I see this come up, but I can't say I've met many lazy professors just coasting on tenure. By the time they've done their undergrad, graduate work, post-doc and then scrambled through years of associate professorship to get tenure, they're either in the habit of working pretty hard or really like what they do. It seems like a pretty rare lazy individual ready to commit 10 - 20 years of really hard work for a supposed "easy life" at the end of that line. If you're really up for burning out and fading away, you could do better going the Wall Street or lawyer route, make more along the way, and probably retire earlier.
Not to say there aren't profs who burn out or coast once it's available to them, and my experience could be skewed somehow, but tenure never seemed like a particularly good deal to me.
That's surprisingly complicated at times. Last weekend a property manager gave me a key to an interior office rather than the front door. I had to go around back, find a window with an AC unit, pull it out, and climb in. The people I was with looked at me like I was crazy, despite the fact I had a key in my hand and an invitation to enter the property.
I remember collecting runes to build weapons that gave me all sorts of cool abilities from other classes.
I remember playing for dozens of hours collecting runes but never getting enough of them to spell any good words. Not sure if it was bad luck, not playing at high enough level, or just not grinding another few hundred hours. I never seemed to get all the pieces to any of the good sets, either.
Five years ago when I bought a MacBook, we left it plugged in most of the time, and the battery basically died within a year. Apple replaced it under warranty, but the tech recommended we unplug it a lot more and let it drain (not all the way, but we tended to go to 20-40%) and refill rather than leave it charged. The second battery lasted pretty well with that technique through four years of life.
I realize that's an older system and different model, but our results are opposite your advice. Have things changed that much that the technique is now completely different?
If I had a dollar for every financial book that said, "all other books are get-rich-quick scams, but THIS book teaches you how to earn money slowly, steadily, and wisely," I would have gotten rich very quick after all. I feel the same way about diet book claims like this one.
Yes, it's true that a slow and steady is going to be more effective in the long term, and it's true there's a lot of methods pushing quick and easy options that are very poor, but it's an equally established cliche that quick and easy doesn't work and here's the "one true way".
That's a shame. I feel most compelled to write reviews on Amazon when I'm either really unhappy or really pleased with a product, so many of them are either 5's or 1's. Perhaps I should just make them all 2's and 4's so they're more believable?
I've done some custom questions. Something simple, like "what is this forum about?" or "what's the name of the game this forum is for?" Something a person would immediately know, but a bot wouldn't.
We were offered the test both times, but declined the first and took it the second time. Different life circumstances, plus different presentation of the risks and tradeoffs. In both cases I think we thought they were talking about something more invasive like amniocentesis, and only realized it was something else once we'd accepted the second time around and they did what seemed more like an extended ultrasound. In retrospect I feel they explained the purpose of the testing okay, but did a lousy job conveying how the actual procedure worked.
That's a good one. For a little cheaper, the Kindle Fire can also do Netflix. Smaller screen, I think. Also, either we're having some bad luck or it's a little buggy. The Netflix app crashes on us now and then when we're browsing and we've got to reopen it. Once streaming starts it's generally solid, it's the search interface that causes problems.
(Also....the fuck? Isn't this slashdot? What the hell kind of a question is "which closed source non-free software appliance should I buy to pay for DRMed content?")
While I get what you're saying, I think if the question were "which free, open-source software appliance will my grandparents be able to use and be recognizable enough other people might be able to help them if something goes wrong?" there wouldn't be anything to discuss.
On the plus side, I just learned my Roku can do subtitles. I did not know that, and since we just had a new kid, my wife and I will really want to try that out. whether or not the OP gets what he needs, I just got an immensely beneficial piece of information. Thanks, slashdot!
Pandora is nice for that, too. Feed in a couple of bands you feel like listening to, and they'll blend in other similar bands. Probably not that great for the really obscure and indie stuff, but I've found a lot of music I like because of it.
I'm in the States, they're in Australia. I'm pretty sure they'd laugh it off. And other than the stray email I get there's absolutely zero business overlap, so I'm not sure there's any real trademark infringement.
It may be a fake, but it's damn close to something I'm dealing with. My user name, Quirkz, is also a domain I've had for ages. There's a venue that opened a couple of years ago that calls itself Qirkz. People are constitutionally unable to type a Q without typing a U, so I get tons of email for bookings and confirmations and ads and all sorts of junk. One professor had an entire class full of students try to contact me about summer internships, and then I got a bunch of laughing replies when I responded "No, no! That's the wrong address and I'm sick of this junk."
For a while I tried forwarding requests, including interviews with the BBC, but that felt like a job. Then when I was running an online game I tried a standard response which explained both businesses, hoping maybe a few people would also be curious in what I did, but that didn't seem to help and I don't have the game anymore. Now I just delete the email, but it's still unsatisfying.
I haven't ever really considered intentionally disruptive behavior, mostly because that'd be even more work, and I'm just not quite that malicious (or funny). I really don't know a way out. I'm mostly hoping they'll either eventually rebrand, or somehow the slow trickle of business lost to failed emails will clue them in and make them change.
I still hear good things about AC, and I played the Civs obsessively, but when I bought Alpha Centauri I didn't even make it through the first game. I recall kind of liking it, but maybe I didn't quite get past the learning curve to enjoy it enough. I can't really say why I didn't give it more time. I bought it on GOG.com six months ago, and I have yet to install it. Maybe I'll use this reminder as an excuse to try it again.
then why not go back to everyone live where their families came from, in the state of being they were, before 1492?
As someone who can identify at least six different nationalities in his recent ancestry, does that mean I'd need to be chopped up and spread over Europe, perhaps as a fine mist?
If you want to be a little less cynical, you could call this the Tesla Motors method. Start with something high-end and let that subsidize your way to mass production.
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I see this come up, but I can't say I've met many lazy professors just coasting on tenure. By the time they've done their undergrad, graduate work, post-doc and then scrambled through years of associate professorship to get tenure, they're either in the habit of working pretty hard or really like what they do. It seems like a pretty rare lazy individual ready to commit 10 - 20 years of really hard work for a supposed "easy life" at the end of that line. If you're really up for burning out and fading away, you could do better going the Wall Street or lawyer route, make more along the way, and probably retire earlier.
Not to say there aren't profs who burn out or coast once it's available to them, and my experience could be skewed somehow, but tenure never seemed like a particularly good deal to me.
That's surprisingly complicated at times. Last weekend a property manager gave me a key to an interior office rather than the front door. I had to go around back, find a window with an AC unit, pull it out, and climb in. The people I was with looked at me like I was crazy, despite the fact I had a key in my hand and an invitation to enter the property.
I remember collecting runes to build weapons that gave me all sorts of cool abilities from other classes.
I remember playing for dozens of hours collecting runes but never getting enough of them to spell any good words. Not sure if it was bad luck, not playing at high enough level, or just not grinding another few hundred hours. I never seemed to get all the pieces to any of the good sets, either.
Five years ago when I bought a MacBook, we left it plugged in most of the time, and the battery basically died within a year. Apple replaced it under warranty, but the tech recommended we unplug it a lot more and let it drain (not all the way, but we tended to go to 20-40%) and refill rather than leave it charged. The second battery lasted pretty well with that technique through four years of life.
I realize that's an older system and different model, but our results are opposite your advice. Have things changed that much that the technique is now completely different?
If you have no sun, use your dotter.
If I had a dollar for every financial book that said, "all other books are get-rich-quick scams, but THIS book teaches you how to earn money slowly, steadily, and wisely," I would have gotten rich very quick after all. I feel the same way about diet book claims like this one.
Yes, it's true that a slow and steady is going to be more effective in the long term, and it's true there's a lot of methods pushing quick and easy options that are very poor, but it's an equally established cliche that quick and easy doesn't work and here's the "one true way".
That's a shame. I feel most compelled to write reviews on Amazon when I'm either really unhappy or really pleased with a product, so many of them are either 5's or 1's. Perhaps I should just make them all 2's and 4's so they're more believable?
I've done some custom questions. Something simple, like "what is this forum about?" or "what's the name of the game this forum is for?" Something a person would immediately know, but a bot wouldn't.
We were offered the test both times, but declined the first and took it the second time. Different life circumstances, plus different presentation of the risks and tradeoffs. In both cases I think we thought they were talking about something more invasive like amniocentesis, and only realized it was something else once we'd accepted the second time around and they did what seemed more like an extended ultrasound. In retrospect I feel they explained the purpose of the testing okay, but did a lousy job conveying how the actual procedure worked.
Screening was optional for us.
That's a good one. For a little cheaper, the Kindle Fire can also do Netflix. Smaller screen, I think. Also, either we're having some bad luck or it's a little buggy. The Netflix app crashes on us now and then when we're browsing and we've got to reopen it. Once streaming starts it's generally solid, it's the search interface that causes problems.
(Also....the fuck? Isn't this slashdot? What the hell kind of a question is "which closed source non-free software appliance should I buy to pay for DRMed content?")
While I get what you're saying, I think if the question were "which free, open-source software appliance will my grandparents be able to use and be recognizable enough other people might be able to help them if something goes wrong?" there wouldn't be anything to discuss.
On the plus side, I just learned my Roku can do subtitles. I did not know that, and since we just had a new kid, my wife and I will really want to try that out. whether or not the OP gets what he needs, I just got an immensely beneficial piece of information. Thanks, slashdot!
Everyone's a foreigner to somewhere, right?
Only if we get Humbugs as subunits. So I can finally ask, "How many humbugs in a hamburg?"
And any time someone in a political discussion resorts to the phrase "common sense" it means "I don't have anything better to go with here."
Ah, where's my mod points when I need 'em. Funny.
Pandora is nice for that, too. Feed in a couple of bands you feel like listening to, and they'll blend in other similar bands. Probably not that great for the really obscure and indie stuff, but I've found a lot of music I like because of it.
I'm in the States, they're in Australia. I'm pretty sure they'd laugh it off. And other than the stray email I get there's absolutely zero business overlap, so I'm not sure there's any real trademark infringement.
It may be a fake, but it's damn close to something I'm dealing with. My user name, Quirkz, is also a domain I've had for ages. There's a venue that opened a couple of years ago that calls itself Qirkz. People are constitutionally unable to type a Q without typing a U, so I get tons of email for bookings and confirmations and ads and all sorts of junk. One professor had an entire class full of students try to contact me about summer internships, and then I got a bunch of laughing replies when I responded "No, no! That's the wrong address and I'm sick of this junk."
For a while I tried forwarding requests, including interviews with the BBC, but that felt like a job. Then when I was running an online game I tried a standard response which explained both businesses, hoping maybe a few people would also be curious in what I did, but that didn't seem to help and I don't have the game anymore. Now I just delete the email, but it's still unsatisfying.
I haven't ever really considered intentionally disruptive behavior, mostly because that'd be even more work, and I'm just not quite that malicious (or funny). I really don't know a way out. I'm mostly hoping they'll either eventually rebrand, or somehow the slow trickle of business lost to failed emails will clue them in and make them change.
I'm kind of hoping for Windows 8 version 2.0 "Manx"
I still hear good things about AC, and I played the Civs obsessively, but when I bought Alpha Centauri I didn't even make it through the first game. I recall kind of liking it, but maybe I didn't quite get past the learning curve to enjoy it enough. I can't really say why I didn't give it more time. I bought it on GOG.com six months ago, and I have yet to install it. Maybe I'll use this reminder as an excuse to try it again.
This seems deeply insightful. I'd give you mod points if I had 'em.
then why not go back to everyone live where their families came from, in the state of being they were, before 1492?
As someone who can identify at least six different nationalities in his recent ancestry, does that mean I'd need to be chopped up and spread over Europe, perhaps as a fine mist?
I've always gone by salt, sugar, grease, caffeine. Bacon isn't a group, it's just a particularly inspired combination of salt and grease.
If you want to be a little less cynical, you could call this the Tesla Motors method. Start with something high-end and let that subsidize your way to mass production.