While it is true it takes hardly any power to maintain the current in the superconducting coil, it takes a lot of power to run the cryo-coolers that are used to keep the coil superconducting. I would also hate to be siting in a little capsule anywhere near the coil if it ever quenched!
Aaagh! Not that anyone will see this or care, but Subtle Is The Lord is Pais' biography of Einstein (which I'm just starting and which was why it was the quickest title out of my brain). Neils Bohr's Times is his biography of Bohr.
I don't see prestige as necessarily a bad thing because it is the community that defines what is prestigious. I think things like Open Access will make it easier, and perhaps more desirable, to publish elsewhere and still have your paper seen by your colleagues. I think the idea of everyone as their own publisher won't work in general because there is already a ton of places where you can go to find all sorts of interesting (some would say "crackpot") papers. The journal does some sort of quality cut for you and gives you a single place to find articles of interest. If that went away for some reason, there would still exist the need for a peer review system, and whatever cropped up to fill the void would fall back into a prestige arrangement.
What your colleague complains of is true for many professions. As you advance towards "management" you do less and less real work and more and more administration. Bump up the chain and pretty soon your grad students and postdocs are doing the research, under your guidance of course, but they're the ones doing the dirty work. I just finished Abraham Pais' biography of Neils Bohr: Subtle Is The Lord. Bohr was making the same complaints 80 years ago as your colleague is now.
I think this is overly cynical. Publishers also handle the peer review process (lining up the reviewers, managing the reviews, etc.), which is hard for just anyone to do. Sure, anyone can publish, but what is the value is doing all that work and putting together a paper if nobody will see it? Do you want to write a thoughtful editorial on foreign policy and have it published in the weekly Penny Saver, or in the Sunday New York Times? Effectively disseminating ideas is not as easy as putting it up on a web site or dumping something into arXiv. I would love to see more authors voting with their feet and publishing in more reasonably priced journals with better access policies, because some of the private journals have outrageous price structures.
The American Institute of Physics has done a lot to address these issues, and I think they lay out their position fairly clearly. The legal issues certainly aren't as black and white as you make them out to be.
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I saw an interview he did on The Colbert Report and I could swear that he did one year in solitary. The reason was something akin to the fact that because the DA told the judge that Mitnick had the ability to call up NORAD and whistle in the phone and cause all sorts of havoc on our defense system, part of his sentencing stipulated that he be kept away from telephones. The only place that met that condition in prison was solitary. So basically, as I recall it from the interview anyways, he was put there for a year as a last resort, not put there for years because that was the sentence handed down.
What I like is that in their response they not once referred to him by his name (Jonathan Mayer), but only by "the student." I would say that was a pretty pejorative use of that word.
To me, their response comes off sounding like (I'll let you read it with your favorite exaggerated accent): "Stealing? That is such an ugly word. We prefer to call it 'segment verification'."
Forgot to mention that I also have a SyQuest drive with three disks. That one hasn't seen much use in quite a while. I don't know if I have any music on it though.
What is your concern with the Missouri river? Are you worried about it heating up from the fuel rods? I don't understand what you are implying with regard to the nation's breadbasket.
You left out ebola, mad cow, and of course, avian flu. Oh yeah, and it looks like there is a possibility that there might be a shortage of flu shots next winter.
Writing my name across the screen repeatedly was about the most interesting thing I could coax my C=64 to do after a perplexing read of the instruction manual.
Ah yes, remember PEEK and POKE? I never really knew what they did other than somebody told me a specific integer where I could write something on the screen that flashed. That was pretty cool.
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Considering how bad Tab tastes, if such a concoction were to be made I can only image how awful Diet Tab would be!
- here on Slashdot - supposedly the home of the most knowledgeable people on the Internet.
Aaaah! Please don't say things like that while I'm drinking coffee and make it come shooting out of my nose!
While it is true it takes hardly any power to maintain the current in the superconducting coil, it takes a lot of power to run the cryo-coolers that are used to keep the coil superconducting. I would also hate to be siting in a little capsule anywhere near the coil if it ever quenched!
Why do you think the rest of the world is quiet? I've stayed in some pretty noisy places outside of the US.
This is exactly why I love playing nethack.
Aaagh! Not that anyone will see this or care, but Subtle Is The Lord is Pais' biography of Einstein (which I'm just starting and which was why it was the quickest title out of my brain). Neils Bohr's Times is his biography of Bohr.
I don't see prestige as necessarily a bad thing because it is the community that defines what is prestigious. I think things like Open Access will make it easier, and perhaps more desirable, to publish elsewhere and still have your paper seen by your colleagues. I think the idea of everyone as their own publisher won't work in general because there is already a ton of places where you can go to find all sorts of interesting (some would say "crackpot") papers. The journal does some sort of quality cut for you and gives you a single place to find articles of interest. If that went away for some reason, there would still exist the need for a peer review system, and whatever cropped up to fill the void would fall back into a prestige arrangement.
What your colleague complains of is true for many professions. As you advance towards "management" you do less and less real work and more and more administration. Bump up the chain and pretty soon your grad students and postdocs are doing the research, under your guidance of course, but they're the ones doing the dirty work. I just finished Abraham Pais' biography of Neils Bohr: Subtle Is The Lord. Bohr was making the same complaints 80 years ago as your colleague is now.
I figured I'd do the Bill Cosby method: Wait just before the plane hits the ground then jump upwards.
I think this is overly cynical. Publishers also handle the peer review process (lining up the reviewers, managing the reviews, etc.), which is hard for just anyone to do. Sure, anyone can publish, but what is the value is doing all that work and putting together a paper if nobody will see it? Do you want to write a thoughtful editorial on foreign policy and have it published in the weekly Penny Saver, or in the Sunday New York Times? Effectively disseminating ideas is not as easy as putting it up on a web site or dumping something into arXiv. I would love to see more authors voting with their feet and publishing in more reasonably priced journals with better access policies, because some of the private journals have outrageous price structures.
The American Institute of Physics has done a lot to address these issues, and I think they lay out their position fairly clearly. The legal issues certainly aren't as black and white as you make them out to be.
I saw an interview he did on The Colbert Report and I could swear that he did one year in solitary. The reason was something akin to the fact that because the DA told the judge that Mitnick had the ability to call up NORAD and whistle in the phone and cause all sorts of havoc on our defense system, part of his sentencing stipulated that he be kept away from telephones. The only place that met that condition in prison was solitary. So basically, as I recall it from the interview anyways, he was put there for a year as a last resort, not put there for years because that was the sentence handed down.
I thought here I'd escape those late light ads about special issue coins and stamps from little countries. Are these GOLD-plated with 99.99% pure gold?
Sadly, as I write this there are about 160 comments and I think yours is the first on-topic one I saw that wasn't trying to be witty.
I want to know how many cell phones this rare earth deposit is equivalent to.
It's the premier development platform for the most widely distributed desktop and server OS on the planet.
I thought Linux had at least half, and maybe even as high as 2/3, the server market as compared to all other operating systems.
What I like is that in their response they not once referred to him by his name (Jonathan Mayer), but only by "the student." I would say that was a pretty pejorative use of that word.
To me, their response comes off sounding like (I'll let you read it with your favorite exaggerated accent): "Stealing? That is such an ugly word. We prefer to call it 'segment verification'."
I'm dating myself, but there is this funny scene in The Jerk when Steve Martin is working at a gas station and the new phone book arrives...
I just saw that episode last night.
Forgot to mention that I also have a SyQuest drive with three disks. That one hasn't seen much use in quite a while. I don't know if I have any music on it though.
I've got a couple of SCSI zip drives....
Was that the one with Stoney Carmichael?
(i.e. MyCleanPc which has been running for over a year now at least)
Yeah, well just wait until it takes more than three seconds for your email to load, then who will be sorry?
What is your concern with the Missouri river? Are you worried about it heating up from the fuel rods? I don't understand what you are implying with regard to the nation's breadbasket.
You left out ebola, mad cow, and of course, avian flu. Oh yeah, and it looks like there is a possibility that there might be a shortage of flu shots next winter.
Writing my name across the screen repeatedly was about the most interesting thing I could coax my C=64 to do after a perplexing read of the instruction manual.
Ah yes, remember PEEK and POKE? I never really knew what they did other than somebody told me a specific integer where I could write something on the screen that flashed. That was pretty cool.
When I type about:memory, all I get returned is No other information available and nothing reported for Value.