Found an interesting reply to a post at around 11:50 am:
There may be up to THIRTY-ONE dead. Seriously, stop it.. If only the first poster was kidding...
File that one under non-English names have unfortunate or funny connotations to English speakers. Another one of my favorites is a Native American tribe that runs a casino in Wisconsin:
It's a pity that although this is completely feasible right now, it's unlikely to happen until my yet-to-be-born children by the wife-I-have-yet-to-meet are off to college. (Which is to say... at least 20 years from now and possibly never.) Are you saying the rail line may never be built or are you saying you may never meet the woman of your dreams and raise a family with her? In either case, I encourage you to be more optimistic!
Don't forget the health care system, which takes the burden off of the company for providing health insurance for its employees. I'm sure the taxes are higher there as a result, but I imagine it is a net savings in the end compared to the extremely high cost of health care in the U.S.
It technically does, but it has (or at least had) a problem where there was a sign error in the z-coordinate (vertical coordinate) for rendering things like targeting circles. This resulted in them being displayed just beneath the terrain instead of just above it, making them, well, not visible. With that kind of commitment to OpenGL rendering quality...
And what's the point of building a fridge, a robot, a beer, or a couch if they aren't running linux, they aren't ethernet enabled, and they don't have a Web 2.0 interface?!?! It does run Linux, the Ubooztu distro (it's free, as in beer).
How many Americans understand Oliver North's point, that often it is morally correct to break the law? I would have gone with, say, Martin Luther King, Jr. instead of Oliver North, but point taken.
I live in a university town. I may not have web access (which isn't the be all of anything anyway), but I can walk down to the university and show my library card and gain access to the material. Also as you already pointed out, the general public isn't the ones paying for the material. Why should they get web access? Your argument could be applied to corporate libraries (some of which do allow public access). Not everyone lives in a town with a well-stocked university library. Also, some of the libraries on this campus don't allow people without university ID's to enter (for security reasons presumably). Well, it's a public university funded by tax dollars, so actually the general public IS actually paying for the subscriptions, just like they paid for the government funding to perform the research in the first place. At any rate, my point is that no one should have to pay for it, not twice anyway. I didn't mention it in my first post, but the scientists who submit the articles to the journals typically have to pay between one and two thousand dollars per article to the journal. Guess where that money comes from? Grants, which are almost always from publicly-funded agencies (NSF, NIH, various military agencies, etc.).
Apparently you didn't think deep enough. Your university isn't paying for raw research. It's paying for collected and vetted information in a form that's useful to it's purposes. You want raw? You get raw, but I'll bet you're going to have better things to do than collect and vet the information yourself. Think deeper yourself. Who do you think collects the data and writes the journal articles, the journal? Nope, the scientists who are paid through government grants do that. The vetting is done by scientists in the field who are not paid one cent by the journal for the service, whose salaries are mostly government funded. See the pattern? Journals do some minor editing and typesetting, they create the pdf's of the articles, print the paper copies of the journal, and arrange to have the articles reviewed. That's it. For that relatively minor set of services they charge high fees and restrict the access of the information to the public who paid for it. This is unacceptable.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. At my public university (in the US) I have heard librarians say that some journals have subscription fees of 10's of thousands of dollars a year. Multiply that by the enormous number of journals that the university library has to subscribe to each year and you are talking 10's of millions of dollars a year. Also, of course the access is restricted to students and faculty of the university; the general public cannot get web access to these journals. Given that the vast majority of the research published is funded by government agencies, this is outrageous. The fees have gotten so bad that the library has had to pick and choose. Just this year my online access to the journal Review of Scientific Instruments was limited to just the last 5 years or so, rather than the entire archive, due to fees. The kicker is that there are paper copies in the physical library that I can go photocopy, but I can't access the articles online because my university can't afford it.
There must be reform regarding the publishing of scientific work funded by government agencies. My only concern is that the quality of peer-review must remain intact, but I see no reason for that to change since those who review papers don't get paid anyway.
Clearly you aren't familiar with the Ubuntu naming scheme. The version I think you are referring to is "Boisterous Bunny" and it will be released in early 2018. Duh.
There's only one maxim that I'd like to see game designers follow regarding FPS's: stop making them. Seriously, it's a stale genre. Use your imaginations and come up with a new type of game. Then 10 years from now when THAT genre is stale, I'll post a cranky rant on Slashdot about how they need to come up with another revolutionary innovation. Get cracking!
Before sending him off to boot camp, maybe the parents could try taking away his computer. Or, here's another crazy thought, letting him go online for only 2 hours a day. If he goes to an internet cafe instead, regulate how often he can go outside the house. How did the solution to this problem become locking him up in a cage hundreds of miles from home?
Kid: how come we stopped singing happy birthday? Mom: because Time-Warner "owns" the rights to that, and we don't want to get on the MAFIAA hit list. There's an easy solution to this problem, just sing "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" instead.
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Me feels same way about english.
File that one under non-English names have unfortunate or funny connotations to English speakers. Another one of my favorites is a Native American tribe that runs a casino in Wisconsin:
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Loved the post, you echoed my own crotchety opinions on the state of music and audio today.
Secustick, huh? Sounds like some kind of horrible sexual implement.
Here's another Russian who was ahead of his time.
Bravo! I award you a symbolic mod point as I currently have no real ones.
Don't forget the health care system, which takes the burden off of the company for providing health insurance for its employees. I'm sure the taxes are higher there as a result, but I imagine it is a net savings in the end compared to the extremely high cost of health care in the U.S.
Okay, good analysis of the energy density of fluids. Still, will someone explain to me the appeal of sitting in a room THAT GOD DAMN HOT?
This being Slashdot, I knew it was only a matter of time before mention of the RIAA in the discussion thread of a story about nuclear fuel shortages.
A flame war over gas, that sounds extremely dangerous.
It technically does, but it has (or at least had) a problem where there was a sign error in the z-coordinate (vertical coordinate) for rendering things like targeting circles. This resulted in them being displayed just beneath the terrain instead of just above it, making them, well, not visible. With that kind of commitment to OpenGL rendering quality...
The parent was meant as a response to the post by AC here. Sorry about that.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. At my public university (in the US) I have heard librarians say that some journals have subscription fees of 10's of thousands of dollars a year. Multiply that by the enormous number of journals that the university library has to subscribe to each year and you are talking 10's of millions of dollars a year. Also, of course the access is restricted to students and faculty of the university; the general public cannot get web access to these journals. Given that the vast majority of the research published is funded by government agencies, this is outrageous. The fees have gotten so bad that the library has had to pick and choose. Just this year my online access to the journal Review of Scientific Instruments was limited to just the last 5 years or so, rather than the entire archive, due to fees. The kicker is that there are paper copies in the physical library that I can go photocopy, but I can't access the articles online because my university can't afford it. There must be reform regarding the publishing of scientific work funded by government agencies. My only concern is that the quality of peer-review must remain intact, but I see no reason for that to change since those who review papers don't get paid anyway.
The 52nd state is Iraq, and boy does it soak up a lot more federal tax revenue than it contributes.
Clearly you aren't familiar with the Ubuntu naming scheme. The version I think you are referring to is "Boisterous Bunny" and it will be released in early 2018. Duh.
There's only one maxim that I'd like to see game designers follow regarding FPS's: stop making them. Seriously, it's a stale genre. Use your imaginations and come up with a new type of game. Then 10 years from now when THAT genre is stale, I'll post a cranky rant on Slashdot about how they need to come up with another revolutionary innovation. Get cracking!
Before sending him off to boot camp, maybe the parents could try taking away his computer. Or, here's another crazy thought, letting him go online for only 2 hours a day. If he goes to an internet cafe instead, regulate how often he can go outside the house. How did the solution to this problem become locking him up in a cage hundreds of miles from home?
Mom: because Time-Warner "owns" the rights to that, and we don't want to get on the MAFIAA hit list. There's an easy solution to this problem, just sing "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" instead.