I publish journal articles and reviews fairly regularly, and we only rarely include authors who did literally nothing other than be in the lab or consult. It happens occasionally when a young researcher has been working hard on a related project, but still does not have nearly enough data for a whole new paper. There are some cases where a researcher in another lab provides a reagent you can't get anywhere else, but even then they often review the final manuscript and make suggestions. However, I think that in larger labs this may occur much more often. Our lab is small (3 scientists and 2 student researchers). On one recent paper several collaborating scientists at NIST worked extensively on a part of the project that did not pan out, so they are in the author list even though their work does not appear in the paper. But you can't say they didn't do any work. There are always issues like this when deciding on authorship that are unique to each situation.
However, the physics and genetic articles that have thousands of authors are much harder to justify, and absurd to even think that anyone would go through the list. All but the first few authors are lost in any citation list when the paper is cited. No one will ever see the other names. Plus, it really messes with citation software like Reference Manager (newer versions of Endnote seem to handle it well).
The bigger journals now require author contributions to be listed, which is a good thing (and would be very difficult on a paper with 1500 "authors")
it is supposed to be either expand and freeze, or collapse and crunch. Maybe there are many universe centers that expand and contract repeatedly. Each super black hole going through the cycle. If so, I wonder how far apart the Universe centers are?
The UI is truly awful with the random flat, single mono-colored tiles and windows. As mentioned in the article, there really is no benefit to upgrading from Windows 7. If games start to make good use of Direct X 12 there might be a reason to switch, but it really isn't an upgrade in most respects.
If people don't bite the 'free OS" apple, then they don't need to worry. Slow adoption of Windows 10, even though free, will force MS to offer more configuration and privacy options. I see only downsides to changing from Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate currently. Maybe that will change in the future, but considering the new "free OS" business model, MS is going to be trying to get money out of everyone by other means.
I agree. When monitors are 40 or 50 inch, then 4K will make sense for gaming. I just don't see it now. You need a lot of screen real estate to take advantage of that many pixels.
Of course there is the other option that your very large cerebral cortex provides you as a human, you could cooperate with others, and be willing to give each other credit for helping to contribute when the job is done. So, no, being an ahole and screwing everyone over is a choice, not a necessity.
You express the reverence of elites that I find problematic very well, but you appear to embrace it. I don't understand why there is such reverence for elites. Jobs was also notorious as a bully and a litigator. He wanted to sue everyone. He also colluded with other tech bosses to keep salaries down and prevent people from switching from one company to the other. I just don't see any of that helping make him a great inventor. And without any engineers, Jobs would have been able to do virtually nothing by himself.
Agreed. People work in teams, but often, especially in the US, the CEO or other head of a working team gets most or all of the credit. That does not reflect how the project got done, and tends to excessively reward one person, while under-rewarding the others.
Nerds like me eat food too, and I think it is important that abuse of animals is not kept secret. The ag industry should either fix their problems, or be subjected to more regulation and oversight.
I think religion has its fake superheroes as well as the IT industry, and sports. Jobs was not a great inventor, but he did make Apple a very successful company.
People tend to idolize too easily. It seems to be part of why we have such a disparity in incomes in this country. Steve Jobs could not have done anything without the engineers at Apple. Credit needs to be spread around more.
Clearly, the brain works like other tissues in the body where the individual cellular interactions at a smaller scale exhibit emergent properties at the organ scale. The human brain has a complexity that no one person could ever hope to understand, and large teams of scientists struggle to understand small bits of the puzzle. Take a look at these videos of a new technique for looking at the micro-structure of the mouse brain. This is a fascinating technique that required the work of many neuroscientists and computer programmers.
The video linked to at the bottom of the article showed very slight movement when their legs were tethered to keep them suspended. It was very minimal, and would not be usable for any actual movement. But it indicate that some nerve fibers must still have been connected.
They have more work to do but this looks quite impressive considering. The patients had slight movement before the treatment, so there were functioning fiber connections, but the ability was minimal. After treatment, there was much greater control. An excellent start on getting this to work with some patients.
No one said solitaire was going to spy on you. I started this conversation because I don't like the move to an ad-based, MS-store-based business model. I would rather just buy Windows and have it be a solid, reasonably useful operating system. I mentioned the spying as an aside, which by the way, is really irritating nonetheless.
Are you defending the new MS business model? I personally don't like thinking about getting nickel and dimed all the time when I use something. I'd rather pay up front and not have to think about how much this costs or that costs as I use the OS.
Completely agree. This is the new, wretched business model they are all pursuing. I would mind somewhat less if they offered both options, the ad-filled version for free, and the no-ad version for the regular price. This should be something that most people would probably say is acceptable. Forcing everyone to the ad-filled version, which will happen as they phase out 7 and 8, is not very good for customer relations. Obviously they will make an enterprise version that is ad free, so they should also make a version you can buy, and not have the ads or the subscription price for things like solitaire.
I think you missed the point I was making. MS is going to try and use Windows 10 to generate income in ways that don't involve charging for the OS up front. That means ads, tracking etc. I don't use smart phones because I haven't found a use for them that I need yet. But I do use a computer for work every day, and for entertainment. So when they announced Windows 10 was free, I knew that they had something cooking that I would not want to be part of. I expect ads on more things than just Solitaire, and so should you.
I have a feeling that we are going to hear lots more complaints about the "free" version of Windows as people have more experience with it. I also expect that if they get a few million complaints, they might make it so that you can pony up the $130 obligatory dollars per copy to make the "FREE" ad-based Windows into a paid-for, ad free version.
Look, everyone knew that something was up with the "free Windows" deal. Com on. MS never gives anything away unless doing so will make them money some other way. Now they are tracking you and your surfing habits even more than Google (because it's the OS doing the tracking) and they are going to shove ads in your face any way they can. I have a feeling that many people are going to wish they got an ad-free OS by paying up front. My concerns about upgrading grow with every dribble of information.
Windows 7; paid for, ad free, and I can control the updates.
We will see how easy it is to tell if something is alive or sentient when someone actually makes an artificial being. My guess is that it will be very easy to tell if it is a robot as long as you are allowed to fully interact with it, and touch it and move it. I wonder how much effort people are going to be willing to put into making robots act alive when it is just imitation. The Japanese are doing it quite a lot, and the end results are extremely easy to discern from living organisms. I have heard so much talk about it, but I have not seen anything other than robots programmed to crudely imitate people.
I just tried to get it through the University library, but they do not subscribe to that journal. I wish they would just switch to the open access model for all science publications. This old print model of publishing is just dumb in the Internet age.
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Both sound good to me. Let's see if Bernie can continue to gain support around the country.
I publish journal articles and reviews fairly regularly, and we only rarely include authors who did literally nothing other than be in the lab or consult. It happens occasionally when a young researcher has been working hard on a related project, but still does not have nearly enough data for a whole new paper. There are some cases where a researcher in another lab provides a reagent you can't get anywhere else, but even then they often review the final manuscript and make suggestions. However, I think that in larger labs this may occur much more often. Our lab is small (3 scientists and 2 student researchers). On one recent paper several collaborating scientists at NIST worked extensively on a part of the project that did not pan out, so they are in the author list even though their work does not appear in the paper. But you can't say they didn't do any work. There are always issues like this when deciding on authorship that are unique to each situation.
However, the physics and genetic articles that have thousands of authors are much harder to justify, and absurd to even think that anyone would go through the list. All but the first few authors are lost in any citation list when the paper is cited. No one will ever see the other names. Plus, it really messes with citation software like Reference Manager (newer versions of Endnote seem to handle it well).
The bigger journals now require author contributions to be listed, which is a good thing (and would be very difficult on a paper with 1500 "authors")
it is supposed to be either expand and freeze, or collapse and crunch. Maybe there are many universe centers that expand and contract repeatedly. Each super black hole going through the cycle. If so, I wonder how far apart the Universe centers are?
is getting really old
The UI is truly awful with the random flat, single mono-colored tiles and windows. As mentioned in the article, there really is no benefit to upgrading from Windows 7. If games start to make good use of Direct X 12 there might be a reason to switch, but it really isn't an upgrade in most respects.
If people don't bite the 'free OS" apple, then they don't need to worry. Slow adoption of Windows 10, even though free, will force MS to offer more configuration and privacy options. I see only downsides to changing from Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate currently. Maybe that will change in the future, but considering the new "free OS" business model, MS is going to be trying to get money out of everyone by other means.
I agree. When monitors are 40 or 50 inch, then 4K will make sense for gaming. I just don't see it now. You need a lot of screen real estate to take advantage of that many pixels.
Of course there is the other option that your very large cerebral cortex provides you as a human, you could cooperate with others, and be willing to give each other credit for helping to contribute when the job is done. So, no, being an ahole and screwing everyone over is a choice, not a necessity.
You express the reverence of elites that I find problematic very well, but you appear to embrace it. I don't understand why there is such reverence for elites. Jobs was also notorious as a bully and a litigator. He wanted to sue everyone. He also colluded with other tech bosses to keep salaries down and prevent people from switching from one company to the other. I just don't see any of that helping make him a great inventor. And without any engineers, Jobs would have been able to do virtually nothing by himself.
Agreed. People work in teams, but often, especially in the US, the CEO or other head of a working team gets most or all of the credit. That does not reflect how the project got done, and tends to excessively reward one person, while under-rewarding the others.
Nerds like me eat food too, and I think it is important that abuse of animals is not kept secret. The ag industry should either fix their problems, or be subjected to more regulation and oversight.
I think religion has its fake superheroes as well as the IT industry, and sports. Jobs was not a great inventor, but he did make Apple a very successful company.
People tend to idolize too easily. It seems to be part of why we have such a disparity in incomes in this country. Steve Jobs could not have done anything without the engineers at Apple. Credit needs to be spread around more.
Clearly, the brain works like other tissues in the body where the individual cellular interactions at a smaller scale exhibit emergent properties at the organ scale. The human brain has a complexity that no one person could ever hope to understand, and large teams of scientists struggle to understand small bits of the puzzle. Take a look at these videos of a new technique for looking at the micro-structure of the mouse brain. This is a fascinating technique that required the work of many neuroscientists and computer programmers.
http://www.theguardian.com/sci...
The complexity surrounding a single portion of one dendritic shaft is mind boggling. You will love the video, I promise.
you are just adorable. you must have lots of friends
The video linked to at the bottom of the article showed very slight movement when their legs were tethered to keep them suspended. It was very minimal, and would not be usable for any actual movement. But it indicate that some nerve fibers must still have been connected.
They have more work to do but this looks quite impressive considering. The patients had slight movement before the treatment, so there were functioning fiber connections, but the ability was minimal. After treatment, there was much greater control. An excellent start on getting this to work with some patients.
Not doing Windows 10 because I don't want or need the MS app-store, ad-laden, works on your phone OS. No benefit to me over Windows 7 Ultimate.
My feelings exactly. I really hate the whole idea of Windows being an MS app store posing as an OS.
Not going for the "free" deal.
No one said solitaire was going to spy on you. I started this conversation because I don't like the move to an ad-based, MS-store-based business model. I would rather just buy Windows and have it be a solid, reasonably useful operating system. I mentioned the spying as an aside, which by the way, is really irritating nonetheless.
Are you defending the new MS business model? I personally don't like thinking about getting nickel and dimed all the time when I use something. I'd rather pay up front and not have to think about how much this costs or that costs as I use the OS.
True, but I already own Windows, and my stuff is on it.
Completely agree. This is the new, wretched business model they are all pursuing. I would mind somewhat less if they offered both options, the ad-filled version for free, and the no-ad version for the regular price. This should be something that most people would probably say is acceptable. Forcing everyone to the ad-filled version, which will happen as they phase out 7 and 8, is not very good for customer relations. Obviously they will make an enterprise version that is ad free, so they should also make a version you can buy, and not have the ads or the subscription price for things like solitaire.
I think you missed the point I was making. MS is going to try and use Windows 10 to generate income in ways that don't involve charging for the OS up front. That means ads, tracking etc. I don't use smart phones because I haven't found a use for them that I need yet. But I do use a computer for work every day, and for entertainment. So when they announced Windows 10 was free, I knew that they had something cooking that I would not want to be part of. I expect ads on more things than just Solitaire, and so should you.
I have a feeling that we are going to hear lots more complaints about the "free" version of Windows as people have more experience with it. I also expect that if they get a few million complaints, they might make it so that you can pony up the $130 obligatory dollars per copy to make the "FREE" ad-based Windows into a paid-for, ad free version.
Look, everyone knew that something was up with the "free Windows" deal. Com on. MS never gives anything away unless doing so will make them money some other way. Now they are tracking you and your surfing habits even more than Google (because it's the OS doing the tracking) and they are going to shove ads in your face any way they can. I have a feeling that many people are going to wish they got an ad-free OS by paying up front. My concerns about upgrading grow with every dribble of information.
Windows 7; paid for, ad free, and I can control the updates.
We will see how easy it is to tell if something is alive or sentient when someone actually makes an artificial being. My guess is that it will be very easy to tell if it is a robot as long as you are allowed to fully interact with it, and touch it and move it. I wonder how much effort people are going to be willing to put into making robots act alive when it is just imitation. The Japanese are doing it quite a lot, and the end results are extremely easy to discern from living organisms. I have heard so much talk about it, but I have not seen anything other than robots programmed to crudely imitate people.
I just tried to get it through the University library, but they do not subscribe to that journal. I wish they would just switch to the open access model for all science publications. This old print model of publishing is just dumb in the Internet age.