The distinction that isn't being drawn in this discussion is between "journal" and "print journals."
Print journals fall into the "dead man walking" category. They exist today not for knowledge or the university, but to benefit the publishers, and are running on inertial. Universities pay several thousand dollars a year for subscriptions.
Electronic journals can accomplish everything that the print journals can with regard to quality control and screening--and do it faster with nominal cost. Reviewers aren't (usually) paid in the first place; the sole financial cost of an electronic journal would be a server--which the editor's university already possesses.
All it takes at this point is for full professors to refuse copyright assignments to print journals and to submit to online journals, and for promotion/tenure committees to value freely available online journals more than restricted print journals, and the game is over.
hawk, sometime professor of economics & statistics
That decision wasn't reversed for anything during the trial. For that matter, the decision wasn't reversed--just the remedy phase. Even then, the reason that the remedy phase was vacated and reassigned was not for his behavior in the case, but because the judge's *outside* behavior undercut the appearance of judicial neutrality. Had he just kept his yap shut outside of the courtroom, his decision would have stood.
Also, note that in the early phases, he was pretty clearly leaning towards Microsoft's position--then came the perjury, the incredible testimony from Gates, the faked video, . . .
I am a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice. If this even *could* apply to you, you would already be a lawyer . . .
Ten years is unusual. I'm not even sure I've ever *heard* of "enhanced disbarment" before.
By its nature, disbarment is permanent. In many (most?) states, an attorney can petition to be considered for lifting of disbarment after five years--but has a heavy burden; he must show that he is no longer a danger if allowed to practice. The fact that he is a danger was established prior to disbarment; disputing it would end the possibility of showing the needed change.
Ten years, however . . . and that does *not* mean he gets the license back then, only that that is the earliest date at which he *could* request it and attempt to show fitness . . .
It was indeed a high point--MS' copy of System 5, in which Apple introduced the Multifinder.
Look at the Win95, then look at Mac System 5 (or 6). The Win95 interface is basically system 5 swith the multifinder always on and two $20 shareware extensions (beheirarch and,uhh, I forget the other:). The Apple menu is moved from the upper to lower left, the rest of the menubar is supressed unless you click, and the bottom of the screen contains the applications list formerly on the upper-right menubar pulldown. Oh, and the trash can is renamed the recycle bin. There are also a couple of things left out (I haven't had to use it in years; I forget which of the things we always expected was missing).
System 5 was released in 1987, and ran just fine in 512k machines . . .
I have a BofA account, created online, solely to cash checks from a client. By the time I was done arguing with their webpage, it had created not a single checking account, but a checking account *and* a checking/saving pair . . . It also failed to access the account I told it to fund these with.
As this happened over a few minutes, I doubt that creating at least several dozen accounts spread across several institutions would be a problem.
Roll back the clock a couple of decades. Microsoft was the #2 violator of the Macintosh programming standards and rules. #1, of course, was Apple . . .
Thus on system software changes, guess which two manufacturers' software broke the most often.
The fault isn't in the encryption, but in the assumption that publishers will limit their market to that subset of computers with the chip . . .
"Sure, we're going to pay the full development costs for this game but limit ourselves to 10% of the market."
The prevalence of this attitude explains why there are as many games for Mac and Linux as there are for Windows (and why there are as many commercial products for GreeBSD as for linux . ..)
That would have come from a dull-witted programmer.
How about "field color of card description" . . .
I used hypercard as a front end to prepare merge files for Word in the early 90's. It could preprocess and adjust to my arbitrarily introducing new fields (I'd dump the file dnames, and then the contnets, and wouldn't have to adjust my word file.
I could produce nearly complete bankruptcies and divorces quickly. At the time, competition had driven the price for summary divorces (agreed terms) to about $100 plus the filing fee. This was killing many attorneys, as they took over an hour of secretary time to prepare papers for an attorney to review. For me, papers were kicking out the printer ten minutes after the person sat down. Review was trivial, as I'd written the thing and knew exactly what would happen.
The ability to print out papers on the spot also proved the cash for my honeymoon:)
Any unix with a 32 bit time counter, and any software still hanging around that was written assuming that . . .
I suspect that it will all have been recompiled by then; the only software that I expect to see problems for are ones that used "strange" tricks to force time into exactly 32 bits . . .
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The distinction that isn't being drawn in this discussion is between "journal" and "print journals."
Print journals fall into the "dead man walking" category. They exist today not for knowledge or the university, but to benefit the publishers, and are running on inertial. Universities pay several thousand dollars a year for subscriptions.
Electronic journals can accomplish everything that the print journals can with regard to quality control and screening--and do it faster with nominal cost. Reviewers aren't (usually) paid in the first place; the sole financial cost of an electronic journal would be a server--which the editor's university already possesses.
All it takes at this point is for full professors to refuse copyright assignments to print journals and to submit to online journals, and for promotion/tenure committees to value freely available online journals more than restricted print journals, and the game is over.
hawk, sometime professor of economics & statistics
And quite appropriately, Debian names them after characters from a 1995 movie :)
hawk
Err, yeah. :) You might even label that the zeroth rule . . . (why not; thermodynamics added a zeroth rule!)
hmm, giving that that invariably annoys judges, it might merely be a special case of rule one . . .
hawk
Sort of.
That decision wasn't reversed for anything during the trial. For that matter, the decision wasn't reversed--just the remedy phase. Even then, the reason that the remedy phase was vacated and reassigned was not for his behavior in the case, but because the judge's *outside* behavior undercut the appearance of judicial neutrality. Had he just kept his yap shut outside of the courtroom, his decision would have stood.
Also, note that in the early phases, he was pretty clearly leaning towards Microsoft's position--then came the perjury, the incredible testimony from Gates, the faked video, . . .
hawk, esq.
The first rule of litigation is, "Don't p*** off the judge."
Seriously.
hawk, esq.
I am a lawyer, but this isn't legal advice. If this even *could* apply to you, you would already be a lawyer . . .
Ten years is unusual. I'm not even sure I've ever *heard* of "enhanced disbarment" before.
By its nature, disbarment is permanent. In many (most?) states, an attorney can petition to be considered for lifting of disbarment after five years--but has a heavy burden; he must show that he is no longer a danger if allowed to practice. The fact that he is a danger was established prior to disbarment; disputing it would end the possibility of showing the needed change.
Ten years, however . . . and that does *not* mean he gets the license back then, only that that is the earliest date at which he *could* request it and attempt to show fitness . . .
hawk, esq.
EMACS has an editor?
I guess we can finaly put away the old complaint about being a great OS in need of a good editor . . .
hawk
It's now unnecessary--
the camera already stole their souls, and they don't need the internet to do that . . .
hawk
If I state that I've never seen this Dragonball Z, and I"m not sure whether it's a game or a cartoon, to I have to tell you to get off my lawn? :)
hawk, longtime Model M afficianado
>will tell you from recent experience that typing on one of
>these old beasts will slow you down immensly.
Sounds like insufficient experience, or a slow typist.
Yes, I've used them for years. I can blithely pound away without the slowdowns of flimsey or non-tactile keys.
hawk, who used to type over 100 wpm on manuals
>Even a woman of moderate build could fell two or three professional
:)
>wrestlers with this thing. If they can lift it.
What happens if they can't lift it for her? (And for that matter, why would they?
hawk
It was indeed a high point--MS' copy of System 5, in which Apple introduced the Multifinder.
:). The Apple menu is moved from the upper to lower left, the rest of the menubar is supressed unless you click, and the bottom of the screen contains the applications list formerly on the upper-right menubar pulldown. Oh, and the trash can is renamed the recycle bin. There are also a couple of things left out (I haven't had to use it in years; I forget which of the things we always expected was missing).
Look at the Win95, then look at Mac System 5 (or 6). The Win95 interface is basically system 5 swith the multifinder always on and two $20 shareware extensions (beheirarch and,uhh, I forget the other
System 5 was released in 1987, and ran just fine in 512k machines . . .
hawk
Never mind the work; imagine filling out the 58,000 sets of compliance papers :)
hawk
I have a BofA account, created online, solely to cash checks from a client. By the time I was done arguing with their webpage, it had created not a single checking account, but a checking account *and* a checking/saving pair . . . It also failed to access the account I told it to fund these with.
As this happened over a few minutes, I doubt that creating at least several dozen accounts spread across several institutions would be a problem.
The US Government's history on redaction and coherent screening before posting documents is hardly the gold standard in the field . . .
hawk
As usual for gaming questions, nethack is the answer!
Not only TANPIN, TANIE!
nethack--the only game that matters
hawk
>FWIW, I LIKE Vista
:)
Yeah, and there's men that go to work in women's frilly underwear, but most don't brag about it on the internet!
hawk
Roll back the clock a couple of decades. Microsoft was the #2 violator of the Macintosh programming standards and rules. #1, of course, was Apple . . .
Thus on system software changes, guess which two manufacturers' software broke the most often.
hawk
The fault isn't in the encryption, but in the assumption that publishers will limit their market to that subset of computers with the chip . . .
.)
"Sure, we're going to pay the full development costs for this game but limit ourselves to 10% of the market."
The prevalence of this attitude explains why there are as many games for Mac and Linux as there are for Windows (and why there are as many commercial products for GreeBSD as for linux . .
hawk
That would have come from a dull-witted programmer.
:)
How about "field color of card description" . . .
I used hypercard as a front end to prepare merge files for Word in the early 90's. It could preprocess and adjust to my arbitrarily introducing new fields (I'd dump the file dnames, and then the contnets, and wouldn't have to adjust my word file.
I could produce nearly complete bankruptcies and divorces quickly. At the time, competition had driven the price for summary divorces (agreed terms) to about $100 plus the filing fee. This was killing many attorneys, as they took over an hour of secretary time to prepare papers for an attorney to review. For me, papers were kicking out the printer ten minutes after the person sat down. Review was trivial, as I'd written the thing and knew exactly what would happen.
The ability to print out papers on the spot also proved the cash for my honeymoon
hawk
Debian will.
:)
Oh, they're not "waiting". My bad . . .
hawk
Quite obviously, it is a critical part of their technology platform :)
hawk
Any unix with a 32 bit time counter, and any software still hanging around that was written assuming that . . .
I suspect that it will all have been recompiled by then; the only software that I expect to see problems for are ones that used "strange" tricks to force time into exactly 32 bits . . .
hawk
Actually, I haven't been teaching for more than a year.
Litigating full time, of all things. But time for frivolity has been so tight . . .
So? Most real programmers won't catch the Microsoft reference, either . . .
hawk