Sure. This was before the days of online applications, so things may have changed some, but the idea is this:
You get the application from the university, and in it is a form intended for the guidance counselor or principal. You give them this form, and they must fill it out with accurate information, sign it, and follow any other instructions included on it. Usually the form merely asks a bunch of questions about the school itself, such as the size, demographics, typical GPA, percentage of students that go on to college, etc, etc. Just some context for the rest of your application.
Usually the guidance counselor/principal/administrator must simply return the form, filled out, and enclose an official transcript from the school along with it. The thing is, they return it directly to the university, not to the student. So the student has no way of knowing for sure whether or not it has been turned in, they only have the counselor's word on it. Generally nowadays, the university has an online application page where you can see any missing items. Would have been nice...
This person clearly doesn't know what it's like to be on the brunt end of a truly terrible teacher/authority figure and have no power. I got a BUNCH of rejection letters from colleges in late January/early February due to "Incomplete applications". In short, the high school had never sent my transcripts/secondary school report to any of the universities I applied to. I only got into one school, and it was the school where I had forged the secondary school report myself. (I was truthful, and I at that point I had my suspicions about the guidance office doing their job...)
I had a guidance counselor tell me to "cry her a river" when I told her taking night classes at a local college and a full schedule at high school and working two jobs was too much for me, and I wanted to only go to high school only half day (a program fully supported by the school district, or at least supposedly so...) This is to say nothing of the quality of some of the teachers and classes I had to take. The school did everything they could to sabotage my academic career at every turn. I found out some years later after some academic success that they have been using my name as an example of the caliber of student that they could produce. Did I learn some sort of life lesson? I guess so. But it wasn't worth it, and I wouldn't wish that kind of nonsense on anyone. It was years ago, but my blood still boils thinking about it.
Your argument just doesn't make any sense. There's a difference between cost effectiveness and quality. I'm guilty of having eaten a McDonald's hamburger, and I probably will in the future, too. But I don't think it's the best burger out there. Perhaps on a long road haul or a busy day, given my available time, money, and availability of other options, I will eat there. So do a number of other people who may be economically forced to feed themselves and offspring with cheap food. Lack of better options doesn't make the outcome the "best", or most desirable by any stretch.
I bet if you went into a McDonald's and interviewed everybody in the store over the age of 18, and asked them if McDonald's made the "best" hamburger, most of them would say "no".
To keep this on topic, I have largely no opinion on the film avatar or Peter Jackson in general. Oh wait, the topic is caving. Yeah, cavers are weird.
I know it's bad form to respond to yourself... But why am I modded redundant? Seriously? Off-Topic, perhaps, but generally I would expect that post to simply be ignored...
I do hate selective enforcement. I used to have a red sports car, and I got pulled over all the time, even if I wasn't doing much wrong. (i.e., I had a couple tickets for going 2 mph over the limit). I bought a big plain truck in '04 and haven't had a ticket in 6 years.
I hated those cameras at first driving around Phoenix, but I actually have changed my attitude towards them recently. They don't snap your picture unless your going at least 7-10 mph over the limit. The drive around town during non-rush hour traffic is somehow more sane now, with fewer people passing on the right at 90 mph, and somehow I have managed to not get any tickets from these things. Most people have also figured out how to avoid tickets from them. You just drive the speed limit or maybe five over and no problems...
There are a couple of them that are pretty shameless speed traps, and I don't agree with that, but by and large, I don't think they are so bad if used properly. If there is a really huge outrage over a couple of them, then maybe the speed limits are too low and should be adjusted...
I have two arms and two legs, and am a marathon runner (not bragging, just letting you know I'm "normal" sized). I had knee surgery and couldn't walk for two months. I had to have friends drive me to the store and go get the scooter for me so I could do my shopping. Keep in mind that I was young (20 years old), and otherwise looked perfectly normal. I even had, on more than one occasion, a store employee ask me to not use the scooters as the were reserved for the handicapped!
I know you will likely think that just proves your point, but I can also tell you how absolutely hard it is to have to rely on those scooters. When you suddenly can't walk or stand, it's very hard to get meaningful exercise. It's also hard to cook or get around a kitchen unless you can afford to buy a custom designed place. Living in a chair tends to direct you into a certain lifestyle. I'm not saying it's impossible to stay healthy or eat right, many people do. But it's harder. Everything is harder. And when I got out of my chair, I was much more unhealthy than at any other point in my life. It was the chair, not the initial knee injury (which I could walk around on a bit), that had the most profound impact on my health.
Even if someone did rant about it and it were right, I think it's a fair point that automobiles also do a considerable amount more damage to the roadways than pedestrians or cyclists, and should therefore be taxed disproportionately on the maintenance thereof...
Perhaps, but the feds don't get to the ethanol that you make yourself from sugar and yeast... Making your own beer/wine or even liquor isn't the same as soaking barley in water and throwing in some rubbing alcohol you bought at the convenience mart, you know.
I had a similar problem once. In Oklahoma, we had a terrible thunderstorm one day and our power was out for over a week. When it finally came back on, we noticed when we turned the TV on that the cable was out. So, I called the cable company. I told them our cable went out in the storm, and we needed to get it repaired.
They repeatedly claimed that wasn't true, because they had received no previous calls about our cable being out, and no other calls about cable being out in our neighborhood. They actually told me my cable was working! My comments that we had not had any power for over a week were completely ignored... It took at least ten minutes with them before they finally agreed to send someone out "to check on it".
I hardly saw it even after I was told it was there. Seriously just looked like a player on the black team. Here is a more interesting series of this type of video:
http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
Yes indeed. I hate hearing the argument that it is better to keep polishing a turd than to rewrite. I once wrote a small program to do something for me. It worked, but it took me days to write, was buggy, and ended up being about 15 printed pages long. It was a crappy program, but it eventually "worked" without bugs, and saved me time in the long run.
Awhile later, I had a need for the program to do something just a little bit different and more complex. Rather than edit the snakepit of code, I basically threw up my arms and started again from scratch. Knowing my past mistakes and inefficiencies I banged it out in about 3 hours, and it was about 3 printed pages long. It was less buggy, and it did something more complex. It was a tight and nifty little routine, well worth the effort.
I understand that a browser's codebase is a completely different animal than a small subroutine, but I think the point remains. Sometimes you should just scrap crappy/outdated/ineffecient code. Not always, but sometimes it is called for.
I've always thought that if they want to go home afterwards, let them. If it becomes a large scale trend that nobody Chinese (or any other particular nationality) wants to stay afterwards, then people may just stop hiring as many. In general until that point, it's still worth it to fund their education just for the work they do as a grad student, and the likely work they will do in the US afterwards, even if a few end up going home and working and contributing heavily in another economy.
Here's where I think the main problem actually is: We actually send home some who do want to stay. And that is a true wasted opportunity. I've met a couple of very smart people in my days as a grad student that were sent home even though they wanted to stay. Visa expired, couldn't find a job in time or some other such nonsense. If you have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, you are not likely to be a drag on society, even if you don't wind up employed in your first six months out. And now they are in China, Germany, India, or Mexico, working and contributing in those economies and using all the tools and education they got courtesy of Uncle Sam.
We should make it easier for them. And yes, I have real people in mind that I am typing about.
I did meet a group that did a LOT of experiments with moths, but it had nothing to do with the immune system. They were studying the moth's neurology during flight and subjecting them to all kinds of interesting flight tests.
Interesting tidbit: They chopped off the moth's antennae and it lost the ability to fly. They glued on artificial antennae to the remaining stubs, and the power of flight was restored...
Wow! There's all these stories of very noble bosses ordering pizza and helping in supportive roles. I've never had a boss like that. Where do you get one??
My last job, after I had been there less than a month, I was asked to work all weekend over Memorial Day weekend. He called me on Monday while he was at home barbecuing with his family to ask how all the work was going. I was in the office by myself, wishing I could strangle him through the phone. When he did come by late at night or a weekend, he wasn't supportive, but hovered and bickered over programming style and strategy. That job didn't last long...
That's really interesting... I know that rarefied gases are almost always laminar, but I guess I never thought about it enough to realize that space shuttle reentry was probably a laminar flow problem. Cool! That makes a lot of sense now.
Laminar flow modeling is extremely different than turbulent, possibly weakly compressible flow. Just so you know. I'm not saying it can't be done, but your comparison is weak.
I think you misunderstand why they are there... An inkjet necessitates very small ink droplets to be deposited on the paper surface so you can get a high-resolution and fast drying time, and thus better quality. The droplet size is literally microns in size. Thus, micro-fluidic devices are included in each ink cartridge to create micro-droplets.
I agree with your point that there ought to be more of a standard, but even if everyone used the same standard, the high manufacturing costs would still exist.
I don't know a whole lot about it, but perhaps there is a way to unload the microchannels from the ink cartridge and make it a component of the printer instead, thus requiring only a simple reservoir of ink that you would need to refill occasionally. If you can figure that out, I bet you'd make a tidy bundle selling low-maintenance printers. Or find a horse's head in your bed.
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are somewhat sophisticated microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
It's not a workable nuclear fusion reactor though. If you believe it has anything to do with civilian fusion power, then it's more of a proof of concept experiment than anything else. Maybe someday 40 years from now we could use what we learn from the NIF experiment to build an actual fusion reactor.
The main criticism from these groups is that they claim NIF is a thinly veiled attempted to circumvent the Test Ban Treaty. The different capsule designs that are to be lasered and blown up in NIF are viewed by some as experiments on different types of nuclear weapon configurations.
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Oh, don't worry, there were plenty of bad teachers too! Example: I got an A in Chemistry and didn't know what a "Periodic Table" was.
Sure. This was before the days of online applications, so things may have changed some, but the idea is this:
You get the application from the university, and in it is a form intended for the guidance counselor or principal. You give them this form, and they must fill it out with accurate information, sign it, and follow any other instructions included on it. Usually the form merely asks a bunch of questions about the school itself, such as the size, demographics, typical GPA, percentage of students that go on to college, etc, etc. Just some context for the rest of your application.
Usually the guidance counselor/principal/administrator must simply return the form, filled out, and enclose an official transcript from the school along with it. The thing is, they return it directly to the university, not to the student. So the student has no way of knowing for sure whether or not it has been turned in, they only have the counselor's word on it. Generally nowadays, the university has an online application page where you can see any missing items. Would have been nice...
This person clearly doesn't know what it's like to be on the brunt end of a truly terrible teacher/authority figure and have no power. I got a BUNCH of rejection letters from colleges in late January/early February due to "Incomplete applications". In short, the high school had never sent my transcripts/secondary school report to any of the universities I applied to. I only got into one school, and it was the school where I had forged the secondary school report myself. (I was truthful, and I at that point I had my suspicions about the guidance office doing their job...)
I had a guidance counselor tell me to "cry her a river" when I told her taking night classes at a local college and a full schedule at high school and working two jobs was too much for me, and I wanted to only go to high school only half day (a program fully supported by the school district, or at least supposedly so...) This is to say nothing of the quality of some of the teachers and classes I had to take. The school did everything they could to sabotage my academic career at every turn. I found out some years later after some academic success that they have been using my name as an example of the caliber of student that they could produce. Did I learn some sort of life lesson? I guess so. But it wasn't worth it, and I wouldn't wish that kind of nonsense on anyone. It was years ago, but my blood still boils thinking about it.
Your argument just doesn't make any sense. There's a difference between cost effectiveness and quality. I'm guilty of having eaten a McDonald's hamburger, and I probably will in the future, too. But I don't think it's the best burger out there. Perhaps on a long road haul or a busy day, given my available time, money, and availability of other options, I will eat there. So do a number of other people who may be economically forced to feed themselves and offspring with cheap food. Lack of better options doesn't make the outcome the "best", or most desirable by any stretch.
I bet if you went into a McDonald's and interviewed everybody in the store over the age of 18, and asked them if McDonald's made the "best" hamburger, most of them would say "no".
To keep this on topic, I have largely no opinion on the film avatar or Peter Jackson in general. Oh wait, the topic is caving. Yeah, cavers are weird.
I know it's bad form to respond to yourself... But why am I modded redundant? Seriously? Off-Topic, perhaps, but generally I would expect that post to simply be ignored...
Posting to undo down-modding... I meant to click "interesting", clicked "flamebait" instead.
I do hate selective enforcement. I used to have a red sports car, and I got pulled over all the time, even if I wasn't doing much wrong. (i.e., I had a couple tickets for going 2 mph over the limit). I bought a big plain truck in '04 and haven't had a ticket in 6 years.
I hated those cameras at first driving around Phoenix, but I actually have changed my attitude towards them recently. They don't snap your picture unless your going at least 7-10 mph over the limit. The drive around town during non-rush hour traffic is somehow more sane now, with fewer people passing on the right at 90 mph, and somehow I have managed to not get any tickets from these things. Most people have also figured out how to avoid tickets from them. You just drive the speed limit or maybe five over and no problems...
There are a couple of them that are pretty shameless speed traps, and I don't agree with that, but by and large, I don't think they are so bad if used properly. If there is a really huge outrage over a couple of them, then maybe the speed limits are too low and should be adjusted...
FYI - a marathon by definition is 26.2 miles. But point taken.
I have two arms and two legs, and am a marathon runner (not bragging, just letting you know I'm "normal" sized). I had knee surgery and couldn't walk for two months. I had to have friends drive me to the store and go get the scooter for me so I could do my shopping. Keep in mind that I was young (20 years old), and otherwise looked perfectly normal. I even had, on more than one occasion, a store employee ask me to not use the scooters as the were reserved for the handicapped!
I know you will likely think that just proves your point, but I can also tell you how absolutely hard it is to have to rely on those scooters. When you suddenly can't walk or stand, it's very hard to get meaningful exercise. It's also hard to cook or get around a kitchen unless you can afford to buy a custom designed place. Living in a chair tends to direct you into a certain lifestyle. I'm not saying it's impossible to stay healthy or eat right, many people do. But it's harder. Everything is harder. And when I got out of my chair, I was much more unhealthy than at any other point in my life. It was the chair, not the initial knee injury (which I could walk around on a bit), that had the most profound impact on my health.
Even if someone did rant about it and it were right, I think it's a fair point that automobiles also do a considerable amount more damage to the roadways than pedestrians or cyclists, and should therefore be taxed disproportionately on the maintenance thereof...
Perhaps, but the feds don't get to the ethanol that you make yourself from sugar and yeast... Making your own beer/wine or even liquor isn't the same as soaking barley in water and throwing in some rubbing alcohol you bought at the convenience mart, you know.
I had a similar problem once. In Oklahoma, we had a terrible thunderstorm one day and our power was out for over a week. When it finally came back on, we noticed when we turned the TV on that the cable was out. So, I called the cable company. I told them our cable went out in the storm, and we needed to get it repaired.
They repeatedly claimed that wasn't true, because they had received no previous calls about our cable being out, and no other calls about cable being out in our neighborhood. They actually told me my cable was working! My comments that we had not had any power for over a week were completely ignored... It took at least ten minutes with them before they finally agreed to send someone out "to check on it".
I hardly saw it even after I was told it was there. Seriously just looked like a player on the black team. Here is a more interesting series of this type of video:
http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.html
Yes indeed. I hate hearing the argument that it is better to keep polishing a turd than to rewrite. I once wrote a small program to do something for me. It worked, but it took me days to write, was buggy, and ended up being about 15 printed pages long. It was a crappy program, but it eventually "worked" without bugs, and saved me time in the long run.
Awhile later, I had a need for the program to do something just a little bit different and more complex. Rather than edit the snakepit of code, I basically threw up my arms and started again from scratch. Knowing my past mistakes and inefficiencies I banged it out in about 3 hours, and it was about 3 printed pages long. It was less buggy, and it did something more complex. It was a tight and nifty little routine, well worth the effort.
I understand that a browser's codebase is a completely different animal than a small subroutine, but I think the point remains. Sometimes you should just scrap crappy/outdated/ineffecient code. Not always, but sometimes it is called for.
I've always thought that if they want to go home afterwards, let them. If it becomes a large scale trend that nobody Chinese (or any other particular nationality) wants to stay afterwards, then people may just stop hiring as many. In general until that point, it's still worth it to fund their education just for the work they do as a grad student, and the likely work they will do in the US afterwards, even if a few end up going home and working and contributing heavily in another economy.
Here's where I think the main problem actually is: We actually send home some who do want to stay. And that is a true wasted opportunity. I've met a couple of very smart people in my days as a grad student that were sent home even though they wanted to stay. Visa expired, couldn't find a job in time or some other such nonsense. If you have a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, you are not likely to be a drag on society, even if you don't wind up employed in your first six months out. And now they are in China, Germany, India, or Mexico, working and contributing in those economies and using all the tools and education they got courtesy of Uncle Sam.
We should make it easier for them. And yes, I have real people in mind that I am typing about.
I did meet a group that did a LOT of experiments with moths, but it had nothing to do with the immune system. They were studying the moth's neurology during flight and subjecting them to all kinds of interesting flight tests.
Interesting tidbit: They chopped off the moth's antennae and it lost the ability to fly. They glued on artificial antennae to the remaining stubs, and the power of flight was restored...
Wow! There's all these stories of very noble bosses ordering pizza and helping in supportive roles. I've never had a boss like that. Where do you get one??
My last job, after I had been there less than a month, I was asked to work all weekend over Memorial Day weekend. He called me on Monday while he was at home barbecuing with his family to ask how all the work was going. I was in the office by myself, wishing I could strangle him through the phone. When he did come by late at night or a weekend, he wasn't supportive, but hovered and bickered over programming style and strategy. That job didn't last long...
That's really interesting... I know that rarefied gases are almost always laminar, but I guess I never thought about it enough to realize that space shuttle reentry was probably a laminar flow problem. Cool! That makes a lot of sense now.
Laminar flow modeling is extremely different than turbulent, possibly weakly compressible flow. Just so you know. I'm not saying it can't be done, but your comparison is weak.
Really cool. I think I'll set up something like that.
Cool, I learned something today. I thought the vast majority were still all-in-one. I'd mod up if I hadn't already commented...
I believe it is very possible to refill ink cartridges, but naturally this behavior is discouraged and unmentioned by the printer companies.
I think you misunderstand why they are there... An inkjet necessitates very small ink droplets to be deposited on the paper surface so you can get a high-resolution and fast drying time, and thus better quality. The droplet size is literally microns in size. Thus, micro-fluidic devices are included in each ink cartridge to create micro-droplets.
I agree with your point that there ought to be more of a standard, but even if everyone used the same standard, the high manufacturing costs would still exist.
I don't know a whole lot about it, but perhaps there is a way to unload the microchannels from the ink cartridge and make it a component of the printer instead, thus requiring only a simple reservoir of ink that you would need to refill occasionally. If you can figure that out, I bet you'd make a tidy bundle selling low-maintenance printers. Or find a horse's head in your bed.
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are somewhat sophisticated microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
It's not a workable nuclear fusion reactor though. If you believe it has anything to do with civilian fusion power, then it's more of a proof of concept experiment than anything else. Maybe someday 40 years from now we could use what we learn from the NIF experiment to build an actual fusion reactor.
The main criticism from these groups is that they claim NIF is a thinly veiled attempted to circumvent the Test Ban Treaty. The different capsule designs that are to be lasered and blown up in NIF are viewed by some as experiments on different types of nuclear weapon configurations.