Yeah, I'd imagine faculty jobs would. I was thinking of my experience in my previous job, where we were hiring PhDs to fill pretty specific slots. So, the job requirement wasn't PhD, papers, and lots of funding potential, but PhD with lots of research in this fairly specific area.

Usually jobs at the PhD level don't get hundreds of applicants and the resumes can be looked at a bit more carefully. Moreover, if someone is posting a position requiring a graduate degree, they're probably interested in your thesis and research, not what your degree says.

Last time I tried, homebrew was missing several key pieces of software I used. MacPorts had them, but failed to install them. I miss apt.

Just replaced the ECM (recall) on my wife's '05 Corolla. Also, please note the incredibly cool MegaSquirt (open source engine management).

Not all of us are "uncool." I've been to many parties in my lifetime. It's gotten much easier to go lately, what with wireless networking and laptops capable of... wait -- what kind of party are you talking about?

I think he is just assuming that people think the epitome of cool is sleeping with a lot of woman. And it is when you are in your teens... Then, as you get older, you meet other people who want to have sex with you and realize that sex is actually a fairly small part of your life -- an important part, but small nonetheless -- and that meaningful, long-term relationships, both sexual and platonic, have a far bigger impact on your life.

People pattern match and, moreover, we build higher level abstractions of things we pattern match often, and push the more routine parts into the subconscious parts of our brain. You probably not only read a word's shape, but probably match phrases as well and read in chunks of 3-7 words, rather than a word at a time. Even then, when was the last time you thought of how to spell a word you were typing? I'd guess you probably do it for 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 words at worst. When writing, we think in higher level abstractions of sentences and words, and our motor system is the one that does the spelling.

Read out loud to your wife (or whoever) and have them note every time you say something different than what is written in the book. You'd be surprised at how often you ad lib; your brain "filling in the gaps" while you read.

UBB wasn't about charging users for a fixed amount of downloads, it was about the big telcos charging wholesalers prices per individual, instead of, you know, wholesaling bandwidth in bulk to the independents. Basically, they wanted to impose their consumer-level pricing schemes on wholesalers, rather than sell in bulk. A big part of UBB was a change in the laws that would let the big telcos charge the independents rates based on "market value" (ie. what they charge their customers), rather than actual cost to provide the bandwidth (plus a small profit).

The big win is that the telcos still need to base their wholesale price on actual cost, rather than an arbitrary price they set based on "market forces" (ie. them) and whatnot.

Please get help. You cannot count on other people to notice these things, as we often project ourselves onto others. We are also notorious for choosing the easiest path when faced with tough decisions. That means assuming you are content and that your subtle cries for help are just quirky behaviour on your part. Therapy isn't a magic bullet, but I've seen it really help others I care about.

I mean ball in the mathematical sense, not the rugby sense. A sphere is the boundary of a ball. The ball may (closed) or may not (open) contain the sphere.

Spheres or balls, the problem is the same. Given this is about volume, I'd actually say balls is more accurate...

Cheers.

I can't tell if you are trolling or not. Obviously no magic tech is going to make technology usable for all disabled people, but for those with limited motion in their hands and arms or poor eyesight Siri is actually a big improvement. I wasn't insinuating that Siri somehow makes blind people see or deaf people hear... You're attacking strawmen here... Do I know what I'm talking about? Well, I'm not disabled. My comment came about after a discussion w/ a disabled friend about Siri. He's not blind or deaf though.

Good to know that old people don't need a smart phone or Siri, because they have a map & yellow pages. When my grandma asks me if I know of a GPS that can handle voice navigation (not referring to Siri here), I'll tell her to get a map. Same thing, right?

The feature really is amazing in terms of accessibility. For those of us who have easy use of both hands, this feature isn't much better than simple voice recognition. But for the disabled and elderly it's probably one of the most important features their phone will have. I'm glad Apple got this out now, as it just means Android will catch up sooner.

I recently upgraded to Android 2.3 and actually use the (Google) voice recognition feature quite a bit (send text, write emails, etc). Of course, my touch screen is broken, so that may explain my usage.