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Surprised the following book hasn't been mentioned. Steve Jobs thought highly of it:

Innovator's Dilemma
http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330405831&sr=8-1

And Bill Gates called it way back in the 90's during a conference which Warren Buffett attended where they were discussing the great companies of each decade and why they eventually failed. They were trying to predict future failures. (Read from the Warren Buffett bio Snowball.)

S3 is just storage. Someone still needs to pay the bandwidth on the server that streams that content. Cloudfront can do streaming from your S3 store.

Primitive hunter gather tribes were probably very peaceful

You may want to read War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage . The author estimates that typical pre-historic tribal combat casualty rate of 0.5% per year, a hundred times that of the US homicide rate of 0.005% per year.

One existing hunter-gatherer tribe in New Guinea has a homicide rate 40 times greater than the 1980 homicide rate in the United States.

Was about to submit my post addressing the math fail, but you were ahead of me.

However... at 10TB, you hit the $0.09 price according to GP, so $900. Wouldn't know if that's expensive.

I wasn't careful with my wording, I believe the way the pricing works is that for usage from 1GB to 9999GB, it's $0.12/GB, but for usage beyond that it's $0.09/GB. The first GB is free.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Yeah, that's pretty much true! Breweries uses CIP (Cleaning In Place), and that means pumping large amounts of cleaning agents (usually sodium hydroxide and some acid, phosphoric, nitric or other) for about two hours depending on what tank, tun, pipe, hose. And large amounts of water. I have only worked at breweries. I'm a computer geek too, but I've never had the same passion for computers as I do brewing. Unless you're working in an office at a brewery, you're going to do alot of cleaning. At my previous job, I probably spent tree days a week swabbing floors, cleaning tanks, pipes and hoses. A brewery is the only place I've found that has everything I'm interested in: chemistry, physics, automation and control systems, biochemistry, microbiology, biotechnology and brewing. The brewing process is generally regarded as the oldest practice of biotechnology. You convert the starch, proteins, amino acids and alot more when you make malt out of grain. In the mash tun, you convert the remaining starches, proteins, beta-glucans etc to sugar and nutrition for the yeast. When you boil the wort, you coagulate proteins, isomerise (sorry, bad english. Not native language) the alpha acids in hops so they become soluable and more bitter. Mailard reactions gives the wort color and more flavour. Well, no need to ramble on. If someone would like some basic insight in the science behind the malting and brewing process, I recommend Beer: Tap Into The Art and Science of Brewing, buy Charles Bamforth. http://www.amazon.com/Beer-Tap-into-Science-Brewing/dp/0195305426/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330353116&sr=8-1 Or this video with Charles Bamforth called Advanced Chemistry of Beer and Brewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Hk_FV8c-w Oh, and I recommend anyone who are interested in beer and brewing to check out some homebrewing clubs that may be avalible in your area. Or check out http://www.homebrewtalk.com/ Homebrewing clubs is a good forum where you can learn and discuss brewing, hacking together improvements to the brew rig and brew beer with other people with the same interests.

Lets start again with COBOL ;) Java might actually be a good choice.

No, no, no! Use APL. After all, APL is easy!.

Confession: I have long had a soft spot for APL. It and Fortran IV were jointly the first programming languages I learned.

Show me any medium where non-linear fiction is popular

As I stated in another thread in this article: gaming.

"A House Without Walls" is made out of one thread of the story I told with my first Hypertext. "A House Without Walls" is an allusion to the Orpheus myth. Two young lovers enter a psychological hell of their own making and attempt to escape. The narrative is designed to be read on an electronic device. It contains links, providing the reader a variety of disjointed paths through the text.

(empahsis added)

Since "A Hours Without Walls" is only a $1, maybe I'll check it out and see if I can gain more insight about why hypertext literature isn't taking the world by storm. Maybe. (Wow! "Disjointed paths through a text about a psychological hell of their own making" you say? Sounds great!)


As for nonlinearity....
It is worth specifying which dimension's linearity we're talking about.
The obvious dimension one is the story's timeline - as created by the writer (or story's timelines in a presumably non-linear work).
Another dimension is the timeline of the story as perceived by the reader.
While I'm not a mystery-novel fan, I have heard some people like reading the "surprise ending" first and then going back to the beginning of the book.
*shrug* That is non-linear, kind of sort of.
The other use for hypertext I can see to add footnotes, but that just seems like "FootNotes 2.0" - the medium for written word (things like ereaders & tablets) needs at another decade or two to find its ubiquitous formats (and it won't be just one format).
Maybe somebody will come up with an awesome "multiple points of view" genre where every character's arc + interactions w/other characters & events is traced out and the reader can "browse" around "story space". *shrug* Maybe.

"A House Without Walls" is made out of one thread of the story I told with my first Hypertext. "A House Without Walls" is an allusion to the Orpheus myth. Two young lovers enter a psychological hell of their own making and attempt to escape. The narrative is designed to be read on an electronic device. It contains links, providing the reader a variety of disjointed paths through the text.

(empahsis added)

Since "A Hours Without Walls" is only a $1, maybe I'll check it out and see if I can gain more insight about why hypertext literature isn't taking the world by storm. Maybe. (Wow! "Disjointed paths through a text about a psychological hell of their own making" you say? Sounds great!)


As for nonlinearity....
It is worth specifying which dimension's linearity we're talking about.
The obvious dimension one is the story's timeline - as created by the writer (or story's timelines in a presumably non-linear work).
Another dimension is the timeline of the story as perceived by the reader.
While I'm not a mystery-novel fan, I have heard some people like reading the "surprise ending" first and then going back to the beginning of the book.
*shrug* That is non-linear, kind of sort of.
The other use for hypertext I can see to add footnotes, but that just seems like "FootNotes 2.0" - the medium for written word (things like ereaders & tablets) needs at another decade or two to find its ubiquitous formats (and it won't be just one format).
Maybe somebody will come up with an awesome "multiple points of view" genre where every character's arc + interactions w/other characters & events is traced out and the reader can "browse" around "story space". *shrug* Maybe.

Yes, it is cool.

LG, I'm somewhat on the anti-Sony bandwagon, it's for their own good, if I and everyone else stops buying their products maybe they'll stop trying to force "memory stick", root kits, proprietary connectors on their portable game consoles on us and open up their tech a little.

I actually got into quite a bit of detail on my review of the LG player. I've also got some advice for using the Samsung player. Don't.

LG, I'm somewhat on the anti-Sony bandwagon, it's for their own good, if I and everyone else stops buying their products maybe they'll stop trying to force "memory stick", root kits, proprietary connectors on their portable game consoles on us and open up their tech a little.

I actually got into quite a bit of detail on my review of the LG player. I've also got some advice for using the Samsung player. Don't.

That's true. Brain wave scanning to achieve a result or goal is here now, just not in the mainstream yet.
http://gizmodo.com/5887586/an-electric-skateboard-controlled-by-your-brainwaves

That's just a toy. And if that's a toy, the military types have significantly more than toys. Anybody ever read the Soul Rider series? In the end, life may again mimic art once we start controlling computers directly with the mind...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker#The_Soul_Rider_series
http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Rider-01-Spirits-Anchor/dp/0812533127

The genre was killed off by a gag book in 2003, "Escape from Fire Island. It's a gay zombie hyperlink novel: "If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80." It was published as a paper book, and was badly timed -- the gay novel boom was over, and the zombie novel boom was years in the future.

Inside every black man in his 40s is an moderately overweight and physically unremarkable woman screaming to get out so she can rush to the shop to buy a Twilight DVD.

By the way, here's something else for less than 20$

http://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Pony-Friendship-Magic/dp/B0063FGF14/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330112681&sr=8-2

...you'll find a whole bunch of stuff well under $20. Two of the most popular releases from 2010 - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Two-Disc Special Edition) is $7.78 for the two-disc set and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is $4.99. (In fact, it was that price even before December - I bought it as a Christmas present.) New releases are going to be more expensive - you can't blame a for-profit industry from trying to make a bit more money from those people who've gotta have stuff now and are willing to pay a premium instead of waiting six months, can you?

I know people love to whine about how over-priced movies are, and how that justifies your piracy, but seriously, these are two block busters from 2010 for the price of a McDonald's meal. What's it going to take to stop you pirating this stuff?

As I commented in a previous story, people are bringing this on themselves, and also ruining the internet for the innocent bystanders like me.

...you'll find a whole bunch of stuff well under $20. Two of the most popular releases from 2010 - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Two-Disc Special Edition) is $7.78 for the two-disc set and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is $4.99. (In fact, it was that price even before December - I bought it as a Christmas present.) New releases are going to be more expensive - you can't blame a for-profit industry from trying to make a bit more money from those people who've gotta have stuff now and are willing to pay a premium instead of waiting six months, can you?

I know people love to whine about how over-priced movies are, and how that justifies your piracy, but seriously, these are two block busters from 2010 for the price of a McDonald's meal. What's it going to take to stop you pirating this stuff?

As I commented in a previous story, people are bringing this on themselves, and also ruining the internet for the innocent bystanders like me.

where are these mythical $20 DVD's?

Here. Pick one.

Please have your wife talk to her doctor about a blood test for vitamin D deficiency (which is related to the immune system). Related:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/news-archive/2010/vitamin-d-regulatory-hormone-of-immunity-and-inflammation/

Please also look into the work of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, who is his first "Healthy Times" newsletter has an article about people coming into his office related to Lyme disease and feeling much better after they improve what they eat (much more vegetables and fruits and omega-3s and so on).
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/newsletter.aspx
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx

Even if the issue is Lyme disease, vitamin D and phytonutrients help build up the immune system so it can fight of pathogens.

Also look into the book "The Lyme Disease Solution" by Kenneth B. Singleton M.D., which has sections about how sunlight and a better diet help with Lyme disease.
http://www.amazon.com/Lyme-Disease-Solution-Kenneth-Singleton/dp/1934812005

I agree about the computer-aided diagnosis. I hope some day we will have cheap tests people can do at home for nutritional status and vitamin D levels from a drop of blood, perhaps involving cell phones, as described here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/george_whitesides_a_lab_the_size_of_a_postage_stamp.html

Until then, please look into these issues for yourself and your wife (since you may be at risk as well if you eat in similar ways or have a similar lifestyle without immense amounts of sunlight).

Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?

Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon ... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.

Can you measure time with a $600 toilet seat? Do you get crappy results? Oh well, it looked good on paper.

Nothing says you're serious about science like a huge budget. And when you have a huge budget you have to buy things which cost a lot. Otherwise it erodes your credibililty with the modern media.

They're so fast they're already out!

Mod parent +Informative, please!

Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?

Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon ... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.

Can you measure time with a $600 toilet seat? Do you get crappy results? Oh well, it looked good on paper.

They're so fast they're already out!

Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?

Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon ... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.

Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?

The Muslims believe in Christ, they just believe he was a great prophet, not an incarnation of God.

Citations here.

Not that it would meet your wishlist, but amazon does have an S3 gateway appliance https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1334

you dump your files to it at local speeds, and it uploads them to S3 in the background. (basically seems like a buffer for reads and writes)

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water [Paperback] Peter H. Gleick (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Bottled-Sold-Story-Behind-Obsession/dp/1610911628

I use the Nature's Way Sublingual Melatonin in the 2.5mg potency. You can order it on Amazon, if you prefer. They also come in other forms where you just swallow them, but then you tend to have to take them a few hours before you go to bed, whereas you can take the lozenge closer or at the time you intend to go to sleep.

Disclaimer: I'm no doctor of course, but I'm told it's perfectly safe. I actually know of 3 people other than myself that use it without issues. I've also heard that if you take much more than 2 mg it can lessen the effect, but I've had no issues with the 2.5 mg lozenges.

Interesting tidbit: I just did the math. I used to sleep for 9.5-10 hours, and then was awake for 16. That would make my sleep cycle around 25.5-26 hours.

I just finished reading my Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars so that I can have it fresh in my mind and be outraged at what Disney has done to a great classic.

Andrew Stanton's credits include:

Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story. The opening chapters of Wall-E are as fine a thing as we have in the entire genre of science fiction in literature, film or television.

I just finished reading my (free, of course) Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars

The non-profit Library of America is publishing "The Princess of Mars" in a fine new hardcover edition. Sewn bindings. Acid free stock. $10.75 on pre-order from Amazon,com Princess of Mars

Also available in a Burroughs Centennial edition from LOA, Tarzan of the Apes. $11.64

There are many collections of Burroughs Martian stories available for the Kindle, most priced at 99 cents.

I just finished reading my Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars so that I can have it fresh in my mind and be outraged at what Disney has done to a great classic.

Andrew Stanton's credits include:

Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story. The opening chapters of Wall-E are as fine a thing as we have in the entire genre of science fiction in literature, film or television.

I just finished reading my (free, of course) Gutenberg ebook copy of A Princess of Mars

The non-profit Library of America is publishing "The Princess of Mars" in a fine new hardcover edition. Sewn bindings. Acid free stock. $10.75 on pre-order from Amazon,com Princess of Mars

Also available in a Burroughs Centennial edition from LOA, Tarzan of the Apes. $11.64

There are many collections of Burroughs Martian stories available for the Kindle, most priced at 99 cents.

Yeah, yeah. I tried to add a comment with the link, but Slashdot's "cooldown time" prevented me from doing so.

Yes, because the UK is famous for its death camps. Oh ... wait ... no it isn't.

Actually, we invented them during the Boar war

Actual death camps tend to not leave any survivors. They fill up, kill everybody, and are filled up again to repeat. At least 75% survived the badly run, cruel camps that the British Army ran in the Boer War.

Africa Imperialism in the dock - the Boer War

The farms of Boers and Africans were destroyed and the Boer inhabitants of the countryside were rounded up and held in concentration camps.

The plight of the Boer women and children in these camps became an international outrage - more than 20,000 died in the carelessly run, unhygienic camps.

The commandos continued their attacks, many of them deep into the Cape Colony, General Jan Smuts leading his forces to within 80km (50 miles) of Cape Town.

But Kitchener's drastic and brutal methods slowly paid off. The Boers had unsuccessfully sued for peace in March 1901; finally, they accepted the loss of their independence by the Peace of Vereeniging.

While certain Afrikaners are calling for an apology from the Queen, Sussex University lecturer Dr Saul Dubow, an expert in modern South African history, told BBC News Online that their demands were "specious".

He said: "Overall, the British were the aggressors, but the primary blame for the deaths in the concentration camps has much more to do with incompetence and lack of medical care than a deliberate attempt to kill.

That is the difference - death camps are intended to kill the occupants, all of them. (Put the citizens of a town on a train, move them to the death camp, kill them. Put the citizens of another town on the train, move them to the camp, kill them. Repeat.) Concentration camps are meant to hold. That doesn't mean that the circumstances of the concentration camp won't result in many deaths due to privation, cruelty, incompetence, and even calculation. The camps were internationally condemned, and rightly so. But nobody should confuse the British concentration camps in South Africa that 75% survived with the extermination / death camps of the Germans in Poland and other places that killed nearly everyone that entered them to the tune of hundreds of thousands of people each.

Extermination camps

The extermination camp Belzec was established in May 1942 and continued to function until August 1943. 600,000 Jews fell victim to the merciless efficiency of the gas chambers at Belzec.

Sobibor also began its terrible business of mass murder in May 1942. The killings continued through October 1943, when an uprising among the prisoners put and end to the activities of the camp. 250,000 lost their lives in Sobibor’s gas chambers.

The extermination camp Treblinka was working from July 1942 to November 1943. In August 1943 an uprising destroyed many of the facilities. 900,000 Jews lost their lives in the terribly efficient extermination camp at Treblinka.

Canadian Boer War veterans look back

All in all, real world space combat is going to be a lot more like submarine warfare than is generally depicted in popular SF TV and movies.

Charles Stross' Singularity Sky gets this part right, I think ... good depiction of the thinking process that a ship's captain would have to go through in executing during a battle. Of course, that captain was totally whooped by someone with a different category of technology ... but in inter-cultural battles, that's probably realistic as well.

And that's probably why the best battle-depicting Star Trek episode of all time was, in my opinion, Balance of Terror - it was based on submariner tactics, before everything went all don't-bother-trying-to-suspend-your-disbelief-ey, in all subsequent episodes ...

I have no idea if you work in development or system administration, but generally improving the situation depends on two things:
1) Do what you agree to do on time and within budget
2) Say no to anything else

There are lots of books on the subject of time management, project management or the software development processes and they all boil down to these two rules. If you work in a company that does not allow you to say no, read one of those books and then explain to management why working with $method would greatly improve everything (including the coffee). As soon as you get them to agree to $method you can use $method to say no (i.e. $feature is not in our sprint, $task is on the KanBan board and blocked by $actually_important_task, etc).

If you have no support from management, consider updating you resume.
Here are three books that I found worth reading:
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Busines by David J. Anderson
Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli
Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (Author)

The most interesting part are the case studies and how the authors manage to say "no" in a management-compatible way.

I have no idea if you work in development or system administration, but generally improving the situation depends on two things:
1) Do what you agree to do on time and within budget
2) Say no to anything else

There are lots of books on the subject of time management, project management or the software development processes and they all boil down to these two rules. If you work in a company that does not allow you to say no, read one of those books and then explain to management why working with $method would greatly improve everything (including the coffee). As soon as you get them to agree to $method you can use $method to say no (i.e. $feature is not in our sprint, $task is on the KanBan board and blocked by $actually_important_task, etc).

If you have no support from management, consider updating you resume.
Here are three books that I found worth reading:
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Busines by David J. Anderson
Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli
Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (Author)

The most interesting part are the case studies and how the authors manage to say "no" in a management-compatible way.

I have no idea if you work in development or system administration, but generally improving the situation depends on two things:
1) Do what you agree to do on time and within budget
2) Say no to anything else

There are lots of books on the subject of time management, project management or the software development processes and they all boil down to these two rules. If you work in a company that does not allow you to say no, read one of those books and then explain to management why working with $method would greatly improve everything (including the coffee). As soon as you get them to agree to $method you can use $method to say no (i.e. $feature is not in our sprint, $task is on the KanBan board and blocked by $actually_important_task, etc).

If you have no support from management, consider updating you resume.
Here are three books that I found worth reading:
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Busines by David J. Anderson
Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli
Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle (Author)

The most interesting part are the case studies and how the authors manage to say "no" in a management-compatible way.

A quick google search: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=tea%20tree%20oil&rh=n%3A3760901%2Ck%3Atea%20tree%20oil%2Cp_n_theme_browse-bin%3A389561011&page=1

... through arguing over resource allocation. According to "Conceptual Guerilla", mainstream economics is just mainly a mythological cover story to justify elites:
"The Mythology of Wealth"
http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=node/402

Example:
http://www.responsiblefinance.ch/appeal/
"The authors of this appeal are deeply concerned that more than three years since the outbreak of the financial and macroeconomic crisis that highlighted the pitfalls, limitations, dangers and responsibilities of main-stream thought in economics, finance and management, the quasi-monopolistic position of such thought within the academic world nevertheless remains largely unchallenged. This situation reflects the institutional power that the unconditional proponents of main-stream thought continue to exert on university teaching and research. This domination, propagated by the so-called top universities, dates back at least a quarter of a century and is effectively global. However, the very fact that this paradigm persists despite the current crisis, highlights the extent of its power and the dangerousness of its dogmatic character. Teachers and researchers, the signatories of the appeal, assert that this situation restricts the fecundity of research and teaching in economics, finance and management, diverting them as it does from issues critical to society."

Other ways to look at economics:
http://debunkingeconomics.com/

And also the similarly named:
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Rest-Us-Debunking-Science/dp/1595581014
"Why do contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar "compensation" packages and workers no more than their meager wages? Here is a lively and accessible debunking of the two elements that make economics the "science" of the rich: the definition of what is efficient and the theory of how wages are determined. The first is used to justify the cruelest policies, the second grand larceny. Filled with lively examples--from food riots in Indonesia to eminent domain in Connecticut and everyone from Adam Smith to Jeremy Bentham to Larry Summers--Economics for the Rest of Us shows how today's dominant economic theories evolved, how they explicitly favor the rich over the poor, and why they're not the only or best options. Written for anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary economic thinking--and why it is dead wrong--Economics for the Rest of Us offers a foundation for a fundamentally more just economic system."

Never mind that the roman economy functioned for decades before introducing their first gold coin by using copper coins.

Then again, the interpretations of roman currency history is a hot topic to this day.

On that note, i found this a interesting read a few years back:
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Science-Money-Mythology-Story/dp/1930748035/

Seems to be out of stock now tho.

Perhaps you could heat up a thermal store in the day, put it into a pressure cooker and add water to efficiently carry the heat from the slug to the food. Apparently pressure cookers can be made quite cheaply. Hmm, according to the customer reviews on that link pressure cooking is traditional in India, I didn't know that.

and those little toys you see people put on their roof is a complete joke.

Completely wrong. Those "little toys", in conjunction with storage, can supply a house's worth of energy, which is exactly what they are for. You can get a 600 watt turbine for $722 USD with free shipping from Amazon right now. Ten of them (6 kw for ~$7200) plus storage would suffice to supply an average household - heck, I'm a profligate power user, but only have a standard 10 kw service here and have *never* come close to 6 kw average use. We have the wind, too - I'm in Montana. And with electric bills in the triple digits, the payback would be very fast. All you need is a little room, the proper controllers to feed that energy into the house and/or the grid, and you'd find that "those toys" were worth every penny.

Add some solar, leave the grid connected so the power company can pay you as your meter runs backwards... "toys", not.

well if you could automate it - then you could build them, program them, and let them do their work.. over time that you don't have to do it have a new basement extension carved out.. think of them less of RC toys at that point but rather automated excavation robots..

I find your slave-labor practices unjust and offensive, We of the lawn worker's union are hereby on strike!

I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.

Donald Knuth believes in God. I don't see slashdotters attacking him.

http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/0895792524/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329499069&sr=8-1

"What did people do before Adderall then, simply not function? It's only been around for around 30 years."

Please. People who were depressed killed themselves, as they still do in places where they are ostracised and not helped. Schizophrenics and people with other disorders were tied up. Without these drugs, it took me over seven years to complete a three year university degree, despite always scoring in the top 1-4% of the test takers (not even general population) in every aptitude test I have ever taken. I have never taken a dose higher than what's prescribed by my doctor, I often skip one or two of the three prescribed doses because if I take it too late in the day it messes up my sleep cycle. I still 'function' without it, except I get fired from the jobs I do extremely well with the drug, I write, I read more, and generally make more of a contribution to society. I don't commit any crimes, hurt anyone, abuse the drug, show any sociopathic behaviour or generally do anything that would classify me as mentally unstable a danger to society or anyone. I need those drugs to function the way I want and I make a better contribution to society as a result, we don't end up in rehab at public cost. Many of us diagnosed ourselves because we got little help fromthe medical system. I understand high doses of these drugs can be used as party drugs, well so can opioids from what I know, and I don't hear anyone asking for people in hospital to be left without morphine.

Please leave me alone, and especially ADHD adults alone. We need these drugs, and it has no effect on anyone else. It is darn near impossible to explain this condition to anyone not willing to spend days listening, reading and understanding. Most of the time it's not worth trying. So just, let us take our medication, and leave us alone. There are only a few countries in the world these drugs are available, one reason I don't want to go back to my home country. Some countries, even developed countries like Japan do not allow you to bring even a prescription bottle of these medications in. So I can't even go on a short work assignment to Japan without being forced to perform much below my potential. An alternate drug, Methylphenidate (Ritalin etc) which is available in more countries produces awful side effects in me and many others.

Anyone interested in understanding the condition, don't read wikipedia, don't read the DSM summary. That will just make you say that everyone has those problems. Don't read any website, not even usually reliable medical websites. Maybe a few journal papers. Then read more than one of the books written by practitioners who have spent decades working with ADHD, because they are among the very few, even in their own profession, who have any understanding of adult ADHD.

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Distraction-Getting-Attention-Disorder/dp/034544230X/ref=cm_lmf_tit_3/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Stupid-Self-Help-Attention-Deficit-Disorder/dp/0684815311/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Recognizing-Attention-Childhood/dp/0684801280/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9/175-5015545-0743120

"What did people do before Adderall then, simply not function? It's only been around for around 30 years."

Please. People who were depressed killed themselves, as they still do in places where they are ostracised and not helped. Schizophrenics and people with other disorders were tied up. Without these drugs, it took me over seven years to complete a three year university degree, despite always scoring in the top 1-4% of the test takers (not even general population) in every aptitude test I have ever taken. I have never taken a dose higher than what's prescribed by my doctor, I often skip one or two of the three prescribed doses because if I take it too late in the day it messes up my sleep cycle. I still 'function' without it, except I get fired from the jobs I do extremely well with the drug, I write, I read more, and generally make more of a contribution to society. I don't commit any crimes, hurt anyone, abuse the drug, show any sociopathic behaviour or generally do anything that would classify me as mentally unstable a danger to society or anyone. I need those drugs to function the way I want and I make a better contribution to society as a result, we don't end up in rehab at public cost. Many of us diagnosed ourselves because we got little help fromthe medical system. I understand high doses of these drugs can be used as party drugs, well so can opioids from what I know, and I don't hear anyone asking for people in hospital to be left without morphine.

Please leave me alone, and especially ADHD adults alone. We need these drugs, and it has no effect on anyone else. It is darn near impossible to explain this condition to anyone not willing to spend days listening, reading and understanding. Most of the time it's not worth trying. So just, let us take our medication, and leave us alone. There are only a few countries in the world these drugs are available, one reason I don't want to go back to my home country. Some countries, even developed countries like Japan do not allow you to bring even a prescription bottle of these medications in. So I can't even go on a short work assignment to Japan without being forced to perform much below my potential. An alternate drug, Methylphenidate (Ritalin etc) which is available in more countries produces awful side effects in me and many others.

Anyone interested in understanding the condition, don't read wikipedia, don't read the DSM summary. That will just make you say that everyone has those problems. Don't read any website, not even usually reliable medical websites. Maybe a few journal papers. Then read more than one of the books written by practitioners who have spent decades working with ADHD, because they are among the very few, even in their own profession, who have any understanding of adult ADHD.

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Distraction-Getting-Attention-Disorder/dp/034544230X/ref=cm_lmf_tit_3/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Stupid-Self-Help-Attention-Deficit-Disorder/dp/0684815311/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Recognizing-Attention-Childhood/dp/0684801280/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9/175-5015545-0743120

"What did people do before Adderall then, simply not function? It's only been around for around 30 years."

Please. People who were depressed killed themselves, as they still do in places where they are ostracised and not helped. Schizophrenics and people with other disorders were tied up. Without these drugs, it took me over seven years to complete a three year university degree, despite always scoring in the top 1-4% of the test takers (not even general population) in every aptitude test I have ever taken. I have never taken a dose higher than what's prescribed by my doctor, I often skip one or two of the three prescribed doses because if I take it too late in the day it messes up my sleep cycle. I still 'function' without it, except I get fired from the jobs I do extremely well with the drug, I write, I read more, and generally make more of a contribution to society. I don't commit any crimes, hurt anyone, abuse the drug, show any sociopathic behaviour or generally do anything that would classify me as mentally unstable a danger to society or anyone. I need those drugs to function the way I want and I make a better contribution to society as a result, we don't end up in rehab at public cost. Many of us diagnosed ourselves because we got little help fromthe medical system. I understand high doses of these drugs can be used as party drugs, well so can opioids from what I know, and I don't hear anyone asking for people in hospital to be left without morphine.

Please leave me alone, and especially ADHD adults alone. We need these drugs, and it has no effect on anyone else. It is darn near impossible to explain this condition to anyone not willing to spend days listening, reading and understanding. Most of the time it's not worth trying. So just, let us take our medication, and leave us alone. There are only a few countries in the world these drugs are available, one reason I don't want to go back to my home country. Some countries, even developed countries like Japan do not allow you to bring even a prescription bottle of these medications in. So I can't even go on a short work assignment to Japan without being forced to perform much below my potential. An alternate drug, Methylphenidate (Ritalin etc) which is available in more countries produces awful side effects in me and many others.

Anyone interested in understanding the condition, don't read wikipedia, don't read the DSM summary. That will just make you say that everyone has those problems. Don't read any website, not even usually reliable medical websites. Maybe a few journal papers. Then read more than one of the books written by practitioners who have spent decades working with ADHD, because they are among the very few, even in their own profession, who have any understanding of adult ADHD.

http://www.amazon.com/Delivered-Distraction-Getting-Attention-Disorder/dp/034544230X/ref=cm_lmf_tit_3/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Stupid-Self-Help-Attention-Deficit-Disorder/dp/0684815311/ref=cm_lmf_tit_8/175-5015545-0743120

http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Recognizing-Attention-Childhood/dp/0684801280/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9/175-5015545-0743120

No e-book?

huh?

http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Premium-64bit-System-Builder/dp/B004Q0PT3I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329427079&sr=8-1

Windows 7 OEM version. $99.

Ironically, I think most people buying this are buying it to run in a VM on their Macbook Pro. :)

You're not alone in your desire.

Enter, the "Samsung Series 7 Slate."

-An 11.6" full and powerful Windows computer, with stylus and touch, and an excellent optional keyboard.

The first run sold out before they even got to the stores because people who wanted them WANTED them.

I think we'll be seeing many more machines of this caliber soon from a variety of manufacturers, but the market is soft right now because everybody is waiting for Apple to drop the iPad3 bomb.

That'll be their last hurrah. After that, I think Apple is probably going to coast into irrelevance (or at the very least, stagnation), as their Think Different department was recently cremated.