Just as another data point, I'm using Mozilla on a 1200x1020 screen (XWindows on SunOS8) and the first thing I have to do is to hit CTRL+ to increase font size when I drop in here. And that still leaves a lot of words-per-screen. Which I like.
Unresized I could still read it, but it's a strain.
The contrast is fine for me.
The Kabatepe Ariburun Beach Memorial page seems to have moved; I found a current site.
What each mention of Gallipoli invokes in me, a Turkish woman---pain, absurdity, pointlessness, more pain, and yet a small nugget of delight that across the years and miles, after sharing the pointless painful absurdity, we now seem to share an understanding with Australian and New Zealanders.
When I first heard Eric Bogle's "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" I cried so hard.
But I quoted "The Green Fields of France" yesterday, because as your links upon links demonstrate, there was so much more pain spread over a full continent and more, for much more than just those months in 1915:
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.
An idealistic, detached part of me is wondering what sort of Ethics in Engineering course modules would be able to be derived from this whole mess. I don't know much about power engineering, but someone technical must have been involved at several points when artificial congestion or blackouts were created... and those someones have a very good chance of having seen IEEE's Code of Ethics at some point, even if just pinned on the walls of their college.
Why yes, I still am that naive.
OK, I didn't even read all of them yet, but #4 caused the coffee-meets-keyboard effect with hot chocolate.
Bluziggy: "Too many of you listen to too much liberal media."
I'm reminded of a T-shirt a friend of mine made as a response to her family's concerns over her meeting in physical space the (scary) people she met over the (scary) Internet: "I *am* the 'scary Internet people'."
In a similar vein, most of the people commenting here *are* the 'liberal media'. Well, not in the sense you probably mean, in that they don't just repeat the "pinko" party line without thinking about it. But the amount of influence and opinions they gain from the media is less than the amount of data they go out searching for, on which data they prefer to form their own opinions.
As to the rest of the discussion, I have the same comment with Andrew Grey: Speaking as someone who has to live with your elections and their knock-on effects without getting to influence them, please go shout...
Bill Blum: Electronics Letters counts as well, and that's the IEE not the IEEE. If you're in one of the physics/EE borderline areas such as photonics, Physics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and similar publications will also count, as will publications in conferences, etc. of the SPIE. I'm sure there are equivalent publications on the more pure-math related side of the field, but I don't know of any of them.
(Side note: I love electrical engineering. I have the same diploma from the same department of the same university with this lady in the office across the hall from me, but after a couple of years of specializing on top of it from both of us, and we can completely talk over each others' heads.)
In principle, though, you are right. What will count is only refereed publication, preferably in a journal/conference heard of by more than fifteen people. (Dissertations don't impress anyone that much, either, once you have one.) Maybe it's that I'm not creative enough, but I really don't think it's possible to successfully make up credentials in this field and not raise eyebrows way, way high immediately even if your evaluator is not possessed of a fine-tuned Baloney Detector.
Note to self: Posting even short notes on too few hours of sleep, not so good an idea.
This is somewhat old news by now, but IEEE, which publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed technical journals in the areas related to electrical engineering, computing and communications and has worldwide membership, had been trying to get an exemption from that regulation for a while, and earlier this month they succeeded.
(I hope the link is visible to everyone; some areas of the IEEE web site are prescription-only, but I have no way of checking if this particular page is so because I'm on a campus network that is prescribed wholesale).
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