Tom Moss said that the prosecutors will announce within a week whether they will retry him.
As for deportation, there were two cases against him - one in the federal courts and one in the INS/immigration courts. The recent trial was in the federal courts.
The immigration "trial" occurred behind closed doors about a year ago. He was found to be deportable. It was the only reason he was in prison all along (last March Judge Williams ruled that he could be released without bail as far as the federal trial went - they were keeping him in because of the immigration charges).
He appealed the deportation order, and as far as I know, nothing has progressed on that - everything was sort of suspended because of the federal trial.
The reason he is still in prison is because of the deportation order. His lawyer has not announced (or even decided) if they will continue to fight it.
"So because he didn't look the part your saying he couldn't be guilty? Because he wasn't scary means he couldn't pose a threat? I really have no idea if he was guilty, but just because someone looks innocent, doesn't make you innocent, just like looking guilty doesn't make you guilty."
Irrelevant. He was not proven guilty, so he is innocent. Looks are not an issue.
Some MS products are good, I'll grant that (Office being one of them).
Others are just plain terrible. Internet Explorer has the least features and flexibility among all popular browsers today. It is literally years behind. Tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking were here at least two years ago.
The problem I have is not just that they have inferior products, but that most users, including some recent CS graduates (at least from my university - UIUC) know nothing else and keep insisting that MS products are the best. They've never tried alternatives, and when presented with some, reject them in a hand waving manner - their reasons amounting simply to "But this is not the way the MS product does it".
For this reason, I welcome the introduction of Star Office and other alternatives in schools. Let the students at least try something different, and then let them choose what to use later on.
A PhD in Computer Science may be a wing of CS (Encryption, Chip Design, etc) in which she is a king. Take them out of the area and put them... let's say work on configuring W2K for a proxy Server and they will fail miserably.
Gross Generalization Alert!
My experience tells me otherwise, and it all depends on the program the person went through anyway. Usually, it's those with just a BSc who behave this way.
PhD students are supposed to learn techniques to solve problems never encountered before. Adaptability to problems is essential (again - depends on the program they went through). Some departments do this better than others, and no one tops physicists in this regard (math PhD's come close, though).
1) PhD is a lot of work for yourself, and 1000x more work doing your professors busy work (papers etc.)
Depends on the field. I'm currently working on one in EE. Whatever work I do for my advisor is fair game for my thesis. Almost everyone I know here has a similar agreement with their advisors. There are a few whose thesis work is not related to their assistantship, and they're the exceptions one has to look hard to find.
The arrangement is beautiful - I get paid to do my PhD.
In fields that are closer to science, one usually becomes a teaching assistant, and thus life is nastier - their paid work is independent of their thesis work.
Besides, I don't see the complaint. The point of getting an assistantship is to support your PhD financially. If you're willing to pay for it yourself, then you're free to spend all the time on your thesis.
2) PhD slave labor wages are less than those of any given malaysian factory child if you count the total number of hours worked and divide that into your scholarship/stipend/grant/etc.
I've known factory workers in third world countries (not Malaysia, though), and frankly, your statement is offensive. With my lowly stipend, I get far more benefits and opportunities, not to mention food, than they do.
And the math is deceptive, anyway. At least in my university, if an advisor wishes to fund a graduate student, not only does he have to pay his wages, but his tuition fee. Given that I'm an out-of-state student, that amounts to about $35,000 to $40,000 a year. Considering I officially work only 20 hours a week - he's spending quite a bit of money.
3) If you are not a US citizen/permanent resident and are on a scholarship to get a PhD in the US, you are fucked. Bring the vasoline and bend over.
The majority of engineering students are non-permanent residents. While the situation is worse for them, only a few get treated as you mention.
4) If your goal is simply to get a degree to get more money, stop at your masters.
Agreed.
5) If your PhD is not in a subject actively investigated by the corporate world be willing to accept an academic position after getting your degree, or find another subject. It's heartbreaking to see people get their degree and realize they are either stuck in academia or worse, take a job in industry doing work outside their expertise making the same they would have as a masters (i.e. degree worthless).
Well, I guess PhD's need to think more about their motives. I'm in it for academics, and I'll be glad to be one of those "stuck".
(However, if you're in engineering, the point is still mildly valid as most of your research funds will come from industry).
6) If at all possible GET A COMPANY TO FUND YOUR PHD! This is harder now than it used to be, but it is THE way to go.
No thanks. It is a good idea if you know you want to work for them later on, but I don't want to be bound to a contract when I have alternative methods. I'm also not in a hurry to finish early. Grad student life is a nice one if you're paid enough not to starve. I certainly don't work as hard as industry folks, and have plenty of free time.
My gf definitely has an interest (she's paying $1500 per semester), and really does want to learn, but at the end of the day, it's just hard for her to understand certain concepts, and it takes a mastery of communications to try and explain things to her the right way (hey, if she's already taken the course twice, and both profs couldn't do explain it, fuck, it's going to be a bitch). She's definitely not a retard, and has an excellent business sense and a knack for picking up languages, but I believe that she is not well-suited to be a programmer.
I have doubts, but this is fairly hard to test. It could be method of instruction - or the textbook, or the particular assignments.
Saying others with no experience breezed through the classes won't fly, as different people prefer different methods of instruction. Perhaps the way it's being taught is not the best for her.
Well, I'm in the ECE department, and I'll tend to agree with you with regards to their grad admission - not as hard as their peers to get in. But they have a good filtration system when it comes to the qualifying exams for the PhD.
Why a PhD? Well, at least here in the US, it's practically necessary (although not sufficient) if you want to do research in industry. If you don't want that, or abhor becoming an academic, don't bother.
Yes, people with Masters once in a while get to do research in a company, but they have to demonstrate exceptional research oriented skills to get that position, and frequently the company infrastructure does not permit such a display.
I wouldn't be so sure. Inculcating hard work at the expense of smart innovation frequently results in inefficient work. Smart people find short cuts to get the same amount of work done with less effort/time.
KQ9 - http://www.kq9.org (work in progress). King's Quest remakes - http://www.tierraentertainment.com - they've remade KQ1 and KQ2 for VGA. SQ7 - http://www.sq7.org (work in progress).
As for the complaints about not being able to play the games, I think the developers got a little enthusiastic a little too early. They DO intend to have playable versions ultimately - it'll just take a while.
I doubt it. I've talked to these people on the Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset Forum (http://www.wiw.org/~jess/forum). If they had permission, they would have mentioned it, as there are other groups working on Sierra based games and none have gotten a definite response from Sierra.
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Tom Moss said that the prosecutors will announce within a week whether they will retry him.
As for deportation, there were two cases against him - one in the federal courts and one in the INS/immigration courts. The recent trial was in the federal courts.
The immigration "trial" occurred behind closed doors about a year ago. He was found to be deportable. It was the only reason he was in prison all along (last March Judge Williams ruled that he could be released without bail as far as the federal trial went - they were keeping him in because of the immigration charges).
He appealed the deportation order, and as far as I know, nothing has progressed on that - everything was sort of suspended because of the federal trial.
The reason he is still in prison is because of the deportation order. His lawyer has not announced (or even decided) if they will continue to fight it.
"So because he didn't look the part your saying he couldn't be guilty? Because he wasn't scary means he couldn't pose a threat? I really have no idea if he was guilty, but just because someone looks innocent, doesn't make you innocent, just like looking guilty doesn't make you guilty."
Irrelevant. He was not proven guilty, so he is innocent. Looks are not an issue.
He was in his thesis writing stage when he was arrested. His advisor has repeatedly said that teh claims that the prosecution made saying his PhD.
See http://www.spokesmanreview.com/boise/story.asp?da
Others are just plain terrible. Internet Explorer has the least features and flexibility among all popular browsers today. It is literally years behind. Tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking were here at least two years ago.
The problem I have is not just that they have inferior products, but that most users, including some recent CS graduates (at least from my university - UIUC) know nothing else and keep insisting that MS products are the best. They've never tried alternatives, and when presented with some, reject them in a hand waving manner - their reasons amounting simply to "But this is not the way the MS product does it".
For this reason, I welcome the introduction of Star Office and other alternatives in schools. Let the students at least try something different, and then let them choose what to use later on.
Gross Generalization Alert!
My experience tells me otherwise, and it all depends on the program the person went through anyway. Usually, it's those with just a BSc who behave this way.
PhD students are supposed to learn techniques to solve problems never encountered before. Adaptability to problems is essential (again - depends on the program they went through). Some departments do this better than others, and no one tops physicists in this regard (math PhD's come close, though).
Depends on the field. I'm currently working on one in EE. Whatever work I do for my advisor is fair game for my thesis. Almost everyone I know here has a similar agreement with their advisors. There are a few whose thesis work is not related to their assistantship, and they're the exceptions one has to look hard to find.
The arrangement is beautiful - I get paid to do my PhD.
In fields that are closer to science, one usually becomes a teaching assistant, and thus life is nastier - their paid work is independent of their thesis work.
Besides, I don't see the complaint. The point of getting an assistantship is to support your PhD financially. If you're willing to pay for it yourself, then you're free to spend all the time on your thesis.
2) PhD slave labor wages are less than those of any given malaysian factory child if you count the total number of hours worked and divide that into your scholarship/stipend/grant/etc.
I've known factory workers in third world countries (not Malaysia, though), and frankly, your statement is offensive. With my lowly stipend, I get far more benefits and opportunities, not to mention food, than they do.
And the math is deceptive, anyway. At least in my university, if an advisor wishes to fund a graduate student, not only does he have to pay his wages, but his tuition fee. Given that I'm an out-of-state student, that amounts to about $35,000 to $40,000 a year. Considering I officially work only 20 hours a week - he's spending quite a bit of money.
3) If you are not a US citizen/permanent resident and are on a scholarship to get a PhD in the US, you are fucked. Bring the vasoline and bend over.
The majority of engineering students are non-permanent residents. While the situation is worse for them, only a few get treated as you mention.
4) If your goal is simply to get a degree to get more money, stop at your masters.
Agreed.
5) If your PhD is not in a subject actively investigated by the corporate world be willing to accept an academic position after getting your degree, or find another subject. It's heartbreaking to see people get their degree and realize they are either stuck in academia or worse, take a job in industry doing work outside their expertise making the same they would have as a masters (i.e. degree worthless).
Well, I guess PhD's need to think more about their motives. I'm in it for academics, and I'll be glad to be one of those "stuck".
(However, if you're in engineering, the point is still mildly valid as most of your research funds will come from industry).
6) If at all possible GET A COMPANY TO FUND YOUR PHD! This is harder now than it used to be, but it is THE way to go.
No thanks. It is a good idea if you know you want to work for them later on, but I don't want to be bound to a contract when I have alternative methods. I'm also not in a hurry to finish early. Grad student life is a nice one if you're paid enough not to starve. I certainly don't work as hard as industry folks, and have plenty of free time.
My gf definitely has an interest (she's paying $1500 per semester), and really does want to learn, but at the end of the day, it's just hard for her to understand certain concepts, and it takes a mastery of communications to try and explain things to her the right way (hey, if she's already taken the course twice, and both profs couldn't do explain it, fuck, it's going to be a bitch). She's definitely not a retard, and has an excellent business sense and a knack for picking up languages, but I believe that she is not well-suited to be a programmer.
I have doubts, but this is fairly hard to test. It could be method of instruction - or the textbook, or the particular assignments.
Saying others with no experience breezed through the classes won't fly, as different people prefer different methods of instruction. Perhaps the way it's being taught is not the best for her.
Well, I'm in the ECE department, and I'll tend to agree with you with regards to their grad admission - not as hard as their peers to get in. But they have a good filtration system when it comes to the qualifying exams for the PhD.
Funny - I count only 2.
Why a PhD? Well, at least here in the US, it's practically necessary (although not sufficient) if you want to do research in industry. If you don't want that, or abhor becoming an academic, don't bother.
Yes, people with Masters once in a while get to do research in a company, but they have to demonstrate exceptional research oriented skills to get that position, and frequently the company infrastructure does not permit such a display.
I wouldn't be so sure. Inculcating hard work at the expense of smart innovation frequently results in inefficient work. Smart people find short cuts to get the same amount of work done with less effort/time.
Sierra dropped all plans for SQ7 - read the full story at:
www.wiw.org/~jess/roger.html
I can run it fine on Mozilla.
KQ9 - http://www.kq9.org (work in progress).
King's Quest remakes - http://www.tierraentertainment.com - they've remade KQ1 and KQ2 for VGA.
SQ7 - http://www.sq7.org (work in progress).
As for the complaints about not being able to play the games, I think the developers got a little enthusiastic a little too early. They DO intend to have playable versions ultimately - it'll just take a while.
I doubt it. I've talked to these people on the Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset Forum (http://www.wiw.org/~jess/forum). If they had permission, they would have mentioned it, as there are other groups working on Sierra based games and none have gotten a definite response from Sierra.