What about at your undergraduate institution? How did you get interested in social science without reading any papers?
I'm an engineer and maybe it's different for social sciences, but I don't believe I EVER had to read any academic publications as an undergrad.
I'd say it's easy to fall into the "I liked this stuff in undergrad and want to go to grad school so I can learn more about it" state of mind. I did it with computer architecture. I was interested as an undergrad and decided to go for a Master's.
Honestly if, as an undergrad, I'd read some of the papers I've had to read as part of my graduate studies, I might have been scared off as I find academic research papers tend to be poorly written and, in many cases, making something I once considered interesting incredibly boring.
That being said, I think that the best way is to talk to some of your undergrad professors and find out what the possibilities are and if they know anyone else you can talk to. Just because no one at your school is doing research in your subject area of interest doesn't mean they don't know someone who is; I had a professor pick up the phone right then and give someone a call for me when I went to ask about graduate study. They might also help give you some perspective on the different areas of research so you can narrow down your potential selections.
If your reason for not liking Twitter is "I don't really care what you had for breakfast," the problem isn't Twitter - it's that you need to find some more interesting friends.
Or that he's interesting enough that he doesn't need to live vicariously through other people.
I would call Twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc. unreliable in the sense that you're hearing only part of the story from one person. They might be putting their own spin on it to support their own beliefs, or they might be drawing conclusions which are valid given the knowledge they have but which are not when all the information is taken into account.
If you're upset that they're scrapping the service, just move to the greater northern Virginia area. The on-screen guide we get looks like something from 1990.
Given the numerous incidents of a government employee taking home sensitive information and subsequently "losing" it I think we've already proved that they can't be trusted.
Ouch, yeah I think that says something about the CS curriculum at that school. The list that the grand parent posted is pretty much the core classes that I had to go through in college. Really the only optional thing that I think everyone should have to take as well is a Sr. Design project type course set like most engineers do.
As I said, I went through an engineering curriculum so I can't speak to what CS kids did or didn't have to take and thus what they did or didn't learn.
To be fair, I got BS degrees in Computer and Software Engineering, but if we consider only the required courses from both these curriculums, I gained:
- NO education on design patterns
- A very limited understanding of how to apply big O analysis to an algorithm (although I do understand what it represents)
- Almost NO attention to "proper" OO analysis and design. Any knowledge of this I have is from personal experience during school and professionally
- only a cursory look at threading.
- A good understanding of state machines
- Exposure to language construction (via a required course on compilers)
- A good understanding of computer architecture
What one learns in an academic environment is very much dependent on the core curriculum the school has and thus a self-taught programmer may not be at much of a disadvantage at all.
Actually from what I understand, Windows SharePoint Services is free and provides a lot of functionality on its own. I'm sure it would cost a lot to get set up and running though.
"Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd . .."
Why is it odd to include PS3 and Xbox 360 and not-so-odd to shut down servers for PC gamers?
I had the pleasure of taking Human Anatomy and Physiology a few years ago. The professor was superb, but our school didn't have the resources to afford a cadaver lab.
Pictures and plastic models are OK, but there are times when being able to visualize something like this would greatly help the learning experience.
I agree that visualizing greatly helps the learning experience in science and engineering and that tools like this would be very helpful in the areas of medicine and biology.
A cool next step to this would be some sort of "virtual surgery" that could pay attention to what both hands were doing at once.
Remember when Microsoft showed the Mojave experiment on TV ads? There's nothing wrong with Vista, there's just something wrong with you!
They were trying to get around the bad press that came with the Vista name. A few very vocal sources bad-mouthed Vista, word got around, and suddenly people thought it was bad without knowing anything about it. The message with Mojave, and indeed a good life lesson, is don't believe everything you hear and do your own research.
Come on Apple, find the cause and unless it's customers deliberately abusing their phones, fix it.
Perhaps they should reject customers they think will misuse or make a negative blog post about the iPhone, must like they reject apps they don't like from the app store?
Customer: "I'd like an iPhone please."
Apple: "Sorry you're not cool enough, plus you look like a klutz so you'll probably just break it anyway and then try to blame us."
Actually if they were just another PC vendor it probably wouldn't be so bad for them. From what I've heard, they make most of their profit on their hardware. And with a new Mac costing several hundered dollars more than a new PC combined with how inexpensive OS X upgrades tend to be, it makes sense.
Any of you familiar with the way the contract system works in the U.S. should agree. The prime contractor (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc) will take most of the money and farm out the task to a couple of sub-contractors who will farm their tasks out.
And if experience is any indication, the prime contractor will mis-manage the project and any high quality work done by the smaller sub-contractors will be wasted once funding gets pulled due to aforementioned mismanagement.
So despite Twitter being around for years, this firm just now decided that they're infringing on patents? Furthermore, is it just me or does the concept of "mass notification systems that allow a group administrator or 'message Author' to originate a single message that will be delivered simultaneously via multiple communication gateways to members of a group of 'message Subscribers'" encompass things such as newspapers and cable TV?
I would posit that perhaps a major reason for making it more "Mac-like" is because tech journalism as a whole constantly berates Microsoft with arguments that generally boil down to "Microsoft is bad because it is not Apple."
And the benchmarks doesn't prove anything, if you ignore shutdown time, it looks to be slower overall then xp AND Vista..
It's a given that as newer operating systems come out, the requirements tend to get steeper and performance worse (assuming you hold processor power constant). Given the above argument, perhaps we should all go back to DOS 6.22 since it has the best performance of any Microsoft (and probably Apple or *nix) OS since 1995!
I'm not a security expert, but if the bad guys know that a lot of lawyers and/or physicians keep records at Google, then they need only break Google's security scheme to get access to this confidential data. While a larger number of small in-house networks may be less secure individually, is it reasonable to presume that it would be more difficult and/or time consuming to defeat a number of different security schemes than to just defeat one and have access to all sorts of provate information?
Put another way, what I'm saying is analogous to the argument that there exist more known viruses and security flaws for Windows machines simply because they take up a vast majority of market share and the potential payoff is much bigger and worth the time needed to break said security. Maybe OS X and Linux are just as insecure as Windows, but its easier and more "profitable" to break into the large number of Windows systems with which the majority of people trust their data than to try to spend time breaking into someone's Mac as they comprise a rather small percentage of all users.
Bottom line is that it seems that storing such confidential information at Google, and then advertising it via articles and forums like this one, makes Google a bigger target and puts more people at risk in the end.
Then again, I'm one of those people who thinks cloud computing isn't such a great idea...
I'm a geek, and I wont even go into a computer sciences or information tech, field, there are 10 times as many
applicants than their are job openings in that field.
I think that every publication by entities like IEEE or ACM would disagree. Almost every month I see article bemoaning low CS enrollment and discussing how few graduates are available to fill the large number of CS and IT related jobs.
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What about at your undergraduate institution? How did you get interested in social science without reading any papers?
I'm an engineer and maybe it's different for social sciences, but I don't believe I EVER had to read any academic publications as an undergrad. I'd say it's easy to fall into the "I liked this stuff in undergrad and want to go to grad school so I can learn more about it" state of mind. I did it with computer architecture. I was interested as an undergrad and decided to go for a Master's. Honestly if, as an undergrad, I'd read some of the papers I've had to read as part of my graduate studies, I might have been scared off as I find academic research papers tend to be poorly written and, in many cases, making something I once considered interesting incredibly boring.
That being said, I think that the best way is to talk to some of your undergrad professors and find out what the possibilities are and if they know anyone else you can talk to. Just because no one at your school is doing research in your subject area of interest doesn't mean they don't know someone who is; I had a professor pick up the phone right then and give someone a call for me when I went to ask about graduate study. They might also help give you some perspective on the different areas of research so you can narrow down your potential selections.
I'm reminded of a quote I saw somewhere:
You find yourself in a maze of standards, all conflicting.
If your reason for not liking Twitter is "I don't really care what you had for breakfast," the problem isn't Twitter - it's that you need to find some more interesting friends.
Or that he's interesting enough that he doesn't need to live vicariously through other people.
The main science question is : what the hell do we need humans on Mars for ?
So we have somewhere to go when we're finished trashing this planet with things like massive oil spills.
I would call Twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc. unreliable in the sense that you're hearing only part of the story from one person. They might be putting their own spin on it to support their own beliefs, or they might be drawing conclusions which are valid given the knowledge they have but which are not when all the information is taken into account.
If you're upset that they're scrapping the service, just move to the greater northern Virginia area. The on-screen guide we get looks like something from 1990.
I'll bet there is, or will soon be, an app for just such a purpose, "friend" suggestions and all.
Given the numerous incidents of a government employee taking home sensitive information and subsequently "losing" it I think we've already proved that they can't be trusted.
Ouch, yeah I think that says something about the CS curriculum at that school. The list that the grand parent posted is pretty much the core classes that I had to go through in college. Really the only optional thing that I think everyone should have to take as well is a Sr. Design project type course set like most engineers do.
As I said, I went through an engineering curriculum so I can't speak to what CS kids did or didn't have to take and thus what they did or didn't learn.
To be fair, I got BS degrees in Computer and Software Engineering, but if we consider only the required courses from both these curriculums, I gained:
- NO education on design patterns
- A very limited understanding of how to apply big O analysis to an algorithm (although I do understand what it represents)
- Almost NO attention to "proper" OO analysis and design. Any knowledge of this I have is from personal experience during school and professionally
- only a cursory look at threading.
- A good understanding of state machines
- Exposure to language construction (via a required course on compilers)
- A good understanding of computer architecture
What one learns in an academic environment is very much dependent on the core curriculum the school has and thus a self-taught programmer may not be at much of a disadvantage at all.
Actually from what I understand, Windows SharePoint Services is free and provides a lot of functionality on its own. I'm sure it would cost a lot to get set up and running though.
"Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd . . ."
Why is it odd to include PS3 and Xbox 360 and not-so-odd to shut down servers for PC gamers?
I had the pleasure of taking Human Anatomy and Physiology a few years ago. The professor was superb, but our school didn't have the resources to afford a cadaver lab.
Pictures and plastic models are OK, but there are times when being able to visualize something like this would greatly help the learning experience.
I agree that visualizing greatly helps the learning experience in science and engineering and that tools like this would be very helpful in the areas of medicine and biology. A cool next step to this would be some sort of "virtual surgery" that could pay attention to what both hands were doing at once.
All that remains now, I guess, is a device that can write arbitrary stands of DNA.
Not if I chmod 744!
When was the last time you felt like you actually own a Microsoft software product . .
No end user OWNS any software he/she buys anymore. Everything is licensed. This software ownership you speak of is so 1980s.
Remember when Microsoft showed the Mojave experiment on TV ads? There's nothing wrong with Vista, there's just something wrong with you!
They were trying to get around the bad press that came with the Vista name. A few very vocal sources bad-mouthed Vista, word got around, and suddenly people thought it was bad without knowing anything about it. The message with Mojave, and indeed a good life lesson, is don't believe everything you hear and do your own research.
Come on Apple, find the cause and unless it's customers deliberately abusing their phones, fix it.
Perhaps they should reject customers they think will misuse or make a negative blog post about the iPhone, must like they reject apps they don't like from the app store?
Customer: "I'd like an iPhone please."
Apple: "Sorry you're not cool enough, plus you look like a klutz so you'll probably just break it anyway and then try to blame us."
See also: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/12/
Actually if they were just another PC vendor it probably wouldn't be so bad for them. From what I've heard, they make most of their profit on their hardware. And with a new Mac costing several hundered dollars more than a new PC combined with how inexpensive OS X upgrades tend to be, it makes sense.
Any of you familiar with the way the contract system works in the U.S. should agree. The prime contractor (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc) will take most of the money and farm out the task to a couple of sub-contractors who will farm their tasks out.
And if experience is any indication, the prime contractor will mis-manage the project and any high quality work done by the smaller sub-contractors will be wasted once funding gets pulled due to aforementioned mismanagement.
3) Nearly instant knowledge of world events.
Instant AND not necessarily accurate. A two-for-one!
4) Allows protesters to disseminate information
Information that is more than likely one sided and ignorant of "the big picture" of any given event.
So despite Twitter being around for years, this firm just now decided that they're infringing on patents? Furthermore, is it just me or does the concept of "mass notification systems that allow a group administrator or 'message Author' to originate a single message that will be delivered simultaneously via multiple communication gateways to members of a group of 'message Subscribers'" encompass things such as newspapers and cable TV?
I would posit that perhaps a major reason for making it more "Mac-like" is because tech journalism as a whole constantly berates Microsoft with arguments that generally boil down to "Microsoft is bad because it is not Apple."
And the benchmarks doesn't prove anything, if you ignore shutdown time, it looks to be slower overall then xp AND Vista..
It's a given that as newer operating systems come out, the requirements tend to get steeper and performance worse (assuming you hold processor power constant). Given the above argument, perhaps we should all go back to DOS 6.22 since it has the best performance of any Microsoft (and probably Apple or *nix) OS since 1995!
I'm not a security expert, but if the bad guys know that a lot of lawyers and/or physicians keep records at Google, then they need only break Google's security scheme to get access to this confidential data. While a larger number of small in-house networks may be less secure individually, is it reasonable to presume that it would be more difficult and/or time consuming to defeat a number of different security schemes than to just defeat one and have access to all sorts of provate information?
Put another way, what I'm saying is analogous to the argument that there exist more known viruses and security flaws for Windows machines simply because they take up a vast majority of market share and the potential payoff is much bigger and worth the time needed to break said security. Maybe OS X and Linux are just as insecure as Windows, but its easier and more "profitable" to break into the large number of Windows systems with which the majority of people trust their data than to try to spend time breaking into someone's Mac as they comprise a rather small percentage of all users.
Bottom line is that it seems that storing such confidential information at Google, and then advertising it via articles and forums like this one, makes Google a bigger target and puts more people at risk in the end.
Then again, I'm one of those people who thinks cloud computing isn't such a great idea...
I'm a geek, and I wont even go into a computer sciences or information tech, field, there are 10 times as many applicants than their are job openings in that field.
I think that every publication by entities like IEEE or ACM would disagree. Almost every month I see article bemoaning low CS enrollment and discussing how few graduates are available to fill the large number of CS and IT related jobs.