I went to Northgate Mall in Seattle three weeks ago looking to get either a Nexus 4 or a Samsung galaxy s3.

Samsung products were everywhere.

The only place I could find a Nexus 4 was the Tmobile store, and yes, what tipped me to the Nexus was trying it out.

There was an unaffiliated tablet/phone store elsewhere in the mall that had a Nexus 7 and maybe a 10, but you had to look hard for them.

It still seems weird that you would need to open a whole store as opposed to striking deals for retail space for your stuff, though.

yes. I'm not an expert, but there was clearly some combination of physical and psychological illness, though there's nothing definitive on what. Even by the standards of gentleman scientists he was awfully slow, and you can argue that science was ill-served by his slowness.

And yeah, in mid-19th-century Britain you would be criticized by the religious establishment, but it's not like they could hurt him or deny him an audience. The dude was wealthy, and a near-recluse in any case.

Darwin was a great scientist and had virtues we should honor. But we're ill-advised to turn fragile mortals into heroes.

Yep. I was going to ask for a chainsaw robot army, but not these.

"Boys aren't receptive to women when they are kids" a. Speaking as a former boy, bullshit. b. If you can't deal with women who have authority, that may be your problem.

"girls' type of behavior" What, like paying attention in class and getting their work done?

What actual research on labor markets shows is that this is not how they work: there's plenty of evidence of ongoing discrimination in hiring and promotion. You're reasoning from an abstraction rather than data.

With a big monitor and a little discipline you should be able to do this. Meetings are harder, especially if you need to be prepared for questions on a lot of stuff -- it can still be easier to find things in a well-organized sheaf of documents, and you're not vulnerable to network outages or your laptop suddenly deciding to reboot. But as tablets get better and cheaper this should change. A couple years ago, less than half of us in a meeting would be using laptops for documents, now, especially if it's younger folks, we all are.

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You notice it immediately if you know which is which. "Matter" is a different question. Ordinary writing has enough redundancy that you can introduce a lot of error and still have the meaning get through.

Yes. Go look at the Gardenweb appliance forum, especially contributions by Kaseki. But kitchen renovation is a whole world to itself.

What you're talking about is a program of minor repairs, not a renovation.

Another part of this was the effort to crush Netscape by integrating Internet Explorer 4.0 into the OS, no?

Game-changing papers may encounter more initial resistance, but I have to tell you as a reviewer that most rejected papers are rejected because they're poor and/or trivial. There's an awful lot of dross out there and, really, how many game-changing papers emerge in a given year? How often do games change? Moreover if I think about the fields I know well ... it may not be fair, but most of the game-changing is done by folks who are already prominent and know how to get their stuff published. The extra-effort hypothesis has a lot more going for it. It's also possible that as you take more time and resubmit to a new journal, you add more citations, increasing the density of connections to it which may in turn raise its chances of citation. Plus and more reviewers see it as it goes through more referee gauntlets, which may also raise its profile a tiny bit. The first hurdle with raising your profile in a field is just getting read in the first place. Publication in a journal does not guarantee that anyone else will ever read the article.

The original comment is right in pointing out that Enlightenment principles had a far more sweeping impact on France and the U.S. than on Britain. Germany too. Britain, by contrast, has a state church. Britain has a monarch who has little but not zero political power, and a House of Lords, for Christ's sake, with considerable power. And you can't be serious re HHS! No insurance mandate stops people from practicing their religion.

Me too: for a new PC build, an SSD big enough for OS and apps, even current files, is a cheap way to make noticeable performance gains. Those seconds add up. And it's the obvious storage device for a laptop. I'm surprised it's not the default option for most laptops. Part of laptop functionality is being able to open the thing up and be working quickly.