....Anytime you combine poverty, internet access, and police/political corruption--you're going to get fraud....
And millionaire investment bankers / corporate raiders don't ever scam people? When poor people do it, it's criminal, when the wealthy do it, it's a free market.
They are all for it if the population reliably votes Republican. Forget about Puerto Rico ever becoming a state. But how do we find 15,000 reliable Republican voters with time on their hands to relocate to the moon? I heard that American whalers trend to vote Republican and haven't had much to do in the past 60 years. They're good at operating for long periods of time far away from home. Maybe we should set up a Republican whaling base on the Moon. Putin would probably go high and right when he hears about this.
"I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. " - Doc Brown... You forgot the atomic reactor in every home.
It's not about religion vs. science per se. In the U.S. it's all about getting enough money to run a successful election campaign. Either you are independently wealthy, or you need big-time campaign contributors. These big-money donors have agendas that are often at odds with scientific opinion. I am old enough to remember when tobacco officially didn't cause cancer, despite overwhelming scientific evidence otherwise. The same thing can be said about the U.S. position on climate change, health care reform, banking system reform, military spending, etc... In all of these cases, scientific opinion requires making a change in how money is spent, taxes are levied, or on how regulatory burden or liability are allocated.
Stole informational assets worth $500 billion over the past year? Um, does anyone bother to do basic reality checks?
The reality check is it's impossible to put a monetary value on "stolen" data, because data only has value if it contains useful information. If I stole the production plans for the Boeing 747, it wouldn't be of value because I do not have the means to build 747s. Or in the '90s, the RIAA claiming that everyone who illegally downloaded an mp3 would have bought the album it it weren't available on Napster.
....communism is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
Yes, true communism is always something "on the horizon." But the march towards the horizon never reaches its destination. Sorry, but the best argument against communism is communism.
Disclaimer, as I am not a PhD. Most of the comments here are very good. But to add my two cents, no matter what is printed on the piece of paper, you are what you are. Either you are comfortable in your own skin or you are not. A PhD won't change that. A PhD is a sign of experience and hopefully maturity, but it won't make you any smarter, or wiser and it won't make your penis grow. You can either solve technical problems, or you cannot. Almost all PhD candidates already solve problems before starting on their degrees. The PhD is just a verification of that fact. In the end, you will be judged on how valuable your contribution is to whomever you end up working for.
Most HR people aren't very smart, and they probably won't even know what to make of your degree. They have a job description and they look for someone who matches that profile. Unless your PhD exactly matches what they are told to look for, you might have problems getting your foot in the door. On the other hand, doing good PhD work opens contacts and doors. It all depends on where you want to work. I would take a close look at the industrial partners and contacts of the school you are considering attending. Would you want to work for any of those companies? Or would you prefer to stay in Europe? Your work is your best calling card, and if you do good work you can bypass most of the HR B.S.
I think the reason the government and mainstream media are uneasy with the Occupy Wall Street movement is it is basically saying the government in its current form no longer represents the will of most American people. Governments do not like having their legitimacy called into question. No other american protest movement in my life time has done this.
Windows 7 is the only platform that is supported by all the engineering apps that I need to do my job, and my employer only needs to support one OS. Some of the individual apps I use exist for OS X / Solaris / Linux, etc. but then we're talking about multiple OS's to get everything to work, and we would still need Windows in order to run SolidWorks.
The thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-111 wasn't out of line for other second-generation jets of the era. The F-111 wasn't designed to be a visual fighter anyway and it didn't carry a gun. The Navy wanted an interceptor with a big radar and long-range BVR missiles. That's what the F-14 eventually became. The Air Force used the F-111 as a low-level striker, a role for which the F-111 eventually proved well-suited for.
Somebody found some old paper bonds from the Weimar Republic a few years ago and found investors who were willing to invest in them in the hope that Germany might honor them. I think Germany had already paid them off and they were worthless or something like that, but I'm sure people will continue buying and selling them anyway.
Apple, especially in the middle-years under John Sculley released a lot of crippled computers to prevent direct competition between Apple's product lines. The LC / Performa Macs come to mind. I think this product-differentiation strategy annoyed most customers and was one of the reasons Apple almost tanked, because it put blatently profits before usability and expandability. Now days, Apple has much more subtle ways to pull in the money.
For the B.Sc. degree, I agree with the parent 100%. Go to a good state school with a solid engineering program and learn as much as you can. Get some good internships during the summers to see what interests you and to gain experience. Get good grades, work hard and stay out of excessive levels of debt.
In most engineering fields, a Masters Degree should be your initial goal. From there, you can decide what kind of work you would most like to be doing and see if a PhD makes sense given your career aspirations. I wouldn't waste time with dual bachelors degrees, unless your career goals require it, or it's a dual-degree program in four years; 2 x B.Sc. != 1 x M. Sc.
The most successful students were the ones who put the most time into what they were learning, either through internships, student-assistant jobs, or technical hobbies. There is no substitute for experience. Also, don't blow off freshman and sophomore math. Engineering is really applied mathematics, and you need solid foundations. Most of all, have fun. If you're not having fun, you're in the wrong degree.
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I wouldn't trust a Czech "Admiral" either.
....Anytime you combine poverty, internet access, and police/political corruption--you're going to get fraud....
And millionaire investment bankers / corporate raiders don't ever scam people? When poor people do it, it's criminal, when the wealthy do it, it's a free market.
Splash screens were originally designed to let you know the program was launching...
Splash screens had their time and place back in the floppy-disc era. Now days they seem kind of quaint.
It got modded "Funny" because nobody on /. thought anyone would be dumb enough to pay programmers by LOC. I guess IBM has proven us wrong.
...They used to judge programmers on the number of lines of code generated rather then on the efficiency of said code.
They had to change their metric, or programmers would stop using loops in order to get a raise.
Republicans.... make it into a 51st state?
They are all for it if the population reliably votes Republican. Forget about Puerto Rico ever becoming a state. But how do we find 15,000 reliable Republican voters with time on their hands to relocate to the moon? I heard that American whalers trend to vote Republican and haven't had much to do in the past 60 years. They're good at operating for long periods of time far away from home. Maybe we should set up a Republican whaling base on the Moon. Putin would probably go high and right when he hears about this.
"I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. " - Doc Brown ... You forgot the atomic reactor in every home.
It's not about religion vs. science per se. In the U.S. it's all about getting enough money to run a successful election campaign. Either you are independently wealthy, or you need big-time campaign contributors. These big-money donors have agendas that are often at odds with scientific opinion. I am old enough to remember when tobacco officially didn't cause cancer, despite overwhelming scientific evidence otherwise. The same thing can be said about the U.S. position on climate change, health care reform, banking system reform, military spending, etc... In all of these cases, scientific opinion requires making a change in how money is spent, taxes are levied, or on how regulatory burden or liability are allocated.
Kinda gives new meaning to the Tower of Juche in Pyongyang.
You mean all the way back to Juche 0.
....He is believed to be the sole author of the Windows Vista operating system.
I'm in awe of this man.
He probably had some help from Vladimir Putin. Vista's a complex piece of code.
...and if they misbehave, we spank the monkey. Bad monkey!
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Stole informational assets worth $500 billion over the past year? Um, does anyone bother to do basic reality checks?
The reality check is it's impossible to put a monetary value on "stolen" data, because data only has value if it contains useful information. If I stole the production plans for the Boeing 747, it wouldn't be of value because I do not have the means to build 747s. Or in the '90s, the RIAA claiming that everyone who illegally downloaded an mp3 would have bought the album it it weren't available on Napster.
....communism is something people would strive for, not have forced upon them at barrel of gun or threat of dying in one dear monster's labor/re-education camps.
Yes, true communism is always something "on the horizon." But the march towards the horizon never reaches its destination. Sorry, but the best argument against communism is communism.
...so Russians can vote for either Putin or for his clone.
How does a dedicated server appeal to the masses?
"I depends on whom you are" Typo disclaimer, drank too much beer before reading /.
Disclaimer, as I am not a PhD. Most of the comments here are very good. But to add my two cents, no matter what is printed on the piece of paper, you are what you are. Either you are comfortable in your own skin or you are not. A PhD won't change that. A PhD is a sign of experience and hopefully maturity, but it won't make you any smarter, or wiser and it won't make your penis grow. You can either solve technical problems, or you cannot. Almost all PhD candidates already solve problems before starting on their degrees. The PhD is just a verification of that fact. In the end, you will be judged on how valuable your contribution is to whomever you end up working for.
Most HR people aren't very smart, and they probably won't even know what to make of your degree. They have a job description and they look for someone who matches that profile. Unless your PhD exactly matches what they are told to look for, you might have problems getting your foot in the door. On the other hand, doing good PhD work opens contacts and doors. It all depends on where you want to work. I would take a close look at the industrial partners and contacts of the school you are considering attending. Would you want to work for any of those companies? Or would you prefer to stay in Europe? Your work is your best calling card, and if you do good work you can bypass most of the HR B.S.
I think the reason the government and mainstream media are uneasy with the Occupy Wall Street movement is it is basically saying the government in its current form no longer represents the will of most American people. Governments do not like having their legitimacy called into question. No other american protest movement in my life time has done this.
Windows 7 is the only platform that is supported by all the engineering apps that I need to do my job, and my employer only needs to support one OS. Some of the individual apps I use exist for OS X / Solaris / Linux, etc. but then we're talking about multiple OS's to get everything to work, and we would still need Windows in order to run SolidWorks.
The thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-111 wasn't out of line for other second-generation jets of the era. The F-111 wasn't designed to be a visual fighter anyway and it didn't carry a gun. The Navy wanted an interceptor with a big radar and long-range BVR missiles. That's what the F-14 eventually became. The Air Force used the F-111 as a low-level striker, a role for which the F-111 eventually proved well-suited for.
Somebody found some old paper bonds from the Weimar Republic a few years ago and found investors who were willing to invest in them in the hope that Germany might honor them. I think Germany had already paid them off and they were worthless or something like that, but I'm sure people will continue buying and selling them anyway.
Apple, especially in the middle-years under John Sculley released a lot of crippled computers to prevent direct competition between Apple's product lines. The LC / Performa Macs come to mind. I think this product-differentiation strategy annoyed most customers and was one of the reasons Apple almost tanked, because it put blatently profits before usability and expandability. Now days, Apple has much more subtle ways to pull in the money.
For the B.Sc. degree, I agree with the parent 100%. Go to a good state school with a solid engineering program and learn as much as you can. Get some good internships during the summers to see what interests you and to gain experience. Get good grades, work hard and stay out of excessive levels of debt.
In most engineering fields, a Masters Degree should be your initial goal. From there, you can decide what kind of work you would most like to be doing and see if a PhD makes sense given your career aspirations. I wouldn't waste time with dual bachelors degrees, unless your career goals require it, or it's a dual-degree program in four years; 2 x B.Sc. != 1 x M. Sc.
The most successful students were the ones who put the most time into what they were learning, either through internships, student-assistant jobs, or technical hobbies. There is no substitute for experience. Also, don't blow off freshman and sophomore math. Engineering is really applied mathematics, and you need solid foundations. Most of all, have fun. If you're not having fun, you're in the wrong degree.