Nowadays, most journals will expect the author to provide a camera-ready copy. They don't do any editing or typesetting anymore, they just handle peer-review and publication.
It is the field of biology that you are talking about? That's certainly not the case for my own field (linguistics). The editor still molds the submissions into a house style before it goes to the printer; the author isn't expected to do all the typesetting himself. Also, since articles are being written in English by non-native speakers, many journals will send articles on to a native English speaker to make them sound more natural (as a grad student I picked up a lot of work this way) before publication.
The US also have an "exit tax" which you pay if you want to get rid of the US citizenship.
That "exit tax" is simple fee for all of the paperwork that renouncing one's citizenship generates, and many other countries have the same. Drawing comparisons to Nazi treatment of the Jews is ridiculous.
The biologist journal editor Ann Körner distilled her experience into the handbook Guide to Publishing a Scientific Paper, which I read a few months back. To warn against overciting, she notes how many young researchers today are likely to cite the original 1950s Crick and Watson paper, even though DNA is familair enough to treat as a given. Is it? I would have assumed journals would let you err on the side of caution and simply remove your citation if it were unnecessary, but apparently citing too much can block approval.
Sorry, that should have read "40 million times higher-energy". Yes, human experiments really are that puny in comparison to what nature does on its own.
Fearmongering much? Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere produce up to 40 times higher-energy collisions (and on a continual basis) than any experiment that human physicists have ever done. If black holes were a significant risk, our planet would have long since been consumed.
This is a wise policy. If you tax the rich too much, then they won't buy local basketball teams and instead will look elsewhere. Eventually there wouldn't be any professional sports at all in our great and beautiful nation. Instead of sitting down to watch the NBA on their televisions, Americans would instead see only short-statured, low-wage Chinese tossing a ball around instead. Kudos to the government for allowing an entrepreneur like Ballmer to keep his local business going.
At the point where it becomes a government function to weigh in and distribute the wealth (e.g. with over-generous welfare handouts) it becomes a disincentive to work, i.e. if I can get free money from the government, why should I work?
Even in the Nordic countries with their generous welfare states, the great majority of people get up and go to work everyday. Even among the people who don't work and get some kind of public support, many are pursuing a degree, or in fact working some small job under the table. A lot of people would be bored without some routine, and most people want the nice amenities they could buy beyond what a basic income scheme would provide.
In any event, as we move towards increasing automation, at some point we will have to stop thinking it a bad thing when a person chooses not to work, if the only jobs he/she could do would be artificial makework. In the past, retraining redundant workers allowed them to stay productive, but now so much of what people were retrained to do is being automated away. While the new "creative economy" or "internet economy" has offered some new markets, the world only needs so many Perez Hiltons, for example, and it would be unreasonable to expect the masses of unemployed workers around the world to become professional bloggers just for the sake of "not being unemployed".
If I can work for a Swiss software company from the USA, I can also do the same work from any part of the world that has a decent internet connection.
If you are a US citizen, you must file a US federal income tax statement regardless of who you are working for or where. Recent legislation has put a lot of pressure on other countries to report earnings of US expats there. If you were to fall afoul of the local tax authorities (which is not a rare occurrence for expats, especially those who boast a large income as you do), it's quite likely the news will reach the IRS too. Furthermore, to obtain residency in many countries, you must show proof of income, and this always means a pay slip or a bank statement. Bitcoin salary or not, circumstances may force you to hold a bank account nonetheless.
Back in the 1990s, I enjoyed reading Michael Flynn's future history beginning with Firestar. Flynn, an ardent libertarian, thought that as early as the turn of the millennium, private industry would be ready to offer all kinds of spaceflight services that the general public would rush to buy, such as FedEx delivery anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes. Years after Flynn's vision of when things would kick off, we finally are getting private spaceflight, but it seems like the only sure customer that these firms have is NASA. Isn't this less private spaceflight and more simple contracting out to aerospace firms that are friends to those in power just like in the olden days?
The interview is slightly more nuanced than that. Prof. Jordan says that he can take off his academic hat and read musings on a common singularity with ordinary human awe and wonder. It is only in his work as an academic that he doesn't feel Kurzweil's ideas are relevant.
I remain sceptical of the singularity idea myself, though for different reasons. When I read Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, I was disappointed at how in claiming a never-ending increase in the pace of technological advancement, Kurzweil never dealt with the regulatory and consumer factors, and the whole notion of how humans perceive time in general. The wheels of government can only move so fast, and so mankind's access to radical new technology outside the lab (e.g. self-driving cars, new medical tech) must slow down to match the speed of regulatory agencies. Also, consumers can be convinced to buy new shiny things, but there is still a desire to get one's money's worth out of one's purchases, and lots of people still feel their computer or smartphone from three or four years ago is still good enough. Would the market go for replacing one's tech in the shorter and shorter spans that Kurzweil envisions?
So when I read a computer scientist like Jordan admit that he sees no cause for singularity optimism within his work, I can only feel that Kurzweil's dream is a balloon being stuck with a thousand pins. Still, I continue to enjoy thinking about the subject.
You're going to Savinki, Ukraine, where the average income is $405 / month.
I hope you realize that that is more than enough money to have a computer and internet access, and most Ukrainian households have them. I lived in Ukraine around the turn of the millennium when incomes were lower still, and already virtually every young person I knew had a PC. Parents just took the hit and made an investment. (Of course the big expense for Ukrainians was be software, and as they could not afford legitimate software, you could buy pirated software CDs at any small market). Internet access has exploded in the years since not only do to rolling out of broadband all over the country, but also 3G. Many people like Facebook or vKontakte on their mobile phones.
Nowadays I live in Romania where the average monthly income is not much higher than what you cite for Ukraine, and yet people would laugh in your face if you suggested that computers were an unobtainable luxury. I myself only make around US$500/month and yet I enjoy fiber to my door.
The other 99% (aka almost everyone) doesn't have Netflix and they don't have a computer.
Have you ever actually travelled in the developing world? A lot more than 1% of the world has a computer now, and for those who don't cyber cafes are there to serve them nearly anywhere you go. Furthermore, even in the Third World young people with rudimentary smartphones are not an uncommon sight, and as these are often brought on credit, they are increasingly available to people you wouldn't think could own one. The world is changing fast.
Imagine anything you do at your job and imagine doing that between your friends and family or with some commercial cloud provider.
I've been invited to my share of telecommuting projects, and most companies that want you to remotely use their software require that you only be able to sustain a speed of max. 4Mbits/s and quite often much less than that. The OP is right, a need for something greater than 6.5Mbit/s doesn't seem to be in demand even by the corporate world.
True. I'm puzzled that no one has sued the bastard. I doubt there was ever a more blatant case of breach of fiduciary duty.
The installment of Elop was actually demanded by Nokia's major shareholders.
For anyone wanting to know more of the strange twists and turns in this story, and how such a giant could fall so quickly, I'd recommend David Cord's The Decline and Fall of Decline, an exhaustive account which confirms a lot of the gossip that I had heard from Nokia employees and contractors here in Finland.
In a number of European languages, "lumi-" has resonances of "light, brightness". Perhaps the name won over a then-Finnish company for its association with snow (Finnish lumi), another bright, pure thing. You can always find something in a product name to critique, and I don't think that one guy saying "Well, it rhyhmes with gloom" (a word rarely used outside of native-speaker English anyway) would have been much dissuasion.
You consider $230 a considerable amount of money? Do you live in Sub-Saharan Africa or some shit?
I live in Romania, where the headphones I mention cost around half the average monthly salary. There's a wide range between Third World poverty and your presumably US income, and many Eastern Europeans would balk at spending so much for headphones.
"Invest" in this case is a venerable old metaphorical usage (see "to make use of for future benefits or advantages" in Merriam-Webster), meant in this case to express my outlay of a considerable amount of money in the expectation that these particular headphones would provide me with such long listening enjoyment that the initial purchase price would hardly seem excessive.
AKG's I can't speak for, but having used noise cancelling headphones I won't settle for ordinary ones. It doesn't matter how good the speaker in the earpiece is, if its competing with noise from outside, its not a clean sound.
Fair enough, if that's what your listening preferences are. I can only represent my own way, and I listen mainly to a genre of music and with a personal approach that emphasizes contemplative listening, so I generally don't want any activity going on around me as I listen, and noise-cancelling technology is outside the kind of headphone I look for you.
That appears to be Amazon's own text, and not AKG's. I can find no reference to this text on AKG's own site, and doing a search on portions of that Product Description bring up only Amazon or sites that have scraped Amazon.
Both Bose and Beats are fairly ordinary products that have simply learned to dazzle the public with good marketing. An element of fashion is also involved, as Bose used to be marketed in posh fora and Beats has a distinctive look and Dr Dre endorsement. So, I can't feel sorry for either party -- or for Apple whose own acquisition of Beats betrayed their own tradition of fairly decent sound -- in a bitter patent battle. For what it's worth, after evaluating a few Beats 'phones and being immediately disappointed, I invested in a pair of AKG 701s (see my Amazon review) that offer what one immediately recognizes as better sound, and are around the same price (and well below audiophile woo-woo).
I used to like Slackware until they lost their minds requiring a full install for what used to be a minimal system.
I'm a longtime Debian user, but upset at the whole systemd thing, I installed Slackware on a spare computer I had to see how that distro was. During the Slackware install process, I was given the ability to either install everything, or choose which packages I wanted. I did the latter, and installed only a bare minimum of packages. I don't know why you think it's all or nothing.
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It is the field of biology that you are talking about? That's certainly not the case for my own field (linguistics). The editor still molds the submissions into a house style before it goes to the printer; the author isn't expected to do all the typesetting himself. Also, since articles are being written in English by non-native speakers, many journals will send articles on to a native English speaker to make them sound more natural (as a grad student I picked up a lot of work this way) before publication.
That "exit tax" is simple fee for all of the paperwork that renouncing one's citizenship generates, and many other countries have the same. Drawing comparisons to Nazi treatment of the Jews is ridiculous.
The biologist journal editor Ann Körner distilled her experience into the handbook Guide to Publishing a Scientific Paper , which I read a few months back. To warn against overciting, she notes how many young researchers today are likely to cite the original 1950s Crick and Watson paper, even though DNA is familair enough to treat as a given. Is it? I would have assumed journals would let you err on the side of caution and simply remove your citation if it were unnecessary, but apparently citing too much can block approval.
Sorry, that should have read "40 million times higher-energy". Yes, human experiments really are that puny in comparison to what nature does on its own.
Fearmongering much? Cosmic rays hitting the Earth's atmosphere produce up to 40 times higher-energy collisions (and on a continual basis) than any experiment that human physicists have ever done. If black holes were a significant risk, our planet would have long since been consumed.
This is a wise policy. If you tax the rich too much, then they won't buy local basketball teams and instead will look elsewhere. Eventually there wouldn't be any professional sports at all in our great and beautiful nation. Instead of sitting down to watch the NBA on their televisions, Americans would instead see only short-statured, low-wage Chinese tossing a ball around instead. Kudos to the government for allowing an entrepreneur like Ballmer to keep his local business going.
Even in the Nordic countries with their generous welfare states, the great majority of people get up and go to work everyday. Even among the people who don't work and get some kind of public support, many are pursuing a degree, or in fact working some small job under the table. A lot of people would be bored without some routine, and most people want the nice amenities they could buy beyond what a basic income scheme would provide.
In any event, as we move towards increasing automation, at some point we will have to stop thinking it a bad thing when a person chooses not to work, if the only jobs he/she could do would be artificial makework. In the past, retraining redundant workers allowed them to stay productive, but now so much of what people were retrained to do is being automated away. While the new "creative economy" or "internet economy" has offered some new markets, the world only needs so many Perez Hiltons, for example, and it would be unreasonable to expect the masses of unemployed workers around the world to become professional bloggers just for the sake of "not being unemployed".
Even if a space tourism market exists, there is no guarantee it will survive. A Concorde market existed and it went bust nonetheless.
If you are a US citizen, you must file a US federal income tax statement regardless of who you are working for or where. Recent legislation has put a lot of pressure on other countries to report earnings of US expats there. If you were to fall afoul of the local tax authorities (which is not a rare occurrence for expats, especially those who boast a large income as you do), it's quite likely the news will reach the IRS too. Furthermore, to obtain residency in many countries, you must show proof of income, and this always means a pay slip or a bank statement. Bitcoin salary or not, circumstances may force you to hold a bank account nonetheless.
Back in the 1990s, I enjoyed reading Michael Flynn's future history beginning with Firestar . Flynn, an ardent libertarian, thought that as early as the turn of the millennium, private industry would be ready to offer all kinds of spaceflight services that the general public would rush to buy, such as FedEx delivery anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes. Years after Flynn's vision of when things would kick off, we finally are getting private spaceflight, but it seems like the only sure customer that these firms have is NASA. Isn't this less private spaceflight and more simple contracting out to aerospace firms that are friends to those in power just like in the olden days?
"musings on a coming singularity", rather.
The interview is slightly more nuanced than that. Prof. Jordan says that he can take off his academic hat and read musings on a common singularity with ordinary human awe and wonder. It is only in his work as an academic that he doesn't feel Kurzweil's ideas are relevant.
I remain sceptical of the singularity idea myself, though for different reasons. When I read Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near , I was disappointed at how in claiming a never-ending increase in the pace of technological advancement, Kurzweil never dealt with the regulatory and consumer factors, and the whole notion of how humans perceive time in general. The wheels of government can only move so fast, and so mankind's access to radical new technology outside the lab (e.g. self-driving cars, new medical tech) must slow down to match the speed of regulatory agencies. Also, consumers can be convinced to buy new shiny things, but there is still a desire to get one's money's worth out of one's purchases, and lots of people still feel their computer or smartphone from three or four years ago is still good enough. Would the market go for replacing one's tech in the shorter and shorter spans that Kurzweil envisions?
So when I read a computer scientist like Jordan admit that he sees no cause for singularity optimism within his work, I can only feel that Kurzweil's dream is a balloon being stuck with a thousand pins. Still, I continue to enjoy thinking about the subject.
I hope you realize that that is more than enough money to have a computer and internet access, and most Ukrainian households have them. I lived in Ukraine around the turn of the millennium when incomes were lower still, and already virtually every young person I knew had a PC. Parents just took the hit and made an investment. (Of course the big expense for Ukrainians was be software, and as they could not afford legitimate software, you could buy pirated software CDs at any small market). Internet access has exploded in the years since not only do to rolling out of broadband all over the country, but also 3G. Many people like Facebook or vKontakte on their mobile phones.
Nowadays I live in Romania where the average monthly income is not much higher than what you cite for Ukraine, and yet people would laugh in your face if you suggested that computers were an unobtainable luxury. I myself only make around US$500/month and yet I enjoy fiber to my door.
Have you ever actually travelled in the developing world? A lot more than 1% of the world has a computer now, and for those who don't cyber cafes are there to serve them nearly anywhere you go. Furthermore, even in the Third World young people with rudimentary smartphones are not an uncommon sight, and as these are often brought on credit, they are increasingly available to people you wouldn't think could own one. The world is changing fast.
I've been invited to my share of telecommuting projects, and most companies that want you to remotely use their software require that you only be able to sustain a speed of max. 4Mbits/s and quite often much less than that. The OP is right, a need for something greater than 6.5Mbit/s doesn't seem to be in demand even by the corporate world.
The Decline and Fall of Nokia, rather.
The installment of Elop was actually demanded by Nokia's major shareholders.
For anyone wanting to know more of the strange twists and turns in this story, and how such a giant could fall so quickly, I'd recommend David Cord's The Decline and Fall of Decline , an exhaustive account which confirms a lot of the gossip that I had heard from Nokia employees and contractors here in Finland.
In a number of European languages, "lumi-" has resonances of "light, brightness". Perhaps the name won over a then-Finnish company for its association with snow (Finnish lumi), another bright, pure thing. You can always find something in a product name to critique, and I don't think that one guy saying "Well, it rhyhmes with gloom" (a word rarely used outside of native-speaker English anyway) would have been much dissuasion.
I live in Romania, where the headphones I mention cost around half the average monthly salary. There's a wide range between Third World poverty and your presumably US income, and many Eastern Europeans would balk at spending so much for headphones.
"Invest" in this case is a venerable old metaphorical usage (see "to make use of for future benefits or advantages" in Merriam-Webster), meant in this case to express my outlay of a considerable amount of money in the expectation that these particular headphones would provide me with such long listening enjoyment that the initial purchase price would hardly seem excessive.
Sorry, that should have read "and noise-cancelling technology is outside the kind of headphone I look for."
Fair enough, if that's what your listening preferences are. I can only represent my own way, and I listen mainly to a genre of music and with a personal approach that emphasizes contemplative listening, so I generally don't want any activity going on around me as I listen, and noise-cancelling technology is outside the kind of headphone I look for you.
That appears to be Amazon's own text, and not AKG's. I can find no reference to this text on AKG's own site, and doing a search on portions of that Product Description bring up only Amazon or sites that have scraped Amazon.
Both Bose and Beats are fairly ordinary products that have simply learned to dazzle the public with good marketing. An element of fashion is also involved, as Bose used to be marketed in posh fora and Beats has a distinctive look and Dr Dre endorsement. So, I can't feel sorry for either party -- or for Apple whose own acquisition of Beats betrayed their own tradition of fairly decent sound -- in a bitter patent battle. For what it's worth, after evaluating a few Beats 'phones and being immediately disappointed, I invested in a pair of AKG 701s (see my Amazon review) that offer what one immediately recognizes as better sound, and are around the same price (and well below audiophile woo-woo).
I'm a longtime Debian user, but upset at the whole systemd thing, I installed Slackware on a spare computer I had to see how that distro was. During the Slackware install process, I was given the ability to either install everything, or choose which packages I wanted. I did the latter, and installed only a bare minimum of packages. I don't know why you think it's all or nothing.