When I read about calorific restriction years ago one comment was "more study is needed to assess the impact of restricted diets on resistance to infection and recovery from disease". Historically it has been people with poverty-restricted diets that tended to die at an early age from TB, influenza, etc. Obviously there is a big difference between a poverty-restricted diet and a calorie restricted diet that is tailored to supply the necessary variety, micro-nutrients, and vitamins - but there is still a possibility that those on restricted diets could live a healthier life until they are wiped out by an infection. Does anyone know whether further study has been made in this area?
It might just work in Japan. They have very high levels of social cohesion, and creating false IDs and false calls would literally be unthinkable to most Japanese. If you tried the same thing in Europe or the USA however they would be overwhelmed by fake calls.
You're the one who needs tracking, will you be the next bigot to shoot up a Sikh temple you mistook for a mosque?
Idiot. Of course I know the difference between a Gurdwara and a,mosque. How can anyone who has studied Islam fail to? I expect that Michael Page was just a racist, and of course the Muzzies play the victim card as they do when they attack people (someone might retaliate), or someone else is attacked (the real problem's Islamaphobia).
If hating people who kill their kids is infantacideaphobia then I'm an infantacideaphobe. If hating people who subdue women is masocisaphobic then I'm a masocisaphobe. If hating people who want to kill others because of their faith is exognostaphobic I'm an exognostaphobe. As muslims do all of this then I am poud to be an islamaphobe.
I think that America will only realise that this is a problem when its too late. Wait until the Chinese market is bigger than the US market, and any imports are hit by bans because someone has patented a "device with three buttons and a flip switch" or whatever.
One thing I remember was a colleague spilling sweet hot coffee on a 5.25 inch floppy that had just arrived in the post. We all thought he would have to tell head office that we had just destroyed our latest update disk and get them to send another, but he opened the envelope, took out the actual disk, rinsed it under the tap, and carefully dried it. Next he got a blank floppy, opened this, and substituted the internal disk - finally sealing it with sellotape down the edge. We all said "it will never work", but it read perfectly - the first thing he did was take a back-up of course.
The intelligence services will be able to use this to screen for terrorists. If someone has different food-buying habits in Ramadan then buys suspicious chemicals or components then they should be checked. No more surprises when some "ordinary white guy" turns out to be a muzzie terrorist.
Why can't racists respect numbers of significant figures? You quoted 2.869 million mulsims and 6% openly support terrorist acts.
Well, 5.5% of 2,868,600 mulsims is 157,773, while 6.5% of 2,869,500 mulsims is 186,517. So the number is not "about 172,140", it's about 170,000, give or take about 10%.
How about you stop using maths and statistics to try and justify your racism, since you're no expert at either?
Perhaps you'd like to tell me what race you suppose I am and what race you suppose I am being racist against?
Bearing in mind the sites that use Ruby I don't think so. I think it is more the lack of skills and that you will probably need some time with your nose in a manual to set up the rails environment to run a node.
[modifying number plates] may be counter-productive from the terrorist standpoint
Whoa, where did that come from? They also claim they "contributed to more than 50,000 arrests". That's a lot of "terrorists" then: maybe we should live in permanent shivering supine unquestioning fear.
Or maybe we could just put Elbonian plates on and jabber "No speaking Englandish!" if stopped, like any halfwit career criminal could figure out.
I think the "unspecified driving style" is to drive straddling 2 lanes, then the alignment of the camera is wrong. They do say it's impractical...
I once saw someone do this. There was a sign saying "left-turning traffic use both lanes" and he obviously thought that it applied to individual cars, as he passed this sign he moved into the middle!
Think of the implications of having an automated driving system... the onboard computer is collecting and analyzing data in real time, and it will likely store that information, at least temporarily. So if a Google car is involved in a crash, a full report will be generated, detailing exactly what happened and liability will be very easy to determine in most cases. "Car A has had a faulty motion sensor on the front bumper that the driver failed to have replaced" or "Car B drove through a red light to hit Car A".
I also think that automated cars will observe all safety rules to the letter... like only driving the speed limit (or slightly below), always maintaining a safe distance behind other vehicles, stopping for yellow lights, and having a generous braking distance. Remember, Google could be held liable if the system is reckless, and they aren't going to want that when human lives are at stake.
I think that making automated, passenger-less cars legal will be a very easy decision for legislatures, and will pass quickly. Like I said, I believe automated cars will err far more on the side of caution, like the most grandmotherly of drivers.
I'm not so sure. For driving on the highway I think it will be fine, but think about some other conditions. How will it deal with passing a horse and rider on a narrow road? How will it deal with coming across another driver in a country lane at a place where there is no room to pass? How will it drive on a road with a shear drop off on one side and a cliff on another? If this is narrow with passing paces will it know to pull in so that it almost touches the cliff to give extra space to the vehicle near the drop-off? In busy commuter traffic will it adjust the "aggressiveness" of pulling out from a side-road to take into account that if you don't pull out quick and accelerate hard you could be waiting until the end of the rush? On a rutted farm track can it work out that you have to drive with one wheel on the centre of the road and the other on the edge to avoid the tractor ruts?
If you have a driver there is always the option to safely pull over or stop and say "manual intervention required", but once you allow completely automatic use with non-drivers or no driver the car has to do something sensible.
This is currently not legal and I doubt if it will be legal for some time. I imagine that by the time it is legal accidents will be dealt with like product liability. If a blender explodes and pieces cut you - then you have a claim. If you put your hand in it then you probably don't. Of course I am sure that cases will be much more complex, should your car have been reasonably expected to avoid the wheel that fell off the other car? Is it shared liability or all the other car's fault?
I'm more wondering what it would be like for the driver who actually rear ended a robotic vehicle
I imagine that you exchange details with the human in charge, with the full knowledge that there will be a complete 360 degree video of the accident with measurements of speed of both vehicles.
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When I read about calorific restriction years ago one comment was "more study is needed to assess the impact of restricted diets on resistance to infection and recovery from disease". Historically it has been people with poverty-restricted diets that tended to die at an early age from TB, influenza, etc. Obviously there is a big difference between a poverty-restricted diet and a calorie restricted diet that is tailored to supply the necessary variety, micro-nutrients, and vitamins - but there is still a possibility that those on restricted diets could live a healthier life until they are wiped out by an infection. Does anyone know whether further study has been made in this area?
Well, if it makes people healthier, will being healthier not increase lifespan?
Not necessarily, you might just be fitter and live the same length of time
Maybe it's time to ditch Java altogether!
Yes, I'll switch to Scala. It will run on my Java web server and allow full access to Java class lib ... oh wait!
But Apple tells me that a rectangle with round corners is "innovation"
It might just work in Japan. They have very high levels of social cohesion, and creating false IDs and false calls would literally be unthinkable to most Japanese. If you tried the same thing in Europe or the USA however they would be overwhelmed by fake calls.
You're the one who needs tracking, will you be the next bigot to shoot up a Sikh temple you mistook for a mosque?
Idiot. Of course I know the difference between a Gurdwara and a ,mosque. How can anyone who has studied Islam fail to? I expect that Michael Page was just a racist, and of course the Muzzies play the victim card as they do when they attack people (someone might retaliate), or someone else is attacked (the real problem's Islamaphobia).
If hating people who kill their kids is infantacideaphobia then I'm an infantacideaphobe. If hating people who subdue women is masocisaphobic then I'm a masocisaphobe. If hating people who want to kill others because of their faith is exognostaphobic I'm an exognostaphobe. As muslims do all of this then I am poud to be an islamaphobe.
I think that America will only realise that this is a problem when its too late. Wait until the Chinese market is bigger than the US market, and any imports are hit by bans because someone has patented a "device with three buttons and a flip switch" or whatever.
.....and lack of Unity.
How symbolic of the state of Linux
Don't speak too soon, Windows 8 is a-comin'.
Also known as "Vista II"
I thought I'd seen it all ... but a Sunway fanboi!
What, gingers make you feel inferior?
No he's worried about the ginger postman who waved to his wife the other day,
One thing I remember was a colleague spilling sweet hot coffee on a 5.25 inch floppy that had just arrived in the post. We all thought he would have to tell head office that we had just destroyed our latest update disk and get them to send another, but he opened the envelope, took out the actual disk, rinsed it under the tap, and carefully dried it. Next he got a blank floppy, opened this, and substituted the internal disk - finally sealing it with sellotape down the edge. We all said "it will never work", but it read perfectly - the first thing he did was take a back-up of course.
The intelligence services will be able to use this to screen for terrorists. If someone has different food-buying habits in Ramadan then buys suspicious chemicals or components then they should be checked. No more surprises when some "ordinary white guy" turns out to be a muzzie terrorist.
What does smoking pot have to do with employment?
Not everyone can get a job at the republican climate-change think tank.
And cue the queue of stoners attempting to defend their addiction.
Like man - wow - if I stayed of the weed I'd be to clever
Why can't racists respect numbers of significant figures? You quoted 2.869 million mulsims and 6% openly support terrorist acts.
Well, 5.5% of 2,868,600 mulsims is 157,773, while 6.5% of 2,869,500 mulsims is 186,517. So the number is not "about 172,140", it's about 170,000, give or take about 10%.
How about you stop using maths and statistics to try and justify your racism, since you're no expert at either?
Perhaps you'd like to tell me what race you suppose I am and what race you suppose I am being racist against?
Maybe Ruby really is shit?
Bearing in mind the sites that use Ruby I don't think so. I think it is more the lack of skills and that you will probably need some time with your nose in a manual to set up the rails environment to run a node.
Whoa, where did that come from? They also claim they "contributed to more than 50,000 arrests". That's a lot of "terrorists" then: maybe we should live in permanent shivering supine unquestioning fear.
Or maybe we could just put Elbonian plates on and jabber "No speaking Englandish!" if stopped, like any halfwit career criminal could figure out.
Well we have 6% of Muslims who openly support terrorist acts and 2.869 million mulsims so that's about 172,140 people who would like to see more terrorist acts. The large number of muzzies makes these cameras justified.
They'll throw you in jail for a sql injection number plate attack.
And set the release date to 10-Sep-2012');delete from table release_dates where name = jimshaft
I think the "unspecified driving style" is to drive straddling 2 lanes, then the alignment of the camera is wrong. They do say it's impractical ...
I once saw someone do this. There was a sign saying "left-turning traffic use both lanes" and he obviously thought that it applied to individual cars, as he passed this sign he moved into the middle!
One week before the election, a "high ranking official" in Obama Administration will "leak" that this was the work of the American government.
I'm not sure .... some people will think this is a good thing and some a bad thing.
Think of the implications of having an automated driving system... the onboard computer is collecting and analyzing data in real time, and it will likely store that information, at least temporarily. So if a Google car is involved in a crash, a full report will be generated, detailing exactly what happened and liability will be very easy to determine in most cases. "Car A has had a faulty motion sensor on the front bumper that the driver failed to have replaced" or "Car B drove through a red light to hit Car A".
I also think that automated cars will observe all safety rules to the letter... like only driving the speed limit (or slightly below), always maintaining a safe distance behind other vehicles, stopping for yellow lights, and having a generous braking distance. Remember, Google could be held liable if the system is reckless, and they aren't going to want that when human lives are at stake.
I think that making automated, passenger-less cars legal will be a very easy decision for legislatures, and will pass quickly. Like I said, I believe automated cars will err far more on the side of caution, like the most grandmotherly of drivers.
I'm not so sure. For driving on the highway I think it will be fine, but think about some other conditions. How will it deal with passing a horse and rider on a narrow road? How will it deal with coming across another driver in a country lane at a place where there is no room to pass? How will it drive on a road with a shear drop off on one side and a cliff on another? If this is narrow with passing paces will it know to pull in so that it almost touches the cliff to give extra space to the vehicle near the drop-off? In busy commuter traffic will it adjust the "aggressiveness" of pulling out from a side-road to take into account that if you don't pull out quick and accelerate hard you could be waiting until the end of the rush? On a rutted farm track can it work out that you have to drive with one wheel on the centre of the road and the other on the edge to avoid the tractor ruts?
If you have a driver there is always the option to safely pull over or stop and say "manual intervention required", but once you allow completely automatic use with non-drivers or no driver the car has to do something sensible.
What about cars with no passengers though?
This is currently not legal and I doubt if it will be legal for some time. I imagine that by the time it is legal accidents will be dealt with like product liability. If a blender explodes and pieces cut you - then you have a claim. If you put your hand in it then you probably don't. Of course I am sure that cases will be much more complex, should your car have been reasonably expected to avoid the wheel that fell off the other car? Is it shared liability or all the other car's fault?
I'm more wondering what it would be like for the driver who actually rear ended a robotic vehicle
I imagine that you exchange details with the human in charge, with the full knowledge that there will be a complete 360 degree video of the accident with measurements of speed of both vehicles.