Not sure how he managed to miss that. It was one of the things that worked really well when I put mandrake on my laptop. Pity about the wireless adaptor not being found... although I note the tip above
Heck, I'd read a book on IP if someone wrote one for geeks.
It's pretty clear where my rights start (well, end...) when I'm coding for my employer, but I've known a number of problems occur in the recent past with freelance projects. Usually when some clever sod in a company starts worrying about "IP" without knowing much about the subject. It's a buzz phrase.
Resolution has an impact even before detailed character-based pattern matching occurs. Better type definition improves the brain's ability to gestalt process the word/sentence shape (which is why lower-case type is more legible than upper-case, there is better shape definition); thus the eye movements (saccades) are more effective, permitting 2/3 eye movements per line rather than constant reiteration as the brain prepares the data for a finer degree of pattern matching.
Last night, the Royal Society webcast an interview with Pillinger. It's due to be available on demand soon. In answer to the many points about 'reinventing the wheel', it's claimed (about 3/4 the way in) that ESA weren't allowed access to Nasa airbag technology.
I really hope to see this area of publishing revolutionized in the next few years: it's moving very slowly. The most "exciting" thing at the moment is the 'author pays' model of 'free publishing'. However, there appears to be no exciting movement in using technology to reduce costs.
As you say, the process of peer reviewing is the most important. I have championed the/. method of working at several conferences in the last couple of years - the comment/moderate/metamoderate approach could be used to build up a community of experts. I know it'd remove the "mystery" of the editorial process of journals, but there's about as much mystery about that as there is about publishing costs.
If not a dumbass, then certainly not much good with research.
Firstly, most p2p "companies" aren't companies in the sense that the writer means. Code writers with an attitude and server space is different.
Secondly (as mentioned elsewhere) there are many legit users of p2p
Thirdly (sorry)... loved the Trillian "meta-p2p" reference - this 'may' happen? What's shareaza then???
It's pretty poor journalism. Nothing weakens the left's position like this kind of thing (and I'm speaking as a british socialist...). The euro/dollar argument was covered in our press pretty well: one thing that this piece ignores is the potential interpretation that the French were anti-regime change largely because the Ba'ath party leadership were prepared to support the new Euro by selling oil in that currency. I mean... please, no body would *support* a murderous state for macroeconomic reasons, would they...
I have an actiontec adsl wifi box at home. Tiny little thing. I've had three PCs connecting to it simultaneously, including a mate in a car parked down the street. Very nice.
In the UK, a lot of community-centred projects will offer government online classes as so many benefits, tax claims etc. can be processed online and the take-up of government benefits can be rather low.
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Thought I might as well make the effort to read the article before commenting. But it's /.ed already.
My favourite: webdeveloper.
Certainly is, but given the nearness of much larger planets, stray lumps of rock will tend to be drawn elsewhere.
so... these wearable computers we keep reading about...?
Not sure how he managed to miss that. It was one of the things that worked really well when I put mandrake on my laptop. Pity about the wireless adaptor not being found... although I note the tip above
Great line to have on your CV/resume.
And that five quid for delivery? You get it back by not being tempted to pick stuff up that you hadn't planned on.
Heck, I'd read a book on IP if someone wrote one for geeks. It's pretty clear where my rights start (well, end...) when I'm coding for my employer, but I've known a number of problems occur in the recent past with freelance projects. Usually when some clever sod in a company starts worrying about "IP" without knowing much about the subject. It's a buzz phrase.
We need one. Please!
Resolution has an impact even before detailed character-based pattern matching occurs. Better type definition improves the brain's ability to gestalt process the word/sentence shape (which is why lower-case type is more legible than upper-case, there is better shape definition); thus the eye movements (saccades) are more effective, permitting 2/3 eye movements per line rather than constant reiteration as the brain prepares the data for a finer degree of pattern matching.
Last night, the Royal Society webcast an interview with Pillinger. It's due to be available on demand soon. In answer to the many points about 'reinventing the wheel', it's claimed (about 3/4 the way in) that ESA weren't allowed access to Nasa airbag technology.
I really hope to see this area of publishing revolutionized in the next few years: it's moving very slowly. The most "exciting" thing at the moment is the 'author pays' model of 'free publishing'. However, there appears to be no exciting movement in using technology to reduce costs. As you say, the process of peer reviewing is the most important. I have championed the /. method of working at several conferences in the last couple of years - the comment/moderate/metamoderate approach could be used to build up a community of experts. I know it'd remove the "mystery" of the editorial process of journals, but there's about as much mystery about that as there is about publishing costs.
If not a dumbass, then certainly not much good with research. Firstly, most p2p "companies" aren't companies in the sense that the writer means. Code writers with an attitude and server space is different. Secondly (as mentioned elsewhere) there are many legit users of p2p Thirdly (sorry)... loved the Trillian "meta-p2p" reference - this 'may' happen? What's shareaza then???
It's pretty poor journalism. Nothing weakens the left's position like this kind of thing (and I'm speaking as a british socialist...). The euro/dollar argument was covered in our press pretty well: one thing that this piece ignores is the potential interpretation that the French were anti-regime change largely because the Ba'ath party leadership were prepared to support the new Euro by selling oil in that currency. I mean... please, no body would *support* a murderous state for macroeconomic reasons, would they...
I have an actiontec adsl wifi box at home. Tiny little thing. I've had three PCs connecting to it simultaneously, including a mate in a car parked down the street. Very nice.
In the UK, a lot of community-centred projects will offer government online classes as so many benefits, tax claims etc. can be processed online and the take-up of government benefits can be rather low.