Best new feature: title text (the tooltip that appears when you hover over an image) no longer disappears after a few seconds.
Now I can read xkcd without the fear that comes from knowing I'll soon have to wiggle the mouse around to get the tooltip back.
They're not stating odds that the particle exists, they are stating odds that they will find it first. In other words, assuming it exists, there is a 50-96% chance that Fermilab will find it before CERN.
If I write a paper, I'm going to try to get it in the best journal I can so it looks better on my resume. Open access does not factor into it. I'm not about to sell myself short and publish in a lower impact journal, and hurt my career, just to make sure everyone can access it free of charge.
But by making an article open-access you increase its distribution*, and thus you potentially increase the rate at which it is cited. Which in turn leads to a higher impact factor for the journal hosting the article. So this is actually a smart move for Springer (especially since they are getting UC to pay for it all).
* I'm part of a university that pays for access to most academic journals, but if I can immediately access a PDF via Google Scholar (rather than the horrendous proxy handshaking required to access most digital repositories), it's more likely to get read.
If you are an expert on a subject, go to that Wikipedia entry and you will find errors. If you are lucky it will be a page that isn't protected by a cabal, and you'll be able to correct the errors. If it is protected, you can forget it. Wikipedia articles have nothing to do with real truth, only the truth the admins want you to accept. It's funny that you mention this, because real academic research has shown the opposite. Chesney (2006) demonstrated that experts in a domain were more likely to rate a Wikipedia article dealing with their area of expertise as credible, meaning that the problem is not with the content but with Wikipedia's reputation as being assembled from grunts from the unwashed masses.
You know, like before you actually pay money, you click on some sort of button that often says something like "buy this album". It doesn't say "rent" or "license". Ever wonder why most of the buttons are called "Add to Cart," "Download," and "Checkout"?
I'm certainly not buying American until the government allows freedom of speech, assembly, and religion. Oh wait... they do! Yeah, it's good to know we have our free speech zones when the president comes to town. Without them, we'd be just like China!
While I do agree that comparing the US and China is a matter of degree, China's a big fucking country. Causing some poor working sap to lose his/her job due to a general purpose Chinese boycott can't ever be called "sticking it to the man," so make sure not to congratulate yourself as such if you do it.
In a manner of speaking, didn't everything start in space? Warden: He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm asking you: What's it breathing?
Homer: Air?
Warden: Ain't no air in space.
Homer: There's an air-in-space museum.
So "ubiquitous computing" won't become popular until someone can figure out how to reduce the syllable count. The academics and practitioners working in the field call it "ubicomp."
if watch one of the few games that actually tries to follow the remote, like the baseball bat in Wii Sports, the remote is terribly inaccurate and loses track of where it actually is unless it's pointed at the IR bar.
Actually, no. On my Wii, the baseball bat tracking in Wii Sports is spot on. When I'm batting, I even sway the Wiimote around a bit (like you do with a real baseball bat before taking a swing) and watch as the Mii batter on screen does the same thing. Oh, and the IR bar doesn't even participate in these actions; it's only used for the pointer, not the motion sensing.
However, it's funny you should mention this, because I went to a friend's house for a Wii Party and we ended up playing tennis a lot. I'm usually pretty good, but I was horrible here. The controls seemed incredibly sluggish, to the point where there was a good 1-second delay between my backhand and the corresponding action on screen. I even tried different controllers, and they were all the same.
So I'm wondering about the build quality of the Wii consoles. The first one I bought back in November had a different set of problems (the IR bar / pointer tracking was very, very jittery, and the cursor would keep disappearing). I exchanged this one for my current console, and haven't had any problems (and Nintendo tech support is ridiculously wonderful, by the way). Out of three consoles I've seen, two have had completely different problems with the communication between Wiimote and console. Is this more of an epidemic than I had thought?
Wait now, "continuous" isn't modifying "attention," it's modifying "partial attention." In other words, it's not saying that there's some kind of continual focus on something, but rather that the state of partial attention is uninterrupted. Kind of like describing an afterlife in hell as "continuous eternal damnation." -p
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Best new feature: title text (the tooltip that appears when you hover over an image) no longer disappears after a few seconds. Now I can read xkcd without the fear that comes from knowing I'll soon have to wiggle the mouse around to get the tooltip back.
They're not stating odds that the particle exists, they are stating odds that they will find it first. In other words, assuming it exists, there is a 50-96% chance that Fermilab will find it before CERN.
If I write a paper, I'm going to try to get it in the best journal I can so it looks better on my resume. Open access does not factor into it. I'm not about to sell myself short and publish in a lower impact journal, and hurt my career, just to make sure everyone can access it free of charge.
But by making an article open-access you increase its distribution*, and thus you potentially increase the rate at which it is cited. Which in turn leads to a higher impact factor for the journal hosting the article. So this is actually a smart move for Springer (especially since they are getting UC to pay for it all).
* I'm part of a university that pays for access to most academic journals, but if I can immediately access a PDF via Google Scholar (rather than the horrendous proxy handshaking required to access most digital repositories), it's more likely to get read.
That's numberwang!
I say give corps 3-5 years to turn a profit and then it becomes public domain.
Are you suggesting we give copyright protection for 3-5 years after death instead of the usual 70?
*ducks
I wish it was developed by Volkswagen. I'd get into a VWGINA any day.
** not an actual guarantee.
While I do agree that comparing the US and China is a matter of degree, China's a big fucking country. Causing some poor working sap to lose his/her job due to a general purpose Chinese boycott can't ever be called "sticking it to the man," so make sure not to congratulate yourself as such if you do it.
In other words, you're 1,024 times more likely to hit this bug.
Homer: Air?
Warden: Ain't no air in space.
Homer: There's an air-in-space museum.
Actually, no. On my Wii, the baseball bat tracking in Wii Sports is spot on. When I'm batting, I even sway the Wiimote around a bit (like you do with a real baseball bat before taking a swing) and watch as the Mii batter on screen does the same thing. Oh, and the IR bar doesn't even participate in these actions; it's only used for the pointer, not the motion sensing.
However, it's funny you should mention this, because I went to a friend's house for a Wii Party and we ended up playing tennis a lot. I'm usually pretty good, but I was horrible here. The controls seemed incredibly sluggish, to the point where there was a good 1-second delay between my backhand and the corresponding action on screen. I even tried different controllers, and they were all the same.
So I'm wondering about the build quality of the Wii consoles. The first one I bought back in November had a different set of problems (the IR bar / pointer tracking was very, very jittery, and the cursor would keep disappearing). I exchanged this one for my current console, and haven't had any problems (and Nintendo tech support is ridiculously wonderful, by the way). Out of three consoles I've seen, two have had completely different problems with the communication between Wiimote and console. Is this more of an epidemic than I had thought?
-p
Wait now, "continuous" isn't modifying "attention," it's modifying "partial attention." In other words, it's not saying that there's some kind of continual focus on something, but rather that the state of partial attention is uninterrupted. Kind of like describing an afterlife in hell as "continuous eternal damnation."
-p