In all seriousness, I am trying to do contract work from home with a child who spends some time in the week at kindergarten. It's next to impossible to work when I am awake and in a productive frame of mind.
- You need to make sure the kids are out of your hair so you don't have to reserve any brain energy to keeping an eye on things.
- You need to make sure any older children and adults understand to leave you alone while you work except for lunchtime.
- If you can, set up in a room that isolates you as much as possible from the rest of the house.
- Occasionally mix things up and take the laptop the local library (most in.au have free WiFi and cheap printing) or someone elses house (where it's quiet) so you don't get cabin fever in your own home.
- I have found that I work best when I have a room with a lot of natural light. If you can't to that get some flouro tubes that have spectrum similar to sunlight.
- Start early. Working late is bust for me.
- Have a solid brekkie.
Sure, Leonard Susskind talks about computer memory and entropy on some recent Youtube video as part of a lecture on the holographic principle and the total amount of information in a system. OK, this is sort of a duh moment but I suppose it's good science to test it anyway.
Seeing as the One True and Only Network in Australia is set to become the NBN owned by the government they are of course going to crack down on all things deemed unsavoury, illegal and probably anti-government.
The NBN will be a terrific bitorrent network and the government wants to be seen being proactive about making sure as little copyright infringement as possible occurs on it.
For any non-Australians, the NBN is a fibre to the home/premises network owned by the government set to replace every single copper line in the country upon which access is sold at wholesale rates to actual service providers.
It's wonderful we're set to get a high speed and low latency network, but the baggage that comes along with it is getting pretty ugly.
Kinect and WebGL might make all those POV porn movies a lot more interesting. It could also give a new metric for Google over just how much fapping a web site generates.
Righty ho. So my 5 year old Billion 7401-VGPM modem which is chugging along just fine but doesn't do IPv6 needs to die first before I get an IPv6 modem in spite of my ISP (Internode) supporting IPv6 be default. Really, *really* what's IPv6 going to do for me now or even in the next 4 years that my IPv4 and 192.168.x.x home network don't do for me?
I was told once the now Australian Animal Heath Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong was once had a 'National' in it for ANAHL - apparently Gough Whitlam thought it was appropriate.
Maybe. I bought a eeePC with the Atom570 and Intel GPU recently from HN for the bargain price of $280. I have put 64 bit Kubuntu on it and it's a ripper. I am dead impressed with how well the whole thing runs and how long the battery lasts for. The Kubuntu eye candy is dead smooth too. I think it's a perfect size for my daughter and I use it too for streaming MythTV recordings over wireless and doing general web stuff. It hasn't choked on any videos I have thrown at it and it copes with Youtube and a lot of Flash stuff just fine. We'll get an iPad3 when they come out but I reckon the netbook at less than 1/2 the price will give it a run for its money.
I wouldn't get too worried about it. They are trying to progress via osmosis which as we all know from school and uni just doesn't work when you need to learn and understand something and make real progress. Anyway, the problem with China is that there is always someone willing to substitute melamine to make an extra buck - and we all know how that pans out.
Right, do the computations actually need floating point at all or can you do fixed point maths (hence just use the integer units in the CPU) instead? Plenty of DSP oriented stuff certainly doesn't need floats. If you have integer/fixed point maths only then an AMD CPU might be a ripper for the money.
Mars is closer to us than Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. Not just physically, but culturally. Literature, film, etc,
Yes, that I have never quite gotten into or understood that Europan tentacle porn as much as I have the Martian three fingered face hugger porn. Titanian porn makes me feel inadequate.
Really, you think it has nothing to do with the fact that his wife is a US citizen? If he was living in one of those European principalities or dodgy Caribbean islands you might have a point.
Christ, where's Richard Feynman when you need him? Having him as an expert witness in this case I am sure a small chuckle would be all that's needed for the judges to throw the case out.
How much extra juice does it take for masses of GMail and Wiki and Facebook servers to do the work to encrypt all this data (plus the end use machines)?
Well of course, apparently Goldman Sachs rules the world and exists to only take advantage of opportunities to make money in spite of any consequences. So many people around the world depend on their retirement savings and superannuation tied up in this system and whether they like it or not need stupid overvalued IPOs like this to get by in the future.
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In all seriousness, I am trying to do contract work from home with a child who spends some time in the week at kindergarten. It's next to impossible to work when I am awake and in a productive frame of mind. - You need to make sure the kids are out of your hair so you don't have to reserve any brain energy to keeping an eye on things. - You need to make sure any older children and adults understand to leave you alone while you work except for lunchtime. - If you can, set up in a room that isolates you as much as possible from the rest of the house. - Occasionally mix things up and take the laptop the local library (most in .au have free WiFi and cheap printing) or someone elses house (where it's quiet) so you don't get cabin fever in your own home.
- I have found that I work best when I have a room with a lot of natural light. If you can't to that get some flouro tubes that have spectrum similar to sunlight.
- Start early. Working late is bust for me.
- Have a solid brekkie.
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Bargearse Pong! "Careful, there's three cubicles and one contains the pong!"
Yeah, just ask Stephen Bradbury.
Sure, Leonard Susskind talks about computer memory and entropy on some recent Youtube video as part of a lecture on the holographic principle and the total amount of information in a system. OK, this is sort of a duh moment but I suppose it's good science to test it anyway.
Yeah and if they ever have an accident they can go to a homeopathic emergency ward.
Of course not, have you seen the frontline lunkheads who are actually employed in the mining industry?
Some of you have the gaul to call Apple device users blind fanboys
I'm a Gaul you insensitive clod! The gall!
Seeing as the One True and Only Network in Australia is set to become the NBN owned by the government they are of course going to crack down on all things deemed unsavoury, illegal and probably anti-government. The NBN will be a terrific bitorrent network and the government wants to be seen being proactive about making sure as little copyright infringement as possible occurs on it. For any non-Australians, the NBN is a fibre to the home/premises network owned by the government set to replace every single copper line in the country upon which access is sold at wholesale rates to actual service providers. It's wonderful we're set to get a high speed and low latency network, but the baggage that comes along with it is getting pretty ugly.
Kinect and WebGL might make all those POV porn movies a lot more interesting. It could also give a new metric for Google over just how much fapping a web site generates.
The moon isn't going anywhere.
Oh yeah? It might beg to differ as it's receding from the Earth at a rate of 22mm per year.
Righty ho. So my 5 year old Billion 7401-VGPM modem which is chugging along just fine but doesn't do IPv6 needs to die first before I get an IPv6 modem in spite of my ISP (Internode) supporting IPv6 be default. Really, *really* what's IPv6 going to do for me now or even in the next 4 years that my IPv4 and 192.168.x.x home network don't do for me?
Did you even read the summary, let alone the article, or at least look at the pictures? You are supposed to drive through the thing.
Of course not! This is /. after all.
Cancer risks? Only for the Mexicans hiding in the door panels of the car. Surely people sitting in the car normally can hop out while the scan occurs.
I was told once the now Australian Animal Heath Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong was once had a 'National' in it for ANAHL - apparently Gough Whitlam thought it was appropriate.
Maybe. I bought a eeePC with the Atom570 and Intel GPU recently from HN for the bargain price of $280. I have put 64 bit Kubuntu on it and it's a ripper. I am dead impressed with how well the whole thing runs and how long the battery lasts for. The Kubuntu eye candy is dead smooth too. I think it's a perfect size for my daughter and I use it too for streaming MythTV recordings over wireless and doing general web stuff. It hasn't choked on any videos I have thrown at it and it copes with Youtube and a lot of Flash stuff just fine. We'll get an iPad3 when they come out but I reckon the netbook at less than 1/2 the price will give it a run for its money.
I wouldn't get too worried about it. They are trying to progress via osmosis which as we all know from school and uni just doesn't work when you need to learn and understand something and make real progress. Anyway, the problem with China is that there is always someone willing to substitute melamine to make an extra buck - and we all know how that pans out.
Right, do the computations actually need floating point at all or can you do fixed point maths (hence just use the integer units in the CPU) instead? Plenty of DSP oriented stuff certainly doesn't need floats. If you have integer/fixed point maths only then an AMD CPU might be a ripper for the money.
Even though it's mostly in Russian it's Linuxy and open source and updated every week and I highly recommend it. http://wive-ng.sourceforge.net/?WR-NL_RT3050(2)
At least it's graphene and not something too exotic like leopard's fanny batter.
Mars is closer to us than Europa, Titan, and Enceladus. Not just physically, but culturally. Literature, film, etc,
Yes, that I have never quite gotten into or understood that Europan tentacle porn as much as I have the Martian three fingered face hugger porn. Titanian porn makes me feel inadequate.
He lives in the US anyway. Tax exile.
Really, you think it has nothing to do with the fact that his wife is a US citizen? If he was living in one of those European principalities or dodgy Caribbean islands you might have a point.
Christ, where's Richard Feynman when you need him? Having him as an expert witness in this case I am sure a small chuckle would be all that's needed for the judges to throw the case out.
How much extra juice does it take for masses of GMail and Wiki and Facebook servers to do the work to encrypt all this data (plus the end use machines)?
Well of course, apparently Goldman Sachs rules the world and exists to only take advantage of opportunities to make money in spite of any consequences. So many people around the world depend on their retirement savings and superannuation tied up in this system and whether they like it or not need stupid overvalued IPOs like this to get by in the future.