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Comment Re:This is the first nail in the Universities coff (Score 1) 319

by MPAndonee (#62941395) Attached to: NYU Organic Chemistry Professor Terminated For Tough Grading

Yeap.

Back in the dark 80s, before I turned to IT, my Aerospace Engineering professor at a certain Northeastern University/College was a "difficult" grader. His "B-" was an "A". (which I got in two of his courses.) Before I took my 6 required "Aerospace Engineering" minor courses with him, my GPA was 3.85. After him it had fallen to 3.49. I had aced all my physics and math courses prior to his "tough" grading. And even though he relied on Differential Equations a lot (one of my favorite subjects,) his grading was still ridiculous. I only got a B+ from him in Aerospace Design Project, where we designed 2 new passenger jets during the semester.

The year I was graduating, he was replaced with a new professor with a more reasonable grading scale (people getting As when appropriate.) I suspect , with this professor, I would have had a final grade point average around 3.8+ with better job prospects after graduating.

In that time frame, we didn't sign a petition, but the Dean of Engineering still heard our complaints and replaced the professor.

Comment Re: He offers a realistic view, not a political vi (Score 1) 373

by MPAndonee (#62935293) Attached to: Why Toyota Isn't All-In On EVs

Man, I would bet him $100 Million.

He has no clue.

Plus, there is another point completely missed: Rising Prices. You will get to a point where no one will be able to afford a car, especially an EV. But there are places in America where people STILL have to drive. What will happen then? Just like in Cuba, people will keep old ICE cars running, because that's all they'd be able to afford.

Unless you come to me with $15,000 - $25,000 electric car that everyone can afford and that the utility company comes and installs the charger in your house or Apartment for no cost to you, a 2035 timeline is impossible to meet. That's real life.

Submission + - ThinkGeek Is Scaling Back

Submitted by Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins writes: ThinkGeek — the 20-year-old 'goods for nerds' retailer I've associated with Slashdot ever since they were both part of the Andover and VA Linux mega-empires — appears to be dramatically scaling back their operations. On July 2, thinkgeek.com will be no more, and instead a "ThinkGeek-curated" selection of products will be for sale through the website of Gamestop, their current owner. They're attempting to clear out all existing inventory, and their rewards program is being shut down, too. On ThinkGeek's website, they're spinning this as a "move"; but it's hard not to feel like yet another symbol of the (somewhat) old days is passing.

Submission + - IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman writes: From The Register today:

A "highly skilled IT professional" has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated. Matthew White joined Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and left in July 2015, just months before the company split into HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). After quitting, he was stunned when the US mega-corp, citing HPE's new policies, refused to hand over extra pay he felt was contractually due. Hewlett-Packard had enticed White with a sweet contract that offered a signing bonus, base salary, regular bonuses, and a benefits program. But after he quit, he was left without his unused vacation pay and a $10,000 bonus he felt he was entitled to...HPE decided that, under the law, White could only get hold of the relevant policies if he turned up, in person, to the company's official human resources headquarters – which is on the other side of America in California, roughly 2,500 miles away. White felt this was ridiculous given that HP, sorry, HPE is not only a massive organization with HR people all over the United States, but that it was a technology company with countless employees working across the world, often at home, and that the policies are likely readily available in an internal cloud. The judge had some sympathy for that view. "This part of the statute may indeed need reworking for today’s world where cloud-based digital records are replacing physical file folders located in a physical location, where employees work at home – sometimes remotely from any head office or regional office – and where worldwide companies like HP assign HP personnel for an entire country or region, or even outsource various HP responsibilities."

Comment Re:Climate Change on Slashdot (Score 1) 573

by MPAndonee (#49314379) Attached to: Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic

You can only be amused by the responses these articles attract.

Here are some facts that puts all of these comments into perspective.

1. 99.9% of Slashdot commenters are NOT Climate Scientists.
2. Probably 90% don't even have education in areas remotely related to Climate Science.
3. 90% are the posts seem to cite Skeptical Science in order to prove their point.
4. Skeptical Science is run by a Cartoonist.
5. The .01% of Slashdot commenters that ARE qualified to offer a valid opinion...don't do so on Slashdot. (Unless Curry and Man have Slashdot accounts?)

The bottom line is that this is all a wankfest, complete with name calling and morons on both side who are under the delusion that A) their opinion matters and B) . That their opinion is worth a bag of warm shit, and it's getting pretty fucking annoying.

The thing is, 3 of my friends are climate scientists.

Surely, what they tell me can't be lies that they concoct where they work?

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