"The chip won't have ANY data other than "who" you are."
No it wont. It will only have a unique ID. That's not 'who' you are because it relies on a totally seperate system to link the ID to you. And that link is still precarious.
It's really no different to a plastic wrist tag with a bar code. The only thing it does is prevent physical tampering.
I can see that it may protect you from someone else tampering with your tag while you are incapacitated, but it also prevents you from removing your own tag...
At my company, the email gateway stopped all the email and quarantined it. Firstly because we ban certain filetypes (and it examines zip files) and.pif /.scr etc don't get through. Secondly when the anti-virus component was eventually updated it caught them all.
The cost to my company: 1 email to explain why the users were getting bounces for mail they didn't send.
Runs on many platforms including Linux and IBM mainframe, does not require any existing infrastructure (latest exchange requires Active Directory & win2003 server), the new web based mail component fully supports Mozilla (and not a dumbed down version but the whole DHTML experience), It not only does mail/calendaring etc but is a platform for making your own DB apps, program in LotusScript or Java, has it's own webserver, is a secure public key based infrastructure, local replication of ANY database for offline use....
Actually that is a function of Windows Explorer not Internet Explorer. If I use Moz I can still drag a URL to the desktop or even the favourites folder and it will still become a favourite file. If I have Moz as the default browser, if I dbl-click it it will open Moz.
All IE does is integrate the browser with the favourites folder so when you add to favourites it adds it to the favourites folder and opening favourites displays the favourites folder.
ADD / ADHD is real and medication is justified
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ADD (AHDH) has a cause rooted in poor focus control but the behavioural symptoms can vary greatly and appear to be vey very odd to observers.
I was diagnosed at age 33 after a life of being labelled lazy, stupid, a weirdo, anti-social, socially maladjusted, irresponsible, self obsessed, uncaring, and so on...
The diagnosis was a quiet explanation for the constant turmoil in my own head, that at times made feel like I might be going crazy.
So yes, I _am_ giving my son the medication because 3 years of the above experience at school was all I could stand to put him through. And I am convinced that, for now, the one thing the medication does do is SAVE HIS SELFESTEEM.
Once that is intact then we can deal with the condition. And it's already working after 3 years of school with _no_ friends and being constantly in trouble. He is now happy and _has_ good friends with whom he socialises daily. This is the only vindication I need for the decision to medicate.
For myself, the greatest gift of medication is the ability to _choose_ to put something aside for attention later. It's is freedom and clarity like I have never experienced before.
I'm not so ignorant to believe I'm cured. These medications are nothing more than symptom relief like pain killers are to sufferers of arthritis. And yes I _do_ believe that for some having the condition is just as painful and life destroying.
But, the relief is welcome and it allows you to take stock of yourself and plan properly for ways to deal with the condition and for once experience what it is like to think clearly.
The whole "ADD is a myth" movement can go jump in the lake. They clearly have not expeienced it in themselves or a loved-one. It is not just 'not being able to concentrate', hell everyone has days like that.
Imagine living life surrounded by a bank of TV screens with volume up high all on different channels. Imagine what it's like to sit at a keyboard and not be able to have enough clarity of thought to even type one letter, or to hold a book you really like in front of you but not be able to follow one line on the page no matter how much you really want to read it. Imagine being driven to a panic because you can't find your keys. Imagine not being able to ring someone because you dial a different number every time you try. Then imagine what it's like when this happens every day of your life.
So don't try to tell me it's not a real condition.
Who cares if someone found 120 reviews to link to, how is this helpful to anyone? Will anyone now go and read all 120? Go use Google, you'll get reviews of ANYTHING, and the best ones will probably rise to the top.
Now if they had really 'collected' them they could have perhaps summarised all the conclusions into one short conclusion to give an overall 'world' view or something.
This page could have been written by a dumb search robot just as easily as a human, where's the human value in it! Where's the humanity !?!?!? This is how the Matrix started you know.
Prevayler is a system where your java objects persist as objects in RAM. No need for a database at all, retains the goodness of OO design.
Their bold claim: "Queries with Prevayler are more than 3000 times faster than querying MySQL through JDBC."
You manipulate them via serialised commands which are logged and you take a snapshot every day or so. If there's an accident, you reload the last snapshot and replay the command log until you catch up and then you're off again.
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"The chip won't have ANY data other than "who" you are."
No it wont. It will only have a unique ID. That's not 'who' you are because it relies on a totally seperate system to link the ID to you. And that link is still precarious.
It's really no different to a plastic wrist tag with a bar code. The only thing it does is prevent physical tampering.
I can see that it may protect you from someone else tampering with your tag while you are incapacitated, but it also prevents you from removing your own tag...
*cue sinister music*
At my company, the email gateway stopped all the email and quarantined it. Firstly because we ban certain filetypes (and it examines zip files) and .pif / .scr etc don't get through. Secondly when the anti-virus component was eventually updated it caught them all.
The cost to my company: 1 email to explain why the users were getting bounces for mail they didn't send.
Lotus Notes (http://www.lotus.com/) is MUCH more than Exchange is.
Runs on many platforms including Linux and IBM mainframe, does not require any existing infrastructure (latest exchange requires Active Directory & win2003 server), the new web based mail component fully supports Mozilla (and not a dumbed down version but the whole DHTML experience), It not only does mail/calendaring etc but is a platform for making your own DB apps, program in LotusScript or Java, has it's own webserver, is a secure public key based infrastructure, local replication of ANY database for offline use....
Actually that is a function of Windows Explorer not Internet Explorer. If I use Moz I can still drag a URL to the desktop or even the favourites folder and it will still become a favourite file. If I have Moz as the default browser, if I dbl-click it it will open Moz.
All IE does is integrate the browser with the favourites folder so when you add to favourites it adds it to the favourites folder and opening favourites displays the favourites folder.
ADD (AHDH) has a cause rooted in poor focus control but the behavioural symptoms can vary greatly and appear to be vey very odd to observers.
I was diagnosed at age 33 after a life of being labelled lazy, stupid, a weirdo, anti-social, socially maladjusted, irresponsible, self obsessed, uncaring, and so on...
The diagnosis was a quiet explanation for the constant turmoil in my own head, that at times made feel like I might be going crazy.
So yes, I _am_ giving my son the medication because 3 years of the above experience at school was all I could stand to put him through. And I am convinced that, for now, the one thing the medication does do is SAVE HIS SELFESTEEM.
Once that is intact then we can deal with the condition. And it's already working after 3 years of school with _no_ friends and being constantly in trouble. He is now happy and _has_ good friends with whom he socialises daily. This is the only vindication I need for the decision to medicate.
For myself, the greatest gift of medication is the ability to _choose_ to put something aside for attention later. It's is freedom and clarity like I have never experienced before.
I'm not so ignorant to believe I'm cured. These medications are nothing more than symptom relief like pain killers are to sufferers of arthritis. And yes I _do_ believe that for some having the condition is just as painful and life destroying.
But, the relief is welcome and it allows you to take stock of yourself and plan properly for ways to deal with the condition and for once experience what it is like to think clearly.
The whole "ADD is a myth" movement can go jump in the lake. They clearly have not expeienced it in themselves or a loved-one. It is not just 'not being able to concentrate', hell everyone has days like that.
Imagine living life surrounded by a bank of TV screens with volume up high all on different channels. Imagine what it's like to sit at a keyboard and not be able to have enough clarity of thought to even type one letter, or to hold a book you really like in front of you but not be able to follow one line on the page no matter how much you really want to read it. Imagine being driven to a panic because you can't find your keys. Imagine not being able to ring someone because you dial a different number every time you try. Then imagine what it's like when this happens every day of your life.
So don't try to tell me it's not a real condition.
Who cares if someone found 120 reviews to link to, how is this helpful to anyone? Will anyone now go and read all 120? Go use Google, you'll get reviews of ANYTHING, and the best ones will probably rise to the top.
Now if they had really 'collected' them they could have perhaps summarised all the conclusions into one short conclusion to give an overall 'world' view or something.
This page could have been written by a dumb search robot just as easily as a human, where's the human value in it! Where's the humanity !?!?!? This is how the Matrix started you know.
Prevayler is a system where your java objects persist as objects in RAM. No need for a database at all, retains the goodness of OO design.
Their bold claim: "Queries with Prevayler are more than 3000 times faster than querying MySQL through JDBC."
You manipulate them via serialised commands which are logged and you take a snapshot every day or so. If there's an accident, you reload the last snapshot and replay the command log until you catch up and then you're off again.