Posts by Razziel

123456>5 graduate degrees that don't pay offin today's tough job market, many recent college graduates are enrolling in graduate programs to enhance their credentials and gain an edge with hiring managers.

in some cases, the tactic may lead to lucrative job opportunities.

Razziel

"And often the best, or only way to get a raise is to expand your skills with some outside training and apply at some other company."

Very true. The unfortunate truth is it is often more profitable for your career to job-hop the first 5 years before you settle down somewhere with a 2-3% yearly raise and the occasional promotion. You can easily make 25-50% more over the course of your career by moving around a few times towards the beginning.

"No, which law school you graduate from determines what types of jobs you will be able to land."

Also very true, and applicable for other professional degrees as well. This is biting some large companies in the behind as they are hiring for top-tier education, while their competitors are hiring for top-tier talent, and they aren't the same thing. But it's also much harder to interview for talent, and requires your HR and Management to have better recruiting skills, whereas it is easier for Management to rubber stamp hiring graduates of the best schools with the best GPAs.

I see this in my own job experience when the business managers ponder why we are consistently behind the competition in new ideas, marketshare, and profitability when the majority of our employees are PhD's from top schools.

I think an email conversation I read a few weeks ago sums up why. PhD1 asks, "What do we do when we've reached six sigma quality on our products?" PhD2 replies, "Then we shoot for seven and eight sigma. Because we can." Keep in mind, this is for products that have volumes of less than 10,000 each per year. It brings a lot more overhead to the company, and no additional value to investors, or customers.

Some of the best educated know a lot, but they understand very little.

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My potential date biggest idol's is Michael Jackson

by Iamallcool in

she is a very pretty personal trainer and she likes my pics too.

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Razziel

Stop treating dates like a job interview and you'll do better. Don't ask questions like: Who do you admire most? What's your biggest accomplishment in life? Where do you see yourself in five years? These are not questions you ask on a first date. These are just questions that allow you to fixate on things you don't like instead of actually seeing if you have some chemistry with the person. Just go hang out instead of creating a laundry list of interview questions.

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Loss of AMC shows how can I get them?

by manicmama in

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as many of you may know, dishnet in it's infinite wisdom decided to drop all of their amc programming.

since many of you out there are much more tech savy than i, is there any way to get their programming such as a roku player with netflix or hulu plus?

i would like to tell dish to shove it, but i don't want to go to another cable service.

Razziel

Dunno about Hell on Wheels, but many of AMC's other shows, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Walking Dead, etc., can all be streamed through Netflix, you just won't get them until after the on-air season is over.

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God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday

by cantleave in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167188/god-particle-scientists-cern-expected-announce-higgs-boson-particle-discovered-wednesday.html.

scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been foundleading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that higgs boson particle has been found'god particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass.

by rob cooper.

Razziel

I'm not so sure gravitons exist, but that's another story.

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God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday

by cantleave in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167188/god-particle-scientists-cern-expected-announce-higgs-boson-particle-discovered-wednesday.html.

scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been foundleading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that higgs boson particle has been found'god particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass.

by rob cooper.

Razziel

"However, if the Higgs bosun is simply the result of exciting the underlying field such that it momentarily changes state (to a particle) and then decays away then I can almost square that."

That's closer. Think of a charged particle being accelerated in a magnetic field. The magnetic field has some value of energy density, which is transferred to the particle causing it to accelerate as it moves through the field. The Higgs Field also has some value for energy density. When it interacts with certain particles (they're not really particles, they are fields, but thinking of them as particles is fine for this), energy is transferred to the particle, but instead of that energy being in the form of something like acceleration, that energy is transferred by E=MC^2 as mass.

If a particle absorbs or releases electromagnetic energy, it is really absorbing or releasing photons, as they are the force carrier for the electromagnetic force allowing energy transfer to take place. Similarly, the Higgs Boson is the force carrier for the Higgs Field, and are absorbed by certain particles, again allowing energy to be transferred from the Higgs Field into mass by E=MC^2. Running particles through an accelerator and smashing them together with enough energy does the opposite as you already know.

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God particle is 'found': Scientists at Cern expected to announce on Wednesday

by cantleave in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2167188/god-particle-scientists-cern-expected-announce-higgs-boson-particle-discovered-wednesday.html.

scientists 'will say they are 99.99% certain' the particle has been foundleading physicists have been invited to event - sparking speculation that higgs boson particle has been found'god particle' gives particles that make up atoms their mass.

by rob cooper.

Razziel

Ok Qcmbr, I don't watch Youtube, or read expert explanations so take what I say with a grain of salt. I have an excellent education in classical mechanics through Engineering, and a respectable education in physics due to required courses and elective courses in Quantum Mechanics. I prefer to read data and draw my own conclusions based off my own intelligence rather than listen to others who have read the data and drawn their own conclusions.

The Higgs Field is a field theorized to permeate all space. The easiest analogy for me for a field is a contour map, where a function of two variables have a constant value, such as in elevation maps that many people are familiar with.

You can also liken it to an electromagnetic field, if you are familiar with EMAG. This field interacts with other fields to produce results we can measure.

If you have an understanding of Calculus and Differential Equations, you know implicit integration results in extra terms with coefficients that can only be explicitly solved by knowledge of boundary condititions. These extra terms sometimes result in non-intuitive results such as the coriolis effect that helps explain the behavior of hurricanes.

For subatomic particles, one of these boundary conditions is postulated to be the Higgs Field, a base field that all particles can interact with. In other words, for subatomic particles, the extra terms do not interact with the Higgs Field, the terms go to zero, and the particles have no mass. For other particles, the extra terms do not go to zero, they interact with the Higgs Field, and they result in those particles having mass.

This is complicated by the concept of Symmetry breaking, where the equations predict that two points along the same contour line will have the same value, or at least a total energy value equal to unity. 1/2 + 1/2 =1, 1/2 + 2/3 = 1, 1/4 + 3/4 = 1, etc.

The reality from observations is, that at certain energy levels, symmetry can be broken. Again in other words, we have a non-linearity; i.e. 1 + 1 does not equal 2. After analysis of many hyperelastic materials and elastic materials in the plastic region as an engineer, I can say with no uncertainty, 1 + 1 does not always equal 2. Superposition does not hold in certain ranges, and this can be a very difficult concept to understand.

I have probably done nothing to answer your original question. The Universe can be described as a set of non-linear partial differential equations which are extremely difficult if not impossible to solve.

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I am thinking about getting a new email address. Any Suggestions?

by Iamallcool in

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Razziel

Do you just want purely email or do you want your email account associated with other accounts? Been with hotmail for over 15 years and no complaints. I can associate it with my xbox live account, instant messanger, financial accounts, facebook, other email accounts etc, etc. Just depends on the privacy you want.