I guess there is a certain amount of steady intake thats needed for you to be addicted to something.
When you consistently overshoot that limit and keep exceeding it, you tend to have grow dependent on it.
There was a time when coffee would do nothing to me. It would not affect my sleep and it would really not make me active or anything, and I used to have about one or two cups a day.
However, I just started having more coffee just to feel the effect of it, and I found that beyond a limit I would feel hot, active, sweaty and sleepless (yeah, even if you interpreted it in any other way, Coffee does pep up your sexual drive;-)
So I needed a minimum amount to actually FEEL the effect of coffee. Then the intake gradually increased, and before I knew it I was having like 15 cups a day!:)
And that dependence is a bad thing. It kills you. I've hit 30+ a day, and I would stay up for days on end without sleep and sleep it off at the end of it all. And wake up with severe headaches.
There was a time towards the completion of my undergrad when I needed a cup of coffee ever so often.
I found that the best way to deal with it is reduce your intake slowly over time. It took me almost two months to get over it.
Also, make sure you sleep a lot - that effectively reduces the time you're awake and consume coffee. And everytime you feel tempted to have something, drink a lot of water.
I first cut it down to timed intakes - one cup in the morning, two in the afternoon, two in the evenings. Then to one in the morning, one at noon and one in the evening. And then to two a day and then to one a day.
And now I've a nice and proper routine - one cup of black coffee in the morning and one cup in the late afternoon.
Just move towards that regimen, and you'll get over it! Goodluck!!!:)
Its almost like everybody wants to be Paris Hilton. Who cares about anything else, all that they want is fame.
Atleast in Hilton's case she's rich, but females like these seem to be doing it for the money and the fame by losing just about everything - the physical beauty won't last a lifetime but when its gone its gonna hurt a lot. And the emotional scars of once being a public property (literally!) would haunt her forever.
The article mentions that the programs are for use on the Linux platform, I shall quote them for you -
Open Office suite includes all the functions supplied by Microsoft Office - a word processing program, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation manager similar to PowerPoint. The programs can be downloaded for free at www.openoffice.co.il. The programs are for use on the Linux operating system, which is a free alternative to the Windows operating system.
If the decision is carried out, the government will save millions of shekels a year in licenses, but could face much higher costs in other areas.
I'm largely technology agnostic, but I think a large chunk of the savings would be a one-term investment. For example, the need to train and familiarize people with Linux and the setting up of support centers would need to be taken care of. Also, the need to establish a solid base of Linux usage, complete with folks for Linux administration at the various levels (simple Open-Office queries to updating security patches).
Once this investment is done in a well-organized manner, the rest of it would just fall into place - I guess the momentum would take care of that. Wouldn't be easy, but it has to start somewhere.
Its funny because in real-life, I do carry a large chunk of these things with me in my backpack!
I carry my Notebook, my palm-PDA with an external keyboard, the sync and charger stuff for all this, my cellphone charger, a bunch of CDs, headphones, my USB Drives, my MP3/CD player, a digital camera (I work a lot in HCI and Graphics, so have uses for these) AND some paper notebooks and a reasonable amount of pencils/pens and some stationary:)
During my undergrad, one of my professors of Solid State Circuits lab talked about this. She said that the reason this is hard is because when your source/gate region is partially depleted of charge carriers, there is a need to raise the source-drain gates effectively to utilize the technology. You see, one of the benefits is that the effective capacitance of your source-drain region is decreased. However, if your source-drain gates are not sufficiently increased, the remaining charge carriers remain back and over a period of time this in itself builds up a capacitance. It then begins to function like a dual capacitor device, etc.
And to counter this, you will end up using metal within your S-D zone, however that will have its own side effects - you will need more interconnects and this will increase the resistance by a very slight amount. Trivial for a small number of transistors but if you're having a few million of them, it could be painful. Also, it would mean that the entire thing is going to heat up ever so quickly.
And ofcourse, you always have issues with the Floating Body effects (warning Powerpoint).
Couple this with a hard manufacturing process, and you have a technology thats atleast going to take another 5-10 years to mature. And thats being optimistic:)
0. The cops and medics always come either after the heroine/her Dad/her Mom/her uncle or Hero's Mom/Dad/Uncle is killed and the bad guys are all beat up;-)
If I'm not mistaken, both. SPARC is definitely an RISC based architecture, think its origins go back to the original work done on RISC at Berkeley.
Newer SPARCs also have deep and ordered pipelines as well as support for tagged arithmetic that make them a idea for graphics apps. Sure you can do that with good enough cluster but there are some things that you can do with a SPARC that can't be done just like that on an Intel (in comparison).
I'm not too sure about SPARC's FPU specs, but don't think they're anything special. But they were better than IA, atleast the last time I checked.
We have Solaris here at GTech GVU on both Sparc and IA. But we use Sparc here for a lot of graphics because while the SPARC and the Intel architecture have roughly the same performance on most integer operations, SPARC is better at floating point operations (don't remember the numbers - 30% I think).
I guess the overall performance would really depend on other things like your intent.
I guess I came across as a little condescending and pedantic, but the thing is that Antarctica has a very delicate eco-system that has been largely independent of the rest of the world.
Even trace amounts of metal and pollutants that species in most of parts of the world are unaffected by can cause extreme conditions on things living in the Antarctic. See for yourself.
Also, this is one of the few places to study cosmic radiations, and excessive traffic would mean too much EM interference and would affect such studies.
Which is why I hate it when idiots like this guy do not really know what is it they are doing go there without knowing the imports of their actions. Thats one of the last places untouched by civlization, and where there is so much to learn. Please let it be so for a while.
I meant to say, not really a good idea. It was in response to you saying that it sounded like something like what you might have been looking for.
The thing is that if you get the components, you can build one of these smaller ones yourself for not more than $500 - we have a space constraint in our lab and do this all the time. Works wonders and is cheap, and keeps the profs happy:)
In fact, I think its much higher - $1395 or something, which is *waaaaay* more than what this thing is really worth.
Come on, its easier to build a _small_ and _compact_ 1 GhZ celeron with a better config for about $400-500 with off the shelf components than shell out that kinda money for this thing.
There may not be a lot of people going there, but it sure as hell would not hurt to keep it that way. Guys like this would only tend to heighten the "urge" to goto a place like Antarctica.
My point was that he has been going to places like the North Pole and the like, which have been explored before. Big deal. Flying to Argentina via the South Pole. So what?
A couple of hundred years ago I can see how this might have made a difference. Not today. Earth is no longer your final frontier.
If you're that thirsty for exploring something new, build yourself a spacecraft and move out into space. Or try zen meditation and yoga.
Not really. Its a Transmeta 533. Even one of those el-cheapo $199 things from Walmart or an old Celeron or P3 would give this thing a run for its money.
At $1150 (?) and odd, it really isn't worth it. You're better off building your own mail server from scratch. Cheaper and better than this.
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I guess there is a certain amount of steady intake thats needed for you to be addicted to something.
;-)
:)
:)
When you consistently overshoot that limit and keep exceeding it, you tend to have grow dependent on it.
There was a time when coffee would do nothing to me. It would not affect my sleep and it would really not make me active or anything, and I used to have about one or two cups a day.
However, I just started having more coffee just to feel the effect of it, and I found that beyond a limit I would feel hot, active, sweaty and sleepless (yeah, even if you interpreted it in any other way, Coffee does pep up your sexual drive
So I needed a minimum amount to actually FEEL the effect of coffee. Then the intake gradually increased, and before I knew it I was having like 15 cups a day!
And that dependence is a bad thing. It kills you. I've hit 30+ a day, and I would stay up for days on end without sleep and sleep it off at the end of it all. And wake up with severe headaches.
Trust me, you're lucky the way you are!
There was a time towards the completion of my undergrad when I needed a cup of coffee ever so often.
:)
I found that the best way to deal with it is reduce your intake slowly over time. It took me almost two months to get over it.
Also, make sure you sleep a lot - that effectively reduces the time you're awake and consume coffee. And everytime you feel tempted to have something, drink a lot of water.
I first cut it down to timed intakes - one cup in the morning, two in the afternoon, two in the evenings. Then to one in the morning, one at noon and one in the evening. And then to two a day and then to one a day.
And now I've a nice and proper routine - one cup of black coffee in the morning and one cup in the late afternoon.
Just move towards that regimen, and you'll get over it! Goodluck!!!
Very well said.
Its almost like everybody wants to be Paris Hilton. Who cares about anything else, all that they want is fame.
Atleast in Hilton's case she's rich, but females like these seem to be doing it for the money and the fame by losing just about everything - the physical beauty won't last a lifetime but when its gone its gonna hurt a lot. And the emotional scars of once being a public property (literally!) would haunt her forever.
Bad combo, wrong profession.
*sigh* I do pity such people.
Whoa mate! We folks here in Georgia have enough peaches and plums that will see us through just about anything.
;-)
Don't ya'll go sayin' those kinda things about Georgia! Them burly Texans maybe with their howdy hos! But not Georgia, no mate!
The article mentions that the programs are for use on the Linux platform, I shall quote them for you -
:)
Open Office suite includes all the functions supplied by Microsoft Office - a word processing program, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation manager similar to PowerPoint. The programs can be downloaded for free at www.openoffice.co.il. The programs are for use on the Linux operating system, which is a free alternative to the Windows operating system.
Hence, my comment on Linux usage
From the article -
If the decision is carried out, the government will save millions of shekels a year in licenses, but could face much higher costs in other areas.
I'm largely technology agnostic, but I think a large chunk of the savings would be a one-term investment. For example, the need to train and familiarize people with Linux and the setting up of support centers would need to be taken care of. Also, the need to establish a solid base of Linux usage, complete with folks for Linux administration at the various levels (simple Open-Office queries to updating security patches).
Once this investment is done in a well-organized manner, the rest of it would just fall into place - I guess the momentum would take care of that. Wouldn't be easy, but it has to start somewhere.
For some odd reason I read that as a Lubric Kit for mounting hardware and screws :-/
Took me a while to realize that they were talking of the other kind of hardware.
Well, atleast Ben doesn't have to try too hard to act.
;-)
All he needs to do is sit there with a dumb look on his face and pretend that he knows nothing.
Which, knowing him, would come so naturally
Its funny because in real-life, I do carry a large chunk of these things with me in my backpack!
:)
I carry my Notebook, my palm-PDA with an external keyboard, the sync and charger stuff for all this, my cellphone charger, a bunch of CDs, headphones, my USB Drives, my MP3/CD player, a digital camera (I work a lot in HCI and Graphics, so have uses for these) AND some paper notebooks and a reasonable amount of pencils/pens and some stationary
And oh yes, I also have my jacket in it!
During my undergrad, one of my professors of Solid State Circuits lab talked about this. She said that the reason this is hard is because when your source/gate region is partially depleted of charge carriers, there is a need to raise the source-drain gates effectively to utilize the technology. You see, one of the benefits is that the effective capacitance of your source-drain region is decreased. However, if your source-drain gates are not sufficiently increased, the remaining charge carriers remain back and over a period of time this in itself builds up a capacitance. It then begins to function like a dual capacitor device, etc.
:)
And to counter this, you will end up using metal within your S-D zone, however that will have its own side effects - you will need more interconnects and this will increase the resistance by a very slight amount. Trivial for a small number of transistors but if you're having a few million of them, it could be painful. Also, it would mean that the entire thing is going to heat up ever so quickly.
And ofcourse, you always have issues with the Floating Body effects (warning Powerpoint).
Couple this with a hard manufacturing process, and you have a technology thats atleast going to take another 5-10 years to mature. And thats being optimistic
You missed the zeroth point -
;-)
0. The cops and medics always come either after the heroine/her Dad/her Mom/her uncle or Hero's Mom/Dad/Uncle is killed and the bad guys are all beat up
Isn't Hara Kiri the self-suicide ritual, commited either not to be dishonoured or after a dishonour?
Yeah, and here in Georgia they're still arguing over peaches and plums.
*groan*
Although based in North Carolina, Virginia is asserting jurisdiction over Jaynes because he sent messages through computers located in the state.
So does this mean that any spam passing through any of VA's pipe or VA is liable to be punished?
Or did he send spam to someone at VA? The article is not very clear on that, but it seems likely.
But if its merely because it passed through VA, then whoa! Infinite coolness.
If I'm not mistaken, both. SPARC is definitely an RISC based architecture, think its origins go back to the original work done on RISC at Berkeley.
Newer SPARCs also have deep and ordered pipelines as well as support for tagged arithmetic that make them a idea for graphics apps. Sure you can do that with good enough cluster but there are some things that you can do with a SPARC that can't be done just like that on an Intel (in comparison).
I'm not too sure about SPARC's FPU specs, but don't think they're anything special. But they were better than IA, atleast the last time I checked.
Depends on what is it you are using it for.
We have Solaris here at GTech GVU on both Sparc and IA. But we use Sparc here for a lot of graphics because while the SPARC and the Intel architecture have roughly the same performance on most integer operations, SPARC is better at floating point operations (don't remember the numbers - 30% I think).
I guess the overall performance would really depend on other things like your intent.
I'm guessing advantages pertaining to legacy and portability issues.
But more particularly, I think it serves to function as a glorified ad campaign (no pun intended).
I think the original poster missed the "In Soviet Russia reference"!
In Soviet Russsia, SCO 0wnZ DDoS!
Bwaahahahahaaah!
That is cool!
But I noticed something funny - when I right click and open the example you had given in a new window, the actual Microsoft.com website is loaded.
However, when I shift + click or shift + enter the link, it opens it in the same page and the exploit is seen in action.
Any idea why?
Actually it did not work even otherwise. The use of the noescape in combination with the javascript: tag in itself did not work.
I guess I came across as a little condescending and pedantic, but the thing is that Antarctica has a very delicate eco-system that has been largely independent of the rest of the world.
Even trace amounts of metal and pollutants that species in most of parts of the world are unaffected by can cause extreme conditions on things living in the Antarctic. See for yourself.
Also, this is one of the few places to study cosmic radiations, and excessive traffic would mean too much EM interference and would affect such studies.
Which is why I hate it when idiots like this guy do not really know what is it they are doing go there without knowing the imports of their actions. Thats one of the last places untouched by civlization, and where there is so much to learn. Please let it be so for a while.
I meant to say, not really a good idea. It was in response to you saying that it sounded like something like what you might have been looking for.
:)
The thing is that if you get the components, you can build one of these smaller ones yourself for not more than $500 - we have a space constraint in our lab and do this all the time. Works wonders and is cheap, and keeps the profs happy
In fact, I think its much higher - $1395 or something, which is *waaaaay* more than what this thing is really worth.
Come on, its easier to build a _small_ and _compact_ 1 GhZ celeron with a better config for about $400-500 with off the shelf components than shell out that kinda money for this thing.
Alright, my bad. Inappropriate choice of words.
There may not be a lot of people going there, but it sure as hell would not hurt to keep it that way. Guys like this would only tend to heighten the "urge" to goto a place like Antarctica.
My point was that he has been going to places like the North Pole and the like, which have been explored before. Big deal. Flying to Argentina via the South Pole. So what?
A couple of hundred years ago I can see how this might have made a difference. Not today. Earth is no longer your final frontier.
If you're that thirsty for exploring something new, build yourself a spacecraft and move out into space. Or try zen meditation and yoga.
You're correct.
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I even tried various combinations, including a javascript: in the href tag and it did not work -
<a href="javascript:location.href=unescape('http://w
Not as bad as it could be. Atleast not yet.
Not really. Its a Transmeta 533. Even one of those el-cheapo $199 things from Walmart or an old Celeron or P3 would give this thing a run for its money.
At $1150 (?) and odd, it really isn't worth it. You're better off building your own mail server from scratch. Cheaper and better than this.