There are faculty positions open here in northern California. Mostly part-time or adjunct but you will still find a number of full-time openings. A lot of the un-employed technorati are applying for them. What they are finding though is that many don't meet the qualifications to teach. Seems a lot of folks that were riding the high-tech boom were light in the credentials department.
This is great advice. I have been teaching now for three years at the college level after a career as a research engineer. My transition into the classroom was pretty smooth. I seemed to know what to do when I got in there. I just came up a composite model of the best professors that I had in college and tried to emulate that. I have attended a few training sessions on educational methods and techniques and they have been helpful. After three years I still see a lot of areas that could use some improvement in the way I manage some classes. Being a good teacher takes a lot of work and commitment. I think the best teachers are the ones that feel like it is what they were meant to be doing with their lives.
If you are getting a B.S. in CS or CE and find yourself having a hard time finding a job then check out getting a teaching position at a local technical college. Places that offer associates degrees in IT often hire bachelor's grad and are happy to get folks with honest computer science degrees or engineering degrees. You might even find the work rewarding which will make up for the lower pay. Hey it's better than being unemployed.
It's not that way anymore. At one time in the US employers had little liability in firing an employee for minimal cause. Don't let the door hit you in the ass type of thing. It is much different now. An employer pretty much has to build a case against you to fire you for cause and you have all kinds of legal responses availible to you if you feel that you were wronged. However, if there is not enough work for you to do, then that is a different story. Positions can be eliminated (along with the people who hold them). This represents a change in the employers company structure which carries its own set of legal documents.
Consider this: *NIX and *nix-like OS find there greatest success and appreciation in two arenas:
1.) Server applications
2.) Scientific and Engineering workstation networks.
There are business networks based on *NIX/*UNIX-like platforms however they are a small share of the market (ask Sun Microsystems). I love Linux and I have been using the OS since 1993 but my gut tells me that it will probably never by Joe Average's OS regardless of what you try to make it look like. So why would you want to anyway ?
That's just it. Politicians are scrutinized by the media with all of their investigative tools and techniques availible and a lot of dirt is printed about them. The problem is that no one cares if your congressman's behavior is questionable. It's expected !
I guess the headline here is the problem. I don't associate KDE and GNOME as Linux ! They are popular UIs for Linux but they are not part of what I consider the Linux OS. They didn't even exist when I first started using Linux, therefore, my perception is that Linux is nothing like windows regardless of what people try to make it look like. Current thinking is trying to intimately connect Linux with a standard UI. This is probably primarily due to the influence of RedHat that I guess has been the greatest champion of promoting Linux as an alternative for the average user. Unfortunatly this campaign also creates an environment where psuedo-standardization is neccessary to satisfy Joe Average. This is not neccessarily a good thing.
Although the schools may not be underfunded on paper, the educational infrastructure of the state surely looks underfunded. The public school system here in Sacramento is in shambles. The physical plant of most schools are in decay and in sore need of repair. Overcrowding is a big problem. All this and I understand it is far worse in L.A. County. I don't know exactly what the problem is here but there is a really big one that is producing an undereducated generation.
Here is the deal. You can be the first, the best, the highest flight, the longest flight, the best looking craft or whatever but it doesn't do you any good if you don't document well or at least as good as another researcher. The Wright's were impeccable in the documentation of the flight research. These men were true scientists in the highest sense of the word. You can see their notebooks and hand made wind tunnels on display at the museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton. Their research notebooks would be the envy of any research scientist or engineer.
I have adopted a new policy at holiday time with my employer. I will not attend a Holiday party. I get enough of the people at work at work. I have no real desire to spend my time away from work with the people I see everyday. We don't get bonuses either (at all) regardless of how spectacular a job you do.
What you are saying is true. Bonuses are not entitlemnts for employees. What I think you are hearing is that some employers are not giving bonuses at all even if deserved. This is probably a sign of the times (hard times) however after a few years of indulgence, employers are now being perceived as stingy. It doesn't help when upper management does not give the perception that cuts and sacrifices are made at the upper levels too.
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Most antique stores have a section of collectable toys that are not really antiques but stuff from the 60s and 70s that were popular. I would be you might find what you were looking for there. Also in most cities you can find a specialty toy store that carries nostalgic toys. There are two here in Sacramento (and this is a cow town) so in a larger city there probably would be more. Good luck !
This is one field that is under an dramatic revolution. The computer has done wonders in enhancing physical sciences such as physics and chemistry as well as engineering. However there is no questioning the impact this technology has had in this field. Just think the structure of DNA is post WWII science (still relatively young by comparison with physical theories). There is some much more to learn !
The same companies build both rockets and planes however it is not the same group of engineers. I know from what I speak since I was one of these engineers and worked closely with every major airframer in the country on one project or another. Capability is not what is recorded in a book but also relies on experience. Continuing experience.
There is a reason for no hoopla. If you have been stuck in earth orbit for the last 30 years after visiting the nearest celestial body what do you have to brag about ? This has been one of the greatest technological losses or our time. And yes this technology has perished. Engineering is as much an art as it is a science and all of the engineers that were responsible for putting men on the moon have long since retired or died. There was no continuing mentorship of a next generation of engineers. The US Air Force does something that NASA doesn't. The military will go through the entire design to build process of a prototype fighter every 20 years wheather one is needed or not simply to avoid losing the knowledge of how to do it. The process of passing the experience on to a new generation is of more value than the product itself.
I guess it sounds like some kind of conviction there but folks in Humboldt County have no problem with trees as furniture after partaking of bowl of Humboldt Gold.
My bias comes from the era when I got into Linux. When I first installed Linux from floppy images downloaded from the net the kernal version was 0.99 patch level 14. There were no books around at that time. What you learned, you learned from tinkering and posting questions to usenet. I was already familiar with a number of *nix flavors and knew what to ask. I do encourage the new user to find whatever reference they feel comfortable with. The pioneer days were great though.
Just get a distro and jump right in. Books ! Books ! You don't need no stikin books ! Curl up with all the HOW-TOs and spend many gratifying hours configuring XFree on the Slackware distribution. This may sound like a troll but there is a lot of truth to what I am saying. If you want to learn quickly, deeply and well get your feet wet with a distrobution that causes you to think and hack and tweek.
Just like anyone else that has worked as a researcher for any length of time, I have had a few papers (mostly co-authored) end up on library shelves that I was not completely happy with. However how many of those ultr-hyper productive scientists our there with 300+ publications wouldn't loose quite a few if really strained through the bullshit filter. Scientific publication and peer-review is a good old boy network and I have seen a lot of real crap end up in print just because of Dr. I M Wunderkindwellfunded was tacked on as last author.
You are right JAP is not the worst but the real seminal work usually is not found there.
Having a paper accepted in the Journal of Applied Physics is no great feat. JAP is not considered as one of the more scholarly physics journals and often times publication in JAP translates to "you couldn't get the work published anywhere else." Folks who regularly publich in Phys. Rev or Phil Mag tend to look down on JAP publications.
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1.) Server applications
2.) Scientific and Engineering workstation networks.
There are business networks based on *NIX/*UNIX-like platforms however they are a small share of the market (ask Sun Microsystems). I love Linux and I have been using the OS since 1993 but my gut tells me that it will probably never by Joe Average's OS regardless of what you try to make it look like. So why would you want to anyway ?
You are right JAP is not the worst but the real seminal work usually is not found there.
One is an ugly, scum sucking, despicable bottom-feeder and the other is a fish.