It says oxidative stress, which is put on by oxidation. Anti-oxidants are very high on the list of stuff that is good for you, very prominent are metformin, turmeric and the tannins in tea. Actually it seems lots of vegetables contain anti-oxidants.
Stress also has effects on the immune system, but that is an issue in general unrelated to this article about the telomers. But of course, everything is connected to everything, two.
There should be some way to get copyright to be declared to be abandoned by a court.
Since I don't imagine there is a standard proceeding for it, maybe one could set up a dummy fight between strawman A and strawman B, one claiming to have acquired the copyright, the other claiming that it has been abandoned.
This way, one might be able to get a court ruling on the issue. Good, since it is clearly bad if you declare something abandonware and later the copyright owners knock on your door.
I'm not really opposed to using them, but considering that you need to stop a life to get them, I feel that the ones gathering them at least should have an obligations to heavily support living siblings (financially or medically) of the embryos that get killed.
It should be a bit like a farmer saving some seeds from the crop to grow more of it, thus helping the crop to spread.
Unfortunately, I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids, so these conditions that I find fair are really hard to put into place. Especially since many of these mothers would keep their embryos if the money went to support them instead of into stem cell research.
Another approach would be, when fertilizing in vitro, to split the initial zygotes into half, and implant one half while keeping the other half for stem cells, which would also serve the donor perfectly.
Suppose you treat someone with medicine, in fact ANY medicine, not just the bioengineered stuff, who has a genetic disease or just weakness that would have killed him before he had a chance to have kids.
Now, he will have kids, and the kids will have the disease too. So humankind will end up with more people who have this disease.
This is at best an awkward situation, since more and more people will end up having diseases, and will need to be treated, perhaps at costs society will not be able to pay anymore. It is always more people, since a lot of mutations are bad or undo good stuff. The information in the genes on how to build the body needs selection and maybe death to keep the information in shape. (You don't need death for selection, but just that someone has no kids, but that is almost as bad as death.)
So you end up with two alternative, different but completely valid and consistent ways of life:
live 'like the Amish', and consider a disease as sent by God and let weak people die, with the positive effect that Amish will actually be healthier people,
OR
Apply genetic engineering so that the disease is not passed to the offspring.
My idea of motion sickness is that the brain thinks it has been poisoned, and so tries to barf the poison out.
I was only motion sick once in a computer game ages ago, and thought it was because the graphics had unnatural colors to them. Greenish/teal that is. You also had the option to make your character bob up and down like you do when walking, but increasing or reducing the bobbing did nothing to reduce the nausea.
I also didn't get accustomed to the game. In fact, I felt like a got sicker much quicker later on. Maybe I just noticed the symptoms earlier, I don't know.
So maybe if you play with color filters you could reduce the nausea.
Sometimes, you really would like to get on the nerves of someone that gets on yours. However, few of these spammers actually got personally on my nerves.
So I think to have a tool like this for yourself, and not only targetting the sites Lycos selected, would be ok.
So, can I configure that Lycos thing to point at Lycos themselves?
You could add some p2p effect, like ganging up with people whose opinions overlap with yours.
I think that screensaver thing that makes collages from images on the internet would be cool a way to rationalize add DDOS capability to. Or creating random poetry. Or a distributed search engine.
On the other hand, why bother with DDOS when you can just post the URL on slashdot?
I don't doubt that this is insightful, but it is also funny, I mean are you really going to set up a private IRC server, and invite only crackers to it? You might just as well make everyone wear a tinfoil hat with a "cracker" icon on it, and honk a horn every time a policeman walks by.
I don't think about a screen saver, but a camera and live input. You could also try active sonar, if you are so interested in developing other senses.
I was also thinking of brain implants, but The vOICe, which is similar to the website in the/. lead, changed my mind.
I think you are glorifying being blind out of PC'ness. I believe a blind with a sensory replacement aid will develop whatever senses they need just fine even if you give them another sense to work with.
I mean, it is fine to be able to perceive something well by touching it, but it is even better if you know where to touch, isn't it ?
I'd also like to give the compliment back to the other guy who said that the idea is stupid. This post is for you, too.
Here's a basic summary, in case the site gets slashdotted or in case you lost your senses of reading:
The method used is called sensory substitution. That is, one sense can be used to emulate the input that is usually provided by another sense. The tongue is one of the best places for input.
You have to wear the substitution device for it to work, although it is speculated that by training the brain areas for the lost sense, the working of that area can be improved, so it just might help restore a sense in the situation where the organ not working is parts of the brain.
I'd like to add that I heard blind people can go mad when you try to feed them visual stimuli through the eye nerves, probably because these brain parts have taken on other roles. I'd therefore like to suggest that babies born blind are provided with artificial visual stimuli, so that this part of the brain learns to work and can later operate fully, when there is the technology to provide fully working artificial eyes.
I have seen posts on many patent articles here that read the first one or two claims and assume that a huge range of existing work is covered..
Every single claim stands by itself, (although it may build on another claim e.g. 1 or N-1)
and you can be sued for any single claim that you violate.
In addition, if the patent has an overbroad claim 1, a court may still decide that the rest of the patent has merit. This is very wrong and puts no incentive up for patent attorneys to even file a decent patent!
Think of each claim as a gold mine that gets staked out.
which seems a bit worrying for an app that will cost a few million to develop
Which is exactly the point. If you need to spend millions to develop a product which to your customer does little more than the "cheap" product ("Which color do you want the database to be? Pink!"), then there is no need for time consuming layers over layers of J2EE apps.
Some information-providing thing like a forum does not need distributed transactions. I bet most of these distributed systems also fall over when actually put under stress and unusual input, just like their PHP cousins.
Of course it would be nice if PHP grew up a bit, but people who use it don't feel the need yet.
It's fine if you can throw millions of $ at your enterprise level solution, you will lock out competition, need more and more specialized programmers and will choose to ignore the crowd of LAMP users.
This stuff costs money and nerves, and if your customer can pay it more power to you;-)
Just skipping overbroad claims puts absolutely no burden for trying to file a correct patent on the patent claimant, and it leaves someone who reads the patent without a way to determine whether the patent applies to him without going to court.
In other news, when critized by slashdot readers about his comparision "internet porn is 'worse than crack.'", Senator Sam Brownback said that he only had wanted to put it into perspective with something Senators know about first-hand.
I think it is a hoax. If so, 2cents from me to M$ for joining the patent troll brigade, thereby allowing us to show the absurdity of software patents.
And imagine, what if we had a Beowulf cluster of M$ patent trolls? The USPTO surely would collapse. Unless they hire a Beowulf cluster of/. readers as USPTO workers, that is.
Each claim stands on its own unless it makes reference to another claim.
Yea. Also, many patents form a chain, so that claim (N+1) is based on claim(N). So this kind of patent should fall over when claim 1 falls. However it is my impression that when a patent with an overbroad claim 1 goes to court, the court might just choose to too cancel claim 1 and say the patent is valid starting from claim 2.
Are there there any examples that support my above perception? If yes, this seem unfair and encourages overbroad claims.
You could forbid exclusive licensing, although that would still reduce the playing field to the big companies. A company owning a patent would have to base the share the inventor gets on the fee that it sort of pays to itself for using the patent.
So if the company is a miser is trying to save fees to the inventor, competitors get a chance to license too.
Re: exclusively, I wish I had the money to patent the Basic XOR operator.
There is no patent on design patterns - people have come up with good designs even before that book, and will continue to do so.
Maybe the article really means a shortage of people who can bullshit management with big words like "Gang of Four" and "Xtreme Programming", who can justify this way that the project took two months longer than required, thus tricking the PHB into doing sane software development.
I also wouldn't be surprised if it worked as increasing job-security because you can re-do the project as often as you like by refactoring it to some new design pattern, "which will solve all problems and make maintenance easier".
Good programming practices can only be beneficial when the developer has access to code even after a single project is finished, for example when he is developing as a one-man-company, in a big company, or in open source. I bet many of these companies complaining are really looking for one-shot project developers, and then wonder why there are fewer of them with open source (where developers have access to source, so that they can plan for the ages).
Instead of thinking about Lego Blocks for the universe, I think that it is better to imagine that the start of the universe looks much like a fractal of the kind which looks like a plant.
The nodes are the elementary particles(like quarks, electrons, muon, lepton-neutrinos), and the branches/lines connecting the nodes are forces/relationships between particles.
Particles would generate more and more interactions between them, based on some rules which define proximity in space.
I guess you would need to have some removal or at least aging/recoloring of lines to define movement, I must admit I haven't thought about this part.
The Lorentz contraction would be the result of overloading the otherwise fair processing of events by concentrating too many events around too few particles, e.g. black holes and maybe slower speed of light in dense mediums. This would mean that you can generate relativity effects not only by gravity, but by concentrating other physical events in an area in spacetime. Maybe could be seen in these laser-powered fusion reactors. Or maybe you couldn't ever verify that theory because there are gazillion more gravity nodes/"particles" than other particles/"light" nodes.
Slashdot Mirror
It says oxidative stress, which is put on by oxidation. Anti-oxidants are very high on the list of stuff that is good for you, very prominent are metformin, turmeric and the tannins in tea. Actually it seems lots of vegetables contain anti-oxidants.
Stress also has effects on the immune system, but that is an issue in general unrelated to this article about the telomers. But of course, everything is connected to everything, two.
There should be some way to get copyright to be declared to be abandoned by a court.
Since I don't imagine there is a standard proceeding for it, maybe one could set up a dummy fight between strawman A and strawman B, one claiming to have acquired the copyright, the other claiming that it has been abandoned.
This way, one might be able to get a court ruling on the issue. Good, since it is clearly bad if you declare something abandonware and later the copyright owners knock on your door.
Well stems cells ARE a moral issue.
I'm not really opposed to using them, but considering that you need to stop a life to get them, I feel that the ones gathering them at least should have an obligations to heavily support living siblings (financially or medically) of the embryos that get killed.
It should be a bit like a farmer saving some seeds from the crop to grow more of it, thus helping the crop to spread.
Unfortunately, I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids, so these conditions that I find fair are really hard to put into place. Especially since many of these mothers would keep their embryos if the money went to support them instead of into stem cell research.
Another approach would be, when fertilizing in vitro, to split the initial zygotes into half, and implant one half while keeping the other half for stem cells, which would also serve the donor perfectly.
Now, he will have kids, and the kids will have the disease too. So humankind will end up with more people who have this disease.
This is at best an awkward situation, since more and more people will end up having diseases, and will need to be treated, perhaps at costs society will not be able to pay anymore. It is always more people, since a lot of mutations are bad or undo good stuff. The information in the genes on how to build the body needs selection and maybe death to keep the information in shape. (You don't need death for selection, but just that someone has no kids, but that is almost as bad as death.)
So you end up with two alternative, different but completely valid and consistent ways of life:
live 'like the Amish', and consider a disease as sent by God and let weak people die, with the positive effect that Amish will actually be healthier people,
OR
Apply genetic engineering so that the disease is not passed to the offspring.
Any position in between is bogus.
My idea of motion sickness is that the brain thinks it has been poisoned, and so tries to barf the poison out.
I was only motion sick once in a computer game ages ago, and thought it was because the graphics had unnatural colors to them. Greenish/teal that is. You also had the option to make your character bob up and down like you do when walking, but increasing or reducing the bobbing did nothing to reduce the nausea.
I also didn't get accustomed to the game. In fact, I felt like a got sicker much quicker later on. Maybe I just noticed the symptoms earlier, I don't know.
So maybe if you play with color filters you could reduce the nausea.
Sometimes, you really would like to get on the nerves of someone that gets on yours. However, few of these spammers actually got personally on my nerves.
So I think to have a tool like this for yourself, and not only targetting the sites Lycos selected, would be ok.
So, can I configure that Lycos thing to point at Lycos themselves?
You could add some p2p effect, like ganging up with people whose opinions overlap with yours.
I think that screensaver thing that makes collages from images on the internet would be cool a way to rationalize add DDOS capability to. Or creating random poetry. Or a distributed search engine.
On the other hand, why bother with DDOS when you can just post the URL on slashdot?
I don't doubt that this is insightful, but it is also funny, I mean are you really going to set up a private IRC server, and invite only crackers to it? You might just as well make everyone wear a tinfoil hat with a "cracker" icon on it, and honk a horn every time a policeman walks by.
What keeps someone from just forming a new association and repeating the process?
Hey, i patent that!
I was also thinking of brain implants, but The vOICe, which is similar to the website in the /. lead, changed my mind.
I think you are glorifying being blind out of PC'ness. I believe a blind with a sensory replacement aid will develop whatever senses they need just fine even if you give them another sense to work with.
I mean, it is fine to be able to perceive something well by touching it, but it is even better if you know where to touch, isn't it ?
I'd also like to give the compliment back to the other guy who said that the idea is stupid. This post is for you, too.
Here's a basic summary, in case the site gets slashdotted or in case you lost your senses of reading:
The method used is called sensory substitution.
That is, one sense can be used to emulate the input that is usually provided by another sense. The tongue is one of the best places for input.
You have to wear the substitution device for it to work, although it is speculated that by training the brain areas for the lost sense, the working of that area can be improved, so it just might help restore a sense in the situation where the organ not working is parts of the brain.
I'd like to add that I heard blind people can go mad when you try to feed them visual stimuli through the eye nerves, probably because these brain parts have taken on other roles. I'd therefore like to suggest that babies born blind are provided with artificial visual stimuli, so that this part of the brain learns to work and can later operate fully, when there is the technology to provide fully working artificial eyes.
Every single claim stands by itself, (although it may build on another claim e.g. 1 or N-1) and you can be sued for any single claim that you violate.
In addition, if the patent has an overbroad claim 1, a court may still decide that the rest of the patent has merit. This is very wrong and puts no incentive up for patent attorneys to even file a decent patent!
Think of each claim as a gold mine that gets staked out.
It is just as suitable for rapid prototyping as anything else if you know how to use it.
May I suggest that it is not just as suitable if you have to prototype something that has to work with someone elses code and framework?
which seems a bit worrying for an app that will cost a few million to develop
;-)
Which is exactly the point. If you need to spend millions to develop a product which to your customer does little more than the "cheap" product ("Which color do you want the database to be? Pink!"), then there is no need for time consuming layers over layers of J2EE apps.
Some information-providing thing like a forum does not need distributed transactions. I bet most of these distributed systems also fall over when actually put under stress and unusual input, just like their PHP cousins.
Of course it would be nice if PHP grew up a bit, but people who use it don't feel the need yet.
It's fine if you can throw millions of $ at your enterprise level solution, you will lock out competition, need more and more specialized programmers and will choose to ignore the crowd of LAMP users.
This stuff costs money and nerves, and if your customer can pay it more power to you
I had feared that, and it is absurd.
Just skipping overbroad claims puts absolutely no burden for trying to file a correct patent on the patent claimant, and it leaves someone who reads the patent without a way to determine whether the patent applies to him without going to court.
In other news, when critized by slashdot readers about his comparision "internet porn is 'worse than crack.'", Senator Sam Brownback said that he only had wanted to put it into perspective with something Senators know about first-hand.
I think it is a hoax. If so, 2cents from me to M$ for joining the patent troll brigade, thereby allowing us to show the absurdity of software patents.
/. readers as USPTO workers, that is.
And imagine, what if we had a Beowulf cluster of M$ patent trolls? The USPTO surely would collapse. Unless they hire a Beowulf cluster of
Yea. Also, many patents form a chain, so that claim (N+1) is based on claim(N). So this kind of patent should fall over when claim 1 falls. However it is my impression that when a patent with an overbroad claim 1 goes to court, the court might just choose to too cancel claim 1 and say the patent is valid starting from claim 2.
Are there there any examples that support my above perception? If yes, this seem unfair and encourages overbroad claims.
You could forbid exclusive licensing, although that would still reduce the playing field to the big companies. A company owning a patent would have to base the share the inventor gets on the fee that it sort of pays to itself for using the patent.
So if the company is a miser is trying to save fees to the inventor, competitors get a chance to license too.
Re: exclusively, I wish I had the money to patent the Basic XOR operator.
SCO was his first customer ..
Well, it seems Microsoft has dropped to rank 5 in spiritual ranking, should I sell my stock?
There is no patent on design patterns - people have come up with good designs even before that book, and will continue to do so.
Maybe the article really means a shortage of people who can bullshit management with big words like "Gang of Four" and "Xtreme Programming", who can justify this way that the project took two months longer than required, thus tricking the PHB into doing sane software development.
I also wouldn't be surprised if it worked as increasing job-security because you can re-do the project as often as you like by refactoring it to some new design pattern, "which will solve all problems and make maintenance easier".
Good programming practices can only be beneficial when the developer has access to code even after a single project is finished, for example when he is developing as a one-man-company, in a big company, or in open source. I bet many of these companies complaining are really looking for one-shot project developers, and then wonder why there are fewer of them with open source (where developers have access to source, so that they can plan for the ages).
Yes, quite informative, it is all wrong ..
;-)
Why didn't they do an MMORPG with Bush and make Hello Kitty U.S. president ?
I think GMail is designed to use only one window because it automatically refreshes even while you are busy composing a new email.
There must be some tricky javascript updating of the entire web page going on.
Not a very good answer, I know, but I guess you'd only get better answers from gmails programmers..
Instead of thinking about Lego Blocks for the universe, I think that it is better to imagine that the start of the universe looks much like a fractal of the kind which looks like a plant.
The nodes are the elementary particles(like quarks, electrons, muon, lepton-neutrinos), and the branches/lines connecting the nodes are forces/relationships between particles.
Particles would generate more and more interactions between them, based on some rules which define proximity in space.
I guess you would need to have some removal or at least aging/recoloring of lines to define movement, I must admit I haven't thought about this part.
The Lorentz contraction would be the result of overloading the otherwise fair processing of events by concentrating too many events around too few particles, e.g. black holes and maybe slower speed of light in dense mediums. This would mean that you can generate relativity effects not only by gravity, but by concentrating other physical events in an area in spacetime. Maybe could be seen in these laser-powered fusion reactors. Or maybe you couldn't ever verify that theory because there are gazillion more gravity nodes/"particles" than other particles/"light" nodes.
Well, you could make a version of Warcraft: Americans and Humans, and give the Americans the CokeLust spell.
;-)
And you could give the Human mages the Adidas spell, for faster movement.
But what really would be interesting to the pro gamers would be team-based advertising to generate income for the pro's