So you are saying that you spend years in getting a PhD to enable you to work a for a company for a couple of years, and then are out on the job market again... and then what ?
Perhaps you should try and get a PhD that gets you a permanent position, or many job opportunities rather than one temporary job ?
Command Line - You have not used Linux recently most people never use the command line, and Windows has a powerful command line highly encouraged by Microsoft now...
Modular - Yes it is, so Is MS, so Is Mac..
Desktop use of Windows or Mac or Linux is nothing to do with the OS, they are all fairly similar to most users, it is everything to do with the apps available, if what you use is email/web/Office then a Web based cloud system will do and the OS underneath is largely irrelevant, or any of these OS's will work in much the same way... it is only when you want to use a specific app that is only available for a particular OS that your choice becomes limited
Design - Most of the best apps are still Mac/OSX based
Office - Most of the best apps are still Windows based
Your average geek runs Linux - probably several different flavours, *and* Windows, but only to use the specific business app their boss insists they use and to play games...
PhD's need to do proper research, but do not yet have a job and so either they do something in order to get a job, or they do something purely academic
If you reject a PhD because the subject of their PhD thesis is not relevant then you have missed the point, you do not employ a PhD because their thesis is useful to you, but because *they* are useful to you, they have shown themselves capable of doing the research and work to get a PhD...
Electricity was considered a novelty at best, until practical uses were found for it...
Group theory was considered esoteric and purely academic since it was invented in 1832 by Évariste Galois, until it was used in the Standard model of Particle physics...
Most of current Mathematics is like this, and large swathes of of other science cannot get funding because no-one can see the current relevancy of it...
People with High IQ's are successful and rich...really?
Marilyn vos Savant - Newspaper columnist Solomon W. Golomb - Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Christopher Langan - Bouncer
None of them are in highly paid jobs, none are business leaders, none have founded high flying blue chip companies....?
The threat is often enough to stop the excesses... if the Queen was rumoured to be considering using her veto the press would have a field day, and the government would be in serious trouble...
She has used her power fairly recently , in 1974 we had an election with no clear winner, and she appointed a prime minister without a majority of the house behind him...she could have forced another election or held off for a coalition.... but both were not in the interest of the country....
Aluminium uses massive amounts of electricity to produce, Sodium Hydroxide production uses massive amounts of energy.... and this process is quite inefficient...
LyX (Which is quite nice, but still overlays LaTeX which is not for the novice)
Or a proper WYSIWYG typesetting program....
Word is a document editor, not a typesetting program , this really shows when working with long documents.... they corrupt crash get weird stuff in them...the same is true to some degree for OO/LO although it does seem to recover from corrupt files better than Word...
How many of these are in a major earthquake zone, how many are on a coast subject to tsunami's?
There are several of these plants in Japan that were hit by the quake and are still producing power... the ones in question survived the quake, it was the tsunami after that damaged them...
The few conventional plants and renewable plants on the tsunami hit coast are a little worse off, they don't exist anymore...
We should learn lessons from this, don't build nuclear plants in quake/tsunami zones.... the Japanese had no choice (the whole country is in an earthquake/tsunami zone)
Space elevator is not practical yet, we don't have any material to build the cable, I don't know what money is spent on something that we cannot build, except in carbon nanotube research (which should be done anyway), but the rest of the tech involved is very simple and easy
A transporter is probably impossible, a space elevator is just impractical (currently)
Both of these were single hop's, a trip to Mars is likely to be a staged journey, build the craft in orbit, or on the Moon, and use fuel from Space, the article assumes that the only possible way is a single hop from the earth to Mars (or further) taking everything, fuel, supplies with you.... This is impractical, but not impossible
Making predictions about future technology is foolish at best.... go and speak to anyone in the 1950's about a compter with 6,000 logic gates, contained within 40 square mm they would say that was against the laws of physics and chemistry... but the Intel 8800 had this in 1974
Look at the History and Geography questions and you will realise they are almost all about the classical civilisations, the Latin and Greek are so you can read and understand the works of these civilisations
Note that this is an entrace exam for an American university and yet there is only one question involving the USA (River basins of the US) the rest are Classical civilisations, fundemental maths, and early European geography... and this simply reflected what employers who would recruit University graduates wanted...
Note this is very similar to the requirements for a British, or other European university at the same time
The main this that has changed is that Americans stopped trying to be European and started becoming Amercian...
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So you are saying that you spend years in getting a PhD to enable you to work a for a company for a couple of years, and then are out on the job market again... and then what ?
Perhaps you should try and get a PhD that gets you a permanent position, or many job opportunities rather than one temporary job ?
Command Line - You have not used Linux recently most people never use the command line, and Windows has a powerful command line highly encouraged by Microsoft now ...
Modular - Yes it is, so Is MS, so Is Mac ..
Desktop use of Windows or Mac or Linux is nothing to do with the OS, they are all fairly similar to most users, it is everything to do with the apps available, if what you use is email/web/Office then a Web based cloud system will do and the OS underneath is largely irrelevant, or any of these OS's will work in much the same way... it is only when you want to use a specific app that is only available for a particular OS that your choice becomes limited
Design - Most of the best apps are still Mac/OSX based
Office - Most of the best apps are still Windows based
Your average geek runs Linux - probably several different flavours, *and* Windows, but only to use the specific business app their boss insists they use and to play games ...
It depends what you think a PhD is for ...
PhD's need to do proper research, but do not yet have a job and so either they do something in order to get a job, or they do something purely academic
If you reject a PhD because the subject of their PhD thesis is not relevant then you have missed the point, you do not employ a PhD because their thesis is useful to you, but because *they* are useful to you, they have shown themselves capable of doing the research and work to get a PhD ...
Which ...
Electricity was considered a novelty at best, until practical uses were found for it ...
Group theory was considered esoteric and purely academic since it was invented in 1832 by Évariste Galois, until it was used in the Standard model of Particle physics ...
Most of current Mathematics is like this, and large swathes of of other science cannot get funding because no-one can see the current relevancy of it ...
People with High IQ's are successful and rich ...really?
Marilyn vos Savant - Newspaper columnist
Solomon W. Golomb - Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California
Christopher Langan - Bouncer
None of them are in highly paid jobs, none are business leaders, none have founded high flying blue chip companies ....?
Us Europeans don't have Software Patents, and so can merrily ignore all this ... only US and international companies need pay attention ..
The threat is often enough to stop the excesses ... if the Queen was rumoured to be considering using her veto the press would have a field day, and the government would be in serious trouble ...
She has used her power fairly recently , in 1974 we had an election with no clear winner, and she appointed a prime minister without a majority of the house behind him ...she could have forced another election or held off for a coalition .... but both were not in the interest of the country ....
44% use Outlook/ThunderBird/Etc other on their PC
36% use Hotmail or Yahoo on line ....
6% use a smartphone ....
The Cloud is growing but not as fast as people think
2 Al + 2 NaOH + 2 H2O 2 NaAlO2 + 3 H2
Aluminium uses massive amounts of electricity to produce, Sodium Hydroxide production uses massive amounts of energy .... and this process is quite inefficient ...
New fuel, no ....
Nothing has "gone to the cloud" .... most people run stuff on thier computer ... or on a local server, still ....
iPhone launched in late 2007 ..... before that Apple were jogging along as they always had ....that's 3+ years not 12+
$40 billion can be lost in a vary short time ...
If people stop buying your products when you do not already have the next one ready, you are sunk ....
LyX (Which is quite nice, but still overlays LaTeX which is not for the novice)
Or a proper WYSIWYG typesetting program....
Word is a document editor, not a typesetting program , this really shows when working with long documents .... they corrupt crash get weird stuff in them ...the same is true to some degree for OO/LO although it does seem to recover from corrupt files better than Word ...
Made in China - checked by the NSA, found to be clean
Made in the USA - checked by the NSA, backdoor working correctly ...
Anti-Virus
- Spots only known viruses ... meaning that new viruses, i.e the ones you are most likley to see, get through
- Spots known virus like activity.... meaning will cause false alarms, whilst letting viruses using new expoits through
It's much better to make it difficult or impossible for people to run random software sent to them ... rather than make this commonplace
Logic bombs in Open-Source - are very hard to do (and not be easily seen), and could just as easily be in closed source ...
In the UK we have the Queen do this job herself ....
...Built on the JVM so has all the disadvantages of Java, ....
This is no different that the host of alternative languages that run on the JVM ....and are already out there ...
How many of these are in a major earthquake zone, how many are on a coast subject to tsunami's?
There are several of these plants in Japan that were hit by the quake and are still producing power ... the ones in question survived the quake, it was the tsunami after that damaged them ...
The few conventional plants and renewable plants on the tsunami hit coast are a little worse off, they don't exist anymore ...
We should learn lessons from this, don't build nuclear plants in quake/tsunami zones .... the Japanese had no choice (the whole country is in an earthquake/tsunami zone)
The problem is that he died in 2010 ... a man in space that survived would the a hero of the Soviet Union ...
Yuri got there first
Space is 62 miles away, it's only 4 days to the moon .... space is small for some destiations ...
Space elevator is not practical yet, we don't have any material to build the cable, I don't know what money is spent on something that we cannot build, except in carbon nanotube research (which should be done anyway), but the rest of the tech involved is very simple and easy
A transporter is probably impossible, a space elevator is just impractical (currently)
Got to space in Early 60's
Got to the moon in the late 60's
Both of these were single hop's, a trip to Mars is likely to be a staged journey, build the craft in orbit, or on the Moon, and use fuel from Space, the article assumes that the only possible way is a single hop from the earth to Mars (or further) taking everything, fuel, supplies with you.... This is impractical, but not impossible
Making predictions about future technology is foolish at best .... go and speak to anyone in the 1950's about a compter with 6,000 logic gates, contained within 40 square mm they would say that was against the laws of physics and chemistry ... but the Intel 8800 had this in 1974
How much new work will the Author make after they are dead ... none
So why life+anything?
How much music do you know from 20 years ago... 10 years... 5 years ... compared to how much is published?
Most music careers are not this long, so why protect an artist who does not produce for this long?
Look at the History and Geography questions and you will realise they are almost all about the classical civilisations, the Latin and Greek are so you can read and understand the works of these civilisations
Note that this is an entrace exam for an American university and yet there is only one question involving the USA (River basins of the US) the rest are Classical ... and this simply reflected what employers who would recruit University graduates wanted ...
civilisations, fundemental maths, and early European geography
Note this is very similar to the requirements for a British, or other European university at the same time
The main this that has changed is that Americans stopped trying to be European and started becoming Amercian ...
Discovered, as in unknown, put demos on MySpace, Record company contacted her and signed her ...
Famous as in Won 2 Grammys, UK Number one album, UK Number one Single, US Bliiboard Number one ....
So obviously since you have not heard of her she is a manufactured pop act, who has never done anything of note ....
My ISP is 100 miles from where I am ... and I am not on wireless ... ..oh you appear not to be anywhere near right ...