Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California at San Francisco and her colleagues perturbed genes in C. elegans that affect the activity of insulin and removed gonad tissue, which affects endocrine hormone levels.
What good is living longer if you don't have any gonads?! I think I'd rather just die earlier...
It's also well-known that low-cal diets will cause you to live longer, but who wants to live like that?
Back when I took electromagnetics as a physics undergrad, we actually computed the effect of a powerline about 20 feet from you. In the end, the thermal noise in your cells drowned out any EM effect from the powerline.
Despite all the people who want to sue to make a buck, there is *no* scientific evidence that living near power lines, using cellphones, or sending your kids to a WiFi enabled school will hurt anyone.
Ditch the dual-boot stuff. Get VMWare for Windows and 1GB of memory, and run *both* operating systems at the same time.
Add in VNC and a virtual desktop manager and you can have your X session running full screen on a separate desktop, just a hotkey away. (I found running X to be fussy... Plus VNC keeps your desktop state when you suspend your VMWare client OS.)
You're forgetting that there are actaully some smart people in the banking industry that will realize that having your ATM's running windows hooked up to the internet is a bad idea. The people that make these kinds of decisions are not fools.
So the results aren't quite up to date. I've trained it on a couple months of spam and non-spam and it seems to significantly improve its classification.
Let's say you take 4 years beyond the masters to finish the PhD. Your average income with a masters would probably be about $60k. Are you willing to give up $240k and job experience to get a PhD?
There are less jobs at the PhD level, but less people with PhDs, so you may actually have an easier time finding a job after the PhD. The real question is whether you want an academic job or a programmer job. (These days there is no industrial research being done outside of Microsoft Research.)
You might also want to see the ghostscript model. Artifex develops a commercial version, then releases an open source version a year later. This allows them to keep the "crown jewels" for a year to benefit from financially.
I believe Apache also sells commercial licenses.
Basically, if you do the work, you own the copyright. As another poster said, make sure you don't lose that control.
Since people seem interested in near-silent PCs for their home theater: The Heatsink Case. This sucker is so well designed that the internal temp goes up when you take off the lid.:) Unfortunately the guy has had trouble getting production ramped up enough to satisfy his many customers...
This announcement that Palm OS 5.2.1 can handle more memory comes just before the new Palm Tungsten C is rumored to be released. The T|C is supposed to have 64MB of memory and run--you guessed it--OS 5.2.1.
Here is the original leak, and here is one for sale on Ebay. The thing is supposed to retail for $499 on the 25th, but some dumbass is willing to pay an extra $300 to get it a couple days earlier. Anyway, Quill Corp, Amazon, and Staples all jumped the gun with listings for the product but have since removed them.
I for one am going to snap one up on Wednesday. It's got a hi-res color display, 64MB of RAM, a thumbboard (which I like), a 400MHz Intel XScale chip, no exterior antenna, and best of all... 802.11b. (No, damn it, I don't want to pay a stupid monthly bill for your wireless service when I can get it just about anywhere I work away from the office.)
This reminds me of a demo we used to do at the National Center for Physical Acoustics. Basically, you shine a laser beam on some reflective surface, and watch the interference that occurs between the reflected light and the original light.
Since the laser's light is coherent, you can use this interference to reconstruct subtle changes in the distance from the laser to the reflective surface. In other words, you can eavesdrop on someone by looking at how the windows in the room vibrate! Supposedly this was once used to find out what people were saying in an embassy.
At short distances you can use a grapefruit instead of a window, but talking into a grapefruit is just weird.:)
Many people claim that AOP is just another way to break encapsulation. The point here is that for nontrivial systems, there is no good decomposition. You see, if you try to encapsulate one thing better, it forces you to expose other things. Or, if you encapsulate every little concern, then your module integration is a mess.
Just think about support for tracing the execution of your program. Many applications support multiple levels of verbosity, and perhaps logging facilities. But this is largely orthogonal to the overt functionality of the system. If you tried to encapsulate tracing, you'd end up having to compromise the overall modularity.
My guess is that MS wants to make it impossible to run anything other than Windows. Remember the hissy fit they had over Java? It was because they were worried that Java in a web browser would become the new operating system, rendering Windows obsolete.
I wouldn't be at all suprised if I found out that MS offered to buy VMWare as well.
By the way, does anyone know how Connectix performs compared to VMWare? The genious of VMWare is that the guest OS is actually running on the raw hardware most of the time, so you get really good performance. I'd imagine Connectix is pretty slow since it's emulating the hardware in software...
Funny, you'd think that I would have heard something about my News Clipperopen source program. It lets people fetch anything using "handlers". The usenet handler, for example, inserts links into a webpage for usenet articles. There are noninfringing uses of such software, under most fair use laws. My stock answer to the copyright question was "It's your responsibility: you have to get syndication rights, or stay under the terms of fair use".
By the way, the easiest way to defeat WWW::EuroTV is to simply change your formatting every few days. The author will go crazy trying to keep up.:)
Fah, ESR is not as annoying as RMS (that is, of course, impossible), but he seems to be heading down the path.
Have you actually read RMS' writing, or talked to him in person? Everything I've seen has been extremely cogent and to-the-point. I often don't agree with his point of view, but that's no cause to label him "annoying".
Say it with me. Just hit delete. 1,200 times. Oops! Just deleted the e-mail from your (mother/father/brother/sister/spouce/SO/boss/once in a life time confidential offer).
No kiddin'. I would have deleted my VA software IPO offer if I hadn't read about it on Slashdot first.
It sounded like a lot like a Nigeria scam.;) If only I had the good sense to sell all my stock that first day...
What I haven't seen people mention is that Quickbooks is a spyware piece of crap. Install a software firewall that blocks outbound access and you'll see what I mean. It's harder to stop it from calling home using deeply buried options than it is to stop Real Player. (And that's saying something!)
I wonder if tying in of software with (potentially non-free) online services is a transition phase in changes in the software paradigm. It seems like M$ (and others) are starting to look at software as services, potentially bringing it all online at some point. By tying in stand alone software with online services, I wonder if vendors are trying to blur the line between stand alone software packages and online services.
Actually, MS wants software to be a utility that you pay for each month. Pay your electric bill... Pay your software bill...
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It's also well-known that low-cal diets will cause you to live longer, but who wants to live like that?
Despite all the people who want to sue to make a buck, there is *no* scientific evidence that living near power lines, using cellphones, or sending your kids to a WiFi enabled school will hurt anyone.
The /. effect fights terrorism!
Ditch the dual-boot stuff. Get VMWare for Windows and 1GB of memory, and run *both* operating systems at the same time.
Add in VNC and a virtual desktop manager and you can have your X session running full screen on a separate desktop, just a hotkey away. (I found running X to be fussy... Plus VNC keeps your desktop state when you suspend your VMWare client OS.)
So the results aren't quite up to date. I've trained it on a couple months of spam and non-spam and it seems to significantly improve its classification.
Let's say you take 4 years beyond the masters to finish the PhD. Your average income with a masters would probably be about $60k. Are you willing to give up $240k and job experience to get a PhD?
There are less jobs at the PhD level, but less people with PhDs, so you may actually have an easier time finding a job after the PhD. The real question is whether you want an academic job or a programmer job. (These days there is no industrial research being done outside of Microsoft Research.)
New Coke.
(Let's see how old the Slashdot crowd is...)
You might also want to see the ghostscript model. Artifex develops a commercial version, then releases an open source version a year later. This allows them to keep the "crown jewels" for a year to benefit from financially.
I believe Apache also sells commercial licenses.
Basically, if you do the work, you own the copyright. As another poster said, make sure you don't lose that control.
Tell me about it... As hilarious as Monty Python and the Holy Grail is, I can't stand to watch it through to the end.
Since people seem interested in near-silent PCs for their home theater: The Heatsink Case. This sucker is so well designed that the internal temp goes up when you take off the lid. :) Unfortunately the guy has had trouble getting production ramped up enough to satisfy his many customers...
Here is the original leak, and here is one for sale on Ebay. The thing is supposed to retail for $499 on the 25th, but some dumbass is willing to pay an extra $300 to get it a couple days earlier. Anyway, Quill Corp, Amazon, and Staples all jumped the gun with listings for the product but have since removed them.
I for one am going to snap one up on Wednesday. It's got a hi-res color display, 64MB of RAM, a thumbboard (which I like), a 400MHz Intel XScale chip, no exterior antenna, and best of all... 802.11b. (No, damn it, I don't want to pay a stupid monthly bill for your wireless service when I can get it just about anywhere I work away from the office.)
Since the laser's light is coherent, you can use this interference to reconstruct subtle changes in the distance from the laser to the reflective surface. In other words, you can eavesdrop on someone by looking at how the windows in the room vibrate! Supposedly this was once used to find out what people were saying in an embassy.
At short distances you can use a grapefruit instead of a window, but talking into a grapefruit is just weird. :)
Just think about support for tracing the execution of your program. Many applications support multiple levels of verbosity, and perhaps logging facilities. But this is largely orthogonal to the overt functionality of the system. If you tried to encapsulate tracing, you'd end up having to compromise the overall modularity.
Even worse: I was in the library yesterday and someone's phone started playing "Play that funky music"...
DO IT! OOOWWWWW!
My guess is that MS wants to make it impossible to run anything other than Windows. Remember the hissy fit they had over Java? It was because they were worried that Java in a web browser would become the new operating system, rendering Windows obsolete.
I wouldn't be at all suprised if I found out that MS offered to buy VMWare as well.
By the way, does anyone know how Connectix performs compared to VMWare? The genious of VMWare is that the guest OS is actually running on the raw hardware most of the time, so you get really good performance. I'd imagine Connectix is pretty slow since it's emulating the hardware in software...
Or maybe you mean Heidi Fleiss?
Something that counteracts gravity... Gimme my anti-grav boots!
By the way, the easiest way to defeat WWW::EuroTV is to simply change your formatting every few days. The author will go crazy trying to keep up. :)
Have you actually read RMS' writing, or talked to him in person? Everything I've seen has been extremely cogent and to-the-point. I often don't agree with his point of view, but that's no cause to label him "annoying".
No kiddin'. I would have deleted my VA software IPO offer if I hadn't read about it on Slashdot first.
It sounded like a lot like a Nigeria scam. ;) If only I had the good sense to sell all my stock that first day...
Hm... Pretty strong stance for an anonymous coward. It's easy to show bravado when there is no cost.
What I haven't seen people mention is that Quickbooks is a spyware piece of crap. Install a software firewall that blocks outbound access and you'll see what I mean. It's harder to stop it from calling home using deeply buried options than it is to stop Real Player. (And that's saying something!)
Heh. My favorite was Cathy Rogers from Junkyard Wars