Never heard of Scientific American until now (firmware engineer). Guess thats the point, they want publicity.
Two posts in a row. You must really want publicity. Scientific American is a very old publication and is not really something that would be considered obscure on a site like slashdot.
A college I once attended had really old editions of Scientific American in the stacks. In the 19th century it was the kind of print publication with technical diagrams and new patents on the front page. It was a vigorous can-do kind of magazine.
It's become more the effete intellectual kind of journal that Eisenhower warned against when he spoke of the scientific-technological elite [intellectualtakeout.org]. Yes, in that same speech where the much more quoted 'military-industrial complex' bromide was created.
As much as I dislike the military-industrial complex, it has provided a ton of jobs for engineers and manufacturers. It's one of the most successful socialist institutions (unfortunately we sacrifice things like universal healthcare to keep it going and it's an environmental nightmare). Our large investments in research have likewise paid off—government money has funded most of the basic research that has propelled America to the status of a global tech leader. I'm sure Eisenhower had Oppenheimer and
I subscribed to Sci Am for about a decade and a half, in the early '90s it was still a thick publication full of charts, graphs, how-to articles, complex setups for amateur scientist investigation, and mathematical games. When I cancelled my subscription around 2005 or so the average article was under six pages, counting the full page illustration on the title page.
Never heard of Scientific American until now (firmware engineer). Guess thats the point, they want publicity.
Two posts in a row. You must really want publicity. Scientific American is a very old publication and is not really something that would be considered obscure on a site like slashdot.
I had a subscription of the German version (Spektrum der Wissenschaft) when I was a teenager in the 80s. I still have some special editions somewhere. Firmware engineer.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack
Never heard of them (Score:0, Troll)
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Never heard of Scientific American until now (firmware engineer). Guess thats the point, they want publicity.
Two posts in a row. You must really want publicity. Scientific American is a very old publication and is not really something that would be considered obscure on a site like slashdot.
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A college I once attended had really old editions of Scientific American in the stacks. In the 19th century it was the kind of print publication with technical diagrams and new patents on the front page. It was a vigorous can-do kind of magazine.
It's become more the effete intellectual kind of journal that Eisenhower warned against when he spoke of the scientific-technological elite [intellectualtakeout.org]. Yes, in that same speech where the much more quoted 'military-industrial complex' bromide was created.
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As much as I dislike the military-industrial complex, it has provided a ton of jobs for engineers and manufacturers. It's one of the most successful socialist institutions (unfortunately we sacrifice things like universal healthcare to keep it going and it's an environmental nightmare). Our large investments in research have likewise paid off—government money has funded most of the basic research that has propelled America to the status of a global tech leader. I'm sure Eisenhower had Oppenheimer and
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I subscribed to Sci Am for about a decade and a half, in the early '90s it was still a thick publication full of charts, graphs, how-to articles, complex setups for amateur scientist investigation, and mathematical games. When I cancelled my subscription around 2005 or so the average article was under six pages, counting the full page illustration on the title page.
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Never heard of Scientific American until now (firmware engineer). Guess thats the point, they want publicity.
Two posts in a row. You must really want publicity. Scientific American is a very old publication and is not really something that would be considered obscure on a site like slashdot.
I had a subscription of the German version (Spektrum der Wissenschaft) when I was a teenager in the 80s. I still
have some special editions somewhere. Firmware engineer.