I did sign it already. And to be clear, I don't refuse Elsevier, but any journal that is not open access. On the other hand, if Elsevier, say, would start a single open access journal I would review for that even if they didn't open access any other journal in their line-up.
I dislike Elsevier as much as the next person. But to me this is not about punishing anybody, but about how to best allocate my limited time. Open access papers benefit a lot more people than closed papers, simply by being accessible to anybody.
Consequently, my time spent reviewing an open access paper ultimately benefits more people than doing the same work for a paper that is destined to disappear behind a paywall.
Since last year or so, I've declined to review for any journal that isn't open access. I don't review less than before; like many academics I get more requests for this kind of thing than I have time to accept. I simply make a point of accepting review assignments only from open access journals, and I write that as my reason for declining reviews.
If there were any independent phone dealers in Japan, I would. But the only dealers here are the service providers.
And up until recently, everything was completely locked; can't use a different SIM with your phone; can't use a non-company phone with your SIM. Lately it has loosened up a little. You can sometimes get your phone SIM unlocked for a fee (you need to say you're going on an overseas trip), and one type of DoCoMo LTE SMs will work in any phone - but you need a DoCoMo phone to buy that SIM in the first place.
The difference is that now people expect an Android phone to have the Play store, GMail, Maps and so on. With a different system they can supply their own, separate apps and a locked-down store. Then they'll sell it on it all being specially adapted for Japan (with every app properly localized for instance), and being much more secure and easy to use for their users and so on.
I didn't say it is a good idea - and I suspect it will fail - but it's a bit more subtle and a little less ridiculous than your summary implies.
think how well the following expression sounds to you: she felt emasculated by...
Really, it doesn't sound strange to me at all. I'm even a bit surprised; had you asked me without typing out the example I would have said it doesn't work.
I guess perhaps the gender-role divisions just aren't as strong today as they used to be. Most role models and most regular men you see and meet every day aren't particularly masculine in the traditional sense; if anything, brawn, machismo and physical strength seems a bit anachronistic and a bit negative, much like smoking has become.
"and how manufacturers and carriers actually seem eager to use these new operating systems to differentiate their products"
One of those carriers is NTT DoCoMo. They will introduce a Tizen-equipped smartphone here in Japan in the near future. Win for open source, bully for you, champaigne all around, right?
No. The reason they want to use Tizen is because Android is too open and out of their control. They can't lock down their Android phones more than they already do. They'd effectively have to dump the Google Play store and force people to only use their own curated store instead. But that means losing the other Google apps as well, and most of the apps people are expecting to find. That horse has long left the barn.
With Android, NTT can't control what apps people can download and use; can't impose app-specific restrictions or extra bandwidth charges, and they certainly don't get a cut of the money changing hands for apps and services. They see a future where they just supply the communication pipes, and they are terrified of that.
So, Tizen is their solution: An OS where they can completely lock down the phone, provide you with only the apps available in their app store, and take a hafty cut from both developers and users for the privilege of appearing there. A return to a time where you spent most of your time and all of your money in the provider's walled garden, not out on the open net.
Which is why, for all that I love open source, I will never consider buying such a phone and will never recommend one to anybody. This is a play for closing down the mobile net, not opening it up.
Could an Atom CPU really run typical x86 applications fast enough though? Especially those that need fairly hgih performance and can't easily by recompiled for other architectures due to optimizations and inline assembly?
What I'm getting at is, how good is Atom as a desktop OS system?
I don't really get the selling point of Intel on smartphones or, to a lesser degree, tablets.
Current CPU's are already plenty fast in phones. For all the benchmarks out there, any actual difference in use is mostly due to the GPU and to how well the OS is written to give a smooth user experience. Even games are mostly GPU-limited; actual CPU limited mobile apps are few and far between. Power consumption, price and size are really far more important than speed.
Intel brings x86 compatibility. But that's no benefit on mobile, and will often be a slight liability. You will have to hope that the high-performance apps you want to use are all built and offered in an x86 version in your app store. If not, you'll end up with slower performance than ARM, not faster.
And of course, the ARM architecture is offered by multiple makers, in all kinds of configurations of core types and numbers, clock speeds and so on. With Intel you get what one single company decides to offer, and that's it. Not directly relevant to us consumers of course, but it does mean it's more likely the ARM set-up in your phone or tablet is adapted specifically for that hardware, not a more generic one-size-fits-all spec.
So, why, exactly? Take away the x86 compatibility and what's left? At this point I actively avoid mobile hardware with Intel CPU's; I see no point and worry that I'll get bitten by compatibility issues.
I study Japanese so I'll run through a few vocabulary cards (using Mnemosyne, but Anki is reportedly good too) whenever I need a quick mental break. Works nicely as a way to shift focus, even for a minute or less.
I think I didn't make my point clear. At the grad student level, you are basically* a trainee connected to a research project, as much as, or more than a student at a school. The research project is directly or indirectly supporting you. Even the resources you get from the school are already paid for; your typical university takes almost half of any research grant precisely for services, office space and all the rest.
So as you are working for a particular project, it is only reasonable that the project also pays for it. Saying that, say, Germany should pay for German grad students in the US is much the same as saying Germany should pay for German researchers working in the US. Which makes sense only if you really don't want foreign researchers to come to your country - and then it's probably just easier to simply refuse visas to such people.
And the US is not the only place with this problem. Here in Japan there's an ongoing discussion about the same thing. People come here, graduate, then leave for home when they fail to find a job and can't get a longer-term visa to stay and make a go of it.
* It's a bit more complicated than that, and the details differ depending on your subject, place and the graduate degree you pursue, but doesn't matter here.
It's worth pointing out that it goes the other way too. Any doctoral student from the US working/studying at a lab somewhere else will most likely be supported by grants to that lab, not with money from the US.
"In order to be viable in the market, a labor-saving device must, by logical necessity eliminate more work than it creates."
Of course, labour-saving is not the only reason a device may be brought forward. Many examples are about being able to do things previously not possible, regarding accuracy, repeatability and so on.
I do ssh and X forwarding to machines across the country on a daily basis for work. Works just fine, even with fairly graphical applications. Other types of desktop forwarding should work similarly well in practice.
"If Google are in fact doing this, then I can fully understand why Microsoft would be justified to complain."
Why, exactly? You can use Youtube on Woindows phones just fine. They simply don't have an open API for anybody else to write players that interface to it.
Does Twitter have a legal obligation to provide an API for third-party clients? Does Facebook have such an obligation? Does my bank? Does Microsoft have an obligation for its online Word service? Or provide API-level access to Echange servers? Does everybody with a web-facing interface have a legel obligation to provide API-level access for others to use?
And it's not as if Youtube is a monopoly either. My banks online service is as much a monopoly in that case, or Twitter.
It's worth noting that by "landslide" you mean they got 28% of the votes, with support of 17% of eligible voters, and actually received somewhat fewer votes than in their disaster election three years ago. A mandate it is not.
Racing at the very top is supposed to be about the most uncompromising cars possible. As Formula 1 doesn't allow all-electric vehicles it feels like a natural progression to have a separate league for the topmost machines in the world.
I and my wife decided not to as well. In part it was because of economic considerations; we're both in professions with little to no job security and very uncertain future, and we could not responsibly bring up children without sufficient stability. But it was also because neither of us are very fond of children, and we enjoy our life together without that kind of responsibility. Doesn't seem fair to the kid to to have a child that is fundamentally unwanted simply because it is expected of us.
Having children is a choice, and either way you choose is fine. It's your life after all, and your wishes and prioritites differ from other peoples. My brother has two, going on three (aiming for four) and is very happy. We have none, and are very happy. Horses for courses.
A machine like Kei in Kobe does live rerouting and migration of processes in the event of node or network failure. You don't even need to restart the affected job or anything. Once the number of nodes and cores exceed a certain level you really have to assume a small fraction are always offline for whatever reason, so you need to design for that.
"Is your boss tracking you with an RFID chip? Would you like it if he did? "
Yes, actually, in the form of a pass card. How is this different from those cards most people use every day at work? It's not even as if she has to bring it anywhere away from school or anything like that.
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I did sign it already. And to be clear, I don't refuse Elsevier, but any journal that is not open access. On the other hand, if Elsevier, say, would start a single open access journal I would review for that even if they didn't open access any other journal in their line-up.
I dislike Elsevier as much as the next person. But to me this is not about punishing anybody, but about how to best allocate my limited time. Open access papers benefit a lot more people than closed papers, simply by being accessible to anybody.
Consequently, my time spent reviewing an open access paper ultimately benefits more people than doing the same work for a paper that is destined to disappear behind a paywall.
Since last year or so, I've declined to review for any journal that isn't open access. I don't review less than before; like many academics I get more requests for this kind of thing than I have time to accept. I simply make a point of accepting review assignments only from open access journals, and I write that as my reason for declining reviews.
If there were any independent phone dealers in Japan, I would. But the only dealers here are the service providers.
And up until recently, everything was completely locked; can't use a different SIM with your phone; can't use a non-company phone with your SIM. Lately it has loosened up a little. You can sometimes get your phone SIM unlocked for a fee (you need to say you're going on an overseas trip), and one type of DoCoMo LTE SMs will work in any phone - but you need a DoCoMo phone to buy that SIM in the first place.
The phone market here well and truly sucks.
The difference is that now people expect an Android phone to have the Play store, GMail, Maps and so on. With a different system they can supply their own, separate apps and a locked-down store. Then they'll sell it on it all being specially adapted for Japan (with every app properly localized for instance), and being much more secure and easy to use for their users and so on.
I didn't say it is a good idea - and I suspect it will fail - but it's a bit more subtle and a little less ridiculous than your summary implies.
Really, it doesn't sound strange to me at all. I'm even a bit surprised; had you asked me without typing out the example I would have said it doesn't work.
I guess perhaps the gender-role divisions just aren't as strong today as they used to be. Most role models and most regular men you see and meet every day aren't particularly masculine in the traditional sense; if anything, brawn, machismo and physical strength seems a bit anachronistic and a bit negative, much like smoking has become.
There are no unlocked phones for sale in Japan. They're all locked to the provider.
"and how manufacturers and carriers actually seem eager to use these new operating systems to differentiate their products"
One of those carriers is NTT DoCoMo. They will introduce a Tizen-equipped smartphone here in Japan in the near future. Win for open source, bully for you, champaigne all around, right?
No. The reason they want to use Tizen is because Android is too open and out of their control. They can't lock down their Android phones more than they already do. They'd effectively have to dump the Google Play store and force people to only use their own curated store instead. But that means losing the other Google apps as well, and most of the apps people are expecting to find. That horse has long left the barn.
With Android, NTT can't control what apps people can download and use; can't impose app-specific restrictions or extra bandwidth charges, and they certainly don't get a cut of the money changing hands for apps and services. They see a future where they just supply the communication pipes, and they are terrified of that.
So, Tizen is their solution: An OS where they can completely lock down the phone, provide you with only the apps available in their app store, and take a hafty cut from both developers and users for the privilege of appearing there. A return to a time where you spent most of your time and all of your money in the provider's walled garden, not out on the open net.
Which is why, for all that I love open source, I will never consider buying such a phone and will never recommend one to anybody. This is a play for closing down the mobile net, not opening it up.
Could an Atom CPU really run typical x86 applications fast enough though? Especially those that need fairly hgih performance and can't easily by recompiled for other architectures due to optimizations and inline assembly?
What I'm getting at is, how good is Atom as a desktop OS system?
I don't really get the selling point of Intel on smartphones or, to a lesser degree, tablets.
Current CPU's are already plenty fast in phones. For all the benchmarks out there, any actual difference in use is mostly due to the GPU and to how well the OS is written to give a smooth user experience. Even games are mostly GPU-limited; actual CPU limited mobile apps are few and far between. Power consumption, price and size are really far more important than speed.
Intel brings x86 compatibility. But that's no benefit on mobile, and will often be a slight liability. You will have to hope that the high-performance apps you want to use are all built and offered in an x86 version in your app store. If not, you'll end up with slower performance than ARM, not faster.
And of course, the ARM architecture is offered by multiple makers, in all kinds of configurations of core types and numbers, clock speeds and so on. With Intel you get what one single company decides to offer, and that's it. Not directly relevant to us consumers of course, but it does mean it's more likely the ARM set-up in your phone or tablet is adapted specifically for that hardware, not a more generic one-size-fits-all spec.
So, why, exactly? Take away the x86 compatibility and what's left? At this point I actively avoid mobile hardware with Intel CPU's; I see no point and worry that I'll get bitten by compatibility issues.
I study Japanese so I'll run through a few vocabulary cards (using Mnemosyne, but Anki is reportedly good too) whenever I need a quick mental break. Works nicely as a way to shift focus, even for a minute or less.
It jsut gives me a blank screen using Firefox Mobile on Nexus 7.
I think I didn't make my point clear. At the grad student level, you are basically* a trainee connected to a research project, as much as, or more than a student at a school. The research project is directly or indirectly supporting you. Even the resources you get from the school are already paid for; your typical university takes almost half of any research grant precisely for services, office space and all the rest.
So as you are working for a particular project, it is only reasonable that the project also pays for it. Saying that, say, Germany should pay for German grad students in the US is much the same as saying Germany should pay for German researchers working in the US. Which makes sense only if you really don't want foreign researchers to come to your country - and then it's probably just easier to simply refuse visas to such people.
And the US is not the only place with this problem. Here in Japan there's an ongoing discussion about the same thing. People come here, graduate, then leave for home when they fail to find a job and can't get a longer-term visa to stay and make a go of it.
* It's a bit more complicated than that, and the details differ depending on your subject, place and the graduate degree you pursue, but doesn't matter here.
It's worth pointing out that it goes the other way too. Any doctoral student from the US working/studying at a lab somewhere else will most likely be supported by grants to that lab, not with money from the US.
+1. The 787 is technically nice of course, but it's not really exciting the same way that a plane half again as big as the next smaller one.
"In order to be viable in the market, a labor-saving device must, by logical necessity eliminate more work than it creates."
Of course, labour-saving is not the only reason a device may be brought forward. Many examples are about being able to do things previously not possible, regarding accuracy, repeatability and so on.
I do ssh and X forwarding to machines across the country on a daily basis for work. Works just fine, even with fairly graphical applications. Other types of desktop forwarding should work similarly well in practice.
Seems the "more electric" concept isn't really viable until a safer high-density battery technology is available, then.
Perhaps the users all escaped hidden in armoured money transport vans. It worked for Dan Brown.
Why, exactly? You can use Youtube on Woindows phones just fine. They simply don't have an open API for anybody else to write players that interface to it.
Does Twitter have a legal obligation to provide an API for third-party clients? Does Facebook have such an obligation? Does my bank? Does Microsoft have an obligation for its online Word service? Or provide API-level access to Echange servers? Does everybody with a web-facing interface have a legel obligation to provide API-level access for others to use?
And it's not as if Youtube is a monopoly either. My banks online service is as much a monopoly in that case, or Twitter.
It's worth noting that by "landslide" you mean they got 28% of the votes, with support of 17% of eligible voters, and actually received somewhat fewer votes than in their disaster election three years ago. A mandate it is not.
Racing at the very top is supposed to be about the most uncompromising cars possible. As Formula 1 doesn't allow all-electric vehicles it feels like a natural progression to have a separate league for the topmost machines in the world.
I and my wife decided not to as well. In part it was because of economic considerations; we're both in professions with little to no job security and very uncertain future, and we could not responsibly bring up children without sufficient stability. But it was also because neither of us are very fond of children, and we enjoy our life together without that kind of responsibility. Doesn't seem fair to the kid to to have a child that is fundamentally unwanted simply because it is expected of us.
Having children is a choice, and either way you choose is fine. It's your life after all, and your wishes and prioritites differ from other peoples. My brother has two, going on three (aiming for four) and is very happy. We have none, and are very happy. Horses for courses.
A machine like Kei in Kobe does live rerouting and migration of processes in the event of node or network failure. You don't even need to restart the affected job or anything. Once the number of nodes and cores exceed a certain level you really have to assume a small fraction are always offline for whatever reason, so you need to design for that.
"Is your boss tracking you with an RFID chip? Would you like it if he did? "
Yes, actually, in the form of a pass card. How is this different from those cards most people use every day at work? It's not even as if she has to bring it anywhere away from school or anything like that.
Oh that; it's just the liberal-industrial War on Christmas. Nothing to see, please move along.