To me the Canada flag thing has become a tongue-in-cheek posting icon. The system auto-selects it depending on the keywords entered by the submitter. Given the Canadian article and research team I thought the tag was appropriate, but I have to chuckle when the flag appears (though I suppose it does help us canucks with USA inferiority complex feel a bit better - how many flags can we get up here guys!).
Bottom line: this sounded like something people need to know about. The way the article reads it seems as though interfering with the protein synthesis mechanism (as long as the patient is not at 10,000 feet) would result in some very good news for a lot of people. Like another commenter, I was hoping that someone in the audience who works in a related field could tell us if this would be effective for all or just some cancers. In any case, it sounds like a big step forward and I look forward to hearing more about it.
FWIW CBC did a nice documentary on this that covers the process of measuring the shifts, the airport phenominon, what might happen in when greater shifts occur, etc.
Everything is shredded and fed into the furnace. The combustible wood and plastic materials burn at high temperatures as fuel, generating heat that is recovered in steam boilers. The metals are recovered through the metallurgical processes in the furnace, and the residual material blends with the ferrous granules that are used in the manufacture of cement.
YOU are the one in control of the industry in which you work and how much time you put in. Saying your career was a great factor in your divorce sounds to me like you loved your job more than your partner.
Writing a paper on divorce in an industry where many have sustaining healthy relationships seems to me like a collosal attempt to avoid looking at the truth and to justify what has happened.
I'm not saying a short marriage can't be a successful one -- it just sounds like you aren't happy with what is going on and I think you have some larger questions to ask yourself. Any of us can make something else a higher priority that our marriage. Is this what you have done?
Low carb is horrendously unhealthy? I don't think so: carbodyrates are not an essential nutrient for the body. Vitamins, yes. Minerals, yes. Fatty acids, yes. Protien, yes. Carbs, no. Your body can survive and flourish quite happily if you get enough calories from protein and healthy fats.
Given our culture and typical eating habits it's not practical or advisable to eliminate high carbs food sources totally, but the body is quite capable of handling it. We've been worshipping carbs the last few decades as a result of the crusades against fat, but their importance has been overstated.
At the response in this forum. It seems to me that any good scientist closely examines the evidence presented before concluding anything, and also considers any possible explaination without bias or emotional influence. I hear people spouting off about a lack of science on/. lately yet I see little evidence of so-called scientific approach in response to this phenominon. If you've closely examined the evidence and reports first-hand and feel qualified to give an analysis, by all means go ahead and share, otherwise consider the quality and usefullness of your comments before crying "hoax".
While some of these circles are obviously faked, there is surely enough mystery here to generate legitimate discussion -- some of those circles are hundreds of feet across and contain patterns that seem to be not only beautiful but original. I can imagine some./ readers are unable to comfortably walk 800 feet (the diameter of the last pattern I looked at) never mind produce a pattern of high complexity in the middle of night in a dark field with flawless geometry while leaving little trace of disturbance. I can imagine few organizations that would be able to pull this sort of stunt off -- certainly none that I have worked for! Whoever or whatever is doing this has my admiration.
The semantic meaning of the h1-h6 tags is more important than how you see them rendered on this page: any sort of code reader (including a search engine bot) will assign more importance to items blocked in proper heading tags. It's also the only way a code reader would know about a section heading given that simply making a heading bold or larger using the font tag would only indicate importance rather than a main heading.
I agree that the standard way web browsers render headings is unpleasant, but it's easy enough to make a heading look better. Use CSS to make them smaller and/or reduce the margins. This way you get the correct semantic markup and have them look the way you want.
Keep in mind that one of the problems right now with releasing music/movies/docs on the net is that it's all or nothing: either you release it and it essentially goes out free, or you do everything you can (including attacking the little guy) to keep it from going out at all.
DRM would mean media companies could actually enter the market with and then let consumers choose whether or not to support them. They'd learn pretty quick what people are willing to pay for.
Moreover, people would still be able to release things freely. It's like open sourcing software: those who choose this route are free to do so, and those who choose to close their sources are also free to try it. This wouldn't be the end of the transport mechanism that the internet provides -- the real revolution.
Perhaps they are waiting for us to grow out of our infancy. I mean, do you really think we're really to handle that sort of idea? Let's take a look a high level look at our planet:
Over 30,000 humans (mostly children) die each day of hunger when there is plenty of food for everyone.
We poison our environment (or world) and somehow expect this to not affect us. Clean alternatives are available but they aren't used.
We haven't learned to stop killing each other. The fact that we all really want the same basic things seems to escape us, as well as the fact that those things (happiness, peace, etc) require nothing except for our willingness to give up our deadly attachments to those things which really aren't doing us any good but that we think will make us happy (money, glamor, power over, etc).
It seems to me any highly evolved race would know well enough to keep their distance and wait to see if we destroy ourselves before initiating contact (especially if they knew, like a wise parent, that we have to figure these things out for ourselves).
I'm also in my last year of CS. Two things have brought me through it:
A two year break, where I expored a lot of stuff I'd never had the opportunity to since I'd been in school since age 6.
Perspective: the higher education system isn't set up to make things enjoyable for undergrads (especially in the sciences/engineering). Most professors are mainly intersted in their research, and there is no requirement that they have great teaching skills. Many of the courses lack purpose and logic (ha!) -- they are set up as tests that ensure students can work, learn, and compete at a certain level. I find I've gotten really good at playing the system: I know where I need to focus and what I need to do to prosper within the system. I don't retain a lot of what I have to cram into my head, because it isn't presented in a way that appeals to me, or a way that let's me explore concepts in my own time. I would love to be able to persue some of the stuff presented in my classes, but the reality of the situation is that I when I have papers to write and exams to take and other aspects of life to live, I drop into survival mode and all enjoyment goes out the window.
A true system of education would take the interests of the learner and support them. It would allow the learner to explore, in his/her own time, all aspects of a given idea. The learner would not only then remember (in the long term) what was learned, but would also enjoy the experience of learning and be excited about futher learning. The current system is not and cannot be like this without significant changes in the fundamental way it is set up.
Right now the best thing to do is to see your "education" for what it is, and then decide what you want to be and do in relation to that. Yes it can be a grind, but if you see it as the game that it is, at least it can be enjoyed and not taken too seriously. Don't see it as a reflection of your geekness or your love of technology or who you are -- it's just a system, and the love that you had for this stuff is always there, and it can be re-discovered. For now, focus on the game at hand, play it as well as you can, have fun, and then follow your passion back into those spaces that you know are really fun.
I admit that as a non-MS centered person it is quite conceivable that I was overwhelmed with new 3 and 4 letter acronyms. I think you're probably right.
I recently went to a brief presentation on C#, done by some Comp Sci folks just back from the MS developer conference.
A few points I recall:
It does require a virtual machine. It forms a layer of abstraction called the "Common Language Runtime." The name of the VM itself is "NGWS". Performance questions led to answers along the lines of it being comparible to Java; there were indications that MS engineers believed it would eventually run faster than a compiled language due to the virtual machine's ability to optimize code execution for individual processors and systems.
They had a look "under the hood" of the Virtual Machine only to discover that it looked *strangely* just like MS's Java VM. Apparently they changed the variable/function names but the programmer who was taking a look said the code itself looked the same. They commented that they could actually run Java code on the system without problems, providing it didn't refer to any of the special Java class libraries.
Visual Studio 7 (?) would be known as Visual Studio.NET and would feature C# and the VM. They remarked that the beta release they received was quite stable.
The VM would run on everything from Win98 up (not sure about 95).
They went into some detail on MS's new strategy. Basically they are hoping to capture the Middle Tier market with C# services running on the VM (NGWS), accessible remotely via SOAP. On top would be ASP+ (internet) and Win Forms (enterprise).
Someone asked why we need another language, especially one so close to Java. The presenter(s) explained that MS basically wanted to offer a VM based Java-like language, but was unable to add their own extensions to Java fit in with their new strategy (remember the lawsuit from Sun?). They remarked that perhaps Sun made a mistake in their desire to keep MS from making non-standard alterations to the MS implementation of the Java VM. MS, as usual, just went ahead and created their own new standard. Now we have another language to pull developers away from Java.
I wish to share with you a vision of what the internet means to us as a community. It means freedom- freedom to express oneself, and to share information in such a way that no one can ever be hoodwinked, cheated, or attacked without justice. It means that no one need ever fear a purchase, or mistrust a contract- because the community of the world, connected via the internet, will make known all that needs to be known- the good and the bad. In the future world of global freedom of information people cannot be ripped off, because they make purchases knowing exactly what they are buying and exactly who they are buying from.
Services like Napster are the beginning of this new system- a system that is greatly evolved over the present situation where those who hold and control the flow of information control consumers and citizens alike- a system where people can be and are being 'screwed'.
As the years roll by, it will become more difficult to keep anything hidden from anyone. People will continually find better ways to share information and data (music files included). You can attack the tools which show us the evolution of this idea, but you cannot kill the idea, and one tool will be replaced with another.
You can make the choice to fight this, or flow with the will of the majority and allow a new system to evolve that would be more just and true than anything we've seen before. It's about trusting in basic human nature. People will gladly pay for things they enjoy and appreciate, especially if it is made easy for them to do so- and they will have more money to do so because their resources will not be wasted as they are today. Those businesses and artists who are truly sharing their gifts with the world will be rewarded far beyond what success means now, and those who try to extort that which is not theirs by means of deception will fall far behind. Metallica produces inspiring art, and that is all anyone needs in the new world to survive and prosper- not army of lawyers playing out visions of fear. That is a big step backwards- one the community of those who celebrate music will remember.
We are beginning to see the dawn of Justice For All. What say you, Metallica?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/programmed-to-be-fat.html
Should be viewable free online.
To me the Canada flag thing has become a tongue-in-cheek posting icon. The system auto-selects it depending on the keywords entered by the submitter. Given the Canadian article and research team I thought the tag was appropriate, but I have to chuckle when the flag appears (though I suppose it does help us canucks with USA inferiority complex feel a bit better - how many flags can we get up here guys!).
Bottom line: this sounded like something people need to know about. The way the article reads it seems as though interfering with the protein synthesis mechanism (as long as the patient is not at 10,000 feet) would result in some very good news for a lot of people. Like another commenter, I was hoping that someone in the audience who works in a related field could tell us if this would be effective for all or just some cancers. In any case, it sounds like a big step forward and I look forward to hearing more about it.
FWIW CBC did a nice documentary on this that covers the process of measuring the shifts, the airport phenominon, what might happen in when greater shifts occur, etc.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2010/northgoessouth/
Not sure it will be playable globally, but it's worth a shot:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/video.html?ID=1678474875
http://www.southkootenay.com/cms/Teck_Cominco_Q_A
YOU are the one in control of the industry in which you work and how much time you put in. Saying your career was a great factor in your divorce sounds to me like you loved your job more than your partner.
Writing a paper on divorce in an industry where many have sustaining healthy relationships seems to me like a collosal attempt to avoid looking at the truth and to justify what has happened.
I'm not saying a short marriage can't be a successful one -- it just sounds like you aren't happy with what is going on and I think you have some larger questions to ask yourself. Any of us can make something else a higher priority that our marriage. Is this what you have done?
Low carb is horrendously unhealthy?
I don't think so: carbodyrates are not an essential nutrient for the body. Vitamins, yes. Minerals, yes. Fatty acids, yes. Protien, yes. Carbs, no. Your body can survive and flourish quite happily if you get enough calories from protein and healthy fats.
Given our culture and typical eating habits it's not practical or advisable to eliminate high carbs food sources totally, but the body is quite capable of handling it. We've been worshipping carbs the last few decades as a result of the crusades against fat, but their importance has been overstated.
At the response in this forum. It seems to me that any good scientist closely examines the evidence presented before concluding anything, and also considers any possible explaination without bias or emotional influence. I hear people spouting off about a lack of science on /. lately yet I see little evidence of so-called scientific approach in response to this phenominon. If you've closely examined the evidence and reports first-hand and feel qualified to give an analysis, by all means go ahead and share, otherwise consider the quality and usefullness of your comments before crying "hoax".
While some of these circles are obviously faked, there is surely enough mystery here to generate legitimate discussion -- some of those circles are hundreds of feet across and contain patterns that seem to be not only beautiful but original. I can imagine some ./ readers are unable to comfortably walk 800 feet (the diameter of the last pattern I looked at) never mind produce a pattern of high complexity in the middle of night in a dark field with flawless geometry while leaving little trace of disturbance. I can imagine few organizations that would be able to pull this sort of stunt off -- certainly none that I have worked for! Whoever or whatever is doing this has my admiration.
The semantic meaning of the h1-h6 tags is more important than how you see them rendered on this page: any sort of code reader (including a search engine bot) will assign more importance to items blocked in proper heading tags. It's also the only way a code reader would know about a section heading given that simply making a heading bold or larger using the font tag would only indicate importance rather than a main heading.
I agree that the standard way web browsers render headings is unpleasant, but it's easy enough to make a heading look better. Use CSS to make them smaller and/or reduce the margins. This way you get the correct semantic markup and have them look the way you want.
Keep in mind that one of the problems right now with releasing music/movies/docs on the net is that it's all or nothing: either you release it and it essentially goes out free, or you do everything you can (including attacking the little guy) to keep it from going out at all.
DRM would mean media companies could actually enter the market with and then let consumers choose whether or not to support them. They'd learn pretty quick what people are willing to pay for.
Moreover, people would still be able to release things freely. It's like open sourcing software: those who choose this route are free to do so, and those who choose to close their sources are also free to try it. This wouldn't be the end of the transport mechanism that the internet provides -- the real revolution.
Perhaps they are waiting for us to grow out of our infancy. I mean, do you really think we're really to handle that sort of idea? Let's take a look a high level look at our planet:
It seems to me any highly evolved race would know well enough to keep their distance and wait to see if we destroy ourselves before initiating contact (especially if they knew, like a wise parent, that we have to figure these things out for ourselves).
A true system of education would take the interests of the learner and support them. It would allow the learner to explore, in his/her own time, all aspects of a given idea. The learner would not only then remember (in the long term) what was learned, but would also enjoy the experience of learning and be excited about futher learning. The current system is not and cannot be like this without significant changes in the fundamental way it is set up.
Right now the best thing to do is to see your "education" for what it is, and then decide what you want to be and do in relation to that. Yes it can be a grind, but if you see it as the game that it is, at least it can be enjoyed and not taken too seriously. Don't see it as a reflection of your geekness or your love of technology or who you are -- it's just a system, and the love that you had for this stuff is always there, and it can be re-discovered. For now, focus on the game at hand, play it as well as you can, have fun, and then follow your passion back into those spaces that you know are really fun.
I admit that as a non-MS centered person it is quite conceivable that I was overwhelmed with new 3 and 4 letter acronyms. I think you're probably right.
I recently went to a brief presentation on C#, done by some Comp Sci folks just back from the MS developer conference.
A few points I recall:
Someone asked why we need another language, especially one so close to Java. The presenter(s) explained that MS basically wanted to offer a VM based Java-like language, but was unable to add their own extensions to Java fit in with their new strategy (remember the lawsuit from Sun?). They remarked that perhaps Sun made a mistake in their desire to keep MS from making non-standard alterations to the MS implementation of the Java VM. MS, as usual, just went ahead and created their own new standard. Now we have another language to pull developers away from Java.
Metallica,
I wish to share with you a vision of what the internet means to us as a community. It means freedom- freedom to express oneself, and to share information in such a way that no one can ever be hoodwinked, cheated, or attacked without justice. It means that no one need ever fear a purchase, or mistrust a contract- because the community of the world, connected via the internet, will make known all that needs to be known- the good and the bad. In the future world of global freedom of information people cannot be ripped off, because they make purchases knowing exactly what they are buying and exactly who they are buying from.
Services like Napster are the beginning of this new system- a system that is greatly evolved over the present situation where those who hold and control the flow of information control consumers and citizens alike- a system where people can be and are being 'screwed'.
As the years roll by, it will become more difficult to keep anything hidden from anyone. People will continually find better ways to share information and data (music files included). You can attack the tools which show us the evolution of this idea, but you cannot kill the idea, and one tool will be replaced with another.
You can make the choice to fight this, or flow with the will of the majority and allow a new system to evolve that would be more just and true than anything we've seen before. It's about trusting in basic human nature. People will gladly pay for things they enjoy and appreciate, especially if it is made easy for them to do so- and they will have more money to do so because their resources will not be wasted as they are today. Those businesses and artists who are truly sharing their gifts with the world will be rewarded far beyond what success means now, and those who try to extort that which is not theirs by means of deception will fall far behind. Metallica produces inspiring art, and that is all anyone needs in the new world to survive and prosper- not army of lawyers playing out visions of fear. That is a big step backwards- one the community of those who celebrate music will remember.
We are beginning to see the dawn of Justice For All. What say you, Metallica?