Well, I would not go as far as you have gone. Thinking back on my school days, I would have probably been dianosed with this, even though I have always had an increadably long attention span (although not in school).
Personally, I have had rather narrow and deep interests in parts of science and math, and absolutely no interest in most of my k-12 education. I suspect that had I gone on retalin, it wouldn't have made a difference.
Quite frankly, before any of my kids goes on any long term drug, especially the popular ones, I want several opinons, not just one. I would also like to see the long term trials that have been done as well.
I have been turned down with a BS degree and 6 years of experience, because I have "too much" experience, or the recruiter says you won't be happy in that position because....
I have been working on a graduate degree while working, however, it seems that a critical part of graduate school is missing. Furthermore, progress seems to be laggin due to the amount of time I spent at work.
All things considered, I am entering graduate school for a second time this fall. I just hope I have better luck this time around than I did the last time. It shall be an interesting adventure.
There seem to be many ways a professor can get tenure.
I have known 1 professor, who got it solely by being brillant. At the time, he had no research results, had spent a hugh amount of money and time building a 1 of a kind instrument. He was also the professor, who would ask critical questions and be able to suggest creative soulutions to a wide range of problems.
Most have gone your route, that is publishing as much quality papers, and networking.
Still others have worked on the networking and getting grants - publishing just enough for the grants. The one professor I have know to do this, was able in the first year to get somewhere around 1 million in matching grants over the next 5 years. Here the university/department is getting so much money (this amount increased over the next 5 years) that to deny tenure would mean a loss of millions of dollars.
There was a comment, I believe it came from the head of the department at NC State, that the distinction in science you build to study, and in engineering you study to build.
Here a some examples:
To study high pressure chemistry one must first build a suitable device - ie a diamond anvil cell. The end is the study of high pressure chemistry and not the construction of the diamond anvil cell hence this is science.
To build a barometer case that will protect the barometer when it is dropped six feet. Here you must clearly study the construction of the case before you build it. The end is the barometer case - hence this is engineering.
In considering this, most of the time that I have spent in programming and in computer science courses has been studing different techniques to build the program - this sounds like engineering.
I sure as hell don't, the only way of eliminating bugs that I have seen work, is to develop your own though process so that you choose methods/algrithms/implementations that avoid classes of bugs. This takes intense introspection, insight, and most importantly, this takes time.
Think about it, 17000 gal. of manure is enough to power 100 houses. This might be a small town in Iowa, but most places I know have more houses, and many fewer cows. I bet that this will not be practical outside of small farming communities, with a waste production issue.
So, how do you propose to fix that problem?
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It is great having defined a problem. So, how do you propose to fix this problem?
The heart of the system will be designed by the drug companies to randomly select some drug that they produce.
A little prozac, zoloft, lithium,.... never hurt anyone.
Fundamental mistrust ...
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When will American compaines understand that having their workers take acations is good for the company. People who take time off, do more effecent work. It like the recent studies that show once workers start putting in more hours their productivity can increase to about 10 hours a day but an office worker that is doing 12 hr days less productive than when they were doing 8 hour days since they spend so much work time doing other things.
In many companies, there is a fundamental mistrust between true management (those who's job is to manage several employees - not just themselves) and the employees. This is only amplified as you go up the chain. At 2 of the 6 companies I have worked for this was definiatly the case. The 2 situations that I am aware of that emphasize this are:
1) when the CEO of one of those 2 companies got a chance to lay off the entire technical staff - he did so. He did this by merging with another company and using that company's product, and didn't pay attention to our analysis.
2) When the CEO of the other of those 2 companies had the opportunity to pit one development team against the other.
In both companies, anyone could be laid off/terminated at a whim of management, and they were. This just created an us verses them enviroment which is alway bad for this little gut who is not a member of the management fraternity.
Just a few questions.
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1) How effective are you after working 4 16 hour days? How about several weeks of this?
2) How much training have you done in the past few years? If yes, where did you find the time to do this?
3) How long will the "major" project be up an running?
4) How long do you expect it will be before your job heads to 3rd World/India?
If they have any brains at all, a failure... . Oh, you wanted a detailed, pages long explanation which would possibly expose trade secrets? Sorry I didn't design the system, but I'm going to assume they aren't total farking idiots
I don't have the time nor the inclination to read pages of pure conjecture based on the notion that the designers must not be farking idiots.
Let's face it, the more complex software gets, the more bugs we have in it. Personally, systems like this will be as much a hazard to other drivers as it is a bennifit. Just wait until they discover some of the simple situations they should have accounted for and didn't. I just hope I am not involved.
A good question is, how do they handle system failures?
Re:alternatives and cultural rant ahead...
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2 things:
Simple sugar question - what is your sugar substitute?
You are absolutly correct with the allergies. I have had severe allergies most of my life - including a constant headache up until around 10th grade when I started taking seladane. I cannot even begin to express the feeling when the sinus pressure left.
I have found that in smaller schools there is more attention payed to individual students. If you didn't graudate from RIT, you might consider smaller schools, Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA), Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA), Unity College (Unity, ME) just to name a few.
I am not going to tell you that these schools don't have boring classes, they are schools featuring a liberal arts education - however, one should realize that they need to know more of fields other than one's own. Besides, it makes great party trivia. Quite frankly, right now, my major makes great party triva.
A real hazard in working with vacuum lines (yet another piece of glass lab equipment used to sysnthesize air sensitive chemicals) occurs when you get O2 in the trap with the oil from the vacuum pump. They have been known to explode due to this (when the trap is warmed up).
Simple, use squid ganglia, or work out how to create neurons from stem cells extracted from fatty tissue to build your machine. Furthermore you control the architecture of the input and the output layers.
Why do you think that biological computers must resemble the human brain?
It is publish or perish at most universities and even most colleges.
They just found a topic to publish a paper on that extends things a little bit. This paper will then be footnoted by other researchers along with hundreds of other footnotes.
Very little published is new or even remotely creative - creativity is something that I have found is supressed by academia.
I suggest that if there are any questions, we as the slashdot community should collectively send them our pertinate questions.
The fastest words to type are those that involve only one hand. When we have to coordinate between 2 hands we are much slower (consider playing piano, how much work is it to play with one hand as compared to 2 hands). Quite frankly, 7mm is a large movement.
2 things I want from my keyboard. First is speed, second is ease of use. Having 2 stubby joy mounds (they are too round to be called sticks) to move around together is not easy, and 7mm is not small enough.
I want something that you move the device 1 mm to activate it and the entire keyboard should be mapped to one hand.
I agree with your analysis of the touchstream products. However, I will wait until they come out with a programming interface for it.
Look at your circuit board, I bet the layout is based in mm and approximated to the closest english measure.
Consider all of the CNC tools (found in machine shops), to switch between english and metric is a matter of pressing a button.
Most auto mechanics have to buy english and metric tools.
I bet if your serveying equipment is high end there is an easy conversion to make it metric.
Just think about it, it truely is low hanging fruit. Why would any company limit their products just to the US, when they could provide them to the entire world without much effort?
lets face it, if you are given an imcomplete spec and someone's life depends on the code you are producing, wouldn't you like to be able to say that you did everything in your power to show that your code is complient to the spec.
Additionally, whenever you are designing, coding and testing, you also need to be aware of the limitations of the spec and make sure you understand the logic behind it and everything is consistant and makes sense.
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Applied Cryptography doesn't have ECC
Well, I would not go as far as you have gone. Thinking back on my school days, I would have probably been dianosed with this, even though I have always had an increadably long attention span (although not in school).
Personally, I have had rather narrow and deep interests in parts of science and math, and absolutely no interest in most of my k-12 education. I suspect that had I gone on retalin, it wouldn't have made a difference.
Quite frankly, before any of my kids goes on any long term drug, especially the popular ones, I want several opinons, not just one. I would also like to see the long term trials that have been done as well.
nt
I have been turned down with a BS degree and 6 years of experience, because I have "too much" experience, or the recruiter says you won't be happy in that position because... .
I have been working on a graduate degree while working, however, it seems that a critical part of graduate school is missing. Furthermore, progress seems to be laggin due to the amount of time I spent at work.
All things considered, I am entering graduate school for a second time this fall. I just hope I have better luck this time around than I did the last time. It shall be an interesting adventure.
There seem to be many ways a professor can get tenure.
I have known 1 professor, who got it solely by being brillant. At the time, he had no research results, had spent a hugh amount of money and time building a 1 of a kind instrument. He was also the professor, who would ask critical questions and be able to suggest creative soulutions to a wide range of problems.
Most have gone your route, that is publishing as much quality papers, and networking.
Still others have worked on the networking and getting grants - publishing just enough for the grants. The one professor I have know to do this, was able in the first year to get somewhere around 1 million in matching grants over the next 5 years. Here the university/department is getting so much money (this amount increased over the next 5 years) that to deny tenure would mean a loss of millions of dollars.
Are these observations what you have observed?
There was a comment, I believe it came from the head of the department at NC State, that the distinction in science you build to study, and in engineering you study to build.
:
Here a some examples
To study high pressure chemistry one must first build a suitable device - ie a diamond anvil cell. The end is the study of high pressure chemistry and not the construction of the diamond anvil cell hence this is science.
To build a barometer case that will protect the barometer when it is dropped six feet. Here you must clearly study the construction of the case before you build it. The end is the barometer case - hence this is engineering.
In considering this, most of the time that I have spent in programming and in computer science courses has been studing different techniques to build the program - this sounds like engineering.
I sure as hell don't, the only way of eliminating bugs that I have seen work, is to develop your own though process so that you choose methods/algrithms/implementations that avoid classes of bugs. This takes intense introspection, insight, and most importantly, this takes time.
It probably is not practical everywhere.
Think about it, 17000 gal. of manure is enough to power 100 houses. This might be a small town in Iowa, but most places I know have more houses, and many fewer cows. I bet that this will not be practical outside of small farming communities, with a waste production issue.
It is great having defined a problem. So, how do you propose to fix this problem?
The heart of the system will be designed by the drug companies to randomly select some drug that they produce.
.... never hurt anyone.
A little prozac, zoloft, lithium,
When will American compaines understand that having their workers take acations is good for the company. People who take time off, do more effecent work. It like the recent studies that show once workers start putting in more hours their productivity can increase to about 10 hours a day but an office worker that is doing 12 hr days less productive than when they were doing 8 hour days since they spend so much work time doing other things.
In many companies, there is a fundamental mistrust between true management (those who's job is to manage several employees - not just themselves) and the employees. This is only amplified as you go up the chain. At 2 of the 6 companies I have worked for this was definiatly the case. The 2 situations that I am aware of that emphasize this are:
1) when the CEO of one of those 2 companies got a chance to lay off the entire technical staff - he did so. He did this by merging with another company and using that company's product, and didn't pay attention to our analysis.
2) When the CEO of the other of those 2 companies had the opportunity to pit one development team against the other.
In both companies, anyone could be laid off/terminated at a whim of management, and they were. This just created an us verses them enviroment which is alway bad for this little gut who is not a member of the management fraternity.
1) How effective are you after working 4 16 hour days? How about several weeks of this?
2) How much training have you done in the past few years? If yes, where did you find the time to do this?
3) How long will the "major" project be up an running?
4) How long do you expect it will be before your job heads to 3rd World/India?
If they have any brains at all, a failure ... . Oh, you wanted a detailed, pages long explanation which would possibly expose trade secrets? Sorry I didn't design the system, but I'm going to assume they aren't total farking idiots
I don't have the time nor the inclination to read pages of pure conjecture based on the notion that the designers must not be farking idiots.
Let's face it, the more complex software gets, the more bugs we have in it. Personally, systems like this will be as much a hazard to other drivers as it is a bennifit. Just wait until they discover some of the simple situations they should have accounted for and didn't. I just hope I am not involved.
A good question is, how do they handle system failures?
2 things: Simple sugar question - what is your sugar substitute? You are absolutly correct with the allergies. I have had severe allergies most of my life - including a constant headache up until around 10th grade when I started taking seladane. I cannot even begin to express the feeling when the sinus pressure left.
I have found that in smaller schools there is more attention payed to individual students. If you didn't graudate from RIT, you might consider smaller schools, Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA), Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA), Unity College (Unity, ME) just to name a few.
I am not going to tell you that these schools don't have boring classes, they are schools featuring a liberal arts education - however, one should realize that they need to know more of fields other than one's own. Besides, it makes great party trivia. Quite frankly, right now, my major makes great party triva.
PS: Please pardon the misspellings.
A real hazard in working with vacuum lines (yet another piece of glass lab equipment used to sysnthesize air sensitive chemicals) occurs when you get O2 in the trap with the oil from the vacuum pump. They have been known to explode due to this (when the trap is warmed up).
Simple, use squid ganglia, or work out how to create neurons from stem cells extracted from fatty tissue to build your machine. Furthermore you control the architecture of the input and the output layers.
Why do you think that biological computers must resemble the human brain?
It is publish or perish at most universities and even most colleges.
They just found a topic to publish a paper on that extends things a little bit. This paper will then be footnoted by other researchers along with hundreds of other footnotes.
Very little published is new or even remotely creative - creativity is something that I have found is supressed by academia.
I suggest that if there are any questions, we as the slashdot community should collectively send them our pertinate questions.
The fastest words to type are those that involve only one hand. When we have to coordinate between 2 hands we are much slower (consider playing piano, how much work is it to play with one hand as compared to 2 hands). Quite frankly, 7mm is a large movement.
2 things I want from my keyboard. First is speed, second is ease of use. Having 2 stubby joy mounds (they are too round to be called sticks) to move around together is not easy, and 7mm is not small enough.
I want something that you move the device 1 mm to activate it and the entire keyboard should be mapped to one hand.
I agree with your analysis of the touchstream products. However, I will wait until they come out with a programming interface for it.
(nt)
Look at your circuit board, I bet the layout is based in mm and approximated to the closest english measure.
Consider all of the CNC tools (found in machine shops), to switch between english and metric is a matter of pressing a button.
Most auto mechanics have to buy english and metric tools.
I bet if your serveying equipment is high end there is an easy conversion to make it metric.
Just think about it, it truely is low hanging fruit. Why would any company limit their products just to the US, when they could provide them to the entire world without much effort?
lets face it, if you are given an imcomplete spec and someone's life depends on the code you are producing, wouldn't you like to be able to say that you did everything in your power to show that your code is complient to the spec.
Additionally, whenever you are designing, coding and testing, you also need to be aware of the limitations of the spec and make sure you understand the logic behind it and everything is consistant and makes sense.
I believe that Gimpel's PC-Lint/flexeLint was doing the memory checks in 1996, at least the NULL pointers and double deletes.
I wonder what the difference is between Gimpel's algorithm and the standford algorithm?
In fact, of the companies I have work in, the one with the highest quality product was the smallest and the one without any QA people.