Why is it that whenever someone suggests that any technology might be excessive, they are met with such angry retribution?
... because they ask stupid questions like "why is it needed?"?
It's not needed - none of it is needed. The questions are: is it possible? is there a market? is there a reason not to?
It's hypocritical reading this site then not allowing the same enthusiasm that applies to computers, software, television etc. to be expressed about mobile phones just because they're not as popular in America as in Europe and Japan.
We Europeans don't jump on the HDTV stories as soon as there posted and say 'why's that needed?'... even if we do think it;)
Every time there's an article on mobile phones on Slashdot, there's some smug little luddite like yourself posts: why isn't a phone just a phone and a word processor just a typewriter?
Why does it need a hard drive? Because I carry a HDD-based music player and a phone and I'd rather just carry one device that dips the volume on my music when the phone rings, like the mp3 players in phones used to, but with more storage.
Who are you to tell me I shouldn't have that?
Who are you to say a very successful company hasn't done their market research?
Just go back to sleep...
30% income tax including medical (what we Brits would call National Insurance) and then 9% on sales... trust me, you don't know what tax is! (... which is a good job as you seem not to know what it's for, either.)
Your demonstrably-incorrect generalisation, in line with the ridiculous 'Drugs War' propaganda of your country, has surely persuaded us all of your own individualist free-thinking though!
Electronic journals and proceedings are already creating a 'vanity press', as discussed, and this is not being driven by 'author-pays', but (seemingly) by publishers' 'panning for gold' approach (i.e. accept a broad range of fledging publications and see which makes it).
Speaking as a (publically-funded) publishing academic, I think that author-pays is a valid potential model and (in the UK at least), as it will raise the bar for high-quality 'traditional' publications over the existing electronic ones. Furthermore practices like the Research Assessment Exercise will apply pressure to maintain the high quality of these journals (IEEE are not going to throw away their reputation in this current reality and its extension).
You both seem to have ignored the article if you think that distribution costs are the only costs, being discussed, associated with academic publication...
Today I'm announcing the WPU - the Word Processor Unit; optimised for word processing this will be complimentary to your PC's CPU, steering in the next generation in document preparation. Scroll down for a picture of me smiling and a mocked-up circuit board...
Can we distinguish open source support from nationalism? I'm very much in favour of open source in public administration (in fact my colleagues work on a European project of the same name), but also in favour of free trade. (Incidentally we work in Sheffield so don't appreciate the moves you hint at that your government has already made illegally in the steel industry...)
A popular American dictionary allows the variant spelling; a superior British dictionary exposes your ignorance by explaining what a flack is.
In case you don't have a subsscription to the latter (you could do with one):
A blow, slap, or stroke.
Historical use:
1823 MOOR Suffolk Words, Flack, a blow. a1825 FORBY Voc. E. Anglia, Flack, a blow, particularly with something loose and pliant.
Furthermore I agree with the other reply - 'receiving flak' (and the more British 'coming in for [a lot of] flak') is not leetspeak, it's a phrase used often in the British media.
True, but that doesn't change my point either - for example, not only do I take your point about Latin, I read Latin and I'm equally passionate that its literature should be preserved (and angry at my own country for censoring it in the past).
Why only French and German to the exclusion of Italian [...]?
I didn't say 'to the exclusion of others', I just added a further example where I have some personal familiarity with the literature and where Google derives advertising revenue: check Google.de and Google.fr (and, true, there's also country-specific advertising at Google.it)
International language for business, yes, but French literature (and indeed German) is to be treasured and I, for one, agree that this should be acknowledged...
The current system basically entails putting an expert on the stand and asking his/her opinion. I fail to see why this same system doesn't apply to the software.
But it does (sort of) - the article said exactly that the system's 'expertise' in this precise area wasn't recognised. You can't just appoint yourself an expert as a person either - you have to have the approval (usually in academic terms) from the community, and on the specific subject, you claim to speak for...
The Sony Librie isn't vapourware - it's a real product... unfortunately one crippled by DRM and consequently, as far as I know, not due for a European or American release:(
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It's not needed - none of it is needed. The questions are: is it possible? is there a market? is there a reason not to?
It's hypocritical reading this site then not allowing the same enthusiasm that applies to computers, software, television etc. to be expressed about mobile phones just because they're not as popular in America as in Europe and Japan.
We Europeans don't jump on the HDTV stories as soon as there posted and say 'why's that needed?'... even if we do think it ;)
I don't drive a car, I walk to work... listening to my MP3s!
Every time there's an article on mobile phones on Slashdot, there's some smug little luddite like yourself posts: why isn't a phone just a phone and a word processor just a typewriter? Why does it need a hard drive? Because I carry a HDD-based music player and a phone and I'd rather just carry one device that dips the volume on my music when the phone rings, like the mp3 players in phones used to, but with more storage. Who are you to tell me I shouldn't have that? Who are you to say a very successful company hasn't done their market research? Just go back to sleep...
30% income tax including medical (what we Brits would call National Insurance) and then 9% on sales... trust me, you don't know what tax is! (... which is a good job as you seem not to know what it's for, either.)
Your demonstrably-incorrect generalisation, in line with the ridiculous 'Drugs War' propaganda of your country, has surely persuaded us all of your own individualist free-thinking though!
Electronic journals and proceedings are already creating a 'vanity press', as discussed, and this is not being driven by 'author-pays', but (seemingly) by publishers' 'panning for gold' approach (i.e. accept a broad range of fledging publications and see which makes it).
Speaking as a (publically-funded) publishing academic, I think that author-pays is a valid potential model and (in the UK at least), as it will raise the bar for high-quality 'traditional' publications over the existing electronic ones. Furthermore practices like the Research Assessment Exercise will apply pressure to maintain the high quality of these journals (IEEE are not going to throw away their reputation in this current reality and its extension).
You both seem to have ignored the article if you think that distribution costs are the only costs, being discussed, associated with academic publication...
Today I'm announcing the WPU - the Word Processor Unit; optimised for word processing this will be complimentary to your PC's CPU, steering in the next generation in document preparation. Scroll down for a picture of me smiling and a mocked-up circuit board...
Can we distinguish open source support from nationalism? I'm very much in favour of open source in public administration (in fact my colleagues work on a European project of the same name), but also in favour of free trade. (Incidentally we work in Sheffield so don't appreciate the moves you hint at that your government has already made illegally in the steel industry...)
A popular American dictionary allows the variant spelling; a superior British dictionary exposes your ignorance by explaining what a flack is. In case you don't have a subsscription to the latter (you could do with one):
A blow, slap, or stroke.
Historical use:
1823 MOOR Suffolk Words, Flack, a blow. a1825 FORBY Voc. E. Anglia, Flack, a blow, particularly with something loose and pliant.
Furthermore I agree with the other reply - 'receiving flak' (and the more British 'coming in for [a lot of] flak') is not leetspeak, it's a phrase used often in the British media.
Even subscription-based television is subsidised by advertising and fewer actual viewers (eyes on screens) means less money paid for advertising...
Joking aside, because they can view being given credibility that anyone has taken them seriously as a gift.
Fair enough - a land of more reasoned Euroscepticism, in my opinion. (And at least you didn't give yourself a capitalisation either!)
I should give up speaking English, too, if I were you; a good deal of that came from the French. Seems like you've already made a start though...
International language for business, yes, but French literature (and indeed German) is to be treasured and I, for one, agree that this should be acknowledged...
Erm, why? Because their screenshot shows their banner (in its own window) in front of a web browser?...