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JosephKK wrote:
... How very weird. I am the pretty much acknowledged top technologist in my workplace. Yet i cannot get promoted. YMMV Well, I really hate to break this to you, don't look for a recommendation from me ... How about anyone else? Regards, JS |
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Art Unwin wrote:
... If you exercise free speech then you divulge to all what you are and who you are.! Hmmm, you are very correct. However, that "free speech" might just have been some "canned crap" he picked up ... Regards, JS |
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JosephKK wrote:
... Defecation on your non-existent deity. Yeah, this just "all happened", right. I bet you see that a lot ... Regards, JS |
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JosephKK wrote:
... Just everything Rush wanted was worse than what we had. I like listening to Rush, very entertaining ... I am unable to wrap my mind around the fact "they" pay him 40-50 million a year for such mind numbing dribble ... but hey, "they" got us here in the first place! Regards, JS |
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Art Unwin wrote:
If you exercise free speech then you divulge to all what you are and who you are.! Please divulge full legal name, birthdate and birthplace, SSN, address, telephone number, mothers maiden name and all bank account and credit card numbers. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:55:02 -0800, JosephKK
wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:00:06 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote: Nope. We will all be promoted to a position of responsibility, where we will be setup to fail, thus demonstrating that technologists are no better at running the country than politicians, crooks, bureaucrats, and thugs. How very weird. I am the pretty much acknowledged top technologist in my workplace. Yet i cannot get promoted. YMMV That's because nobody has found a reason to want you to fail. There can be many reasons for this. Optimistically, you have a well managed company, that keeps people in positions where they are best suited. That's rather rare as most companies will follow the Peter's Principle method of promotion (rise to your level of incompetence). Another possibility is that you have successfully eliminated any and all competition for your position, thus making find a replacement impossible. Unless you have a suitable replacement trained and waiting, most companies will not your promotion to create vacuum. In some companies, a promotion is tracked by a raise in salary and benefits. In some countries and companies, it's actually impossible to get a raise without a change of title. Perhaps your company needs to manufacture a suitable position and title for your promotion? Note: Assassinating your boss is not a viable option. It's also possible that you have hit the glass ceiling, where promotion is no longer possible. For example, many family owned companies will not promote non-family members beyond a certain point. If you're the wrong race, religion, sex, age, or nationality, you will have problems getting a promotion. Same with failing to join the correct country club, attending semi-mandatory social occasions, wearing the wrong style clothes, attending the wrong church, and generally sticking out like a sore thumb. Conformity pays well. It's conceivable that you also lack sufficient initiative to obtain a promotion. Many managers assume that someone that keeps their mouth shut, does not need a promotion. Leaving your resume floating around your desk is great way to either indicate that it's time to move up or move out. Unfortunately, it can also get you fired, so use this trick sparingly. Anyway, if you need advice on what NOT to do in order to get promoted, I have a long list of personal experiences that eventually inspired me to become self-employed. I can't say that it was the right decision from the financial point of view. However, I can say that I probably saved a few companies from self destruction by removing myself from their management structure. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On Nov 30, 8:26*pm, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:55:02 -0800, JosephKK wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:00:06 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote: Nope. *We will all be promoted to a position of responsibility, where we will be setup to fail, thus demonstrating that technologists are no better at running the country than politicians, crooks, bureaucrats, and thugs. How very weird. *I am the pretty much acknowledged top technologist in my workplace. *Yet i cannot get promoted. YMMV That's because nobody has found a reason to want you to fail. *There can be many reasons for this. *Optimistically, you have a well managed company, that keeps people in positions where they are best suited. That's rather rare as most companies will follow the Peter's Principle method of promotion (rise to your level of incompetence). * Another possibility is that you have successfully eliminated any and all competition for your position, thus making find a replacement impossible. *Unless you have a suitable replacement trained and waiting, most companies will not your promotion to create vacuum. * In some companies, a promotion is tracked by a raise in salary and benefits. *In some countries and companies, it's actually impossible to get a raise without a change of title. *Perhaps your company needs to manufacture a suitable position and title for your promotion? Note: Assassinating your boss is not a viable option. It's also possible that you have hit the glass ceiling, where promotion is no longer possible. *For example, many family owned companies will not promote non-family members beyond a certain point. If you're the wrong race, religion, sex, age, or nationality, you will have problems getting a promotion. *Same with failing to join the correct country club, attending semi-mandatory social occasions, wearing the wrong style clothes, attending the wrong church, and generally sticking out like a sore thumb. *Conformity pays well. It's conceivable that you also lack sufficient initiative to obtain a promotion. *Many managers assume that someone that keeps their mouth shut, does not need a promotion. *Leaving your resume floating around your desk is great way to either indicate that it's time to move up or move out. *Unfortunately, it can also get you fired, so use this trick sparingly. Anyway, if you need advice on what NOT to do in order to get promoted, I have a long list of personal experiences that eventually inspired me to become self-employed. *I can't say that it was the right decision from the financial point of view. *However, I can say that I probably saved a few companies from self destruction by removing myself from their management structure. -- Jeff Liebermann * * 150 Felker St #D * *http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann * * AE6KS * *831-336-2558 My best friend H B Mutter N3CBW had a position of one of three military top judges where he was on call for any major criminal case which could involve the maximum sentence. However as a Judge he had his own ideas of morality that sometimes clashed with beaucrasy but he always held to his guns which is why I respected him so much. Eventually he was offered a generous retirement based on a perceived malady, so in the end he won. This was the only way out available to beaurocracy, the common man does not have such leverage and is blown away. He now lies at Arlington cemetary bless his soul, I miss him so much Art Unwin KB9MZ.....xg |
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On Nov 30, 9:29*pm, JosephKK wrote:
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:46:13 -0800 (PST), wrote: On Nov 27, 12:58 pm, Art Unwin wrote: On Nov 25, 11:26 am, Jim Lux wrote: Jim IEEE state that if papers were open source it would threaten the presence of the IEEE? No.. it's that a significant part of IEEE's budget derives from publishing copyrighted standards and journals. One argument for the copyrighting of standards is that it provides a legal club to go after someone publishing an adulterated version. I'm not sure that really holds water, but there it is. The cost of actually printing the journals is significant, and has to come from somewhere. *They're not exactly huge circulation, and mostly have no advertising, but are printed on high quality stock with good quality typesetting. The physical printing costs are actually minimal, distribution costs more now. This statement was in regard to the high costs of obtaining copies from the IEEE without having to pay the high costs of belonging . The cost to get a single copy is quite high compared to the cost to get access to thousands by being a member (check out those CCC prices at the bottom of the first page.. they're fairly pricey.. a dozen papers a year and you've just paid for your membership and access to Xplore) Just a few years ago i could get physical reprints of articles from most journals for about $3 each, now electronic reprints cost $20 or more? *I think we all can figure out where the money is going. I understand the need for peer review by academics but not necessarily a private entity and the IEEE rights to publish such so, are the IEEE demanding SOLE ownership of presented papers? IEEE performs a useful function by organizing all those peer reviewers (finding them, getting the papers to them, haranguing them for their reviews, etc.).. Being an editor is a lot of work, and is often done as a labor of love by the editor (or, as "part of your job" in academe), as is being a decent reviewer. IEEE requests copyright transfer to them for papers published in their journals for a variety of reasons, and with a variety of exceptions. 1) Makes sure that you're not publishing the same thing in multiple places at the same time.. 2) If your work was done, e.g., on gov't contract, often, the contract requires that the paper be public domain, and the IEEE is cool with that. 3) The author can publish the paper on their own website with an appropriate disclaimer. I am assuming that all papers presented by the Universities as well as thesis papers belong to the parent university based on a recent antenna patent awarded to a University derived from a student dissertation. Not necessarily ("all" is pretty all-encompassing).. A lot depends on the funding source for the work. This leaves *an outstanding question !. If the university a public entity, reserves the rights of all papers arrived at the university then what rights do they hold that allows transference from the public domain of those rights to a private institution to the detriment of the public that finance them? Those rights were never in the public domain to begin with. One might argue that the underlying idea is in the public domain, but the written description of has a copyright that belongs to the author (except for a "work for hire") and the author gets to decide what they do with it. Funny thing about "work for hire", the hiring entity is the one with any legal rights here in *the US. *But the NIH for some strange reason does not assert its rights. *The IEEE does not publish work for hire generally, but charges for submissions. *And, I would argue that arranging for the publication of the work in a "learned journal" is a pretty effective way of disseminating the work to the general public. The fact that IEEE (or Inst of Physics or AAAS, etc.) get an assignment of copyright as part of the process is part of the cost of doing that publication. *And it's a fact that as online publication becomes easier, work IS being disseminated by these means. Yes, but more an more by others, and the academic journals reviewers are not paid. The other publishers do not do the review so quality suffers. *The old school publishers need to learn that they cannot just take it all. However, one should not disregard the significant value brought to the process by the formalized peer review system. Yes, it has flaws and can be (and has been) subverted, but it works moderately well. Compare to the situation a hundred or two hundred years ago. *I don't complain that "the system" isn't moving as rapidly as technology might allow, because the system has a fairly long time constant, which is actually a good thing, since it prevents rapid whipsawing to follow fashion. * A printed journal will still be readable 100 or 200 years from now. *The same cannot necessarily be said of djvu or pdf or tiff or other elecronic forms. I am not so sure about that. *The need for preservable media is being recognized. *It has even been discussed in learned journals. One should also not complain too loudly about the lack of heritage journals on line for free. *It costs a LOT to scan thing and put them online, particularly if they're searchable. *If you could convince Congress to do it as a service to mankind, that would be a worthy goal, but for now, someone's got to pay for it. Regards Art Unwin Spoke to my son about this subject as he works for a California University. He states that this subject is on a unstoppable role in several states because of diminishing distribution of papers. Together with high costs for separate papers that is also diminishing in demand.and was a money maker ( As jobs are lost so goes the membership costs I suppose) He said that some Universities are already changing from the old set up and google is being very agressive about it. Apparently there is already a group on the net with connections to all phases of science where you can obtain a UNPUBLISHED paper for a modest fee so there are new avenues emerging. Haven't got a policy statement from the local trustees at Champaign Illinois as yet. Regards Art |
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:05:01 GMT, wrote:
Art Unwin wrote: If you exercise free speech then you divulge to all what you are and who you are.! Please divulge full legal name, birthdate and birthplace, SSN, address, telephone number, mothers maiden name and all bank account and credit card numbers. I installed pop off legs a long time ago. |
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