That's not an apt analogy. The school hasn't forbidden the athletes to defame the school or to refrain from making asses of themselves. The athletes were banned from creating an account on a particular website.
What if your bank made the same offer, but told you not to post on/. even if you never mention your house or anything about your business arrangment?
What about static IP addresses so I can run a server? I looked into FIOS the last time I moved, but Verizon told me that I couldn't get a static IP address (unless I signed up as a business customer for much more money). Comcast supposedly says the same thing, but I know lots of people that do it anyway. Has anyone given it a try?
It's great that they've come up with a new authentication scheme because there old one was horrible. First of all, I wasn't allowed to chose a username, I had to use my SSN. Second, your password could only be 5 or 6 charecters long (my memory's a little fuzzy, but I know I couldn't use a longer one). How many people just used their birthday or pet's name? So, if someone got a hold of your SSN (which isn't hard to do) and took a few educated guesses at your short password, they'd be pretty likely to gain access to your account.
I don't know if this new scheme will work out, but it's 10x better then it has been
I think you're exactly right, as more scholoarly material becomes availible for free these Abstracting and Indexing companies will have to change. Unfortunately, I don't think the current breed of publishers will ever release their content for free, they have no incentive to. But new materials will be published for free and until the copyrights expire, these services will still need to maintain licencing relationships with the proprietary publishers. The question will be how they handle the new Open Access data out there.
Personally I hope that the A&I companies will begin to take over for the proprietary publishers. If universities agree to pay the A&I companies to make their new research avalible, the A&I companies will have enough money to pay for licensing on the old data until the copyrights expire and they should be able to offer their services and data to everyone for free. The researchers will maintain the copyrights to their own works but agree to let the universities publish their data to an A&I service. The researchers will get payed by the universitiy for this right (instead of selling to a publisher, as they do now) and hopfully the financial balance will be relieved on the universities since they no longer need to pay for access to database services. The same money will change hands, but the financial responsability will shift from the publishers to the universities.
It'll be a tricky switch to make, but it's a great way for these "middlemen", who have already developed a robust, targeted, search application to remain useful.
Disclosure: I'm a developer for one of the companies mentioned in the article and I'm really hoping that some day we'll lead the way down this path to open access for everyone.
You won't be likely to find any service that provides an SQL connection because no relational database systems that I know of have robust enough text parsing capabilities to search and index all of that data. However for the technically inclined, many services still offer the ability to search with the query language DIALOGUE. If you take the time to learn their query syntax, you may be more successful....then again that's the whole point of advanced features. If you're happy with the simple interface that Google provides, and your results remain positive, then no need to use the added complexity of a professional system. If you desire more, you can find it by using more professional tools
It's not that the Gale group is a competitor, they're just not the target group for Google Scholar. They're and industry group. Scoopus and WoS are expensive products which are sold to libraries...and guess who makes the purchasing decissions in those places? Librarians!
The librarians (and other experienced researchers, to be fair) expect the advanced searching functionality that these services provide. They're willing to pay for it and hope that their students will use it.
Google Scholar is aimed much lower, it's probably most useful to students who've never taken the time to learn proper searching techniques in a database system. They expect everything to work like google, one search box and you get your answers.
Despite that fact that librarians buy these services so that students will have better resources most students will never learn how to use them.
The article is right, the expensive services have much more advanced features for advanced users, but most users of those systems will never use a Serial Source list or Thesaurus or Author list. They'll never miss it
These image must be very old. In this map the metro station to the north east of my apt is under construction and shows up as a dirt plot, but it's been finished since the early 90's
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The (current) problem with Google Scholoar is that it can't identify the useful citation information about an article. It's great for finding articles in online collections, but because there is still a charge for full text you need some intermidiate organization to sell it to you. Lots of times your local library (esp at universities) already has access, but you'll need a way of telling your library which article you want. That's usually done with citation information such as issn, volume, issue, and page number but Google Scholar isn't able to pull that out of any old random document (at least not yet). If you want that capability now, there are lots of companies that offer it. CSA.com, Ebsco Host, First Search, and many more. Chances are your library already subscribes to these services and many universities will let you get access as long as you're on the school's network (or VPNed in). You search, find the articles you want, and there are usualy a few options for getting the actual text, some are digital full-text, others will link to your library's catalog system. It helps to know which journals have lots of digital full-text (eg. APA PsycArticles database publishes their digital articles with full-text, APA PsycInfo doesn't). It's certainly not perfect, and there is a bit more skill involved in seraching scholarly databases then google's search, but until authors start publishing more of their content digitally and in a uniform format it's really the best option we have
Sign up to be a pollwatcher with truevotemd.org. I think they're still looking for people to help observer polling stations and record any annomolies. It's non-partisan and you aren't there to yell at anyone, simply to observe and record any information that can be used to discredit the machines or maybe even sued Diebold "out the yin-yang" and get some of our tax money back.
The first rule of Zelda Classic is "Don't mention Zelda Classic on Slashdot". The second rule of Zelda Classic is "Don't mention Zelda Classic on Slashdot"....
There is a version of this in the US. The Smithsonian museums have a "Mars Rover" that roams around a specially build terrain. It's computer controlled, although I haven't seen it hooked up to the Internet. It uses standard 802.11b to tell the rover how to move and there's a special java program that runs on a local work station.
You give the rover a destination, and a degree of rotation from it's current location, it then navigates the rocks and even goes around them if they are too big. The whole time it's sending back images to the workstation.
I got to run this thing for 5 hours at my local Space Day at a Smithsonian hanger in Dulles Airport. It was great for the first few times, but I got sick of explaining the thing to kids by the end. There are 3 on tour through the US now.
...can it move a B-bomb all the way from one side of the city to the other? And what is it's opinion of plumbers? This article has certainly left out a lot of facts.
I noticed the link in the article to Yahoo's financial site, but none of my regular sites are showing GOOG yet. I can't add the symbol to the AIM stock ticker, and it can't get it from washingtonpost.com yet either. How long does something like this take?
Why is it that none of these products support mounting a Samba share? I would buy a media reciever in a second if I could just set it up to look at a few folders on my local network. I already have my linux computer set up as a file server for anyone behind my router (Roommate's win98 computer and my Powerbook). If every type of computer on my network can acess my MP3s why can't my DVD player?
I understand that this device uses the server to decode at least some of the video files and stream them as mpeg, but my current DVD player supports VCD, DiVX, MP3 and more when they are burned to a CDR. Almost all new DVD players do, and you can get them for $100 or less. For an extra $100 no one can add an ethernet card and some open source software?
Apple's choice to use iTunes as their server for AirTunes makes sense from a business standpoint. If you have to use iTunes, you'll be more likely to use iTMS, iPods, and Macs. It doesn't seem like Gateway would stand to benifit in the same way...Panasonic and Sony certianly don't. So what's keeping Samba networking devices off of the market?
Ha! Too bad apple's stock price went down $1.20 today, over 3%... and I was expecting a nice little bump from all from the good press that would be coming out. <Sigh/> Maybe tomorrow
Get your hands on a bluetooth enabled cellphone like the Sony Ericsson line and you can use Salling Clicker to change the iTunes album, song, volume, and most other things too. It will pause iTunes when you receive or make a call and can be set up to pause when the bluetooth device is out of proximity (ie when you leave). Comes with plenty of default scripts and is extensible with AppleScript. Seems like the prefect combination of devices
What part of his movie was fictional? I can agree with you that it was certainly partisan and maybe even outright biased, but fictional? If I'm mistaken about this I'd really like to know what facts were missrepresented.
Serious runners aren't always professional runners. Go and check out a local running club and you will find plenty of serious runners who put in 40-60 miles per week but because of genetics aren't good enough to make running their profession. That's a huge difference from the occasional runner who huffs and puffs through a few miles every couple of days. Most of these runners are very serious about their running, and don't go for gimicks (I know lots of purists). I think the grandparent poster was refering to wanna be's that don't take running quite so seriously, and just want to have the latest gear so they look a little more serious.
Yeah, bowels can be a problem for runners. One thing that running will do for you is remove all self conscience issues over time...First of all you get in great shape, so you don't worry about taking off that shirt in public, and you learn to go to the bathroom anywhere. I've had to stop in the middle of a run to take a dump behind some trees, and wiped with a sock(an extra one I brought to act as a glove/tissue in the cold weather). I know runners (mostly women) who will pee in their shorts before taking a break in a race. "The Complete Guide to Running a Marathon" by Bob Glover has a section on physical problems while running. He's run hundreds of marathons and talks about getting "the runs" and even vomitting during races. I know it sounds like a pretty horrible hobby, but those things really are temporary when they happen and don't happen to everyone.
Once you get used to the rythm of running, you learn to hit "the zone" where you can go long periods of time without getting bored or fatigued. It's kind of a zen like state because you focus on your breathing and the rythm of your steps. Unfortunatley it takes lots of practice without using music and usualy doesn't happen until you're already in shape(ie after the new-running-pains go away)
Heart rate is really important to getting a good aerobic workout. I've been running for almost a year now, and a lot of the people I run with use heart rate monitors, so when my mom wanted to get in shape I got her one. It's really helped her to stay motivated because she knows when she's hitting the sweet spot without hurting herself and regretting it later. She recently join a gym call Curves for full figured women and they have their participents use excersize machines for 30 second intervals, then switch, and in the middle of the switch everyone takes their pulse rate and shouts it out. It keeps every one motivated to have a good heart rate, plus the trainers can monitor that everyone is in a healthy range.
PS - one of the coolest geek toys for running is Timex Bodylink. It combines heart rate monitor, gps tracking, and data recorder which all display wirlessly on your wristwatch which keeps track of your miles, split times, and distance. I run with someone who has it. My only compliant is that it sucks for checking your current pace, it'll give you an average, and try to get your current pace, but usually is too far off to be useful, so you can just use the gps to locate your mile marker and time your splits.
I subscribe to Comcast cable in Montgomery County, Maryland...for now. Comcast is run very independatly between diffrent areas. For example, in my area they cannot schedual service more then one day in advance. I called on a Thursday and was unable to get a service appointment on Saturday. Even talking to the manager was no help, he verified that in my area their managment software wouldn't allow them to make any appointments in advance. They also cannot re-send an incorrect bill. They sent out my bill, before the end of the month, and I called to change some of my subscriptions shortly afterwards. When the bill arrived, it was incorrect and a call to Comcast quickly verified that. I requested that they send me another, accurate, bill. A week later I received a print screen of their accounting software which makes no sense to someone un firmiliar with their software. A manager confirmed that bills are only sent by their corporate headquarters and only at a monthly interval, reguardless of circumstances.
I've had many other spats with them over the course of my service, but don't know how long I'll be at my current address so I can't sign a contract with a satalite provider. But my simple answer is "Say No" to Comcast in Montgomery County Maryland. I've been told by friends that these sort of problems don't exist in Prince Georges County, Howard County, or in Arlington, VA. I can't speak for the rest of the country
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That's not an apt analogy. The school hasn't forbidden the athletes to defame the school or to refrain from making asses of themselves. The athletes were banned from creating an account on a particular website.
/. even if you never mention your house or anything about your business arrangment?
What if your bank made the same offer, but told you not to post on
What about static IP addresses so I can run a server? I looked into FIOS the last time I moved, but Verizon told me that I couldn't get a static IP address (unless I signed up as a business customer for much more money). Comcast supposedly says the same thing, but I know lots of people that do it anyway. Has anyone given it a try?
"I am invincible!"
It's great that they've come up with a new authentication scheme because there old one was horrible. First of all, I wasn't allowed to chose a username, I had to use my SSN. Second, your password could only be 5 or 6 charecters long (my memory's a little fuzzy, but I know I couldn't use a longer one). How many people just used their birthday or pet's name? So, if someone got a hold of your SSN (which isn't hard to do) and took a few educated guesses at your short password, they'd be pretty likely to gain access to your account.
I don't know if this new scheme will work out, but it's 10x better then it has been
I think you're exactly right, as more scholoarly material becomes availible for free these Abstracting and Indexing companies will have to change. Unfortunately, I don't think the current breed of publishers will ever release their content for free, they have no incentive to. But new materials will be published for free and until the copyrights expire, these services will still need to maintain licencing relationships with the proprietary publishers. The question will be how they handle the new Open Access data out there.
Personally I hope that the A&I companies will begin to take over for the proprietary publishers. If universities agree to pay the A&I companies to make their new research avalible, the A&I companies will have enough money to pay for licensing on the old data until the copyrights expire and they should be able to offer their services and data to everyone for free. The researchers will maintain the copyrights to their own works but agree to let the universities publish their data to an A&I service. The researchers will get payed by the universitiy for this right (instead of selling to a publisher, as they do now) and hopfully the financial balance will be relieved on the universities since they no longer need to pay for access to database services. The same money will change hands, but the financial responsability will shift from the publishers to the universities.
It'll be a tricky switch to make, but it's a great way for these "middlemen", who have already developed a robust, targeted, search application to remain useful.
Disclosure: I'm a developer for one of the companies mentioned in the article and I'm really hoping that some day we'll lead the way down this path to open access for everyone.
You won't be likely to find any service that provides an SQL connection because no relational database systems that I know of have robust enough text parsing capabilities to search and index all of that data. However for the technically inclined, many services still offer the ability to search with the query language DIALOGUE. If you take the time to learn their query syntax, you may be more successful....then again that's the whole point of advanced features. If you're happy with the simple interface that Google provides, and your results remain positive, then no need to use the added complexity of a professional system. If you desire more, you can find it by using more professional tools
It's not that the Gale group is a competitor, they're just not the target group for Google Scholar. They're and industry group. Scoopus and WoS are expensive products which are sold to libraries...and guess who makes the purchasing decissions in those places? Librarians!
The librarians (and other experienced researchers, to be fair) expect the advanced searching functionality that these services provide. They're willing to pay for it and hope that their students will use it.
Google Scholar is aimed much lower, it's probably most useful to students who've never taken the time to learn proper searching techniques in a database system. They expect everything to work like google, one search box and you get your answers.
Despite that fact that librarians buy these services so that students will have better resources most students will never learn how to use them.
The article is right, the expensive services have much more advanced features for advanced users, but most users of those systems will never use a Serial Source list or Thesaurus or Author list. They'll never miss it
Steve even promised that the new machines would be ready a year from today...on 6/6/06. You can't tell me that's a coincidence
These image must be very old. In this map the metro station to the north east of my apt is under construction and shows up as a dirt plot, but it's been finished since the early 90's
The (current) problem with Google Scholoar is that it can't identify the useful citation information about an article. It's great for finding articles in online collections, but because there is still a charge for full text you need some intermidiate organization to sell it to you. Lots of times your local library (esp at universities) already has access, but you'll need a way of telling your library which article you want. That's usually done with citation information such as issn, volume, issue, and page number but Google Scholar isn't able to pull that out of any old random document (at least not yet). If you want that capability now, there are lots of companies that offer it. CSA.com, Ebsco Host, First Search, and many more. Chances are your library already subscribes to these services and many universities will let you get access as long as you're on the school's network (or VPNed in). You search, find the articles you want, and there are usualy a few options for getting the actual text, some are digital full-text, others will link to your library's catalog system. It helps to know which journals have lots of digital full-text (eg. APA PsycArticles database publishes their digital articles with full-text, APA PsycInfo doesn't). It's certainly not perfect, and there is a bit more skill involved in seraching scholarly databases then google's search, but until authors start publishing more of their content digitally and in a uniform format it's really the best option we have
Sign up to be a pollwatcher with truevotemd.org. I think they're still looking for people to help observer polling stations and record any annomolies. It's non-partisan and you aren't there to yell at anyone, simply to observe and record any information that can be used to discredit the machines or maybe even sued Diebold "out the yin-yang" and get some of our tax money back.
The first rule of Zelda Classic is "Don't mention Zelda Classic on Slashdot". ...
The second rule of Zelda Classic is "Don't mention Zelda Classic on Slashdot".
You give the rover a destination, and a degree of rotation from it's current location, it then navigates the rocks and even goes around them if they are too big. The whole time it's sending back images to the workstation.
I got to run this thing for 5 hours at my local Space Day at a Smithsonian hanger in Dulles Airport. It was great for the first few times, but I got sick of explaining the thing to kids by the end. There are 3 on tour through the US now.
...can it move a B-bomb all the way from one side of the city to the other? And what is it's opinion of plumbers? This article has certainly left out a lot of facts.
That's what my proctologist said, too!
I noticed the link in the article to Yahoo's financial site, but none of my regular sites are showing GOOG yet. I can't add the symbol to the AIM stock ticker, and it can't get it from washingtonpost.com yet either. How long does something like this take?
Why is it that none of these products support mounting a Samba share? I would buy a media reciever in a second if I could just set it up to look at a few folders on my local network. I already have my linux computer set up as a file server for anyone behind my router (Roommate's win98 computer and my Powerbook). If every type of computer on my network can acess my MP3s why can't my DVD player?
I understand that this device uses the server to decode at least some of the video files and stream them as mpeg, but my current DVD player supports VCD, DiVX, MP3 and more when they are burned to a CDR. Almost all new DVD players do, and you can get them for $100 or less. For an extra $100 no one can add an ethernet card and some open source software?
Apple's choice to use iTunes as their server for AirTunes makes sense from a business standpoint. If you have to use iTunes, you'll be more likely to use iTMS, iPods, and Macs. It doesn't seem like Gateway would stand to benifit in the same way...Panasonic and Sony certianly don't. So what's keeping Samba networking devices off of the market?
Ha! Too bad apple's stock price went down $1.20 today, over 3%... and I was expecting a nice little bump from all from the good press that would be coming out. <Sigh/> Maybe tomorrow
Get your hands on a bluetooth enabled cellphone like the Sony Ericsson line and you can use Salling Clicker to change the iTunes album, song, volume, and most other things too. It will pause iTunes when you receive or make a call and can be set up to pause when the bluetooth device is out of proximity (ie when you leave). Comes with plenty of default scripts and is extensible with AppleScript. Seems like the prefect combination of devices
Man, this guy deserves a cookie.
What part of his movie was fictional? I can agree with you that it was certainly partisan and maybe even outright biased, but fictional? If I'm mistaken about this I'd really like to know what facts were missrepresented.
Serious runners aren't always professional runners. Go and check out a local running club and you will find plenty of serious runners who put in 40-60 miles per week but because of genetics aren't good enough to make running their profession. That's a huge difference from the occasional runner who huffs and puffs through a few miles every couple of days. Most of these runners are very serious about their running, and don't go for gimicks (I know lots of purists). I think the grandparent poster was refering to wanna be's that don't take running quite so seriously, and just want to have the latest gear so they look a little more serious.
Yeah, bowels can be a problem for runners. One thing that running will do for you is remove all self conscience issues over time...First of all you get in great shape, so you don't worry about taking off that shirt in public, and you learn to go to the bathroom anywhere. I've had to stop in the middle of a run to take a dump behind some trees, and wiped with a sock(an extra one I brought to act as a glove/tissue in the cold weather). I know runners (mostly women) who will pee in their shorts before taking a break in a race. "The Complete Guide to Running a Marathon" by Bob Glover has a section on physical problems while running. He's run hundreds of marathons and talks about getting "the runs" and even vomitting during races. I know it sounds like a pretty horrible hobby, but those things really are temporary when they happen and don't happen to everyone.
Once you get used to the rythm of running, you learn to hit "the zone" where you can go long periods of time without getting bored or fatigued. It's kind of a zen like state because you focus on your breathing and the rythm of your steps. Unfortunatley it takes lots of practice without using music and usualy doesn't happen until you're already in shape(ie after the new-running-pains go away)
Heart rate is really important to getting a good aerobic workout. I've been running for almost a year now, and a lot of the people I run with use heart rate monitors, so when my mom wanted to get in shape I got her one. It's really helped her to stay motivated because she knows when she's hitting the sweet spot without hurting herself and regretting it later. She recently join a gym call Curves for full figured women and they have their participents use excersize machines for 30 second intervals, then switch, and in the middle of the switch everyone takes their pulse rate and shouts it out. It keeps every one motivated to have a good heart rate, plus the trainers can monitor that everyone is in a healthy range.
PS - one of the coolest geek toys for running is Timex Bodylink. It combines heart rate monitor, gps tracking, and data recorder which all display wirlessly on your wristwatch which keeps track of your miles, split times, and distance. I run with someone who has it. My only compliant is that it sucks for checking your current pace, it'll give you an average, and try to get your current pace, but usually is too far off to be useful, so you can just use the gps to locate your mile marker and time your splits.
I subscribe to Comcast cable in Montgomery County, Maryland...for now. Comcast is run very independatly between diffrent areas. For example, in my area they cannot schedual service more then one day in advance. I called on a Thursday and was unable to get a service appointment on Saturday. Even talking to the manager was no help, he verified that in my area their managment software wouldn't allow them to make any appointments in advance. They also cannot re-send an incorrect bill. They sent out my bill, before the end of the month, and I called to change some of my subscriptions shortly afterwards. When the bill arrived, it was incorrect and a call to Comcast quickly verified that. I requested that they send me another, accurate, bill. A week later I received a print screen of their accounting software which makes no sense to someone un firmiliar with their software. A manager confirmed that bills are only sent by their corporate headquarters and only at a monthly interval, reguardless of circumstances.
I've had many other spats with them over the course of my service, but don't know how long I'll be at my current address so I can't sign a contract with a satalite provider. But my simple answer is "Say No" to Comcast in Montgomery County Maryland. I've been told by friends that these sort of problems don't exist in Prince Georges County, Howard County, or in Arlington, VA. I can't speak for the rest of the country