I'm not sure I agree that we can't 'air results in any meaningful way.' However, I do think that public data repositories are something that should be explored, and are, btw, by most funding agencies. That is a bit of a different issue.
I am a federally funded researcher who administrates a program that publishes quite a bit. First off, I am a supporter of open access publishing. Here is our challenge with the current policy, and why it has been very difficult to adopt.
Open access journals cost between $1-3k per publication (see PLOS or BMC). These journals automatically submit papers to the public repository. This is a direct cost that comes out of my grants that may not have been originally budgeted. Now, closed access journals are generally free or close to free to publish. The new policy requires submission of closed access papers, by the authors, to the central repository (if federally funded). Obviously, this violates the agreement the author had with the publisher, so the author, on their own, must negotiate a legal mechanism to do this. Some publishers charge to do this, maybe more than $1k. Every submitted paper gets an ID that must be submitted with a progress report. When we publish 5-10 papers per progress report, this is frankly a lot of work and sometimes, we fund papers partially that are published by other groups. So it is up to me to encourage these groups to figure this out, so I can include them in my reports. More work, and it adds another level of complexity to collaboration.
So far, this has been an administrative headache, it is expensive and considering most major university libraries already have licenses to the closed data, it seems, to me, unnecessarily complicated. I wish they had required the publishers to do this (each publisher would have to work with one source) instead of the researcher, because we have to work with a number of publishers and that takes time in an already very, very competitive field.
There are some really great aspects of open access publishing and the power of the resulting knowledgebase of manuscripts is going to be really exciting, however, $10-20k/year for page charges is only going to result in less science, IMO.
Uh, HD-DVD's are:
1) region free
2) not a rushed to market technology (no customer screwing profile x.x limitations)
3) half the price
4) has more interactive features
in contrast blu-ray store more space. Are you guys that obtuse?
While I suppose it is a little offtopic, I noticed in the first picture that the elevation of the south pole is greater than 9,000 feet. I never knew that, and it really highlights the crappy conditions that must exist there. Even at 10,000 feet your body does funny things adjusting to altitude (source).
I guess I don't get this. Who can edit wikipedia pages? Everybody has an agenda or a conflict or they wouldn't be voluntarily editing these pages to begin with. Anybody who suggests they don't is running around with blinders on. Wikipedia represents a publicaly edited corpus of knowledge, that can be edited by *anyone* including ourselves, our government the media, conflicted individuals, etc. Of course it can be manipulated, isn't all of history? From wikipedia's about page:
"Visitors do not need specialised qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages and cultural and social background can write Wikipedia articles. With rare exceptions, articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. Anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Wikipedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. For example, if you add information to an article, be sure to include your references, as unreferenced facts are subject to removal."
I don't see any rules against government, people editing their own pages, etc. Only that facts be added, if they aren't they should be removed.
I get lots of ghost calls from numbers like 000-000-0000 or 41234 or another four digit number that I can't recall. They never leave a message and sometimes (when I pick up) there is no one there. Usually, when I do get through it is a call center (I subscribe to several 'free' trade rags that have started collecting info from me every 6 months so they can sell to advertisers -- really annoying).
-Sean
I understand this and agree this is the bigger issue. Regulation likely needs to happen. As these technologies become cheaper and more accessible, small companies are going to start putting who-knows-what on the market. People should be able to choose not to eat GMO, however, if you do some homework you might find that it is really hard to define GMOs from other agricultural products.
I shop at Walmart, lots of people shop at Walmart. I wonder how many posters (known IT experts) on slashdot today, use Smartech? It isn't that they both use Smartech, it is that they both use Smartech and that is very unlikely to find by chance.
A Blu-Ray win is probably more valuable to Sony than a gaming console win, the market for movies is simply bigger and if high def DVD movies take over the DVD market a win here is very important to Sony. Since the bundling of the PS3 and Blu-Ray are doing really well for Blu-Ray (so far), I would think that Sony got this one right. We'll see if time will tell, but I think the developers opinion is pretty much irrelevant for the moment and the PS3 price will eventually come down.
The world could really use a LotR-like epic/modern sci fi movie series. I enjoyed Serenity (I own it), however, if that is the best modern sci fi can offer, wow, I'm disappointed. The original Star Wars is classic, but it is a bit comic book like for today's standards. Star Trek is also cliched and feels like a tv show. The original matrix almost got us there, but the sequels stank. Personally, as a sci fi epic, I thought the new battlestar galactica was better than most of these, but we could do so much better.
My take on this issue is that people who do not have extensive scientific educations are being asked to 'believe' in science in a manner similar to how they 'believe' in religion. Science is fundamentally based on observations and the progression of the scientific method. That said, for most of us, we never see the evidence, nor do we see the details of each hypothesis test. This is further complicated because the body of scientific literature is massive and for every scientific field you can find crap science. Peer review is fallible.
I think we are requiring people to 'believe' in science, simply because science has become too complicated to cover adequately with a standard, non technical education. This creates a conundrum. These people are being required to choose religion -- remember they have been in church since birth -- or science. For them, this must be very difficult. When we listen to a scientist, we hope we are hearing testimony based on evidence, when we hear a preacher we hope we are hearing testimony based on belief.
That said, as a scientist familiar with evolutionary theory, I am troubled by the level with which we understand the mechanisms of evolution and that 48% of people don't even understand the most basic of concepts within it. Should we require people to swallow science without evidence? Should we follow *anything* without evidence? I know I don't, ironically, science doesn't allow me to.
Uh, no, only Children of Men and Happy feet are combos, the other three are not. Second, do you have any evidence that HD DVD's are confused by people more than Blu-Ray? I doubt it.
Did slashdot just become a Blu-Ray disc fanboy site? A while ago there was a link about Blu-Ray having Casino Royale in the top 100 on Amazon. Yesterday there were *five* HD-DVD titles in the top 100, Children of Men, Happy Feet, BBC Planet Earth, and the two Matrix box sets (three of these moves are in the top 50). There were only two Blu-Ray titles in the top 100, Casino Royale and Planet Earth. Claims of HD-DVD's death are premature. With recent talk on avsforum.com that sub-$200 HD-DVD players maybe coming this fall, Blu-Ray might be looking at a tough haul.
Modern heat pumps have COPs in the 2-4 range for air-coupled units, and higher for water or ground-loop units. A watt of energy pumps 2-4 watts of heat into your house from outside.
I agree however, people here must not be east of the rockies. Most heat pumps in the midwest and northeast are not working now. They don't work in really cold weather, and cause houses to rely on electric heat.
This is actually insightful, IMO, for most of the country (outside of ca) incandescent lights are probably a wash six months of the year due to heating.
This is probably old news around here, but I have gotten into the habit of typing shorthand into Firefox's into the site/url text field to go to sites. In some versions this does the equivalent of "I'm feeling lucky" others just does a google search (probably configurable). Anyways typing: "imdb star wars" takes me to star wars on imdb, "yahoo" takes me to yahoo.com, slashdot takes me to slashdot.org, and "wikipedia {put anthing here}" takes me to the appropriate wikipedia page. Given this, I could see lots of Yahoo searches on Google, when everyone knows perfectly well what and where Yahoo is.
AVS Forum is quite a bit better source on this than/. and while last years Toshiba's clearly had a problem, the forum has been absent of the massive amounts of complaints that were there last year. Several posters have even stated the original problem fixed.
No. First the stock market is guided by US and International law. Second, much like copyrights and IP, they too are also protected by law. Second life property and currency has no more value than selling property on the moon. Finally, the stock market does not only give money to the lucky, the past 80 years have shown that, over time, it gives money to everyone.
Someone could always get a loan (maybe against their house) and then send the money a little late. A loan would probably be 20-40 per 1000 borrowed. That really isn't that much to fix this, frankly.
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I'm not sure I agree that we can't 'air results in any meaningful way.' However, I do think that public data repositories are something that should be explored, and are, btw, by most funding agencies. That is a bit of a different issue.
I am a federally funded researcher who administrates a program that publishes quite a bit. First off, I am a supporter of open access publishing. Here is our challenge with the current policy, and why it has been very difficult to adopt.
Open access journals cost between $1-3k per publication (see PLOS or BMC). These journals automatically submit papers to the public repository. This is a direct cost that comes out of my grants that may not have been originally budgeted. Now, closed access journals are generally free or close to free to publish. The new policy requires submission of closed access papers, by the authors, to the central repository (if federally funded). Obviously, this violates the agreement the author had with the publisher, so the author, on their own, must negotiate a legal mechanism to do this. Some publishers charge to do this, maybe more than $1k. Every submitted paper gets an ID that must be submitted with a progress report. When we publish 5-10 papers per progress report, this is frankly a lot of work and sometimes, we fund papers partially that are published by other groups. So it is up to me to encourage these groups to figure this out, so I can include them in my reports. More work, and it adds another level of complexity to collaboration.
So far, this has been an administrative headache, it is expensive and considering most major university libraries already have licenses to the closed data, it seems, to me, unnecessarily complicated. I wish they had required the publishers to do this (each publisher would have to work with one source) instead of the researcher, because we have to work with a number of publishers and that takes time in an already very, very competitive field.
There are some really great aspects of open access publishing and the power of the resulting knowledgebase of manuscripts is going to be really exciting, however, $10-20k/year for page charges is only going to result in less science, IMO.
Uh, HD-DVD's are: 1) region free 2) not a rushed to market technology (no customer screwing profile x.x limitations) 3) half the price 4) has more interactive features in contrast blu-ray store more space. Are you guys that obtuse?
You'll get over it.
While I suppose it is a little offtopic, I noticed in the first picture that the elevation of the south pole is greater than 9,000 feet. I never knew that, and it really highlights the crappy conditions that must exist there. Even at 10,000 feet your body does funny things adjusting to altitude (source).
"Visitors do not need specialised qualifications to contribute, since their primary role is to write articles that cover existing knowledge; this means that people of all ages and cultural and social background can write Wikipedia articles. With rare exceptions, articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. Anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references or citations, as long as they do so within Wikipedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. For example, if you add information to an article, be sure to include your references, as unreferenced facts are subject to removal."
I don't see any rules against government, people editing their own pages, etc. Only that facts be added, if they aren't they should be removed.
I get lots of ghost calls from numbers like 000-000-0000 or 41234 or another four digit number that I can't recall. They never leave a message and sometimes (when I pick up) there is no one there. Usually, when I do get through it is a call center (I subscribe to several 'free' trade rags that have started collecting info from me every 6 months so they can sell to advertisers -- really annoying). -Sean
I understand this and agree this is the bigger issue. Regulation likely needs to happen. As these technologies become cheaper and more accessible, small companies are going to start putting who-knows-what on the market. People should be able to choose not to eat GMO, however, if you do some homework you might find that it is really hard to define GMOs from other agricultural products.
You could have gotten an hd-dvd player for $199 (1080i) or 299 (1080p)....
Ask and ye shall receive: DNA Music Paper from 1995. Note, I didn't read the patent, but DNA music has definitely been done before.
I liked the term I heard on another board:
"Moving Chicane"
I shop at Walmart, lots of people shop at Walmart. I wonder how many posters (known IT experts) on slashdot today, use Smartech? It isn't that they both use Smartech, it is that they both use Smartech and that is very unlikely to find by chance.
A Blu-Ray win is probably more valuable to Sony than a gaming console win, the market for movies is simply bigger and if high def DVD movies take over the DVD market a win here is very important to Sony. Since the bundling of the PS3 and Blu-Ray are doing really well for Blu-Ray (so far), I would think that Sony got this one right. We'll see if time will tell, but I think the developers opinion is pretty much irrelevant for the moment and the PS3 price will eventually come down.
The world could really use a LotR-like epic/modern sci fi movie series. I enjoyed Serenity (I own it), however, if that is the best modern sci fi can offer, wow, I'm disappointed. The original Star Wars is classic, but it is a bit comic book like for today's standards. Star Trek is also cliched and feels like a tv show. The original matrix almost got us there, but the sequels stank. Personally, as a sci fi epic, I thought the new battlestar galactica was better than most of these, but we could do so much better.
My take on this issue is that people who do not have extensive scientific educations are being asked to 'believe' in science in a manner similar to how they 'believe' in religion. Science is fundamentally based on observations and the progression of the scientific method. That said, for most of us, we never see the evidence, nor do we see the details of each hypothesis test. This is further complicated because the body of scientific literature is massive and for every scientific field you can find crap science. Peer review is fallible.
I think we are requiring people to 'believe' in science, simply because science has become too complicated to cover adequately with a standard, non technical education. This creates a conundrum. These people are being required to choose religion -- remember they have been in church since birth -- or science. For them, this must be very difficult. When we listen to a scientist, we hope we are hearing testimony based on evidence, when we hear a preacher we hope we are hearing testimony based on belief.
That said, as a scientist familiar with evolutionary theory, I am troubled by the level with which we understand the mechanisms of evolution and that 48% of people don't even understand the most basic of concepts within it. Should we require people to swallow science without evidence? Should we follow *anything* without evidence? I know I don't, ironically, science doesn't allow me to.
Uh, no, only Children of Men and Happy feet are combos, the other three are not. Second, do you have any evidence that HD DVD's are confused by people more than Blu-Ray? I doubt it.
Did slashdot just become a Blu-Ray disc fanboy site? A while ago there was a link about Blu-Ray having Casino Royale in the top 100 on Amazon. Yesterday there were *five* HD-DVD titles in the top 100, Children of Men, Happy Feet, BBC Planet Earth, and the two Matrix box sets (three of these moves are in the top 50). There were only two Blu-Ray titles in the top 100, Casino Royale and Planet Earth. Claims of HD-DVD's death are premature. With recent talk on avsforum.com that sub-$200 HD-DVD players maybe coming this fall, Blu-Ray might be looking at a tough haul.
Neither does Anonymous Coward.
Guilty as charged. Nerd and a recovering metalhead.
Modern heat pumps have COPs in the 2-4 range for air-coupled units, and higher for water or ground-loop units. A watt of energy pumps 2-4 watts of heat into your house from outside. I agree however, people here must not be east of the rockies. Most heat pumps in the midwest and northeast are not working now. They don't work in really cold weather, and cause houses to rely on electric heat.
This is actually insightful, IMO, for most of the country (outside of ca) incandescent lights are probably a wash six months of the year due to heating.
This is probably old news around here, but I have gotten into the habit of typing shorthand into Firefox's into the site/url text field to go to sites. In some versions this does the equivalent of "I'm feeling lucky" others just does a google search (probably configurable). Anyways typing: "imdb star wars" takes me to star wars on imdb, "yahoo" takes me to yahoo.com, slashdot takes me to slashdot.org, and "wikipedia {put anthing here}" takes me to the appropriate wikipedia page. Given this, I could see lots of Yahoo searches on Google, when everyone knows perfectly well what and where Yahoo is.
AVS Forum is quite a bit better source on this than /. and while last years Toshiba's clearly had a problem, the forum has been absent of the massive amounts of complaints that were there last year. Several posters have even stated the original problem fixed.
No. First the stock market is guided by US and International law. Second, much like copyrights and IP, they too are also protected by law. Second life property and currency has no more value than selling property on the moon. Finally, the stock market does not only give money to the lucky, the past 80 years have shown that, over time, it gives money to everyone.
Someone could always get a loan (maybe against their house) and then send the money a little late. A loan would probably be 20-40 per 1000 borrowed. That really isn't that much to fix this, frankly.