One explanation for why people snore, and specifically have sleep apnoea, is that it is a defense mechanism of the body to prevent hyperventilation. Don't laugh, it's perfectly possible to hyperventilate in a fashion that is all but unnoticeable. Try to breathe normally and then hold your breath after an outbreath, and measure how long you can hold it comfortably and be able to resume your normal breathing without a initial gulp for air! (Don't do this however if it feels uncomfortable or if your diabetic, or you get palpitations). The number of seconds you can hold your breath comfortably is a measure of how well you tolerate carbon dioxide.
40-60 seconds tolerance is optimal. If you have a low tolerance your "carbon dioxide thermostat" (capnostat) is out of calibration, and your body will start doing defense mechanism to counter the Co2 depletion by way of blocked nose, asthma, sleep apnoea etcetera.
This kind of thinking is admittedly a bit unorthodox, but more and more people belive in it and practice breathing re-training, particularly in New Zealand and Australia. I am a firm bliever in it and practice it myself.
The best info site on the net about it is this site
If you speak Swedish check out my site andas mindre nu on the topic
(Both sites are non-commercial)
The technique of calibrating your capnostat back to normal is called the Buteyko technique after a Russian doctor who discovered the connection.
I'm a bit worried that there are so many Americans concerned about competition from abroad. As a European, I have come to rely on the go-get mentatlity and the competitiveness of the US to keep us Europeans reasonably on track.
Yes, as the rest of the world comes barging in into the world economy where rich countries have hitherto reigned supreme, there will be some growing pains. However the gains will be enormous. The kind of world economy we're building now will have possibilities and prosperity beyond our imagination.
If we start actiong protectionist we will have less resources, less cures for cancer etc and will be less better from it.
Of course that is not much consolation if you're stuck in a vortex of job shifting on a global scale. Maybe we will need to prepare us for wages in the future that comes plenty but in spurts, and compensate for this with either private or government insurance.
Less free trade would make the US and the EU into open-air museums and the life styles we lead aren't even sustainable in the long run in the first place. We need to innovate and work ourselves into a better future. There is no way back.
Speaking about "deep code/knowledge"
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Immortal Code
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...I bought Lernout and Hauspie (LHSP, the company featured in the article) shares in their heyday, thinking the tech was good. But all the technology isn't worth anything if they screw up other parts of their business.
Incidentally I also bought Tanox (TNOX) at about the same time. Thought they could come up with some interesting immune system stuff. They did, it seems they've made a vaccine approved in Australia for getting rid of allergies (anti IgE). Still their share value lingers in the basement!
So now twice I've betted on technology, been right, and still lost.
Think of the US military engineers that actually built the von Neumann architecture, before it was known under his name or indeed known by him. von Neumann published it first, and when the engineers found out they decided to publish to get credit. But their paper was stopped by the US military. This according to at least one account
"...I'll be stripped to the skin You'll be stripped to the bone And we'll all say no to the picture-phone
It was so easy to cheat on a blind line
With an alibi and your image intact
Whatever the number -
Whatever the crime -
Not only the famous will have to resign And you have come to depend On your right to pretend you're alone Would the star of the screen Ever wish to be seen Red-eyed and dying through the morning call And the president's friends Would they live for long If they saw down the wire what really goes on When you're home to relax Come the facial attacks And the breathers in masks - oh no!..."
In today's society it's Nike saying they free people to achieve their dreams while running sweatshops in Asia. It's McDonalds saying "My McDonalds" when really they're the ones dictating what I can and cannot eat.
Maybe sombedody has already had a take on this, but here goes:
Sweatshops as you call them give jobs and money to people who would otherwise go without.
McDonald's is successful because people like to eat there by choice.
I don't eat there, and that's my free choice (because I don't eat that kind of food).
"Sweat shops are slavery" and "McDonald's force us to eat there", now that's double think!
Is it more like mod_php (installed at most web hosting companies) which is reasonably safe when it comes to protecting sub hosts from taking down the server and each other, or is it more like mod_perl (not installed at most hosting companies) where you'd better run it in a jail on a shared server?
Uhhh... i believe that i mentioned that i saw this quote somewhere; it is not mine, i took it from somebody else's post on a forum that i've been known to visit. I'm very much aware that there are many other examples that could have been used, and most likely some of these numbers are probably incorrect as well.
OK, then I'll stop fuming over here:-)
The careful (well, actually careless) selection of data in the quote is just by-the-book standard "revolutionary" argumentation, hence the response.
Vietnam (Takeover Failure): 3 500 000 Dead
-Cambodia (Carpet Bombs): 2 000 000 Dead
-Iraq (Sanctions aftermath) 1 700 000 Dead
-Dresden (Saturation Bombing): 500 000 Dead
-Laos (Rain Bombs): 500 000 Dead
-Guatemala (Guatemalan Genocide): 200 000 Dead
-Afghanistan (Muslim Genocide): 100 000 Dead
-Israel (Palestinian Genocide): 100 000 Dead
-Hiroshima (Atomic Bomb): 100 000 Dead
-Tokyo (Fire Bombs): 80 000 Dead
-Nagasaki (Atomic Bomb): 50 000 Dead
September 11: 3500? Only? Oh, get over it.
Could you explain to me how you so conveniently leave out communist and other totalitarian atrocities, which are in much greater numbers? Not to mention the fact that some of the casualties you do list are questionable as being labeled genocide. The only reason I can see for this perversly skewed selection is that you hate democracy and the western world and want anything else to take its place. If you had listed a more balanced tally, it would have been interesting.
As it stands now it is just an attempt to induce emotional responses in people in line with some anti lberal, anti democrat sentiment, in the hope that the slashdot readership will only look at your info. Maybe it worked with poor peasants in North Korea who did not have the freedom of information to find out these things for themselves, but thankfully we can all get ourselves a more balanced view of the world than from the obvious troll that is the parent of this post.
It's pretty sickening to see somebody use other peoples death and suffering as an excuse for peddling the death camp of totalitarianism, which is by omission and obvious bias, what your post does.
/jeorgen
Seems to build on Jay Galbraith 1973
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Jay Galbraiths book "Designing complex organizations" (ISBN 0-201-02559-0) from 1973 talk a lot about having slack in an organisation as a way of being prepared for uncertainty. (At least as far as my memory serves me; it was a course book when I studied informatics ten years ago and I don't have it handy.)
Leftovers contain bacteria. What happens if the bacteria in the leftovers outcompete the battery bacteria. Would you need to treat the battery with antibiotics?
Chemistry prize is shared between John Fenn, USA, Koichi Tanaka, Japan an Kurt Wüthich, Switzerland. Prize is awarded primarily for the development of powerful metods for analysing biological macro molecules, such as proteins.
With these methods researcher can now quickly reveal what proteins are present in a sample.
It's also possible to visualise proteins in 3D with these methods.
The methods have revolutionised the development of new drugs and show promise in areas as food qualit control and diagnosing breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Seems to me that currently 38.59% of Apache servers run mod_php and 36.83%
run mod_perl. Not only that, but the number of mod_perl server is growing
(quickly!) and the number of mod_php is shrinking.
That does no take into account which ones are web hotels and which ones are servers dedicated to one site or at least only one organisation.
Trends and stats aren't worth the paper they are printed on, but it does
help to have something to back you up when you say it
1) I have looked long and hard for web hosting providers providing mod_perl, and that have reasonable latency and bandwidth to Sweden. For many of my customers I will let my company develop more and more solutions in PHP instead.
2) A discussion on perlmonks showed pretty much who has mod_perl and what strings are attached to that. I't was something along the lines of this one, but longer and with more listings,; can't find it right now. An interesting way of getting to use mod_perl in a hosted environment is to have it in a chrooted jail, so everyone gets their own server. I believe you need to throttle the resources usage anyway, and such facilities are on the way as far as I know on FreeBSD. And before you question my "I believe", I'll point out that I am running Zope and Apache in a chrooted jail at imeme, so I do have some experience with it:-)
3. I didn't back up the statement that hosting providers don't offer mod_perl because it's basically common knowledge.
Zope is great, I'm using it for e.g. euliberals.net, but Squishdot is very simple and does not have that many features at all. It's more of a one-trick pony and does not play in the same league as Everything. Even though I prefer Zope I've never found a place for Squishdot; it's still too primitive: Last time I cehcked you were supposed to enter your name for making a comment and there is no moderation, just to name two things. Take a look at perlmonks to see what a site based on Everything can do.
THAT's a good use of a teraflop or two -- accurate breast bounce.
Actually there was a modelling of breast bounce on Discovery channel. It was in a program about how to make a better bra. Two guys who have a design company tried to make a better bra. They simulated the dynamics of a breast-bra interaction on a computer. Quite interesting to watch. In the end they constructed a new composite bra which I believe is on sale now...
I wish this were the case, but it is generally not that American workers are over-paid, but the workers in other countries are under-paid (read exploited).
This is a fundamental misundersanding of how wages develop over time. Truth is, the more work is exported to your so called exploited workers, the higher their salaries will be. See it as development aid that is actually working. If the jobs were not exported, the so called exploited workers would make zilch, nada. Only way to give the poor people something without them producing something is to have a communist system. That is, whether you are aware of it or not, what you're advocating.
Just look at what happens...when was the last time you heard about the cheap imports from France...how about the UK...what about Germany...or Canada...or even Japan (most of the cheap electronics are made in countries like Korea and Hong Kong).
You wish other parts of the world did not exist?
But, in the long run, it helps drive down the cost of an American worker which makes every country's workers suffer.
This would only hold true if everything we produced was utterly useless. Since it is not, everyone gets richer in the long run.
Maybe in the future young people will have interactive outfits in the form of jewellery that contains lots and lots of data. You express yourself by draping yourself into a landscape of multimedia experiences. Like you could have Ultravox play when somebody pushes you on the shoulder, Encyclopedia Britannica "playing" from one of your knees to show your interest in encyclopedial knowledge, and a live cam view at the back of your neck of the view from a mountaintop in the Himalayas. Bluetooth could work as an aura, or a perfume. A perfume is supposed to consist of three components, a basic scent, a middle scent and a top scent. You could do that with different ranges on your Wi-Fi. Because That is who you are!
And the girl's Google sensors feel you are nearby...
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40-60 seconds tolerance is optimal. If you have a low tolerance your "carbon dioxide thermostat" (capnostat) is out of calibration, and your body will start doing defense mechanism to counter the Co2 depletion by way of blocked nose, asthma, sleep apnoea etcetera.
This kind of thinking is admittedly a bit unorthodox, but more and more people belive in it and practice breathing re-training, particularly in New Zealand and Australia. I am a firm bliever in it and practice it myself.
The best info site on the net about it is
this site
If you speak Swedish check out my site andas mindre nu on the topic
(Both sites are non-commercial)
The technique of calibrating your capnostat back to normal is called the Buteyko technique after a Russian doctor who discovered the connection.
Yes, as the rest of the world comes barging in into the world economy where rich countries have hitherto reigned supreme, there will be some growing pains. However the gains will be enormous. The kind of world economy we're building now will have possibilities and prosperity beyond our imagination.
If we start actiong protectionist we will have less resources, less cures for cancer etc and will be less better from it.
Of course that is not much consolation if you're stuck in a vortex of job shifting on a global scale. Maybe we will need to prepare us for wages in the future that comes plenty but in spurts, and compensate for this with either private or government insurance.
Less free trade would make the US and the EU into open-air museums and the life styles we lead aren't even sustainable in the long run in the first place. We need to innovate and work ourselves into a better future. There is no way back.
euliberals.net
Incidentally I also bought Tanox (TNOX) at about the same time. Thought they could come up with some interesting immune system stuff. They did, it seems they've made a vaccine approved in Australia for getting rid of allergies (anti IgE). Still their share value lingers in the basement!
So now twice I've betted on technology, been right, and still lost.
Check E-trade account:
LHSP: -99.96 %
TNOX: -80.99 %
Seem you need more knowledge than just a bit of tech savy. Bummer.
Think of the US military engineers that actually built the von Neumann architecture, before it was known under his name or indeed known by him. von Neumann published it first, and when the engineers found out they decided to publish to get credit. But their paper was stopped by the US military. This according to at least one account
The Book ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer seems to give one opinion on who actually did what.
"...I'll be stripped to the skin
You'll be stripped to the bone
And we'll all say no to the picture-phone
It was so easy to cheat on a blind line
With an alibi and your image intact
Whatever the number -
Whatever the crime -
Not only the famous will have to resign
And you have come to depend
On your right to pretend you're alone
Would the star of the screen
Ever wish to be seen
Red-eyed and dying through the morning call
And the president's friends
Would they live for long
If they saw down the wire what really goes on
When you're home to relax
Come the facial attacks
And the breathers in masks - oh no!..."
Maybe sombedody has already had a take on this, but here goes:
Sweatshops as you call them give jobs and money to people who would otherwise go without.
McDonald's is successful because people like to eat there by choice.
I don't eat there, and that's my free choice (because I don't eat that kind of food).
"Sweat shops are slavery" and "McDonald's force us to eat there", now that's double think!
OK, then I'll stop fuming over here :-)
The careful (well, actually careless) selection of data in the quote is just by-the-book standard "revolutionary" argumentation, hence the response.
Cheers
/jeorgen
euliberals.net
-Cambodia (Carpet Bombs): 2 000 000 Dead
-Iraq (Sanctions aftermath) 1 700 000 Dead
-Dresden (Saturation Bombing): 500 000 Dead
-Laos (Rain Bombs): 500 000 Dead
-Guatemala (Guatemalan Genocide): 200 000 Dead
-Afghanistan (Muslim Genocide): 100 000 Dead
-Israel (Palestinian Genocide): 100 000 Dead
-Hiroshima (Atomic Bomb): 100 000 Dead
-Tokyo (Fire Bombs): 80 000 Dead
-Nagasaki (Atomic Bomb): 50 000 Dead
September 11: 3500? Only? Oh, get over it.
Could you explain to me how you so conveniently leave out communist and other totalitarian atrocities, which are in much greater numbers? Not to mention the fact that some of the casualties you do list are questionable as being labeled genocide. The only reason I can see for this perversly skewed selection is that you hate democracy and the western world and want anything else to take its place. If you had listed a more balanced tally, it would have been interesting.
As it stands now it is just an attempt to induce emotional responses in people in line with some anti lberal, anti democrat sentiment, in the hope that the slashdot readership will only look at your info. Maybe it worked with poor peasants in North Korea who did not have the freedom of information to find out these things for themselves, but thankfully we can all get ourselves a more balanced view of the world than from the obvious troll that is the parent of this post.
It's pretty sickening to see somebody use other peoples death and suffering as an excuse for peddling the death camp of totalitarianism, which is by omission and obvious bias, what your post does.
With these methods researcher can now quickly reveal what proteins are present in a sample.
It's also possible to visualise proteins in 3D with these methods.
The methods have revolutionised the development of new drugs and show promise in areas as food qualit control and diagnosing breast cancer and prostate cancer.
(all according to a Swedish on-line article)
i guess that a moment of silence is best...
for the wtc victims
for the pentagon victims
for the future victims in all countries of oppression
for everyone that has ever died through the hands of injustice, oppression, aggression and that old tool of suffering: lack of capitalism.
That does no take into account which ones are web hotels and which ones are servers dedicated to one site or at least only one organisation.
Trends and stats aren't worth the paper they are printed on, but it does help to have something to back you up when you say it
1) I have looked long and hard for web hosting providers providing mod_perl, and that have reasonable latency and bandwidth to Sweden. For many of my customers I will let my company develop more and more solutions in PHP instead.
2) A discussion on perlmonks showed pretty much who has mod_perl and what strings are attached to that. I't was something along the lines of this one, but longer and with more listings,; can't find it right now. An interesting way of getting to use mod_perl in a hosted environment is to have it in a chrooted jail, so everyone gets their own server. I believe you need to throttle the resources usage anyway, and such facilities are on the way as far as I know on FreeBSD. And before you question my "I believe", I'll point out that I am running Zope and Apache in a chrooted jail at imeme, so I do have some experience with it:-)
3. I didn't back up the statement that hosting providers don't offer mod_perl because it's basically common knowledge.
cheers,
/jeorgen
In this sense the rise of PHP has mystified me. Why the need for a novel language to do web scripting
mod_php is installed at most Apache based web hosting services, mod_perl practically never.
(The mod_p(erl|hp) makes the scripts run as long running processes instead of short lived processes incurring a lot of overhead).
Besides, there is no standard template language for perl, and that fragments the knowledge in the field in the perl community.
perl and Zope coder
cheers,
/jeorgen
Actually there was a modelling of breast bounce on Discovery channel. It was in a program about how to make a better bra. Two guys who have a design company tried to make a better bra. They simulated the dynamics of a breast-bra interaction on a computer. Quite interesting to watch. In the end they constructed a new composite bra which I believe is on sale now...
This is a fundamental misundersanding of how wages develop over time. Truth is, the more work is exported to your so called exploited workers, the higher their salaries will be. See it as development aid that is actually working. If the jobs were not exported, the so called exploited workers would make zilch, nada. Only way to give the poor people something without them producing something is to have a communist system. That is, whether you are aware of it or not, what you're advocating.
Just look at what happens...when was the last time you heard about the cheap imports from France...how about the UK...what about Germany...or Canada...or even Japan (most of the cheap electronics are made in countries like Korea and Hong Kong).
You wish other parts of the world did not exist?
But, in the long run, it helps drive down the cost of an American worker which makes every country's workers suffer.
This would only hold true if everything we produced was utterly useless. Since it is not, everyone gets richer in the long run.
And how exactly is the cavity in my finger created with the laser? Will it smell from burnt skin?
The concept of a mobile phone in a tooth was used in a skit in A Swedish TV comedy about 7 years ago.
The guy in the dentist's chair could choose between mercury, plastic, Nokia or Ericsson as filling material.
/jeorgen
Taiwan is not particularly poor it. According to the CIA fact book it had a GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity of $17,400 (2000 est.).
This is more or less on par with EU countries, although admittedly a little poorer than the US.
And the girl's Google sensors feel you are nearby...
Every week?
Count me out.