Comment Re:Actually faster... (Score 1) 488
Me too, same thing. Improved performance. Same phone: 4S. Maybe it's a 4S thing. Hey, did you notice improved call quality? Whose your carrier?
Jim
Comment For me, faster (Score 1) 488
My immediate impression, on my 4S, was that it was much snappier. Also, my voice quality went from unacceptable to great. I realize that's almost certainly a coincidence--something happened on my network at the same time, or something--but that was my experience.
As for speed though, no question: My iPhone 4S got faster.
Jim
Submission + - They found the God particle--what now? (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: Teams of hundreds of young scientists--including many grad students and postdocs--staffed the Large Hadron Collider and helped make one of the most important scientific discoveries in recent decades. Now they must compete for just a handful of jobs.
Submission + - Note to Self: NEVER Do This (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: A note inadvertently left in the "supplemental information" of a journal article appears to instruct a subordinate scientist to fabricate data.
Submission + - Some "Very Strong Words" on the Immigration Reform Bill (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: At Science Careers, we've posted remarks by Norm Matloff on the immigration reform bill that passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after 8 amendments from Senator Orin Hatch (R-Utah). "I believe that we will be seeing a lot of very angry people, once they realize what has been snuck through," he says.
Submission + - Going Rogue (sciencemag.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Mere months after running a crowdfunding campaign to set up his own "meth lab", Ethan Perstein leaves Princeton University and strikes out on his own.
Submission + - What 'Stapling a Green Card' Portends for STEM (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: At Science Careers, we've just posted a column by Beryl Benderly on the likely affects of high-skill immigration reform proposals on science, IT, and other "STEM" careers:
>>"The incentives are all aligned to create massive downward pressures on the labor market" should "stapling" become a reality, says Hal Salzman of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "It will lower costs in the labor market and effectively disincentivize people to go into [STEM] fields. It diminishes the quality of the jobs. The good Americans [will] go elsewhere."
Submission + - "We Are the World" (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: Computer science veteran Ed Lazowska argues that his field is poised to dominate careers in the sciences.
Submission + - Sexy, Sexy Scientists (sciencemag.org)
An anonymous reader writes: A popular feature about the sexiest scientists leads Adam Ruben to ask what it means to be sexy in science and to advise readers on how to make their science sexier. (Example: 'Arrange implausible pornographic situations in the lab: "This is my friend Kimberly. She just came over to use the chemical safety shower. Oh, look, the repairman is here to fix the differential scanning calorimeter." ') No one else writes stuff like this: "As the adage says, sex sells. (Or, if used to vend half a dozen unhealthy gametocytes, sex sells six sick sex cells.)"
Submission + - How to Write Like a Scientist (sciencemag.org)
Jim_Austin writes: "Really really funny, this is! Adam Ruben's latest humor column in Science"
Submission + - Truly Alternative Science Careers (sciencemag.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot has picked up previous "Experimental Error" columns, but this one might be the funniest yet. Can't find work in this bad economy, in your chosen scientific field? What is to be done? How 'bout trying a career in Lysenkoism, diluvial geology, or political science?
Submission + - Future crime fighter
An anonymous reader writes: I'm 12 years old and i live in the heart of New York when i'm older I'm gonna be a superhero. Iv'e won 7 wrestling awards and i'm 6'2.
My name will be.... well i'm still working on that
Email me a good gadget website at bryce_derp_herp@hotmail.com
Thanks
My name will be.... well i'm still working on that
Email me a good gadget website at bryce_derp_herp@hotmail.com
Thanks
Comment Doesn't make business sense (Score 1) 166
Many of the posters below are missing the point--which is that the greedy terms of service make a potentially useful service--like Google Docs--useless for any serious purpose. For example, I would like to use Google Docs in an international online publishing venture. But I can't, because of the TOS. Specifically, while for Google Docs section 11.1 is amended in a way that makes it (borerline) acceptable), section 11.2 remains:
>>11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
(and, yes, they actually misspelled "license" in their terms of service.)
I'm sure they have their reasons, but these terms are unacceptable for my professional use. So, with regret, I don't use it. Assuming that Google has produced this service in the interest of making a profit, they've lost my business.
