WTF?! They already drove across a desert autonomously, and met the challenge. The new challenge is to drive in traffic, which is a more dynamic situation. There isn't traffic on Mars. I don't get your point.
I agree. The blanket claim that only developers have long attention spans is ridiculous and insulting. I can't believe that the Slashdot article made this claim.
Scientists, small business owners, executives, and even the person tending the grill at the burger joint have normal attention spans.
Do not underestimate the difficulty and attention required of other people's work. I am now a lab manager of a memory development lab at a major university, but I've spent many years working at mini-markets, coffee shops, etc.
Let me tell you. If you have 14 fraps, 5 iced lattes, 3 vanilla lattes, 4 hot mochas, and several ice teas to make in under 6 minutes, all the while greeting customers and making small talk, you damn well better pay attention, and concentrate.
In such cases, you transcend the planning of one or two drinks, and start planning and attending to the situation at a larger scale. At that level, its Zen.
Sorry, I didn't notice the remember how many sides a tetrahedron has, but I did notice that the article claims Science proved something. This misunderstanding of the scientific method is understandable from CNN maybe, but this is supposed to be a Geek Website.
How do you know it is cigarette smoke that gives you a reaction?? Do you go indoors with people who smoke cigarettes? Is it not just as likely that you're having a reaction due to smog from the freeway? Pesticides? Mold? If you live with a smoker who smokes inside, I will grant you that its unhealthy, but outdoor second-hand smoke is a joke. Low concentrations, and too many other pollutants.
I have quite smoking for 3 months now, but I still don't like irrational arguments of why smokers are horrible. I do not like irrational arguments of how 2nd hand smoke outdoors is ruining their health, and yet still drive f**kin SUV's, and use disposable everything.
12 cases less in the pool of participants, which was what, 1200 people? ~1500 die per day in the US from cancer. Reduce that by 60%. Now 600 die per day from cancer. That IS significant.
I often wonder if it unhealthy to eat a large variety of foods, as we now do in our modern world. Even if these foods are healthy in and of themselves, they each have their unique chemical properties. I wonder if our bodies can handle a constantly varying diet, and would prefer a healthy, but simple/consistent diet. Say: Beans, oats/wheat/corn, squash, small portions of meat, berries, leafy greens and water.
With a consistent diet, the body may be able to adjust to an optimal strategy for energy levels, appetite, digestion, fat retention etc.
Nothing that great.. --Just that I do not find it very surprising that we critically need a vitamin that our body normally produces for us when in conditions consistent to those of our evolutionary history. While the body is not a perfectly tuned machine, wasteful processes and unneeded biochemical production systems do tend to get weeded out with the application of death.
I perused the PubMed research database and came back with a number of research studies providing a substantial amount of converging evidence that Vitamin D reduces the incidence of many types of cancer:
Here are a few of them:
Humble, M. (2007). [Vitamin D deficiency probably more common than earlier apprehended. Prevention and treatment could result in unexpected public health effects]. Läkartidningen, 104(11), 853-7.
Nielsen, LR, & Mosekilde, L. (2007). [Vitamin D and breast cancer]. Ugeskrift for læger, 169(14), 1299-302.
Ondková, S, Macejová, D, & Brtko, J. (2006). Role of dihydroxyvitamin D(3) and its nuclear receptor in novel directed therapies for cancer. General physiology and biophysics, 25(4), 339-53.
Garland, CF, Gorham, ED, Mohr, SB, et al. (2007). Vitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: pooled analysis. The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology, 103(3-5), 708-11.
The results also makes sense in evolutionary terms.
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WTF?! They already drove across a desert autonomously, and met the challenge. The new challenge is to drive in traffic, which is a more dynamic situation. There isn't traffic on Mars. I don't get your point.
very nice riposte
It began when my dad brought over a system, don't know the name, that was a dedicated PONG gaming system, paddles and all.
Scientists, small business owners, executives, and even the person tending the grill at the burger joint have normal attention spans.
Do not underestimate the difficulty and attention required of other people's work. I am now a lab manager of a memory development lab at a major university, but I've spent many years working at mini-markets, coffee shops, etc.
Let me tell you. If you have 14 fraps, 5 iced lattes, 3 vanilla lattes, 4 hot mochas, and several ice teas to make in under 6 minutes, all the while greeting customers and making small talk, you damn well better pay attention, and concentrate.
In such cases, you transcend the planning of one or two drinks, and start planning and attending to the situation at a larger scale. At that level, its Zen.
Yeah make it non-threatening so that they won't even have an inkling of the Hell that is computer science.
unless your black, or Muslim.
Sorry, I didn't notice the remember how many sides a tetrahedron has, but I did notice that the article claims Science proved something. This misunderstanding of the scientific method is understandable from CNN maybe, but this is supposed to be a Geek Website.
me too!!!! I was just giving you a hard time.
Do you LOL in real life?
Yes. Except if your computer simultaneous dual boot
How do you know it is cigarette smoke that gives you a reaction?? Do you go indoors with people who smoke cigarettes? Is it not just as likely that you're having a reaction due to smog from the freeway? Pesticides? Mold? If you live with a smoker who smokes inside, I will grant you that its unhealthy, but outdoor second-hand smoke is a joke. Low concentrations, and too many other pollutants. I have quite smoking for 3 months now, but I still don't like irrational arguments of why smokers are horrible. I do not like irrational arguments of how 2nd hand smoke outdoors is ruining their health, and yet still drive f**kin SUV's, and use disposable everything.
I know. I was giving spin for funny.
Not to mention the rhythm of the phrases.
Fantastic repost. Will Scotty answer your challenge?
Well at the end of the video you will notice that there is a copyright notice. So, apparently, this music is now locked up for another 600 years.
How??? I'm interested.
12 cases less in the pool of participants, which was what, 1200 people? ~1500 die per day in the US from cancer. Reduce that by 60%. Now 600 die per day from cancer. That IS significant.
Dogs aren't great tree climbers. So anyone know if giraffes produce their own vitamin C?
With a consistent diet, the body may be able to adjust to an optimal strategy for energy levels, appetite, digestion, fat retention etc.
Whudya think.
Look at our teeth. Then, get back to the real world.
Nothing that great.. --Just that I do not find it very surprising that we critically need a vitamin that our body normally produces for us when in conditions consistent to those of our evolutionary history. While the body is not a perfectly tuned machine, wasteful processes and unneeded biochemical production systems do tend to get weeded out with the application of death.
See my post above for a few references to research articles with converging evidence. I believe.
Here are a few of them:
Humble, M. (2007). [Vitamin D deficiency probably more common than earlier apprehended. Prevention and treatment could result in unexpected public health effects]. Läkartidningen, 104(11), 853-7.
Nielsen, LR, & Mosekilde, L. (2007). [Vitamin D and breast cancer]. Ugeskrift for læger, 169(14), 1299-302.
Ondková, S, Macejová, D, & Brtko, J. (2006). Role of dihydroxyvitamin D(3) and its nuclear receptor in novel directed therapies for cancer. General physiology and biophysics, 25(4), 339-53.
Garland, CF, Gorham, ED, Mohr, SB, et al. (2007). Vitamin D and prevention of breast cancer: pooled analysis. The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology, 103(3-5), 708-11.
The results also makes sense in evolutionary terms.
We all have cherished eras. Move on.