Right, depends on the area. If you are doing theoretical research in CS or math and don't have a grant to cover the expenses or have limited grant money, $1500 might seem like a lot. In the experimental areas, as you say, the cost of the project is a lot higher, so $1500 is just a minor expense.
If you have only 2000 readers, you're going to have to charge a lot from each reader to cover the costs.
Actually that is not quite right. They did a study in math journals and found out that top quality journals with similar readership (e.g. Inventiones and the Annals) charge wildly different subscriptions.
Author pays is an awfule model. People from poor countries, graduate students and researchers without grants are unlikely to pay $1500/paper.
What I don't understand is why journals charge so much for subscriptions. After all the reviewers do their work for free, so their only expense is the editorial stuff and printing. These are expensive but not expensive enough to justify the exorbitatn subscription charges.
as anybody who knows anything about advertising will tell you, the "coolness" factor of an ad often is only a minor role in its effectiveness. i could probably watch that doritos commercial with that girl at the laundromat all day, but i still don't buy doritos. rather, factors such as repitition and subconscious awareness building are more important.
And how exactly are you going to steer celestial bodies into Mars?
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What exactly do you mean by the creation myth - why should the creation happen only on Earth and not elsewhere as well? I think most religions do not insist on literal interpretations of their texts.
On the other hand extraterrestial intelligence would be a much thornier problem (as far as Christianity is concerned, in any case) -
did the aliens have the original sin and redenmption, etc.
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Well,the horizontal component of the force will be equal to 1G times the mass of the passenger.
The absolute value (which is 1.4 G approx) is not important as we always have to bear the force of gravity in any case.
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Why should there be religious ramifications to finding bacterial life on Mars?
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1G is not a comfortable acceleration for passenger travel.
Well, if $500 bil is OK, I don't see a problem with $1 tril.
My problem with the program is that it was an election year thing to be dropped when it turned out to be unpopular. The precise numbers are not so important, as far as I am concerned.
When I was a kid I knew all too well about
American ICBMs pointing at my city. Used to have nightmares about it, in fact.
It is time for the US to lead the world to eventual nuclear disarmament. Who else will? Meanwhile, US is the only country (I believe)
which has not renounced the first use yet. Instead of commiting to disarmament, the current administration is busy spending on the order of.5 bil for "bunker-busting" nukes development...
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Much of linear algebra? What basis do you have for saying that, except for that conjecture, which is rather marginal, after all.
And who would that mystery person be? Go figure.
I thought those guys were a piece of annoyware. Go figure.
Right, depends on the area. If you are doing theoretical research in CS or math and don't have a grant to cover the expenses or have limited grant money, $1500 might seem like a lot. In the experimental areas, as you say, the cost of the project is a lot higher, so $1500 is just a minor expense.
Yes, yes, milking the readership is what much of it is about... And usually they take the copyright too.
Actually that is not quite right. They did a study in math journals and found out that top quality journals with similar readership (e.g. Inventiones and the Annals) charge wildly different subscriptions.
So what do researchers without grants do?
Interesting. Are you in biology? In CS people typically don't have to pay.
It is not about institutions, but individual researchers. Your institution typically will not cover the cost.
That is not the case for most journals, as far as I know. However authors often have to pay for color illustrations.
What I don't understand is why journals charge so much for subscriptions. After all the reviewers do their work for free, so their only expense is the editorial stuff and printing. These are expensive but not expensive enough to justify the exorbitatn subscription charges.
Wow, your logic is mindboggling.
I think they have already achieved a net increase of energy using fusion. It's called H-bomb.
And how exactly are you going to steer celestial bodies into Mars?
On the other hand extraterrestial intelligence would be a much thornier problem (as far as Christianity is concerned, in any case) - did the aliens have the original sin and redenmption, etc.
The absolute value (which is 1.4 G approx) is not important as we always have to bear the force of gravity in any case.
Why should there be religious ramifications to finding bacterial life on Mars?
1G is not a comfortable acceleration for passenger travel.
I will contemplate what you said.
In some sense language is a way to compress the world (i.e. build a model that fits in one's head).
My problem with the program is that it was an election year thing to be dropped when it turned out to be unpopular. The precise numbers are not so important, as far as I am concerned.
So if it were only $500 billion, that would be fiscally responsible?
It is time for the US to lead the world to eventual nuclear disarmament. Who else will? Meanwhile, US is the only country (I believe) which has not renounced the first use yet. Instead of commiting to disarmament, the current administration is busy spending on the order of .5 bil for "bunker-busting" nukes development...
However there is nothing to be proud or smug about. The talk about parking lot is objectionable.
In other words, you are saying US will commit mass murder in revenge?