Not everyone considers ADHD to be "real"
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David Keirsey, the well known psychologist, believes that ADHD is just an excuse to sell drugs and to dumb-down kids who are bored with school.
My brother and I both have ADHD-like symptoms from time to time. No drugs here, and somehow we're both capable of surviving.
Television has done a lot to reduce the attention span of just about everyone these days. What can you do?
I might buy the book just to see what he means by "no file hierarchies". I've read about this book before, and that was what stuck out the last time as well.
How would one organize files? Ok, say you don't have "files" but just documents. Is the device only good for editing one at a time? Or is he suggesting a replacement by a more random-access structure, so that you need to give it keywords to find the file you're looking for?
Categories and subcategories map well to the real world. If I have only a few files (documents, whatever) they can be in one place. But if I have many, then I'll want them to be organized somehow, and hierarchically makes a lot of sense for that.
My fear is that he's advocating a "sufficiently advanced technology" interface that somehow magically finds the file that you want based on your limited, possibly ambiguous query. If anyone has read the book and knows more specifically what he's advocating, please reply to this.
Sure, it starts with the cheese worm. But then another group comes up with the mouse worm that breaks in through security holes left unpatched by the cheese worm, removing the cheese worm and installing itself. Then comes the morphing cat worm, that not only breaks in on mouse patched sites, but also downloads updated patches from servers that further increase security...
The war of the patch-virii.
A friend of mine suggested to me that whatever you look for on the Internet, it will seemingly spring into being simply by the fact of you looking for it. That same friend came up with this idea of patch viruses that break into and repair security holes. And **Poof**, it exists.
I count 80.3% of the daemons running versions of the "commercial" ssh, while 17.4% run OpenSSH. Just because you want it to be so doesn't make it so.
Incidentally, I vote to change the name. Either "Shush" or "Fresh" would be fine by me, though there already IS a FreSSH, so my vote is with Shush. No need to change the name to ANOTHER that is infringing or confusing.
As they make hard drives faster and faster, they keep getting noisier. Why not direct some development dollars toward making a quiet line of hard drives. I'd like nothing more than to have a silent computer. At least someone has thoughts in that direction, though engineering it right into the drive would also likely save power.
Can anyone say, "Set top box"?
Aren't corporations supposed to be more focused on doing business than suing?
Actually, it isn't even a new idea. I remember reading over fifteen years ago that Texas Instrument's most profitable division was its legal department. Patents, for better or worse, are quite profitable. Mostly for worse at this point.
For what it's worth, I hope RAMBUS loses this particular battle, even if it isn't likely. The Motley Fool posted an article a while back predicting the success of RAMBUS based on these patents. Hardware patents can be as harmful to the industry as software--it's a hot issue right now, and some people are trying to do something about it already.
So what should be done with patents? I haven't really heard a good solution yet. Most solutions either favor the corporations (and lawyers) or they throw out the entire system, innovation to be done at your own risk. Is there a middle ground?
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David Keirsey, the well known psychologist, believes that ADHD is just an excuse to sell drugs and to dumb-down kids who are bored with school.
My brother and I both have ADHD-like symptoms from time to time. No drugs here, and somehow we're both capable of surviving. Television has done a lot to reduce the attention span of just about everyone these days. What can you do?
Tim
How would one organize files? Ok, say you don't have "files" but just documents. Is the device only good for editing one at a time? Or is he suggesting a replacement by a more random-access structure, so that you need to give it keywords to find the file you're looking for?
Categories and subcategories map well to the real world. If I have only a few files (documents, whatever) they can be in one place. But if I have many, then I'll want them to be organized somehow, and hierarchically makes a lot of sense for that.
My fear is that he's advocating a "sufficiently advanced technology" interface that somehow magically finds the file that you want based on your limited, possibly ambiguous query. If anyone has read the book and knows more specifically what he's advocating, please reply to this.
Tim
The war of the patch-virii.
A friend of mine suggested to me that whatever you look for on the Internet, it will seemingly spring into being simply by the fact of you looking for it. That same friend came up with this idea of patch viruses that break into and repair security holes. And **Poof**, it exists.
Be careful what you look for...
Different SSH daemons:
0.3% Cisco-1.5
3.6% OpenSSH-1.5
13.7% OpenSSH-1.99
0.1% OpenSSH-2.0
1.8% Other-1.5
0.2% SSH-1.3
0.1% SSH-1.4
61.8% SSH-1.5
10.1% SSH-1.99
8.1% SSH-2.0
I count 80.3% of the daemons running versions of the "commercial" ssh, while 17.4% run OpenSSH. Just because you want it to be so doesn't make it so.
Incidentally, I vote to change the name. Either "Shush" or "Fresh" would be fine by me, though there already IS a FreSSH, so my vote is with Shush. No need to change the name to ANOTHER that is infringing or confusing.
Tim
Tim
For what it's worth, I hope RAMBUS loses this particular battle, even if it isn't likely. The Motley Fool posted an article a while back predicting the success of RAMBUS based on these patents. Hardware patents can be as harmful to the industry as software--it's a hot issue right now, and some people are trying to do something about it already.
So what should be done with patents? I haven't really heard a good solution yet. Most solutions either favor the corporations (and lawyers) or they throw out the entire system, innovation to be done at your own risk. Is there a middle ground?
Tim