Is anyone surprised that Phoenix is on the list? Maybe if the airport's flight path didn't go right over Arizona State University, they wouldn't have this problem? I bet that most of these incidents are a bunch of drunk frat boys playing around with laser pointers on a Saturday night at the big parties,. ..
I didn't leave, either. Though I never subscribed to the disc option -- I'm streaming only. I was going to add the one-disc-at-a-time option for $2, but decided against it after the price increase. They still have lots of good movies out there, and I notice more and more coming every week. Maybe not tons of fresh-out-of-the-theater stuff, but a lot of the cult classics like Strange Brew and Spaceballs are there. Plus, they just added Star Trek: Deep Space Nine this month, so I'll be keeping my subscription at least long enough to watch all that (which, interestingly, is the only Star Trek series I have not really watched much of -- I know, I probably need to turn in my Geek Card for that).
An ostrich egg does classify as a cell, be it in the haploid (unfertilized) or diploid (fertilized) state. If fertilized, it is also a developing organism. So yes, it qualifies. Not sure if an ostrich egg is 10 cm or not, but I suspect it's pretty close,...
However there are also people out there who went to college and majored in drama, or comparative literature, or film studies, or any of a number of other fields that have very marginal job prospects even in a good economy.
I think there is also a reasonable number of these liberal arts students that began their college career in a marketable subject, like science or engineering, and realized quickly how difficult it was when they found out that they actually had to study instead of partying at the bars and frat houses every night. So after flunking a few courses their freshman year, they changed their major by sophomore year, flunked a few more courses, and ended up either dropping out with student loan debt, or graduating on the 6 or 7 year plan with a useless degree. It's difficult to have sympathy in someone like this, who ended up majoring in English not because they wanted to teach or go into journalism, but who "ended up" there in a futile attempt to merely end up college with a degree thinking that they're better off with a useless degree and massive student loan debt instead of no degree and little or no debt.
Anyone that still believes that America's colleges and universities are "non-profit" institutions, should think again at this. For two of the most obvious examples, I cite you the "Bowl Championship Series" and most college sports in general (namely football and basketball), as well as the fact that student dormitories and student unions have largely been turned into country clubs, with just about every one of them having a Starbucks (heck, that's in the library now, too), and having such amenities as rock climbing walls, gyms with workout equipment that rival Gold's Gym, and many schools are giving every student their own iPad these days. Plus, when most schools in Division I pay their football or basketball coach twenty times the salary of the average professor, and four times the salary of the university president, you know something's fouled up,. ..
Female fertility will still end at the same age...
Science is slowly upping this, too. Granted, we may never see a 120-year-old Octo-Mom on TLC, but we have already seen mothers giving birth as old as 60 or so,. ..
True, the iPhone/iPod/iPad sales are a big part of their bottom line. But Macintosh sales are still doing quite well, and even outselling PC sales at the moment. You also have to consider that their other products can also be technically classified as "computers", even though they might be classified in other areas. For example, the iPhone is a telephone, sure, but it also has a processor, RAM, solid state storage, an operating system based on UNIX, an internet connection, you can check email on it, and do other things that you can do with a computer. Same goes for the iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the phone part, as well as the iPad.
The occupation is demandless because it operates on consensus. Individuals and groups of occupiers can autonomously raise any demands they like or take any actions they like.
So, in other words, it's as if Wikipedia is marching in the streets making demands. They're doomed.
As a computational biologist myself, I agree with this wholeheartedly! And to top that off, I think that a lot of the software that's out there is poorly documented. The code has variables in it and other functions with no comments telling someone else what those variables mean. And it was posted on a website with very poor documentation or instructions as to how to run it. Sure, they published a paper in Nature or PLoS Computational Biology. But a scientific paper is not an instruction manual, and writing both requires different forms of writing.
The truth is that most modern Universities only emphasize teaching vs. research about 50% of time because at least half of all the activity in a modern University IS (and always has been) research. Sure, you do have to start out the first year or two in those big lecture halls learning the basics with all the other students, and perhaps that's where online components can help the most. But the best professors are the ones that recognize not only the top students in the class, but also the ones truly interested in going the extra mile, engage them in the classroom, and get them interested in helping with their research. The best students are the ones that realize this, and become more involved in the research activities in their department (they learn a whole lot more that way). These are the students that succeed. The rest of the students, and the bulk of the ones that go on to complain about unavailable teachers and professors that don't care about their students, are the ones that have somehow come to expect that going to college is the next thing to do after high school and necessary in their path to that six figure income with the corner office (that most of them are now realizing is a bunch of crap). Online courses are popular with the for-profit sector because those "colleges" are only interested in getting more students paying their overly-priced tuition into the pockets of their rich administrators, while churning out useless sheets of parchment to hang in the family rooms of unemployed former corporate drones that thought they were getting that degree to get the promotion that dried up when the company downsized,. ..
Interestingly, many Universities are utilizing the Internet heavily for research activities. Whether for reading the latest literature, creating online surveys on a variety of topics or communicating with patients, or even doing science "experiments" on supercomputers. True, you can't exactly inject mice or synthesize compounds on a computer, but you can run simulations of proteins and small molecules, and even run financial simulations and other calculations. And it's also easy to engage students to get involved in this sort of research, too, because all they really need is to use their computer to connect remotely to a campus computing cluster. There's not too much overhead in terms of laboratory space and chemicals to order and things of that nature -- the supercomputing clusters can be shared among multiple research groups on campus, or even across campuses, such as on the TeraGrid.
Leo LaPorte?!?! Are you on crack?!?! Seriously, the man is nothing but one big mouth screaming and yapping about technology, acting as a big, overgrown cheerleader for the tech industry! I had to kick him off watching him on Google+ because I got tired of the endless stream of crap spewing from his keyboard. On second though, that's mostly all that CEO's are good for anyways, so he might be a good choice,. . .;-)
The primary mission of a University has always been research, actually. And students and families are not necessarily supporting full time researchers with tax dollars, since most of the salaries for research comes from their research grants, not tuition. Sure, many Universities might be able to pay for some research with internal funds, but the vast majority is paid with external funds (NSF, NIH, even corporate grants, etc). Universities have had to do a lot more teaching in the past 30-40 years, mostly because there are more students attending college than before, and many of these students don't understand what a University education originally was. Many students expect to be handed an easy A for sitting in class 15 hours per week and partying on weekends, and then to graduate with a BA or BS degree, which will somehow magically give them a good, well-paying job. And in the past 2-3 years, many graduates have realized that these good, well paying jobs don't exist, so now they're going back for more education in graduate school, further watering down graduate programs. I'd say at least 20% of the students that start college these days really shouldn't be there -- just look at these new remedial math and english programs that didn't exist 50 years ago, but exist today because high school graduates didn't learn what they were supposed to learn, and colleges now have to make up the difference. I've even seen coursework from graduate and professional students that looks like it was written by an 8th grader!
Will we have to start paying Microsoft a license fee for the chair we're sitting in? Because I'm sure Steve Ballmer filed a patent for that, didn't he?
Jar Jar Binks was nothing! Ever see the Star Wars Holiday Special? Would we expect anything less from anyone that could've possibly produced that drivel?!?!
I don't need it on mine! The bars I go to have pretty good wi-fi signals. This trick wouldn't work anyway since I only drink draft beer there -- I never drink beer in a can! I also frequently see people bringing iPads into bars, too.
Based on the current size of the Library of Congress, you'd need a RAID of 93 of these to store everything! And you'd need to increase that RAID by two drives every month to keep up!
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Is anyone surprised that Phoenix is on the list? Maybe if the airport's flight path didn't go right over Arizona State University, they wouldn't have this problem? I bet that most of these incidents are a bunch of drunk frat boys playing around with laser pointers on a Saturday night at the big parties,. . .
I didn't leave, either. Though I never subscribed to the disc option -- I'm streaming only. I was going to add the one-disc-at-a-time option for $2, but decided against it after the price increase. They still have lots of good movies out there, and I notice more and more coming every week. Maybe not tons of fresh-out-of-the-theater stuff, but a lot of the cult classics like Strange Brew and Spaceballs are there. Plus, they just added Star Trek: Deep Space Nine this month, so I'll be keeping my subscription at least long enough to watch all that (which, interestingly, is the only Star Trek series I have not really watched much of -- I know, I probably need to turn in my Geek Card for that).
OMG! We finally found CowboyNeal's mom! :-)
An ostrich egg does classify as a cell, be it in the haploid (unfertilized) or diploid (fertilized) state. If fertilized, it is also a developing organism. So yes, it qualifies. Not sure if an ostrich egg is 10 cm or not, but I suspect it's pretty close,...
You might want to check that out. I have the same system and don't notice those problems at all.
I think there is also a reasonable number of these liberal arts students that began their college career in a marketable subject, like science or engineering, and realized quickly how difficult it was when they found out that they actually had to study instead of partying at the bars and frat houses every night. So after flunking a few courses their freshman year, they changed their major by sophomore year, flunked a few more courses, and ended up either dropping out with student loan debt, or graduating on the 6 or 7 year plan with a useless degree. It's difficult to have sympathy in someone like this, who ended up majoring in English not because they wanted to teach or go into journalism, but who "ended up" there in a futile attempt to merely end up college with a degree thinking that they're better off with a useless degree and massive student loan debt instead of no degree and little or no debt.
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Anyone that still believes that America's colleges and universities are "non-profit" institutions, should think again at this. For two of the most obvious examples, I cite you the "Bowl Championship Series" and most college sports in general (namely football and basketball), as well as the fact that student dormitories and student unions have largely been turned into country clubs, with just about every one of them having a Starbucks (heck, that's in the library now, too), and having such amenities as rock climbing walls, gyms with workout equipment that rival Gold's Gym, and many schools are giving every student their own iPad these days. Plus, when most schools in Division I pay their football or basketball coach twenty times the salary of the average professor, and four times the salary of the university president, you know something's fouled up,. . .
It's already 2011 and science fiction writers have been saying we'd have flying cars for decades! So, where's my flying car, damnit!
Science is slowly upping this, too. Granted, we may never see a 120-year-old Octo-Mom on TLC, but we have already seen mothers giving birth as old as 60 or so,. . .
True, the iPhone/iPod/iPad sales are a big part of their bottom line. But Macintosh sales are still doing quite well, and even outselling PC sales at the moment. You also have to consider that their other products can also be technically classified as "computers", even though they might be classified in other areas. For example, the iPhone is a telephone, sure, but it also has a processor, RAM, solid state storage, an operating system based on UNIX, an internet connection, you can check email on it, and do other things that you can do with a computer. Same goes for the iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the phone part, as well as the iPad.
So, in other words, it's as if Wikipedia is marching in the streets making demands. They're doomed.
Does Microsoft have a grant to develop software for this? Their CEO has some experience with throwing things,. . .
As a computational biologist myself, I agree with this wholeheartedly! And to top that off, I think that a lot of the software that's out there is poorly documented. The code has variables in it and other functions with no comments telling someone else what those variables mean. And it was posted on a website with very poor documentation or instructions as to how to run it. Sure, they published a paper in Nature or PLoS Computational Biology. But a scientific paper is not an instruction manual, and writing both requires different forms of writing.
Interestingly, many Universities are utilizing the Internet heavily for research activities. Whether for reading the latest literature, creating online surveys on a variety of topics or communicating with patients, or even doing science "experiments" on supercomputers. True, you can't exactly inject mice or synthesize compounds on a computer, but you can run simulations of proteins and small molecules, and even run financial simulations and other calculations. And it's also easy to engage students to get involved in this sort of research, too, because all they really need is to use their computer to connect remotely to a campus computing cluster. There's not too much overhead in terms of laboratory space and chemicals to order and things of that nature -- the supercomputing clusters can be shared among multiple research groups on campus, or even across campuses, such as on the TeraGrid.
Leo LaPorte?!?! Are you on crack?!?! Seriously, the man is nothing but one big mouth screaming and yapping about technology, acting as a big, overgrown cheerleader for the tech industry! I had to kick him off watching him on Google+ because I got tired of the endless stream of crap spewing from his keyboard. On second though, that's mostly all that CEO's are good for anyways, so he might be a good choice,. . . ;-)
Great idea! That might solve the USPS's budget issues as well!
The primary mission of a University has always been research, actually. And students and families are not necessarily supporting full time researchers with tax dollars, since most of the salaries for research comes from their research grants, not tuition. Sure, many Universities might be able to pay for some research with internal funds, but the vast majority is paid with external funds (NSF, NIH, even corporate grants, etc). Universities have had to do a lot more teaching in the past 30-40 years, mostly because there are more students attending college than before, and many of these students don't understand what a University education originally was. Many students expect to be handed an easy A for sitting in class 15 hours per week and partying on weekends, and then to graduate with a BA or BS degree, which will somehow magically give them a good, well-paying job. And in the past 2-3 years, many graduates have realized that these good, well paying jobs don't exist, so now they're going back for more education in graduate school, further watering down graduate programs. I'd say at least 20% of the students that start college these days really shouldn't be there -- just look at these new remedial math and english programs that didn't exist 50 years ago, but exist today because high school graduates didn't learn what they were supposed to learn, and colleges now have to make up the difference. I've even seen coursework from graduate and professional students that looks like it was written by an 8th grader!
Actually Apple has $76 billion in "cash on hand", which is a bit different of a figure than "net assets", which I believe would be much, much higher.
Will we have to start paying Microsoft a license fee for the chair we're sitting in? Because I'm sure Steve Ballmer filed a patent for that, didn't he?
Jar Jar Binks was nothing! Ever see the Star Wars Holiday Special? Would we expect anything less from anyone that could've possibly produced that drivel?!?!
This is not the planet you're looking for. Move along.
I don't need it on mine! The bars I go to have pretty good wi-fi signals. This trick wouldn't work anyway since I only drink draft beer there -- I never drink beer in a can! I also frequently see people bringing iPads into bars, too.
Based on the current size of the Library of Congress, you'd need a RAID of 93 of these to store everything! And you'd need to increase that RAID by two drives every month to keep up!
So now we know why CmdrTaco just left and is working now!