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try to minimize startup and switching costs, in other words, the time it takes to get started working on the side project. This way, even if I only have a few minutes to work on it before I turn in for the night, I can still do something useful. Also, I try to make each opportunity count. These are hard to come by and so it is good not to waste any single minute.

The best advice I've heard about how to do this is to do this in the mornings. Sleep early, get up early and the best part of your day will be spent working on what's most important to you.

Exercise. It's hard after a day of work to come home and exercise but it's truly the best way to get your brain going and recharge. Studies have proven that being active increases productivity. Run for 30 minutes, take a class at a gym, do some sit ups. Give your brain a break and your body a workout, then get back to the computer.

ike everyone else, I, too, always assumed that it was because either they were idiots or non-native English speakers. But I have very recently learned that is not the case. Indeed, the real answer is one of the more astonishing (at least to me) things I've heard in quite some time!It turns out that the dead giveaways of "spamese" are completely deliberate and carefully calibrated. Huh? Why? Because very few people of the type who frequent Quora would be fooled for ten seconds by these things. And guess what? Quora readers are the ANTI-audience for them!Instead, the obvious giveaways are used as a *pre-qualifier*, to ensure with the least possible effort that the ONLY people who respond to the scammers' initial mass mailings (and therefore have to be brought along individually during the later stages) are the absolutely most gullible, ignorant, susceptible, suckers they can find.Think of it this way: if you were running this as a business, which would make more sense: developing a highly believable pitch and sending it to 1,000 Quorans, knowing that 500 of them would eventually figure it out and call the cops? or writing a completely obvious scam and sending it automatically to 1,000,000 people, knowing that 999,990 will simply laugh and trash it...but the other ten have a very high likelihood of sending you thousands of bucks, with no one calling the cops?

According to one website: "Experienced scammers expect a 'strike rate' of 1 or 2 replies per 1,000 messages emailed; ... One scammer boasted 'When you get a reply it's 70% sure you'll get the money.'"

SPRINGFIELD — Missouri State University is weighing a merger with a Springfield psychology institute. Interim president Clif Smart says talks on whether to take in the nonprofit Forest Institute of Professional Psychology are in their early stages.

With OSI, each layer is encapsulated from the others, allowing new technologies to replace older ones without disrupting the system as a whole. In this exercise, humans operated layer 1, the physical layer, where the bits are physically moved from one system to another. To the two computers communicating, however, it made no difference that people were conveying the bits back and forth with their xylophones. "With a properly configured network interface and operating system, an application does not know -- and does not need to know -- the logistics of what is known as the physical layer,"

Typically, it takes about 15 minutes to transmit a single packet at this rate -- if the volunteer is patient enough to complete a whole packet, and doesn't hit any wrong notes in the process. Such dedication and proficiency has turned out to be a rarity in trials, however. "Humans are really terrible interfaces,"

As an LED lights up, the human participant strikes the corresponding key on the xylophone. Piezo sensors are attached to each xylophone, so that they are able to sense when a note is played on the other xylophone. The Arduino for the receiving computer senses the note and then converts it back into hexadecimal code. And when the second computer sends a return packet, the order of operations is reversed.

HP has unveiled an all-in-one thin client capable of being powered by an Ethernet cable. HP claims the t410 AiO is the first all-in-one thin client that supports the 802.3at Type 1 Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which means it is capable of drawing its power from a network connection.Although the thin client can run off standard AC power using a DC adapter, it can also be powered by its Gigabit Ethernet port (which drops to 10/100 when using PoE). It draws just 13 Watts of power.

"Adobe has posted a security bulletin for Photoshop CS5 for Windows and OSX. It seems there is a critical security hole that will allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Adobe's fix? You need to pay to upgrade to Photoshop CS6. For users who cannot upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe recommends users follow security best practices and exercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted sources."

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