Have you tried taking melatonin? Worked like a charm for me when I had a couple of weeks when I had to work day shift for 2 days, night shift for 4 nights, day shift for 3 days, night shift for 1 night, i.e. totally random shift changes. Also useful in jet lag.
If you have a big problem with falling asleep, your brain is probably not producing enough melatonin on its own, so give it some more.
I didn't ask if the body stayed the same, that one's kind of obvious. I asked if it was the same "person", and not just someone with an identical brain structure, and therefore identical behavior, long-term memories, etc.
The thing is, IMO the old person is dead when the electrical activity in his brain stops. Just because you can revive his body and get someone who acts, thinks, and remembers the same way doesn't mean it's the same person. But I guess no one, *including that person*, can ever know the difference.
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When you go to sleep, the electrical activity in your brain doesn't stop.
However, I've read that in certain types of brain surgery, all electrical activity in the brain must be stopped for some period of time, and then "restarted". The person thus loses all the short term memory, but keeps the long-term, because that isn't dependent on continuous electrical activity. When that person wakes up, is he still considered the same old person, or just a "replica"?
If all PS3 games will be required to support 1080i, they'll have no problem supporting 1080p.
1080i = 60 fields per second, 540 lines per field.
1080p = 30 frames per second, 1080 lines per frame.
Both are the exact same resolution and exact same framerate.
Also, I predict a lot of people will be buying new TVs to play these console games, so a lot of TV buying decisions will be based on the capabilities of these next-gen consoles.
Lastly, it'd be another feature to show off in their PS3 vs XBOX360 marketing.
They may have changed a lot in a couple of years (the book I quoted in my other response was published in 2001), but even if an average salary for an engineer is ~$1000 (which I still doubt), my point still stands. $150 would be 15% of that engineer's monthly salary, and that's still a pretty good deal for the number of hours it would take to implement whatever the bounty's for. If his salary is $1000, he gets about $5/hour at his day job. If it takes 15 hours to implement the feature, that's $10/hour, twice as much.
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"The salary of a professional phthisiatrician [tuberculosis specialist] with 10 years experience in Lyubertsy [is] 17 dollars a month."
Yuri Afanasyev, Ph.D. "Dangerous Russia", 2001.
I was off by $1, so it's even worse than that. "Reagan-years fantasies" my ass.
To you $150 may be chump change, but to someone in let's say Russia (where a doctor with 10 years experience gets the equivalent of $18 a month), that's pretty good money. Is there a requirement that these features have to be implemented by North American/European/Japanese programmers?
Assuming that Wine developers can get it to run most Windows apps, it'll be very relevant.
As long as there is even one old Windows app that they need, people are going to stick with Windows, or at least have a copy around just in case. I know some people whose killer app for Windows is Diablo 1.
New crossplatform development is great, but for most people, backward compatibility is absolutely essential.
As much as grandparent was trolling with his "k-whatever", you missed his point entirely. What the hell does KDE have to do with OSX or Safari? He was asking why they used KHTML for Safari instead of Gecko. To which I answer: "Why not?"
Please.. Do you have any idea what natural selection is? It means that if you possess some genetic advantage, you will have a better chance to survive and procreate, and therefore pass your advantage to the next generation. Same thing applies to genetic disadvantages. Most diseases that stem cell research holds a promise to cure are either unrelated to genetic defects (paralysis) or don't usually show up until the carrier is in his/her 50s. By that time, chances are they've already had children if they wanted them.
They spent 188 days in space. The longest stay in space was 438 days, by a Russian cosmonaut aboard Mir. He's still alive and well as far as I'm aware.
I read this interview twice, and nowhere in there did he say "By 2030, there will be very little difference between 30-year-old and 120-year-old people".
What he said was "Well, ultimately, there's going to be very little difference between a guy who's 120 and a guy who's 30." (emphasis mine)
Not about immediate profits anyway. Microsoft isn't going to sue, for example, OpenOffice developers/users to get a quick buck. They'll sue the hell out of them to ruin the project, so that they can retain their office suite monopoly. It doesn't matter a tiniest bit whether the developer is "worth suing" or not.
As an aside, does anyone else think that this may have something to do with the Sun/Microsoft settlement that allows MS to sue OpenOffice users?
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Have you tried taking melatonin? Worked like a charm for me when I had a couple of weeks when I had to work day shift for 2 days, night shift for 4 nights, day shift for 3 days, night shift for 1 night, i.e. totally random shift changes. Also useful in jet lag.
If you have a big problem with falling asleep, your brain is probably not producing enough melatonin on its own, so give it some more.
$899 was for the 12" ibook with a cd-ROM drive. They don't offer those anymore. The combo drive 12" model was $949 and still is $949.
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Come on, that post should have been modded +100,000 Funny. Man, that just made my day.
My regular dog attempts to eat my juicy delicious brain on a regular basis.
The thing is, IMO the old person is dead when the electrical activity in his brain stops. Just because you can revive his body and get someone who acts, thinks, and remembers the same way doesn't mean it's the same person. But I guess no one, *including that person*, can ever know the difference.
However, I've read that in certain types of brain surgery, all electrical activity in the brain must be stopped for some period of time, and then "restarted". The person thus loses all the short term memory, but keeps the long-term, because that isn't dependent on continuous electrical activity. When that person wakes up, is he still considered the same old person, or just a "replica"?
1080i = 60 fields per second, 540 lines per field.
1080p = 30 frames per second, 1080 lines per frame.
Both are the exact same resolution and exact same framerate.
Also, I predict a lot of people will be buying new TVs to play these console games, so a lot of TV buying decisions will be based on the capabilities of these next-gen consoles.
Lastly, it'd be another feature to show off in their PS3 vs XBOX360 marketing.
They may have changed a lot in a couple of years (the book I quoted in my other response was published in 2001), but even if an average salary for an engineer is ~$1000 (which I still doubt), my point still stands. $150 would be 15% of that engineer's monthly salary, and that's still a pretty good deal for the number of hours it would take to implement whatever the bounty's for. If his salary is $1000, he gets about $5/hour at his day job. If it takes 15 hours to implement the feature, that's $10/hour, twice as much.
Yeah, that's quite a sample size..
"BULLSHIT!"
Let me quote my source for you:
(translation)
"The salary of a professional phthisiatrician [tuberculosis specialist] with 10 years experience in Lyubertsy [is] 17 dollars a month."
Yuri Afanasyev, Ph.D. "Dangerous Russia", 2001.
I was off by $1, so it's even worse than that. "Reagan-years fantasies" my ass.
To you $150 may be chump change, but to someone in let's say Russia (where a doctor with 10 years experience gets the equivalent of $18 a month), that's pretty good money. Is there a requirement that these features have to be implemented by North American/European/Japanese programmers?
As long as there is even one old Windows app that they need, people are going to stick with Windows, or at least have a copy around just in case. I know some people whose killer app for Windows is Diablo 1.
New crossplatform development is great, but for most people, backward compatibility is absolutely essential.
As much as grandparent was trolling with his "k-whatever", you missed his point entirely. What the hell does KDE have to do with OSX or Safari? He was asking why they used KHTML for Safari instead of Gecko. To which I answer: "Why not?"
>> Why is the US going with Hydrogen instead of ethanol? Because there are plenty of drunk drivers here even with gas in their tanks..
Technically, the picture will be geting smaller as you get closer. Still funny as hell though. hehe.
Please.. Do you have any idea what natural selection is? It means that if you possess some genetic advantage, you will have a better chance to survive and procreate, and therefore pass your advantage to the next generation. Same thing applies to genetic disadvantages. Most diseases that stem cell research holds a promise to cure are either unrelated to genetic defects (paralysis) or don't usually show up until the carrier is in his/her 50s. By that time, chances are they've already had children if they wanted them.
That's probably true. I hope Nintendo has something great up its sleeve.
US population is just under 300 million. Population of China is 1.2 billion. That's 4 times larger not 10.
What happened to Zero-Install, Autopackage, etc? I can see the benefit of having a universal packaging system, but why the hell do we need 5 of them?
They spent 188 days in space. The longest stay in space was 438 days, by a Russian cosmonaut aboard Mir. He's still alive and well as far as I'm aware.
What he said was "Well, ultimately, there's going to be very little difference between a guy who's 120 and a guy who's 30." (emphasis mine)
RTFA.
As an aside, does anyone else think that this may have something to do with the Sun/Microsoft settlement that allows MS to sue OpenOffice users?