There's something called a Conchoidal fracture, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchoidal_fracture ... the presence of which is technically diagnostic of material that's been artificially manipulated.
£600 - theres lots of them going for around that price on ebay and places like CEX. Suppose they will get cheaper as ver 2 becomes available.
NB: I buy second hand because of 'blood minerals' etc, not because I'm trying to save money exactly. Due to moores law second hand tech from last year is rarely much cheaper compared to new stuff from this year.
Right now I am on Concerta, 54mg. I have tried higher dosages, but the drowsiness and inattentiveness came back. This is what originally lead me to believe that the effects (stimulant or depressant) of substances are relative to the person's dopamine reception. At a higher dose of Concerta, 72mg, I figured I'd end up being superhuman, but, surprisingly I ended up back where I started - inattentive and unmotivated. At Concerta 54mg, I've noticed marijuana will often push me over this threshold as well, causing the marijuana to act as a depressant where it was otherwise a stimulant.
Ritalin, while chemically similar, doesn't seem to provide the same benefits from those who've disclosed their experience (again, anecdotal). Concerta is once-a-day release-controlled dosage.
Yeah, the last factor I didn't quite follow. Seems like the original author felt like 8000 was too large, so he needed a bullshit excuse to scale it down one more time.
I believe what he meant was the stuff in between 'starting' and 'finishing', i.e. doing the work. Lots of people start and do some of the work and never finish. Many also start, do a huge amount of work, but also never finish. It's 3 distinct phases, each of which represents a progressively smaller proportion of people.
As per your sentiment , we should all be doing whatever we can to restore dignity to those that need it.If you ask that of Kamen , you should certainly ask for it from yourself.
You are presumably reading this on a computer you own , and drive to work on a car you own. You can increase the dignity of a number of people by selling both and donating the proceeds to a worthwhile charity. ( I can think of few things more dignified , than say , for a starving kid in India to be able to go to bed with a full stomach for one night). And charities like giveindia.org make this very possible ...
And yet you haven't ... You might argue that there is no way you could do without either.
How is Kamen's "indulgence" in building a Segway any different? The starving people would be annoyed with you too,as you indulge yourself with luxuries like cars and computers , when they have to debase themselves just to feed themselves and their families.
(No offence intended. :) When I say "you" , I mean us )
You are presumably reading this on a computer you own , and drive to work on a car you own. You can increase the dignity of a number of people by selling both and donating the proceeds to a worthwhile charity. ( I can think of few things more dignified , than say , for a starving kid in India to be able to go to bed with a full stomach for one night). And charities like giveindia.org make this very possible ...
Remember the old saying, "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and feed him for life"? You're talking about the former. Kamen's inventions that mdasen mentions are like the latter.
Not that helping people out isn't good, but creating tools that let them help themselves is incomparably better. Kamen has demonstrated an ability to do that in ways that most people just can't.
The software will assert out (bomb, hard) if it's running on a platform which isn't 32-bit (that's the sizeof), and little endian (checked by putting the individual bytes of 0x12345678 into memory in little-endian order, and making sure that when read as an integer, the value is correct).
Except it doesn't even do that well. Traditionally the C "int" type was the largest word size a machine could comfortably work with. But most 64-bit platforms have adopted the "LP64" and "LLP64" conventions - where "int" remains a 32-bit type. One reason to do this is that most values fit comfortably into 32 bits, so a 64-bit "int" wastes memory. Another reason is to keep shoddy code like this running!
