Comment Re:Publish or Perish (Score 1) 67
Why can't the people in charge of making the career decisions for academics take the few days a year to read and judge papers themselves rather the relying on the peer review system to do it for them.
Why can't the people in charge of making the career decisions for academics take the few days a year to read and judge papers themselves rather the relying on the peer review system to do it for them.
Sounds like the a tiny, caseless computer for hackers and wannabe hackers designed mostly by volunteers is going to outsell a flagship product from one of the most powerful companies in the world.
You seem to have a lot of shame.
I forgive you. You where only being human, driven by irrational fears.
It seems to me the Greenpeace's successful campaign against nuclear power and failure to campaign against coal power has been a major cause of global warming. No doubt Greenpeace knew or should have known since the 1980s how much worse coal is for the environment.
The information has always been just sitting there on Mars. It's no big deal there.
It could make a big difference when the information is available on Earth.
The previous rovers established existence of past water.
Showing the existence of past microbial life on Mars would be a big deal.
Given that it was found in soil instead of rock and how early in the mission it is suggest it is current microbial life that they found.
Microbacterial would probably not be the right term for life on Mars. Bacteria is on of the three domains of life on Earth. Life on Mars would have its own domains (unless life on Earth originated on Mars)
I guess the only solution to wireless signal jamming is to go back in time and start using Police Boxes, again.
The removal of the regulations allowed the greed to blossom. There was also the ongoing improvement in greed and malfeasance technology means the damage it does gets worse and worse over time if regulations doesn't keep up.
This kind of thing was predicted by Marx. It's just taken longer then expected because government regulation kept the greed in check, but it has been unleashed since the 1980s.
It's not detention. It was preventing him from going to the US, which is within US immigrations rights.
Technically he could have walked away at any moment as long as he didn't take a flight to the United States. I guess he stayed to have a chance to go, and they eventually let him go to the US.
Their unsupported belief on God hurts my feelings, too. It sadness me that there is such widespread and passionate rejection of rationality.
Then I remember they are just being human.
When I broke by hand I used right-handed Dvorak, but semicolons where a pain. If it proves too much of a problem you can look into customizing the keymap yourself.
Governments behaving sensibly all the time. The problem is it never makes headlines, so no one knows about it. When they behave badly it make headlines, so people assume government always behave badly because that's all they hear about.
The increase in Carbon Dioxide and this chart is covered in a fair amount of detail in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
The reason that this isn't talk about much is the evidence of the dramatic increase in Carbon Dioxide in recent decades is so clear, even deniers don't reject it.
According to this study, the heatwaves would be less frequent of the temperatures were 1C cooler.
"We all pay lip service to the idea that most users never change the default settings in software, but we rarely follow this through to its logical conclusion."
That most users are ignorant?
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira