The way it workd is that the author pay at the moment too. There are page charges and even more for color figures. We are used to paying to publish. Idealy it would not so. I would much rather have an article that everyone could read for free.
Im a biologist so I see things from a functional point of view.
Lets call my code X and their code Y.
Imagine I have a system that uses Code X. I know all about Code X and how it works. I know that with stimulus A, Code X has a bug that causes it to crash and burn.
I can take code Y and see how it handles stimulus A, if it crashes and burns too then I form a hypothesis. Now I keep doing this with stimuli B C D E and see what happens. If you get the same results with both stimuli all the time the codes are probably derived from or related to each other.
This works for many kinds of comlex systems where you cant just "read" the code.
i agree with you in part but my problem is the moment you put a "cost per view" approach there will be a financial incentive to read less.
Boss: Hey you spent 50 EUR on papers this week, did you really need that paper from the Lithuanian Journal of Hepatology.
Student: Well the mentioned X in the abstract, and X is realted to >.
Boss: Be more careful with what you read!
This is that attitude that needs to be avoided. Now How to solve that I dont know. Maybe Gov funding of journals paid from a common pool anualy by citation/pdfs downloaded...whatever.
"...... Big bucks? Show me where else I can buy a 15" laptop for $2000 that isn't made of plastic..."....er mine. Gericom X5Force... 2 years old now.. solid magnesium case, spashproof keyboard, crap speakers, P4mobile 2.2GHz, Geforce 4, 640Mb Ram and shock resitant harddrive mounting, has been severly punished for 2 years without complaint.... still beats most of what Apple offers today. Price for 1600EUR.
I hate the fact that people think Apple has amazing build quality. I work in a "mixed" enviroment of religious toleration re: OS and hardware and I find the macs to have as many hardware problems as the PCs. The only difference is the PC are easier (and cheaper) to fix. I am sure others differ please dont start a thread about Apple vs PC reliabilty..
.....I would set up accounts like at iTunes, where users can pay a fee and download as many articles as they want till they run out of credits, then they have to re-up......
well no. The problem is that I read lots and lots and lots of papers every week. Now the problem is that If you put a price per article people will read less. The idea iss for people to read more. Remember that most research is funded publicaly on a charity and not for profit basis. The idea that then you have to pay to read it is not good. there are many esoteric journals I would like to read the occasional article from, that is of no interest to anyone else at my institute. At the moment I must a)subscribe myself 300EUR/year. b)try and get the institute to pay for a subscription 1000EUR per year. c)pay 40EUR for a single article. none of these options work. So therefore I dont read an articly I should OR I write directly to the author and ask for a pdf. Now my time is valuble.....there are 13115 articles that mention the molecule I study. I would like to have the ability ot read them all.
What we need is the current quality that comes from the journals without the insane costs. My institute pays hundreds of thousands of EUR per year for the access we have and maybe 1/3 of the articles I woulld like to read are out of reach...
Exactly for water this value for resonant freq. is 2450MHz which is in the middle of the range for bluetooth.
I did not say that higher ferquencies were more dangerous. I was making the point that bluetooth operates at a frequency whereby 70% of our body mass (water) will/might/could absorb this energy.
...not the same wavelenght so not the same thing at all. From what I remember Bluetooth os around 2.4... GHz and cellphones are aroung 900 MHz and 1800 MHz.
Now I am not a physycist so I am sure that someone will correct me....
Now the thing that is critical is how much energy we are absorving from the phone. The frequency for microwave ovens is 2450MHz. this is the frequency where the water gets most excited by the radiation. Now you can and should argue that we have lots of other molecules in our body and they will all absorve at different frequencies. However we contain alot of water... If you ask my uninformed opinion I would rather have a mobile than bluetooth strapped to my head.
I can not answer how the power will come into it. Is 2450MHz at low power worse than 1800MHz at high power..?
Personaly I have never had this problem and I think the issue here is choice. Dont want to right click dont.
My issue with the macs is more on their keyboard layout. I always miss the enter key on iBooks, but at the end of the day it is a question of choice.
The right click is very useful and to not have it is to be patronised. I have the feeling of having bought a great racing bike and having training wheels welded on.
OK so here is my problem. I buy a game for my young son and he installs it. He clicks the ACCEPT button on the EULA. Is this binding? As far as i am concerned no. A child can not enter into a contract.
Now, game companies have a substantial part of their revenue from non-adults. So my question is has this been tested in court? Can they enforce an EULA on a person not competent to enter into a contract? Should they be allowed to target an EULA to children in the first place? If not I think that I will get my son to do all the installs for me!!
I seem to remebmeber there was an iceage in between. Somebody correct me please.
Ice ages tend to cause sotherly migrations. I dont know if the sheets would have got as far as SC.
Maybe the populaiton was very small. Do not forget that we are highly mobile as a species. I find it funny when people say it took 20,000 years to get from A to B. I mean it takes a few years at a very leasurly pace to walk across europe! (30km/day - 10000km per year)
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Yeah and you can only register from the US!
Pity would have like to try it out too. Mail me if this changes.
Coming form europe I find this all a little puzzling. I mean IF a store says you can return items no questions asked then fine and they must accept. If they say they garantee satisfaction and givce money back then fine. If they dont then they dont. It is not usual for stores in europe to offer this. In most places over here if I buy a 82cm TV and then try and return it 2 weeks later they will ask me if it is defective. If it is not then they will tell me that it is not their problem any more.
Basicaly the stores cant have it both ways. If your policy is "no questions asked" then "no questions asked" it must be.
On the other side of the coin the EU has rules that there must be a 2 year warranty. This saved me many times , for example, when my wife had a Palm Tungsten E bust after 3 months. Any US customers were shafted with a 90 day warranty. For me it was replaced and the warranty is still good for another 18 months.
I was about to say you were wrong about heatpipes containing liquid. But then I did some reading into the technology and was suprised.. they are actualy really cunning.
Thanks for pointing this out, guess I learnt something today!
>You say..."Your main argument is wrong. If we can treat what you consider ailments, how are they such terrible hindrances? "
I am not sure if I am being baited here but I will reply as if I am not: More often that not our treaments come at a very high cost. Yes we can treat congential heart defects.. this requires multiple operations on very young infants... many of whom do not survive. We can treat type 1 diabetes by frequent monitoring of blood sugar levels, insulin injections and careful dietary control. These on the whole I consider "inelegant hacks". To be able to prevent the occurance is much better. Yes maybe there might be an evolutionary advantage to having some disease or other but not very likely. There are cases such as gilbert syndrone. This is a disease where the patient produces very high levels of bilirubin. Bilirubin is a very potent antioxidant, this means that the people are 5 times less likley to have cardiac disease. Unfortunatley they have complicaitons due to jaundice. In my view the complications are more severe than the advantages.
At the end of the day I think it should be up to the parents to decide what tretments they want and they dont.
As a side note there are middle ground alternatives these are to screen single cells, pre implantation and select those to implant. For example if the parents carry sickle cell alleles you could select a silgle cell to implant that does not carry the defect. there are however many diseases where this is not an option. For examble where the parent is homozygotic for the gene.
As regards what I mean by levels of fittness. I accept that all is relative. However I think you know what I mean and are being a little pedantic. I mean by fittness that one would be able to survive and reproduce without technological and medical assistance. Being able to be stranded on a desert island with my wife and to not die due to lack of medication.. insulin, inhalers, immunosuppresants...etc. Sure I might fall over, hit my head and drown in a puddle but you can do that anywhere. I consider "fittness" that I might have a good chance of actually starting a tribe. Do not make the mistake that we will always have technology to help us. Do not think that in a few mins the combined weapons of our governments could put us back in the stoneage.
We are walking along the edge of a knife at all times, it is good to keep our eyes on the future ahead of us but do not forget the drop on either side. If there is a lesson from history is that you should do something as soon as possible because you may not have a chance later. Do not doubt that we will mess up along the way, we will, but the better we get at doing it the better we can then fix it later. In all honesty some people will choose a natural route and some will choose a route of science and this will increase our options not decrease them.
If you want let us say that evolution will pick a victor.
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The way it workd is that the author pay at the moment too. There are page charges and even more for color figures. We are used to paying to publish. Idealy it would not so. I would much rather have an article that everyone could read for free.
Yup thats about it!!
.."ME a evil hacker? Oh no who could have done this?"
Then practice saying
......possibilities that this could bring to disabled people.
Forget the disabled, I want it to improve my ET and Q3 performance. No more long neural transmission down my arm to the mouse.
...so what are you advocating?
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If they're begging for an invite, tell them to go to the GMail invite spooler. They have almost 500k invites to be given out.
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If they're begging for an invite, tell them to go to the GMail invite spooler. They have almost 500k invites to be given out.
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Im a biologist so I see things from a functional point of view.
Lets call my code X and their code Y.
Imagine I have a system that uses Code X. I know all about Code X and how it works. I know that with stimulus A, Code X has a bug that causes it to crash and burn.
I can take code Y and see how it handles stimulus A, if it crashes and burns too then I form a hypothesis. Now I keep doing this with stimuli B C D E and see what happens. If you get the same results with both stimuli all the time the codes are probably derived from or related to each other.
This works for many kinds of comlex systems where you cant just "read" the code.
Simply through the use of a priori knowledge and precognition:
>Dispatch: Will KAzza make you the beneficiary of some money in a few days time.
>Red Cross: I have no recolection of any such person contacting me in two days time.
Simple!
fair enough... can honestly say I have never been to the US and so have no firsthand knowledge of their breakfast snacks. I stand corrected.
. for UK viewers only.
...even better. We are not pirtates...aaarg.
We are just in the "field of the remote loading".
From now on I shall not use the term P2P I shall say remote loading and if they take me to court that shall be my defense.
I did not infringe copyright, I just remote loaded that film.
i agree with you in part but my problem is the moment you put a "cost per view" approach there will be a financial incentive to read less.
Boss: Hey you spent 50 EUR on papers this week, did you really need that paper from the Lithuanian Journal of Hepatology.
Student: Well the mentioned X in the abstract, and X is realted to >.
Boss: Be more careful with what you read!
This is that attitude that needs to be avoided. Now How to solve that I dont know. Maybe Gov funding of journals paid from a common pool anualy by citation/pdfs downloaded...whatever.
"...... Big bucks? Show me where else I can buy a 15" laptop for $2000 that isn't made of plastic..." ....er mine. Gericom X5Force ... 2 years old now.. solid magnesium case, spashproof keyboard, crap speakers, P4mobile 2.2GHz, Geforce 4, 640Mb Ram and shock resitant harddrive mounting, has been severly punished for 2 years without complaint .... still beats most of what Apple offers today. Price for 1600EUR .
I hate the fact that people think Apple has amazing build quality. I work in a "mixed" enviroment of religious toleration re: OS and hardware and I find the macs to have as many hardware problems as the PCs. The only difference is the PC are easier (and cheaper) to fix. I am sure others differ please dont start a thread about Apple vs PC reliabilty..
.....I would set up accounts like at iTunes, where users can pay a fee and download as many articles as they want till they run out of credits, then they have to re-up......
.....there are 13115 articles that mention the molecule I study. I would like to have the ability ot read them all.
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well no. The problem is that I read lots and lots and lots of papers every week. Now the problem is that If you put a price per article people will read less. The idea iss for people to read more. Remember that most research is funded publicaly on a charity and not for profit basis. The idea that then you have to pay to read it is not good. there are many esoteric journals I would like to read the occasional article from, that is of no interest to anyone else at my institute. At the moment I must a)subscribe myself 300EUR/year. b)try and get the institute to pay for a subscription 1000EUR per year. c)pay 40EUR for a single article. none of these options work. So therefore I dont read an articly I should OR I write directly to the author and ask for a pdf. Now my time is valuble
What we need is the current quality that comes from the journals without the insane costs. My institute pays hundreds of thousands of EUR per year for the access we have and maybe 1/3 of the articles I woulld like to read are out of reach.
Exactly for water this value for resonant freq. is 2450MHz which is in the middle of the range for bluetooth.
I did not say that higher ferquencies were more dangerous. I was making the point that bluetooth operates at a frequency whereby 70% of our body mass (water) will/might/could absorb this energy.
...not the same wavelenght so not the same thing at all. From what I remember Bluetooth os around 2.4... GHz and cellphones are aroung 900 MHz and 1800 MHz.
Now I am not a physycist so I am sure that someone will correct me....
Now the thing that is critical is how much energy we are absorving from the phone. The frequency for microwave ovens is 2450MHz. this is the frequency where the water gets most excited by the radiation. Now you can and should argue that we have lots of other molecules in our body and they will all absorve at different frequencies. However we contain alot of water... If you ask my uninformed opinion I would rather have a mobile than bluetooth strapped to my head.
I can not answer how the power will come into it. Is 2450MHz at low power worse than 1800MHz at high power..?
Maybe someone informed can comment.
mod parent up. Who ever modded this as flamebait is simply wrong. The opinion of the parent is essential right and is not mean to provoke.
Personaly I have never had this problem and I think the issue here is choice. Dont want to right click dont.
My issue with the macs is more on their keyboard layout. I always miss the enter key on iBooks, but at the end of the day it is a question of choice.
The right click is very useful and to not have it is to be patronised. I have the feeling of having bought a great racing bike and having training wheels welded on.
OK so here is my problem. I buy a game for my young son and he installs it. He clicks the ACCEPT button on the EULA. Is this binding? As far as i am concerned no. A child can not enter into a contract.
Now, game companies have a substantial part of their revenue from non-adults. So my question is has this been tested in court? Can they enforce an EULA on a person not competent to enter into a contract? Should they be allowed to target an EULA to children in the first place? If not I think that I will get my son to do all the installs for me!!
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I seem to remebmeber there was an iceage in between. Somebody correct me please.
Ice ages tend to cause sotherly migrations. I dont know if the sheets would have got as far as SC.
Maybe the populaiton was very small. Do not forget that we are highly mobile as a species. I find it funny when people say it took 20,000 years to get from A to B. I mean it takes a few years at a very leasurly pace to walk across europe! (30km/day - 10000km per year)
Yeah and you can only register from the US!
Pity would have like to try it out too. Mail me if this changes.
Coming form europe I find this all a little puzzling. I mean IF a store says you can return items no questions asked then fine and they must accept. If they say they garantee satisfaction and givce money back then fine. If they dont then they dont. It is not usual for stores in europe to offer this. In most places over here if I buy a 82cm TV and then try and return it 2 weeks later they will ask me if it is defective. If it is not then they will tell me that it is not their problem any more.
Basicaly the stores cant have it both ways. If your policy is "no questions asked" then "no questions asked" it must be.
On the other side of the coin the EU has rules that there must be a 2 year warranty. This saved me many times , for example, when my wife had a Palm Tungsten E bust after 3 months. Any US customers were shafted with a 90 day warranty. For me it was replaced and the warranty is still good for another 18 months.
I was about to say you were wrong about heatpipes containing liquid. But then I did some reading into the technology and was suprised.. they are actualy really cunning.
Thanks for pointing this out, guess I learnt something today!
Fool.. with my polyploid legions I shall rule supreme over you single genome worms.....MU HA HA HA
price!
>You say..."Your main argument is wrong. If we can treat what you consider ailments, how are they such terrible hindrances? "
... many of whom do not survive. We can treat type 1 diabetes by frequent monitoring of blood sugar levels, insulin injections and careful dietary control. These on the whole I consider "inelegant hacks". To be able to prevent the occurance is much better. Yes maybe there might be an evolutionary advantage to having some disease or other but not very likely. There are cases such as gilbert syndrone. This is a disease where the patient produces very high levels of bilirubin. Bilirubin is a very potent antioxidant, this means that the people are 5 times less likley to have cardiac disease. Unfortunatley they have complicaitons due to jaundice. In my view the complications are more severe than the advantages.
I am not sure if I am being baited here but I will reply as if I am not: More often that not our treaments come at a very high cost. Yes we can treat congential heart defects.. this requires multiple operations on very young infants
At the end of the day I think it should be up to the parents to decide what tretments they want and they dont.
As a side note there are middle ground alternatives these are to screen single cells, pre implantation and select those to implant. For example if the parents carry sickle cell alleles you could select a silgle cell to implant that does not carry the defect. there are however many diseases where this is not an option. For examble where the parent is homozygotic for the gene.
As regards what I mean by levels of fittness. I accept that all is relative. However I think you know what I mean and are being a little pedantic. I mean by fittness that one would be able to survive and reproduce without technological and medical assistance. Being able to be stranded on a desert island with my wife and to not die due to lack of medication.. insulin, inhalers, immunosuppresants...etc. Sure I might fall over, hit my head and drown in a puddle but you can do that anywhere. I consider "fittness" that I might have a good chance of actually starting a tribe. Do not make the mistake that we will always have technology to help us. Do not think that in a few mins the combined weapons of our governments could put us back in the stoneage.
We are walking along the edge of a knife at all times, it is good to keep our eyes on the future ahead of us but do not forget the drop on either side. If there is a lesson from history is that you should do something as soon as possible because you may not have a chance later. Do not doubt that we will mess up along the way, we will, but the better we get at doing it the better we can then fix it later. In all honesty some people will choose a natural route and some will choose a route of science and this will increase our options not decrease them.
If you want let us say that evolution will pick a victor.