Comment Re:It's about damn time (Score 1) 1051
Do you realize that airport security screening was run by private companies prior to 9/11 and the creation of the TSA? It's been incredibly worse under government control.
Do you realize that airport security screening was run by private companies prior to 9/11 and the creation of the TSA? It's been incredibly worse under government control.
Not true. Usually they need photographic evidence of both your car and your face.
Hey, we can finally get IPv6 adopted everywhere now that the entertainment mafiaas will lobby for every system to have a unique address.
If I had the money to bid on a ship, I'd prefer the USS Iowa on the other end of that row.
Yes, and then they switched on anti-ice and got all their sensors back. At the time of the crash, the plane was operating correctly (though in alternate law without stall protection due to the earlier airspeed disagree).
As a citizen who pays taxes and helped fund this project, I say it does have value beyond scrap, in the form of a museum exhibit.
The Navy's tried to sell it as a museum ship for the last six years. Nobody wants it.
Then isn't this all just another example of "measuring the object alters the object"? Can I lie about my measurement?
You really have no idea what you are talking about do you? Find one significant program where CS is a separate department.
Sure. From the 2010 US News rankings of Computer Science:
1. Carnegie Mellon. Separate CS and ECE.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Combined EECS. Separate CSAIL.
1. Stanford. Separate CS and EE.
1. UC Berkely. Combined EECS. Administratively split into separate EE and CS divisions.
5. Cornell. Separate CS and ECE.
5. UIUC. Separate CS and ECE.
7. Washington. Separate CSE and EE.
8. Princeton. Separate CS and EE.
8. UT Austin. Separate CS and ECE.
10. Georgia Tech. Separate CS and ECE.
Need I continue, or is this enough evidence that maybe I do know what I'm talking about and that you should be quiet for a while?
A lot of what you rattled off is purchased by faculty with their own research funds acquired by winning grants.
Instructional labs are going away because students have personal laptops instead, but even when they were around, most of the equipment in them was donated by major companies like Intel.
If the necessary backend infrastructure is for research, then research funds pay to keep it operating, including staffing. If it's not for research, then let the campus run it.
and this is where i have to ask what is the core competency of a university?
Gets 18-year-olds out of their parents' houses.
Also beer pong.
If you want people that write python, perl, and real code, then you should be recruiting CS grads, not IT grads. IT is a soft business degree.
Most schools I've been to don't have a computer science department, but rather lump it in with the math or engineering department.
If the universities that you've attended have a single "engineering department", then you've attended low quality universities.
Computer Science is an expensive department to maintain.
Cite? It's actually a pretty cheap department. Just need office space and electricity for computers, which is really no different than, say, an English department.
I don't even really remember what I learned in English classes.
Sounds like we should shutter English departments if they're doing such a bang-up job educating their graduates.
FTFA:
I don't see that quoted text in the article at all. Anyway, supposing it's true, what's happening with the other 50% of the faculty? Fired?
I flew a Delta 10 hour transatlantic flight about 4 weeks ago. Boeing 767 with 36 passengers on board. Hopefully they had lots of expensive cargo in the hold, or they took a huge loss on that flight.
I was hoping they'd just bump everyone to business class, but I wasn't so lucky.
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