Indeed nothing can be found. Even though, even if we could actually find something, it wouldnt be of any use in the first place. The finest example is PageRank which has already been published and cited a fair amount of times. Only the most naive however would expect Google to be using the same algorithm as described in the paper and not some hybrid tweaked version of it. Its a shame though indeed, i would have enjoyed a glimpse of the guys work just for fun:)
I dont think they even actually care on the PR aspect. Wasnt there a story floating around some years ago that they sued a 70 year old grandma for illegaly trading mp3 files on Kazaa or some P2P network. I think its a common secret by now that that RIAA heavily relies on the sued individuals to get scared and settle the case out of court, with of cource a nominal fine. *sigh*
The situation is unbearable especially in poorer countries where research libraries cannot afford the subscription prices to the best journals. My university is now in the process of difficult subscription cuts due to a lack of library budget.
Not to mention that some articles in particular are not even accessible using the library subscription. I have been actively involved in the academia for two years or so, and i have come acros a number of highly-ranked articles (ie. Nature or Elsevier) that i cant access even by using my library subscription but was asked to actually purchase the article.
I tend to agree up to a certain degree with your opinion on branding of scientific journals. Different journals however actually propose different standards and their names are usually supplied in order to assess the quality of one's work. For example publishing in an IEEE or an Oxford Press Bioinformatics journal is not the same as publishing in an IASTED one etc. I am not necessarily saying this is a right thing but people who publish tend to try to publish in journals (or conferences for that matter) that are considered as higher ranking.
Thankfully. the field of Bioinformatics and Medicine is more 'open' that other fields i have encountered. Most articles are available without a subscription on major biomedical databases such as MedLINE etc. I do tend to believe that the only way to 'solve' this problem is by giving the authors the ability to control their work even after it has been published. An author should be able to specify is his work will be available for free from the publishers site or not.
Yeah, you got it right, its just another attempt for attention. Just like their other 30 projects and categories they have included *sigh*. Wont people understand it was some guy just messing around for his own pleasure.
And as for bw bitchin, images are 2kb and would get cached (localy/squid/anything). Give me a break:)
I am really impressed. I am actively (or so i think) involved in the Bioinformatics community/research adn the amount of information that is actually shared between parties its above anything ive ever seen before. From expression databases to DNA sequence/motif databases, almost all research teams submit their results to publicly available (free) db's that also some with FAST(A)/BLAST searching tools, also free for use. A very large number of tools covering almost every aspect of gene expression and proteins is also publicly available. I have rarely stumbled across a piece of information, an application or particular data that i was not able to access directly. (one of these cases was simply solved by contacting the other party and just identifying my self).
Best one ive ever heard is about a student getting a PhD thessis, changing the name on it and re-writting the abstract, eventually handing it in as a MSc project. Of course he was caught since he had absolutely no idea on what the thessis was on plus he actually made spelling mistakes in the abstract, which is a very bad no no.
I agree. Perhaps you should get some real professional help and opinion on such a important matter rather than a bunch of know-it-all's from/. Best of luck from me though:)
so uhm, maybe they can make it give you an electrick shock when you get struck by an enemy, or when you die, or when you make the alien in that weird sex game you are playing cum O_o
but wasnt the whole point to get rid of paper voting and vast ammounts of it accumulated? the receipt will just be the same thing imho. massive useless paper amounts
imo this is only feeding the existing paranoia 'everybody is after us' that the people in the united states have been brainwasged with since 911. yes, sure, there are people that are after you but that does not mean a complete breakdown of civil rights like it is happening now. Maybe its just another statement to get more money as a 'space defence' project...
i *strongly* suggest you go and read the various levels of subsciptions available from Microsoft before launching such comments. Subscriptions mostly entitle you to alpha and beta builds and obviously, to the final product. They also give you building resources.
Nobody goes and buys one and waits for MS to 'release' a new OS so they can get it free.
More info on : http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/levels/def ault.asp
So, they also got your credit card. Nice, maybe RIAA can charge you directly the cost of your 'illegal' mp3's and not get into the hassle of tracking you down and suing you. *scary*
well, i dont have the papers with me atm, but im sure it was a 'scratch the number and see if you win in our lottery system'. Pretty useless as well when it says 'offer only open to US citizens'.
It might seem amazing, but i did suffer from the same problem when i subscribed to Time's "3 free issues promotion". Even though i live abroad (Greece) i started received tremendous amounts of junk snail mail. For example join the US lottery or even apply for a green card and stuff like that. Fortunately, i did not fill in my email address so thats pretty clean (apart from the usual horny teen emails that arrive in my inbox everyday).
And i really cant see how the US lottery's generic bulk junk mail qualifies as a 'Time valued partner' or a 'special offer' that they claimed on the form. The real issue here is that i had checked the "check if you do not want us to share your address" box on the form. Obviously they did. I never wrote back to 'cancel' my free subscription but my father told me the same thing happens with Newsweek some times.
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Also note that ComScore does not track the entire potential user-base. Only those which have the tracking panel install.
More information on how this works,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comscore
Indeed nothing can be found. Even though, even if we could actually find something, it wouldnt be of any use in the first place. The finest example is PageRank which has already been published and cited a fair amount of times. Only the most naive however would expect Google to be using the same algorithm as described in the paper and not some hybrid tweaked version of it. Its a shame though indeed, i would have enjoyed a glimpse of the guys work just for fun :)
I dont think they even actually care on the PR aspect. Wasnt there a story floating around some years ago that they sued a 70 year old grandma for illegaly trading mp3 files on Kazaa or some P2P network. I think its a common secret by now that that RIAA heavily relies on the sued individuals to get scared and settle the case out of court, with of cource a nominal fine. *sigh*
:)
Happy new year
agreed, they should start providing the conclusion part as well ;)
The situation is unbearable especially in poorer countries where research libraries cannot afford the subscription prices to the best journals. My university is now in the process of difficult subscription cuts due to a lack of library budget.
Not to mention that some articles in particular are not even accessible using the library subscription. I have been actively involved in the academia for two years or so, and i have come acros a number of highly-ranked articles (ie. Nature or Elsevier) that i cant access even by using my library subscription but was asked to actually purchase the article.
I tend to agree up to a certain degree with your opinion on branding of scientific journals. Different journals however actually propose different standards and their names are usually supplied in order to assess the quality of one's work. For example publishing in an IEEE or an Oxford Press Bioinformatics journal is not the same as publishing in an IASTED one etc. I am not necessarily saying this is a right thing but people who publish tend to try to publish in journals (or conferences for that matter) that are considered as higher ranking.
Thankfully. the field of Bioinformatics and Medicine is more 'open' that other fields i have encountered. Most articles are available without a subscription on major biomedical databases such as MedLINE etc. I do tend to believe that the only way to 'solve' this problem is by giving the authors the ability to control their work even after it has been published. An author should be able to specify is his work will be available for free from the publishers site or not.
Yeah, you got it right, its just another attempt for attention. Just like their other 30 projects and categories they have included *sigh*. Wont people understand it was some guy just messing around for his own pleasure.
:)
And as for bw bitchin, images are 2kb and would get cached (localy/squid/anything). Give me a break
I am really impressed. I am actively (or so i think) involved in the Bioinformatics community/research adn the amount of information that is actually shared between parties its above anything ive ever seen before.
From expression databases to DNA sequence/motif databases, almost all research teams submit their results to publicly available (free) db's that also some with FAST(A)/BLAST searching tools, also free for use. A very large number of tools covering almost every aspect of gene expression and proteins is also publicly available.
I have rarely stumbled across a piece of information, an application or particular data that i was not able to access directly. (one of these cases was simply solved by contacting the other party and just identifying my self).
did you consider another side effect: training?
so okay, you install OpenOffice. Now you have to train 4k ppl to use it. And trust me, in office enviroments, intuition comes by seldomly.
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Best one ive ever heard is about a student getting a PhD thessis, changing the name on it and re-writting the abstract, eventually handing it in as a MSc project.
Of course he was caught since he had absolutely no idea on what the thessis was on plus he actually made spelling mistakes in the abstract, which is a very bad no no.
hey, the do know what it is, see, he's rests his coffee mug on it
I agree. Perhaps you should get some real professional help and opinion on such a important matter rather than a bunch of know-it-all's from /. :)
Best of luck from me though
so uhm, maybe they can make it give you an electrick shock when you get struck by an enemy, or when you die, or when you make the alien in that weird sex game you are playing cum O_o
but wasnt the whole point to get rid of paper voting and vast ammounts of it accumulated? the receipt will just be the same thing imho. massive useless paper amounts
imo this is only feeding the existing paranoia 'everybody is after us' that the people in the united states have been brainwasged with since 911. yes, sure, there are people that are after you but that does not mean a complete breakdown of civil rights like it is happening now.
Maybe its just another statement to get more money as a 'space defence' project...
Yup, Trillian o.74E works fine as well, currently in the UK and logs on to baym-cs207.msgr.hotmail.com with no problems.
HUGE yes i can ERECTION
i *strongly* suggest you go and read the various levels of subsciptions available from Microsoft before launching such comments.
f ault.asp
Subscriptions mostly entitle you to alpha and beta builds and obviously, to the final product. They also give you building resources.
Nobody goes and buys one and waits for MS to 'release' a new OS so they can get it free.
More info on : http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/levels/de
So, they also got your credit card.
Nice, maybe RIAA can charge you directly the cost of your 'illegal' mp3's and not get into the hassle of tracking you down and suing you.
*scary*
we should really create a new genre for these games :
YAWN = Yet Another WWW2 moficatioN
well, i dont have the papers with me atm, but im sure it was a 'scratch the number and see if you win in our lottery system'. Pretty useless as well when it says 'offer only open to US citizens'.
omg !
ill never hang up to a spam call again in my life
Yes, mr automated computer voice, ill buy anything you want.
*sigh*
It might seem amazing, but i did suffer from the same problem when i subscribed to Time's "3 free issues promotion". Even though i live abroad (Greece) i started received tremendous amounts of junk snail mail.
:/
For example join the US lottery or even apply for a green card and stuff like that.
Fortunately, i did not fill in my email address so thats pretty clean (apart from the usual horny teen emails that arrive in my inbox everyday).
And i really cant see how the US lottery's generic bulk junk mail qualifies as a 'Time valued partner' or a 'special offer' that they claimed on the form.
The real issue here is that i had checked the "check if you do not want us to share your address" box on the form. Obviously they did. I never wrote back to 'cancel' my free subscription but my father told me the same thing happens with Newsweek some times.
go figure
so, will they come with Kazaa or FlashFXP installed ? :)
so what if the Chinese
(insert 60's horror film narrator voice)
ATTACK HUMANITY FROM SPACE ?!?!
(/insert 60's horror film narrator voice)