Peer review is an absolute prerequisite for publishing any serious science, but even after a peer review I'd feel uncomfortable publishing my research in a free access journal.
I don't know. Maybe it's just because most free access journals are unknown startups with no established history. If you submit a manuscript to one of the established and prestigious scientific journals such as Science, Nature or PRL (at least in my field), it's not only going to be peer reviewed but it's going to be subjected to a peer-review-from-hell. That, on the other hand, is unlikely to happen if you submit it to a free access journal...
Of course, the drives are a bit expensive at 10k+ Euro, but as far as availability goes, it's not an issue.
Ok, agreed. I didn't specify the price anywhere in my earlier post...
whether those movies really are vital data that needs to be backed up in case a big rock hits earth
I don't think that's the question. At work, I don't make the distinction between vital data and expendable data because most of the time you can't tell what's vital and what's not before you actually lose the data.
Personally, my movies and music may be expendable, but my time isn't. That's why I'm so keen on backing all the data up.
If you need to backup >100GB on tape for personal use, you most likely have a serious legal problem
Yes? I've compressed all my legally bought DVDs and CDs on two 250 GB hard drives. I share the files in my wireless home network so that I can watch/listen to them on my laptop and the computer connected to my AV-system. I'm not at all interested in sharing them outside my home, so I really don't have a legal problem. Nevertheless, I'd really like to back them up at some point so I don't have to rip and XviDify them again. Some of those old original Futurama DVDs are probably scratched beyond help anyway...
Authorities said Smathers, who was fired by AOL in June, used another employee's access code to steal the list of AOL customers in 2003 from its headquarters in Dulles, Va., and sold it to spammers for more than $100,000.
I don't understand how this is not deceptive, fraudulent and illegal...
There's something way too messianic about Linus and I just can't put my finger on it. I don't know. He's inspired a beautiful thing and hordes of fanatical followers and he has not put a foot wrong anywhere - that seriously bothers me.
Doesn't seem to affect bus companies, ships, nor airplances all that much when one of those explode.
That's most likely because buses, ships and airplanes exploding are more or less routine (i.e. it has happened before). A shuttle/rocket exploding is a different matter. Why do you think the latest shuttle accident had such publicity even though the total number of lives lost was minimal.
Just imagine a commercial low-orbit passanger shuttle suffering a catastrophical failure...
nothing worthwhile should be tried unless we invite every deadbeat corrupt politician in the world?
So nothing worthwhile should be attemped unless we can keep every deadbeat corrupt politician out? Who cares about the corporate people...
There's waste and corruption in every major project. It can't be helped and is OK as long as it doesn't sink the project. I just wonder why some people seem to make it such an issue - as if incorporated projects are somehow immune to this.
It would be better to spend money cleaning up this planet, looking for renewable energy source
Ah, yes. The good old false dichotomy. Space exploration and "cleaning up this planet and renewable energy sources" aren't mutually exclusive. I'm a fucking greenie, for chrissake!
Besides, what good is "cleaning up this planet and looking for renewable energy sources" when we're eventually going to go extinct unless we get off this planet?
"rah rah my country is great" nationalistic PR moment.
Who said anything about nationalism? Any meaningful space exploration is/will be an international effort through-and-through. Now that's one lesson we haven't learnt, yet.
Well, scaremongering seems to be working rather well as far as terrorism goes, so why not try it here as well?
Seriously, I'm not from the US and I do not advocate increasing NASA funding per se - unless it's a part of a truly international manned space exploration effort.
When space flight becomes less expensive, and companies can drive exploration as much as anyone else
I don't think incorporation would change anything. Exploding spacecrafts and dead explorers would be just as bad for the boardmember of a corp as it would be for a politician.
I'm glad to see that the unmanned-space-exploration-mafia has not
been able to completely silence the drive for manned space exploration - yet. I have no doubt that if nothing changes drastically, that will happen eventually. There're just too many "good political reasons" to kill the expensive and risky (PR-wise) manned space program. After all, taking the fall for dead astronauts could kill anybody's
career...
Yes. Manned missions are risky and expensive. Unmanned and remotely controlled probes are just fine and dandy and they yield plenty of useful information about the conditions in space and on
other planets, but what's that information good for if we're never going to leave our planet and/or when we're going to get hit by an
extinction level event?
As a species we have definitely become too concerned about safety in exploration. Can't shoot people up to space because they might get killed? Well, duh? What if the explorers like Magellan or Vasco da Game had thought about it like that?
The saddest comment I once got was: "we'll never be able to colonize other planets because the conditions are so fundamentally hostile,
so let's not waste any funds/effort on manned space flights." What the hell happened to the human will to explore and survive? What's
the point in sending out probes if the information gained will certainly be lost in the (near) future when the big one hits the earth?
Well, yes. I should have said "expect Slashdot and Taco hate sites by Sollog soon after...". Maybe I would have been spared from the troll mod. Then again, the mod probably doesn't even read the netkook groups and didn't get the varnisher joke anyway.
Uhhuh? Are you saying that there are no cost due to the present levels of pollution? And as long as it's not an acute problem (as in an extinction-level problem), there's no need to deal with it?
Slashdot Mirror
Hehe... I wonder if the True Love Waits crowd would like that as a slogan. ;)
I don't know. Maybe it's just because most free access journals are unknown startups with no established history. If you submit a manuscript to one of the established and prestigious scientific journals such as Science, Nature or PRL (at least in my field), it's not only going to be peer reviewed but it's going to be subjected to a peer-review-from-hell. That, on the other hand, is unlikely to happen if you submit it to a free access journal...
Yeah. Getting shafted for warez is just like being oppressed by the nazi-Germany...
Ok, agreed. I didn't specify the price anywhere in my earlier post...
whether those movies really are vital data that needs to be backed up in case a big rock hits earth
I don't think that's the question. At work, I don't make the distinction between vital data and expendable data because most of the time you can't tell what's vital and what's not before you actually lose the data.
Personally, my movies and music may be expendable, but my time isn't. That's why I'm so keen on backing all the data up.
Yes? I've compressed all my legally bought DVDs and CDs on two 250 GB hard drives. I share the files in my wireless home network so that I can watch/listen to them on my laptop and the computer connected to my AV-system. I'm not at all interested in sharing them outside my home, so I really don't have a legal problem. Nevertheless, I'd really like to back them up at some point so I don't have to rip and XviDify them again. Some of those old original Futurama DVDs are probably scratched beyond help anyway...
People are starting to think that having RAID is actually the same thing as backing up your data.
I don't understand how this is not deceptive, fraudulent and illegal...
Make it metric, please.
Hmm... a code champion grounded by his karate champion wife? I don't know but there must be a fetish somewhere in there. ;)
There's something way too messianic about Linus and I just can't put my finger on it. I don't know. He's inspired a beautiful thing and hordes of fanatical followers and he has not put a foot wrong anywhere - that seriously bothers me.
Quite frankly, I suspect it's all about being married with children.
That's just the perfect reply. If you've accomplished something great, don't be humble - that's fake - but state the facts and stay grounded.
What I don't understand is how this guy keeps himself grounded...
That's most likely because buses, ships and airplanes exploding are more or less routine (i.e. it has happened before). A shuttle/rocket exploding is a different matter. Why do you think the latest shuttle accident had such publicity even though the total number of lives lost was minimal.
Just imagine a commercial low-orbit passanger shuttle suffering a catastrophical failure...
So nothing worthwhile should be attemped unless we can keep every deadbeat corrupt politician out? Who cares about the corporate people...
There's waste and corruption in every major project. It can't be helped and is OK as long as it doesn't sink the project. I just wonder why some people seem to make it such an issue - as if incorporated projects are somehow immune to this.
Ah, yes. The good old false dichotomy. Space exploration and "cleaning up this planet and renewable energy sources" aren't mutually exclusive. I'm a fucking greenie, for chrissake! Besides, what good is "cleaning up this planet and looking for renewable energy sources" when we're eventually going to go extinct unless we get off this planet?
"rah rah my country is great" nationalistic PR moment.
Who said anything about nationalism? Any meaningful space exploration is/will be an international effort through-and-through. Now that's one lesson we haven't learnt, yet.
Seriously, I'm not from the US and I do not advocate increasing NASA funding per se - unless it's a part of a truly international manned space exploration effort.
Yep. Let's just keep all our eggs in one basket and bet on the chances that ~5 billion people won't be wiped out by any single event.
I don't think incorporation would change anything. Exploding spacecrafts and dead explorers would be just as bad for the boardmember of a corp as it would be for a politician.
Yes. Manned missions are risky and expensive. Unmanned and remotely controlled probes are just fine and dandy and they yield plenty of useful information about the conditions in space and on other planets, but what's that information good for if we're never going to leave our planet and/or when we're going to get hit by an extinction level event?
As a species we have definitely become too concerned about safety in exploration. Can't shoot people up to space because they might get killed? Well, duh? What if the explorers like Magellan or Vasco da Game had thought about it like that?
The saddest comment I once got was: "we'll never be able to colonize other planets because the conditions are so fundamentally hostile, so let's not waste any funds/effort on manned space flights." What the hell happened to the human will to explore and survive? What's the point in sending out probes if the information gained will certainly be lost in the (near) future when the big one hits the earth?
A parent can't decide that his/her under-18 child is fit to drink wine/beer at a dinner without breaking the law (at least over here).
Raymond Karczewski and Edmond Wollman are two other kooks of the same calibre. Both are worth googling - just for fun.
Well, yes. I should have said "expect Slashdot and Taco hate sites by Sollog soon after...". Maybe I would have been spared from the troll mod. Then again, the mod probably doesn't even read the netkook groups and didn't get the varnisher joke anyway.
Sollog the "Varnisher" is not someone to be messed with. ;-)
Ok. I am just quite baffled at how the present dominates in your thinking.
Uhhuh? Are you saying that there are no cost due to the present levels of pollution? And as long as it's not an acute problem (as in an extinction-level problem), there's no need to deal with it?
surprisingly similar to what's in Revelations
Yes. Us greenie scientists are all religious nuts...