But isn't there a decent chance you won't turn out to be a carrier, in which case you get to worry less and skip the extra bowel screening?
Yes, that's a 50% chance. Both my brother and me are not carrier, so we do not have anything to worry about anymore.
But still it is not pleasant to become (temporarily - but you do not know that beforehand) part of the gene research you used to be only reading about.
You are totally right. There's a gene running through my family, which cuts the carriers average life expectancy by 20 years (which is just a long as the life expectancy cut for heavy smokers). Most likely the carrier will develop bowel cancer at an early age (between 35 and 55), but the likelyhood of getting bowel cancer at other ages increases as well, as does the the likelyhood of developing other cancers.
Which effectively means that, once you are diagnosed as gene carrier, you will get bowel screening every year. Which will reduce the risk of getting bowel cancer (since the tumors can be destroyed before they're gettin agressive), but does nothing to reduce the chance of developing any of the other cancers. So yes, you will be 'healthier' because of the extra medical checks, but you will also be worrying more.
Couple that with the difficulty of applying the scientific method to humans (average life span of 75 years and ethical problems) and I think you'll see why medicine is a 'non-science.'
That difficulty is only a logistic difficulty, how to track a large number of people over a long period of time. But it is possible to overcome this difficulty, as is shown in the ERGO research project, where 10.000 people over 55 have from the Rotterdam district 'Ommoord' been tracked since 1990 (including yearly MRI scans of every single person). Since last year they've expanded this research to people over 45. This research already led to an astounding numbert of publications.
Patents, legislation & belief in what is good for you are what ruin medicine. Look at all the Hindu medicine that was ignored by the West for the longest time because it was... well, Hindu.
Which is just as silly as using Hindu medicine because it was... well, ignored by the West.
Da Vinci accidentally misplaced his car keys in the painting too, but died before he could find it.
The Great Dutch Master forger Han van Meegeren once hid a tiny bicycle in one of his forgeries. This was only discovered after he confessed to be a forger and pointed it out on the painting.
Another reason for vinyl's sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove
Finally someone who understands! I've been saying the same thing about wax cylinders for years.
Yep, and that's why there is such a demand for Deathprod's Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha: violin recorded on wax cylinder, then for our convenience converted to a digital format and distributed on CD.
Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?
I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext: I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see Bongwater.
What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.
Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...
And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.
If you like things a bit louder: Liars. Hardly any guitars on this album, but plenty of drum.
For the poetic at heart, Smog. Very peculiar sense of humour.
German electro-blues: Laub. The only records I know that has a songtext about incompatible Windows software.
100% songs about girls, bars and highways: Pere Ubu. Great for the misogynic!
Deceptively simple guitar: John Fahey. Also check out his back-catalogue, all amazing stuff.
Radical field recording: Ultra-Red. You mentioned expanding your musical horizon!
You want some Japanese weirdness? The Boredoms are heading your way.(Once saw them performing with a guitar with an integrated combustion engine. Man, that was a great sound!)
Last but not least: American Music Club. As long as there's music like this, you can be proud to be American.
Bah, this is slashdot. We know you don't have a wife and that 'shoes' was a typo for porn!
Yep, if you would have typed shoes at PSO Online it would have refused it (or did it scratch it out with asterikses, I forgot) for containing the word 'hoes'.
The people who go looking for "natural remedies" usually just suffer from the superstition that synthetic chemicals are automatically more dangerous than ground-up leaves.
I usually counter the "natural" argument by mentioning curare. So far nobody wanted a dose of that.
Of course, all bets are off if ntpd only performs one DNS lookup at startup, and then trusts the resultant IP address will be valid until the end of time, irrespective of what the domain's SOA record says should happen. If this is the case, I'd characterize it as an ntpd bug (for not following standard DNS conventions like expiration time) which should be fixed.
Well, how do you think the adresses pool.ntp.org work? Clearly would not work if ntp looked up the DNS every time it queried the server. And how would ntp be able to calculate reach/delay/offset/jitter of remote machines if these can be different machines every time?
As the owner of a stable server I find the biggest disadvantage of the pool.ntp.org servers their unreliability over longer periods. When I came back from the summer holidays last week all 3 pool servers that my server queried had dropped dead. Luckily my provider does have a reliable ntp server.
Nice to hear that name again! At the second IT project I ever worked on, in 1990, they had just bought a truckload of 'the best monitors they could find', from 'a Belgian company'. That was Barco. They were to be used for monitoring large natural gas networks.
Good to see that quality does pay off.
Automatic spell checking correction ( MS word 95, possibly before)
Definitely LONG before. When I was in my teens (and that was 30 years ago) my father was a COBOL programmer on UNIVAC machines. I remember that he boasted that he had shortened the time needed for typing long programs because he had abbreviations automatically expanded into their long form, as he typed. Haven't got a clue whether he had made that himself or whether it was a standard feature of the editor used.
You are right, and it is possible. Last year at the IBC I saw two coupled very large HDTV screens, fed by two separate HDTV streams originating from two coupled cameras, displaying one soccer match. That was nice: supersharp and a display ratio of 32:9.
If it was 20 cents, I'd gladly leave it in the trolley for enterprising youth to claim
Australian youth must be really well behaved. 'Enterprising' youth here would rather have some fun and dump it in the canal than return it for a mere 20 eurocent. Of course the lack of canals in Australia might have something to do with it as well.
He will also say you can get this phone on contract, and will present me with several 1 or 2 year contracts for this phone ranging from £15-£50, and of course minutes, and off-peak minutes and data transfer provided will vary. However, what will not happen is when they ask me if I want a contract, they will never charge me for that phone, that's how it works, the phones don't cost them much to produce, and they are gaurenteed your income for 1-2 years so they don't charge for the phone, in absolute extreme cases they will charge £50 for a top end phone on a short contract.
You must be silly. Did you never try to shop around for phones, or tried to get a phoneless contract? Here is how the scam works by which these shops operate:
1) You sell the phone for its normal (as advised by the manufacteror) price: (X)
2) You sell the contract for more (Y) than its worth (Z)
3) You give the customer a discount for months of contract (M) * (Y - Z)
4) Charge the costumer X - M * (Y-Z), with a minimum of 0, for the phone
5) Profit 1: If X - M * (Y-Z) is smaller than 0, you pocket the money immediately
6) Profit 2: If the customer does not end the contract EXACTLY at the end of the contract period, you pocket (Y-Z) for every month of contract extension
I've calculated a lot of 'offers' over the years, and they are never cheaper than buying a phone and a contract seperately ('SIM only' subscriptions). They are always more exepensive if you let the contract run longer than the stated minimum period, even for only one month.
While freedom of speech is undoubtedly stiffled in Cuba, it's a comparatively safe place. Opponents might be sent to jail, but they're not tortured.
Would you like to repeat that to Jorge Luis García Pérez (his memoires in Spanish), who spent 17 years in jail for shouting "Away with Castro!" on the central square of his city, and got beaten with machetes while being there? Of course, the officers in charge were too clever to do most of the torturing themselves - they just promised other prisoners some private hours with a woman if they messed the guy up. If they didn't just let the dog loose on him.
One of they reasons this guy was treated as bad as he was, is that he is black. And blacks don't count in Cuba. So when blacks raise their voice, as he did, by having all the prisoners sing the national anthem on October 10th (they day slavery was abolished in Cuba) they get punished hard (in this case: with machetes). So there goes your equality as well.
Yeah... I consider Office 98 to be a grand example of Mac integration from Microsoft, but that's from the perspective of Word 6.
Well, you had me wondering there if I was mixing versions up, but I finally managed to compile my life in word processing software:
1986-1988 Word (On Mac. Sorry, didn't even know about version numbering at the time) 1988-1992 WordPerfect 4 and 5 (on PC) Mass-11 (on VAX/VMS, don't get me started) 1992-1998 Word 5, 5.1 (on Mac) 1998.... Word 98 (on Mac, about 4 weeks before I ditched the CD's and re-installed Word 5.1) 1998-2001 Word 5, 5.1 (on Mac) 2001-2007 Word v.X (on Mac)
The Word 98 program was a gift by a friend who did not want to use it.
Apparently Word 6 was such a bag of bugs that I never even met anyone who used it. And you wouldn't pass it on to a friend either.
I'd definitely have to disagree with the assessment that Microsoft apps for the Mac are "the best;" that may well have been true in the past, but the current incarnation of Office for Mac is, without a doubt, the most bloated and ridiculously clunky 'productivity suite' I've ever had the misfortune of trying to use.
You clearly have never used Office 98 for Mac. This was the only Office version for Mac that truly failed in the martketplace, and fairly so. This was when Microsoft tried to shove a Windows interface and a horrendeous back-end (extensions, extensions, extensions) down the throat of Macheads. Did not work. Even included some incursion of Clippy as a happy bouncing Mac. The horror, the horror, the horror.
I think maybe they should rethink the name of the material ("Dynema SB61")when/if it goes into production.
Dynema (aka Dyneema or Dynex) is an established brand name already, at least in mountaineering. The bestclimbinggear uses Dynema. 22kN break strength on a light 8mm wide nice and flexible ribbon that hardly gets wet - super stuff.
Until I actually RTFA, I thought they meant that botnet gangs were finding the people running opposing botnets and killing them.
Same here. I thought it was a reference to the use of YouTube by Mexican drug gangs: kill your opponent, sing a song to that, and combine the two in a video clip.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that we have an innate ability to shift blame.
And we should. There's a word for the state in which we shift all the blame to ourselves: depression.
The way to stay sane is only to take credit for the things that go right.
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But still it is not pleasant to become (temporarily - but you do not know that beforehand) part of the gene research you used to be only reading about.
You are totally right. There's a gene running through my family, which cuts the carriers average life expectancy by 20 years (which is just a long as the life expectancy cut for heavy smokers). Most likely the carrier will develop bowel cancer at an early age (between 35 and 55), but the likelyhood of getting bowel cancer at other ages increases as well, as does the the likelyhood of developing other cancers.
Which effectively means that, once you are diagnosed as gene carrier, you will get bowel screening every year. Which will reduce the risk of getting bowel cancer (since the tumors can be destroyed before they're gettin agressive), but does nothing to reduce the chance of developing any of the other cancers. So yes, you will be 'healthier' because of the extra medical checks, but you will also be worrying more.
That difficulty is only a logistic difficulty, how to track a large number of people over a long period of time. But it is possible to overcome this difficulty, as is shown in the ERGO research project, where 10.000 people over 55 have from the Rotterdam district 'Ommoord' been tracked since 1990 (including yearly MRI scans of every single person). Since last year they've expanded this research to people over 45. This research already led to an astounding numbert of publications.
And indeed, some ethical issues, even by just following normal seamingly healthy persons: what do you do when you find abnormalities during the MRI brain scan? Dutch article with a picture and English article -that's not very useful is it- for subscribers only.
Which is just as silly as using Hindu medicine because it was ... well, ignored by the West.
Yes you can, for at least 11 years.
And probably even longer: the guy in question still has an active homepage and a suitable mailadres: jamboy713@hotmail. com!
Millions of lemmings can't be wrong!
I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.
What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.
Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...
And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.
Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.
And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.
Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.
All in all I'm impressed by the width of Amazon's collection!Definitely the Books. Cut & paste & cello & song, amazing stuff.
If you like things a bit louder: Liars. Hardly any guitars on this album, but plenty of drum.
For the poetic at heart, Smog. Very peculiar sense of humour.
German electro-blues: Laub. The only records I know that has a songtext about incompatible Windows software.
100% songs about girls, bars and highways: Pere Ubu. Great for the misogynic!
Deceptively simple guitar: John Fahey. Also check out his back-catalogue, all amazing stuff.
Radical field recording: Ultra-Red. You mentioned expanding your musical horizon!
You want some Japanese weirdness? The Boredoms are heading your way.(Once saw them performing with a guitar with an integrated combustion engine. Man, that was a great sound!)
Last but not least: American Music Club. As long as there's music like this, you can be proud to be American.
That sure would be a
Well, how do you think the adresses pool.ntp.org work? Clearly would not work if ntp looked up the DNS every time it queried the server.
And how would ntp be able to calculate reach/delay/offset/jitter of remote machines if these can be different machines every time?
As the owner of a stable server I find the biggest disadvantage of the pool.ntp.org servers their unreliability over longer periods. When I came back from the summer holidays last week all 3 pool servers that my server queried had dropped dead. Luckily my provider does have a reliable ntp server.
Good to see that quality does pay off.
Definitely LONG before. When I was in my teens (and that was 30 years ago) my father was a COBOL programmer on UNIVAC machines. I remember that he boasted that he had shortened the time needed for typing long programs because he had abbreviations automatically expanded into their long form, as he typed. Haven't got a clue whether he had made that himself or whether it was a standard feature of the editor used.
You are right, and it is possible. Last year at the IBC I saw two coupled very large HDTV screens, fed by two separate HDTV streams originating from two coupled cameras, displaying one soccer match. That was nice: supersharp and a display ratio of 32:9.
Australian youth must be really well behaved. 'Enterprising' youth here would rather have some fun and dump it in the canal than return it for a mere 20 eurocent. Of course the lack of canals in Australia might have something to do with it as well.
You must be silly. Did you never try to shop around for phones, or tried to get a phoneless contract? Here is how the scam works by which these shops operate:
1) You sell the phone for its normal (as advised by the manufacteror) price: (X)
2) You sell the contract for more (Y) than its worth (Z)
3) You give the customer a discount for months of contract (M) * (Y - Z)
4) Charge the costumer X - M * (Y-Z), with a minimum of 0, for the phone
5) Profit 1: If X - M * (Y-Z) is smaller than 0, you pocket the money immediately
6) Profit 2: If the customer does not end the contract EXACTLY at the end of the contract period, you pocket (Y-Z) for every month of contract extension
I've calculated a lot of 'offers' over the years, and they are never cheaper than buying a phone and a contract seperately ('SIM only' subscriptions). They are always more exepensive if you let the contract run longer than the stated minimum period, even for only one month.
Would you like to repeat that to Jorge Luis García Pérez (his memoires in Spanish), who spent 17 years in jail for shouting "Away with Castro!" on the central square of his city, and got beaten with machetes while being there? Of course, the officers in charge were too clever to do most of the torturing themselves - they just promised other prisoners some private hours with a woman if they messed the guy up. If they didn't just let the dog loose on him.
One of they reasons this guy was treated as bad as he was, is that he is black. And blacks don't count in Cuba. So when blacks raise their voice, as he did, by having all the prisoners sing the national anthem on October 10th (they day slavery was abolished in Cuba) they get punished hard (in this case: with machetes). So there goes your equality as well.
Well, you had me wondering there if I was mixing versions up, but I finally managed to compile my life in word processing software:
.... Word 98 (on Mac, about 4 weeks before I ditched the CD's and re-installed Word 5.1)
1986-1988 Word (On Mac. Sorry, didn't even know about version numbering at the time)
1988-1992 WordPerfect 4 and 5 (on PC) Mass-11 (on VAX/VMS, don't get me started)
1992-1998 Word 5, 5.1 (on Mac)
1998
1998-2001 Word 5, 5.1 (on Mac)
2001-2007 Word v.X (on Mac)
The Word 98 program was a gift by a friend who did not want to use it.
Apparently Word 6 was such a bag of bugs that I never even met anyone who used it. And you wouldn't pass it on to a friend either.
You clearly have never used Office 98 for Mac. This was the only Office version for Mac that truly failed in the martketplace, and fairly so. This was when Microsoft tried to shove a Windows interface and a horrendeous back-end (extensions, extensions, extensions) down the throat of Macheads. Did not work. Even included some incursion of Clippy as a happy bouncing Mac. The horror, the horror, the horror.
Same here. I thought it was a reference to the use of YouTube by Mexican drug gangs: kill your opponent, sing a song to that, and combine the two in a video clip.
And we should. There's a word for the state in which we shift all the blame to ourselves: depression.
The way to stay sane is only to take credit for the things that go right.