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Seriously though, turning Wikipedia into dead tree media is something that should be taken more seriously. Without much effort, relatively interesting primers on subjects could be put together with relatively little effort. Think "Cryptographic algorithms" or "Battles of WW2" or "Countries of Africa" Collect and curate a selection carefully, and throw it up on some place like lulu.

I'm almost done with college, but throughout, I've been surprised how little respect college students give their professors. At the same time, I can't really say the professors deserve it; they give off an air of complete cluelessness, because everything they talk about is 20 years out of date.

What bothers me is, have academics always been a generation behind, or is this just a result of the exponential acceleration of technology over the last 10 years? And is this acceleration sustainable? It feels like at some point something has to break and this ridiculous speed of progress needs to slow down.

Or do I just not appreciate the progress made 50 years ago, and professors have always been a generation behind?

But being rude wasn't even the point though, was it? This is really just blogspam...

Hits in last 31 days (5 month running CTR avg):

http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ - 4,574 0.33%CTR

http://ctips.pbwiki.com/ - 544 0.14%CTR

http://www.ducttape.pbwiki.com - 1,073 0.14%CTR

http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/ - 164 (Mostly script kiddies attacking my Chumby) 0.86%CTR

The C tips site was a half-finished project. There was a lot more work to be done and I never promoted it.

And yes, all of them are very stale unformatted html pages. Web development isn't my interest or skill, and plain pages like those have never bothered me. Most of it is useful notes to myself, which I think others will find useful.

The Duct Tape site actually pays much better than my blog per page view, bringing in 2-3 cents per 1k, where the blog almost never brings in anything per 1k, but the blog pays $0.30-$1.50 per click, where the tape site only brings in 5-15 cents per click, so the blog brings in about 95%, the tape site the next 5%, and the C site brings in 2 cents on a good month.

Text ads, top banner and bottom of right bar. $300 a year; as a college student, yeah, that's worth it.

It's a highly technical blog, mainly documenting my personal electronics projects, but covers pretty much anything I want it to, which rather limits my readership. Having a more cohesive, single subject would certainly raise the glass ceiling on readership.

They are working on a real problem though. Paypal kind of works, but isn't ideal.

Only reason I can think of is that there is either other experiments on-board that they need to recover (solar wind collectors, etc), or that they were both taken up in the same launch vehicle, which would be the lion's share of the expense of this experiment.

I went back and talked to some of my friends, and they had the same reaction, but with totally different classes for different companies.

So at least in MechE, a college degree gives you a light framework for the employers to build on, and really is more-so just a certification that you're not an idiot and can learn things.

I can see how some people might be able to get by, but when I'm one of maybe 100 people subscribed to a blog, I'm not going to see it drift by on FB.

That way, you can't even accidentally reuse a seed in development, or leak that list of the previously used seeds. When something compromises the system, and you don't need it any more, it should be destroyed.