The calorie restriction effect is heavily documented--it's real. No one really knows how it works, or what variations might work, but the basic effect has been replicated over and over. Check out PubMed.
(I think there are some studies that didn't show the effect for certain strains or under certain conditions, which may be what you're thinking of.)
Your body won't start destroying itself if you skip breakfast.
As for the slowdown of metabolism, that may be true, but what evidence is there to suggest that this is unhealthy? It may actually be an intrinsic part of the mechanism that extends lifespan.
wanting a gun is like wanting to be President
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The problem is that the people who desire to carry guns around on a daily basis (i.e., not as a part of their occupation) generally turn out to be mentally or morally incompetent to do so. Ergo, even though it sounds like allowing people to carry guns around would make things safer for all of us, it doesn't work out that way in the real world.
VMS was my first real OS, and I don't miss it at all. Its versioning was fairly useless--one of the first commands everyone learned was PURGE, to get rid of all of the clutter. In order to be useful, other versions have to be out of view during normal operation...
Er, so why am I supposed to buy one of these? Do they come without annoying trailers? Do they allow me to skip forward at any time (no UOPs)? Do they allow me to play any DVD I buy (no region problems)? Do they allow me to back up my media, so that I don't have to buy another one when the kids ride the original across the floor? Anything?
Actually, this sort of thing is inevitable, considering the growing concentration of wealth (in the USA, at least) among a tiny fraction of the population. Over time, more and more people will be employed to service the whims of the ultrawealthy.
As
this graphic
shows, all recent growth in recent years has been skimmed to serve the ends of those at the upper margin.
Is this bad? Hard to say--maybe our new overlords know better than we how to spend society's resources. We shall see...
In other words, our choice is between the idiots..
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..at ICANN, and the idiots in the Bush administration, to protect the future of the Internet. That makes me feel much better.
If the company doesn't care whether or not you have the tools to do your job, why should you? (And Quake runs better under Windows anyway...)
But seriously,
Go ahead and make the case for a Linux box. Not because they'll give it to you, but just so that you know that you've tried to fulfill your professional responsibility.
If you can, snag an old PC via "midnight requisition" or whatever. Hide it in or behind a file cabinet. That's your main box.
If that doesn't work, start looking for a new job.
I once had a job doing Windows development using Visual C++. Every time I had to compile, the machine would start thrashing away, and I had time to go to lunch, take an "in-cube sabbatical", etc. Now, there's a feature you won't read about in any manual...
Some of these are warts, to be sure. Nothing near as bad as Perl's though. Try, for example, to describe--or even find out--what/$foo[123]/ will match. Good luck.
I've been watching my kids get involved with these with a mixture of amusement and dread.
One notable observation so far: Webkinz sucks. When a child forgets their username ("Who could have imagined that this could happen?"), there's no way to retrieve or reset it. Attempts to re-register with the secret code draw an error. An attempt to reach tech support got me one illiterate, useless response three days later, followed by nothing.
I guess I can understand being scared by the unfamiliar, but what really frightens me is proprietary software, or rather the licenses thereof. There's some really scary shit in there about what you can and cannot do, and the penalties for running afoul. Not to mention the stuff (which you may know as "software patents") that you only get to hear about after you're in trouble.
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(I think there are some studies that didn't show the effect for certain strains or under certain conditions, which may be what you're thinking of.)
As for the slowdown of metabolism, that may be true, but what evidence is there to suggest that this is unhealthy? It may actually be an intrinsic part of the mechanism that extends lifespan.
The problem is that the people who desire to carry guns around on a daily basis (i.e., not as a part of their occupation) generally turn out to be mentally or morally incompetent to do so. Ergo, even though it sounds like allowing people to carry guns around would make things safer for all of us, it doesn't work out that way in the real world.
Any sufficiently recent Microsoft OS contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Unix.
Nails kill people.
VMS was my first real OS, and I don't miss it at all. Its versioning was fairly useless--one of the first commands everyone learned was PURGE, to get rid of all of the clutter. In order to be useful, other versions have to be out of view during normal operation...
You guessed it--it's YEW.
If your present car doesn't work for you, and the new cars you can buy do no better, it's obvious that you shouldn't buy one, no?
Er, so why am I supposed to buy one of these? Do they come without annoying trailers? Do they allow me to skip forward at any time (no UOPs)? Do they allow me to play any DVD I buy (no region problems)? Do they allow me to back up my media, so that I don't have to buy another one when the kids ride the original across the floor? Anything?
Interesting. Something stinks, though--why can't I buy beef that's been tested?
Labelling genetically altered foods would certainly be nice, but it seems a bit beside the point considering that it is currently illegal in the United States to test beef for Mad Cow disease.
Ain't it the truth...
Okay, now we're curious:
Enquiring minds must know! :-)
Is this bad? Hard to say--maybe our new overlords know better than we how to spend society's resources. We shall see...
..at ICANN, and the idiots in the Bush administration, to protect the future of the Internet. That makes me feel much better.
$ echo -e "a\nb\nc\n0\n1" | perl -e '@a = ( "b", "c" ); while ( <> ) { if(/$a[123]/ ) { print $_; } }'
(Note the '0' and '1' input lines. I can't try this right now, so my syntax might be off.)
Or instead of the '123', try '0x0' or '00' or '0_0' (which all are literals equivalent to '0' as far as I know).
I have no idea of the complete semantics of this, but it's complex, strange, and undocumented (AFAIK).
But seriously,
- Go ahead and make the case for a Linux box. Not because they'll give it to you, but just so that you know that you've tried to fulfill your professional responsibility.
- If you can, snag an old PC via "midnight requisition" or whatever. Hide it in or behind a file cabinet. That's your main box.
- If that doesn't work, start looking for a new job.
Good luck.I once had a job doing Windows development using Visual C++. Every time I had to compile, the machine would start thrashing away, and I had time to go to lunch, take an "in-cube sabbatical", etc. Now, there's a feature you won't read about in any manual...
Some of these are warts, to be sure. Nothing near as bad as Perl's though. Try, for example, to describe--or even find out--what /$foo[123]/ will match. Good luck.
Thanks for the link to the "wife" article in Wikipedia--I keep forgetting what that word means. :-)
If your project has 500K lines of C/C++, it will almost certainly fail.
One notable observation so far: Webkinz sucks. When a child forgets their username ("Who could have imagined that this could happen?"), there's no way to retrieve or reset it. Attempts to re-register with the secret code draw an error. An attempt to reach tech support got me one illiterate, useless response three days later, followed by nothing.
I guess I can understand being scared by the unfamiliar, but what really frightens me is proprietary software, or rather the licenses thereof. There's some really scary shit in there about what you can and cannot do, and the penalties for running afoul. Not to mention the stuff (which you may know as "software patents") that you only get to hear about after you're in trouble.