Sorry, should have included this in the first post:
The most important information from the site is:
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Mechanism of Action and Pharmacology
The precise mechanism(s) through which modafinil promotes wakefulness is unknown. Modafinil has wake-promoting actions like sympathomimetic agents including amphetamine and methylphenidate, although the pharmacologic profile is not identical to that of sympathomimetic amines.
The rest of the document is going to be gobblytygook to you computer guys, but it appears that it is fairly similar to placebo, with no severe short term 2 years (remeber Phen-Phen)symptoms.
For everyone out there the name of the drug is Provigil not provigal. Here is the company's website on the drug. Unending amounts of information about the drug.
Like many other people I wanted get more productive hours out my 24 hour day so began studying napping in college and ending up doing my undergrad research project on napping. I ended up doing a fairly lame project but my original idea was to adopt this sleep pattern (awake 4 hours, sleep 15-30 minutes) and do tests on myself. While there have been anecodotes of this sleep schedule, there have been no documented cases and no scientific research. Incidentally, Leonardo da Vinci was supposed to have adopted this sleep schedule. It can certainly help explain the amazing work that he produced.
The human body has many continuous overlapping cycles. The most prominent is the circadian rythymn, our daily clock. But there are longer cycles (women's monthly cycles) and a shorter one of approximatly 4 hours. Adopting this sleeping pattern would maximize restorative sleep (Stage 4 and REM) while minimizing the less productive sleep stages (Stages 1-3). When you adopt this sleep schedule, you immediately go into deep sleep and then dream within 5 or 10 minutes. The normal delay for dreaming is usually 3-5 hours. One last thing that I found in my research. While most people can deal with moderate sleep loss for an extended time 2-3 hours a night, there is a core sleep time of 4-5 hours that the average person must get otherwise they become non-functional.
I would love to read up more on this drug and to see how the research has changed in the three years that I have left school.
Now only if I could sue yahoo or Hotmail for all the daily spam I get from them. I can't be the only one getting mail from
143jkdsa@hotmail.com
and
37jerckoff@yahoo.com
That extra $50 daily would certainly help with my non-profit fund raising money for a new DVD-R and 19" flat panel.
What are they gonna do now remove the One ring from LOTR?
Basic of algorithms
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While I would consider myself geeky, I'm much more of a science geek than computer geek (even though I read/. on a daily basis) I have no real understanding of a computer algorithm, deep or otherwise, my search for "computer science deep algorithm" on google wasn't much help either. Could any one help the uninitiated.
Klett admits that it is highly unlikely the foam will break out of the lab and into widely available commercial applications anytime soon.
Stories like this have always annoyed me. You always hear about the possible development of an item that is four or five (or however many years) away from being put into commercial application but after that you never hear about it. Or if it is used commerically you never hear about where it has been put into use. I work in the scientific field and I almost never hear about an exciting development after it's initial announcement.
The one exception to this is pixie dust that has allowed for the phenomeonal growth of hard drives. Oh well.
Warning Flamebait!!!! Mod me down if you want. Now he just seems like someone spouting off at the mouth about technology he doesn't understand or really care about. The web remains an emerging technology, where existing models of television (video on demand), radio (internet radio anyone) and print media (salon, slate) were applied with varying amounts of success. The web is none of these things but its own medium. When someone complains about the centralization of media outlets on the web I have to take it with a very large grain of salt.
The beautiful thing about the web is that anyone can express their opinion (including mine and Jon Katz), but with such a low barrier for entry users of the web are looking for quality with their quantity. Sites like Yahoo, MSN and AOL offer those. And mainstream viewers demand mainstream values and opinions. I applaud smaller sites that cater to a smaller audience with just the same amount of integrity. These type of efforts would not be possible in any other type of publishing or broadcasting environment. So God bless the web and screw Jon Katz.
I see this news as a wonderful contrast to the open source movement. Science has always been "open source", with publishers demanding a reasonable payment for their efforts of propogating that knowledge. Free speech not Free beer. Now the movement is for free propogation of that information at little or no cost. Free beer for the scientific community.
On the other hand open source and FSF has it's roots in free beer and free speech, and is now only going towards changing for that beer. I think both models are legitamate and should function with each other. Who else is going to edit that Nature or Science journal if you dont pay them? But then again there will always be people who do it for the love of the code, or in this case the research
As someone who stupidly gave out his cell phone as his main contact number with the cable company when I had no other phone I have been unerringly called on it to inform me that:
1)my @home e-mail is going to die (who needs me@home when you got me@slashdot.com)
2)that they were upgrading their network and needed to make sure that DHCP was on
3)and wonder of all wonders that they are better than the Dish Networks (Direct TV) even though they have worse service and cost more.
These calls continue despite all my 8 seperate efforts to change this number to my new house number. I think that Comcast owes me at least a little privacy.
Re: "Here is the big thing with Microsoft" This is not the beginning of a flame war. I repeat this not the beginning of a flame ware. Some parts of this article you could just have taken straight from Craig Mundie's mouth. Three of four months ago when Microsoft was spreading FUD about Linux, Mundie tried desperately to link Linux and the failure of the dot-coms three or four months ago. As other people have noted this was more a product of timing than anything else. Correlation not cause.
Here is the big thing with Microsoft, capitalize on the failures of the Dot Coms and try to associate it with Linux and the free software movement. One might argue that the "business model" of many dot coms was to give away their service to entice enough users, hoping to charge them in end for premium services. The fundamental difference is that Linux and other OSS is given away not to get more users (though it is nice) but to give freedom to its users. BIG difference, there is no long term desire to start sticking it to consumers. In the end there is no Linux business model that can be put out of business like the dot coms
Sorry, as somewhat alluded to in the article, 100% of the brain does 100% of the work not 80/20; even if we don't completely understand how every part of it works. If you cut connections in the brain, or simply remove parts of it, then it will not work in the same way. The beautiful complexity of the brain makes it possible for us to consolidate disparate information into a coherent whole. Pattern recognition and language are two of the many things that computer science has yet to replicate.
To bring in another clarifying example, the brain works in some ways like a genome. There are thousands of genes that we have no idea what they do. One gene may produce a protein that is inhibited by another gene, which in turn inhibits the second gene production. Throw a thousand genes into the mix, and you get a mass of confusion. Understanding what gene does specifically in the large picture is a very difficult prospect. In this aspect I'm not surprised that he does not know exactly how it works.
Considering Palm's recent acquistion of BeOS, are there any Graphitti comperable handwriting programs developed by the BeOS guys or were they too busy begging for device drivers from Intel and HP
As far as I can tell Palm has not been very sucessful of late.
Though I don't doubt the validity of the claim, I also think it execs at Xerox trying to make up for it's own poor books. .
Now if polaroid could just sue Kodak.....
This is probably flamebait, but I am what you would call a Microsoft user, but not a Microsoft lover. I use their products because it does what Linux users always claimed about its OS, it does what I need to do without little fuss.
Anyhow, I always install the latest security update for Windows as soon as I get that "Critical Update" warning. Well even though this specific bug does not affect win2k, I got a critical update notification for "Incorrect Content-Disposition Handling Can Cause IE to Execute Code Automatically" for IE6 the SAME DAY this bug and patch is released. Bugs and specifically security bugs are a problem for all operating systems, but more and more I am looking to Linux for a solution to my computing needs. How many security concerns will I have to deal with for my OS so that it will do what it "needs without fuss"
how long this patch was developed. Suddenly when the hole is "announced" wammo! a patch in 3 days. Maybe Microsoft doesn't want to reduce it's "features"
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Sorry, should have included this in the first post: The most important information from the site is: CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY Mechanism of Action and Pharmacology The precise mechanism(s) through which modafinil promotes wakefulness is unknown. Modafinil has wake-promoting actions like sympathomimetic agents including amphetamine and methylphenidate, although the pharmacologic profile is not identical to that of sympathomimetic amines.
The rest of the document is going to be gobblytygook to you computer guys, but it appears that it is fairly similar to placebo, with no severe short term 2 years (remeber Phen-Phen)symptoms.
For everyone out there the name of the drug is Provigil not provigal. Here is the company's website on the drug. Unending amounts of information about the drug.
Like many other people I wanted get more productive hours out my 24 hour day so began studying napping in college and ending up doing my undergrad research project on napping. I ended up doing a fairly lame project but my original idea was to adopt this sleep pattern (awake 4 hours, sleep 15-30 minutes) and do tests on myself. While there have been anecodotes of this sleep schedule, there have been no documented cases and no scientific research. Incidentally, Leonardo da Vinci was supposed to have adopted this sleep schedule. It can certainly help explain the amazing work that he produced.
The human body has many continuous overlapping cycles. The most prominent is the circadian rythymn, our daily clock. But there are longer cycles (women's monthly cycles) and a shorter one of approximatly 4 hours. Adopting this sleeping pattern would maximize restorative sleep (Stage 4 and REM) while minimizing the less productive sleep stages (Stages 1-3). When you adopt this sleep schedule, you immediately go into deep sleep and then dream within 5 or 10 minutes. The normal delay for dreaming is usually 3-5 hours.
One last thing that I found in my research. While most people can deal with moderate sleep loss for an extended time 2-3 hours a night, there is a core sleep time of 4-5 hours that the average person must get otherwise they become non-functional.
I would love to read up more on this drug and to see how the research has changed in the three years that I have left school.
I thought that was Jule's website (Samuel L. Jackson's in Pulp fiction). Oh I'm sorry, his website is www.badmofo.com
Now only if I could sue yahoo or Hotmail for all the daily spam I get from them. I can't be the only one getting mail from
143jkdsa@hotmail.com
and
37jerckoff@yahoo.com That extra $50 daily would certainly help with my non-profit fund raising money for a new DVD-R and 19" flat panel.
What are they gonna do now remove the One ring from LOTR?
While I would consider myself geeky, I'm much more of a science geek than computer geek (even though I read /. on a daily basis) I have no real understanding of a computer algorithm, deep or otherwise, my search for "computer science deep algorithm" on google wasn't much help either. Could any one help the uninitiated.
Klett admits that it is highly unlikely the foam will break out of the lab and into widely available commercial applications anytime soon.
Stories like this have always annoyed me. You always hear about the possible development of an item that is four or five (or however many years) away from being put into commercial application but after that you never hear about it. Or if it is used commerically you never hear about where it has been put into use. I work in the scientific field and I almost never hear about an exciting development after it's initial announcement.
The one exception to this is pixie dust that has allowed for the phenomeonal growth of hard drives. Oh well.
Warning Flamebait!!!! Mod me down if you want.
Now he just seems like someone spouting off at the mouth about technology he doesn't understand or really care about. The web remains an emerging technology, where existing models of television (video on demand), radio (internet radio anyone) and print media (salon, slate) were applied with varying amounts of success. The web is none of these things but its own medium. When someone complains about the centralization of media outlets on the web I have to take it with a very large grain of salt.
The beautiful thing about the web is that anyone can express their opinion (including mine and Jon Katz), but with such a low barrier for entry users of the web are looking for quality with their quantity. Sites like Yahoo, MSN and AOL offer those. And mainstream viewers demand mainstream values and opinions. I applaud smaller sites that cater to a smaller audience with just the same amount of integrity. These type of efforts would not be possible in any other type of publishing or broadcasting environment. So God bless the web and screw Jon Katz.
Since when did SCSI terms because the naming noveau trend? UltraWide. I'm still waiting for SuperWide!
I see this news as a wonderful contrast to the open source movement. Science has always been "open source", with publishers demanding a reasonable payment for their efforts of propogating that knowledge. Free speech not Free beer. Now the movement is for free propogation of that information at little or no cost. Free beer for the scientific community.
On the other hand open source and FSF has it's roots in free beer and free speech, and is now only going towards changing for that beer. I think both models are legitamate and should function with each other. Who else is going to edit that Nature or Science journal if you dont pay them? But then again there will always be people who do it for the love of the code, or in this case the research
As someone who stupidly gave out his cell phone as his main contact number with the cable company when I had no other phone I have been unerringly called on it to inform me that:
1)my @home e-mail is going to die (who needs me@home when you got me@slashdot.com)
2)that they were upgrading their network and needed to make sure that DHCP was on
3)and wonder of all wonders that they are better than the Dish Networks (Direct TV) even though they have worse service and cost more.
These calls continue despite all my 8 seperate efforts to change this number to my new house number. I think that Comcast owes me at least a little privacy.
And I want to be charged $20 less for KDE when and if Konquerer can be removed.
When did Pamela Anderson movies get discussed on /. ?
Re: "Here is the big thing with Microsoft"
This is not the beginning of a flame war. I repeat this not the beginning of a flame ware.
Some parts of this article you could just have taken straight from Craig Mundie's mouth. Three of four months ago when Microsoft was spreading FUD about Linux, Mundie tried desperately to link Linux and the failure of the dot-coms three or four months ago. As other people have noted this was more a product of timing than anything else. Correlation not cause.
Here is the big thing with Microsoft, capitalize on the failures of the Dot Coms and try to associate it with Linux and the free software movement. One might argue that the "business model" of many dot coms was to give away their service to entice enough users, hoping to charge them in end for premium services. The fundamental difference is that Linux and other OSS is given away not to get more users (though it is nice) but to give freedom to its users. BIG difference, there is no long term desire to start sticking it to consumers. In the end there is no Linux business model that can be put out of business like the dot coms
These kind of corporate tactics do not surprise me though. Money will always be the primary factor for coorporate morality and tactics.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, where NPR is supported by Monsanto while NPR reports about their unethical tactics.
Sorry, as somewhat alluded to in the article, 100% of the brain does 100% of the work not 80/20; even if we don't completely understand how every part of it works. If you cut connections in the brain, or simply remove parts of it, then it will not work in the same way. The beautiful complexity of the brain makes it possible for us to consolidate disparate information into a coherent whole. Pattern recognition and language are two of the many things that computer science has yet to replicate.
To bring in another clarifying example, the brain works in some ways like a genome. There are thousands of genes that we have no idea what they do. One gene may produce a protein that is inhibited by another gene, which in turn inhibits the second gene production. Throw a thousand genes into the mix, and you get a mass of confusion. Understanding what gene does specifically in the large picture is a very difficult prospect. In this aspect I'm not surprised that he does not know exactly how it works.
Considering Palm's recent acquistion of BeOS, are there any Graphitti comperable handwriting programs developed by the BeOS guys or were they too busy begging for device drivers from Intel and HP
As far as I can tell Palm has not been very sucessful of late.
Though I don't doubt the validity of the claim, I also think it execs at Xerox trying to make up for it's own poor books.
. Now if polaroid could just sue Kodak.....
This is probably flamebait, but I am what you would call a Microsoft user, but not a Microsoft lover. I use their products because it does what Linux users always claimed about its OS, it does what I need to do without little fuss. Anyhow, I always install the latest security update for Windows as soon as I get that "Critical Update" warning. Well even though this specific bug does not affect win2k, I got a critical update notification for "Incorrect Content-Disposition Handling Can Cause IE to Execute Code Automatically" for IE6 the SAME DAY this bug and patch is released. Bugs and specifically security bugs are a problem for all operating systems, but more and more I am looking to Linux for a solution to my computing needs. How many security concerns will I have to deal with for my OS so that it will do what it "needs without fuss"
how long this patch was developed. Suddenly when the hole is "announced" wammo! a patch in 3 days. Maybe Microsoft doesn't want to reduce it's "features"