It is if you buy it brand new. But I take from your reply we’re referring to different “new”
I’m looking at a 2017 used model to replace my 2014
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Are you a 1950s housewife!
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Video needs more bon bons.
Yeah they’re insane. It’s lucky if half the box survives the drive home. Needless to say I have sworn them off.
Apropos of nothing, well just of reading about “professors” in a couple threads recently. Only a couple of years ago did I become aware of the American meaning of “professor”. It’s what we would call here a “lecturer”, merely someone who lectures students on the subject. Just a basic “professor” in British English is what you would call a “full professor”, like a leader in their field, only one or two of them in a given discipline at a given college. I told a couple of university-educated friends this the other day and they were disbelieving. When anyone with any title including the word “professor” appears on our screens, in any capacity, we assume they are a stone cold expert in the field.
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This is slight misunderstanding of the common usage. Generally, in North America professor would be an expert in the field. Someone who has a PhD and is teaching in a college or university.
It would not be used for someone teaching students in another context, like high school.
I don’t think you’re quite right. In American universities, we have several ranks of people who teach in higher education, and “lecturer” and “full professor” are included. Lecturers (or adjunct professors) teach undergrads only, usually for non-living wages these days despite these people often having PhDs because academia is broken. Assistant professors are tenure-track faculty who haven’t yet attained tenure. These people will teach undergrads and grad students, if their institution has a graduate program, and they’ll usually be the people who are young, creative, and hungry, making them good to work for (although they are relatively unproven so it could blow up). Once you achieve tenure, you get the rank of Associate Professor. The requirements here vary, but at leading research institutions with graduate programs, it usually involves securing ~two substantial grants (either concurrent or achieving the renewal of one). And then finally full professors, whose main qualification for the rank is being old and doing it for a while, but who at this point is likely only minimally involved in the teaching even of their grad students and is largely mailing it in and sailing on the strength of their past accomplishments.
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I mostly agree with this description. Some things to clarify:
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Lecturers do not teach solely undergraduate students - they sometimes teach masters students, as well. This is probably more common in professional schools like the business school I work at.
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Associate Professors are not always tenured. At some schools (Harvard and MIT come to mind), promotion to Associate Professor does not come with tenure; tenure is awarded with Full Professor. At other schools (Duke maybe?) there are both Associate Professor with tenure and Associate Professor without tenure.
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Requirements for tenure vary enormously by discipline. In my discipline, there’s no expectation that researchers secure grants. We’re basically funded by the business school’s undergraduate and masters tuition.
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I assume the last point is tongue-in-cheek, but the Full Professors I know do not typically mail it in (even though I appreciate the stereotype). Associate Professors with tenure are just as likely to mail it in as their Full Professor counterparts.
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Yeah I know nothing about business schools, only science academia.
All these nuances are correct but would you not agree, in common parlance, especially in the context of a talking head on TV or a narrative story, professor means someone with a PhD who teaches at at university?
I don’t think there’s really much distinction here between “professor” and “full professor”. It’s generally meant to be any tenured teaching PhD at a 4 year Uni. Someone might call an “associate professor” just professor though. Certainly if you go up to your teacher who doesn’t have tenure you don’t address them as “associate professor” or even refer to them as my “associate professor”, you just say “my professor”. None of this ever means only the one or two leading experts.
Was it a Professor who came up with the term “breky” for breakfast?
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Oi!
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Awesome. I was at a protest she and her friends tried to disrupt. They can all go to hell.
The charge is commonly used to prosecute undocumented immigrants who use a fictitious name or someone’s identity to obtain a job in Arizona.
But in this case, Harrison is accused of taking “the identity of another by accessing an elderly victim’s hotel points,” according to a probable cause statement.
Police allege she did this on Sept. 30 to make a hotel reservation in Northern California to attend a rock music festival, the statement says.