How can someone be interested only in passing on the knowledge without having an inherit interest on finding new knowledge? Heck, even during the teaching process, it is highly likely that the students will ask some question for which you don't have an answer. (like, to use your example: "Why do some stars go supernova and others don't, sir?"). I'd be damned if I didn't start looking into the matter right after leaving the classroom. So, a passion for teaching and a passion for research are certainly not mutually exclusive, but even complementary, in my opinion.
You are right that publishing the "failures" can also be beneficial. This, however, would produce an overwhelming amount of papers and the "successes" would get lost in the crowd. I think we could use special journals for publishing the good, albeit unsuccessful attempts at problem-solving. Or, even better, each paper could have a special section, titled e.g. "preliminary work" (or something equally euphemistic), that would quickly go over the failed attempts before the authors proceed in describing what did work in the end.
Yes, but in such cases the column is randomly packed (by just throwing the catalyst pearls in the cylinder), not using an algorithm. Nor can you even apply an algorithm for that matter...
but can we not pretend this is some breaking news for nerds?
Yes we can, if we realize that part of the news here is that the paywalled scientific publications are not, well, publications as far as the greater public is concerned.
Well, things changed for two reasons: 1) the ones that used to complain are now tired of doing so, and 2) the youngsters now don't know any better. Also, when XP first came out most of the people were still stuck with a dial-up connection. In addition, most were used to remedy their PC problems by re-installing the operating system. So when MS demanded that you should activate your software online and restricted the amount of activations, everybody frowned.
Regardless of the above, switch back to the old model and everyone will still thank you.
A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his New Theory about Light and Colors.
7. But the most surprising and wonderful composition was that of Whiteness. There is no one sort of Rays which alone can exhibit this. 'Tis ever compounded, and to its composition are requisite all the aforesaid primary Colours, mixed in a due proportion. I have often with Admiration beheld, that all the Colours of the Prisme being made to converge, and thereby to be again mixed as they were in the light before it was Incident upon the Prisme, reproduced light, intirely and perfectly white, and not at all sensibly differing from a direct Light of the Sun, unless when the glasses, I used, were not sufficiently clear; for then they would a little incline to their colour.
Don't limit you options based on the geographical factor. If the male/female ratio and the party scene are not important, then the location shouldn't be either.
The "article" sadly does not provide any meaningful information. Does anyone have any insight on how this thing works? Also, why do they name a 3D pixel a "hogel" (for holographic element) instead of the more usual (at least in other fields) "voxel"?
Didn't HP want to put an end to the hardware business and focus on software? Can someone please enlighten me because I'm probably missing something here...
Why aren't such stores obsolete yet? This is an honest question. Especially for Google, that has online access to billions of customers worldwide, what would such a store offer? For Apple it worked because part of their marketing strategy is to dazzle you with fancy plastic. Is Google trying to do the same?
If there was a Google store in my neighborhood, I would probably drop by out of curiosity. However, whenever I go to an electronics retail store the salesperson ends up ordering the stuff I need anyway because they don't have what I want in stock (and, with my luck, even if they once did they would have probably run out). OK, if all you have to offer is 2-3 versions of the same hardware, your stock will always be up-to-date. However, I still don't see any good enough reason for embracing the costs and the trouble of physical retail sale.
My problem with CC licenses is, exactly what you said, that a lawyer was involved at some point. I could analyze this further, but it will probably only boil down to the fact that I don't like lawyers.
Could it be that the patent system is biting the technology companies, that they themselves brought it into existence and nourished it, in the ass? And, if yes, would they ever realize it?
I work for a fairly large chemical company and we stopped filing for patents. Although the purpose of a patent is to protect the inventor, it inevitably makes the idea accessible by the competition. Since all chemical factories are private grounds protected by fences and guards, we cannot check whether our competitors have actually stolen our patented inventions (and, of course, nor can they). Besides, we have better stuff to do than going through all production facilities in China to check every damn apparatus to see whether we should file a lawsuit or not.
So there you have it. No patents, no trouble. Just a big ol' fence and LOTS of security (both physical and IT). We also stopped publishing our research findings to conferences and journals and we demand a confidentiality agreement from every university that sends students to work for us.
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They're honoring what they consider achievements in acting, direction, etc.
Sadly, it is not that simple. There have been major blunders, with, IMHO Hitchcock not ever winning the best director award.
How can someone be interested only in passing on the knowledge without having an inherit interest on finding new knowledge? Heck, even during the teaching process, it is highly likely that the students will ask some question for which you don't have an answer. (like, to use your example: "Why do some stars go supernova and others don't, sir?"). I'd be damned if I didn't start looking into the matter right after leaving the classroom. So, a passion for teaching and a passion for research are certainly not mutually exclusive, but even complementary, in my opinion.
You are right that publishing the "failures" can also be beneficial. This, however, would produce an overwhelming amount of papers and the "successes" would get lost in the crowd. I think we could use special journals for publishing the good, albeit unsuccessful attempts at problem-solving. Or, even better, each paper could have a special section, titled e.g. "preliminary work" (or something equally euphemistic), that would quickly go over the failed attempts before the authors proceed in describing what did work in the end.
Meh, that is why a book can come with a sleeve containing a CD/DVD with such media.
If it's not broken, don't fix it.
End of story.
Yes, but in such cases the column is randomly packed (by just throwing the catalyst pearls in the cylinder), not using an algorithm. Nor can you even apply an algorithm for that matter...
but can we not pretend this is some breaking news for nerds?
Yes we can, if we realize that part of the news here is that the paywalled scientific publications are not, well, publications as far as the greater public is concerned.
Well, things changed for two reasons:
1) the ones that used to complain are now tired of doing so, and
2) the youngsters now don't know any better.
Also, when XP first came out most of the people were still stuck with a dial-up connection. In addition, most were used to remedy their PC problems by re-installing the operating system. So when MS demanded that you should activate your software online and restricted the amount of activations, everybody frowned.
Regardless of the above, switch back to the old model and everyone will still thank you.
From Newton (1671)
A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton, Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge; containing his New Theory about Light and Colors.
7. But the most surprising and wonderful composition was that of Whiteness. There is no one sort of Rays which alone can exhibit this. 'Tis ever compounded, and to its composition are requisite all the aforesaid primary Colours, mixed in a due proportion. I have often with Admiration beheld, that all the Colours of the Prisme being made to converge, and thereby to be again mixed as they were in the light before it was Incident upon the Prisme, reproduced light, intirely and perfectly white, and not at all sensibly differing from a direct Light of the Sun, unless when the glasses, I used, were not sufficiently clear; for then they would a little incline to their colour.
Cool stuff...
Don't limit you options based on the geographical factor. If the male/female ratio and the party scene are not important, then the location shouldn't be either.
The "article" sadly does not provide any meaningful information. Does anyone have any insight on how this thing works? Also, why do they name a 3D pixel a "hogel" (for holographic element) instead of the more usual (at least in other fields) "voxel"?
OK! Thanks for the info!
I was quite disappointed when I read that that announcement. I quite like their hardware and service...
Triangles always looked three-sided to me...
Didn't HP want to put an end to the hardware business and focus on software? Can someone please enlighten me because I'm probably missing something here...
Yeah his is better...but I once I've got mine, I realized I didn't give a shit because it still looks good enough. :p
Interesting that you mentioned this. You should check this out:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
Why aren't such stores obsolete yet? This is an honest question. Especially for Google, that has online access to billions of customers worldwide, what would such a store offer? For Apple it worked because part of their marketing strategy is to dazzle you with fancy plastic. Is Google trying to do the same?
If there was a Google store in my neighborhood, I would probably drop by out of curiosity. However, whenever I go to an electronics retail store the salesperson ends up ordering the stuff I need anyway because they don't have what I want in stock (and, with my luck, even if they once did they would have probably run out). OK, if all you have to offer is 2-3 versions of the same hardware, your stock will always be up-to-date. However, I still don't see any good enough reason for embracing the costs and the trouble of physical retail sale.
My problem with CC licenses is, exactly what you said, that a lawyer was involved at some point. I could analyze this further, but it will probably only boil down to the fact that I don't like lawyers.
You lose all control over the material and some ugly things can happen.
Either give some example and reference for the above quote, or I call FUD.
Me too!
Together with WinSCP and Xming.
Could it be that the patent system is biting the technology companies, that they themselves brought it into existence and nourished it, in the ass? And, if yes, would they ever realize it?
I work for a fairly large chemical company and we stopped filing for patents. Although the purpose of a patent is to protect the inventor, it inevitably makes the idea accessible by the competition. Since all chemical factories are private grounds protected by fences and guards, we cannot check whether our competitors have actually stolen our patented inventions (and, of course, nor can they). Besides, we have better stuff to do than going through all production facilities in China to check every damn apparatus to see whether we should file a lawsuit or not.
So there you have it. No patents, no trouble. Just a big ol' fence and LOTS of security (both physical and IT). We also stopped publishing our research findings to conferences and journals and we demand a confidentiality agreement from every university that sends students to work for us.
Seems barely better than operating a phone from a terminal session.
Now, THAT would be cool:
dial 001340287261 -speaker=true
lacking a better translation, here is one from Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chowngroup.com%2Fconvention.html
In Soviet Russia, Copyright polices Google!
Oh, nevermind...
Then you should consider using Fortran (version >=95). I find it much better than C for this kind of work.
It's Strg+F instead!