bingo, I'm thinking of the farmers in remote villages in Africa that use cellphones to check market prices to determine when and where to bring their crops to market to optimize their income.
Yes, because they grow potatoes in the remote parts of Africa...I wish you were right afidel, but honestly most produce that "goes to market" comes from what one could dub superfarms it seems, at least those distribution companies that are publicly listed.
I do not think that many of their papers are provided on a "free basis" (well yes mostly they are):
Obviously, there's a tradeoff for faculty, in that many of the NPG journals are recognized for their high quality, and provide a level of prestige that may be essential for advancing a researcher's career. The libraries recommend alternatives, such as the Public Library of Science journals, but those have yet to reach an equivalent level of recognition. The letter also recommends other open access policies, such as following the NIH open access guidelines, but NPG has already taken actions to support these policies.
They submitters also get compensated (not highly enough as some would argue). In addition I found this very interesting (from arstechnica):
Nature's take
In response to our query, Nature Publishing group provided us with a public statement in which it voices distress that what it had assumed were ongoing, confidential negotiations have been disclosed to the public. As for the assertions made along with the disclosure, NPG thinks they're misleading. "The implication that NPG is increasing its list prices by massive amounts is entirely untrue," the statement reads. According to Nature, its library subscriptions are currently capped at seven percent annually.
Where did the massive increase mentioned by the UC libraries come from? The statement argues that the price increase seems dramatic simply because UC was operating under a discount that NPG terms "unsustainable." NPG claims that it's providing the UC libraries with a discount from list of close to 90 percent, and that "other subscribers, both in the US and around the world, are subsidizing them." Even with the new pricing in place, NPG estimates that the average download of a paper would only cost UC a bit more than 50.
NPG seems convinced that cooler heads and a detailed analysis of the numbers will see the UC libraries return to the negotiating table. "We are confident that the appointment of Professor Keith Yamamoto and other scientific faculty to lead the proposed boycott," it states, "will mean they will be in a position to assess value with a rigorous and transparent methodology."
If those facts are all true, they really should be fair to the other universities...but to be honest I bet both sides are exaggerated as that is how media works.
Having exp on what you are saying, the real dirt is all on a closed system, and the lower level security has potential for flaws, its just the way it is...I mean the number one flaw to security is thinking that any security can be 100% effective, but as you said:
single sad-case foreign national
Yes, that's a bit embarrassing haha:)
On another note, however, perhaps this would be an even better solution: the NSA should "hire" him to hack China: just give a lot of "subtle" hints that all the UFO's are over there. Or start classifying fake material that forces him to "double check" their information. Paranoid people can be really determined hard workers...
The patent listed deals a bit with a chemical used by the German scientists, but does not include much outside of that. Still interesting imo...whatever.
I read that as patents at first, but jokes aside I decided to do a brief search on patents. There seems to be a method out similar to that described in the article, although my guess would be the article is more about the all important application too...
Abstract Germanium-containing organic polymers are obtained by polymerizing 3-trichlorogermylpropionic acid obtained by reacting halogermanium-phosphoric acid complexes with acrylic acid. The polymers are markedly effective in treating opthalmological disorders. [2/29/1980] http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4296123/fulltext.html
But I will save judgment there because I do not know the details. Also in the article:
Storsberg helped develop a new version of an opthalmological polymer which the eye will bond to and still allow to function properly.
Anyone who cannot do a simple spellcheck on that word...haha nevermind I enjoyed the read. (Spelled: ophthalmological)
that sucks...but when it comes to those freebie lotions (that actually dry your skin) and the shampoo that attracts dirt, I'd say the trashcan was not worth it haha.
On another note, based on your account, a good place for a terrorist to hijack a plane would be in Las Vegas's airport...hell everyone looks hungover leaving there.
MiniEULA: I do not condone or recommend any sort of terrorism.
the odds of actually getting brought to justice are fairly low, unless you are basically just a petty vandal, hitting some high-profile target in the same country as you.
We have to differentiate between presenting ourselves with more temptations to loose concentration with actual causing of lapses of concentration. I would agree with you though that introducing those devices can be distracting, but that is what inherently they were designed to do...distract, entertain, and provide a set utility to the user.
But the real issue here is that the article doesn't really address "Does the Internet Make Humanity Smarter Or Dumber?". Instead it should be entitled: "Does distraction, largely in part to the internet, make some individuals process information differently?". Sure distractions are always "bad":
When we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be online, our brains are unable to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give depth and distinctiveness to our thinking. We become mere signal-processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of information into and then out of short-term memory.
But does a fragmented short term memory have permanent effects? He talks in the article about
In another experiment, recently conducted at Stanford University's Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, a team of researchers gave various cognitive tests to 49 people who do a lot of media multitasking and 52 people who multitask much less frequently. The heavy multitaskers performed poorly on all the tests. They were more easily distracted, had less control over their attention, and were much less able to distinguish important information from trivia.
To me, what led those people to do media multitasking in the first place? Perhaps the media did not engineer some level of "multitaskness" (not a word, I know) but that this multi-tasking ability was inherent to those individuals' respective personalities. This brings be back to my first point that the internet reveals our stupidity AND perhaps just our personality in general.
Exactly, that is why the US has national, state, AND local governments, each with their own independent roles. Your a hundred percent right Attila, unfortunately people expect a federal government to give local attention today when in fact it was designed to "lead".
This device should be called a robot that is serving the function of "overlord" ability processing. You see, as a human we are very creative, but at times easily distracted by LOLCAT's and other things that seem to make up what the computers dub "our internetz"; therefore this new ability processing feature should drastically improve our creativity throughput by scheduling when we have lapses in concentration. Just think of the reliability!
Personally I'll just get the device, hack it, and use it as an excuse to take a break whenever I deem necessary.
The article's title (Don't call it a sinkhole) is certainly on the money. I was shocked. If you haven't read/looked at the article, do. I was expecting, you know, a little crater thing or something. This is far, far beyond that. It is literally a massive cylindrical hole. It's amazing.
How can we be sure this was "created"? I remember distinctly from Alien vs. Predator that the amazing hole led to an amazingly scary pyramid!
Or how about a Crop Circle, maybe some Alien up there was having a bad day at the office and was thinking:
I'm not fucking around with my crop "circle" today!
I mean its basically irrefutable evidence...I searched Google and it came up with over 32,000 results for
"Guatemala sinkhole" aliens
Either 32,000 of us are idiots (which can't be true LOL), or aliens are coming. Don't say I didn't warn you all!
Or perhaps a close loved one or personal friend is blind to this individual. Watching other people's frustration and/or success is a great review. Plus, an individual could "talk to the person" and give us a great synopsis of that review.
The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich.
Your right, we should tax the information-rich individuals and make them give some of their information away...they do not deserve that much information! (Greedy bastards)
there is too much going on at every level in Washington, D.C., for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate.
Oh he is soooo right! I mean, the government was working perfectly before the internet. Wow, glad I've been shown the light!
The former Grateful Dead songwriter said those disppointed in Obama are disregarding the extent to which the political system is broken.
Well that's OK, because Obama said he was going to help fix it!:)
"There is a circle of fat around the Beltway that is incredibly thick" Barlow said. "We can no longer try to run this country from the center. We've got to run it, just like the Internet, from the edges."
Wow, that is an even better analogy than the internet being a "series of tubes"!
I lost some brain cells beating my head against the desk after reading this "quality" piece, but I do not blame the author as much as I do the speaker. In my opinion, perhaps Washington should stop "clogging the internet tubes" as they would put it...
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Kdawson is officially a troll.
This should be modded insightful not funny.
bingo, I'm thinking of the farmers in remote villages in Africa that use cellphones to check market prices to determine when and where to bring their crops to market to optimize their income.
Yes, because they grow potatoes in the remote parts of Africa...I wish you were right afidel, but honestly most produce that "goes to market" comes from what one could dub superfarms it seems, at least those distribution companies that are publicly listed.
I do not think that many of their papers are provided on a "free basis" (well yes mostly they are):
Obviously, there's a tradeoff for faculty, in that many of the NPG journals are recognized for their high quality, and provide a level of prestige that may be essential for advancing a researcher's career. The libraries recommend alternatives, such as the Public Library of Science journals, but those have yet to reach an equivalent level of recognition. The letter also recommends other open access policies, such as following the NIH open access guidelines, but NPG has already taken actions to support these policies.
source
They submitters also get compensated (not highly enough as some would argue). In addition I found this very interesting (from arstechnica):
Nature's take
In response to our query, Nature Publishing group provided us with a public statement in which it voices distress that what it had assumed were ongoing, confidential negotiations have been disclosed to the public. As for the assertions made along with the disclosure, NPG thinks they're misleading. "The implication that NPG is increasing its list prices by massive amounts is entirely untrue," the statement reads. According to Nature, its library subscriptions are currently capped at seven percent annually.
Where did the massive increase mentioned by the UC libraries come from? The statement argues that the price increase seems dramatic simply because UC was operating under a discount that NPG terms "unsustainable." NPG claims that it's providing the UC libraries with a discount from list of close to 90 percent, and that "other subscribers, both in the US and around the world, are subsidizing them." Even with the new pricing in place, NPG estimates that the average download of a paper would only cost UC a bit more than 50.
NPG seems convinced that cooler heads and a detailed analysis of the numbers will see the UC libraries return to the negotiating table. "We are confident that the appointment of Professor Keith Yamamoto and other scientific faculty to lead the proposed boycott," it states, "will mean they will be in a position to assess value with a rigorous and transparent methodology."
same source linked againsource
If those facts are all true, they really should be fair to the other universities...but to be honest I bet both sides are exaggerated as that is how media works.
Having exp on what you are saying, the real dirt is all on a closed system, and the lower level security has potential for flaws, its just the way it is...I mean the number one flaw to security is thinking that any security can be 100% effective, but as you said:
single sad-case foreign national
Yes, that's a bit embarrassing haha :)
On another note, however, perhaps this would be an even better solution: the NSA should "hire" him to hack China: just give a lot of "subtle" hints that all the UFO's are over there. Or start classifying fake material that forces him to "double check" their information. Paranoid people can be really determined hard workers...
Please do not start to doublethink this!
dam, that sucks. But do you know if they are running that same software? (or anyone else?)
Stupid treehuggin' "green" developers...
Yes, perhaps it was a difference in atmospheric conditions (lack of one) that made the big difference...that and the damning gravity :)
Anyways I second FleaPlus's "good point".
Reply needed sorry:
The patent listed deals a bit with a chemical used by the German scientists, but does not include much outside of that. Still interesting imo...whatever.
I read that as patents at first, but jokes aside I decided to do a brief search on patents. There seems to be a method out similar to that described in the article, although my guess would be the article is more about the all important application too...
Abstract
Germanium-containing organic polymers are obtained by polymerizing 3-trichlorogermylpropionic acid obtained by reacting halogermanium-phosphoric acid complexes with acrylic acid. The polymers are markedly effective in treating opthalmological disorders.
[2/29/1980] http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4296123/fulltext.html
But I will save judgment there because I do not know the details.
Also in the article:
Storsberg helped develop a new version of an opthalmological polymer which the eye will bond to and still allow to function properly.
Anyone who cannot do a simple spellcheck on that word...haha nevermind I enjoyed the read. (Spelled: ophthalmological)
that sucks...but when it comes to those freebie lotions (that actually dry your skin) and the shampoo that attracts dirt, I'd say the trashcan was not worth it haha.
On another note, based on your account, a good place for a terrorist to hijack a plane would be in Las Vegas's airport...hell everyone looks hungover leaving there.
MiniEULA: I do not condone or recommend any sort of terrorism.
Nice "The Men Who Stare at Goats" took me a second to get it too... Funny.
This article should have been titled:
Bunny say no hav carret! LOL
Maybe then the story would have been marked as binspam.
the odds of actually getting brought to justice are fairly low, unless you are basically just a petty vandal, hitting some high-profile target in the same country as you.
So when can I start?
Hmm... What happens if you accidentally click the button?
Oh I wouldn't worry about it... since the button will probably be written in flash, just use an ipad and you ought to be safe
you mean all the teenagers showing their public parts?
Fixed that for you...they actually do not own rights to their parts once they are uploaded.
We have to differentiate between presenting ourselves with more temptations to loose concentration with actual causing of lapses of concentration. I would agree with you though that introducing those devices can be distracting, but that is what inherently they were designed to do...distract, entertain, and provide a set utility to the user.
Check out dis funny picture of cat.
Actually I think it reveals our stupidity.
But the real issue here is that the article doesn't really address "Does the Internet Make Humanity Smarter Or Dumber?". Instead it should be entitled: "Does distraction, largely in part to the internet, make some individuals process information differently?". Sure distractions are always "bad":
When we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be online, our brains are unable to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give depth and distinctiveness to our thinking. We become mere signal-processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of information into and then out of short-term memory.
But does a fragmented short term memory have permanent effects? He talks in the article about
In another experiment, recently conducted at Stanford University's Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, a team of researchers gave various cognitive tests to 49 people who do a lot of media multitasking and 52 people who multitask much less frequently. The heavy multitaskers performed poorly on all the tests. They were more easily distracted, had less control over their attention, and were much less able to distinguish important information from trivia.
To me, what led those people to do media multitasking in the first place? Perhaps the media did not engineer some level of "multitaskness" (not a word, I know) but that this multi-tasking ability was inherent to those individuals' respective personalities. This brings be back to my first point that the internet reveals our stupidity AND perhaps just our personality in general.
And you'll beat the game easily, but then have your character stolen by some asshole hacker Saruman.
Exactly, that is why the US has national, state, AND local governments, each with their own independent roles. Your a hundred percent right Attila, unfortunately people expect a federal government to give local attention today when in fact it was designed to "lead".
Satire.
This device should be called a robot that is serving the function of "overlord" ability processing. You see, as a human we are very creative, but at times easily distracted by LOLCAT's and other things that seem to make up what the computers dub "our internetz"; therefore this new ability processing feature should drastically improve our creativity throughput by scheduling when we have lapses in concentration. Just think of the reliability!
Personally I'll just get the device, hack it, and use it as an excuse to take a break whenever I deem necessary.
The article's title (Don't call it a sinkhole) is certainly on the money. I was shocked. If you haven't read/looked at the article, do. I was expecting, you know, a little crater thing or something. This is far, far beyond that. It is literally a massive cylindrical hole. It's amazing.
How can we be sure this was "created"? I remember distinctly from Alien vs. Predator that the amazing hole led to an amazingly scary pyramid!
Or how about a Crop Circle, maybe some Alien up there was having a bad day at the office and was thinking:
I'm not fucking around with my crop "circle" today!
I mean its basically irrefutable evidence...I searched Google and it came up with over 32,000 results for
"Guatemala sinkhole" aliens
Either 32,000 of us are idiots (which can't be true LOL), or aliens are coming. Don't say I didn't warn you all!
Or perhaps a close loved one or personal friend is blind to this individual. Watching other people's frustration and/or success is a great review. Plus, an individual could "talk to the person" and give us a great synopsis of that review.
Play nice people. :)
The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich.
Your right, we should tax the information-rich individuals and make them give some of their information away...they do not deserve that much information! (Greedy bastards)
there is too much going on at every level in Washington, D.C., for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate.
Oh he is soooo right! I mean, the government was working perfectly before the internet. Wow, glad I've been shown the light!
The former Grateful Dead songwriter said those disppointed in Obama are disregarding the extent to which the political system is broken.
Well that's OK, because Obama said he was going to help fix it! :)
"There is a circle of fat around the Beltway that is incredibly thick" Barlow said. "We can no longer try to run this country from the center. We've got to run it, just like the Internet, from the edges."
Wow, that is an even better analogy than the internet being a "series of tubes"!
I lost some brain cells beating my head against the desk after reading this "quality" piece, but I do not blame the author as much as I do the speaker. In my opinion, perhaps Washington should stop "clogging the internet tubes" as they would put it...
Haha nice...doubt my friend who rides would ever be caught on one of those, that and a Harley. Nice link though