Yeah, well, be as well prepared for editors of respected journals, even editors with vast academic background, to reject your paper before even passing it to peer review, for the silliest reasons. Some of the most innovative, creative papers have been rejected before peer review. Papers with some of the dumbest, most glaring mistakes, have been accepted after peer review, by respected journals.
IOW: it's actually a lottery. I've read a book on how to get your paper published. On the cover of that book there is an illustration of two dies. Now what does that tell you?
She tried some wild crap in Thailand. Not exactly a place known for it's cutting edge science. There are a number of countries doing a lot of really good biology work. Thailand isn't one of them.
Actually, Thailand has overall a good number of top-notch clinics, comparable to the best ones in the EU (I don't know about the USA, but I am pretty sure that if they compare well to Finland, they probably compare well to USA, too) and Japan. Unlike you and the ones who modded you up, I have actually been in several hospitals in Thailand, and my wife, a Thai national, has seen a lot more, and confirms that these hospitals and clinics really are of the same caliber: bleeding edge equipment, very high cleanliness, very high expertise. I guess it's all too easy for ignorant people to lump Thailand's health system together with that of 3rd world countries, but if you had visited Thailand more than 0 times, you'd see that it's far from "wild crap".
As some others have commented, the article doesn't show anything in the procedure to have been a mistake conducive to the patient's death. It's a FUD article, and thrives on ignorant readers just like you.
I publish less than you (1 to 2 journal articles/year (I am having very few results ATM), so I don't have any authority to say this, but why don't scientists, especially those really creative and original ones, take a creative and original approach with publishing, and seek out journals that are not behaving like egoistic psychopaths?
Socialism works in societies where there is a good cooperative spirit and little desire to game the system for one's own goals. Otherwise... you get China and the only one to benefit is the occasional Mao, Pol Pot or Stalin.
So we can have 50.000 instead of 3000 rewrite cycles. That's great. However, I still like the 100.000 to 1.000.000 rewrite cycles of SLC. Actually, SLC is only 50% more expensive to manufacture (per bit) than two-level MLC - I really don't understand why are manufacturers so enamoured with MLC.
Publishers know one thing: don't fuck with tenured professors. These guys have contributed a lot of material (both as articles and as books) to the publishers, from which they gain usually very little to nothing. But the profs have the attitude that they'll send a copy of the article to any scholar that asks for it. Some even have automated e-mail systems which send the article in an automated e-mail. And publishers always let them do that, because they know what is the true source of their bread and butter, and know better than piss them off. Ask any tenured prof if they are worried that the publishing hose will come after them for distributing copies of their articles; their attitude is "Bring it on, make my day."
Senior scientists HATE giving up copyrights to the text and every picture they publish in the article, to the journal, without getting anything in return - not to mention that they are the authors of the whole article, and must even carefully format it according to the capricious guidelines of the journal! Oh yeah, and the peer-review is done by other unpaid scientists. People are furious and anger is boiling. Does this publishing house really want to stir this nest of angry wasps? The UC boycott of NPG didn't come out from a vacuum. Cambridge University Press could find itself on the receiving end of something similarly unpleasant. Yes, they are very prestigious and with a long tradition - but so does Nature Publishing Group.
If the situation blows up to a sufficient degree, we might see a revolutionary change towards copylefted, openly accessible scientific papers and notebooks. Public Library of Science is moving in that direction, and I can only hope that the movement/trend picks up momentum and steamrolls the greedy publishing houses and journals.
I don't know of any person in the world that has put his/her money so consistently where their mouth is. Costner has spent most of his fortune in developing various environmentally friendly technologies, such as super-fast flywheel energy storage. Honestly, I thought such a altruistic business proposal could never succeed in the world we live in. Maybe I wasn't 100% right.
Apps have been rejected for no good reason whatever. Even apps that have been approved at a certain version, their updates have been rejected. For no good reason. The process is absolutely capricious and you can never, ever be sure your app will be approved in the Apple store.
Einstein finished secondary school in Aarau (Switzerland), and then graduated from the Polytechnic in Zurich, and even finished his doctoral studies. So he very much did stay the course. It's just like a student changing one high school for another.
Einstein is definitely not one of those "succesful dropouts". Please stop spreading misinformation.
I live in Finland, and I have been using unsecured Wi-Fi nets since at least 4 years (maybe longer) perfectly legally. In some cities (Oulu) it is a service offered by the municipality, in others it's part of the student campus facilities, etc. etc. In theory, you were not allowed to use your neighbor's Wi-Fi (if you knew it's his/hers), though I have never heard that being enforced, ever. This law just makes the point wholly moot.
We're kind of like that pathetic ex High School jock that's trying to relive his glory days.
Absolutely not. If only the US tried to revive the old glory! Instead, it's more akin to a guy watching TV all day and drinking beer, overweight, lacking curiosity, enthusiasm, courage. His greatest ambition is watching the Super Bowl.
The USA could not get back to the Moon even if she wanted to - the knowledge is lost, gone. There is no past glory, because the Apollo program could not be re-created today, without a massive investment in research. The Apollo program is not past glory, it's lost glory, and don't fool yourself thinking the USA is ready for the next step - the USA would need to return to the Moon just to re-learn how that's done, before thinking of the next step.
When an article published in 1927 is behind a paywall, you know that the journal keeping that science hostage, is bad news.
Therefore, screw Nature.
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You know, opinions are like hemorrhoids - every asshole has one. In that vein (pun intended/not), I say Windows XP is great, and for me it's XP all the way.
Do I get a "+3 insightful" just for stating my opinion?
They also have live feeds from the ROVs which seems pretty cool
They have those feeds because the government forced them to!. BP wasn't going to provide those feeds, it took an explicit order by the US government to achieve this "kindness".
OH yeah, I see. With fundamentalist Islam, it's always someone else's fault.
If anything, I'd congratulate the wisdom of not accepting Turkey in the EU. Turkey's fundamentalist is only now coming to the fore, but it was always there. No wonder it has been the honor killing capital of the world since forever.
I thought I'd share an account of what hapened to me a couple of years ago, in Istanbul, arguably the most westernized of all of Turkey: my friend and I decided to stay at this hotel outside the center of the city, and had to take separate rooms, since we were not married. In the evening, I went to her room for a chat. After about half an hour she gets a phonecall: some guy tells her that she is not to have male visitors in her room! That's right. They have cameras in each room. Even more sadly, my turkish friend told me this as a matter of fact, "nothing to see here".
I'm not saying every hotel in Turkey is like that, but I will say this: Turkey is bad news, very fucking bad news.
What do you expect from a country that band Youtube? I wanted to show the "Charlie bit me"-video to a friend in Turkey, a couple of years ago, only to discover that Youtube is not available, together with a plethora of other online services.
I now firmly believe Turkey is not ready for the EU.
The similitude has become to apply after 1995 when big players (telcos, etc.) became Internet providers and when companies and marketing agencies have become to realize to potential of Internet as a marketing tool and viewed it as just like another tool similar to TV.
Actually, I do think the Internet makes some people dumber: they can write such grammatically atrocious sentences as yours, and be totally inarticulate, and still get a pass, while those who point this out (like me) get flamed for doing so. Therefore, dumbness is rewarded.
I'd have to side with the GP on this: this device has neither the benefit of saving space, like a nice built-in SSD would have (it takes all the space a DVD drive needs, which for a netbook, is huge), and it probably consumes a bit more than a SSD by itself, even in standby. Of the two issues I'd definitely like to stress the first one. Netbooks are so space (and weight) conscious, that they don't usually have a DVD/CD drive.
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Try this: develop on Symbian for a while. Then develop on Qt for a while. See?
Yeah, well, be as well prepared for editors of respected journals, even editors with vast academic background, to reject your paper before even passing it to peer review, for the silliest reasons. Some of the most innovative, creative papers have been rejected before peer review. Papers with some of the dumbest, most glaring mistakes, have been accepted after peer review, by respected journals.
IOW: it's actually a lottery. I've read a book on how to get your paper published. On the cover of that book there is an illustration of two dies. Now what does that tell you?
More correctly: phone company executives are douchebags.
She tried some wild crap in Thailand. Not exactly a place known for it's cutting edge science. There are a number of countries doing a lot of really good biology work. Thailand isn't one of them.
Actually, Thailand has overall a good number of top-notch clinics, comparable to the best ones in the EU (I don't know about the USA, but I am pretty sure that if they compare well to Finland, they probably compare well to USA, too) and Japan. Unlike you and the ones who modded you up, I have actually been in several hospitals in Thailand, and my wife, a Thai national, has seen a lot more, and confirms that these hospitals and clinics really are of the same caliber: bleeding edge equipment, very high cleanliness, very high expertise. I guess it's all too easy for ignorant people to lump Thailand's health system together with that of 3rd world countries, but if you had visited Thailand more than 0 times, you'd see that it's far from "wild crap".
As some others have commented, the article doesn't show anything in the procedure to have been a mistake conducive to the patient's death. It's a FUD article, and thrives on ignorant readers just like you.
I publish less than you (1 to 2 journal articles/year (I am having very few results ATM), so I don't have any authority to say this, but why don't scientists, especially those really creative and original ones, take a creative and original approach with publishing, and seek out journals that are not behaving like egoistic psychopaths?
Socialism works in societies where there is a good cooperative spirit and little desire to game the system for one's own goals. Otherwise... you get China and the only one to benefit is the occasional Mao, Pol Pot or Stalin.
As I said, SLC is only 50% more expensive, per bit, than 4-level (2 bit/cell) MLC. That's hardly helping in a "sharp" decrease in price.
So we can have 50.000 instead of 3000 rewrite cycles. That's great. However, I still like the 100.000 to 1.000.000 rewrite cycles of SLC. Actually, SLC is only 50% more expensive to manufacture (per bit) than two-level MLC - I really don't understand why are manufacturers so enamoured with MLC.
Yeah, he's pretty good, too. But probably a more able businessman than Costner, who is more heart than economical acument. IMHO.
I wish the best of luck to both.
After reading my own post, I must say I made several blush-worthy typos and horrible sentences. Better hit the Preview button from now on.
Wow, this is embarrassing. But I hope people get the gist of what I was so clumsily trying to say.
Publishers know one thing: don't fuck with tenured professors. These guys have contributed a lot of material (both as articles and as books) to the publishers, from which they gain usually very little to nothing. But the profs have the attitude that they'll send a copy of the article to any scholar that asks for it. Some even have automated e-mail systems which send the article in an automated e-mail. And publishers always let them do that, because they know what is the true source of their bread and butter, and know better than piss them off. Ask any tenured prof if they are worried that the publishing hose will come after them for distributing copies of their articles; their attitude is "Bring it on, make my day."
Senior scientists HATE giving up copyrights to the text and every picture they publish in the article, to the journal, without getting anything in return - not to mention that they are the authors of the whole article, and must even carefully format it according to the capricious guidelines of the journal! Oh yeah, and the peer-review is done by other unpaid scientists. People are furious and anger is boiling. Does this publishing house really want to stir this nest of angry wasps? The UC boycott of NPG didn't come out from a vacuum. Cambridge University Press could find itself on the receiving end of something similarly unpleasant. Yes, they are very prestigious and with a long tradition - but so does Nature Publishing Group.
If the situation blows up to a sufficient degree, we might see a revolutionary change towards copylefted, openly accessible scientific papers and notebooks. Public Library of Science is moving in that direction, and I can only hope that the movement/trend picks up momentum and steamrolls the greedy publishing houses and journals.
I don't know of any person in the world that has put his/her money so consistently where their mouth is. Costner has spent most of his fortune in developing various environmentally friendly technologies, such as super-fast flywheel energy storage. Honestly, I thought such a altruistic business proposal could never succeed in the world we live in. Maybe I wasn't 100% right.
Apps have been rejected for no good reason whatever. Even apps that have been approved at a certain version, their updates have been rejected. For no good reason. The process is absolutely capricious and you can never, ever be sure your app will be approved in the Apple store.
Einstein finished secondary school in Aarau (Switzerland), and then graduated from the Polytechnic in Zurich, and even finished his doctoral studies. So he very much did stay the course. It's just like a student changing one high school for another.
Einstein is definitely not one of those "succesful dropouts". Please stop spreading misinformation.
I live in Finland, and I have been using unsecured Wi-Fi nets since at least 4 years (maybe longer) perfectly legally. In some cities (Oulu) it is a service offered by the municipality, in others it's part of the student campus facilities, etc. etc. In theory, you were not allowed to use your neighbor's Wi-Fi (if you knew it's his/hers), though I have never heard that being enforced, ever. This law just makes the point wholly moot.
We're kind of like that pathetic ex High School jock that's trying to relive his glory days.
Absolutely not. If only the US tried to revive the old glory! Instead, it's more akin to a guy watching TV all day and drinking beer, overweight, lacking curiosity, enthusiasm, courage. His greatest ambition is watching the Super Bowl.
The USA could not get back to the Moon even if she wanted to - the knowledge is lost, gone. There is no past glory, because the Apollo program could not be re-created today, without a massive investment in research. The Apollo program is not past glory, it's lost glory, and don't fool yourself thinking the USA is ready for the next step - the USA would need to return to the Moon just to re-learn how that's done, before thinking of the next step.
When an article published in 1927 is behind a paywall, you know that the journal keeping that science hostage, is bad news.
Therefore, screw Nature.
You know, opinions are like hemorrhoids - every asshole has one. In that vein (pun intended/not), I say Windows XP is great, and for me it's XP all the way.
Do I get a "+3 insightful" just for stating my opinion?
They also have live feeds from the ROVs which seems pretty cool
They have those feeds because the government forced them to!. BP wasn't going to provide those feeds, it took an explicit order by the US government to achieve this "kindness".
I didnt know there was a band called youtube, what sort of music do they play?
Considering that there is a bazillion pop bands, I am quite surprised that there isn't one called "youtube". My bad, the joke is totally on me.
OH yeah, I see. With fundamentalist Islam, it's always someone else's fault.
If anything, I'd congratulate the wisdom of not accepting Turkey in the EU. Turkey's fundamentalist is only now coming to the fore, but it was always there. No wonder it has been the honor killing capital of the world since forever.
I thought I'd share an account of what hapened to me a couple of years ago, in Istanbul, arguably the most westernized of all of Turkey: my friend and I decided to stay at this hotel outside the center of the city, and had to take separate rooms, since we were not married. In the evening, I went to her room for a chat. After about half an hour she gets a phonecall: some guy tells her that she is not to have male visitors in her room! That's right. They have cameras in each room. Even more sadly, my turkish friend told me this as a matter of fact, "nothing to see here".
I'm not saying every hotel in Turkey is like that, but I will say this: Turkey is bad news, very fucking bad news.
What do you expect from a country that band Youtube? I wanted to show the "Charlie bit me"-video to a friend in Turkey, a couple of years ago, only to discover that Youtube is not available, together with a plethora of other online services.
I now firmly believe Turkey is not ready for the EU.
The similitude has become to apply after 1995 when big players (telcos, etc.) became Internet providers and when companies and marketing agencies have become to realize to potential of Internet as a marketing tool and viewed it as just like another tool similar to TV.
Actually, I do think the Internet makes some people dumber: they can write such grammatically atrocious sentences as yours, and be totally inarticulate, and still get a pass, while those who point this out (like me) get flamed for doing so. Therefore, dumbness is rewarded.
I'd have to side with the GP on this: this device has neither the benefit of saving space, like a nice built-in SSD would have (it takes all the space a DVD drive needs, which for a netbook, is huge), and it probably consumes a bit more than a SSD by itself, even in standby. Of the two issues I'd definitely like to stress the first one. Netbooks are so space (and weight) conscious, that they don't usually have a DVD/CD drive.