Just came back from a great workshop for a particlar way of Yoga that I started a year ago because my back problems were killing me.
They are much better now, BTW. The main problem with our specialized lifestyle is that most of us are doing one thing in one position for 50% of our daily time. The nice thing about Yoga, as oposed to other kinds of sports, is that it is so versatile. There is no part of your body that is not taken care of, while, with other kinds of exercise, like running, you might just damage another part of your body with repetitive stress. Exercise in a gym, which also looks versatile, puts you in the danger of using too much weight (most of us are male, after all), which might hurt you again. All Yoga exercises just use you body weight.
One last thing: I found Astanga yoga particularly nice because you are in constant movement and it is very precise. Every movement, every breath, even the gazing point of your eyes are prescribed. If you do it correctly, the concentration that is needed, will almost automatically lead you into meditation and, for a short time of your day, will bring your mind into a state of calmness:-)
As has been said, this is done all the time all over the world. SETI@home does it, GIMPS does it and I do it locally in one of my research projects. Of course this is a frightening situation because I start having this phantasy of getting letters from lawers saying I have to pay a license fee for using "their" software technology.
Can anyone familiar with patent law comment on what their chances are to get through with this? This technology is documented, has been done, so acutally the patent should have been not accepted.
What you saw were announcements of JMol and JChemPaint - a 3D viewer and an editor. The www.openscience.org site mentioned in the freshmeat postings is not associated with the Open Source/OpenScience meeting at BNL, as far as I know. After all, "inventing" the term Open Science after all that (well justified) Open Source hype seems to be quite obvious.
It has been pointed out correctly by ESR and others before that the principles that make the open source movement nowadays so successful, are the same that made modern science so successfull for the last hundred or so years.
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Just came back from a great workshop for a particlar way of Yoga that I started a year ago because my back problems were killing me. They are much better now, BTW. The main problem with our specialized lifestyle is that most of us are doing one thing in one position for 50% of our daily time. The nice thing about Yoga, as oposed to other kinds of sports, is that it is so versatile. There is no part of your body that is not taken care of, while, with other kinds of exercise, like running, you might just damage another part of your body with repetitive stress. Exercise in a gym, which also looks versatile, puts you in the danger of using too much weight (most of us are male, after all), which might hurt you again. All Yoga exercises just use you body weight. One last thing: I found Astanga yoga particularly nice because you are in constant movement and it is very precise. Every movement, every breath, even the gazing point of your eyes are prescribed. If you do it correctly, the concentration that is needed, will almost automatically lead you into meditation and, for a short time of your day, will bring your mind into a state of calmness :-)
Check this out:
A mouth-watering picture of the new Samsung 24'' LCD. Was just tested in lastest (?!) issue of C't (germanies only computer magazine)
Here are the technical details.
Cheers,
Chris
As has been said, this is done all the time all over the world. SETI@home does it, GIMPS does it and I do it locally in one of my research projects.
Of course this is a frightening situation because I start having this phantasy of getting letters from lawers saying I have to pay a license fee for using "their" software technology.
Can anyone familiar with patent law comment on what their chances are to get through with this?
This technology is documented, has been done, so acutally the patent should have been not accepted.
Cheers,
Chris
What you saw were announcements of JMol and JChemPaint - a 3D viewer and an editor. The www.openscience.org site mentioned in the freshmeat postings is not associated with the Open Source/OpenScience meeting at BNL, as far as I know. After all, "inventing" the term Open Science after all that (well justified) Open Source hype seems to be quite obvious.
It has been pointed out correctly by ESR and others before that the principles that make the open source movement nowadays so successful, are the same that made modern science so successfull for the last hundred or so years.