Credentials: ADD from back when it was hyperactivity. Been on the Feingold Diet (worked for me, not for everybody), various drugs (works for me, not for everybody), and a lot of forced practice courtesy of mom (would probably work on everybody, since she's a force of nature).
I"ve heard various things about this, over the years, and the question that occurs to me: what happens when they've re-trained the brain this way, to the *good* aspects of ADHD?
I can zip through solving problems in a way that a lot of other people can't. I can 'see' the solution when working at fixing something mechanical. I can also spot discrepancies - visual, aural, logical - much quicker than my friends.
How much of this goes away? That would be a very interesting followup research project, IMHO.
FOG, aka Free Open Ghosting, at www.fogproject.org, will certainly take images of your hard drives; that's not a problem. And, I haven't played with it, but it has the capability to do install packages, so that meets the bit-by-bit portion of things.
Like most open-source packages, FOG improves constantly, and recently, it's getting better by leaps and bounds.
Watchmen was a great comic. A fantastic graphic novel. No one "Should make a movie of this". Or a game. Or a TV show. Great works do not need to be paraded before the masses in order to be vindicated in some ridiculous fashion. Fans do a disservice to their favorite work by suggesting this.
There's a difference between exploitation and exploration. I saw a wonderful adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' as a play, and it went places that even the (wonderful) original didn't. Every medium has compromises, and as long as the work is adapted well, it can be rewarding.
Well, by the way, does not include standard Hollywood tricks. Orson Scott Card's ruminations on the subject of why you change and when come to mind.
Watchmen will not work on the big screen. They will defile it. Expect the Happy-Meal version, with Dr. Manhattan in a leotard throughout, A cigar-less Comedian, and a kung-fu fighting Rorschach who find happiness in the end. Silhouette will make an appearance, and you know in exactly what context. Ozymandias will probably die a brutal death after his plot is foiled at 6 seconds to midnight. It will be a gruesome spectacle, like watching a car hit a truck in slow motion. Why would anyone want this?
Possibly. However, Manhattan is already showing up nude in the trailer and the Comedian has his cigar- I'm guessing you haven't seen the trailer, because those are poor examples. Or have read the recent articles, where they state explicitly that it still ends with the villain accomplishing his nefarious goal, in spite of studio pressure.
Alas, that goal might not be the squid, so I'm holding judgment on the subject.
I get your point, I really do. I've seen too many bad adaptations, too. But there can be good adaptations, and the odds look decent for this.
Program configs would indeed be good. Of course, you might be too young to remember the nightmare that.ini files were, and why the registry came into being. Part of that nightmare was because programs would modify system-wide files. A properly configured etc directory would have worked fine.
Heck, they already had one! They just had to put the rest of the stuff down there in system32\drivers\etc
It needs to do it more.:) My mom knows that when the icon flashes every 10 days to turn on the external hard drive. Then, after a couple of hours, she knows to go in and eject the volume, and turn off the drive.
Easy. Peasy. And when it's time to restore, I can do it from the Leopard install disk.
I love rsync. I use rsync. Rsync is a friend of mine - I back up using rsync to my home server, with cron. But command line for regular people is just not feasible.
I would love to have a study that correlates command-line usage to the ADHD/Asperger's/Autism continuum.;)
While I'll go along with the one-version-to-rule-them-all idea, the most important thing? Easy external backup, for everybody. Apple has it right with time machine. No muss, no fuss, and I had only the tiniest of glitches when I restored onto a newer hard drive.
And if they don't do this, well, this needs to be a feature of Ubuntu. That'll gain them market share.
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And it should be noted there are still plenty of IDE drives out there in the larger sizes. If you really want to go with SATA, then get an adapter card.
Lack of performance? Not an issue, since I've yet to see a NAS that- at the lower end pricewise- was competitive in this regard, anyway.
Or, keep the server, and drop in a new $100 mobo/chip combo that allows for better power management. Regardless, I've found things are much better with a home server than they ever were with a NAS, and my DNS, DHCP, Samba all work better, plus I now can run squeezebox.
Having just seen terabyte drives at $169ish this past weekend, the flexibility of adding storage also makes it a better solution, too.
For my home server closet and rack, I found a nifty 5u unit on ebay for about $75; there's a vendor out of LA who sells them for about $40+$35 shipping on a 'buy it now' basis. It's not the best engineered case, but it was also easy to take apart and noise-reduce with massed vinyl and rubber grommets, etc.
Personally, I wanted a rack server for several reasons: a) more space for hard drives b) easier to fit in than putting a server on a shelf unit. c) looks cool, and is easy to cool.
It is still loud, but it's also got 6 hard drives in it, and it's only really loud when it's actively engaged in serving video or storing backups, but not for DNS queries.
Craigslist, if you're near a major market, should have plenty of used units too. Be sure to buy one that takes ATX mobos- it is definitely not worth your time to modify an AT case for ATX. It's easy to put a via or other small mobo in an AT case, though, and that's how I'm building the rack mount for the home theater pc. It'll look close enough to Hal for my purposes.:)
So it's an interactive whiteboard on the table instead of the wall. Aka, activboard, smartboard, mimio. Well, okay, it's multi-touch instead of single touch, but it's still not *that* fancy.
BTW, those short throw projectors use a crazy fisheye lens to avoid keystoning. From our experience with them in the aforementioned whiteboards, the picture isn't as clear as a regular projector, and it's harder than normal to get good focus. When you're very near to the board, it gets quite noticeable.
You know, he has several points that are worthwhile. Unfortunately, they're nitpicky little things; all of the underlying issues that can happen when those bits get switched are still there. He's also right; 30 checks per second is terrifically insignificant. However, the code surrounding all this, to do that, is measurably more complex than it needs to be, and will undoubtedly have bugs. It all boils down to the simple fact that a system has been designed to meet artificially complex goals that really are worthless in the end. All of the pains associated with getting HDCP working right obscure the fact that if I did the right thing, and purchased HD media, I could have issues because they're worried about me stealing this media. Simpler is better. It always is in computers. After 20 odd years playing with PCs and unix, windows, macs, etc., that's the one inescapable truth I've learned. Text files rock. Simple communications are easier to fix. Sigh. You'd think the billions that are made from DVDs would show them that people are willing to buy movies. I'd rather buy it than steal it. It's just easier, it's less work, and heck, it's the right thing to do...
From my standpoint, what was more interesting was: a) This was a high priority item. Yes, this is as important as fixing IE flaws. Surely. b) How it's listed in the license agreement: MICROSOFT PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS MICROSOFT WINDOWS GENUINE ADVANTAGE VALIDATION TOOL
So they're putting BETA software into high priority updates?
Yes, it's a cheap shot. Yes, he's a loathsome person, and his tactics are sleazy. Yes, he's almost always wrong.
However, he's closer to right with that last comment. Balance is an important thing in life. I wouldn't refer to gaming as 'masturbatory' perhaps, at least if goals are possible, but having a sense of perspective about leisure pursuits is valuable.
IMHO.
Of course, this comment could be just being made to rationalize why the wife won't let me play PGR3 for 5 hours a night.
Okay, so, Microsoft is having problems getting chips. Don't know exactly which chips, but I'm going to make an educated guess and say it's those spiffy new powerpc chips.
Sorta makes Steve Jobs look somewhat less irrational, doesn't it? If Microsoft can't get all the chips it needs for something they're spending billions on, how on earth is Apple expected to?
That being said, I wish somebody- Motorola, IBM, whomever- had gotten their act together and come out with PowerPC chips that could compete in the (irrational) battleground that Intel laid out.
I realize that somebody somewhere has to pay for bandwidth & resources. Not wanting to pay an internet tax, I don't mind ads. Once. If I've seen it, I block it.
I've clicked on ads off slashdot. I've even bought stuff. Ads can work.
But there's a way to do it responsibly.
1) Don't use incomprehensible strings that make blocking impossible. If you do, I will block the whole ad domain. I'm willing to give them some leeway- slash, I just have to block after the ad ID#.
2) Minimize blinking. This wouldn't be a big deal if I knew a way to halt gifs in their cycle. It used to be possible to do this in your browser; somewhere along the way, pressing stop didn't do this anymore. I wouldn't block if I could just do this, actually.
3) Minimize flash usage.
4) Minimize flash usage. (They didn't believe me the first time.)
Ads are here. They serve a purpose. Ads in the paper don't blink, burble, or me, however. Emulate the paper, advertisers.
Okay, here is the link.
I can think of a lot of things to examine based on the newspaper article, first and foremost is HOW the computers were used. Lack of teacher education in how best to use the strengths of computers in teaching is a tremendous problem...
And the 'old fashioned' method of lecture is usually fairly consistent as being the least effective method of instruction, too.
The devil is in the details...
They merely point you to the packages for Woody that are available on the samba site. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but there you go.
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Credentials: ADD from back when it was hyperactivity. Been on the Feingold Diet (worked for me, not for everybody), various drugs (works for me, not for everybody), and a lot of forced practice courtesy of mom (would probably work on everybody, since she's a force of nature).
I"ve heard various things about this, over the years, and the question that occurs to me: what happens when they've re-trained the brain this way, to the *good* aspects of ADHD?
I can zip through solving problems in a way that a lot of other people can't. I can 'see' the solution when working at fixing something mechanical. I can also spot discrepancies - visual, aural, logical - much quicker than my friends.
How much of this goes away? That would be a very interesting followup research project, IMHO.
Wow, quiet in here.
FOG, aka Free Open Ghosting, at www.fogproject.org, will certainly take images of your hard drives; that's not a problem.
And, I haven't played with it, but it has the capability to do install packages, so that meets the bit-by-bit portion of things.
Like most open-source packages, FOG improves constantly, and recently, it's getting better by leaps and bounds.
Watchmen was a great comic. A fantastic graphic novel. No one "Should make a movie of this". Or a game. Or a TV show. Great works do not need to be paraded before the masses in order to be vindicated in some ridiculous fashion. Fans do a disservice to their favorite work by suggesting this.
There's a difference between exploitation and exploration. I saw a wonderful adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories' as a play, and it went places that even the (wonderful) original didn't. Every medium has compromises, and as long as the work is adapted well, it can be rewarding.
Well, by the way, does not include standard Hollywood tricks. Orson Scott Card's ruminations on the subject of why you change and when come to mind.
Watchmen will not work on the big screen. They will defile it. Expect the Happy-Meal version, with Dr. Manhattan in a leotard throughout, A cigar-less Comedian, and a kung-fu fighting Rorschach who find happiness in the end. Silhouette will make an appearance, and you know in exactly what context. Ozymandias will probably die a brutal death after his plot is foiled at 6 seconds to midnight. It will be a gruesome spectacle, like watching a car hit a truck in slow motion. Why would anyone want this?
Possibly. However, Manhattan is already showing up nude in the trailer and the Comedian has his cigar- I'm guessing you haven't seen the trailer, because those are poor examples. Or have read the recent articles, where they state explicitly that it still ends with the villain accomplishing his nefarious goal, in spite of studio pressure.
Alas, that goal might not be the squid, so I'm holding judgment on the subject.
I get your point, I really do. I've seen too many bad adaptations, too. But there can be good adaptations, and the odds look decent for this.
I hope Alan Moore's been taking his blood pressure medication today.
Prequel. Good, bad, he's going to be grumpier than normal about things...
Program configs would indeed be good. .ini files were, and why the registry came into being.
Of course, you might be too young to remember the nightmare that
Part of that nightmare was because programs would modify system-wide files. A properly configured etc directory would have worked fine.
Heck, they already had one! They just had to put the rest of the stuff down there in system32\drivers\etc
Binary config files stink.
It needs to do it more. :)
My mom knows that when the icon flashes every 10 days to turn on the external hard drive. Then, after a couple of hours, she knows to go in and eject the volume, and turn off the drive.
Easy. Peasy. And when it's time to restore, I can do it from the Leopard install disk.
I love rsync. I use rsync. Rsync is a friend of mine - I back up using rsync to my home server, with cron. But command line for regular people is just not feasible.
I would love to have a study that correlates command-line usage to the ADHD/Asperger's/Autism continuum. ;)
(ADHD and a strong fan, here.)
While I'll go along with the one-version-to-rule-them-all idea, the most important thing?
Easy external backup, for everybody.
Apple has it right with time machine. No muss, no fuss, and I had only the tiniest of glitches when I restored onto a newer hard drive.
And if they don't do this, well, this needs to be a feature of Ubuntu. That'll gain them market share.
And it should be noted there are still plenty of IDE drives out there in the larger sizes. If you really want to go with SATA, then get an adapter card.
Lack of performance? Not an issue, since I've yet to see a NAS that- at the lower end pricewise- was competitive in this regard, anyway.
Or, keep the server, and drop in a new $100 mobo/chip combo that allows for better power management. Regardless, I've found things are much better with a home server than they ever were with a NAS, and my DNS, DHCP, Samba all work better, plus I now can run squeezebox.
Having just seen terabyte drives at $169ish this past weekend, the flexibility of adding storage also makes it a better solution, too.
For my home server closet and rack, I found a nifty 5u unit on ebay for about $75; there's a vendor out of LA who sells them for about $40+$35 shipping on a 'buy it now' basis. It's not the best engineered case, but it was also easy to take apart and noise-reduce with massed vinyl and rubber grommets, etc.
:)
Personally, I wanted a rack server for several reasons:
a) more space for hard drives
b) easier to fit in than putting a server on a shelf unit.
c) looks cool, and is easy to cool.
It is still loud, but it's also got 6 hard drives in it, and it's only really loud when it's actively engaged in serving video or storing backups, but not for DNS queries.
Craigslist, if you're near a major market, should have plenty of used units too. Be sure to buy one that takes ATX mobos- it is definitely not worth your time to modify an AT case for ATX. It's easy to put a via or other small mobo in an AT case, though, and that's how I'm building the rack mount for the home theater pc. It'll look close enough to Hal for my purposes.
So it's an interactive whiteboard on the table instead of the wall. Aka, activboard, smartboard, mimio.
Well, okay, it's multi-touch instead of single touch, but it's still not *that* fancy.
BTW, those short throw projectors use a crazy fisheye lens to avoid keystoning. From our experience with them in the aforementioned whiteboards, the picture isn't as clear as a regular projector, and it's harder than normal to get good focus. When you're very near to the board, it gets quite noticeable.
You know, he has several points that are worthwhile. Unfortunately, they're nitpicky little things; all of the underlying issues that can happen when those bits get switched are still there.
He's also right; 30 checks per second is terrifically insignificant. However, the code surrounding all this, to do that, is measurably more complex than it needs to be, and will undoubtedly have bugs.
It all boils down to the simple fact that a system has been designed to meet artificially complex goals that really are worthless in the end. All of the pains associated with getting HDCP working right obscure the fact that if I did the right thing, and purchased HD media, I could have issues because they're worried about me stealing this media.
Simpler is better. It always is in computers. After 20 odd years playing with PCs and unix, windows, macs, etc., that's the one inescapable truth I've learned. Text files rock. Simple communications are easier to fix.
Sigh. You'd think the billions that are made from DVDs would show them that people are willing to buy movies. I'd rather buy it than steal it. It's just easier, it's less work, and heck, it's the right thing to do...
I find the absence of the word 'security' very interesting. I wasn't expect to see a word like 'quality' of course.
From my standpoint, what was more interesting was:
a) This was a high priority item. Yes, this is as important as fixing IE flaws. Surely.
b) How it's listed in the license agreement:
MICROSOFT PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT WINDOWS GENUINE ADVANTAGE VALIDATION TOOL
So they're putting BETA software into high priority updates?
Yes, it's a cheap shot.
Yes, he's a loathsome person, and his tactics are sleazy.
Yes, he's almost always wrong.
However, he's closer to right with that last comment. Balance is an important thing in life. I wouldn't refer to gaming as 'masturbatory' perhaps, at least if goals are possible, but having a sense of perspective about leisure pursuits is valuable.
IMHO.
Of course, this comment could be just being made to rationalize why the wife won't let me play PGR3 for 5 hours a night.
Preface: I love the PowerPC.
Okay, so, Microsoft is having problems getting chips. Don't know exactly which chips, but I'm going to make an educated guess and say it's those spiffy new powerpc chips.
Sorta makes Steve Jobs look somewhat less irrational, doesn't it? If Microsoft can't get all the chips it needs for something they're spending billions on, how on earth is Apple expected to?
That being said, I wish somebody- Motorola, IBM, whomever- had gotten their act together and come out with PowerPC chips that could compete in the (irrational) battleground that Intel laid out.
However, our fridge at work has over 300 processors on it now...
Now, that I hadn't noticed before. Very surprising.
No, I didn't. Interesting. I meant it in the context of using religious freedom as you see fit. I happen to pray; others may not.
I most certainly did not mean it in the context of victims.
This may be responding to a troll, but I wanted to be sure nobody was confused. Tis a shocking thing that has happened.
the french, upset at not getting the olympics?
all condolences to our British friends; we're thinking of you this morning.
(I'm praying; to each his own.)
I can scan it in if you're *really* interested...
(yes, mac zealot, has this issue, and macworld 1, etc. etc.)
I realize that somebody somewhere has to pay for bandwidth & resources. Not wanting to pay an internet tax, I don't mind ads. Once. If I've seen it, I block it.
I've clicked on ads off slashdot. I've even bought stuff. Ads can work.
But there's a way to do it responsibly.
1) Don't use incomprehensible strings that make blocking impossible. If you do, I will block the whole ad domain. I'm willing to give them some leeway- slash, I just have to block after the ad ID#.
2) Minimize blinking. This wouldn't be a big deal if I knew a way to halt gifs in their cycle. It used to be possible to do this in your browser; somewhere along the way, pressing stop didn't do this anymore. I wouldn't block if I could just do this, actually.
3) Minimize flash usage.
4) Minimize flash usage. (They didn't believe me the first time.)
Ads are here. They serve a purpose. Ads in the paper don't blink, burble, or me, however. Emulate the paper, advertisers.
but some linkage would be good?
Ticking off one of your most unabashedly positive supporters: that's ALWAYS the ticket to success.
Okay, here is the link. I can think of a lot of things to examine based on the newspaper article, first and foremost is HOW the computers were used. Lack of teacher education in how best to use the strengths of computers in teaching is a tremendous problem... And the 'old fashioned' method of lecture is usually fairly consistent as being the least effective method of instruction, too. The devil is in the details...
They merely point you to the packages for Woody that are available on the samba site.
Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but there you go.