, well-defined words, just not suitable for the context in which they appear. The odd instances in this article are of that type.
Exactly right! You only have a couple of months, so why spend it all trying to find work? If you don't have something lined up already, then what are your chances?
Yeah, I think Doctor Who is much more accessible to the scifi unaware.
Ever since the 2009 film, I cannot resist referring to Jennifer Morrison as "Kirk's Mommy".
Amen!
Let him find his own way. At 8 years he has plenty of time to discover what he likes. Of course you want to be sure he has opportunity and access to sample many things.
I have been a SF and Fantasy reader most of my life ( pushing 70 now), but I also remember that I did not really find my way there until I was 10 or 12. Before that I read encyclopedias. First SF for me were HG Wells and J Verne. Then Edgar Rice Burroughs. Those are really old fashioned, but still good reads today.
After 39 years, you likely should be retiring. I retired after a 38-year career, and it was the best thing I ever did!
Go apply for Social Security and begin tapping into those IRAs and 401Ks. You are set.
If, after you retire, you still feel the urge to do something creative, Get involved with an open source project or go help some local community-service organization with its website or something like that.
A very long time ago I was in a work group whose IT guy had decided to name the servers after mountains in the Bay Area. That worked very well in general, but no one could ever spell Umunhum correctly, and it was forever a problem! So be careful when you choose place names.
I live in NZ, a country where tipping is very seldom done. The service is generally very bad because there is no incentive to do better. I am always happy to return to the US and dine where I am treated better.
And on the coinage topic: NZ dropped the 1-cent coin maybe 12 years ago, and the 5-cent coin was dropped in 2006. Prices are NOT written in multiples of 10 cents. They are written as 4.99 or 12.34, or whatever. Tax is not an issue, although every price includes a national tax. Electronic transactions (credit or debit card) are charged the exact price. Rounding happens only when one pays cash, and then on the total amount, not each individual item. There are 2 or 3 approved rounding methods, and the store must publicly post which method they use.
It all just works.
The OP's assessment of "Overly-Restrictive" seems rather naive. During my entire career, just about every job I held had such provisions about intellectual property rights. I would not call it "overly-restrictive" at all. And that said, I found it usually possible to get some "wiggle-room" by up-front telling them exceptions that I wanted to preserve my sole rights in. Renegotiate, though it is harder to do once you are onboard.
This comment is spot-on. Generally no one really cares about degrees or qualifications except that you have some. An advanced degree basically means you have demonstrated persistence, little more. If your job requires some particular arcane knowledge (rare), then you employer should provide the training. (I know, many cheapskates do not.)
What really matters is "can you deliver the needed results?" Make that happen however you can.
Federal judges are not elected. They are appointed for life. But, if you read the TFA you will discover that the court in discussion is NOT a federal court. It is a state court, and judges ARE routinely elected for state courts.
The USA IS the only country which taxes citizens that way. Many (most?) countries do tax the worldwide income of their citizens, but only while those citizens are tax residents of their home country. Most countries stop taxing citizens when they move away from the home country for a period of time. The US is the only country which never gives up. A US citizen is taxed on worldwide income no matter where they live and how long they have lived there.
The $87000 exemption you mention is there, but applies only to earned income. I live offshore, am retired and have no earned income, so that exemption certainly does not apply to me (wish it did). Yes, there are exemptions for taxes paid to foreign countries, which follow generally from the idea of not taxing a tax.
My country of residence also taxes my worldwide income. Thankfully there are some tax agreements between the countries which alleviate potential double taxation, so the bite is not as bad as it could be.