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Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance 379

Posted by timothy from the I-distinctly-remember-eating-4-egg-mcmuffins-today dept.
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

by nielsenj (#27962683) Attached to: What Can I Do About Book Pirates?
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 In the cases where i haven't bought the book, it has usually been because the book was outdated, or not "good" enough, in which case i couldn't use it anyway.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

by nielsenj (#27644427) Attached to: Oracle Buys Sun

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.
Medicine

Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing 147

Posted by kdawson from the you-will-sleep-now-and-when-you-wake dept.
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."
Microsoft

ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does 268

Posted by kdawson from the strange-bedfellow dept.
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.'"
The Courts

SCOTUS Asked To Decide On Legal Fees In RIAA Cases 164

Posted by kdawson from the old-fogerty dept.
Fogerty's ghost notes that the Supreme Court has been asked to decide whether exonerated RIAA defendants should automatically be awarded attorneys' fees. Texas resident Cliff Thompson was sued by the RIAA, which subsequently dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit after it determined that his adult daughter was the culprit. Thompson was denied attorneys' fees by the district and appeals courts and is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on the matter. "In the petition for certiorari filed with the Supreme Court, Thompson's attorney Ted Lee lays out the RIAA's legal strategy and notes what he describes as the 'inherent unfairness' of the lawsuits... The fight between the RIAA and alleged copyright infringers is inherently unbalanced due to the vast financial resources available to the record labels. The risk-reward ratio for defendants is seriously out of kilter, and mandating that a successful defense — even if it comes from the RIAA's decision to voluntarily dismiss a case — results in the record labels picking up the tab would even things out."

Comment Re:Soekris is what you want. (Score 0) 594

by nielsenj (#10283977) Attached to: Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use?
If you get the 4801 it even has a 2.5" HD connector.

I have my 4801 running FreeBSD 5.2.1 (installed from official FreeBSD cd via nfs) with a 20GB 2.5" disk and and DLink DWL-640 for wireless.
Only one problem though. Net throughput seems very low, and as far as i've been able to tell it's caused by interrupt flooding from the net driver :(

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