Comment Douglas Adams would be proud. (Score 1, Insightful) 153
One step closer to the Infinite Improbability Drive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Infinite_Improbability_Drive)
Comment Missing the point (Score 1, Funny) 273
Who cares about getting sober instantly ?
I'd rather get instantly wasted.
I'll take a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster over romulan ale any day!
Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance 379
Death Metal writes "Eating fatty food appears to take an almost immediate toll on both short-term memory and exercise performance, according to new research on rats and people. Other studies have suggested that that long-term consumption of a high-fat diet is associated with weight gain, heart disease and declines in cognitive function. But the new research shows how indulging in fatty foods over the course of a few days can affect the brain and body long before the extra pounds show up."
Comment Re:"These free copies aren't boosting sales" (Score 0) 987
I generally find that pirated books are of such bad quality (compared to their paper/official ebook counterparts) that they're usually not good for anything but reading those 2 paragraphs that google showed in the results to my query.
In most cases i've gone out and bought the book anyway, and usually in paperform, since no matter how big my screen gets, my IDE always seems to be bigger, and one should never underestimate the horizontal effect on ones neurons when learning new stuff.
In the cases where i haven't bought the book, it has usually been because the book was outdated, or not "good" enough, in which case i couldn't use it anyway.
Think of it as a "preview" of the book.
So don't think it's all bad, it may actually be boosting your book sales instead of "stealing your last penny".
And yes, there will always be people who will pirate anything, and aren't willing to buy stuff at all, but these people wouldn't buy your book/music/movie anyway, and most likely they won't even read/listen/watch all the junk they download.
Comment Re:What about MySQL? (Score 0) 906
Well well well. I can see this working well for Oracle - they use Java a great deal... and it should be good news for Sun's open source projects like Netbeans - which would, I think, be maintained under Oracle.
Perhaps we can finally see a Netbeans plugin for Eclipse.
Comment Re:The AP-1000 reactor isn't a "next generation" u (Score 0) 426
Funny, i read "Next generation" and instantly thought of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Bed_Reactor
Boy was i surprised
Comment Hmmmm (Score 0) 1127
Sounds like a client i used to work for.
20 hour days in a server room cooled to 18C, with nothing but coffee and sugar coated pastries to eat, and a 14400 baud modem ( and no, this was not 1995. It was around 2005)
Comment DMCA valid outside US ? (Score 0) 547
The site, and it's owner are both located outside the US.
So i guess the real question is, is the DMCA even valid outside the US ?
And can it be enforced outside the US ?
Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing 147
Predictions Market writes "Low doses of hydrogen sulfide, the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs, can safely and reversibly depress both metabolism and aspects of cardiovascular function in mice, producing a suspended-animation-like state that does not depend on a reduction in body temperature and include a substantial decrease in heart rate without a drop in blood pressure. The researchers measured factors such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration, and physical activity in normal mice exposed to low-dose (80 ppm) hydrogen sulfide for several hours. In all the mice, metabolic measurements such as consumption of oxygen and production of carbon dioxide dropped in as little as 10 minutes after they began inhaling hydrogen sulfide, remained low as long as the gas was administered, and returned to normal within 30 minutes of the resumption of a normal air supply. 'Producing a reversible hypometabolic state could allow organ function to be preserved when oxygen supply is limited, such as after a traumatic injury,' says the lead author of the study. 'We don't know yet if these results will be transferable to humans, so our next step will be to study the use of hydrogen sulfide in larger mammals.' The full report is available online."
ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does 268
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of the Open Document Format standard has written a letter (PDF) that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's OOXML file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. 'As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its features, urge the widest use of it as possible, none of which is accomplished by the anti-OpenXML position in ISO,' Patrick Durusau wrote. 'The bottom line is that OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses... Passage of OpenXML in ISO is going to benefit OpenDocument as much as anyone else.'"
