I do not agree.
First, working in a team increases human pain threshold twice.
Second, when you're a given a "stop" button, you can endure more pain and actually finish the given exercise. I cannot find the study that showed this, but can give you a short description - a control group of people were given electric shock (or other form of pain) until a certain threshold. Another group of people were going through the same exercise, but were given a button that could make the pain stop right away.
The group that did not have the button, gave up much earlier than the group that had that button. The latter group actually went through the end of the exercise.
So, if you're working in a group (first study above) and you're given a way out, I'd say it's much easier to endure the trip.
Thus I disagree with the parent post.
As for this study, I really think the test subjects should've been told they wouldn't be able to make it out, even if they wanted to..
This, however, could very well be the next test.
At one point, maybe still to this day, Paypal was giving you interest on the money that you keep as a balance. The income was not guaranteed, i.e. you could loose money, and you had to agree to put your money into that money-market account.. There's one reason why people may have kept a balance with Paypal..
Meetig, collaborating, and brainstorming in a virtual world
Global Innovation Outlook at IBM dives into Second Life "Our USC participants were impressed by the interactive nature of the GIO Conference. The tools and approach inspired us to re-examine how we use our own Second Life environment," Jerry Whitfield, associate director, Marshall School of Business, said. Virtual worlds are good for many things. They are great places to escape from reality for a while, wear outrageous clothes, or meet a complete stranger from around the world. But as IBM's Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) team (see Resources) found out last month, virtual worlds are also a great place to host a very real-world, business-oriented roundtable discussion.....
There are a bunch of developerWorks articles about Second Life, like: www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-second-life-1.html - Second Life client, Part 1: Hacking Second Life..
If you did RTFA, on the first page you'd see: "Switching from the backlit mode, to the reflective one drops the display's power consumption from 2.5 Watts to 0.5 Watts. This is for a refresh rate of 60 Hz--fast enough to display video. Pixel Qi claims that using software to put the display into an e-reader mode--suitable for reading text, where the screen might only update ten times a second--could drop the power consumption to as low as 100 milliwatts."
For the IMOD: "The height of the air gap between the plates determines the color of light that is reflected from the IMOD. When a voltage is applied, the plates are drawn together by electrostatic forces and the element goes black. When the voltage is removed, the plates separate and color is reflected off the IMOD. A single pixel is made up of several IMODs; adjusting the height of each affects the overall color of the pixel. The plates stay in place, using almost no energy, until the color needs to change again. A plate only has to move a few hundred nanometers to change color and can do it in tens of microseconds--fast enough to show video."
Liquavista: "The LCD devices are based on a technique called electrowetting, in which a voltage is used to modify the surface tension of colored oil on a solid substrate. In the absence of a voltage, the oil forms a film over the substrate and is visible to the viewer. When a voltage is applied, the pixel becomes transparent. By controlling the voltage of each pixel independently, a picture can be displayed. Unlike E Ink's technology, electrowetting pixels can be switched in a few milliseconds, making them suitable for showing video."
What the article doesn't say, which is easiest on the eyes. My bets are still on e-ink. Recently I tried this "Libre" LCD-based e-reader, and my eyes were bleeding, it was that horrible, or maybe I'm spoiled by real e-ink, and no, it's not Kindle.
I cannot believe nobody mentioned FreeFileSync yet (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/). It's a portable-app, and you can create batch jobs..
It's also a great way to get a scholarship to a great university, like MIT (no flaming to other schools, insert your favorite school here that gives need-based scholarships to international students) From my experience, from the people that I know from Eastern Europe, only those that went to such international Olympiads (math/informatics) managed to get admission to MIT..
In many eastern-european countries, it's more difficult to qualify for this event than the actual tournament.. Kudos to those who participate and to their teachers.. In my time there was no TopCoder, UVA, etc... it wasn't easy to prepare for these.. But now I'm sure it's even more challenging, given the amount of material available..
Your analogy is wrong. It's like walking inside a dollar store, and bringing them a pen or a small toy that the dollar store doesn't really sell.. However, since the price is known to be $1 per item, they'd sell it to you.
The AP's store has a price-list based on words.. If you want to license a given set of words that you found in an article of theirs, you can easily pay up. Their system is there to make money for them, not to tell you if a given sequence of words belongs to them.
Whether 5 words rule is fair to copyright is a different story.
I worked out the price, and it's still not in your favor though.. I also looked at US Dell models with Ubuntu - their price is not that good compared to the windows version..
Just because they have to make money, doesn't mean I have to pay. If you want premium content, you need another brand. Youtube stands for "us", not them!
How about working towards the reason someone would try to bomb a plane? Or, make non-bombable planes.. Hammering at only one side of the problem doesn't lead to the best solutions.
Well, the line workers can put a light connected to the wires.. The moment the light comes on, they can just take off their hands off the wire so the electricity doesn't hit them.. It's so simple, really.. Note, that this won't work with a sound-based alarm, as sound travels more slowly than light.. so it's gotta be light:)
Joking aside, linemen do treat wires like live, usually. Plus, their feet are well insulated (the bucket they stand in is insulated from any grounding). So, they only way they can get electrocuted with 120V is by holding two wires at the same time, so the electricity flows from the hot wire to the grounded one.. At 7kV, it's a different story, because any resistance smaller than infinity would mean current passing through your body that could kill you.
Set up a website with your living status - alive / dead. Set up a time-out, and once you don't update it for a while, people can assume you're dead.. At such event, you can email have automatic emails, flickr messages and what not..
> Turn off at the socket = 0 watts (I use a remotely wire switch). That was the good part of the older power supplies.. The on/off button was like turning it off the socket. However, as far as I recall, Windows couldn't power off the PC with such a power supply..It would give you the "You can now urn off your computer:)".
About the remote switch, I've set up a two-minute timer, so when I shutdown or hibernate, I press a button and then power is cut in 2 minutes. My remote doesn't work too well across few walls.
What file server do you use that is 5watts? A hard drive consumes about 7W and flash doesn't come cheap in GB's range.. My DNS-323 consumes 5 Watts without HDD / fans on, and 13Watts with samsung 750gb hdd. I use that for my "linux distro" downloads:)
Standy on desktop doesn't waste that much electricity (10-15Watt) compared to a power off mode (5Watt). With the newer power supplys, for the past 10 or so years, a powered off computer still consumes power as it needs to keep that power on/off button hot (12v or 5v, not sure). The older power supplies, the power button was a true 110/220V switch. To achieve that now, you have to use the switch in the back where the power supply is..
I'd like to see boot-to-usable-browser time to be improved. This includes avoiding disk trashing/excessive seeking during startup due to launching all kinds of services / programs that are not necessary right now. It would be nice to be able to: - allow choosing what applications/service can started up once the computer is idle / less busy - automatically sense which parts of the hard drive are accessed on startup (before / after loging), have them placed in contiguous regions on the hard drive and read them in memory in the quickest way possible.
I know, flash-based memory doesn't have problems with seek times like hard drives, but still memory caching would be useful.
It reminds me of the old 8086/80286 days with DOS without smartdisk on(disk caching).. Now we need the next step - don't trash the disk during startup. Why do we have 3GB+ memory when we under utilize it during startup?
While I don't agree with everything said above, that opens up an interesting discussion. There are many issues here, some have been discussed when Diebolds were on the tip of the gun..
Maybe it's just me, watching too much Alias and similar.. Even though there are extensive checks being implemented in the Brazilian voting process, no process is unhackable, and even the claim of having extensive checks could make people less alert of a potential rigging of the election..
As it has been mentioned previously on slashdot, it is not always a good idea to change contracts. The reason is that, when the text is unclear, it is usually resolved in favor of the person who did *not* write the text, i.e. the other party. If you are the one making the change, then you'd be the side to loose on.
I doubt this.. Anyway, one one hand, this won't be good for the market - less competition. On the other, no flame here, recent NVIDIA products that I've used (although this is graphics, not a chipset as mentioned in the article), like in T61p, were quite buggy. So I won't be missing NVIDIA products.
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I do not agree. First, working in a team increases human pain threshold twice.
Second, when you're a given a "stop" button, you can endure more pain and actually finish the given exercise. I cannot find the study that showed this, but can give you a short description - a control group of people were given electric shock (or other form of pain) until a certain threshold. Another group of people were going through the same exercise, but were given a button that could make the pain stop right away.
The group that did not have the button, gave up much earlier than the group that had that button. The latter group actually went through the end of the exercise.
So, if you're working in a group (first study above) and you're given a way out, I'd say it's much easier to endure the trip.
Thus I disagree with the parent post.
As for this study, I really think the test subjects should've been told they wouldn't be able to make it out, even if they wanted to..
This, however, could very well be the next test.
A simple google search for "schematics of 6502" reveals the link above. Also, there are books out there, in Bulgarian, with the schematics and design of Pravetz 82, a 6502 clone.
At one point, maybe still to this day, Paypal was giving you interest on the money that you keep as a balance. The income was not guaranteed, i.e. you could loose money, and you had to agree to put your money into that money-market account..
There's one reason why people may have kept a balance with Paypal..
Am I the first to say "Fuck You Chelios!" :)
Crank 2
Joking aside, I'm crossing my fingers for the boy to get the physical and mental energy to survive at least another 25 years.
It seems IBM is a big player/user in Second Life. They even have a corporate client for Second Life.
http://ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-social-secondlife/index.html
From this link:
Meetig, collaborating, and brainstorming in a virtual world
Global Innovation Outlook at IBM dives into Second Life ....
"Our USC participants were impressed by the interactive nature of the GIO Conference. The tools and approach inspired us to re-examine how we use our own Second Life environment," Jerry Whitfield, associate director, Marshall School of Business, said.
Virtual worlds are good for many things. They are great places to escape from reality for a while, wear outrageous clothes, or meet a complete stranger from around the world. But as IBM's Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) team (see Resources) found out last month, virtual worlds are also a great place to host a very real-world, business-oriented roundtable discussion.
There are a bunch of developerWorks articles about Second Life, like: www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-second-life-1.html - Second Life client, Part 1: Hacking Second Life..
If you did RTFA, on the first page you'd see:
"Switching from the backlit mode, to the reflective one drops the display's power consumption from 2.5 Watts to 0.5 Watts. This is for a refresh rate of 60 Hz--fast enough to display video. Pixel Qi claims that using software to put the display into an e-reader mode--suitable for reading text, where the screen might only update ten times a second--could drop the power consumption to as low as 100 milliwatts."
For the IMOD:
"The height of the air gap between the plates determines the color of light that is reflected from the IMOD. When a voltage is applied, the plates are drawn together by electrostatic forces and the element goes black. When the voltage is removed, the plates separate and color is reflected off the IMOD. A single pixel is made up of several IMODs; adjusting the height of each affects the overall color of the pixel. The plates stay in place, using almost no energy, until the color needs to change again. A plate only has to move a few hundred nanometers to change color and can do it in tens of microseconds--fast enough to show video."
Liquavista:
"The LCD devices are based on a technique called electrowetting, in which a voltage is used to modify the surface tension of colored oil on a solid substrate. In the absence of a voltage, the oil forms a film over the substrate and is visible to the viewer. When a voltage is applied, the pixel becomes transparent. By controlling the voltage of each pixel independently, a picture can be displayed. Unlike E Ink's technology, electrowetting pixels can be switched in a few milliseconds, making them suitable for showing video."
What the article doesn't say, which is easiest on the eyes. My bets are still on e-ink.
Recently I tried this "Libre" LCD-based e-reader, and my eyes were bleeding, it was that horrible, or maybe I'm spoiled by real e-ink, and no, it's not Kindle.
I cannot believe nobody mentioned FreeFileSync yet (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/).
It's a portable-app, and you can create batch jobs..
It's also a great way to get a scholarship to a great university, like MIT (no flaming to other schools, insert your favorite school here that gives need-based scholarships to international students)
From my experience, from the people that I know from Eastern Europe, only those that went to such international Olympiads (math/informatics) managed to get admission to MIT..
In many eastern-european countries, it's more difficult to qualify for this event than the actual tournament..
Kudos to those who participate and to their teachers..
In my time there was no TopCoder, UVA, etc... it wasn't easy to prepare for these.. But now I'm sure it's even more challenging, given the amount of material available..
Your analogy is wrong.
It's like walking inside a dollar store, and bringing them a pen or a small toy that the dollar store doesn't really sell.. However, since the price is known to be $1 per item, they'd sell it to you.
The AP's store has a price-list based on words.. If you want to license a given set of words that you found in an article of theirs, you can easily pay up.
Their system is there to make money for them, not to tell you if a given sequence of words belongs to them.
Whether 5 words rule is fair to copyright is a different story.
In Canada, as in the States, you can still buy barebone laptop - no OS included, like:
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=30406&vpn=OCZNBIS15DIYA&manufacture=OCZ%20Technology&promoid=1016 [ncix.com] [ncix.com]
I worked out the price, and it's still not in your favor though.. I also looked at US Dell models with Ubuntu - their price is not that good compared to the windows version..
Tell that to Reiser :) He had a Russian chick and look what happened :)
Nada, nope, No, nein, niet, ne
Just because they have to make money, doesn't mean I have to pay.
If you want premium content, you need another brand. Youtube stands for "us", not them!
How about working towards the reason someone would try to bomb a plane?
Or, make non-bombable planes.. Hammering at only one side of the problem doesn't lead to the best solutions.
Well, the line workers can put a light connected to the wires.. The moment the light comes on, they can just take off their hands off the wire so the electricity doesn't hit them.. It's so simple, really.. Note, that this won't work with a sound-based alarm, as sound travels more slowly than light.. so it's gotta be light :)
Joking aside, linemen do treat wires like live, usually. Plus, their feet are well insulated (the bucket they stand in is insulated from any grounding). So, they only way they can get electrocuted with 120V is by holding two wires at the same time, so the electricity flows from the hot wire to the grounded one..
At 7kV, it's a different story, because any resistance smaller than infinity would mean current passing through your body that could kill you.
Set up a website with your living status - alive / dead. Set up a time-out, and once you don't update it for a while, people can assume you're dead.. At such event, you can email have automatic emails, flickr messages and what not..
mod parent up..
> Turn off at the socket = 0 watts (I use a remotely wire switch). :)".
That was the good part of the older power supplies.. The on/off button was like turning it off the socket. However, as far as I recall, Windows couldn't power off the PC with such a power supply..It would give you the "You can now urn off your computer
About the remote switch, I've set up a two-minute timer, so when I shutdown or hibernate, I press a button and then power is cut in 2 minutes. My remote doesn't work too well across few walls.
What file server do you use that is 5watts? :)
A hard drive consumes about 7W and flash doesn't come cheap in GB's range.. My DNS-323 consumes 5 Watts without HDD / fans on, and 13Watts with samsung 750gb hdd. I use that for my "linux distro" downloads
Standy on desktop doesn't waste that much electricity (10-15Watt) compared to a power off mode (5Watt). With the newer power supplys, for the past 10 or so years, a powered off computer still consumes power as it needs to keep that power on/off button hot (12v or 5v, not sure). The older power supplies, the power button was a true 110/220V switch. To achieve that now, you have to use the switch in the back where the power supply is..
I'd like to see boot-to-usable-browser time to be improved. This includes avoiding disk trashing/excessive seeking during startup due to launching all kinds of services / programs that are not necessary right now.
It would be nice to be able to:
- allow choosing what applications/service can started up once the computer is idle / less busy
- automatically sense which parts of the hard drive are accessed on startup (before / after loging), have them placed in contiguous regions on the hard drive and read them in memory in the quickest way possible.
I know, flash-based memory doesn't have problems with seek times like hard drives, but still memory caching would be useful.
It reminds me of the old 8086/80286 days with DOS without smartdisk on(disk caching).. Now we need the next step - don't trash the disk during startup. Why do we have 3GB+ memory when we under utilize it during startup?
Mod parent up!
While I don't agree with everything said above, that opens up an interesting discussion.
There are many issues here, some have been discussed when Diebolds were on the tip of the gun..
Maybe it's just me, watching too much Alias and similar.. Even though there are extensive checks being implemented in the Brazilian voting process, no process is unhackable, and even the claim of having extensive checks could make people less alert of a potential rigging of the election..
zerba.nl is a shop for women's and men's shoes and such.. I don't see how it's related to kdawson, the article poster..
dawson.com is a construction company.. while dawson.nl while taken, has no web page, at least not at www.dawson.nl).
Careful with construction companies.. they work with lots of cement :)
Talk to your school international office!!!
They'll have the details, but you don't need much documentation to do 2-3 semesters a full-time or part-time co-op.
Once you graduate, you can apply (it's easy and pretty much everyone's approved) to do a year of work in your field.
As it has been mentioned previously on slashdot, it is not always a good idea to change contracts. The reason is that, when the text is unclear, it is usually resolved in favor of the person who did *not* write the text, i.e. the other party. If you are the one making the change, then you'd be the side to loose on.
See this slashdot, about employment contracts:
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/029243
God may know, but what the f**k does a priest knows and have to do with God?
I doubt this.. Anyway, one one hand, this won't be good for the market - less competition.
On the other, no flame here, recent NVIDIA products that I've used (although this is graphics, not a chipset as mentioned in the article), like in T61p, were quite buggy. So I won't be missing NVIDIA products.