First and foremost, I am sorry to hear about your sister. Be prepared for everyone to mix up schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. Until a handful of years ago, they were thought to be the same thing. We now know they are not. Much IS known about the disorder, so spend some time googling around.
To be 100% clear, the disorder is MUCH harder on the family than it is on the afflicted. Since family members freak out and do not know how to cope, most people with the disorder live in isolation which agrrevates the problem.
"how has it affected your and their life?" If you truly love your sister, this should have NO impact on your life. She is still a person and still your sister. She may act differently than the rest of the world at times. Who cares what a world full of idiots think anyway?
"How have you been able to cope with it?" You cope by coming to terms with it. Don't "freak out" by abnormal behavior.
What are the long term implications for quality of life? For whom? You or her. If you are asking about yourself, then all is lost. I assume you are asking about her. In this case, it depends on the severity of the illness and the reaction to medication. In mild forms and/or with medication people with this disorder can lead normal regular lives (YMMV). As I stated before, the worst thing that can happen is all of her family and friends abondon her - that, is the tragedy of the disorder.
Good luck. Post any other questions under this thread. I have a ton of information.
Any mechanic who does not charge for diagnostics will *always* find something wrong.
Most mechanics I know (and that's quite a few) charge a base fee of $50 or so for diagnostics. This is to prevent people like me from getting free a diagnosis and then fixing the problem myself. However, there have been times when they say "check x sensor" and then don't charge me anything.
Maybe your area is different, but you cannot speak for the entire globe. It's typically $50 just to pull it into the garage where I am.
No no no. Windows is a monolithic kernel. Using Andy's defintions, the drivers run in kernel space; thereby, making it monolithic.
"but I'm willing to bet that there are "userspace" processes that have kernel access to an extent that makes the system actully megakernel."
Nope, this is false. In this sense, Windows NT (not counting 9x/Me because they suck) is identical to Linux. User space processes require system calls and a kernel crossing to have access to any kernel services.
"I don't believe microkernels are any more secure or insecure, than macrokernels."
I strenously disagree. In both Linux and Windows NT, 80+% of crashes are due to problems in drivers. There is a ton of research to back this up (Engler et al, I think). If the drivers existed in user space, a la microkernels, then 80+% of crashes would just disappear. Most people who complain about Windows' crashes do not realize the driver writers are to blame. Yes, Linux will have the same problem as drivers are ported. This also, has been pointed out in much research. THIS is the very reason why Andy dislikes monolithic kernels.
"Mine does the same thing very nearly every time I get out of the car, and it's become progressively more painful."
Have you ever seen two rubber strips hanging from the bumper of an 80's hot rod? These are called static strips, and they solve your static shock problem. They are cheap and work well.
"As for calibration errors, I think it's a non-issue. If you're involved in a collision in which your bumper is crushed, but the rest of the car is intact, and the black box claims you were impacted the tree at 182 MPH, I'm pretty sure common-sense would prevail and the data would be discarded."
This is an extreme example. What about your are involved in a collision (no such thing as an accident), and the box says you were going 5 MPH over the posted limit due to a calibration error. You get whatever punishment although you may have done nothing wrong. It only takes 1 MPH to make something your fault (pending circumstance, etc.)
Thank you or making the Religious blindness case for the author.
> Documentation is more plentiful then most 'closed source' groups
This is a load of bull crap. Apparently, you have been a Linux user for a while. When I first started out (last year), I spent hours on newsgroups trying to solve my problems. For that matter, I'm searching NGs right now to find out why my RH upgrade borked. Closed-sourced SW has books, manuals, and ultimately some one you can ask for a fee. This is not the case when you hit some obscure RPM bug.
>Doesn't MS Office count as a Feature-centric project?
nope. It's UI-centric.
> Sounds like a crappy project to me if the developers know of the problems but don't fix them.
_THAT_ is the authors point exactly.
> There are lots of egotistical elitests, but I've noticed in the wild that there are less now then a couple years ago.
I see it the other way around. Go to newbie sites and see how often they are beat down.
>Overall it sounds like this guy had a bad experiance with A single project and decided to generalize it with all Open Source.
Gal, not guy. Note MANY of us struggle daily with OSS. I still cannot get my network printers working properly with CUPs. I have missing RPMs I can't find for some apps. I already mentioned my RH upgrade issue. I won't even get into RPM dependencies. Honestly, I think a real problem is that OSS advocates are good with the products, and they are not feeling the pain from those of use trying to get on board. Dude, it's frustrating. Trust me. I'm there. When I read articles like this, I feel the author's pain.
Here in downstate NY, absolutely not. I will use last night as an example. We are stuck in traffic. Some BMW who thinks he is better than the rest of us hits the brake down lane and is passing everyone. Each person that honked at him got the middle finger from this guy. Obviously, he didn't give a crap what anyone thought.
I see this type of stuff EVERY day commuting. It's sad, really.
"When dealing with an opponent, claim that the opponent has your flaws, whether or not this is true."
How is this specific to Bush? This sounds like every politcian past, present, and future. Replican, Democrat, Whig, whatever, they will all lie, cheat, and steal to pry every last penny from your hands.
Software Installation is my #1 major complaint with Linux. Wiping the entire installation to upgrade KDE is not cool. I see people complain about reboot Winders (which, btw, I rarely have to), but I reboot my Linux boxes MORE because of upgrades or user space bugs. Hunting RPMs for an afternoon stinks (I realize there are apps for other distros, but I have to run RH.)
"I haven't ever had a car that started throwing wrong codes so I can't say about the other."
I had a code last year, "CPS value out of range". Great, like that helps. Is it the CPS or did something cause the CPS to 'blip'. It turned out to be the latter, but it took some work. A mechanic friend tells me this is common.
"I don't allow the dealerships to put advertising on my car. "
Nor do I, but count them in the parking lot. It's laughable. Most people don't think about - hence the.sig.
"When was the last time you needed get inside your car's radio?"
This is a flawed argument. The cars radio has few (if any) moving parts - none of which need lubrication and none of which that are subjected to 200,000 miles of 4KRPM friction. Routine maintenance will NEVER go away - belts, oil, grease, coolant are all things that wear out over time.
"If a car were as reliable as most consumer electronics" You cannot compare mechanical devices to electronic devices. The transitor in my cell phone requires no maintenace, so why should my car? Please.
Until you have sensors throwing bad codes and you go on a weekend long wild goose chase. Not like that's happened to me twice.
Cars are certainly more reliable, but is it because of EPMs/CPMs or because of better technology all around? We did not have enough data to answer this question.
FYI, most auto stores now charge and arm and pint of blood to use their scan tool.
Whoever moderated this as insightful is a moron. Lightweight components, OHC replacing pushrods, v-tec designs, transmission designs, and intake technology attribute to OVER 90% of all horsepower increases.
The EPM/CPM just make mechanics more money. The good side is that we don't have to dork with tuning carbs every spring. The early EFIs were the best of both worlds.
Back on point to the article, the whole point of "check your oil EVERY week" seems to be lost. I see lots of Volvos with bent valves, etc. in the future.
" It's not rarely corporate policy to release faulty products. (Microsoft freaks, step aside, please.)"
uh, Ford sold thousands of trucks that rolled over and killed people. Faulty products happen.
Buyer beware. period.
Re:History Channel's dream job
on
Dream Jobs of 2004
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
I saw the same show but came to a different conclusion. He "tests" the cars. So if something breaks, the BEST case scenario is he's walking home. The worst case has been mentioned in other responses.
woo-woo, here comes the clue train! Some states (all?) have a point system. Each offense equals a certain about a points. When a maximum is reached, driving priviledges are revoked.
The issue at hand is the lack of policing things like tailgating, cutting people off, and idioacy. So you are correct on point #2.
Agree with your bottom line; however, you left out "quite a few people could give a flying f about who they offend/piss off/threaten while driving".
Idiots and a**holes are the biggest problems. Tech is not going to solve this.
By slow, I meant, our conscious thoughts are in your native language and have to be slow enough for 'you' to process. Consider user think time versus processor time. I would map "cloudy" and "easily distracted" directly to processing massive amounts of input per second as the parent described.
"utterly non-sensical" to the conscious mind, maybe. To the subconscious it is just a different way of representing a problem. Thinking out-side the conscious box, if you will. This is where dream-interpretation theory kicks in. I won't touch that.
I would not argue "superiority" because it's hard to tell what is harder, processing input or solving problems. By "smarter" (in hindsight this this may be too generic), I only implied the power to solve problems and remember stuff.
True Story. I was stuck on a bug during my undergraduate work. In the middle of the night, my girlfriend tells me, I jumped out of bed, clicked away on the keyboard and climbed back in bed. The next morning, I found the solution to my problem, albeit ill-typed, on my screen.
After this occurred, I decided to look into it. Experts suggest purposely thinking of a tough problem *right* before you fall asleep. Your subconsious is a) much smarter than you conscious and b) never stops working. Giving it a job to do will result it working on it all night. Try it. If you remember your dreams, the results are cool.
This is why mental breaks, as the parent mentioned, work. Let your subconscious do the hard work. It's much better at it than your slow, cloudy, easily distracted, conscious thought. Another example, have you ever forgot something important, and then out of the blue while doing something else you remember? Your SC was working on the job the whole time. Ultra-cool, IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
First and foremost, I am sorry to hear about your sister. Be prepared for everyone to mix up schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. Until a handful of years ago, they were thought to be the same thing. We now know they are not. Much IS known about the disorder, so spend some time googling around.
To be 100% clear, the disorder is MUCH harder on the family than it is on the afflicted. Since family members freak out and do not know how to cope, most people with the disorder live in isolation which agrrevates the problem.
"how has it affected your and their life?"
If you truly love your sister, this should have NO impact on your life. She is still a person and still your sister. She may act differently than the rest of the world at times. Who cares what a world full of idiots think anyway?
"How have you been able to cope with it?"
You cope by coming to terms with it. Don't "freak out" by abnormal behavior.
What are the long term implications for quality of life?
For whom? You or her. If you are asking about yourself, then all is lost. I assume you are asking about her. In this case, it depends on the severity of the illness and the reaction to medication. In mild forms and/or with medication people with this disorder can lead normal regular lives (YMMV). As I stated before, the worst thing that can happen is all of her family and friends abondon her - that, is the tragedy of the disorder.
Good luck. Post any other questions under this thread. I have a ton of information.
Any mechanic who does not charge for diagnostics will *always* find something wrong.
Most mechanics I know (and that's quite a few) charge a base fee of $50 or so for diagnostics. This is to prevent people like me from getting free a diagnosis and then fixing the problem myself. However, there have been times when they say "check x sensor" and then don't charge me anything.
Maybe your area is different, but you cannot speak for the entire globe. It's typically $50 just to pull it into the garage where I am.
`Windows IS a micro-kernel based OS''
No no no. Windows is a monolithic kernel. Using Andy's defintions, the drivers run in kernel space; thereby, making it monolithic.
"but I'm willing to bet that there are "userspace" processes that have kernel access to an extent that makes the system actully megakernel."
Nope, this is false. In this sense, Windows NT (not counting 9x/Me because they suck) is identical to Linux. User space processes require system calls and a kernel crossing to have access to any kernel services.
"I don't believe microkernels are any more secure or insecure, than macrokernels."
I strenously disagree. In both Linux and Windows NT, 80+% of crashes are due to problems in drivers. There is a ton of research to back this up (Engler et al, I think). If the drivers existed in user space, a la microkernels, then 80+% of crashes would just disappear. Most people who complain about Windows' crashes do not realize the driver writers are to blame. Yes, Linux will have the same problem as drivers are ported. This also, has been pointed out in much research. THIS is the very reason why Andy dislikes monolithic kernels.
"Mine does the same thing very nearly every time I get out of the car, and it's become progressively more painful."
Have you ever seen two rubber strips hanging from the bumper of an 80's hot rod? These are called static strips, and they solve your static shock problem. They are cheap and work well.
been doing this on my 10 disk changer for years. Yeah, so iPod scales higher, but the concept is identical.
This "Professor" is an idiot.
"As for calibration errors, I think it's a non-issue. If you're involved in a collision in which your bumper is crushed, but the rest of the car is intact, and the black box claims you were impacted the tree at 182 MPH, I'm pretty sure common-sense would prevail and the data would be discarded."
This is an extreme example. What about your are involved in a collision (no such thing as an accident), and the box says you were going 5 MPH over the posted limit due to a calibration error. You get whatever punishment although you may have done nothing wrong. It only takes 1 MPH to make something your fault (pending circumstance, etc.)
Thank you or making the Religious blindness case for the author.
> Documentation is more plentiful then most 'closed source' groups
This is a load of bull crap. Apparently, you have been a Linux user for a while. When I first started out (last year), I spent hours on newsgroups trying to solve my problems. For that matter, I'm searching NGs right now to find out why my RH upgrade borked. Closed-sourced SW has books, manuals, and ultimately some one you can ask for a fee. This is not the case when you hit some obscure RPM bug.
>Doesn't MS Office count as a Feature-centric project?
nope. It's UI-centric.
> Sounds like a crappy project to me if the developers know of the problems but don't fix them.
_THAT_ is the authors point exactly.
> There are lots of egotistical elitests, but I've noticed in the wild that there are less now then a couple years ago.
I see it the other way around. Go to newbie sites and see how often they are beat down.
>Overall it sounds like this guy had a bad experiance with A single project and decided to generalize it with all Open Source.
Gal, not guy. Note MANY of us struggle daily with OSS. I still cannot get my network printers working properly with CUPs. I have missing RPMs I can't find for some apps. I already mentioned my RH upgrade issue. I won't even get into RPM dependencies. Honestly, I think a real problem is that OSS advocates are good with the products, and they are not feeling the pain from those of use trying to get on board. Dude, it's frustrating. Trust me. I'm there. When I read articles like this, I feel the author's pain.
"we met the next weekend near his home"
Neat trick given he was homeless.
"But isn't peer pressure a good motivator? "
Here in downstate NY, absolutely not. I will use last night as an example. We are stuck in traffic. Some BMW who thinks he is better than the rest of us hits the brake down lane and is passing everyone. Each person that honked at him got the middle finger from this guy. Obviously, he didn't give a crap what anyone thought.
I see this type of stuff EVERY day commuting. It's sad, really.
"ohh ohhh a quotation contest!"
I bent my wookie.
-Raplh Wiggum
"When dealing with an opponent, claim that the opponent has your flaws, whether or not this is true."
How is this specific to Bush? This sounds like every politcian past, present, and future. Replican, Democrat, Whig, whatever, they will all lie, cheat, and steal to pry every last penny from your hands.
>And actually, I would guess hardcore developers >aren't on the Net when they are at work. Aren't >they are coding???
This is a big short sighted. What about Telnet? X-windows? Without a conn, I go home early.
In addition, there is MUCH more to development than just heads down coding. R&D on the net as well as code storage on a server. You get the idea...
Damn, too bad I blew my mod points already.
Software Installation is my #1 major complaint with Linux. Wiping the entire installation to upgrade KDE is not cool. I see people complain about reboot Winders (which, btw, I rarely have to), but I reboot my Linux boxes MORE because of upgrades or user space bugs. Hunting RPMs for an afternoon stinks (I realize there are apps for other distros, but I have to run RH.)
>It costs money, I think $1k or so
$2500 actually (my friend just bought one).
OUCH...
"I haven't ever had a car that started throwing wrong codes so I can't say about the other."
.sig.
I had a code last year, "CPS value out of range". Great, like that helps. Is it the CPS or did something cause the CPS to 'blip'. It turned out to be the latter, but it took some work. A mechanic friend tells me this is common.
"I don't allow the dealerships to put advertising on my car. "
Nor do I, but count them in the parking lot. It's laughable. Most people don't think about - hence the
"When was the last time you needed get inside your car's radio?"
This is a flawed argument. The cars radio has few (if any) moving parts - none of which need lubrication and none of which that are subjected to 200,000 miles of 4KRPM friction. Routine maintenance will NEVER go away - belts, oil, grease, coolant are all things that wear out over time.
"If a car were as reliable as most consumer electronics"
You cannot compare mechanical devices to electronic devices. The transitor in my cell phone requires no maintenace, so why should my car? Please.
Until you have sensors throwing bad codes and you go on a weekend long wild goose chase. Not like that's happened to me twice.
Cars are certainly more reliable, but is it because of EPMs/CPMs or because of better technology all around? We did not have enough data to answer this question.
FYI, most auto stores now charge and arm and pint of blood to use their scan tool.
Whoever moderated this as insightful is a moron. Lightweight components, OHC replacing pushrods, v-tec designs, transmission designs, and intake technology attribute to OVER 90% of all horsepower increases.
The EPM/CPM just make mechanics more money. The good side is that we don't have to dork with tuning carbs every spring. The early EFIs were the best of both worlds.
Back on point to the article, the whole point of "check your oil EVERY week" seems to be lost. I see lots of Volvos with bent valves, etc. in the future.
" It's not rarely corporate policy to release faulty products. (Microsoft freaks, step aside, please.)"
uh, Ford sold thousands of trucks that rolled over and killed people. Faulty products happen.
Buyer beware. period.
I saw the same show but came to a different conclusion. He "tests" the cars. So if something breaks, the BEST case scenario is he's walking home. The worst case has been mentioned in other responses.
>Banning repeat offenders from driving
woo-woo, here comes the clue train! Some states (all?) have a point system. Each offense equals a certain about a points. When a maximum is reached, driving priviledges are revoked.
The issue at hand is the lack of policing things like tailgating, cutting people off, and idioacy. So you are correct on point #2.
Agree with your bottom line; however, you left out "quite a few people could give a flying f about who they offend/piss off/threaten while driving".
Idiots and a**holes are the biggest problems. Tech is not going to solve this.
no, no, let me turn you in. I'll give you 50% of 50% of 50%!
(Dukes of Hazzard for those of you not old enough to remember...)
I love liberty and freedom. Unfortunately, they were used as tools by terrorists.
These are just opinions, but I'll take the bait.
By slow, I meant, our conscious thoughts are in your native language and have to be slow enough for 'you' to process. Consider user think time versus processor time. I would map "cloudy" and "easily distracted" directly to processing massive amounts of input per second as the parent described.
"utterly non-sensical" to the conscious mind, maybe. To the subconscious it is just a different way of representing a problem. Thinking out-side the conscious box, if you will. This is where dream-interpretation theory kicks in. I won't touch that.
I would not argue "superiority" because it's hard to tell what is harder, processing input or solving problems. By "smarter" (in hindsight this this may be too generic), I only implied the power to solve problems and remember stuff.
True Story. I was stuck on a bug during my undergraduate work. In the middle of the night, my girlfriend tells me, I jumped out of bed, clicked away on the keyboard and climbed back in bed. The next morning, I found the solution to my problem, albeit ill-typed, on my screen.
After this occurred, I decided to look into it. Experts suggest purposely thinking of a tough problem *right* before you fall asleep. Your subconsious is a) much smarter than you conscious and b) never stops working. Giving it a job to do will result it working on it all night. Try it. If you remember your dreams, the results are cool.
This is why mental breaks, as the parent mentioned, work. Let your subconscious do the hard work. It's much better at it than your slow, cloudy, easily distracted, conscious thought. Another example, have you ever forgot something important, and then out of the blue while doing something else you remember? Your SC was working on the job the whole time. Ultra-cool, IMHO.