So, if I buy a level 7 PC today I will still be able to buy a level 7 game next year and play it on my level 7 PC? I don't think so. Will they keep on upping the levels? By 2020 we get a level 696969 PC to play Leasure Suit Larry;-) Hmm?
I believe I would have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or something similar long ago if I grew up in an environment that even thought of checking people for that. Everyone always told my mother I am hyperactive, I need to quiet down, I drive them nuts, I do not pay attention, etc.
First - DIET: My recommendation to you... check your childs DIET! I realized long ago that what I eat and drink affects my ability to concentrate immensely. As such I have deliberatly started to limit or irradicate some foods from my diet. I never drink coffee, soda, tea, or anything with large amounts of sugar/caffein. I make sure I eat FRESH fruit, drink only 100% fruit juices with no artifical sweetners, and definitely drink a lot of water. The typical stuff. But lately, due to my wife being allergic to milk etc, I have recognized something new that works VERY WELL! I have discovered "Eat Right For Your Type". Just search for it on google. I think the author of the book has a website at http://dadamo.com. After we started to eat according to the dietry descriptions in the book "Eat Right for Your Type", I can concentrate better, I get sick less, I feel more energized, and I have less allergies. The book basically describes the differences between people of different blood types, and what foods act as medicine, and which act as poison to your body. I am a type O, as such I eat lost of meats etc. My wife is a type A, as such she is a vegetarian. Just do yourself a favor, go to the good will store and buy one of these books (if you can find it).
Second - LIFE: What I found was that I was able to live with the way I am, and live with really well. Instead of trying to concentrate on ONE thing like everyone wants you to do I have adjusted myself to concentrating on no less than 2 things at a time. At work now, I make sure that my managers or co-workers know that I work that way and that I am NOT a single task person. Give me a bunch of tasks (at least 3) and give me deadlines that are tight on all of them. Do not expect me to get them done in sequence, and do not expect me to make more progress with one than the other. I switch between them every 20 to 40 minutes. I walk around a lot and always think about ways to do thing better... even if I tell no-one about them. I listen to radio while working, watch TV over a book while reading, make food while working on a laptop... just doing many things at once.
What people around me have realized: I am very good at what I do. They can trust me to work on more than once things at a time. I had the hardest time to convince the brain-dead teachers that this is the way I worked. I REALLY have issues with teachers that expect children to just sit still and pay attention. That in my mind is not a good teacher. I good teacher should be able manage 20 to 30 children.. each in their own right. I have had teachers like that... and I have taught a few classed to large classes myself. In my mind AD(H)D is mostly a problem with teachers. I know I am blaming someone... but really... I have a few friends who have received letters from their school in which the teacher says that their child does not sit still. WHICH CHILD SITS STILL? I would expect my children to not sit still.
Well... this is getting to much for me to organize in this itsy bitsy slashdot edit window... and I am too lazy to copy it out to edit.
What I am saying is... pay attention to your childs diet. It is immensely important. NO JUNK FOOD WHATSOEVER. Junk food includes little lunch packs you but at the local grocer too. When you have that under control try to work with your child to help them cope with doing many things at once so they do not get bored. Do not try to get them to concetrate on one thing at a time. Put all of their home work in front of them and let them work on it however they want... 2 minutes here, 6 there. It worked for me. It may not work for you child... but as long as you pay attention to his/her diet I am happy.
My answer to that is Cygwin... if any of your internal users have Windows PCs. You (the user), just installs Cygwin and voila... port forwarding etc working any which way you want;-)
I always said I will get a PDA when I can talk to it. Just recently my wife decided I need to be more organized and bought me a Zaurus for my birthday. After I won bonus points several times for remembering things I usually forget she is convinced it is worth its weight in GOLD. Now, for my opinion, I use it when we have meetings with high profile people... not to impress them... but to make th turnaround time from meeting to minutes as short as possible. My boss have noted my use of the Zaurus NUMEROUS times and always reminds me to take it out when we have a meeting.
The reason why the Zaurus outperforms the PDAs of my coworkers so easily... it has an INTEGRATED KEYBOARD. If you are thinking of buying a PDA... do not get hosed into buying one with a stupid stylus interface ONLY or even one that can have a keyboard plugged into it when it is sitting on a desk... buy one that a keyboard built into it... it is definitely worth it and will prevent your toy from falling into disuse.
I use it every day since forever. Definitely before May. It has been available since before that in previous versions. I have used it every day together with the other cygwin tools (ssh of course) to open applicatons from our sun boxen at work and my Linux boxen at home. I basically run it full screen and use very few other tools at all. It works like a charm on Win2k... I have never had any crashes and I run most all of my KDE apps from home without a problem. I would definitely recommend it! It works better than many commercial X servers out there, especially since you implicitely have access to to the full UNIX command shell. Look at it, ENJOY IT!
I have had back problems for several years. I thought it was due to the fact that I damaged my back when I was younger. Most Chiropracters told me to come back if I experience pain again (dumb-asses). I finally went to a Chiropracter a year ago and he told me... you have to do stretch exercises for your lower back. And it WORKED... >/b>
Coming from South Africa, I have a tendency to actually read some of the stuff that pops up about it. I read this and I realized that is serious. Most of you played this off as something which should not be posted on Slashdot, even kindof flaming them for daring to put it on the site. Like it or not, our mascot is a penguin and any pengiuns should be close to our hearts.
Lets be hypothetical a little... would you say that a Swedish hacker is less of hacker than an American hacker? They are both hackers and from what I have seen on the newsgroups some of them make the news with more pizaz than many others;-)
Back to being a bit more serious. EVERY nut in the world knows that the conservation of a species is VERY important, since the loss of a species has several impacts on the environment that are only fully realized years after it has happened. These pengiuns off the South African coast are part of a penguin species that do not exist anywhere else in the world. Apart from the fact that the oil spill arrived during their breeding season, the impact of the oil spill will only be seen next year when hundreds, if not thousands of penguins are lost.
So, be serious for a moment and realize that if oil spills happen a few more places in the world, and not just in SA, the pengiun mascot we have may be the only living pengiun in the world by 2020.
It disturbs me to see "brainy" geeks be so unbelievably STUPID as to play off the importance of a species being in trouble. Drop that arrogant shithead approace to life and be better people. Perhaps you might even be a real software engineer then, and not just a hopeless script kiddie.
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So, if I buy a level 7 PC today I will still be able to buy a level 7 game next year and play it on my level 7 PC? I don't think so. Will they keep on upping the levels? By 2020 we get a level 696969 PC to play Leasure Suit Larry ;-) Hmm?
I believe I would have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or something similar long ago if I grew up in an environment that even thought of checking people for that. Everyone always told my mother I am hyperactive, I need to quiet down, I drive them nuts, I do not pay attention, etc.
... check your childs DIET! I realized long ago that what I eat and drink affects my ability to concentrate immensely. As such I have deliberatly started to limit or irradicate some foods from my diet. I never drink coffee, soda, tea, or anything with large amounts of sugar/caffein. I make sure I eat FRESH fruit, drink only 100% fruit juices with no artifical sweetners, and definitely drink a lot of water. The typical stuff. But lately, due to my wife being allergic to milk etc, I have recognized something new that works VERY WELL! I have discovered "Eat Right For Your Type". Just search for it on google. I think the author of the book has a website at http://dadamo.com. After we started to eat according to the dietry descriptions in the book "Eat Right for Your Type", I can concentrate better, I get sick less, I feel more energized, and I have less allergies. The book basically describes the differences between people of different blood types, and what foods act as medicine, and which act as poison to your body. I am a type O, as such I eat lost of meats etc. My wife is a type A, as such she is a vegetarian. Just do yourself a favor, go to the good will store and buy one of these books (if you can find it).
... even if I tell no-one about them. I listen to radio while working, watch TV over a book while reading, make food while working on a laptop ... just doing many things at once.
.. each in their own right. I have had teachers like that ... and I have taught a few classed to large classes myself. In my mind AD(H)D is mostly a problem with teachers. I know I am blaming someone ... but really ... I have a few friends who have received letters from their school in which the teacher says that their child does not sit still. WHICH CHILD SITS STILL? I would expect my children to not sit still.
... this is getting to much for me to organize in this itsy bitsy slashdot edit window ... and I am too lazy to copy it out to edit.
... pay attention to your childs diet. It is immensely important. NO JUNK FOOD WHATSOEVER. Junk food includes little lunch packs you but at the local grocer too. When you have that under control try to work with your child to help them cope with doing many things at once so they do not get bored. Do not try to get them to concetrate on one thing at a time. Put all of their home work in front of them and let them work on it however they want ... 2 minutes here, 6 there. It worked for me. It may not work for you child ... but as long as you pay attention to his/her diet I am happy.
First - DIET:
My recommendation to you
Second - LIFE:
What I found was that I was able to live with the way I am, and live with really well. Instead of trying to concentrate on ONE thing like everyone wants you to do I have adjusted myself to concentrating on no less than 2 things at a time. At work now, I make sure that my managers or co-workers know that I work that way and that I am NOT a single task person. Give me a bunch of tasks (at least 3) and give me deadlines that are tight on all of them. Do not expect me to get them done in sequence, and do not expect me to make more progress with one than the other. I switch between them every 20 to 40 minutes. I walk around a lot and always think about ways to do thing better
What people around me have realized: I am very good at what I do. They can trust me to work on more than once things at a time. I had the hardest time to convince the brain-dead teachers that this is the way I worked. I REALLY have issues with teachers that expect children to just sit still and pay attention. That in my mind is not a good teacher. I good teacher should be able manage 20 to 30 children
Well
What I am saying is
My answer to that is Cygwin ... if any of your internal users have Windows PCs. You (the user), just installs Cygwin and voila ... port forwarding etc working any which way you want ;-)
I always said I will get a PDA when I can talk to it. Just recently my wife decided I need to be more organized and bought me a Zaurus for my birthday. After I won bonus points several times for remembering things I usually forget she is convinced it is worth its weight in GOLD. Now, for my opinion, I use it when we have meetings with high profile people ... not to impress them ... but to make th turnaround time from meeting to minutes as short as possible. My boss have noted my use of the Zaurus NUMEROUS times and always reminds me to take it out when we have a meeting.
... it has an INTEGRATED KEYBOARD. If you are thinking of buying a PDA ... do not get hosed into buying one with a stupid stylus interface ONLY or even one that can have a keyboard plugged into it when it is sitting on a desk ... buy one that a keyboard built into it ... it is definitely worth it and will prevent your toy from falling into disuse.
The reason why the Zaurus outperforms the PDAs of my coworkers so easily
Frans
I use it every day since forever. Definitely before May. It has been available since before that in previous versions. I have used it every day together with the other cygwin tools (ssh of course) to open applicatons from our sun boxen at work and my Linux boxen at home. I basically run it full screen and use very few other tools at all. It works like a charm on Win2k ... I have never had any crashes and I run most all of my KDE apps from home without a problem. I would definitely recommend it! It works better than many commercial X servers out there, especially since you implicitely have access to to the full UNIX command shell. Look at it, ENJOY IT!
I have had back problems for several years. I thought it was due to the fact that I damaged my back when I was younger. Most Chiropracters told me to come back if I experience pain again (dumb-asses). I finally went to a Chiropracter a year ago and he told me ... you have to do stretch exercises for your lower back. And it WORKED ... >/b>
In Tallahassee FL I am getting 100 to 460 Kbytes/s down, and 50 to 150 Kbytes/s up.
Coming from South Africa, I have a tendency to actually read some of the stuff that pops up about it. I read this and I realized that is serious. Most of you played this off as something which should not be posted on Slashdot, even kindof flaming them for daring to put it on the site. Like it or not, our mascot is a penguin and any pengiuns should be close to our hearts.
Lets be hypothetical a little... would you say that a Swedish hacker is less of hacker than an American hacker? They are both hackers and from what I have seen on the newsgroups some of them make the news with more pizaz than many others ;-)
Back to being a bit more serious. EVERY nut in the world knows that the conservation of a species is VERY important, since the loss of a species has several impacts on the environment that are only fully realized years after it has happened. These pengiuns off the South African coast are part of a penguin species that do not exist anywhere else in the world. Apart from the fact that the oil spill arrived during their breeding season, the impact of the oil spill will only be seen next year when hundreds, if not thousands of penguins are lost.
So, be serious for a moment and realize that if oil spills happen a few more places in the world, and not just in SA, the pengiun mascot we have may be the only living pengiun in the world by 2020.
It disturbs me to see "brainy" geeks be so unbelievably STUPID as to play off the importance of a species being in trouble. Drop that arrogant shithead approace to life and be better people. Perhaps you might even be a real software engineer then, and not just a hopeless script kiddie.
That is my two cents worth ...
It is already in FL and making its way through the government address books which are not small by any measure.