As a PhD student I have to release aritcles to these journals. I must release at least 3 articles to journals that are indexed by Thompson Web of Science, by doing that I must give away my copyright and sometimes the institute Is paying to them. My proffessor has to release articles to get funding and to keep his job. Others release articles in hopes to become a professor one day. Really, the system is sick - the goverment funding is divided in our university to institutes based on who publishes more to journals indexed by the databases.
Yesterday I received an invitation of publishing to a journal special issue on my narrow field of research. The journal is free to everybody and I get to keep the copyright tho it does not give me any points torwards PhD. After reading the comment on that torrent I feel obligated to write an article to the journal even if I really don't have any time for it.
Even when oil "runs out" and they stop exporting it there will always be enough of it to run the desalination plants. While I do agree that Norway should be made as an example of how a country should use the oil money, I do not think the arabs in Dubai are morons.
In developing areas, current generation tech is being installed. Here we're stuck with existing old stuff until it's so crotchety it HAS to be upgraded.
Nope, we had 3G before 3.5G and EDGE and GPRS before that.
4G shoudl get you 1Gbps when stationary and 100Mbps when on the move (in car or bus). Here, in developing Estonia, we get 21Mbps everywhere and in some areas (towns) 42 Mbps from 3.5G networks. It seems unfair, that you pay more to get less.
Is the decompression step of images in web hardware accelerated? I do know that videos made of jpeg frames can be decoded in hardware but do the browsers actually use the hardware? When I first heard about WebP I assumed Google is pushing an unified decoder architecture that would process all videos and images in hardware saving some precious joules while doing so. Never bothered to check it out tho.
It might be simpler and operate on different basis. For example - valve gifted their entire catalogue of games to the participants of Portal 2 ARG who managed to get all 36 potatoes. They also cherry picked the 10 community leaders from the ARG and fly them over to Valve HQ and provided them with early access to portal 2. Essentially they created a bunch of torch bearers who will promote Valve in their respective communities. Another example could be a fan who e-mailed for an autograph and got disproportional response.
My point is that you have not had a war on continental America for ages. Now that Bin Laden brought the war onto your court the game has changed. The wiretapping and whatnot is necessary to keep the war at East Asia.
The World, however, is not black'n'white. I do agree that some of the privacy intrusions are not actually necessary.
Don't be such a pussy, it's not as bad as you think. While Chernobyl is not a healthy place to live there are people who work there day by day, year by year and are still alive. "Only" half of the emergency fire brigade, who were tasked of putting down the fire, died. And they got the worst of it while working above open reactor that's still critical.
Hydro-plant is much worse - a dam break at large hydro-plant has potential to kill millions of people. If a nuclear reactor melts down it kills few and people have time to evacuate. Some more people will have health problems but it's still far better than being dead.
Good developer tools cost money. A lot of money. If you think that Apple or Microsoft make profit on this $99 then you're mistaken. Don't be cheap and just buy those damn licenses if you're really interested or leave it if you aren't. There are far too many "me too" apps in android store diluting the value of professional made apps making the android worth less for developers and consumers.
I wonder why they ask the $5 for it. The XCode is worth thousands of dollars but apple chose to give it away for free. Comparing to the actual price the $5 is as good as free but creates a small entry barrier in sense I have to go searching for my credit card or iTunes store credentials. Maybe they want us to be all set for publishing once we get this XCode running on our machines making the iTunes account creation a part of installation process.
Not necessarily - I'm doing a PhD and have no plans to stay in academia. I do not expect to receive any direct benefits from the degree after I graduate, it's just something I like to do. The PhD studies are free in my country so why not take the opportunity.
Even though the communist party committed crimes against humanity on a regular basis the Soviet Union wasn't an evil empire with sole purpose of doing evil. The leadership did everything they could to fortify and extend their power but there were also normal people living their everyday lives trying to build better future for their children. Did you really believe *all* that western propaganda that insisted everything done behind iron curtain is evil? Also that Swedish socialism == communism == evil?
Do you really know what an atom is, or that a Higgs boson is a rather important thing, or did you simply accept they were what someone told you they were?
As much I understood from philosophy of science the science is set of models that describe universe we live in. Often the models are incompatible - an atom means different things to different people as there are different models (classical physics, quantum physics, etc.) to describe atoms and they are all right to extent. Right is even the chemistry teacher who uses tennis balls to describe atoms in a molecule.
While it might be difficult to understand the cutting edge of science it's easy to understand high school physics. There are plenty of appliances in kitchen that once belonged in leading scientific labs such as light bulb, refrigerator, boiler, radio, tv, etc. People don't just believe they work - they KNOW they work and often HOW they work.
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Seen this video few years ago - definitely a scam.
As a PhD student I have to release aritcles to these journals. I must release at least 3 articles to journals that are indexed by Thompson Web of Science, by doing that I must give away my copyright and sometimes the institute Is paying to them. My proffessor has to release articles to get funding and to keep his job. Others release articles in hopes to become a professor one day. Really, the system is sick - the goverment funding is divided in our university to institutes based on who publishes more to journals indexed by the databases.
Yesterday I received an invitation of publishing to a journal special issue on my narrow field of research. The journal is free to everybody and I get to keep the copyright tho it does not give me any points torwards PhD. After reading the comment on that torrent I feel obligated to write an article to the journal even if I really don't have any time for it.
But it does; the 4 in "iPhone 4" stands for 4th generation iPhone. So technically it's 4G iPhone, even tho it uses third generation cellular tech.
PS! The stuff that's usually called 4G is not fourth generation tech either. 4G means 1Gbps when stationary and 100Mbps when on the move.
Even when oil "runs out" and they stop exporting it there will always be enough of it to run the desalination plants. While I do agree that Norway should be made as an example of how a country should use the oil money, I do not think the arabs in Dubai are morons.
In developing areas, current generation tech is being installed. Here we're stuck with existing old stuff until it's so crotchety it HAS to be upgraded.
Nope, we had 3G before 3.5G and EDGE and GPRS before that.
4G shoudl get you 1Gbps when stationary and 100Mbps when on the move (in car or bus). Here, in developing Estonia, we get 21Mbps everywhere and in some areas (towns) 42 Mbps from 3.5G networks. It seems unfair, that you pay more to get less.
Is the decompression step of images in web hardware accelerated? I do know that videos made of jpeg frames can be decoded in hardware but do the browsers actually use the hardware? When I first heard about WebP I assumed Google is pushing an unified decoder architecture that would process all videos and images in hardware saving some precious joules while doing so. Never bothered to check it out tho.
Civ5 and Portal 2 are defenetely worth of the price.
You can't sell a steam account, it's pohibited. The reason is credit card frauds.
It might be simpler and operate on different basis. For example - valve gifted their entire catalogue of games to the participants of Portal 2 ARG who managed to get all 36 potatoes. They also cherry picked the 10 community leaders from the ARG and fly them over to Valve HQ and provided them with early access to portal 2. Essentially they created a bunch of torch bearers who will promote Valve in their respective communities. Another example could be a fan who e-mailed for an autograph and got disproportional response.
Don't be rude. Gabe is the nicest person in the industry, I wish there were more executives like him.
Not if you're creationist - for them Neptune revolves around the earth and hence the distance does not change much.
My point is that you have not had a war on continental America for ages. Now that Bin Laden brought the war onto your court the game has changed. The wiretapping and whatnot is necessary to keep the war at East Asia.
The World, however, is not black'n'white. I do agree that some of the privacy intrusions are not actually necessary.
Don't be such a pussy, it's not as bad as you think. While Chernobyl is not a healthy place to live there are people who work there day by day, year by year and are still alive. "Only" half of the emergency fire brigade, who were tasked of putting down the fire, died. And they got the worst of it while working above open reactor that's still critical.
Hydro-plant is much worse - a dam break at large hydro-plant has potential to kill millions of people. If a nuclear reactor melts down it kills few and people have time to evacuate. Some more people will have health problems but it's still far better than being dead.
May I remind you that you're at war. You should be happy that your house is not under bombardment.
Everyone knows PI squared is ten.
Good developer tools cost money. A lot of money. If you think that Apple or Microsoft make profit on this $99 then you're mistaken.
Don't be cheap and just buy those damn licenses if you're really interested or leave it if you aren't. There are far too many "me too" apps in android store diluting the value of professional made apps making the android worth less for developers and consumers.
I wonder why they ask the $5 for it. The XCode is worth thousands of dollars but apple chose to give it away for free. Comparing to the actual price the $5 is as good as free but creates a small entry barrier in sense I have to go searching for my credit card or iTunes store credentials. Maybe they want us to be all set for publishing once we get this XCode running on our machines making the iTunes account creation a part of installation process.
Not necessarily - I'm doing a PhD and have no plans to stay in academia. I do not expect to receive any direct benefits from the degree after I graduate, it's just something I like to do. The PhD studies are free in my country so why not take the opportunity.
You should always include reference to original
http://xkcd.com/875/
Even though the communist party committed crimes against humanity on a regular basis the Soviet Union wasn't an evil empire with sole purpose of doing evil. The leadership did everything they could to fortify and extend their power but there were also normal people living their everyday lives trying to build better future for their children.
Did you really believe *all* that western propaganda that insisted everything done behind iron curtain is evil? Also that Swedish socialism == communism == evil?
No.
I've been watching progress of Yann LeCun on this topic for years now. Cool to finally see an application.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/research/objreco/index.html
Do you really know what an atom is, or that a Higgs boson is a rather important thing, or did you simply accept they were what someone told you they were?
As much I understood from philosophy of science the science is set of models that describe universe we live in. Often the models are incompatible - an atom means different things to different people as there are different models (classical physics, quantum physics, etc.) to describe atoms and they are all right to extent. Right is even the chemistry teacher who uses tennis balls to describe atoms in a molecule.
While it might be difficult to understand the cutting edge of science it's easy to understand high school physics. There are plenty of appliances in kitchen that once belonged in leading scientific labs such as light bulb, refrigerator, boiler, radio, tv, etc. People don't just believe they work - they KNOW they work and often HOW they work.
It's roughly 100 times less energetic, not a big deal for Japan.