funny when you think about it... Canadas debt is $583 billion (in '97, http://www.fin.gc.ca/update97/factDEBT-E.html). The US DEFICIT for this year is $590 billion.
ok. not funny, kinda scary.
thats a huge amount of money. 0.00000002% of that would pay off all my debts and leave enough for a 2-4.
Another thing I learned in about 10th grade that helped a lot... instead of walking around with your head down avoiding the world, walk with your head up and look people in the eye and smile as you pass. It's simple, but simply holding your head up instead of looking at your shoes as you walk makes a HUGE difference.
people actually commented that I was much happier after a week of doing this, and I felt a lot more confident.
now when I get stressed at work or depressed I catch myself walking with my head down and make a concerted effort to lift it back up and look at the world instead of my clown feet.
it truely is the little things like that that can change others perceptions of you. But as you said, smiling really is key. I know some pretty evil/horrible people, but not one of them wouldn't return a smile.
I work in a call centre, so I take every break I can. I spend a lot of time on hold, sometimes for 20 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. In that time I play with the various toys on my desk. Magnetic Poetry is great, yo ucan just arrange a couple words, then go back. I also have one of those multi-coloured balls that expand into a giant ball then back. I sit and play with it.
We also have an office tradition of throwing paper balls around to have some fun. I throw a couple of those around.
Really.. it's anything that you can spend 30 seconds doing then putting down. I used to try and read/. or fark but found that was using up too much time and interfering with work.. now I just try little things.
Anyone who walks into the office can tell I'm a little different. my desk has lots of colours, shapes, pictures, stickers, comics, toys, stuffed things, etc all over it. each one of them is a small distraction for me, but one that lets me focus better. It's like standing up and stretching my mind.
Sorry I can't provide more examples.. it's kind of up to your personality. I hate those stupid little 'get the balls through the maze' games... they require too much focus. But you might like those.
Let me start off by saying thank you to the poster for not settling for a drug treatment. I am a very very outspoken anti-drugs for ADD person. As a child (starting at 4) I was diagnosed as ADHD (1982, so not in the middle of the 'every kid has ADD' phase). I would only sleep for a couple hours a night and the rest of the time I'd just rummage around my room, tearing off wallpaper, throwing things around or generally harassing my parents.
They put me on ritalin when I was about 6 after giving up on training me, and found it didn't work - it actually made me more hyper.
Thats when they moved me to Dexadrine. For the americans out there, it's the same drug some people use to lose weight. It immediately worked, helping me focus and not be so wired.
The downside was, I was moody and depressed. I was anti-social and angry a lot. but I was 8 and people didn't care really. They wrote it off as depression because my parents broke up. But when they took me off the pills for the summer, life was grand again. I was energetic to a fault and had lots of friends. Come school time, back on the drugs and back to quiet, boring, socially acceptable me.
Fast forward to highschool and I'm still on the stupid things. September was great, I'd start taking the pills and wouldn't eat for a weak (about the only upside to em, great weight loss). But around that age you start to become more self aware and I realized that I hated myself because I wasn't really me. I took these stupid pills every morning and I became who my parents and teachers wanted me to be, but I wasn't really me. I didn't laugh as much, I didn't talk as much, but I got good grades.
Around grade 11 I said 'fuck this' and started to not take the pills. Then my parents started threatening me and grounding me if I didn't take them. So I'd pop them in my mouth then spit them out. Then they started to check my mouth to make sure I swallowed them. So I found a new trick - you could pull apart the gel caps and all the little balls of medicine inside would fall out. So I'd quickly dump them on the floor or sink then take the pill. That worked well and I started to feel more like myself.
Except then my grades started slipping.
So thats when I turned to the psycho babble they'd been teaching me at my semi montly sessions. They called it 'coping strategies' and taught me how to recognize when I wasn't behaving well or focusing like I should. Instead of just throwing pills at the problem, they put me in control of my life and said 'these are the tools to make things better for you, but you need to do them'. They made me responsible for my behaviour and grades.
So I started with them. At this point I can't identify what I do, but my friends will notice when I *click* in and out of focus now. Apparently I'm much better and I can recognize when I'm having ADD moments. Sometimes I have ADD days. I've learned to work with instead of against the ADD. I now run dual monitors on my PC so I can do more than one thing easily. my desk has lots of distractions on it, but they're all little. I can jump from work to a distraction for 30 seconds to give my brain a break then back to work. I can focus much better now that I've learned these skills, and I dno't need pills to make me work well.
So, the moral of this story is that pills aren't necessary. They inhibit your mental and social and emotional growth by turning you into a little robot. I found that I could actually feel myself in a little tunnel when I took them and things seemed duller. Teaching coping skills is, I think, the key. Teaching your child how to recognize when they're not paying attention is the first step, then teaching them how to focus when needed, and let their mind go when not needed. If this Neural Feedback Training does that (and it sounds like it does), then go for it! Don't spare any expense... just think of it as being amortized over the life of your child... just pennies a day!
I didn't get a 'fuck the system' vibe out of his comments - they were clear, consise and backed up with personal 'evidence'.
Just because you dont' agree doesn't make him wrong. Any more than it makes you are wrong because you think taking drugs makes you a better person.
And don't try and unload on me - I've done the drugs for ADD, and I hated myself when I was on them so I'd flush them and tell my parents I took them. I have since learned 'coping strategies' that the public health people used to teach me and they work just fine. I have learned to recognize that I am drifting out of focus and correct if I need to. I also let my employer know that I am prone to ADD and that I am in fact still working even if I look like I'm not.
I agree with the parent - drugs aren't the way to go. but if you feel they work for you, thats great.
But thats still no reason to be a tit about it.
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I think it's like the word 'geek'
It used to have a very negative connotation (someone who bites the heads off chickens as a circus sideshow act - a freak by any other name).
We have adopted this word as our own. Same with Nerd.. both of these have had very negative feelings associated with them... if they didn't, the abuse in high school would have been much easier.
But now, we've taken those words from our tormentors and we use them... I am a Geek, and I'm proud of it. Instead of slinking away and hiding from it, I wear my copyleft GEEK shirt whenever I can.
However, if someone I didn't know started calling me a geek (and I wasn't wearing my shirt) I'd probably get pissed, because they aren't using it in the good spirit - the spirit in which I use it.
It all comes down to context and the manner in which the word is used.
NIS is the tool for this.. it's been around for a LONG time. Works great.. the last office I worked for used Windows to create Users, and using NDS for windows they were all put into a novell NDS where we had something that pulled the information and put it into NIS so the UNIX boxen would all be the same. It was pretty slick.
Look into NIS though.. it's easy to setup and it's stable.
I don't think you're allowed to listen to the radio while flying.. doesn't it interefere with the delicate electronics and make you die a horrible horrible flaming death?
checkout www.407etr.com.. the Electronic Toll Road that runs along the top of Toronto. If you have a transponder you just drive thru the gates happily. If you do not have one, cameras catch your license plate number, match it with DOT records and mail you a bill.
the catch? If you don't have a transponder you pay a $3.50 charge EACH TIME YOU ENTER the highway, plus a $2 "convience charge" the first time each month you use it. All this on top of the $0.17/KM toll.
If it wasn't SO much faster than the alternative I wouldn't use it every day (thank fully I have a transponder).
It's easy, and we've done a lot of testing with it. They claim to be able to get a licence plate through dirt, dust, mud, frost, etc, or even partial plates. The only people getting a free ride are motorcycles who simply reach back and cover their plates with a hand.
Miranda is the best 'alternate' im client I've used... it's features are great, file transfers seem to work where ICQ *AND* MSNs wont (although I can't get ICQ to work through my companys firewall, but their go.icq.com client does, so I must be doing something wrong - anyone seen an ICQ firewall plugin like the msn one that does http tunnels?
I've gotten quite a few people to switch over, esp friends who ran both clients for years. Yes, it also supports Yahoo, but really, who uses yahoo?
I think the best feature is all the coolass plugins that work so seamlessly.
The additional benefit is that if you're out with a *gasp* lady, you can put a sweater in there and when she invariably gets cold, you pull it out for her and shazzam, you're the man.
additionally, when you go shopping with the ladies, you can be all helpful and carry things. Normally nets me a free lunch.
Mind you, my friends all call me the pack mule for a reason... your results may vary.
10th shot... wow, after about 4 shots I stop caring and just grab the bottle.:)
But then again, I have a weakness for vodka.
I love getting free stuff for buying booze. Same with gas (shell) and food/living stuff (pharmaplus).
Mind you, I work for another company that has their own customer loyalty card and I know what they do wit hthe data and how they profile people, so I never use any loyalty cards/air miles cards. After hearing about the 'direct marketing' and so on that goes on with those loyalty cards, theres no bloody way I'll ever get one. I actively encourage people not to use them now that I know whats done with them...
Yes... because a hardcore network engineer can visualize hundreds of routers/switches, all their varioius routing protocols and associated foibles, all the redundancies etc...
Thats assinine. Have you ever worked on a network with THOUSANDS of devices before? He didn't say 'Small Business' he said 'enterprise'.
stupid arrogant people assuming the people who need diagrams aren't good enough. Glad you can sit and boost your ego that way, but when that stops working for you, join the real world.
To keep this slighly on topic, try using Ciscoworks... its good for planning, config backup, management, etc.
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funny when you think about it ... Canadas debt is $583 billion (in '97, http://www.fin.gc.ca/update97/factDEBT-E.html). The US DEFICIT for this year is $590 billion.
ok. not funny, kinda scary.
thats a huge amount of money.
0.00000002% of that would pay off all my debts and leave enough for a 2-4.
Another thing I learned in about 10th grade that helped a lot ... instead of walking around with your head down avoiding the world, walk with your head up and look people in the eye and smile as you pass. It's simple, but simply holding your head up instead of looking at your shoes as you walk makes a HUGE difference.
people actually commented that I was much happier after a week of doing this, and I felt a lot more confident.
now when I get stressed at work or depressed I catch myself walking with my head down and make a concerted effort to lift it back up and look at the world instead of my clown feet.
it truely is the little things like that that can change others perceptions of you. But as you said, smiling really is key. I know some pretty evil/horrible people, but not one of them wouldn't return a smile.
t.
as my old boss used to say day after day:
"those who are unaware are unaware they're unaware"
don't forget www.infiltration.org ... great site, based in toronto. some great writeups of landmarks..
t.
number 0 - orbiting Uranus.
I work for a company that sells coke from coast to coast here in Canada and every can of coke we sell has the same UPC, coast to coast, without fail.
This seems like a great place for opensource and commerce to come together.
.. the community gets a new tool and you get the program you want custom developed for a damn good price.
If your company is willing to pay $10,000 for a product, why not post asking for someone to write something for you and pay them the money?
Seems like a good way to go and it's win/win
I work in a call centre, so I take every break I can. I spend a lot of time on hold, sometimes for 20 seconds, sometimes for 5 minutes. In that time I play with the various toys on my desk. Magnetic Poetry is great, yo ucan just arrange a couple words, then go back. I also have one of those multi-coloured balls that expand into a giant ball then back. I sit and play with it.
.. it's anything that you can spend 30 seconds doing then putting down. I used to try and read /. or fark but found that was using up too much time and interfering with work .. now I just try little things.
.. it's kind of up to your personality. I hate those stupid little 'get the balls through the maze' games ... they require too much focus. But you might like those.
We also have an office tradition of throwing paper balls around to have some fun. I throw a couple of those around.
Really
Anyone who walks into the office can tell I'm a little different. my desk has lots of colours, shapes, pictures, stickers, comics, toys, stuffed things, etc all over it. each one of them is a small distraction for me, but one that lets me focus better. It's like standing up and stretching my mind.
Sorry I can't provide more examples
good luck.
Let me start off by saying thank you to the poster for not settling for a drug treatment. I am a very very outspoken anti-drugs for ADD person. As a child (starting at 4) I was diagnosed as ADHD (1982, so not in the middle of the 'every kid has ADD' phase). I would only sleep for a couple hours a night and the rest of the time I'd just rummage around my room, tearing off wallpaper, throwing things around or generally harassing my parents.
... just think of it as being amortized over the life of your child ... just pennies a day!
They put me on ritalin when I was about 6 after giving up on training me, and found it didn't work - it actually made me more hyper.
Thats when they moved me to Dexadrine. For the americans out there, it's the same drug some people use to lose weight. It immediately worked, helping me focus and not be so wired.
The downside was, I was moody and depressed. I was anti-social and angry a lot. but I was 8 and people didn't care really. They wrote it off as depression because my parents broke up. But when they took me off the pills for the summer, life was grand again. I was energetic to a fault and had lots of friends. Come school time, back on the drugs and back to quiet, boring, socially acceptable me.
Fast forward to highschool and I'm still on the stupid things. September was great, I'd start taking the pills and wouldn't eat for a weak (about the only upside to em, great weight loss). But around that age you start to become more self aware and I realized that I hated myself because I wasn't really me. I took these stupid pills every morning and I became who my parents and teachers wanted me to be, but I wasn't really me. I didn't laugh as much, I didn't talk as much, but I got good grades.
Around grade 11 I said 'fuck this' and started to not take the pills. Then my parents started threatening me and grounding me if I didn't take them. So I'd pop them in my mouth then spit them out. Then they started to check my mouth to make sure I swallowed them. So I found a new trick - you could pull apart the gel caps and all the little balls of medicine inside would fall out. So I'd quickly dump them on the floor or sink then take the pill. That worked well and I started to feel more like myself.
Except then my grades started slipping.
So thats when I turned to the psycho babble they'd been teaching me at my semi montly sessions. They called it 'coping strategies' and taught me how to recognize when I wasn't behaving well or focusing like I should. Instead of just throwing pills at the problem, they put me in control of my life and said 'these are the tools to make things better for you, but you need to do them'. They made me responsible for my behaviour and grades.
So I started with them. At this point I can't identify what I do, but my friends will notice when I *click* in and out of focus now. Apparently I'm much better and I can recognize when I'm having ADD moments. Sometimes I have ADD days. I've learned to work with instead of against the ADD. I now run dual monitors on my PC so I can do more than one thing easily. my desk has lots of distractions on it, but they're all little. I can jump from work to a distraction for 30 seconds to give my brain a break then back to work. I can focus much better now that I've learned these skills, and I dno't need pills to make me work well.
So, the moral of this story is that pills aren't necessary. They inhibit your mental and social and emotional growth by turning you into a little robot. I found that I could actually feel myself in a little tunnel when I took them and things seemed duller. Teaching coping skills is, I think, the key. Teaching your child how to recognize when they're not paying attention is the first step, then teaching them how to focus when needed, and let their mind go when not needed. If this Neural Feedback Training does that (and it sounds like it does), then go for it! Don't spare any expense
And maybe you should stop ranting like a tit.
I didn't get a 'fuck the system' vibe out of his comments - they were clear, consise and backed up with personal 'evidence'.
Just because you dont' agree doesn't make him wrong. Any more than it makes you are wrong because you think taking drugs makes you a better person.
And don't try and unload on me - I've done the drugs for ADD, and I hated myself when I was on them so I'd flush them and tell my parents I took them. I have since learned 'coping strategies' that the public health people used to teach me and they work just fine. I have learned to recognize that I am drifting out of focus and correct if I need to. I also let my employer know that I am prone to ADD and that I am in fact still working even if I look like I'm not.
I agree with the parent - drugs aren't the way to go. but if you feel they work for you, thats great.
But thats still no reason to be a tit about it.
I think it's like the word 'geek'
.. both of these have had very negative feelings associated with them ... if they didn't, the abuse in high school would have been much easier.
... I am a Geek, and I'm proud of it. Instead of slinking away and hiding from it, I wear my copyleft GEEK shirt whenever I can.
It used to have a very negative connotation (someone who bites the heads off chickens as a circus sideshow act - a freak by any other name).
We have adopted this word as our own. Same with Nerd
But now, we've taken those words from our tormentors and we use them
However, if someone I didn't know started calling me a geek (and I wasn't wearing my shirt) I'd probably get pissed, because they aren't using it in the good spirit - the spirit in which I use it.
It all comes down to context and the manner in which the word is used.
NIS is the tool for this .. it's been around for a LONG time. Works great .. the last office I worked for used Windows to create Users, and using NDS for windows they were all put into a novell NDS where we had something that pulled the information and put it into NIS so the UNIX boxen would all be the same. It was pretty slick.
.. it's easy to setup and it's stable.
Look into NIS though
Sorry, but telling someone to 'read the fucking manual' IS a putdown/insult. It's what you tell stupid users who call to ask how to bold text.
.. it scolding, no matter what way you put it.
... it's the nature of the jab.
There is no polite way to spin RTFM
While you may not have MEANT it, thats how everyone reads it
I don't think you're allowed to listen to the radio while flying .. doesn't it interefere with the delicate electronics and make you die a horrible horrible flaming death?
checkout www.407etr.com .. the Electronic Toll Road that runs along the top of Toronto. If you have a transponder you just drive thru the gates happily. If you do not have one, cameras catch your license plate number, match it with DOT records and mail you a bill.
the catch? If you don't have a transponder you pay a $3.50 charge EACH TIME YOU ENTER the highway, plus a $2 "convience charge" the first time each month you use it. All this on top of the $0.17/KM toll.
If it wasn't SO much faster than the alternative I wouldn't use it every day (thank fully I have a transponder).
It's easy, and we've done a lot of testing with it. They claim to be able to get a licence plate through dirt, dust, mud, frost, etc, or even partial plates. The only people getting a free ride are motorcycles who simply reach back and cover their plates with a hand.
Miranda is the best 'alternate' im client I've used ... it's features are great, file transfers seem to work where ICQ *AND* MSNs wont (although I can't get ICQ to work through my companys firewall, but their go.icq.com client does, so I must be doing something wrong - anyone seen an ICQ firewall plugin like the msn one that does http tunnels?
I've gotten quite a few people to switch over, esp friends who ran both clients for years. Yes, it also supports Yahoo, but really, who uses yahoo?
I think the best feature is all the coolass plugins that work so seamlessly.
www.miranda-im.com
The additional benefit is that if you're out with a *gasp* lady, you can put a sweater in there and when she invariably gets cold, you pull it out for her and shazzam, you're the man.
... your results may vary.
:)
additionally, when you go shopping with the ladies, you can be all helpful and carry things. Normally nets me a free lunch.
Mind you, my friends all call me the pack mule for a reason
man purses are the way of the future, man.
10th shot ... wow, after about 4 shots I stop caring and just grab the bottle. :)
But then again, I have a weakness for vodka.
I love getting free stuff for buying booze. Same with gas (shell) and food/living stuff (pharmaplus).
Mind you, I work for another company that has their own customer loyalty card and I know what they do wit hthe data and how they profile people, so I never use any loyalty cards/air miles cards. After hearing about the 'direct marketing' and so on that goes on with those loyalty cards, theres no bloody way I'll ever get one. I actively encourage people not to use them now that I know whats done with them...
is that english?
... wow.
I had no idea there was actually a formula you could use to generate a 'waterfall'
any other fun ones?
according to this, the avg heigh of a human, in 1996, was 70.1 inches.
...
google tells me that 1 inches = 0.0254 meters.
population of new york city is 8,008,278 people (in 2000).
so we have 8,008,278 people * 70.1 inches * 0.0254 = 14,259,059.31012 metres
so, sadly, thats 14,259.059 km, which is a lot more than the wifi run.
cheers.
DAMMIT!
... same as how I submit tickets .. stupid habits die hard.
apparently pressing ctrl-enter submits
lets continue that.
Sears tower = 442m
so we have 248.8688 sears towers
Boxcar = 43 feet avg (source)
Avg freight train length=45 cars (some other site that won't load but is cached)
Avg lenght in feet = 1935 feet
google tells me theres 0.3048 metres in a foot so we have the avg freight train being 589.788m long.
That means we have 186.5077 freight trains (not counting engines) end to end
length of football field (cdn) = 100m
length of football field (us) = 109.1m (source
That leaves us with 1,100 cdn football fields, or 1008.2493 american fields.
a us dollar bill is 156mm long (source
so that gives us 705128.2051 dollar bills, end to end
asian elephants can grow to 340cm (3.4m) (source)
so thats 32352.9412 elephants
I think thats good enough for now. back to work.
Sears tower = 442m
Boxcar = 43 feet avg (http://www.railwaystation.com/1942/05.html)
Avg freight train length=45 cars
Avg lenght in feet = 1935 feet
google tells me theres
"Better to keep you mouth closed and have people think you a fool, than open it and remove all doubt"
Yes... because a hardcore network engineer can visualize hundreds of routers/switches, all their varioius routing protocols and associated foibles, all the redundancies etc ...
... its good for planning, config backup, management, etc.
Thats assinine. Have you ever worked on a network with THOUSANDS of devices before? He didn't say 'Small Business' he said 'enterprise'.
stupid arrogant people assuming the people who need diagrams aren't good enough. Glad you can sit and boost your ego that way, but when that stops working for you, join the real world.
To keep this slighly on topic, try using Ciscoworks
I was there a while ago and didn't notice it .. where was it?
That place is so damned expensive, but has fun games....