They are used in homes sometimes. I was visiting my folks a few years ago and it startled the crap out of me (pun intended) when I flushed their new low-flow toilet. It was a very loud high-pressure system.
I don't know about your field, but in mine, biology, there are very low-tier journals that are non-peer reviewed. Many of the articles in them are held in fairly low regard due to lack of peer-review, but it's a good venue for publishing bits of information that might be informative for other researchers, but isn't a 'whole story' or doesn't necessarily show positive results. You might consider publishing in such a journal if you think you have done some work which would genuinely be interesting to some others in your field, but which wouldn't make it to the rank of publishing in a higher-tier journal.
There is no reason to take up journal space in a more major publication with negative or minor results. Publishing in the very low-tier non-reviewed publications allows you to get that information out there so that it can be searched for by others working on the same material.
If a reviewer used rhetoric, sarcasm, illogical arguements, innacurate facts, or rejected your manuscript on the basis of typos, you should have complained to the editor. Any editor worth a damn would see the problem, send your paper for another reviewer for review, and stop sending any more submissions to the offending reviewer. That's how the system is ment to work.
Journals having an editor which allow behavior as you describe, and don't correct it soon, have their journals fall out of favor with scientists in the field. The may cancel subscriptions to it, and they submit their own articles elsewhere. It's a good form of moderation which is already built into the system. Replacing it with something like/. would be silly.
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I've never seen the show. Did they do any testing to see what kind of concussive force was transferred to the the gel-'person' by the water when the extremely large caliber guns were fired at them?
For exactly the reasons you already listed. HDTV really isn't here yet in full force. It isn't broadcast everywhere, not everyone has a big TV which takes HDTV input, so why include a reciever for it in all your products?
Posters in other threads have already complained about the extra expense of the AIW over the regular game cards. Now you want to add in the expense of HDTV tuner and they will really start screaming.
Yes, the Catch-22 situation sucks, as it always does, but ATI would be silly to shove an extra expensive tuner into a card that most people wouldn't use or want to pay for. That's why they have the HDTV card now, to let those who want to be early adaptors go ahead and make the move. It makes a nice transition piece into the market.
Oh I agree entirely that there are probably one heck of a lot more than 100 infected machines in Texas. I was just disputing the grandparents idea that 10 mil was a hefty fine for Sony.
I watch TV on my 9600 Radeon AIW every day. I haven't rebooted my machine in almost two months (it doesn't crash). I've never had it delete a show I recorded. Maybe you need to try a different version of the drivers.
NTSC broadcasts are supposedly dying soon, so why don't they offer HDTV-capable cards yet?
Yeah, your right. That's a genius idea. They should offer a card that does HTDV. They could call it a HDTV Wonder card.
The HDTV market is still small. That's probably why they have a card especially for that niche (as of yet) market, rather than add the expense of those components to their more mainstream cards.
All the PCI slots in my machine are full. I love my AIW because it means I don't have to take out one of my other PCI cards if I want a TV tuner in the machine.
Why is that? Can't someone allow free trading of low quality recordings from live shows while restricting it on higher-quality studio work? I don't think it's hypocritical at all. It's his decision on how he wants them destributed. It's your decision on if you buy it or not.
I don't know about that. Haven't you heard how companies are trying to do buzz marketing. Hiring kids to walk around malls with their product and proclaim how cool it is, etc. I bet if in key major markets ( New York, Chicalgo, L.A., etc) they hired some models for a couple months to 'date' once a night (a different client each nigh - a first date only) they might get enough 'buzz' going for it to more than pay for itself.
Really? I guess some AC knows more than the Intel reps that were at last weeks SQL 2005 launch. Every other word out of the reps mouths was about hyper-threading, and they were talking to SQL users.
If you bought the radios out of a guy with a van who was selling them to you for $2 apiece, yes, you would be liable. That's because there would be good reason to suspect something might be up with them if that were the case.
If you bought them from a seemingly reputable store at near-market value and had no other indications that they were 'hot', a court is not going to find you liable because there is no way for you to know that they are hot, and no reason to suspect they were.
As much as I'd love to see Sony get a huge smackdown in the court for this (because they deserve it for putting in software that they had to know was hidden from you and that you couldn't remove) I don't know how you are going to prove that Sony should have had reason to suspect that the software the 3rd party company sold them was 'hot'.
Sorry, but AOL has no backdoor onto my system. I didn't install any software from them on it. Ever. I use Trillian.
They didn't inject any extra software on your computer. They added a couple of lines of 'buddies' to your saved configuration settings they store. So yes, I give them a pass because this change is innocuous. They can't install any new software on my machine this way, they can't hide the software, they can't prevent it from being uninstalled, they can't alter the way my OS and other applications work. This is a non-issue.
A page out of the Sony playbook? A bit of a reach.
Did the AIM bots hide themselves from you? No.
Did they install in a way that they couldn't be uninstalled? No.
Did they affect the way other applications and your OS functions? No.
Sorry. They made a slight addition to only their own piece of software. Made it clearly visable, removable. And they gave the software to you as a free service. Nope, sorry. Not a bit like Sony. Not even close. Calling this something 'from the Sony playbook' lessons the outrageous things Sony did.
AOL is letting me use their servers to connect to others to chat with. I'm using their resource for free, so yeah, I think they get a little more leeway than a spammer. Spammers tend to only use others resources. Spammers don't usually host email servers for the public for free. Totally different situation.
I'm using trillian as well. As soon as I connected to AIM today the bots were added. I deleted them a few seconds later. Try closing trilian and opening it again, they might get added.
Sorry, there are lots of things in this world that folks can be ashamed of that are perfectly legal. Unless the police have real evidence that you've done something wrong, they have no right to invade your privacy and see something that you may personally be ashamed of.
Yeah, I already had a clue and know what the 1,2,8 at the beginning is for. The thing is the last two digets represent relative speed differences very poorly. That was kinda the point about problems with the naming system. Anyone can also look up the specs with the Intel chips. That doesn't mean each company couldn't use a better/clearer naming scheme.
Yeah, I already knew that. But a lot wouldn't. The thing is those last two didgets do very little to tell you how one CPU compares to another in speed. Yeah, the higher number is faster. How much though? The point is it's just nowhere near as easy to tell the relative difference as you can with the Athlon series.
It's not that people are going to start buying a newspaper just for the cartoons. It's that kids now might start reading the comics in the paper that their parent's get every day. As they get older they might start reading some regular articles in the paper (be they dear abby or editorials, or real stories). The kids see getting a newspaper as a normal thing. Something that has stuff in it that they like. Those kids are porbably much more likely to subscribe to a newspaper than they grow up than ones who were exposed to newspapers that didn't have any comics that caught their eye in the first place.
I'm well aware of the different layers. I'm also aware that a lot of times places need to have applications that they didn't write inhouse plug into the database. If the only things you are ever going to have interact with the database are apps you write in-house it's one thing. Not all of us are working in that situation.
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They are used in homes sometimes. I was visiting my folks a few years ago and it startled the crap out of me (pun intended) when I flushed their new low-flow toilet. It was a very loud high-pressure system.
I don't know about your field, but in mine, biology, there are very low-tier journals that are non-peer reviewed. Many of the articles in them are held in fairly low regard due to lack of peer-review, but it's a good venue for publishing bits of information that might be informative for other researchers, but isn't a 'whole story' or doesn't necessarily show positive results. You might consider publishing in such a journal if you think you have done some work which would genuinely be interesting to some others in your field, but which wouldn't make it to the rank of publishing in a higher-tier journal.
There is no reason to take up journal space in a more major publication with negative or minor results. Publishing in the very low-tier non-reviewed publications allows you to get that information out there so that it can be searched for by others working on the same material.
Journals having an editor which allow behavior as you describe, and don't correct it soon, have their journals fall out of favor with scientists in the field. The may cancel subscriptions to it, and they submit their own articles elsewhere. It's a good form of moderation which is already built into the system. Replacing it with something like /. would be silly.
I've never seen the show. Did they do any testing to see what kind of concussive force was transferred to the the gel-'person' by the water when the extremely large caliber guns were fired at them?
For exactly the reasons you already listed. HDTV really isn't here yet in full force. It isn't broadcast everywhere, not everyone has a big TV which takes HDTV input, so why include a reciever for it in all your products?
Posters in other threads have already complained about the extra expense of the AIW over the regular game cards. Now you want to add in the expense of HDTV tuner and they will really start screaming. Yes, the Catch-22 situation sucks, as it always does, but ATI would be silly to shove an extra expensive tuner into a card that most people wouldn't use or want to pay for. That's why they have the HDTV card now, to let those who want to be early adaptors go ahead and make the move. It makes a nice transition piece into the market.
Oh I agree entirely that there are probably one heck of a lot more than 100 infected machines in Texas. I was just disputing the grandparents idea that 10 mil was a hefty fine for Sony.
10 million a hefty tag for Sony music? I don't think so. That's chump change.
I watch TV on my 9600 Radeon AIW every day. I haven't rebooted my machine in almost two months (it doesn't crash). I've never had it delete a show I recorded. Maybe you need to try a different version of the drivers.
Yeah, your right. That's a genius idea. They should offer a card that does HTDV. They could call it a HDTV Wonder card.
The HDTV market is still small. That's probably why they have a card especially for that niche (as of yet) market, rather than add the expense of those components to their more mainstream cards.
All the PCI slots in my machine are full. I love my AIW because it means I don't have to take out one of my other PCI cards if I want a TV tuner in the machine.
Why is that? Can't someone allow free trading of low quality recordings from live shows while restricting it on higher-quality studio work? I don't think it's hypocritical at all. It's his decision on how he wants them destributed. It's your decision on if you buy it or not.
I don't know about that. Haven't you heard how companies are trying to do buzz marketing. Hiring kids to walk around malls with their product and proclaim how cool it is, etc. I bet if in key major markets ( New York, Chicalgo, L.A., etc) they hired some models for a couple months to 'date' once a night (a different client each nigh - a first date only) they might get enough 'buzz' going for it to more than pay for itself.
Really? I guess some AC knows more than the Intel reps that were at last weeks SQL 2005 launch. Every other word out of the reps mouths was about hyper-threading, and they were talking to SQL users.
If you bought the radios out of a guy with a van who was selling them to you for $2 apiece, yes, you would be liable. That's because there would be good reason to suspect something might be up with them if that were the case. If you bought them from a seemingly reputable store at near-market value and had no other indications that they were 'hot', a court is not going to find you liable because there is no way for you to know that they are hot, and no reason to suspect they were. As much as I'd love to see Sony get a huge smackdown in the court for this (because they deserve it for putting in software that they had to know was hidden from you and that you couldn't remove) I don't know how you are going to prove that Sony should have had reason to suspect that the software the 3rd party company sold them was 'hot'.
They didn't inject any extra software on your computer. They added a couple of lines of 'buddies' to your saved configuration settings they store. So yes, I give them a pass because this change is innocuous. They can't install any new software on my machine this way, they can't hide the software, they can't prevent it from being uninstalled, they can't alter the way my OS and other applications work. This is a non-issue.
Did the AIM bots hide themselves from you? No.
Did they install in a way that they couldn't be uninstalled? No.
Did they affect the way other applications and your OS functions? No.
Sorry. They made a slight addition to only their own piece of software. Made it clearly visable, removable. And they gave the software to you as a free service. Nope, sorry. Not a bit like Sony. Not even close. Calling this something 'from the Sony playbook' lessons the outrageous things Sony did.
AOL is letting me use their servers to connect to others to chat with. I'm using their resource for free, so yeah, I think they get a little more leeway than a spammer. Spammers tend to only use others resources. Spammers don't usually host email servers for the public for free. Totally different situation.
I'm using trillian as well. As soon as I connected to AIM today the bots were added. I deleted them a few seconds later. Try closing trilian and opening it again, they might get added.
The OpenBSD folks do it, so I'm guessing it's secure. They are pretty good in that area...
Sorry, there are lots of things in this world that folks can be ashamed of that are perfectly legal. Unless the police have real evidence that you've done something wrong, they have no right to invade your privacy and see something that you may personally be ashamed of.
Yeah, I already had a clue and know what the 1,2,8 at the beginning is for. The thing is the last two digets represent relative speed differences very poorly. That was kinda the point about problems with the naming system. Anyone can also look up the specs with the Intel chips. That doesn't mean each company couldn't use a better/clearer naming scheme.
Yeah, I already knew that. But a lot wouldn't. The thing is those last two didgets do very little to tell you how one CPU compares to another in speed. Yeah, the higher number is faster. How much though? The point is it's just nowhere near as easy to tell the relative difference as you can with the Athlon series.
Umm, that's good and all for the Athlon XP and 64 series, but could you please tell me how an Opteron 148 compares to a 175 or a 240?
It's not that people are going to start buying a newspaper just for the cartoons. It's that kids now might start reading the comics in the paper that their parent's get every day. As they get older they might start reading some regular articles in the paper (be they dear abby or editorials, or real stories). The kids see getting a newspaper as a normal thing. Something that has stuff in it that they like. Those kids are porbably much more likely to subscribe to a newspaper than they grow up than ones who were exposed to newspapers that didn't have any comics that caught their eye in the first place.
I'm well aware of the different layers. I'm also aware that a lot of times places need to have applications that they didn't write inhouse plug into the database. If the only things you are ever going to have interact with the database are apps you write in-house it's one thing. Not all of us are working in that situation.