Heidelberg is now just another mudslinger trying to profit by a model that is increasingly flawed.
When was the last time Heidelberg was actually true is getting to be a distant memory, receding fast.
Super Micro Computer stocks are getting cheap for those who wish to make a profit.
Help me understand this: Say I buy UK Pounds with with US Dollars and let it sit in the account. Have I lost money?
Also, when we can buy stuff with bitcoin, why should we exchange bitcoin to USD? Can't I spend the bitcoin directly if the Seller is willing to take it as payment? Cue the houses being sold in London for bitcoin.
What do you mean cash out? The tickle of acceptance might fizzle out or.... turn into a tsunami in which case, the US Dollar might even become just one more currency used in the US.
Humanities in Medicine has now become a necessity.
A defining feature of Doctors is to be empathetic and professional.
Professionalism is particularly hard to teach or train and even measure.
A bit of humanities in the curriculum can definitely help.
Once upon a time, it was possible to install Corel Photopaint on Mandrake 9.x and it was fantastic.
Only Apple Macs ruled the designer world roost and this was a rebellion in its on right.
These bureaucrats have no ability to enable space travel, no idea of what it entails in terms of engineering. But they have put themselves in charge of blocking it. Right.
Get the fuck out of the way, bureaucrat, and let the people who can, get on with it.
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The problem with the present method is that each paper is scrutinized before publication only by a very small select cohort of experts. And once this decision is taken, its 'published and stays published for ever' (in most cases, discounting the outright fraudulent ones that are retracted)'.
I am a professor of pharmacology and we do critical appraisal of scientific papers in our department all the time for symposiums. You won't know what kind of mistakes my undergrads pick up in journal clubs, of papers published in prestigious journals.
By enough eyeballs, I do mean qualified eyeballs. Not just eyeballs.
Reminds me of Eric Raymond's 'Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow' law.
So basically they want to introduce a Slashdot for scientists..
Prepare for a brand new style of flame-wars!
The point is, people are voting with their money.
A vote which is both unequal - some people have more money to vote with, after all - and by definition corrupt - every single dollar vote you cast has a direct financial impact on you, after all. It's a fine tool for managing logistics, but completely unfit for making decisions that have long-term effects.
Thank you for highlighting this. Voting with money isn't a saint like everybody seems to think. No to sound too condescending, but again, yours was a much needed post.
I recall reading that player activity in D3 dropped by 80% within two months of the PC release, so there's your RMAH audience. The other 80% (plus those who didn't buy) prefer the game without that.
If D3 comes without the always online requirement they will have two sales from me.
>Any country that is cowed by Pakistan is nothing to worry about.
That is United States of America.
$hit Cowed. E.g. Pakistanis had Osama as their honoured Guest and US can't even call that bluff.
You just had to crawl out of the woodwork to advice us on what our priorities should be, didn't you?
Please educate yourself and please restrain yourself next time India launches a Mars Mission or an ICBM Dev. Programme and remember that:
We need to balance our development. If you can't understand the advantages for India to have a credible deterrence vide ICBMs, you probably should shut up, pretty please.
The simple fact is that no one on Kickstarter is there for any reason other than "we want your money because no one else would give us any."
This can be new start-ups with more dreams than schemes, venture capital won't touch them because they have zero experience in doing what they are doing. The idea that "I've never done it, but how hard could it be?" should -and does- raise alarm bells among the sensible.
The second group of Kickstarter money seekers can be classified as the "glorified pre-order" group. These are the established companies that use Kickstarter to fund their normal course of business. The return on investment is too low to justify VC funds, so companies come to crowdfunding as a way of avoiding negotiations with their bank, that is all.
Somewhere in Kickstarter are some interesting little projects (usually local arts projects) that genuinely benefit from this model.
Any VC who would put his clients' money into some of the high risk, high profile Kickstarter projects (I'm looking at you, Ouya) deserves to be fired - which is why they don't. There are no projects on Kickstarter that operate in the VC sphere. None.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
