Maybe you don't remember the high school psychology, because you didn't drink coffee then. And if you're anything like me, being coffee-free is not an option anymore 8-)
In addition, to get your circadian cycle in sync (which gives you more energy) you can do these things:
1. It's more important to wake up at the same time. You can't always force yourself to sleep, but your body will entrain if you force yourself to get up at the same time each morning. That means NO sleeping in on weekends.
2. Expose yourself to light first thing in the morning. Preferably, I would suggest going outside but you can also get specific lights that simulate sunlight.
3. When you excerise, the best time to do that is several hours before going to bed.
Programmers tend to have delayed-phase sleep syndrome (which means we like to stay up late). People who are delayed-phase, tend to migrate toward those jobs they can do at late hours and don't have to wake up at a specific time to do them.
It's true the female has to undergo the most treatment, whether the issue is male or female fertility.
But AFAIK, you're usually better off treating male fertility than female fertility.
If the female is OK, you have better chances. I believe that's because the female is more responsive to hormonal changes, since that's what they do every cycle. So it's easier to just amplify the cycling homrones and have the female produce more eggs. Eggs (follicles) that have been produced when the female was born.
A male doesn't have a reserve of sperm that was created since birth. He has to make it continuosly.
Plus, IUI/IVF and especially ICSI, where they break the walls of the egg and make sure the sperm gets in, helps male infertility.
But fertility docs are truly flying in the dark, because there is no basic science to help them. All the science is done on the clinic's patient stream, and very ad-hoc.
And then, the only real money being poured into this is by pharmaceutical companies. I'm glad those drugs are around, but there is no balance of basic science.
I used to do Sleep Research, and the fertility field reminds me very much of the Sleep field. Everything was based on experiential knowledge at first, and very slowly did it get accepted into common practice. The Sleep Research field is now well accepted and has NIH funding, etc. But fertility medicine has political strikes against it.
Did I mention there's no NIH funding of fertility medicine?!
My wife and I are also in the midst of fertility treatment. I took a look at the site you listed, and they purport higher rates than national average. The success rate you note of ~50% seems very high. Is that only for a subset of the patient population?
Some clinics will only accept candidates for IVF who are very likely to succeed, such as having low FSH levels.
We are at Stanford and I haven't seen any methods that aren't practiced there, except for very new experimental ones.
The real travesty in Fertility Medicine is that there has never been ANY funding by NIH for fertility medicine. That's because of the religious-right's political pressure on government to not promote anything that could be viewed as assisting abortion technologies.
Linux always has trouble with new hardware. That's the biggest drawback to vendors not releasing Linux drivers at the time of hardware release, or specs before then.
As a Linux user, we all know this is the cross we bare.
Oscar
Re:Its called the "Lazy" gene. Too late for mods
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BTW, look for the latest sleep disorder drug to be used in ADHD.
Provigil, also known as Modafinil, is for narcoleptics to keep them awake without having the same effect as a stimulant. It's more like being alert. You can fall asleep on it if you want.
Re:Its called the "Lazy" gene. Too late for mods
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Working with ADHD?
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· Score: 1
I know this is too late to get modded up, but I doubt this has been discussed yet.
I believe ADHD is mostly a disorder that can be caused by multiple reasons. Much like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, where a vast number of other undiagnosed disorders are grouped into a more generic, more symptom-based category.
Sleep disorders can easily show symptoms of ADHD, and is greatly under-diagnosed. And Caffeine has a profound effect on people with poor sleep. Much more than the sleep research community once thought. And it's more than just a stimulant.
Fighting the "sleep pressure", can cause someone to be very agitated and unable to concentrate. Remember also, quantiy of sleep is NOT the same as quality of sleep. And being sleep-deprived doesn't mean you can fall asleep easily during normal daily activity. We have mechanisms to keep us awake even though we are sleepy.
I'm not saying this is the case in your wife's case, but just a generality. And one that maybe often gets overlooked.
My guess is that it's Direct Memory Access (DMA) issues.
A lot of DMA and IDE issues have been fixed in the 2.4.21prerelease series. the fixes have been in the Alan Cox (ac) series for awhile, but only very recently in Linus' kernel.
My setup works awesome since I've had these fixes. I use the VIA KT400 chipset with two CD-Writers and a DVD-ROM.
I can have 2 burning at the same time and read from the DVD without a hitch. Can't even notice anything from the user perspective.
Getting the latest "cdrecord" can also help but I think the main issues were the IDE/DMA ones.
will tell you a lot of things about your IDE device:/sbin/hdparm/dev/hdx
will tell you specifically if DMA is being used:/sbin/hdparm -d/dev/hdx
Yes. The Common-Mode Rejection also does a great job of eliminating the 60Hz interference.
BTW, amplifying ECG signals is pretty easy compared to many of the electrical signals the body produces. EEG signals are much harder to amplify because they are in the micro-volt range whereas ECG is in the millivolt range. ECG peak-to-peak is probably close to 1/2 a volt. In fact, if you did any amplification of the ECG signal I would be suprised if you didn't see a waveform.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do win32 programming unless I had no food to eat. And even then... my food wouldn't taste as good.
But...
Exception Handling doesn't get rid of logic statements, it just does for exceptions. And these come at the expense of a lot of overhead.
I agree Exception Handling in java is nice, but this is all done by Objects. Objects are removing the spaghetti code. But it is VERY nice that java has them all done for you. And you can use objects when coding for win32, even if you would have to write some of your own.
Plus, to be fair, coding an XWindow program is no joy.
The code I wrote implies var is an "int" by the "var++" line. It can't be an int and compared to null. The more common scenario is that var is an actual object like a ResultSet. So, I meant something more like this.
ResultSet rs = null;
if ((rs = myClass.getResultSet()) != null) {
while (rs.next()) {//access the resultset
} }
I think you have to look beyond the imitation of what is already out there. With Open Source you get possbilities of a lot more creative people doing original things.
Some Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) do a pretty good job of being able to have effects and such act as controllers, filters, what have you. But with the source code, a lot of really, really interesting things could develop that haven't been thought of.
Now you have a few companies that all try to copy each other in getting certain tools in the hand of their users. And that's great, but we're better off opening the ability to creating tools to a lot more creative people.
Would we have the electric guitar or a saxaphone, if it wasn't for the common man taking a hack at building an instrument?
You can also mount readonly for/usr,/bin, sbin. Most intrusions AFAIK are done by replacing common commands with a new one.
If the commands are read-only they can't do that. I imagine the commands could be bypassed by altering your path, but that's another level of complexity that would need to be done.
but it was one of the few programmes which fired the imagination of young British nerds. Several generations of Britain's scientists and technologists grew up watching
TM.
Maybe the problem is that most British nerds were watching some show with abbreviations TM.
That will change everything about distribution. How much you want to bet that the vast majority of people using Mozilla, downloaded it on a broadband connection?
Limited bandwidth is definitely the biggest "barrier to entry" in this market.
Yes, I believe that XML tags and binary data cannot be in the same file for it to be legit XML.
I think maybe mime-types can, so you can do some hex encoding within a file. This will make the file much bigger.
What you also can do is put the binary data in a separate file and point to it in the original file. Of course that means you have to distribute more than one file. But I guess you could zip up the directory or something to make it appear to be one file.
I will need to come up with a XML format for a multiple biological signals, and that was my understanding of mixing XML and binary data .
Yes, this is my experience in a large organization.
The lawyers see their job as saying 'No' to everything. Their perspective is to avoid lawsuits to the extreme, or protect themselves by saying "told you so".
You could not possibly conduct business if you adhered to lawyer recommendations in many large organizations. You'd die and shrivel because you'd be so afraid to venture into anything new.
My 2 cents, Oscar
Giving away Windows, good for Linux in long run
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Microsoft's New Hurdles
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If MS starts giving away Windows for free, they will have little incentive to improve it. Although, MS has plenty of cash, it will be hard to justify spending money on something that doesn't generate any revenue for MS.
Linux gets improved by huge numbers of people willing to work on it. But without the source for Windows, no one could work on Windows.
Eventually, people might switch because Windows has gotten so poor.
I also don't get the notion from the posts that this will help MS Office products, because it seems that OpenOffice is closer to replacing MS Office, than Linux is to replacing Windows.
I worked many years doing sleep research. And now I do just the tech stuff (like putting Linux and java to work in the sleep world). I saw this article and had to pull out the original abstract.
I have to say that the article is VERY misleading. To fix some inaccuracies first.
They used actigraphy for sleep measures, which is less than desirable since it's only an indirect measure. Not a very good measure of sleep quality. But it's cheaper to do and maybe it might make sense for this, although I don't know why they didn't have actigraphy go longer than 4 days. It was 4 days b4 and 4 days after. Why when it's so easy to have them wear something that is pretty much identical to a wristwatch.
The really odd thing is that anything that helps insomnia should help the person get to sleep faster. But this was not the case. The time it took to fall asleep was unchanged, measured by the Sleep Onset Latency (SOL).
Total Sleep Time was increased (which can be a sign of worse or better sleep). For instance, if you have an annoying sound that doesn't quite wake you up, but just makes your sleep lighter, then you'll sleep longer usually to compensate for the crappy sleep you were getting. Quantity to make up for quality. Although, it does say intervening wakefulness was less (p=.02). That's not (p0.02).
Also, some measure of anxiety was decreased by both groups.
This is as much as I can gather from the abstract as some points were unclear whether the comparison was between before and after treatment, or between experimental groups.
What was mentioned in the article as follows: ---- The participants showed dramatic improvement over placebo participants who listened to someone else's brain music instead of their own.
"For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group. So it's a highly significant statistical difference," Kayumov says. ----
What this refers to in the abstract is unknown. Improvement in what? Maybe anxiety? Don't know.
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Maybe you don't remember the high school psychology, because you didn't drink coffee then. And if you're anything like me, being coffee-free is not an option anymore 8-)
Heavily agree with above posts.
In addition, to get your circadian cycle in sync (which gives you more energy) you can do these things:
1. It's more important to wake up at the same time. You can't always force yourself to sleep, but your body will entrain if you force yourself to get up at the same time each morning. That means NO sleeping in on weekends.
2. Expose yourself to light first thing in the morning. Preferably, I would suggest going outside but you can also get specific lights that simulate sunlight.
3. When you excerise, the best time to do that is several hours before going to bed.
Programmers tend to have delayed-phase sleep syndrome (which means we like to stay up late).
People who are delayed-phase, tend to migrate toward those jobs they can do at late hours and don't have to wake up at a specific time to do them.
Thanks for the kind words.
It's true the female has to undergo the most treatment, whether the issue is male or female fertility.
But AFAIK, you're usually better off treating male fertility than female fertility.
If the female is OK, you have better chances. I believe that's because the female is more responsive to hormonal changes, since that's what they do every cycle. So it's easier to just amplify the cycling homrones and have the female produce more eggs. Eggs (follicles) that have been produced when the female was born.
A male doesn't have a reserve of sperm that was created since birth. He has to make it continuosly.
Plus, IUI/IVF and especially ICSI, where they break the walls of the egg and make sure the sperm gets in, helps male infertility.
But fertility docs are truly flying in the dark, because there is no basic science to help them. All the science is done on the clinic's patient stream, and very ad-hoc.
And then, the only real money being poured into this is by pharmaceutical companies. I'm glad those drugs are around, but there is no balance of basic science.
I used to do Sleep Research, and the fertility field reminds me very much of the Sleep field. Everything was based on experiential knowledge at first, and very slowly did it get accepted into common practice. The Sleep Research field is now well accepted and has NIH funding, etc. But fertility medicine has political strikes against it.
Did I mention there's no NIH funding of fertility medicine?!
My wife and I are also in the midst of fertility treatment. I took a look at the site you listed, and they purport higher rates than national average. The success rate you note of ~50% seems very high. Is that only for a subset of the patient population?
Some clinics will only accept candidates for IVF who are very likely to succeed, such as having low FSH levels.
We are at Stanford and I haven't seen any methods that aren't practiced there, except for very new experimental ones.
The real travesty in Fertility Medicine is that there has never been ANY funding by NIH for fertility medicine. That's because of the religious-right's political pressure on government to not promote anything that could be viewed as assisting abortion technologies.
Oscar
I thought the first rule of security was:
Don't talk about security!
That's right, security via obscurity.
-Oscar
Don't forget to do this if you need modules loaded at boot-up, so you can access things like your filesystem, etc.
/boot/bzImage-2.4.21 2.4.21
mkinitrd
Yes, but they are fixed now.
Linux always has trouble with new hardware. That's the biggest drawback to vendors not releasing Linux drivers at the time of hardware release, or specs before then.
As a Linux user, we all know this is the cross we bare.
Oscar
BTW, look for the latest sleep disorder drug to be used in ADHD.
Provigil, also known as Modafinil, is for narcoleptics to keep them awake without having the same effect as a stimulant. It's more like being alert. You can fall asleep on it if you want.
I know this is too late to get modded up, but I doubt this has been discussed yet.
I believe ADHD is mostly a disorder that can be caused by multiple reasons. Much like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, where a vast number of other undiagnosed disorders are grouped into a more generic, more symptom-based category.
Sleep disorders can easily show symptoms of ADHD, and is greatly under-diagnosed. And Caffeine has a profound effect on people with poor sleep. Much more than the sleep research community once thought. And it's more than just a stimulant.
Fighting the "sleep pressure", can cause someone to be very agitated and unable to concentrate.
Remember also, quantiy of sleep is NOT the same as quality of sleep. And being sleep-deprived doesn't mean you can fall asleep easily during normal daily activity. We have mechanisms to keep us awake even though we are sleepy.
I'm not saying this is the case in your wife's case, but just a generality. And one that maybe often gets overlooked.
Oscar
My guess is that it's Direct Memory Access (DMA) issues.
/sbin/hdparm /dev/hdx
/sbin/hdparm -d /dev/hdx
A lot of DMA and IDE issues have been fixed in the 2.4.21prerelease series. the fixes have been in the Alan Cox (ac) series for awhile, but only very recently in Linus' kernel.
My setup works awesome since I've had these fixes. I use the VIA KT400 chipset with two CD-Writers and a DVD-ROM.
I can have 2 burning at the same time and read from the DVD without a hitch. Can't even notice anything from the user perspective.
Getting the latest "cdrecord" can also help but I think the main issues were the IDE/DMA ones.
will tell you a lot of things about your IDE device:
will tell you specifically if DMA is being used:
Oscar
I wonder if this has anything to do with the lawsuit that Burst.com has filed against Microsoft.
h tm
http://burst.com/new/newsevents/chairltr032003.
They make a product for delivery of video and had at one time an agreement with Microsoft to make their server product compatible with Windows.
Maybe they want a patent for a conter-suit.
Yes. The Common-Mode Rejection also does a great job of eliminating the 60Hz interference.
BTW, amplifying ECG signals is pretty easy compared to many of the electrical signals the body produces. EEG signals are much harder to amplify because they are in the micro-volt range whereas ECG is in the millivolt range. ECG peak-to-peak is probably close to 1/2 a volt. In fact, if you did any amplification of the ECG signal I would be suprised if you didn't see a waveform.
Oscar
Yes, I hear it will be exactly like "C", except for a large marketing blitz.
Don't be seen with "C", be sharp with B#.
If it fails, I'm sure it'll get labeled as "C Flat" (Cb)
Oscar
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do win32 programming unless I had no food to eat. And even then... my food wouldn't taste as good.
But...
Exception Handling doesn't get rid of logic statements, it just does for exceptions. And these come at the expense of a lot of overhead.
I agree Exception Handling in java is nice, but this is all done by Objects. Objects are removing the spaghetti code. But it is VERY nice that java has them all done for you. And you can use objects when coding for win32, even if you would have to write some of your own.
Plus, to be fair, coding an XWindow program is no joy.
Oscar
The code I wrote implies var is an "int" by the "var++" line. It can't be an int and compared to null. The more common scenario is that var is an actual object like a ResultSet. So, I meant something more like this.
//access the resultset
ResultSet rs = null;
if ((rs = myClass.getResultSet()) != null) {
while (rs.next()) {
}
}
-Oscar
Assignments are done in if() statements all the time.
if ((var = myClass.getVariable()) != null) {
var++;
}
Oscar
I think you have to look beyond the imitation of what is already out there. With Open Source you get possbilities of a lot more creative people doing original things.
Some Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) do a pretty good job of being able to have effects and such act as controllers, filters, what have you. But with the source code, a lot of really, really interesting things could develop that haven't been thought of.
Now you have a few companies that all try to copy each other in getting certain tools in the hand of their users. And that's great, but we're better off opening the ability to creating tools to a lot more creative people.
Would we have the electric guitar or a saxaphone, if it wasn't for the common man taking a hack at building an instrument?
You can also mount readonly for /usr, /bin, sbin.
Most intrusions AFAIK are done by replacing common commands with a new one.
If the commands are read-only they can't do that.
I imagine the commands could be bypassed by altering your path, but that's another level of complexity that would need to be done.
Oscar
Even though this is a bit offtopic, I thought this comment was related.
goes to show...Maybe the problem is that most British nerds were watching some show with abbreviations TM.
I have one word for you: Broadband
That will change everything about distribution.
How much you want to bet that the vast majority of people using Mozilla, downloaded it on a broadband connection?
Limited bandwidth is definitely the biggest "barrier to entry" in this market.
Yes, I believe that XML tags and binary data cannot be in the same file for it to be legit XML.
I think maybe mime-types can, so you can do some hex encoding within a file. This will make the file much bigger.
What you also can do is put the binary data in a separate file and point to it in the original file. Of course that means you have to distribute more than one file. But I guess you could zip up the directory or something to make it appear to be one file.
I will need to come up with a XML format for a multiple biological signals, and that was my understanding of mixing XML and binary data .
Yes, this is my experience in a large organization.
The lawyers see their job as saying 'No' to everything.
Their perspective is to avoid lawsuits to the extreme, or protect themselves by saying "told you so".
You could not possibly conduct business if you adhered to lawyer recommendations in many large organizations. You'd die and shrivel because you'd be so afraid to venture into anything new.
My 2 cents,
Oscar
Linux gets improved by huge numbers of people willing to work on it. But without the source for Windows, no one could work on Windows.
Eventually, people might switch because Windows has gotten so poor.
I also don't get the notion from the posts that this will help MS Office products, because it seems that OpenOffice is closer to replacing MS Office, than Linux is to replacing Windows.
My 2 cents.
Oscar
I worked many years doing sleep research. And now I do just the tech stuff (like putting Linux and java to work in the sleep world). I saw this article and had to pull out the original abstract.
I have to say that the article is VERY misleading.
To fix some inaccuracies first.
Experimental Group 1: (7 females, 3 males, aged 41.6 +- 5.8)
Placebo Group 2: (5 females, 3 males, aged 42.8+- 7.8)
That's a total of 18 subjects, not 10.
They used actigraphy for sleep measures, which is less than desirable since it's only an indirect measure. Not a very good measure of sleep quality. But it's cheaper to do and maybe it might make sense for this, although I don't know why they didn't have actigraphy go longer than 4 days. It was 4 days b4 and 4 days after. Why when it's so easy to have them wear something that is pretty much identical to a wristwatch.
The really odd thing is that anything that helps insomnia should help the person get to sleep faster. But this was not the case. The time it took to fall asleep was unchanged, measured by the Sleep Onset Latency (SOL).
Total Sleep Time was increased (which can be a sign of worse or better sleep). For instance, if you have an annoying sound that doesn't quite wake you up, but just makes your sleep lighter, then you'll sleep longer usually to compensate for the crappy sleep you were getting. Quantity to make up for quality. Although, it does say intervening wakefulness was less (p=.02). That's not (p0.02).
Also, some measure of anxiety was decreased by both groups.
This is as much as I can gather from the abstract as some points were unclear whether the comparison
was between before and after treatment, or between experimental groups.
What was mentioned in the article as follows:
----
The participants showed dramatic improvement over placebo participants who listened to someone else's brain music instead of their own.
"For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group. So it's a highly significant statistical difference," Kayumov says.
----
What this refers to in the abstract is unknown. Improvement in what? Maybe anxiety? Don't know.