I'm so sorry, I can't imagine what that would be like to be commited, and "pulling the switch." I've been very lucky through the years, Iron like determination to "succeed" has been the only thing keeping me from taking a one time flight lesson. "Succeed" is pretty relative. I'm not totally poor, have a good wife, job, house that doesn't leak much, and car that is good enough. With the challenges we've had, I had to lower my expectations to call that success.
It's totally frustrating for those of us who do have ADD. No one believes you! Worse, my doc straight up told me that the patient makes the diagnosis. She said it's subjective to the patients accounts of historical behavior. Which led me to not take it very seriously... (at first)
Sorry, in english that means, if you tell a doc you have ADD, you do.
The reason I even saw a doctor about it because I had several friends who said I should "look into it." One just observed behavoir she who was adult diagnosed had, one (who is extreme w/ H) casually pointed it out. I did some research when going through my divorce, and found that it turns out, there isn't one classic symptom I don't have.
I often wonder if it is a problem or an evolutionary trait, I'm not retarted, though sometimes it may seem that way soemtimes! I often "blurt out" ideas. I work for a large co. where the CIO knows my name, but also appreciates that I bring energy to our team. That to me is fine enough. My daily job is "relaxed" so that chronic tardiness isn't an issue, and my taks vary rapidly keeping me engaged, w/ the freedom to post on/. when I want to.
One thing that is tough, is sorting out what information is relevant for the task at hand.
Imagine you're sitting at a loud bar with lots of people talking. Your best friend is right next to you telling you something, but since you've heard his voice your whole life, your almost "imune" to it. You hear every other voice clear as day. Hearing all conversations at once. Your friend is describing in detail how he is putting to gether a tent on a camping trip... It leads to a hillarious punchline, but the delivery gets ruined by his frustration of having to tell it twice....
I'm unmedicated, but it's for societies benefit. Imagine someone who is ADD & relatively intelligent. Now imagine that same person HYPERPRODUCTIVE. Pills made me check things off my to do list at rates that would be dizzying for most people, and frustrating to others.
People think it's just a few of these symptoms, but it's ALL of them, frequently that makes someone ADD.
zoning out" without realizing it, even in the middle of a conversation.
extreme distractibility; wandering attention makes it hard to stay on track.
difficulty paying attention or focusing, such as when reading or listening to others.
struggling to complete tasks, even ones that seem simple.
tendency to overlook details, leading to errors or incomplete work.
poor listening skills; hard time remembering conversations and following directions.
poor organizational skills (home, office, desk, or car is extremely messy and cluttered)
tendency to procrastinate
trouble starting and finishing projects
chronic lateness
frequently forgetting appointments, commitments, and deadlines
constantly losing or misplacing things (keys, wallet, phone, documents, bills)
underestimating the time it will take you to complete tasks
frequently interrupt others or talk over them
have poor self-control
blurt out thoughts that are rude or inappropriate without thinking
have addictive tendencies
act recklessly or spontaneously without regard for consequences
have trouble behaving in socially appropriate ways (such as sitting still during a long meeting)
sense of underachievement
doesn't deal well with frustration
easily flustered and stressed out
irritability or mood swings
trouble staying motivated
hypersensitivity to criticism
short, often explosive, temper
low self-esteem and sense of insecurity
feelings of inner restlessness, agitation
tendency to take risks
getting bored easily
racing thoughts
trouble sitting still; constant fidgeting
craving for excitement
talking excessively
doing a million things at once
forgetting to do something that was really important to your wife
to those who aren't afflicted with ADD/ADHD, which I imagine most developers aren't
I have to say you are exactly right that I could never be a coder full time. I took some classes, aced them (well, the tests anyway), but the work is way too boring, worse, the teams in college were like 3 people who each said "oh, I'll code the about screen..." and me who made a functional DB front end for some class DB. Testing however, was the worst of it all.
Dragon Naturally speaking! Windows 7 has dictation built in, and MAC does too I believe. All transcription / dictation software will require training for anything close to 98% output.
I'm not sure about the OSS options, but Dragon is now pretty cheap, at just $80. You can't beat that with a stick for the quality you get. Win7 has it built in, try it out if you have a box w/ it. I was actually pleasantly suprised.
The fastest cheapest option however, would be to pay a college kid to transcribe it. You can do that for $8/ per hr, and if you edit the waves, chopping silence, etc, you can get someone to pretty much break down an hour of speach per man hour. Especially if you can rig up a way to speed up the waves a bit (people can talk fast, but usually don't talk as fast as a good transcriptionist can type. To pick up the word of someone mumbling, the transcriptionist will have to back up, listen, and try and work out the word. This will slow things down. If you can clarify those words, let them know (at 3:15 uncle jimmy says CHICKENFLUFFER not CHICKENpuffer)
The thing is, by the time you get done with this article, reading everyones solutions, etc... you will have been able to transcribe much of that data yourself. (depending on family size I guess...)
Social networks won't go away. Because, well, they are social!
The actual app we use to navigate that network will most certainly change, but the ones out today won't be the ones we use in the future. Not if I have anything to say about it.
I like the idea of a constant profile. How would this be stored? The problem w/ decentralized networks is that "someone" has to host that data, or everyone has to host that data. Some sort of P2P model for distributing Social netoworking "profiles" would be an interesting concept indeed!
I'll tell you what my wife thinks of myspace & facebook. Myspace was too customizable. Facebook is "easy."
I think myspace failed because it's too egocentric. it's all about me, and not about my friends. Facebook is too app centric.
Steam, though having some cool features, is just myspace for gamers as far as social networking goes, but w/o the customizabillity.
I'd indulge the idea of a personal XML based DB/ dataset that can be easily moved / tx'd. Something that you could customize based on the site you are in, but were not required to. A way to display at / search all social networking sites may comeout of that, or maybe it exists now? a facebook / myspace / myfaceass/ metacrawler?
There are a few metaposting apps out there already.
So I'm confused... you are saying that something with more mass / more potential energy is "colder" than something that has less mass / potential energy?
The gameplay, like C&C renegade (one of my favorite, if short lived, team FPS games), is AWESOME.
The graphics? Like C&C renegade was back then, are way past their prime. TF2 has been out for like 5 years. If they did nothing, but rebuild the engine the game sits on, and updated models and texturing, they'd have another hit. I'd re-buy it in a heart beat.
Be mindful that it doesn't mean I don't like playing it. Quite the opposite:
I can snipe w/ the best of them when on at least a mediocre team, with a headshot to K ratio of about 4:5. Taking out a demo w/ the Direct HIT is allways a plus, and few things are more satisfying than sapping a re-deployed lvl 3 sentry that some engie spent so much time building, & packing up only to have it die, or ubering a demo to take out an entire fortress w/ a few stickies, chewing through tons of ammo then chewing through a sandvich, then more ammo... The ever classic, rushing past the first point to instantly take the second pt as a scout, building a telle behind the enemy lines in TwoFort, but my heart longs for one thing... setting people on fire. You can call me Ronald Bartel
Yes, I am the guy who plays the classes you hate: All of them!
is not at stake here. Whatever smacks facebook down, it will be like killing napster. 10 more p2p clients sprung up then, some of them still in wide use. The worst possible thing this could do is give myspace another shot. (it wont though)
Social networking, wether we want it or not, is here to stay. Facebook may be dirty, but it's still an awesome way to keep up w/ acquaintences & distant family. Clsoe Friends you will call or they will call you.
A recent study showed that most people have between 4-7 "groups" of friends that they belong to. Socialnetworking may be obnoxious some times, but it helps me know when parties w/ my outlying groups happen. THIS is where I do my catching up, not online.
As for the content of the article, I didn't read it! I'm just responding to the responses which 1/2 of which are critical of facebook, the other 1/2 can't stand social networking in general. and a small population who sees it for what it is... not much, just a way of saying hey to mult. people @ once, and sharing photos, vids, endorsing products like Cheetos, the cheeze that goes crunch, and sexual preferances.
We took a supersoaker intake hose, fitted it to a bottle of standard butane held on w/ a washer and DuctTape.
The supersoaker valve was never intended to hold back that kind of preassure so we in essence created a "pilot light." OMG when we pulled the trigger it looked like the movies!
Cost: $50 USD. Fear Factor? 100% I've never seen a flame that big since (not counting t.v.)
You'd know that security is relative to economic 3 way scale
The Monetary cost of providing it against the dysfunction it creates and the value of what you are protectiong.
The standard, you can have good, cheap, or fast, pick any 2. You'll never find a good quality, fast car for cheap. (sorry/. I had too).
The main thing though is you test in test systems... you don't test in production (unless it's a last resort, but it's highly frowned upon). Do this during a drill, not when real lives are at stake. This wasn't a security audit, this was a security exposition. An audit keeps things in a report, not expose intimate details to the world...
Security is ALLWAYS through obscurity at least a little bit. It'd be like taking a windows box, you open your IP address to the world and see who can get in after disclosing exactly what software / services you use too.
Now you just paid all this money for fancy schmancy security, then you want to also expose any potential flaws to the public, still expect security, and all for the same price?
I think maybe you just didn't see it the same way I did... Or maybe you have a house at 1313 mockingbird lane in Beverly Hills CA, 90210 with a specific alarm package,
That was what I felt too. It's like testing the security of your house by posting an add on craigslist telling people when I'm leaving, and when I'll be back. Not really a good idea, epsecially since every 100th craigslist reader has a brain, and that one guy might be a robber who would bring a pair of cable cutters to drop the phone / power lines.
Even if security WAS good enough, damage still occurs to the house. The "telcom integrity" gets degraded... the cost of repairing that can be high... lastly a bump key,a rock, or a swift kick, and a masked smash and grab is still possible w/or w/o security.
I think doing that to a major summit is not just irresponsible, there is no way someone in his field can claim they couldn't see the consequences, meaning it can only be formulated w/ malicious intenet. There is no good reason to "test" it's security unless you were hired to do so, and still you wouldn't do it this way.
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Glad you survived!
I'm so sorry, I can't imagine what that would be like to be commited, and "pulling the switch." I've been very lucky through the years, Iron like determination to "succeed" has been the only thing keeping me from taking a one time flight lesson. "Succeed" is pretty relative. I'm not totally poor, have a good wife, job, house that doesn't leak much, and car that is good enough. With the challenges we've had, I had to lower my expectations to call that success.
It's totally frustrating for those of us who do have ADD. No one believes you! Worse, my doc straight up told me that the patient makes the diagnosis. She said it's subjective to the patients accounts of historical behavior. Which led me to not take it very seriously... (at first)
Sorry, in english that means, if you tell a doc you have ADD, you do.
The reason I even saw a doctor about it because I had several friends who said I should "look into it." One just observed behavoir she who was adult diagnosed had, one (who is extreme w/ H) casually pointed it out. I did some research when going through my divorce, and found that it turns out, there isn't one classic symptom I don't have.
I often wonder if it is a problem or an evolutionary trait, I'm not retarted, though sometimes it may seem that way soemtimes! I often "blurt out" ideas. I work for a large co. where the CIO knows my name, but also appreciates that I bring energy to our team. That to me is fine enough. My daily job is "relaxed" so that chronic tardiness isn't an issue, and my taks vary rapidly keeping me engaged, w/ the freedom to post on /. when I want to.
One thing that is tough, is sorting out what information is relevant for the task at hand.
Imagine you're sitting at a loud bar with lots of people talking. Your best friend is right next to you telling you something, but since you've heard his voice your whole life, your almost "imune" to it. You hear every other voice clear as day. Hearing all conversations at once. Your friend is describing in detail how he is putting to gether a tent on a camping trip... It leads to a hillarious punchline, but the delivery gets ruined by his frustration of having to tell it twice....
I'm unmedicated, but it's for societies benefit. Imagine someone who is ADD & relatively intelligent. Now imagine that same person HYPERPRODUCTIVE. Pills made me check things off my to do list at rates that would be dizzying for most people, and frustrating to others.
People think it's just a few of these symptoms, but it's ALL of them, frequently that makes someone ADD.
ADD here.
to those who aren't afflicted with ADD/ADHD, which I imagine most developers aren't
I have to say you are exactly right that I could never be a coder full time. I took some classes, aced them (well, the tests anyway), but the work is way too boring, worse, the teams in college were like 3 people who each said "oh, I'll code the about screen..." and me who made a functional DB front end for some class DB. Testing however, was the worst of it all.
" not in the US?"
Yes, Speeding is a Civil charge, yes it's a slam dunk if there is just preponderance of the evidence.
>130mph on "public" asphalt several times.
Now what?
Powered Partridge?
to that marble game labyrinth?
Nothing's more frustrating than getting my ass handed to me in a FPS. I DOMINATE FPS games, and I'd better, since I've been playing since Doom.
Not being able to get more than 1 kill (usually my own suicide) is SO frustrating!
Goatse... Carrier Terminated
Dragon Naturally speaking! Windows 7 has dictation built in, and MAC does too I believe. All transcription / dictation software will require training for anything close to 98% output.
I'm not sure about the OSS options, but Dragon is now pretty cheap, at just $80. You can't beat that with a stick for the quality you get. Win7 has it built in, try it out if you have a box w/ it. I was actually pleasantly suprised.
The fastest cheapest option however, would be to pay a college kid to transcribe it. You can do that for $8/ per hr, and if you edit the waves, chopping silence, etc, you can get someone to pretty much break down an hour of speach per man hour. Especially if you can rig up a way to speed up the waves a bit (people can talk fast, but usually don't talk as fast as a good transcriptionist can type. To pick up the word of someone mumbling, the transcriptionist will have to back up, listen, and try and work out the word. This will slow things down. If you can clarify those words, let them know (at 3:15 uncle jimmy says CHICKENFLUFFER not CHICKENpuffer)
The thing is, by the time you get done with this article, reading everyones solutions, etc... you will have been able to transcribe much of that data yourself. (depending on family size I guess...)
I'm assuming you're talking about a quad core. What is faster, running 4 encoding threads or 8?
I'm curious how HT affects performance that way...
Social networks won't go away. Because, well, they are social!
The actual app we use to navigate that network will most certainly change, but the ones out today won't be the ones we use in the future. Not if I have anything to say about it.
I like the idea of a constant profile. How would this be stored? The problem w/ decentralized networks is that "someone" has to host that data, or everyone has to host that data. Some sort of P2P model for distributing Social netoworking "profiles" would be an interesting concept indeed!
I'll tell you what my wife thinks of myspace & facebook. Myspace was too customizable. Facebook is "easy."
I think myspace failed because it's too egocentric. it's all about me, and not about my friends. Facebook is too app centric.
Steam, though having some cool features, is just myspace for gamers as far as social networking goes, but w/o the customizabillity.
I'd indulge the idea of a personal XML based DB/ dataset that can be easily moved / tx'd. Something that you could customize based on the site you are in, but were not required to. A way to display at / search all social networking sites may comeout of that, or maybe it exists now? a facebook / myspace / myfaceass/ metacrawler?
There are a few metaposting apps out there already.
NVM.
The ratio would stay the same, I get that.
So I'm confused... you are saying that something with more mass / more potential energy is "colder" than something that has less mass / potential energy?
Wouldn't the temperature per molecule go down?
The gameplay, like C&C renegade (one of my favorite, if short lived, team FPS games), is AWESOME.
The graphics? Like C&C renegade was back then, are way past their prime. TF2 has been out for like 5 years. If they did nothing, but rebuild the engine the game sits on, and updated models and texturing, they'd have another hit. I'd re-buy it in a heart beat.
Be mindful that it doesn't mean I don't like playing it. Quite the opposite:
I can snipe w/ the best of them when on at least a mediocre team, with a headshot to K ratio of about 4:5. Taking out a demo w/ the Direct HIT is allways a plus, and few things are more satisfying than sapping a re-deployed lvl 3 sentry that some engie spent so much time building, & packing up only to have it die, or ubering a demo to take out an entire fortress w/ a few stickies, chewing through tons of ammo then chewing through a sandvich, then more ammo... The ever classic, rushing past the first point to instantly take the second pt as a scout, building a telle behind the enemy lines in TwoFort, but my heart longs for one thing... setting people on fire.
You can call me Ronald Bartel
Yes, I am the guy who plays the classes you hate: All of them!
My wife had all 4 wheels removed from her car while we were sleeping. The car was parked 3 ft from our front door, and we never heard a thing.
is not at stake here. Whatever smacks facebook down, it will be like killing napster. 10 more p2p clients sprung up then, some of them still in wide use. The worst possible thing this could do is give myspace another shot. (it wont though)
Social networking, wether we want it or not, is here to stay. Facebook may be dirty, but it's still an awesome way to keep up w/ acquaintences & distant family. Clsoe Friends you will call or they will call you.
A recent study showed that most people have between 4-7 "groups" of friends that they belong to. Socialnetworking may be obnoxious some times, but it helps me know when parties w/ my outlying groups happen. THIS is where I do my catching up, not online.
As for the content of the article, I didn't read it! I'm just responding to the responses which 1/2 of which are critical of facebook, the other 1/2 can't stand social networking in general. and a small population who sees it for what it is... not much, just a way of saying hey to mult. people @ once, and sharing photos, vids, endorsing products like Cheetos, the cheeze that goes crunch, and sexual preferances.
WTS: MY {legendary}WANG]{/legendary} PST.
I thought that's what polarized lenses were for?
Do you have example images (properly polarized) that demonstrates your issue? I'm curious and interested, maybe I've been taking bad pics...
We took a supersoaker intake hose, fitted it to a bottle of standard butane held on w/ a washer and DuctTape.
The supersoaker valve was never intended to hold back that kind of preassure so we in essence created a "pilot light." OMG when we pulled the trigger it looked like the movies!
Cost: $50 USD. Fear Factor? 100% I've never seen a flame that big since (not counting t.v.)
Here you just need a permit to do it.
You'd know that security is relative to economic 3 way scale
The Monetary cost of providing it
against the dysfunction it creates
and the value of what you are protectiong.
The standard, you can have good, cheap, or fast, pick any 2. You'll never find a good quality, fast car for cheap. (sorry /. I had too).
The main thing though is you test in test systems... you don't test in production (unless it's a last resort, but it's highly frowned upon). Do this during a drill, not when real lives are at stake. This wasn't a security audit, this was a security exposition. An audit keeps things in a report, not expose intimate details to the world...
Security is ALLWAYS through obscurity at least a little bit. It'd be like taking a windows box, you open your IP address to the world and see who can get in after disclosing exactly what software / services you use too.
Now you just paid all this money for fancy schmancy security, then you want to also expose any potential flaws to the public, still expect security, and all for the same price?
I think maybe you just didn't see it the same way I did...
Or maybe you have a house at 1313 mockingbird lane in Beverly Hills CA, 90210 with a specific alarm package,
and since I'm a narcissistic American... I will.
That was what I felt too. It's like testing the security of your house by posting an add on craigslist telling people when I'm leaving, and when I'll be back. Not really a good idea, epsecially since every 100th craigslist reader has a brain, and that one guy might be a robber who would bring a pair of cable cutters to drop the phone / power lines.
Even if security WAS good enough, damage still occurs to the house. The "telcom integrity" gets degraded... the cost of repairing that can be high... lastly a bump key,a rock, or a swift kick, and a masked smash and grab is still possible w/or w/o security.
I think doing that to a major summit is not just irresponsible, there is no way someone in his field can claim they couldn't see the consequences, meaning it can only be formulated w/ malicious intenet. There is no good reason to "test" it's security unless you were hired to do so, and still you wouldn't do it this way.
The ranking system. I'd recon a smaller ranking system would have more torque.
Thanks, you made my day. Granted, it's been pretty shitty so far, so it wouldn't have taken much, but it was still hillarious non the less.