It's been known about for a long time and there have been plenty of practitioners. None have lived exceptionally long lives AFAIK.
What studies seem to suggest is that the long-term adverse effects of calorie restriction eventually catch up with the benefits and cancel them out. ie. Symptoms of aging are delayed a bit but when they arrive they're much worse.
I don't know all the answers to salorie restriction but it's been known about since 1934. Nearly 80 years is enough time to find out if it works in humans but I'm not aware of any practitioners living extra-long lives (and there's been plenty of people who tried it...)
If you plot a graph of size vs. lifespan in mammals it forms a fairly straight line. See here. Humans already live much longer than the graph predicts (we're the dot marked "HS" on that graph) and we're not sure why. Maybe there's a connection. Maybe that's why calorie restriction doesn't work on humans because we're already a long way above the line.
If ANY diet made you live significantly longer we'd have noticed by now.
Same goes for exercise regimes, eg. If running five miles a day made you live longer we'd have noticed.
We can point to plenty of things that make your life shorter, eg. smoking, eating nothing but junk food, but I'm fairly sure that if you're living a reasonable lifestyle then genetics completely dominates. After that it's probably as much down to happiness as anything else.
Yep. There's a *very* limited set of tasks that quantum computing can be used for. Factoring numbers just happens to be one of them, that's why it's always dragged out in articles about quantum computing.
To be more specific, a problem needs these properties for a quantum computer to be useful:
1. The only way to solve it is to guess answers repeatedly and check them,
2. There are n possible answers to check,
3. Every possible answer takes the same amount of time to check, and
4. There are no clues about which answers might be better: generating possibilities randomly is just as good as checking them in some special order.
Even if your problem is quantum-friendly there are still some major obstacles, eg. picking the correct answer out of the mess of results.
And... even if you can manage all that it only reduces the search time to the square root of brute force. In the case of encryption the other person can simply double the length of his encryption key and you're right back to square one again.
What we really wanted was a way to let video stay fullscreen on a second monitor without having to re-hexedit the flash dll every time it gets updated or overwritten.
The first browser to manage that staggeringly complex feat of engineering will be the one I'll use.
This is way too intellectual and shows that Google doesn't really grok the Internet. What people really want is an "unsafe search" that returns only images that have been flagged as "unsuitable for minors".
The problem with multiplayer is you can't play casually. The servers are full of people with absolutely no life who get their jollies fragging newbies (usually shouting obscenities as they do so...)
It might be somebody's idea of a 'game' but it's not mine.
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There's no evidence that it works in humans.
It's been known about for a long time and there have been plenty of practitioners. None have lived exceptionally long lives AFAIK.
What studies seem to suggest is that the long-term adverse effects of calorie restriction eventually catch up with the benefits and cancel them out. ie. Symptoms of aging are delayed a bit but when they arrive they're much worse.
I don't know all the answers to salorie restriction but it's been known about since 1934. Nearly 80 years is enough time to find out if it works in humans but I'm not aware of any practitioners living extra-long lives (and there's been plenty of people who tried it...)
If you plot a graph of size vs. lifespan in mammals it forms a fairly straight line. See here. Humans already live much longer than the graph predicts (we're the dot marked "HS" on that graph) and we're not sure why. Maybe there's a connection. Maybe that's why calorie restriction doesn't work on humans because we're already a long way above the line.
If ANY diet made you live significantly longer we'd have noticed by now.
Same goes for exercise regimes, eg. If running five miles a day made you live longer we'd have noticed.
We can point to plenty of things that make your life shorter, eg. smoking, eating nothing but junk food, but I'm fairly sure that if you're living a reasonable lifestyle then genetics completely dominates. After that it's probably as much down to happiness as anything else.
"Porn" in the UK is defined as "erections, ejaculations and penetrations".
Don't know about the virus writers but the RIAA is probably popping champagne corks as we read this...
Most thieves don't care about your data.
Yep. There's a *very* limited set of tasks that quantum computing can be used for. Factoring numbers just happens to be one of them, that's why it's always dragged out in articles about quantum computing.
To be more specific, a problem needs these properties for a quantum computer to be useful:
1. The only way to solve it is to guess answers repeatedly and check them,
2. There are n possible answers to check,
3. Every possible answer takes the same amount of time to check, and
4. There are no clues about which answers might be better: generating possibilities randomly is just as good as checking them in some special order.
(list lifted from wikipedia)
Even if your problem is quantum-friendly there are still some major obstacles, eg. picking the correct answer out of the mess of results.
And ... even if you can manage all that it only reduces the search time to the square root of brute force. In the case of encryption the other person can simply double the length of his encryption key and you're right back to square one again.
They all say "Arrrrr!", why do you ask?
What we really wanted was a way to let video stay fullscreen on a second monitor without having to re-hexedit the flash dll every time it gets updated or overwritten.
The first browser to manage that staggeringly complex feat of engineering will be the one I'll use.
No...it removes a reason to switch Firefox->Chrome - hardware video decoding.
This is way too intellectual and shows that Google doesn't really grok the Internet. What people really want is an "unsafe search" that returns only images that have been flagged as "unsuitable for minors".
According to Wikipedia the melting point is 801 degrees Celsius (1074 Kelvin).
The boiling point is 1686 K and the specific heat capacity is 864 Joules/Kilo/degree so you can do the numbers... :-)
Try Germany ... they refill the bottles and use them again. Wow!
...proving that "military intelligence" is still an oxymoron.
The problem with multiplayer is you can't play casually. The servers are full of people with absolutely no life who get their jollies fragging newbies (usually shouting obscenities as they do so...)
It might be somebody's idea of a 'game' but it's not mine.
Trifecta is complete (and much easier to type than CTRL-C etc., I always seem to end up typing CTRL-C when I meant CTRL-V and vice-versa.
Why wouldn't they? It;'s common sense, what's the point in hoarding *that* much money...?
Android's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness - Java.
The government doesn't seem to think we should have that right so why should we let them have it?
It takes time to go though them and change names of informants, etc. to XXXXXXX XXXXXXX, I'm guessing that's one reason for the delay.
Still drinking the government kool-aid, eh?
Wikileaks redacts all the documents to remove names.
If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about.
Isn't that what they tell us when they pry into our affairs...?
Do you know who Warren Buffet is or anything about him...?
Barack Obama promised increased government openness and transparency.
Yep, the USA's elected leaders ought to be leading the world by example. Doubly so when waging wars against idealists.