The trouble with Janeway was everything, from the sound of her voice, to how she was written, passing through her acting. She was the worse character of all star trek. (Yes including wesley crusher who save the enterprise 50 times in season 1 of TNG)
I don't like the idea of increaseing the price of the patent. You want joe schmuk to be able to patent things as well. What about setting the price of the patent as an exponential of the number of patent you already hold?
I am a postdoc. My boss (Mr. Professor, PhD) always says: "There are only have 3 things we HAVE to do: 1/ make sure we stay funded. 2/ make sure our students complete their degree and have papers. 3/ have fun with our research."
Clearly I do not work in the same place many other slashdotter work. Professors do not care how many paper they publish. They dont, they already have 150 papers in conferences, 80 papers in journals. They don't care having one or ten more. The only thing they actually need is progress to report to NSF or whoever funds the research.
I understand it is directional, but I hardly believe you will be able to target the 6th machine on the 2nd rack on the left without irradiating half of the next 4 racks on the left. Maybe directionality will reduce it to 60 machines in your path instead of 150. But I don't think you'll reach anything below 10 machines.
I am not even mentionning that collisions will only give you half duplex, most likely even less.
From TFA: "the authors picked a Georgia Tech design with bandwidth of between 4-15Gbps and and effective range of less than or equal to 10 meters."
Provided interference, does that mean you won't get more than 15Gbit per second for all the machine in a circle of 10 meters? How much is that 6 racks? You put what, 20 machine per rack? (I am not in IT, so I am not exactly sure.) so you share 15Gbit per second accros 120 machines?
Assuming no other interference. Right now, you can get 10Gbit per second with 10gig ethernet full duplex from all the odd machine to their even one. that gies you a cross cut of about 600Gbit per second.
Of course, you do not have that much on the inside. But if you are running an hadoop cluster (for instance), you definitively need that bandwidth!
I really don't understand in which kind of server room, you would want wireless networking.
You could redirect the saving you make from not payaing the publishers to fund a distributed service within universities' library. Seriously, how much is needed. A few machines to store meta data and the articles and a bittorrent tracker. Then connect all universities library together on these trackers, et voila, you have the cheapest super resiliant system ever.
Fuck you. That "paywall" helps to pay for research
Actually it does not.
When the paywall comes from a private publisher, none of the cost you pay actually fund research. Researchers in the loop of publishing (authors, reviewers, editors) receive no money from the publisher. The publishers pays some money to keep the journals running such as the printing/hosting cost, the copy editors, and some layout folks. But it mainly pays the publisher itself.
Printing/hosting cost is quite low nowadays and it could very easily be absorbed within the universities and libraries budget. Copy editing is only midly useful, but that could be taken care of at the university level as well. Layout folks in editors are actually making a terrible job, I need to point out layout mistake often while the layout was correct in the version I had sent them.
What else are the publishers doing? They have some quite bad recommendation service nobody use (we actually wrote our own at http://theadvisor.osu.edu/ ). Seriously, what else are they doing?
When the publisher is a scientific entity such as IEEE and ACM, the money does not really fund research as well. They have some travel awards for student sometimes, but that pretty much it. The money is also used to bootstrap some conferences, which is useful, but overall it could be covered in other ways.
Seriously, they are sucking funds out of research, we would be better without them.
PS: most of my publications are available on arxiv or on my website.
That piece of writing was neither very good nor very entertaining. I can recommend Cory Doctorow's writing for more realistic views of what the future (close present) might have for us. He goes in multiple direction depending on his current writing. It is most of the time very enjoyable.
I just saw two new titles on his website. i know what I will read tonight! BTW, all his novels and books are released under creative commons, you can get the book in electronic format on his website.
I live in the US now, but I lived in France until a few years ago. The market is quite different in ways most people do not see.
First of all, the weather condition in the US are very variating from a region to the other one. I live in ohio and we get snow about 5 month per year. That's a mid alps type of snow. Having a good traction is important. Most people will get "all seasons tires", which is fairly stupid, but that's what people do.
Then, the road condition are different. I was reading recently that US policitians prefer opening new roads than fixing existing ones. The road are bad in the US in general compared to your average road in France. Having a car that can take bad roads is important.
Most people will travel long distance, having a confortable car is important. You frequently hear "I'll drive there, it is only 18 hours driving away". People think whenever they buy a car, that they might travel for days in it.
There might be issues on familly sizes as well, but I could not find good comparative data on it (beside fertility rate which does not mean too much).
In France, half the problem of having a car is parking it. Parking is typically not an issue here. So there is less incentive for small cars.
Importing car from the european market is difficult. European cars are more expensive to buy and to insure than american or japanese cars.
Seriously, these game barely change from one year to the next anyway. If you buy one every 5 years, you will see the difference, but that's pretty much it.
(disclaimer: I am french, but I did not follow the story in details since I no longer live in france.)
There might be a significant cost in retraining some people. Also provided the amount of windows/office licenses owned by the government, 10% might already be a significant amount of money send to open source developers.
Economically that makes a lot of sense. You cut some money that was going to microsoft (so to an other country) and you redirect part of the money to local developers.
You are correct and I aggree with you. However, this is not a power that the US Patent Office has. But I think this is a good step toward reducing the number of ridiculous patents.
you could do some tricks such as pluging two keyboards and splitting the display in two. That would require a little bit of software, but will improve the cost per post significantly.
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The trouble with Janeway was everything, from the sound of her voice, to how she was written, passing through her acting. She was the worse character of all star trek. (Yes including wesley crusher who save the enterprise 50 times in season 1 of TNG)
Though I think Sisko had the grade of captain in the last seasons of DS9.
You don't speak marketing that's why.
it is unlimited!*
*up to 500MB
Their cold air is essentially room temperature, as they're using 80 degrees (presumably F) for that side.
They are Google. I think it is 80K!
I don't like the idea of increaseing the price of the patent. You want joe schmuk to be able to patent things as well. What about setting the price of the patent as an exponential of the number of patent you already hold?
I did not know who heinlein was : it is apparently a shame I didn't. That quote makes me want to read his books. Thank you !
Because they work in Congress?
I am a postdoc. My boss (Mr. Professor, PhD) always says: "There are only have 3 things we HAVE to do: 1/ make sure we stay funded. 2/ make sure our students complete their degree and have papers. 3/ have fun with our research."
Clearly I do not work in the same place many other slashdotter work. Professors do not care how many paper they publish. They dont, they already have 150 papers in conferences, 80 papers in journals. They don't care having one or ten more. The only thing they actually need is progress to report to NSF or whoever funds the research.
I understand it is directional, but I hardly believe you will be able to target the 6th machine on the 2nd rack on the left without irradiating half of the next 4 racks on the left. Maybe directionality will reduce it to 60 machines in your path instead of 150. But I don't think you'll reach anything below 10 machines.
I am not even mentionning that collisions will only give you half duplex, most likely even less.
From TFA: "the authors picked a Georgia Tech design with bandwidth of between 4-15Gbps and and effective range of less than or equal to 10 meters."
Provided interference, does that mean you won't get more than 15Gbit per second for all the machine in a circle of 10 meters? How much is that 6 racks? You put what, 20 machine per rack? (I am not in IT, so I am not exactly sure.) so you share 15Gbit per second accros 120 machines?
Assuming no other interference. Right now, you can get 10Gbit per second with 10gig ethernet full duplex from all the odd machine to their even one. that gies you a cross cut of about 600Gbit per second.
Of course, you do not have that much on the inside. But if you are running an hadoop cluster (for instance), you definitively need that bandwidth!
I really don't understand in which kind of server room, you would want wireless networking.
If it is possible, I'm fine with that. But it is good to know there are alternatives available.
I don't want a secure boot. I just want to be able to boot whatever I feel like booting.
You could redirect the saving you make from not payaing the publishers to fund a distributed service within universities' library. Seriously, how much is needed. A few machines to store meta data and the articles and a bittorrent tracker. Then connect all universities library together on these trackers, et voila, you have the cheapest super resiliant system ever.
Fuck you. That "paywall" helps to pay for research
Actually it does not.
When the paywall comes from a private publisher, none of the cost you pay actually fund research. Researchers in the loop of publishing (authors, reviewers, editors) receive no money from the publisher. The publishers pays some money to keep the journals running such as the printing/hosting cost, the copy editors, and some layout folks. But it mainly pays the publisher itself.
Printing/hosting cost is quite low nowadays and it could very easily be absorbed within the universities and libraries budget. Copy editing is only midly useful, but that could be taken care of at the university level as well. Layout folks in editors are actually making a terrible job, I need to point out layout mistake often while the layout was correct in the version I had sent them.
What else are the publishers doing? They have some quite bad recommendation service nobody use (we actually wrote our own at http://theadvisor.osu.edu/ ). Seriously, what else are they doing?
When the publisher is a scientific entity such as IEEE and ACM, the money does not really fund research as well. They have some travel awards for student sometimes, but that pretty much it. The money is also used to bootstrap some conferences, which is useful, but overall it could be covered in other ways.
Seriously, they are sucking funds out of research, we would be better without them.
PS: most of my publications are available on arxiv or on my website.
That piece of writing was neither very good nor very entertaining. I can recommend Cory Doctorow's writing for more realistic views of what the future (close present) might have for us. He goes in multiple direction depending on his current writing. It is most of the time very enjoyable.
http://craphound.com/
I just saw two new titles on his website. i know what I will read tonight! BTW, all his novels and books are released under creative commons, you can get the book in electronic format on his website.
people offer that to kids so that they won't have to pay a crazily expensive dataplan.
I have five kids (three are adopted, so no preaching about overpopulating the Earth)
You are a brave man. I am glad you are doing it. Thank you for mankind!
I live in the US now, but I lived in France until a few years ago.
The market is quite different in ways most people do not see.
First of all, the weather condition in the US are very variating from a region to the other one. I live in ohio and we get snow about 5 month per year. That's a mid alps type of snow. Having a good traction is important. Most people will get "all seasons tires", which is fairly stupid, but that's what people do.
Then, the road condition are different. I was reading recently that US policitians prefer opening new roads than fixing existing ones. The road are bad in the US in general compared to your average road in France. Having a car that can take bad roads is important.
Most people will travel long distance, having a confortable car is important. You frequently hear "I'll drive there, it is only 18 hours driving away". People think whenever they buy a car, that they might travel for days in it.
There might be issues on familly sizes as well, but I could not find good comparative data on it (beside fertility rate which does not mean too much).
In France, half the problem of having a car is parking it. Parking is typically not an issue here. So there is less incentive for small cars.
Importing car from the european market is difficult. European cars are more expensive to buy and to insure than american or japanese cars.
if latency is low: remote high definition desktop would be one of them.
many applications are hindered by bandwidth, stuff are computed on the server side because the data are too big to be transfered to the client.
Seriously, these game barely change from one year to the next anyway. If you buy one every 5 years, you will see the difference, but that's pretty much it.
Suse -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> DragonflyBSD -> Debian -> CentOS -> Debian
(I think there is a pattern)
(disclaimer: I am french, but I did not follow the story in details since I no longer live in france.)
There might be a significant cost in retraining some people. Also provided the amount of windows/office licenses owned by the government, 10% might already be a significant amount of money send to open source developers.
Economically that makes a lot of sense. You cut some money that was going to microsoft (so to an other country) and you redirect part of the money to local developers.
You are correct and I aggree with you. However, this is not a power that the US Patent Office has. But I think this is a good step toward reducing the number of ridiculous patents.
I already posted so I can not follow my own advice. MOD PARENT UP!
you could do some tricks such as pluging two keyboards and splitting the display in two. That would require a little bit of software, but will improve the cost per post significantly.