Not sure how reliable these citations are but I found these which contradict your assertion. Sounds like most pilots are paid for "flight time", and in fact are NOT compensated for when they are sitting at the gate.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/278808/
http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/professional-pilot-salaries.html
I've told all of my kids not to follow me into Software and Engineering fields because people employed in those fields are now considered a commodity and subject to too much educational push from an ever increasing wave of immigrants from diploma mills overseas
An honest question...where are you pushing them instead? Healthcare maybe? Finance? Or something like plumbing or electrical, something pragmatic and non-outsourceable but still able to make a decent living?
I have two kids, not college age yet, so I wrestle with this thought problem all the time.
What you've described is what I always thought was the point. Agile isn't about constant change or whatever. Its about the fact that you KNOW your requirements are going to change, but instead of having the user call you twice a day to change things you can only make changes every sprint. So you're not changing every day but you're also not stuck in your hidey-hole for 6 months at the end of a waterfall phase. So its about controlling the pace of change.
to continue the digression....
An interesting thought. But is your premise, natural=easy, true?
Childbirth is completely natural. Easy? Hell no.
What about "living off the land"? Hunter/gather is a more "natural" way to live. A lot harder than shopping at Publix.
So maybe natural != easy.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I immediately went and signed the petitions in his support. This man is awesome.
Schools do not teach entrepreneurship or independence
I think it depends on the school. I have 3 degrees from 3 different schools. Some schools/classes were "cattle cars" where I sat in a lecture hall surrounded by 100 other students. Other classes were taught in a small conference room with only 4 or 5 other students.
Do your research. Choose your school wisely.
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(Its a joke. Laugh)
An honest question: where are you at? Northeast? West Coast? Seattle? The South (Austin)?
I'm trying to find talent in the Southeast...I'm willing to pay well. I haven't found anyone I would consider acceptable (trainable maybe). And I've seriously been searching for over 6 months.
I really wonder if geographic location plays one of the most significant roles in all this, and most people overlook that.
The solution I recommend, which is how my desk is setup, is incredibly simple. A USB keyboard and mouse. Less than $50. Now make the big monitor your main desktop. Piece of cake.
I'm trying to understand this question. It seems really simple. Is there something I'm missing here?
Well, maybe, except that the second sentence in the article states she's the OTHER kind of anthropologist that you mentioned.
"Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University"
This is why I love Slashdot. This comment right here.
I learned something new just now. I had no idea that "limnology" meant "the study of lakes". To me, that is actually fascinating and I'm glad I learned that fact.
But if you look at the GP post, you'll note....the parent comment (while intellectually interesting) missed the entire dang point the GP was trying to make!
NASA is reportedly mulling the construction of a floating Moon base that would serve as a launching site for manned missions to Mars and other destinations more distant than any humans have traveled to so far.
The Orlando Sentinel reported over the weekend that the proposed outpost, called a "gateway spacecraft," would support "a small astronaut crew and function as a staging area for future missions to the moon and Mars."
This is actually a good idea, using the Moon as a staging base for exploring the cosmos. Once we build manufacturing capability there, why not build spacecraft there? We can build bigger, more spacious craft so as to not lock up future astronauts in a closet for months or years at a time.
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
