the age old problem of deciding what various words mean.
What, exactly, do you mean by mean, in this sense?
Anyway, the person is trying to show the concepts that are generally discussed along with math in Grad School Physics. I'm not sure why Wilschon is trying to so hard to drive home an obvious point.
Actually...I work at a university and Dell was square with us too...replaced bad boards with good boards, even for systems out of warranty. While I'm sure some suffered, I'm not sure whose evidence is anecdotal.
So when I blow hulu up to a 55" LCD with a DVI cable and gaming computer, it stutters like claymation. Doesn't buffer, etc, it's just not a smooth playback whatever the resolution. YouTube has no such problems even when watching 720p video.
Lucas dropped that line to try to move the "force" from being Fantasy Fiction magic
I thought it was to move The Force out of religion into science. Of course, I never read that anywhere or heard quotes from Lucas suggesting that. But it's what I think.
Have they ever taken a domesticated, trained chimpanzee's brain and put it in a wild chimp's skull to see if the training transfers? I mean, you could do it with rats, but any decent rat can find cheese in a maze.
I'd think it was a paper saving mechanism. But I'm fairly certain that, before computers, there was a hell of a lot less stuff printed out. Before computers, you had books and photocopied handouts. Now, you have printouts of chapters, syllabi, homework, homework solutions, book reports, random web research, etc. And even that wouldn't be terrible, except the kids will print out a 10 page paper, see a mistake, then print out the entire 10 pages again. And again.
This is all true. Microsoft is learning, painfully slowly, how to construct a better network operating system. I think Windows 7 (or maybe Vista...sort of skipped that one) is their first OS that requires an initial password to proceed with installation. Something as basic as requiring a password for your administrator account...and it was left out for over a decade, despite security issues in the news again and again.
With the latest Windows 7, Microsoft may finally be getting security right, at least from a basic viewpoint. How innately hackable their system is even with a strong password I'm not certain. But at least you can't just wander into anyone's box anymore.
As far as usability in terms of day-to-day as well as configuration both mundane and advanced, Windows blows away any OS out there. Well...MacOS is pretty good as a user OS. It's a ridiculous choice for enterprise use because of its weak management tools. Apple does have some tools, but they aren't nearly as good as what MS puts out. I haven't seen any of the Linux Enterprise management tools. We just use Puppet.
Many of the professors cover their own salary through grants,
While faculty might use research grants to supplement their salary on certain occasions (summer if you're a 9-month faculty member, for example), almost all faculty salaries are paid for by department funds. The people the faculty member employs, graduate students, researchers -- these are paid through grants.
the university only provides an office and work space
That space can range from a single office to an entire building and is non-negligible in terms of cost. Administrative, computing, facilities, infrastructure -- all paid for by the university.
If the prof buys equipment, the university demands a cut of the grant in exchange for allowing the prof to buy the equipment.
Indirect Cost Return. UC charges 53% for most federal grants. If you ask for $100,000, the granting agency pays $153,000. It is income used to support the faculty in various ways (staff, infrastructure, etc, etc, etc). Tuition, state funding, and donations are other major sources of income.
we could stop university from building wasteful spaces just so some rich guy can put his name on it.
Expansion and improvement is necessary to compete in the educational market. If some rich guy is putting his name on a building, you can be certain a decent percentage of the funding for the building was contributed by that guy. Maybe 10-15%, maybe more, but when a building costs $50 million to create, it's not a sneeze.
Could the university save money? God yes and UC is going through it right now...a complete shake-up of every business process, every department. "Departments" as seen by staff no longer exist in my college. Staff support a cluster of academic departments, not individual departments. No longer do I work for, say, the Mathematics Department. I work for the Science Cluster which incorporates Math, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology. Centralize purchasing, HR, IT...add some efficiency-creating web apps, centralized databases, streamline the processes. You can have 10 people doing what 25 used to do (and all scheme entails).
It wasn't in the headline, true, but it was in the article. The fact that it made Slashdot's front page must have meant it was something Great and Terrible. Assuming it wasn't about dust collecting between your iphone and its case, which is the other example of a front page Slashdot story of Momentous Importance.
While many great things have been accomplished by the relatively young (there's a firm line between "young" and "adult" at 35 in case you're not aware...similar to Chef's "17" philosophy, in fact), they were entirely by accident.
Well, in the grand scheme of things, oil companies are producing a product that, at this point, we pretty much require to survive. Take away oil and you take away cars and plastics. That pretty much changes the entire world. I'm pretty certain about two things:
1) There are people who are putting money acquired today over the future of our survival. They twist the process to make it difficult to live without certain items. Electric cars, taller buildings, more parks, fewer roads: all possible, but all rejected because we're not offered those choices on an affordable scale.
2) Technology will likely solve many of our "harmonizing with nature" issues. Telecommuting, green cars, green power. Get us off the roads and keep us in our communities. Better city building would be nice too. People CAN walk if they try. I just hope that we change our ways somewhat before resources do become a problem and the population stabilizes not by choice, but by war for oil or water.
Meh. Try a Google search. The purchased results are clearly marked in yellow, similar to product placement results. News is directly under their two results. I'm not bothered.
According the the Apple Guy in Live Free or Die Hard (not a porn, but an action movie with Bruce Willis), the power grid isn't on the internet which is why the bad guys had to fly a helicopter, kill all the guards, and hardwire into the system to cause problems.
I was going to say pretty much exactly that, minus the word otaku of course. It's a money vs time thing: if I don't have money, I may be able to put in the time to better my character; if I don't have time, I should be able to better my character through money.
I hear what you're saying about people protecting their wallets, not their content. And because people need to eat, these newspapers, movie moguls, songwriters still need the money, not just your interest. In terms of online news, much of it is paid for through advertising. So if people aren't going to that particular site because they're reading it elsewhere, that newspaper isn't making money. If there was a technological way of having the attribution follow the article no matter where it is, that would be something. But in the world of cut and paste text, or rip and replay movies, I don't see that as possible. You're back to fundamental funding.
Music is similar -- to really make a living as a musician you need marketing, and that's really what the RIAA is charging for. Sure they shell out 10K or whatever to record a simple album, but it's the 100K to millions of dollars they spend on advertising to get you to buy that album that concerns them. In a world where people don't have to pay for food, a musician could play because he wants to be heard, or feel the applause, etc. Now, they are recorded and sit back and collect their pennies (with the occasional tour if you're huge). But rich and famous musicians are rare. Most musicians [citation needed] I imagine are those you see in bars and other venues who make $2-300 a night having fun or trying to be heard by some studio exec.
I agree with the parent, not the GP. I work with university faculty and many of them have an elitist attitude. But you know, I'm just support staff. I'm here for them so they DO get the right to interrupt as they please and I don't require them to be overly polite. Like doctors, you get all kinds though. Some are just genuinely nice people who accomplish just as much using social norms. Others treat everything someone else does as "unacceptable", even when it doesn't affect them directly. As a rule, the people who use the term "unacceptable" are either very very good or very very not good.
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And yes, I do physics for a living.
Obviously. :-)
the age old problem of deciding what various words mean.
What, exactly, do you mean by mean, in this sense?
Anyway, the person is trying to show the concepts that are generally discussed along with math in Grad School Physics. I'm not sure why Wilschon is trying to so hard to drive home an obvious point.
Actually...I work at a university and Dell was square with us too...replaced bad boards with good boards, even for systems out of warranty. While I'm sure some suffered, I'm not sure whose evidence is anecdotal.
I've got an iPhone 4 myself, as do two of my friends and none of us are able to reproduce this reception issue.
Says Captain Hook and his alligator-hating posse.
So when I blow hulu up to a 55" LCD with a DVI cable and gaming computer, it stutters like claymation. Doesn't buffer, etc, it's just not a smooth playback whatever the resolution. YouTube has no such problems even when watching 720p video.
Will that $9.99 give me decent performance?
Lucas dropped that line to try to move the "force" from being Fantasy Fiction magic
I thought it was to move The Force out of religion into science. Of course, I never read that anywhere or heard quotes from Lucas suggesting that. But it's what I think.
Those who would give up anonymity for privacy will have neither!
Or perhaps cause all particles in the universe to simultaneously implode at the speed of light.
This was exactly the response I was looking for. ;-)
Have they ever taken a domesticated, trained chimpanzee's brain and put it in a wild chimp's skull to see if the training transfers? I mean, you could do it with rats, but any decent rat can find cheese in a maze.
A mile down?
Beneath arctic ice?
And a cable's come loose?
Hummer 4 announced at low, low cost! Buy three today!
The United States Postal Service is a better place to work IT than Google? Ya right.
Ever worked for Google?
I'd think it was a paper saving mechanism. But I'm fairly certain that, before computers, there was a hell of a lot less stuff printed out. Before computers, you had books and photocopied handouts. Now, you have printouts of chapters, syllabi, homework, homework solutions, book reports, random web research, etc. And even that wouldn't be terrible, except the kids will print out a 10 page paper, see a mistake, then print out the entire 10 pages again. And again.
What are these little "gamer" cases doing about the massive video cards these days? Without a fairly long case, most gaming cards won't fit.
This is all true. Microsoft is learning, painfully slowly, how to construct a better network operating system. I think Windows 7 (or maybe Vista...sort of skipped that one) is their first OS that requires an initial password to proceed with installation. Something as basic as requiring a password for your administrator account...and it was left out for over a decade, despite security issues in the news again and again.
With the latest Windows 7, Microsoft may finally be getting security right, at least from a basic viewpoint. How innately hackable their system is even with a strong password I'm not certain. But at least you can't just wander into anyone's box anymore.
As far as usability in terms of day-to-day as well as configuration both mundane and advanced, Windows blows away any OS out there. Well...MacOS is pretty good as a user OS. It's a ridiculous choice for enterprise use because of its weak management tools. Apple does have some tools, but they aren't nearly as good as what MS puts out. I haven't seen any of the Linux Enterprise management tools. We just use Puppet.
Many of the professors cover their own salary through grants,
While faculty might use research grants to supplement their salary on certain occasions (summer if you're a 9-month faculty member, for example), almost all faculty salaries are paid for by department funds. The people the faculty member employs, graduate students, researchers -- these are paid through grants.
the university only provides an office and work space
That space can range from a single office to an entire building and is non-negligible in terms of cost. Administrative, computing, facilities, infrastructure -- all paid for by the university.
If the prof buys equipment, the university demands a cut of the grant in exchange for allowing the prof to buy the equipment.
Indirect Cost Return. UC charges 53% for most federal grants. If you ask for $100,000, the granting agency pays $153,000. It is income used to support the faculty in various ways (staff, infrastructure, etc, etc, etc). Tuition, state funding, and donations are other major sources of income.
we could stop university from building wasteful spaces just so some rich guy can put his name on it.
Expansion and improvement is necessary to compete in the educational market. If some rich guy is putting his name on a building, you can be certain a decent percentage of the funding for the building was contributed by that guy. Maybe 10-15%, maybe more, but when a building costs $50 million to create, it's not a sneeze.
Could the university save money? God yes and UC is going through it right now...a complete shake-up of every business process, every department. "Departments" as seen by staff no longer exist in my college. Staff support a cluster of academic departments, not individual departments. No longer do I work for, say, the Mathematics Department. I work for the Science Cluster which incorporates Math, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology. Centralize purchasing, HR, IT...add some efficiency-creating web apps, centralized databases, streamline the processes. You can have 10 people doing what 25 used to do (and all scheme entails).
PHP code? I don't know.
I'm so confused.
It wasn't in the headline, true, but it was in the article. The fact that it made Slashdot's front page must have meant it was something Great and Terrible. Assuming it wasn't about dust collecting between your iphone and its case, which is the other example of a front page Slashdot story of Momentous Importance.
While many great things have been accomplished by the relatively young (there's a firm line between "young" and "adult" at 35 in case you're not aware...similar to Chef's "17" philosophy, in fact), they were entirely by accident.
Well, in the grand scheme of things, oil companies are producing a product that, at this point, we pretty much require to survive. Take away oil and you take away cars and plastics. That pretty much changes the entire world. I'm pretty certain about two things:
1) There are people who are putting money acquired today over the future of our survival. They twist the process to make it difficult to live without certain items. Electric cars, taller buildings, more parks, fewer roads: all possible, but all rejected because we're not offered those choices on an affordable scale.
2) Technology will likely solve many of our "harmonizing with nature" issues. Telecommuting, green cars, green power. Get us off the roads and keep us in our communities. Better city building would be nice too. People CAN walk if they try. I just hope that we change our ways somewhat before resources do become a problem and the population stabilizes not by choice, but by war for oil or water.
Meh. Try a Google search. The purchased results are clearly marked in yellow, similar to product placement results. News is directly under their two results. I'm not bothered.
According the the Apple Guy in Live Free or Die Hard (not a porn, but an action movie with Bruce Willis), the power grid isn't on the internet which is why the bad guys had to fly a helicopter, kill all the guards, and hardwire into the system to cause problems.
It's all right there in the screenplay...
I was going to say pretty much exactly that, minus the word otaku of course. It's a money vs time thing: if I don't have money, I may be able to put in the time to better my character; if I don't have time, I should be able to better my character through money.
A system where the public pays for the news.
Like NPR?
I hear what you're saying about people protecting their wallets, not their content. And because people need to eat, these newspapers, movie moguls, songwriters still need the money, not just your interest. In terms of online news, much of it is paid for through advertising. So if people aren't going to that particular site because they're reading it elsewhere, that newspaper isn't making money. If there was a technological way of having the attribution follow the article no matter where it is, that would be something. But in the world of cut and paste text, or rip and replay movies, I don't see that as possible. You're back to fundamental funding.
Music is similar -- to really make a living as a musician you need marketing, and that's really what the RIAA is charging for. Sure they shell out 10K or whatever to record a simple album, but it's the 100K to millions of dollars they spend on advertising to get you to buy that album that concerns them. In a world where people don't have to pay for food, a musician could play because he wants to be heard, or feel the applause, etc. Now, they are recorded and sit back and collect their pennies (with the occasional tour if you're huge). But rich and famous musicians are rare. Most musicians [citation needed] I imagine are those you see in bars and other venues who make $2-300 a night having fun or trying to be heard by some studio exec.
Patronage is fine. But money is important.
I agree with the parent, not the GP. I work with university faculty and many of them have an elitist attitude. But you know, I'm just support staff. I'm here for them so they DO get the right to interrupt as they please and I don't require them to be overly polite. Like doctors, you get all kinds though. Some are just genuinely nice people who accomplish just as much using social norms. Others treat everything someone else does as "unacceptable", even when it doesn't affect them directly. As a rule, the people who use the term "unacceptable" are either very very good or very very not good.
I guess. I can't make heads or tails of what happened in the beginning of that lawsuit. Wikipedia author needs to reword it for clarity.