That's interesting. I do recall articles that were very conclusive about the positive effects of catechines extracted from green tea. The research was done, however, in vitro, which would perhaps imply vastly larger concentrations of these antioxidants.
Please do point me to the article you read. A DOI would be best, or a direct link to it?
I have been a scientist since I was 7 (I had my little chem lab at home at that age already). I have been, and still am, in love with science. But indeed, in the last few years I have also awoken to the importance of natural medications. This is not bullshit such as homeopathy or chiropractice. I am talking about various antioxidants like catechines, curcumines etc. that have not been researched enough, yet, but show a lot of potential in stopping peroxidative chain reactions in the body, preventing development of cancers. Curcumines cause apoptosis of some cancer cells. THC (the active component of marijuana) appears to be one of the most efficient depressants, and it has not side effects! Though the most effective anti-depressant might be psilocybin, the active substance in "magic mashrooms", and again, it has no side effects. Many essential oils have strong antibacterial and antifungal activity, and at the very least should be investigated as disinfectants. I touched off only the very tip of the iceberg here, because just the essential oils have very many different health effects, and are being researched by many scientists in institutions around the world.
However, the "problem" with these naturally occurring chemicals is that they cannot be patented, so big pharma doesn't get quite as much money from researching them. And if they appear to be more effective than the synthetic product, well, we can't have that, can we?
Psychopaths don't have any conscience. That's NOT human nature. Human nature is to have a conscience, and having to fight against it when harming others. That's why a criminal, if not a psychopath, CAN be re-educated. A psychopath cannot. Ever.
"If it makes me $1000, I'll do it. That it will harm 10.000.000 people, it doesn't matter".
That said, nuclear waste is not necessarily the most dangerous imaginable. Believe it or not, the humble dioxines can be more dangerous. If for no other reason, because they accumulate in the body without ever leaving it (except for liposuction).
With introducing incompatibilities in document formats between Office versions, and introducing incompatibilities between SMB versions (just so that the Samba team can't reverse-engineer it), I think MS is just as evil as Apple. And no, I don't like Apple one freaking bit, it makes me vomit - but so does MS.
Increase the gas tax. That's so freaking simple, and it IS also the best solution. No need for complex and intrusive mileage checks (or, even worse, GPS tracking), no need for complicated, unenforceable and prone-to-corruption mileage tax for the car manufacturers, no need for expensive ($150 million??!!) studies that would be inconclusive anyway.
Tax the gas, and you get everyone on the bandwagon: people will want to consume less so they spend less on gas. Automakers will want to indulge the market with fuel efficient cars. It's so simple, it's mind-boggling the govt. isn't doing it. Just do it, damned!
This goes far beyond IBM's employees. Many other large organizations are strongly influenced by IBM still. In my work as a process improvement consultant, I have seen many people using the Lotus environment, particularly in financial institutions. Does this mean that they too will start using ODF?
Holy cow! I didn't think I'll post anything on/. this morning, but your work compels me: you guys are doing something very important and valuable. I hope some of the people you contacted helped at least soemwhat. Be relentless! And good luck to you all.
The article makes it seem like it hasn't been in Windows since Windows NT and that Windows 7 is the first time it's reappeared. Seriously, Vista has it.
Is this a case of "It's after midnight, must post another slam on Microsoft, even if we have twist and stretch like taffy to make the case"?
I'm here, reading your wonderful post, and laughing my ass off! Do you really think, reminding us that this horrible flaw is already present in Windows Vista, will somehow "soften the blow"?
There is a difference between the Church of Scientology, and the major world religions: the major religions will never try to separate you from your friends or your family, while the CoS will have this as their main goal, in order to control and manipulate you better.
According to the latest Ars Technica article about Snow Leopard, BeOS had used threads for everything and it didn't worked out quite well in the end unfortunately...
How so? Technically, BeOS as a user-friendly and responsive desktop environment, is still unbeaten. It tanked in marketshare, but that had nothing to do with using threads with everything.
I wonder what BeOS had, that was so good. I mean, was it a scheduler thing? Or was it the pervasive multithreadedness that the OS almost forced upon the developers? Whatever it is, it worked like black magic: BeOS would always listen to the user input, no matter what the heck it was doing in the background, no matter what insane load was on the CPU - your mouseclicks were always reacted upon immediately, your drags were always reacted upon immediately, your typing, resizing, brushstrokes, midi-signals, whatever, always, under any circumstance, were immediately and smoothly followed by the correct response.
I was hoping Windows 2000 would achieve that, then I was hoping Windows XP would achieve that, then I was hoping some of the newer 2.6 kernels in Linux coupled with innovations in X would achieve that - but I was always deeply, utterly disappointed. Then I kinda hoped Vista would get somewhat close to what BeOS did. Oh yeah, now that was a hope decisively smashed.
A society composed of only honest people doing honest work probably wouldn't work
Finland in the 50s and 60s got very close to this ideal, and even to this day, hasn't gone astray too much - and it's the best place to live, in the world, IMHO. So yes, a society composed only of honest people would definitely work, and it would be wonderful.
Yours is one of the most valuable, best written posts I have ever read on Slashdot. I send you a manly (virtual, obviously) hug. Continue doing whatever it is that you are doing.
From one Finn to the other: what do you suggest as the most practical service/independent "labels" (or whatever shall we call them) for a small time, no-lawyer musician?
Yeah, because designing a web page with a search box that doesn't look like Google's is so fucking difficult. I see how this patent screws with all the web developers in the world.
With Google, I know they do it to protect the idea from the patent trolls themselves. Google is NOT in the business of collecting money by patent-trolling, we all know that.
And besides, as many have mentioned, this is a design patent, anyway. It would be impossible to patent a web page with a search box, because there is, demonstrably, prior art.
Maybe because I actually work in research (micro and nanotechnology), I don't know why I am one of the few that disagrees that innovation is slowing down. In any case, this is my argument: nanotechknology is booming, both fundamental research as well as applied. 10-15 years ago we had no clue about carbon nanotubes - while now we have various companies developing and even producing (I am not supposed to tell you this) TV displays based on CNTs, as well as fuel cells and composite materials. There is a lot of research in using CNTs for microsensors, and for medical applications. Generally, our knowledge of material science has grown geometrically in the last 10 years, and all sorts of esotheric substances are being produced in labs all around the world. Even using DNA as a building block. 10 years ago we had barely any idea of stuff like excitons and plasmons, while nowadays these are household terms in chemistry and physics. In fact, we have chemical detectors that function based on plasmons. We have NCT and graphene transistors. We have non-carbon nanostructures, all sorts of self-assembled nanomachines (complex chemical molecules able to perform certain mechanical tasks). We have people initiating growth of neurons on carbon nanotube mats - how fucking cool is that? Being able to regenerate part of your brain tissue?
As you can see, my argument is just an overview of a small fraction of scientific research and technology - but even that, I think, is enough to refute the notion that development has slowed down.
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That's interesting. I do recall articles that were very conclusive about the positive effects of catechines extracted from green tea. The research was done, however, in vitro, which would perhaps imply vastly larger concentrations of these antioxidants.
Please do point me to the article you read. A DOI would be best, or a direct link to it?
I have been a scientist since I was 7 (I had my little chem lab at home at that age already). I have been, and still am, in love with science. But indeed, in the last few years I have also awoken to the importance of natural medications. This is not bullshit such as homeopathy or chiropractice. I am talking about various antioxidants like catechines, curcumines etc. that have not been researched enough, yet, but show a lot of potential in stopping peroxidative chain reactions in the body, preventing development of cancers. Curcumines cause apoptosis of some cancer cells. THC (the active component of marijuana) appears to be one of the most efficient depressants, and it has not side effects! Though the most effective anti-depressant might be psilocybin, the active substance in "magic mashrooms", and again, it has no side effects. Many essential oils have strong antibacterial and antifungal activity, and at the very least should be investigated as disinfectants. I touched off only the very tip of the iceberg here, because just the essential oils have very many different health effects, and are being researched by many scientists in institutions around the world.
However, the "problem" with these naturally occurring chemicals is that they cannot be patented, so big pharma doesn't get quite as much money from researching them. And if they appear to be more effective than the synthetic product, well, we can't have that, can we?
Psychopaths don't have any conscience. That's NOT human nature. Human nature is to have a conscience, and having to fight against it when harming others. That's why a criminal, if not a psychopath, CAN be re-educated. A psychopath cannot. Ever.
"If it makes me $1000, I'll do it. That it will harm 10.000.000 people, it doesn't matter".
That said, nuclear waste is not necessarily the most dangerous imaginable. Believe it or not, the humble dioxines can be more dangerous. If for no other reason, because they accumulate in the body without ever leaving it (except for liposuction).
And this isn't astroturfing, as far as I'm concerned. I'm genuinely excited about the ZuneHD.
It isn't astroturfing because you are excited about the Zune HD?
With introducing incompatibilities in document formats between Office versions, and introducing incompatibilities between SMB versions (just so that the Samba team can't reverse-engineer it), I think MS is just as evil as Apple. And no, I don't like Apple one freaking bit, it makes me vomit - but so does MS.
Increase the gas tax. That's so freaking simple, and it IS also the best solution. No need for complex and intrusive mileage checks (or, even worse, GPS tracking), no need for complicated, unenforceable and prone-to-corruption mileage tax for the car manufacturers, no need for expensive ($150 million??!!) studies that would be inconclusive anyway.
Tax the gas, and you get everyone on the bandwagon: people will want to consume less so they spend less on gas. Automakers will want to indulge the market with fuel efficient cars. It's so simple, it's mind-boggling the govt. isn't doing it. Just do it, damned!
This goes far beyond IBM's employees. Many other large organizations are strongly influenced by IBM still. In my work as a process improvement consultant, I have seen many people using the Lotus environment, particularly in financial institutions. Does this mean that they too will start using ODF?
If they use Lotus Symphony, they are using ODF already!
...if they chose a platform that is more reliable than an Xbox 360.
That's right bitches, 54.2% failure rate.
Define "generally accepted".
Define "define".
Game over, I win.
SMP can be done more cost effectively
Bullshit. Say what you want about Sun, but noone does SMP more cost-effectively than they.
I predictede earlier that they'd do it because it makes political sense. And it's no skin off their noses.
Monopoly? How TF is that a monopoly, when anyone, willing to invest the money and time, can do it?
Oh, you mean, the others were too lazy and too cheap? Sucks for them, but that doesn't make Google a monopoly.
Sun boxes have LOM (Lights-Out Management), so you can cold-boot them remotely. And see the boot messages while you're at it.
Holy cow! I didn't think I'll post anything on /. this morning, but your work compels me: you guys are doing something very important and valuable. I hope some of the people you contacted helped at least soemwhat. Be relentless! And good luck to you all.
The article makes it seem like it hasn't been in Windows since Windows NT and that Windows 7 is the first time it's reappeared. Seriously, Vista has it.
Is this a case of "It's after midnight, must post another slam on Microsoft, even if we have twist and stretch like taffy to make the case"?
I'm here, reading your wonderful post, and laughing my ass off! Do you really think, reminding us that this horrible flaw is already present in Windows Vista, will somehow "soften the blow"?
Man, you're precious!
There is a difference between the Church of Scientology, and the major world religions: the major religions will never try to separate you from your friends or your family, while the CoS will have this as their main goal, in order to control and manipulate you better.
According to the latest Ars Technica article about Snow Leopard, BeOS had used threads for everything and it didn't worked out quite well in the end unfortunately...
How so? Technically, BeOS as a user-friendly and responsive desktop environment, is still unbeaten. It tanked in marketshare, but that had nothing to do with using threads with everything.
I wonder what BeOS had, that was so good. I mean, was it a scheduler thing? Or was it the pervasive multithreadedness that the OS almost forced upon the developers? Whatever it is, it worked like black magic: BeOS would always listen to the user input, no matter what the heck it was doing in the background, no matter what insane load was on the CPU - your mouseclicks were always reacted upon immediately, your drags were always reacted upon immediately, your typing, resizing, brushstrokes, midi-signals, whatever, always, under any circumstance, were immediately and smoothly followed by the correct response.
I was hoping Windows 2000 would achieve that, then I was hoping Windows XP would achieve that, then I was hoping some of the newer 2.6 kernels in Linux coupled with innovations in X would achieve that - but I was always deeply, utterly disappointed. Then I kinda hoped Vista would get somewhat close to what BeOS did. Oh yeah, now that was a hope decisively smashed.
A society composed of only honest people doing honest work probably wouldn't work
Finland in the 50s and 60s got very close to this ideal, and even to this day, hasn't gone astray too much - and it's the best place to live, in the world, IMHO. So yes, a society composed only of honest people would definitely work, and it would be wonderful.
Yours is one of the most valuable, best written posts I have ever read on Slashdot. I send you a manly (virtual, obviously) hug. Continue doing whatever it is that you are doing.
From one Finn to the other: what do you suggest as the most practical service/independent "labels" (or whatever shall we call them) for a small time, no-lawyer musician?
Yeah, because designing a web page with a search box that doesn't look like Google's is so fucking difficult. I see how this patent screws with all the web developers in the world.
With Google, I know they do it to protect the idea from the patent trolls themselves. Google is NOT in the business of collecting money by patent-trolling, we all know that.
And besides, as many have mentioned, this is a design patent, anyway. It would be impossible to patent a web page with a search box, because there is, demonstrably, prior art.
Maybe because I actually work in research (micro and nanotechnology), I don't know why I am one of the few that disagrees that innovation is slowing down. In any case, this is my argument: nanotechknology is booming, both fundamental research as well as applied. 10-15 years ago we had no clue about carbon nanotubes - while now we have various companies developing and even producing (I am not supposed to tell you this) TV displays based on CNTs, as well as fuel cells and composite materials. There is a lot of research in using CNTs for microsensors, and for medical applications. Generally, our knowledge of material science has grown geometrically in the last 10 years, and all sorts of esotheric substances are being produced in labs all around the world. Even using DNA as a building block. 10 years ago we had barely any idea of stuff like excitons and plasmons, while nowadays these are household terms in chemistry and physics. In fact, we have chemical detectors that function based on plasmons. We have NCT and graphene transistors. We have non-carbon nanostructures, all sorts of self-assembled nanomachines (complex chemical molecules able to perform certain mechanical tasks). We have people initiating growth of neurons on carbon nanotube mats - how fucking cool is that? Being able to regenerate part of your brain tissue?
As you can see, my argument is just an overview of a small fraction of scientific research and technology - but even that, I think, is enough to refute the notion that development has slowed down.