I just don't see it that way. The modern (German) "assembly line" university system functions on the principle that professors take the credit for the genius and hard work played out by the graduate students.
This is, of course, the reason schools try to solicit the best, smartest candidates they can.
Up the ladder, the university gets credit when they have a lot of honored professors who "publish" a lot of stuff.
What the student gets out of this is 1) prestige, 2) a degree and 3) the chance to become a professor themselves. Sometimes the student gets paid to go to school.
The system breaks down when the student doesn't have an easy path to success with their degree. These days, a Ph.D. doesn't mean what it used to, and an M.S. barely matters for anything in a lot of fields.
All the same, this is something the student should have undertaken to understand upon entering graduate school. I'm not saying abuses don't happen (my take on grad school is that it is *complete* abuse), but nevertheless this is the system.
I see you have cleverly skirted any explanation for that smelter.
I'm familiar with how the Bay Area works. I used to live in the Tenderloin and walked about 25 minutes each day to work in SOMA. One day, my company sold to another company in Sh*t-bag S*nnyvale, so I bought a car, drove every day and started getting more and more angry with my life each day. I didn't like that, changed things, and now I live in the center of a major city in another country. I walk to work (35 minutes) each day, and I'm happy about a lot of things again.
I don't have any constructive suggestions. I think life is pretty hard, and I feel lucky that I managed to switcheroo mine around so that I like it now. Certainly getting rid of a car seems like it would be a great step, but how practical is that, for most Americans? Not very.
Anyway. My only real point a few posts back was in answer to:
You've ditched your BTR-70 for a Toyota Matrix | Prius. Reduction.
You probably drive in the carpool lane, running your motor near peak efficiency. Reduction.
You carpool when possible. Huge reduction per head.
It's not my job to monitor or critique your lifestyle -- and I tried in vain to make that point with my increasingly ridiculous laundry list of accusations. But as is common on Slashdot, I decided to critique your claims, implicit assumptions and your claimed assumption. I didn't think it made sense for you to take such a defensive stance over your energy use. And also your claim about bicycle theft sounded kind of whiny.
Your energy use is a direct result of your assumptions. How many people ride in your car? How much closer to to work could you live? How important is having that job? How often do you fly in a plane? Do you REALLY need to run that smelter 24/7 in your back yard??
OK. All points taken. Now, what if somebody wanted to bind a positron emitter to a monoclonal antibody for instance... for therapeutic use. Wouldn't the basic research of bombarding a slide of cells with positrons be useful to contribute to that design?
Tom. I'm being pedantic, I understand (as AC points out), but you're ignoring lawpoop's context of freaking archaeology... where obviously there is no polyester or nylon to be considered.
In the context of archaeic anthropology, I think "artificial" pretty much would mean "artifact-y". I could probably look it up, and so could you. I think I'm making a pretty sound inference of the word in its context, however.
So. If you're making a joke about polyester shirts, that's cool with me. But if you were trying to call out lawpoop for saying something dumb, I just have to differ with you. Even though the word "artificial" was probably uneccessary.
On another point entirely... I had to look up "confabulate" to discover the second meaning I didn't know about. Thanks for prompting that! I could use that word all the time now...:-)
What are you accusing of being so nonspecific? Particle beam: You can aim it, you can set its speed, particle mass and such properties. Rays: you can aim it and tune it.
Plus, (as in the case of PET), there's no big reason why particles or beams couldn't be sourced from chemicals which attach to the target tissue.
Slashdot Mirror
no shit, broadband means frequency domain multiplexing, whereas baseband is delivered over a single frequency channel.
I shouldn't be so pedantic... but why do people get technical terms so fucking scrambled up?
Oh. Also, cue the electrical engineers who know more than me and will correct what I've said above.
Non native English speakers may find this hard to grasp, unless we point out that:
1. "turn in" is an idiom that means to submit (give).
2. "turn into" is an idiom that means "become".
3. The preposition to describe the recipient of #1 is "to", meaning you can turn in a paper to your teacher.
Now, we all need to STFU.
Admittedly, you're just being wrong and pedantic.
The precedent for breaking that rule was set years ago.
I think it's wrong to randomly shoot other people's fetuses on the street.
...and overclock the sucker until she smokes...
That way, if NIN go out of business and musical styles change, we will br able to recreate their songs in the new formats.
Whew!
I use dog saliva with dandelions, and my erection lasts for DAYS.
I used to be a pastry chef and I always viewed Ghirardelli as a cheapo -- better than Hershey's, but still not that good to eat and crap to work with.
Scharffen Berger is truly awesome stuff, though. I've only eaten one bar but it was clearly done right!
Do you click on the ads?
You know you're not doing your blogger any favors if you don't click through, and buy something.
Google
+ Ldjggo
--------
Skynet
I'm for it. The same thing happens for visiting foreign dignitaries, parades, protected persons moved to and from court, and funeral processions.
There's plenty to complain about with George... but letting the president's car get where it's going quickly is not one of them.
Amen!
I just don't see it that way. The modern (German) "assembly line" university system functions on the principle that professors take the credit for the genius and hard work played out by the graduate students.
This is, of course, the reason schools try to solicit the best, smartest candidates they can.
Up the ladder, the university gets credit when they have a lot of honored professors who "publish" a lot of stuff.
What the student gets out of this is 1) prestige, 2) a degree and 3) the chance to become a professor themselves. Sometimes the student gets paid to go to school.
The system breaks down when the student doesn't have an easy path to success with their degree. These days, a Ph.D. doesn't mean what it used to, and an M.S. barely matters for anything in a lot of fields.
All the same, this is something the student should have undertaken to understand upon entering graduate school. I'm not saying abuses don't happen (my take on grad school is that it is *complete* abuse), but nevertheless this is the system.
I thought it was that they cc:d too many people.
Overuse of ellipses.
I'm familiar with how the Bay Area works. I used to live in the Tenderloin and walked about 25 minutes each day to work in SOMA. One day, my company sold to another company in Sh*t-bag S*nnyvale, so I bought a car, drove every day and started getting more and more angry with my life each day. I didn't like that, changed things, and now I live in the center of a major city in another country. I walk to work (35 minutes) each day, and I'm happy about a lot of things again.
I don't have any constructive suggestions. I think life is pretty hard, and I feel lucky that I managed to switcheroo mine around so that I like it now. Certainly getting rid of a car seems like it would be a great step, but how practical is that, for most Americans? Not very.
Anyway. My only real point a few posts back was in answer to:
You see, you've already disproved that.
It's not my job to monitor or critique your lifestyle -- and I tried in vain to make that point with my increasingly ridiculous laundry list of accusations. But as is common on Slashdot, I decided to critique your claims, implicit assumptions and your claimed assumption. I didn't think it made sense for you to take such a defensive stance over your energy use. And also your claim about bicycle theft sounded kind of whiny.
Your energy use is a direct result of your assumptions. How many people ride in your car? How much closer to to work could you live? How important is having that job? How often do you fly in a plane? Do you REALLY need to run that smelter 24/7 in your back yard??
OK. All points taken. Now, what if somebody wanted to bind a positron emitter to a monoclonal antibody for instance... for therapeutic use. Wouldn't the basic research of bombarding a slide of cells with positrons be useful to contribute to that design?
I just bought mine on Ebay.
In the context of archaeic anthropology, I think "artificial" pretty much would mean "artifact-y". I could probably look it up, and so could you. I think I'm making a pretty sound inference of the word in its context, however.
So. If you're making a joke about polyester shirts, that's cool with me. But if you were trying to call out lawpoop for saying something dumb, I just have to differ with you. Even though the word "artificial" was probably uneccessary.
On another point entirely... I had to look up "confabulate" to discover the second meaning I didn't know about. Thanks for prompting that! I could use that word all the time now... :-)
I don't think PET is broad spectrum. I read that it's gamma rays, created in the body near positron emission of the contrast agent.
I don't see the applicability of comparing diagnostic to therapeutic techniques; the difference in magnitude between the two must be huge!
What are you accusing of being so nonspecific?
Particle beam: You can aim it, you can set its speed, particle mass and such properties.
Rays: you can aim it and tune it.
Plus, (as in the case of PET), there's no big reason why particles or beams couldn't be sourced from chemicals which attach to the target tissue.
an artifact is something made by human hands. So all fabric before the industrial revolution is "artificial".
Nooo, he is considering buying a laptop with 4 Bb (Byte bits) of RAM.
That would cost you like 4,000 washing machines per month!
1.5 year of driving like that, and you could stack the US$ bills you'd spent to the Moon and back!