Most American cities were established based on a local resource: mining, hydro-power, farming, railroad junctions, or a harbor. So many northeast cities declined when the manufacturing tied to those resources moved on. The same thing with the midwest steel towns, and the further midwest railroad towns. Look at some of the boomtowns of the last 30 years. What local resources do most cities in Texas have, or Las Vegas, or Silicon Valley? They basically have nice climates, and the ability to quickly support a new population of people.
The American economy is much less based on manufacturing now, so the jobs can go anywhere. Even a large manufacturer no longer needs 5000 people working in one valley because the river provided the power, the mines provided the ore, and the railroad provided the transportation. They can move that factory to New Mexico because trucks and rail can bring it all in and out. The tech companies can go absolutely anywhere. The only resource they are tied to is the educated workforce, which I agree with the article is a self-manifesting destiny. Success brings more success, and the opposite happens at less fortunate cities.
Why would anonsec be interested in hacking this? It's a scientific mission, not a military one. It may use the same drone platform as the predator drone, but its still for a purely scientific purpose.
The hosting of open-source projects is free, but the company still needs to make money. They use the open-source portion of their business to drum up paid business. They still need to pay for the servers, coders, and network bandwidth that keep the thing going. I wouldn't get angry when a free service doesn't do everything I ask of it.
Gas or electric, cars consume a tremendous amount of energy shuttling one person from place to place compared to mass transit. How about encouraging denser housing, so people don't have to commute so far to work. Or support that whole "walkable community" thing that so many people want to live in.
If someone is publishing 5-10 papers a year, this means someone else is doing the actual work and that person is only authoring the papers. That brings up the topic of authorship. Whose names should go onto a paper, and in what order? The first author is sometimes a person who puts together the manuscript template, gets comments from everyone else, and searches EndNote's pubmed connection for manuscript titles that match the context without actually reading the cited article. (You know what I'm talking about!) What about the person who did the actual analysis, the person who came up with the idea for the analysis, the person who collected the data? Where does the head of the lab's name go? usually at the end, just because his grant paid for the staff, even though he barely looked at the manuscript before submission? What about the rest of the research staff who made it possible for the first author to have anything to write about?
I'm the software engineer in my dept. I write the tools that everyone uses to do the analysis for their papers. The software is so ubiquitous in our department that no one mentions it in their papers unless I specifically ask them to cite my original article. Authorship is always a big thing and hard to sort out. You sometimes have to be forceful to get recognition.
In my lab, we have one guy who writes the majority of the papers. He sits as a right-hand man to the lab director, and is first author on nearly all papers. Is he the smartest one in the lab? Absolutely not. Did he do the work for the papers? Not really; the research assistants collected and cleaned the data, the software person wrote the analysis tools, and the analysts do most of the analysis. And all of them wrote large sections of the paper. Did he come up with the analysis ideas? Nope. His job is basically to summarize everyone else's work and then be the corresponding author. Does he redo the analysis when a revision comes back? Nope. So, this one lucky individual gets authorship on tons of publications because he knows how to work the lab director. Even in academia, it's politics that determines authorship and recognition.
My only concern of not having a dealer is who to take the car to in the event of a recall or other service that can only be performed by a factory-authorized repair shop. Maybe it's possible to have Toyota or Ford certified garages, but dealers have to live up to much better standards than corner garages or else they could lose their dealership status. The difference between a dealer's service shop and a corner garage is significant.
Didn't he kill his neighbor and evade questioning from the Belize police? I don't really care what he has to stand for, the guy seems nuts. Some sort of reliability is important for a president president... or at least apparent competency.
I have the Verizon 1GB/month plan. With these speeds, I should be able to hit the cap within 1/3 of a second. Not sure that "5G" really benefits anyone.
Could be the case. It could also be the case that an engineer thought it up and said it could be implemented and no one would notice, and the management agreed. Either way, it only seems plausible that management and the engineers must have both known about it. Maybe not the CEO. But, we'll probably never find out who really knew what.
Thanks for maintaining LILO all these years. I certainly do remember LILO loading on my first installations of Linux. I tried to install it on an IBM PS/2 and the biggest challenge was their micro channel architecture. I don't think I was successful at all, but I learned quickly what the LIL... meant.
Personally, I'm disappointed in the weather. I like the heat, and I don't like cold and snow. But I live in New England. I've been hoping since I can't relocate my family to warmer climate, that the warm climate would come to me. But it's certainly taking its sweet time getting hot around here! The rest of the globe is getting warm while I'm still freezing in New England. I'm disappointed.
That's similar to how many electric companies in the United States started because they had excess generation from their electric trolley lines and then got into the electric supply and distribution business. Eventually the energy companies survived, but their trolley business faded away.
I work in psychiatry research, analyzing and maintaining the sexy fMRI neuroimaging data. I also write the storage and analysis database that we use. The database usage has been growing exponentially as data sharing projects have started and the NIH has mandated data sharing. In other words, my workload of maintaining this software system has also grown exponentially. What my PIs do not understand is that software is not at all like scientific papers. Once one of their analysts (or post-docs) writes a paper and gets its past reviewers, its done. If there is a major or minor flaw, chances are good that no one will notice or say anything.
It's completely different with software engineering. If there is a tiny bug, people will notice. Having transitioned from analyst to programmer, my work is viewed entirely differently. If the papers published from workplace underwent the same scrutiny that the software does, we would produce much more robust science.
That's actually the maximum salary. Salaries paid to postdocs with NIH funds are capped to prevent wealthy labs from poaching the best postdocs. It's supposed to even out the playing field so money doesn't effect where the best talent goes.
I've heard this story on NPR, which tends to be known for accurate reporting and lack of sensationalism. This was an excellent summary on Slashdot. I hope the editors, or what's left of them, continue to pick stories that are factual and not sensational. The comments on Slashdot resulting from those type of stories are often more readable too.
For the story itself, it's interesting to see the business side of nuclear and the real reasons why plants are built and decommissioned. ie, its not always about environmentalism or NIMBY. Nuclear is a decent way to generate power compared to fossil fuels because the nuclear by-products can be contained more assuredly than greenhouse gases, assuming that all of the environmental factors are taken into account. Those environmental factors however are what make it difficult to accept because its very expensive to ensure everything is contained.
Hopefully the home ISP market won't follow the cyclic model of the cell phone industry. With cell phone data, first you paid by the kB, then they introduced unlimited data plans, then they capped the limits and you paid by the GB, now they're going back to unlimited data plans. I'd prefer the home ISPs to not do that. They've always been unlimited (within reason) so I'd wouldn't like to see some small company changing the model for the industry.
I remember this was called a con job. You con someone into believing you are someone else, just like conmen have been doing for thousands of years. There's nothing really new about it.
I work at a hospital, in a research department. Surprisingly its more efficient to talk to people over the phone than it is through other means. You can only type so fast, and sometimes you need to use a lot words back and forth when you're talking with someone who's in a different field than you.
I'm not talking about help desk stuff... if a scientist needs clarification from an engineer about a technical problem.. the phone is the best method. If you are trying to recruit participants for medical experiments... the phone. If you are talking to someone from a different department about transferring data... the phone. If you are talking to a nurse or surgeon on a medical unit about a patient in a research study... the phone.
As always, just because the engineers think it will people time if they improve technology doesn't mean it actually will. Hospitals have tried replacing phones with other devices, and it just doesn't work. The phone is the simplest device for communication, and it will stay.
One of the biggest challenges engineers face is accepting that the current technology is adequate and that no radical changes are necessary.
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Most American cities were established based on a local resource: mining, hydro-power, farming, railroad junctions, or a harbor. So many northeast cities declined when the manufacturing tied to those resources moved on. The same thing with the midwest steel towns, and the further midwest railroad towns. Look at some of the boomtowns of the last 30 years. What local resources do most cities in Texas have, or Las Vegas, or Silicon Valley? They basically have nice climates, and the ability to quickly support a new population of people.
The American economy is much less based on manufacturing now, so the jobs can go anywhere. Even a large manufacturer no longer needs 5000 people working in one valley because the river provided the power, the mines provided the ore, and the railroad provided the transportation. They can move that factory to New Mexico because trucks and rail can bring it all in and out. The tech companies can go absolutely anywhere. The only resource they are tied to is the educated workforce, which I agree with the article is a self-manifesting destiny. Success brings more success, and the opposite happens at less fortunate cities.
Maybe not too late. They have a chance to get some users back if they go back to their roots as a provider of quality tools for open-source projects.
Ditto bub
Why would anonsec be interested in hacking this? It's a scientific mission, not a military one. It may use the same drone platform as the predator drone, but its still for a purely scientific purpose.
The hosting of open-source projects is free, but the company still needs to make money. They use the open-source portion of their business to drum up paid business. They still need to pay for the servers, coders, and network bandwidth that keep the thing going. I wouldn't get angry when a free service doesn't do everything I ask of it.
References please? I'm interested in this.
Gas or electric, cars consume a tremendous amount of energy shuttling one person from place to place compared to mass transit. How about encouraging denser housing, so people don't have to commute so far to work. Or support that whole "walkable community" thing that so many people want to live in.
If someone is publishing 5-10 papers a year, this means someone else is doing the actual work and that person is only authoring the papers. That brings up the topic of authorship. Whose names should go onto a paper, and in what order? The first author is sometimes a person who puts together the manuscript template, gets comments from everyone else, and searches EndNote's pubmed connection for manuscript titles that match the context without actually reading the cited article. (You know what I'm talking about!) What about the person who did the actual analysis, the person who came up with the idea for the analysis, the person who collected the data? Where does the head of the lab's name go? usually at the end, just because his grant paid for the staff, even though he barely looked at the manuscript before submission? What about the rest of the research staff who made it possible for the first author to have anything to write about?
I'm the software engineer in my dept. I write the tools that everyone uses to do the analysis for their papers. The software is so ubiquitous in our department that no one mentions it in their papers unless I specifically ask them to cite my original article. Authorship is always a big thing and hard to sort out. You sometimes have to be forceful to get recognition.
In my lab, we have one guy who writes the majority of the papers. He sits as a right-hand man to the lab director, and is first author on nearly all papers. Is he the smartest one in the lab? Absolutely not. Did he do the work for the papers? Not really; the research assistants collected and cleaned the data, the software person wrote the analysis tools, and the analysts do most of the analysis. And all of them wrote large sections of the paper. Did he come up with the analysis ideas? Nope. His job is basically to summarize everyone else's work and then be the corresponding author. Does he redo the analysis when a revision comes back? Nope. So, this one lucky individual gets authorship on tons of publications because he knows how to work the lab director. Even in academia, it's politics that determines authorship and recognition.
My only concern of not having a dealer is who to take the car to in the event of a recall or other service that can only be performed by a factory-authorized repair shop. Maybe it's possible to have Toyota or Ford certified garages, but dealers have to live up to much better standards than corner garages or else they could lose their dealership status. The difference between a dealer's service shop and a corner garage is significant.
Didn't he kill his neighbor and evade questioning from the Belize police? I don't really care what he has to stand for, the guy seems nuts. Some sort of reliability is important for a president president... or at least apparent competency.
I have the Verizon 1GB/month plan. With these speeds, I should be able to hit the cap within 1/3 of a second. Not sure that "5G" really benefits anyone.
Could be the case. It could also be the case that an engineer thought it up and said it could be implemented and no one would notice, and the management agreed. Either way, it only seems plausible that management and the engineers must have both known about it. Maybe not the CEO. But, we'll probably never find out who really knew what.
Thanks for maintaining LILO all these years. I certainly do remember LILO loading on my first installations of Linux. I tried to install it on an IBM PS/2 and the biggest challenge was their micro channel architecture. I don't think I was successful at all, but I learned quickly what the LIL... meant.
You've got it. Or in simple terms: eat less and poop more. Following that, you are guaranteed to loose weight.
Personally, I'm disappointed in the weather. I like the heat, and I don't like cold and snow. But I live in New England. I've been hoping since I can't relocate my family to warmer climate, that the warm climate would come to me. But it's certainly taking its sweet time getting hot around here! The rest of the globe is getting warm while I'm still freezing in New England. I'm disappointed.
That's similar to how many electric companies in the United States started because they had excess generation from their electric trolley lines and then got into the electric supply and distribution business. Eventually the energy companies survived, but their trolley business faded away.
I work in psychiatry research, analyzing and maintaining the sexy fMRI neuroimaging data. I also write the storage and analysis database that we use. The database usage has been growing exponentially as data sharing projects have started and the NIH has mandated data sharing. In other words, my workload of maintaining this software system has also grown exponentially. What my PIs do not understand is that software is not at all like scientific papers. Once one of their analysts (or post-docs) writes a paper and gets its past reviewers, its done. If there is a major or minor flaw, chances are good that no one will notice or say anything.
It's completely different with software engineering. If there is a tiny bug, people will notice. Having transitioned from analyst to programmer, my work is viewed entirely differently. If the papers published from workplace underwent the same scrutiny that the software does, we would produce much more robust science.
I spent several minutes reading "What is it?" on docker's website, and I still don't understand what it is. Is it like a JVM?
That's actually the maximum salary. Salaries paid to postdocs with NIH funds are capped to prevent wealthy labs from poaching the best postdocs. It's supposed to even out the playing field so money doesn't effect where the best talent goes.
I've heard this story on NPR, which tends to be known for accurate reporting and lack of sensationalism. This was an excellent summary on Slashdot. I hope the editors, or what's left of them, continue to pick stories that are factual and not sensational. The comments on Slashdot resulting from those type of stories are often more readable too.
For the story itself, it's interesting to see the business side of nuclear and the real reasons why plants are built and decommissioned. ie, its not always about environmentalism or NIMBY. Nuclear is a decent way to generate power compared to fossil fuels because the nuclear by-products can be contained more assuredly than greenhouse gases, assuming that all of the environmental factors are taken into account. Those environmental factors however are what make it difficult to accept because its very expensive to ensure everything is contained.
Hopefully the home ISP market won't follow the cyclic model of the cell phone industry. With cell phone data, first you paid by the kB, then they introduced unlimited data plans, then they capped the limits and you paid by the GB, now they're going back to unlimited data plans. I'd prefer the home ISPs to not do that. They've always been unlimited (within reason) so I'd wouldn't like to see some small company changing the model for the industry.
I remember this was called a con job. You con someone into believing you are someone else, just like conmen have been doing for thousands of years. There's nothing really new about it.
I work at a hospital, in a research department. Surprisingly its more efficient to talk to people over the phone than it is through other means. You can only type so fast, and sometimes you need to use a lot words back and forth when you're talking with someone who's in a different field than you.
I'm not talking about help desk stuff... if a scientist needs clarification from an engineer about a technical problem.. the phone is the best method. If you are trying to recruit participants for medical experiments... the phone. If you are talking to someone from a different department about transferring data... the phone. If you are talking to a nurse or surgeon on a medical unit about a patient in a research study... the phone.
As always, just because the engineers think it will people time if they improve technology doesn't mean it actually will. Hospitals have tried replacing phones with other devices, and it just doesn't work. The phone is the simplest device for communication, and it will stay.
One of the biggest challenges engineers face is accepting that the current technology is adequate and that no radical changes are necessary.
Wow, did you work for the RAND corporation in the 1960's?
I don't think the parent should be considered a troll. He's merely voicing his opinion of the old fart.