most professors have tenure - hence new phds are not competition at all. i suppose assistant profs might see new phd as competition. however, i would think they would want to help you become a success. why? well most assistant profs are right out of the phd program. they understand what it was like to be a grad student better than tenured profs.
Melty Blood started out as a doujin / indie game. Now ReACT is in the arcades and will hit the PS2. It's actually a pretty decent game - the fighting engine is better than most 2d fighters out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU8tOx3eWw4
There's also games based upon FSN. Not the BEST fighters - but much better than shit they turn out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjmEKbD3JcM FATAL FAKE is broken as hell but does look nice.
Sony will sell the PS3 at a price that is under the profit maximizing price. The fact is that Sony doesn't want to sell low quantities at very high prices because of strategic elements. The company must consider network effects - in particular they need a large user base that attracts quality 3rd party game developers. While Sony does have the most third party support CURRENTLY - I'm sure big name developers will switch if given the opportunity (remember Squaresoft). Sony will still price discriminate where impatient consumers will end up paying very high prices - but I'm guessing the company could extract more consumer surplus if it priced higher - without any adverse short term effects.
US academics are too busy doing real research to care about this bullshit. All the top foreign academics come to America for their PhDs anyways. As long as America keeps funding research, there shouldn't be a problem in academia.
I fail to see why people need to learn how to program unless they need to use it for a specific purpose. At my undergraduate school, I'd say everyone outside of Drama majors take Intro Programming (Java) because it's required for many majors. I took it my frosh year, and I've more or less don't remember much of Java anymore. It's a hard class (prof made us to random shit that other profs didn't even go over) that I aced, and I never really used it again. This shows unless you code reguarly you lose mastery over it - just like say a foreign language.
I occasionally "program" in R and Splus and other statistics / econometrics software - just simple for loops, functions, etc. I look up code when I need to do anything really complicated. I would say I'm in a field that is requires a good deal of knowledge in programming (Economics PhD with concentration in Econometric and MicroTheory), but I'd say that coding is a skill that is very easily picked up. It isn't like analysis or econometrical theory that requires years of previous study in math / stat. If you learn one language, you can easily pick up another - you pick these things up as you go.
US Schools will have consistently produced the most qualified students in academia. There is no sign that this will change because schools in the US have the most funding, best professors (as researchers), and best overall reputation. It's cyclical since reputation attracts the best students, and those students enhance a school's overall reputation. A short term shock, such as a decline in enrollment, does not seem to have any long term implications. I also do not see any non-trivial change for American technological superiority. Again US schools produce most of the research in academia - be it CS or economics or engineering - and these schools attract the best students. I think the real problem is how US policy is turning away these foreigin geniuses who obtain their PhDs at top US schools. That will hurt the US in the long run. Not these labor market factors. I mean who really cares about the typical coder at a firm? These are easily replacable. Geniuses in academia are NOT easily replacable.
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Phoenix Wright X: loli-yuri-incesex. I can see it now. Nick's adventures with Maya, Mia, and Perl Fey. LMAO. This is /b/ material.
most professors have tenure - hence new phds are not competition at all. i suppose assistant profs might see new phd as competition. however, i would think they would want to help you become a success. why? well most assistant profs are right out of the phd program. they understand what it was like to be a grad student better than tenured profs.
Melty Blood started out as a doujin / indie game. Now ReACT is in the arcades and will hit the PS2. It's actually a pretty decent game - the fighting engine is better than most 2d fighters out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU8tOx3eWw4 There's also games based upon FSN. Not the BEST fighters - but much better than shit they turn out here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjmEKbD3JcM FATAL FAKE is broken as hell but does look nice.
Sony will sell the PS3 at a price that is under the profit maximizing price. The fact is that Sony doesn't want to sell low quantities at very high prices because of strategic elements. The company must consider network effects - in particular they need a large user base that attracts quality 3rd party game developers. While Sony does have the most third party support CURRENTLY - I'm sure big name developers will switch if given the opportunity (remember Squaresoft). Sony will still price discriminate where impatient consumers will end up paying very high prices - but I'm guessing the company could extract more consumer surplus if it priced higher - without any adverse short term effects.
US academics are too busy doing real research to care about this bullshit. All the top foreign academics come to America for their PhDs anyways. As long as America keeps funding research, there shouldn't be a problem in academia.
I fail to see why people need to learn how to program unless they need to use it for a specific purpose. At my undergraduate school, I'd say everyone outside of Drama majors take Intro Programming (Java) because it's required for many majors. I took it my frosh year, and I've more or less don't remember much of Java anymore. It's a hard class (prof made us to random shit that other profs didn't even go over) that I aced, and I never really used it again. This shows unless you code reguarly you lose mastery over it - just like say a foreign language. I occasionally "program" in R and Splus and other statistics / econometrics software - just simple for loops, functions, etc. I look up code when I need to do anything really complicated. I would say I'm in a field that is requires a good deal of knowledge in programming (Economics PhD with concentration in Econometric and MicroTheory), but I'd say that coding is a skill that is very easily picked up. It isn't like analysis or econometrical theory that requires years of previous study in math / stat. If you learn one language, you can easily pick up another - you pick these things up as you go.
US Schools will have consistently produced the most qualified students in academia. There is no sign that this will change because schools in the US have the most funding, best professors (as researchers), and best overall reputation. It's cyclical since reputation attracts the best students, and those students enhance a school's overall reputation. A short term shock, such as a decline in enrollment, does not seem to have any long term implications. I also do not see any non-trivial change for American technological superiority. Again US schools produce most of the research in academia - be it CS or economics or engineering - and these schools attract the best students. I think the real problem is how US policy is turning away these foreigin geniuses who obtain their PhDs at top US schools. That will hurt the US in the long run. Not these labor market factors. I mean who really cares about the typical coder at a firm? These are easily replacable. Geniuses in academia are NOT easily replacable.