Perhaps the reason your heart keeps beating is that these processes do not remove all the caffiene? I tend to believe other magics are at work here (chemicals), but they don't discount that in the article....
What will really get your heart beating is 200mg of caffeine with 8mg of ephedrine =)
I have tried it in the past when I'm having trouble making it through the day and caffeine alone doesn't work. Though the last time I tried it, my resting pulse (sitting still at my desk for hours) was 120... not healthy I'm sure, but I didn't have any problems staying awake...
Somehow the two together seem to have a more powerful effect than the sum of each... Definitely not recommended for those who are not in good physical health...
on the IBM linux watch our experiments seemed to imply that using a wheel that you could scroll around (selecting things) and also "click" was a good comprimise
The new Sidekick PDA uses this wheel-click user interface... Now if they'd make one of those into a wristwatch, it would be the ultimate geek gadget...
And at the local university, if you want just a cup for water its a dime, unless your purchasing something.
I'd gladly pay the f*cking dime at restaurants and drive-throughs if they'd give me a LARGE cup for water! Lately, I just ask for two waters instead of one.. It probably even costs them more for two small cups than one large cup. It's quite a joke sometimes too... I don't recall where, but I remember getting water in a dixie-cup sized cup somewhere...
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I often use Credit instead of Debit at the gas stations just becuase lately they've been all asking for zip codes and/or PIN numbers before you can pump. If I hit credit, no questions are asked and I can start right away...
What's ironic is that IIRC, it costs the gas station more if I choose credit, and not only that, I also get 1.5% back if I use my PayPal card...
It sounds benign enough, but having a category of websites considered acceptable by a particular organization, being segregated from the rest, is a baby-step toward censorship.
This will make it easier for libraries, schools, parents, communities, and governments to block access to all information which is not on their "white list" of approved sites. It makes it easier for people or organizations to take advantage of the utility of this technology and apply it in circumstances where they can get away with it.
Here's a simple example...
Let's say you have a cousin who bought a house which is part of a nice housing community. She has lived there for several years with cheap broadband internet access. The internet access is included with the community maintenance fee, and so it is effectively "free" since she pays for it whether she uses it or not.
Recently, the home owners association found out about a cheap filter technology and narrowly voted to approve it "to protect the children". The technology was cheap because it just simply blocked or allowed entire domain names, so there was no maintenance in constantly keeping up with specific websites. It was just a one-time cost.
Your cousin really doesn't want to pay $20/month for dial-up internet access that's 1/50th of the speed of what she has now for "free", especially since she only uses it for AIM, email and a mild amount of web surfing.
So now she'll be permanantly cut off from the entire segment of the internet which is not part of the familyfriendy.us domain. This includes your website, and any website which isn't applicable to, or can't afford a familyfriendly.us registration.
Prior to having a familyfriendly.us domain, it would have been impossible to tell the "good" from the "bad", so the filter idea would have been impossible or require a significant amount of maintenance to keep updated (and therefore not approved due to a higher budget).
This is just *one* example of how this can be abused. Once you start cutting up and classifiying the Internet, people on moral high horses will begin to find ways from keeping the majority of the passive public from reading or even learning about "morally objectionable" or "morally ambiguious" topics.
Of course, this wouldn't happen over night. It would slowly trickle into the culture, with more and more people being put behind the filter. And not only does it divide people into those who see everything as it is, and those who are blanketed in the matrix, but it sets a bad precedent for even more restrictive domain names to come along, which will then be further abused.
Doesn't this help with taxes too? As in, if there's no "profit" then they pay less or no taxes?
The incentive for companies then is to use up all income immediately as "marketing" (or other) expenses... new luxury cars to drive around the execs, flights to europe for a week to "promote" the movie, including the marketing VP's family so they won't miss him/her, etc...
Better to have something left over for the "company" than to give a piece to the government... I swear if there wasn't so much corporate welfare, exploitation, and "good buddy" politics, I wouldn't have to give 40% of my paycheck to taxes...
I've never had a hard drive fail on me at all.. What is the "straw that breaks the camel's back" when it comes to drive failure, and how often is it reasonably unrecoverable?
I've never met someone who lost the drive instantly and permanently without using some simple technique to temporarily revive the drive long enough to get the data off.
Usually it's just an old drive that won't spin up anymore. I tell them to get a replacment drive, install it, then power up, tap the "stuck" drive on the side gently with a rubber hammer (or a regular hammer wrapped in cloth), then copy your data off of it to the new drive.
So by your logic, in every case where an abused woman doesn't know enough karate to fend off an attacker and she is mugged, dateraped, or worse, you think that is her fault?
Comparing an abused woman to an obsolete exploitive international conglomeration of billion-dollar revenue companies backed by hundreds or thousands of lawyers is obscene.
Are stores that get robbed to blame for not having armed guards posted at the door?
If I write a new game, and then share my first copies with a few of my closest friends to try out; only a week later to find out it's all over the net, then who is to blame?
But while we're making poor and unfair analogies, how about this one?
If a fool-proof procedure of ending nicotine addiction is written about and shared with the world for free, should the tobacco companies be allowed to sue and/or kill the author?
Blah.. as you can see, analogies are useless in debate. They are not much unlike statistics; everyone can find an analogy that fits their preference, and all of them are wrong.
BTW, violoating copyright law != theft. It's called copyright infrigement They are separate laws, with entirely different legal definitions and punishment standards.
Does anyone have any links to research showing that using a CPU at 100% workload will decrease it's life?
It seems to me that alternating between 0% and 100% utilization repeatedly would do more damage, since it would cause the greatest differential in temperature, thereby causing the silicon to expand and contract repeatedly, perhaps eventually leading to a weak circuit line to open.
I think this has to do with the fact that they aren't (smart?) enough to use HTTP and port 80 for uploading/downloading data, like Seti@Home... I tried it on my work machines too, and no go... I didn't bother to look up the ports and all, but I know our firewall lets any HTTP traffic through port 80, and it refuses to work on any computer i've tried it on the inside...
Quite a shame, as I have quite a few machines here and pretty much free reigh over installing whatever I want on my machines...
I might consider trying one of those SocksCap/HTTP Tunnelling systems someday if I get the energy... For now, I'm just keeping my seti@home going, which it always has done without me ever needing to do much more than enter my email address...
If you want a largest volunteer base from number crunching clients, I suggest keeping your software as versatile and compatible as possible, and make it smart enough to self-discover solutions to problems by itself... Something so simple as using HTTP to transfer work packets seems obvious to me...
I'll agree with this just from simple experiences I've had myself. I have an Athlon 2000 XP, which was the last of a line of chips before they shrunk down the die size. The fan it came with was not really even adequate to keep it within normal operating temperature.
I used to leave my computer on 24/7 before I bought a hardware gateway for my roommates to share net access. If I left my bedroom door open at night, it was fine, but if I had closed it, I'd wake up and notice my room is abnormally warm.
Since I've been leaving the computer off lately (using the nifty Hibernate feature), my room stays about the same temperature whether the door is open or closed..
And that's just one PC. I recently purchased a kill-a-watt device. I think I will give it a run and see the power consumption difference when I'm running a number-crunching background program vs a regular idle... I'll post results if I remember (feel free to nag me if I don't) =)
There's a game out right now for the GameCube called called "Animal Crossing", which I assume must be a market-test for it's kind in America.
It's a very odd sort of game, which claims to be a "communication oriented" game. It's not really comparable to anything else I've seen before. It's sort of an RPG/Sim hybrid, with emphasis on making friends, and staying in touch such as chatting with your neighbors, writing to electronic friends, trading virtual items with your RL friends, etc...
It's definitely a concept that would probably never have seen the light of day if it weren't for the novel Japanese way of thinking. I hope the test market succeeds. It's quite addictive, and I hope to see it catch on, and perhaps see more games like it =)
This is a very interesting idea. I have heard about the linux capability of using broken memory. I remember reading on here long ago about a guy who got 2GB of memory for free or ultra cheap (20 bucks?) which worked fine after using this error-mapping feature.
It seems like using more and more levels of memory as "cache" to the next level down is inevitable for maximum performance. I wonder what asymptote we are approaching though (L5, L6, L7, etc...), and if that asymptote can be directly addressed smoothly instead of having discrete levels of cache, allowing for maximum benefit with the least amount of complexity...
My first thought in repsonse to this is, why not have a partition which mirrors the RAM drive in the background, at a low priority. So at worst case (power outage without a UPS), you lose minimal data. With a UPS, the mirror software would certianly have the partition up to date before the battery runs out.
But then it occurred to me that this isn't much unlike just using a really really big drive cache, which would be much less expensive than the 3K for the device which this article features.
My question to those more in-the-know than myself is, which system would be faster? Are disk cache algorithms more efficient than a constant mirroring-to-disk algorithm? Has there been much technological improvment in disk cacheing algorithms in recent years?
My hypothetical interest would be to boot from a normal disk partition, then once finished booting, copy the OS drive to a mirrored RAM drive of sorts. Therefore, all of the DLLs, *.so's, temp files, etc. would all be much more quickly accessible.
I recently read somewhere (perhaps on this site) that there was an operating system written quite some time ago which considered the hard disk itself as the "memory" and that RAM was just a cache for the hard disk. Interesting concept, which I also wonder how efficient would be in comarison to the other methods I mentioned above.
Any way, maybe MRAM will come along and save us someday from the dual-storage standard.
Perhaps in the more distant future (25 years or more), if bandwidth keeps up with it's current pace, we won't have to purchase hard drives, but instead purchase network storage space... In which case I doubt we'd need local hard drives.
My philosophy is to set up an automatically recurring monthly payment to the EFF, and enjoy myself. Been doing it for a while now, but I still haven't heard of anything worth watching at the theatre, or buying off the shelf.
The few purchases I have made in the past month are a $10 copy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind DVD off of half.com, and a couple of christmas music CDs from a thrift store for $2 each.
The problem is, I think they're shooting for the goal of getting the government to tax all non-deaf people for the privledge of being able to hear.
At some point, they won't even need to produce any new content... then they can fire all the employees/artists and just have the government forward the collected tax money directly to their shareholders's bank accounts...
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What's funny is I've never been happier to be conned into buying more stuff for a game before...
Yes, but how many BP does it take to process one LOC (Library Of Congress) of data?
Well, for someone going through the drive through, this hardly seems like an issue of national security... =)
I have tried it in the past when I'm having trouble making it through the day and caffeine alone doesn't work. Though the last time I tried it, my resting pulse (sitting still at my desk for hours) was 120... not healthy I'm sure, but I didn't have any problems staying awake...
Somehow the two together seem to have a more powerful effect than the sum of each... Definitely not recommended for those who are not in good physical health...
Yeah, because they are getting all the tax breaks we're paying for with our 50%!
Do they itemize the cost of paper and additional postage?
What's ironic is that IIRC, it costs the gas station more if I choose credit, and not only that, I also get 1.5% back if I use my PayPal card...
This will make it easier for libraries, schools, parents, communities, and governments to block access to all information which is not on their "white list" of approved sites. It makes it easier for people or organizations to take advantage of the utility of this technology and apply it in circumstances where they can get away with it.
Here's a simple example...
Let's say you have a cousin who bought a house which is part of a nice housing community. She has lived there for several years with cheap broadband internet access. The internet access is included with the community maintenance fee, and so it is effectively "free" since she pays for it whether she uses it or not.
Recently, the home owners association found out about a cheap filter technology and narrowly voted to approve it "to protect the children". The technology was cheap because it just simply blocked or allowed entire domain names, so there was no maintenance in constantly keeping up with specific websites. It was just a one-time cost.
Your cousin really doesn't want to pay $20/month for dial-up internet access that's 1/50th of the speed of what she has now for "free", especially since she only uses it for AIM, email and a mild amount of web surfing.
So now she'll be permanantly cut off from the entire segment of the internet which is not part of the familyfriendy.us domain. This includes your website, and any website which isn't applicable to, or can't afford a familyfriendly.us registration.
Prior to having a familyfriendly.us domain, it would have been impossible to tell the "good" from the "bad", so the filter idea would have been impossible or require a significant amount of maintenance to keep updated (and therefore not approved due to a higher budget).
This is just *one* example of how this can be abused. Once you start cutting up and classifiying the Internet, people on moral high horses will begin to find ways from keeping the majority of the passive public from reading or even learning about "morally objectionable" or "morally ambiguious" topics.
Of course, this wouldn't happen over night. It would slowly trickle into the culture, with more and more people being put behind the filter. And not only does it divide people into those who see everything as it is, and those who are blanketed in the matrix, but it sets a bad precedent for even more restrictive domain names to come along, which will then be further abused.
The incentive for companies then is to use up all income immediately as "marketing" (or other) expenses... new luxury cars to drive around the execs, flights to europe for a week to "promote" the movie, including the marketing VP's family so they won't miss him/her, etc...
Better to have something left over for the "company" than to give a piece to the government... I swear if there wasn't so much corporate welfare, exploitation, and "good buddy" politics, I wouldn't have to give 40% of my paycheck to taxes...
I've never met someone who lost the drive instantly and permanently without using some simple technique to temporarily revive the drive long enough to get the data off.
Usually it's just an old drive that won't spin up anymore. I tell them to get a replacment drive, install it, then power up, tap the "stuck" drive on the side gently with a rubber hammer (or a regular hammer wrapped in cloth), then copy your data off of it to the new drive.
Comparing an abused woman to an obsolete exploitive international conglomeration of billion-dollar revenue companies backed by hundreds or thousands of lawyers is obscene.
If I write a new game, and then share my first copies with a few of my closest friends to try out; only a week later to find out it's all over the net, then who is to blame?But while we're making poor and unfair analogies, how about this one?
If a fool-proof procedure of ending nicotine addiction is written about and shared with the world for free, should the tobacco companies be allowed to sue and/or kill the author?
Blah.. as you can see, analogies are useless in debate. They are not much unlike statistics; everyone can find an analogy that fits their preference, and all of them are wrong.
BTW, violoating copyright law != theft. It's called copyright infrigement They are separate laws, with entirely different legal definitions and punishment standards.
It seems to me that alternating between 0% and 100% utilization repeatedly would do more damage, since it would cause the greatest differential in temperature, thereby causing the silicon to expand and contract repeatedly, perhaps eventually leading to a weak circuit line to open.
Quite a shame, as I have quite a few machines here and pretty much free reigh over installing whatever I want on my machines...
I might consider trying one of those SocksCap/HTTP Tunnelling systems someday if I get the energy... For now, I'm just keeping my seti@home going, which it always has done without me ever needing to do much more than enter my email address...
If you want a largest volunteer base from number crunching clients, I suggest keeping your software as versatile and compatible as possible, and make it smart enough to self-discover solutions to problems by itself... Something so simple as using HTTP to transfer work packets seems obvious to me...
I used to leave my computer on 24/7 before I bought a hardware gateway for my roommates to share net access. If I left my bedroom door open at night, it was fine, but if I had closed it, I'd wake up and notice my room is abnormally warm.
Since I've been leaving the computer off lately (using the nifty Hibernate feature), my room stays about the same temperature whether the door is open or closed..
And that's just one PC. I recently purchased a kill-a-watt device. I think I will give it a run and see the power consumption difference when I'm running a number-crunching background program vs a regular idle... I'll post results if I remember (feel free to nag me if I don't) =)
It's a very odd sort of game, which claims to be a "communication oriented" game. It's not really comparable to anything else I've seen before. It's sort of an RPG/Sim hybrid, with emphasis on making friends, and staying in touch such as chatting with your neighbors, writing to electronic friends, trading virtual items with your RL friends, etc...
It's definitely a concept that would probably never have seen the light of day if it weren't for the novel Japanese way of thinking. I hope the test market succeeds. It's quite addictive, and I hope to see it catch on, and perhaps see more games like it =)
It seems like using more and more levels of memory as "cache" to the next level down is inevitable for maximum performance. I wonder what asymptote we are approaching though (L5, L6, L7, etc...), and if that asymptote can be directly addressed smoothly instead of having discrete levels of cache, allowing for maximum benefit with the least amount of complexity...
But then it occurred to me that this isn't much unlike just using a really really big drive cache, which would be much less expensive than the 3K for the device which this article features.
My question to those more in-the-know than myself is, which system would be faster? Are disk cache algorithms more efficient than a constant mirroring-to-disk algorithm? Has there been much technological improvment in disk cacheing algorithms in recent years?
My hypothetical interest would be to boot from a normal disk partition, then once finished booting, copy the OS drive to a mirrored RAM drive of sorts. Therefore, all of the DLLs, *.so's, temp files, etc. would all be much more quickly accessible.
I recently read somewhere (perhaps on this site) that there was an operating system written quite some time ago which considered the hard disk itself as the "memory" and that RAM was just a cache for the hard disk. Interesting concept, which I also wonder how efficient would be in comarison to the other methods I mentioned above.
Any way, maybe MRAM will come along and save us someday from the dual-storage standard.
Perhaps in the more distant future (25 years or more), if bandwidth keeps up with it's current pace, we won't have to purchase hard drives, but instead purchase network storage space... In which case I doubt we'd need local hard drives.
The few purchases I have made in the past month are a $10 copy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind DVD off of half.com, and a couple of christmas music CDs from a thrift store for $2 each.
At some point, they won't even need to produce any new content... then they can fire all the employees/artists and just have the government forward the collected tax money directly to their shareholders's bank accounts...
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