Think of it as an accreditation by the university that the scientist has attained a high level of knowledge, as well as following the ethics and scientific procedures expected of a physicist. By stripping him of his PhD, they are admitting that they may have been wrong on the second half. I don't think of a PhD as being a "certificate of knowledge." If anything, I think that a PhD is a sign of perseverance and hard work, as well as intelligence. However, by the end, the student should have learned some scientific ethics.
If you cheat in school, like this, expect to get an 'F' and maybe be expelled. His actions were much more severe (he was a professional), so he got fired and lost his degree. Serves him right. Don't cook the books. If he was an accountant, he could be in jail. Lawyers can get disbarred (and could end up in jail). Maybe he's lucky.
Keep in mind that we are not seeing the formation of a black hole (or neutron star). That was obscured by the supernova remnants. What we [maybe] are now seeing is the youngest black hole (or neutron star) that we have ever observed. 20 years old is barely out of the womb in cosmological terms, but we missed the birth. The only reason that we are getting to see it this early is that we are fortunate enough to line up with a "crack" in the expanding shell of supernova remnants.
Still, very awesome. It will definitely help us with our understanding of supernovas and their aftermath.
It would be really incredible if we could ever find a star that was about to supernova. It would be the most outrageous luck to find it and observe it up until the instant of supernova (I am afraid that we will never get to see the first couple years after that.)
Yeah, yours is pretty old. Your id# is 139327 and mine is 773870. It looks like mwmitton (788014) is the newest user. Apparently, you are in the oldest 20%.
(To find the newest user, just keep changing the id# in the link until it's not valid, then back up. Do kind of a binary search.)
Oh, I don't know if you should have been modded down or anything. Except that we may have been off-topic. I don't think it was flamebait or troll, but I've never had mod points yet. Such is life. I wasn't trying to attack you personally (but sorry, I think I did), but I respond to the 'r' word sometimes.
The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
First off, I disagree with your application of teh word racist to favoring the certain facial features that may be predominant in one race over others. But please, can we agree to disagree on this, since it is opinion?
Using the definition you provided, I don't happen to believe that the way a person looks = character or ability. And it is hard to discern between a person who likes women with smooth cheeks or fine hair or brown eyes versus one who strictly prefers a given race. If a person likes A, B, & C and it turns out that lots of people of X have A, B, & C, that doesn't mean that he is racist toward people X or that he takes advantage of people X.
But, of course, in usual/. fashion, we have drifted so far off topic....
I am not an astrophysicist. I did a GIS for "Phoebe" and was even more confused... Is the Cassini-Huygens craft going to "probe" Lisa Kudrow?
Who knows what the post before his actually meant about doing a GIS of Phoebe. While I have seen Geographic Information Systems applied to the moon, I seriously doubt that we have data that is good enough to do much of a GIS study on a small moon of Saturn or who would be that interested. It would be useful if you planned on landing, but not for a fly-by. Maybe astronomers studying the birth of the solar system, but I don't think the confused poster is one of them.
If that excuse was allowed to stand up then everyone would use it. I guess they are saying that unless your car [was reported] stolen, the owner of the car can be held liable for actions by persons that they have permitted to drive their vehicle. This doesn't sound much different than what corporations have to face. If Van X owned by Company Y commited some major raod crime, Company Y better prove who Driver Z is or its there a$$. (Disclaimer: IANAL just like most of us)
If it's such a big deal, hook up a box to the car and make people log in to drive. That way you can prove who was driving. This would make for a good theft deterrant too. Of course, I expect people to counter with an invasion of privacy, but I consider that a matter of opinion.
I was wondering if I should be using Brasil posting back to you.... The one site I linked to has numbers for different languages. It's kind of hard to understand exactly what the numbers mean, but it's interesting. I had thought there were places in the Amazon where the different languages came together (Portuguese, Tupí, and Spanish) where the people used a blend of the 3. Of course, IHNBTSA (I have never been to South America;).
Thanks for correcting me. I haven't modded my XBox and I only know one person who did (he got the modded XBox in the mail from a friend), so I didn't know the procedure all that well. I had thought that I read something on popsi.com about modding XBoxes, but I could be mistaken. Here it is. It looks like the soldering might only be for turning your XBox into a linux computer.... I would think that the overall process is the same.
Don't forget about people with disabilities, etc. There may be people who need to turn caps-lock on/off when ever they need to type an upper-case letter. Developers/Geeks always* seem to forget that people with disabilities (deaf, color-blind, mechanical difficulties, etc.) [have a right to!] use computers too.
* Sorry for the generization if this is not you. And yes, I fall into this category.
I believe there are many areas in Brazil where they do not speak Portuguese. If Wikipedia wasn't currently offline, you could read more there. This site says that only 158,000,000* (out of 165,851,000*) people in Brazil speak Portuguese. "There are also more than 100 indigenous languages." With Portugal only having 10,102,022 people, the total from these 2 countries is just under 170,000,000. What other major populations speak Portuguese? (Most of my world-languages geography knowledge has atrophied.) The data in the list may not be so out-of-date after all.
(This is a discussion about the publishers, not the manufacturer (Micro$oft).)
Would you rather sell a game for $50 on the XBox and be limited to a single console (you could develop across multiple consoles if you really wanted too) or try to sell it for $50 for the PC (while competing with piracy)?
I can see where they might choose the XBox or the PS2, because it takes a lot more effort to pirate these games. PC games get pirated a lot more because they are so easy to download and install. Apply your crack and go!
For the XBox (or PS2 too, I guess), you would have to either install Linux (which will cause some XBox features to stop working) or modify the hardware. Most people would not dare to do the soldering themselves (I wouldn't) and unless you are going to trust a stranger from the internet, most people don't know who to go to for this.
I love using the PC. It seems like a more competitive market. Most games allow you to play multiplayer without having to subscribe to a service. M$ has monopolized that on the XBox and they can get away with it. As long as the XBox stays publisher-friendly (at the cost of the consumer), don't be surprised to see more and more games coming out for the XBox (and more ways for them and M$ to take more of our money).
I have found myself constantly having to say "i before e except after c, but weird is weird."
This was definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I have started to correct myself on the ei vs. ie thing so well that it stands out to me more.
Hah! Reread your own post. Doesn't that sound a bit racist yourself? (Not that you meant it.)
And don't you think that you are being a little too subjective about your parent post? He very well could "[love] her for who she is" and you just felt like bashing on him for using a winking smily face emoticon. That meant he was being racist when he said it? That he was taking advantage of her?
(I AC to flamebait so that I won't encourage an entire flaming thread.)
Amen! Like I care who got voted off American Idol, or Survivor, or the Bachelor, etc.! I don't tell her who won the football game or how I just obliterated the stupid Gungans. And I don't really care about her friend that calls and complains every day (but at least it's real).
Sorry for the flame. I didn't really mean it that way. I don't like Kerry either, but I get scared when one party takes over all 3 branches. I figure it's a safe bet that the Democrats won't be taking both houses in Congress (they could get the Senate, but definitely not the House). Here in NC we'll probably lose our Democrat Senator and even though NC will go to Bush, I will vote against just in case. I prefer to have a little balance between the parties than have one dominate. It keeps eerything a little more centered.
If you work in a group, you will have to solve someone else's bugs (in addition to your own) from time to time. It would be very valuable to know that the programmer you were hiring wasn't a hack job that would throw in some spaghetti code to get it working for them.
Hopefully the interviewer will test his code first. I had a guy write out a very simle function in C++ and ask me what it did. I described its function and he said I was wrong, so we went over it line by line. It turns out that he didn't know how the integer divide worked well enough. He didn't own up to his mistake, but at least he agreed that if it worked the way I told him that I was right. (Sorry, but I don't remember the problem, but I understand how C arithmetic works - I helped develop a C compiler.)
Also, at the company I work at now, we came up with a new test. I took it and didn't have any problems, but I pointed out that I needed more than the alotted time and I did the stuff every day. Way too many questions and very nit-picky. I think the code sample was typed in by a couple of monkeys and then they ran it to get the answers (the other extreme). Oh, and my boss... she failed it.
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Think of it as an accreditation by the university that the scientist has attained a high level of knowledge, as well as following the ethics and scientific procedures expected of a physicist. By stripping him of his PhD, they are admitting that they may have been wrong on the second half. I don't think of a PhD as being a "certificate of knowledge." If anything, I think that a PhD is a sign of perseverance and hard work, as well as intelligence. However, by the end, the student should have learned some scientific ethics.
If you cheat in school, like this, expect to get an 'F' and maybe be expelled. His actions were much more severe (he was a professional), so he got fired and lost his degree. Serves him right. Don't cook the books. If he was an accountant, he could be in jail. Lawyers can get disbarred (and could end up in jail). Maybe he's lucky.
Keep in mind that we are not seeing the formation of a black hole (or neutron star). That was obscured by the supernova remnants. What we [maybe] are now seeing is the youngest black hole (or neutron star) that we have ever observed. 20 years old is barely out of the womb in cosmological terms, but we missed the birth. The only reason that we are getting to see it this early is that we are fortunate enough to line up with a "crack" in the expanding shell of supernova remnants.
Still, very awesome. It will definitely help us with our understanding of supernovas and their aftermath.
It would be really incredible if we could ever find a star that was about to supernova. It would be the most outrageous luck to find it and observe it up until the instant of supernova (I am afraid that we will never get to see the first couple years after that.)
Yeah, yours is pretty old. Your id# is 139327 and mine is 773870. It looks like mwmitton (788014) is the newest user. Apparently, you are in the oldest 20%.
(To find the newest user, just keep changing the id# in the link until it's not valid, then back up. Do kind of a binary search.)
Yeah, I visit /. too much. Plus I am too new. You have to be in the older 92.5%. As you can see by my /. id#, that will be awhile.
As you may have noted from my XBox posts, I don't know very much about modding an XBox. I definitely wouldn't do it myself.
Oh, I don't know if you should have been modded down or anything. Except that we may have been off-topic. I don't think it was flamebait or troll, but I've never had mod points yet. Such is life. I wasn't trying to attack you personally (but sorry, I think I did), but I respond to the 'r' word sometimes.
Using the definition you provided, I don't happen to believe that the way a person looks = character or ability. And it is hard to discern between a person who likes women with smooth cheeks or fine hair or brown eyes versus one who strictly prefers a given race. If a person likes A, B, & C and it turns out that lots of people of X have A, B, & C, that doesn't mean that he is racist toward people X or that he takes advantage of people X.
But, of course, in usual
I am not an astrophysicist. I did a GIS for "Phoebe" and was even more confused... Is the Cassini-Huygens craft going to "probe" Lisa Kudrow?
Who knows what the post before his actually meant about doing a GIS of Phoebe. While I have seen Geographic Information Systems applied to the moon, I seriously doubt that we have data that is good enough to do much of a GIS study on a small moon of Saturn or who would be that interested. It would be useful if you planned on landing, but not for a fly-by. Maybe astronomers studying the birth of the solar system, but I don't think the confused poster is one of them.
Maybe he meant a Google Image Search? No wonder he's confused; what's up with the llama?
Ah, d@mmit. Sorry for all the typos. I don't care, but I wanted to preempt all the typoallergenic people out there.
If that excuse was allowed to stand up then everyone would use it. I guess they are saying that unless your car [was reported] stolen, the owner of the car can be held liable for actions by persons that they have permitted to drive their vehicle. This doesn't sound much different than what corporations have to face. If Van X owned by Company Y commited some major raod crime, Company Y better prove who Driver Z is or its there a$$. (Disclaimer: IANAL just like most of us)
If it's such a big deal, hook up a box to the car and make people log in to drive. That way you can prove who was driving. This would make for a good theft deterrant too. Of course, I expect people to counter with an invasion of privacy, but I consider that a matter of opinion.
I was wondering if I should be using Brasil posting back to you.... The one site I linked to has numbers for different languages. It's kind of hard to understand exactly what the numbers mean, but it's interesting. I had thought there were places in the Amazon where the different languages came together (Portuguese, Tupí, and Spanish) where the people used a blend of the 3. Of course, IHNBTSA (I have never been to South America ;).
Thanks for correcting me. I haven't modded my XBox and I only know one person who did (he got the modded XBox in the mail from a friend), so I didn't know the procedure all that well. I had thought that I read something on popsi.com about modding XBoxes, but I could be mistaken. Here it is. It looks like the soldering might only be for turning your XBox into a linux computer.... I would think that the overall process is the same.
Don't forget about people with disabilities, etc. There may be people who need to turn caps-lock on/off when ever they need to type an upper-case letter. Developers/Geeks always* seem to forget that people with disabilities (deaf, color-blind, mechanical difficulties, etc.) [have a right to!] use computers too.
* Sorry for the generization if this is not you. And yes, I fall into this category.
I believe there are many areas in Brazil where they do not speak Portuguese. If Wikipedia wasn't currently offline, you could read more there. This site says that only 158,000,000* (out of 165,851,000*) people in Brazil speak Portuguese. "There are also more than 100 indigenous languages." With Portugal only having 10,102,022 people, the total from these 2 countries is just under 170,000,000. What other major populations speak Portuguese? (Most of my world-languages geography knowledge has atrophied.) The data in the list may not be so out-of-date after all.
* 1998 - United Nations
(This is a discussion about the publishers, not the manufacturer (Micro$oft).)
Would you rather sell a game for $50 on the XBox and be limited to a single console (you could develop across multiple consoles if you really wanted too) or try to sell it for $50 for the PC (while competing with piracy)?
I can see where they might choose the XBox or the PS2, because it takes a lot more effort to pirate these games. PC games get pirated a lot more because they are so easy to download and install. Apply your crack and go!
For the XBox (or PS2 too, I guess), you would have to either install Linux (which will cause some XBox features to stop working) or modify the hardware. Most people would not dare to do the soldering themselves (I wouldn't) and unless you are going to trust a stranger from the internet, most people don't know who to go to for this.
I love using the PC. It seems like a more competitive market. Most games allow you to play multiplayer without having to subscribe to a service. M$ has monopolized that on the XBox and they can get away with it. As long as the XBox stays publisher-friendly (at the cost of the consumer), don't be surprised to see more and more games coming out for the XBox (and more ways for them and M$ to take more of our money).
I have found myself constantly having to say "i before e except after c, but weird is weird."
This was definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I have started to correct myself on the ei vs. ie thing so well that it stands out to me more.
Oops. I forgot to AC!!!
Hah! Reread your own post. Doesn't that sound a bit racist yourself? (Not that you meant it.)
And don't you think that you are being a little too subjective about your parent post? He very well could "[love] her for who she is" and you just felt like bashing on him for using a winking smily face emoticon. That meant he was being racist when he said it? That he was taking advantage of her?
(I AC to flamebait so that I won't encourage an entire flaming thread.)
Amen! Like I care who got voted off American Idol, or Survivor, or the Bachelor, etc.! I don't tell her who won the football game or how I just obliterated the stupid Gungans. And I don't really care about her friend that calls and complains every day (but at least it's real).
Yeah. I was going to point that out and realized that I couldn't decide which was worse.
Sorry for the flame. I didn't really mean it that way. I don't like Kerry either, but I get scared when one party takes over all 3 branches. I figure it's a safe bet that the Democrats won't be taking both houses in Congress (they could get the Senate, but definitely not the House). Here in NC we'll probably lose our Democrat Senator and even though NC will go to Bush, I will vote against just in case. I prefer to have a little balance between the parties than have one dominate. It keeps eerything a little more centered.
You forgot about the part where he would still be employed. $400/wk. is not fun.
If you work in a group, you will have to solve someone else's bugs (in addition to your own) from time to time. It would be very valuable to know that the programmer you were hiring wasn't a hack job that would throw in some spaghetti code to get it working for them.
Hopefully the interviewer will test his code first. I had a guy write out a very simle function in C++ and ask me what it did. I described its function and he said I was wrong, so we went over it line by line. It turns out that he didn't know how the integer divide worked well enough. He didn't own up to his mistake, but at least he agreed that if it worked the way I told him that I was right. (Sorry, but I don't remember the problem, but I understand how C arithmetic works - I helped develop a C compiler.)
Also, at the company I work at now, we came up with a new test. I took it and didn't have any problems, but I pointed out that I needed more than the alotted time and I did the stuff every day. Way too many questions and very nit-picky. I think the code sample was typed in by a couple of monkeys and then they ran it to get the answers (the other extreme). Oh, and my boss... she failed it.