PubMed doesn't spit out bibtex entries for papers, show how many citations a paper has, show who has CITED a specific paper, or have near the search power. Google Scholar may not have your field pegged yet, and PubMed might be an important place for your paper to show up, but Google Scholar has vital features that no other search engine has.
In my field, the turn around time for an article to go from submission to publication in a peer reviewed journal is something like 8 months if all of the reviewers love your paper and think no corrections are required (which never happens).
arXiv lets us read the paper while we wait for it to go through the peer review process.
Also, arXiv allows the author to be able to prove that he came up with this result by a date everyone trusts. If some insensitive clod comes along later and claims they derived this result first, we can all point to arXiv and state the date that this author announced his result.
Out of the box, Mac comes with an OS optimized for the hardware and loads of productivity software already installed (iWork etc). While Macs cost more, they usually have decent hardware inside and provide a decent user experience (especially for casual users) with a minimum of admin effort.
The worst part about helping my parents out over the years is trying to explain that their new cheap windoze machine isn't as great as they thought because it comes with almost no software (like Office), doesn't have enough RAM to run quickly, has a slow/small hard drive, blah blah blah. They think they get a deal at the big box store, but they don't realize how annoying the lower end computer models will be for them in the long run.
Even better is that Macs are basically BSD underneath the shiny interface, so I can admin my wife's laptop using (almost) all the linux tricks I know and love by simply opening a terminal.
I have these NetworkManager problems. I work with a team of thirty that also have the same NetworkManager problems. Its usually the chief complaint of new Ubuntu users (and veterans as well!). Why doesn't Canonical get a few more people to try to clean up some of NetworkManager's problems?
And it only took them 3 years and $10 billion to launch a modified solid rocket booster with a mass simulator on it. Amazing how fast NASA can develop new technology. Its a good thing they aren't relying on private industry like SpaceX which can make comparable rockets for 1/100 of the cost...
There isn't any pure oxygen in those oxygen lines, the little yellow masks that drop down in the event of a loss of cabin pressure are fed by sodium chlorate candles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator.
I do imagine that a burning laptop battery in contact with one of those candles would be scary.
Ditto. I live in DC, home of a fantastic public rail system (for the US), but it doesn't help me at all with my daily 6 mile commute (that takes 45 minutes each way) that I can't bike on (because the roads don't have room, no bike paths, no sidewalks, etc). Grumble grumble grumble...
The key here is that flying isn't a basic human right. Those airplanes are privately owned, and the people who own them can make any rules they want about who can ride. If they want to insist that only people with purple hair can fly, that's their perogative. If they want to insist that no-one more than eighteen inches tall can fly, they're allowed to do so.
Wrong. They can't insist that only people with purple hair can fly just like that can't insist that only white people can fly. Private companies are not allowed to discriminate.
This is anecdotal, but I now regularly incorporate reading/., browsing news, and a workout into my daily grind because it boosts my productivity.
Sitting at my desk for 14 hours per day (I'm a grad student) often means I get stuck on whatever problem I'm working on, but breaking up my day with other activities that allow me to turn my brain off or think about something else has really helped me be more productive on my work that really matters (well, I'm a grad student, so my work doesn't really matter, but you get the idea).
I would be really interested in more studies that help determine how we can more efficiently use our time. It is our most precious resource, after all.
"The rest is pushed out by not having tons of financed marketing."
I don't have TV, just internet. I wasn't hounded by any political attack ads in 2008. I may be young, but a growing portion of our population is giving up TV, newspapers, etc in favor of the interwebs. Massive advertising campaigns don't work so well when the ads don't reach the audience...
This is anecdotal, but I visited Germany a few years ago. I am well read on Nazi history as it fascinates me in a strange morbid way that such a crazy political group could seize power in a modern society. I tried to discuss the Nazi rise in Germany with a group of German hosts, but they did *not* want to discuss it. I figured there was too much national shame/disgust about it and the subject was too emotional to broach with my hosts, so I quickly changed the conversation topic.
I get the feeling that discussing WWII/Nazism is "off-limits" to discuss with the majority of Germans. I think this limits the discourse of history in a bad way...
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PubMed doesn't spit out bibtex entries for papers, show how many citations a paper has, show who has CITED a specific paper, or have near the search power. Google Scholar may not have your field pegged yet, and PubMed might be an important place for your paper to show up, but Google Scholar has vital features that no other search engine has.
just wait a minute. rule 34 of the internet: http://xkcd.com/305/
In my field, the turn around time for an article to go from submission to publication in a peer reviewed journal is something like 8 months if all of the reviewers love your paper and think no corrections are required (which never happens).
arXiv lets us read the paper while we wait for it to go through the peer review process.
Also, arXiv allows the author to be able to prove that he came up with this result by a date everyone trusts. If some insensitive clod comes along later and claims they derived this result first, we can all point to arXiv and state the date that this author announced his result.
mod up. this story is old news
some academics are engineers, you insensitive clod!
mod up!
Works well for me.
Out of the box, Mac comes with an OS optimized for the hardware and loads of productivity software already installed (iWork etc). While Macs cost more, they usually have decent hardware inside and provide a decent user experience (especially for casual users) with a minimum of admin effort.
The worst part about helping my parents out over the years is trying to explain that their new cheap windoze machine isn't as great as they thought because it comes with almost no software (like Office), doesn't have enough RAM to run quickly, has a slow/small hard drive, blah blah blah. They think they get a deal at the big box store, but they don't realize how annoying the lower end computer models will be for them in the long run.
Even better is that Macs are basically BSD underneath the shiny interface, so I can admin my wife's laptop using (almost) all the linux tricks I know and love by simply opening a terminal.
Hulu or any of the other free online TV/movie streaming sites?
I have these NetworkManager problems. I work with a team of thirty that also have the same NetworkManager problems. Its usually the chief complaint of new Ubuntu users (and veterans as well!). Why doesn't Canonical get a few more people to try to clean up some of NetworkManager's problems?
And it only took them 3 years and $10 billion to launch a modified solid rocket booster with a mass simulator on it. Amazing how fast NASA can develop new technology. Its a good thing they aren't relying on private industry like SpaceX which can make comparable rockets for 1/100 of the cost...
And they could charge as much as the DVD retail cost per every two people...
There isn't any pure oxygen in those oxygen lines, the little yellow masks that drop down in the event of a loss of cabin pressure are fed by sodium chlorate candles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator.
I do imagine that a burning laptop battery in contact with one of those candles would be scary.
Ditto. I live in DC, home of a fantastic public rail system (for the US), but it doesn't help me at all with my daily 6 mile commute (that takes 45 minutes each way) that I can't bike on (because the roads don't have room, no bike paths, no sidewalks, etc). Grumble grumble grumble...
I keep waiting to see what new restrictions come out after a terrorist hijacks a plane using kung-fu. Straightjackets for all passengers?
The key here is that flying isn't a basic human right. Those airplanes are privately owned, and the people who own them can make any rules they want about who can ride. If they want to insist that only people with purple hair can fly, that's their perogative. If they want to insist that no-one more than eighteen inches tall can fly, they're allowed to do so.
Wrong. They can't insist that only people with purple hair can fly just like that can't insist that only white people can fly. Private companies are not allowed to discriminate.
tap water isn't free, stop saying that!
try filling a pool with your tap water and see how free that water is on your next utility bill
We use a mac mini for an autonomous submarine.
Running two cores at full speed processing firewire camera feeds in real time and logging video to the hard drive, we still don't top 45 watts.
only the people who consume the content over their media channels. They don't control books yet...
Absolutely not!
This is anecdotal, but I now regularly incorporate reading /., browsing news, and a workout into my daily grind because it boosts my productivity.
Sitting at my desk for 14 hours per day (I'm a grad student) often means I get stuck on whatever problem I'm working on, but breaking up my day with other activities that allow me to turn my brain off or think about something else has really helped me be more productive on my work that really matters (well, I'm a grad student, so my work doesn't really matter, but you get the idea).
I would be really interested in more studies that help determine how we can more efficiently use our time. It is our most precious resource, after all.
mod parent up!
"The rest is pushed out by not having tons of financed marketing."
I don't have TV, just internet. I wasn't hounded by any political attack ads in 2008. I may be young, but a growing portion of our population is giving up TV, newspapers, etc in favor of the interwebs. Massive advertising campaigns don't work so well when the ads don't reach the audience...
What does Madden and Tiger Woods have to do with frat boys? All my fraternity brothers played Halo, Goldeneye, FFVII, etc. Fuck you and your bias...
whoa, mod parent down...
This is anecdotal, but I visited Germany a few years ago. I am well read on Nazi history as it fascinates me in a strange morbid way that such a crazy political group could seize power in a modern society. I tried to discuss the Nazi rise in Germany with a group of German hosts, but they did *not* want to discuss it. I figured there was too much national shame/disgust about it and the subject was too emotional to broach with my hosts, so I quickly changed the conversation topic.
I get the feeling that discussing WWII/Nazism is "off-limits" to discuss with the majority of Germans. I think this limits the discourse of history in a bad way...
mod parent up