. . . IT and private industry that misuses the H1B system. In Monterey, CA there’s a school called Defense Language Institute (run by Uncle Sam himself) that employs a boatload of H1B visa holders and they are being treated very poorly in both pay and work conditions. That is, our own government is breaking the law with regards to H1B visa holders, so please don't expect them to fix it. Apples to Apples, the DLI worker works twice as much for half the pay compared to other colleges in the immediate area. God forbid one of their H1B visa holders gets uppity, they'll be summarily shipped back the very next day at the worker's expense. Monterey is a really expensive place too, and I have witnessed 50+ year old professors working 60 hours week year round living in poverty. Yikes!!!
http://www.sagemath.org/ should be visited by anyone interested in helping promote (including R) open source software that is numerical in nature. I agree that programming is important if you need answers to tough (realistic) math questions, and SageMath will allow you to explore a number of open-source packages ( NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R, etc.). Really, SageMath needs more users . . . please help!
Count me in on this one too. In fact you can count on everyone to have an idea that later came true, but they failed to implement it. The failure to capitalize on our ideas is as old as time itself, and everyone here is a prime example of this. I have countless stories of trying to get something to work (I was trying to implement a Dropbox like service in the 80s) and then seeing it fizzle out---the sad truth is that harebrained ideas are just that, and this guy had no clue on how to implement and Microsoft was right in dismissing his idea. Yes, my Dropbox idea in the 80s was harebrained too!
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Not religion, but federally funded dogma. More than 20 years ago I became aware of how dogma gets grounded in fundamental research: you need to write grants that fit the dogma. One hapless soul actually stood up during a big AIDS conference and suggested that the researchers were mere lemmings. He, of course, was shouted down, but he was only trying to tell the lemmings to keep an open mind. Fast forward 20+ years and the lemmings are still in control.
Our educational system is totally broken when the educated just want things to fit. Even in mathematics, we're promoting a crop of "just tell me what to do!"
Yes, Detroit is number one, but Newark's only 16, right behind our nations capitol.
1. Detroit, MI 2. Atlanta, GA 3. Camden, NJ 4. Baltimore, MD 5. St. Louis, MO 6. Gary, IN 7. Flint, MI 8. West Palm Beach, FL 9. Miami, FL 10. New Orleans, LA 11. Tampa, FL 12. Kansas City, MO 13. Jackson, MS 14. Richmond, VA 15. Youngstown, OH 16. Newark, NJ 17. Washington, DC
Well, I live and work in Newark. Yes, I've been a victim (numerous times) of crimes and have done my best to assist the police in solving these crimes. Unfortunately, from the police on up, you're dealing with utter incompetence. To add insult to injury, when I was questioned by a grand jury, I was summarily laughed at and the case was dismissed. I'm a college professor and I thought I was a credible witness. I know for a fact that many Newark residents have stopped reporting crimes because they're afraid of how they will be treated.
Here's just one anecdote, when the police arrived after I was robbed they frisked me and accused me of lying. After being downtown (where the detectives hide) I realized that being a white guy in a Hispanic neighborhood (I live there) made me look like an idiot to the detectives involved. Looks of consternation, and statements like, "You live there?", "You walk through those neighborhoods?" In short, I must have looked like an idiot to almost everyone involved including the grand jurors.
I live, teach and observe Newark daily. From my window I can witness a decay and despair that Booker and his team can only imagine. Whenever I travel abroad, I am perplexed as to why Newark, and other US cities, are in such awful conditions.
I also think the majority of Newark citizens are good, but have been worn down into behaving as if there were no rule of law.
I've been teaching for twenty years now and I can attest to the fact that slave labor is rampant in education. Many are require to volunteer (work) for the good of the institution---and it's often a money-maker for the institution. Even with the world's strongest union, we're typically forced into slave labor. Just the other day my boss told me that we as teacher are going to have to increase our non-teaching workload by 40%. The number is nonsense, but it basically suggest that we're going to have to increase our workload.
Anyway, the point being, even with a strong union you can't stop this from happening, so I am kind of surprised that people see this as unusual at Apple, everyone's doing it.
I also see this as hitting the educated more than any other group.
Oh God, I only wish I could remember one guy's signature that essentially stated that if his email was carried on anything Microsoft, that Microsoft would owe him dearly. I wonder if this would be considered an enforceable term-of-service?
Why does the public not have any say in where this money goes?
The public does have a say. Stop voting jackasses to power. We're beyond voting. At best, let's hope we're invaded by the next America to help puts us back on our feet.
You're dealing with government, and that's the only reason why you have to deal with this nonsense. And if you think you can vote to change this, you need to leave the USA fast. We're a nation governed by crooks who are voted in by frightened minions.
Also, I wouldn't be so worried about voting machines---especially when they're about to drag your ass or your wallet to Iraq anyway. And it's doesn't matter who's in office, because you're screwed no matter.
I've been teaching mathematics for 20 years now, and ever since starting I've been told that there's a shortage of mathematics teachers. What's most puzzling is that 65% of the teaching time at my school is done by extremely low paid adjuncts . . . the union (surprisingly) is the main advocate of low paid adjuncts as it helps reduce the total cost of instruction, which helped a cadre of union old timers reach outrageous salaries ($170,000/year for 32 weeks of work, benefits (~$20,000) not included). The adjunct rate for an equivalent load is a flat $15,000 (I'm not kidding).
The best part of these numbers is that the public routinely buys the mantra that we need mathematics teachers, and the reason that we have such bad outcomes is that few are qualified to teach mathematics. Oh, did I mention that the adjuncts at my school are required to have advanced degrees in mathematics?
Yes, IT often explains away their incompetence as a result of not enough qualified people. Funny, but I think most of the IT staff at my school are low paid part-timers, with a small cadre of well paid people at the top. I hope you see the similarities.
Fact is, admitting to a crime is not the same as being guilty. I'm not saying he's not guilty, but knowing how the system works casts serious doubts in my mind about his guilt.
What if this bridge was privately owned, don't you think that the State would have taken this poorly maintained bridge from the hapless owner and then resell it to a more responsible owner. Just take a quick look around you, I can almost always identify privately held properties from State owned properties . . . you can too!
Yes, we're well beyond correcting our problems via voting, but when will we all realize that this is our own fault for trusting the "benevolence" of government, versus the "greed" of free enterprise.
I work in a state funded school where 65% (contact hours) of the teaching is done by very low paid part-timers. To give you an idea of how low paid, a typical course is $1,500 (maximum $2,250) for a four month semester. These teachers are not given any benefits and can be fired at any time. Salaries at my school are only reported for full-timers, so wages may seem high. Yes, I know teachers who are making more than $100,000! Yikes, that hurts, especially when my take home pay after 20 years is less than $400/week (I'm tenured and full time). I am also highly qualified, with an MS (engineering) from an Ivy League school.
So please stop looking at what your government wants to tell you about teacher wages --- they're only reporting full-timers!
The NFSNET project uses the Number Field Sieve to find the factors of increasingly large numbers. It's a small group and they need your help. I run their app on my dual G5 without trouble for years now.
There's is no fundamental difference between the two main political parties in the USA. Basically they are both expansionists, and they need your income to achieve that goal. Bush for example is spending money faster than did his predecessor, and the chain goes on ad infinitum. If you want to stop this nonsense you'll just have to end their income stream. Spoiled Rich Kids. And right now we have two massively out of control political parties, and a legion of mindless supporters to vote them in. If it were up to me, there would be NO taxes and all those Republicans/Democrates would have to go elsewhere. Oh, I guess we could convince them that utopia is over there . . . possibly in Bush's Middle East.
Grapher (Mac OS X) is really cool, as far as I am concerned, ``it's a dandy.'' However, I do use a TI-89 and it's also an excellent choice. The graphs produced by Grapher are good enough to use in my LaTeX documents, whereas the TI's graphs are best left for quick observations.
Okay, I'm not teaching at MIT, but I typically post a lot of material on my website and it just forces me to redo the course each semester. It's a lot of work, mainly because I can't reuse material once it gets published.
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. . . IT and private industry that misuses the H1B system. In Monterey, CA there’s a school called Defense Language Institute (run by Uncle Sam himself) that employs a boatload of H1B visa holders and they are being treated very poorly in both pay and work conditions. That is, our own government is breaking the law with regards to H1B visa holders, so please don't expect them to fix it. Apples to Apples, the DLI worker works twice as much for half the pay compared to other colleges in the immediate area. God forbid one of their H1B visa holders gets uppity, they'll be summarily shipped back the very next day at the worker's expense. Monterey is a really expensive place too, and I have witnessed 50+ year old professors working 60 hours week year round living in poverty. Yikes!!!
http://www.sagemath.org/ should be visited by anyone interested in helping promote (including R) open source software that is numerical in nature. I agree that programming is important if you need answers to tough (realistic) math questions, and SageMath will allow you to explore a number of open-source packages ( NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R, etc.). Really, SageMath needs more users . . . please help!
Count me in on this one too. In fact you can count on everyone to have an idea that later came true, but they failed to implement it. The failure to capitalize on our ideas is as old as time itself, and everyone here is a prime example of this. I have countless stories of trying to get something to work (I was trying to implement a Dropbox like service in the 80s) and then seeing it fizzle out---the sad truth is that harebrained ideas are just that, and this guy had no clue on how to implement and Microsoft was right in dismissing his idea. Yes, my Dropbox idea in the 80s was harebrained too!
If you're looking for a way cool way to store and share (or not share) you code/files, just check out Dropbox. It just works!
RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built and is being operated by Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.
http://www.random.org/
Not religion, but federally funded dogma. More than 20 years ago I became aware of how dogma gets grounded in fundamental research: you need to write grants that fit the dogma. One hapless soul actually stood up during a big AIDS conference and suggested that the researchers were mere lemmings. He, of course, was shouted down, but he was only trying to tell the lemmings to keep an open mind. Fast forward 20+ years and the lemmings are still in control.
Our educational system is totally broken when the educated just want things to fit. Even in mathematics, we're promoting a crop of "just tell me what to do!"
Yes, Detroit is number one, but Newark's only 16, right behind our nations capitol.
1. Detroit, MI
2. Atlanta, GA
3. Camden, NJ
4. Baltimore, MD
5. St. Louis, MO
6. Gary, IN
7. Flint, MI
8. West Palm Beach, FL
9. Miami, FL
10. New Orleans, LA
11. Tampa, FL
12. Kansas City, MO
13. Jackson, MS
14. Richmond, VA
15. Youngstown, OH
16. Newark, NJ
17. Washington, DC
Well, I live and work in Newark. Yes, I've been a victim (numerous times) of crimes and have done my best to assist the police in solving these crimes. Unfortunately, from the police on up, you're dealing with utter incompetence. To add insult to injury, when I was questioned by a grand jury, I was summarily laughed at and the case was dismissed. I'm a college professor and I thought I was a credible witness. I know for a fact that many Newark residents have stopped reporting crimes because they're afraid of how they will be treated.
Here's just one anecdote, when the police arrived after I was robbed they frisked me and accused me of lying. After being downtown (where the detectives hide) I realized that being a white guy in a Hispanic neighborhood (I live there) made me look like an idiot to the detectives involved. Looks of consternation, and statements like, "You live there?", "You walk through those neighborhoods?" In short, I must have looked like an idiot to almost everyone involved including the grand jurors.
I live, teach and observe Newark daily. From my window I can witness a decay and despair that Booker and his team can only imagine. Whenever I travel abroad, I am perplexed as to why Newark, and other US cities, are in such awful conditions.
I also think the majority of Newark citizens are good, but have been worn down into behaving as if there were no rule of law.
I've been teaching for twenty years now and I can attest to the fact that slave labor is rampant in education. Many are require to volunteer (work) for the good of the institution---and it's often a money-maker for the institution. Even with the world's strongest union, we're typically forced into slave labor. Just the other day my boss told me that we as teacher are going to have to increase our non-teaching workload by 40%. The number is nonsense, but it basically suggest that we're going to have to increase our workload.
Anyway, the point being, even with a strong union you can't stop this from happening, so I am kind of surprised that people see this as unusual at Apple, everyone's doing it.
I also see this as hitting the educated more than any other group.
Oh God, I only wish I could remember one guy's signature that essentially stated that if his email was carried on anything Microsoft, that Microsoft would owe him dearly. I wonder if this would be considered an enforceable term-of-service?
The public does have a say. Stop voting jackasses to power. We're beyond voting. At best, let's hope we're invaded by the next America to help puts us back on our feet.
You're dealing with government, and that's the only reason why you have to deal with this nonsense. And if you think you can vote to change this, you need to leave the USA fast. We're a nation governed by crooks who are voted in by frightened minions.
Also, I wouldn't be so worried about voting machines---especially when they're about to drag your ass or your wallet to Iraq anyway. And it's doesn't matter who's in office, because you're screwed no matter.
I've been teaching mathematics for 20 years now, and ever since starting I've been told that there's a shortage of mathematics teachers. What's most puzzling is that 65% of the teaching time at my school is done by extremely low paid adjuncts . . . the union (surprisingly) is the main advocate of low paid adjuncts as it helps reduce the total cost of instruction, which helped a cadre of union old timers reach outrageous salaries ($170,000/year for 32 weeks of work, benefits (~$20,000) not included). The adjunct rate for an equivalent load is a flat $15,000 (I'm not kidding).
The best part of these numbers is that the public routinely buys the mantra that we need mathematics teachers, and the reason that we have such bad outcomes is that few are qualified to teach mathematics. Oh, did I mention that the adjuncts at my school are required to have advanced degrees in mathematics?
Yes, IT often explains away their incompetence as a result of not enough qualified people. Funny, but I think most of the IT staff at my school are low paid part-timers, with a small cadre of well paid people at the top. I hope you see the similarities.
You said, ``hell, he admitted it.''
Fact is, admitting to a crime is not the same as being guilty. I'm not saying he's not guilty, but knowing how the system works casts serious doubts in my mind about his guilt.
What if this bridge was privately owned, don't you think that the State would have taken this poorly maintained bridge from the hapless owner and then resell it to a more responsible owner. Just take a quick look around you, I can almost always identify privately held properties from State owned properties . . . you can too!
Yes, we're well beyond correcting our problems via voting, but when will we all realize that this is our own fault for trusting the "benevolence" of government, versus the "greed" of free enterprise.
Well, don't they print the money? Tax or no tax, these guys are bent on taking your labor. We're all slaves!
I work in a state funded school where 65% (contact hours) of the teaching is done by very low paid part-timers. To give you an idea of how low paid, a typical course is $1,500 (maximum $2,250) for a four month semester. These teachers are not given any benefits and can be fired at any time. Salaries at my school are only reported for full-timers, so wages may seem high. Yes, I know teachers who are making more than $100,000! Yikes, that hurts, especially when my take home pay after 20 years is less than $400/week (I'm tenured and full time). I am also highly qualified, with an MS (engineering) from an Ivy League school.
So please stop looking at what your government wants to tell you about teacher wages --- they're only reporting full-timers!
-rB
The NFSNET project uses the Number Field Sieve to find the factors of increasingly large numbers. It's a small group and they need your help. I run their app on my dual G5 without trouble for years now.
The republicans were never ``lean mean spending-cutting machines''. They in fact (Reagan too) are big time supporters of massive government.
Yes, the smell of dead fish . . . at least where I am from.
There's is no fundamental difference between the two main political parties in the USA. Basically they are both expansionists, and they need your income to achieve that goal. Bush for example is spending money faster than did his predecessor, and the chain goes on ad infinitum. If you want to stop this nonsense you'll just have to end their income stream. Spoiled Rich Kids. And right now we have two massively out of control political parties, and a legion of mindless supporters to vote them in. If it were up to me, there would be NO taxes and all those Republicans/Democrates would have to go elsewhere. Oh, I guess we could convince them that utopia is over there . . . possibly in Bush's Middle East.
Grapher (Mac OS X) is really cool, as far as I am concerned, ``it's a dandy.'' However, I do use a TI-89 and it's also an excellent choice. The graphs produced by Grapher are good enough to use in my LaTeX documents, whereas the TI's graphs are best left for quick observations.
Try graphing this: (x+y)(x-y)(x+1)(x-1)(y+1)(y-1)=0
Okay, I'm not teaching at MIT, but I typically post a lot of material on my website and it just forces me to redo the course each semester. It's a lot of work, mainly because I can't reuse material once it gets published.
For those interested, here's one example site:
mth-121-2006-fall.blogspot.com
I believe thawte offers a viable and professional alternative to PGP. If you're in the NYC area, please visit my site dedicated to notarizing thawte personal certificates. It's easier than you think, and transparent for most users.