Men aren't generally interested in relationships that never offer sex, although perhaps his real women are secretly prostitutes, ala many women on dating sites.
Women otoh are definitely willing to simply show off their boyfriend like some possession to elevate their social status.
Maemo absolutely fucking rocks. It'll even run Android applications now using a ported VM.
Just push forward on Maemo/MeeGo and start producing phones & tablets running it. All your "synergy" should come from the Android app store, not desktop KDE applications.
We all win when the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford alums get replaced by MIT and Berkeley alums. ( I omit CalTech because CalTech people are just plain weird, GA & VA Tech people are cool of course, but probably not rich enough for politics )
There will be another Chernobyl coming down the line in Bulgaria's nuclear industry now that they're completely run by organized crime. ( see http://wlcentral.org/node/1568 http://wlcentral.org/node/1495 http://wlcentral.org/node/1488 ) Italy's mafiaa has also decided it wants some part of the nuclear power pie. Do you remember when the garbage was piling up in Naples? Just thought you'd like that happy picture!:)
We expect the world population will be in decline by mid century, due to the liberation of women, access to birth control, etc. Ergo, yes, any solution involving nuclear or coal could be made temporary if those lobbyist permitted it.
We expect the world population will be in decline by mid century, due to the liberation of women, access to birth control, etc. If given the option, women prefer having fewer children and investing more effort in each child. It follows that our overall world consumption could eventually be covered by reasonable usage of wind, wave, solar, and geothermal.
There are large wind turbines that power 500 homes already, for example. Yes, it'll require several ass wind turbines standing above every suburb to power both that suburb and the city, but hey the burb's always did suck anyways. Also, there is much faster technological progress on wind, wave, and solar than civilian nuclear because they exist at scales that human handle better.
Btw, aircraft, spacecraft, and ships are our only vehicles that fundamentally require high energy density. All our current car designs require high energy density too, but a ground level power standard for highways could solve that problem for electric cars.
Are you familiar with what most infrastructure projects look like after a couple decades in operation? Nuclear power simply doesn't give enough room for the inevitable screw ups. You simply cannot trust either governments or private enterprise to handle the task long term. You could mandate that the family of every power plant owner and worker lived inside the plant, but you'd still find people dangerously cutting corners.
There will for example be another Chernobyl coming down the line in Bulgaria's nuclear industry now that they're completely run by organized crime. ( see http://wlcentral.org/node/1568 http://wlcentral.org/node/1495 http://wlcentral.org/node/1488 ) Italy's mafiaa has also decided it wants some part of the nuclear power pie. Do you remember when the garbage was piling up in Naples?
Thomas Jefferson was initially opposed to copyrights entirely. Madison eventually convinced him, but he still felt that monopolies hsould be tolerated only during an author's lifetime :
Ahh, but both are light years less immoral than Sony's behavior here. Ergo, it's boils down to whether those acting on behalf of "anonymous" could persuade Sony to abandon their immoral lawsuits by more moral means. If not, well Sony deserves that it gets for (partially) abandoning civilized society.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Isn't there an anonymous press release like every 10 min? Is anyone implementing this particular one?
It'll be more effective just posting stuff about all their products are radio active now. You could make a youtube video of yourself with a geiger counter showing the radiation. You might post maps about contamination of their warehouses in Japan, conjecturing their supply chain will bring radio active products to the U.S. until 2013.
An iPad's touch screen keyboard does not allow for any significant text input, that's fine if your writing "u drag'n @ clidez" and "y u ditch me?" Ain't ideal for more professional work. In particular, I would be very afraid of salesmen using their iPhones and iPads for company emails because they'll write more tersely than on a blackberry or laptop, respectively, increasing the risk they offend clients.
Another commenter pointed out that iPad users in his company carry bluetooth keyboards, which should resolve most problems, assuming software selection doesn't cause any problems. Imto, that's really the only sound argument for the iPad. You might worry whether people actually use the keyboard, or just write shitty instead, but whatever.
There are also lesser issues with iOS lack of an exposed filesystem, but they don't obstruct the iPad being used as a modern terminal like you describe. Btw, dropbox isn't a suitable professional solution since your data exists unencrypted on their server.
Aww, that's cheating, you've added a wireless keyboard. Yes obviously any sufficiently flexible computing device will get useful once you've added full speed input methods, i.e. a keyboard.
I've been meaning to wait for a MeeGo based tablet device with built in small keyboard, will I love the keyboard on my N900. You make an interesting case that I should consider Android or MeeGo devices that merely support bluetooth keyboards. Interesting. It's obvious the small built in keyboard beats the on screen keyboard, but if the bluetooth keyboard beat both by enough, that might make it worth while.
Yes of course, it's just another television set in that its purpose is consuming. You cannot truly use an iPad for production, i.e writing, video editing, programming, etc.
It would be a mistake however to assume that iPad's are for purely passive media consumption, ala video, books, and music. Instead, iPads allow for interactive media consumption, ala games.
Italy can seize their E.U. assets rather easily. Google should simply appeal this to Europe wide courts that'll play more fair.
Google might discourage this particular assault by 'accidentally' leaking the anonymous plaintiff's identity, along with all the sites making the accusations against him. They'd need to make sure only American citizens located inside the U.S. are involved in the leak, i.e. no evidence for the Italian court, no disbarment for their lawyer, etc.
Yes, but you'll likely end up specifying the verbal commands in a spoken language that's actually a semi-strongly typed pure functional language inspired by Haskell. Oops silly me! I forgot how to define the commutation relation between my xml parser monad and my route updater monad.
If computers are being used for recreation, then people don't want them conforming to a desk shape.
M$ understands game consoles because they've been beat to death by other venders first. M$ has invested heavily in their Surface vaporware too.
Apple just one-upped them by deploying an comparatively inexpensive alternative computing solution that's more useful than an xbox and surface combined.. and more portable than a laptop. *
Is a tablet as useful as a laptop? Hell no. Is Apple's keyboard-less tablet the only commercially viable path? Dear god, I hope not. It does however satisfy people's desires to be passive consumers of visual media and text.
If for example I owned an iPad, then I'd block slashdot on my laptop, but not my iPad, thus preventing me from wasting my time commenting here.**;) Yet, most people wouldn't even consider posting here, they'd just ed the articles, making the keyboard a non-issue ll along.
We know the non-Apple tablet sales issues are entirely pricing related, i.e. people don't buy a laptop minus the keyboard for more than the laptop. Apple solves this pricing issue by selling the tablet for less than their laptops by (a) inflating laptop prices and (b) exploiting their vertical monopoly.
There is no reason however that tablets cannot be profitable for people other than Apple, they just must either (a) reach beyond the iPad's abilities, or (b) undercut it's price tag by using cheaper components. You might approach (a) by considering alternative keyboard form factors, like slides or flip outs, or even a cording keyboard on the back side. Wearables are an even more radical approach to (a). For (b), any eink based ebook reader runs less than 1/2 the price of an iPad, just add a specialized minimalistic (noscript) web browser, email, and IM functionality. Or you might try a compromise that offers both eink and lcd display modes, trumping the iPad for readability.
* In fact, I'd imagine the iPad will help create the market for surface computing, but hey, why pass up the chance to be a dick. And tablet will obviously place extreme price pressure upon surface devices.
** I'm not planning on buying an iPad to keep myself from spewing crap on slashdot of course. I will however buy the next really solid MeeGo based tablet device with a keyboard. I'd consider an Android tablet instead only if it offered both eink and lcd based display modes. I'll consider any cording keyboard based device running either Android or MeeGo.
The Six Day War doesn't matte now. The old rhetoric about driving the Jews into the sea probably doesn't matter either. I think thus far the problem has been :
(a) The Palestinians have never had a really credible peace directed leader. (b) Israel only rarely has leaders who credibly want peace.
If even a significant minority of the Palestinians were following some strong Imam who preached peace, well that'd likely inspire the Israelis to elect someone sane. Instead : The PLO/PA's leadership focusses more upon their own bank accounts. Hamas' are a bunch of religious psychopaths. Israel's right wing are equally psychopathic. And Israel's moderate politicians cannot retain power without acquiescing to the right.
The US government couldn't stop small open source venders from printing the source code to scan and OCR abroad. Yet, they are fairly successful at minimizing the amount and type of direct business American companies do with Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. I'm sure they'd just acquire the filtering software form China anyways, but I'd rather their software didn't say "Made in the USA" myself.
We face a similar but much bigger moral issues with the more directed tools supplied to these countries. In an ideal words, there would be several CEOs from the US, UK, and Germany standing trial in the Hague for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity committed by Egypt's secret police.
Interesting. Imho, any merchant not employing reasonably up to date fraud prevention system should be liable for more fraud. It's obviously evil to shift the liability onto the card holder though since liability was the only benefit they brought to the table to justify their transaction fees. If they really shifted off all their liability, we should all be switching to systems that exclude them, like bitcoin or even ripple.
In fact, another commenter pointed out that "Chip & PIN" is not universally better than the previous system because banks used it to push through liability for merchants who didn't use it. It's true however that the user experience of credit crds made any secure framework impossible.
I'm convinced this article is simply FUD meant to push the insane content filters so desired by Australia's political class. You'll notice the site's name in cio.com.au. As pointed out down thread, the article basically proposes using "industry standards" as an end run around the legal hurdles Australian's leaders have encountered while trying to copy China's "Great Firewall".
We had another recent article explaining how the NSA decided that preventing intruders was impossible, instead concluding that security needed to permeate the whole process. If they fucking NSA cannot implement a sufficiently effective firewall, well I don't trust the ISP doing it either.
I'm afraid the only real solution will be modifying the end user experience to improve security. Two recent examples : Europe's adoption of EMV "Chip & PIN" smart cards, deprecating naive & dumb credit cards still used in America. Apple's Time Machine software provides a user experience that painlessly inspires people to spend hundreds of dollars on back up drives and follow sound backup procedures.
Apple's File Vault hasn't been nearly as effective at encouraging encryption as Time Machine has been at encouraging backups, but more serious approaches might work. You'll need some form of partial disk encryption if your using say bitcoin anyways. There are similarly many way of improving virus scanners to detect possible new botnets, less obtrusive, and less resource hungry.
Or you could simply donate money to Geohot's defense.:)
I do not one single thing produced by sonny, perhaps some battery someplace, maybe. I cannot claim any moral high ground however. I simply don't buy shitty mostly useless stuff like video game consoles. Sony also had a reputation for their products being less well designed like 10 years ago.
I'll make a mental note to count Geohot against them when I buy my first ebook reader this year, although among main stream ebook readers Sony has the upper hand morally speaking, i.e. more formats, no stupid store, memory card slot, etc. Afaik, there isn't even a djvu app for the Kindle, Nook, etc. I suppose the Jinke Hanlin and Pocketbooks must be among the most moral choices in ebook readers these days. hmm
First, mathematics and physics are among the most 'mobile' educational options available, that ain't the problem.
Second, academic biologists are overall actually worse off than mathematicians, commonly spending like 10 years as postdocs, like twice as long as mathematicians. I guess they move labs less frequently than mathematicians though, giving them more options for raising a family. I'd imagine mathematical biology or applied math postdocs are marginally better paid than pure math postdocs, but their still paid abysmally relative to the private sector, and they relocate as frequently as mathematicians.
Third, there is no great sea of employment in mathematical biology because the problem is intrinsic to academia's population model, i.e. each professor produces offspring much faster than existing professors retire. For sure, there are brief periods of time where any mathematician or physicist can jump into a new applied academic field that's too young to reproduce itself, but that time has long passed for mathematical biology, just as it passed for computer science. Ironically, mathematical finance is the only field that's that hot right now, but it's kinda fake, i.e. schools want them for their teaching, not their research.
We cannot greatly increase the number of academic jobs without a major political shift. We might consider drastically reducing the number of PhDs awarded, but (a) that'd fuck up our universities's service course budgets, and (b) all the hordes of small teaching oriented collages need PhDs that aren't quite good enough, don't love doing research enough, etc. So only viable option is : Most PhDs must get jobs in industry.
For sure, there are numerous of industry jobs for mathematicians and physicists that don't involve either finance or a security clearance, especially the industrial side of all those fields that've spun off from mathematics and physics, ala computer science, biotech, etc. Wall St. and the NSA have however made a name for themselves for preferring smart people, math PhDs, etc. Ergo, you should expect that virtually every serious mathematics researcher leaving academia will seriously consider one or both options.
As I said, the issue isn't that people are doing bad things with their education, but that society doesn't provide the funding for the activities the idealists wish they were engaged in. In particular, academics are not usually the most well suited people to run off and start their own company, non-profit, etc., well not until they've spent a decade in industry clearing away the academic purity anyways.
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If you outlaw scifi then only criminals will have scifi,
meaning only criminals will go on to study physics.
I'm afraid he's got the wrong audience by half.
Men aren't generally interested in relationships that never offer sex, although perhaps his real women are secretly prostitutes, ala many women on dating sites.
Women otoh are definitely willing to simply show off their boyfriend like some possession to elevate their social status.
Maemo absolutely fucking rocks. It'll even run Android applications now using a ported VM.
Just push forward on Maemo/MeeGo and start producing phones & tablets running it. All your "synergy" should come from the Android app store, not desktop KDE applications.
We all win when the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford alums get replaced by MIT and Berkeley alums.
( I omit CalTech because CalTech people are just plain weird, GA & VA Tech people are cool of course, but probably not rich enough for politics )
There will be another Chernobyl coming down the line in Bulgaria's nuclear industry now that they're completely run by organized crime. ( see http://wlcentral.org/node/1568 http://wlcentral.org/node/1495 http://wlcentral.org/node/1488 ) Italy's mafiaa has also decided it wants some part of the nuclear power pie. Do you remember when the garbage was piling up in Naples? Just thought you'd like that happy picture! :)
We expect the world population will be in decline by mid century, due to the liberation of women, access to birth control, etc. Ergo, yes, any solution involving nuclear or coal could be made temporary if those lobbyist permitted it.
We expect the world population will be in decline by mid century, due to the liberation of women, access to birth control, etc. If given the option, women prefer having fewer children and investing more effort in each child. It follows that our overall world consumption could eventually be covered by reasonable usage of wind, wave, solar, and geothermal.
There are large wind turbines that power 500 homes already, for example. Yes, it'll require several ass wind turbines standing above every suburb to power both that suburb and the city, but hey the burb's always did suck anyways. Also, there is much faster technological progress on wind, wave, and solar than civilian nuclear because they exist at scales that human handle better.
Btw, aircraft, spacecraft, and ships are our only vehicles that fundamentally require high energy density. All our current car designs require high energy density too, but a ground level power standard for highways could solve that problem for electric cars.
Are you familiar with what most infrastructure projects look like after a couple decades in operation? Nuclear power simply doesn't give enough room for the inevitable screw ups. You simply cannot trust either governments or private enterprise to handle the task long term. You could mandate that the family of every power plant owner and worker lived inside the plant, but you'd still find people dangerously cutting corners.
There will for example be another Chernobyl coming down the line in Bulgaria's nuclear industry now that they're completely run by organized crime. ( see http://wlcentral.org/node/1568 http://wlcentral.org/node/1495 http://wlcentral.org/node/1488 ) Italy's mafiaa has also decided it wants some part of the nuclear power pie. Do you remember when the garbage was piling up in Naples?
Thomas Jefferson was initially opposed to copyrights entirely. Madison eventually convinced him, but he still felt that monopolies hsould be tolerated only during an author's lifetime :
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/bparchive?year=1999&post=1999-02-11$2
He also felt that no man should suffer the copyright of works created before he was born.
"Don't work" is kinda a valid criticism, except you also want to get people talking bout stuff
Posting videos of yourself criticizing sony with a geiger counter might work.
Ahh, but both are light years less immoral than Sony's behavior here. Ergo, it's boils down to whether those acting on behalf of "anonymous" could persuade Sony to abandon their immoral lawsuits by more moral means. If not, well Sony deserves that it gets for (partially) abandoning civilized society.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Isn't there an anonymous press release like every 10 min? Is anyone implementing this particular one?
It'll be more effective just posting stuff about all their products are radio active now. You could make a youtube video of yourself with a geiger counter showing the radiation. You might post maps about contamination of their warehouses in Japan, conjecturing their supply chain will bring radio active products to the U.S. until 2013.
An iPad's touch screen keyboard does not allow for any significant text input, that's fine if your writing "u drag'n @ clidez" and "y u ditch me?" Ain't ideal for more professional work. In particular, I would be very afraid of salesmen using their iPhones and iPads for company emails because they'll write more tersely than on a blackberry or laptop, respectively, increasing the risk they offend clients.
Another commenter pointed out that iPad users in his company carry bluetooth keyboards, which should resolve most problems, assuming software selection doesn't cause any problems. Imto, that's really the only sound argument for the iPad. You might worry whether people actually use the keyboard, or just write shitty instead, but whatever.
There are also lesser issues with iOS lack of an exposed filesystem, but they don't obstruct the iPad being used as a modern terminal like you describe. Btw, dropbox isn't a suitable professional solution since your data exists unencrypted on their server.
Aww, that's cheating, you've added a wireless keyboard. Yes obviously any sufficiently flexible computing device will get useful once you've added full speed input methods, i.e. a keyboard.
I've been meaning to wait for a MeeGo based tablet device with built in small keyboard, will I love the keyboard on my N900. You make an interesting case that I should consider Android or MeeGo devices that merely support bluetooth keyboards. Interesting. It's obvious the small built in keyboard beats the on screen keyboard, but if the bluetooth keyboard beat both by enough, that might make it worth while.
Yes of course, it's just another television set in that its purpose is consuming. You cannot truly use an iPad for production, i.e writing, video editing, programming, etc.
It would be a mistake however to assume that iPad's are for purely passive media consumption, ala video, books, and music. Instead, iPads allow for interactive media consumption, ala games.
Italy can seize their E.U. assets rather easily. Google should simply appeal this to Europe wide courts that'll play more fair.
Google might discourage this particular assault by 'accidentally' leaking the anonymous plaintiff's identity, along with all the sites making the accusations against him. They'd need to make sure only American citizens located inside the U.S. are involved in the leak, i.e. no evidence for the Italian court, no disbarment for their lawyer, etc.
Yes, but you'll likely end up specifying the verbal commands in a spoken language that's actually a semi-strongly typed pure functional language inspired by Haskell. Oops silly me! I forgot how to define the commutation relation between my xml parser monad and my route updater monad.
http://yaxu.org/category/haskell/
If computers are being used for recreation, then people don't want them conforming to a desk shape.
M$ understands game consoles because they've been beat to death by other venders first. M$ has invested heavily in their Surface vaporware too.
Apple just one-upped them by deploying an comparatively inexpensive alternative computing solution that's more useful than an xbox and surface combined.. and more portable than a laptop. *
Is a tablet as useful as a laptop? Hell no. Is Apple's keyboard-less tablet the only commercially viable path? Dear god, I hope not. It does however satisfy people's desires to be passive consumers of visual media and text.
If for example I owned an iPad, then I'd block slashdot on my laptop, but not my iPad, thus preventing me from wasting my time commenting here.** ;) Yet, most people wouldn't even consider posting here, they'd just ed the articles, making the keyboard a non-issue ll along.
We know the non-Apple tablet sales issues are entirely pricing related, i.e. people don't buy a laptop minus the keyboard for more than the laptop. Apple solves this pricing issue by selling the tablet for less than their laptops by (a) inflating laptop prices and (b) exploiting their vertical monopoly.
There is no reason however that tablets cannot be profitable for people other than Apple, they just must either (a) reach beyond the iPad's abilities, or (b) undercut it's price tag by using cheaper components. You might approach (a) by considering alternative keyboard form factors, like slides or flip outs, or even a cording keyboard on the back side. Wearables are an even more radical approach to (a). For (b), any eink based ebook reader runs less than 1/2 the price of an iPad, just add a specialized minimalistic (noscript) web browser, email, and IM functionality. Or you might try a compromise that offers both eink and lcd display modes, trumping the iPad for readability.
* In fact, I'd imagine the iPad will help create the market for surface computing, but hey, why pass up the chance to be a dick. And tablet will obviously place extreme price pressure upon surface devices.
** I'm not planning on buying an iPad to keep myself from spewing crap on slashdot of course. I will however buy the next really solid MeeGo based tablet device with a keyboard. I'd consider an Android tablet instead only if it offered both eink and lcd based display modes. I'll consider any cording keyboard based device running either Android or MeeGo.
http://www.metafilter.com/102139/If-I-had-known-then-what-I-know-now-the-Goldstone-Report-would-have-been-a-different-document
Summery : Israel has committed fewer war crimes than people imagine.
The Six Day War doesn't matte now. The old rhetoric about driving the Jews into the sea probably doesn't matter either. I think thus far the problem has been :
(a) The Palestinians have never had a really credible peace directed leader.
(b) Israel only rarely has leaders who credibly want peace.
If even a significant minority of the Palestinians were following some strong Imam who preached peace, well that'd likely inspire the Israelis to elect someone sane. Instead : The PLO/PA's leadership focusses more upon their own bank accounts. Hamas' are a bunch of religious psychopaths. Israel's right wing are equally psychopathic. And Israel's moderate politicians cannot retain power without acquiescing to the right.
The wall is helping though.
Israeli courts have moved the course of the wall several time based upon Palestinian territorial claims, for example.
The US government couldn't stop small open source venders from printing the source code to scan and OCR abroad. Yet, they are fairly successful at minimizing the amount and type of direct business American companies do with Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. I'm sure they'd just acquire the filtering software form China anyways, but I'd rather their software didn't say "Made in the USA" myself.
We face a similar but much bigger moral issues with the more directed tools supplied to these countries. In an ideal words, there would be several CEOs from the US, UK, and Germany standing trial in the Hague for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity committed by Egypt's secret police.
Interesting. Imho, any merchant not employing reasonably up to date fraud prevention system should be liable for more fraud. It's obviously evil to shift the liability onto the card holder though since liability was the only benefit they brought to the table to justify their transaction fees. If they really shifted off all their liability, we should all be switching to systems that exclude them, like bitcoin or even ripple.
In fact, another commenter pointed out that "Chip & PIN" is not universally better than the previous system because banks used it to push through liability for merchants who didn't use it. It's true however that the user experience of credit crds made any secure framework impossible.
I'm convinced this article is simply FUD meant to push the insane content filters so desired by Australia's political class. You'll notice the site's name in cio.com.au. As pointed out down thread, the article basically proposes using "industry standards" as an end run around the legal hurdles Australian's leaders have encountered while trying to copy China's "Great Firewall".
We had another recent article explaining how the NSA decided that preventing intruders was impossible, instead concluding that security needed to permeate the whole process. If they fucking NSA cannot implement a sufficiently effective firewall, well I don't trust the ISP doing it either.
I'm afraid the only real solution will be modifying the end user experience to improve security. Two recent examples : Europe's adoption of EMV "Chip & PIN" smart cards, deprecating naive & dumb credit cards still used in America. Apple's Time Machine software provides a user experience that painlessly inspires people to spend hundreds of dollars on back up drives and follow sound backup procedures.
Apple's File Vault hasn't been nearly as effective at encouraging encryption as Time Machine has been at encouraging backups, but more serious approaches might work. You'll need some form of partial disk encryption if your using say bitcoin anyways. There are similarly many way of improving virus scanners to detect possible new botnets, less obtrusive, and less resource hungry.
Or you could simply donate money to Geohot's defense. :)
I do not one single thing produced by sonny, perhaps some battery someplace, maybe. I cannot claim any moral high ground however. I simply don't buy shitty mostly useless stuff like video game consoles. Sony also had a reputation for their products being less well designed like 10 years ago.
I'll make a mental note to count Geohot against them when I buy my first ebook reader this year, although among main stream ebook readers Sony has the upper hand morally speaking, i.e. more formats, no stupid store, memory card slot, etc. Afaik, there isn't even a djvu app for the Kindle, Nook, etc. I suppose the Jinke Hanlin and Pocketbooks must be among the most moral choices in ebook readers these days. hmm
You are wrong on several counts :
First, mathematics and physics are among the most 'mobile' educational options available, that ain't the problem.
Second, academic biologists are overall actually worse off than mathematicians, commonly spending like 10 years as postdocs, like twice as long as mathematicians. I guess they move labs less frequently than mathematicians though, giving them more options for raising a family. I'd imagine mathematical biology or applied math postdocs are marginally better paid than pure math postdocs, but their still paid abysmally relative to the private sector, and they relocate as frequently as mathematicians.
Third, there is no great sea of employment in mathematical biology because the problem is intrinsic to academia's population model, i.e. each professor produces offspring much faster than existing professors retire. For sure, there are brief periods of time where any mathematician or physicist can jump into a new applied academic field that's too young to reproduce itself, but that time has long passed for mathematical biology, just as it passed for computer science. Ironically, mathematical finance is the only field that's that hot right now, but it's kinda fake, i.e. schools want them for their teaching, not their research.
We cannot greatly increase the number of academic jobs without a major political shift. We might consider drastically reducing the number of PhDs awarded, but (a) that'd fuck up our universities's service course budgets, and (b) all the hordes of small teaching oriented collages need PhDs that aren't quite good enough, don't love doing research enough, etc. So only viable option is : Most PhDs must get jobs in industry.
For sure, there are numerous of industry jobs for mathematicians and physicists that don't involve either finance or a security clearance, especially the industrial side of all those fields that've spun off from mathematics and physics, ala computer science, biotech, etc. Wall St. and the NSA have however made a name for themselves for preferring smart people, math PhDs, etc. Ergo, you should expect that virtually every serious mathematics researcher leaving academia will seriously consider one or both options.
As I said, the issue isn't that people are doing bad things with their education, but that society doesn't provide the funding for the activities the idealists wish they were engaged in. In particular, academics are not usually the most well suited people to run off and start their own company, non-profit, etc., well not until they've spent a decade in industry clearing away the academic purity anyways.