I'm an American scientist, and I've been through this battle already. For you younger folks, back in the late '80s, many organizations, particularly societies like the American Chemical Society (whose main interest is keeping Ph.D.'s plentiful so the chemical industry can pay them $40K/yr forever) testified before Congress about the upcoming "shortage" of scientists. Many grad students, including myself, were told that this shortage would translate into good jobs when we graduated with a Ph.D. It was a complete lie.
In the early '90s, testimonies and hand-wringings were still going on. Only thing is, those of us who had graduated with a Ph.D. had learned of a new problem. It was called "The Glut". Most places, especially in academia, were averaging 300-400 applications for teaching and research positions. There were postdocs out the wazoo, and most of us were in a holding pattern. I was a postdoc for 6.5 years, trying to find a place to land (I finally did; many of my colleagues stopped trying and went off to sell computers or work for biotech companies as a marketer or salesman). I remember one position that I applied for in academia didn't even respond with a letter. They had so many applications, they just sent out a postcard that began "Dear Applicant:".
The Glut is still here. Don't believe the lies about getting research positions after you graduate. You may do it, but you'll need some luck. The shortage is in graduate students. Every faculty member would like 2 or 3 (or more) graduate students to work on their projects, mostly 'cause we faculty spend all day, every day writing grant proposals to keep our soft-money-funded postions on faculty. And the NIH and NSF budgets are tapped out, meaning the only way I get my grant funded is if my colleague loses his. This breeds a situation where every April, Sept., and Dec., everyone gets nervous, waiting for those grant scores to roll in. If your score isn't good, update your CV. And there's a pretty good correlation between the number of grad students you have and the score you get: more is better.
Science can be a fun occupation. I love it. But don't be deceived into thinking your going to go from graduation to a faculty position in anything less than 6 years, or that you're going to get some cushy job teaching or in academia. Trust me.
I have a 24 node cluster that used 40 Gb Travelstar drives. Out of the 24, I've had 5 HD failures in one year. I would suspect that this is actually better than most folks 'cause we don't run our cluster 24/7.
I really only need to sync my address book, and I can't even do that now (something about my 1st gen G4, OS X 10.2, and the serial to USB converter just doesn't work. It used to, but some upgrade broke it. I've tried everything to fix it).
Anyway, is there an address book function for the iPod? That would pretty much solve the "sync" problem for me.
More happened in TOS in the first 2 minutes of an episdoe than an entire _season_ of Voyager. "Enterprise" is unwatchable--the cheesy opening music will set dogs baying--I see Justin Timberlake doing a remake. I want Capt. Kirk back. I want a plot. I want action. I don't want some psychobabble about guiding spirits; I don't want borg; I don't want Whoopi Freaking Goldberg.
If your higher capacity iPods are selling like mad (and they are) then why cut into those sales and profits by introducing a cheaper model? I don't think Apple makes much money off iTunes, so the % profit off the iPod is where the money is, and a smaller HD model would bring in fewer profits. Maybe it would make sense when the demand for the iPod dropped, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I'm sure there are all sorts of keen objects up Johnathon Edwards' ass. Those SciFi channel execs are always putting their heads up there; I'm sure they'll find something of interest to UFO buffs if they just looked closely. For example, suppose you've just joined SciFi managment from MTV and you've retrieved the miner's helmet that you lost up Justin Timberlake's ass (finally!). You've strapped it on and you're poking around in Johnathon Edwards' ass and you find a large, round metal object. Now I know if's likely that it's just a collection plate from one of his seances, but maybe--just maybe--it's a UFO. Maybe if you just (grunt) put your arm in with (grunt) your Polaroid camera and (zazzzp) snap a slightly blurry photo, you can create a show with Johnathon Frakes as host, as well as sell it to Art Bell's web page!
Pigs on the wing? Same deal. Gotta be some feathers and pork rinds up there.
Just because Johnathon Edwards' ass has been nearly reamed to tattered, bloody hamburger doesn't mean it doesn't have some value. Find new ways to exploit this valuable property, SciFi!
This weekend is the Ole Miss-Alabama football game in Oxford. If we run out of beer, you are likely to read about riots on the front page of national newspapers. This might actually bring attention to our archaic, prohibition-era alcohol laws. Like, for example, only warm beer can be bought at stores and no alcohol sales on Sunday at all, unless you drive 15 miles across the county line, where you can buy all the cold beer you want on Sunday, but not wine or liquor.
The shelves of most science fiction sections are chockablock with fantasy novels (including your own). Almost no science fiction in the vein of Heinlein, Asimov, or Clarke is left. Is science fiction a dead genre?
He's not just doing Sandman: look for the new series "1602" from Marvel out now. Supposedly a "Victorian cyberpunk" series featuring the Marvel Universe characters. Preview here.
I'm a University professor in the U.S. who is a longtime Mac user. Mac OS X has made life really great in my lab. We do research that tends to be graphics-oriented, and much of the scientific software that used to require overpriced SGI boxes (and licenses) to run, we now run either on Macs or Linux workstations. The nice part is that for the students in the lab, OS X and Linux look exactly the same, so figuring out one makes it simple to switch to the other.
Obviously, the Mac GUI is much better than KDE or Gnome, so most people want the Mac, and on things like our Beowulf cluster we use Linux (I'm not paying for 32 copies of Mac OS X). I don't think I'm alone. I've talked to other colleagues who are moving to Macs for these same reasons: easy integration of OS X and Linux.
I took a tour of campus last week as part of an orientation group. The university had just purchased hundreds of iMacs! There are G4's in almost all of the graphics labs, or anywhere that graphics demands are high.
This high school may be preparing kids better for "industry" with MS products, but it doesn't seem to me they're preparing them well for college, given the trend I see.
Most people, especially in small communities, probably don't realize that they don't have to buy M$ Windows to do 90% of what they want to do (e-mail, surf the web, download pr0n). The other things like "Windows 101" they could get at the library or various adult education centers.
I have both already. How many others?
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This is might be an interesting poll: How many Beetle drivers out there own an iPod already? Are we lured by design but stay for the quality? Granted, both the Beetle and the iPod have their problems but overall I'm happy with both.
This article from today's Forbes.com gives their lawyer's viewpoint. From the article: "Boies thinks any harm done to Linux may actually be the fault of the open source platform's own backers. 'They make the case a threat just by talking about it,' says Boies". Riiiight. Like sending 1,500 letters wasn't making it a threat. Or publically threatening to sue Linus.
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...that any of these spammers are going to abide by this or any other law? They already violate laws in several states that make spam illegal. Do you think the residents of Washington don't get spam? Further, many spammers are outside the U.S., and these laws won't apply to them. Blocking all spam is the only way to stop it.
It was pretty clear, even during the last episode in, admittedly, one of the weaker story arcs why this show has such a devoted following: the writing is incredible. Thanks to Joss and everybody involved for creating characters, plots, and dialog that were immensely entertaining (the D&D scene alone had me laughing hysterically). I'm going to miss this show and these characters. Why can't shows with potential like, say, Enterprise figure out the tricks Buffy managed to pull year after year? Note to Paramount: maybe you have to start caring about the writing again to bring a borefest like Trek back to life. Notice that no one on Buffy wore catsuits.
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They're going to ship all those warehouses full of Microsoft BOB to Asia and _tell_ them it's "XP Lite"!
I'm an American scientist, and I've been through this battle already. For you younger folks, back in the late '80s, many organizations, particularly societies like the American Chemical Society (whose main interest is keeping Ph.D.'s plentiful so the chemical industry can pay them $40K/yr forever) testified before Congress about the upcoming "shortage" of scientists. Many grad students, including myself, were told that this shortage would translate into good jobs when we graduated with a Ph.D. It was a complete lie.
In the early '90s, testimonies and hand-wringings were still going on. Only thing is, those of us who had graduated with a Ph.D. had learned of a new problem. It was called "The Glut". Most places, especially in academia, were averaging 300-400 applications for teaching and research positions. There were postdocs out the wazoo, and most of us were in a holding pattern. I was a postdoc for 6.5 years, trying to find a place to land (I finally did; many of my colleagues stopped trying and went off to sell computers or work for biotech companies as a marketer or salesman). I remember one position that I applied for in academia didn't even respond with a letter. They had so many applications, they just sent out a postcard that began "Dear Applicant:".
The Glut is still here. Don't believe the lies about getting research positions after you graduate. You may do it, but you'll need some luck. The shortage is in graduate students. Every faculty member would like 2 or 3 (or more) graduate students to work on their projects, mostly 'cause we faculty spend all day, every day writing grant proposals to keep our soft-money-funded postions on faculty. And the NIH and NSF budgets are tapped out, meaning the only way I get my grant funded is if my colleague loses his. This breeds a situation where every April, Sept., and Dec., everyone gets nervous, waiting for those grant scores to roll in. If your score isn't good, update your CV. And there's a pretty good correlation between the number of grad students you have and the score you get: more is better.
Science can be a fun occupation. I love it. But don't be deceived into thinking your going to go from graduation to a faculty position in anything less than 6 years, or that you're going to get some cushy job teaching or in academia. Trust me.
I have a 24 node cluster that used 40 Gb Travelstar drives. Out of the 24, I've had 5 HD failures in one year. I would suspect that this is actually better than most folks 'cause we don't run our cluster 24/7.
I really only need to sync my address book, and I can't even do that now (something about my 1st gen G4, OS X 10.2, and the serial to USB converter just doesn't work. It used to, but some upgrade broke it. I've tried everything to fix it).
Anyway, is there an address book function for the iPod? That would pretty much solve the "sync" problem for me.
I agree wholeheartedly.
More happened in TOS in the first 2 minutes of an episdoe than an entire _season_ of Voyager. "Enterprise" is unwatchable--the cheesy opening music will set dogs baying--I see Justin Timberlake doing a remake. I want Capt. Kirk back. I want a plot. I want action. I don't want some psychobabble about guiding spirits; I don't want borg; I don't want Whoopi Freaking Goldberg.
I want Star Trek back. Is that too much to ask?
If your higher capacity iPods are selling like mad (and they are) then why cut into those sales and profits by introducing a cheaper model? I don't think Apple makes much money off iTunes, so the % profit off the iPod is where the money is, and a smaller HD model would bring in fewer profits. Maybe it would make sense when the demand for the iPod dropped, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
The director (Woo) has made possibly the two worst movies of all time. I expect no less than a threepeat.
Erasing my memories of the previous night for 2 decades.
I'm sure there are all sorts of keen objects up Johnathon Edwards' ass. Those SciFi channel execs are always putting their heads up there; I'm sure they'll find something of interest to UFO buffs if they just looked closely. For example, suppose you've just joined SciFi managment from MTV and you've retrieved the miner's helmet that you lost up Justin Timberlake's ass (finally!). You've strapped it on and you're poking around in Johnathon Edwards' ass and you find a large, round metal object. Now I know if's likely that it's just a collection plate from one of his seances, but maybe--just maybe--it's a UFO. Maybe if you just (grunt) put your arm in with (grunt) your Polaroid camera and (zazzzp) snap a slightly blurry photo, you can create a show with Johnathon Frakes as host, as well as sell it to Art Bell's web page!
Pigs on the wing? Same deal. Gotta be some feathers and pork rinds up there.
Just because Johnathon Edwards' ass has been nearly reamed to tattered, bloody hamburger doesn't mean it doesn't have some value. Find new ways to exploit this valuable property, SciFi!
Sincerely,
Johnathon Edwards
This weekend is the Ole Miss-Alabama football game in Oxford. If we run out of beer, you are likely to read about riots on the front page of national newspapers. This might actually bring attention to our archaic, prohibition-era alcohol laws. Like, for example, only warm beer can be bought at stores and no alcohol sales on Sunday at all, unless you drive 15 miles across the county line, where you can buy all the cold beer you want on Sunday, but not wine or liquor.
I will keep you posted from the front lines.
The shelves of most science fiction sections are chockablock with fantasy novels (including your own). Almost no science fiction in the vein of Heinlein, Asimov, or Clarke is left. Is science fiction a dead genre?
He's not just doing Sandman: look for the new series "1602" from Marvel out now. Supposedly a "Victorian cyberpunk" series featuring the Marvel Universe characters. Preview here.
It's the meeting where the 2 slides were presented.
Please remember this for next time.
I'm a University professor in the U.S. who is a longtime Mac user. Mac OS X has made life really great in my lab. We do research that tends to be graphics-oriented, and much of the scientific software that used to require overpriced SGI boxes (and licenses) to run, we now run either on Macs or Linux workstations. The nice part is that for the students in the lab, OS X and Linux look exactly the same, so figuring out one makes it simple to switch to the other.
Obviously, the Mac GUI is much better than KDE or Gnome, so most people want the Mac, and on things like our Beowulf cluster we use Linux (I'm not paying for 32 copies of Mac OS X). I don't think I'm alone. I've talked to other colleagues who are moving to Macs for these same reasons: easy integration of OS X and Linux.
I took a tour of campus last week as part of an orientation group. The university had just purchased hundreds of iMacs! There are G4's in almost all of the graphics labs, or anywhere that graphics demands are high.
This high school may be preparing kids better for "industry" with MS products, but it doesn't seem to me they're preparing them well for college, given the trend I see.
He's widely acknowledged as the smart one. Oh, well...at least you didn't get Curley
Most people, especially in small communities, probably don't realize that they don't have to buy M$ Windows to do 90% of what they want to do (e-mail, surf the web, download pr0n). The other things like "Windows 101" they could get at the library or various adult education centers.
This is might be an interesting poll: How many Beetle drivers out there own an iPod already? Are we lured by design but stay for the quality? Granted, both the Beetle and the iPod have their problems but overall I'm happy with both.
It's available for free for most platfoms.
June 13th is when IBM's license of UNIX for AIX comes up for renewal.
This article from today's Forbes.com gives their lawyer's viewpoint. From the article: "Boies thinks any harm done to Linux may actually be the fault of the open source platform's own backers. 'They make the case a threat just by talking about it,' says Boies". Riiiight. Like sending 1,500 letters wasn't making it a threat. Or publically threatening to sue Linus.
...that any of these spammers are going to abide by this or any other law? They already violate laws in several states that make spam illegal. Do you think the residents of Washington don't get spam? Further, many spammers are outside the U.S., and these laws won't apply to them. Blocking all spam is the only way to stop it.
It was pretty clear, even during the last episode in, admittedly, one of the weaker story arcs why this show has such a devoted following: the writing is incredible. Thanks to Joss and everybody involved for creating characters, plots, and dialog that were immensely entertaining (the D&D scene alone had me laughing hysterically). I'm going to miss this show and these characters. Why can't shows with potential like, say, Enterprise figure out the tricks Buffy managed to pull year after year? Note to Paramount: maybe you have to start caring about the writing again to bring a borefest like Trek back to life. Notice that no one on Buffy wore catsuits.
To get Methionine and Cysteine, you would have to have a sulfur source, which Miller didn't have in the original experiments.