One of the things about PBDEs is that they soetimes lose some of their bromines out in the environment. As such, use of the more brominated species can be related to environmental exposures to some of the less brominated ones.
Also, while it may not be certain that they are a health risk, much of the concern about PBDEs has to do with the fact that they're showing up all over the place in organisms including humans --- e.g., breast milk has been found to contain some.
Or MatLab, octave, Mathematica(?) various GIS software &c. without an overly painful porting process.
Or, even better, I can run all that stuff on some nice, hearty Unix box elsewhere on campus while viewing the perty graphical output on my Powerbook sitting on the grass on the quad over a wireless network.
Remote display is still the truly killer portion of X11 IMO. And no, I don't think that exporting a whole desktop compares. I want to view windows from multiple machines simultaneously sometimes.
If you're disinclined to quit cold turkey one addition to the gradual quitting method is to not consume the bject of addiction (caffeine) at the same times or same places everyday. It makes a big difference in breaking the psychological ritual part of the habit as well as supposedly (according to my college psychology class) reduce one's chemical addiction. The idea was partly that your body anticipates chemical stimulations at certain times in your circadian rhythm and alters its chemistry to match, leading to increased need for the caffein at the usual time. If there's no usual time, the need is slightly decreased.
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One of the things about PBDEs is that they soetimes lose some of their bromines out in the environment. As such, use of the more brominated species can be related to environmental exposures to some of the less brominated ones. Also, while it may not be certain that they are a health risk, much of the concern about PBDEs has to do with the fact that they're showing up all over the place in organisms including humans --- e.g., breast milk has been found to contain some.
Or MatLab, octave, Mathematica(?) various GIS software &c. without an overly painful porting process. Or, even better, I can run all that stuff on some nice, hearty Unix box elsewhere on campus while viewing the perty graphical output on my Powerbook sitting on the grass on the quad over a wireless network. Remote display is still the truly killer portion of X11 IMO. And no, I don't think that exporting a whole desktop compares. I want to view windows from multiple machines simultaneously sometimes.
If you're disinclined to quit cold turkey one addition to the gradual quitting method is to not consume the bject of addiction (caffeine) at the same times or same places everyday. It makes a big difference in breaking the psychological ritual part of the habit as well as supposedly (according to my college psychology class) reduce one's chemical addiction. The idea was partly that your body anticipates chemical stimulations at certain times in your circadian rhythm and alters its chemistry to match, leading to increased need for the caffein at the usual time. If there's no usual time, the need is slightly decreased.