some journals being free, others charging above a certain number of pages, and lastly others charging a per-page fee.
Per page???
No wonder Fermat was so concise with that Last Theorem.
(In fact, Fermat refused to publish his work at all, except for a single anonymous article. The first Anonymous Coward?)
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Re:Science™ was never peer reviewed!
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Peer review---real peer review---means no editors (editors are not you peers) and no consoring, that is, publish first, and what you publish is reviewed by you peer. That's science.
No, that's usenet.
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Usenet once ruled, but now it's only the strictly moderated groups (either by actual moderaters or by community pressure) like comp.lang.c++ and comp.lang.c++.moderated that have an acceptale signal-to-noise ratio.
And comp.lang.c++ till gets too many d"do my homework" posts.
Try one of those "invisible fences" designed for dog: just put the collar around the kid's neck, and watch as the ghost of BF Skinner confines him to the perimeter of the radio-broadcasting "fence posts".
You might also try ringing a bell before giving him his Chessy Poofs.
Caveat Lector! Oh and I've done it before, one was an actress and I found a really good review of some of her work in the LA Weekly online, so yes Googling potential dates can be a very good idea
An actress??
Has political correctness gone so far that we can no longer use the correct terms, "carny" or "carnival freak"?
I am not knowing what is this "Christmas" of which you are speaking. Maybe I am not knowing because this "Christmas" is being a holiday in America.
I am living in Madras, India, and I am writing code for 250 rupees per hour. (That is convertable to almost $5.19 US dollars!) I am proud to say that I am doing the job of three American coders! I know this because those three transitioned their code to me before they were laid off for lack of work.
It is just too bad that those three have still not found work, but I hear from several of my cousins that there are many jobs driving taxis in America. Or perhaps they can get jobs in the growing sector of buggy-whip production. But no man can stand in the way of progress, or in the way of CEOs who must make profits, and salaries at least 30 times that of their average employee!
Time and again, a sizable portion of Slashdot posters seems to stick up for animal research, no matter how cruel and no matter how pointless.
I'm just happy my angioplasty was "cruelly and pointlessly" tested on dogs before it was tried on me.
But I suppose you forego most drugs and medical procedures so as not to benefit from animal testing.
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How many of us would want to have sex in front of our parents? Even if we're married? Some things are just privite [sic; now note how I quote the OP out of context], my mom refused to go to any of the choreographed sword fights I was in, for that kind of reason
(Out of context quote.)
Dude, if you refer to sex as "choreographed sword fights", no wonder your Mom didn't want to see it.
You must have seen Star Wars once too often as a kid.
It's Google's decision
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I don't care what Google will or will not advertise; it's Google's site, it's Google's decision.
(Myself, I wouldn't advertise sugary children's cereals, although I enjoy Sugar-Bombs, booze, smokes, and tasteful images of goats getting it on.)
I would care if Google were censoring or slanting search results.
(Yes, I'm aware they've removed certain links after being compelled by law suit; as i understand, Google's results also make it clear when that's happened.)
Finally, [the AT&T customer service representative] agreed not to charge me a fee, but then he told me the accounts department had shut down their computers for routine maintenance and suggested I call back the next day.
The next day, I called again, waited through the phone queue, and reached another representative. Again I was told the 30 day grace period did not apply, and again I had to argue for a good fifteen minutes before he agreed to cancel my account. Surprise surprise, he proceeded to tell me that the accounts computers had gone down for maintenance. I said, "Gee, that's funny, because they were apparently down for maintenance all last night, too." He said "Um" a few times, stuttered a bit, and then told me it was my lucky day because the system had just come back up.
It's merely supposition on my part, but this suggests the customer "service" reps are either docked some money, or lose a "bonus" (same difference) if they allow a customer to exercise his contractual rights to cancel during a grace period. After trying to prevent losing the bonus by lying to the customer, the technician attempts to make some other tech actually enter the cancellation and thus take the hit of losing the bonus. Of course, to protect his bonus, the the tech's already wasted your time by putting you on old and then and lying to you.
Should like an incetive structure that "incentivizes" cheating the customer: I wonder if there's a class action law suit here.
It also sounds a good reason not to do business with AT&T.
Why in the world did East Germany have the word "democratic" in its official name? Isn't North Korea called the Democratic Republic of Korea? Makes no sense to me. Anyone know why a dictatorships and a puppet government would think they're democratic?
It's old-line Communist terminology. They consider(ed) themselves "democratic" because Communism is a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
The tip-off is the formula "Democratic Republic", sometimes prefixed with "Peoples": "Peoples Democratic Republic of [Region, Language Group, State Name]. This is a standard Communist namiong convention. Where it originated, I'm not sure.
It's meant also, I think, to pointedly imply that they're the "opposite" of "fascists", another term with a lot of baggage attached. Communists (Soviets and their fellow travellers worldwide, especially Comintern) used "Fascist" as a broad brush with which to stain any rightist opponents, from actual Fascists (Nazis, Falangists, etc.) to moderates.
Communist terminology can be fascinating. Words and phrases acquired specific connotations, and so indicated to Communist Party members what their opinion should be, without the embarrasement of having to inquire what the current Party line was. Examples include "[rootless] cosmopolitan", a code-word for "Jewish", "social-fascist" for a moderate leftist, "internationalism" for doing what the Sovets wanted, the self-explanatory "enemy of the people", and the Chinese, not Soviet, but always fun "running dog".
Terminology used by Communists also tended to move in lock-step, because Communist parties worldwide in the twentieth century tended to be regimented and tighly controlled, ultimately by Comintern and the USSR.
This was espcially important in the 1930s through '50s, as Soviet (and thus worldwide Communist) policy went through dizzyingly swift changes over the course of Stalin's purges, the Hitler-Stalin pact, Hitler's invasion of Russia, and then the Cold War.
A good (and suprising, to me) example of the swift policy changes is evident on the Pete Seeger's CD "Pioneer of Folk". The CD, released in 1999, is a compilation of Seeger's songs of the early 1940s, and opens with "Round And Round Hitler's Grave", in which the singer strongly advocates fighting Germany. But halfway through the CD are the songs "Washington Breakdown", and "C for Conscription" in which Seeger roundly criticizes Franklin Roosevelt for wanting to engage the US in the European war. Sandwiched in between these two songs is "Dear Mr. President", in which Seeger reads an open letter to Rooselvelt, acknowledging to past differences, enumerating a number of progressive issues Seeger feels need addressing, but asserting that Hitler won't solve anybody's problems. In the meantime, of course, Hitler had abrogated his pact with Stalin and invaded Russia, and Communist policy had reversed itself.
you're an American though, right? No one expects Americans to even know where Canada is, let alone the approximate population of Japan. So, you're forgiven.
Ah'ma Mer'kun all right.. Edakated in Mer'kun public skooolz.
Waz this "Canada" you speak of? That whar they all talk funny?
Attorney for the US Army Joseph Welch, addressing red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy; the exact quote is: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
(Bartleby's gives an alternative punctuation: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?". This punctuation, however, seems to me to be less natural.)
Oh, and stay away from me at cocktail parties. I'm sure that a conversation that never strayed from the intricacies of video game programming would be almost instantly tiresome.
Cocktail parties... Tiresome...
Must be English or a someone with an Ivy League undergrad degree. Or a law student.
many universities... fail to prepare students for the game industry
1337 Warrior Freshman: "Hey, Prof, is this class 'How to earn Gold Pieces in EverQuest by repetitively making bricks from river-bank mud until I can accumulate enough to go on an adventure, 101?'"
Prof: "Sure is, and it'll also prepare you for the mind-numbing drudgery, alienation, and disaffection of real work, too! By the time you're done, you'll know how to eagerly but passively sacrifice your life and dignity for the worthless epheremal trinkets consumer capitalism will tell you you have to have! And you'll be able to do it the the real and in virtual worrlds simultaneously!" "
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some journals being free, others charging above a certain number of pages, and lastly others charging a per-page fee.
.sig which this margin is too small to
Per page???
No wonder Fermat was so concise with that Last Theorem.
(In fact, Fermat refused to publish his work at all, except for a single anonymous article. The first Anonymous Coward?)
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I have discovered a truly remarkable
Peer review---real peer review---means no editors (editors are not you peers) and no consoring, that is, publish first, and what you publish is reviewed by you peer. That's science.
No, that's usenet.
WE INTERRUPT THIS POST TO ADVERTISE MULTI-LEVEL NIGERIAN PORNO GET OUT OF DEBT PENIS ENLARGERS FOLLOWED BY AN OBLIGATORY FOUR DIGIT STRING 5678
Usenet once ruled, but now it's only the strictly moderated groups (either by actual moderaters or by community pressure) like comp.lang.c++ and comp.lang.c++.moderated that have an acceptale signal-to-noise ratio.
And comp.lang.c++ till gets too many d"do my homework" posts.
*ehem* pardon me, but it's "carnie", you damn dirty ape.
Yeah, I thought it might be, but I was too lazy to Googlefight it.
(I think you're right, but Googlefight gives the nod to "carny".)
You need a controller for your kid?
No problem!
Try one of those "invisible fences" designed for dog: just put the collar around the kid's neck, and watch as the ghost of BF Skinner confines him to the perimeter of the radio-broadcasting "fence posts".
You might also try ringing a bell before giving him his Chessy Poofs.
Caveat Lector! Oh and I've done it before, one was an actress and I found a really good review of some of her work in the LA Weekly online, so yes Googling potential dates can be a very good idea
An actress??
Has political correctness gone so far that we can no longer use the correct terms, "carny" or "carnival freak"?
I Googled for Ms. November last night, and we had a great date until I ran out of tissues.
/.ers need to worry about dates.
:)
Yeah, like
Or ethics.
And how do you configure your firewall to stop your CD player from sending packets out
Well, only the HTTP proxy is allowed to call out to port 80 (amd it's only allowed port 80, 8080, and 8100).
If another program wants out, I have to allow it.
One minor problem is that, as I'm running Win2K, the proxy's address is stored in the registry, and some programs know how to read this.
But I still have to allow any program to contact the proxy, as even localhost to localhost connections are disallowed by default.
Don't forget that many people in the tech industry are women, and we do not appreciate schoolby attempts at humor.
-jen
Me: "How many tech industry women does it take to change a light bulb?"
jen (shrilly): "That's NOT funny!"
I am not knowing what is this "Christmas" of which you are speaking. Maybe I am not knowing because this "Christmas" is being a holiday in America.
I am living in Madras, India, and I am writing code for 250 rupees per hour. (That is convertable to almost $5.19 US dollars!) I am proud to say that I am doing the job of three American coders! I know this because those three transitioned their code to me before they were laid off for lack of work.
It is just too bad that those three have still not found work, but I hear from several of my cousins that there are many jobs driving taxis in America. Or perhaps they can get jobs in the growing sector of buggy-whip production. But no man can stand in the way of progress, or in the way of CEOs who must make profits, and salaries at least 30 times that of their average employee!
Time and again, a sizable portion of Slashdot posters seems to stick up for animal research, no matter how cruel and no matter how pointless.
I'm just happy my angioplasty was "cruelly and pointlessly" tested on dogs before it was tried on me.
But I suppose you forego most drugs and medical procedures so as not to benefit from animal testing.
How many of us would want to have sex in front of our parents? Even if we're married? Some things are just privite [sic; now note how I quote the OP out of context], my mom refused to go to any of the choreographed sword fights I was in, for that kind of reason
(Out of context quote.)
Dude, if you refer to sex as "choreographed sword fights", no wonder your Mom didn't want to see it.
You must have seen Star Wars once too often as a kid.
I don't care what Google will or will not advertise; it's Google's site, it's Google's decision.
(Myself, I wouldn't advertise sugary children's cereals, although I enjoy Sugar-Bombs, booze, smokes, and tasteful images of goats getting it on.)
I would care if Google were censoring or slanting search results.
(Yes, I'm aware they've removed certain links after being compelled by law suit; as i understand, Google's results also make it clear when that's happened.)
The Klingon alphabet was disapproved [unicode.org] for inclusion in Unicode in may 2001.
[voice="Shanter"]
Why? Damn them! Why, Spock, whyyyy?
[/voice]
Finally, [the AT&T customer service representative] agreed not to charge me a fee, but then he told me the accounts department had shut down their computers for routine maintenance and suggested I call back the next day.
The next day, I called again, waited through the phone queue, and reached another representative. Again I was told the 30 day grace period did not apply, and again I had to argue for a good fifteen minutes before he agreed to cancel my account. Surprise surprise, he proceeded to tell me that the accounts computers had gone down for maintenance. I said, "Gee, that's funny, because they were apparently down for maintenance all last night, too." He said "Um" a few times, stuttered a bit, and then told me it was my lucky day because the system had just come back up.
It's merely supposition on my part, but this suggests the customer "service" reps are either docked some money, or lose a "bonus" (same difference) if they allow a customer to exercise his contractual rights to cancel during a grace period. After trying to prevent losing the bonus by lying to the customer, the technician attempts to make some other tech actually enter the cancellation and thus take the hit of losing the bonus. Of course, to protect his bonus, the the tech's already wasted your time by putting you on old and then and lying to you.
Should like an incetive structure that "incentivizes" cheating the customer: I wonder if there's a class action law suit here.
It also sounds a good reason not to do business with AT&T.
Why in the world did East Germany have the word "democratic" in its official name? Isn't North Korea called the Democratic Republic of Korea? Makes no sense to me. Anyone know why a dictatorships and a puppet government would think they're democratic?
s for a longer list.
It's old-line Communist terminology. They consider(ed) themselves "democratic" because Communism is a "dictatorship of the proletariat".
The tip-off is the formula "Democratic Republic", sometimes prefixed with "Peoples": "Peoples Democratic Republic of [Region, Language Group, State Name]. This is a standard Communist namiong convention. Where it originated, I'm not sure.
It's meant also, I think, to pointedly imply that they're the "opposite" of "fascists", another term with a lot of baggage attached. Communists (Soviets and their fellow travellers worldwide, especially Comintern) used "Fascist" as a broad brush with which to stain any rightist opponents, from actual Fascists (Nazis, Falangists, etc.) to moderates.
Communist terminology can be fascinating. Words and phrases acquired specific connotations, and so indicated to Communist Party members what their opinion should be, without the embarrasement of having to inquire what the current Party line was. Examples include "[rootless] cosmopolitan", a code-word for "Jewish", "social-fascist" for a moderate leftist, "internationalism" for doing what the Sovets wanted, the self-explanatory "enemy of the people", and the Chinese, not Soviet, but always fun "running dog".
See http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/insults.html#rootles
Terminology used by Communists also tended to move in lock-step, because Communist parties worldwide in the twentieth century tended to be regimented and tighly controlled, ultimately by Comintern and the USSR.
This was espcially important in the 1930s through '50s, as Soviet (and thus worldwide Communist) policy went through dizzyingly swift changes over the course of Stalin's purges, the Hitler-Stalin pact, Hitler's invasion of Russia, and then the Cold War.
A good (and suprising, to me) example of the swift policy changes is evident on the Pete Seeger's CD "Pioneer of Folk". The CD, released in 1999, is a compilation of Seeger's songs of the early 1940s, and opens with "Round And Round Hitler's Grave", in which the singer strongly advocates fighting Germany. But halfway through the CD are the songs "Washington Breakdown", and "C for Conscription" in which Seeger roundly criticizes Franklin Roosevelt for wanting to engage the US in the European war. Sandwiched in between these two songs is "Dear Mr. President", in which Seeger reads an open letter to Rooselvelt, acknowledging to past differences, enumerating a number of progressive issues Seeger feels need addressing, but asserting that Hitler won't solve anybody's problems. In the meantime, of course, Hitler had abrogated his pact with Stalin and invaded Russia, and Communist policy had reversed itself.
It took me about 5 minutes to figure out that DDR == Dance Dance Revolutions
It took me a second too. I guess I'm just too old, but to me DDR still means the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, i.e., Communist East Germany.
you're an American though, right? No one expects Americans to even know where Canada is, let alone the approximate population of Japan. So, you're forgiven.
Ah'ma Mer'kun all right.. Edakated in Mer'kun public skooolz.
Waz this "Canada" you speak of? That whar they all talk funny?
have you left no sense of decency sir?
Attorney for the US Army Joseph Welch, addressing red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy; the exact quote is:
"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
(Bartleby's gives an alternative punctuation: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?". This punctuation, however, seems to me to be less natural.)
Are they still countersuing Walmart for damages, purgery, anything?
Walmart forced FatWallet to vomit? Man, that's harsh.
WHAT?!? they've patented sex? At least that should affect most the the slashdot population.
g/should/should NOT/
Oh, and stay away from me at cocktail parties. I'm sure that a conversation that never strayed from the intricacies of video game programming would be almost instantly tiresome.
Cocktail parties...
Tiresome...
Must be English or a someone with an Ivy League undergrad degree. Or a law student.
I think Animal House was out a little before gameboy.
The movie you are thinking about is PCU.
Hey, at least the original poster didn't quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
many universities... fail to prepare students for the game industry
1337 Warrior Freshman:
"Hey, Prof, is this class 'How to earn Gold Pieces in EverQuest by repetitively making bricks from river-bank mud until I can accumulate enough to go on an adventure, 101?'"
Prof:
"Sure is, and it'll also prepare you for the mind-numbing drudgery, alienation, and disaffection of real work, too! By the time you're done, you'll know how to eagerly but passively sacrifice your life and dignity for the worthless epheremal trinkets consumer capitalism will tell you you have to have! And you'll be able to do it the the real and in virtual worrlds simultaneously!"
"
as King Tut said to Anna....
Uh, you mean Yul Brynner, right?
I mean, uh, the King of Siam, in The King and I.
Stop Whistling!
Or pay, uh, $20 annually!
Yeah, that's right, that's the ticket!