IEEE Spectrum, a *highly regarded* magazine....

puhlease

OK. Too much Coopers green then...

Then your assumption would be wrong. The number is closer to something like $10–$1000 per year.

For a no-frills open-access journal, the cost is tiny. Depending on how much they want to borrow from their institutions, the number is somewhere between $10 and $1000 per year. The top end of this is about half of a single typical professor's "Professional Expense Allowance". Or each of the editorial board members could cough up somewhere between $0.33 and $33.33 per year. How do I know? Because I've been doing this for six years. http://jocg.org/

I cycle through a residential neighbourhood every day, and I have this problem constantly with _human_ drivers. They simply don't trust a cyclist, who doesn't have at least one foot firmly on the ground, to not pedal out in front of them. I usually have to make a huge "after you" motion with one hand before a car even considers driving through a four way stop in front of me.

I've never worked in an open office. What's the protocol when you've eaten cabbage rolls the night before and have lots of farting to do before you're finally ready for your morning shit?

Huh? I'm in Canada and I pay $52 a month for monthly home internet (300GB limit).

This. Louis CK did this the right way. Pay $5 and get sent a link to a clean video file that you can download up to five times and watch on any device that supports it (or transcode to any other format you want). I'd like to watch this movie, but the old xbmc box connected to my TV probably won't do a good job playing back an HD Vimeo stream (as some others have already reported).

Yes, certainly for tenure and promotion cases in my own department, I am qualified. For almost all awards cases, me or someone else on the committee is qualified. If not, the application was sent to the wrong committee.

Lots of people here seem confused about how academics are evaluated. I sit on on tenure and promotion committees and lots of awards committees. I have seen many cases where someone with fewer, but better, publications wins out over someone with lots of publications. The people who evaluate these things are not idiots. They're usually carefully selected to be knowledgeable about research in the candidate's area. Even if they're not, then they rely on external evaluations from experts. The system is not as broken as most people here think.

Tying funding to graduation rates is a bad idea. It leads to one (or both) of two things:

1. 1. extremely high entrance requirements that ensure any student who gets in has what it takes to get through the program, or
2. 2. lowering standards so that every student (no matter how bad they are) makes it through the program.

Option 1 leaves out students who are plenty smart, but just goofed around in high school. Option 2 makes university degrees worthless.

There are such efforts underway. Some sites have more useful collections of scientific articles than my own university's library.

Troll much?

Many of these papers are obtained from authors personal web pages. That's great for current papers but won't help in 10-20 years when those web pages are gone. The legal long-term solution is for authors to publish their papers in preprint repositories, like the arxiv, that will outlast them. Funding agencies should make this mandatory for all publicly-funded research.