As a bitter ex-UMDNJ employee, I am glad these guys actually had the money to carry out there research. Our project involving AIDS and children was shutdown as a cost-saving measure because of the various and sundry financial scandals at that hellhole. Bully for them.
Environmental determinism. Be careful here. You give up human agency since if the environment determines things then humans are stimulus-response mechanisms. It also opens up all kinds of crap science like "Africans have dark skin because it is hot." or "People from tropical latitudes have lower IQs."
I don't think there is enough data, but it would be interesting to see. There is a system here at my university where students bring their little clicker and click in for attendance and the only way they can get to some podcasted lectures is if they attended the lecture in the first place. Podcasting still suffers from the 'use it against them' angle.
If you are capable of learning on your own, then why attend college in the first place?
And if you are attending a university where classes can be passed without attending lectures, then you are wasting your money, your parent's money, or some sort of scholarship money.
"You'd better stop your students from, uh, using your "intellectual property" in real life, then. That's valuable money you're losing by teaching students your knowledge.
Are your students not allowed to talk to people about what you say, as well?
You should make them license this special "intellectual property" when they go to work and use what you've taught them. I mean, it's not like there are other people teaching the same things out of the same reference material or anything.
For fuck's sake, are teachers really starting to call their lessons "intellectual property"?"
As long as kids try to patent and profit from ideas they hear in class as well as use ideas transmitted from the professor to them to wreck the professor's career (see my reference to the Eisenhower remark), you are fucking 'A' right.
As for licensing, let me introduce you to a little thing called the BSD license....
Is banned in my classroom as is all other electronic devices except for ADA needs. I don't post the notes and I don't post the powerpoints. Why? Well, there is a direct correlation between bad grades and lack of attendance of lectures even if the notes and powerpoints are posted. I also found out that a teacher at another university was using my powerpoints with out attribution as his own work. AND what I say in class is my intellectual property. AND I don't want the David Hershowitz brown shirts holding the odd joke about US foreign policy during the Eisenhower era against me (actually happened).
I went through the majority of the process (phone interviews, then the face time at the New York facility and a trip to California) before I told them I wasn't interested in the job. My reasons for turning them down were three. First, the 80/20 deal was a myth if you were going to pursue something they were really interested in. I wanted to complete my PhD. Now, this PhD was not in a field they cared much about (despite their glaring need of my skills for one particular service), so that part of the deal was mumbled everytime it was mention. Second, the pay wasn't good enough to basically live at the facility. Third, the interview process was abusive in many respects. The first phone call was with a guy consumed by asking me about my doctoral research and my knowledge of how inodes work. He kept shifting between the two. When I asked him why this was even necessary given the position I was applying for, he got irritated and said that you had to know the ins-and-outs of how a file system works in order to configure (something I wouldn't be doing) any part of their infrastructure.
This lead to my observation of part of their file storage system which is quite possibly the most tweaked NFS nightmare/genius/what-the-fuck I'd ever seen. My past experience with networked file system was, I admit, very limited compared to what they had going on. Now, again, I wasn't even going to have anything to do with this system or any sysadmin work at all, but it was obvious that they wanted you to at least have knowledge of the system on some level beyond the user. It also came across as a showing-off culture too. I am glad I didn't take the job for various reasons, but if you are a sysadmin freaker who loves dinking with shit, you'd fit in; especially if you like to show it off too. Just be prepared to have some middle manager there fuck with you for a hour or two on the phone before you get to the outer part of the inner sanctum.
This article is a troll. It is nothing more than a troll. All this is going to do is result in some ugly flame war between the Right-Wing Americans (and the usual slashdot trolls) and Left-wing Americans (and the usual slashdot trolls). Why bother posting this dreck? Oh, yeah. Lots and lots of page views and advert $$$$. VA and OSDN! w000000t!
I think this is a direct result of our colleges encouraging mediocrity and making it very difficult for advanced students to, well, "advance". Colleges are built around helping out the most mediocre students get a passing grade, and just letting the gifted students learn on their own. It is the same thing that happens in our high schools.
Huh? Come on down to my classes here. I'll make sure you get the grade you deserve.
Look, CS is a tough discpline requiring long hours of work, sacrifice and committment to thinking. Well, thinking is hard. Why think when you can cop a degree in Management or Marketing, cram for the business school boards, get an MBA in "How to hold a meeting," make $100000 a year and act like a child until age 50? That's the American Dream now.
Look at the average school leaving age in Europe. It isn't 22, my friend. We should institute a gap year program in the US to bump up graduation ages. Kids can travel, cram for a REAL MATRICULATION EXAM or intern in a field they are interested in. This attitude that college is "just what you do" after high school has as much to do with mediocrity as anything else.
They make all kinds of stuff, including this new handheld digital recording gizmo our department bought for doing ethnographic interviews. It is totally fly and it fills a niche (midrange price/high quality) that we couldn't do otherwise because its competing devices are 10 grand.
If M$ buys the console part of Sony, so be it. But I doubt that even Microsoft can absorb something as big as Sony. Sure, they may have the cash on hand, but that is a really, really large operation.
Try my discipline: Geography, especially GIS for Forensics. Lots of programs have people interested in the topic, especially since homeland security money is so available. Go on http:///www.aag.org and search through the Annual Meeting proceedings for names of people doing work in this area. Apply to those programs. Include in your application letter a one paragraph blurb about a thesis topic. I did a side project for law enforcement agency that wanted to "predict" where meth labs would most likely happen. Using demographic data and some good old fashioned kriging we were able to locate hot spots that correlated strongly to past meth lab activity. Cops each shit like that up.
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My eee runs OS X.
As a bitter ex-UMDNJ employee, I am glad these guys actually had the money to carry out there research. Our project involving AIDS and children was shutdown as a cost-saving measure because of the various and sundry financial scandals at that hellhole. Bully for them.
Science for Southern Baptists. All of the fun of science and none of that frustrating icky stuff that doesn't jive with the Bible.
Environmental determinism. Be careful here. You give up human agency since if the environment determines things then humans are stimulus-response mechanisms. It also opens up all kinds of crap science like "Africans have dark skin because it is hot." or "People from tropical latitudes have lower IQs."
I don't think there is enough data, but it would be interesting to see. There is a system here at my university where students bring their little clicker and click in for attendance and the only way they can get to some podcasted lectures is if they attended the lecture in the first place. Podcasting still suffers from the 'use it against them' angle.
If you are capable of learning on your own, then why attend college in the first place?
And if you are attending a university where classes can be passed without attending lectures, then you are wasting your money, your parent's money, or some sort of scholarship money.
"You'd better stop your students from, uh, using your "intellectual property" in real life, then. That's valuable money you're losing by teaching students your knowledge.
Are your students not allowed to talk to people about what you say, as well?
You should make them license this special "intellectual property" when they go to work and use what you've taught them. I mean, it's not like there are other people teaching the same things out of the same reference material or anything.
For fuck's sake, are teachers really starting to call their lessons "intellectual property"?"
As long as kids try to patent and profit from ideas they hear in class as well as use ideas transmitted from the professor to them to wreck the professor's career (see my reference to the Eisenhower remark), you are fucking 'A' right.
As for licensing, let me introduce you to a little thing called the BSD license....
Is banned in my classroom as is all other electronic devices except for ADA needs. I don't post the notes and I don't post the powerpoints. Why? Well, there is a direct correlation between bad grades and lack of attendance of lectures even if the notes and powerpoints are posted. I also found out that a teacher at another university was using my powerpoints with out attribution as his own work. AND what I say in class is my intellectual property. AND I don't want the David Hershowitz brown shirts holding the odd joke about US foreign policy during the Eisenhower era against me (actually happened).
The worst of RISC mixed with the worst of UNIX.
You can order deuterium from chemical supply companies.
http://unitednuclear.com/hw.htm
"So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?"
Yes.
hate freedom, support terrorists and want to abort babies to use the remnant stem cells to save gays from AIDS?
that snags a random payload off this site! Thanks Metasploit!
BTW, Dupe, Dupity Dupe, Dupe.
I went through the majority of the process (phone interviews, then the face time at the New York facility and a trip to California) before I told them I wasn't interested in the job. My reasons for turning them down were three. First, the 80/20 deal was a myth if you were going to pursue something they were really interested in. I wanted to complete my PhD. Now, this PhD was not in a field they cared much about (despite their glaring need of my skills for one particular service), so that part of the deal was mumbled everytime it was mention. Second, the pay wasn't good enough to basically live at the facility. Third, the interview process was abusive in many respects. The first phone call was with a guy consumed by asking me about my doctoral research and my knowledge of how inodes work. He kept shifting between the two. When I asked him why this was even necessary given the position I was applying for, he got irritated and said that you had to know the ins-and-outs of how a file system works in order to configure (something I wouldn't be doing) any part of their infrastructure.
This lead to my observation of part of their file storage system which is quite possibly the most tweaked NFS nightmare/genius/what-the-fuck I'd ever seen. My past experience with networked file system was, I admit, very limited compared to what they had going on. Now, again, I wasn't even going to have anything to do with this system or any sysadmin work at all, but it was obvious that they wanted you to at least have knowledge of the system on some level beyond the user. It also came across as a showing-off culture too. I am glad I didn't take the job for various reasons, but if you are a sysadmin freaker who loves dinking with shit, you'd fit in; especially if you like to show it off too. Just be prepared to have some middle manager there fuck with you for a hour or two on the phone before you get to the outer part of the inner sanctum.
Slashdot article, Mr $uid > 500000.
This article is a troll. It is nothing more than a troll. All this is going to do is result in some ugly flame war between the Right-Wing Americans (and the usual slashdot trolls) and Left-wing Americans (and the usual slashdot trolls). Why bother posting this dreck? Oh, yeah. Lots and lots of page views and advert $$$$. VA and OSDN! w000000t!
Anybody see them listed? Those motherfuckers still owe me money.
Thank you. I can't stand "baited breath." It makes me think people have a nightcrawler in their mouths.
Wait for the response with a wikipedia link.....
We are talking vinyl too, right?
I think this is a direct result of our colleges encouraging mediocrity and making it very difficult for advanced students to, well, "advance". Colleges are built around helping out the most mediocre students get a passing grade, and just letting the gifted students learn on their own. It is the same thing that happens in our high schools.
Huh? Come on down to my classes here. I'll make sure you get the grade you deserve.
Look, CS is a tough discpline requiring long hours of work, sacrifice and committment to thinking. Well, thinking is hard. Why think when you can cop a degree in Management or Marketing, cram for the business school boards, get an MBA in "How to hold a meeting," make $100000 a year and act like a child until age 50? That's the American Dream now.
Look at the average school leaving age in Europe. It isn't 22, my friend. We should institute a gap year program in the US to bump up graduation ages. Kids can travel, cram for a REAL MATRICULATION EXAM or intern in a field they are interested in. This attitude that college is "just what you do" after high school has as much to do with mediocrity as anything else.
Hell, who needs to go to Venus to "broiler" effects? Stick around here on the Blue Marble for a few more years, you be see up front and in person.
They make all kinds of stuff, including this new handheld digital recording gizmo our department bought for doing ethnographic interviews. It is totally fly and it fills a niche (midrange price/high quality) that we couldn't do otherwise because its competing devices are 10 grand.
If M$ buys the console part of Sony, so be it. But I doubt that even Microsoft can absorb something as big as Sony. Sure, they may have the cash on hand, but that is a really, really large operation.
No, but it is now ready of proof-of-concept cross-platform FUD.
Try my discipline: Geography, especially GIS for Forensics. Lots of programs have people interested in the topic, especially since homeland security money is so available. Go on http:///www.aag.org and search through the Annual Meeting proceedings for names of people doing work in this area. Apply to those programs. Include in your application letter a one paragraph blurb about a thesis topic. I did a side project for law enforcement agency that wanted to "predict" where meth labs would most likely happen. Using demographic data and some good old fashioned kriging we were able to locate hot spots that correlated strongly to past meth lab activity. Cops each shit like that up.
In a 24 hour period. If you are not hallucinating by 11AM, it's time for another cup of coffee.