Recent content by dotman

Students should care a great deal. Those costs get passed down in the form of increased tuition. If the subscription fees are exorbitant, why not try to reduce costs, in today's day and age? When was the last time anyone photocopied an article out of a journal (as opposed to printing online...

Michael Griffin, NASA administrator under the last administration, held multiple degrees, including I think 4 or 5 masters degrees. Learning can be lifelong; at any rate, holding multiple degrees certainly didn't hold him back in any way. I'm sure the opposite was true.

The thing is, they're not mutually exclusive. You can read the textbook and go to class. You would literally have to get nothing out of it for it not to be worth your while. And since it gives you a chance to engage with a knowledgeable person on the subject, I don't see how you can get...

Wow... no offense, and maybe this works for you, but I think this is a terrible approach. Read the text, work the examples, work the problems, Understand.

Absolutely. Draw a picture. If you're not drawing a picture, you're doing it wrong if you're having trouble. I can't think of a prof who didn't recommend drawing a picture immediately. Drawing a picture helps you visualize the problem, which helps you determine which equations to use and...

If you're asking whether a physics degree gives you an unfair advantage over other applicants when it comes time to get a job... let me see if they have a smiley for this... :smile: Think the other way around.

Well, I don't think you'll be able to get accepted with your background (or if you are, you're going to be looking at -a lot- of makeup undergrad classes). Fortunately you don't really need a masters to get started in programming. My advice would be to learn a language or two (Java maybe...

You may want to look into possibly working for a controls contractor, perhaps as a controls engineer. This is not an 'official' engineering position for which you need to be licensed, you design the control system for a building based on the design engineer's specifications, using your...

Is this a sign that the tenure system is outdated, overly stress-inducing, and broken?

It is a big deal, but not the way you're looking at it. The problem is not the Iraqis. The problem is the terrorist organizations. They are looking at America in the middle east as a holy war, and they are recruiting on this basis. This just gives them another piece of ammunition to win over...

My favorite quote of the whole post: That right there is exactly why these things can't be allowed.

I can assure you that had this been the case, the outrage would be many orders of magnitude greater, and that company would find itself under investigation. The military itself would have no choice but to replace them, as units would refuse to use such weapons. What this says about our...

They should absolutely have their contract yanked. This is not only a clear breach, but jeapordizes the army's mission in the Middle East. It's hard enough to convince people that this is not a holy war, without putting bible references on our weapons.

Being hit in the head with a club is not a swift death. But you're missing the point. They don't hit the seals in the head to kill them. They hit them in the head to stun them enough that the seals don't squirm around while they skin them. Alive. It's a brutal practice, and should be stopped.

I don't think anyone in this thread actually advocates clubbing to death a month old seal. If they do, they haven't said so explicitly. I think they are just arguing for the sake of arguing. This thread was locked; it should be again. No one is offering useful advice to the OP at this point.