Parent post is correct. When I undergo my annual performance review, my reviewers only really care about one thing: number of publications in peer reviewed journals. Everything else comes in last. It's not a good system for a number of reasons. For example, it discourages me from actually acting as a peer reviewer for these journals. Doing a good peer review takes time and I get no credit for it. So why should I do it? Unfortunately this leaves journals desperate for good peer reviewers.
... therefore it's pretty much necessary that healthy and unhealthy people pay the same.
Yeah, the fat guy who smokes, drinks, and eats cheeseburgers everyday should pay the same as me, the skinny guy who eats salads everyday. I have really low life insurance rates compared to most other people. Why should health insurance be different?
If you have a cheap healthcare for all healthy people, and then an unaffordable one for those more likely to get ill, the system crashes, doesn't it?
The system won't crash entirely as long as there are some people who are willing to pay for health care. However, that is the problem with US health care, fewer and fewer people can afford it because doctors and hospitals limit the amount of care available, driving up costs.
It is more dangerous when self-signed. Because it gives you a false sense of security otherwise.
It only gives you a false sense of security if the browser tells you should have a sense of security. If the browser does not say that the connection is authenticated, then you get no sense that it is authenticated. If you have an encrypted but not authenticated session, then the browser should just display the web page, without the little lock icon, like it does with plain html. It should NOT put up a prompt trying to scare people away from the web page and making them click through 4 different buttons like stupid-ass "Firefox" does. Talk about stupid!
On plain http you _know_ you are not secure.
No, most people are not that smart. Most people log into their accounts using plain http from open wireless access points. If you asked most people, they would not know the difference.
the GPL has the practical effect of ruining any mechanism for monetizing the software.
That is completely untrue. Red Hat is a successful commercial enterprise that uses mostly GPL software. It would be even easier for Apple to make money on Samba because 99.9% of their users don't know how to download, compile, and configure Samba for their devices. 99% of them probably wouldn't even know it was an option: No one reads the fine print.
You can only "sell" a GPL'd piece of software if you are the author,
Untrue. You can sell GPL software as much as you want. You just have to make sure the source is also available.
Apple Corp is just a bunch of assholes who do not want to contribute to open source software.
Ever flashed your ECU and then expect the manufacturer to cover the consequences?... Ever bought a large dedicated device (like a specialist microscope) that comes with some ancient MacOS version on the controller PC that you can never touch or upgrade without voiding the whole setup?... Hell, some high-end cars have tyres that "talk to" the car so they know exactly when you fitted a third-party component so they can void your warranty.
The GP poster is not asking for the companies to cover his device when he installs something new on it. Warranties are made to be voided. He is just saying that they should stop trying to control him so that he can not install what he wants.
Utah is pretty cheap. Do creative things to save $$. You can always find a hotel to stay in that is much cheaper than the conference hotel only a few blocks away. Find someone to share the room with you. As a grad student and post-doc I prided myself on how little money I spent going to conferences. Sometimes I would sleep on friends' couches if they lived in the city. So scrounge up a little money and go. As noted above by many others, the conference is your opportunity to make contacts. Talk to people. Important points: 1. Practice your presentation or poster explanation. Appear excited and interested in your work. Science & tech are interesting, but potential employers and collaborators are also looking for people who obviously understand their work and can communicate it well. 2. Listen to other people's talks, read peoples' posters. Of the ones you find interesting, ask the people questions about their work. ("Hello, Mr./Ms./Dr. _________, my name is _______. I saw your talk about __________. I was wondering if/how/when ___________.") People are happy when others are interested in what they do, and potential employers and collaborators are impressed by someone who can understand their work well enough to ask a good question. Often you will ask dumb questions. Don't worry. Move on to the next person, there are hundreds of them there. Keep asking questions.
The entire panic about CO2 is politically driven, and many scientists have hooked their wagons to it, in order to get research funding.
Yeah, I'm sure you're an atmospheric physicist. No? Well, I have news for you. As a scientist who has worked in multiple fields I can tell you that scientists do not take positions just to get research funding. Yes, there may be an occasional bad apple who does, but they are very few. The large number of scientists who have looked at the data and run computer simulations (not you), and have reached a common conclusion is insurmountable. Your statement is deluded and insulting.
Darn, I wish someone had told me. This whole time I thought that I had been loving it! The programmability in python, the fact that I'm now running my simulations and generating plots in R and matplotlib, the fact that I can reroute the networking anyway I want (e.g. ssh, vpn), all without needing anyone's permission. For real nerds, there is truly no other option.
It was so bad that after three months i went back to my iPhone 3G (and recently I moved over to a HTC Desire, which I love).
Usually udev handles this correctly. Recently I was swapping NIC cards in and out of my server, and after putting a card back in, only one of my 3 network cards was functioning. Fortunately there was a system message saying that udev was renaming eth1 to eth2 (I don't know why it was), and neither eth1 or eth2 was functioning. I blew away/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rebooted, and then everything was renumbered, I went from there, and it has been stable since. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. At setup a system that identifies the MOBO NIC and the other PCI NICs would have been helpful. That's what the new system proposes doing.
Stocks (and/or stock options) don't get you out of any taxes in any way I've seen unless you get options you never exercise... in which case you didn't get any payment either so it doesn't really matter does it?
Yes, it does matter. Options have value at the time they are received, whether you exercise them later or not. That's why they are bought and sold for money on the open market. If you get options you should be paying taxes, like it or not.
And not to stand in the way of your standing in the way of a good snark, but I don't give a damn how people are compensated for their work, they should be paying income and social security taxes just like me.
I posted previously about the problems I had getting my father's iPad to work. What a headache. So then my brother and his wife visit me with their iPhones. They have some video that they want me to watch.
So I first I try putting in an standard A/V plug to my TV. It works with my smart phone. Nope. No A/V on iPhone.
So then I think, I'll just download the video to my computer over the USB connector. So I connect the iPhone to my computer. Nada. It does not appear as mass storage device or anything. What? I have to install iTunes to get data off it? And my computer has to be 1 of the only 5 computers to which this thing can ever connect? My brother only visits me once every five years!
So then I think, I will have my brother upload the video to my web site. My brother brings up the browser and my web page on his iPhone. And guess what? The "choose file" button is greyed out! Something as basic as uploading a video file is not allowed.
Any of the above work just fine on my smart phone. There is no way I would ever recommend anybody buy any kind of Apple product. What a headache.
What? The plane crashed? I didn't notice. I was on my Blackberry. Neither did I notice the guy sitting next to me who was hitting me so I would get out of his way. I'm going to send him a nasty text message.
Not only ssh, but sshfs and X forwarding. For the administration that requires a graphical interface, just pop it up on your N900 display. You can't beat that. Not to mention OpenVPN works too.
This is why no one is his right mind should go with MS products to begin with. They are a trap. This is why standards are important. When you need to spend big lump of $ on products you should get to choose vendors. Anybody who posts to/. should be well aware of this by now. At some point even the government will have to ween itself of this MS addiction, and yes, bad decisions from previous years will cost money today.
It would be like forcing a design house to accept bids from some guy who wanted to rip out all their Macs and replace it with Ubuntu desktops running the Gimp... Would they ever in a million years give up all that experience and custom in house code written for Photoshop
Bad analogy. Most applications in govt (and elsewhere) are now network/server based, and most of those apps will run in any browser on any OS.
How about we cut IT's wages to 1/3 then hire twice as many?
We could, but what's the point? IT people are not endangering people's lives with lack of sleep.
That will sure solve many problems caused by not enough IT people and save money!
Hiring more IT people will generate more demand for IT jobs. More people will go into IT. In the US, where this article was published, the number of doctors is artificially kept low to keep wages high. Trying to hire more docs just increases wages and costs, not supply.
If you cut my pay to 1/3, I wouldn't be making minimum wage. Is it too much to ask to get a decent salary as an M.D.? I think I'm doing an important enough job.
You are obviously not a doctor in the US, where this article was published.
First of all, I was talking about the medical system. I order to have doctors working shorter hours, you need to have more doctors -> more money.
Or you could have more doctors, if each is paid less.
but in Israel (where I am from) and many other countries,
But in the United States, where this article was published, average doctors make 3-4 times the median income. If there were more doctors, they would make less money (perhaps only 2-3x) the median income, but not have to cover as many hours.
I know a doc who has a regular practice, and on some weekends works 24 hour shifts in an ER (and gets very tired doing it) because the pay is _huge_.
Yesterday I posted my personal factual experience with an Apple product, and I got troll-bombed by Apple zealots. (See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886760&cid=34369764) From where did all these zealots come? What happened to meta moderation?
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Parent post is correct. When I undergo my annual performance review, my reviewers only really care about one thing: number of publications in peer reviewed journals. Everything else comes in last.
It's not a good system for a number of reasons. For example, it discourages me from actually acting as a peer reviewer for these journals. Doing a good peer review takes time and I get no credit for it. So why should I do it? Unfortunately this leaves journals desperate for good peer reviewers.
... therefore it's pretty much necessary that healthy and unhealthy people pay the same.
Yeah, the fat guy who smokes, drinks, and eats cheeseburgers everyday should pay the same as me, the skinny guy who eats salads everyday. I have really low life insurance rates compared to most other people. Why should health insurance be different?
If you have a cheap healthcare for all healthy people, and then an unaffordable one for those more likely to get ill, the system crashes, doesn't it?
The system won't crash entirely as long as there are some people who are willing to pay for health care. However, that is the problem with US health care, fewer and fewer people can afford it because doctors and hospitals limit the amount of care available, driving up costs.
It is more dangerous when self-signed. Because it gives you a false sense of security otherwise.
It only gives you a false sense of security if the browser tells you should have a sense of security. If the browser does not say that the connection is authenticated, then you get no sense that it is authenticated.
If you have an encrypted but not authenticated session, then the browser should just display the web page, without the little lock icon, like it does with plain html. It should NOT put up a prompt trying to scare people away from the web page and making them click through 4 different buttons like stupid-ass "Firefox" does. Talk about stupid!
On plain http you _know_ you are not secure.
No, most people are not that smart. Most people log into their accounts using plain http from open wireless access points. If you asked most people, they would not know the difference.
the GPL has the practical effect of ruining any mechanism for monetizing the software.
That is completely untrue. Red Hat is a successful commercial enterprise that uses mostly GPL software.
It would be even easier for Apple to make money on Samba because 99.9% of their users don't know how to download, compile, and configure Samba for their devices. 99% of them probably wouldn't even know it was an option: No one reads the fine print.
You can only "sell" a GPL'd piece of software if you are the author,
Untrue. You can sell GPL software as much as you want. You just have to make sure the source is also available.
Apple Corp is just a bunch of assholes who do not want to contribute to open source software.
Ever flashed your ECU and then expect the manufacturer to cover the consequences? ... Ever bought a large dedicated device (like a specialist microscope) that comes with some ancient MacOS version on the controller PC that you can never touch or upgrade without voiding the whole setup? ... Hell, some high-end cars have tyres that "talk to" the car so they know exactly when you fitted a third-party component so they can void your warranty.
The GP poster is not asking for the companies to cover his device when he installs something new on it. Warranties are made to be voided. He is just saying that they should stop trying to control him so that he can not install what he wants.
Sell advertising space to Microsoft.
Utah is pretty cheap. Do creative things to save $$. You can always find a hotel to stay in that is much cheaper than the conference hotel only a few blocks away. Find someone to share the room with you. As a grad student and post-doc I prided myself on how little money I spent going to conferences. Sometimes I would sleep on friends' couches if they lived in the city. So scrounge up a little money and go.
As noted above by many others, the conference is your opportunity to make contacts. Talk to people. Important points:
1. Practice your presentation or poster explanation. Appear excited and interested in your work. Science & tech are interesting, but potential employers and collaborators are also looking for people who obviously understand their work and can communicate it well.
2. Listen to other people's talks, read peoples' posters. Of the ones you find interesting, ask the people questions about their work. ("Hello, Mr./Ms./Dr. _________, my name is _______. I saw your talk about __________. I was wondering if/how/when ___________.") People are happy when others are interested in what they do, and potential employers and collaborators are impressed by someone who can understand their work well enough to ask a good question. Often you will ask dumb questions. Don't worry. Move on to the next person, there are hundreds of them there. Keep asking questions.
The entire panic about CO2 is politically driven, and many scientists have hooked their wagons to it, in order to get research funding.
Yeah, I'm sure you're an atmospheric physicist. No? Well, I have news for you. As a scientist who has worked in multiple fields I can tell you that scientists do not take positions just to get research funding. Yes, there may be an occasional bad apple who does, but they are very few. The large number of scientists who have looked at the data and run computer simulations (not you), and have reached a common conclusion is insurmountable.
Your statement is deluded and insulting.
the N900 was horrific to use.
Darn, I wish someone had told me. This whole time I thought that I had been loving it!
The programmability in python, the fact that I'm now running my simulations and generating plots in R and matplotlib, the fact that I can reroute the networking anyway I want (e.g. ssh, vpn), all without needing anyone's permission.
For real nerds, there is truly no other option.
It was so bad that after three months i went back to my iPhone 3G (and recently I moved over to a HTC Desire, which I love).
Obviously you're not fickle.
'one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone.'
An engineer who is
1. bored
2. likes iPhones?
Does not sound like much of an engineer.
Going whole hog for W7 is a disaster for Nokia.
And Nokia's stock continues to drop.
You can get the whole album from Tin's web site. I recommend it.
So now you know you can call it a con.
Usually udev handles this correctly. /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rebooted, and then everything was renumbered, I went from there, and it has been stable since. Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Recently I was swapping NIC cards in and out of my server, and after putting a card back in, only one of my 3 network cards was functioning. Fortunately there was a system message saying that udev was renaming eth1 to eth2 (I don't know why it was), and neither eth1 or eth2 was functioning. I blew away
At setup a system that identifies the MOBO NIC and the other PCI NICs would have been helpful. That's what the new system proposes doing.
Yes, it does matter. Options have value at the time they are received, whether you exercise them later or not. That's why they are bought and sold for money on the open market. If you get options you should be paying taxes, like it or not.
And not to stand in the way of your standing in the way of a good snark, but I don't give a damn how people are compensated for their work, they should be paying income and social security taxes just like me.
I posted previously about the problems I had getting my father's iPad to work. What a headache.
So then my brother and his wife visit me with their iPhones. They have some video that they want me to watch.
So I first I try putting in an standard A/V plug to my TV. It works with my smart phone. Nope. No A/V on iPhone.
So then I think, I'll just download the video to my computer over the USB connector. So I connect the iPhone to my computer. Nada. It does not appear as mass storage device or anything. What? I have to install iTunes to get data off it? And my computer has to be 1 of the only 5 computers to which this thing can ever connect? My brother only visits me once every five years!
So then I think, I will have my brother upload the video to my web site. My brother brings up the browser and my web page on his iPhone. And guess what? The "choose file" button is greyed out! Something as basic as uploading a video file is not allowed.
Any of the above work just fine on my smart phone. There is no way I would ever recommend anybody buy any kind of Apple product. What a headache.
I love being told I'm a #$%&@# idiot and shouldn't be allowed to open my PURCHASED device, should I choose to do so.
I guess this proves that if you purchased an Apple device, you probably are an idiot.
What? The plane crashed? I didn't notice. I was on my Blackberry. Neither did I notice the guy sitting next to me who was hitting me so I would get out of his way. I'm going to send him a nasty text message.
Don't buy it unless it has a standard connector like USB.
Not only ssh, but sshfs and X forwarding. For the administration that requires a graphical interface, just pop it up on your N900 display. You can't beat that.
Not to mention OpenVPN works too.
This is why no one is his right mind should go with MS products to begin with. They are a trap. /. should be well aware of this by now. At some point even the government will have to ween itself of this MS addiction, and yes, bad decisions from previous years will cost money today.
This is why standards are important. When you need to spend big lump of $ on products you should get to choose vendors. Anybody who posts to
It would be like forcing a design house to accept bids from some guy who wanted to rip out all their Macs and replace it with Ubuntu desktops running the Gimp... Would they ever in a million years give up all that experience and custom in house code written for Photoshop
Bad analogy. Most applications in govt (and elsewhere) are now network/server based, and most of those apps will run in any browser on any OS.
How about we cut IT's wages to 1/3 then hire twice as many?
We could, but what's the point? IT people are not endangering people's lives with lack of sleep.
That will sure solve many problems caused by not enough IT people and save money!
Hiring more IT people will generate more demand for IT jobs. More people will go into IT.
In the US, where this article was published, the number of doctors is artificially kept low to keep wages high. Trying to hire more docs just increases wages and costs, not supply.
If you cut my pay to 1/3, I wouldn't be making minimum wage. Is it too much to ask to get a decent salary as an M.D.? I think I'm doing an important enough job.
You are obviously not a doctor in the US, where this article was published.
First of all, I was talking about the medical system. I order to have doctors working shorter hours, you need to have more doctors -> more money.
Or you could have more doctors, if each is paid less.
but in Israel (where I am from) and many other countries,
But in the United States, where this article was published, average doctors make 3-4 times the median income. If there were more doctors, they would make less money (perhaps only 2-3x) the median income, but not have to cover as many hours.
I know a doc who has a regular practice, and on some weekends works 24 hour shifts in an ER (and gets very tired doing it) because the pay is _huge_.
Actually, it can all be summed up in: Lack of money
Yeah, because we all know that doctors are poor and can't make good money.
Yesterday I posted my personal factual experience with an Apple product, and I got troll-bombed by Apple zealots. (See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1886760&cid=34369764)
From where did all these zealots come?
What happened to meta moderation?