Damien wrote:
Now it's pdftex on my (old, dated, behind the curve) G4 powerbook, and nothing ever gets printed at all.
I use TeXShop on the G4 Powerbook issued to me by my employer...
It's a fairly nice front end to pdftex.
My highschool's printshop teacher still requires students to hand-set an entire page of text before he lets them even look at the computer for any typesetting.
I'll say this-- I laughed when other students spent >$200 on graduation announcements, when the printshop teacher gave us run of the pressroom, "as long as we paid for the supplies."
For the curious, this is the cover I referenced in an earlier post.
There's an annoying practice for engineering books where editors will pick an arbitrary graph from the book, and use it for cover art. In most cases, it can look good, and is the rough equivalent of flashy cover art for SF titles...
Unfortunately, one of my radar systems books has a 2-d ambiguity plot on the cover. When I look at it, I see an ambiguity plot-- or at least I did, until shortly after I purchased it, when my wife looked at it, and wondered why there was a line drawing of a hygiene product on the cover.
Andy Perrin wrote:
Oh, please, please let this happen! From your mouth to Springer-Verlag's ears, worddude. I get so sick of those yellow covers.
Hey, there are some nice constants in this world: e, pi, and yellow covers from Springer Verlag.
( Some of their non-math specific imprints have different colors, IIRC. I could be wrong, as most of my radar books come from Wiley or Artech House.)
Chad Orzel wrote:
But then I say this as one who enjoyed college enough to actively seek a job at a small liberal arts college. Make of that what you will.
I passed up the opportunity to go back to school at a state school as an engineering major, and went to a small liberal arts school for my physics degree...
3 weeks after graduation, and I'm already working fulltime, with tuition reimbursement to start this fall for part-time grad school classes in engineering.
Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey wrote:
I see that this article, which has recently come to my attention, is based entirely upon a thesis from AFIT. Entertaining though it would be were nuclear-powered aircraft to make a comeback, I am a bit skeptical.
This is by no means the strangest idea to come out of AFIT. Give me a few days to find some of the citations.
JVP:
I've never run into anyone who's been pleased with their experiences at UMass-Amherst.
In the unlikely event that I pursue a PhD, it'll probably be at the Air Force Institute of Technology-- I already work there, I'm familiar with the research they do, and their philosophy of getting you out the door in 3 years for the PhD is something I'm very interested in.
(It'll take me 2 years, part-time, to finish my masters degree at Wright State.)
My view on the whole situation?
He sounds perfectly suited for post-college employment in a whinery.
Giving him another chance would be expected at most schools... but his stated intent to litigate his way out of this mess probably means people at Kent are going to be less than receptive to anything involving this young man after the situation dies down.
When I moved to Ohio, and went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree (Physics), I have to say that I was utterly appalled at the work ethic of most of the other students.
It wasn't until my last year that the school instituted a honor code-- but even then, you could go into any computer lab, check the recycle bin near the printer, and find multiple downloaded term papers.
Most professors were fairly savvy about it: you never just handed in a final draft at my school, you had to hand in all your rough drafts (general rule of thumb: they looked for TWO drafts), all your notes, and copies of any sources that wouldn't be 'easily accessible' in the Wittenberg Library.
I wound up handing in a CD-ROM containing the 60 journal articles (in PDF form) I used while preparing my senior thesis.
For those of us planning on watching the Tour De Lance, I'd suggest giving this MP3 a listen...
(Short mp3, Abba parody.)
He just won the Tour De France... wearing skin-tight lycra pants....
JVP: For goodness' sake, you do realize you can add another post to your livejournal, right?
Have one thread going for the asimov/erdos number thing... one thread going for the hypercube thing...
Just a thought.
JVP wrote (originally directed to Teresa):
And should I "friend" you, or just keep the hotlink to you from my initial self-posting?
If you're talking about the livejournal.com 'friend' functionality, I hate to say it won't work. You can 'friend' other livejournal users.
( You probably already connected the dots between me and my LJ, 'remotesensing' )
Some other popular blogs with RSS feeds have livejournal equivalents, so that you can follow the blog on your LJ friends page... but such things don't let you follow the comment threads that develop here.
Tom Whitmore wrote:
On books, comparison shopping helps.
This is so true, on so many levels...
One of my most recent purchases, a reference on spotlight mode synthetic-aperture radar, normally lists for $147 at the publishers website... and that's for a Print On Demand version-- the book originally came out in '95, and went out of print in 2000.
I found it for $50 online, NEW... apparently, a few got printed without a demand for them.
Teresa wrote:
James Nicoll, you don't have to keep ARCs. You really can give them away. And I don't see why you can't sell them, because everyone else seems to. The scrupulous ones wait until the book is out
(emphasis mine)
Some of the warnings affixed to the review copies of grad-level textbooks my boss receives for review are actually quite entertaining.
(He managed to accumulate multiple desk copies of various antenna and electromagnetic theory books... we'll just say I'm well armed for grad school. )
Teresa:
I misspoke earlier, one of the parties concerned is NOT using TWC, but was going with another vanity publishing house, but has apparently came to his senses, and decided to try short stories first.
The party still involved with TWC? The last time I checked, she was still working overtime to try and come up with more money for fees. I'd inquire further as to her experience with the outfit, but I'm afraid that she'd ask me to read the book again.
I've seen two very close friends shell out HUGE sums of money to TWC, with apparently nothing to show for it...
Epacris:
I don't do Krispy Kreme-- I prefer Tim Hortons.
Lenny:
I never bothered to compute my Medium Lobster Number, but I know my Scallop Coefficient.
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