Really? Do these people not have a postal service? Per unit data a stamp is many orders of magnitude less expensive for sending data than a text message.
Go figure out which journals are most relevant to the work you are doing, and start reading some papers from those journals. After all, if you haven't read current research in your field how can you know that nobody else has already done what you are doing? You can start by searching for your topic through something like Google Scholar or Pubmed. You may need to pay a visit to a university to access some of the articles...
But either way, it is important to be knowledgeable in the research before attempting to publish a paper. You'll need to be able to cite previous works from other relevant authors to show why your own work is worthwhile; that is hard to do without reading those works.
I'd wager that anyone who moderated my comment "funny" hasn't been to Upstate New York (or not for very long). I was really expecting to be moderated "informative" or "insightful" instead.
Oh well, you can't always get what you want. And on the roads here you're lucky to get anything better than rear-ended.
I'm working in a skyscrapper next to the central station in Montreal.
Most people I know have books of pictures of other people. But if the sky is your thing, more power to you. I'd love to know how you identify one sky from another though.
I looked outside and saw wrecked cars strewn about. Some cars are overturned and on fire. Some buildings appear to be deteriorating in front of my very eyes.
They I remembered I'm in Upstate New York. People here can't drive. The state is broke. Yesterday looked pretty much the same.
I've often wondered how well the Wii would would if it was never connected to the internet. My Wii seems to download updates quite often and while it can be annoying I don't care since I don't have anything the least bit controversial on it.
However, one of the target markets for the Wii is older people who wouldn't necessarily be "gamers". It isn't hard to imagine a situation where some older people might buy one either for themselves or for entertaining younger people in their homes, and those people don't have high-speed internet (or even a computer). Does Nintendo have a distribution mechanism for updates for people who don't have their Wiis connected? I could see it being very frustrating for someone to find that they can't play a new game on their system just because they haven't updated....
The governor of California has quite a bit more power over his "subjects" than the governor general of Canada has over his. The governor of California is an executive, the governor general of Canada is a figurehead who stands in for the crown when they are unavailable for ceremonies.
I would think that they might not want ads for products that impair driving (alcohol for example); it would probably be bad to have cars running ads for Budweiser for example. But then where do they draw the line for who can and who cannot run ads?
This seems like it would be an added drain on the car battery, especially if the system wasn't smart enough to tell the difference between the car in run with the engine running and the car in run (or electronics only) with the engine off. Will the state pay for dead batteries?
And of course that is saying nothing about the cost of the drained lead-acid batteries that are in most cars on the road today...
Are you suggesting that more than one game was actually sold somewhere for the virtual boy? Sure the library for North America was (allegedly) some 20 titles but who actually had any of them?
That is all that ever drives spam. If they are aiming to convince people they aren't spammers, they shouldn't put so much energy into chasing after money that they feel they could receive from sending out email.
And where does the lack of jobs come from? Lack of funding to hire new people, of course. Which is exactly what you should expect when the budgets for national science funding agencies don't expand to at least meet inflation and the rising costs of doing science.
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They don't want to buy computers for computer labs, which personally I think is a bad excuse.
When I hear that I suspect the school probably wants to close the computer labs. And that is a fairly popular cost-cutting measure right now; the school saves on the cost of the systems, the cost of electricity to power them, the cost of paper and ink/toner for the printers in them, and of course the IT costs to support them. It is the new academic version of outsourcing, in this case; shift the costs to the individual students (and their families) so that you can try to get by one more year without a budget referendum.
If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize
it's not like they will be writing device drivers or hooking up exotic peripherals. they need a browser, email, IM, and maybe an IDE. they'll need to standardize on those anyway, but windows wouldn't make it any harder.
The school will almost certainly need to be able to provide at least some level of support for the laptops while they are being used in class - after all a single class will have a fair spread of computer-saviness amongst the students - so they need to have a standardized platform. Otherwise if a class has 5 dells running XP, 4 running 7, 3 running Vista, as well as 5 HPs running each of the same and 4 Macs on OS X, you could be looking at 7 (or more) significantly different configurations in just one classroom. If the teacher has to spend time adjusting networking settings, screen resolutions, or whatever else on the laptops, that is time taken away from instruction. And if half the Windows systems have viruses because the kids just had to run that "killer app" at home that won't install or run withtout administrator privileges...
So a uniform configuration makes sense when the school wants to actually use the laptops as instructional tools to assist in learning. If the goal was to teach these kids how to work on them, then saying "go buy a PC with X Y and Z" would have made sense.
... I would say there is some wisdom is chosing apple for that purpose. If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize. Even if they said "everyone go buy a Dell model ABC123" you wouldn't get very good consistency, because inevitably some parents would try to substitute something else (and yet others would substitute by accident). On top of that you do have the problem with the Windows (in)security mentality that leads to crashing systems all over the place.
So if the purpose really is for the kids to learn subject material that doesn't include how to fix the computer, then the apple probably isn't a bad choice after all.
Unfortunately little else on GH5 is worth a damn, IMHO. I'm not going to buy a game just to play one song. If we can have "Rock Band: Green Day" we certainly should be able to have "Guitar Hero: Dire Straits".
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Really? Do these people not have a postal service? Per unit data a stamp is many orders of magnitude less expensive for sending data than a text message.
Go figure out which journals are most relevant to the work you are doing, and start reading some papers from those journals. After all, if you haven't read current research in your field how can you know that nobody else has already done what you are doing? You can start by searching for your topic through something like Google Scholar or Pubmed. You may need to pay a visit to a university to access some of the articles...
But either way, it is important to be knowledgeable in the research before attempting to publish a paper. You'll need to be able to cite previous works from other relevant authors to show why your own work is worthwhile; that is hard to do without reading those works.
I'd wager that anyone who moderated my comment "funny" hasn't been to Upstate New York (or not for very long). I was really expecting to be moderated "informative" or "insightful" instead.
Oh well, you can't always get what you want. And on the roads here you're lucky to get anything better than rear-ended.
With the right genetic information on a convict the state could figure out how to quickly reduce the cost of a life sentence in prison...
I'm working in a skyscrapper next to the central station in Montreal.
Most people I know have books of pictures of other people. But if the sky is your thing, more power to you. I'd love to know how you identify one sky from another though.
I looked outside and saw wrecked cars strewn about. Some cars are overturned and on fire. Some buildings appear to be deteriorating in front of my very eyes.
They I remembered I'm in Upstate New York. People here can't drive. The state is broke. Yesterday looked pretty much the same.
I've often wondered how well the Wii would would if it was never connected to the internet. My Wii seems to download updates quite often and while it can be annoying I don't care since I don't have anything the least bit controversial on it.
However, one of the target markets for the Wii is older people who wouldn't necessarily be "gamers". It isn't hard to imagine a situation where some older people might buy one either for themselves or for entertaining younger people in their homes, and those people don't have high-speed internet (or even a computer). Does Nintendo have a distribution mechanism for updates for people who don't have their Wiis connected? I could see it being very frustrating for someone to find that they can't play a new game on their system just because they haven't updated....
The governor of California has quite a bit more power over his "subjects" than the governor general of Canada has over his. The governor of California is an executive, the governor general of Canada is a figurehead who stands in for the crown when they are unavailable for ceremonies.
I would think that they might not want ads for products that impair driving (alcohol for example); it would probably be bad to have cars running ads for Budweiser for example. But then where do they draw the line for who can and who cannot run ads?
This seems like it would be an added drain on the car battery, especially if the system wasn't smart enough to tell the difference between the car in run with the engine running and the car in run (or electronics only) with the engine off. Will the state pay for dead batteries?
And of course that is saying nothing about the cost of the drained lead-acid batteries that are in most cars on the road today...
from the need-more-retro-mega-man-titles
There is a great selection of "intermediate" titles for the Wii... especially if you browse the virtual console titles (most of which are under $10).
Are you suggesting that more than one game was actually sold somewhere for the virtual boy? Sure the library for North America was (allegedly) some 20 titles but who actually had any of them?
Is it compatible with my old Virtual Boy game?
That is all that ever drives spam. If they are aiming to convince people they aren't spammers, they shouldn't put so much energy into chasing after money that they feel they could receive from sending out email.
You're one of those idiots that complain about Ladies Nights being sexist, aren't you?
Joke >------>
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'nuff said.
Chatroulette is working on image-recognition software that will filter out shots of male genitalia.
So women can show their hoo-ha, but I can't show my ting-ting? Where's the ACLU on this one?
And where does the lack of jobs come from? Lack of funding to hire new people, of course. Which is exactly what you should expect when the budgets for national science funding agencies don't expand to at least meet inflation and the rising costs of doing science.
And apparently pointed it at the wickedlasers.com server...
I didn't think things had gotten so rough for Halliburton that they would need to start selling some of their properties...
I know it's historic but it still looks a bit on the high side according to the comparables in the area.
What else in the DC area has an indoor pool, indoor bowling alley, private basketball court, and a private helicopter landing site?
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They don't want to buy computers for computer labs, which personally I think is a bad excuse.
When I hear that I suspect the school probably wants to close the computer labs. And that is a fairly popular cost-cutting measure right now; the school saves on the cost of the systems, the cost of electricity to power them, the cost of paper and ink/toner for the printers in them, and of course the IT costs to support them. It is the new academic version of outsourcing, in this case; shift the costs to the individual students (and their families) so that you can try to get by one more year without a budget referendum.
If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize
it's not like they will be writing device drivers or hooking up exotic peripherals. they need a browser, email, IM, and maybe an IDE. they'll need to standardize on those anyway, but windows wouldn't make it any harder.
The school will almost certainly need to be able to provide at least some level of support for the laptops while they are being used in class - after all a single class will have a fair spread of computer-saviness amongst the students - so they need to have a standardized platform. Otherwise if a class has 5 dells running XP, 4 running 7, 3 running Vista, as well as 5 HPs running each of the same and 4 Macs on OS X, you could be looking at 7 (or more) significantly different configurations in just one classroom. If the teacher has to spend time adjusting networking settings, screen resolutions, or whatever else on the laptops, that is time taken away from instruction. And if half the Windows systems have viruses because the kids just had to run that "killer app" at home that won't install or run withtout administrator privileges ...
So a uniform configuration makes sense when the school wants to actually use the laptops as instructional tools to assist in learning. If the goal was to teach these kids how to work on them, then saying "go buy a PC with X Y and Z" would have made sense.
... I would say there is some wisdom is chosing apple for that purpose. If they instead opted for a Windows laptop it would be nearly impossible to standardize. Even if they said "everyone go buy a Dell model ABC123" you wouldn't get very good consistency, because inevitably some parents would try to substitute something else (and yet others would substitute by accident). On top of that you do have the problem with the Windows (in)security mentality that leads to crashing systems all over the place.
So if the purpose really is for the kids to learn subject material that doesn't include how to fix the computer, then the apple probably isn't a bad choice after all.
Unfortunately little else on GH5 is worth a damn, IMHO. I'm not going to buy a game just to play one song. If we can have "Rock Band: Green Day" we certainly should be able to have "Guitar Hero: Dire Straits".