That is not how it should work. Here, each course is associated with a particular set of concepts and the instructor is reponsible for teaching these concepts. When I teach a course the department recommends me a text book, but I can do whatever I want.
If you want a course that uses this book, this set of slides, and this set of assignment, get an f-ing parrot; I have better things to do.
Frankly, I don't know. If you are looking at statistics [1], the unemploymenet in young graduates is only 5%. When you account for the ones between two jobs and the ones that falls in the category "the guy graduated but you really wonder why", it seems to me that the jobs are filled. So I can buy the argument that there is a shortage of talents.
Now, how this is managed by the H1B process and the OPT is dubious. (I am on H1B right now, and I find the status is weird.) I work in a univesity, and our graduates (domestic and international) pretty much all find jobs.
In this scenario, the university can not know if I am guilty or innocent. Therefore, it can not side with me and it can not side with the student. The only position for the university is not to protect me and let the legal system sort it out. At no point did I say that the university should throw the instructor to the lions. I am saying that it should not protect the instructor because it is not its institutional responsibility. The university should leave it to the lawyers. There is no upside for the university, let's look at the two cases:
If the university sides with the instructor and the instructor is found guilty, it will be said that the university encourages sexual harassment. If the university sides with the instructor and the instructor is found innocent, it will be said that the university covered it up.
I completely aggree with this. I am not saying we should throw them to the lions. Just let the process work in the most transparent way. When the story reaches you, contact the authorities and let the investigation take its course. In the meantime, offer administrative leave to the instructor and to postpone the class to the student, offer legal and psychological advice to both. I don't know what else the institution can do.
You quote : "when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out.. Feynman.. trying to get women in bars to sleep with him.. documented affairs with two married women"
I have no idea whether this quote is correct or not. But pretending to be a student seems to pretty much rule out sexual harassment. You do not sexually harass by pretending to have less control on the other person than you actually have. Or you are the worse harasser in history...
That is the main problem with sexual harassement. Once a sexual harassement case appear, the consequences of being wrong will be terrible in either case: 1/ either you let a sexual harasser free. 2/ or you destroy the life of an innocent.
Neither of these options are preferable. And because it is so hard to get evidence of these, it often ends in "he said/she said". So everyone wants to tiptoe around it.
"How far should academic communities go to protect their intellectual capital, at the expense of further harm to their students, past and present?"
As a male university professor, my answer to this is very clear. We should not protect them. For many reasons: 1/ You begin brilliant does not mean you can do whatever you want. 2/ For most of us, we can do our research from a prison cell. 3/ Our students are the main product of academic life. We all love to believe that our research is the most important. But realistically we have the opportunity to touch the mind (the mind I said!) of hundreds of students each year. They will be our legacy, let's make it good one!
I do not know the US legal system that much. But it seems that if you can not get a court-nominated expert witness to vouch for the result, the evidence should be discarded. Now, I would even prefer if an independent lab could reproduce that result.
I never had a look at secure mode before. But it seems like a too coarse approach to me. You can not cut privilege level in three blocks and claim that is all you need. You might want access to some devices but not other, access to some part of the network but not other. secure mode looks too blocky to be useful in a real scenario.
Isn't the top-1% in the US around $400K a year? If so, a $250,000 space trip is not that crazy.
$400K/year is the kind of salary that strat getting a high investment/expense ratio. Also the kind of salary that eventually buy $200,000 cars. So a once in a lifetime $250,000 expense is not necessarily out of the question.
Any chance they were assuming they were not the driver? When my son is in the car, he spends his time either talking with me, or with the world through his phone.
That is so untrue. What are you talking about!? PCI-express is much faster than the late AGP, PCI and ISA buses, you get over 15GB/s from one GPU to an other one. SATA and SCSI have had a good run, but are being remplaced by PCI-express for high throughput devices. In clusters, Infiniband decreased latency massively compared to ethernet, and gives you bandwidth of over 100Gb/s.
So surely, the interconnect is a factor slower than devices, but that's pretty much always has been the case.
Unfortunately, I do not think French schools have cooks anymore. They have microwaves... Even if I never ate at school (I was living on the next block), still makes me sad.
I have an H1B right now, and I'll be receiving my green card soon. So I understand what you are saying. The H1B ties you to one employer which means that you are not free to move around. I would actually think that it would be better to keep the H1B visa but remove the provision of tying the visa to a job. If you are good enough to obtain an H1B, you can work whereever for, say, 5 years.
You keep people mobile, and you keep them temporary so that you have time to make up your mind which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to cut. (Which is already what happens through the green card process.)
Well, I am not sure what they were doing with that data. But if you are going to make any kind of multi pass analysis on it, you probably don't want to pay the runtime cost of encryption/decryption. Also, if your system has any kind of external connectivity, it is typically for authorized querying of the data, so the system certainly needs a way to decrypt it.
Actually, I think the most important games to get to run on Linux are games that are popular with the general gaming population. Videos games are parts of 21st century general culture. Being able to access (play) them would be a good step forward.
Of course, I'd love some weirder, less common games to be available as well.
I completely aggree with that. You need to cite something. Is it different that it is a elsevier article or a paper edition of the new york time, or a book ? In all cases if you want to read it, you'll have to pay for accessing the information.
Aggreed. I always find what RMS has to say interesting. You might disaggree with him. But his arguments are always well thought and well exposed. I find his position very clear and based on sound arguments.
Is there really a story here? It seems that these numbers are normalized to a random population and not to the cyclist population. According to http://bikeleague.org/commutin... the number of cyclist rose sharply in that period as well.
As far as I can tell, there are more cyclist injuries mostly because there are more cyclist. Per mile accident rates are more meaningful than an absolute out of context number.
That being said, I chose not to bike to work because the drivers where I live (Charlotte,NC) are complete nuts and there are no bike path I can take.
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That is not how it should work. Here, each course is associated with a particular set of concepts and the instructor is reponsible for teaching these concepts. When I teach a course the department recommends me a text book, but I can do whatever I want.
If you want a course that uses this book, this set of slides, and this set of assignment, get an f-ing parrot; I have better things to do.
Frankly, I don't know. If you are looking at statistics [1], the unemploymenet in young graduates is only 5%. When you account for the ones between two jobs and the ones that falls in the category "the guy graduated but you really wonder why", it seems to me that the jobs are filled. So I can buy the argument that there is a shortage of talents.
Now, how this is managed by the H1B process and the OPT is dubious. (I am on H1B right now, and I find the status is weird.) I work in a univesity, and our graduates (domestic and international) pretty much all find jobs.
[1] I could only find that which is a 2012 statistics. Would love more recent statistics. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...
In this scenario, the university can not know if I am guilty or innocent. Therefore, it can not side with me and it can not side with the student. The only position for the university is not to protect me and let the legal system sort it out.
At no point did I say that the university should throw the instructor to the lions. I am saying that it should not protect the instructor because it is not its institutional responsibility. The university should leave it to the lawyers. There is no upside for the university, let's look at the two cases:
If the university sides with the instructor and the instructor is found guilty, it will be said that the university encourages sexual harassment.
If the university sides with the instructor and the instructor is found innocent, it will be said that the university covered it up.
I completely aggree with this. I am not saying we should throw them to the lions. Just let the process work in the most transparent way. When the story reaches you, contact the authorities and let the investigation take its course. In the meantime, offer administrative leave to the instructor and to postpone the class to the student, offer legal and psychological advice to both. I don't know what else the institution can do.
You quote : "when he was a young, boyish looking professor at Cornell, Feynman used to pretend to be a student so he could ask undergraduate women out .. Feynman .. trying to get women in bars to sleep with him .. documented affairs with two married women"
I have no idea whether this quote is correct or not. But pretending to be a student seems to pretty much rule out sexual harassment. You do not sexually harass by pretending to have less control on the other person than you actually have. Or you are the worse harasser in history...
That is the main problem with sexual harassement. Once a sexual harassement case appear, the consequences of being wrong will be terrible in either case:
1/ either you let a sexual harasser free.
2/ or you destroy the life of an innocent.
Neither of these options are preferable. And because it is so hard to get evidence of these, it often ends in "he said/she said". So everyone wants to tiptoe around it.
"How far should academic communities go to protect their intellectual capital, at the expense of further harm to their students, past and present?"
As a male university professor, my answer to this is very clear. We should not protect them. For many reasons:
1/ You begin brilliant does not mean you can do whatever you want.
2/ For most of us, we can do our research from a prison cell.
3/ Our students are the main product of academic life. We all love to believe that our research is the most important. But realistically we have the opportunity to touch the mind (the mind I said!) of hundreds of students each year. They will be our legacy, let's make it good one!
I do not know the US legal system that much. But it seems that if you can not get a court-nominated expert witness to vouch for the result, the evidence should be discarded.
Now, I would even prefer if an independent lab could reproduce that result.
Also I understand that "the fix" would decrease the performance of the car, which is likely to affect its resell value.
I never had a look at secure mode before. But it seems like a too coarse approach to me. You can not cut privilege level in three blocks and claim that is all you need. You might want access to some devices but not other, access to some part of the network but not other. secure mode looks too blocky to be useful in a real scenario.
Isn't the top-1% in the US around $400K a year? If so, a $250,000 space trip is not that crazy.
$400K/year is the kind of salary that strat getting a high investment/expense ratio. Also the kind of salary that eventually buy $200,000 cars. So a once in a lifetime $250,000 expense is not necessarily out of the question.
Any chance they were assuming they were not the driver?
When my son is in the car, he spends his time either talking with me, or with the world through his phone.
That is so untrue. What are you talking about!?
PCI-express is much faster than the late AGP, PCI and ISA buses, you get over 15GB/s from one GPU to an other one. SATA and SCSI have had a good run, but are being remplaced by PCI-express for high throughput devices. In clusters, Infiniband decreased latency massively compared to ethernet, and gives you bandwidth of over 100Gb/s.
So surely, the interconnect is a factor slower than devices, but that's pretty much always has been the case.
It's funny because it's true !
I don't understand how people eat spam...
Unfortunately, I do not think French schools have cooks anymore. They have microwaves... Even if I never ate at school (I was living on the next block), still makes me sad.
I have an H1B right now, and I'll be receiving my green card soon. So I understand what you are saying. The H1B ties you to one employer which means that you are not free to move around.
I would actually think that it would be better to keep the H1B visa but remove the provision of tying the visa to a job. If you are good enough to obtain an H1B, you can work whereever for, say, 5 years.
You keep people mobile, and you keep them temporary so that you have time to make up your mind which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to cut. (Which is already what happens through the green card process.)
That car is designed as a luxury car, it does 0-60miles in 3.2 sec. Gas powered cars with that kind of acceleration are all high end cars.
Now, I know pretty much nothing about engines (electric or not). That kind of acceleration might just be standard for electric engines.
slashdot? a tech site?
I thought it was all about politics and immigration stories?
Well, I am not sure what they were doing with that data. But if you are going to make any kind of multi pass analysis on it, you probably don't want to pay the runtime cost of encryption/decryption. Also, if your system has any kind of external connectivity, it is typically for authorized querying of the data, so the system certainly needs a way to decrypt it.
Actually, I think the most important games to get to run on Linux are games that are popular with the general gaming population. Videos games are parts of 21st century general culture. Being able to access (play) them would be a good step forward.
Of course, I'd love some weirder, less common games to be available as well.
You do know that civilization V runs on Linux, don't you? And provided you have a discrete graphics cards, it runs pretty well.
I completely aggree with that. You need to cite something. Is it different that it is a elsevier article or a paper edition of the new york time, or a book ? In all cases if you want to read it, you'll have to pay for accessing the information.
Aggreed. I always find what RMS has to say interesting. You might disaggree with him. But his arguments are always well thought and well exposed. I find his position very clear and based on sound arguments.
I always thought that picking congress for a year out of the citizen on the jury duty list would be better than whatever we have right now.
Is there really a story here? It seems that these numbers are normalized to a random population and not to the cyclist population. According to http://bikeleague.org/commutin... the number of cyclist rose sharply in that period as well.
As far as I can tell, there are more cyclist injuries mostly because there are more cyclist. Per mile accident rates are more meaningful than an absolute out of context number.
That being said, I chose not to bike to work because the drivers where I live (Charlotte,NC) are complete nuts and there are no bike path I can take.