{"id":380,"date":"2004-11-20T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-10-20T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T11:04:34","slug":"cpus-and-depressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/380","title":{"rendered":"CPUs and depressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since late high school days when I was starting that &#8216;Journey Inwards&#8217; thing, I have &#8216;partially&#8217; mastered how to convert anger into something productive.<\/p>\n<p>Anger is not often the enemy. In fact, it can be used as a tool for productivity.<\/p>\n<p>That is of course if you know how to channel things into something productive without letting anger cloud your judgment&#8230; without it conquering your vision, without allowing a hint of revenge pairing up side by side with your goals.<\/p>\n<p>This I cannot say the same when depression and frustration barges in. It really brings me down.<\/p>\n<p>Like viruses, trojan-powered processes and lately spy+ad:wares&#8230; that brings down to their knees a <font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">2.4<\/font>GHz powered processors.<\/p>\n<p>Even without the virus&#8230; run several applications and your computer slows down. That part I know you know already.<\/p>\n<p>Even my little girl knows that fact&#8230; though I&#8217;m not sure if she understands it. <\/p>\n<p>(I tend to explain computer-related facts to my three year old (including how to count in binary numbers), hoping that subliminally it will &#8216;come back&#8217; later at the right time&#8230; when needed.)<\/p>\n<p>More processes&#8230; threads&#8230; slow down how the CPU can process requests.<\/p>\n<p>But what if&#8230; just what if&#8230; someone in the future could architect a processor that speeds up its processing speed when you add more threads to process.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it&#8230; the more applications you run, the more &#8216;powerful&#8217; it becomes using a mechanism that somehow can use the processing usage as a fuel to finish\/process more tasks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give examples that involve fire or friction but somehow this mind of mine, as of the moment, is always being detoured to indecent thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll stop for now before this post turns out into something erotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since late high school days when I was starting that &#8216;Journey Inwards&#8217; thing, I have &#8216;partially&#8217; mastered how to convert anger into something productive. Anger is not often the enemy. In fact, it can be used as a tool for productivity. That is of course if you know how to channel things into something productive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomscribbles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}