The grandparent noted: "using the fastest of feasibly extrapolated propulsion technologies."
I don't know of any that we have where we could carry enough fuel to accellerate an astronaut and living capsule at a constant rate of 1G for even a 1 month period.
#1) Yes, scooping is bad, but until you can fix the whole grant/citation/patent-system/publish-or-perish issues, that's going to be an issue.
#2) I never claimed scooping was prevented by the current system.
I was pointing out that there are ways for reviewers with a grudge to give a negative, and damaging review, without looking malicious. Your ideal system does not prevent this.
The current anonymous system doesn't give them a name to hold a grudge against for a previous bad review.
I'm inclined to interpret that as humans are involved, with their own motivations and bias, and there is no real way around that except in some unrealistic idealized world. The world is not ideal, and neither is any review process I've seen suggested.
There are always additional experiments that could be done by the primary researcher. The cut off as to what is reasonable to publish as a single paper, and what could be put put aside as part of a second paper can often largely be up for debate. Antagonistic reviewers could often quite easily argue that additional experiments are needed which could push back publication, allowing the antagonist to scoop you, while looking like a simple well-argued and substantial review.
The problem that comes along with that approach is that if you give someones paper a negative review, and your name is attached, they will then see it, and when they get your latest paper to review, they may give you a negative review as retribution.
That's why the current anonymous reviewer system exists for many journals. Your 'solution' may lead to more rubber stamping, instead of less, for fear of reprisals.
Duh, PC sales are dropping. This does not mean there are less PCs in the world. In the 80's very few people had PCs. Now just about everyone does. It means the market is saturating. Still lots of PCs in homes. But now that everyone has one, you only get upgrade sales, very little sales to new buyers. Still a huge market for games.
Lots of people use tablets more, true. But it's not so easy to edit those home movies on a tablet. Most folks who have a PC did not replace it with a tablet. They added a tablet to their list of home electronics.
People who cared about the deficit have been complaining since Reagan was in office, and against Republican spending sprees. The democrats have been the fiscally responsible spenders since the early 80's when Reagan began the deficit spiral.
This is new, and only happend after a black guy got elected. Joining the Republicans for deficit responsibility shows the utter ignorance and racism in those involved.
Funny how the racists always leave out the part about the white president leaving the country spinning into a massive depression loosing 750,000/jobs month, and that the spending was to avoid an all-out depression.
Einstein was a theoretical physicist. That's kind of a small group. For the vast, vast majority of science, you need equipment, supplies, reagents, etc. That can cost from many thousands to millions.
I've been using VS2012 on a 5 year old laptop, that was midrange at best when new. The requirements don't seem that steep.
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I'm not sure what 'publish or perish' has to do with it.
I do research. I can get funding from NIH from a well designed, well reasoned approach to learn something new. What I can't get is funding to replicate some other researcher's finding.
I'd be happy to do replication work in addition to novel research, but it's a simple fact that no one will pay for salary of lab techs, lab equipment, or reagents in order to replicate something, even if I'm willing to donate my own time.
Not more fitting. Entirely fitting. Programmers aren't egnigneers. Engineers are licensed/regulated.
Unless you have an electrical/civil/mechanical/etc engineer do your programming for you, the person doing your programming isn't an engineer. They are a programmer. There is no such thing as a software engineer. It's a made-up title.
Well, I guess you showed me. I guess there is also zero possibility that on one of your friends copied the picture and so it might still be out there. Or that someone not your friend might have snagged it during one of the times that facebook has had a little 'oops' when they were changing their security policies yet-again to at least temporarily make things you wanted private, public.
This law is rock solid. Forget my misgivings. I'm sure it will work at least as well as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. There's no more spam! Oh, wait...
Dealers would actually be happy if the electric car went away. The electric motor should be much more reliable/lower-maintenance than a car engine. Their service departments will lose a ton of cash, because replacing an electric moter is a lot less hours to charge than rebuilding an engine.
You mean install Gnome and get a 1 pixel border that's almost impossible to grab on your 2560x1600 screen, because the folks making Ubuntu have tablets in mind and have rediculous defaults, making you spend a bunch of time going in and changing config files?
No thanks, downloading a Distro with decent destop defaults is much faster than downloading the new Ubuntu version and spending half a day fixing things up so they work sanely.
This! Unity and their unwillingness to listen to their user base drove me away. I used to be a huge Ubuntu fan and have it on a lot of the machines at work and at home. No more. It's not like their aren't other distros out there that will listen to the users.
I wonder if it's worth clicking the link, since the summary was content free, and doesn't really tell you a think about what they are talking about, or why it would be interesting to anyone.
Les Nessman: I'm here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest turkey event in Thanksgiving Day history. All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there are going to be a lot of happy people out here. Now the crowd is... [passers-by gawk at Les] Les Nessman: The... the crowd is uh... curious but well behaved. And I think I hear something now. Uh... The crowd is moving out into the parking area. And... oh yes! I can see it now. It's a... it's a... helicopter and it's coming this way! Andy Travis: A helicopter? Les Nessman: It's flying something behind it and I can't quite make it out. It's a large banner and it says H A P P Y... T H A N K S... giving... from W... K... R... P! What a sight, ladies and gentlemen. What a sight. The 'copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it's looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air... There's a third... No parachutes yet... Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but... Oh my God! They're turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Folks, I don't know how much longer... The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to step inside. I can't stand here and watch this anymore. No, I can't go in there. Children are searching for their mothers and oh, not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this. I don't know how much longer I can hold my position here, Johnny. The crowd... Dr. Johnny Fever: Les? Les? Les, are you there? Les isn't there. Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les. For those of you who've just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You want me, Mr. Carlson? Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah. Come in, Jennifer. Have a seat. Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: No, thank you. Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Well all right. At this particular point in time, I would like to dictate a press release. Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't take dictation. Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: What? Alright, I guess I can do this thing myself. It's probably going to be a long meeting though; so why don't you get coffee for all the guys here? Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't get coffee, Mr. Carlson. We agreed. Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah. Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You have to draw the line somewhere. Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: You got that right. Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Will there be anything else I can do? Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: No. I think that about does it. Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Thank you. Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, no. Thank you. Les Nessman: How does she get away with that? Herbert 'Herb' Tarlek: Are you kidding?
[Les walks in, looking dazed] Venus Flytrap: Les! Are you okay? Les Nessman: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered but, some of them tried to attack *me*! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr. Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that. Venus Flytrap: [to Andy] *How* is it strange? Andy Travis: Yeah, right. Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest. Les Nessman: [freaked out] I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack! It was almost as if they were... organized! [Mr. Carlson comes out of his office] Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
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The grandparent noted: "using the fastest of feasibly extrapolated propulsion technologies."
I don't know of any that we have where we could carry enough fuel to accellerate an astronaut and living capsule at a constant rate of 1G for even a 1 month period.
#1) Yes, scooping is bad, but until you can fix the whole grant/citation/patent-system/publish-or-perish issues, that's going to be an issue.
#2) I never claimed scooping was prevented by the current system.
I was pointing out that there are ways for reviewers with a grudge to give a negative, and damaging review, without looking malicious. Your ideal system does not prevent this.
The current anonymous system doesn't give them a name to hold a grudge against for a previous bad review.
I'm inclined to interpret that as humans are involved, with their own motivations and bias, and there is no real way around that except in some unrealistic idealized world. The world is not ideal, and neither is any review process I've seen suggested.
There are always additional experiments that could be done by the primary researcher. The cut off as to what is reasonable to publish as a single paper, and what could be put put aside as part of a second paper can often largely be up for debate. Antagonistic reviewers could often quite easily argue that additional experiments are needed which could push back publication, allowing the antagonist to scoop you, while looking like a simple well-argued and substantial review.
The problem that comes along with that approach is that if you give someones paper a negative review, and your name is attached, they will then see it, and when they get your latest paper to review, they may give you a negative review as retribution.
That's why the current anonymous reviewer system exists for many journals. Your 'solution' may lead to more rubber stamping, instead of less, for fear of reprisals.
Sometimes no one else takes over the project.
I refer you to Sourceforge. There are a lot of projects on there that haven't been touched by anyone for a long, long time.
By US company, do you mean companies like IBM, Northrop Grumman, Verizon, Rand Corporation? They did.
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/aca-contractors/
Duh, PC sales are dropping. This does not mean there are less PCs in the world. In the 80's very few people had PCs. Now just about everyone does. It means the market is saturating. Still lots of PCs in homes. But now that everyone has one, you only get upgrade sales, very little sales to new buyers. Still a huge market for games.
Lots of people use tablets more, true. But it's not so easy to edit those home movies on a tablet. Most folks who have a PC did not replace it with a tablet. They added a tablet to their list of home electronics.
People who cared about the deficit have been complaining since Reagan was in office, and against Republican spending sprees. The democrats have been the fiscally responsible spenders since the early 80's when Reagan began the deficit spiral.
This is new, and only happend after a black guy got elected. Joining the Republicans for deficit responsibility shows the utter ignorance and racism in those involved.
Funny how the racists always leave out the part about the white president leaving the country spinning into a massive depression loosing 750,000/jobs month, and that the spending was to avoid an all-out depression.
Einstein was a theoretical physicist. That's kind of a small group. For the vast, vast majority of science, you need equipment, supplies, reagents, etc. That can cost from many thousands to millions.
I've been using VS2012 on a 5 year old laptop, that was midrange at best when new. The requirements don't seem that steep.
I'm not sure what 'publish or perish' has to do with it.
I do research. I can get funding from NIH from a well designed, well reasoned approach to learn something new. What I can't get is funding to replicate some other researcher's finding.
I'd be happy to do replication work in addition to novel research, but it's a simple fact that no one will pay for salary of lab techs, lab equipment, or reagents in order to replicate something, even if I'm willing to donate my own time.
Not more fitting. Entirely fitting. Programmers aren't egnigneers. Engineers are licensed/regulated.
Unless you have an electrical/civil/mechanical/etc engineer do your programming for you, the person doing your programming isn't an engineer. They are a programmer. There is no such thing as a software engineer. It's a made-up title.
The whole severence thing I noted in my post...
Suddenly require them to come into the office. Many won't be able to, so you can downsize without the bad publicity or cost of layoffs/severence-pay.
"overwhelmingly indicates that it just doesn't work in the United States. (Or, for that matter, in Western nations)."
I think Australia would like a word with you.
Well, I guess you showed me. I guess there is also zero possibility that on one of your friends copied the picture and so it might still be out there. Or that someone not your friend might have snagged it during one of the times that facebook has had a little 'oops' when they were changing their security policies yet-again to at least temporarily make things you wanted private, public.
This law is rock solid. Forget my misgivings. I'm sure it will work at least as well as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. There's no more spam! Oh, wait...
Will someone in California please let Jerry Brown know that the internet never forgets?
Dealers would actually be happy if the electric car went away. The electric motor should be much more reliable/lower-maintenance than a car engine. Their service departments will lose a ton of cash, because replacing an electric moter is a lot less hours to charge than rebuilding an engine.
You mean install Gnome and get a 1 pixel border that's almost impossible to grab on your 2560x1600 screen, because the folks making Ubuntu have tablets in mind and have rediculous defaults, making you spend a bunch of time going in and changing config files?
No thanks, downloading a Distro with decent destop defaults is much faster than downloading the new Ubuntu version and spending half a day fixing things up so they work sanely.
This! Unity and their unwillingness to listen to their user base drove me away. I used to be a huge Ubuntu fan and have it on a lot of the machines at work and at home. No more. It's not like their aren't other distros out there that will listen to the users.
I wonder if it's worth clicking the link, since the summary was content free, and doesn't really tell you a think about what they are talking about, or why it would be interesting to anyone.
Nah. Probably another slashvertisement.
My computer can already do video-out to my TV. No need for a SteamOS box.
Until they get a lot of mainstream games on it, instead of a bunch of indies, they are kind of a useless middleman.
Playing the Steam game I want to play on my PC requires a PC.
Playing the Steam game I want to plan on my SteamOS box requires a SteamOS box, and a PC.
Seems like a real difference.
Les Nessman: I'm here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest turkey event in Thanksgiving Day history. All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there are going to be a lot of happy people out here. Now the crowd is...
[passers-by gawk at Les]
Les Nessman: The... the crowd is uh... curious but well behaved. And I think I hear something now. Uh... The crowd is moving out into the parking area. And... oh yes! I can see it now. It's a... it's a... helicopter and it's coming this way!
Andy Travis: A helicopter?
Les Nessman: It's flying something behind it and I can't quite make it out. It's a large banner and it says H A P P Y... T H A N K S... giving... from W... K... R... P! What a sight, ladies and gentlemen. What a sight. The 'copter seems to circling the parking area now. I guess it's looking for a place to land. No! Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air... There's a third... No parachutes yet... Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but... Oh my God! They're turkeys! Oh no! Johnny can you get this? Oh, they're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! This is terrible! Everyone's running around pushing each other. Oh my goodness! Oh, the humanity! People are running about. The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Folks, I don't know how much longer... The crowd is running for their lives. I think I'm going to step inside. I can't stand here and watch this anymore. No, I can't go in there. Children are searching for their mothers and oh, not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this. I don't know how much longer I can hold my position here, Johnny. The crowd...
Dr. Johnny Fever: Les? Les? Les, are you there? Les isn't there. Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les. For those of you who've just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You want me, Mr. Carlson?
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah. Come in, Jennifer. Have a seat.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: No, thank you.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Well all right. At this particular point in time, I would like to dictate a press release.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't take dictation.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: What? Alright, I guess I can do this thing myself. It's probably going to be a long meeting though; so why don't you get coffee for all the guys here?
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: I don't get coffee, Mr. Carlson. We agreed.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, yeah.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: You have to draw the line somewhere.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: You got that right.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Will there be anything else I can do?
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: No. I think that about does it.
Jennifer Elizabeth Marlowe: Thank you.
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: Oh, no. Thank you.
Les Nessman: How does she get away with that?
Herbert 'Herb' Tarlek: Are you kidding?
[Les walks in, looking dazed]
Venus Flytrap: Les! Are you okay?
Les Nessman: I don't know. A man and his two children tried to kill me. After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered but, some of them tried to attack *me*! I had to jam myself into a phone booth! Then Mr. Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose. It gets pretty strange after that.
Venus Flytrap: [to Andy] *How* is it strange?
Andy Travis: Yeah, right. Les, c'mon now, tell us the rest.
Les Nessman: [freaked out] I really don't know how to describe it. It was like the turkeys mounted a counter-attack! It was almost as if they were... organized!
[Mr. Carlson comes out of his office]
Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!