I wonder if there could be the possibility for a mixed-model. Open Access, but still show some support for the researcher? As in a Patreon for Science?
But it'd be the most magnificent OPEN sign, with perfect kerning, beautiful ligatures... Only the most worthy customers would dare enter; those who are not worthy would cover their faces in shame and run away, hoping to one day be worthy to face the sign.
To Google, it IS important. It's important to them because the faster the browser is, the more search queries they will get (check the "Understand users better than they understand themselves" section).
Generalizations aren't fair. I'd like to say that first of all I'm a geek... I'm also a chemical engineer and I recently used to work as a sales rep in a medium-large global company (~1600 people world-wide). This is how things were in Mexico's branch.
From the moment I started there, I spent a lot of time trying to get the IT department to switch from using Excel as a database!
Well, to be fair, they were actually using an ERP: An ancient version of BPCS (black background, green text) running in an AS/400. But, they did monthly exports of the data to Excel sheets. Then, a lot of time was wasted on manually generating sales reports (even though the data, after each sale, was already in the system... but you had to manually fill several spreadsheets).
You also had to be very careful when sending or receiving attachments, since they had a 2MB limit for email attachments, through the VERY-slow VPN. A lot of spreadsheets were 9MB in size -- zipped to a bit less than 2MB...
I remember the odyssey of creating a Contribution Margin percentage per customer chart: I had to sanitize the data though, since I can't tell if a faulty export script or BPCS' fields had been accumulating trailing spaces that were intoxicating Excel's data.
Even though I had a great time working there... I remember suffering a lot because I met a lot of resistance to change or innovation... and the monotony of filling out reports was just excruciating.
If you use Firefox 3, you can start typing and the address bar -- now dubbed 'awesome bar' will show you results from your history that match keywords either from the URL you're typing or from the title of the webpage.
Just hit Ctrl+L instead of Ctrl+K
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I think the spirit of the proposed bill is "Don't make the rest of the US pay for your penny-pinching bad practices". Which I'm totally in favor of.
I wonder if there could be the possibility for a mixed-model. Open Access, but still show some support for the researcher? As in a Patreon for Science?
But it'd be the most magnificent OPEN sign, with perfect kerning, beautiful ligatures... Only the most worthy customers would dare enter; those who are not worthy would cover their faces in shame and run away, hoping to one day be worthy to face the sign.
And in the part about Noah's Ark, it is never mentioned that Noah rounded up two aliens.
Why would the aliens have needed to be inside Noah's Ark to survive? They were else-where, cruising through the Universe...
There is or there isn't a hair in my quantum soup!
Wow, tough crowd here today.
:)
Lots of chicks with moderator points today?
Have you any idea of where you're posting? This is slashdot. There are no chicks.
Because, according to Linux... Linus is bloated too.
To Google, it IS important. It's important to them because the faster the browser is, the more search queries they will get (check the "Understand users better than they understand themselves" section).
And make her go from 'blow' to 'suck'.
to write code and chew bubble gum; and I'm all out of gum...
I loved the Colecovision probably more than I ever loved noodles.
Too much MGS4 for you.
Generalizations aren't fair. I'd like to say that first of all I'm a geek... I'm also a chemical engineer and I recently used to work as a sales rep in a medium-large global company (~1600 people world-wide). This is how things were in Mexico's branch.
From the moment I started there, I spent a lot of time trying to get the IT department to switch from using Excel as a database!
Well, to be fair, they were actually using an ERP: An ancient version of BPCS (black background, green text) running in an AS/400. But, they did monthly exports of the data to Excel sheets. Then, a lot of time was wasted on manually generating sales reports (even though the data, after each sale, was already in the system... but you had to manually fill several spreadsheets).
You also had to be very careful when sending or receiving attachments, since they had a 2MB limit for email attachments, through the VERY-slow VPN. A lot of spreadsheets were 9MB in size -- zipped to a bit less than 2MB...
I remember the odyssey of creating a Contribution Margin percentage per customer chart: I had to sanitize the data though, since I can't tell if a faulty export script or BPCS' fields had been accumulating trailing spaces that were intoxicating Excel's data.
Even though I had a great time working there... I remember suffering a lot because I met a lot of resistance to change or innovation... and the monotony of filling out reports was just excruciating.
That. T-H-A-T. That.
I bet you can't put it in teaspoons per lightyear.
I'm thinking Windows 7 probably is Vista with the filesystem that they didn't have time to ship Vista with.
If you use Firefox 3, you can start typing and the address bar -- now dubbed 'awesome bar' will show you results from your history that match keywords either from the URL you're typing or from the title of the webpage. Just hit Ctrl+L instead of Ctrl+K
But there's no point crying over every mistake.
Actually, I think Big Trucks might outspeed the series of tubes:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000783.html
At some point in their life, they'll be getting wedgies from the expert elementeo players.
You're kidding, right?
This was done some time ago, and some ancient roman conversation was decoded.
The woman should be sued for being a lowsy webmaster. If you don't want some sections to be spidered, you should place it in a robots.txt file.
Pretty soon they'll be cured, all right...
There you go again,
not writing witty haikus.
Insensitive clod!
against photophobics, you insensitive clod!