VanityNet, the endless personal pages, are the oceans separating the continents. A few of those wandering waves crash upon continents. Most just mill about weakly.
Go right ahead and have proper professionals deliver more glucose to your brain. Evolution hasn't managed to deliver enough energy...although the Coca-Cola company has been trying to...
As trauma victims lose recent memories upon sleep and some brain structures are devoted to REM, long-term memory storage, obviously there are some maintenance functions making use of sleep time. But those have been added to sleep during evolutionary changes to our brains.
Even very primitive animals sleep, although they don't have the need for as much maintenance. Apparentlyt we're all suffering from the same energy delivery deficit.
Your knowledge of neurons is out of date. New neurons do appear in the human brain. There are stem cells producing new neurons -- how they place themselves and train themselves is being studied.
And how do you know we don't have altered personality as we age? Perhaps you haven't known people, and yourself, for decades. Remember, there probably is no single neuron controlling anything, and we're referring to replacing some with similar neurons.
Um.. you're talking about IBM here. They used to have phalanxes of people to throw at every support problem. They'd love to again deal with a huge IBM Linux installed base.
A few years ago someone wondered: "Why are there no higher animals which do not sleep?" It clearly would be of great evolutionary advantage to not have to sleep. So there must be some very basic reason.
Answer: Brains use more energy than blood can deliver. The purpose of sleep is to recharge energy.
Mixed with neurons are glial cells, which store glucose during sleep. They then supply glucose to neighboring neurons while the brain is awake, supplementing glucose from the bloodstream.
When the energy is exhausted, neurons stop working properly. That's why there are hallucinations (particularly in pattern-matching neurons such as peripheral vision). It's probably also why the brain secretes chemicals which increase blood flow -- it's trying to get more glucose to keep functioning during whatever crisis is keeping it awake.
So, why might areas which are normally quiet showing more active in this study? Maybe because the blood flow has been increased in the exhausted areas, and also the neighboring cells which were least-used are now trying to activate because their exhausted neighbors can't work?
This paper does not seem to be on the net, so see Google search of related comments.
The article was not there 10 minutes ago because parts of the pages came from caches which take several minutes to be updated. The article existed, it's just that you got to see the main page from several minutes ago before it was rewritten to include the new article.
And check your time configuration in your Slashdot User Settings.
Gee, that could make the "discovery" phase of any trial rather interesting. Searching major film producing companies for documents...
(For non-USA readers: before trial, both lawyers have time to "discover" relevant evidence. This includes both lawyers sharing relevant information, search warrants of relevant locations, copies of all police reports...all the evidence is supposed to be found and known by both sides before trial. There should be no surprises during the trial, although Hollywood prefers surprises in their stories.)
Until I get a data cable for my new cell phone, I have considered an analog modem connection. I'm trying to avoid an acoustic coupler...anyone already figured out a matching circuit for a modem telephone-to-headset jack (speaker/microphone) connection?
I don't think Microsoft is stupid enough to encourage people to compare Linux and MS security. We'd be comparing a few Linux security holes against their entire virus industry.
1. Nokia 5190 (GSM-only) seems to be on sale now, and an analog (800 MHz, $180) adapter is available. Some Ericssen triple-band phones (677/688?) also being advertised. Don't know how useful that would be to take home, and they're more expensive if you don't contract for a year of service.
2. Check if a USA GSM company can handle your GSM phone. I'm only familiar with Aerial and you'll want to check their GSM coverage map. If you have a GSM/analog phone, a GSM-based access contract would give you a way to do analog roaming throughout the country. Check the rates...
3. If you're considering a Nokia and Linux, note that Nokia is keeping secrets and not helping sell to Linux users (they'd have sold a lot more $50 data cables by now if they helped). The Linux Nokia engineering work is at GNokii project. They've gotten to level 4 in the protocol -- they can dial data calls, but not exchange data content packets yet. SMS said to be working (short text messages between phones).
4. It's simplest to just plan on dialup from hotel/motel rooms. Some chains feature phone (or net!) connections, but it might be easiest to get a handset-compatible adapter. Choose a national ISP.
So have you configured your box to tell you when you're being scanned? You'll be surprised how often it happens. Next, check your system to see if you've already been broken into. Please.
I see that the first letter of each line of your message on my browser is "DHIRPUTACE", which in Portuguese is an insult. Who were you sending this message to? Talk!TALK!
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VanityNet, the endless personal pages, are the oceans separating the continents. A few of those wandering waves crash upon continents. Most just mill about weakly.
That's a subset of GameNet. It's a puzzle game, where part of the game is finding the pieces and proving that they fit.
According to this comment it will be less than $300.
[The exclamation point after 100 is mathematical notation for factorial.]
Notice that the pretty links use Javascript which only works on IE.
Go right ahead and have proper professionals deliver more glucose to your brain. Evolution hasn't managed to deliver enough energy...although the Coca-Cola company has been trying to...
Even very primitive animals sleep, although they don't have the need for as much maintenance. Apparentlyt we're all suffering from the same energy delivery deficit.
Summary or details.
And how do you know we don't have altered personality as we age? Perhaps you haven't known people, and yourself, for decades. Remember, there probably is no single neuron controlling anything, and we're referring to replacing some with similar neurons.
Um.. you're talking about IBM here. They used to have phalanxes of people to throw at every support problem. They'd love to again deal with a huge IBM Linux installed base.
A few years ago someone wondered: "Why are there no higher animals which do not sleep?" It clearly would be of great evolutionary advantage to not have to sleep. So there must be some very basic reason.
Answer: Brains use more energy than blood can deliver. The purpose of sleep is to recharge energy.
Mixed with neurons are glial cells, which store glucose during sleep. They then supply glucose to neighboring neurons while the brain is awake, supplementing glucose from the bloodstream.
When the energy is exhausted, neurons stop working properly. That's why there are hallucinations (particularly in pattern-matching neurons such as peripheral vision). It's probably also why the brain secretes chemicals which increase blood flow -- it's trying to get more glucose to keep functioning during whatever crisis is keeping it awake.
So, why might areas which are normally quiet showing more active in this study? Maybe because the blood flow has been increased in the exhausted areas, and also the neighboring cells which were least-used are now trying to activate because their exhausted neighbors can't work?
This paper does not seem to be on the net, so see Google search of related comments.
You can see the Connectix summary which also has a link to the 25 page finding.
And check your time configuration in your Slashdot User Settings.
(For non-USA readers: before trial, both lawyers have time to "discover" relevant evidence. This includes both lawyers sharing relevant information, search warrants of relevant locations, copies of all police reports...all the evidence is supposed to be found and known by both sides before trial. There should be no surprises during the trial, although Hollywood prefers surprises in their stories.)
Go look that book title up on BarnesAndNoble.Com and you'll see there also is a March 2000 issue expected...
Until I get a data cable for my new cell phone, I have considered an analog modem connection. I'm trying to avoid an acoustic coupler...anyone already figured out a matching circuit for a modem telephone-to-headset jack (speaker/microphone) connection?
Then he's got a problem. He can't buy liters of petrol here, he'll have to buy gallons of gasoline.
Is there a Linux version of Streetfinder Deluxe, so I can buy it for my laptop?
Clinton scheduled this summit some time ago due to his proposals for more Federal net policing.
I don't think Microsoft is stupid enough to encourage people to compare Linux and MS security. We'd be comparing a few Linux security holes against their entire virus industry.
2. Check if a USA GSM company can handle your GSM phone. I'm only familiar with Aerial and you'll want to check their GSM coverage map. If you have a GSM/analog phone, a GSM-based access contract would give you a way to do analog roaming throughout the country. Check the rates...
3. If you're considering a Nokia and Linux, note that Nokia is keeping secrets and not helping sell to Linux users (they'd have sold a lot more $50 data cables by now if they helped). The Linux Nokia engineering work is at GNokii project. They've gotten to level 4 in the protocol -- they can dial data calls, but not exchange data content packets yet. SMS said to be working (short text messages between phones).
4. It's simplest to just plan on dialup from hotel/motel rooms. Some chains feature phone (or net!) connections, but it might be easiest to get a handset-compatible adapter. Choose a national ISP.
So have you configured your box to tell you when you're being scanned? You'll be surprised how often it happens. Next, check your system to see if you've already been broken into. Please.
Well, I suppose you could send the encrypted information in handwritten form. Anyone have some spare microdots too?
No, I don't believe it is garbage. Give me the encryption key or go to jail.
I see that the first letter of each line of your message on my browser is "DHIRPUTACE", which in Portuguese is an insult. Who were you sending this message to? Talk! TALK!