Life Interrupted

sch7572 writes "Seattle Times carried this story which may be of interest to those addicted to checking Slashdot for new stories every minute. Scientists are concerned that the Information Age is nurturing 'cognitive overload,' an umbrella term for the malaise people feel as a result of distraction, stress, multitasking, and data congestion related to increasingly sophisticated technologies. People multitask because it is expected, encouraged, and considered vital, yet cognitive scientist David Meyer reports that truly effective multitasking is beyond people's capabilities."

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Let me do the job for you

[zeux]

Seattle Times carried this story which may be of interest to those addicted
to checking Slashdot for new stories every minute.

Ok, we all know that this one is going to generate at least 500 replies so let
me do the job for you. I'm ready and I've made all the calculations. Of
course, I didn't RTFA.

a) Cost of one space elevator: $10 Billions

b) Cost of a beowulf cluster of it: an order of magnitude higher (if you build
it in Soviet Russia)

c) Cost of the war on Iraq: $147 Billions

d) Man, I have a problem in trying to calculate the amount of money spent by
the US governement for each WMD found in Iraq. I get a freaking "DIVISION BY
ZERO". Must be some kind of Micro$oft bug. Please someone try it on FreeBSD
before it dies.

e) Amount of money spent for each Iraqi casualty (estimates of Iraqis
casualties during the war range from 1 citizen to 200 Millions citizens so
let's take 48571 as a good estimate): $3,026,497.29, that's the paper value of
3.14159265 Library of Congress at normal pressure and temperature conditions.

f) ???

g) PROFIT!!!

h) FP?

i) Getting a Funny +5 or being ridiculous and modded down to hell on Slashdot:
priceless.