Ohhh but... Quite a few early Macs died quickly suffering from a sereous defect. A poor powersuply I believe. Early PCs had the same problem however for sligtly diffrent reasons. The Mac power supply didn't supply enough power for the computer so it slowly burnt out suffering the same problems of the Channel F and Commodore 64.
However the C64 power supply would last a very long time and most units are still working today. They are also easly to replace making it easy to just buy a new one. It was a tolerable nusence for a cheap computer.
The Mac powersuply like the Channel F PS gave out quickly and was not easly replaced. In all three examples (and the PC) the power supply death could take out other parts killing the computer.
The PC power supply issue was diffrent. It was actually over rated for the PC BUT the PC was expandable the original Mac was not. For power supplys this meant a PCs power requirements could increase over time as each upgrade requires more power. The user who is fussy and not wanting to open the case won't be upgrading it eather. If the power supply needs to be replaced it's not much more complex than adding any other hardware.
Something that long bothered me about the PCs is that they use uveprom or at least they did in the past. Most people just call them eproms I know but the fullly qualified name is nessisary to seperate it from eeproms.
Most manufacured computers use proms or roms. ROMs are manufactured with the data installed proms are manufactured blank but burn once and stay that way. eproms are erasable. uveproms are erasable by ultra violet light. A small amount of sunlight is UV and that silver (or worse white) tab over the window dosen't reflect all the UV light. After a few years enough light leaks through to cause some of the bits on the uveprom to erase.
PC motherboard manufactuers prefered to use uveproms so they could recycle BIOS roms with old code instead of tossing them. (This also was due to the nature of PCs at the time forever having the BIOS tweeked)
Apple however used ROMs. So did IBM so I think you'll find the original IBM brand name PCs still work. However you'll find those PCs have a bunch of upgrade rom chips inserted. IBMs method did not require tossing the old roms but just adding new ones.
Recovering old PCs is simply a matter of reburnning the BIOS and it wouldn't hurt if you got the latest upgrades while your at it many old bios required you used a dos application to set up the system settings while newer PC bios roms have that in the software. And a few PC upgrades are entirely BIOS upgrades. Wouldn't kill to have ISA plug and play support added to an old 386 now would it?
I think the "PC Clone" makers really didn't care if your PC lasted 5 years. In fact they'd be thrilled if it didn't. If you didn't eventually upgrade they'd be out of business.
Yes you personally.. Nobody else.. Not me or her but YOU. Just kidding. It dosen't matter if you personally upgrade so long as most users upgrade and little things like this make sure the majority of the market dosen't sit back and say "Welp this is all I need thanks"... That sort of thing nearly killed Atari.
However I've not seen anything quite this detailed. It is easier to modify a computer case than it is to mod a car. The car has to remain road worthy and you can't violate any local laws in your design. Some places will issue a fix it ticket for extra lights on your car. (Get a light kit at your local auto shop)
The only illegal case mod I can think of is stuffing explosives in the computer and that only becouse having the explosives to start with is probably a violation of some laws. Well that and it's really stupid.
Most of the body mods I've heard of are for the old VW Bugs. Two populare ones my mom was intrested in was the key in the back that made the bug look like a big wind up toy and one that is a replica body of a much more expensive car. (Why fork over for a gas hog when you can look the part and still have decent fule consumption?)
Most mods have to do with loud stereos. But I have sensitive ears and I'd much rather remove the speakers from the car entirely and use the space for computers.
People will mod everything. Computer, Car, Home, Self. Yeah... I understand quite a few plastic surgens aren't to happy with the more exotic alterations. I draw the line at my body. Thow I'm not exactly creative the mods I want usually involve installing Linux. Install computers on board the car and run Linux (Mobile computing) install computers in the house to run the house. My computer IS my TV so no more "install computer in TV" gigs but that one ended long before I got intrested in Linux. Back then I just wanted to install computers in everything.
Except my body... No install Linux in me body thanks.
Program the unit to dream of what actually will happen and how I could proffit from it.
The plot: "I'm sitting comfortably at my Pentium 4 Linux box reading e-mail as I think back over the events of the last month and how I became indupendently wealthy."
If that works then I'll dream about owning Microsoft and releasing a GPLed version of Windows. (Windows GPL the new open source edition now on source forge)
I'd like to add that 'intellectual property' holding back progress is one of the big proofs that capitalism has long out-lived the usefulness it once had (i.e.: overcoming feudal backwardness). It's time for socialism. WAY past time, actually. We are talking about China one of the few nations left to use as an example of what happends when you get rid of capitalism.
Apparently everyone on/. IS an opinionated fool just not the same opinions.
Intelectual property isn't an issue in China. But let's go with it. First a disclamer: Knowing someone who went to China dose not magicly endow me with knowing what China is like. The fact is only to let you know this is second hand information etc etc got it?
My boss has famaly in China and takes her kids with her to see them once a year. Her son is a little geek so I've been teaching him and he occasionally tells me what China is like. One of those details is he can find sevral versions of some games. If a game is buggy as hell someone will fix the bugs and release a debugged version. There are quite a few "versions" of Windows in China. (He has them installed on all three of his PCs.. He likes Knoppix he just won't install Linux).
You forgot: Nano, Joe, qedit, notepad, tee, cat, edlin, ed, pico, hex keypad on rom burnner, electro magnet on var pot used to record on magnetic disk or tape, Quantum flux manipulations of the datapaths enerting the processor.
Or just programming your own quantium realitys.
Whatever... There are endless numbers of editers. We are all diffrent.
Are they like us? Who is us? If you boil out the diffrences between all us geeks around the earth you'll find all that is left is the very basic deffinition of geek. Hence if they weren't "like us" they wouldn't be geeks.
If you mean "like us american geeks" well du.. no. But no more diffrent than chinese geeks.
We live in diffrent cultures but we all come to the same Internet and we are all human... Well most of us... as a rule... (I'm the exception that proves the rule)
First Person Shooters are good for plotting out stratagy. After all in a first person shooter your stratagy is what will make or break you.
Of course some jerk out there is telling the world first person shooters desensitise people to violence. I'll lay odds he thinks all the hateful stares he get's from gammers are the result of FPS and not the BS he sells in his book.
Of course now he'll make a second book clamming massive multiplayer online games have the same impact.
It was inevitable I suppose. Once the lay public got their hands on it en-mass, the search-spammers targetted it. Once the google users hit a certain critical mass, it all went downhill. Perhaps we should just keep the next best thing to ourselves...?;-)
Quite a few high school guidence counclers actually believe wemen can't make a successful carrer in technical fields and will actively discurage intrest in those fields. When the guidence councilers ultimately desides what classes the students get to take that bies will effect the class attendence of the technical classes. Reasurence from the teachers that it's not a problem dose not help.
Equally famaly members will also discurage girls from getting involved in computers becouse "It's too complex".
This is less and less over time. Each generation has less interfearence as we learn just how important computers really are in the world today.
We can thank peoples addatudes twords wemen in the 1970s and 80's for the limited representation of wemen on the Internet today.
I just went through a very long rant on the subject responding to someone who declared with out a doupt ADD was fiction. Others here use the words "over dignosed" and such. The reality isn't that easy. ADD is for real and many people with this very sereous disorder go suffering there whole life with out proper treatment. At the same time whole groups of kids are being dignosed who have absolutly no symptoms.
There is much to say on the subject so I'll simplify the whole issue. Schools and teachers have a certan agenda to get certen kinds of kids on ritalin. Kids with ADD aren't included in that agenda. The dignosis rate is probably about right it just so happends that for every kid who is dignised with ADD and dosen't have it there is a kid who dose have it and isn't receaving treatment.
We are learning more about ADD as time moves on. Better dignostic tools etc help identify those who truely have the disorder.
Untill then it's best to say if the medication is working it's probably true if it isn't seek a second opinion. Also if you do have problems and are told your NOT ADD get a second opinion. You may have it and just not fit into the other catagorys that get called ADD.
I did quite a bit of research on the subject after a friend of mine turnned up with REAL ADD having never been dignosed untill she was an adult. This after dealing with countless cases of false ADD in children. The diffrences between adult dignosed ADD and child dignosed ADD were so dramatic I could only conclude the dignosis was being aimmed at dignosing kids with unrelated disorders as being ADD.
The problem is that ADD/ADHD is probably the worst dignosed disease in history to the point of industry wide malpractace.
In the 1970s and 80s there were three major influcens in the education system.
1. Open education: This was a scientificly proven method for teaching kids. It had effectively resolved learning problems as they showed up. 2. Specal Education: This is the governmently funded program for dealing with the same learning problems. 3. The education system was in a "money grab" mode that would destory the education system. 4. School board members padding paychecks etc etc. Typical burrocratic BS.
The method: Some teachers would watch for kids who could be set up as ADD (instead of helping them). This became such a practace it had a name "throw away kids". The kid would have some problem. Be it a problem understanding the matereal or a psycological disorder or maybe the kid had a real learning problem. However the education system isn't where you address psycological disorders. Minnor issues can be handled in the normal classroom and real learning problems can be addressed in open education.
However ADD kids automaticly go to specal education and for every specal education kid a school gets the federal government gives them more money.
But first the kid has to be dignosed ADD and a teacher can't do that. Once the teacher "recognises" the disorder they recomend the kid be sent off to an ADD specalist.
The problem here is that ADD specalists are unusually motivated to "find" the illness. Even more so when the illness is a rare disorder. (Eather they find the disorder in the kids the schools were sending them or they go out of practace).
The solution: Send your kid to an ADD specallist who specalises in ADULT ADD not childhood ADD.
Many kids had clear and obveous signs of ADD as children but were passed over becouse they didn't demonstrate the symptoms the teachers and ADD experts were looking for. Later on adult ADD experts had no problems recognising the very real disorder to spite a lifetime of learning to adjust for this sereous nurrological disorder.
While the education system no longer relys on ADD for additional funding and ritalin is no longer the only cure for the disorder. The damage is done. Two decades of misdignosis and looking for the wrong signs has infected the system.
If this girl actually has ADD her parents should consider one of the other medications on the market. Based purely on the parents discription of things I'd like to suggest that she may have ADD and annother disorder. I've never known grunting to be a side effect of ritalin.
I realise there will be some reasonable sceptisim so I'll provide the simplist of proof.
An entire industry looking for adult ADD in people who were NEVER dignost as a child yet suffered classic symptoms sense childhood. Maybe even told they didn't have the disorder. Why? Becouse they didn't have the symptoms they were looking for. Symptoms of OTHER unreated disorders rather than the actual symptoms of ADD.
And..
Whole groups of people who were dignosed with ADD with out having any actual symptoms now declaring that ADD dose not exist.
And now we have a world of people who will stand strong declaring ADD dose exist and a group who clames ADD dose not exist. The truth as always lay somewhere between.
So it seems they've already fixed the problem. Should we blame lazy sysadmins for not keeping their systems patched? Or should we blame Microsoft??
Yes. Blame the lazy System admin for not applying the patch. Blame Microsoft for trainning WinNT System admin to not apply the patch. (Windows admin believe they need to run tests to be sure everything will work with the patch. Eather that is poor trainning or a history of defective patches. Both are in the hands of Microsoft.)
I made exactly the same mistake TWICE. When I designed an AI operating system I made the worst mistake I could make. Designing the system assuming unliminted disk space and then using a floppy disk drive for storage. The database grew wildly then (per my design) when it had access problems it erased the whole database and created a fresh blank database.
I repeated this mistake on my BBS only this time the database took months to fill up but with the same results. It couldn't modify the file so it erased it and created a new file.
At some point I'd come it realise that having the program automaticly erase files (just becouse it couldn't write to them) was a bad idea.
In the past many ISPs would add filters and NOT tell the users they were doing it. Now a days however ISPs (most notably Earthlink and MSN) advertise spam blocking as a feature. If people wanted this stuff you'd think non-filtering ISPs would advertise "You get ALL your e-mail".
But back to the original point. Spammers have used misleading topics in e-mail if only to make sure you don't delete the message. That and creating spam lists based on people who DO NOT like spam or of people who have manually opted out of spam lists. The people who actually make money with spam don't care about selling products via spam as they sell spam services. The people who sell stuff via spam aren't making money becouse they are reaching markets who are wholely disintrested in buying stuff from them.
I think the main reason that the GPL has never been tested in courst is because violations are very difficult to prove.
During an interview Bill Gates was faced with this question and he basicly said he'd use software experts to prove his case.
It's possable to identify what operating system sent the data packets by how it organise the packet headers. Likewise with most software. Some behavure is unique and can be spotted a mile away. As a result it is usually not as difficult to recognise liccens violations as one might think.
BUT. This is not a perfict solution. Example: My old BBS changed behavure according to clues from the users system. Often this would make it nearly identical to populare BBS software available for the users system. One user was happy to find at least one TRS 80 BBS left and one user posted a message to me about how he'll never be back becouse he hates IBMs. At the time I didn't own a TRS 80 or a PC.
Yeah the PC? Those clues didn't always work.. wops.
It would seam to me that by adding Microsofts own digital rights managment format to the itunes software Apple is making it possable to use music from other services on the ipod.
If I remeber correctly itunes isn't just the store but the client software that can rip CDs and do other intresting tricks.
Also if Apple is offering music via Microsofts format isn't that adding a choice not taking one away?
Novel has fought SCOs effort to go after Linux from the start. SCO clames full ownership of Unix based on that one would presume SCO isn't paying Novel roialtys or if they are they plan to find a reason to stop.
Novel has resisted SCOs efforts from the start and has made it pritty clear they don't support SCO.
If it looks like a Penquin, walks like a Penquin and Squaks like a Penquin it's not a duck.
Intrestingly enough this was the same inertia that made Windows "populare" in the first place. Comapanys insisting on Microsoft brand Dos (And Microsoft insisting Windows be shipped with) then Dos being replaced with Windows 95 (if you want MsDos 7 it's part of Windows 95). MsDos and Windows 3.x went out the window when companys tossed "old" computers to fix the Y2K bug problem.
With no major reason for users to dump old Windows machines Microsoft faces a problem. Many Windows users are quite happy with Windows. They are happy with the systems they have. They don't have any need or reason to plunk out $25 to $200 to replace Windows with ME and with blaster lurking maybe they don't want to.
Linux users (who are happy with Linux as is) upgrade becouse they can for free. Windows users (who are happy with Windows as is) do not upgrade Windows becouse they can't for free.
Many people accused Microsoft of engenearing the bugs into Windows to overcome this problem so that Windows users who are perfictly happy with Windows have a reason to pay $25 to $50 for an upgrade. It's called "Planned obsolesence".
Now if Microsoft can't make enough sales for any reason they risk going by way of Atari. As long as users are happy with Windows in greater numbers they don't need to upgrade (unless to upgrade the system).
If I knew Bill Gates were "slumming it" with the regulare techie folks I'd contact the local pro-Microsoft media outlet so hords of Microsofties would bug him all the time. Really want to hurt someone throw fanatics at them. Pies clean off with a towl and a good sense of hummor.
The stove top appears impractical for cooking. It appears to me the stove is eather decoration or for cooking stuff inside not on top.
The bed in the middle of the room. Someone gose remaking his home to light it up with LEDs and hangs the TV over the stove and you think he's practical? I sereously doupt he cares about the space as much as how pritty the bed looks in the middle of the room.
Hair gel? Ok call me bies I have no hair. I shave outside in the back becouse people get fussy about hair in the sink. I stop up the drain before brushing my teath becouse else things fall in. You can use inside of the sink to hold stuff once the drain is stopped up. Sure it's more practical to have working space on the sink but as I've pointed out the LED consept proves he's not a practical guy.
"Pubic domain" means "Not restricted in any way what so ever piriod". The problem with this is when people make commertal products with your public domain and pretend you don't exist. It has happend.
Example: Xmodem. The author made Xmodem to trade files with his friends so the code was always public domain. In this way it found it's way into a number of free and commertal terminal programs and also formed the basis of many supperor file transfer protocals. End result: The author of Xmodem can trade files with just about anyone.
In as much as this example had a happy ending this is not always the case.
Take the stunt SCO is trying to pull right now with Linux. The GPL prevented anyone from attempting this before.
That being that SCO is basicly making a closed source version of Linux and attempting to frighten everyone into switching to it. The intend to issue legal threats to everyone who uses Linux and dose not use SCOs version untill everyone gives up the open source version.
Becouse of the GPL all the Linux destrobution maker has the right to sue SCO for violating the liccens where as if Linux were public domain SCO could sue all they want and assuming they can keep Daril from making some stupid slanderous statments there'd be nothing anyone could do about it.
Most spammers use the opt out list to sell to other spammers.
Scott Richter clames to be all for the anti-spam laws and runs a strictly opt in operation. However this seams highly unlikely when he is also listed as one of the top spammers.
For those 3 out of 1000 emails that complied to the can spam law, He was suggesting filtering the spam that clamed to comply not spam that actually complys.
Remember "This is not spam" apearing in just about every peace of spam in the early days?
In the early days every spammer was trying to redefine spam as "everyone else". Some called it S.P.A.M. an accranym giving spam a unique deffinition. Some clamed spam was a Usenet only thing. Some just clamed they weren't spamming.
So I have no doupt that any spammer clamming to comply with the Can-Spam law do so becouse they don't actually do anything of the sort.
Spammers like to believe they can redefine laws to mean anything they want them to mean.
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My Mac is still about the size of a stack of paper, and still has a little more power than the basic IBM PC
Don't you mean IBM Power PC?
Ohhh but...
Quite a few early Macs died quickly suffering from a sereous defect. A poor powersuply I believe.
Early PCs had the same problem however for sligtly diffrent reasons.
The Mac power supply didn't supply enough power for the computer so it slowly burnt out suffering the same problems of the Channel F and Commodore 64.
However the C64 power supply would last a very long time and most units are still working today. They are also easly to replace making it easy to just buy a new one. It was a tolerable nusence for a cheap computer.
The Mac powersuply like the Channel F PS gave out quickly and was not easly replaced.
In all three examples (and the PC) the power supply death could take out other parts killing the computer.
The PC power supply issue was diffrent. It was actually over rated for the PC BUT the PC was expandable the original Mac was not. For power supplys this meant a PCs power requirements could increase over time as each upgrade requires more power. The user who is fussy and not wanting to open the case won't be upgrading it eather.
If the power supply needs to be replaced it's not much more complex than adding any other hardware.
Something that long bothered me about the PCs is that they use uveprom or at least they did in the past. Most people just call them eproms I know but the fullly qualified name is nessisary to seperate it from eeproms.
Most manufacured computers use proms or roms. ROMs are manufactured with the data installed proms are manufactured blank but burn once and stay that way. eproms are erasable. uveproms are erasable by ultra violet light.
A small amount of sunlight is UV and that silver (or worse white) tab over the window dosen't reflect all the UV light. After a few years enough light leaks through to cause some of the bits on the uveprom to erase.
PC motherboard manufactuers prefered to use uveproms so they could recycle BIOS roms with old code instead of tossing them.
(This also was due to the nature of PCs at the time forever having the BIOS tweeked)
Apple however used ROMs. So did IBM so I think you'll find the original IBM brand name PCs still work. However you'll find those PCs have a bunch of upgrade rom chips inserted. IBMs method did not require tossing the old roms but just adding new ones.
Recovering old PCs is simply a matter of reburnning the BIOS and it wouldn't hurt if you got the latest upgrades while your at it many old bios required you used a dos application to set up the system settings while newer PC bios roms have that in the software. And a few PC upgrades are entirely BIOS upgrades. Wouldn't kill to have ISA plug and play support added to an old 386 now would it?
I think the "PC Clone" makers really didn't care if your PC lasted 5 years. In fact they'd be thrilled if it didn't. If you didn't eventually upgrade they'd be out of business.
Yes you personally.. Nobody else.. Not me or her but YOU. Just kidding. It dosen't matter if you personally upgrade so long as most users upgrade and little things like this make sure the majority of the market dosen't sit back and say "Welp this is all I need thanks"... That sort of thing nearly killed Atari.
However I've not seen anything quite this detailed. It is easier to modify a computer case than it is to mod a car.
The car has to remain road worthy and you can't violate any local laws in your design. Some places will issue a fix it ticket for extra lights on your car.
(Get a light kit at your local auto shop)
The only illegal case mod I can think of is stuffing explosives in the computer and that only becouse having the explosives to start with is probably a violation of some laws. Well that and it's really stupid.
Most of the body mods I've heard of are for the old VW Bugs. Two populare ones my mom was intrested in was the key in the back that made the bug look like a big wind up toy and one that is a replica body of a much more expensive car.
(Why fork over for a gas hog when you can look the part and still have decent fule consumption?)
Most mods have to do with loud stereos.
But I have sensitive ears and I'd much rather remove the speakers from the car entirely and use the space for computers.
People will mod everything. Computer, Car, Home, Self. Yeah... I understand quite a few plastic surgens aren't to happy with the more exotic alterations.
I draw the line at my body.
Thow I'm not exactly creative the mods I want usually involve installing Linux. Install computers on board the car and run Linux (Mobile computing) install computers in the house to run the house. My computer IS my TV so no more "install computer in TV" gigs but that one ended long before I got intrested in Linux. Back then I just wanted to install computers in everything.
Except my body...
No install Linux in me body thanks.
Program the unit to dream of what actually will happen and how I could proffit from it.
The plot: "I'm sitting comfortably at my Pentium 4 Linux box reading e-mail as I think back over the events of the last month and how I became indupendently wealthy."
If that works then I'll dream about owning Microsoft and releasing a GPLed version of Windows.
(Windows GPL the new open source edition now on source forge)
I'd like to add that 'intellectual property' holding back progress is one of the big proofs that capitalism has long out-lived the usefulness it once had (i.e.: overcoming feudal backwardness).
/. IS an opinionated fool just not the same opinions.
It's time for socialism. WAY past time, actually.
We are talking about China one of the few nations left to use as an example of what happends when you get rid of capitalism.
Apparently everyone on
Intelectual property isn't an issue in China.
But let's go with it.
First a disclamer: Knowing someone who went to China dose not magicly endow me with knowing what China is like.
The fact is only to let you know this is second hand information etc etc got it?
My boss has famaly in China and takes her kids with her to see them once a year.
Her son is a little geek so I've been teaching him and he occasionally tells me what China is like.
One of those details is he can find sevral versions of some games. If a game is buggy as hell someone will fix the bugs and release a debugged version. There are quite a few "versions" of Windows in China.
(He has them installed on all three of his PCs.. He likes Knoppix he just won't install Linux).
You forgot:
Nano, Joe, qedit, notepad, tee, cat, edlin, ed, pico, hex keypad on rom burnner, electro magnet on var pot used to record on magnetic disk or tape, Quantum flux manipulations of the datapaths enerting the processor.
Or just programming your own quantium realitys.
Whatever...
There are endless numbers of editers.
We are all diffrent.
Are they like us? Who is us?
If you boil out the diffrences between all us geeks around the earth you'll find all that is left is the very basic deffinition of geek. Hence if they weren't "like us" they wouldn't be geeks.
If you mean "like us american geeks" well du.. no. But no more diffrent than chinese geeks.
We live in diffrent cultures but we all come to the same Internet and we are all human...
Well most of us... as a rule...
(I'm the exception that proves the rule)
First Person Shooters are good for plotting out stratagy.
After all in a first person shooter your stratagy is what will make or break you.
Of course some jerk out there is telling the world first person shooters desensitise people to violence. I'll lay odds he thinks all the hateful stares he get's from gammers are the result of FPS and not the BS he sells in his book.
Of course now he'll make a second book clamming massive multiplayer online games have the same impact.
It was inevitable I suppose. Once the lay public got their hands on it en-mass, the search-spammers targetted it. Once the google users hit a certain critical mass, it all went downhill. ;-)
Perhaps we should just keep the next best thing to ourselves...?
Ahh but now they are leaving best thing before Google alone.
And Alta Vista's Babble Fish is ferther along than Googles language tools.
Quite a few high school guidence counclers actually believe wemen can't make a successful carrer in technical fields and will actively discurage intrest in those fields.
When the guidence councilers ultimately desides what classes the students get to take that bies will effect the class attendence of the technical classes. Reasurence from the teachers that it's not a problem dose not help.
Equally famaly members will also discurage girls from getting involved in computers becouse "It's too complex".
This is less and less over time. Each generation has less interfearence as we learn just how important computers really are in the world today.
We can thank peoples addatudes twords wemen in the 1970s and 80's for the limited representation of wemen on the Internet today.
I just went through a very long rant on the subject responding to someone who declared with out a doupt ADD was fiction.
Others here use the words "over dignosed" and such.
The reality isn't that easy.
ADD is for real and many people with this very sereous disorder go suffering there whole life with out proper treatment.
At the same time whole groups of kids are being dignosed who have absolutly no symptoms.
There is much to say on the subject so I'll simplify the whole issue.
Schools and teachers have a certan agenda to get certen kinds of kids on ritalin. Kids with ADD aren't included in that agenda.
The dignosis rate is probably about right it just so happends that for every kid who is dignised with ADD and dosen't have it there is a kid who dose have it and isn't receaving treatment.
We are learning more about ADD as time moves on. Better dignostic tools etc help identify those who truely have the disorder.
Untill then it's best to say if the medication is working it's probably true if it isn't seek a second opinion.
Also if you do have problems and are told your NOT ADD get a second opinion. You may have it and just not fit into the other catagorys that get called ADD.
I did quite a bit of research on the subject after a friend of mine turnned up with REAL ADD having never been dignosed untill she was an adult.
This after dealing with countless cases of false ADD in children. The diffrences between adult dignosed ADD and child dignosed ADD were so dramatic I could only conclude the dignosis was being aimmed at dignosing kids with unrelated disorders as being ADD.
The problem is that ADD/ADHD is probably the worst dignosed disease in history to the point of industry wide malpractace.
In the 1970s and 80s there were three major influcens in the education system.
1. Open education: This was a scientificly proven method for teaching kids. It had effectively resolved learning problems as they showed up.
2. Specal Education: This is the governmently funded program for dealing with the same learning problems.
3. The education system was in a "money grab" mode that would destory the education system.
4. School board members padding paychecks etc etc. Typical burrocratic BS.
The method: Some teachers would watch for kids who could be set up as ADD (instead of helping them). This became such a practace it had a name "throw away kids".
The kid would have some problem. Be it a problem understanding the matereal or a psycological disorder or maybe the kid had a real learning problem.
However the education system isn't where you address psycological disorders. Minnor issues can be handled in the normal classroom and real learning problems can be addressed in open education.
However ADD kids automaticly go to specal education and for every specal education kid a school gets the federal government gives them more money.
But first the kid has to be dignosed ADD and a teacher can't do that.
Once the teacher "recognises" the disorder they recomend the kid be sent off to an ADD specalist.
The problem here is that ADD specalists are unusually motivated to "find" the illness. Even more so when the illness is a rare disorder.
(Eather they find the disorder in the kids the schools were sending them or they go out of practace).
The solution: Send your kid to an ADD specallist who specalises in ADULT ADD not childhood ADD.
Many kids had clear and obveous signs of ADD as children but were passed over becouse they didn't demonstrate the symptoms the teachers and ADD experts were looking for.
Later on adult ADD experts had no problems recognising the very real disorder to spite a lifetime of learning to adjust for this sereous nurrological disorder.
While the education system no longer relys on ADD for additional funding and ritalin is no longer the only cure for the disorder. The damage is done.
Two decades of misdignosis and looking for the wrong signs has infected the system.
If this girl actually has ADD her parents should consider one of the other medications on the market.
Based purely on the parents discription of things I'd like to suggest that she may have ADD and annother disorder. I've never known grunting to be a side effect of ritalin.
I realise there will be some reasonable sceptisim so I'll provide the simplist of proof.
An entire industry looking for adult ADD in people who were NEVER dignost as a child yet suffered classic symptoms sense childhood. Maybe even told they didn't have the disorder. Why? Becouse they didn't have the symptoms they were looking for. Symptoms of OTHER unreated disorders rather than the actual symptoms of ADD.
And..
Whole groups of people who were dignosed with ADD with out having any actual symptoms now declaring that ADD dose not exist.
And now we have a world of people who will stand strong declaring ADD dose exist and a group who clames ADD dose not exist.
The truth as always lay somewhere between.
ADD exists it's just not what they are treating.
So it seems they've already fixed the problem.
Should we blame lazy sysadmins for not keeping their systems patched?
Or should we blame Microsoft? ?
Yes.
Blame the lazy System admin for not applying the patch.
Blame Microsoft for trainning WinNT System admin to not apply the patch.
(Windows admin believe they need to run tests to be sure everything will work with the patch.
Eather that is poor trainning or a history of defective patches. Both are in the hands of Microsoft.)
I made exactly the same mistake TWICE.
When I designed an AI operating system I made the worst mistake I could make. Designing the system assuming unliminted disk space and then using a floppy disk drive for storage.
The database grew wildly then (per my design) when it had access problems it erased the whole database and created a fresh blank database.
I repeated this mistake on my BBS only this time the database took months to fill up but with the same results. It couldn't modify the file so it erased it and created a new file.
At some point I'd come it realise that having the program automaticly erase files (just becouse it couldn't write to them) was a bad idea.
In the past many ISPs would add filters and NOT tell the users they were doing it.
Now a days however ISPs (most notably Earthlink and MSN) advertise spam blocking as a feature.
If people wanted this stuff you'd think non-filtering ISPs would advertise "You get ALL your e-mail".
But back to the original point. Spammers have used misleading topics in e-mail if only to make sure you don't delete the message. That and creating spam lists based on people who DO NOT like spam or of people who have manually opted out of spam lists.
The people who actually make money with spam don't care about selling products via spam as they sell spam services. The people who sell stuff via spam aren't making money becouse they are reaching markets who are wholely disintrested in buying stuff from them.
I'm sure SCO would love that. The best legal team the avrage collage student could afford.
Yeah...
Or maybe we could ALL put our money where our mouths are and create a fund.
I think the main reason that the GPL has never been tested in courst is because violations are very difficult to prove.
During an interview Bill Gates was faced with this question and he basicly said he'd use software experts to prove his case.
It's possable to identify what operating system sent the data packets by how it organise the packet headers.
Likewise with most software. Some behavure is unique and can be spotted a mile away.
As a result it is usually not as difficult to recognise liccens violations as one might think.
BUT. This is not a perfict solution. Example: My old BBS changed behavure according to clues from the users system. Often this would make it nearly identical to populare BBS software available for the users system.
One user was happy to find at least one TRS 80 BBS left and one user posted a message to me about how he'll never be back becouse he hates IBMs. At the time I didn't own a TRS 80 or a PC.
Yeah the PC? Those clues didn't always work.. wops.
It would seam to me that by adding Microsofts own digital rights managment format to the itunes software Apple is making it possable to use music from other services on the ipod.
If I remeber correctly itunes isn't just the store but the client software that can rip CDs and do other intresting tricks.
Also if Apple is offering music via Microsofts format isn't that adding a choice not taking one away?
Novel has fought SCOs effort to go after Linux from the start.
SCO clames full ownership of Unix based on that one would presume SCO isn't paying Novel roialtys or if they are they plan to find a reason to stop.
Novel has resisted SCOs efforts from the start and has made it pritty clear they don't support SCO.
If it looks like a Penquin, walks like a Penquin and Squaks like a Penquin it's not a duck.
Intrestingly enough this was the same inertia that made Windows "populare" in the first place.
Comapanys insisting on Microsoft brand Dos (And Microsoft insisting Windows be shipped with) then Dos being replaced with Windows 95 (if you want MsDos 7 it's part of Windows 95).
MsDos and Windows 3.x went out the window when companys tossed "old" computers to fix the Y2K bug problem.
With no major reason for users to dump old Windows machines Microsoft faces a problem.
Many Windows users are quite happy with Windows. They are happy with the systems they have. They don't have any need or reason to plunk out $25 to $200 to replace Windows with ME and with blaster lurking maybe they don't want to.
Linux users (who are happy with Linux as is) upgrade becouse they can for free. Windows users (who are happy with Windows as is) do not upgrade Windows becouse they can't for free.
Many people accused Microsoft of engenearing the bugs into Windows to overcome this problem so that Windows users who are perfictly happy with Windows have a reason to pay $25 to $50 for an upgrade.
It's called "Planned obsolesence".
Now if Microsoft can't make enough sales for any reason they risk going by way of Atari.
As long as users are happy with Windows in greater numbers they don't need to upgrade (unless to upgrade the system).
If I knew Bill Gates were "slumming it" with the regulare techie folks I'd contact the local pro-Microsoft media outlet so hords of Microsofties would bug him all the time.
Really want to hurt someone throw fanatics at them. Pies clean off with a towl and a good sense of hummor.
The stove top appears impractical for cooking. It appears to me the stove is eather decoration or for cooking stuff inside not on top.
The bed in the middle of the room. Someone gose remaking his home to light it up with LEDs and hangs the TV over the stove and you think he's practical?
I sereously doupt he cares about the space as much as how pritty the bed looks in the middle of the room.
Hair gel? Ok call me bies I have no hair. I shave outside in the back becouse people get fussy about hair in the sink.
I stop up the drain before brushing my teath becouse else things fall in. You can use inside of the sink to hold stuff once the drain is stopped up.
Sure it's more practical to have working space on the sink but as I've pointed out the LED consept proves he's not a practical guy.
"Pubic domain" means "Not restricted in any way what so ever piriod".
The problem with this is when people make commertal products with your public domain and pretend you don't exist. It has happend.
Example: Xmodem. The author made Xmodem to trade files with his friends so the code was always public domain. In this way it found it's way into a number of free and commertal terminal programs and also formed the basis of many supperor file transfer protocals.
End result: The author of Xmodem can trade files with just about anyone.
In as much as this example had a happy ending this is not always the case.
Take the stunt SCO is trying to pull right now with Linux.
The GPL prevented anyone from attempting this before.
That being that SCO is basicly making a closed source version of Linux and attempting to frighten everyone into switching to it.
The intend to issue legal threats to everyone who uses Linux and dose not use SCOs version untill everyone gives up the open source version.
Becouse of the GPL all the Linux destrobution maker has the right to sue SCO for violating the liccens where as if Linux were public domain SCO could sue all they want and assuming they can keep Daril from making some stupid slanderous statments there'd be nothing anyone could do about it.
IANAL...
Most spammers use the opt out list to sell to other spammers.
Scott Richter clames to be all for the anti-spam laws and runs a strictly opt in operation.
However this seams highly unlikely when he is also listed as one of the top spammers.
Refrence links:
Why Scott Richter is Doomed
PC world artical on spam
Microsoft artical This one on the illegal activitys of Scott Richter.
Scott Richter clames he's folowing all the rules but evedence suggests otherwise.
Spam proffits illistrate this quite well.
Spammers have always clammed big proffits from spam but I know enough to realise this just isn't true.
The spam facilitating companys make money but spammers lose there shirts and dissapear.
Who gets the printer toner spam anymore?
Not to long ago someone did a study and found out most spammers are just e-mail harvesters and don't actually have any product to sell.
For those 3 out of 1000 emails that complied to the can spam law,
He was suggesting filtering the spam that clamed to comply not spam that actually complys.
Remember "This is not spam" apearing in just about every peace of spam in the early days?
In the early days every spammer was trying to redefine spam as "everyone else".
Some called it S.P.A.M. an accranym giving spam a unique deffinition.
Some clamed spam was a Usenet only thing.
Some just clamed they weren't spamming.
So I have no doupt that any spammer clamming to comply with the Can-Spam law do so becouse they don't actually do anything of the sort.
Spammers like to believe they can redefine laws to mean anything they want them to mean.