So people are going to know stuff about what you do. So what? In my wallet right now I have: three bank cards, three supermarket loyalty cards, my university matriculation card, my blood donor card, my national insurance card, and membership cards for several clubs. These all represent organisations that hold data on me. And you know, I quite like it that way. I quite like the fact that the supermarkets know to give me money-off offers on fruit and not on beer. I quite like the fact that if I get knocked down in the street, the hospital will know what blood group I am.
Of course, any time I like I can tell these people to delete my data from their database. But why should I want to, when their having my data is to my advantage?
It rather neglects the fact that most people, including me, like to read books at their own pace. I tend to read through whole books in one go, and I wouldn`t be very happy about having to wait three months at a time for the next chapter - and be expected to pay for the privelege!
> >Women in CS are brighter than men because they have to be in order to get in in the first place.
> This is a much of a sexist statement as when some men say that women aren't as good at math.
If you`d read my article, you`d have seen that what I was talking about was the fact, evidenced by scientific studies, that for a woman to be accepted in academia she has to do twice as well as a man. It`s not a sexist statement, it`s a statement about sexism.
I don`t see why we can`t have both. We can put Linux or Windows or Be or BSD or quite a few other things on our intel machines, so why not have similar choice on the Amiga? I would have thought that most people here would agree that a choice of OS is a good thing.
Yes, animated ads are generally a Bad Thing. There was a study a while back about the way people used the web: they watched and made notes as people searched for set pieces of information. If they came across animated gifs which didn`t have anything to do with what they were looking for, they`d stop the animation or cover that part of the screen with their hand so they could read the page without being distracted.
Yes, don`t fragment/. - although being able to select euro-centric stories in your preferences would be nice. And, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease, a European mirror?
This is, more or less, the point. Women in CS are brighter than men because they have to be in order to get in in the first place. There are two reasons for this; the first is discrimination, which does happen. There was a study a couple of years ago on women scientists that showed that in order to have the same amount of prestige, a woman had to have done twice as much work as a man. Papers submitted for peer-review were less likely to be accepted if headed by a `feminine` name; women considered for academic jobs had to have twice as many papers published as men. I don`t know whether this extends down as far as the undergraduate level; I suspect not as much as it used to.
The other reason is expectations. When I was about ten, for Christmas my brother got an electronics set and a chemistry set. I got a microscope. I only discovered computers when I got to university - doing Biology. Computing lessons at school consisted of being sat in front of a touch-typing program and expected to become good little secretaries. Maybe my experience is unusual; I don`t know. But if it isn`t, then there`s a good reason why women don`t go into computers: they`re simply not encouraged to. So such a scholarship would be a good move.
I agree that before internet shopping will become a reality for most people, the companies will have to get their acts together and sort out their deliveries: ETAs accurate to the hour or half-hour; evening deliveries as well as daytime deliveries; no extra charge for weekend deliveries; the ability to check up on where it is and being informed if it`s going to be late. These are all things that they should do, and don`t.
I ordered a printer yesterday, which will arrive today `sometime before 5:30`. I can`t wait around at home all day on the offchance that it`ll turn up in time for me to then come into work: it`ll probably arrive while I`m out, and hopefully be taken in by my neighbours. I have friendly neighbours, so this is an option for me. For many people, it isn`t, and this is a hurdle that internet consumer shopping is going to have to cross.
Another problem may well be delivery costs. The supermarkets are all starting to do web-based ordering; it hasn`t reached my area, though it will by the end of the year. Because I live on my own, the (fixed) delivery charge they apply would be a considerable percentage of the cost of my shopping. So, convenient though it might be (if they get the delivery times thing sorted) it would not be at all cost-effective for me. For large families, where someone is in the house most of the time, it might be different.
And yes, there will always be real shops. There are some things you just can`t tell from a webpage. And a lot of things aren`t nearly so tempting if all you can see is a picture on a screen.
hat I find most interesting is the fact that dosing the mice with caffeine after (assuming "immediately after") frying them didn't help. If the caffeine reacts with the hydroxyl radicals produced during irradiation, my gut tells me that it should be possible to get the protection if the caffeine is administered within a short (admittedly, the window could be very short, on the order of minutes at most) time of irradiation.
I suspect that the explanation is more along the lines of caffiene stimulating or repressing certain processes in the body. For example, maybe it`s repressing DNA replication or transcription, and this means there`s less of it going on while there`s nasty free radicals about to get incorporated into your DNA. Or maybe it activates certain enzymes that go round eating up free radicals (there are some). I don`t know that much about what caffeine does (it inhibits the breakdown of cyclic AMP, and once upon a time I knew what that did), but it seems to me that that`s far more likely than that the caffeine itself acts directly on the free radicals.
Not quite true. H.pylori certainly is a factor in causing ulcers, but it`s not the only one. You are far more likely to get an ulcer if you have H.pylori, but you can get one without it. It`s just a lot harder. Conversely, piles and piles of people go throughout their lives carrying the bug and never getting any symtoms.
By the time your food gets to the mitochondria, it`s been converted into sugars and amino acids anyway, which more or less anything can deal with. Besides, most of the genes in the mitochondria are actually made in the nucleus, and are transported in via pores in the mitochondrial membrane. Those that are made in the mitochondria are pretty similar in all animals, and certainly in all mammals, since they do the same job everywhere.
If I clone myself, do I/we have two votes or one votes in elections?
Two, of course. You clone isn`t you. They merely happen to share the same set of genes. With a different upbringing (several years later, for a start) they may well turn out quite different from you.
If I clone myself, and then kill myself: Is this murder? Do I still live?
If you clone yourself, and then kill yourself, this is suicide. Your clone still lives. If you clone yourself, and then kill your clone, this is murder, and you still live.
Your clone is not you. Nor is it a slave, or someone without personality. Why do people find it so hard to understand this?
Don`t be silly. A clone is a person just like anyone else. They start off as children, and as they grow up they might well say `No, I don`t want to join your army; no, I don`t want to be your slave`. Yes, if you bring them up right you might be able to turn them into demoralised or deluded slaves, but it would be no less difficult than for any other person.
How the blydi hell do you expect to do that? Bear in mind that memories are stored in the pattern of nerve cells in the brain, so you still need the same brain. Brain cells get old just the same as any other cell. Would you want to be senile in a young body?
Who else has noticed that slashdot is listed at the end of the article as a `recommended resource`? People are going to come here to learn more after reading that article. We ought to give them a good impression.
I don`t think it`s likely we`ll be having huge traffic problems any time soon. Even if these things do work, they`re going to cost $60,000. Not everyone`s going to be able to get their hands on one.
Oh, and 19mpg isn`t that marvellous. Anything below 30 is viewed as poor in the UK. But then, we have huge petrol taxes, so it`s more important to us..
That`s all fine and dandy, and the site`s a very good idea, but it`s all very US-centric. Will federal laws apply to US spammers spamming UK accounts?
(I once got a UK spammer investigated by the Data Protection Registrar for holding personal data (ie email addresses) on computer for purposes of direct mailing without a licence..)
Slashdot Mirror
So people are going to know stuff about what you do. So what? In my wallet right now I have: three bank cards, three supermarket loyalty cards, my university matriculation card, my blood donor card, my national insurance card, and membership cards for several clubs. These all represent organisations that hold data on me. And you know, I quite like it that way. I quite like the fact that the supermarkets know to give me money-off offers on fruit and not on beer. I quite like the fact that if I get knocked down in the street, the hospital will know what blood group I am.
Of course, any time I like I can tell these people to delete my data from their database. But why should I want to, when their having my data is to my advantage?
It rather neglects the fact that most people, including me, like to read books at their own pace. I tend to read through whole books in one go, and I wouldn`t be very happy about having to wait three months at a time for the next chapter - and be expected to pay for the privelege!
> >Women in CS are brighter than men because they have to be in order to get in in the first place.
> This is a much of a sexist statement as when some men say that women aren't as good at math.
If you`d read my article, you`d have seen that what I was talking about was the fact, evidenced by scientific studies, that for a woman to be accepted in academia she has to do twice as well as a man. It`s not a sexist statement, it`s a statement about sexism.
I don`t see why we can`t have both. We can put Linux or Windows or Be or BSD or quite a few other things on our intel machines, so why not have similar choice on the Amiga? I would have thought that most people here would agree that a choice of OS is a good thing.
This ought to be a main story.
Well, IRIX, anyway.
So who`s the best-selling author then?
Yes, animated ads are generally a Bad Thing.
There was a study a while back about the way people used the web: they watched and made notes as people searched for set pieces of information.
If they came across animated gifs which didn`t have anything to do with what they were looking for, they`d stop the animation or cover that part of the screen with their hand so they could read the page without being distracted.
Yes, don`t fragment /. - although being able to select euro-centric stories in your preferences would be nice. And, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease, a European mirror?
This is, more or less, the point. Women in CS are brighter than men because they have to be in order to get in in the first place. There are two reasons for this; the first is discrimination, which does happen. There was a study a couple of years ago on women scientists that showed that in order to have the same amount of prestige, a woman had to have done twice as much work as a man. Papers submitted for peer-review were less likely to be accepted if headed by a `feminine` name; women considered for academic jobs had to have twice as many papers published as men. I don`t know whether this extends down as far as the undergraduate level; I suspect not as much as it used to.
The other reason is expectations. When I was about ten, for Christmas my brother got an electronics set and a chemistry set. I got a microscope. I only discovered computers when I got to university - doing Biology. Computing lessons at school consisted of being sat in front of a touch-typing program and expected to become good little secretaries. Maybe my experience is unusual; I don`t know. But if it isn`t, then there`s a good reason why women don`t go into computers: they`re simply not encouraged to. So such a scholarship would be a good move.
I agree that before internet shopping will become a reality for most people, the companies will have to get their acts together and sort out their deliveries: ETAs accurate to the hour or half-hour; evening deliveries as well as daytime deliveries; no extra charge for weekend deliveries; the ability to check up on where it is and being informed if it`s going to be late. These are all things that they should do, and don`t.
I ordered a printer yesterday, which will arrive today `sometime before 5:30`. I can`t wait around at home all day on the offchance that it`ll turn up in time for me to then come into work: it`ll probably arrive while I`m out, and hopefully be taken in by my neighbours. I have friendly neighbours, so this is an option for me. For many people, it isn`t, and this is a hurdle that internet consumer shopping is going to have to cross.
Another problem may well be delivery costs. The supermarkets are all starting to do web-based ordering; it hasn`t reached my area, though it will by the end of the year. Because I live on my own, the (fixed) delivery charge they apply would be a considerable percentage of the cost of my shopping. So, convenient though it might be (if they get the delivery times thing sorted) it would not be at all cost-effective for me. For large families, where someone is in the house most of the time, it might be different.
And yes, there will always be real shops. There are some things you just can`t tell from a webpage. And a lot of things aren`t nearly so tempting if all you can see is a picture on a screen.
No, there is one, here.
hat I find most interesting is the fact that dosing the mice with caffeine after (assuming "immediately after") frying them didn't help. If the caffeine reacts with the hydroxyl radicals produced during irradiation, my gut tells me that it should be possible to get the protection if the caffeine is administered within a short (admittedly, the window could be very short, on the order of minutes at most) time of irradiation.
I suspect that the explanation is more along the lines of caffiene stimulating or repressing certain processes in the body. For example, maybe it`s repressing DNA replication or transcription, and this means there`s less of it going on while there`s nasty free radicals about to get incorporated into your DNA. Or maybe it activates certain enzymes that go round eating up free radicals (there are some). I don`t know that much about what caffeine does (it inhibits the breakdown of cyclic AMP, and once upon a time I knew what that did), but it seems to me that that`s far more likely than that the caffeine itself acts directly on the free radicals.
Not quite true. H.pylori certainly is a factor in causing ulcers, but it`s not the only one. You are far more likely to get an ulcer if you have H.pylori, but you can get one without it. It`s just a lot harder. Conversely, piles and piles of people go throughout their lives carrying the bug and never getting any symtoms.
Incompatible?
Why?
By the time your food gets to the mitochondria, it`s been converted into sugars and amino acids anyway, which more or less anything can deal with. Besides, most of the genes in the mitochondria are actually made in the nucleus, and are transported in via pores in the mitochondrial membrane. Those that are made in the mitochondria are pretty similar in all animals, and certainly in all mammals, since they do the same job everywhere.
If I clone myself, do I/we have two votes or one votes in elections?
Two, of course. You clone isn`t you. They merely happen to share the same set of genes. With a different upbringing (several years later, for a start) they may well turn out quite different from you.
If I clone myself, and then kill myself: Is this murder? Do I still live?
If you clone yourself, and then kill yourself, this is suicide. Your clone still lives. If you clone yourself, and then kill your clone, this is murder, and you still live.
Your clone is not you. Nor is it a slave, or someone without personality. Why do people find it so hard to understand this?
Don`t be silly. A clone is a person just like anyone else. They start off as children, and as they grow up they might well say `No, I don`t want to join your army; no, I don`t want to be your slave`. Yes, if you bring them up right you might be able to turn them into demoralised or deluded slaves, but it would be no less difficult than for any other person.
How the blydi hell do you expect to do that?
Bear in mind that memories are stored in the pattern of nerve cells in the brain, so you still need the same brain. Brain cells get old just the same as any other cell. Would you want to be senile in a young body?
Who else has noticed that slashdot is listed at the end of the article as a `recommended resource`? People are going to come here to learn more after reading that article. We ought to give them a good impression.
I don`t think it`s likely we`ll be having huge
traffic problems any time soon. Even if these
things do work, they`re going to cost $60,000.
Not everyone`s going to be able to get their
hands on one.
Oh, and 19mpg isn`t that marvellous. Anything
below 30 is viewed as poor in the UK. But then,
we have huge petrol taxes, so it`s more important
to us..
That`s all fine and dandy, and the site`s a
very good idea, but it`s all very US-centric.
Will federal laws apply to US spammers spamming
UK accounts?
(I once got a UK spammer investigated by the
Data Protection Registrar for holding personal
data (ie email addresses) on computer for
purposes of direct mailing without a licence..)