Umm, I tried to find impact factor of Journal of Cosmology and it is too shitty to find. This is a crackpot journal as far as I can tell... (Don't mix it with SISSA's Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) - that is a decent journal)
As a professional astronomer I hoped this thing would never have happened. It costs 6 billion and at this price tag a 5% overrun is $300 million, about six times the cost of the entire SDSS project, which has undoubtedly gave us more science that James Webb ever will. True, Hubble and JWST make great pictures, function as amazing PR machines, but most science at the end of the day comes from survey imaging and spectroscopic observations.
No, no. People buy iPhones, because they really want to suck Steve Jobs' dick, he just is the most charismatic person around. And then Steve gets sick from all this cock-sucking...
That is not quite true. I have 10Mbit connection and if everybody on my network was utilizing their 10Mbps all the time, everything would come to a grinding halt. So, if they charged for usage, the total transfer would be lower and hence the infrastructure cost would be lower. It is quite clear that most of the traffic is not netflix, but 1% of guys maxing their connection by downloading porn via bit torrent - I think they should be charged more, there is nothing unfair about it.
To reply to all who are asking what is stopping me from going back to Europe: NYC is, after all, still the best of all options. In Paris one can never be French, in Tokyo one is never a Japanese and in London, food is just terrible plus jobs are rather limited in my field. I think NYC is the best place in the world to live in because it is a city of immigrants, a melting pot where there is always fun things to do. I love USA because of its multiculturalism and amazing nature, not because of its "freedoms", SUVs, etc. The problem with Americans is that they do not realise what really makes their country great and want to make it worse rather than better. The other thing: why am I not paying more in taxes: because if I paid more in taxes, this would be money thrown down the toilet. If everyone paid more in taxes, the standard of living would go up.
This kind of comments make me want to return to Europe. I've been living in US for a couple of years now, I have a 6 figure salary and you know what: I hate paying so little in taxes. Because you get what you pay for. In USA you have small government, no taxes and hence everyone gets routinely screwed up by private sector: I have never paid so much in telecommunications, so much in healthcare costs for the shittiest service ever and I just punctured tire on my audi last week because of a massive pothole on a *freeway*. But as long as you get screwed by private sector everyone is happy. And then because one gov service is bad, everybody starts screaming big government is the root of all evil. For fuck sake, have you people ever tried trains in germany or healthcare in UK? USA could have been such a good country, food can be so amazing in NY and multiculturalism beats everybody else, but if people were just a little bit more sensible brained....
Buy N97 - it costs $600 upfront, but you are unlocked forever... I use it with pay as you go card AT&T sim card, with tethering, google maps, mobile IMAP3 reader, mp3 mplayer, etc etc, and my bils are around $30 a month. Such my balls, iPhone!
Technically speaking, you're not doing anything wrong. Morally speaking, you are. Apple iPhone is a fenced product in complete control of Apple. There is nothing free about it. Releasing GPL software for iPhone is in direct contradiction of GPL spirit.
Note that this is different from windows. There anybody is free to just pay for the OS and then download any compilers, any code, anything and therefore it is not ideal but OK from the perspective of GPL. iPhone on the other hand is a piece of hardware that is effectively owned by Apple and not the person who bought it.
Jailbreaking is counterproductive. Apple and AT&T will never learn this way. I opted for N97 instead, sure it has some drawbacks, but I am simply not prepared to give any kind of money to companies as evil as Apple and AT&T.
Buy him one of those $30 helicopters with 3 channels. It is quite clever to really understand what make it spin one way or another, the role of trimmer and conservation of angular momentum. Be prepared to waste lots of money on batteries, though.
$8000? Thats a crap lot for a machine, even a 8 core Xeon. What you got in there?
One of a few pleasures of academia is that you get whatever machine you want...8 cores at 3 GHz (which was max last year), 8Gb RAM, 2x 750Gb raided, 30 inch screen driven by a decent videocard... adds up pretty quickly.:)
Incidentally, I put together a completelly fanless audio system based around via esther at 1Ghz (the only noise producing thing is HD and I used a quiet barracuda HD and even that gets annoying after a while). The little box soon expanded into torrent downloader, file and web server and is incredibly stable platform. The best ever spent $400 (it is actually more stable than my 8 core xeon monster worth $8000 last year that I use at work).
...at how fuckin dumb this all is. If you can see it, you can copy it, maybe it is more difficult, but not impossible. Do these idiots never ever learn?
That also said, cars in the U.S. have stricter regulations than in Europe in terms of emissions which is why all the people with truly fast cars have to import them. Of course America has a lot more cars so that is probably why you feel the way you do about our output.
Dude, have you seen the size of cars Americans are driving vs Europeans? Or, in other words, when did you last see a pick-up truck in the USA actually lugging something around? And did you ever see a pick-up truck in europe as means of personal transport?
Even if regulations are stronger, i.e. emmisions per horse power might be lower, but in terms of emissions per vehicle, they are much worse...
Same here. Got married in UK in registry (due to visa issues) and went back to work the same day. We both believe in love, but not marriage. I still mostly refer to my wife as my girlfriend and I am SO happy that she doesn't buy this commercial shit... Actually, she clearly stated that she doesn't want any signs of ownership and hence I don't think rings would make he very happy...
Good for you! My wife has a macbook, which wouldn't connect of linksys WRT54G,unless it is on channel >5 (guess how many hours it took me to work this one out), wouldn't print on our printer, unless I manually recompile the linux drivers, wouldn't play my legally encoded mp3, because of a bug with how itunes do the id3 tags, would randomly start swapping the shit out due to leaky firefox (while safari doesn't work with half of the sites), is constantly bugging me to give apple some cash for either software or movies, etc., etc.
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Umm, I tried to find impact factor of Journal of Cosmology and it is too shitty to find. This is a crackpot journal as far as I can tell...
(Don't mix it with SISSA's Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) - that is a decent journal)
As a professional astronomer I hoped this thing would never have happened. It costs 6 billion and at this price tag a 5% overrun is $300 million, about six times the cost of the entire SDSS project, which has undoubtedly gave us more science that James Webb ever will. True, Hubble and JWST make great pictures, function as amazing PR machines, but most science at the end of the day comes from survey imaging and spectroscopic observations.
No, no. People buy iPhones, because they really want to suck Steve Jobs' dick, he just is the most charismatic person around. And then Steve gets sick from all this cock-sucking...
That is not quite true. I have 10Mbit connection and if everybody on my network was utilizing their 10Mbps all the time, everything would come to a grinding halt. So, if they charged for usage, the total transfer would be lower and hence the infrastructure cost would be lower. It is quite clear that most of the traffic is not netflix, but 1% of guys maxing their connection by downloading porn via bit torrent - I think they should be charged more, there is nothing unfair about it.
To reply to all who are asking what is stopping me from going back to Europe: NYC is, after all, still the best of all options. In Paris one can never be French, in Tokyo one is never a Japanese and in London, food is just terrible plus jobs are rather limited in my field. I think NYC is the best place in the world to live in because it is a city of immigrants, a melting pot where there is always fun things to do. I love USA because of its multiculturalism and amazing nature, not because of its "freedoms", SUVs, etc. The problem with Americans is that they do not realise what really makes their country great and want to make it worse rather than better. The other thing: why am I not paying more in taxes: because if I paid more in taxes, this would be money thrown down the toilet. If everyone paid more in taxes, the standard of living would go up.
This kind of comments make me want to return to Europe. I've been living in US for a couple of years now, I have a 6 figure salary and you know what: I hate paying so little in taxes. Because you get what you pay for. In USA you have small government, no taxes and hence everyone gets routinely screwed up by private sector: I have never paid so much in telecommunications, so much in healthcare costs for the shittiest service ever and I just punctured tire on my audi last week because of a massive pothole on a *freeway*. But as long as you get screwed by private sector everyone is happy. And then because one gov service is bad, everybody starts screaming big government is the root of all evil. For fuck sake, have you people ever tried trains in germany or healthcare in UK? USA could have been such a good country, food can be so amazing in NY and multiculturalism beats everybody else, but if people were just a little bit more sensible brained....
Buy N97 - it costs $600 upfront, but you are unlocked forever... I use it with pay as you go card AT&T sim card, with tethering, google maps, mobile IMAP3 reader, mp3 mplayer, etc etc, and my bils are around $30 a month. Such my balls, iPhone!
So, how did you manage to type this with exploded eyes? Surely, you can touchtype, but mousing skills required...
Noundi, we apologise! Sincerely!
Technically speaking, you're not doing anything wrong.
Morally speaking, you are. Apple iPhone is a fenced product in complete control of Apple. There is nothing free about it. Releasing GPL software for iPhone is in direct contradiction of GPL spirit.
Note that this is different from windows. There anybody is free to just pay for the OS and then download any compilers, any code, anything and therefore it is not ideal but OK from the perspective of GPL. iPhone on the other hand is a piece of hardware that is effectively owned by Apple and not the person who bought it.
Jailbreaking is counterproductive. Apple and AT&T will never learn this way. I opted for N97 instead, sure it has some drawbacks, but I am simply not prepared to give any kind of money to companies as evil as Apple and AT&T.
So, how exactly do people in Europe survive without SUVs?
For my part, Apple will only improve its image when they remove DRM support from the OS and its bundled applications (iTunes, etc.).
Buy him one of those $30 helicopters with 3 channels. It is quite clever to really understand what make it spin one way or another, the role of trimmer and conservation of angular momentum. Be prepared to waste lots of money on batteries, though.
Isn't star wars galaxies still around? How does it compare?
This is how much it would have been if it was for sale. But it is not and neither does it function as a sellable entity...
$8000? Thats a crap lot for a machine, even a 8 core Xeon. What you got in there?
One of a few pleasures of academia is that you get whatever machine you want...8 cores at 3 GHz (which was max last year), 8Gb RAM, 2x 750Gb raided, 30 inch screen driven by a decent videocard... adds up pretty quickly. :)
What happens when an ACTUAL mouse shits?
Incidentally, I put together a completelly fanless audio system based around via esther at 1Ghz (the only noise producing thing is HD and I used a quiet barracuda HD and even that gets annoying after a while). The little box soon expanded into torrent downloader, file and web server and is incredibly stable platform. The best ever spent $400 (it is actually more stable than my 8 core xeon monster worth $8000 last year that I use at work).
...we might be able to increase the depressingly small fraction of encrypted traffic on the Internet
Here we go: American paranoia again. I just don't get this country...
...at how fuckin dumb this all is. If you can see it, you can copy it, maybe it is more difficult, but not impossible. Do these idiots never ever learn?
That also said, cars in the U.S. have stricter regulations than in Europe in terms of emissions which is why all the people with truly fast cars have to import them. Of course America has a lot more cars so that is probably why you feel the way you do about our output.
Dude, have you seen the size of cars Americans are driving vs Europeans? Or, in other words, when did you last see a pick-up truck in the USA actually lugging something around? And did you ever see a pick-up truck in europe as means of personal transport?
Even if regulations are stronger, i.e. emmisions per horse power might be lower, but in terms of emissions per vehicle, they are much worse...
Same here. Got married in UK in registry (due to visa issues) and went back to work the same day. We both believe in love, but not marriage. I still mostly refer to my wife as my girlfriend and I am SO happy that she doesn't buy this commercial shit... Actually, she clearly stated that she doesn't want any signs of ownership and hence I don't think rings would make he very happy...
Good for you!
My wife has a macbook, which wouldn't connect of linksys WRT54G,unless it is on channel >5 (guess how many hours it took me to work this one out), wouldn't print on our printer, unless I manually recompile the linux drivers, wouldn't play my legally encoded mp3, because of a bug with how itunes do the id3 tags, would randomly start swapping the shit out due to leaky firefox (while safari doesn't work with half of the sites), is constantly bugging me to give apple some cash for either software or movies, etc., etc.
I am NOT getting a mac!
You're right, actually! I wrote that after I was drinking with my Japanese friends and felt like I should really make statement. ;-)