Yep, without clear guidelines we only have warm fuzzy 'good intentions". Those don't show on a resume. Nor does an extended indentured servitude. There are possible good perks here, but the practice of it outweighs them. Anyone here have similar experiences with grad school? Med rotations? Let the intern beware...

I have little interest in Blu-Ray. Not because it can hold more or that the picture is better, but because the movie companies are trying to sell me the same thing again at a higher price. Their larger capacity is irrelevant- if a movie only needs a portion of it, I care little for directors and actors talking over the movie, and while extra scenes can be fun, they are not worth the extra dost. Take a look at the media ecosystem; they fianlly get on board with an 'approved' means of delivery then gradually abandon all others. This forces people to buy the same things at increasingly higher prices. Look at VHS, laserdiscs and cassettes. Blu-Ray? Maybe for Avatar, but never for "To Have And Have Not".

...faith, however essential to your psychological well being, is not. That Fenyman stated he din't know all about a subject is normal- even Einstein said that we really don't know all it takes to get water down a garden hose. But allowing such statements to be tantamount to faith is to, ironically, take them at face value or on faith. Pause, ask a few relevant questions. Have an hypothesis in mind. Test. Verify. So starts the scientific method. Do whatever you need for your faith, just don't confuse it with science.

It can also be argued that Amazon can offer its often much lower pricing because of lack of sales tax. If you make people in any state pay taxes its regressive and yet....Amazon caused a lot of book stores and such to go out of business- I'm certain not only is that the greater loss but it was nigh impossible to compete with since any local store has to pay local taxes.

Uhm, a RUMORS site implies something about a job posting at Apple and this becomes 'Apple hints'? Does anybody question what they read anymore? Also, the kind of payment system they are imagining being worked on isn't even mentioned! "What is the air speed of an unladen swallow?" Got whisked away- thought so.

My how the worm turns! Instead of 'do no harm' Googles real mantra appears to be 'blame yourself for using our services'. Its good and proper to raise awareness to what extent data retention may affect you, but it is another to not allow access to what is otherwise considered personal data. Google loves to collect it, but heaven help you should you need to remove it. We have lots of sneaky ways to obtain data about people with no one stepping up to the plate and saying 'Here's your profile, change it at any time' Instead, we are only given ways to save it and with effort, retrieve it. You would think one should likewise be able to alter it. After all, even Google knows you can change your name. So why not your data?

FIrst, the methods used in polling are not clearly specified. It is very easy to ask leading questions and very easy to interpret in a skewed manner. I am more saddened by the need to polarize responses as exhibited by this piece (all under the gentle guise of consumer reporting, what could be more innocent, innocuous?) - apparently these studies also show there is no longer a spectrum of behavior. That alone should raise a few geek AND elite eyebrows. In sum, for troll bait like this, it should be served under a bridge...

Thank you for this post. I'm tired of processed, sanitized 'reality' and gee-whiz science. You want reality TV? Show me an single mother of three trying to make ends meet, not idiots running an obstacle course through a jungle (curiously plagued with multiple cameras)trying to win a piece of pizza. What we need to do is sell the value of science and not its 'sexiness', so as to make it a worthwhile career not reliant on TV cameras and out sourced labor. Phew! rant over- now THAT would have suited the pr talking heads just fine...

McSweeny's has a great article on this, broad reaching in its investigation of the many problems at hand. One thing that troubles me: I have seen many times in the California University and Transportation groups, failure to use earthquake retro-fit funds - they simply use them elsewhere. Its only when a problem like this arises that we learn they have not been used.

LaTeX is worth learning, because the other options involve a lot of clicking as well. Mac OS X has Grapher - open the equation pallet, click what you need, then drag the resulting equation to your note document - and it's free!. MathLab is similar in this regard, but you must pay for it. Either way, it may be more work than you would like. Good Luck!

...but did you notice no one mentioned that it is simply hard to create the conditions necessary to detect the Higgs boson? We too quickly opt for the sci-fi answer and though the idea of time based sabotage is fun, it makes for a better movie than it does an answer. And how was such a conjecture published without data or peer review? Nothing to see here, next particle please...