They haven't changed a bit. And that's why we love them :).

It's rubbish!

Yep. He means: "Do not feed me. I'm a troll."

The result of this poll proofs you wrong.

See? Just my point, you're trying to do too many things at once. You can not read a paper, research something else and read four short stories all at once. Focusing on one thing at a time and not getting distracted by other things makes you do your work faster and better.

It's priceless.

Before you publish in Elsevier you have to sign a paper that transfers the copyright on your work to them. So Elsevier is the owner of the work.

Don't forget that the scientists also have to pay a hefty sum per page (usually around US$100,-) to publish their stuff. And then the publishers still have the nerve to ask the scientists to do most of the formatting for them too.

LOL. A browser with many tabs open is like a room with lots of stacks of paper in it: it shows that the person who is living there is unorganized and busy with too many things at once. One can only hope that one of those things will get finished in the future.

The examples you show are from decades ago. These days the US makes the problems and now you say we have to solve them. We have our hands full of the experiment running out of hand that the Euro turned out to be.

I take it you have one book and one piece of music because all the other books and all other music are similar according to you.

The word 'only' implies here that there are other reasons why people create stuff. So your argument doesn't hold.

Good point. Besides, knowing a lot doesn't make you smart. I've seen students get high grades whilst understanding absolutely nothing about the subject. Being smart is not about knowing things but understanding why things are so and being able to use that knowledge in new situations.

Woont Zwarte Piet in Frankrijk in de zomer?

It's interesting that most of the votes come from people on the other side of a pond. Maybe /. should be a bit less America-centered. *ducks and runs*