It doesn't have to be that severe to matter. I made it through to my junior year of high school without being diagnosed. I got by on being fairly smart. I was never hyperactive which is why I was not diagnosed earlier, but I have serious focus problems.
I got decent grades when I should have gotten killer grades but what really mattered was how hard it was. School too a ton out of me. Everything was so hard that it took away some of my love of learning. I had to slowly re-discover that once I was medicated. Without drugs I would not have gone to a good school and I likely would not have succeed in any university. Sure, my case wasn't sever enough that I couldn't get through High school, but it did have long lasting effects on my psyche.
Just because you can get by without drugs doesn't necessarily mean that your life will be better that way. I know plenty of people with untreated depression who function well enough, but is their life as rich as it might be? You never know unless you try.
Stimulants work a lot better for ADD than antidepressants. Doctors are loathe to give them because the are scheduled drugs and they can be abused but you would probably find them a lot more effective than what you are on now.
They do have side effects, you cant sleep easily while on them and they kill appetite but these can be managed.
Adderal is the one that is most per scribed. I'm not a huge fan as I feel it lasts longer than it is supposed to, but your millage may vary. Personally I like Dexedrine but effectiveness and side effects will vary from person to person.
Avoid the drugs that are used for hypertension, they work on hyperactivity, mostly in kids, but don't really do anything for focus.
None of the things you list will have any effect at managing the symptoms of ADD. People need to understand that it is not simply a matter of a kid bouncing off the walls, its an entirely different way in which the brain works and in a lot of ways it makes the things you take for granted nearly impossible.
what you don't seem to understand is that OSX and Windows 7 do not have interfaces designed for tablets. This is an important feature. Now, you may not like the walled garden and you may not like some of the choices apple made in iOS but just putting a desktop OS on a touch based laptop is a mistake. Everyone who has done that has been a failure.
Reworking the entire interface level was the correct move no matter how many geeks say they would buy it if it had "full OSX" on it.
do you really think that 150 million made a difference to a company that had billions in the bank? That deal was all about cross licencing of pattents and a commitment from MS to make Office for the mac. MS made a lot of money off that stock, which, if I recall correctly, was non-voting stock.
You are off your rocker if you think 150 mil mad the iMac, iPod, iPhone or iPad possible.
Urgency is not going to produce a quality product. According to Jobs the iPad was in development before the iPhone, they have been waiting for technology to catch up the the design. They have spent serious time and money on both hardware and software design.
You don't turn around and make a high quality product in 6 months, sure you might already have the core of the OS ready to go, but to develop the UI and the applications and come up with a consistent user experience takes time and effort, lots of it. If MS rushes to release a tablet in 6 months it will not be good. It will not likely even be good enough. Sure the people who want to be different might buy it, much like they bought the zune, but making a quality, easy to use product does not happen overnight.
My professional career has been spent creating high end, end user software with a specialization in user interface design and development. Most developers consider this to be something that gets tacked on at the end but it is not and the iPad (and any competitor to the iPad) is more about the UI than anything else and trust me, the UI matters more to most users than just about anything else.
Well I'm not sure I notice lag as much as the next guy, I don't do a lot of twitch gaming or precise mouse work. Before you buy try to hit up an apple store if you can and see if you can try one out. I don't know if they have them out with the machines but I bet someone could pull one out for you.
Then again, if you are going to get one with the iMac you want anyway, you may as well give it a shot before replacing it with an aftermarket mouse.
I was very apprehensive about the Bluetooth mouse, but I have to say, it has worked really well, it never seems to drop the connection and it never needs to be re-paired with the computer. I haven't noticed the mouse jumping around or any issues on sleep/wake. If I turn it off and on there is a short lag (in seconds) before the mac detects it but as soon as I get the "Connected" message the mouse is responsive.
Battery wise, I leave it on all the time because I never remember to turn it off at the end of the day. I have been working here 4 months and I have replaced the batteries 3 times but one of those times was earlier this week so it was pretty close to 2 months per battery change (standard alkaline battery). My interaction with the computer is fairly keyboard heavy so I don't know if the batteries die more quickly if you use it more. I suspect you would do a lot better if you remember to turn your mouse off, but I cant really be bothered.
I also have a bluetooth keyboard from apple which has never needed a battery change and works like a champ (except its not an extended keyboard).
Overall my experience with Apples bluetooth accessories has been excellent, but for desktop use, if I could get a wired version of this mouse, I would probably go for that. I don't find wireless to be worth the battery cost when im this close to my computer.
Here at work I am using one of these Apple touch surface mice. Its the nicest mouse I have used in a very long time. I love the 2D touch scrolling on it.
I guess multi touch would be nice but I cant see this being better than what I have here for the work I do. Maybe for graphics and video work it would come in more handy.
On the other hand this thing would be perfect as an input device for controlling my media sever from my coffee table.
Become? My friend you describe the human condition and it goes a lot higher up the social ladder than you would care to believe. When has man not cared for mindless entertainment over the persuit of knowledge. What generation has not described the youth as rebellious, crass and rude? When have people chosen to think for themselves instead of eating up propaganda.
Don't fool yourself, this is what people are. Sure there are those who break this mold in one way or another (often in a rather negative way) but what you describe is the human condition. It is not limited to one country or one time period.
Concurrency support sounds like a nice feature, That might be worth looking into more closely.
I have to say though, performance issues or not, I'm more likely to spend my time learning my way through Objective-C than Go, in part because it is more applicable to my career right now but also because of some of the really neat crap you can do with run time typing and messages in Obj-C.
Though I have to admit, Objective-C does have some pretty brutal syntax.
And everyone who has ever invented a new language has done exactly the same thing.
Maybe Go is worth a closer look, but the quick look a google search has given me hasn't been very interesting. Not bad mind you, but its not clear what major advantages it provides. Would anyone care to expound on why its good/interesting?
I did find it interesting that the Wiki article says it is designed for fast compiling. That is not really something I have ever had much concern about even when working on extremely large code bases. Distributed builds work pretty well. It would not have been my design goal but maybe it has some value.
Has this been tested in court? All the references I have found in a few minutes of searching seem to imply that this is not so well defined, but that information might be out of date.
Wouldn't this mean that any software designed to run on Linux must be GPL its difficult to run on an OS without linking to any libraries?
I'm not trying to be argumentative, this is not my area of expertise and its clearly to complicated an issue to be left to google.
Isn't Linux released under the GPL along with all its major libraries? Does that mean that any software that runs on linux (which therefore links against those libraries) must be open source?
you could say the same thing about software that calls functions in a GPL library, does software that dynamically links against a GPL library have to be GPL? Its calling functions in defined in GPL code.
I guess my confusion is in how themes in WordPress are different from plugins in another application. Most of this comes from a lack of understanding of how WordPress works.
If I made a competitor to photoshop under the GPL and defined a plugin interface similar to but distinct from the actual photoshop plugin interface, would plugins written for that interface have to be GPL? If not, why are these themes any different?
If plugins would be required to be GPL'd I think that could and should be explicitly spelled out in the GPL but it would have a pretty chilling effect on commercial developers making software that interacts with GPL software.
Its not that they are journalists but how is it that nobody in the actual industry ever goes back and calls people on what they said 6 months ago?
Doing that gets the Daily show a lot of viewers, I would think that doing the same thing in a more rigorous journalistic environment would get you a lot of eyeballs.
Of course once you start doing that, you loose your access to politicians and people of note because they can always find people willing to show up to a press conference and not ask any difficult questions in the hope of getting a few eyeballs on their web site.
I get where you are coming from, and I totally agree that Childs was a toolbox and could easily have handled the situation better if he had any desire to do so.
However, if your boss tells you to violate the state policies on passwords and mail them off to someone (or provide them to a room full of people) and then something bad happens because of that, it is quite possible that you will be held legally liable for the damages caused. Just following orders may not be enough of an excuse.
Next time you can get a dell and you can go to the dell store and see what they say... oh wait...
Admittedly that is a pretty expensive repair, but they replace the entire mother board on my mac book pro for less than what the part cost on New Egg (they even let me use their machines to look up the part cost before agreeing to the repair) so your millage my vary.
Really? I have an old dumb phone on verizon which is supposed to be the best for coverage in the US and I drop a call every couple of days. That's in a major metropolitan area.
Maybe I would have better luck if I bought a new phone.
Apparently the iPhone 4 requires less signal to hold a call than a 3GS though so while the loss of signal may be more significant the actual impact on phone calls may not be. I don't know how its minimum signal strength compares to other phones on the market.
I know quite a few people with this phone (I do not own an iPhone) and while they can reproduce the bar dropping effect, none of them seem to be complaining about lost calls, but that might be a function of the network strength where I am.
According to Consumer reports, didn't you see the article where the reviewed all the magazines that review products? They were the only ones with all the little circles filled in.
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It doesn't have to be that severe to matter. I made it through to my junior year of high school without being diagnosed. I got by on being fairly smart. I was never hyperactive which is why I was not diagnosed earlier, but I have serious focus problems.
I got decent grades when I should have gotten killer grades but what really mattered was how hard it was. School too a ton out of me. Everything was so hard that it took away some of my love of learning. I had to slowly re-discover that once I was medicated. Without drugs I would not have gone to a good school and I likely would not have succeed in any university. Sure, my case wasn't sever enough that I couldn't get through High school, but it did have long lasting effects on my psyche.
Just because you can get by without drugs doesn't necessarily mean that your life will be better that way. I know plenty of people with untreated depression who function well enough, but is their life as rich as it might be? You never know unless you try.
Stimulants work a lot better for ADD than antidepressants. Doctors are loathe to give them because the are scheduled drugs and they can be abused but you would probably find them a lot more effective than what you are on now.
They do have side effects, you cant sleep easily while on them and they kill appetite but these can be managed.
Adderal is the one that is most per scribed. I'm not a huge fan as I feel it lasts longer than it is supposed to, but your millage may vary. Personally I like Dexedrine but effectiveness and side effects will vary from person to person.
Avoid the drugs that are used for hypertension, they work on hyperactivity, mostly in kids, but don't really do anything for focus.
None of the things you list will have any effect at managing the symptoms of ADD. People need to understand that it is not simply a matter of a kid bouncing off the walls, its an entirely different way in which the brain works and in a lot of ways it makes the things you take for granted nearly impossible.
And how exactly do you define "real computer?"
what you don't seem to understand is that OSX and Windows 7 do not have interfaces designed for tablets. This is an important feature. Now, you may not like the walled garden and you may not like some of the choices apple made in iOS but just putting a desktop OS on a touch based laptop is a mistake. Everyone who has done that has been a failure.
Reworking the entire interface level was the correct move no matter how many geeks say they would buy it if it had "full OSX" on it.
Please don't:
http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson711.html
do you really think that 150 million made a difference to a company that had billions in the bank? That deal was all about cross licencing of pattents and a commitment from MS to make Office for the mac. MS made a lot of money off that stock, which, if I recall correctly, was non-voting stock.
You are off your rocker if you think 150 mil mad the iMac, iPod, iPhone or iPad possible.
Urgency is not going to produce a quality product. According to Jobs the iPad was in development before the iPhone, they have been waiting for technology to catch up the the design. They have spent serious time and money on both hardware and software design.
You don't turn around and make a high quality product in 6 months, sure you might already have the core of the OS ready to go, but to develop the UI and the applications and come up with a consistent user experience takes time and effort, lots of it. If MS rushes to release a tablet in 6 months it will not be good. It will not likely even be good enough. Sure the people who want to be different might buy it, much like they bought the zune, but making a quality, easy to use product does not happen overnight.
My professional career has been spent creating high end, end user software with a specialization in user interface design and development. Most developers consider this to be something that gets tacked on at the end but it is not and the iPad (and any competitor to the iPad) is more about the UI than anything else and trust me, the UI matters more to most users than just about anything else.
Well I'm not sure I notice lag as much as the next guy, I don't do a lot of twitch gaming or precise mouse work. Before you buy try to hit up an apple store if you can and see if you can try one out. I don't know if they have them out with the machines but I bet someone could pull one out for you.
Then again, if you are going to get one with the iMac you want anyway, you may as well give it a shot before replacing it with an aftermarket mouse.
I was very apprehensive about the Bluetooth mouse, but I have to say, it has worked really well, it never seems to drop the connection and it never needs to be re-paired with the computer. I haven't noticed the mouse jumping around or any issues on sleep/wake. If I turn it off and on there is a short lag (in seconds) before the mac detects it but as soon as I get the "Connected" message the mouse is responsive.
Battery wise, I leave it on all the time because I never remember to turn it off at the end of the day. I have been working here 4 months and I have replaced the batteries 3 times but one of those times was earlier this week so it was pretty close to 2 months per battery change (standard alkaline battery). My interaction with the computer is fairly keyboard heavy so I don't know if the batteries die more quickly if you use it more. I suspect you would do a lot better if you remember to turn your mouse off, but I cant really be bothered.
I also have a bluetooth keyboard from apple which has never needed a battery change and works like a champ (except its not an extended keyboard).
Overall my experience with Apples bluetooth accessories has been excellent, but for desktop use, if I could get a wired version of this mouse, I would probably go for that. I don't find wireless to be worth the battery cost when im this close to my computer.
Here at work I am using one of these Apple touch surface mice. Its the nicest mouse I have used in a very long time. I love the 2D touch scrolling on it.
I guess multi touch would be nice but I cant see this being better than what I have here for the work I do. Maybe for graphics and video work it would come in more handy.
On the other hand this thing would be perfect as an input device for controlling my media sever from my coffee table.
Become? My friend you describe the human condition and it goes a lot higher up the social ladder than you would care to believe. When has man not cared for mindless entertainment over the persuit of knowledge. What generation has not described the youth as rebellious, crass and rude? When have people chosen to think for themselves instead of eating up propaganda.
Don't fool yourself, this is what people are. Sure there are those who break this mold in one way or another (often in a rather negative way) but what you describe is the human condition. It is not limited to one country or one time period.
Concurrency support sounds like a nice feature, That might be worth looking into more closely.
I have to say though, performance issues or not, I'm more likely to spend my time learning my way through Objective-C than Go, in part because it is more applicable to my career right now but also because of some of the really neat crap you can do with run time typing and messages in Obj-C.
Though I have to admit, Objective-C does have some pretty brutal syntax.
And everyone who has ever invented a new language has done exactly the same thing.
Maybe Go is worth a closer look, but the quick look a google search has given me hasn't been very interesting. Not bad mind you, but its not clear what major advantages it provides. Would anyone care to expound on why its good/interesting?
I did find it interesting that the Wiki article says it is designed for fast compiling. That is not really something I have ever had much concern about even when working on extremely large code bases. Distributed builds work pretty well. It would not have been my design goal but maybe it has some value.
Has this been tested in court? All the references I have found in a few minutes of searching seem to imply that this is not so well defined, but that information might be out of date.
Wouldn't this mean that any software designed to run on Linux must be GPL its difficult to run on an OS without linking to any libraries?
I'm not trying to be argumentative, this is not my area of expertise and its clearly to complicated an issue to be left to google.
Isn't Linux released under the GPL along with all its major libraries? Does that mean that any software that runs on linux (which therefore links against those libraries) must be open source?
Thesis is clearly in violation, but the argument is that all non GPL themes are in violation even if they did not steal code.
you could say the same thing about software that calls functions in a GPL library, does software that dynamically links against a GPL library have to be GPL? Its calling functions in defined in GPL code.
I guess my confusion is in how themes in WordPress are different from plugins in another application. Most of this comes from a lack of understanding of how WordPress works.
If I made a competitor to photoshop under the GPL and defined a plugin interface similar to but distinct from the actual photoshop plugin interface, would plugins written for that interface have to be GPL? If not, why are these themes any different?
If plugins would be required to be GPL'd I think that could and should be explicitly spelled out in the GPL but it would have a pretty chilling effect on commercial developers making software that interacts with GPL software.
Its not that they are journalists but how is it that nobody in the actual industry ever goes back and calls people on what they said 6 months ago?
Doing that gets the Daily show a lot of viewers, I would think that doing the same thing in a more rigorous journalistic environment would get you a lot of eyeballs.
Of course once you start doing that, you loose your access to politicians and people of note because they can always find people willing to show up to a press conference and not ask any difficult questions in the hope of getting a few eyeballs on their web site.
I get where you are coming from, and I totally agree that Childs was a toolbox and could easily have handled the situation better if he had any desire to do so.
However, if your boss tells you to violate the state policies on passwords and mail them off to someone (or provide them to a room full of people) and then something bad happens because of that, it is quite possible that you will be held legally liable for the damages caused. Just following orders may not be enough of an excuse.
Next time you can get a dell and you can go to the dell store and see what they say... oh wait...
Admittedly that is a pretty expensive repair, but they replace the entire mother board on my mac book pro for less than what the part cost on New Egg (they even let me use their machines to look up the part cost before agreeing to the repair) so your millage my vary.
Really? I have an old dumb phone on verizon which is supposed to be the best for coverage in the US and I drop a call every couple of days. That's in a major metropolitan area.
Maybe I would have better luck if I bought a new phone.
Apparently the iPhone 4 requires less signal to hold a call than a 3GS though so while the loss of signal may be more significant the actual impact on phone calls may not be. I don't know how its minimum signal strength compares to other phones on the market.
I know quite a few people with this phone (I do not own an iPhone) and while they can reproduce the bar dropping effect, none of them seem to be complaining about lost calls, but that might be a function of the network strength where I am.
According to Consumer reports, didn't you see the article where the reviewed all the magazines that review products? They were the only ones with all the little circles filled in.