Even if the G5 isn't the fastest PC on earth, it's still a pretty impressive performer, isn't it? At 2 Ghz, it's at least in the same ball park as the 3Ghz Xeon. I'm still impressed, even if the benchmarks aren't totally honest. Does anyone expect total honesty from a marketing department? I sure don't.
Not at all true. Bipolar disorder doesn't usually manifest itself until the early 20s. My wife's mother became severely bipolar in her early 30s, and unfortunately a bad diagnosis caused her to be psychotic and non-functional for a decade. You don't have bipolar disorder, obviously, and probably don't even know what it is. Myself, I suffer from depression, and those symptoms did not show up noticeably until my early 20s. Schizophrenia shows up in a similar fashion, in the early 20s usually. As for ADHD, I don't know. I believe it exists, but I'm skeptical of many of the diagnoses for it.
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You're totally right. Speaking as someone who has suffered from severe depression on two occasions in the past, I get steamed when I hear all those scare tactics (no, I didn't follow the link, I didn't want to get my blood boiling). I have taken an antidepressant for ten years, and although these drugs do have side effects, it sure beats going for days at a time with not enough sleep and what little you get is plagued with vivid and frightening dreams, feeling no pleasure in life, being frozen by anxiety, and turning to suicidal thoughts for comfort.
For someone for whom this is a reality, tradeoffs must be made. You can't expect to take a pill and then just sweep your condition under the rug. It stays with you. You have to deal with it mentally as well, through counseling or writing or whatever you do to communicate with yourself. If you're diabetic, you have a condition that is always present that you have to deal with. Your life cannot be 100% free and normal. The same is true for people with a psychiatric disorder. If some dumbass says "pschiatry is evil because it chemically changes you and robs you of your creativity", consider that death by suicide does the same thing. Even if you're not suicidal, just laying around in bed all day makes for a pretty miserable existence. Good psychiatric treatment and psychoanalysis can help make life fulfilling for people who deal with this reality.
My wife was diagnosed with ADHD coupled with a mild form of bipolar disorder (I think it was called Type 1), yet I still don't understand a lot about ADHD. I've been speaking from the point of view of a melancholic. However, she is a more rational, productive person since she started taking medication.
I do think antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs are overprescribed, however. I mean, any old family doctor can prescribe them. This is wrong IMO. Unfortunately, access to a good psychiatrist is difficult for anyone without decent money because insurance companies treat psychiatric disorders as if they don't matter. We need a serious overhaul of mental health treatment and the way we view it.
Dude, this is awesome! Give 'em another year or two, and by the time 1990 rolls around, this is going to be one kickass windowing environment!
Wait a minute, just kidding, don't freak out. It actually looks all right (except for those X-y fonts), and I haven't used it in so long I might just cd/usr/ports...make install clean it for fun.
Me too. I was in first grade then. I remember everyone talking about the eclipse for days before it happened. I didn't understand what it was though, only that it involved the sun and you weren't supposed to look at it except with a special device (which I didn't have). Then, on the day of the event, it became very dark and the street lights came on. I thought this must be somehow connected to the "eclipse" that everyone talked about. Later, I asked someone when the eclipse was going to happen. I was disappointed that it had already happened and had not lasted very long, and I hadn't seen the sun. I guess I was expecting the sun to become extra bright during the eclipse. To my six-year-old logic, if something is going to happen to the sun, and you're not supposed to look at it, that must mean it's going to do something dramatic and explosive.
It seems to me like you're lamenting growing up. What does the Ambiguously Gay Duo have to do with it? Any adult should be able to see the homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin without any assistance. The Ambiguously Gay Duo just makes it hilarious.
Why would seeing those pictures ruin childhood memories? Can't people differentiate between the originals and someone else's modifications? With the reactions I'm seeing around here I think some people are just a little too attached memories of their childhood entertainment.
The building where I live has 6 floors with 70 apartments. Every apartment has an ethernet jack. Each jack is wired straight to the main(only) network closet, where it goes through a hub, which connects to a dhcp server, and finally to a dsl modem. 1.5 Mbits, not too shabby, and it's free!
Is one firewall really that different from another? If you have a machine that acts *only* as a firewall, with no other services running, does it make a big difference what OS it runs? Unless you really, really like pf and won't use anything else, I'd guess that a bare bones FreeBSD system will make just as good a firewall as OpenBSD. I actually like OpenBSD for a DNS server. It runs chrooted by default, it's very easy to set up, and I like BIND 4 configuration syntax better than 8/9.
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No, he has the "killer instinct" of a neanderthal that roots around in the shrubs all day looking for mice to eat.
A little off topic, but nice. Thanks, AC.
Even if the G5 isn't the fastest PC on earth, it's still a pretty impressive performer, isn't it? At 2 Ghz, it's at least in the same ball park as the 3Ghz Xeon. I'm still impressed, even if the benchmarks aren't totally honest. Does anyone expect total honesty from a marketing department? I sure don't.
I'm surprised SCO isn't on that list! They are the pinnacle of high end computing, after all.
Better than a toilet would be a catheter. No effort at all!
Just tell Bush that Osama is hiding in a cave on the moon and you have new rockets developed and people there in no time.
Huh? Then why don't they do that in Pakistan? Bush scare tactics work better when the enemy is still at large.
Good for you. Some of us aren't able to just "deal with it ourselves", however. Ignorant types like you can go die.
Not at all true. Bipolar disorder doesn't usually manifest itself until the early 20s. My wife's mother became severely bipolar in her early 30s, and unfortunately a bad diagnosis caused her to be psychotic and non-functional for a decade. You don't have bipolar disorder, obviously, and probably don't even know what it is. Myself, I suffer from depression, and those symptoms did not show up noticeably until my early 20s. Schizophrenia shows up in a similar fashion, in the early 20s usually. As for ADHD, I don't know. I believe it exists, but I'm skeptical of many of the diagnoses for it.
You're totally right. Speaking as someone who has suffered from severe depression on two occasions in the past, I get steamed when I hear all those scare tactics (no, I didn't follow the link, I didn't want to get my blood boiling). I have taken an antidepressant for ten years, and although these drugs do have side effects, it sure beats going for days at a time with not enough sleep and what little you get is plagued with vivid and frightening dreams, feeling no pleasure in life, being frozen by anxiety, and turning to suicidal thoughts for comfort.
For someone for whom this is a reality, tradeoffs must be made. You can't expect to take a pill and then just sweep your condition under the rug. It stays with you. You have to deal with it mentally as well, through counseling or writing or whatever you do to communicate with yourself. If you're diabetic, you have a condition that is always present that you have to deal with. Your life cannot be 100% free and normal. The same is true for people with a psychiatric disorder. If some dumbass says "pschiatry is evil because it chemically changes you and robs you of your creativity", consider that death by suicide does the same thing. Even if you're not suicidal, just laying around in bed all day makes for a pretty miserable existence. Good psychiatric treatment and psychoanalysis can help make life fulfilling for people who deal with this reality.
My wife was diagnosed with ADHD coupled with a mild form of bipolar disorder (I think it was called Type 1), yet I still don't understand a lot about ADHD. I've been speaking from the point of view of a melancholic. However, she is a more rational, productive person since she started taking medication.
I do think antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs are overprescribed, however. I mean, any old family doctor can prescribe them. This is wrong IMO. Unfortunately, access to a good psychiatrist is difficult for anyone without decent money because insurance companies treat psychiatric disorders as if they don't matter. We need a serious overhaul of mental health treatment and the way we view it.
Do you ever find yourself humming the MacGuyver theme song?
Why, no. No, I don't.
Dude, this is awesome! Give 'em another year or two, and by the time 1990 rolls around, this is going to be one kickass windowing environment!
/usr/ports...make install clean it for fun.
Wait a minute, just kidding, don't freak out. It actually looks all right (except for those X-y fonts), and I haven't used it in so long I might just cd
I'm in that unfortunate boat as well.
Except he didn't drop out of CS. He got a graduate degree in it, then got schooled in painting.
Me too. I was in first grade then. I remember everyone talking about the eclipse for days before it happened. I didn't understand what it was though, only that it involved the sun and you weren't supposed to look at it except with a special device (which I didn't have). Then, on the day of the event, it became very dark and the street lights came on. I thought this must be somehow connected to the "eclipse" that everyone talked about. Later, I asked someone when the eclipse was going to happen. I was disappointed that it had already happened and had not lasted very long, and I hadn't seen the sun. I guess I was expecting the sun to become extra bright during the eclipse. To my six-year-old logic, if something is going to happen to the sun, and you're not supposed to look at it, that must mean it's going to do something dramatic and explosive.
Good point. But I don't necessarily think it's homophobia to think someone is gay, is it?
Hey, just because you love living in a homophobic world doesn't mean that the rest of us do.
/me shrugs.
I don't love living in a homophobic world, and I'm not sure why you say I do. Maybe you misunderstood me.
It seems to me like you're lamenting growing up. What does the Ambiguously Gay Duo have to do with it? Any adult should be able to see the homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin without any assistance. The Ambiguously Gay Duo just makes it hilarious.
Why would seeing those pictures ruin childhood memories? Can't people differentiate between the originals and someone else's modifications? With the reactions I'm seeing around here I think some people are just a little too attached memories of their childhood entertainment.
As if corporate TV crap is sacred anyhow.
The building where I live has 6 floors with 70 apartments. Every apartment has an ethernet jack. Each jack is wired straight to the main(only) network closet, where it goes through a hub, which connects to a dhcp server, and finally to a dsl modem. 1.5 Mbits, not too shabby, and it's free!
Not really.
Is one firewall really that different from another? If you have a machine that acts *only* as a firewall, with no other services running, does it make a big difference what OS it runs? Unless you really, really like pf and won't use anything else, I'd guess that a bare bones FreeBSD system will make just as good a firewall as OpenBSD. I actually like OpenBSD for a DNS server. It runs chrooted by default, it's very easy to set up, and I like BIND 4 configuration syntax better than 8/9.
No matter what anyone else says, stick with Samtron.
That's one of the best posts I've ever read on Slashdot.
Are you asking me? Is that what the question mark is for, or do you just not know how to use proper grammar?
Hahaha, that's a funny "American" joke. It's fun to be funny and make fun jokes, isn't it?