This is a troll. What environmental "cure" is being promoted internationally (with mainstream international support) which is anything like taking chemo for a bump on the arm? Let's set up another straw man. In any movement, one can find ridiculous proposals; this does not necessarily invalidate the entire movement.
"Really? I live in a beautiful and small European town, with a very good standard of living. You think I really want to switch this for some crime-ridden noisy polluted corrupted place in America?"
My favorite cities in Europe are Edinburgh, Leipzig and Pisa. Erfurt is also nice. In which city (or town) do you live? Paris in the summer is never "noisy" or "polluted." (London is never dirty. Who needs trash cans?) Have you ever been to the US? Where?
I like to travel and I like Europe. I also like the US. I happen to think that the US is great (just get rid of W.) and so are many countries in Europe. (I have not visited Asia yet.) If you live in Europe, you probably have relatives who helped the National Socialists in the 1940's. If you live in (former) eastern Europe (e.g. Leipzig), YOU may have helped the secret police. If you live in the US, you might have relatives who slaughtered native Americans or Chinese immigrants or supported concentration camps for Japanese-American. Every country has "dirty laundry"; try to clean up your own before attacking another country or its people.
Could you tell me what you have been smoking and how much you paid for it? What I took from his comments was CYA and arrogance. I do agree with part of your comment; "For a user, they can get an big jump in security at a constant cost." and the constant is zero if they switch to *BSD or Linux.
"Probably, the price would need to be closer to $10 to make a serious impact on piracy. At that level, Microsoft wouldn't be making much profit,"
How much does it cost MS to burn some CDs?
Even though this is a troll (wish I had mod points right now), I hope you realize that no (thinking) person supports ALL of the laws in any country. Each law needs to be evaluated on its merits. (What do you think of the DMCA or the Patriot Act?)
Assuming you are not a troll, you should argue that forcing people to use Windows (or any other product) would cause them to look for other choices. Do you believe this?
Assuming that shipping with Linux adds nothing to the cost of the computer, then shipping with Linux (or *BSD) would, from the point of view of cost, be the same as shipping without an OS and allowing the customer (or, e.g. Dell) to install their own OS. I see no harm here.
I think your reply is silly. Open source developers (generally) work for free on the projects which interest them. If some wish to port software to windows and others do not, why should you get upset? I understood the previous post to indicate one individual's personal preference, not guidelines for everyone.
What level of participation in the SCO FUD machine would be required to make you decide not to hire an individual? How far down do you go to find the "real assholes"?
I was told in Edinburgh this summer that deep-fat fried Mars bars are popular in rural communities about 20 km from the city; the Royal Society of Edinburgh is concerned about the health of citizens of Scotland. While I am sure everything served in Scotland is better than the equivalent item in the US, I would not try some things. (Now two months in Leipzig was great.)
If I had any mod points right now, I would mod this up. This is absolutely correct (at least in Math). You need long periods of uninterrupted time to think about research problems. Once you have the "necessary information" somewhere in your brain, you can get a beer and write down the idea for a proof on a napkin or think about the problem while running. Without long stretches of "free time" during appropriate periods of a research project, you may get nowhere.
It is difficult to characterize US universities. I am a full professor (and ending my term as President of the Faculty Senate and chair of the state Board of Regents' faculty council). I will spend July and most of August doing research at one of the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. I will miss the first two days of classes in the fall and my chairperson expects (requires) me to get colleagues to cover these two days of classes (and I would do this even if it was not required). (I feel guilty about missing two days of classes.) My university is classified as "Research Extensive;" my graduate student received his Ph.D. last week.
"Tenure seems far more detrimental to the North American University than it is useful."
Tenure may seem detrimental to some people but the absence of tenure would cause tremendous harm to US universities. Think about high school principals (or Presidents of community colleges). If you give low grades to too many students, you get hassled. If they want to get rid of "troublemakers", there are ways (even with "tenure"). Faculty learn to "follow the rules" and not make waves. Is this what you want from your professors?
This may be a little off-topic, but I just recalled that I do not remember (slashdot) "names" nearly as well as I recall (some) sigs.
With respect to titles (e.g. Dr.), I have never really cared how I was addressed. In Math, many (90% ??) PhDs never publish anything more than than their dissertation work, so the title Dr. means little to me. What matters is one's research and publication record, the quality of teaching, one's "quality" as a person, etc.
The great depression occurred, IN PART, because worker productivity increased (e.g. more cars and washing machines) but wages did not increase sufficiently. After some time, everyone (OK, many people) had many "things" and a lot of debt. Companies could not sell their new products in sufficient quantities and started having trouble.
If too many US jobs go overseas, something similar might possibly happen. Economics "says" that if too few people can afford to buy your products, you may go out of business. If it happens to too many companies, the "economy" starts going downhill. Eventually, the accumulated capital in the US may be depleted and companies who moved jobs overseas will have no customers.
Apparently the "Sims Online" game still has serious issues. For example, I believe the object limit (104) and property limit (850 ??) were susposed to be removed by now. Apparently there were lots of other "promises" made to beta testers which have not been kept. Cities are crashing several times a night (at least last night). This game apparently needed a lot more work before it was released. (Game testers apparently did a poor job on this one.)
(I do not play the game, so this information is "second hand". If your experience is different, then perhaps my "facts" are wrong.)
This should be modded as "humor" (or "irony"). Unless you want to remove research and scholarship from universities, "fair use" and "intellectual freedom" rights need to be strengthened, either by the courts or Congress. If universities became more like K-12, there would be little reason for international students to attend universities in the US.
I agree. I am using Scilab in a course (ODE) and it works well in our 33 (Linux) computer classroom (with "all the bells and whistles"). I have only used Fortran for scientific computations, however.
This sounds like a completely uninformed opinion.
Nebraska is much more rural than Kansas; if you prefer this, go to Nebraska.
However:
The three principal universities have Internet2 and there is a LUG in each of the university cities (Wichita,
Lawrence,
Manhattan).
The University of Kansas is one of the top ten party schools
(KU) and Lawrence is close to Kansas City.
Wichita
is the industrial city in the state and has
low housing costs.
"Real northern California"
(i.e. Humboldt county)
is beautiful and cheaper than much of California. I think Nevada "sucks", but this is my opinion and I know other people like it. Everyone has to make her/his own decision. Just realize that your opinion is exactly that and nothing more.
We have a new assistant professor from Germany. He was quite surprised when he received his first pay check; in Germany (and Europe in general), a much higher percentage of your salary is taken out as taxes, etc. His take home pay is much greater than he expected.
With respect to hours worked, there is no fixed standard for faculty (post-docs have as little or as much freedom as they are allowed). I arrive at the university at 7 AM and leave sometime between 6 PM and midnight. I come in on most weekends; I would guess I work 60-100 hours per week. For this (as a full professor), I get about $68K (underpaid compared to national norms - public univ. faculty salaries are public info. in most states). On the other hand, I control my time and I can do much of my research at home. I do get to travel; I will be paid to spend next July and August in Germany at one of the Max Planck Institutes and I enjoyed Italy last summer. My guess is that most "serious" faculty spend as much time working as I do and enjoy the fruits of successful research.
If I could earn "overtime" in return for less freedom, I would turn such an offer down. Changing universities now is difficult but this situation will not last; many faculty are retiring and there should be opportunity for faculty to move in the "near" future. If you are a new PhD, it is much more important that you establish yourself (w.r.t. research) than that you begin with a good salary; you will benefit in the long run.
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This is a troll. What environmental "cure" is being promoted internationally (with mainstream international support) which is anything like taking chemo for a bump on the arm? Let's set up another straw man. In any movement, one can find ridiculous proposals; this does not necessarily invalidate the entire movement.
"Really? I live in a beautiful and small European town, with a very good standard of living. You think I really want to switch this for some crime-ridden noisy polluted corrupted place in America?"
My favorite cities in Europe are Edinburgh, Leipzig and Pisa. Erfurt is also nice. In which city (or town) do you live? Paris in the summer is never "noisy" or "polluted." (London is never dirty. Who needs trash cans?) Have you ever been to the US? Where?
I like to travel and I like Europe. I also like the US. I happen to think that the US is great (just get rid of W.) and so are many countries in Europe. (I have not visited Asia yet.) If you live in Europe, you probably have relatives who helped the National Socialists in the 1940's. If you live in (former) eastern Europe (e.g. Leipzig), YOU may have helped the secret police. If you live in the US, you might have relatives who slaughtered native Americans or Chinese immigrants or supported concentration camps for Japanese-American. Every country has "dirty laundry"; try to clean up your own before attacking another country or its people.
Could you tell me what you have been smoking and how much you paid for it? What I took from his comments was CYA and arrogance. I do agree with part of your comment; "For a user, they can get an big jump in security at a constant cost." and the constant is zero if they switch to *BSD or Linux.
"Probably, the price would need to be closer to $10 to make a serious impact on piracy. At that level, Microsoft wouldn't be making much profit," How much does it cost MS to burn some CDs?
Even though this is a troll (wish I had mod points right now), I hope you realize that no (thinking) person supports ALL of the laws in any country. Each law needs to be evaluated on its merits. (What do you think of the DMCA or the Patriot Act?)
Assuming you are not a troll, you should argue that forcing people to use Windows (or any other product) would cause them to look for other choices. Do you believe this?
Assuming that shipping with Linux adds nothing to the cost of the computer, then shipping with Linux (or *BSD) would, from the point of view of cost, be the same as shipping without an OS and allowing the customer (or, e.g. Dell) to install their own OS. I see no harm here.
I think your reply is silly. Open source developers (generally) work for free on the projects which interest them. If some wish to port software to windows and others do not, why should you get upset? I understood the previous post to indicate one individual's personal preference, not guidelines for everyone.
The PM does not seem to believe the BBC (at least when I was there this summer).
I think every list like this needs to include Donald E. Knuth.
What level of participation in the SCO FUD machine would be required to make you decide not to hire an individual? How far down do you go to find the "real assholes"?
I was told in Edinburgh this summer that deep-fat fried Mars bars are popular in rural communities about 20 km from the city; the Royal Society of Edinburgh is concerned about the health of citizens of Scotland. While I am sure everything served in Scotland is better than the equivalent item in the US, I would not try some things. (Now two months in Leipzig was great.)
If I had any mod points right now, I would mod this up. This is absolutely correct (at least in Math). You need long periods of uninterrupted time to think about research problems. Once you have the "necessary information" somewhere in your brain, you can get a beer and write down the idea for a proof on a napkin or think about the problem while running. Without long stretches of "free time" during appropriate periods of a research project, you may get nowhere.
It is difficult to characterize US universities. I am a full professor (and ending my term as President of the Faculty Senate and chair of the state Board of Regents' faculty council). I will spend July and most of August doing research at one of the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. I will miss the first two days of classes in the fall and my chairperson expects (requires) me to get colleagues to cover these two days of classes (and I would do this even if it was not required). (I feel guilty about missing two days of classes.) My university is classified as "Research Extensive;" my graduate student received his Ph.D. last week.
"Tenure seems far more detrimental to the North American University than it is useful."
Tenure may seem detrimental to some people but the absence of tenure would cause tremendous harm to US universities. Think about high school principals (or Presidents of community colleges). If you give low grades to too many students, you get hassled. If they want to get rid of "troublemakers", there are ways (even with "tenure"). Faculty learn to "follow the rules" and not make waves. Is this what you want from your professors?
This may be a little off-topic, but I just recalled that I do not remember (slashdot) "names" nearly as well as I recall (some) sigs.
With respect to titles (e.g. Dr.), I have never really cared how I was addressed. In Math, many (90% ??) PhDs never publish anything more than than their dissertation work, so the title Dr. means little to me. What matters is one's research and publication record, the quality of teaching, one's "quality" as a person, etc.
The great depression occurred, IN PART, because worker productivity increased (e.g. more cars and washing machines) but wages did not increase sufficiently. After some time, everyone (OK, many people) had many "things" and a lot of debt. Companies could not sell their new products in sufficient quantities and started having trouble.
If too many US jobs go overseas, something similar might possibly happen. Economics "says" that if too few people can afford to buy your products, you may go out of business. If it happens to too many companies, the "economy" starts going downhill. Eventually, the accumulated capital in the US may be depleted and companies who moved jobs overseas will have no customers.
Apparently the "Sims Online" game still has serious issues. For example, I believe the object limit (104) and property limit (850 ??) were susposed to be removed by now. Apparently there were lots of other "promises" made to beta testers which have not been kept. Cities are crashing several times a night (at least last night). This game apparently needed a lot more work before it was released. (Game testers apparently did a poor job on this one.)
(I do not play the game, so this information is "second hand". If your experience is different, then perhaps my "facts" are wrong.)
This should be modded as "humor" (or "irony"). Unless you want to remove research and scholarship from universities, "fair use" and "intellectual freedom" rights need to be strengthened, either by the courts or Congress. If universities became more like K-12, there would be little reason for international students to attend universities in the US.
I agree. I am using Scilab in a course (ODE) and it works well in our 33 (Linux) computer classroom (with "all the bells and whistles"). I have only used Fortran for scientific computations, however.
This sounds like a completely uninformed opinion. Nebraska is much more rural than Kansas; if you prefer this, go to Nebraska. However:
The three principal universities have Internet2 and there is a LUG in each of the university cities (Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan). The University of Kansas is one of the top ten party schools (KU) and Lawrence is close to Kansas City. Wichita is the industrial city in the state and has low housing costs.
"Real northern California" (i.e. Humboldt county) is beautiful and cheaper than much of California. I think Nevada "sucks", but this is my opinion and I know other people like it. Everyone has to make her/his own decision. Just realize that your opinion is exactly that and nothing more.
It would be interesting to see how Alphas compare with Intel and AMD CPUs.
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We have a new assistant professor from Germany. He was quite surprised when he received his first pay check; in Germany (and Europe in general), a much higher percentage of your salary is taken out as taxes, etc. His take home pay is much greater than he expected.
With respect to hours worked, there is no fixed standard for faculty (post-docs have as little or as much freedom as they are allowed). I arrive at the university at 7 AM and leave sometime between 6 PM and midnight. I come in on most weekends; I would guess I work 60-100 hours per week. For this (as a full professor), I get about $68K (underpaid compared to national norms - public univ. faculty salaries are public info. in most states). On the other hand, I control my time and I can do much of my research at home. I do get to travel; I will be paid to spend next July and August in Germany at one of the Max Planck Institutes and I enjoyed Italy last summer. My guess is that most "serious" faculty spend as much time working as I do and enjoy the fruits of successful research.
If I could earn "overtime" in return for less freedom, I would turn such an offer down. Changing universities now is difficult but this situation will not last; many faculty are retiring and there should be opportunity for faculty to move in the "near" future. If you are a new PhD, it is much more important that you establish yourself (w.r.t. research) than that you begin with a good salary; you will benefit in the long run.