They did not even spend time to put up a credible demo. The web app they demo has missing images, images that do not correspond to the text. Why would I or anyone else be convinced to spend much more time learning a new IDE and switching to it, when they did not spend enough time for a proper demo.
Open does not imply any freedoms. A software source could be openly put in the public but without license, hence you would not be free to use it nor to learn from it.
The "better" journals are listed in JCR. Nearly 40% of them have impact factor less than 1, it means that on average papers in them are cited less than 1 times.
Conclusion: even in better journals, the average paper is rarely cited at all, which means that definitely the public has rarely heard of it or found it useful.
The only solution to this is that state authorities learn how this is a systemic problam and start to reject email addresses from operators like Gmail for all their services (and all email operators that do not have a real support and where one's identity is not actively checked and can not be proven and taked back via a real support line).
One should mention the most comprehensive web-site that includes all the info you will ever need about Vangelis and his work - Elsewhere - http://elsew.com/
I applaude the web-site authors and maintainers for their work over the years.
Antarctica (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085991/) is a fantastic dreamy movie. It is a nature movie, somewhere in-between a feature film and documentary, about dogs that are left to survive alone during the winter on the Antarctica. Whats intriguing is that it is a story told from their perspective - nearly no dialogue, just visuals and music. The movie is slow, so you need to be in the mood for that and kind of psychedelic, so I highly recommend watching it just before dawn on a projector and a proper surround system (borrow one or visit a friend if you don't have your own, it's worthy).
Just have in mind that longer paragraphs of text (in english) are more readable if the width of the text is 60-70 characters. But if your web-site is done by the book, a browser can detect longer texts and will allow the visitors to switch to reader mode and read the text in a format that is best for them.
The best arguments for a long-term mail storing solution - it keeps your emails and all your mail settings, in a form that is truly portable, so that you can easily move it from computer to computer
I am trusting it with 22 GB of emails (many tens of thousands of emails) organized in many folders.
You can have it connected to many online mail services, so it will sync (and keep an offline copy of your mail) and keep all of them separate. Or, you can configure it to sort all your email in a single place and folder hierarchy.
You can have various types of filters, separately per mail account.
There is nothing strange in this practice of only using a certain type of joins.
If you are right handed, and have a practice to write the joins in the direction one->many (or person->children, or in the opposite direction of a foreign key) then you will always write the join as:
from person join children
Then, if you are not a beginner and know a bit about nulls and their side-effects, the best thing that you can do to prevent the risk of missing data is:
from person left join children
Why? Because this will help so that you will never miss those persons that do not have children.
So, depending on the type of the application, it may be the case that outer joins are nearly always needed and it maybe be a part of quality assurance policies to always do a left join, so that most queries are easily readable by most of the team.
If you are left handed, then perhaps you will write the same query as:
from children right join person
full outer join is not needed at all if you have enforced referential integrity everywhere - you will only need a left (or right) outer join (depending on the left-to-right or right-to-left reading preference)
in databases that do not have referential integrity enforced on all true foreign keys, full outer join will probably be the only right type of join. Otherwise, you will have problems with many scenarios.
Don't succumb to the social pressure of the herd mentality. Be proud of what and who you are. Different is good. Try to be the best that you can be and all will be OK.
ACM members can offer their papers open-access legally and for free, helped by the ACM.
ACM has an authorizer service that allows you as an author, to publish special links on your personal website, that will offer all visitors of your personal web-site free downloads of your papers.
Those who are interested in your paper don't need an account, they just need to click on the special links published on your website and the paper will be free to download in PDF.
Conferences are social gathering events. They are better attended if there are organized in better and more accessible places. Taking care of everything at conference, and do it at some better location has a cost.
Some conferences are institutions, have a formal organization that stands behind them and it is well organized so has some of these costs figured out and planned well in advance. Many are not. Many conferences are organized by different institutions each year, and are organized in turns by the hosting institution at locally available venues.
Imagine a small conference organized by a small department and it's total budget:
- 100 presenters * $500 registration + 100 attendees * $100 registration = $60000
You need a venue. Many departments do not have resources to organize conferences in a presentable manner (lack of space, lack of rooms/halls). So you need a venue. Plus if the conference is in a nice venue, for a cheaper price - it will certainly be attended more.
Let's say that you were lucky and that some hotel accepted to be exclusive venue and they offered all of their equipment and halls, if at least 50 participants decided to book a room for the duration of the entire conference and there were 50 such participants. That way, you don't have to rent the hotel's halls and their projectors/laptops/screens/microphones.
You will still need to pay for this:
- costs to get respectable keynote lecturers and pay for their travel fees, room, meals, etc.
- organizing teams costs (even if they volunteer their time, they still have traveling expenses to visit the venue at least several times and organize local issues)
- hosting for a dedicated web-site for many years to come + web designer to support it 24/7 during the call for papers and during the conference
- print/publish the proceedings + editor
- venue for either the opening or the closing ceremony or some joint excursion or museum visit or all of these if you want to leave an impressiong that you are a host that wants to pamper their guests (if you don't pay for at least some of these, most people will not come next year, as the point of the event is to be a socializing trigger, and socialization always happens in the margins of the conference, at these social events, so the whole point of the conference will be lost if you don't take care for at least several such events)
- at least 2/3 photographers to cover social events and parallel sessions
- finger food / coffee / drinks / even water during breaks, maybe lunch for all participants
- banners, badges, posters, ...
I have organized an international conference and I can say that this is just the surface. If you organize an IT conference, you need to take into account that each participant will have at least 2 online devices, maybe more. So you will need wifi access points and routers capable of peaks in new wifi associations ranging from 200-300 per minute, or more. You will need a lot of electricity cables and plugs, power convereters etc. Most hotels doing small gatherings for 100-200 persons, are in fact organized to accomodate weddings and not IT professionals and their net streaming needs.
Do you own total, depending on wherever you are. In some countries this will cost much more than the budget, in some less so their might be something left to pay the organizers and even volunteers for their effort. Not much, but at least something so they do not avoid you when you decide to organize another conference in two years.