It is fairly common knowledge that 3 things factor into tenure (in this order): (1) being published (2) bringing funding into the university and (3) teaching.
1. A good number to shoot for is 15 journal articles in your first 6 years. If you don't have tenure in 6 years chances are you are never going to get it. The point of being published is to get the name of the university out.
2. Should be self-explanatory. You need to bring in $$$ to the university. The more you bring, the more profitable you are and the more they need to keep you around. But publishing is still more important.
3. Teaching, while as students we all feel is important, is actually the least important thing towards tenure. A mediocre or even bad teacher who writes papers (that get accepted by excellent journals) at a rapid pace will get tenure where an excellent teacher who can't write for the life of him will not. This is why you often see people from industry teaching. They teach for the love, tenured professors are there for the research and for the higher level teaching (where it is more a relation of facts, not an educational process).
The 'sloppy analysis' referred to is not 'fraud' as you cite. There is a difference between fraud and sloppy analysis. The rush to put out papers (between 2 and three a year, by this guide, for tenure) causes some slop to occur. As a reference, I've been working on a paper with my advisor and a (yet-to-be-tenured) professor for almost a year already, and we are just submitting it to a major journal. And the paper is based mostly off of my thesis work completed a year ago! A good paper and good research takes time. But please, do not mistake sloppy analysis for fraud. Mistakes are one thing, deception entirely another.
SOURCE: Advice to rocket scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Jim Longuski, published by the AIAA in 2004. But again, this is fairly common knowlege and can be found anywhere you look. As a postdoc (I am too) I'm suprised you didn't know...
I never did at college, and I certainly wouldn't for work.
Wow. I know very few people who made it through college without pulling at least one, if not for something dumb like forgetting an assignment or a movie/gaming marathon with friends. Yeah, I haven't pulled 24 hours straight at work yet... but I've worked the better part of half a day on a few occasions, voluntarily, my employer does flexible scheduling and I worked ahead so I could take time off later.
I think it was 2.2 last time I tried. If so, that's cool, but we needed it 6 months ago:) instead we installed VMware/Windows XP/Office and use that for simple data analysis on our Linux workstations.
I used to have university profs say "everyone starts with an A, it's yours to lose".
Except your profs were wrong. It's a cute saying, but you start out with 0/0 points, which is indeterminant. And the vast majority of my classes were graded on a curve (I'm an engineer, but I can count several electives that were curved as well... )
Fact of the matter is (as of 6 months ago at least, last I tried) you can't - you need to share the same abscissa for each data series plotted on a chart. But if I'm looking at outputs from a simulation at varying data rates, I can't go in by hand and insert fake interpolated data points... it's time consuming. And why should I, when Excel will do multiple independant series?
I played with one for a week. My mom got my dad a convertable notebook/tablet for Christmas two years ago and had me play with it for a week before hand (to get rid of the crapware, set up useful software, firewall, printers, etc.) Microsoft OneNote was pretty slick but it didn't really work for me.
Part of it might be the fact that - as a grad student, and now a Ph.D. student - I'm selectively taking classes that are relevant to my day job. So I put my notes and related articles, homework and projects into binders and they sit on the shelf here at work where I can reference them easily. I know I could do it on the computer but its nice to be able to snag a binder and run to a coworkers cube to discuss something, and I don't see the point of writing it on the computer, then printing.
Maybe when e-paper is more ubiquitious (and a lot cheaper) we will see it replace engineering pads or something:)
Yup... granted I'm only 25, but I'm around 170lbs and over 6' tall, healthy BMI by any means. I bike over 3 miles a day towing 50lbs worth of kids in a pull-behind kid carrier, so I get a workout. Back when I was 'doing the dew' I biked to work most days, about 10 miles round trip... same height, weighed about 150lbs... so actually as I decreased my intake I gained weight:P
24 hours is nothing. You've never pulled an all-nighter to get a semester project completed?
Are you telling me you can't see the difference between a voluntary competition (hint: its kinda fun to pull an all-nighter every now and then... I have a wife and 2 kids and if I come across a fun project, I still do it from time to time) and a man who was either incapable of determining his tolerance or chose to ignore it (most likely the latter)?
And I suppose you would have people oppose the voluntary fund raiser Up till Dawn as well? I mean, think of the college students that will be kept up all night and have to go to class in the morning!
I have a professional email address, a school email address... but yes, I signed up with my gmail address. Why?
1) I don't think it is appropriate to sign up with a work address... plus I don't check it at home
2) Should they choose to spam the crap out of my email address for signing up, or give/sell my email address, my gmail address is an address I can walk away from without caring much. I use it for all of my mailing lists and online signups (including slashdot).
OSG, a visualization toolkit (open source, cross-platform) takes over an hour on Linux to compile on a computer that was purchased barely a year ago. That same computer, running windows XP / Visual Studio, compiles in 45 minutes. No joke.
Thanks for mentioning that. And might I mention principle is not the primary reason they are doing this - although I am sure it factors in. this post explains it rather well.
it is better than GCC. If this is the case, then its too bad the GNU folk cannot benefit from whatever it has that GCC doesn't. Not like they'll admit it's superiority I'd presume.
No, they will take it, remove the license and attribution, and relicense it GPLv3:)
You work with MS-Office and my secretary uses OpenOffice. Complete and perfect exchange of documents possible?
Ah, but this ruling has nothing to do with that. This ruling has to do with bundling media players and browsers with the OS, things which you can choose to replace with things like VLC and Firefox. Please try and stay on topic with your next response.
Why is it possible to mount Unix/Linux filesystems easily as network shares in a PC but it is practically impossible to mount a PC file system in Linux? Why can't a dual boot pc read/write partitions that can be used by the "other" system?
I have a NTFS fileshare mounted in my dual boot FC4/WinXP x64 computer at home, works just fine. What problems do you encounter? Tried NTFS-3G?
Why can't MSFT and Linux produce a common ext3/ntfs file system read/write by both?
Pick one. There are NTFS drivers for Linux and ext3 drivers for Windows. I've used both with (as Borat would say) "Great Success!!"
It is exactly same as Samsung TV refusing to play anything other than a Samsung DVD player. Customers would reject it immediately. Corporate suits buy and install and switch over to MSFT exchange server and then run on the upgrade treadmill all their lives. Why?
Because Exchange integrates so damn nice with Outlook, an email/calendar/tasking program, and also integrates with SharePoint, a web-based project management tool. That's one big problem with Linux software I've encountered, lack of integration. Please, show me an email suite that integrates with calendar, and integrates with my project management tools, and then again with my word software so if I need to do a mass mailing I can pick a corporate mailing list and send against it? That's why. Ease of use.
And your analogy is still crap. Think about it and get back to me.
Chalk and blackboard? Pfft. My MAE623 professor uses **transparencies**:P (despite the fact that each room is equipped with an LCD projector, and there are several rooms equipped with digital blackboards... he is old school and uses the overhead projector)
The only subject I have trouble seeing easily transferable to an electronic form without some form of tablet would be math and engineering subjects which require extensive equations. There is no good standard equation editor that can create and manipulate formulas nearly as fast as can be done by hand afaik. (Although LaTeX equations do look a whole lot better than by hand once you get all the symbols in the right place.)
As an engineer I stuck to desktop computers, took notes on paper, until this year. I have a Ph.D., and my comittee consists of a colleague at work, my advisor at school, and me doing work at both work and school and home. So I broke down and I use it for research, but I still take paper notes. You just can't effectively do a free body diagram on a notebook...
Is that so? Do you have numbers? How many XP box licenses were sold in the EU in the relevant timeframe? Not many at all, I'd say. Was XP-N cheaper in any way? Shouldn't it have been, given that Media Player is valuable Microsoft IP?
No customer would buy a Samsung TV that can play only Samsung DVD player. But why these corporations don't demand such compatibility?
Doesn't make sense to me. I'm using Firefox on Windows. I use WinSCP. I use other free and open source tools on a Microsoft platform. I could be using OpenOffice, but I prefer Office 2003.
At a former employer, I worked on authenticating Linux boxes to a Win2k3 domain
$500,000 of the fine was levied directly to Belicheck - which is 1/10 his yearly income. To Microsoft that is less than 1/52 their yearly income, as they pulled down (IIRC) $13BN last quarter. It's nothing, really, other than a slap on the wrist.
No, I had 5 posts mod'd troll on 5 different threads in the course of a few minutes, someone with mod points and an agenda went to town. Oh well, I don't care (hi!)
I used to work for an ISP and had to troubleshoot Trumpet... used to deal with the thing 100 times a day, and now I haven't heard its name in **years**... was just reminiscing... back in the day:)
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It is fairly common knowledge that 3 things factor into tenure (in this order): (1) being published (2) bringing funding into the university and (3) teaching.
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1. A good number to shoot for is 15 journal articles in your first 6 years. If you don't have tenure in 6 years chances are you are never going to get it. The point of being published is to get the name of the university out.
2. Should be self-explanatory. You need to bring in $$$ to the university. The more you bring, the more profitable you are and the more they need to keep you around. But publishing is still more important.
3. Teaching, while as students we all feel is important, is actually the least important thing towards tenure. A mediocre or even bad teacher who writes papers (that get accepted by excellent journals) at a rapid pace will get tenure where an excellent teacher who can't write for the life of him will not. This is why you often see people from industry teaching. They teach for the love, tenured professors are there for the research and for the higher level teaching (where it is more a relation of facts, not an educational process).
The 'sloppy analysis' referred to is not 'fraud' as you cite. There is a difference between fraud and sloppy analysis. The rush to put out papers (between 2 and three a year, by this guide, for tenure) causes some slop to occur. As a reference, I've been working on a paper with my advisor and a (yet-to-be-tenured) professor for almost a year already, and we are just submitting it to a major journal. And the paper is based mostly off of my thesis work completed a year ago! A good paper and good research takes time. But please, do not mistake sloppy analysis for fraud. Mistakes are one thing, deception entirely another.
SOURCE: Advice to rocket scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Jim Longuski, published by the AIAA in 2004. But again, this is fairly common knowlege and can be found anywhere you look. As a postdoc (I am too) I'm suprised you didn't know
forkget about it!
I never did at college, and I certainly wouldn't for work.
... but I've worked the better part of half a day on a few occasions, voluntarily, my employer does flexible scheduling and I worked ahead so I could take time off later.
Wow. I know very few people who made it through college without pulling at least one, if not for something dumb like forgetting an assignment or a movie/gaming marathon with friends. Yeah, I haven't pulled 24 hours straight at work yet
Anyone who uses a tool that says beta on the page for a big presentation deserves what s/he gets ...
I think it was 2.2 last time I tried. If so, that's cool, but we needed it 6 months ago :) instead we installed VMware/Windows XP/Office and use that for simple data analysis on our Linux workstations.
I used to have university profs say "everyone starts with an A, it's yours to lose".
Except your profs were wrong. It's a cute saying, but you start out with 0/0 points, which is indeterminant. And the vast majority of my classes were graded on a curve (I'm an engineer, but I can count several electives that were curved as well... )
OK mr. Self-Proclaimed-Excel-Expert, please explain how to chart the following in OO.org, on the same graph.
... it's time consuming. And why should I, when Excel will do multiple independant series?
x1 y1 x2 y2
01 01 01 01
02 03 05 11
03 05 07 21
04 07
05 09
06 11
07 13
Fact of the matter is (as of 6 months ago at least, last I tried) you can't - you need to share the same abscissa for each data series plotted on a chart. But if I'm looking at outputs from a simulation at varying data rates, I can't go in by hand and insert fake interpolated data points
I played with one for a week. My mom got my dad a convertable notebook/tablet for Christmas two years ago and had me play with it for a week before hand (to get rid of the crapware, set up useful software, firewall, printers, etc.) Microsoft OneNote was pretty slick but it didn't really work for me.
:)
Part of it might be the fact that - as a grad student, and now a Ph.D. student - I'm selectively taking classes that are relevant to my day job. So I put my notes and related articles, homework and projects into binders and they sit on the shelf here at work where I can reference them easily. I know I could do it on the computer but its nice to be able to snag a binder and run to a coworkers cube to discuss something, and I don't see the point of writing it on the computer, then printing.
Maybe when e-paper is more ubiquitious (and a lot cheaper) we will see it replace engineering pads or something
Yup... granted I'm only 25, but I'm around 170lbs and over 6' tall, healthy BMI by any means. I bike over 3 miles a day towing 50lbs worth of kids in a pull-behind kid carrier, so I get a workout. Back when I was 'doing the dew' I biked to work most days, about 10 miles round trip ... same height, weighed about 150lbs... so actually as I decreased my intake I gained weight :P
:)
I'm down to about 1-3 cans a day now
24 hours is nothing. You've never pulled an all-nighter to get a semester project completed?
Are you telling me you can't see the difference between a voluntary competition (hint: its kinda fun to pull an all-nighter every now and then... I have a wife and 2 kids and if I come across a fun project, I still do it from time to time) and a man who was either incapable of determining his tolerance or chose to ignore it (most likely the latter)?
And I suppose you would have people oppose the voluntary fund raiser Up till Dawn as well? I mean, think of the college students that will be kept up all night and have to go to class in the morning!
I have no freak'n idea.
Stamina.
(queues up "Cake - The Distance.mp3")
Heh. Sounds like my tech support days. I used to down a 12 pack of Mountain Dew and a meal (generally not a very healthy one ... ) every 8 hour shift.
I have a professional email address, a school email address ... but yes, I signed up with my gmail address. Why?
... plus I don't check it at home
...
1) I don't think it is appropriate to sign up with a work address
2) Should they choose to spam the crap out of my email address for signing up, or give/sell my email address, my gmail address is an address I can walk away from without caring much. I use it for all of my mailing lists and online signups (including slashdot).
So i guess I fail to see what your point is
OSG, a visualization toolkit (open source, cross-platform) takes over an hour on Linux to compile on a computer that was purchased barely a year ago. That same computer, running windows XP / Visual Studio, compiles in 45 minutes. No joke.
...
Not sure if an hour is tolerable or not
There is always the Intel compiler ...
Thanks for mentioning that. And might I mention principle is not the primary reason they are doing this - although I am sure it factors in. this post explains it rather well.
it is better than GCC. If this is the case, then its too bad the GNU folk cannot benefit from whatever it has that GCC doesn't. Not like they'll admit it's superiority I'd presume.
:)
No, they will take it, remove the license and attribution, and relicense it GPLv3
Principle?
:)
I don't know, I'm not a BSD user, but as much as RMS likes to claim that 'linux' is GNU/linux, maybe BSD users want their OS to be self reliant?
Would you like to compile Linux using a microsoft compiler?
You work with MS-Office and my secretary uses OpenOffice. Complete and perfect exchange of documents possible?
Ah, but this ruling has nothing to do with that. This ruling has to do with bundling media players and browsers with the OS, things which you can choose to replace with things like VLC and Firefox. Please try and stay on topic with your next response.
Why is it possible to mount Unix/Linux filesystems easily as network shares in a PC but it is practically impossible to mount a PC file system in Linux? Why can't a dual boot pc read/write partitions that can be used by the "other" system?
I have a NTFS fileshare mounted in my dual boot FC4/WinXP x64 computer at home, works just fine. What problems do you encounter? Tried NTFS-3G?
Why can't MSFT and Linux produce a common ext3/ntfs file system read/write by both?
Pick one. There are NTFS drivers for Linux and ext3 drivers for Windows. I've used both with (as Borat would say) "Great Success!!"
It is exactly same as Samsung TV refusing to play anything other than a Samsung DVD player. Customers would reject it immediately. Corporate suits buy and install and switch over to MSFT exchange server and then run on the upgrade treadmill all their lives. Why?
Because Exchange integrates so damn nice with Outlook, an email/calendar/tasking program, and also integrates with SharePoint, a web-based project management tool. That's one big problem with Linux software I've encountered, lack of integration. Please, show me an email suite that integrates with calendar, and integrates with my project management tools, and then again with my word software so if I need to do a mass mailing I can pick a corporate mailing list and send against it? That's why. Ease of use.
And your analogy is still crap. Think about it and get back to me.
Chalk and blackboard? Pfft. My MAE623 professor uses **transparencies** :P (despite the fact that each room is equipped with an LCD projector, and there are several rooms equipped with digital blackboards ... he is old school and uses the overhead projector)
The only subject I have trouble seeing easily transferable to an electronic form without some form of tablet would be math and engineering subjects which require extensive equations. There is no good standard equation editor that can create and manipulate formulas nearly as fast as can be done by hand afaik. (Although LaTeX equations do look a whole lot better than by hand once you get all the symbols in the right place.)
As an engineer I stuck to desktop computers, took notes on paper, until this year. I have a Ph.D., and my comittee consists of a colleague at work, my advisor at school, and me doing work at both work and school and home. So I broke down and I use it for research, but I still take paper notes. You just can't effectively do a free body diagram on a notebook...
Is that so? Do you have numbers? How many XP box licenses were sold in the EU in the relevant timeframe? Not many at all, I'd say. Was XP-N cheaper in any way? Shouldn't it have been, given that Media Player is valuable Microsoft IP?
This "designed by committee" approach to product development spawned one of the lowest-selling products ever released by the software giant, with the new XP N accounting for only 0.005 percent of all XP sales in Europe.
Choice, you say. Have you ever uninstalled IE? Don't bother answering that one, it's called a rhetorical question.
You don't have to uninstall it to have choice. Install an alternative, use it.
No customer would buy a Samsung TV that can play only Samsung DVD player. But why these corporations don't demand such compatibility?
Doesn't make sense to me. I'm using Firefox on Windows. I use WinSCP. I use other free and open source tools on a Microsoft platform. I could be using OpenOffice, but I prefer Office 2003.
At a former employer, I worked on authenticating Linux boxes to a Win2k3 domain
So pray tell, how does your analogy work?
$500,000 of the fine was levied directly to Belicheck - which is 1/10 his yearly income. To Microsoft that is less than 1/52 their yearly income, as they pulled down (IIRC) $13BN last quarter. It's nothing, really, other than a slap on the wrist.
No, I had 5 posts mod'd troll on 5 different threads in the course of a few minutes, someone with mod points and an agenda went to town. Oh well, I don't care (hi!)
... used to deal with the thing 100 times a day, and now I haven't heard its name in **years** ... was just reminiscing ... back in the day :)
I used to work for an ISP and had to troubleshoot Trumpet