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QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work
An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has this article about how QNX's OS has found a niche and is doing well. Especially after 1996 when Microsoft executives said they would crush them in 2 years. When your software absolutely positively needs to work!"
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SCO will sue them soon enough, probably for using a 3 letter name.
When is /. going to create a section for articles about sex? I like most nerds could really use a series of informative articles and discussion on the subject.
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QNX has been the only company so far to commercialize a microkernel OS.
I love QNX, but they definitely aren't the only company to commercialize a microkernel OS. Apple, while late in the game, are shipping some big numbers. Of course, don't forget NeXT before them, or for you penguin-heads, MkLinux.
My child has a short attention span and is easily distracted, what can you do about this?
Cause: Many children have difficulty with attention as a result of poor neurological development. Sophisticated neurological development is required to attend and process information in a complex sensory field. That is, when the environment is filled with multiple stimuli beyond the skill of the individual to handle a common adaptation is to attend to only that which can be processed. Thus the neurologically unsophisticated child will attend to smaller fields of input (even single stimulus) at a time and shift from stimulus to stimulus in an effort to analyze the complex field. The neurologically skilled person attends to multiple stimuli simultaneously and has greater fields of awareness and thus is not as easily distracted. An interesting point about stress is also important to consider. Stress causes a collapse of attentive field in all of us. For example, if a baseball were speeding toward your face the size of your attentive field would shrink to the size of the baseball and you would have no other awareness of the surround. Thus, children with poor multi-tasking skills are often also stressed by the demands of the complex and demanding classroom environment. Stress further collapses the attentive field making the childâ(TM)s multi-tasking skill even worse. The observable behavior that results is a child "jumping" from one stimulus to the next.
The hierarchy of brain development moves from tactile to auditory and finally visual skills and thus children with delays in the timetable of neuro-development often are poorly skilled visually. Further, visual processing and visual thinking is the most efficient and most sophisticated part of our brain function. Visual thinking is our "best tool" for handling complex environments. When we send children to the classroom who have yet to develop their best tool they learn to use less efficient methods to cope with the learning demands. The following schematic shows the relationship between attentive fields and brain development.
Solution: IVL therapy is designed to sequentially build the childâ(TM)s multi-tasking skill. It is well described by the question "How many things can you do at once? Letâ(TM)s try one more!" Of course wise selection of the tasks is the key to success. Respect for the hierarchy of brain development is an important consideration. As the child learns to execute ever-increasing numbers and complexity of task combinations his ability to attend to increasingly complex environments improves. IVL therapy procedures are also designed to improve the child's visual attention and visual thinking skills. As the child begins to rely more heavily on visual processing his multi-tasking skills improve. Visual processing allows more whole to part, as opposed to, part to whole processing. Another way of describing this concept is simultaneous versus sequential processing. Tactile and auditory driven processing is more sequential in nature, whereas, visual processing allows "the whole" to be simultaneously appreciated. For example, learning lyrics to a song is typically sequential in nature. If one element is forgotten, one "begins at the beginning" for a sequential auditory rehearsal. Spelling the word Mississippi is a classic sequential processing example for most of us. Visual, simultaneous processing is the method of thinking employed by successful students as they spell most words and recall math facts "by the look" of the symbolic expressions as wholes. IVL therapy moves the child toward simultaneous visual processing that is foundational to developing good attention fields. Attention skills develop as a function of neurologic skill and environmental complexity. If excessive environmental complexity overwhelms a neurologically unsophisticated child, his field of attention collapses. This is called Attention Field Compression (AFC). AFC can also occur as a result of experiential deprivation. The following schematic illustrates the p
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Well, one is a vicious predator that will eat its own children.
And the other's a fish.