The differences between the US and Zimbabwe are that the US is the world's #1 economy, the US is a center of innovation, the US preserves inalienable rights. Because of the faith and credit of the US, we can basically print as much money as we like.
Why can't we get some decent competition for the iPad? The iPad2 will probably be released around the same time, or shortly after, and be the same price as the current iPad, blowing this out of the water.
Rather sadly, I think you're right. Apple is in on this with guns blazing, and they want to reap the network effects to the max; more users, more apps, rinse repeat. After a threshold, it might become all qwerty: perhaps substandard (one day), but pretty much a system in equilibrium, with market forces unable to enter significantly.
Motorola--and google by the way--are really losing the timing with this bending over for the telcos. Sad state of affairs; I was ready and willing to get one.
if/when the paywall goes up, google the url (assuming you heard about the story or were redirected there by someone), and it will most likely let you in. You really gotta hand it to those guys, they want the google traffic, while blocking those that went to their sites in the first place.
Ok mods will burn me for this... but I think that their move to charge 30% off of the dying news industry might seriously backfire. Consider this:
i) the media industry has friends in high places; ii) given enough time, they will become desperate and have nothing to lose;
To bet against Steve has been a surefire loss for a long time. But I would never fight against those with friends in high places, desperate, with nothing to lose.
I think it's only a matter of time between the news cycle starts turning all "Apple the subject of antitrust laws?" or the classic "Should Apple be broken up?". Neither AT&T nor IBM nor MS had a good run with the state dept. Perhaps Apple is overstreching a bit too far here; I for one think the backlash isn't worth that 30% cut.
I for one find it awesome that many people are trying Science, Nature, or PNAS, then, if rejected, go for PLoS ONE. Here's a case of an, IMO, awesome paper that was originally submitted to PNAS (may have to google the url to get through) but ended up in PLoS ONE. This is the sort of paper that shows the power of computer science applied to social science.
Another problem that lots of people have brought up is the CC non commercial license that Nature is using. This could hamper the Open Access movement (and an author's ultimate impact). Some people go as far as to claim that non-commercial licenses aren't Open Access at all and can indeed hinder progress down the line.
At any rate, ONE has at least three years until Nature gets its report card (=impact factor). PLoS ONE is already the largest journal in the world (by volume), and if it can maintain quality, the Public Lib of Science should be safely sustainable in the long run. But make no mistake, Nature is coming here with guns blazing.
I think you're right on the mark. This paper, ""Positive" Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences", seems to show that people in, say, Physics or Chemistry have been publishing negative results, while Social Scientists haven't. Truly the time to open up those closet drawers.
anyone who travels much and sees the world through their own eyes will quickly realize that most of what we are told on the "news" is highly filtered and twisted to make it palatable to the sheep !
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, and I jog at the beach with a USD5000 watch. Now when I travel to Sydney or Hiroshima or Jordan or Fountainbleau, and I get to tell the local bartender/cab driver that I'm from Rio, first thing they tell me is to watch my back and that they'd never come here because of the crime. *sigh* Yes there's crime (around twice the homicide rate of Chicago). But since the media can only concentrate on the extreme examples and reinforce the stereotype, there is no way to convince people that it's vastly concentrated on pockets of violence here and there, and if you know how to avoid them (which is easy, btw), you'll be just fine.
No he cant. He threw out that claim when he took his PS3 onto PSN and agreed to their terms of use.
Sorry, citation fucking needed here. Did he ever sign into PSN? Did he state that? I for one bought a PS3 after the jailbreak and decided to never access the web with it. I would like OtherOS.
Any device Sony sells comes with a little document stating you really just purchased a licence to use the device, revokable at any time. I last saw this in a package for crappy Sony headphones.
So perhaps he should start by buying these headphones and telling the court that they can only be used if sony doesn't revoke the license. I surely hope this goes to court.
As a univ prof, I leave students free to use laptops. It is of course annoying, to me and to some other students, when somethings funny comes up (which is bound to happen given time), or simply when something offtopic deserves more attention than the class (in the student's perspective). On the other hand, many students use laptops very well, mixing their own notes with stuff from wikipedia and with my own slides, so I feel very ambivalent about this issue. If I were a student, I would like to be able to use them, so my take is that people should not be banned, or at least not with a clear history of bad behavior.
I read you, and think you are on target. Yet, because there seems to be only downsides to the opening of a WallMart, I believe these studies might have some sort of bias. So poverty grows? Here's an alternative explanation: perhaps poor people in the vicinity try to move closer to WallMart, and so their lives improve. At any rate, my point is that this whole negative scenarion cannot be as simple as it looks like. We should always look for alternative explanations and interpretations.
You do realise that these are trivial observations and that power laws are everywhere, right? Some people are going as far as to claim that we should stop calling the normal curve by that name, because the power laws seem to be the norm in the universe.
And no. Drawing up a nice distribution graph does not help in predicting anything. This work is just more of the same old publish-or-perish. By the way citations to journal articles obey a power law, as does the wealth of people, firms, and nations. The variance in the stock market prices? Power law. To go from the fucking shiny graph to the idea that I CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE!!! is nothing but modern astrology.
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The differences between the US and Zimbabwe are that the US is the world's #1 economy, the US is a center of innovation, the US preserves inalienable rights. Because of the faith and credit of the US, we can basically print as much money as we like.
BRAVO! Julius Caesar wouldn't put it another way.
Why can't we get some decent competition for the iPad? The iPad2 will probably be released around the same time, or shortly after, and be the same price as the current iPad, blowing this out of the water.
Rather sadly, I think you're right. Apple is in on this with guns blazing, and they want to reap the network effects to the max; more users, more apps, rinse repeat. After a threshold, it might become all qwerty: perhaps substandard (one day), but pretty much a system in equilibrium, with market forces unable to enter significantly. Motorola--and google by the way--are really losing the timing with this bending over for the telcos. Sad state of affairs; I was ready and willing to get one.
then again maybe not. http://www.google.com.br/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=blog+sold+to
isn't that what they used to say about AT&T, IBM or MS, back in the day?
if/when the paywall goes up, google the url (assuming you heard about the story or were redirected there by someone), and it will most likely let you in. You really gotta hand it to those guys, they want the google traffic, while blocking those that went to their sites in the first place.
Ok mods will burn me for this... but I think that their move to charge 30% off of the dying news industry might seriously backfire. Consider this:
i) the media industry has friends in high places;
ii) given enough time, they will become desperate and have nothing to lose;
To bet against Steve has been a surefire loss for a long time. But I would never fight against those with friends in high places, desperate, with nothing to lose.
I think it's only a matter of time between the news cycle starts turning all "Apple the subject of antitrust laws?" or the classic "Should Apple be broken up?". Neither AT&T nor IBM nor MS had a good run with the state dept. Perhaps Apple is overstreching a bit too far here; I for one think the backlash isn't worth that 30% cut.
+1 internets coming up here
I for one find it awesome that many people are trying Science, Nature, or PNAS, then, if rejected, go for PLoS ONE. Here's a case of an, IMO, awesome paper that was originally submitted to PNAS (may have to google the url to get through) but ended up in PLoS ONE. This is the sort of paper that shows the power of computer science applied to social science.
Nature embodies all that is wrong with scientific journals.
Well, have you heard of the PRISM fiasco? Nature PG is a saint compared to those guys. You can get some starting pointers here: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/calling-for-boycott-of-of-aap.html
Go to a Library
Just make sure that it's not from the UC system.
Another problem that lots of people have brought up is the CC non commercial license that Nature is using. This could hamper the Open Access movement (and an author's ultimate impact). Some people go as far as to claim that non-commercial licenses aren't Open Access at all and can indeed hinder progress down the line. At any rate, ONE has at least three years until Nature gets its report card (=impact factor). PLoS ONE is already the largest journal in the world (by volume), and if it can maintain quality, the Public Lib of Science should be safely sustainable in the long run. But make no mistake, Nature is coming here with guns blazing.
I think you're right on the mark. This paper, ""Positive" Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences", seems to show that people in, say, Physics or Chemistry have been publishing negative results, while Social Scientists haven't. Truly the time to open up those closet drawers.
you have respect for CNN? Body proves Bigfoot no myth, hunters say
anyone who travels much and sees the world through their own eyes will quickly realize that most of what we are told on the "news" is highly filtered and twisted to make it palatable to the sheep !
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, and I jog at the beach with a USD5000 watch. Now when I travel to Sydney or Hiroshima or Jordan or Fountainbleau, and I get to tell the local bartender/cab driver that I'm from Rio, first thing they tell me is to watch my back and that they'd never come here because of the crime. *sigh* Yes there's crime (around twice the homicide rate of Chicago). But since the media can only concentrate on the extreme examples and reinforce the stereotype, there is no way to convince people that it's vastly concentrated on pockets of violence here and there, and if you know how to avoid them (which is easy, btw), you'll be just fine.
No he cant. He threw out that claim when he took his PS3 onto PSN and agreed to their terms of use.
Sorry, citation fucking needed here. Did he ever sign into PSN? Did he state that? I for one bought a PS3 after the jailbreak and decided to never access the web with it. I would like OtherOS.
Any device Sony sells comes with a little document stating you really just purchased a licence to use the device, revokable at any time. I last saw this in a package for crappy Sony headphones.
So perhaps he should start by buying these headphones and telling the court that they can only be used if sony doesn't revoke the license. I surely hope this goes to court.
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wat? I don't understand this. I guess I should blog about it so that someone can enlighten me.
Son, I told you now, stop it with the video games and get back to your damn homework!
As a univ prof, I leave students free to use laptops. It is of course annoying, to me and to some other students, when somethings funny comes up (which is bound to happen given time), or simply when something offtopic deserves more attention than the class (in the student's perspective). On the other hand, many students use laptops very well, mixing their own notes with stuff from wikipedia and with my own slides, so I feel very ambivalent about this issue. If I were a student, I would like to be able to use them, so my take is that people should not be banned, or at least not with a clear history of bad behavior.
If you get a woman with the right 733ts, you won't care about what other women have :)
for 24 months, give or take
happy 2011 to you too, buddy
ironically, that sort of research may be used to measure the quality of each congresscritter
I read you, and think you are on target. Yet, because there seems to be only downsides to the opening of a WallMart, I believe these studies might have some sort of bias. So poverty grows? Here's an alternative explanation: perhaps poor people in the vicinity try to move closer to WallMart, and so their lives improve. At any rate, my point is that this whole negative scenarion cannot be as simple as it looks like. We should always look for alternative explanations and interpretations.
You're welcome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ducks
You do realise that these are trivial observations and that power laws are everywhere, right? Some people are going as far as to claim that we should stop calling the normal curve by that name, because the power laws seem to be the norm in the universe. And no. Drawing up a nice distribution graph does not help in predicting anything. This work is just more of the same old publish-or-perish. By the way citations to journal articles obey a power law, as does the wealth of people, firms, and nations. The variance in the stock market prices? Power law. To go from the fucking shiny graph to the idea that I CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE!!! is nothing but modern astrology.