1) Hey, respectable journal! Here's my paper. You own it now. Please publish it?
2) Journal either publishes it, or doesn't. Either way, they own your paper and pay you nothing.
3) You want to spread the information, so you post it for free on the internet. This is a breach of copyright, but the Journal doesn't really care because the same number of people will buy the magazines regardless.
Slugs have somehow included algae DNA with its own, and are now capable of actual photosynthesis. The DNA that was copied didn't code for the creation of chloroplasts, so the slugs have to consume a sufficient amount of algae before they can begin the process.
As long as they are exposed to light for 12 hours per day, they can live without the need for food.
Also, given that >95% of the Linux community contributes no code (or so I've heard), it's not surprising that most people rely on others to get their hardware to work (and work well).
I would claim that science is based on observation, while an art is based on intrinsic values.
The question comes down to whether one believes that mathematics is more accurately thought of as a tool for testing and observing nature, or a language independent of nature.
The decrease in VA hospital funding is just disgraceful.
I may not agree with the war, but I will say that all persons subjected to the greatest physical and emotional harm in the service of the United States deserve the best available treatment at the expense of the federal government.
In this case people outside of the US, on a forum as technologically current as Slashdot, can claim justified ignorance of one of the entities that gave rise to the Internet?
You mean people outside the US don't know about Al Gore?
(and even fewer are aware he actually did invent the internet - at least from one point of view)
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently I left off a / (inserting something so it doesn't look like I meant /.).
It all makes sense now...
Bureaucracy KILLED the Martians!
Well, they thought that bureaucracy was killing them, so they sent the B-Ark to Earth.
The other two-thirds led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
Exactly.
Just as I don't have to appear in a freakshow or porno just because I have two penises.
Sure, some will see this as a travesty, but they're mine to choose what to do with.
Plato divided math into two distinct areas: "arithmetic" and "logistic" (now number theory and arithmetic, resp.)
The former being appropriate for philosophers and the latter being for businessmen and generals.
In logistic/arithmetic, all that the person cares about is putting numbers into the "black box", and getting a number out.
In arithmetic/number theory, the concern is what happens inside the box, and what happens to the box if you take away certain parts, etc.
My impression of the system is:
1) Hey, respectable journal! Here's my paper. You own it now. Please publish it?
2) Journal either publishes it, or doesn't. Either way, they own your paper and pay you nothing.
3) You want to spread the information, so you post it for free on the internet. This is a breach of copyright, but the Journal doesn't really care because the same number of people will buy the magazines regardless.
To summarize the article:
Slugs have somehow included algae DNA with its own, and are now capable of actual photosynthesis. The DNA that was copied didn't code for the creation of chloroplasts, so the slugs have to consume a sufficient amount of algae before they can begin the process.
As long as they are exposed to light for 12 hours per day, they can live without the need for food.
As with most slashdot articles, they say [big company] does something outrageous and evil to [little guy who's not even trying to profit or nothing!].
Then you find out that they're showing it in theaters (which tend to be for-profit ventures).
The bigger problem is the people who are "stuck" with Verizon for the next (up to) 24 months, and not those considering a new plan with Verizon.
It's still faith, but George Lucas switched from Christianity to Scientology.
So you're saying that Jefferson's rewrite of the Bible falls outside of fair use?
Psst!
I think GP was referring to Linux.
that last one was from my daughter's Teabagger boyfriend, sry.
Looks like you and your daughter are very open about her sex life.
But if a brilliant algebraic geometer claims that the integral of x^2 is pi, is he bad a Math?
Would you claim Einstein sucks at science if you found out that he believed in Lamarckian Evolution?
There is a time zone. It's noon PST.
That was implied. Do you really think there are any idealistic iPhone users outside of southern California?
I prefer to RAGE against the machine.
BAH-duh BAH BAH-duh BAH DAH-duh.
I think your sig actually paraphrases what the article said.
Indeed.
Also, given that >95% of the Linux community contributes no code (or so I've heard), it's not surprising that most people rely on others to get their hardware to work (and work well).
I would claim that science is based on observation, while an art is based on intrinsic values.
The question comes down to whether one believes that mathematics is more accurately thought of as a tool for testing and observing nature, or a language independent of nature.
That was my first thought too.
Then I realized that when epsilons multiply it tends to zero.
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
Agreed.
The decrease in VA hospital funding is just disgraceful.
I may not agree with the war, but I will say that all persons subjected to the greatest physical and emotional harm in the service of the United States deserve the best available treatment at the expense of the federal government.
Godwin's Law describes a comparison to Hitler, not a reference to Hitler.
What?
My use of embiggen is perfectly cromulent.
In this case people outside of the US, on a forum as technologically current as Slashdot, can claim justified ignorance of one of the entities that gave rise to the Internet?
You mean people outside the US don't know about Al Gore?
(and even fewer are aware he actually did invent the internet - at least from one point of view)
You're embiggening this thread with that cromulent comment.