Yes well, it USED to be this way with Windows, and well designed programs are STILL this way, but for whatever reason fancy pants commerical packages like to hard link everything to the registry. ^_^
(ok ok granted with programs like Nero you NEED to do this, modularity implies that you have your DLL files somewhere, but still, heh)
Many well written freeware programs are either just a lone executable file, or are compleatly self contained within a single directory with no registery references.
How am I supposed to not overwrite my installation diurectory?
THere WAS no installation directory to begin with!! It just unzipped and ran!! (to my horror, as the Thunderbird directory has been sitting on my desktop since!)
- A "first-time user" that has been using MS products for a while should know never to expect consistent results. Try dragging a file in MSWindows:
1. If it is an executable, it will create a Shortcut. 2. If it is to the same hard drive, it will move the file. (And remember that "My Documents" and "Desktop" are usually on the C Drive.) 3. If it is to a different hard drive, it will make a copy. (What happens if it is a mapped network share on the same computer?)
Actually, this rather makes sense.
1. Moving an executable is of little good, as most executables have dependencies upon other files in the original directory. The same goes for Copying an executable. But making shortcuts of an executable and placing them in various locations is a common enough task on Windows, thus the default action.
2. Well duh, makes organizing easier. Moving a file from "completed downloads" to "My Music\Classical MP3s" is a lot more useful then copying a file from "completed downloads" to "My Music\Classical MP3s".
3. The majority of users out there have one hard drive per computer, thus copying from one drive to another often involves either going from a CD-ROM (read only) to the user's Hard Drive or from a Network Share to the user's Hard Drive, both cases in which the user wishes to make a local copy of a file for their own use.
Trying to delete the file from the CD-ROM is just plain silly, and deleting it from the network share has a good chance of pissing people off.
Myself? I just use cut and copy for everything, I gave up trusting Windows to automatically handle my files long ago. *G*
Plus, most users of computers learnt the Windows-Way. All Admin, All the time.
And this is bad why now?
I happen to LIKE being able to click on a link on a website, hit open, run, close, and be done with it. Installing applications is a cinch. I bought broadband for a reason, it gets things done!
Ah, then again, I also know what I am doing and have proper security setup around my box, boxes I setup for others I install whatever apps they want and leave it be.:)
Actually on Windows a person doesn't need Admin to install and run 3rd party applications, but, err, heh. Well any box that can run misc programs from the internet can also have its Admin PW taken away rather quickly. ^_^
Not in my experience. Maybe my exposure to video card reviews is limited, but in the last few Radeon 9*00 vs. GeForce FX 5*00 rounds, a good deal of attention was paid to drivers. The most recent review I read on Tom's Hardware actually compared the FX cards to two versions of the Radeon's Catalyst driver, since ATI was billing the 3.5 version with significant performance improvements. They also spent at least a couple of paragraphs talking about the quality improvements with the 44.03 Detonator driver, since the previous major issue with the FX cards was the hideous quality of the ansiotropic filtering (which turned out to be a driver problem, not a hardware problem).
*sigh*
Listen, for those of us WORKING on our computers, the gaming speed and performance of the drivers is worth bugger all.
I WANT STABILITY
Darnit, I WANT MY MATROX BACK!!
Seriously, I would take a Matrox G4xx+ over anything from Nvidia any day.
Not legal at all, when one of the earliest internet worms came around this was tried.
The unforutnate fixer-upers got in big legal trouble. Oops.
Don't know if they ever caught the original virus author though. . . .
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The issue I have is that they don't realize what the problem is. It's like they think the issue is readership not realizing thinkgeek is associated with slashdot. We don't have that problem when there's a blinking thinkgeek ad right above the story.
Oh read the freaking article, Dan has been posted to/. numerous times before, the article is EXTREMELY informative, DEFINITELY Nerdy, and downright COOL.
Now if the/. EDITORS mentioned "and by the way, ThinkGeek sells this wonderful product as well!" THEN I would be bitching about integrity.
As it is I would have checked Dansdata.com out next after/. anyways, so this just changed my order of reading.
If you look at J2ME, the MIDP profile is somewhat useful on phones from the 90s that had next to zero ram and UI options. Phones arent like that any more and all the other J2ME profiles such at CLDC and "PersonalJava" are running on platforms that, I believe, are capable of running a full Java implementation, even the swing UI. Why not provide the real J2SE if the PDA is capable of
I still have troubles getting decent performance out of Java on my 700mhz PC. . ..
After MP3.com started paying artists a mere fraction of what they paid them before, many artists fled from MP3.com, rightfuly noting that no longer was releasing their work onto MP3.com a profitable venture.
Because of the lack of new artists signing up for MP3.com, MP3.com in general has been in decline.:`( *sigh* was once a great place for Indie artists to make some spare change.
don't waste your money on IQ test prep books. There is really no way to study for any valid IQ test.
That is not true.
It is VERY easy to study for a valid IQ test. Take an IQ test, find out what your weak points were (what section of the test did you perform badly on, the numerical analysis portion, the visual spacial portion, and so on) and then STUDY for that portion of the test.
In my case I did poorly on the visual spacial portion (no duh, have a learning disability there and all. ^_^), I took some art classes and learned 3D modeling, heya, 20 points higher, yah!:)
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No. I think the best way is to imagine that you have to explain both alternatives to somebody who is completely clueless, and see which is quicker and easier to explain.
Of course this method does not always work, but I think that in this case most would agree that the symmetry alternative is simpler.
"See if, you turn the paper, the 8 still looks the same. It is the same if you look at it from either direction. If you put a mirror in the middle it does not change. If you look at the other numbers, this does not happen; look!"
"See, the 5 is a prime number. That means that it can only be divided evenly by itself, and one. Division means that...[lengthy explanation]. Even division means that [lengthier explanation]. The reason that one is not included in the definition is that [....]. Now we can look at all the other numbers in turn and see that they are not prime numbers [lengthy calculations, or even lengthier explanations on how they can be indentifed quickly]. Etc. Etc."
Actualy, I have had the fate of doing that before.
Err, believe it or not. The prime number thing is easier to explain. People seem to have one heck of a hard time with symmetry.:(
The article points out how he is Sooo well known amongst a community of people. In that community he is looked up to, he helps people all that he can and nurtures and hopefully provides a shining example to those "beneath" him.
How is that different from a major sports figure?
AO is a closed members only community, even though access may be easily gained, it is still in essence a closed community.
Thedeacon is no more a public figure than a player at a LAN party.
Indeed, being a pay-for-play player he is more akin to a fan at a football game, the administrators of the game servers would be the actual "football players" in your analogy, they are the ones who are being paid to entertain us all, Thedeacon is just like any other goer at a football game, he is a having a good time enjoying what he paid his money for.
More so, by some chance if a New York Times reporter comes up and asks the fan why they are such a big fan of their team, the fan may indeed think that this is a great opportunity to explain to the world why their football team is the best darned football team out there.
If in the process of talking to the reporter the fan and the reporter explicitly make a verbal agreement that some such issues are for background purposes only for the story to explain motive and are NOT to be included in the story itself, well then, the fan mentioning that going to the games helped him get through an icky divorce (or whatever personal issues, the original NYT article is now archived and I am not going to pay to read it!), the sum total of what should be mentioned of that times in the players life is something to the effect of
...and attending his team's games has helped FanBoy743 get through trying and difficult times in his life.
and that is it! No more, not who he was divorced from, not a SINGLE mention of his purchase of season tickets in the luxury box seats as being a "pathetic example of how much money these poor fools spend on football" and definitely not a mention of
surly a sign of addiction, to be spend so much money on those season tickets while he filed for bankruptcy.
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My point is this, every person on the planet suffers the symptoms of ADD at some level. Most of us however control the impulse to think or do something else. This control comes from how the brain is wired, not so much chemical balance.
*sigh*
ADHD, like a host of other psychological disabilities, is defined as an excess of what is otherwise an accepted human psychological event.
Of course everybody has some days where they are a bit skittish or that they jump around from task to task.
For a person with ADHD that day is every day.
It is a matter of not being physically able to put down a book being read in order to read a book required for class even if the person wants to.
When a person's life is out of their own control, when a person's own mind is beyond the least amount of that person's own control, THEN, THEN there is a problem that medical science has a responsibility to and must do its very best to help with.
Now then, for many people simple things like Yoga can help, heck for the mildest of cases just being AWARE of the problem can be all the solution that they need to get things "back on track" so to speak.
But for those children who are at risk for failing every class that they have, and spend their free time in the principles office reading books, some type of help is needed.
Now I cannot stand people who just medicate their children willy nilly. Assigning large doses of umpteen medicines at ones is ludicrous, and I have read of nine year old children being assigned higher doses of Dexedrine to start out with then I am taking currently! But saying that ADHD is just a "trait" or a "feature" shows you have little understanding of the situation.
First off, ADHD is not some isolated issue. In a majority of cases, children with ADHD will test positive for at least one of a number of other psychological disabilities.
It is not that they DO test positive for these that is amazing, after all a certain percentage of children born to parents who drank or used drugs during pregnancy can be expected to have a fair number of wide ranging issues both psychological and physical.
Rather it is the surprising commonality of these psychological disabilities amongst children with ADHD.
OCD and Anger Management "issues" are the two most commonly encountered alternative problems, with Tourettes being another highly reported one in conjunction with ADHD and OCD, but one with which I have not had experience dealing with on a one to one personal basis.
Now, if there was just a rash of cases of children having problems sitting still in class being medicated into complacence, I might be rethinking my entire platform right now, but as it is, one of the greatest proofs in favor of ADHD is how often it occurs along with other well known psychological issues.
Most of us however control the impulse to think or do something else. This control comes from how the brain is wired, not so much chemical balance.
*sigh*
ADHD is that LACKING of control.
And, as of now nobody knows exactly how much of anything is controlled within the brain. For all you or I know there IS a chemical that decides self control or "will power" as it may be.
Who the heck knows?:-P
yes pills can allow you to function in society easier, can allow you to fit in better, and hide your problem from both society and yourself, but by hiding your problem from society, society never learns to properly handle people with ADD.
Read over again what I said about ADHD sufferers also having a variety of other issues.
My teachers couldn't learn to "handle" me because I was literaly doing my best to beat the crap out of them.
An untrained professional cannot psychologically teach somebody who has no control over them self
I see it like thi
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Look, Anger could be considred a disorder,
Umm. . ..
It is. Anger management problems ARE a recognized disorder, people get treated for it all the time. Hell I was treated for it.
but if I were to declare Anger as a learning disability,
You would be laughed at, it is a social disability.
this student cant learn, this student needs medication, this student needs to be studied"
A competent doctor (admittedly getting harder and harder to find by the day. . ..) would advice for therapy, much higher success rate and all.:) (I went in for a dual therapy / meds approach)
This does not solve the persons problem. Please tell me why a person with a short temper is considered "normal" however someone with ADHD has something wrong with them.
Also please explain to me why people who have short tempers just need to take anger management classes, while a person with ADHD must go on all these meds?
Those two paragraphs contradict themselves. A person with anger management issues is NOT considered "normal" (WTF is normal any ways?:-P ), they are sent for anger management classes.
And to answer your second question, it is because the success rate of therapy classes for most very low to mild cases of anger management issues is very high.
Indeed, it is not until the extremely severe cases of anger issues that medicines start to be prescribed with regularity. But yes, they ARE prescribed.
Its the SAME kinda problem, I consider ADHD a personality trait. Just like short temper is a personality trait, and manic depression is a personality trait.
HOW THE FUCKING HELL IS MANIC DEPRESSION A PERSONALITY TRAIT.
Please explain to me how the f*ck people trying to KILL THEMSELVES is a freakin PERSONALITY TRAIT.
regularly reoccurring bouts of SUICIDE are NOT an "issue" to be worked through, THEY ARE A SERIOUS FREAKING PROBLEM.
Yeesh, next you are going to tell me that OCD is just a personality trait to! (Oh it is perfectly A-OK that she cut her fingernails down to the point of SEVERELY BLEEDING, bleck!)
Pills can only hide a persons natural traits, it cannot change them.
An alternative view, pills can allow a person's natural traits to come out instead of being OVERRIDDEN by a CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.
Without pills these people wont know what to do with themselves,
Without the pills it doesn't much matter because I do not have any control as to what I do!
I'm saying its treated like its some kinda disease that MUST be treated with drugs as the first option when most people in my opinion can learn to manage without drugs.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I have always advocated for a dual therapeutic and medicinal approach with the pure therapeutic approach being tried first, but the fact is that making a blanket statement DISMISSING all of wide variety of medical research that has gone into treating ADHD as being irrelevant is FOOLISH.
The pills CAN and DO and WILL CONTINUE to help people, it is unfortunate that some idiot doctors choose to over prescribe them out of either ignorance of malevolence.
But ok, lets assume you are right, and these drugs are completely safe, harmless with no side effects, lets say these drugs help make the mind sharp and help people concentrate, if this is true shouldnt they be marketed over the counter like anti depression, pain medication, and others?
Where did I say they where side effect free?
I personally use Dexedrine, which has the side effects of SHARPENING my concentration and SPEEDING up my mind. Soon after taking my dosage I can work damn near miraculous math problems in my head and figure out the solution to just about
If you could learn anything whenever you wanted like you can at home would school really be so bad? You just dont like spending 2 hours doing one thing.
Been there, tried that. Worked horribly.
See, I couldn't CONCENTRATE on the task at hand.
Can I concentrate on some random event? Sure yah, no problem.
Can I concentrat eon what I NEED to concentrate on, can I concentrate on what I WANT to concentrate on?
Not to mention, I can come up with an equal metric farkload of "personal experience" to counter your "personal experience".
It is a pointless pissing game.
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These drugs remove you from yourself, if you really took ritalin you know exactly what I'm talking about. You also know that your mind isnt exactly as sharp.
That is the point in time when you call up your doctor and bitch something awful.
I feel much MORE sharp with my meds, thank you so very much.
You won't believe how much easier it is to do math problems when I am able to remember what the fuck I am supposed to be sitting down and doing
For the record, ritalin does seem to generally suck, but that doesn't mean ADHD doesn't exist.
in other compression news, i just upgraded my system from dos 6.2 to dos 6.22, so i can test the theory of whether you can gain infinite storage space from your harddrive if you 'doublespace' it repeatedly. wish me luck.
Oddly enough, I did once compress a 1.44MB 3.5" disk to around 20MB with Doublespace.
Now the.bin file it made on the floppy disk that was storing the floppy disk was also 20MB, so. . ..
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Which changes the orientation of those 80 missiles how now?
As soon as somebody uses Nukes on the U.S. they would be screwed the moment the CIA investigation got overwith.
Well, assuming the CIA correctly guessed which country did it. . . .
Well now that all depends, in the books I like, they do.
Yes well, it USED to be this way with Windows, and well designed programs are STILL this way, but for whatever reason fancy pants commerical packages like to hard link everything to the registry. ^_^
(ok ok granted with programs like Nero you NEED to do this, modularity implies that you have your DLL files somewhere, but still, heh)
Many well written freeware programs are either just a lone executable file, or are compleatly self contained within a single directory with no registery references.
How am I supposed to not overwrite my installation diurectory?
THere WAS no installation directory to begin with!! It just unzipped and ran!! (to my horror, as the Thunderbird directory has been sitting on my desktop since!)
1. If it is an executable, it will create a Shortcut.
2. If it is to the same hard drive, it will move the file. (And remember that "My Documents" and "Desktop" are usually on the C Drive.)
3. If it is to a different hard drive, it will make a copy. (What happens if it is a mapped network share on the same computer?)
Actually, this rather makes sense.
1. Moving an executable is of little good, as most executables have dependencies upon other files in the original directory. The same goes for Copying an executable. But making shortcuts of an executable and placing them in various locations is a common enough task on Windows, thus the default action.
2. Well duh, makes organizing easier. Moving a file from "completed downloads" to "My Music\Classical MP3s" is a lot more useful then copying a file from "completed downloads" to "My Music\Classical MP3s".
3. The majority of users out there have one hard drive per computer, thus copying from one drive to another often involves either going from a CD-ROM (read only) to the user's Hard Drive or from a Network Share to the user's Hard Drive, both cases in which the user wishes to make a local copy of a file for their own use.
Trying to delete the file from the CD-ROM is just plain silly, and deleting it from the network share has a good chance of pissing people off.
Myself? I just use cut and copy for everything, I gave up trusting Windows to automatically handle my files long ago. *G*
And this is bad why now?
I happen to LIKE being able to click on a link on a website, hit open, run, close, and be done with it. Installing applications is a cinch. I bought broadband for a reason, it gets things done!
Ah, then again, I also know what I am doing and have proper security setup around my box, boxes I setup for others I install whatever apps they want and leave it be.
Actually on Windows a person doesn't need Admin to install and run 3rd party applications, but, err, heh. Well any box that can run misc programs from the internet can also have its Admin PW taken away rather quickly. ^_^
*sigh*
Listen, for those of us WORKING on our computers, the gaming speed and performance of the drivers is worth bugger all.
I WANT STABILITY
Darnit, I WANT MY MATROX BACK!!
Seriously, I would take a Matrox G4xx+ over anything from Nvidia any day.
Not legal at all, when one of the earliest internet worms came around this was tried.
The unforutnate fixer-upers got in big legal trouble. Oops.
Don't know if they ever caught the original virus author though. . . .
Oh read the freaking article, Dan has been posted to
Now if the
As it is I would have checked Dansdata.com out next after
I still have troubles getting decent performance out of Java on my 700mhz PC. . .
Why should I get up?
They mail the darn thing to me! Push buttons you say? No way!
why??
I buy Mach3 blades in bulk at the local Costco (a warehouse style store that sells everything in huge quanities).
I buy them in a pack of 30 or something. . . . $25 or $30, can't remember the exact price. Lasts for ages.
Well you couldn't have gotten too creative if you ended up with the 'standard result'.
*g*
I've been trying to tell people this for years.
Do they listen.
Nooooo.
Bibliophiles unite! W00t!
After MP3.com started paying artists a mere fraction of what they paid them before, many artists fled from MP3.com, rightfuly noting that no longer was releasing their work onto MP3.com a profitable venture.
:`( *sigh* was once a great place for Indie artists to make some spare change.
Because of the lack of new artists signing up for MP3.com, MP3.com in general has been in decline.
That is not true.
It is VERY easy to study for a valid IQ test. Take an IQ test, find out what your weak points were (what section of the test did you perform badly on, the numerical analysis portion, the visual spacial portion, and so on) and then STUDY for that portion of the test.
In my case I did poorly on the visual spacial portion (no duh, have a learning disability there and all. ^_^), I took some art classes and learned 3D modeling, heya, 20 points higher, yah!
Of course this method does not always work, but I think that in this case most would agree that the symmetry alternative is simpler.
"See if, you turn the paper, the 8 still looks the same. It is the same if you look at it from either direction. If you put a mirror in the middle it does not change. If you look at the other numbers, this does not happen; look!"
"See, the 5 is a prime number. That means that it can only be divided evenly by itself, and one. Division means that...[lengthy explanation]. Even division means that [lengthier explanation]. The reason that one is not included in the definition is that [....]. Now we can look at all the other numbers in turn and see that they are not prime numbers [lengthy calculations, or even lengthier explanations on how they can be indentifed quickly]. Etc. Etc."
Actualy, I have had the fate of doing that before.
Err, believe it or not. The prime number thing is easier to explain. People seem to have one heck of a hard time with symmetry.
How is that different from a major sports figure?
AO is a closed members only community, even though access may be easily gained, it is still in essence a closed community.
Thedeacon is no more a public figure than a player at a LAN party.
Indeed, being a pay-for-play player he is more akin to a fan at a football game, the administrators of the game servers would be the actual "football players" in your analogy, they are the ones who are being paid to entertain us all, Thedeacon is just like any other goer at a football game, he is a having a good time enjoying what he paid his money for.
Just because a fan at a football game paints their face and wears a big foam hand does NOT give the New York Times the right to do an exposé on their personal financial life!
More so, by some chance if a New York Times reporter comes up and asks the fan why they are such a big fan of their team, the fan may indeed think that this is a great opportunity to explain to the world why their football team is the best darned football team out there.
If in the process of talking to the reporter the fan and the reporter explicitly make a verbal agreement that some such issues are for background purposes only for the story to explain motive and are NOT to be included in the story itself, well then, the fan mentioning that going to the games helped him get through an icky divorce (or whatever personal issues, the original NYT article is now archived and I am not going to pay to read it!), the sum total of what should be mentioned of that times in the players life is something to the effect of
and that is it! No more, not who he was divorced from, not a SINGLE mention of his purchase of season tickets in the luxury box seats as being a "pathetic example of how much money these poor fools spend on football" and definitely not a mention of
*sigh*
ADHD, like a host of other psychological disabilities, is defined as an excess of what is otherwise an accepted human psychological event.
Of course everybody has some days where they are a bit skittish or that they jump around from task to task.
For a person with ADHD that day is every day.
It is a matter of not being physically able to put down a book being read in order to read a book required for class even if the person wants to.
When a person's life is out of their own control, when a person's own mind is beyond the least amount of that person's own control, THEN, THEN there is a problem that medical science has a responsibility to and must do its very best to help with.
Now then, for many people simple things like Yoga can help, heck for the mildest of cases just being AWARE of the problem can be all the solution that they need to get things "back on track" so to speak.
But for those children who are at risk for failing every class that they have, and spend their free time in the principles office reading books, some type of help is needed.
Now I cannot stand people who just medicate their children willy nilly. Assigning large doses of umpteen medicines at ones is ludicrous, and I have read of nine year old children being assigned higher doses of Dexedrine to start out with then I am taking currently! But saying that ADHD is just a "trait" or a "feature" shows you have little understanding of the situation.
First off, ADHD is not some isolated issue. In a majority of cases, children with ADHD will test positive for at least one of a number of other psychological disabilities.
It is not that they DO test positive for these that is amazing, after all a certain percentage of children born to parents who drank or used drugs during pregnancy can be expected to have a fair number of wide ranging issues both psychological and physical.
Rather it is the surprising commonality of these psychological disabilities amongst children with ADHD.
OCD and Anger Management "issues" are the two most commonly encountered alternative problems, with Tourettes being another highly reported one in conjunction with ADHD and OCD, but one with which I have not had experience dealing with on a one to one personal basis.
Now, if there was just a rash of cases of children having problems sitting still in class being medicated into complacence, I might be rethinking my entire platform right now, but as it is, one of the greatest proofs in favor of ADHD is how often it occurs along with other well known psychological issues.
*sigh*
:-P
ADHD is that LACKING of control.
And, as of now nobody knows exactly how much of anything is controlled within the brain. For all you or I know there IS a chemical that decides self control or "will power" as it may be.
Who the heck knows?
Read over again what I said about ADHD sufferers also having a variety of other issues.
My teachers couldn't learn to "handle" me because I was literaly doing my best to beat the crap out of them.
An untrained professional cannot psychologically teach somebody who has no control over them self
Umm. . . .
It is. Anger management problems ARE a recognized disorder, people get treated for it all the time. Hell I was treated for it.
You would be laughed at, it is a social disability.
A competent doctor (admittedly getting harder and harder to find by the day. . . .) would advice for therapy, much higher success rate and all. :) (I went in for a dual therapy / meds approach)
Also please explain to me why people who have short tempers just need to take anger management classes, while a person with ADHD must go on all these meds?
Those two paragraphs contradict themselves. A person with anger management issues is NOT considered "normal" (WTF is normal any ways? :-P ), they are sent for anger management classes.
And to answer your second question, it is because the success rate of therapy classes for most very low to mild cases of anger management issues is very high.
Indeed, it is not until the extremely severe cases of anger issues that medicines start to be prescribed with regularity. But yes, they ARE prescribed.
HOW THE FUCKING HELL IS MANIC DEPRESSION A PERSONALITY TRAIT.
Please explain to me how the f*ck people trying to KILL THEMSELVES is a freakin PERSONALITY TRAIT.
regularly reoccurring bouts of SUICIDE are NOT an "issue" to be worked through, THEY ARE A SERIOUS FREAKING PROBLEM.
Yeesh, next you are going to tell me that OCD is just a personality trait to! (Oh it is perfectly A-OK that she cut her fingernails down to the point of SEVERELY BLEEDING, bleck!)
An alternative view, pills can allow a person's natural traits to come out instead of being OVERRIDDEN by a CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.
Without the pills it doesn't much matter because I do not have any control as to what I do!
Hey, don't get me wrong, I have always advocated for a dual therapeutic and medicinal approach with the pure therapeutic approach being tried first, but the fact is that making a blanket statement DISMISSING all of wide variety of medical research that has gone into treating ADHD as being irrelevant is FOOLISH.
The pills CAN and DO and WILL CONTINUE to help people, it is unfortunate that some idiot doctors choose to over prescribe them out of either ignorance of malevolence.
Where did I say they where side effect free?
I personally use Dexedrine, which has the side effects of SHARPENING my concentration and SPEEDING up my mind. Soon after taking my dosage I can work damn near miraculous math problems in my head and figure out the solution to just about
Been there, tried that. Worked horribly.
See, I couldn't CONCENTRATE on the task at hand.
Can I concentrate on some random event? Sure yah, no problem.
Can I concentrat eon what I NEED to concentrate on, can I concentrate on what I WANT to concentrate on?
Nope, not a chance.
and THAT is a problem.
Spell it out with me now.
S-Y-N-O-N-Y-M-S
Personal experience != scientific proof.
Not to mention, I can come up with an equal metric farkload of "personal experience" to counter your "personal experience".
It is a pointless pissing game.
That is the point in time when you call up your doctor and bitch something awful.
I feel much MORE sharp with my meds, thank you so very much.
You won't believe how much easier it is to do math problems when I am able to remember what the fuck I am supposed to be sitting down and doing
For the record, ritalin does seem to generally suck, but that doesn't mean ADHD doesn't exist.
Well, I can say this. I booted it up and my USB keyboard didn't work!
Oddly enough, I did once compress a 1.44MB 3.5" disk to around 20MB with Doublespace.
Now the
Was a rather interesting experiment though.