manastungare - Slashdot User

Comment Re:it's pretty much common knowledge (Score 2, Insightful) 770

by manastungare on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @10:57PM (#27060113) Attached to: Smart Immigrants Going Home

+1 for Trepidity.

I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. I have been fully funded all through my academic career here in the US at Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech. The same is the case with many (but not 100%) students getting Masters and Ph.D.s in Computer Science that I know of. There usually are a few paid assistantship positions that require security clearance, but most basic and applied research is not confidential.

The funding isn't just a giveaway, of course -- I have to work for it and show results in return for the money from the NSF. As a symbiotic advantage, I get an advanced degree in the process.

Empirical evidence, though, and I don't know where I might find a citation for you.

Comment Re:Ultimately this is the answer. (Score 2, Funny) 412

by manastungare on Monday March 02, 2009 @01:26AM (#27036919) Attached to: Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut

American workers take a 25% haircut and become competitive again.

I chopped off my hair to 3/4th of its length, but that didn't help me be competitive.

Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?

Comment Re:Rubbin' salt on the old wounds! (Score 1) 424

by manastungare on Monday February 23, 2009 @03:01AM (#26954989) Attached to: Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers [updated]

Oh boy. Talk about a broken window fallacy.

Comment Re:Extinct? (Score 3, Funny) 249

by manastungare on Sunday February 01, 2009 @05:04PM (#26686977) Attached to: Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned

Are we sure it's extinct? It may just be resting. Probably pining for the fjords.

Comment Re:lobster + FCC = (Score 3, Funny) 177

by manastungare on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @05:49PM (#26439921) Attached to: Julius Genachowski To Head FCC

Thank you, and don't forget to tip your server.

I did as you said; it landed with a thud and now it won't reboot.

Submission + - Integrating site search into browser chrome

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manastungare

on Monday May 14, 2007 @03:24AM

manastungare writes: "Almost all major browsers now have a search box at the top right corner. However, it goes unused a majority of the time the user is already browsing a website. Given the importance of site-specific search to overall website usability, using the browser search box to perform site-specific searches would enhance usability to a large extent. Here is a proposal to integrate site-specific search boxes into browser chrome from a researcher in human-computer interaction from Virginia Tech. Thoughts, comments, and criticism from the Slashdot community are welcome!"

Submission + - Microsoft India serves Safari broken pages

Submitted by

manastungare

on Thursday February 01, 2007 @08:05PM

manastungare writes: "A friend pointed me to Microsoft India's Vista Promotion, which I tried to access using Safari on my Mac. I got back a page that contained an infinite redirect loop. Upon changing the user-agent string to MSIE/Windows, the same page loaded with no errors. Microsoft have pulled this trick in the past during the launch of Windows XP (and again, and again). Why do they keep discriminating against browsers that are perfectly capable of handling their content?"

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