I agree with that, but I think that the negative spin, saying that the iPad robs the user of the ability to crate content, is unjustified. The iPad is built to be a device to access content on the move. The iMac and MacBooks are strongly oriented towards content creation. Why bother complaining when a device does exactly what it is intended to do and does it well? (I choose to complain about the price and lack of flexibility that surrounds The Church of Jobs instead.)
Bash's strength lies not in it's awkward syntax and idiosyncrasies, it lies in the ease with which bash passes arguments to other programs and grabs the return values. In a few lines bash can call precisely the tools needed and string together some very powerful tools. Sure, similar things exist in python and can be accessed easily. but you can't eek out the same flexibility or succinctness as you can with bash for many tasks.
Unsurprisingly, the place where the *nix collection of tools shines in text manipulation. If you know bash, grep, sed, awk, sort and curl you're in good shape. Unless your filenames contain spaces, then you should know what $IFS does.
Yes, that's my general impression of papers from China. Some groups there do put out excellent work, but many simply put out stuff that anyone field could do, but nobody bothered to because it wasn't really exciting. The burden of filtering results really doesn't come down to the Chinese government, it comes down to the reviewers. Reviewers need to ask for supplementary information and data if they need it and do the background research. The trouble is, who has the time for that?
To borrow words from Churchill: No one pretends that peer-review is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that peer-review is the worst form of academic oversight except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Each field has it's oddities with regard to how you get your work published. You know what sort of things tend to make it through peer-review for particular journals. I hope that whatever field the parent post is in is not quite as slack on the peer-review side as that particular student seems to think. As a student in experimental physics, I'm unfamiliar with what a background check means in data assimilation on soil moisture so perhaps it is more involved than it sounds.
Another factor that come into play, and this is very relevant to the article, is that the impact factor of the journal is important as well. I don't generally start projects that would be published in journals with an impact factor of less than 3 or 4, but publishing somewhere is not very difficult. I see many Chinese papers in my field (quantum optics) that are quite mediocre in terms of results and are published in lesser journals. They are unlikely to be faked, just not very interesting.
I still think that the fundamental problem lies in the fact that piracy occurs in the first place. Seriously, if the game has value to you, buy it. If it doesn't, don't play it.
Well, if it's as successful as this approach by Ubisoft at preventing the game from being cracked, then it also punishes the would-be pirates. DRM on games actually can be used to only prevent pirating while not disrupting the game-play of legitimate buyers. It hasn't been pulled off yet...but it could happen. Of course, the always on-line approach is guaranteed to punish the legitimate buyers.
Music and video DRM, on the other hand, is just pointless. If a human can buy it and listen to/watch it, then a human can buy it and have a recording device listen to/watch it.
Seriously, the cloud is not the solution to poorly-supported printers and difficult to find drivers. The solution is to demand, simple, consistent network interfaces for printers from the manufacturers.
The way to do it is to target the machines that are sending the spam. So far, much of the effort has been to take down the control networks for the bots. I think that internationally ISPs should agree to charge people trivial amounts for each e-mail sent. People who own infected computers would take notice pretty quickly and take steps to clean up their machines. Legitimate advertisers would have to organize arrangements with the ISPs, but I wouldn't be too sad if that got cut down on as well. Ideally, the revenue would be donated to charity.
It takes upwards of a watt of 800nm light to cause a burn if the beam is reasonably sized and doesn't rest for too long in one spot. It may not be a rigorous investigation, but I have spent hours with my hands in near-infrared lasers that are much more powerful than anything in a bar-code scanner. The real threat is eye damage, 30mW is harmless to skin, but it certainly can damage the retina (bar-code scanners would be eye-safe of course at less than 1mW). On the other hand, Tourettes Syndrome might explain the prolific swearing in our lab. I always thought it was caused by the fact that experimental research is &^%@$ing frustrating, but maybe it's PTSD from laser light.
If you troll hard enough that you commit slander or hate speech you are subject to the relevant laws. IP addresses are logged and can be subpoenaed. I'd have no problem with bringing trolls to account for polluting the forums.
There are two issues here: the nature of what was said and how it was said. With regards to the first issue, hate speech is not legal in Canada. Americans seem shocked by this, but you are accountable for hateful things that you say in Canada. In my mind, limits to free speech are important when that speech crosses the line into hatefulness. I see no reason why people shouldn't be held to account for damages that they willfully cause through verbal abuse.
The second issue (the one that is less well established under law) is the manner in which the speech was said; in this case, the internet. There is no special protection for speech that is stamped as anonymous. I ask you: do you have trouble comprehending the word "anonymous"? A communication with a web server is not anonymous; it's subject to subpoena. There's no "ferreting out" here. The process is very clear.
...as they rocked back and forth trying to sleep but unable to remove the image that has burned itself into the retinas.
Someone's been tricked into visiting goatse a couple of times.
IMHO a 12 year old shouldn't have an internet-capable computer that isn't in a common area of the house. Arguably, that should extend to the other kids as well (I'd say 16 would be an appropriate age to gain a private machine). I think that a white-list block filter for private computers would be a good method to protect the kids; give them access to a common-area unblocked machine (the server). A white-list filter would be easy enough to implement on the server which would provide access for the clients.
That pertains to the internet safety side of the issue. The other side is parenting. I don't see that technological solutions like system state monitoring and remote control is a good tool. Kids should know the rules and occasionally get caught breaking them. Kids need to be able to try to stretch the rules and learn from that. I think that remote monitoring takes away too much freedom. Bed times should be enforced by a parent, not a cron daemon.
Seriously though, Gnome is considered a heavyweight desktop these days. If you don't like the direction it's taking, try XFCE or one of the true lightweights like Fluxbox.
Hooray! No one will target content towards you! Goodbye/., you will be missed.
I would be interested to see how many people adblock/. and deprive this wonderful site of revenue. It's likely similar to the percentage that do so to Ars.
It seems like Joule heating would be a problem if the memory consists of resistors. In particular, a three-dimensional stack would build up heat fairly quickly. Of course, switching transistors requires a good deal of energy so the prospect of not needing to constantly refresh each element may be a huge advantage in this respect. Also, it depends on the on and off resistances and the currents required to read and write bits.
Does anyone know of a link to a more technical description of the technology?
No, many science journalists and/or activists misuse statistics. A very slim fraction of scientists do so. Those that do are often stripped of the title "scientist" when the fraud is discovered.
There's also Mexico to share with. Also, the role of the British monarchy in Canadian politics is strictly symbolic. The Governor General serves an important role (occasionally anyway) but the ties to the monarchy are effectively non-existent. We have been free from possible (but unlikely) British interference since the patriation of the constitution in 1982.
In contrast to the freedom to commit assisted suicide, the country is not, in general, very socially permissive. It's a very right-wing country both economically and socially. Take, for instance, the ban on minarets in Switzerland. That degree of censorship (and xenophobia) is much more restrictive than most other western countries.
but at least it's a clearly stated policy with a clearly stated agenda. I disagree with this kind of censorship but it's better than the "refused classification" ban in Australia which seems to be open to more liberal interpretation than this law (although we'll have to see how it's effected).
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What if I want to use it for something it does not do well
Then you bought the wrong device. If you want to create content, don't buy something that has no useful input device.
You and everyone else.
I agree with that, but I think that the negative spin, saying that the iPad robs the user of the ability to crate content, is unjustified. The iPad is built to be a device to access content on the move. The iMac and MacBooks are strongly oriented towards content creation. Why bother complaining when a device does exactly what it is intended to do and does it well? (I choose to complain about the price and lack of flexibility that surrounds The Church of Jobs instead.)
Bash's strength lies not in it's awkward syntax and idiosyncrasies, it lies in the ease with which bash passes arguments to other programs and grabs the return values. In a few lines bash can call precisely the tools needed and string together some very powerful tools. Sure, similar things exist in python and can be accessed easily. but you can't eek out the same flexibility or succinctness as you can with bash for many tasks.
Unsurprisingly, the place where the *nix collection of tools shines in text manipulation. If you know bash, grep, sed, awk, sort and curl you're in good shape. Unless your filenames contain spaces, then you should know what $IFS does.
Yes, that's my general impression of papers from China. Some groups there do put out excellent work, but many simply put out stuff that anyone field could do, but nobody bothered to because it wasn't really exciting. The burden of filtering results really doesn't come down to the Chinese government, it comes down to the reviewers. Reviewers need to ask for supplementary information and data if they need it and do the background research. The trouble is, who has the time for that?
To borrow words from Churchill: No one pretends that peer-review is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that peer-review is the worst form of academic oversight except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Each field has it's oddities with regard to how you get your work published. You know what sort of things tend to make it through peer-review for particular journals. I hope that whatever field the parent post is in is not quite as slack on the peer-review side as that particular student seems to think. As a student in experimental physics, I'm unfamiliar with what a background check means in data assimilation on soil moisture so perhaps it is more involved than it sounds.
Another factor that come into play, and this is very relevant to the article, is that the impact factor of the journal is important as well. I don't generally start projects that would be published in journals with an impact factor of less than 3 or 4, but publishing somewhere is not very difficult. I see many Chinese papers in my field (quantum optics) that are quite mediocre in terms of results and are published in lesser journals. They are unlikely to be faked, just not very interesting.
But socially, if you could pull it off, you were pretty elite.
You and I come from different social circles, I think.
I still think that the fundamental problem lies in the fact that piracy occurs in the first place. Seriously, if the game has value to you, buy it. If it doesn't, don't play it.
Well, if it's as successful as this approach by Ubisoft at preventing the game from being cracked, then it also punishes the would-be pirates. DRM on games actually can be used to only prevent pirating while not disrupting the game-play of legitimate buyers. It hasn't been pulled off yet...but it could happen. Of course, the always on-line approach is guaranteed to punish the legitimate buyers.
Music and video DRM, on the other hand, is just pointless. If a human can buy it and listen to/watch it, then a human can buy it and have a recording device listen to/watch it.
it's printing.
Seriously, the cloud is not the solution to poorly-supported printers and difficult to find drivers. The solution is to demand, simple, consistent network interfaces for printers from the manufacturers.
The way to do it is to target the machines that are sending the spam. So far, much of the effort has been to take down the control networks for the bots. I think that internationally ISPs should agree to charge people trivial amounts for each e-mail sent. People who own infected computers would take notice pretty quickly and take steps to clean up their machines. Legitimate advertisers would have to organize arrangements with the ISPs, but I wouldn't be too sad if that got cut down on as well. Ideally, the revenue would be donated to charity.
It takes upwards of a watt of 800nm light to cause a burn if the beam is reasonably sized and doesn't rest for too long in one spot. It may not be a rigorous investigation, but I have spent hours with my hands in near-infrared lasers that are much more powerful than anything in a bar-code scanner. The real threat is eye damage, 30mW is harmless to skin, but it certainly can damage the retina (bar-code scanners would be eye-safe of course at less than 1mW). On the other hand, Tourettes Syndrome might explain the prolific swearing in our lab. I always thought it was caused by the fact that experimental research is &^%@$ing frustrating, but maybe it's PTSD from laser light.
If you troll hard enough that you commit slander or hate speech you are subject to the relevant laws. IP addresses are logged and can be subpoenaed. I'd have no problem with bringing trolls to account for polluting the forums.
There are two issues here: the nature of what was said and how it was said. With regards to the first issue, hate speech is not legal in Canada. Americans seem shocked by this, but you are accountable for hateful things that you say in Canada. In my mind, limits to free speech are important when that speech crosses the line into hatefulness. I see no reason why people shouldn't be held to account for damages that they willfully cause through verbal abuse.
The second issue (the one that is less well established under law) is the manner in which the speech was said; in this case, the internet. There is no special protection for speech that is stamped as anonymous. I ask you: do you have trouble comprehending the word "anonymous"? A communication with a web server is not anonymous; it's subject to subpoena. There's no "ferreting out" here. The process is very clear.
...as they rocked back and forth trying to sleep but unable to remove the image that has burned itself into the retinas.
Someone's been tricked into visiting goatse a couple of times.
IMHO a 12 year old shouldn't have an internet-capable computer that isn't in a common area of the house. Arguably, that should extend to the other kids as well (I'd say 16 would be an appropriate age to gain a private machine). I think that a white-list block filter for private computers would be a good method to protect the kids; give them access to a common-area unblocked machine (the server). A white-list filter would be easy enough to implement on the server which would provide access for the clients.
That pertains to the internet safety side of the issue. The other side is parenting. I don't see that technological solutions like system state monitoring and remote control is a good tool. Kids should know the rules and occasionally get caught breaking them. Kids need to be able to try to stretch the rules and learn from that. I think that remote monitoring takes away too much freedom. Bed times should be enforced by a parent, not a cron daemon.
No you get off my lawn!
Seriously though, Gnome is considered a heavyweight desktop these days. If you don't like the direction it's taking, try XFCE or one of the true lightweights like Fluxbox.
Hooray! No one will target content towards you! Goodbye /., you will be missed.
I would be interested to see how many people adblock /. and deprive this wonderful site of revenue. It's likely similar to the percentage that do so to Ars.
It seems like Joule heating would be a problem if the memory consists of resistors. In particular, a three-dimensional stack would build up heat fairly quickly. Of course, switching transistors requires a good deal of energy so the prospect of not needing to constantly refresh each element may be a huge advantage in this respect. Also, it depends on the on and off resistances and the currents required to read and write bits.
Does anyone know of a link to a more technical description of the technology?
No, many science journalists and/or activists misuse statistics. A very slim fraction of scientists do so. Those that do are often stripped of the title "scientist" when the fraud is discovered.
I like this bit of advice from Opera Software:
If you do not trust Opera Software, make sure you do not use our application to enter any kind of sensitive information.
They're upfront about what they have access to.
No doubt you'll continue to feel that way when you get sued and have the opportunity to personally pay all those talented individuals.
There's also Mexico to share with. Also, the role of the British monarchy in Canadian politics is strictly symbolic. The Governor General serves an important role (occasionally anyway) but the ties to the monarchy are effectively non-existent. We have been free from possible (but unlikely) British interference since the patriation of the constitution in 1982.
What upgrade path from 64-bit Windows do you recommend? 128-bit or 32-bit Windows? Or Linux? I'm all for that last one ;-)
In contrast to the freedom to commit assisted suicide, the country is not, in general, very socially permissive. It's a very right-wing country both economically and socially. Take, for instance, the ban on minarets in Switzerland. That degree of censorship (and xenophobia) is much more restrictive than most other western countries.
but at least it's a clearly stated policy with a clearly stated agenda. I disagree with this kind of censorship but it's better than the "refused classification" ban in Australia which seems to be open to more liberal interpretation than this law (although we'll have to see how it's effected).