they will become less popular due to the boredom effect
When I started using Facebook six years ago, I thought this would happen too. As soon as I added all my friends, there wasn't much else to do, so I checked it less frequently. I figured that within a few months, everyone would get as bored as I was and quit Facebook. Then they came out with the news feed, which drew everyone back in.
I wouldn't count Facebook out just yet -- I'm sure they've still got plenty of tricks up their sleeves to keep users coming back.
And if you're talking about innovation, then when did importing technology to build reliable and stable railways ever had anything to do with innovation?
It has a lot to do with innovation. I'd expect that the companies that developed the rail technology spent decades and $MILLIONS on research and development with the expectation of $BILLIONS in income in production and licensing fees. Instead, the Chinese simply copy the technology and build and sell their own at a cheaper price (since they didn't put up the time or cash to do the research). Anyone doing business with the Chinese certainly has less incentive to innovate since their time and money put into research won't produce a profit.
Civil Servants are as much if not more important to keep an eye on *because* they aren't directly responsible to the citizenry!
On the flip side, campaign donations, lobbyists, and pressure to remain elected arguably make elected officials much more likely to make decisions against the public interest.
What they should call this is High Bandwidth, or High Speed Internet something along those lines. Broadband has nothing to do with speed or performance it implies symbols are used to send bits as opposed to baseband...
In that case, if you really want to eliminate confusion, you mean high throughput. Bandwidth also has another definition in EE circles.
The main problem is that Joe Sixpack doesn't want to spend the time sifting through thousands of leaked cables to find the interesting stuff. Laymen may also lack the background knowledge to make sense of raw information. Journalists are paid to peruse and interpret, finding the juicy stories without requiring us peons to do all the legwork.
unlike U.S. citizens, foreign nationals receive no discounts and no assistance from the university, regardless of financial hardship, and so end up paying the full price up front
In my graduate program, roughly half of the students are foreign nationals and nearly all of them receive their funding from NSF grants. It's the funding that lures them here in the first place. I have to agree with the GP on this one: either cut the funding and student visas or make it extremely easy for those here on student visas to stay and give back to their benefactors.
For some doctoral theses, you are required to sign a plagiarism notice stating that the work you are presenting as original has not been previously published elsewhere, even if it was credited to yourself.
This is interesting, as my PhD thesis is essentially a compilation of my published conference and journal papers. Of course, I do cite these papers in my thesis.
This sounds like a major concession by some of the pro net neutrality leaders. They shouldn't be suggesting this at all. By proposing a separate, open internet, they have pretty much given ISPs exactly what they want. What's worse, the average content provider won't know or won't care and will shovel out cash to enter the newly created walled garden, leaving the open internet to rot.
While scarcity and wear are properties of physical objects, they do not apply to digital media (as many others have posted). This artificial scarcity leads to greatly inflated prices: fewer people are willing to buy eBook over a paper book simply because digital media is nearly effortless to reproduce.
Why not use an all you can read subscription-based system instead? This does a much better job of handling the scarcity issue.
My library has eBooks as well and the availability and checkout policies are the same. The library can lend out as many "copies" as it purchased from the publisher for the usual checkout time limit.
I do have to say that the current licensing scheme for eBooks comes off as ridiculous. A subscription based model, where you pay a monthly fee to read as many eBooks as you wish would be a better idea than trying to make intellectual property function like physical property.
A "like" button on Slashdot will turn the moderation system into exactly what's used on Digg. Without randomly selected moderators chosen from those who make positive contributions, you'll get the bury (or like) brigades.
You're likely to make a 50-character password only if it's trivially easy for you to remember it, or if you have some easy means of recovering it.
What if you make a 50 character password with the purpose of forgetting it? What if the password was randomly generated and automatically stored in a place you didn't know about? It's locking the door and throwing away the key, but perhaps in the distant future, the key could be recovered.
I think you're right, but is it more illegal than spamming?
I think the real question is if this is any _different_ from spamming. This guy is sending unsolicited messages in large numbers that request something of the recipient.
I don't think I've ever seen a conference or journal that didn't assign fewer than three reviewers per paper. Furthermore, reviewed papers at some conferences may go through an additional review process by a committee, consisting of 10-20 people. It would be interesting to see the effect of the number of reviewers per paper on the quality of the refereeing.
Sadly, technical degrees still do not provide very valuable training in the world of evaluation and judgement. "How to do this" is rarely more important that the ability to formulate an argument on why you should do it. I'd argue humanities, teaching you how to evaluate shades of gray and formulate arguments on subjects that don't have objective right/wrong answers, provide the ability to understand context -- and as a result is a better training ground for future managers and leaders.
That's why, even in engineering disciplines, the terminal degree is called a Doctor of Philosophy. At the PhD level, most effort is indeed spent on "evaluating shades of gray and formulating arguments on subjects," except that those "subjects" you are defending are your own technical contributions.
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The rationale for such a distinction is rooted in the notion of the "immediate grabbing space" which police are allowed to search incident to arrest.
The long arm of the law, indeed.
Or, to put it another way: "Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
they will become less popular due to the boredom effect
When I started using Facebook six years ago, I thought this would happen too. As soon as I added all my friends, there wasn't much else to do, so I checked it less frequently. I figured that within a few months, everyone would get as bored as I was and quit Facebook. Then they came out with the news feed, which drew everyone back in. I wouldn't count Facebook out just yet -- I'm sure they've still got plenty of tricks up their sleeves to keep users coming back.
And if you're talking about innovation, then when did importing technology to build reliable and stable railways ever had anything to do with innovation?
It has a lot to do with innovation. I'd expect that the companies that developed the rail technology spent decades and $MILLIONS on research and development with the expectation of $BILLIONS in income in production and licensing fees. Instead, the Chinese simply copy the technology and build and sell their own at a cheaper price (since they didn't put up the time or cash to do the research). Anyone doing business with the Chinese certainly has less incentive to innovate since their time and money put into research won't produce a profit.
Civil Servants are as much if not more important to keep an eye on *because* they aren't directly responsible to the citizenry!
On the flip side, campaign donations, lobbyists, and pressure to remain elected arguably make elected officials much more likely to make decisions against the public interest.
What they should call this is High Bandwidth, or High Speed Internet something along those lines. Broadband has nothing to do with speed or performance it implies symbols are used to send bits as opposed to baseband...
In that case, if you really want to eliminate confusion, you mean high throughput. Bandwidth also has another definition in EE circles.
The main problem is that Joe Sixpack doesn't want to spend the time sifting through thousands of leaked cables to find the interesting stuff. Laymen may also lack the background knowledge to make sense of raw information. Journalists are paid to peruse and interpret, finding the juicy stories without requiring us peons to do all the legwork.
And you know perfectly well that the rape charges are almost certainly false
Jump to conclusions much? There's too much "he said, she said" going around to know this for sure.
This might be the beginning of the end for Ubuntu as everyone leaves in droves for a more traditional and stable distribution.
Me and my wife are not elected to work in your interest. That's a big difference.
The vast majority of US government workers (as well as those mentioned in these releases) are not elected officials, but private citizens.
unlike U.S. citizens, foreign nationals receive no discounts and no assistance from the university, regardless of financial hardship, and so end up paying the full price up front
In my graduate program, roughly half of the students are foreign nationals and nearly all of them receive their funding from NSF grants. It's the funding that lures them here in the first place. I have to agree with the GP on this one: either cut the funding and student visas or make it extremely easy for those here on student visas to stay and give back to their benefactors.
Nobody complains about spam filters, yet that is still censorship.
For some doctoral theses, you are required to sign a plagiarism notice stating that the work you are presenting as original has not been previously published elsewhere, even if it was credited to yourself.
This is interesting, as my PhD thesis is essentially a compilation of my published conference and journal papers. Of course, I do cite these papers in my thesis.
This sounds like a major concession by some of the pro net neutrality leaders. They shouldn't be suggesting this at all. By proposing a separate, open internet, they have pretty much given ISPs exactly what they want. What's worse, the average content provider won't know or won't care and will shovel out cash to enter the newly created walled garden, leaving the open internet to rot.
Lack of availability.
That pretty much sums up the whole controversy.
While scarcity and wear are properties of physical objects, they do not apply to digital media (as many others have posted). This artificial scarcity leads to greatly inflated prices: fewer people are willing to buy eBook over a paper book simply because digital media is nearly effortless to reproduce.
Why not use an all you can read subscription-based system instead? This does a much better job of handling the scarcity issue.
One issue with eBook resale is that unlike real books, eBooks don't wear. This eliminates the incentive to pay more for a mint condition book.
My library HAS eBooks....
My library has eBooks as well and the availability and checkout policies are the same. The library can lend out as many "copies" as it purchased from the publisher for the usual checkout time limit. I do have to say that the current licensing scheme for eBooks comes off as ridiculous. A subscription based model, where you pay a monthly fee to read as many eBooks as you wish would be a better idea than trying to make intellectual property function like physical property.
*tax
The personal task credit is only good up to the first $90K. Also, no other western nation I can think of taxes its citizens for income earned abroad.
I can say that my Magic Mouse now works flawlessly with 10.10, while past versions required a kernel module that was pretty flaky.
A "like" button on Slashdot will turn the moderation system into exactly what's used on Digg. Without randomly selected moderators chosen from those who make positive contributions, you'll get the bury (or like) brigades.
You're likely to make a 50-character password only if it's trivially easy for you to remember it, or if you have some easy means of recovering it.
What if you make a 50 character password with the purpose of forgetting it? What if the password was randomly generated and automatically stored in a place you didn't know about? It's locking the door and throwing away the key, but perhaps in the distant future, the key could be recovered.
I think you're right, but is it more illegal than spamming?
I think the real question is if this is any _different_ from spamming. This guy is sending unsolicited messages in large numbers that request something of the recipient.
a) It assumes only two reviews per paper
I don't think I've ever seen a conference or journal that didn't assign fewer than three reviewers per paper. Furthermore, reviewed papers at some conferences may go through an additional review process by a committee, consisting of 10-20 people. It would be interesting to see the effect of the number of reviewers per paper on the quality of the refereeing.
Sadly, technical degrees still do not provide very valuable training in the world of evaluation and judgement. "How to do this" is rarely more important that the ability to formulate an argument on why you should do it. I'd argue humanities, teaching you how to evaluate shades of gray and formulate arguments on subjects that don't have objective right/wrong answers, provide the ability to understand context -- and as a result is a better training ground for future managers and leaders.
That's why, even in engineering disciplines, the terminal degree is called a Doctor of Philosophy. At the PhD level, most effort is indeed spent on "evaluating shades of gray and formulating arguments on subjects," except that those "subjects" you are defending are your own technical contributions.