Of course I've heard of macports. And Homebrew as well, which I found to be better than macports. But install macports/homebrew, hope someone has provided a port for a reasonably recent version of the software you're looking for (or download and compile the source), and hope everything works as expected, particularly where the original software depended on X11, is a fiddly substitute for apt-get install and having it 'just work', especially after the fifth or sixth package which required tweaks and fiddling to make work.
And I agree if you're doing outward-facing 'production' (I presume you're talking about mysql/php/apache) you should do development on a VM which matches your production environment exactly, but that's not what my work involves, so just having a functionally equivalent stack running natively is fine for me. And having that run out of the box is even finer.
I went linux -> mac in about 2004, and mac -> linux in 2009. Basically got sick of the extra hassle required to get stuff that runs out of the box on linux running on mac. eg a mysql/php/apache stack that actually matched all the linux servers I administered; qgis, grass gis, inkscape, scribus,.. And by 2009 linux-on-the-desktop was a lot more 'just works' than it was in 2004. In short, the extra time I spend getting my mint linux setup working as I want from fresh install to doing work is much shorter than the amount of time spent doing the same on osx. But that's just me - my particular software needs are dictated by the kind of academic work I do, and what you do with your computers may make your experience different.
Popehat (a great legal blog - I have no affiliation, just a fan) has a great and hilarious summary of the case including why Prenda's lawyers could be facing jail on March 11:
True; I just mentioned it so people know they need to have all the call participants set up with G+ accounts in advance - you can't just email everyone five minutes before a scheduled call and suggest using hangouts instead of skype. Just as you can't email everyone 5 minutes before a traditional conference call and suggest using skype unless you know everyone has installed it and set up an account.
I just googled (hah!) the ports it uses - your proxy setup may be screwing with it, although apparently it should eventually get to trying port 80:
"The connection methods are attempted in this preferenced order:
A UDP connection from the participant to Google on ports 19305 through 19309 A TCP connection from the participant to Google on ports 19305 through 19309 A TCP connection from the participant to Google on port 80 A TCP connection from the participant to Google on port 443 (SSL)"
Google hangouts offer free video chat for up to 9 people at a time. My experience using it within the US and between the US and Australia is the sound quality is better than with skype too. Downside is everyone on the call has to have a g+ account.
As the other person replying said, one of the things you explicitly agree to when you hit 'submit' on an article to a journal is that the article isn't already "under review" at another journal - ie that it isn't somewhere in the process between initial submission and rejection. Once it's rejected, you're free to submit the same article elsewhere. More broadly, publication of the same article at more than one journal is an absolute no-no in academia - it's regarded as "self plagiarism" and is subject to most of the same punishments as plagiarizing someone else's work, including but not limited to being automatically denied research funding for x years; automatically being denied tenure or promotion; and in cases where it looks like a deliberate attempt to deceive, being fired.
As far as 'free and open', open access journals are only "open" in the sense that anyone can read the published articles without needing a subscription; the relationship of the author to the journal is still based on a contract. On the plus side, most open access journals (although not all) allow the author to retain copyright to the article, and allow authors to distribute the article via their own website etc. Just not via publication in another journal.
"If you don't like the "state" you live under then move"
Have you actually looked at the immigration laws of other countries lately? *You* might want to move, but unless you have skills the other country wants, or a shitload of money, *and* have a spotless criminal record, most of the world (and certainly all of the first world) doesn't allow US citizens to migrate permanently just because they want to.
The detail you're missing is that academic journals have a hierarchy. The top ranked journals in a field get far far more submissions than mid or lower ranked journals. So even though the peer-review process might be identical (to the point where in small fields such as mine I regularly review for both top ranked and mid ranked journals, as do all my colleagues - ie its even the same pool of reviewers), the higher ranked journals will end up publishing the more groundbreaking research, because they cream off the best of their submissions (and once your article gets rejected at the top journal you resubmit it to a lesser journal). As a reader, you use the contents pages of the high ranking journals to work out what's currently considered cutting edge in your field, and the mid-ranking journals to see all the necessary 'filling in the gaps' research. As an author, you want to be published in the top ranking journal because a) it's more likely to be seen and read by colleagues in your field; b) your colleagues pay more attention to your work generally if you're consistently publishing in top ranking journals; and c) tenure/promotions committees give more 'weight' to articles published in higher ranking journals. I've literally seen publication requirements for tenure at some US universities that look like "A minimum of 3 articles published in the following list of top-raked journals or a minimum of 5 articles published in the following list of lesser-ranked journals".
So in short, even though I (like everyone I know) would prefer to publish in open access journals, simply on ethical grounds, most of us still submit a lot of our work (and particularly our best work) to journals which have been around for longer than the open access movement just because they remain at the top of the hierarchy. The good news is this isn't a static situation - journals can and do move up and down the hierarchy, and some of the open access journals (including some of the PLOS journals you mentioned) are rising quite rapidly in the impact rankings. The other major point is a lot of the key journals are actually the property of various societies or academic organizations which simply contract with for-profit publication companies to handle all the messy bits (eg 'Addiction', the leading journal in my field, is the journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, not simply a journal owned by Wiley who publishes it). A lot of these contracts are long term (25 years or more) but as they expire, you might see a lot of key journals becoming open access simply because the sponsoring organization decides to switch to an open access model simply because they now can, and have a philosophic interest in seeing their journal be as accessible as possible.
That's funny, I went through SFO on Saturday and did my usual 'can I get an opt out please' and got the enhanced pat down. Along with a repeat from another person when their new ("we think it's oversensitive") explosives-detector machine decided I was carrying bombs. They were, admittedly, more familiar with the process than some I've seen (one guy in Portland literally burst into a sweat when asking me if there were any parts of my body that were injured or otherwise sensitive to pain - think I might have been his 'first':). But definitely no wave-through.
"..things aren't as rosy as they used to be.... the entire PC industry could move to Asia in the next few years."
So a shitload of people who live in places called "third world" only a generation ago are now making their living doing something better than stoop labor in a paddy field, and this is "not as rosy as [it] used to be"?
Come up with a new and better technology if you don't like being undercut by the up-and-comers.
So, [gender neutral diminutive term], do you want to kill people for a living? Do you not care if you can't tell the difference between when you're *really* killing people, or when you're just doing it in sim? Does the fact you'll sometimes really be killing people make up for only getting paid $25k? Boy, do we have the job for you!
Meanwhile, on the rare occasions Canadians (or whatever other country you're from) actually feel like their country/way of life/etc is under meaningful threat, they'll volunteer to do it. My grandfather and great grandfather did; I would if I felt there was a real need..
Fuck peacetime overspending on the military. The US now spends more on "defense" than the next 17 largest spenders put together (or spends more than every other country on earth put together, depending on how you calculate it). I really don't give a shit if imperial expansion sucks so badly that we can't even get poor people to sign up any more.
For once, the phrase "photos or it didn't happen" seems about right, if only to encourage the Chinese to publish their data sooner rather than later. Excellent achievement though!
"The fact is, the wealth of the world is being redistributed"
The wealth of the world is not being redistributed; this is not a zero-sum game. The wealth of the world is *increasing* as large, formerly underindustrialized countries become industrialized, and the bulk of that *new* wealth is going to those same countries. The US and the rest of the 'west' are not getting poorer so the Chinese can get richer.
Bandaids. For that inevitable minor laceration as you pull a drive out of a badly designed case. Also, document every 'minor' injury to HR - chances are you'll find 90% of them are coming from one type/brand of gear, and you can use the documentation trail to justify switching to something better rather than just putting up with a string of painful minor cuts for years.
You go to the effort of rolling your own on the hardware side then use the end result to run basic productivity software? Wow, haven't done that since cheap off-the-shelf hardware couldn't run photoshop effectively - back in the 90s..
Depending on the country, you may be able to sue the app makers for libel. Many countries have much stronger libel laws than the US, and the app is definitely 'damaging your reputation'. Bonus payout if your occupation is actually dependent on your customers' sense of your probity - eg lawyer..:)
Yeah, it's funny - you can almost guess the age of someone based on their opinion of Sony. Those of us who were buying electronic gadgets in the '80s still have a memory of Sony as making some of the best quality consumer electronics, and being innovative as well. Those who weren't old enough to be buying consumer electronics until the mid 90s and beyond know Sony only as an insane DRM machine.
On a related note, is there a 'Linus gets hit by a bus' plan for ongoing management/development of the kernel in the event of a catastrophe? Hopefully a never-to-be-needed plan, but..
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Of course I've heard of macports. And Homebrew as well, which I found to be better than macports. But install macports/homebrew, hope someone has provided a port for a reasonably recent version of the software you're looking for (or download and compile the source), and hope everything works as expected, particularly where the original software depended on X11, is a fiddly substitute for apt-get install and having it 'just work', especially after the fifth or sixth package which required tweaks and fiddling to make work.
And I agree if you're doing outward-facing 'production' (I presume you're talking about mysql/php/apache) you should do development on a VM which matches your production environment exactly, but that's not what my work involves, so just having a functionally equivalent stack running natively is fine for me. And having that run out of the box is even finer.
That's basically my point - installing all that stuff on linux is super easy, installing it all on a mac is a pain in the proverbial.
I went linux -> mac in about 2004, and mac -> linux in 2009. Basically got sick of the extra hassle required to get stuff that runs out of the box on linux running on mac. eg a mysql/php/apache stack that actually matched all the linux servers I administered; qgis, grass gis, inkscape, scribus,.. And by 2009 linux-on-the-desktop was a lot more 'just works' than it was in 2004. In short, the extra time I spend getting my mint linux setup working as I want from fresh install to doing work is much shorter than the amount of time spent doing the same on osx. But that's just me - my particular software needs are dictated by the kind of academic work I do, and what you do with your computers may make your experience different.
So what's that website if not an ad?
Popehat (a great legal blog - I have no affiliation, just a fan) has a great and hilarious summary of the case including why Prenda's lawyers could be facing jail on March 11:
http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/05/prenda-law-researches-streisand-effect-says-i-gotta-get-me-some-of-that/
and
http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-in-los-angeles/
True; I just mentioned it so people know they need to have all the call participants set up with G+ accounts in advance - you can't just email everyone five minutes before a scheduled call and suggest using hangouts instead of skype. Just as you can't email everyone 5 minutes before a traditional conference call and suggest using skype unless you know everyone has installed it and set up an account.
I just googled (hah!) the ports it uses - your proxy setup may be screwing with it, although apparently it should eventually get to trying port 80:
"The connection methods are attempted in this preferenced order:
A UDP connection from the participant to Google on ports 19305 through 19309
A TCP connection from the participant to Google on ports 19305 through 19309
A TCP connection from the participant to Google on port 80
A TCP connection from the participant to Google on port 443 (SSL)"
Google hangouts offer free video chat for up to 9 people at a time. My experience using it within the US and between the US and Australia is the sound quality is better than with skype too. Downside is everyone on the call has to have a g+ account.
As the other person replying said, one of the things you explicitly agree to when you hit 'submit' on an article to a journal is that the article isn't already "under review" at another journal - ie that it isn't somewhere in the process between initial submission and rejection. Once it's rejected, you're free to submit the same article elsewhere. More broadly, publication of the same article at more than one journal is an absolute no-no in academia - it's regarded as "self plagiarism" and is subject to most of the same punishments as plagiarizing someone else's work, including but not limited to being automatically denied research funding for x years; automatically being denied tenure or promotion; and in cases where it looks like a deliberate attempt to deceive, being fired.
As far as 'free and open', open access journals are only "open" in the sense that anyone can read the published articles without needing a subscription; the relationship of the author to the journal is still based on a contract. On the plus side, most open access journals (although not all) allow the author to retain copyright to the article, and allow authors to distribute the article via their own website etc. Just not via publication in another journal.
"If you don't like the "state" you live under then move"
Have you actually looked at the immigration laws of other countries lately? *You* might want to move, but unless you have skills the other country wants, or a shitload of money, *and* have a spotless criminal record, most of the world (and certainly all of the first world) doesn't allow US citizens to migrate permanently just because they want to.
The detail you're missing is that academic journals have a hierarchy. The top ranked journals in a field get far far more submissions than mid or lower ranked journals. So even though the peer-review process might be identical (to the point where in small fields such as mine I regularly review for both top ranked and mid ranked journals, as do all my colleagues - ie its even the same pool of reviewers), the higher ranked journals will end up publishing the more groundbreaking research, because they cream off the best of their submissions (and once your article gets rejected at the top journal you resubmit it to a lesser journal). As a reader, you use the contents pages of the high ranking journals to work out what's currently considered cutting edge in your field, and the mid-ranking journals to see all the necessary 'filling in the gaps' research. As an author, you want to be published in the top ranking journal because a) it's more likely to be seen and read by colleagues in your field; b) your colleagues pay more attention to your work generally if you're consistently publishing in top ranking journals; and c) tenure/promotions committees give more 'weight' to articles published in higher ranking journals. I've literally seen publication requirements for tenure at some US universities that look like "A minimum of 3 articles published in the following list of top-raked journals or a minimum of 5 articles published in the following list of lesser-ranked journals".
So in short, even though I (like everyone I know) would prefer to publish in open access journals, simply on ethical grounds, most of us still submit a lot of our work (and particularly our best work) to journals which have been around for longer than the open access movement just because they remain at the top of the hierarchy. The good news is this isn't a static situation - journals can and do move up and down the hierarchy, and some of the open access journals (including some of the PLOS journals you mentioned) are rising quite rapidly in the impact rankings. The other major point is a lot of the key journals are actually the property of various societies or academic organizations which simply contract with for-profit publication companies to handle all the messy bits (eg 'Addiction', the leading journal in my field, is the journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, not simply a journal owned by Wiley who publishes it). A lot of these contracts are long term (25 years or more) but as they expire, you might see a lot of key journals becoming open access simply because the sponsoring organization decides to switch to an open access model simply because they now can, and have a philosophic interest in seeing their journal be as accessible as possible.
That's funny, I went through SFO on Saturday and did my usual 'can I get an opt out please' and got the enhanced pat down. Along with a repeat from another person when their new ("we think it's oversensitive") explosives-detector machine decided I was carrying bombs. They were, admittedly, more familiar with the process than some I've seen (one guy in Portland literally burst into a sweat when asking me if there were any parts of my body that were injured or otherwise sensitive to pain - think I might have been his 'first' :). But definitely no wave-through.
"..things aren't as rosy as they used to be. ... the entire PC industry could move to Asia in the next few years."
So a shitload of people who live in places called "third world" only a generation ago are now making their living doing something better than stoop labor in a paddy field, and this is "not as rosy as [it] used to be"?
Come up with a new and better technology if you don't like being undercut by the up-and-comers.
"make recruiting pilots more difficult"?
So, [gender neutral diminutive term], do you want to kill people for a living? Do you not care if you can't tell the difference between when you're *really* killing people, or when you're just doing it in sim? Does the fact you'll sometimes really be killing people make up for only getting paid $25k? Boy, do we have the job for you!
Meanwhile, on the rare occasions Canadians (or whatever other country you're from) actually feel like their country/way of life/etc is under meaningful threat, they'll volunteer to do it. My grandfather and great grandfather did; I would if I felt there was a real need..
Fuck peacetime overspending on the military. The US now spends more on "defense" than the next 17 largest spenders put together (or spends more than every other country on earth put together, depending on how you calculate it). I really don't give a shit if imperial expansion sucks so badly that we can't even get poor people to sign up any more.
Ha! Guilty as charged :)
For once, the phrase "photos or it didn't happen" seems about right, if only to encourage the Chinese to publish their data sooner rather than later. Excellent achievement though!
You can still buy them:
https://shop.maximintegrated.com/storefront/priceavailable.do?Partnumber=DS1990A&event=PartSearch&menuitem=PriceAndAvailability
Gravity. In fact, given the number of injuries and deaths caused by gravity every year, it's long past time we sued it out of existence.
"The fact is, the wealth of the world is being redistributed"
The wealth of the world is not being redistributed; this is not a zero-sum game. The wealth of the world is *increasing* as large, formerly underindustrialized countries become industrialized, and the bulk of that *new* wealth is going to those same countries. The US and the rest of the 'west' are not getting poorer so the Chinese can get richer.
Bandaids. For that inevitable minor laceration as you pull a drive out of a badly designed case. Also, document every 'minor' injury to HR - chances are you'll find 90% of them are coming from one type/brand of gear, and you can use the documentation trail to justify switching to something better rather than just putting up with a string of painful minor cuts for years.
You go to the effort of rolling your own on the hardware side then use the end result to run basic productivity software? Wow, haven't done that since cheap off-the-shelf hardware couldn't run photoshop effectively - back in the 90s..
Depending on the country, you may be able to sue the app makers for libel. Many countries have much stronger libel laws than the US, and the app is definitely 'damaging your reputation'. Bonus payout if your occupation is actually dependent on your customers' sense of your probity - eg lawyer.. :)
Yeah, it's funny - you can almost guess the age of someone based on their opinion of Sony. Those of us who were buying electronic gadgets in the '80s still have a memory of Sony as making some of the best quality consumer electronics, and being innovative as well. Those who weren't old enough to be buying consumer electronics until the mid 90s and beyond know Sony only as an insane DRM machine.
Although keep in mind even the most fuel efficient jetskis barely do 6-7 mpg.
On a related note, is there a 'Linus gets hit by a bus' plan for ongoing management/development of the kernel in the event of a catastrophe? Hopefully a never-to-be-needed plan, but..