Although I was never diagnosed ADD/ADHD, it is most likey that I have ADHD.
For me, I needed a challenge. The normal drudgery of day to day school work was to easy. Luckily, my second grade teacher saw me for what I was; smart, bored, active as hell. Ms. Compton gave me something to do, she challenged me (mentally as well as physically). It helped immensely. To this day, I work better, and faster, knowing that I have alot to do.
I lived in an age before medicating your kids was popular. I was lucky enough to go to a public school (Acres Green Elementary, Littleton CO) that paid attention to its students, and employed smart, caring teachers.
I wholly dis-approve of medicating children. I think kids should not grow up not knowing who they are. Sometimes the behavior of those around the child has to be adapted. Not unlike adapting your personality around people in your professional that you may not 'jive' with...
I think statements like this just perpetuate the gun mentality of (some) Americans. "I know other people have guns, so I better get one to protect myself." Rinse, repeat.
It is not a matter of other people having guns, so I want one too. It is a matter of not being able to trust the people around me. That goes for citizens as well as the gov't. (Think "Redcoats")
I don't have stats about kids accidently killing themselves with guns they find in their parent's closet, but I'm sure it happens. A lot. I can guarantee it will never happen in my house... can you?
Yes I can. Gun is unloaded, locked in cabinet. Only one key, on my keychain. Ammo is also locked, somewhere else. Generally locked box inside of a safe. Only one person knows combo of safe, location of key (not on keychain), as well as location of safe itself ("Protection" is not why I own a gun)
I guess the other argument would be to not throw anything, don't piss him off, and let him take what he wants. Sure, you lose your stuff and maybe get roughed up a bit (but probably not if you don't give him reason to). But you live. And hopefully he'll get caught by the authorities later.
Assuming they are not crazy, holding a gun, have the shakes due to lack of heroin etc etc. In other words, I get shot.
Driving a car is a priveledge, which you earn by taking lessons and passing tests. A gun is something an American feels is their right (2nd amend.), and you can probably pick one up for a $100 at the nearest sporting goods store. That's why.
Owning a gun is also a privelage. Guns are licensed, background checks are becoming the norm, and if you are a convicted felon, it is not legal to buy one. For most types of guns, it is harder to obtain one than it is to get that Ford Excursion in all it's 12mpg glory.
As for lunatic in airplanes... that's a different matter altogether.
Truth. It is also leading to the erosion of our rights as citizens. There is only one word to be said for all of your rights to be violated, with the approval of the general public. TERRORIST.
How long ago did that revolution end? You afraid Britain might invade again? So why do you need your guns now? You've got your freedom... disarm.
Can you show me where this guarantee is that says we will continue to be free? Whether it is outside, or inside, influence? Please?
The guns-as-historical-right is a crock. Why aren't you arguing for the right of everyone to keep a catapault, or longbow or sharp pointy stick?
Catapult etc, because they haven't tried to take them away, yet!;-)
Until your neighbour gets a bigger gun. Rinse, repeat.
It's not bigger that is the problem, it's faster that scares me!
Actually, I hate guns because people like you feel you *need* to have one to protect you.
Entirely valid.
I grew up hunting, fishing, hiking, bicycling, playing sports etc etc. Often, I am referred to as a hick. Yet some of the stories I have (13 yrs old, Thanksgiving, and a live turkey that is to be dinner, for one) are absolutely hilarious, even to my pro-gun control friends. When people hear that I used to shoot skeet competitively, they are interested as to why.
Every person has their own opinion. Every person is partly right. As tey are partly wrong. People do lots of things for the right, or wrong, reasons. It just so happens that gun ownership is a hot topic right now.
Please note one thing, the annual rate of death by cancer (just those attributable to smoking cigs), and automobile accidents, is far higher than death by gun violence.
The real question in my mind is; if a guy is drunk, drives his car into another car killing a family, he goes to jail for 5 or 10 years, maybe. If he did the same thing, drunk, but with a gun (killing a family), he would be in jail for life, or facing the death penalty. Why is that?
not always. but i skip channels, talk with my friends (online or the people in the room i am watching the show with), check/. or my email too. i have not watched/absorbed commercials since i was in grammar school.
and to go a little farther with this; if i see a good ad, i don't usaully remember the product very well. the ad will stick out, but the product will not. not very often that i see a good product that i did not know about, that i want to buy, because of a tv ad. the last one was for Metroid Prime, which caused me to buy a Gamecube. But that is only because I don't pay attention to gaming anymore...
that they are not making big bucks off of them yet. PVR's have not exploded onto the market.
There are 100+ million TV's in the USA, and only 500,000 PVR's. How long ago did they come to market? Much slower growth than either the VCR or the DVD player enjoyed.
People in cable and tv industry bitch about PVR's because people can skip commercials. what they fail to realise is that i only go to the bathroom/kitchen/whatever during the commercials to begin with! i am reasonably confidant that they do the same thing.
i pay the cable company for access to the shows, not access to the commercials.
All sorts of interesting legal wrinkles here: you're buying a computer which contains data that you cannot legally access.
If you pay for something (software) you can use it. This software has access to a database of DRM'ed music files, that you would have paid for if you bought that Gateway PC.
# VIA C3 800 MHz processor offers comparable performance to the 800 MHz Celeron processor # 133 MHz frontside bus # 256 MB SDRAM, expandable to 1 GB # 133 MHz memory speed # 40 GB Ultra-ATA 100 hard drive, 5400 rpm (total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment) # 52x CD-ROM drive # 3.5-inch floppy disk drive # Integrated AGP 4x graphics # Up to 8 MB shared video memory # Integrated AC '97 sound # 56 Kbps modem # Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection # Micro ATX tower case (14"D x 7"W x 14"H) # Available drive bays: one 5.25-inch external, one 3.5-inch external # Total Slots: 1 PCI # Available PCI Slots: None # High-speed serial port # Parallel port # 2 front and 2 rear USB ports # Game port # 104-key keyboard # 2-button mouse with wheel # Audio port (line-in, line-out, mic-in) # Stereo speakers # LindowsOS operating system (pre-installed) # Software includes mail, word processor, Web browser/file manager, address book, calculator, CD player, MP3 Player, PowerPoint viewer, Word viewer, Excel viewer and image viewer # Games include Tron, Battleship, Poker, Minesweeper, Potato Guy # Special Offer - Select up to 10+ software applications at no charge from theLindows.com Click-N-Run Warehouse "Starter Aisle" # 1-year warranty, return to Microtel
my cable modem was free! no monthly rental fee! free lifetime replacement if it breaks! regularly achieve 500-600 KB/s (i live in CT, USA)! no limits on amount downloaded per month (aside from capability of hardware)! has gone down only once in past 3 months (all cable service was down for a few hrs)!
ex-girlfriend has a iMac 700MHz G4 with 3/4 gig o RAM running Jaguar (10.2.1)
did a side by side comparison with my P3 500MHz IBM ThinkPad (600X) that is running win98se with only 192mb RAM, and the laptop is faster (IE, Mozilla, & Netscape) than the iMac, using same browser. All 3 were faster than Omni and iCab also.
I love OS X, but the 'internet experience' is pretty sucky... Wanted to buy a iBook (G3 700MHz), but it was slow enough that I got the used ThinkPad instead.
Actually, when dealing with management a few things are certain:
1) Your manager worked somewhere else. 2) That somewhere else is probably in the same market. 3) How many supplier's of KDS monitors, or Sony drives, or whatever, do you think there are? 4) Difference in costs are close to nil. Things cost what they do, regardless of who you are.
Trust me, I was a manager of a retail furniture store for over a year, at a company that I worked at for over 3-1/2 years. Everyone knows what is going on everywhere else. Even the suppliers would tell us what was going on with regional competitors!
It is not so much collusion as it is everyone knows what the other guy is doing. They all know what the costs are, what kind of profit margins are acceptable, which items are 'loss leaders' etc etc.
The biggest area of concern is shipping. Take a look at the effects the recent longshoremen strike on the West Coast of the US. Plants closed, or started laying off workers. And this was only after 10 or so days of not getting goods.
"You can just send it by plane, or the East Coast." Not really a valid answer, because everyone else thought of it too.
Supercooled electro-magnets are nearly self-sufficient once powered up, hence all the interest the last couple of decages. Problem is finding a usefull practical application that makes sense economically. That has been the problem since the beginning; not unlike most public mass transit projects.
sounds to me like IBM sold them servers and said; "We have this cool thing we use called 'Linux' that we are going to be using to run these servers you just bought, and it can be used on all of your desktop computers without any licensing costs. Did I mention it is more stable and secure than MS Windows? Also, it can be installed and updated via the network so that all of the machines have the necessary software and security updates."
I have no problems with a healthy debate. Name calling is a lame attempt at baiting, and continuing the conversation. I will use that no more.
As for foreign labor in the US, there are a few issues. These people are willing to come here, work on the cheap for long hours, just to get out of India or wherever it is they come from. They are unhappy in their homeland, and are willing to give up almost everything to go to a better place. That better place, at the moment, is the US. Nearly every industry has this problem, not just the programmer. That is why unions exist, in theory. To protect the worker. We know that is not the only goal, but it is the most touted one. Giving power back to the worker.
In the case of programmers, I am of the opinion that only a few in the US actually make the money that they are worth. Some are even underpaid, but on average, I would have to comment that as a group programmers get paid more than they are worth.
I know this insults people, but the truth hurts. There are very few vocations in which the failure rates of programmers are accepted. Most people are held to the standard of "get it right or I take my business elsewhere."
I have had bad experiences with all manner of bad programming from the custom professional level (databases in particular), to standard professional tools (nealry anything Microsoft for example), to homegrown spare time stuff (RPM for one).
If this kind of failure rate existed in the automotive industry...
More and more companies are coming to realise that computers and the programs they run are vital tools. Emphasis on tool. Companies that provide a service or a product can only reasonably expect to charge what the market determines that service or product is worth. The associated 'voodoo' of years gone past is lessening day by day. Just because your product or service is computer related does not mean you can charge an arm and a leg for it any longer.
So companies start thinking, "how can we do this for less?" Perks go first. Then extraneous personnel. Then overpaid personnel (think of batch of current CEO's losing jobs on Wall Street). Then benefits start shrinking (no more free insurance, 4 paid wks vacation etc). Then outsourcing starts to become an issue; "what do we not really _have_ to do ourselves?" Sometimes, they find near outsource prices, locally. The visa's are not the problem. The problem was the irresponsible actions of the market in the mid to late 1990's. Those unreal expectations, and associated actions, led to the situation most companies are in now. Sink or swim. No more, "we have this idea, and we think you should give us USD 20 million to figure it out."
Maybe the solution could be the formation of a union. Problem is, who do you accept as members? Only US citizens? What about people with visa's? If that US citizen works for a company that also utilizes foreign labor, is he/she exempt? Who runs the union? What are the dues? Will programmers pay dues to keep their jobs? What behavior gets people blacklisted from the union? Is there a whitelist of members? Why? Why not? Is the union international (ie US citizens working abroad)? Will the employers accept the formation of unions?
There are many other industries/niches that are dealing with the same problems programmers are. For example, nearly all medical transcription is done in India! My aunt happens to run a medical transcription business in the US, and her method of business is far different than 5 or 10 years ago.
i am sorry, why is it that companies have to be all in the same location? i seem to remember hearing about multi-national corporations, or even smaller companies with multiple branches. that is the great thing about running your own company, you get to do what works best for you.
and your BigMac analogy is ridiculous. i never once mentioned buying something specific that is brand 'A' from brand 'B'.
pay attention you fucking moron.
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You have a daughter of advanced intelligence.
Although I was never diagnosed ADD/ADHD, it is most likey that I have ADHD.
For me, I needed a challenge. The normal drudgery of day to day school work was to easy. Luckily, my second grade teacher saw me for what I was; smart, bored, active as hell. Ms. Compton gave me something to do, she challenged me (mentally as well as physically). It helped immensely. To this day, I work better, and faster, knowing that I have alot to do.
I lived in an age before medicating your kids was popular. I was lucky enough to go to a public school (Acres Green Elementary, Littleton CO) that paid attention to its students, and employed smart, caring teachers.
I wholly dis-approve of medicating children. I think kids should not grow up not knowing who they are. Sometimes the behavior of those around the child has to be adapted. Not unlike adapting your personality around people in your professional that you may not 'jive' with...
IMHO, IANAD.
I think statements like this just perpetuate the gun mentality of (some) Americans. "I know other people have guns, so I better get one to protect myself." Rinse, repeat.
... can you?
... that's a different matter altogether.
.
... disarm.
;-)
It is not a matter of other people having guns, so I want one too. It is a matter of not being able to trust the people around me. That goes for citizens as well as the gov't. (Think "Redcoats")
I don't have stats about kids accidently killing themselves with guns they find in their parent's closet, but I'm sure it happens. A lot. I can guarantee it will never happen in my house
Yes I can. Gun is unloaded, locked in cabinet. Only one key, on my keychain. Ammo is also locked, somewhere else. Generally locked box inside of a safe. Only one person knows combo of safe, location of key (not on keychain), as well as location of safe itself ("Protection" is not why I own a gun)
I guess the other argument would be to not throw anything, don't piss him off, and let him take what he wants. Sure, you lose your stuff and maybe get roughed up a bit (but probably not if you don't give him reason to). But you live. And hopefully he'll get caught by the authorities later.
Assuming they are not crazy, holding a gun, have the shakes due to lack of heroin etc etc. In other words, I get shot.
Driving a car is a priveledge, which you earn by taking lessons and passing tests. A gun is something an American feels is their right (2nd amend.), and you can probably pick one up for a $100 at the nearest sporting goods store. That's why.
Owning a gun is also a privelage. Guns are licensed, background checks are becoming the norm, and if you are a convicted felon, it is not legal to buy one. For most types of guns, it is harder to obtain one than it is to get that Ford Excursion in all it's 12mpg glory.
As for lunatic in airplanes
Truth. It is also leading to the erosion of our rights as citizens. There is only one word to be said for all of your rights to be violated, with the approval of the general public. TERRORIST
How long ago did that revolution end? You afraid Britain might invade again? So why do you need your guns now? You've got your freedom
Can you show me where this guarantee is that says we will continue to be free? Whether it is outside, or inside, influence? Please?
The guns-as-historical-right is a crock. Why aren't you arguing for the right of everyone to keep a catapault, or longbow or sharp pointy stick?
Catapult etc, because they haven't tried to take them away, yet!
Until your neighbour gets a bigger gun. Rinse, repeat.
It's not bigger that is the problem, it's faster that scares me!
Actually, I hate guns because people like you feel you *need* to have one to protect you.
Entirely valid.
I grew up hunting, fishing, hiking, bicycling, playing sports etc etc. Often, I am referred to as a hick. Yet some of the stories I have (13 yrs old, Thanksgiving, and a live turkey that is to be dinner, for one) are absolutely hilarious, even to my pro-gun control friends. When people hear that I used to shoot skeet competitively, they are interested as to why.
Every person has their own opinion. Every person is partly right. As tey are partly wrong. People do lots of things for the right, or wrong, reasons. It just so happens that gun ownership is a hot topic right now.
Please note one thing, the annual rate of death by cancer (just those attributable to smoking cigs), and automobile accidents, is far higher than death by gun violence.
The real question in my mind is; if a guy is drunk, drives his car into another car killing a family, he goes to jail for 5 or 10 years, maybe. If he did the same thing, drunk, but with a gun (killing a family), he would be in jail for life, or facing the death penalty. Why is that?
not always. but i skip channels, talk with my friends (online or the people in the room i am watching the show with), check /. or my email too. i have not watched/absorbed commercials since i was in grammar school.
and to go a little farther with this; if i see a good ad, i don't usaully remember the product very well. the ad will stick out, but the product will not. not very often that i see a good product that i did not know about, that i want to buy, because of a tv ad. the last one was for Metroid Prime, which caused me to buy a Gamecube. But that is only because I don't pay attention to gaming anymore...
that they are not making big bucks off of them yet. PVR's have not exploded onto the market.
There are 100+ million TV's in the USA, and only 500,000 PVR's. How long ago did they come to market? Much slower growth than either the VCR or the DVD player enjoyed.
People in cable and tv industry bitch about PVR's because people can skip commercials. what they fail to realise is that i only go to the bathroom/kitchen/whatever during the commercials to begin with! i am reasonably confidant that they do the same thing.
i pay the cable company for access to the shows, not access to the commercials.
I found it here the other day, but I haven't seen any real advertising push for it yet...
If you pay for something (software) you can use it. This software has access to a database of DRM'ed music files, that you would have paid for if you bought that Gateway PC.
Apple has not given its employees a pay raise in 2 years. They just laid off a few people.
They are cutting all unnecessary costs.
The internet is taking away from the importance of expo's, as are the Apple Stores.
this
# VIA C3 800 MHz processor offers comparable performance to the 800 MHz Celeron processor
# 133 MHz frontside bus
# 256 MB SDRAM, expandable to 1 GB
# 133 MHz memory speed
# 40 GB Ultra-ATA 100 hard drive, 5400 rpm (total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment)
# 52x CD-ROM drive
# 3.5-inch floppy disk drive
# Integrated AGP 4x graphics
# Up to 8 MB shared video memory
# Integrated AC '97 sound
# 56 Kbps modem
# Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection
# Micro ATX tower case (14"D x 7"W x 14"H)
# Available drive bays: one 5.25-inch external, one 3.5-inch external
# Total Slots: 1 PCI
# Available PCI Slots: None
# High-speed serial port
# Parallel port
# 2 front and 2 rear USB ports
# Game port
# 104-key keyboard
# 2-button mouse with wheel
# Audio port (line-in, line-out, mic-in)
# Stereo speakers
# LindowsOS operating system (pre-installed)
# Software includes mail, word processor, Web browser/file manager, address book, calculator, CD player, MP3 Player, PowerPoint viewer, Word viewer, Excel viewer and image viewer
# Games include Tron, Battleship, Poker, Minesweeper, Potato Guy
# Special Offer - Select up to 10+ software applications at no charge from theLindows.com Click-N-Run Warehouse "Starter Aisle"
# 1-year warranty, return to Microtel
my cable modem was free! no monthly rental fee! free lifetime replacement if it breaks! regularly achieve 500-600 KB/s (i live in CT, USA)! no limits on amount downloaded per month (aside from capability of hardware)! has gone down only once in past 3 months (all cable service was down for a few hrs)!
w00t w00t!!
Cablevision's Optimum Online.
>not on my DP533 - what are you running?
ex-girlfriend has a iMac 700MHz G4 with 3/4 gig o RAM running Jaguar (10.2.1)
did a side by side comparison with my P3 500MHz IBM ThinkPad (600X) that is running win98se with only 192mb RAM, and the laptop is faster (IE, Mozilla, & Netscape) than the iMac, using same browser. All 3 were faster than Omni and iCab also.
I love OS X, but the 'internet experience' is pretty sucky... Wanted to buy a iBook (G3 700MHz), but it was slow enough that I got the used ThinkPad instead.
ok...
CSS doesn't work
Java is useless (double entendre...)
My bank's website didn't agree with it (first browser ever)
slooowwww....
tabs?
Actually, when dealing with management a few things are certain:
1) Your manager worked somewhere else.
2) That somewhere else is probably in the same market.
3) How many supplier's of KDS monitors, or Sony drives, or whatever, do you think there are?
4) Difference in costs are close to nil. Things cost what they do, regardless of who you are.
Trust me, I was a manager of a retail furniture store for over a year, at a company that I worked at for over 3-1/2 years. Everyone knows what is going on everywhere else. Even the suppliers would tell us what was going on with regional competitors!
There is no loyalty anymore. People talk.
I thought we all new there was only 4 real choices:
1) IE
2) Mozilla or variant therof
3) iCab
4) Omni
IE was/is the most reliable rendering wise...
Mozilla/Netscape et al, too slow and buggy.
iCab was ok.
Omni I hate.
There really is no good browser for OS X.
A fast IE with tabs that is not a Microsoft product would be great. To bad Apple has little apparent interest in doing such a thing.
Actually, I learned how a car worked, including major maintenance (mom had a dodge omni in my pre-teen years) before I learned to drive.
Replaced a head gasket before I knew how to use a clutch... that explains things a bit...
It is not so much collusion as it is everyone knows what the other guy is doing. They all know what the costs are, what kind of profit margins are acceptable, which items are 'loss leaders' etc etc.
The biggest area of concern is shipping. Take a look at the effects the recent longshoremen strike on the West Coast of the US. Plants closed, or started laying off workers. And this was only after 10 or so days of not getting goods.
"You can just send it by plane, or the East Coast." Not really a valid answer, because everyone else thought of it too.
Why is adapting a Windows standard a "great win for linux?"
Leading is not done by following.
plus the conundrum of observing the action changes it.
Supercooled electro-magnets are nearly self-sufficient once powered up, hence all the interest the last couple of decages. Problem is finding a usefull practical application that makes sense economically. That has been the problem since the beginning; not unlike most public mass transit projects.
Shall we compare emmissions output? Both sound and nasty chemicals...
sounds to me like IBM sold them servers and said; "We have this cool thing we use called 'Linux' that we are going to be using to run these servers you just bought, and it can be used on all of your desktop computers without any licensing costs. Did I mention it is more stable and secure than MS Windows? Also, it can be installed and updated via the network so that all of the machines have the necessary software and security updates."
I have no problems with a healthy debate. Name calling is a lame attempt at baiting, and continuing the conversation. I will use that no more.
As for foreign labor in the US, there are a few issues. These people are willing to come here, work on the cheap for long hours, just to get out of India or wherever it is they come from. They are unhappy in their homeland, and are willing to give up almost everything to go to a better place. That better place, at the moment, is the US. Nearly every industry has this problem, not just the programmer. That is why unions exist, in theory. To protect the worker. We know that is not the only goal, but it is the most touted one. Giving power back to the worker.
In the case of programmers, I am of the opinion that only a few in the US actually make the money that they are worth. Some are even underpaid, but on average, I would have to comment that as a group programmers get paid more than they are worth.
I know this insults people, but the truth hurts. There are very few vocations in which the failure rates of programmers are accepted. Most people are held to the standard of "get it right or I take my business elsewhere."
I have had bad experiences with all manner of bad programming from the custom professional level (databases in particular), to standard professional tools (nealry anything Microsoft for example), to homegrown spare time stuff (RPM for one).
If this kind of failure rate existed in the automotive industry...
More and more companies are coming to realise that computers and the programs they run are vital tools. Emphasis on tool. Companies that provide a service or a product can only reasonably expect to charge what the market determines that service or product is worth. The associated 'voodoo' of years gone past is lessening day by day. Just because your product or service is computer related does not mean you can charge an arm and a leg for it any longer.
So companies start thinking, "how can we do this for less?" Perks go first. Then extraneous personnel. Then overpaid personnel (think of batch of current CEO's losing jobs on Wall Street). Then benefits start shrinking (no more free insurance, 4 paid wks vacation etc). Then outsourcing starts to become an issue; "what do we not really _have_ to do ourselves?" Sometimes, they find near outsource prices, locally. The visa's are not the problem. The problem was the irresponsible actions of the market in the mid to late 1990's. Those unreal expectations, and associated actions, led to the situation most companies are in now. Sink or swim. No more, "we have this idea, and we think you should give us USD 20 million to figure it out."
Maybe the solution could be the formation of a union. Problem is, who do you accept as members? Only US citizens? What about people with visa's? If that US citizen works for a company that also utilizes foreign labor, is he/she exempt? Who runs the union? What are the dues? Will programmers pay dues to keep their jobs? What behavior gets people blacklisted from the union? Is there a whitelist of members? Why? Why not? Is the union international (ie US citizens working abroad)? Will the employers accept the formation of unions?
There are many other industries/niches that are dealing with the same problems programmers are. For example, nearly all medical transcription is done in India! My aunt happens to run a medical transcription business in the US, and her method of business is far different than 5 or 10 years ago.
and your BigMac analogy is ridiculous. i never once mentioned buying something specific that is brand 'A' from brand 'B'.
pay attention you fucking moron.
Obviously you don't understand the above.