He shouldn't reveal the person's name. For all we know it was a lab assistant who did the falsifying and the "big name" is none the wiser. Most papers are coauthored with grad students, and often the routine tasks such as, say developing pictures and writing down the process are done by them.
To the best of my knowledge the best spy satellites have a resolution of about 4 inches.
Sure, but once you have a target you can survey it with high altitude drones, which have a resolution of 1 to 2 cm or better, depending on how undetected you want to be.
It's the apocalypse! You might as well give me all your money and seek salvation fast. Please forward your funds to: Bank of Nigeria, account # 419-666-419-666.
Still you would have made a mistake by beting your career on Japan. A close friend of mine did and moved to Japan. She had to come back in the early 90s as all the plum jobs in Tokyo dried out.
This speaks ill of your university, not Gates. Depending on your personal philosophy, he is either the richest man of the world, the most important figure in the software industry or the evil incarnate. Either way your students couldn't drag their sorry ass to see any of these three in person.
Look no further than the very visible layoffs due to outsourcing, and you will see why CS enrollment is down.
And you would reach the wrong conclusion. Employment in CS is up. Sometimes the news give a distorted picture of things. Do you remember in the late 80s when Japan was about to take over the USA? Where are they now? If you had made your career choice based on the news back then you would have gone ahead and studied Japanese.
or how about an "editing undoes the moderation" feature, just as posting to a thread one has moderated undoes any moderation one might have done therein....
Chris Rock (a black comedian) says that even the poorest and sorriest white American would hesitate to trade places with him "and I'm rich!" he points out. Think about it dude. We subconsciously notice all the discrimination that takes place against blacks, and that is why people balk at the "trade places with me" suggestion from Chris Rock...
Sorry, but Murray jumped the gun. Yes, Asians seem to be better at math than say, whites. But is this a racially ingrained characteristic or is simply the consequence of a culture at home that values hard work and education above what other groups do?
The best example of this was when jewish people used to dominate basketball. All sort of Murray-like arguments were put forth to explain why the jewish "race" is better suited for basketball than others. Today almost no Jews play basketball and the game is dominated by blacks. Again the Murrays of the world jump in to explain why the black "race" is better suited for basketball than others (e.g. white men can't jump). Turns out that the common trait is that people who are raised in mostly urban, confined, poor settings tend to (a) play more basketball over other field sports and (b) they see sports as a way up the economic ladder.
For a business, dropping out $500 isn't much, especially when compared to wages
Actually most medium size businesses that I know off complain about the high cost of Office. However after long negotiations, M$ usually offers much better values on bundles.
And of the many meetings where it was discussed, in what context were these meetings and how many did you attend?
You don't need to attend a meeting to know what happened. There is such a thing as minutes and/or witness accounts. I read about the controversy very early on, perhaps around 1987 or so. The article had direct quotes of some rather harsh attacks on the original proponent including IIRC pointing out the fact that he was a doctor (not a researcher) employed in a not so well known institution, while on the other hand, many famous researchers at very famous places had systematically searched for evidence of bacterial infections as cause for ulcers and had found none.
Now, one can argue that skepticism about a result that contradicts previous research is a healthy thing, but this does not make the reception to the original research any less harsh than what it was, and many people expressed such skepticism in rather impolite language.
Or does it merely involve routine research in which nothing contentious happens?
Most science involves routine research. Only a few privileged minds ever get to make breakthroughs. Those lucky few are usually awarded prizes, just as in this case.
I did follow the SI link and the article is garbage. It uses numbers in an attempt to argue that the discovery was received warmly, while if he had read the actual articles that cite it, or attended the meetings where it was discussed, he would have seen that the result was received rather harshly.
It's interesting to wonder how many other "conditions" are actually caused by undetected bacteria or viruses which are waiting to be discovered by scientists prepared to challenge the prevailing dogma.
No need to wonder. As a consequence of the discovery of the bacterial origin of ulcers, many other "stress caused" diseases have been re-analyzed with the bacterial cause hypothesis in mind. In fact a whole line of research has been opened along these lines, and there are already some other "stress" diseases now known to be the result of bacteria.
"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."
Mod parent down. Nobel prize is not about utility. It is about the depth of the discovery, and while the discovery might have not been "against all odds" (whatever that means) it was most definitely against the (overwhelming) prevailing consensus. This is why the discovery is scientifically so remarkable, these guys were able to go against the current and find the explanation for ulcers. All the power to them, and well deserved Nobel. By the by, it also speaks well of the scientific community that they can recognize the error in their ways and so honor those who did so.
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He shouldn't reveal the person's name. For all we know it was a lab assistant who did the falsifying and the "big name" is none the wiser. Most papers are coauthored with grad students, and often the routine tasks such as, say developing pictures and writing down the process are done by them.
sexual conflict or infidelity could lead to a 'breakdown in crew functioning'.
This is scientifically known as the "ABBA effect".
To the best of my knowledge the best spy satellites have a resolution of about 4 inches.
Sure, but once you have a target you can survey it with high altitude drones, which have a resolution of 1 to 2 cm or better, depending on how undetected you want to be.
Um, yes? Google is probably the most-visited site on the internet.
Actually MSN and Yahoo are still ahead of Google as per the latest Nielsen rankings...
It's the apocalypse! You might as well give me all your money and seek salvation fast. Please forward your funds to: Bank of Nigeria, account # 419-666-419-666.
Last time I looked the US was the 1st on the list of scientific papers published by countries with more than 60% of the papers.
Then you haven't looked recently. The US is now below 50% of publications in many areas.
It was the lack of emission control regulations on the Mars rovers!
Still you would have made a mistake by beting your career on Japan. A close friend of mine did and moved to Japan. She had to come back in the early 90s as all the plum jobs in Tokyo dried out.
and the hall was nowhere near filled.
This speaks ill of your university, not Gates. Depending on your personal philosophy, he is either the richest man of the world, the most important figure in the software industry or the evil incarnate. Either way your students couldn't drag their sorry ass to see any of these three in person.
.. and ten year on, when you meet them at homecoming they say "I wish I'd gone out with you".
Look no further than the very visible layoffs due to outsourcing, and you will see why CS enrollment is down.
And you would reach the wrong conclusion. Employment in CS is up. Sometimes the news give a distorted picture of things. Do you remember in the late 80s when Japan was about to take over the USA? Where are they now? If you had made your career choice based on the news back then you would have gone ahead and studied Japanese.
or how about an "editing undoes the moderation" feature, just as posting to a thread one has moderated undoes any moderation one might have done therein....
Of course, because a feature such as "edit" is only for wimps...
The unix philosophy lives on: if the system is cumbersome and user unfriendly, it's the user's fault!
You would trade places with him, but your handle is Marxist_Hacker, so clearly you are not the average capitalist hacker.
Chris Rock (a black comedian) says that even the poorest and sorriest white American would hesitate to trade places with him "and I'm rich!" he points out. Think about it dude. We subconsciously notice all the discrimination that takes place against blacks, and that is why people balk at the "trade places with me" suggestion from Chris Rock...
Sorry, but Murray jumped the gun. Yes, Asians seem to be better at math than say, whites. But is this a racially ingrained characteristic or is simply the consequence of a culture at home that values hard work and education above what other groups do?
The best example of this was when jewish people used to dominate basketball. All sort of Murray-like arguments were put forth to explain why the jewish "race" is better suited for basketball than others. Today almost no Jews play basketball and the game is dominated by blacks. Again the Murrays of the world jump in to explain why the black "race" is better suited for basketball than others (e.g. white men can't jump). Turns out that the common trait is that people who are raised in mostly urban, confined, poor settings tend to (a) play more basketball over other field sports and (b) they see sports as a way up the economic ladder.
Keep your ugly racial stereotypes off my free open source software.
For a business, dropping out $500 isn't much, especially when compared to wages
Actually most medium size businesses that I know off complain about the high cost of Office. However after long negotiations, M$ usually offers much better values on bundles.
And of the many meetings where it was discussed, in what context were these meetings and how many did you attend?
You don't need to attend a meeting to know what happened. There is such a thing as minutes and/or witness accounts. I read about the controversy very early on, perhaps around 1987 or so. The article had direct quotes of some rather harsh attacks on the original proponent including IIRC pointing out the fact that he was a doctor (not a researcher) employed in a not so well known institution, while on the other hand, many famous researchers at very famous places had systematically searched for evidence of bacterial infections as cause for ulcers and had found none.
Now, one can argue that skepticism about a result that contradicts previous research is a healthy thing, but this does not make the reception to the original research any less harsh than what it was, and many people expressed such skepticism in rather impolite language.
Or does it merely involve routine research in which nothing contentious happens?
Most science involves routine research. Only a few privileged minds ever get to make breakthroughs. Those lucky few are usually awarded prizes, just as in this case.
I did follow the SI link and the article is garbage. It uses numbers in an attempt to argue that the discovery was received warmly, while if he had read the actual articles that cite it, or attended the meetings where it was discussed, he would have seen that the result was received rather harshly.
It's interesting to wonder how many other "conditions" are actually caused by undetected bacteria or viruses which are waiting to be discovered by scientists prepared to challenge the prevailing dogma.
No need to wonder. As a consequence of the discovery of the bacterial origin of ulcers, many other "stress caused" diseases have been re-analyzed with the bacterial cause hypothesis in mind. In fact a whole line of research has been opened along these lines, and there are already some other "stress" diseases now known to be the result of bacteria.
To quote Richard Feynman:
"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."
Mod parent down. Nobel prize is not about utility. It is about the depth of the discovery, and while the discovery might have not been "against all odds" (whatever that means) it was most definitely against the (overwhelming) prevailing consensus. This is why the discovery is scientifically so remarkable, these guys were able to go against the current and find the explanation for ulcers. All the power to them, and well deserved Nobel. By the by, it also speaks well of the scientific community that they can recognize the error in their ways and so honor those who did so.
49.5 MPG?? In your dreams! Beetles where commonly used as taxi cabs in Mexico. No longer as any Nissan Sentra is way more efficient.
I generally would recommend against a pay cut unless one of following expections hold:
(a) you are currently overpaid
(b) you are moving to academia or
(c) you are given extremely juicy and promising stock options