American universities are just more free to make money from their R&D, unlike most say European ones. Since they can run research for profit they can also hire the best professors and researchers they can find and that creates a virtuous cycle. In Europe for example, most research schools are state institutions and thus professor salaries are set to a nationwide scale. Plus it's much harder to profit from R&D.
And don't forget the money-printing racket we call athletics. I'm as much of a college football and basketball fan as anyone, but don't forget how much money is generated from these programs for the university.
Not to troll, because I understand your point and I honestly want to believe what you say. But why is OpenOffice dog-ass slow? And Azureus? Why does my system slow to a crawl for more than a minute when I launch Yahoo Pool or Slime Volleyball? (Speaking of Slime Volleyball, why does that damn game play at different speeds on every computer?) I'm talking about a 3GHz/2GB machine here.
Wave your benchmarks in my face all you want. As far as I'm concerned, these are the only metrics that mean a damn thing.
Major problem with your comment:
You're saying something similar to saying "People are still being murdered, so we should ignore rape and theft until we've caught all the murderers."
Another major problem:
You're equating copyright infringement with murder and rape. If we're following those lines, then don't forget jaywalking. Throw that in there with rape and murder too. And speeding, minor in posession, and expired vehicle registration. They all deserve the same amount of attention from law enforcement.
At mine too (I'm a library SysAdmin). The thing is we're (the university, not my department) are still coming across databases (with SSN info) that people didn't know existed. And it's very frustrating at how divided the different departments within the university are. No one wants to work with IT folks in other areas on campus, and the high-up campus-wide IT department seems to hold all us departmental IT folks in disdain for not doing "real" IT work. Everyone has their own cobbled-together and fragile legacy systems with their own data in their own formats. There doesn't seem to be much progress made, but committees are formed at every opportunity.
The best way for people to improve their writing is to read...professionally published books and journals.
Agreed. When I go through periods of reading particular authors or genres, my writing tends to lean towards that style. Not by conscious effort, but simply because absorbing other people's words plays a large part in how I form my own thoughts onto paper.
Unfortunately, I don't see this being a success in today's classroom. If there's one thing I see students shy away from more than writing, it's reading. Unless they can subscribe to The OC Weekly or American Idol News and World Report, it might be a lost cause. Then again, I have more recent experience at the high school level than college, so maybe there it's a different story.
Developing/supporting Property Management System (PMS)/PBX/Call Accounting interfaces and whatnot (large-scale proprietary stuff for some of the big boys - not commercial software) for hotels ranging from 80 rooms to 5000+ rooms. When I left the company I thought about starting a F/OSS PMS suite, but never persued it. Maybe I'll sit down this weekend and start to draw out some ideas. Maybe one day you'll see something on sourceforge geared towards mom-and-pop B&B's, small hotels, inns, and hostels. It might be me.
You get to look at these people every day in the office and the cafeteria after they've dumped their Quicken data and somehow now it's your fault.
I'd be more uncomfortable if I had to see the bible-thumper from the company softball team in the cafeteria after stumbling across his barely-legal porn stash and his bookmarks full of Scientology websites.
Jeezus I wish I could find hiring managers like you guys. I was searching for employment for 4 months before I finally landed a (relatively) low-paying gig this month doing SysAdmin at the University where I got my BS from.
Apparently no companies in my area actually do any hiring themselves anymore. Everything (and I mean abso-friggin-lutely everything) is channeled through these strict process-oriented headhunter organizations. A pox upon 'em all. Each and every one starts with an "interview" that I have to drive an hour to get to so I can sit down and let a high-school-diploma-holding suit-monkey talk at me and fill out his checklist so he can zip it over to his supervisor who will in turn get it right over to their "special contact" at Industry Leading Company, Inc.. Of course, they don't wanna tip their hand and actually tell you what or where this company is. Indeed, God intended for them to get their cut of this transaction.
"Do you have any foo experience?" (Not that he's got a clue what foo means or whether or not bar, baz, bif, or bop might be relevant to the question - after all, there's no friggin checkbox for bop!)
"What programming languages do you have experience with? Java? C#? HTML?.NET?" (Try explaining which items don't really belong on this list and they will nod their head and smile and laugh it off with a "I'm not really a techical person" line.)
"What tools have you worked with? By tools I mean things like XML." (I'm thinking screwdriver and angle grinder, but hey - data storage concepts are tools too, I guess. Besides - have you even glanced at my resume? I promise it's all in there.)
There's plenty of prior art in boycotting products and companies, but I am going to file for a patent this afternoon regarding a method of not buying something...over the Internet!! I imagine a hosts file entry which maps amazon.com to 127.0.0.1 is novel enough to get the patent granted.
I never considered myself overly paranoid, but I've always thrown some of the tiny pieces into the toilet if it was a sensitive document (voided bank checks, etc.). I just always thought that made good sense, which could be taken for paranoia I guess.
Where I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area the rental rates are similar. I pay $765/month for a *very* modest 3 bedroom and it's an absolute steal, but minimum wage in Texas is only $5.15. Unfortunately that's what I'm making right now until I can find a real job, so I'm quite familiar with the frugal life.
I used Squid with SquidGuard on a transparent proxy (Linux gateway router) combined with a few shell scripts to manipulate the router's IPCHAINS rules upon authentication (it was in the days of IPCHAINS).
While in Spain this Summer (I'm Texan but speak Spanish), I was watching a dubbed version of the Simpsons. I thought the voice actors were horrible, and nearly all of the humor was lost. I asked my Spanish friend if the Spanish Bee still speaks in Spanish, and he said yeah but it's with a Mexican accent. I thought that was kind of funny.
If the spacecraft made it to orbit, its autonomous program might be working, and after 4 days the sails could automatically deploy. While the chances of this are very, very small, we still encourage optical observers to see if the sail can be seen after that time.
So, uh, we think we lost our rocket but we're not exactly sure. We did see it go up into the air but then Boris tripped over the power cord and the screen went blank for a minute. So if everyone could poke their head out the window every now and then for the next 3 or 4 days and let us know if they see our rocket flying around, that would be great. Thanks a bunch!
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And the rest of you old farts think it has something to do with the bowels. :)
Not to troll, because I understand your point and I honestly want to believe what you say. But why is OpenOffice dog-ass slow? And Azureus? Why does my system slow to a crawl for more than a minute when I launch Yahoo Pool or Slime Volleyball? (Speaking of Slime Volleyball, why does that damn game play at different speeds on every computer?) I'm talking about a 3GHz/2GB machine here.
Wave your benchmarks in my face all you want. As far as I'm concerned, these are the only metrics that mean a damn thing.
Another major problem:
You're equating copyright infringement with murder and rape. If we're following those lines, then don't forget jaywalking. Throw that in there with rape and murder too. And speeding, minor in posession, and expired vehicle registration. They all deserve the same amount of attention from law enforcement.
At mine too (I'm a library SysAdmin). The thing is we're (the university, not my department) are still coming across databases (with SSN info) that people didn't know existed. And it's very frustrating at how divided the different departments within the university are. No one wants to work with IT folks in other areas on campus, and the high-up campus-wide IT department seems to hold all us departmental IT folks in disdain for not doing "real" IT work. Everyone has their own cobbled-together and fragile legacy systems with their own data in their own formats. There doesn't seem to be much progress made, but committees are formed at every opportunity.
Is this like the vi or emacs question?
I didn't realize it was a profit-boosting initiative.
Please....would someone in Washington think of the corporations' bottom line for once??!!!
Unfortunately, I don't see this being a success in today's classroom. If there's one thing I see students shy away from more than writing, it's reading. Unless they can subscribe to The OC Weekly or American Idol News and World Report, it might be a lost cause. Then again, I have more recent experience at the high school level than college, so maybe there it's a different story.
Developing/supporting Property Management System (PMS)/PBX/Call Accounting interfaces and whatnot (large-scale proprietary stuff for some of the big boys - not commercial software) for hotels ranging from 80 rooms to 5000+ rooms. When I left the company I thought about starting a F/OSS PMS suite, but never persued it. Maybe I'll sit down this weekend and start to draw out some ideas. Maybe one day you'll see something on sourceforge geared towards mom-and-pop B&B's, small hotels, inns, and hostels. It might be me.
I'd mod you up 'cause that's funny.
No screenshots???!!!!
I'd be more uncomfortable if I had to see the bible-thumper from the company softball team in the cafeteria after stumbling across his barely-legal porn stash and his bookmarks full of Scientology websites.
Jeezus I wish I could find hiring managers like you guys. I was searching for employment for 4 months before I finally landed a (relatively) low-paying gig this month doing SysAdmin at the University where I got my BS from.
.NET?" (Try explaining which items don't really belong on this list and they will nod their head and smile and laugh it off with a "I'm not really a techical person" line.)
Apparently no companies in my area actually do any hiring themselves anymore. Everything (and I mean abso-friggin-lutely everything) is channeled through these strict process-oriented headhunter organizations. A pox upon 'em all. Each and every one starts with an "interview" that I have to drive an hour to get to so I can sit down and let a high-school-diploma-holding suit-monkey talk at me and fill out his checklist so he can zip it over to his supervisor who will in turn get it right over to their "special contact" at Industry Leading Company, Inc.. Of course, they don't wanna tip their hand and actually tell you what or where this company is. Indeed, God intended for them to get their cut of this transaction.
"Do you have any foo experience?" (Not that he's got a clue what foo means or whether or not bar, baz, bif, or bop might be relevant to the question - after all, there's no friggin checkbox for bop!)
"What programming languages do you have experience with? Java? C#? HTML?
"What tools have you worked with? By tools I mean things like XML." (I'm thinking screwdriver and angle grinder, but hey - data storage concepts are tools too, I guess. Besides - have you even glanced at my resume? I promise it's all in there.)
There's plenty of prior art in boycotting products and companies, but I am going to file for a patent this afternoon regarding a method of not buying something...over the Internet!! I imagine a hosts file entry which maps amazon.com to 127.0.0.1 is novel enough to get the patent granted.
I'll be insanely rich from the likes of you.
Not In My Head?
I never considered myself overly paranoid, but I've always thrown some of the tiny pieces into the toilet if it was a sensitive document (voided bank checks, etc.). I just always thought that made good sense, which could be taken for paranoia I guess.
It's the female of the species - like a lioness. I think the Saharan Realtimes are on the endangered list.
Where I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area the rental rates are similar. I pay $765/month for a *very* modest 3 bedroom and it's an absolute steal, but minimum wage in Texas is only $5.15. Unfortunately that's what I'm making right now until I can find a real job, so I'm quite familiar with the frugal life.
My money is on the JSF
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This game sucks.
I used Squid with SquidGuard on a transparent proxy (Linux gateway router) combined with a few shell scripts to manipulate the router's IPCHAINS rules upon authentication (it was in the days of IPCHAINS).
While in Spain this Summer (I'm Texan but speak Spanish), I was watching a dubbed version of the Simpsons. I thought the voice actors were horrible, and nearly all of the humor was lost. I asked my Spanish friend if the Spanish Bee still speaks in Spanish, and he said yeah but it's with a Mexican accent. I thought that was kind of funny.
If the spacecraft made it to orbit, its autonomous program might be working, and after 4 days the sails could automatically deploy. While the chances of this are very, very small, we still encourage optical observers to see if the sail can be seen after that time.
So, uh, we think we lost our rocket but we're not exactly sure. We did see it go up into the air but then Boris tripped over the power cord and the screen went blank for a minute. So if everyone could poke their head out the window every now and then for the next 3 or 4 days and let us know if they see our rocket flying around, that would be great. Thanks a bunch!