Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Domains

Domain: sagepub.com

Stories and comments across the archive that link to sagepub.com.

Comments · 204

  1. Re:VP by russellh · · Score: 1 · on Researchers Develop New Tool For Writing Code
    The problem is that it was written by a journalist.

    No revolution here.

    SPIRAL is a generator for libraries of fast software implementations of linear signal processing transforms. These libraries are adapted to the computing platform and can be re-optimized as the hardware is upgraded or replaced. ...

    Spiral: A Generator for Platform-Adapted Libraries of Signal Processing Alogorithms
  2. This guy gets his ideas from Wired by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Cities Without Borders
    That's a weak article. Look whom he cites - Wired writers, most of them.

    "World Cities" have been around for a long time, all the way back to the Roman Empire. Overcentralization was once a key part of the control system of kingdoms and empires.

    Actually, finance is far less centralized than it used to be. There was a time within living memory when most major US companies were headquartered in New York. That's no longer the case. The international financial system, for most of the twentieth century, revolved around London and New York. Today, there are major financial centers all over the world. For a serious paper on the subject, see Rank Size Distribution of International Financial Centers.

    Going against this trend is the centralization of power in the Washington DC area. For most of American history, there were few major businesses headquartered in the Washington area. That started to change some time during the Reagan administration, and now the Washington area is a major business hub, focusing on businesses which are defined by their relationship to federal regulation or spending.

  3. Re:New species explaination by Donoho · · Score: 1 · on New Hominid Species Unearthed in Indonesia

    How many assumptions, based on zero evidence, will you make before you stop?

    Guess you missed that chapter in sociology. Here's a refresher, although the afore mentioned scenario assumes there was no new population to integrate into, thereby maintaining their isolation.

  4. Re:Thank's scientists! by 1,$d · · Score: 1 · on Coffee is Addictive
    Here's a link to the table of contents of the Journal of Psychopharmacology, the journal that is publishing the actual scientific study.

    I don't see the study in the online version right now (2004-10-03 14:15 PDT) but it might be there "now" depending on when you read this. The Journal appears to post PDFs of published articles, but it's a subscription-based journal so maybe not.