No, they are the safeguards of OUR privacy. If you live in a degenerate country and your government care more about corporations than taxpayers, then you are screwed (you are welcomed to move to Europe... that is what I did:))
The reason they should not be eating that shit is because if they do, they will die like their grandpa when their heart suddenly malfunctions because blood cannot pass.
Granted, I hate McDonald's food and would not touch it with a 10mt pole. However, I like eating at BurgerKing; when I eat there I take the BBQ burger menu with SALAD instead of chips and a soda (usually coke.. yah I know). If I go with someone else (usually my wife) the other peron will ask for a menu with CHIPS and we share half chips and half salad. (Burger King chips are SOOOO good here in Germany)
That way I can satisfy my chips craving and have a cheap (BBQ burger is a cheap menu option) meal. Sometimes my wife just asks for a small burger (she doesn't drink soda) and it is even better.
I have had chicken salad or chicken wraps at Burger King, and when I *must* (until now just once I went to France... no Burger King there) buy in McDonalds, I get the chicken option.
Ultimately it is the responsibility of the person... nobody would blame WalMart for selling so many beer after someone dies of level malfunction due to drinking too much.
Note that I did not say *you* will pay for your degree. You may as well get funding from a third party.
For the majority of the cases where the research institution/University funds their studies, it is expected that the PhD student solves a "problem" defined by the department/supervisor/etc, that is, the PhD student is *working* for them.
Whereas, if you get your own funding, you have the necessary leverage to decide whether the offered topics are interesting for you.
In my country the science agency provides funding for Science PhD students regardless of the place and subject of study. Of course this might not be readily available in other places.
IF you have got your own funding, researchers are most likely to "pay attention" to you. So it is a good idea to start your first email communication with "Using my own funding resources, I want do my PhD in a field related to your current work."
That is specially true in UK (well, at least it is where I experienced it on first-hand.
It is better if you actually mention one or two of the papers *they* worked on (note: the ones where they where first or second authors; if they are last authors, chances are that they didn't even read the paper).
The professors I know (Agricultural Economics, Computer Science and Social Sciences) are usually looking for good PhD candidates.
In some places, I have seen the process is like this: 1. Wannabe student sends an introductory email to Top-notch faculty professor [TNFP] 2. TNFP quickly glance over email and IF the position includes "self funded" or a variation, it gets more than 10seconds of attention.
3. If TNFP does not have time for another PhD (most likely), he forwards the email to *all* the people in the department (saying something like "this person is interested in doing a PhD in our department, self-funded, in case anyone is interested"
4. *If* anyone is interested he will reply to TNFP and then a reply email will be sent to the wannabe PhD.
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I would mod you up (have mod points) but I see you are already at 5. Unfortunately it seems ISI WoK is not free to access (and papers are mainly non-free.
I would not do that. Lately, most of the most insightful comments I have seen on slashdot come from ACs That's why I prefer to browse around 3 or 4. and hide everything else.
About 10 years ago I used Opera (the adware version even!) because I liked it so much.
But now there are so many firefox extensions that improve my browsing experience so much, that no other browser has achieved.
I use - Treestyle tab (REPLACE tabs with a vertical side tree) - Small menu (put the menu bar in a single "Menu" item. - Stop/Reload button: replace stop and reload button to one single button - Scrapbook: Capture webpages and *graphically* remove some DOM elements (my wife loves this to save recipes!) - Downthemall,Greasemonkey, among others.
In my experience, to achieve a lot of this functionality in Opera (or other browsers) you need to lose a lot of time fiddling with the configuration. In firefox i just download and install a plugin.
Granted, I hate a lot of firefox things (freaking huge resource hog, why do I need to restart Firefox after installing an extension, I don't have to do it with Chrome) but until now, the benefits of using Firefox have outnumbered the drawbacks.
Oh! and I remember the really nice feature of Opera of having the keys Z and X to navigate a page forward and back.
Does anyone know of a Firefox extension allowing you to do that?
Uuuh I did my PhD thesis using PDFLatex and I dont remember having any trouble with tables, equations and figures (I think it is possible to include PNGs directly).
As for the different font types in your Doctorate Thesis, what where you doing, an Art or Design degree?
I also did my PhD thesis (Comp.Sci.) in LaTeX, however I published some articles before in LaTeX too.
Unfortunately now I am working in a projectg with Agricultural Economists, soft-Geologists and other people that use a.DOC file as a "template" for reports... and I am forced to use that abomination.
Of course everytime I have the chance I submit to in LaTeX format, but for the project itself I have to use DOC...
I could not agree more with the AC. I am doing a Postdoc in a very specific subfield of computer scientist and one thing I have learned is that you have to get very very specific in your work in order for it to be "novel".
In addition, as sibling post mentions, a good literature review can be hard. Specially because more than 70% of the papers *related* to GP work will be behind a paywall (eg. Elsevier).
To make things worst, if the original poster submits his paper to a conference, he most likely would have to register to the conference AND go wherever the conference is to present his work. This may be a problem due to funds.
However, if he affiliates with a University, they can solve both of those problems because usually universities have access to a lot of for-pay academic services and sometimes they sponsor research.
My advice? look on the internet for some researcher who works in a similar thing; write him a serious letter/mail mentioning your work (if you send a plain snail letter, I am sure they will take you more seriously, as you even *cared* enough to write them).
Nah, it is just a bunch of American and British whiners the ones who are whining about Vuvuzelas. The rest of the world goes to the games to watch and have fun.
Shit, if you want peace and quietness go to a classical music concert.
BTW just so that you hate me more, did you know that the first vuvuzelas where actually used in Mexico? They appeared around the 70's made in Tepito market (famous counterfeiting market. Shit, they were present in Meixco 86 world cup (as seen by this video.
Haha, I have always thought that American Football is the "pussy" version of Rugby.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Clermont-Ferrand and had the opportunity be there when their team won the France Rugby Championship. As it was on a weekend, I went to the central place to watch the game and the people. Ignoring the fact that people smell, I had a very nice time.
After watching the game I reassured my thoughts about American Football... oh how I would love that the "tough" American Football players had a go against one of these Rugby teams. They will run scared!
And about other places not having Baseball or other sports, GP could not be more wrong. Where I am from, Baseball is also quite famous and American Football is more or less viewed, but nothing like Football to unite all people and have a great time.
BTW, I find really funny how Americans name their events as if they related to all the world (like world series).
What, the people that spent more than they can afford?
IMHO Visa is just the international payment service or "an American global payments technology company" (as defined by Wikipedia).
That your particular bank is screwing people giving them loans they know cannot be paid back is a different thing.
Anyhow, I stopped using Paypal some time ago... not because I was scammed or because I wasn't happy but because PayPal is broken.
I moved from the UK to Germany and the idiots want me to close and open again my account, and the hassle I have to endure to do that is more than I have time to endure. Shit, they ask me to call PayPal... where? in Germany or in the UK? an the last time I called PayPal in Germany I was answered by an Indú sounding girl who didn't have a clue of what she was doing and I could not understand shit of what she was saying.
So, I would gladly accept a real paypal alternative, specially so that I provide my credit card ONCE to this "trusted source" and then just give my money (through them) to other companies... So far, Google Checkout has been the only plausible option.
Er excuse me, but I thought micropayments were something like $0.05 or less?
No, that would be centi-payments. Micro-payments is more along the lines of $0.000005 You also have milli-payments $0.001 and nano-payments $0.000000005 or, if you feel like buying RIAA products you also have mega-payments of $5,000,000.00
Unless I can listen to the entire album in-store, I don't know what I'm buying. Lets say I buy a physical good, a clock radio for example.
Here in Germany, the Saturn shop allows you to open any disk you want and listen to it before you buy it. If you do not like it you can just put it in a special place where they will shrinkwrap it again for someone else.
It is quite convenient and really removes all those "try before buying" excuses from pirates.
You, as a Wii owner can install whatever the heck you want to your Wii. However, you cannot expect such modified Wii to work correctly for the online services (Wii shop channel, etc) provided by Nintendo. You can't also expect that updates published by Nintendo for original Wii console will work hand in hand with your unauthorized software.
That is the reason why people on Wiibrew keep telling you not to update.
Me? I just had to pay 70 Euro to unbrick my Wii (I had an extremely bad brainfart and uninstalled IOS60 hohoho... idiot) but plan to reinstall Homebrew once I get it back hehe.
I agree that current eBook reader resolution is not optimal to display a full page PDF. However there is this neat program called soPDF which makes it very very easy to trim the white spaces around a page (the margins) and also allows you to cut each page in two (vertically) so that you see half page every time.
Even though I do not yet have an eBook reader, I use it to prepare some long pdf for print, I can print 3 pages per page in good size (6 pages per sheet). That's how I print long text like R manuals.
It is also quite useful to prepare PDFs for reading in small screen in general.
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No, they are the safeguards of OUR privacy. If you live in a degenerate country and your government care more about corporations than taxpayers, then you are screwed (you are welcomed to move to Europe... that is what I did :))
I've got an 8GB Class 10 SD card in my EEE PC 1005HA (Windows 7) configured for readyboost and I cannot see any difference in performance.
Your reasoning is wrong.
The reason they should not be eating that shit is because if they do, they will die like their grandpa when their heart suddenly malfunctions because blood cannot pass.
Go show them a heart stroke video from youtube.
Completely agree with parent.
Granted, I hate McDonald's food and would not touch it with a 10mt pole. However, I like eating at BurgerKing; when I eat there I take the BBQ burger menu with SALAD instead of chips and a soda (usually coke.. yah I know). If I go with someone else (usually my wife) the other peron will ask for a menu with CHIPS and we share half chips and half salad. (Burger King chips are SOOOO good here in Germany)
That way I can satisfy my chips craving and have a cheap (BBQ burger is a cheap menu option) meal. Sometimes my wife just asks for a small burger (she doesn't drink soda) and it is even better.
I have had chicken salad or chicken wraps at Burger King, and when I *must* (until now just once I went to France... no Burger King there) buy in McDonalds, I get the chicken option.
Ultimately it is the responsibility of the person... nobody would blame WalMart for selling so many beer after someone dies of level malfunction due to drinking too much.
Well, I won't believe the internet is over until Netcraft confirms it.
Note that I did not say *you* will pay for your degree. You may as well get funding from a third party.
For the majority of the cases where the research institution/University funds their studies, it is expected that the PhD student solves a "problem" defined by the department/supervisor/etc, that is, the PhD student is *working* for them.
Whereas, if you get your own funding, you have the necessary leverage to decide whether the offered topics are interesting for you.
In my country the science agency provides funding for Science PhD students regardless of the place and subject of study. Of course this might not be readily available in other places.
Are you sure you want to do a Phd?
It depends...
IF you have got your own funding, researchers are most likely to "pay attention" to you. So it is a good idea to start your first email communication with "Using my own funding resources, I want do my PhD in a field related to your current work."
That is specially true in UK (well, at least it is where I experienced it on first-hand.
It is better if you actually mention one or two of the papers *they* worked on (note: the ones where they where first or second authors; if they are last authors, chances are that they didn't even read the paper).
The professors I know (Agricultural Economics, Computer Science and Social Sciences) are usually looking for good PhD candidates.
In some places, I have seen the process is like this:
1. Wannabe student sends an introductory email to Top-notch faculty professor [TNFP]
2. TNFP quickly glance over email and IF the position includes "self funded" or a variation, it gets more than 10seconds of attention.
3. If TNFP does not have time for another PhD (most likely), he forwards the email to *all* the people in the department (saying something like "this person is interested in doing a PhD in our department, self-funded, in case anyone is interested"
4. *If* anyone is interested he will reply to TNFP and then a reply email will be sent to the wannabe PhD.
I would mod you up (have mod points) but I see you are already at 5. Unfortunately it seems ISI WoK is not free to access (and papers are mainly non-free.
Instead I would suggest to also look for the Public Library of Science (PLoS one) or Scirus.
If possible, Scopus is a really really *great* resource to find papers. Unfortunately it is also non-free.
I would not do that. Lately, most of the most insightful comments I have seen on slashdot come from ACs That's why I prefer to browse around 3 or 4. and hide everything else.
About 10 years ago I used Opera (the adware version even!) because I liked it so much.
But now there are so many firefox extensions that improve my browsing experience so much, that no other browser has achieved.
I use
- Treestyle tab (REPLACE tabs with a vertical side tree)
- Small menu (put the menu bar in a single "Menu" item.
- Stop/Reload button: replace stop and reload button to one single button
- Scrapbook: Capture webpages and *graphically* remove some DOM elements (my wife loves this to save recipes!)
- Downthemall,Greasemonkey, among others.
In my experience, to achieve a lot of this functionality in Opera (or other browsers) you need to lose a lot of time fiddling with the configuration. In firefox i just download and install a plugin.
Granted, I hate a lot of firefox things (freaking huge resource hog, why do I need to restart Firefox after installing an extension, I don't have to do it with Chrome) but until now, the benefits of using Firefox have outnumbered the drawbacks.
Oh! and I remember the really nice feature of Opera of having the keys Z and X to navigate a page forward and back.
Does anyone know of a Firefox extension allowing you to do that?
and then having to download the whole 36MB of code just to change 1 freaking string...
Parent post gives quite a good and practical idea
It has been said several times that LaTex3 will be included in the next release of Hurd, along with a copoy of Duke Nukem Foverver.
Uuuh I did my PhD thesis using PDFLatex and I dont remember having any trouble with tables, equations and figures (I think it is possible to include PNGs directly).
As for the different font types in your Doctorate Thesis, what where you doing, an Art or Design degree?
I also did my PhD thesis (Comp.Sci.) in LaTeX, however I published some articles before in LaTeX too.
Unfortunately now I am working in a projectg with Agricultural Economists, soft-Geologists and other people that use a .DOC file as a "template" for reports... and I am forced to use that abomination.
Of course everytime I have the chance I submit to in LaTeX format, but for the project itself I have to use DOC...
You may be able to publish for free (i.e. they offer a complete or partial waiver) to publish in PLoS. http://www.plos.org/
We recently published some work there and it was quite fast (about 4 months after submission).
Of course the literature review and other stuff wil still be resource consuming
I could not agree more with the AC. I am doing a Postdoc in a very specific subfield of computer scientist and one thing I have learned is that you have to get very very specific in your work in order for it to be "novel".
In addition, as sibling post mentions, a good literature review can be hard. Specially because more than 70% of the papers *related* to GP work will be behind a paywall (eg. Elsevier).
To make things worst, if the original poster submits his paper to a conference, he most likely would have to register to the conference AND go wherever the conference is to present his work. This may be a problem due to funds.
However, if he affiliates with a University, they can solve both of those problems because usually universities have access to a lot of for-pay academic services and sometimes they sponsor research.
My advice? look on the internet for some researcher who works in a similar thing; write him a serious letter/mail mentioning your work (if you send a plain snail letter, I am sure they will take you more seriously, as you even *cared* enough to write them).
Nah, it is just a bunch of American and British whiners the ones who are whining about Vuvuzelas. The rest of the world goes to the games to watch and have fun.
Shit, if you want peace and quietness go to a classical music concert.
BTW just so that you hate me more, did you know that the first vuvuzelas where actually used in Mexico? They appeared around the 70's made in Tepito market (famous counterfeiting market. Shit, they were present in Meixco 86 world cup (as seen by this video.
Haha, I have always thought that American Football is the "pussy" version of Rugby.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Clermont-Ferrand and had the opportunity be there when their team won the France Rugby Championship. As it was on a weekend, I went to the central place to watch the game and the people. Ignoring the fact that people smell, I had a very nice time.
After watching the game I reassured my thoughts about American Football... oh how I would love that the "tough" American Football players had a go against one of these Rugby teams. They will run scared!
And about other places not having Baseball or other sports, GP could not be more wrong. Where I am from, Baseball is also quite famous and American Football is more or less viewed, but nothing like Football to unite all people and have a great time.
BTW, I find really funny how Americans name their events as if they related to all the world (like world series).
What, the people that spent more than they can afford?
IMHO Visa is just the international payment service or "an American global payments technology company" (as defined by Wikipedia).
That your particular bank is screwing people giving them loans they know cannot be paid back is a different thing.
Anyhow, I stopped using Paypal some time ago... not because I was scammed or because I wasn't happy but because PayPal is broken.
I moved from the UK to Germany and the idiots want me to close and open again my account, and the hassle I have to endure to do that is more than I have time to endure. Shit, they ask me to call PayPal... where? in Germany or in the UK? an the last time I called PayPal in Germany I was answered by an Indú sounding girl who didn't have a clue of what she was doing and I could not understand shit of what she was saying.
So, I would gladly accept a real paypal alternative, specially so that I provide my credit card ONCE to this "trusted source" and then just give my money (through them) to other companies... So far, Google Checkout has been the only plausible option.
Er excuse me, but I thought micropayments were something like $0.05 or less?
No, that would be centi-payments. Micro-payments is more along the lines of $0.000005
You also have milli-payments $0.001 and nano-payments $0.000000005 or, if you feel like buying RIAA products you also have mega-payments of $5,000,000.00
Hookers: You do not pay to have sex with them, you pay so that they go away after you've finished.
Unless I can listen to the entire album in-store, I don't know what I'm buying. Lets say I buy a physical good, a clock radio for example.
Here in Germany, the Saturn shop allows you to open any disk you want and listen to it before you buy it. If you do not like it you can just put it in a special place where they will shrinkwrap it again for someone else.
It is quite convenient and really removes all those "try before buying" excuses from pirates.
You, as a Wii owner can install whatever the heck you want to your Wii. However, you cannot expect such modified Wii to work correctly for the online services (Wii shop channel, etc) provided by Nintendo. You can't also expect that updates published by Nintendo for original Wii console will work hand in hand with your unauthorized software.
That is the reason why people on Wiibrew keep telling you not to update.
Me? I just had to pay 70 Euro to unbrick my Wii (I had an extremely bad brainfart and uninstalled IOS60 hohoho... idiot) but plan to reinstall Homebrew once I get it back hehe.
I agree that current eBook reader resolution is not optimal to display a full page PDF. However there is this neat program called soPDF which makes it very very easy to trim the white spaces around a page (the margins) and also allows you to cut each page in two (vertically) so that you see half page every time.
Even though I do not yet have an eBook reader, I use it to prepare some long pdf for print, I can print 3 pages per page in good size (6 pages per sheet). That's how I print long text like R manuals.
It is also quite useful to prepare PDFs for reading in small screen in general.