In the section "Which Machine Is the Client?", they completely mess up the explanation.
Heck, I'd say they completely mess up the question. It makes more sense if you ask, "Which process is the client?" Since most people run the server and clients on the same machine (at least on Unix workstations), their question can only lead to confusion.
Sometimes I don't understand the academic types in their desire to "own" an area of knowledge. Knowledge that is discovered using public moneies cannot be "owned", and nobody has a "right" to publish something before someone-else, just because they were breathing air near their first.
That's like saying, "I don't understand the worker types in their desire to 'be paid' for their work." Scientific results cost money, yes, but they also cost a great deal of someone's time. Planning astronomical observations, for example, takes a great deal of advance planning. There's proposals to submit, targets to select, instrument parameters to specify, perhaps other data to process beforehand. This planning can take a substantial portion of a researcher's time (I speak from experience). Planning a space mission obviously entails an even greater amount of advance planning.
So, in return for all of this hard work, the scientist who planned the observation (or mission, or whatever) normally gets access to the resulting data for a limited time. What's wrong with that? It means he is compensated for his time and effort, and can publish papers. That means he gets to keep his job, and his future proposals will be taken seriously.
Why would you expect anyone to invest years of their career, knowing that anyone else could get all of the recognition for the work? Can you not see the difference between working hard for a long time to plan a mission, and "breathing air?"
This word is very commonly used for hobbyists, sounds a little derogatory. Sounds a little like Immature.
Etymologically, "amateur" refers to someone who does something for the love of it, rather than external rewards. I don't see anything derogatory about that. To me, "hobbyist" sounds more superficial--the difference between a bit of fun, and a passionate interest.
How about saving a trip to the DMV? That should be worth something.
I use a new technology called "mail" to remit my registration fees (my reference to a "postmark" may have provided a hint). Saving this step is, in fact, worth something: $0.37. Since the CA DMV was asking $3 for online payment (as I recall), I wasn't impressed.
Why the hell should I pay to e-file when it's saving the IRS money? They don't have to pay someone to key in my data so they're saving money. They should pay me the savings or at least make e-filing free.
Yeah, I thought the same thing when the California DMV introduced online payment of vehicle registration fees... they charged a couple of bucks extra to do it online. (You can't even explain it as a premium for last-minute registrants, because the registration deadline is a postmark deadline.)
But it's not *flawless* - and by rating something 10/10, you're basically saying that there is *no* room for improvement, and that *nothing* could be done better.
Mine too. I live less than an hour north of Mojave, and I'm not working (starting a new job in a couple of weeks). So, naturally, I thought about going. I could get whatever lithographs they make with my birthday on them, and all that good stuff. I'd finally convinced myself that I could spend $35 on the parking pass... then I find out that I need to pay another $20 to FedEx the thing. That was the only shipping option, even though it absotively, posolutely did not have to get there the next day. Screw that.
The agreement you sign before sending the paper off to the journal, that the journal owns the copyright of your work and specfically takes the electronic distribution rights.
Depends on the journal. The Astrophysical Journal, while owning the copyright, permits republication provided the copyright notice is included.
Let's not get the cart in front of the horse here, and for those non-USA people, that means "Let's get things in the proper order".
Perhaps one day the people in those backwards nations will have "carts" and "horses" for themselves, and the wisdom to understand which goes first, so they can appreciate our American sayings. We can only hope.
That's nice. But I'll wait on the Nikon or Canon DSLR version of the 500 Mpx. CCD. I really like the interchangeable lense -- really, who wants to tied down to one telescope or lense.:P
Well, it probably wouldn't be too hard to put it on the Kitt Peak 4m, which is basically a twin of the CTIO 4m, but that's more a change of subject (the northern sky instead of the southern) than a change of lens.
Kirk has been involved with FreeBSD since forever and knows damn well that FreeBSD isn't documenting where code contributions come from any differently than Linux is.
Well, gee, I guess all those "Submitted by:" notes and PR numbers in the CVS logs are in my imagination.
My sister-in-law is now receiving over 2400 spam a day
Do you have any idea how that happened?
I have email addresses that are about 10 years old, and publicised to hell and back. I have a valid email address here on Slashdot, I post to Usenet with my real address, and Google has hundreds of hits for my addresses. I get about 260 spams/day on average, almost all of which SpamAssassin catches.
I just can't figure out what someone would have to do to get ten times the amount of spam that I do. Any ideas?
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So, in return for all of this hard work, the scientist who planned the observation (or mission, or whatever) normally gets access to the resulting data for a limited time. What's wrong with that? It means he is compensated for his time and effort, and can publish papers. That means he gets to keep his job, and his future proposals will be taken seriously.
Why would you expect anyone to invest years of their career, knowing that anyone else could get all of the recognition for the work? Can you not see the difference between working hard for a long time to plan a mission, and "breathing air?"
That's unpossible!
I have email addresses that are about 10 years old, and publicised to hell and back. I have a valid email address here on Slashdot, I post to Usenet with my real address, and Google has hundreds of hits for my addresses. I get about 260 spams/day on average, almost all of which SpamAssassin catches.
I just can't figure out what someone would have to do to get ten times the amount of spam that I do. Any ideas?