According to this Wired article:
"Tetris significantly raises cerebral glucose metabolic rates (GMRs), meaning brain energy consumption soars. Yet, after four to eight weeks of daily doses, GMRs sink to normal, while performance increases seven-fold, on average."
Not only that, it's been ported darn near everywhere, for example the Atari 2600!
Yes! This is a worthwhile book. I got to hear Dr. Tomayko speak in the early 1990's when he was an ACM traveling speaker. He clearly demonstrated why they use "old" and "outdated" systems for spaceflight - because they are "known" quantities. It appears that the book is indeed out of print. But some form of it appears to be on the web at NASA.
These were actually in William Gibson's latest book. You could buy the phones based on the amount of time you needed. The point seemed to be that you could buy them out of a vending machine and they would be anonymous. (From what I hear, they sell most anything out of a vending machine in Japan, these days.) Of course, in the book you can make and receive calls on the disposable phones. So reality still has a little way to go.
Folks have been buying and restoring old missle silos into homes for awhile now. Some even have runways on the surrounding land! (There do, however, appear to be a few environmental issues with some sites....)
Oh, most certainly. SBS has so many servers running on it that it takes forever for them to shut down in order. I had a similar experience with a client where SBS took nearly 2 hours to shutdown on its own.
The "official" fix recommended by Microsoft books is to use a batch file that shuts down the servers in a particular order to speed things up. It does help, it cut the shutdown time on my client's machine from 2 hours to about 20 minutes.
There is a tendency on Gibson's part to reuse elements from smaller writing projects in his larger works.
Skinner and the takeover of the Bay Bridge first appeared in "Skinner's Room", a short work written for the Visionary San Francisco exhibit in 1990. They then turned up in "Virtual Light".
Along with the reused bits about watches, chapter 1 of "All Tomorrow's Parties" is called "Cardboard City" and has very clear ties to his short story "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" done for a New Worlds anthology in 1997.
Well, you have to wade through the MacroMedia Flash presentation that they finally put up (a little after the fact for some dates). It resides at PenguinPutnam.
I'll save you the trouble:
Date - City - Location
Oct. 17 - San Francisco, CA - SF Book Festival
Oct. 22 - Washinton, DC - Smithsonian Institute
Oct. 25 - New York City - Barnes&Noble@Union Square
Oct. 26 - Denver, CO - Tattered Cover / Denver Press Club Luncheon
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According to this Wired article: "Tetris significantly raises cerebral glucose metabolic rates (GMRs), meaning brain energy consumption soars. Yet, after four to eight weeks of daily doses, GMRs sink to normal, while performance increases seven-fold, on average."
Not only that, it's been ported darn near everywhere, for example the Atari 2600!
Are there any places out there that let you search for CDs via the bar-code number the same way that Amazon lets you use the ISBN?
I'd like to see someone take that hack that directs CueCat scans to an Amazon page another step further...
I'd like to be able to scan the bar-code on the back of a CD and have a CDDB (or MusicBrainz, etc.) record be returned.
Obviously, you first would have to find a place to search the bar-code against and then filter those results and plug them into a CDDB query...
Well, I can dream anyway...
"Do no unnatural thing today." - Captain Flak
Yes! This is a worthwhile book. I got to hear Dr. Tomayko speak in the early 1990's when he was an ACM traveling speaker. He clearly demonstrated why they use "old" and "outdated" systems for spaceflight - because they are "known" quantities.
It appears that the book is indeed out of print. But some form of it appears to be on the web at NASA.
-karl.
These were actually in William Gibson's latest book.
You could buy the phones based on the amount of time you needed.
The point seemed to be that you could buy them out of a vending machine and they would be anonymous. (From what I hear, they sell most anything out of a vending machine in Japan, these days.)
Of course, in the book you can make and receive calls on the disposable phones. So reality still has a little way to go.
Folks have been buying and restoring old missle silos into homes for awhile now. Some even have runways on the surrounding land! (There do, however, appear to be a few environmental issues with some sites....)
Some links:
20th Century Castles - a place that sells old missle silos
Home Improment For Missle Bases - a "how to" page
Silo-Net - general missle silo info
Oh, most certainly. SBS has so many servers running on it that it takes forever for them to shut down in order. I had a similar experience with a client where SBS took nearly 2 hours to shutdown on its own.
The "official" fix recommended by Microsoft books is to use a batch file that shuts down the servers in a particular order to speed things up. It does help, it cut the shutdown time on my client's machine from 2 hours to about 20 minutes.
Here's a writeup on the batch file and how it works:
How To Do a Quick SBS Shutdown
Oh, yeah. There is a trend there.
He's had references to the Velvet Underground, Steely Dan, Joy Division, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, etc. strewn throughout nearly all of his novels.
He actually discusses it a little in part one of this interview.
There is a tendency on Gibson's part to reuse elements from smaller writing projects in his larger works.
Skinner and the takeover of the Bay Bridge first appeared in "Skinner's Room", a short work written for the Visionary San Francisco exhibit in 1990. They then turned up in "Virtual Light".
Along with the reused bits about watches, chapter 1 of "All Tomorrow's Parties" is called "Cardboard City" and has very clear ties to his short story "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City" done for a New Worlds anthology in 1997.
Well, you have to wade through the MacroMedia Flash presentation that they finally put up (a little after the fact for some dates). It resides at PenguinPutnam.
I'll save you the trouble:
Date - City - Location
Oct. 17 - San Francisco, CA - SF Book Festival
Oct. 22 - Washinton, DC - Smithsonian Institute
Oct. 25 - New York City - Barnes&Noble@Union Square
Oct. 26 - Denver, CO - Tattered Cover / Denver Press Club Luncheon
Oct. 28 - San Francisco, CA - Booksmith
Oct. 29 - San Francisco, CA - Stacey's / Cody's
Oct. 30 - Los Angeles, CA - Skylight Books
Nov. 01 - Santa Monica, CA - Borders
Nov. 03 - Portland, OR - Powell's
Nov. 04 - Seattle, WA - Elliot Bay
Nov. 05 - Seattle, WA - University Bookstore