if i wanted to get more money i'd have to move to the US permanently and become an academic. even then my salary wouldn't be above say $50000 US. I'm studying library science, there's not a lot of money in that.
I've accepted that I'm always going to be poor, despite being more qualified academically than 99% of the people i work with right now.
very soon everyone will have an MBA and they'll be useless too, and then we'll have to have DBA's!
i doubt many of you have been subjected to typing classes but i sat through 2 years of them at school. yep, two! (and this wasn't as long ago as you might think, i'm talking '91 here) so as you can imagine, my typing style is pretty good.
i have my wrists high, i have my fingers at the correct angle over the 'home row', i can type numbers from there without having to lift off and go one fingered. repeat after me, 'a-s-d-f-j-k-l-;'
alas, if only everyone was still subjected to typing classes on typewriters (no nasty backspace) we would all be able to type perfectly and wouldn't need these gimmicky and stupid devices that other employees would either a) steal or b) laugh at.
It was reported late last week that it is possible that some of the suspected terrorists involved in the attacks communicated with each other using computers at public libraries in Florida. Police have received tips that many of the suspects used libraries in areas near where they were living. Like duh, lots of people use libraries.
But a librarian broke one of the golden rules of library privacy (Which is enshrined in documentation provided by the ALA http://www.ala.org ) by searching computer log-in records for instances of the suspects names. Betty Dejean who is the area's library director reminded other librarians that they could not release such information to police without a court order. Florida state law requires that all library records be kept confidential.
More here http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,5744,2882442%255E1702,00.html [The Australian]
In the face of all the other changes to privacy and freedom, I am amazed that librarians managed to hold out. And damn proud, too.
Now is the goal of your final project to burn yourself out completely or to create something that you will be proud of?
If you want to burn out, hey go right ahead but I would suggest that your teachers would probably be a lot more pleased with a very well developed project for a more basic system than the bare bones that you would end up with for PS2.
What about writing for something like good 'ol Sega (pre-Dreamcast) or Super Nintendo. I'm not a gamer nor a programmer so I don't know how these systems work but wouldn't it be logical that you could get excellent results on these systems with a lot less effort.
The key to everything in life is KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
why can't we use dublin metacore to create the necessary reference strucutures to index, create citations etc, use traditional means of peer review to check works before they are published, and give an online repository the status it requires?
i hate that private companies are publishing so much of academia. publishing should be returned to universities, who would not require that they make millions of profit on journals like the other companies.
an online system, administered and hosted by a consortia of universities, is the way to go.
Many management titles cost in excess of $1000 (AU) a year.
The majority of elite, specialised surgery journals creep up towards the $10000 (AU) mark.
I saw a cost comparison from a publisher once for print vs online versions, surprise surprise, they cost the same in most cases because even though the cost of production is supposed to have dropped, the publishers still want to make money.
isn't the answer obvious? why don't we take the cable model. you subscribe to a cable provider, they provide you with on-flow content.
why can't we just do this for the net? your ISP charges you $30 a month or whatever, for that you get unlimited hours on general sites, and then they subscribe on your behalf to a whole bunch of sites. all taken care of! all in the one bill!
all that has to be done is to consolidate everyone's sites into using the one payment system, and then each ISP could then have a facility to auto update the lists every day. everyone is included, everyone gets a guaranteed payment, everyone is happy. there are money back guarantees etc. people can choose to subscribe to say 200 or 300 sites available through their ISP, and that takes care of that.
the rest of the web would remain as normal.
now, how about doing this for academic info to free it from databases that cost $10000+/year.
surely the consequences of electronic repackaging has been known for a long time. the work for hire clause makes this issue very clear. copyright has always been owned by freelancers as opposed to permanent staff, therefore electronic publishers should always have had to ask permission.
however i don't think the hole of information will be as big as some have suggested - sure there will be some gaps, but the majority of backfile information is used by the news organisation that contracted the story, or other news organisations. researchers rely more on journals and other sources of information. that is not to say that this is not a bad thing, it is, but it is not catastrophic as supposed.
re: the nicholson baker argument, that libraries have thrown away stuff, i would like to know why the responsibility hasn't been on the publishers themselves to keep publications. after all, most newspaper publishers rely on library archives to reprint articles from the 50's and before. there has to be equal blame.
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if i wanted to get more money i'd have to move to the US permanently and become an academic. even then my salary wouldn't be above say $50000 US. I'm studying library science, there's not a lot of money in that.
I've accepted that I'm always going to be poor, despite being more qualified academically than 99% of the people i work with right now.
very soon everyone will have an MBA and they'll be useless too, and then we'll have to have DBA's!
i doubt many of you have been subjected to typing classes but i sat through 2 years of them at school. yep, two! (and this wasn't as long ago as you might think, i'm talking '91 here) so as you can imagine, my typing style is pretty good.
i have my wrists high, i have my fingers at the correct angle over the 'home row', i can type numbers from there without having to lift off and go one fingered. repeat after me, 'a-s-d-f-j-k-l-;'
alas, if only everyone was still subjected to typing classes on typewriters (no nasty backspace) we would all be able to type perfectly and wouldn't need these gimmicky and stupid devices that other employees would either a) steal or b) laugh at.
It was reported late last week that it is possible that some of the suspected terrorists involved in the attacks communicated with each other using computers at public libraries in Florida. Police have received tips that many of the suspects used libraries in areas near where they were living. Like duh, lots of people use libraries.
_ page/0,5744,2882442%255E1702,00.html [The Australian]
But a librarian broke one of the golden rules of library privacy (Which is enshrined in documentation provided by the ALA http://www.ala.org ) by searching computer log-in records for instances of the suspects names. Betty Dejean who is the area's library director reminded other librarians that they could not release such information to police without a court order. Florida state law requires that all library records be kept confidential.
More here http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story
In the face of all the other changes to privacy and freedom, I am amazed that librarians managed to hold out. And damn proud, too.
Now is the goal of your final project to burn yourself out completely or to create something that you will be proud of?
If you want to burn out, hey go right ahead but I would suggest that your teachers would probably be a lot more pleased with a very well developed project for a more basic system than the bare bones that you would end up with for PS2.
What about writing for something like good 'ol Sega (pre-Dreamcast) or Super Nintendo. I'm not a gamer nor a programmer so I don't know how these systems work but wouldn't it be logical that you could get excellent results on these systems with a lot less effort.
The key to everything in life is KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid.
why can't we use dublin metacore to create the necessary reference strucutures to index, create citations etc, use traditional means of peer review to check works before they are published, and give an online repository the status it requires? i hate that private companies are publishing so much of academia. publishing should be returned to universities, who would not require that they make millions of profit on journals like the other companies. an online system, administered and hosted by a consortia of universities, is the way to go.
Many management titles cost in excess of $1000 (AU) a year. The majority of elite, specialised surgery journals creep up towards the $10000 (AU) mark. I saw a cost comparison from a publisher once for print vs online versions, surprise surprise, they cost the same in most cases because even though the cost of production is supposed to have dropped, the publishers still want to make money.
isn't the answer obvious? why don't we take the cable model. you subscribe to a cable provider, they provide you with on-flow content. why can't we just do this for the net? your ISP charges you $30 a month or whatever, for that you get unlimited hours on general sites, and then they subscribe on your behalf to a whole bunch of sites. all taken care of! all in the one bill! all that has to be done is to consolidate everyone's sites into using the one payment system, and then each ISP could then have a facility to auto update the lists every day. everyone is included, everyone gets a guaranteed payment, everyone is happy. there are money back guarantees etc. people can choose to subscribe to say 200 or 300 sites available through their ISP, and that takes care of that. the rest of the web would remain as normal. now, how about doing this for academic info to free it from databases that cost $10000+/year.
surely the consequences of electronic repackaging has been known for a long time. the work for hire clause makes this issue very clear. copyright has always been owned by freelancers as opposed to permanent staff, therefore electronic publishers should always have had to ask permission. however i don't think the hole of information will be as big as some have suggested - sure there will be some gaps, but the majority of backfile information is used by the news organisation that contracted the story, or other news organisations. researchers rely more on journals and other sources of information. that is not to say that this is not a bad thing, it is, but it is not catastrophic as supposed. re: the nicholson baker argument, that libraries have thrown away stuff, i would like to know why the responsibility hasn't been on the publishers themselves to keep publications. after all, most newspaper publishers rely on library archives to reprint articles from the 50's and before. there has to be equal blame. b.