I perhaps agree, but I have the impression that "publishing good papers" is the key to a scientist having a good career.
This is a non-scientists view of science. Just because a scientist is famous does not necessarily correlate with the impact of his research. There are lots of researchers out there who affect science profoundly, but do not have the top 10 high impact paper. They generally have great CV's however.
I'm not sure it is a scam. It is a situation created by the market. You want change? Perens is right, it needs to start with academic funding and flexibility....
Yes, but development of therapeutics is very, very expensive (on the order of $800mil/drug). While patents do cause lots of problems, they are a huge carrot to get big pharma to actually pay for clin trials and other pre clinical development efforts. If you are going to solve the IP problem, you need to solve the expense of development problem. This is an extremely complicated economic balance that won't be solved by removing IP. I expect that pre clin development for third world disease, would decrease below its already pathetically low levels only continuing the tragedy.
These kinds of surveys should be left to the "Best places to live in america" and "the richest person in the world" lists and kept out of science. The quality of a paper does not make the scientist. This may be why Hawking is not on the list (I'm not a physicist/I don't know). That said, if scientists are evaluated only on the merits of their most significant papers we will all start to write "to the one paper" and science will suffer. Some scientists are very careful and disseminate their research through a series of papers, or even a career. The DNA paper (watson+crick) in biology would most certainly be the most significant, are either of them the most significant? I don't believe so. (I realize crick recently passed away) Perhaps the best use of informatics would be to do an analysis of physicists CV's. I think you'll find that there is more to being a scientist than publishing a good paper.
I know you are trolling but I find it ironic that the GPL spends a lot of time limiting freedoms (ie viral licensing, giving up copyright, etc), rather than providing them. Everytime I hear RMS speak he talks of "freedom," probably as much as GWB does.
vigilantes cease to be useful when they become indistinguishable from the crackers. In this case, the author should have emailed the administrators and, if response wasn't forthcoming, the guy should have left the system.
Yet another way I can kill my plants. I bet a fikas (sp?) would get pissed and lose its leaves if one of these things were even in the same room as it.
No it is not. Jebus, is all of/. smoking crack? From the GPL:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
Nowhere does it state that the PHP license applies to the parts you create, it would be legally reasonable to assume that it only applies to the parts not written by you and given to you under the license.
Mod up. The parent poster clearly doesn't understand the implied meaning of the word "viral". Forcing someone to redistribute a copyright notice is not "viral" its "infected", IMO, the GPL if "viral" because it is contageous, and your code falls under its conditions.
Actually it is exactly correct. The easiest way to think about it is that the earth makes a full revolution when it goes around the sun (1 year == 24 hours or 2 hours a month). So to make up the time in terms of the stars, the star day is slightly shorter...
Nice troll. But I'll bite. Your first to points are weather, and weather is pretty much a non-issue because 99+% of the elevator is above it. Gravity and the earths spin are cancel each other out since it is in geosynchronous orbit. Lightning is weather, terrorism is a thing that GWB scares us about to justify killing middle easterners and this will put things in space. I think the real problems with the space elevator (beyond technological difficulties in designing and placing the ribbon/cable) are damage due to radiation, micro-meteors, space junk, electric potential differences between different regions of the cable, fire, and entropy.
So true, there is a scene in Gladiator (from the DVD) toward the beginning where the Romans clash with the barbarians (?) and you can clearly see extras laughing and walking back to their lines after they collide. Obvious enough to easily see while watching on an airplane...
Did you even read what I wrote? I didn't assume anything. What must be assumed is not that the software is pirated (a legal thing) but that the IT person who will receive the computer will assume that the drives need to be wiped (a social thing). Very different.
If I were an IT person (even in Uganda), I would clean the drives and install a vanilla/standard set of software. If you have commercial software include the licenses (and media if possible), so that they aren't forced to clean the drive because they don't want to pirate. To repeat, I guess, I wouldn't be worried about having them prove they have the software licenses, I worry more about having someone there remove the software because they couldn't prove it.
The interface for finding pictures is so difficult to use it has almost zero functionality. The interface looks intuitive, but when I do searches, I never get back what I asked for, especially when it involves dates. Those pictures are a big part of the mission for the general public, so I would think NASA would want to make it work seemlessly.
Is it just me or is NASA barking up the wrong tree on this one? I would think that the challenge of a Moon Base would be building a sustainable (human) operating environment on the moon. This base would allow humans to exist/live on the moon allowing for human exploration of the solar system and potential commercialization of the resources present outside of our planet. These are significant challenges. Lets focus on these instead of focusing on exploration of the Moon. Is there anything a huge mobile laboratory could tell us that a small inexpensive rover could not?
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I perhaps agree, but I have the impression that "publishing good papers" is the key to a scientist having a good career. This is a non-scientists view of science. Just because a scientist is famous does not necessarily correlate with the impact of his research. There are lots of researchers out there who affect science profoundly, but do not have the top 10 high impact paper. They generally have great CV's however.
I'm not sure it is a scam. It is a situation created by the market. You want change? Perens is right, it needs to start with academic funding and flexibility....
As an academic scientist in basic research, I absolutely agree. I just don't want to blame a broken system on one (of many) damaged cogs.
Yes, but development of therapeutics is very, very expensive (on the order of $800mil/drug). While patents do cause lots of problems, they are a huge carrot to get big pharma to actually pay for clin trials and other pre clinical development efforts. If you are going to solve the IP problem, you need to solve the expense of development problem. This is an extremely complicated economic balance that won't be solved by removing IP. I expect that pre clin development for third world disease, would decrease below its already pathetically low levels only continuing the tragedy.
These kinds of surveys should be left to the "Best places to live in america" and "the richest person in the world" lists and kept out of science. The quality of a paper does not make the scientist. This may be why Hawking is not on the list (I'm not a physicist/I don't know). That said, if scientists are evaluated only on the merits of their most significant papers we will all start to write "to the one paper" and science will suffer. Some scientists are very careful and disseminate their research through a series of papers, or even a career. The DNA paper (watson+crick) in biology would most certainly be the most significant, are either of them the most significant? I don't believe so. (I realize crick recently passed away) Perhaps the best use of informatics would be to do an analysis of physicists CV's. I think you'll find that there is more to being a scientist than publishing a good paper.
If no criminal charges were filed in that case, I can see why Sal hasn't been arrested, yet.
I know you are trolling but I find it ironic that the GPL spends a lot of time limiting freedoms (ie viral licensing, giving up copyright, etc), rather than providing them. Everytime I hear RMS speak he talks of "freedom," probably as much as GWB does.
vigilantes cease to be useful when they become indistinguishable from the crackers. In this case, the author should have emailed the administrators and, if response wasn't forthcoming, the guy should have left the system.
There are no death notices in philly for him... Site
Yet another way I can kill my plants. I bet a fikas (sp?) would get pissed and lose its leaves if one of these things were even in the same room as it.
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
Nowhere does it state that the PHP license applies to the parts you create, it would be legally reasonable to assume that it only applies to the parts not written by you and given to you under the license.
Mod up. The parent poster clearly doesn't understand the implied meaning of the word "viral". Forcing someone to redistribute a copyright notice is not "viral" its "infected", IMO, the GPL if "viral" because it is contageous, and your code falls under its conditions.
Of course you may not have a membership.
Looks like they should have had a native speaker check this over, first.
I can honestly say that the only thing that is going to come out of this is wealthier lawyers (on both sides)
Actually it is exactly correct. The easiest way to think about it is that the earth makes a full revolution when it goes around the sun (1 year == 24 hours or 2 hours a month). So to make up the time in terms of the stars, the star day is slightly shorter...
In other news, software is more overpriced than ever before....
So are you seriously suggesting there really are no terrorist. Nah, I was just replying with a little troll food of my own....
Nice troll. But I'll bite. Your first to points are weather, and weather is pretty much a non-issue because 99+% of the elevator is above it. Gravity and the earths spin are cancel each other out since it is in geosynchronous orbit. Lightning is weather, terrorism is a thing that GWB scares us about to justify killing middle easterners and this will put things in space. I think the real problems with the space elevator (beyond technological difficulties in designing and placing the ribbon/cable) are damage due to radiation, micro-meteors, space junk, electric potential differences between different regions of the cable, fire, and entropy.
So true, there is a scene in Gladiator (from the DVD) toward the beginning where the Romans clash with the barbarians (?) and you can clearly see extras laughing and walking back to their lines after they collide. Obvious enough to easily see while watching on an airplane...
Did you even read what I wrote? I didn't assume anything. What must be assumed is not that the software is pirated (a legal thing) but that the IT person who will receive the computer will assume that the drives need to be wiped (a social thing). Very different.
If I were an IT person (even in Uganda), I would clean the drives and install a vanilla/standard set of software. If you have commercial software include the licenses (and media if possible), so that they aren't forced to clean the drive because they don't want to pirate. To repeat, I guess, I wouldn't be worried about having them prove they have the software licenses, I worry more about having someone there remove the software because they couldn't prove it.
The interface for finding pictures is so difficult to use it has almost zero functionality. The interface looks intuitive, but when I do searches, I never get back what I asked for, especially when it involves dates. Those pictures are a big part of the mission for the general public, so I would think NASA would want to make it work seemlessly.
those IP addresses I hope they are blocking users and not IPs, because a lot of the offenders are probably on dynamic IPs....
Is it just me or is NASA barking up the wrong tree on this one? I would think that the challenge of a Moon Base would be building a sustainable (human) operating environment on the moon. This base would allow humans to exist/live on the moon allowing for human exploration of the solar system and potential commercialization of the resources present outside of our planet. These are significant challenges. Lets focus on these instead of focusing on exploration of the Moon. Is there anything a huge mobile laboratory could tell us that a small inexpensive rover could not?