Contrary to what the poster asks I feel the peer review process could be best served by using an open model. Most reviewers give their time for free. Most of the cost of a journal goes to publishers and printers.
A collabaritve method would seem to benefit the authors, the reviers and the readers. In fact the only losers would be the publishers/printers.
I'd love to read the latest journals but not at the prices they are asking.
Optical CPUs are still only research projects and nobody is sure these things are going to work as well as silicon. I talked with somebody at Livermore regarding feasability and his take was never. 30+ years of chip evolution is not going to be beaten by a few research projects. The bar is set to high for optical to come in.
I'm more hopeful that we might get away from the whole stupid clock idea and go asynchronos. This area seems to be opening up more and more. It's beena round for ever but nobody could find a reason to go to the extra expense.
If Moores law fails then I guess SMP will become mainstream. I mean it's either that or software engineers write programs that are efficient. I expect to see an aerobatic display by flying pigs before I see an efficient program.
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This isn't capitalism at all, it's supply and demand. Do not mix politcal idealogies with economic models.
The total level of taxation is about the same having worked in europe for 10+ years and the US for 6+. Sales tax is a small part of the equation, although the US seems to tax everything with sales tax and europe is more selective.
Most Americans do not put their money towards businesses they have it taken by the goverment. The goverment decides where the money is to be distributed. Who pays for politicians to be elected? Who do you think politicans are going to reward for getting them elected?
Taxation is just about the same for a working stiff. Europe tends to spend it's tax dollars on healthcare, welfare and education the US prefers corporations, welfare and defence.
With the current US administration focusing so much on defence and corporate bail outs the next administration is going to have to raise more taxes.
Boston Tea party was over a 2% tax as I recall, my, how far the US has come. Still the US does have a brand spanking new Dept. of Homeland Security. Even old Poindexter got employed, who says felons can't get good jobs?
Knock off the holier than thou attitude, that's the one thing I hate about most people who pass any sort of advanced driving test. Big deal, you passed the test, have you read RoadCraft? Spent much time on a skid pan or practising evasive manouvers, measured how long it takes your car to stop, know how old your shocks are, do you give a running commentary to yourself when driving? How long since you were tested and by whom were you tested?
Nowhere are you told how far behind someone are you supposed to drive, it is far too dependent on a wide range of variables, two seconds is an easy to remember, easy to implement plan. It is a very small part of defensive driving.
I love seeing people get out of wrecked cars but for differing reasons! I certainly don't care who or what caused the accident as long as everybody comes out unscathed. I've been first on scene at three major injury accidents, it ain't like the movies. In short I would prefer never to see another accident.
On a crowded road the two second rule is impossible to implement because every time you back off to give yourself space somebody fills so you back off and somebody fills it. Now after a couple of turns of this your speed has dropped to such an extent you are now a obstruction to the flow of traffic. Everybody behind you is either crowding you or trying to overtake.
30kph an hour is roughly 25mph! I'm used to imperial so excuse my math if I'm off slightly. Using the formulas given by the UK Dept. of Transport. The reaction distance at 25mph is 25ft, the braking distance is ((25*25)/20) = 32ft total stopping distance is 57ft, given a maintained car with an alert driver on a reasonable road surface. The two second rule gives you 52ft, or so. In other words you have enough space to almost stop completely if the car in front was to stop suddenly. By suddenly I mean if the car was to hit a solid brick wall. The two second rule was not designed to do this, it was designed to give you enough time to get on the brakes and stop if the car in front was decelerating at it's maximum potential. So when your speed drops below roughly 30mph you can reduce your interval time and still be able to react and achieve maximum braking before you hit the car in front. Futhermore, most modern cars can can easily achieve braking distances shorter than that given by the DoT, but it does require a good road surface.
If things get critical and you are relying on the two second rule you made bad choices in the preceeding seconds. The idea behind driving defensively is to recognise what is about to happen and allow you to place your vehicle in the safest position. Defensive driving does not make you safe merely safer.
The two second rule is merely one arrow in the quiver of defensive driving techniques. In an ideal world everybody would drive the two second rule. This is not an ideal world and you need to adjust ideal rules to fit in with reality.
Getting bigger cars will not solve everything, in fact it would put me at greater risk! The reason for a new big car is that in accident crash tests the larger newer car nearly always comes out with the higher scores.
Having passed the advanced drivers test in the UK I can assure you that hardly anybody drives the two second rule in the UK and now I am in the states I know nobody does it here. The UK drives at about one second gaps and the Us less than that.
The problem is at motor/highway speed two seconds leaves enough of a gap for some dofus to pull into. There goes you're breaking distance and you're wonderful two second rule. Fall back and the next dofus does the same. Repeat ad nauseum until you get a clue that nobody else respects you're breaking distance.
On crowded roads the two second rule is not possible to implement. Instead you pay far more attention to what's going on around you constantly have the escape route planned. It also helps to have the largest newest vehicle you can afford.
I live in the SF bay area but it's pretty much the same everywhere in the US.
A 22ft sailboat with outboard and ready to sail costs less the $5k. It's not new, it's not the fastest but it can be raced/cruised.
A 35ft sailboat can be had for less than $30k ready to sail.
Slip fees usually run $5-$6 a foot.
I personally like high performance dinghies and they can be had for less than $3k, but you need a wet suit.
Unless you want to have a 60ft steel cruiser it's nearly always cheaper to buy a used sail boat than build one. Like most things boats depreciate with age, unlike most things boats are built to last.
.....about five years into my career client/server was the in thing. This was meant to replace mainframes, reduce costs, reduce man power and solve world hunger. Well it didn't do any of these. They cost more and need more manpower.
Now web services are being touted as the golden bullet. It's all bunk and marketing. Not to say web services do not have a place, they do, they just ain't a complete solution.
The sooner we come full circle and get back to terminals attached to the central server the better we'll all be.
But gotta go I've got to debug this AS/400<->NT<->CE database integrity problem, then I can get started on the CE gui lock up and lastly solve the backing up of two central servers and many remote PCs. Client server keeps me employed.
The question you should be posing is 'why do users always throw out systems?' I have no answer to this . The lemming syndrome springs to mind as does sheer stupidity.
It's this sort of thinking that scares the hell out of me. Sooner or later somebody is going to give the US a bloody nose. It's already been demonstrated in the war games that senior US tacticans are unable to respond to guerilla warfare. The US did of course capture Al Queda did it not?
If an organisation were to set up shop in the US I think it would be almost impossible to catch them. Why was the DC sniper team caught? Imagine if they were part of an organised team. They would not have been caught. Now imagine there teams in 10 cities. The first teams goes down the second team starts up. Think that wouldn't cause problems? Now throw in cheap EMP weapons near major comuunications links. Then some shoulder weapons at the end of two or three runways.
Bush goes into Iraq get ready for the war to start in the US.
The only reason you think he has principles is that he agrees with your beliefs. Looks like the school boy moderators agree with you.
Principled indeed. He's a politician, do you have any idea what that job involves? It has very little to do with working for the benefit of the electorate.
I could catch a ball at four could I do calculus, no. the question is did my brain know how to do calculus, I say no you say yes. Futhermore I say my brain still doesn't know calculus or anything like it. I just have a lot of experience.
Tiger spent plenty of time watching his shots land wide of the mark. Now he has enough past experience that he knows what happens when he swings the club. Same for Bonds, Farve and all the other atheletes. They are not doing any math real fast, rather they have a mental image and they keep comparing that to what they see.
The reason I doubt the math is being done is that maths is a learnt skill. We do not do maths as an infant, we just do.
Futhermore, I do not think the brain really cares why, it just wants a solution. I much prefer the idea of using past experience mixed with constant feedback. I see the ball so my mind is telling my body were it expects the ball to land based on experience. Then I watch the ball and constantly adjust. It's not like I go the ball will land at X, but rather based on what I've seen the ball will land sorta over there maybe, better get over there. Hang on a sec it's not falling like I'm expecting better shift back a bit. Repeat until you catch it .
But is the brain calculating this or rather looking up the answer? I know as a toddler I couldn't catch squat, but as I got older I got better. Was the reason increased proceesing power, my brain got bigger. Or more experience, I'd caught a lot more balls by then.
I doubt very much the brain is clunking through calculus.
It's not theft anymore than installing ad blocking software is theft.
People do not want advertisments, print, radio, TV or internet. Futhermore nobody needs advertisments. Companies need to advertise to compete with other companys.
Futhermore, I cannot think of one industry where the generation of revenue from advertising has not affected that industry in a negative way. Can you?
You are aware you're on/. This is not reasoned debate, this is not a site were reasoning or debating is appreciated. Every body just posts stuff they think will get modded up./. where dissenting voices get silenced.
I'm sorry to say that people in IT are becoming lax in running backups. When I started, back in the mid 80s, the only rule was thou shalt not endanger the data. Well that and don't shag the CEOs wife.
Most companies these days are not performing backups of live servers and have no idea how they will recreate the data when a problem occurs.
In my current role I'm using a lot of different machines FTP servers, SEQUEL DBs, Oracale DBs, DB2 etc etc I asked the ops for a copy of the Sequel DB no copy made since installation! Same for FTP. The really scary thing is they quote 95% of systems backed up. So it's CYA time, send emails keep proof of reading and wait for the fireworks:-)
Speaking to other old farts it's clear that a lot of companies are in the same boat, where the hell did all the good ops managers go?
My personal desires have nothing to do with healthcare and education and everything to do with Nicole Kidman:-)
Seriously, these two topics are the top of evey opinion poll but rarely mentioned outside of political ads. Personally, I want less goverment of the individual but I doubt many Americans do.
It has absolutelty nothing to do with trusting the voting system. Be it paper or electronic we still have a pathetic turn out.
Most people do not vote becuase they feel their voice is not represented by either of the two main parties. They also feel that only the two main parties can win.
There is no technical solution to this problem, voter apathy. We do not live in a democracy we probably never will. We choose which members of the ruling class get to sit on the hill.
I feel for America to progress we must change the voting system. An intermediate step might be to have none of the above on the ballot. The next step would be for none of the above to be the dafault, if you do not show your vote goes to none of the above. Where I would like to see the US system end up is with a lottery. Every election we put everybody into a hat and draw out our representitives. I think we would then have a politcal system that mirrors society with women and minorites taking seats in goverment. We would see a reduction in business and military interests and an increase in eduction and healthcare.
Democracy, democracy everyone wants democracy and yet they fail to grasp that America is not democratic.
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Contrary to what the poster asks I feel the peer review process could be best served by using an open model. Most reviewers give their time for free. Most of the cost of a journal goes to publishers and printers.
A collabaritve method would seem to benefit the authors, the reviers and the readers. In fact the only losers would be the publishers/printers.
I'd love to read the latest journals but not at the prices they are asking.
Optical CPUs are still only research projects and nobody is sure these things are going to work as well as silicon. I talked with somebody at Livermore regarding feasability and his take was never. 30+ years of chip evolution is not going to be beaten by a few research projects. The bar is set to high for optical to come in.
I'm more hopeful that we might get away from the whole stupid clock idea and go asynchronos. This area seems to be opening up more and more. It's beena round for ever but nobody could find a reason to go to the extra expense.
If Moores law fails then I guess SMP will become mainstream. I mean it's either that or software engineers write programs that are efficient. I expect to see an aerobatic display by flying pigs before I see an efficient program.
This isn't capitalism at all, it's supply and demand. Do not mix politcal idealogies with economic models.
So the earths magnetic field is caused by mass of the water in the oceans. I was under the impression it was caused by the molten core.
The rebound of the earths mantle is meant to take thousands of years, but this effect is evident in less than 50?
What is the mass of the earth? I doubt this amount of water is 1% of 1% of the earths mass.
How much oil have we dug out from the earths crust? Is it close to the mass of the water?
From reading the article it sounds like they had a tehory, went searching for a reason and then massaged the facts to fit their theory.
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Irish + English
French + English
German + English
Dutch + English
The US ain't white.
The total level of taxation is about the same having worked in europe for 10+ years and the US for 6+. Sales tax is a small part of the equation, although the US seems to tax everything with sales tax and europe is more selective.
Most Americans do not put their money towards businesses they have it taken by the goverment. The goverment decides where the money is to be distributed. Who pays for politicians to be elected? Who do you think politicans are going to reward for getting them elected?
Hmm no...
Taxation is just about the same for a working stiff. Europe tends to spend it's tax dollars on healthcare, welfare and education the US prefers corporations, welfare and defence.
With the current US administration focusing so much on defence and corporate bail outs the next administration is going to have to raise more taxes.
Boston Tea party was over a 2% tax as I recall, my, how far the US has come. Still the US does have a brand spanking new Dept. of Homeland Security. Even old Poindexter got employed, who says felons can't get good jobs?
Knock off the holier than thou attitude, that's the one thing I hate about most people who pass any sort of advanced driving test. Big deal, you passed the test, have you read RoadCraft? Spent much time on a skid pan or practising evasive manouvers, measured how long it takes your car to stop, know how old your shocks are, do you give a running commentary to yourself when driving? How long since you were tested and by whom were you tested?
Nowhere are you told how far behind someone are you supposed to drive, it is far too dependent on a wide range of variables, two seconds is an easy to remember, easy to implement plan. It is a very small part of defensive driving.
I love seeing people get out of wrecked cars but for differing reasons! I certainly don't care who or what caused the accident as long as everybody comes out unscathed. I've been first on scene at three major injury accidents, it ain't like the movies. In short I would prefer never to see another accident.
On a crowded road the two second rule is impossible to implement because every time you back off to give yourself space somebody fills so you back off and somebody fills it. Now after a couple of turns of this your speed has dropped to such an extent you are now a obstruction to the flow of traffic. Everybody behind you is either crowding you or trying to overtake.
30kph an hour is roughly 25mph! I'm used to imperial so excuse my math if I'm off slightly. Using the formulas given by the UK Dept. of Transport. The reaction distance at 25mph is 25ft, the braking distance is ((25*25)/20) = 32ft total stopping distance is 57ft, given a maintained car with an alert driver on a reasonable road surface. The two second rule gives you 52ft, or so. In other words you have enough space to almost stop completely if the car in front was to stop suddenly. By suddenly I mean if the car was to hit a solid brick wall. The two second rule was not designed to do this, it was designed to give you enough time to get on the brakes and stop if the car in front was decelerating at it's maximum potential. So when your speed drops below roughly 30mph you can reduce your interval time and still be able to react and achieve maximum braking before you hit the car in front. Futhermore, most modern cars can can easily achieve braking distances shorter than that given by the DoT, but it does require a good road surface.
If things get critical and you are relying on the two second rule you made bad choices in the preceeding seconds. The idea behind driving defensively is to recognise what is about to happen and allow you to place your vehicle in the safest position. Defensive driving does not make you safe merely safer.
The two second rule is merely one arrow in the quiver of defensive driving techniques. In an ideal world everybody would drive the two second rule. This is not an ideal world and you need to adjust ideal rules to fit in with reality.
Getting bigger cars will not solve everything, in fact it would put me at greater risk! The reason for a new big car is that in accident crash tests the larger newer car nearly always comes out with the higher scores.
Are you for real?
Having passed the advanced drivers test in the UK I can assure you that hardly anybody drives the two second rule in the UK and now I am in the states I know nobody does it here. The UK drives at about one second gaps and the Us less than that.
The problem is at motor/highway speed two seconds leaves enough of a gap for some dofus to pull into. There goes you're breaking distance and you're wonderful two second rule. Fall back and the next dofus does the same. Repeat ad nauseum until you get a clue that nobody else respects you're breaking distance.
On crowded roads the two second rule is not possible to implement. Instead you pay far more attention to what's going on around you constantly have the escape route planned. It also helps to have the largest newest vehicle you can afford.
I live in the SF bay area but it's pretty much the same everywhere in the US.
A 22ft sailboat with outboard and ready to sail costs less the $5k. It's not new, it's not the fastest but it can be raced/cruised.
A 35ft sailboat can be had for less than $30k ready to sail.
Slip fees usually run $5-$6 a foot.
I personally like high performance dinghies and they can be had for less than $3k, but you need a wet suit.
Unless you want to have a 60ft steel cruiser it's nearly always cheaper to buy a used sail boat than build one. Like most things boats depreciate with age, unlike most things boats are built to last.
.....about five years into my career client/server was the in thing. This was meant to replace mainframes, reduce costs, reduce man power and solve world hunger. Well it didn't do any of these. They cost more and need more manpower.
Now web services are being touted as the golden bullet. It's all bunk and marketing. Not to say web services do not have a place, they do, they just ain't a complete solution.
The sooner we come full circle and get back to terminals attached to the central server the better we'll all be.
But gotta go I've got to debug this AS/400<->NT<->CE database integrity problem, then I can get started on the CE gui lock up and lastly solve the backing up of two central servers and many remote PCs. Client server keeps me employed.
The question you should be posing is 'why do users always throw out systems?' I have no answer to this . The lemming syndrome springs to mind as does sheer stupidity.
This ain't falmebait. It's exactly what I first thought. The original question is bullshit.
It's this sort of thinking that scares the hell out of me. Sooner or later somebody is going to give the US a bloody nose. It's already been demonstrated in the war games that senior US tacticans are unable to respond to guerilla warfare. The US did of course capture Al Queda did it not?
If an organisation were to set up shop in the US I think it would be almost impossible to catch them. Why was the DC sniper team caught? Imagine if they were part of an organised team. They would not have been caught. Now imagine there teams in 10 cities. The first teams goes down the second team starts up. Think that wouldn't cause problems? Now throw in cheap EMP weapons near major comuunications links. Then some shoulder weapons at the end of two or three runways.
Bush goes into Iraq get ready for the war to start in the US.
Try http://www.alternet.org or http://www.bbc.co.uk or http://www.michealmoore.com
Principle , priciple he says...
The only reason you think he has principles is that he agrees with your beliefs. Looks like the school boy moderators agree with you.
Principled indeed. He's a politician, do you have any idea what that job involves? It has very little to do with working for the benefit of the electorate.
I could catch a ball at four could I do calculus, no. the question is did my brain know how to do calculus, I say no you say yes. Futhermore I say my brain still doesn't know calculus or anything like it. I just have a lot of experience.
Tiger spent plenty of time watching his shots land wide of the mark. Now he has enough past experience that he knows what happens when he swings the club. Same for Bonds, Farve and all the other atheletes. They are not doing any math real fast, rather they have a mental image and they keep comparing that to what they see.
The reason I doubt the math is being done is that maths is a learnt skill. We do not do maths as an infant, we just do.
Futhermore, I do not think the brain really cares why, it just wants a solution. I much prefer the idea of using past experience mixed with constant feedback. I see the ball so my mind is telling my body were it expects the ball to land based on experience. Then I watch the ball and constantly adjust. It's not like I go the ball will land at X, but rather based on what I've seen the ball will land sorta over there maybe, better get over there. Hang on a sec it's not falling like I'm expecting better shift back a bit. Repeat until you catch it .
But is the brain calculating this or rather looking up the answer? I know as a toddler I couldn't catch squat, but as I got older I got better. Was the reason increased proceesing power, my brain got bigger. Or more experience, I'd caught a lot more balls by then.
I doubt very much the brain is clunking through calculus.
It's not theft anymore than installing ad blocking software is theft.
People do not want advertisments, print, radio, TV or internet. Futhermore nobody needs advertisments. Companies need to advertise to compete with other companys.
Futhermore, I cannot think of one industry where the generation of revenue from advertising has not affected that industry in a negative way. Can you?
You are aware you're on /. This is not reasoned debate, this is not a site were reasoning or debating is appreciated. Every body just posts stuff they think will get modded up. /. where dissenting voices get silenced.
Since when moderators post to stories they've moderated?
I'm sorry to say that people in IT are becoming lax in running backups. When I started, back in the mid 80s, the only rule was thou shalt not endanger the data. Well that and don't shag the CEOs wife.
:-)
Most companies these days are not performing backups of live servers and have no idea how they will recreate the data when a problem occurs.
In my current role I'm using a lot of different machines FTP servers, SEQUEL DBs, Oracale DBs, DB2 etc etc I asked the ops for a copy of the Sequel DB no copy made since installation! Same for FTP. The really scary thing is they quote 95% of systems backed up. So it's CYA time, send emails keep proof of reading and wait for the fireworks
Speaking to other old farts it's clear that a lot of companies are in the same boat, where the hell did all the good ops managers go?
My personal desires have nothing to do with healthcare and education and everything to do with Nicole Kidman :-)
Seriously, these two topics are the top of evey opinion poll but rarely mentioned outside of political ads. Personally, I want less goverment of the individual but I doubt many Americans do.
Rhetorical question.
Go and look up the memory bandwith of the top 100 and see how it compares.
Maybe I cannot read but you cannot reason!
It has absolutelty nothing to do with trusting the voting system. Be it paper or electronic we still have a pathetic turn out.
Most people do not vote becuase they feel their voice is not represented by either of the two main parties. They also feel that only the two main parties can win.
There is no technical solution to this problem, voter apathy. We do not live in a democracy we probably never will. We choose which members of the ruling class get to sit on the hill.
I feel for America to progress we must change the voting system. An intermediate step might be to have none of the above on the ballot. The next step would be for none of the above to be the dafault, if you do not show your vote goes to none of the above. Where I would like to see the US system end up is with a lottery. Every election we put everybody into a hat and draw out our representitives. I think we would then have a politcal system that mirrors society with women and minorites taking seats in goverment. We would see a reduction in business and military interests and an increase in eduction and healthcare.
Democracy, democracy everyone wants democracy and yet they fail to grasp that America is not democratic.