"Doctor" had a long established meaning before the modern MD in the US was concocted: a doctor was a person who had acquired significant knowledge in an area, *AND* had contributed to that body of knowledge. (It comes from the Latin verb "to teach").
The modern MD was created specifically to borrow the prestige and legitimacy of the doctors of the university at at a time when contemporary medicine was at least as likely to cause harm as to help. It created a system of training, but dropped the second prong (contribution to knowledge).
As a real doctor, I find the borrowing of my title an adequate tradeoff for the vastly improved healthcare, but I get a good laugh when a mere MD tries to distinguish that he is a "real doctor." (If he as actually published in a peer reviewed journal, or developed a new technique, he is indeed a real doctor. But they are a small minority).
MDs also like introducing themselves as "Dr. Smith"; real doctors rarely do--I've never done it outside of a classroom.
The DDS is kind of an MD knockoff with the same missing second prong.
Chiropracticy, well . . . they should only be allowed to operate under the direct supervision of real physicians, but that's another issue. "Menace" would be a better title than "Dr." for them, but I digress . . .
And as for attorneys . . . the (american) JD is actually the old LLB (Bachelor of Law). In about the 1960s, law schools started switching over, even offering replacement diplomas to their alumni. It was about some kind of parity with MD.
The LLM is a legal master's degree, almost always in tax in the US.
And then there is the LLD, the PhD equivalent, an actual doctor. These are rare, you see an occasional law school dean and so forth. And, notably, Neil Gorsuch, the newest Supreme Court Justice, holds one. (for all I know, he's the only JSD or LLD to ever sit on the court, but I haven't bothered to look, as it's really not that important).
Substantially all medical school and law school faculty have published and contributed to their bodies of knowledge.
I used BASIC as it was what was available on the machine I was paid to write.
My BASIC, though, looked more like good FORTRAN than most basic, with thought out calls, etc.
If the language you need to use doesn't have the control structure you need, just write it.
Although I don't miss worrying about what line number to put routines at for efficiency (MBASIC until 5 or so would search through memory on a GOTO or GOSUB, making low-numbered calls faster than high-numbered).
And it's amazing that noone has pointed out the adage that a sufficiently skilled programmer can write bad FORTRAN in any language . . .
As an undergraduate, I had Set Theory class taught by Paul Halmos (yes, *that* Halmos).
On the first day, during his introductions, he suddenly veered into grammar. He addressed the ignorant statement as put forth in the quoted text above that "To recap: In English, there is no gender-neutral pronoun for a single person."
First noting that some languages have a pronoun for persons of unknown gender, he finished with "English is such a language. The word is 'he.' So you will forgive me if I do not say 'he or she' throughout this course."
He was (and remains) correct. "He" and "him" do not imply gender in English unless context indicates otherwise.
Growing up, my grandparents had a couple of acres of zinfandel.
Each year, a winery would pay to pick & keep them, and my grandmother would go pick the late ripeners about two weeks later.
She juiced them, and canned them in mason jars.
The stuff was wonderful, heavy, and pulpy. It did, however, etch the jars . . .
Today, my father tries to see it to me every year or two, but I live a few hundred miles away. (anyone want to buy a couple of acres of northern californian zinfandel?:)
I switched from Directv to the hated cable company to get back to a tivo (a romio). Turns out that the interface just isn't, well, what we liked tivo for.
Rather than clicking on record in the listings, it's something like three. And for a season pass, rather than clicking record twice, it's several. Because, gosh, they've got to make buying it to watch the default first choice, don't they?
In the mid-80s, my older engineering professors commented that *their* professors refused to get on airplanes for that reason: "normal" engineering tolerance was 300%-400%, and planes were 10% to 15% . . .
That depends *entirely* on the price elastic of demand--the decrease can be either less *or* more than 1%. And in the (bizarre and hypothetical) case of the "Giffen good", demand could actually *increase* (but no-one has ever shown an example of such a good.)
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"Doctor" had a long established meaning before the modern MD in the US was concocted: a doctor was a person who had acquired significant knowledge in an area, *AND* had contributed to that body of knowledge. (It comes from the Latin verb "to teach").
The modern MD was created specifically to borrow the prestige and legitimacy of the doctors of the university at at a time when contemporary medicine was at least as likely to cause harm as to help. It created a system of training, but dropped the second prong (contribution to knowledge).
As a real doctor, I find the borrowing of my title an adequate tradeoff for the vastly improved healthcare, but I get a good laugh when a mere MD tries to distinguish that he is a "real doctor." (If he as actually published in a peer reviewed journal, or developed a new technique, he is indeed a real doctor. But they are a small minority).
MDs also like introducing themselves as "Dr. Smith"; real doctors rarely do--I've never done it outside of a classroom.
The DDS is kind of an MD knockoff with the same missing second prong.
Chiropracticy, well . . . they should only be allowed to operate under the direct supervision of real physicians, but that's another issue. "Menace" would be a better title than "Dr." for them, but I digress . . .
And as for attorneys . . . the (american) JD is actually the old LLB (Bachelor of Law). In about the 1960s, law schools started switching over, even offering replacement diplomas to their alumni. It was about some kind of parity with MD.
The LLM is a legal master's degree, almost always in tax in the US.
And then there is the LLD, the PhD equivalent, an actual doctor. These are rare, you see an occasional law school dean and so forth. And, notably, Neil Gorsuch, the newest Supreme Court Justice, holds one. (for all I know, he's the only JSD or LLD to ever sit on the court, but I haven't bothered to look, as it's really not that important).
Substantially all medical school and law school faculty have published and contributed to their bodies of knowledge.
hawk, doctor of economics & statistics
This.
I used BASIC as it was what was available on the machine I was paid to write.
My BASIC, though, looked more like good FORTRAN than most basic, with thought out calls, etc.
If the language you need to use doesn't have the control structure you need, just write it.
Although I don't miss worrying about what line number to put routines at for efficiency (MBASIC until 5 or so would search through memory on a GOTO or GOSUB, making low-numbered calls faster than high-numbered).
And it's amazing that noone has pointed out the adage that a sufficiently skilled programmer can write bad FORTRAN in any language . . .
hawk
Spontaneous generation proved at last!
Take *that*, Mr. Pasteur . . . :)
hawk
Actually, I've never even *heard* of a case of anyone getting a job offer (or offering one) from linkedin.
I fail to comprehend why anyone still even looks at it.
hawk
I had a programming job before college (hey, it was silicon valley in the early 80s) and got called back a few months later.
They had hired an Indian with an MS, and weren't getting anywhere.
I sat down with him to work with code he didn't understand, and he was baffled by the whole "sort" concept.
I tried again at lower and lower levels, finally having to pull out some cards to physically demonstrate a bubble sort . . .
(yes, I know there are many more efficient sorts when more than a few objects are involved; that's not the point here).
hawk
Ahh, so not just fungus, but more a lichen-like symbiosis . . .
hawk, wondering which is the fungus and which the bacterium . . .
>Uhh, what part of the "country" do you live in where there's a CVS?
That's easy.
Get some bare land damp, cover and shade it for a couple of months, and a CVS will pop up.
They're like mushrooms that way.
Actually, I think CVS *is* a large species of mushroom . . .
hawk
>does not seem to require to the latest internet fad app in order to work.
Telegraph was good enough for my grandfather, and it's good enough for me.
OK, so it takes a while to read these articles, and the bandwith is even lower than an 1149 connection, but . . .
hawk
p.s. My grandfather delivered Herbert Hoover's telegram offering him the party nomination. My father has Mrs. Hoover's thank you note to him . . .
>I admit I lose track of time regularly, but a 20 year old e-mail
>program -- Eudora, Elm, what have you -- had no ability to
>parse HTML e-mail.
OK, so a 20 year old email client is *more* useful than a recent one . . .
hawk
As an undergraduate, I had Set Theory class taught by Paul Halmos (yes, *that* Halmos).
On the first day, during his introductions, he suddenly veered into grammar. He addressed the ignorant statement as put forth in the quoted text above that "To recap: In English, there is no gender-neutral pronoun for a single person."
First noting that some languages have a pronoun for persons of unknown gender, he finished with "English is such a language. The word is 'he.' So you will forgive me if I do not say 'he or she' throughout this course."
He was (and remains) correct. "He" and "him" do not imply gender in English unless context indicates otherwise.
hawk
Growing up, my grandparents had a couple of acres of zinfandel.
Each year, a winery would pay to pick & keep them, and my grandmother would go pick the late ripeners about two weeks later.
She juiced them, and canned them in mason jars.
The stuff was wonderful, heavy, and pulpy. It did, however, etch the jars . . .
Today, my father tries to see it to me every year or two, but I live a few hundred miles away. (anyone want to buy a couple of acres of northern californian zinfandel? :)
hawk
wouldn't that let the cat out of . . .oh, never mind
hawk
>Lena Dunham or Amy Shumer, mostly because I dislike their material.
wait a minute, "their"?
Are you saying that she is, er they are, not the same person?
hawk
Tivo is still around.
Well, sort of.
I switched from Directv to the hated cable company to get back to a tivo (a romio). Turns out that the interface just isn't, well, what we liked tivo for.
Rather than clicking on record in the listings, it's something like three. And for a season pass, rather than clicking record twice, it's several. Because, gosh, they've got to make buying it to watch the default first choice, don't they?
Can't screen for series premiere any more either.
Now, it's just a slightly better DVR :(
hawk
In the mid-80s, my older engineering professors commented that *their* professors refused to get on airplanes for that reason: "normal" engineering tolerance was 300%-400%, and planes were 10% to 15% . . .
hawk
>PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon error correction.
I'm no expert, but it seems to me that when the correct value of the data is disputed, cutting the data in half as a solution is a Bad Idea(TM) . . .
hawk
>Agent> So where would you find an abstract class?
Me: Much like elephants, they are rarely lost! :)
hawk
>I cannot wait for a day when only people able to
>answer (fairly basic) software engineering questions
>can fly.
At which point, the rest will be forced to take airplanes, while the technical few spend their days retaliating against pigeons . . .
hawk
>French historian detained for 10 hours
But that quiz is *way* to easy.
Simply answer every historical question with, "France surrendered".
Should easily get a 70% or higher . . . :)
hawk
That's downright Platonic . . .
hawk
Well, *you* are clearly not a teenage girl . . . :)
hawk
That depends *entirely* on the price elastic of demand--the decrease can be either less *or* more than 1%. And in the (bizarre and hypothetical) case of the "Giffen good", demand could actually *increase* (but no-one has ever shown an example of such a good.)
hawk, now taking his economist hat back off
Just for openers, the city of Rome once it got established in the business of conquering her neighbors and extracting tribute.
The keywords are "bread and circuses".
Citizens were entitled to their regular allotments of grain, etc.
It didn't work that well . . .
hawk
huh?
Virus that can infect multiple species aren't even uncommon enough to raise interest.
This is about the *gene* jumping species, which is nonsense for animals (plants are another matter, and I can't even guess as to other kingdoms).
That is, they're editing the genes of the released mice, not infecting the mice.
hawk
Welcome to slashdot, Ray Steverns!
One of many of his "Power Tools" (one of the best songs of all time).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbEwjUtBEXE
And as soon as these winds die down, I'll collect a few power tools and go work on my Cadillac . . .
hawk