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With editors the issue of payment depends on the journal. Some journals employ a staff of professional editors. Others recruit tenured scientists who do the editorial work for an honorarium that seems tiny, considering the amount of work involved. I don't know which model is more widely used - I can think offhand of many journals of both types, but don't recall ever having seen statistics.
Oh yeah, they'd easily be able to. They're incredibly strict on the paperwork when you're registering. My account was frozen until I mailed in personal identification due to a minor discrepancy in the name that I used for the billing address.
As long as artificial diamonds are cheaper. Last I heard, natural industrial-quality diamonds were cheaper than artificial ones, which were cheaper than natural gem-quality.
Except that diamonds are just a form of carbon, whereas gold is divisible and un-manufacturable. Say what you want about diamonds, they way will pass as technology makes more and more strides, but gold does have industrial use as well as financial use. Gold is money when the future is completely uncertain. Heck, the Dow hasn't moved since the thirties when priced in gold.
Can't agree more that marketing weight losses products is sh*t and will very likely end by spamming people (like the 50 or 60 SPAM Gmail catch every month).

But let's look from the good side. You design a new website (with flash for example), fancy and nice, good customer supports, easy transactions, product delivery management... and you take a % in sale.

You can end up earning something like $100K a month. Nothing weired with that, it's innovative and amazing and you are improving the user experience.

The real problem is that the current marketer are too busy earning money from ebay/email/twitter SPAM to build something innovative that solves buyers problems.
Uh, how is this new? Kodak used to give away cameras so you'd buy film.
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I am somewhat acquainted with heavy-weight entrepreneurs in Israel. In addition, several of my friends are involved in start-ups, myself included. Drop me a line (shmichael at gmail) if that seems interesting.
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Okay, I hate snarky replies like the one I'm about to make, but regardless, here goes...

I'm a web developer, and if we were to open up the Internet, let me tell you what will happen:

First of all, there will be hardcore porn immediately. Boob websites will flood the Internet, because that's what makes money. If the Internet implements a flagging mechanism, then you will be one click away from opening a website to purchase hard core porn.

Lots of people will create websites with 5 pictures and call it "Celebrity News". For example Britney Spears News, etc. Websites will have new content every single day so they are always at the top of Google search results. People will create websites that do nothing but just have a title people will search for.

With the amount of money people are spending online, and the fact that people are looking for cheap entertainment rather than useful tools, the Internet would be a heaven for spammers and scammers.

If we ever unlocked the gates, it would be the absolute end of the Internet.

I have a phone number of a website reviewer and I talk to him every now and then. They get a lot of crap. The gate is not to QC a website, it's to prevent the Internet from being a crapware and spammers paradise.
I've looked into this problem too, and I think its hard for vendors in a mall type setting, where they may have access to a phone line but use it for credit card systems, or may not have access to separate internet connection.

The site looks polished, and product looks solid. Good luck.
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more info: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/technology/companies/09soc...

The meat:

The Gmail move signals that Google remains serious about becoming a social media force at a time when some of Silicon Valley’s younger start-ups have stolen some of its thunder.

"It might look like a minor feature advance, but this is another blow in the war against Facebook," said Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at Altimeter Group, a technology consulting company.
They edited the original title, which was the chemical formula for the reaction. At first glance, I really thought it was APL for a second (with all the symbols it had in the formula).
You certainly do have to modify that advice to avoid serious injury, but from my limited boxing experience I'll say that nothing teaches you to keep your hands up like getting smacked around a few times.
What prevents someone from doing a screen capture or content scrape of your data and posting it to their website?

Are you geared up to start sending out cease and desist notices to every chump with a myspace account who happens to like sports and knows how to use pbrush and ALT+Print Screen.

Good luck but it seems too easily to rape your content and leave you holding the legal bill for a fight you can't win.
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As far as I consume, most juices tend to be Vitamin D fortified, which is known to halve the risk of pancreatic cancer. Soda's don't have Vitamin D in them, which won't provide the same prevention. However, the logic would suggest if you regularly drink sodas (which I do, although I drink mostly diet sodas) you should adjust your diet for higher Vitamin D (which, incidentally, I've always done).

Boosting your vitamin D levels can be as simple as being outside in the sun for 15 minutes, if that's not possible perhaps buy fortified juice, or dump the skimmed milk (non-fortified skimmed milk has 0 Vitamin D, whole milk has ~25% of your RDA per serving). Fat-free or low-fat Yogurts are typically fortified too, typically to give 25% per serving. Although fish-oils will always be a great supplement source.

Similarly diets high in B6, B12 and Folate protect against pancreatic cancer, however they don't appear to offer the protection in supplement form, only through actual food.
I might be alone in this, but this seems like a symptom of the problems of IP laws.
Because it's a zeroth-order, zero-thought mantra of an argument? A childish one-dimensional approach to a multidimensional question?

Among other things: There is no "market". There are markets. There is a market for hardcore pron. There is a market for child-safe web surfing. There is a market for violent games. There is a market for nonviolent games. There is a market for a device you can be seen using in a corporate boardroom. There is a market for a device you can give to your mom. There is a market for a device that makes Steve Jobs proud.

Many of these markets are mutually exclusive. Some of these markets are bigger than others. Some of them have higher prestige. Some of them have much higher margins.
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What's with companies trying to be something that they're not these days? Facebook changed user's privacy settings so they could be more like Twitter, but why? Facebook does/did sharing photos, updates, and news with family and friends very well, and I can't understand why they're trying to go against that original goal of "closeness". I see the same thing happening here. I can't really see how tacking a status update feature onto Gmail will help Google in the social space.
I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.
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We should write some...
Oh, you are so close to enlightenment you can practically taste it!

Or maybe you are enlightened and this is your attempt at a Zen koan. If so: pretty good.

The iPhone already has a built-in free-for-all free-of-charge Transmetropolitan Interzone, where you can develop and publish whatever you want, pron and scammers run free, and nothing is controlled by anyone, for better or for worse. It's called "Mobile Safari". The rest of the iPhone experience -- the App Store -- is different from that. That may turn out to be a major reason why the App Store is worth so much money.
You're basically attacking every freemium model that sells data as their product. This isn't unique to his idea.
Poor old Arc90 needs to get some better hosting. Their server always seems to be coughing up blood. And Google doesn't have this one cached yet :(
You guys are describing different models. I'm talking specifically about selling pieces of a free website.
I'm actually highlighting how your business model is just a single execution of a broader method of conducting business. However, in the sense that your end product differs from the other examples, yes. If you really want it that bad.
Yeah, yeah. The issue is, Apple owns the app store. They are in the business of making money, and they generally do this by being tasteful. By all accounts they seem to be doing pretty well.
How is that different than screen capturing any website and posting to Myspace?? This is an issue (not really) for any website.

And there are no legal issues if someone does this to my content.
Very diplomatically put..
Question for Chomsky:

Imagine a sci fi story in which a government creates a drug that makes people acutely aware of the nation's problems yet totally apathetic about them, reducing the risk that some awful truth will be revealed that might lead to revolution.

Is the Internet this drug? Is there anything at all that you could possibly say in this interview session that would motivate a single person watching to change his/her life course to take action?
Yes, some might find it offensive.
Gold is money only because most people agree on that. If our civilization collapses the only 'money' people will take will be corn and rise.

Said that, I agree that gold has value, it has it's uses. But when it's get used as a 'safe' currency it's all artificial.
That's exactly how I felt when I played paintball a while ago.
A safer experiment can be performed using baking soda and sugar, although I believe you've got to add a fuel to allow it to self-burn, but isopropyl alcohol should be all that's required. These produce 'black snakes' rather than the golden ones from this video. There's recipies online for the concoction, however you can pick up packs of a dozen or so 'black snakes' from firework stores.

They're non-explosive, so I don't imagine you'd have a hard time tracking some down if you wanted to see it personally.
Also, can you speed up the demos? The pacing is horribly slow. "now we are going to click 'Item List' [pause] [pause] [pause] [click] [pause] [pause] now..."

I would expect that your potential customers already know about POS terminology and quickly want to see if your software matches their technical requirements and is easy to use. The incredibly slow moving, dumbed-down videos would turn me off instantly.
He suggested he was working in Toronto. I do know that there are plenty of Canadians with permanent residency in the US, because I keep hoping one of them will adopt me.
Play games on the PC, where voice chat is usually opt-in.
The scenario you are describing would hardly hit what would otherwise be paying customers. If he is still profitable, then the only problem is that the pirates are getting something for free which, from a business point of view, is irrelevant.
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/ski/

Ski is a super addictive SkiFree-like game for Terminal.
>> "[To continue reading subscribe now]"

Yeah how about [To continue having a viable business model stop pissing off visitors with stupid pay/subscribe walls].

Sorry, offtopic I know. It just irritates the hell out of me.
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They are indeed metabolized differently, for the most part. The sugars in fruits will have higher concentrations of simple glucose (though they still have plenty of fructose) than a soda does. Fructose and Sucrose (depending on what is state-subsidized where you live) are likely the only sweetener in sodas, and they require extra processing (by insulin and others) to be useful.

Usually the body transforms Fructose/Sucrose into lipids instead of consuming them on the spot like simple glucose. I suppose the body is trying to save the sub-standard fuel for when it has no other choice. Not sure what this has to do with cancer, but I suppose if there are too many insulin needs in the body that the pancreas will break down eventually (and cells turn into cancer sometimes instead of dying when they wear out in rare cases).
Human biological clock
Training time is quite costly: not only are they learning your systems on your dime, but they're learning them from people far senior (who are teaching them on your dime), so you need to make sure you're going to get a good ROI, and the interview's goal is to confirm that.
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I play games with friends or alone, never with strangers. Problem solved.

I have yet to play QuakeLive on anything other than practice mode.
I think this person is not really informed about JIT.

Knowing the code at the beginning of the run doesn't make you know its runtime profile, at all. But it's something the LLVM generation is not aware of.

I think that the people who saw only the suits in front of java and C# didn't see what happent on the JVM/CLR side. And a lot of things where shaken there.
This title no verb.

Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1110170
The referenced blog post is incredibly silly.

Is Pete Cashmore sad?
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It's Slicehost (Rackspace), go figure :)
http://twitter.com/arc90/status/8828385989
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Somebody once said:

the trouble is abstraction can solve all problems except too much abstraction.
Yea I agree that theres a few points where it gets slow, I'll take a look at tightening them up a bit. That being said I think they're not bad considering some of the other training videos I've seen :)

Was there a particular one that bothered you? Let me know and I'll get to it asap - thanks
Same story, different source, no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1100561
I'm not a christian or anything, but naming something derived from the word hell seems bad karma to me. I'm sure it's going to get hella of a lot laughs at first. But isn't there a scientist they could name it after?
I don't think LLVM provides any such virtual machine, despite its name. It has a code generator, but no VM as such.
Are you referring to Cloud Servers or sites?

I am finding Cloud Servers to be a great system, especially when you have load balancing and backend servers that don't use any non-local bandwidth. at $10/mo for a 256MB slice compared to $20/mo for slicehost, it is a good deal if you need a lot of small workers.
i don't get it

(read the whole deck, clicked around, watched 30sec of a video)
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I'm doomed.
I think I laid out a pretty convincing case in my comments in the survey for how the app store brokenness has affected me personally.

Summary: I've experienced two GV-scenarios, where a legitimate app was rejected not because of crashes, private APIs, content, but because Apple didn't want it in the store. As a one-man shop, I can't afford to sink time in to projects like that, and as a result, I've stopped developing for myself (I still do some contract work).

Apple's communication to me has been totally abysmal. Once they've rejected an app simply refusing to tell me why (I even have a phone #-- I guess somebody told them not to answer my calls). Another time they've given me a factually false reason (describing my app as doing something that it doesn't actually do).

I have absolutely zero confidence in app review. If it's easier for Google to rewrite GV in HTML5 than to navigate app review, how is a one-man shop supposed to do it? Clearly Apple is using the app store as a hardball negotiating tactic, not as a real sales channel. And I have no desire to get caught in the crossfire.
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Dear Google,

Please stop adding things to my Gmail that make it a worst email reader. If you want to make some sort of social center, please create a new tool that ties into Gmail. Gmail was a really great product 2 years ago, but you keep adding dumb shit to it and making it less stable. Please stop. Thank you.
We went ahead and put in alternative static images for those who don't have flash/have flash disabled.

Thanks again for the feedback
While this makes it easier to use- you should always use a keypair to login via SSH anyway. However you should also always use a password along with it. The password might not need to be as complex imho as without the key pair, but it is still important. Otherwise anyone with access to your box has instant access to your server as well.
Yes, the restrictions are definitely the reason the App Store is worth so much money. Asking Apple to remove them is akin to demanding that movie theater owners allow outside food and beverages and forgo their $8 popcorn.

My point is that there is a kind of fearmongering in comments like the one above mind -- that if somehow Apple were to open up its platform to the wild and wooly world, it'd soon be overrun by every form of scam and debauchery known to man.

Countless examples prove otherwise. There is no "reason" for Apple to maintain these restrictions other than money.

(Oh, and it looks like enlightenment will have to wait after the blow to my karma I just took on that comment above.)
This line particularly tickled my fancy: "Nobody took into account that diamonds, like any other commodity, can drop in value"

The wheel of time turns, ages come and go.
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Why is this any different from letting Google store my spreadsheets [etc.]

It's not, much. I think those things are stupid and irresponsible as well.

So much for cloud computing...

Centralized services != cloud computing.

If you had said "so much for web 2.0" we'd be in vigorous agreement.

I don't see what GPL'ing the code will do (that's not a feature to most people).

It's not a customer-facing feature when we're talking about small retailers, that's for sure. It is a feature that faces the small business support service firms that support small retailers.

I'm going to ask my accounting firm for advice on a POS system??? For most small businesses, your accountant is guy that works out his house and can barely use e-mail.

Advice? Yes. General contracting? No.

Look at main st in some small city or big city neighborhood. There are (knock on wood) still some successful retail outlets. Within that market, some accountants are dominant. And successful in their own right. One of their issues is how cheaply and smoothly they get data from their small business customers. They therefore know which customers have winning set-ups for IT related stuff like POS and which do not. And if they are worth their metal, they can help a new client re-create that success.

I'd bet with you, not against you, that the median small business accounting firm is useless in this regard. I'd also note that successful small business start-ups are unlikely to settle for that median.
A quick Google search shows:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov

The usage of this copyright designation (which apparently has to be set manually by Flickr) is described here:
https://forum.webcontent.gov/resource/resmgr/flickr_best_pra...

Which is a US government document describing the use of Flickr for government works.
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Not really confusing at all. They combined the two with the verses taking their melody from 'Heart & Soul' and the 'boom de yada' from 'I Love the Mountains.'
"I've also never seen stats where LLVM beats GCC in execution time of compiled code."

http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/73732.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple...

Results are mixed, with llvm-gcc generally being slightly slower. There are some benchmarks where it's much slower, and also a few where it's actually faster than GCC. So yeah, there are tasks where LLVM beats GCC in execution time of compiled code.

Rumor has it that parts of Snow Leopard are built with llvm-gcc. Presumably Apple would benchmark both alternatives and only build the parts that are actually faster with LLVM.
How do you suggest places like the Wall Street Journal continue to fund themselves?
We have our playbook. What we do is focus on what we do best: take years of experience, a professional approach...

How sweet. Sniff, sniff, /me takes out a handkerchief. How about a little story from the other side of the fence?

Say your company is about to get acquired. You get an email from Om Malik himself asking for coverage. The acquiring company's PR person denies him the exclusivity and any details not covered by an official PR. On the day of acquisition the news appears on GigaOm featuring a link to some obscure blog that thrashes the technology, drags company name through dirt and implies that the founders are sneaky bastards. All based on a handful of "facts" that not only were not based on any research, but were merely conjured from a thin air. Asking this blogger for clarification yields some blabbering gibberish clearly showing he had no idea what he was writing about. GigaOm sits quietly in the corner and enjoys the moment.

So please spare me the bullshit about the "professional approach" and what not.
Is it appropriate to flag a link that requires you to access a paid service to be of any use? I mean, you can argue it's a "spam" link, as if a WSJ cohort posted it, they may be hoping for subscriptions.

I'm eyeballing the link pretty intensely right now...
"no browser implements everything, the standards even contradict themselves in places"

Thank you. I feel this is almost universally misunderstood.

If all browser makers followed the standards exactly we'd have no innovation. And those who malign various browsers for not fully implementing "the standards" would be wise to remember that the <blink> tag was once part of said standards.
Fair enough (and I had to google Cory Doctorow). I think it's possible then that some clips were specifically recorded for this, and others just caught from other videos.
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Any reason the video with the smiling guy on the front page can't start playing if you click him? It looked like it should and I was initially confused when I pressed "play" and the video didn't play, taking me to a new page instead.
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This is dumb.

But then I saw the Facebook group and realized that it's actually social commentary.
When you're bored, you're sedentary, and when you're sedentary, you're out of shape, and when you're out of shape, you're much less healthy.
In my experience, console gaming takes the social experience of online gaming and turns it ass backwards. Instead of selecting servers from a list, which is essentially like picking what community you want to play with, you are thrown in with a bunch of anonymous strangers who in all likely hood are going to act like juvenile asshats.

I believe there is a social theory that relates to this, and I think PG wrote something on it, the whole "as groups get bigger they get less personal and more people are asshats" thing. Well, online console gaming has short circuited the process there...

Do you recall those stories about people who became life long friends or got married after they met in Everquest or WoW? I don't expect you'll hear many stories like that about xbox live or playstation online.
If you have accusations to make, please provide verifiable facts. Otherwise, these insinuations aren't any classier than what you claim to be denouncing.