I am a faculty at a US university, advising several such foreign students and postdocs.
Many of them choose to leave the US after their PhD or postdoc simply because there are often better opportunities elsewhere, especially for those interested in an academic career. Many countries are ramping up their investment in education and research, while the trend in the US is negative. In the 70's and 80's, US universities were the top. Now, researchers are often offered much better support, infrastructure, ability to grow a research group, and even salary, in other countries. So they leave.
Three of the people who worked with me are now professors; none of them is in the US.
What this says for the future pre-eminence of US science... wait, which pre-eminence?
The point is that enhancements to the library stay LGPL.
I did this myself. I needed to modify LGPL libraries for the purposes of my application. I modified the libraries, and I am redistributing them under the LGPL. My main application is distributed under BSD license, and uses the LGPL libraries. The libraries make perfect sense separately (and in fact, I have people using them for reasons unrelated to the application I built).
I think that, out of courtesy, and probably out of need, you need to make sure that the libraries are available separately.
I think it is a brilliant idea to write less frequently to disk, and even 10 mins would not be bad. Much easier on power consumption, the drive can spin off, less wear on flash memory, etc.
Coders who forget to positively flush critical data are just asking for problems.
After all, what is the difference between 5 secs and 120 secs? Just 24 times. And if disaster can strike with high probability p, then p/24 is notmuch better.
"Dear estimated Lexus Driver,
we would like to remind you that you are 1,000 miles over the maintenance limit [set ridiculously low at every 3,000 miles, instead of every 7,500 as specified in the manual]. We at your local auto dealer on Rotten Fish Ave are running a special promotion: change cilinder gasket, and get two free..."
Yeeeeechhh.
Well, this cured me of Lexus lust.
Does the Dell have DVI out, capable of driving a 30" display? Because that's what I use my Macbook Pro for... DVI output is useful even on a 24" display.
Fact is, a Macbook or Macbook Pro can be a true desktop replacement; most Dells aren't, due to lack of DVI output.
They are not overpriced.
Price a laptop with: Core Duo, DVI output, Firewire, decent battery life. You won't save a lot compared to a MacBook.
Sure, there is lower-end hardware on the Windows side, but that's great until you try to run Windows on it.
Linux is a solution, except that it does NOT replace a Mac laptop -- a Mac laptop is a true desktop replacement and can drive a 24" screen without problems; with linux is a pain in the **** to switch screen resolutions (or at least it was up to the time that I moved to Macs a couple of years ago).
Yes, except the dell doesn't have DVI output (does it?), so you cannot use it as desktop replacement and plug it into a 24" LCD and get top quality.
THAT is the reason my local group of people all went to Macs.
The lenovo you just spec-ed is NOT comparable.
Many use Apple's DVI output to get top quality output on large LCDs, up to 24". You don't get that with your lenovo. This is a must-have feature for anyone getting a laptop as desktop replacement.
I think they are just hedging their position in case life is discovered... because after all, if it's not this God, it must be another God, no? So better claim it all for them.
Kind of like Armstrong landing on the Moon and planting an American flag. You know, just in case.
Yes, this is a disaster for graphic artists.
One of the BIG advantages of having an Apple machine has always been that the notion of color profiles are built-in, and uniformly applied; even Safari knows how to interpret them in photos. This is ridiculous.
Thank goodness one can still get a Mac Mini plus an external LCD... but if the Mac Mini goes, so does Apple's superiority in graphics, and this is a big deal -- and ought to be a big deal to Apple.
I call bullshit. That may be the reason he, and many slashdotters, use linux, but I don't think it is universal at all.
For instance, the main reason why I and many of my friends, relatives, etc, all use linux, is that it is plain simpler to install than Windows. Sure, Windows comes with many (most) PCs, so that's great. Once the HDs bit the dust, or Windows slows down to a crawl, or the PC is infected with viruses, or [insert any reason] and you need to rebuild a PC, it is infinitely faster and less painful to install Ubuntu than Windows -- especially now that only Vista is mostly available, and many peripherals don't work with it.
Windows used to have the advantage, but no more. I installed Ubuntu for relatives, friends, including people whose knowledge of CS is zero and they hate the command line. It is plain simpler. Takes about 20 minutes, then all just works -- printers, internet, openoffice, firefox -- most people's needs, if you take out gamers and the like (and they are a small percentage of real users) are pretty basic, really.
It is actually amazing how much the balance between Linux and Windows changed in the last couple of years -- in part thanks to Ubuntu, and in part thanks to Vista.
This has nothing to do with Harvard's finances. In any case Harvard does not make money out of scholarly publications.
This is a coup against publishers, the likes of Elsevier and Springer.
What Harvard is saying is that, as a condition of sponsoring research at Harvard, the results MUST be accessible in open form. Hence, when faculty transfer the copyright of their papers to the publishers (a step that happens each time a paper is published), a clause will have to be added that Harvard reserves the right to make the works available in an open access way.
This is great, and other universities are thinking the same (but acting with less courage).
This leaves open the point of why one must transfer copyright when publishing papers -- why would a license to use the content not be enough? But traditionally, faculty and researchers have been slaves to publishers. Harvard's decision is a sign that the balance of power is changing, due to the internet.
Maybe they have fixed it in the meantime? I am fairly sure a couple of months ago (say, this summer) it still happened. I would be happy to know that it is fixed!
In Gmail, false positives = whole threads junked
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In Gmail, the problem is false positives: when Gmail labels a message as junk, it moves *the whole thread* to the junk folder. So if you have a thread with 20 messages, and the 21st is incorrectly classified as spam, poof, also all the other previous 20, that you had confidently filed away, silently go into the spam folder, where they are silently deleted after 30 days. This is a consequence of how Gmail deals with threads, or "conversations". I reported this bug to the Gmail team long ago, but they haven't fixed it yet as far as I know.
So if you want someone using Gmail to delete an email exchange they had with you, send them an additional message in the same thread offering to sell them Viagra. They will never see the message, but the whole thread will be deleted in one month. Disclaimer: I have not tried this (but I have lost email due to the above problem, and I know I did, as I keep a separate backup of my mail via pop, where the missing messages were still present).
Indeed, nowhere in the article it says that EMI is considering cutting funding for the RIAA.
The article author, who is unaffiliated with EMI and RIAA, is simply saying that it would not be illogical for EMI to do so.
The barrier is set very high in hardware.
So people innovate in software: see Google, YouTube, MySpace, Ebay, Craigslist, Wikipedia,...
All started basically in a garage.
There is always a cutting edge that is accessible -- it just keeps moving!
Photoshop with educational discount is $300 for their most advanced version, and that comes with installation rights on 2 machines. And, you get a limited but functional photoshop with many cameras and scanners...
If they are going to do it web-based, it will mean that when I do a photography vacation, I won't be able to use photoshop on the road to retouch my photos!
No, I am using IMAP over ssl, and configured correctly, it was a Kmain bug.
And no thanks -- I won't want to reproduce it! Thankfully I had a backup.
Most likely Kmail choked at the huge amount of email (many folders with over 20,000 messages). It may have improved by now, but no, I am not trying that experiment again.
In other news, RIP linux for the desktop.
With the loss of the two main developers for Thunderbird, it looks like linux is going on without a single decent desktop (non-terminal) email app. Kmail, the one time I tried it, promptly erased all my email folders, and in any case is not very flexible. Thunderbird had plenty of faults, but it was the best one of the crop.
Now, without a single great email app, how can an IT manager decide to go with linux over the desktop? What would be the advantage to Mac?
I wish Linus could give an edict and convert some kernel developers to app developers and to app integration, but it doesn't work that way, technical people will always enjoy more working on the kernel than on apps, and linux over the desktop will always be poor.
I am now switching all my group (10 people?) from linux to Mac, and I have only good things to say about it.
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The ones above cover 80% of my Android. It's simply much better for what I do often, and not much (if any) worse for what I do rarely.
I am a faculty at a US university, advising several such foreign students and postdocs. Many of them choose to leave the US after their PhD or postdoc simply because there are often better opportunities elsewhere, especially for those interested in an academic career. Many countries are ramping up their investment in education and research, while the trend in the US is negative. In the 70's and 80's, US universities were the top. Now, researchers are often offered much better support, infrastructure, ability to grow a research group, and even salary, in other countries. So they leave. Three of the people who worked with me are now professors; none of them is in the US. What this says for the future pre-eminence of US science... wait, which pre-eminence?
The point is that enhancements to the library stay LGPL. I did this myself. I needed to modify LGPL libraries for the purposes of my application. I modified the libraries, and I am redistributing them under the LGPL. My main application is distributed under BSD license, and uses the LGPL libraries. The libraries make perfect sense separately (and in fact, I have people using them for reasons unrelated to the application I built). I think that, out of courtesy, and probably out of need, you need to make sure that the libraries are available separately.
What if the line contains a bug? Do you get a refund?
I think it is a brilliant idea to write less frequently to disk, and even 10 mins would not be bad. Much easier on power consumption, the drive can spin off, less wear on flash memory, etc. Coders who forget to positively flush critical data are just asking for problems. After all, what is the difference between 5 secs and 120 secs? Just 24 times. And if disaster can strike with high probability p, then p/24 is notmuch better.
I wonder how this will impact his sexual life... might have a hard time convincing some partners... "I will keep my left eye shut, promised!"
This is the best comment I have seen so far!
"Dear estimated Lexus Driver, we would like to remind you that you are 1,000 miles over the maintenance limit [set ridiculously low at every 3,000 miles, instead of every 7,500 as specified in the manual]. We at your local auto dealer on Rotten Fish Ave are running a special promotion: change cilinder gasket, and get two free..." Yeeeeechhh. Well, this cured me of Lexus lust.
Ha! I was sure to be right to wear a tinfoil hat! Now I just have to make sure it is wide-brimmed.
Does the Dell have DVI out, capable of driving a 30" display? Because that's what I use my Macbook Pro for... DVI output is useful even on a 24" display. Fact is, a Macbook or Macbook Pro can be a true desktop replacement; most Dells aren't, due to lack of DVI output.
They are not overpriced. Price a laptop with: Core Duo, DVI output, Firewire, decent battery life. You won't save a lot compared to a MacBook. Sure, there is lower-end hardware on the Windows side, but that's great until you try to run Windows on it. Linux is a solution, except that it does NOT replace a Mac laptop -- a Mac laptop is a true desktop replacement and can drive a 24" screen without problems; with linux is a pain in the **** to switch screen resolutions (or at least it was up to the time that I moved to Macs a couple of years ago).
Yes, except the dell doesn't have DVI output (does it?), so you cannot use it as desktop replacement and plug it into a 24" LCD and get top quality. THAT is the reason my local group of people all went to Macs.
The lenovo you just spec-ed is NOT comparable. Many use Apple's DVI output to get top quality output on large LCDs, up to 24". You don't get that with your lenovo. This is a must-have feature for anyone getting a laptop as desktop replacement.
I think they are just hedging their position in case life is discovered... because after all, if it's not this God, it must be another God, no? So better claim it all for them. Kind of like Armstrong landing on the Moon and planting an American flag. You know, just in case.
Yes, this is a disaster for graphic artists. One of the BIG advantages of having an Apple machine has always been that the notion of color profiles are built-in, and uniformly applied; even Safari knows how to interpret them in photos. This is ridiculous. Thank goodness one can still get a Mac Mini plus an external LCD... but if the Mac Mini goes, so does Apple's superiority in graphics, and this is a big deal -- and ought to be a big deal to Apple.
I call bullshit. That may be the reason he, and many slashdotters, use linux, but I don't think it is universal at all.
For instance, the main reason why I and many of my friends, relatives, etc, all use linux, is that it is plain simpler to install than Windows. Sure, Windows comes with many (most) PCs, so that's great. Once the HDs bit the dust, or Windows slows down to a crawl, or the PC is infected with viruses, or [insert any reason] and you need to rebuild a PC, it is infinitely faster and less painful to install Ubuntu than Windows -- especially now that only Vista is mostly available, and many peripherals don't work with it.
Windows used to have the advantage, but no more. I installed Ubuntu for relatives, friends, including people whose knowledge of CS is zero and they hate the command line. It is plain simpler. Takes about 20 minutes, then all just works -- printers, internet, openoffice, firefox -- most people's needs, if you take out gamers and the like (and they are a small percentage of real users) are pretty basic, really.
It is actually amazing how much the balance between Linux and Windows changed in the last couple of years -- in part thanks to Ubuntu, and in part thanks to Vista.
This has nothing to do with Harvard's finances. In any case Harvard does not make money out of scholarly publications.
This is a coup against publishers, the likes of Elsevier and Springer. What Harvard is saying is that, as a condition of sponsoring research at Harvard, the results MUST be accessible in open form. Hence, when faculty transfer the copyright of their papers to the publishers (a step that happens each time a paper is published), a clause will have to be added that Harvard reserves the right to make the works available in an open access way.
This is great, and other universities are thinking the same (but acting with less courage).
This leaves open the point of why one must transfer copyright when publishing papers -- why would a license to use the content not be enough? But traditionally, faculty and researchers have been slaves to publishers. Harvard's decision is a sign that the balance of power is changing, due to the internet.
Maybe they have fixed it in the meantime? I am fairly sure a couple of months ago (say, this summer) it still happened. I would be happy to know that it is fixed!
In Gmail, the problem is false positives: when Gmail labels a message as junk, it moves *the whole thread* to the junk folder. So if you have a thread with 20 messages, and the 21st is incorrectly classified as spam, poof, also all the other previous 20, that you had confidently filed away, silently go into the spam folder, where they are silently deleted after 30 days. This is a consequence of how Gmail deals with threads, or "conversations". I reported this bug to the Gmail team long ago, but they haven't fixed it yet as far as I know.
So if you want someone using Gmail to delete an email exchange they had with you, send them an additional message in the same thread offering to sell them Viagra. They will never see the message, but the whole thread will be deleted in one month. Disclaimer: I have not tried this (but I have lost email due to the above problem, and I know I did, as I keep a separate backup of my mail via pop, where the missing messages were still present).
Indeed, nowhere in the article it says that EMI is considering cutting funding for the RIAA. The article author, who is unaffiliated with EMI and RIAA, is simply saying that it would not be illogical for EMI to do so.
Think at the advantages of vynil: no DRM, no root kits, no embedded (digital) viruses... Analog does have lots of advantages.
The barrier is set very high in hardware. So people innovate in software: see Google, YouTube, MySpace, Ebay, Craigslist, Wikipedia, ...
All started basically in a garage.
There is always a cutting edge that is accessible -- it just keeps moving!
Photoshop with educational discount is $300 for their most advanced version, and that comes with installation rights on 2 machines. And, you get a limited but functional photoshop with many cameras and scanners... If they are going to do it web-based, it will mean that when I do a photography vacation, I won't be able to use photoshop on the road to retouch my photos!
No, I am using IMAP over ssl, and configured correctly, it was a Kmain bug. And no thanks -- I won't want to reproduce it! Thankfully I had a backup. Most likely Kmail choked at the huge amount of email (many folders with over 20,000 messages). It may have improved by now, but no, I am not trying that experiment again.
Great!
In other news, RIP linux for the desktop. With the loss of the two main developers for Thunderbird, it looks like linux is going on without a single decent desktop (non-terminal) email app. Kmail, the one time I tried it, promptly erased all my email folders, and in any case is not very flexible. Thunderbird had plenty of faults, but it was the best one of the crop. Now, without a single great email app, how can an IT manager decide to go with linux over the desktop? What would be the advantage to Mac?
I wish Linus could give an edict and convert some kernel developers to app developers and to app integration, but it doesn't work that way, technical people will always enjoy more working on the kernel than on apps, and linux over the desktop will always be poor.
I am now switching all my group (10 people?) from linux to Mac, and I have only good things to say about it.