It's not that it's on paper. The important aspect is the editorial board that performs the peer review, and the reputation of that board (i.e., that journal).
There have been cases of revolt of editors against the greedy paper publishers, some of which abandoned one title journal to form a new title journal, covering the same area. The main one that comes to mind is something like the Journal of Symbolic Mathematics of something like that. They successfully dumped the paper publisher.
Paper is not going away. Sure, more libraries will go to electronic-only, but the fact is that the underpinning of our entire civilization (law, science, etc.) relies upon physical recordation. If it ain't written, it don't exist.
There are microscopes that play similar tricks. We have a couple the will compose images from 3x3 mosaics which are taken automatically by the camera.
Cameras that automatically do sub-pixel shifts between frames (for resolution) and that do frame-shifts (for large images) are commonly available in the marketplace.
Some others will instead bracket focus and automagically composite an image with a huge apparent depth-of-focus.
Taser advocates an alternative cause-of-death scenario called excited delirium. The condition, which is not recognized as a diagnosis in official medical manuals, is used to describe deaths of suspects who become so agitated by drugs, psychosis or poor health that their bodies shut down during struggles with police.
There is some validity in principle to the "excited delirium" cause of death. Some people may actually become so agitated by being tased indiscriminately that their bodies shut down in heart attack, etc.
That is, use of the taser caused the agitated delirium, and therefore, the death.
moogied:I am sick and tired of this stupid argument. People are NOT animals....
Back in the 19th century people thought we were not animals, that we somehow "special." This attitude may persist in some primitive cultures, but the wealth of results from psychological and animal experiments show that we all have a great deal of similarity in our mental structures and psychology. Humans are at the top, yes, but other animals have language, emotions, use tools, etc.
Humans are animals. Like other higher animals, we control our actions.
Any of the BBC's nature documentaries by David Attenborough. He practically invented the nature documentary. There are over 100 hours of enthralling video:
* Life on Earth (1979, 13 hours) * Planet Earth (2006, modeled after Life on Earth)
* The Private Life of Plants
* Life of Mammals
* Life in the Undergrowth
But, as someone else said, best thing to do is to do as Feynman's father did. Go exploring with the kid, and teach her to think about things and figure stuff out for herself. That will last her a lifetime.
Any communication outside of the US is fair game to get intercepted by the NSA under the USA PATRIOT Act. Especially if one end of the conversation is an accused enemy of the state.
These would probably be the first guys on the NSA's list of folks to snoop on.
You can bet the lawyers handling these cases are, however, aware of the implications of a violation of attorney-client privilege, and would appeal if concrete records of such monitoring ever came out.
In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds a weapon--it looks like a crowbar.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. . . Or. . .
Oops! An elderly neighbor with Alzheimer's and a cane had bumbled into the wrong house, and his daughter had come in to get him after seeing him enter your house. Only it was too dark for you to tell the difference...
These images were not produced by the idle children of the wealthy, so it is unlikely that they will ever be considered as "art" by our society's arbiters.
I recently subscribed to the NY Times. Paper. It has what most if not all online outlets lack - care in writing and researching.
I also subscribe to several paper monthlies. These are generally funded by foundations that are somewhat immune to the vicissitudes of consumer choice. If the ads dry up, they can continue to deliver well-researched articles, albeit fewer. Or they may go to an NPR-type of model.
Most of these also have blogs, in which comments tend to be far more thoughtful than the average blog. With the immediate communication of teh internets, hot news from the higher-noise blogs can quickly find its way to every other blog. People who value their time will gravitate to those blogs with better signal-to-noise ratios.
Blogs are not going away, but neither are the well-researched papers and magazines.
You're referring to the assumption that is at the core of much of 20th century economics. Just because you accept it as an axiom does not make it fact. It is an assumption.
The best way to maintain neutrality and to survive is to grow the foundation so they don't have to beg for as much money every year.
Look at Harper's magazine for an example of a media company that survives by this model. Yes, Harper's does have advertising, but less than a typical magazine, and with content of far higher quality, thanks to the independence that the foundation affords them.
"Imagine you knew everything about a deer. Which particular tree it liked to nibble leaves from, where it slept, exactly where it drinks from the river. Exactly where it was any time of day. And so on... How hard would it be for you to go find and kill it? It would take you 10 minutes."
Now imagine someone is hunting you. Not for meat, but for your money. If they know exactly what you wear, exactly where you go, your every move... You are an easy target. It will take them 10 minutes... Yes, you are a smart guy, but none of us can defend ourselves against someone who knows everything about us."
Or, "Imagine if there was some part of our government that was acting like Stalinist Russia, where anyone who had a grudge against a neighbor could report them as an enemy of the government, and that's all they'd need to haul you away in the night."
Or, "Imagine that those left-wingers (or right-wingers, or a tyrant) took over the government and start jailing all of the gun owners. Or they go after people who have talked to one on the phone. Or they go after everyone who has bought Hustler. Or they start harassing people who vote republican. Or they kill people who raise geraniums. Such a thing is unlikely to happen in our great country, but it could. And no one can predict who a tyrant would choose to be the bad guy."
What would be cool though is fridge that checks its contents and tells you recipes along with thigns you could make with just a little extra. Now that's an idea with loads of upside marketing potential!
Because, you know, there are at least 100x less deaths per mile traveled via car than there are via airplane. It's actually the reverse. Flying is far safer than driving, per mile traveled. It's just that airline incidents are more, uh, spectacular.
Deaths in autos? Part of your ho-hum morning traffic report.
Slashdot Mirror
when you can fall back on your
M O N O P O L Y
in the event that Bobâ or some other misguided product doesn't work out.
It's not that it's on paper. The important aspect is the editorial board that performs the peer review, and the reputation of that board (i.e., that journal).
There have been cases of revolt of editors against the greedy paper publishers, some of which abandoned one title journal to form a new title journal, covering the same area. The main one that comes to mind is something like the Journal of Symbolic Mathematics of something like that. They successfully dumped the paper publisher.
Paper is not going away. Sure, more libraries will go to electronic-only, but the fact is that the underpinning of our entire civilization (law, science, etc.) relies upon physical recordation. If it ain't written, it don't exist.
It's actually the third thing.
All of the numbers are made-up.
There are microscopes that play similar tricks. We have a couple the will compose images from 3x3 mosaics which are taken automatically by the camera.
Cameras that automatically do sub-pixel shifts between frames (for resolution) and that do frame-shifts (for large images) are commonly available in the marketplace.
Some others will instead bracket focus and automagically composite an image with a huge apparent depth-of-focus.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses...
The difference is that, before you go through customs, you are officially outside the country until they let you through.
and those Raid-type plastic "ant traps" that I put all over the place seemed to have no effect at all.
Those RAID(TM)-type traps are garbage. The ants would rather go around them.
Too bad the big Co's marketing muscle pushes Terro off most store shelves.
"...' I always thought that ad skipping was a major benefit of DVRs. Do you skip all the ads?"
I just skip the TV. Problem's solved from my end...
I have books I've read 20 years ago. I can read the notes I've jotted in the margins long ago â" a glimpse of a younger me.
When eBooks can do that, without format/device rot, let me know.
There is some validity in principle to the "excited delirium" cause of death. Some people may actually become so agitated by being tased indiscriminately that their bodies shut down in heart attack, etc.
That is, use of the taser caused the agitated delirium, and therefore, the death.
Back in the 19th century people thought we were not animals, that we somehow "special." This attitude may persist in some primitive cultures, but the wealth of results from psychological and animal experiments show that we all have a great deal of similarity in our mental structures and psychology. Humans are at the top, yes, but other animals have language, emotions, use tools, etc.
Humans are animals. Like other higher animals, we control our actions.
Any of the BBC's nature documentaries by David Attenborough. He practically invented the nature documentary. There are over 100 hours of enthralling video:
* Life on Earth (1979, 13 hours)
* Planet Earth (2006, modeled after Life on Earth)
* The Private Life of Plants
* Life of Mammals
* Life in the Undergrowth
But, as someone else said, best thing to do is to do as Feynman's father did. Go exploring with the kid, and teach her to think about things and figure stuff out for herself. That will last her a lifetime.
Any communication outside of the US is fair game to get intercepted by the NSA under the USA PATRIOT Act. Especially if one end of the conversation is an accused enemy of the state.
These would probably be the first guys on the NSA's list of folks to snoop on.
You can bet the lawyers handling these cases are, however, aware of the implications of a violation of attorney-client privilege, and would appeal if concrete records of such monitoring ever came out.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. . . Or. . .
Oops! An elderly neighbor with Alzheimer's and a cane had bumbled into the wrong house, and his daughter had come in to get him after seeing him enter your house. Only it was too dark for you to tell the difference...
These images were not produced by the idle children of the wealthy, so it is unlikely that they will ever be considered as "art" by our society's arbiters.
Will this affect many people at all? I don't think I know anyone who bought Plays-for-Sure(TM) tracks.
How many customers were there?
Well, that's only your opinion.
I recently subscribed to the NY Times. Paper. It has what most if not all online outlets lack - care in writing and researching.
I also subscribe to several paper monthlies. These are generally funded by foundations that are somewhat immune to the vicissitudes of consumer choice. If the ads dry up, they can continue to deliver well-researched articles, albeit fewer. Or they may go to an NPR-type of model.
Most of these also have blogs, in which comments tend to be far more thoughtful than the average blog. With the immediate communication of teh internets, hot news from the higher-noise blogs can quickly find its way to every other blog. People who value their time will gravitate to those blogs with better signal-to-noise ratios.
Blogs are not going away, but neither are the well-researched papers and magazines.
Cross-chip, it's latency. Timing signals take too long to cross the chip.
Inter-chip, it's probably a little of both. Bandwidth in some cases, and timing for complex circuits in other cases.
You're referring to the assumption that is at the core of much of 20th century economics. Just because you accept it as an axiom does not make it fact. It is an assumption.
Useful, yes, but still it is an assumption.
The best way to maintain neutrality and to survive is to grow the foundation so they don't have to beg for as much money every year.
Look at Harper's magazine for an example of a media company that survives by this model. Yes, Harper's does have advertising, but less than a typical magazine, and with content of far higher quality, thanks to the independence that the foundation affords them.
Another great video: Mercury Drop Experiment
A cyclic redox reaction on the surface of a drop of mercury causes it to wobble around. Chemical energy -> motion.
Click "Activity 3" or "Activity 5" for the coolest ones.
Talk about something they know - deer hunting
"Imagine you knew everything about a deer. Which particular tree it liked to nibble leaves from, where it slept, exactly where it drinks from the river. Exactly where it was any time of day. And so on... How hard would it be for you to go find and kill it? It would take you 10 minutes."
Now imagine someone is hunting you. Not for meat, but for your money. If they know exactly what you wear, exactly where you go, your every move... You are an easy target. It will take them 10 minutes... Yes, you are a smart guy, but none of us can defend ourselves against someone who knows everything about us."
Or, "Imagine if there was some part of our government that was acting like Stalinist Russia, where anyone who had a grudge against a neighbor could report them as an enemy of the government, and that's all they'd need to haul you away in the night."
Or, "Imagine that those left-wingers (or right-wingers, or a tyrant) took over the government and start jailing all of the gun owners. Or they go after people who have talked to one on the phone. Or they go after everyone who has bought Hustler. Or they start harassing people who vote republican. Or they kill people who raise geraniums. Such a thing is unlikely to happen in our great country, but it could. And no one can predict who a tyrant would choose to be the bad guy."
Discuss.
Deaths in autos? Part of your ho-hum morning traffic report.
The TSA is a giant joke played on the middle class.