I doubt that sleep deprivation is the root cause. It can make a dormant mental disorder become apparent, but afaik if you have a disorder you have it no matter what. What is known, is that, at least in the case of bipolar, symptoms usually begin to appear between the ages of ~18-22 or so, which coincide with when most people go to college. IANAP (I am not a psychologist (and can't even be sure of the spelling)).
I stayed up for about 48 hours (the last bit driving 8 hours) at the end of the fall semester of my senior year of college. The next day, I began to exhibit signs of mania. And a day after that, my parents brought me to a mental hospital. I still haven't graduated.
My first signs of mania came in November of that year when I stayed up all night watching election returns come in and hanging online.
Obviously sleep deprivation won't make you bipolar, but if you are predisposed to it, it will most definitely "come out" if you don't sleep in a regular schedule.
Now, with medicine (depakote) and proper rest, I am functioning at nearly 100%. During college, I had had many times when I stayed up just as long, but at that certain point, it drove me to the point of mania. Not to say you shouldn't experiment with sleep. Just saying you might not be happy with the results.
Depression also has many effects on sleep patterns, from not sleeping to oversleeping.
I am ashamed that anyone would intentionally use my Slashdot account name to bolster the popularity and reputation of their sick virus. I'm sure the hackers who created this monstrosity were well versed in such hacker tools as Bonzi Buddy and Lunix. If they think I would come out and support such a destructive screen saver they are very, very wrong. If God wanted toasters to fly, he would have given them wings.
So, you hackers, where ever you are, Goner (of Slashdot lore) does not approve!
Obviously, the only thing to do is contact the FBI for a full recording/transcription. If they don't have it contact homeland security and the NSA. I mean somebody's got it, right?... or maybe I'm a little paranoid.
Personally, I thought the interview was cool, even if it did fog up Bruce's style. I guess we can get the book to see that.
As the friend that left the job that 3than now happily earns his bread from, I can happily say that I like my current job better and I earned it through spending way too much time fooling around with linux and computers during college. It was a rehire sort of thing. But the job that 3diggity is talking about, I got via some online job hunting deal... probably hotjobs, but I can't remember. I was really depressed at the time... because I didn't have a job.
Anyway, this job stuff is funny. We're all overpaid wanks who should be in food service. Well maybe not, but whatever. Whatever and whatever.
MY BAD! OpenOffice has an insane list too long to list for synonyms for fool, idiot, and nerd. I shall apply the list to myself. I wasn't 'inside' the word when i hit Ctrl-f7. Sorry. We can proselytize now.
My flaky foolheaded foolish fuddled goofy greenhorned ass needs more coffee.
In StarOffice 5.2, idiot and nerd have no synonyms in the thesaurus. Fool has: mark, tool, victim, butt, dupe and gull. In OpenOffice build 638, fool, idiot and nerd each have 0 synonyms, but I think that is because the "Lingucomponent Project" is still in it's infancy (it may work better in build 638c). Kwrite, Kword, and AbiWord have no built in thesaurus. So, uhh... what Open Source product should we be proselytizing?
And yeah, it's all about those little quantizations of thermal vibration => phonons. As some other good posts have mentioned.
Isotropic structure from purer Isotopes
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So, some crazy wording going on here. Think Carbon 12 vs. Carbon 14, both have percentages in carbon based life forms that allow for Carbon 14 dating to be applied... now slide down a row in the periodic table, and we have Silicon. Both are have four valence electrons, but silicon is our favorite for making semiconductor devices. Now in order to make semiconductors, you need to have "pure" silicon in the first place, which you can then add dopants to to make it an n-type (negative charge carriers) or p-type (positive charge carriers) semiconductor. This electronics grade silicon is elementally pure, but as this article suggests, isotopically not... (some atoms weigh more, extra neutrons!!!)
Now isotopically pure silicon requires that you separate out all of the heavier silicon atoms in your batch, so you only have the "perfect" 14 protons, 14 neutrons and 14 electrons. As one could guess from some general knowledge of thermodynamics, and crystal lattice structure, an isotopically pure crystal would have a natural tendency to shake in a purer way (hence have temperature) without little heavier marbles, (the Si with more than 14 neutrons) becoming centers (defects) holding more heat ( 1/2(mass)(velocity^2) <- mass gets higher, more ability to hold higher than the average kinetic energy and mess up the nearest neighbor atoms and melt the little solder droplets or copper channels or whatever they're afraid of).
So to review.
Isotropic: having the same properties in all directions throughout the crystal.
Isotopic(ally pure): the same number of neutrons in each atom... which will then effect the directional isotropy of the bulk crystal.
Perhaps most interesting is the cost of this... Any way I can think of to split off the heavy atoms is not cheap, so hence the isotopically/isotropically pure silicon boules -> wafers get more expensive...
hopefully I haven't put in extra r's where they shouldn't be and confused people more... aaaargh... stupid words.
Fun isotropy fact: Tungsten is the most isotropic metal around, all of it's properties are the same in every direction!... w00t. (it is also highly resistive, but has a reeeeeally high melting point)
Looks like college is paying off...... err...
slashdot effect, writ large
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Distributing the load of more than 10^4 users would seem to me to be the largest issue. That and the everpresent security risk seem to be the largest. Given that the U.S. military seems to have the best computer security ever, maybe they could share... Of course, at that point a military coup could happen without a single bullet being fired...
Clearly the majority of the wired U.S. does not want our Bush to be president elect, but nevertheless, he probably will be. In the two years before the congress gets flipped back to a democratic majority, things could get a little scary. Who wants to have their hearts blackened by voting on the internet?
Re:The Futurological Congress
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Really good book, when I'm old and gray I hope to spend hours delving through all the pages of Lem's work.
The electoral college, in its current incarnation actually keeps the electoral process slightly more fair to individual states. Look at it in terms of the world series (it's just a game anyways, right?). Now lets say that instead of having a best of seven series, we just totalled the scores from the seven games and whoever had the most points would win the series. In that case, if there was one blowout game (think Texas in this election... maybe) that team could automatically win. With the best of seven series, both teams have to work to win games, not just score points.
Now, the election is like a 50 (plus...) game series played simultaneously with weighted scores per game, but the metaphor still holds to a degree. Of course, the only candidate to visit all fifty states would be Ralph Nader, but... Anyhow, the electoral college may not seem fair at first blush, and indeed wasn't in the early colonies, but now it does require candidates to look at winning states not just voters within states, keeping states rights more of a priority overall... Something that U.S. citizens should appreciate, not denigrate. (this whole rant was based on some article in Discover the world of science a while back... )
Even if you still can't see the logic behind the electoral college you should vote in your local and state elections, which do not suffer from such a confusing institution, regardless of the presidential side. Also, at the NYC super-rally, Nader brought up the idea of a binding 'none of the above' slot for national elections... cool idea, huh?
Vote Nader! The only presidential candidate who I've heard speak out on having television stations pay rent for using our airwaves. The presidential candidate responsible for the clean air and water acts, the EPA, airbags, the pinto recall, PIRGs, the public citizen(.org), and in general giving a damn about the long distance, not just the current economy.
Goddarn, that's one of the better batman series ever. Finally a movie dealing with the hairy part of character growth, the early years... now all we need is the dark night returns... maybe later.
My friend and peer is wrong on the whole blood on
their hands thing. Columbia does receive cash from the federal gov't, (who doesn't?;) but it
does not receive money from the department of defense and hasn't since the aftermath of the '68 riots. Certain professors seemed to agree that it was wrong to get money from the DoD.
But hey most U.S. citizens pay taxes, and all should... so we all have nice bloody hands.
You know you da man... And we love our NAS, and yep, the original poster wasn't talking about the NAS, but I recommend it even if it is "BETA" and VA won't give us a CD until it's finished.:)
I love VA, and your tech support was top notch imho.
I mean for chrissakes, you ship with blackbox as the default wm, what more can I say.
My company (on second thought, i'll leave it nameless, this got more ranty than i thought it would) ordered the NAS (network attached storage) device
from va, along with four fullOns for internal usage. The first one we got was messed up, the
card on the backplane had gone loose during shipping. Making for a disturbing 'OS Not Found' during boot. We got them to send us a new one with a little bit of bitching.
As it turns out the second one had the same loose part (perhaps they could hold it in with some styrofoam or cardboard) but once we connected it it worked perfectly.
Personally, you definitely don't want to put Mandrake or anything else on the NAS, simply because VA has put on this really great (GPL'd) web admin front end on it that simplifies everything, from samba permissions/quotas to backups. On the other fullOns, we were even throwing around the idea of putting FreeBSD on one of them... but heck, that's your choice, but you paid for VA's special RH 6.2(.1)...
Overall I have been pleased with VA, mainly because of the mousepads they sent, and the cool blue leds, and the funny little plastic keys. At least their equipment fits in a standard hubbel rack, versus Dell (GWBush loving freakazoid company) stuff which requires adapters and other stuff (which dell still hasn't sent)...
So you get burned by VA... at least your pocketbook isn't empty (you know you specced the same system with sun and dell and got figures roughly 3x and 2x respectively). I think you get burned with whoever you go with, but at least you have someone to call at VA... but who knows, maybe they shipped you the NAS that we sent back!
It was a little freaky that the NAS docs said very clearly BETA on them, but hey, that's the way i like it.
Enough rant, buy what you like from who you like, but don't complain just because they won't undo all of the value adding that they do just for you.
In London, UK and Amsterdam they were all over as well (www.easyeverything.co.uk !!! there is a hot commodity there). This is definitely the way to go. Nearly all of the coffeeshops in Amsterdam have some sort of access, you just have to find the ones with a fully enable browser (w/ java or whateva floats your boat if you dig java ssh) and/or telnet.
That is, could you just take out the whole processor and swap it for another? I'd assume the solder-balls wouldn't be connected to the chip casing? Or would they? I can't find anything about this on the site, but it wouldn't make much sense otherwise...
Well... uh, no, I guess. The solder-balls are essentially the conduits by which the cute little chip gets its power from the pins that come out of the bottom of the chip. One would probably want to change the outer casing (the "package") if one was to change the chip inside. But who knows...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, it can do hyperlinks. I like it.
Well... he didn't go nuts, but he didn't make it around the world. Not from lack of alertness, just bad weather. See here.
I doubt that sleep deprivation is the root cause. It can make a dormant mental disorder become apparent, but afaik if you have a disorder you have it no matter what. What is known, is that, at least in the case of bipolar, symptoms usually begin to appear between the ages of ~18-22 or so, which coincide with when most people go to college. IANAP (I am not a psychologist (and can't even be sure of the spelling)).
I stayed up for about 48 hours (the last bit driving 8 hours) at the end of the fall semester of my senior year of college. The next day, I began to exhibit signs of mania. And a day after that, my parents brought me to a mental hospital. I still haven't graduated.
My first signs of mania came in November of that year when I stayed up all night watching election returns come in and hanging online.
Obviously sleep deprivation won't make you bipolar, but if you are predisposed to it, it will most definitely "come out" if you don't sleep in a regular schedule.
Now, with medicine (depakote) and proper rest, I am functioning at nearly 100%. During college, I had had many times when I stayed up just as long, but at that certain point, it drove me to the point of mania. Not to say you shouldn't experiment with sleep. Just saying you might not be happy with the results.
Depression also has many effects on sleep patterns, from not sleeping to oversleeping.
peace
I knew I wasn't responsible.
I am ashamed that anyone would intentionally use my Slashdot account name to bolster the popularity and reputation of their sick virus. I'm sure the hackers who created this monstrosity were well versed in such hacker tools as Bonzi Buddy and Lunix. If they think I would come out and support such a destructive screen saver they are very, very wrong. If God wanted toasters to fly, he would have given them wings.
So, you hackers, where ever you are, Goner (of Slashdot lore) does not approve!
Obviously, the only thing to do is contact the FBI for a full recording/transcription. If they don't have it contact homeland security and the NSA. I mean somebody's got it, right? ... or maybe I'm a little paranoid.
Personally, I thought the interview was cool, even if it did fog up Bruce's style. I guess we can get the book to see that.
As the friend that left the job that 3than now happily earns his bread from, I can happily say that I like my current job better and I earned it through spending way too much time fooling around with linux and computers during college. It was a rehire sort of thing. But the job that 3diggity is talking about, I got via some online job hunting deal... probably hotjobs, but I can't remember. I was really depressed at the time... because I didn't have a job.
Anyway, this job stuff is funny. We're all overpaid wanks who should be in food service. Well maybe not, but whatever. Whatever and whatever.
MY BAD! OpenOffice has an insane list too long to list for synonyms for fool, idiot, and nerd. I shall apply the list to myself. I wasn't 'inside' the word when i hit Ctrl-f7. Sorry. We can proselytize now.
My flaky foolheaded foolish fuddled goofy greenhorned ass needs more coffee.
In StarOffice 5.2, idiot and nerd have no synonyms in the thesaurus. Fool has: mark, tool, victim, butt, dupe and gull. In OpenOffice build 638, fool, idiot and nerd each have 0 synonyms, but I think that is because the "Lingucomponent Project" is still in it's infancy (it may work better in build 638c). Kwrite, Kword, and AbiWord have no built in thesaurus. So, uhh... what Open Source product should we be proselytizing?
Kandinsky [?]... heh.
As in Wassily Kandinsky, the painter... not Kadinsky... some coffeeshop in Amsterdam.
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nutate on e2...
Even deeper, here's where the register got their info: Isonics.com page on 28Si
And yeah, it's all about those little quantizations of thermal vibration => phonons. As some other good posts have mentioned.
So, some crazy wording going on here. Think Carbon 12 vs. Carbon 14, both have percentages in carbon based life forms that allow for Carbon 14 dating to be applied... now slide down a row in the periodic table, and we have Silicon. Both are have four valence electrons, but silicon is our favorite for making semiconductor devices. Now in order to make semiconductors, you need to have "pure" silicon in the first place, which you can then add dopants to to make it an n-type (negative charge carriers) or p-type (positive charge carriers) semiconductor. This electronics grade silicon is elementally pure, but as this article suggests, isotopically not... (some atoms weigh more, extra neutrons!!!)
Now isotopically pure silicon requires that you separate out all of the heavier silicon atoms in your batch, so you only have the "perfect" 14 protons, 14 neutrons and 14 electrons. As one could guess from some general knowledge of thermodynamics, and crystal lattice structure, an isotopically pure crystal would have a natural tendency to shake in a purer way (hence have temperature) without little heavier marbles, (the Si with more than 14 neutrons) becoming centers (defects) holding more heat ( 1/2(mass)(velocity^2) <- mass gets higher, more ability to hold higher than the average kinetic energy and mess up the nearest neighbor atoms and melt the little solder droplets or copper channels or whatever they're afraid of).
So to review.
Perhaps most interesting is the cost of this... Any way I can think of to split off the heavy atoms is not cheap, so hence the isotopically/isotropically pure silicon boules -> wafers get more expensive...
hopefully I haven't put in extra r's where they shouldn't be and confused people more... aaaargh... stupid words.
Fun isotropy fact: Tungsten is the most isotropic metal around, all of it's properties are the same in every direction!... w00t. (it is also highly resistive, but has a reeeeeally high melting point)
Looks like college is paying off... ... err...
Distributing the load of more than 10^4 users would seem to me to be the largest issue. That and the everpresent security risk seem to be the largest. Given that the U.S. military seems to have the best computer security ever, maybe they could share... Of course, at that point a military coup could happen without a single bullet being fired...
Clearly the majority of the wired U.S. does not want our Bush to be president elect, but nevertheless, he probably will be. In the two years before the congress gets flipped back to a democratic majority, things could get a little scary. Who wants to have their hearts blackened by voting on the internet?
Really good book, when I'm old and gray I hope to spend hours delving through all the pages of Lem's work.
The electoral college, in its current incarnation actually keeps the electoral process slightly more fair to individual states. Look at it in terms of the world series (it's just a game anyways, right?). Now lets say that instead of having a best of seven series, we just totalled the scores from the seven games and whoever had the most points would win the series. In that case, if there was one blowout game (think Texas in this election... maybe) that team could automatically win. With the best of seven series, both teams have to work to win games, not just score points.
Now, the election is like a 50 (plus...) game series played simultaneously with weighted scores per game, but the metaphor still holds to a degree. Of course, the only candidate to visit all fifty states would be Ralph Nader, but... Anyhow, the electoral college may not seem fair at first blush, and indeed wasn't in the early colonies, but now it does require candidates to look at winning states not just voters within states, keeping states rights more of a priority overall... Something that U.S. citizens should appreciate, not denigrate. (this whole rant was based on some article in Discover the world of science a while back... )
Even if you still can't see the logic behind the electoral college you should vote in your local and state elections, which do not suffer from such a confusing institution, regardless of the presidential side. Also, at the NYC super-rally, Nader brought up the idea of a binding 'none of the above' slot for national elections... cool idea, huh?
Vote Nader! The only presidential candidate who I've heard speak out on having television stations pay rent for using our airwaves. The presidential candidate responsible for the clean air and water acts, the EPA, airbags, the pinto recall, PIRGs, the public citizen(.org), and in general giving a damn about the long distance, not just the current economy.
But really, JUST VOTE!
yeah... i guess killing joker again would get a little... well... i wanna see him die laughing in a dank sewer!!! ah well... we can all dream
Goddarn, that's one of the better batman series ever. Finally a movie dealing with the hairy part of character growth, the early years... now all we need is the dark night returns... maybe later.
you can:
IPOcracy!
My friend and peer is wrong on the whole blood on their hands thing. Columbia does receive cash from the federal gov't, (who doesn't? ;) but it
does not receive money from the department of defense and hasn't since the aftermath of the '68 riots. Certain professors seemed to agree that it was wrong to get money from the DoD.
But hey most U.S. citizens pay taxes, and all should... so we all have nice bloody hands.
Out, out damned spot!
You know you da man... And we love our NAS, and yep, the original poster wasn't talking about the NAS, but I recommend it even if it is "BETA" and VA won't give us a CD until it's finished. :)
I love VA, and your tech support was top notch imho.
I mean for chrissakes, you ship with blackbox as the default wm, what more can I say.
My company (on second thought, i'll leave it nameless, this got more ranty than i thought it would) ordered the NAS (network attached storage) device from va, along with four fullOns for internal usage. The first one we got was messed up, the card on the backplane had gone loose during shipping. Making for a disturbing 'OS Not Found' during boot. We got them to send us a new one with a little bit of bitching.
As it turns out the second one had the same loose part (perhaps they could hold it in with some styrofoam or cardboard) but once we connected it it worked perfectly.
Personally, you definitely don't want to put Mandrake or anything else on the NAS, simply because VA has put on this really great (GPL'd) web admin front end on it that simplifies everything, from samba permissions/quotas to backups. On the other fullOns, we were even throwing around the idea of putting FreeBSD on one of them... but heck, that's your choice, but you paid for VA's special RH 6.2(.1) ...
Overall I have been pleased with VA, mainly because of the mousepads they sent, and the cool blue leds, and the funny little plastic keys. At least their equipment fits in a standard hubbel rack, versus Dell (GWBush loving freakazoid company) stuff which requires adapters and other stuff (which dell still hasn't sent)...
So you get burned by VA... at least your pocketbook isn't empty (you know you specced the same system with sun and dell and got figures roughly 3x and 2x respectively). I think you get burned with whoever you go with, but at least you have someone to call at VA... but who knows, maybe they shipped you the NAS that we sent back!
It was a little freaky that the NAS docs said very clearly BETA on them, but hey, that's the way i like it.
Enough rant, buy what you like from who you like, but don't complain just because they won't undo all of the value adding that they do just for you.
In London, UK and Amsterdam they were all over as well (www.easyeverything.co.uk !!! there is a hot commodity there). This is definitely the way to go. Nearly all of the coffeeshops in Amsterdam have some sort of access, you just have to find the ones with a fully enable browser (w/ java or whateva floats your boat if you dig java ssh) and/or telnet.
But if you have the dough, good luck with gsm...
That is, could you just take out the whole processor and swap it for another? I'd assume the solder-balls wouldn't be connected to the chip casing? Or would they? I can't find anything about this on the site, but it wouldn't make much sense otherwise...
Well... uh, no, I guess. The solder-balls are essentially the conduits by which the cute little chip gets its power from the pins that come out of the bottom of the chip. One would probably want to change the outer casing (the "package") if one was to change the chip inside. But who knows...