PubSCIENCE citations come from two sources: 1) participating publishers and information intermediaries maintaining citation collections based on agreements negotiated with OSTI, and 2) the nearly one million DOE Energy Science and Technology Database journal citations maintained by OSTI, comprising one of the largest compendia of energy related bibliographic citations available electronically.
How is PubSCIENCE populated?
OSTI is negotiating agreements with selected scientific journal publishers and information intermediaries to obtain announcement citations and compile them into the PubSCIENCE searchable database. This database includes hyperlinks from the citations to the publishers' servers where the full text article is available. Options to view the full-text will depend on the publisher. Users or their organizations or libraries make arrangements with publishers to subscribe to journals or obtain site licenses. All fee-based arrangements to view the full-text at the publisher's site are the responsibility of the users.
How does PubSCIENCE help the user?
This service saves the user time-consuming research through many individual journals, eliminates inefficient searching through individual Web sites, allows access to journal information 24 hours a day for 365 days a year, and links directly to the publisher's doorstep to obtain the full-text. PubSCIENCE is an excellent example of how modern information technology can provide significant savings in time and money.
Organizationally, it saves the government or any other employer of researchers money in two important ways. First, PubSCIENCE provides efficient desktop access to needed information, thus increasing researcher productivity. Secondly, PubSCIENCE avoids duplication of research. R&D efforts are less likely to be duplicated because scientists can more easily become aware of research already conducted or ongoing.
Why invest in a project like this?
The Department's mandate is to provide for the accessibility and dissemination of scientific knowledge that was created as the result of government sponsored R&D. The resources that are actually invested are very small as the citations provided by the journal publishers are freely provided at no charge. Many professional societies who wish to engage their publications in electronic commerce see this as the trend for the future. PubSCIENCE will not only facilitate access to scientific knowledge developed through government sponsored research, but will also expand use and access to broader peer-reviewed scientific literature.
What is the future of PubSCIENCE?
OSTI will continue to expand the collaboration through negotiations with other journal publishers and provide the DOE research community and the public with access. PubSCIENCE represents a unique partnership between the Federal government and the public/private journal publishers focused on facilitating good science by providing access to peer reviewed scientific and technical literature. This represents a major milestone in the goal of "Bringing Science to the Desktop" through the application of Web-based information technology.
[go here for the complete text: http://web.archive.org/web/20011007040328/pubsci.o sti.gov/about.html]
anyone have the specs on the recording capability?
what are you doing?
on
Halloween VII
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· Score: 4, Interesting
as a consultant i am ACTIVELY moving my customers (small businesses and home users) over to GNU/Linux.
how do i do it?
i give every customer a free 1/2 hour of consulting to bring them up to speed on the state of the computer industry. all of my customers love getting the free 1/2 hour. after the talk they feel empowered to make informed decisions about the computing technology upon which they rely.
what do i tell them?
just the same stuff most folks on slashdot already know. some details about Microsoft's focus on customer lock-in. details about long-term computing reliability via the GPL (since most folks have experienced a forced Microsoft upgrade cycle, this is music to their ears). i note that large reputable corporations are switching to GNU/Linux (IBM's seal of approval carries a lot of weight). also, i use simple analogies like Microsoft products being automobiles with the hoods welded shut.
after that 1/2 hour talk my customers usually want to make the switch immediately.
i'll restate my comment, with data from the above document, that refutes your assertion.
the problem is:
99% of the people pay about 70% of the taxes
while
the remaining 1% of the people (who pay about 30% of the taxes) run the largest corporations that give most of the campaign contributions
additionally
46% of the taxes pay for military expenditures, which allow the largest corporations to secure the biggest federal contracts (paid for with tax dollars)
what a fair system.
(campaign contributions remind me of recursive algorithms)
>It's not just your own code, corporations pay a lot of taxes as well
the problem is:
people pay most of the taxes
and
corporations give most of the campaign contributions
what a fair system.
loss of brightness issue
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LCD Round-up
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· Score: 3, Informative
i have spoken with LCD fluorescent tube manufactures. supposedly, these tubes dim significantly after a few years.
unfortunately, these tubes are not end-user replaceable.
so, you spend multiple times what you'd spend on a CRT, only to have the thing lose half of it's brightness a few years later. the simple solution would be to replace the tubes, but you can't because the LCD unit is designed to be disposable.
until it is possible to easily replace the fluorescent tubes in an LCD panel, i won't be investing in this technology.
I've tried to give them my money, but they wouldn't take it. I said, "I'll pay the subscription fee, but don't send me the dead trees. I'll just read it online." They told me I had to accept the dead trees. I told them to call me when I could pay them and just view the online version. It's been over a year since I had that conversation and have yet to hear from them.
Slashdot Mirror
Where do the PubSCIENCE citations come from?
PubSCIENCE citations come from two sources: 1) participating publishers and information intermediaries maintaining citation collections based on agreements negotiated with OSTI, and 2) the nearly one million DOE Energy Science and Technology Database journal citations maintained by OSTI, comprising one of the largest compendia of energy related bibliographic citations available electronically.
How is PubSCIENCE populated?
OSTI is negotiating agreements with selected scientific journal publishers and information intermediaries to obtain announcement citations and compile them into the PubSCIENCE searchable database. This database includes hyperlinks from the citations to the publishers' servers where the full text article is available. Options to view the full-text will depend on the publisher. Users or their organizations or libraries make arrangements with publishers to subscribe to journals or obtain site licenses. All fee-based arrangements to view the full-text at the publisher's site are the responsibility of the users.
How does PubSCIENCE help the user?
This service saves the user time-consuming research through many individual journals, eliminates inefficient searching through individual Web sites, allows access to journal information 24 hours a day for 365 days a year, and links directly to the publisher's doorstep to obtain the full-text. PubSCIENCE is an excellent example of how modern information technology can provide significant savings in time and money.
Organizationally, it saves the government or any other employer of researchers money in two important ways. First, PubSCIENCE provides efficient desktop access to needed information, thus increasing researcher productivity. Secondly, PubSCIENCE avoids duplication of research. R&D efforts are less likely to be duplicated because scientists can more easily become aware of research already conducted or ongoing.
Why invest in a project like this?
The Department's mandate is to provide for the accessibility and dissemination of scientific knowledge that was created as the result of government sponsored R&D. The resources that are actually invested are very small as the citations provided by the journal publishers are freely provided at no charge. Many professional societies who wish to engage their publications in electronic commerce see this as the trend for the future. PubSCIENCE will not only facilitate access to scientific knowledge developed through government sponsored research, but will also expand use and access to broader peer-reviewed scientific literature.
What is the future of PubSCIENCE?
OSTI will continue to expand the collaboration through negotiations with other journal publishers and provide the DOE research community and the public with access. PubSCIENCE represents a unique partnership between the Federal government and the public/private journal publishers focused on facilitating good science by providing access to peer reviewed scientific and technical literature. This represents a major milestone in the goal of "Bringing Science to the Desktop" through the application of Web-based information technology.
[go here for the complete text: http://web.archive.org/web/20011007040328/pubsci.
anyone have the specs on the recording capability?
as a consultant i am ACTIVELY moving my customers (small businesses and home users) over to GNU/Linux.
how do i do it?
i give every customer a free 1/2 hour of consulting to bring them up to speed on the state of the computer industry. all of my customers love getting the free 1/2 hour. after the talk they feel empowered to make informed decisions about the computing technology upon which they rely.
what do i tell them?
just the same stuff most folks on slashdot already know. some details about Microsoft's focus on customer lock-in. details about long-term computing reliability via the GPL (since most folks have experienced a forced Microsoft upgrade cycle, this is music to their ears). i note that large reputable corporations are switching to GNU/Linux (IBM's seal of approval carries a lot of weight). also, i use simple analogies like Microsoft products being automobiles with the hoods welded shut.
after that 1/2 hour talk my customers usually want to make the switch immediately.
> Actually RICH people pay most of the taxes. And those people own corporations.
a quick google search turned up this document:
Further Examination of the Distribution of Individual Income and Taxes Using a Consistent and Comprehensive Measure of Income
i'll restate my comment, with data from the above document, that refutes your assertion.
the problem is:
99% of the people pay about 70% of the taxes
while
the remaining 1% of the people (who pay about 30% of the taxes) run the largest corporations that give most of the campaign contributions
additionally
46% of the taxes pay for military expenditures, which allow the largest corporations to secure the biggest federal contracts (paid for with tax dollars)
what a fair system.
(campaign contributions remind me of recursive algorithms)
>It's not just your own code, corporations pay a lot of taxes as well
the problem is:
people pay most of the taxes
and
corporations give most of the campaign contributions
what a fair system.
i have spoken with LCD fluorescent tube manufactures. supposedly, these tubes dim significantly after a few years.
unfortunately, these tubes are not end-user replaceable.
so, you spend multiple times what you'd spend on a CRT, only to have the thing lose half of it's brightness a few years later. the simple solution would be to replace the tubes, but you can't because the LCD unit is designed to be disposable.
until it is possible to easily replace the fluorescent tubes in an LCD panel, i won't be investing in this technology.
there a quite a few Internet radio stations that don't broadcast RIAA music.
what i'm interested in is what RIAA could due to make this impossible, because this is something that will weaken RIAA in the long run.
put another way, what can RIAA do to prevent non-RIAA music from becoming more and more popular?
The Disclosure Project
note: i know i posted this once already, just trying to get some folks to see something related that seriously addresses the topic at hand.
The Disclosure Project
I've tried to give them my money, but they wouldn't take it. I said, "I'll pay the subscription fee, but don't send me the dead trees. I'll just read it online." They told me I had to accept the dead trees. I told them to call me when I could pay them and just view the online version. It's been over a year since I had that conversation and have yet to hear from them.