Ok, maybe just the planet,... still a long way to go before planet Mars has to worry,... Or, do we take out Venus instead? Venus is a peaceful planet, which might make for a more effective demonstration to scare those pesky, war-mongering Martians,...;-)
Uh, yeah,.. Panera refers to Panera Bread. They're almost on every street corner here in Pittsburgh (but there's none in Arizona). Good food, and good wi-fi. Haven't tried their coffee, though.
Starbucks is alright,... not great, but certainly decent coffee. But I actually prefer the more localized coffee shops versus the national chains like Starbucks. In Pittsburgh, stop by Caribou Coffee; in Flagstaff, Arizona, go to Late for the Train. Both are superior to Starbucks, with free wi-fi.
While it's certainly true that the Works Word Processor will do 99.9% of what most people ever need to do, it's Microsoft's marketing combined with simple psychology that has gotten people to get Office. Quite simply, if most of their friends and coworkers are using Office, they don't want to be using the "inferior" or "crippled" product. Microsoft knows that everyone in America has to keep up with the Joneses,...
I don't think it's necessarily an "exemption" per say, as much as a license. I think the sports bars pay a certain license to the television networks for public performances (similar to paying the license to ASCAP for music performances). I think the charges are built into their business cable TV rates, or something. But they don't pay a specific license to the NFL explicitly, but they just accept their license paid to the networks for the NFL content. Or something like that,... IANAL.
When was the last time you heard Bill Belichick (or really just about any of the New England players for that matter) thank Jesus Christ for their victories? Never, that's when.
That's because Bill Belichick is God,...:-) Go Patriots!:-)
Well, I'm a scientist and I don't seem to have any burning desire to do any harm to people,... unless, of course, you steal my prized Red Swingline Stapler. Then, I might just have set the building on fire,... [walks away, mumbling more obscenities about Mr. Lumberg],. . .;-)
Using everyday garbage to produce ethanol or not, the fact remains that ethanol will never produce the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity required to power the flux capacitor. Sure, it'll get your car to work and home again, but a nuclear reaction (plutonium fission or MrFusion) will still be required to get you to work on time if you fall 20 minutes behind,...;-)
This isn't really anything new at all. College professors have been putting PDF copies of their publications on their websites for several years now. While they technically own the copyright to their own work, so it's "legal" from that perspective, they "technically" sign the distribution rights away to whatever journal they publish in, so they really can't legally put copies on their own websites. Although they could legally link to the copy on the publisher's website, which would either require payment, or access via college/library IP address.
The fact remains, however, that 95% of all professors don't give a rat's ass about protecting the so-called "rights" of the publishers. Not only do half of them post PDFs of their own work on their websites, but if somebody from a school in China or Africa emails them asking for a copy of a paper they've published, they'll generally honor that request and send it to them, which is really not much different than their student counterparts sharing their MP3 music with total strangers on the internet. The only difference is that the students are sending someone else's work to someone else (though not claiming it as their own), while the professors are generally sending someone else their own work, only violating the distribution agreement they've signed with the publishers, so it's only "minor piracy", or actually probably falls under "fair use" for educational purposes (same as distributing something to your classes for schoolwork). The other similarity here is that I think 95% of both professors and students understand real copyright law about the same (in other words, they don't know what they're talking about). Another reason that copyright law needs a major reboot in the immediate future.
Even better; tell the RIAA that the Church of Scientology is a massive front for copying CD's. Simultaneously, tell the scientologists that the RIAA are planning to clone Xenu from some evil thetans that were surgically extracted from Britney.
Where can I buy tickets to that event? I want front row seats!
Plus he decimated a country in the middle east, and destroyed major parts of the constitution as well.
Decimated a country in the middle east?! Heck! He practically decimated his own country's economy! That's it! I now declare that telecommuters are destroying America! This practice must end, NOW!:-)
I don't see a problem with federal workers telecommuting,... especially considering that the big boss technically "telecommutes". Of course, if my employer would give me a house, I'd probably work from home, too,... Then again, on the negative side, he's arguably one of the least productive federal workers, so he's probably screwing up the whole telecommuting thing for everyone else!
Comca$t disappointed the analysts, but cable is still bulletproof, and with the cost of everything else doubling every year, why shouldn't they raise rates?
Shhhh! Don't give those bastards any ideas! Although it probably doesn't matter anyway... it's not like those idiots don't raise their rates several times per year anyways,...
My education seems to have spanned this transition from the old, paper-based format to the newer, digital-based format; graduated high school in 1991, B.S. in 1995, Ph.D. in 2003. So I've been able to see how things worked before compared to now. Let's just say, the old says sucked. I can remember learning the Dewey Decimal System in grade school, and the card catalog, and it just wasn't as productive as when I got to college and started searching for everything in the library on the automated terminals. And I still can't figure out why they taught us the Dewey system, when most university libraries use the Library of Congress system, which is several orders of magnitude better. By the time PubMed and Google Scholar came out, finding things just got so much easier! Who could think about going back to use the card catalog these days?
Digitization of actual content came later. When I started graduate school in 1998, I can still remember going to the old, crusty "bowels" of the health sciences library and looking up academic journals by hand -- it was really a royal PITA because the amount of journal articles you'd have to look up was quite astronomical, and you'd have to take several trips between your table/desk in the library and the shelf, to work on a given problem. But we found the information we needed.
By the time I graduated however, it got much better! The ACS put their entire archives since the 1800s online, and several other publishers got into that game as well. So now, you could search online and find the info you needed as well. The problem (that still remains, unfortunately), is that publishers are still clinging to their old, archaic copyright policies, and if your institution doesn't have access, you get a page asking you to pay. And the fees, for single articles, are astronomically effing ridiculous -- $50 or so for a single article!!!! Who in the h*ll is going to pay for that?!?! I understand that publishers do need to make a certain amount of money, within reason. Although I don't buy their justification of publishing costs -- these days, the typesetting is all done in desktop word processing, by the authors! And authors are asked more and more to do actual editorial tasks. Peer review doesn't even cost as much, since the experts don't get paid to do it. So the journals asking for $50 or so for a single article are just extorting people for far too much than they should actually be charging! Fortunately, it looks like the academic publishing market is slowly moving more in the direction of open access.
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Just wait until Stephen Colbert edits the article,... it'll then say that the Milky Way Galaxy has TRIPLED in size in the last ten million years!
You're asking Slashdotters for their advice on something like online dating?!?!
Ok, maybe just the planet,... still a long way to go before planet Mars has to worry,... Or, do we take out Venus instead? Venus is a peaceful planet, which might make for a more effective demonstration to scare those pesky, war-mongering Martians,... ;-)
Actually, I think the **AA is citing their study that shows a high correlation between people that breathe and pirates,...
Darth Vader just farted!
Uh, yeah,.. Panera refers to Panera Bread. They're almost on every street corner here in Pittsburgh (but there's none in Arizona). Good food, and good wi-fi. Haven't tried their coffee, though.
Starbucks is alright,... not great, but certainly decent coffee. But I actually prefer the more localized coffee shops versus the national chains like Starbucks. In Pittsburgh, stop by Caribou Coffee; in Flagstaff, Arizona, go to Late for the Train. Both are superior to Starbucks, with free wi-fi.
While it's certainly true that the Works Word Processor will do 99.9% of what most people ever need to do, it's Microsoft's marketing combined with simple psychology that has gotten people to get Office. Quite simply, if most of their friends and coworkers are using Office, they don't want to be using the "inferior" or "crippled" product. Microsoft knows that everyone in America has to keep up with the Joneses,...
Comcast, meet Verizon. Verizon, meet Comcast! FiOS, baby!!!!! ;-----P
So, does that mean I violate the first amendment of the constitution if I mod you "-1 Troll"? Oh no! I'm goin' to jail!
You mean like this one? I think this church definitely has an exemption. Beer's pretty good, too,... ;-)
I don't think it's necessarily an "exemption" per say, as much as a license. I think the sports bars pay a certain license to the television networks for public performances (similar to paying the license to ASCAP for music performances). I think the charges are built into their business cable TV rates, or something. But they don't pay a specific license to the NFL explicitly, but they just accept their license paid to the networks for the NFL content. Or something like that,... IANAL.
That's because Bill Belichick is God,... :-) Go Patriots! :-)
. . . that has Duke Nukem Forever as a game option?
Well, I'm a scientist and I don't seem to have any burning desire to do any harm to people,... unless, of course, you steal my prized Red Swingline Stapler. Then, I might just have set the building on fire,... [walks away, mumbling more obscenities about Mr. Lumberg],. . . ;-)
Using everyday garbage to produce ethanol or not, the fact remains that ethanol will never produce the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity required to power the flux capacitor. Sure, it'll get your car to work and home again, but a nuclear reaction (plutonium fission or MrFusion) will still be required to get you to work on time if you fall 20 minutes behind,... ;-)
The fact remains, however, that 95% of all professors don't give a rat's ass about protecting the so-called "rights" of the publishers. Not only do half of them post PDFs of their own work on their websites, but if somebody from a school in China or Africa emails them asking for a copy of a paper they've published, they'll generally honor that request and send it to them, which is really not much different than their student counterparts sharing their MP3 music with total strangers on the internet. The only difference is that the students are sending someone else's work to someone else (though not claiming it as their own), while the professors are generally sending someone else their own work, only violating the distribution agreement they've signed with the publishers, so it's only "minor piracy", or actually probably falls under "fair use" for educational purposes (same as distributing something to your classes for schoolwork). The other similarity here is that I think 95% of both professors and students understand real copyright law about the same (in other words, they don't know what they're talking about). Another reason that copyright law needs a major reboot in the immediate future.
. . . as soon as Duke Nukem Forever is released!
He's just advocating that $640 ought to be enough for anybody,...
Where can I buy tickets to that event? I want front row seats!
Decimated a country in the middle east?! Heck! He practically decimated his own country's economy! That's it! I now declare that telecommuters are destroying America! This practice must end, NOW! :-)
Oh yeah? Just wait until Duke Nukem Forever comes out! Then we all really will get laid!
Shhhh! Don't give those bastards any ideas! Although it probably doesn't matter anyway ... it's not like those idiots don't raise their rates several times per year anyways,...
Digitization of actual content came later. When I started graduate school in 1998, I can still remember going to the old, crusty "bowels" of the health sciences library and looking up academic journals by hand -- it was really a royal PITA because the amount of journal articles you'd have to look up was quite astronomical, and you'd have to take several trips between your table/desk in the library and the shelf, to work on a given problem. But we found the information we needed.
By the time I graduated however, it got much better! The ACS put their entire archives since the 1800s online, and several other publishers got into that game as well. So now, you could search online and find the info you needed as well. The problem (that still remains, unfortunately), is that publishers are still clinging to their old, archaic copyright policies, and if your institution doesn't have access, you get a page asking you to pay. And the fees, for single articles, are astronomically effing ridiculous -- $50 or so for a single article!!!! Who in the h*ll is going to pay for that?!?! I understand that publishers do need to make a certain amount of money, within reason. Although I don't buy their justification of publishing costs -- these days, the typesetting is all done in desktop word processing, by the authors! And authors are asked more and more to do actual editorial tasks. Peer review doesn't even cost as much, since the experts don't get paid to do it. So the journals asking for $50 or so for a single article are just extorting people for far too much than they should actually be charging! Fortunately, it looks like the academic publishing market is slowly moving more in the direction of open access.