Rats have slightly different uses for their brains than people, and a somewhat different growing pattern. What seems to confer a limited advantage to rat brains is not necessarily good for people, just as a food that's good for growing cows (cows' milk) is inadequate for growing humans.
I remember a study a long time ago that suggestest that children who were fed breast milk as a child, were on average, slightly smarter than those who were fed other substitutes.
There are in fact numerous studies which solidly establish that feeding artificial milks to human babies reduces eventual IQ scores by up to 10 points. These have been rigorously controlled for feeding method and socio-economic status. 10 points might not seem like a lot at 110+, but oh what a difference it could make for the under-100 set.
Breastmilk is the only thing that comes close to being a complete food for infants. Don't pay any attention to the commercials that try to convince you otherwise. They can only put in those formulas the essential elements of breastmilk that they've identified and can produce relatively cheaply. They can't put it in if they don't know it exists, and they're still finding new stuff.
Um, are you trying to say that you can't procure and maintain a wife and convince her to provide child-rearing services for you without gifting her a piece of carbon?
I think you might be looking for the wrong kind of woman.
I have a diamond, but I didn't want it. If I could trade it for a PowerBook or something, I would in a heartbeat.
You don't appear to have read the article, it's about tagging of wholesale cases for use in the whole inventory control/distribution system, not for the end-consumer.
This only helps Wal~Mart make their warehouses and backroom more streamlined.
As usual, Wally World is asking others to innovate on their behalf, to their benefit, and asking the supplier to foot the bill. The suppliers don't have a choice, because if you're not in Wal~Mart, you're not anywhere.
I have a list for adults with ADHD (AADD @ yahoogroups) that any polite adult with ADHD is allowed to join (newbies are moderated until they've shown they won't try to enlarge our penises).
We do have one specialist on board who has ADHD herself and is quite knowledgable about treatments. You're apt to get much more helpful advice than querying/. where so many people have obvious impulse control disorders...
Bioneurofeedback has been helpful for many people and several of them are on my list. Meds just don't work for everyone, and I'm one of those people. I hope to try feedback some time in the future.
I have ADHD and Asperger's. I'm not as distractable as some of the earlier posters who seem to have nothing better to do with their lives than make fun of other people. I tend to get distracted with hunting down packages to satisfy dependencies or trying to get a tricky program to compile and run. If you get distracted by string or other simple do-dads, more power to ya!
I have a list for adults with ADHD on Yahoogroups, it's called AADD. [Note to would-be-trolls: newcomers are modded.] Any reasonable adult with ADHD, suspected ADHD, or a spouse/so with ADHD is welcome to join and waste lots of time.
People cope with ADHD traits in a variety of ways, some of my listmembers use medication, some diet, some exercise, some haven't found anything that works. Many of us have self-esteem issues/depression due to growing up with other people calling us lazy and underachieving. All of us struggle with work issues, no matter what our jobs are. Staying on task can be difficult and many of us have a certain amount of social blindness and the oftimes embarassing trait of blurting out the first thing that comes to mind.
I'll second the referral to Dr. Amen's site at www.brainplace.com. He has SPECT scans of different classes of brains at work and it's very fascinating. There are also lots of good books out there by people like Hallowell, Barkley, Solden and others.
My favorite author for science fantasy is Sheri Tepper. She's been writing for about 20 years, so she's not new. Her stories are rich and detailed but not at all hard to read like some authors'. They usually grab you right in the first chapter and they keep you there because the worlds are so real. My favorites are _Raising the Stones_, _The Gate to Women's Country_ and _The Fresco_.
I also second the recommendation for David Brin. Start with _Earth_ or the Uplift stories.
I agree that it is difficult and confusing often to report bugs. It seems like many reports are either way too detailed or over simplistic.
I had a bug that was causing me problems printing to a network printer. When I went to submit a bug on the project I scoured the lists. Finding nothing that matched, I submitted my bug, describing my system, program versions, the fact that the exact same setup had worked under a previous version, and what the symptoms were. When I get the info back on my submission it appears that "my" bug had already been described and fixed. The problem was that the original submitter had a programmer's level of knowledge about the problem, and described it in those terms (blah-blah doesn't change blah-blah-blah in blah.cfg), without mentioning the symptoms the enduser would experience.
I don't know what the solution is; the Buzilla documentation is pretty good about explaining how to submit a good bug report, it's just that many people don't follow the guidelines, then the maintainers just let original description through without editing for clarity.
Oh gosh, this has reminded me of my many horrible bug hunts on Bugzilla. What a great topic for Hallowe'en--I'll be awake all night!
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Rats have slightly different uses for their brains than people, and a somewhat different growing pattern. What seems to confer a limited advantage to rat brains is not necessarily good for people, just as a food that's good for growing cows (cows' milk) is inadequate for growing humans.
There are in fact numerous studies which solidly establish that feeding artificial milks to human babies reduces eventual IQ scores by up to 10 points. These have been rigorously controlled for feeding method and socio-economic status. 10 points might not seem like a lot at 110+, but oh what a difference it could make for the under-100 set.
Breastmilk is the only thing that comes close to being a complete food for infants. Don't pay any attention to the commercials that try to convince you otherwise. They can only put in those formulas the essential elements of breastmilk that they've identified and can produce relatively cheaply. They can't put it in if they don't know it exists, and they're still finding new stuff.
Um, are you trying to say that you can't procure and maintain a wife and convince her to provide child-rearing services for you without gifting her a piece of carbon?
I think you might be looking for the wrong kind of woman.
I have a diamond, but I didn't want it. If I could trade it for a PowerBook or something, I would in a heartbeat.
You don't appear to have read the article, it's about tagging of wholesale cases for use in the whole inventory control/distribution system, not for the end-consumer.
This only helps Wal~Mart make their warehouses and backroom more streamlined.
As usual, Wally World is asking others to innovate on their behalf, to their benefit, and asking the supplier to foot the bill. The suppliers don't have a choice, because if you're not in Wal~Mart, you're not anywhere.
I have a list for adults with ADHD (AADD @ yahoogroups) that any polite adult with ADHD is allowed to join (newbies are moderated until they've shown they won't try to enlarge our penises).
We do have one specialist on board who has ADHD herself and is quite knowledgable about treatments. You're apt to get much more helpful advice than querying /. where so many people have obvious impulse control disorders...
Bioneurofeedback has been helpful for many people and several of them are on my list. Meds just don't work for everyone, and I'm one of those people. I hope to try feedback some time in the future.
I'd call and say,
"Please hold for an important message..."
I have ADHD and Asperger's. I'm not as distractable as some of the earlier posters who seem to have nothing better to do with their lives than make fun of other people. I tend to get distracted with hunting down packages to satisfy dependencies or trying to get a tricky program to compile and run. If you get distracted by string or other simple do-dads, more power to ya!
I have a list for adults with ADHD on Yahoogroups, it's called AADD. [Note to would-be-trolls: newcomers are modded.] Any reasonable adult with ADHD, suspected ADHD, or a spouse/so with ADHD is welcome to join and waste lots of time.
People cope with ADHD traits in a variety of ways, some of my listmembers use medication, some diet, some exercise, some haven't found anything that works. Many of us have self-esteem issues/depression due to growing up with other people calling us lazy and underachieving. All of us struggle with work issues, no matter what our jobs are. Staying on task can be difficult and many of us have a certain amount of social blindness and the oftimes embarassing trait of blurting out the first thing that comes to mind.
I'll second the referral to Dr. Amen's site at www.brainplace.com. He has SPECT scans of different classes of brains at work and it's very fascinating. There are also lots of good books out there by people like Hallowell, Barkley, Solden and others.
My favorite author for science fantasy is Sheri Tepper. She's been writing for about 20 years, so she's not new. Her stories are rich and detailed but not at all hard to read like some authors'. They usually grab you right in the first chapter and they keep you there because the worlds are so real. My favorites are _Raising the Stones_, _The Gate to Women's Country_ and _The Fresco_.
I also second the recommendation for David Brin. Start with _Earth_ or the Uplift stories.
The problem with Tolkein's work is that what you are born is what you are. Elves are good, orcs are bad, and so forth.
Indeed? Tell that to a nice little halfling named Smeagol.
I agree that it is difficult and confusing often to report bugs. It seems like many reports are either way too detailed or over simplistic.
I had a bug that was causing me problems printing to a network printer. When I went to submit a bug on the project I scoured the lists. Finding nothing that matched, I submitted my bug, describing my system, program versions, the fact that the exact same setup had worked under a previous version, and what the symptoms were. When I get the info back on my submission it appears that "my" bug had already been described and fixed. The problem was that the original submitter had a programmer's level of knowledge about the problem, and described it in those terms (blah-blah doesn't change blah-blah-blah in blah.cfg), without mentioning the symptoms the enduser would experience.
I don't know what the solution is; the Buzilla documentation is pretty good about explaining how to submit a good bug report, it's just that many people don't follow the guidelines, then the maintainers just let original description through without editing for clarity.
Oh gosh, this has reminded me of my many horrible bug hunts on Bugzilla. What a great topic for Hallowe'en--I'll be awake all night!