paai - Slashdot User

Comment Deutsches Museum at Munich (Score 0) 435

by paai on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @06:26PM (#29044831) Attached to: Science, Technology, Natural History Museums?

I don't know if your trip extends to Europe, but if it does, the Deutches Museum at Munich is probably the best museum in its kind that I have seen (and yes, I have seen the Smithsonian too).

Imagine a leading industrial nation that lost two wars, but still is one of the richest countries of the world. Imagine the urge that possesses such a nation to show the world that it still counts as a leading nation in this and other fields. Imagine (almost) unlimited funds. Now you have the Deutsches Museum.

Comment Lesser nations should not keep their own stuff (Score 0) 391

by paai on Saturday May 16, 2009 @03:53PM (#27981049) Attached to: Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

Found in Germany by an international team. But unveiled in the American museum for natural history in New York, and rightly so. Lesser nations have no right on the discoveries made in their own soil.

Submission + - Microsoft-only submissions to conferences.

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paai

on Sunday October 05, 2008 @03:56PM

paai writes: "A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work with the scholarly community of Cultural Heritage, as opposed to the Artificial Intelligence crowd that I normally associate with. But whereas conferences on AI as a matter of fact accept papers in LaTeX or PDF, the conferences on cultural heritage seem to be Microsoft only, and I really get problems when I submit my papers in PDF, ODT or even in the DOC format that is generated by Openoffice.

As a matter of fact it seems that if I do not use Word, I often cannot publish my papers. I cannot even blame the organizers of the conferences, because they have to comply with the guidelines of the publishers, and they just do not accept papers that are not written in Word.
Walk away from such conferences really is no option, because in academia you live or die with the number of publications and I just cannot afford to ignore Microsoft-only conferences.
My question to the slashdot community is NOT whether I should publish or perish. What I should like to know is if there is a central forum or organization that is attended by the organizers of conferences in general and where I can draw attention to this problem.

Paai"

Comment Why is this funny? (Score 0) 364

by paai on Sunday August 03, 2008 @10:47AM (#24456017) Attached to: Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error

I nowhere found the real meaning of the chineese characters, not on slashdot and not on the site referred to. So for all I know the translation is correct...

Can somebody enlighten me what the correct translation would be, and why this one is so funny?

Paai

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