The original poster and much of the discussion is doing a good job of perpetuating the common stereotypes of gifted children.
One large long term study was done by Terman starting in the eary 20th century. One main conclusion, well stated by Judith Hewton (http://www.qagtc.org.au/definitions_of_giftedness.htm) was that
"Terman's studies have demonstrated that his gifted were not socially or emotionally bereft and have been largely very successful throughout their lives."
There is a nice summary at (http://www3.azwestern.edu/psy/dgershaw/lol/Ge nius Stereotypes.html) where David A. Gershaw, PhD writes:
We tend to share specific stereotypes of the intellectually gifted. Genius is seen as being "akin to insanity." Intellectually gifted people are stereotyped as being physically "puny." Many people believe that high intelligence has little to do with success in later life. Are these beliefs true?
To test these statements, psychologist Louis Terman began a study in 1921, which has become a classic in its field. Terman and his associates screened approximately 250,000 junior high students (11-13 years of age) in the Los Angeles area to identify about 1500 children with IQ's of 140 or above. (This is the top one percent of the population as far as intelligence is concerned. The mean (average) IQ for his select group was 150. (Only one person in 5000 would have an IQ that high by chance.)
As they grew older, these "gifted children" were repeatedly interviewed and tested by Terman. His work was carried on by Robert and Pauline Sears at Stanford University. They interviewed Terman's gifted group as late as 1977, and in the 1980s, they still maintained contact with those still living. (During that decade, most members of the gifted group were in their 70s.)
The stereotype of the gifted person as being physically "puny" was contradicted by Terman's study. In fact, gifted persons were found to be significantly taller, heavier and healthier than their average peers.
In addition to physical traits, the gifted group excelled in psychological adjustment. In other words, genius is not "akin to insanity." Follow-up interviews demonstrated that there was less divorce and suicide and fewer mental disorders compared to the population as a whole. If you think of it, it sounds very logical. One of the definitions of intelligence involves superior problem-solving abilities. If you are more able to solve problems related to life and marriage, you are less likely to be suicidal, mentally disordered or divorced. All in all, gifted people were found to be better-adjusted socially and psychologically than the average.
Still many people believe that superior intelligence is limited to a narrow area (like math) or is not related to success in later life. In contrast to these views, Terman's gifted subjects outpaced typical students by two to four grades and excelled in all courses, refuting the belief in narrow specialization.
I did the same this afternoon when the computer guy a few doors down suggested that malware might be responsible for my CD-RWs drive refusing to close the tray. I ran it, a long list of junk popped up, and after I deleted it, the CD-RW worked fine.
I've never seen software mess with *hardware* like this.
Yes I'm going to blame my GF for this. Two years ago we both worked for a big company. She called me into her office to see the nice X-Mas card that came from corporate in the mail. "Here, let me show it to you. Isn't the snow pretty?" and before I could stop her "Let me run it again." Arggh. It turned out to be a self running flash animation disguised in a scrap (.shs) file.
Autozone? This is way out of the typical "tech sphere"; I would have expected suits against other tech companies.
Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO.
I'm just waiting for "F*** SCO" to appear on the body of a NASCAR racing machine.
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And so begins the great Martian Salt Trade.
Actually brine is an important component in chemical manufacturing. Its discovery beneath Midland, Michigan led to the founding of the Dow Chemical Company. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Com pany
Oh, and a few more things that turn into ethanol quite readily..... 4. Sugar Beets....
This is potentially great news for local farmers who are quite worried about foreign sugar producers dumping (cane) sugar onto the US market due to "free trade".
Otherwise the only thing that will be left growing in Michigan will be piles of Canadian garbage.
If your training leads you to a career that can be done from offsite, that same carreer is in danger of being offshored.
Radiologists have already been replaced by offshore labor. An article in Business week about IT outsourcing to India also noted that Wipro was reading CAT scans for the Mass General Hospital.
Bye bye radiology. Bye bye pathology. But don't go into IT, it's worse. If you want to go into CS, get a PhD. That will give you respect in the eyes of academics who don't think much of MDs. (One of my late friends who worked at Walter Reed always put his PhD first on his signature line.)
You might find it interesting that WP 5.1 WAS ported to UNIX.. unfortunately, it is not available anymore and would probably require a fair bit of modification to get running on anything modern (back to the source code issue).
IIRC, Word Perfect came *from* Unix. LLAIAGFA, there was a CP/M program called "Perfect Writer" which looked like a clone of EMACS. I'm fairly certain Word Perfect inherited itself from that. I also remember seeing and using native WP on Unix and Xenix. If you look at even the earliest WP 3.x documentation, you will see references to a generic keyboard lay out, ie {meta key} + {some other key}.
When you consider the radical changes that have taken place between the standards for 66, 77, 90, 95 and proposed for 2000, I bet the format turns out to be Fortran.
The IBM OS/390 and Z/OS operating systems, which run on most IBM mainframes, are both 31-bit.
They're actually 32-bit platforms but only are addressable by 31 bits. I believe they do arthimetic on 32 bits...
Yes, the IBM 360/370 series has always had 32 bit arithmetic, but a common "hack" on these systems was using 24 bit (perhaps now 31 bit) address mode instructions to do calculations, something like using LEA on the 80x86 series.
Software rollovers cropped up on that hardware before Y2K, for example on MTS (Michigan Terminal System) see http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/cal.html
The obvious question that I have, immediately after reading this story, is how exactly an average Joe-sixpack goes about obtaining a sufficient quantity of liquid nitrogen?
Believe it or not, it's probably easy to obtain in rural areas. When I was at the Univ of Wisconsin, we used it to snap freeze samples for research. Got our supplies from a local animal breeder who had a surplus when he was done freezing bull semen.
oops. Perhaps TIA accurately describes the mental state of those who proposed this program. TIA = transient ischemic attack, otherwise known as a miniature stroke.
old 50's or 60's sci-fi movie back when I was in grade school, where idiot scientists drilled a hole down to the earth's mantle and all hell broke loose
"Crack in the World", 1965 see
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059065
Dr. Steven Sorenson (Andrews) plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampian (Moore), Dr Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
IIRC, at the end of the movie, the crack circles back on itself and forms a plug which when ejected relieves the building pressure and sends a new moon into orbit.
Go out and rent Apollo 13. It has some of the best engineers as hero scenes on film - complete with computers & slide rules.
Remember the scenes where they have to power up the frozen command module without going over budget on amperage? Yes, software development is sometimes like that - with severe constraints, painstaking work and testing - and rewarding results.
I wish I could find a reference to it, but about 20 years ago, a hilarious memo circulated on what appeared to be official state letterhead in Wisconsin announcing the "pecker tax". Complete with tax forms and a tax schedule, based on length, it warned taxpayers to not to "request an extension."
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> You cant write OS/Drivers in bytecodes
Forth? OpenBoot? The currently alive OpenBIOS project?
You can even write OSs in HLLs - see CP/M (PL/M) and Multics (PL/I).
That's how Milorganite (TM) is made - from "activated sludge". Still commonly spread on golf courses see http://www.milorganite.com/
The original poster and much of the discussion is doing a good job of perpetuating the common stereotypes of gifted children.
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e nius Stereotypes.html) where David A. Gershaw, PhD writes:
One large long term study was done by Terman starting in the eary 20th century. One main conclusion, well stated by Judith Hewton (http://www.qagtc.org.au/definitions_of_giftednes
"Terman's studies have demonstrated that his gifted were not socially or emotionally bereft and have been largely very successful throughout their lives."
There is a nice summary at
(http://www3.azwestern.edu/psy/dgershaw/lol/G
We tend to share specific stereotypes of the intellectually gifted. Genius is seen as being "akin to insanity." Intellectually gifted people are stereotyped as being physically "puny." Many people believe that high intelligence has little to do with success in later life. Are these beliefs true?
To test these statements, psychologist Louis Terman began a study in 1921, which has become a classic in its field. Terman and his associates screened approximately 250,000 junior high students (11-13 years of age) in the Los Angeles area to identify about 1500 children with IQ's of 140 or above. (This is the top one percent of the population as far as intelligence is concerned. The mean (average) IQ for his select group was 150. (Only one person in 5000 would have an IQ that high by chance.)
As they grew older, these "gifted children" were repeatedly interviewed and tested by Terman. His work was carried on by Robert and Pauline Sears at Stanford University. They interviewed Terman's gifted group as late as 1977, and in the 1980s, they still maintained contact with those still living. (During that decade, most members of the gifted group were in their 70s.)
The stereotype of the gifted person as being physically "puny" was contradicted by Terman's study. In fact, gifted persons were found to be significantly taller, heavier and healthier than their average peers.
In addition to physical traits, the gifted group excelled in psychological adjustment. In other words, genius is not "akin to insanity." Follow-up interviews demonstrated that there was less divorce and suicide and fewer mental disorders compared to the population as a whole. If you think of it, it sounds very logical. One of the definitions of intelligence involves superior problem-solving abilities. If you are more able to solve problems related to life and marriage, you are less likely to be suicidal, mentally disordered or divorced. All in all, gifted people were found to be better-adjusted socially and psychologically than the average.
Still many people believe that superior intelligence is limited to a narrow area (like math) or is not related to success in later life. In contrast to these views, Terman's gifted subjects outpaced typical students by two to four grades and excelled in all courses, refuting the belief in narrow specialization.
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I did the same this afternoon when the computer guy a few doors down suggested that malware might be responsible for my CD-RWs drive refusing to close the tray. I ran it, a long list of junk popped up, and after I deleted it, the CD-RW worked fine.
I've never seen software mess with *hardware* like this.
Yes I'm going to blame my GF for this. Two years ago we both worked for a big company. She called me into her office to see the nice X-Mas card that came from corporate in the mail. "Here, let me show it to you. Isn't the snow pretty?" and before I could stop her "Let me run it again." Arggh. It turned out to be a self running flash animation disguised in a scrap (.shs) file.
Here in Canada, it's so cold outside that I swear I saw a SCO lawyer with his hand in his own pocket.
Playing "pocket pool" no doubt. (Bye bye karma.)
Am I the only one here old enough to remember when AT&T was a "large phone company"?
Not just a "large phone company" but "the phone company".
I predicted back in 84 that in 20 years they would put the Bell System back together...
But since then AT&T has proven it's utter incompetence in advertising. Their recent "&" ads prove that AT&T couldn't market eternal life.
Autozone? This is way out of the typical "tech sphere"; I would have expected suits against other tech companies.
Now SCO is going to provoke the wrath of the automotive industry and enthusiasts; an entire new group of people to learn to hate SCO.
I'm just waiting for "F*** SCO" to appear on the body of a NASCAR racing machine.
And so begins the great Martian Salt Trade.
m pany
Actually brine is an important component in chemical manufacturing. Its discovery beneath Midland, Michigan led to the founding of the Dow Chemical Company. see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Co
Who wants to buy 3-14-159-265?
How about 214-748-3647 or 429-496-7295? (Think Hex). BTW, if you look up the specs for DTMF (touch tones) you will see digits 0-9 and A-F.
So far no one has mentioned the (now statewide) 800 numbers for our local ambulance chasers:
LAWYERS, CALL-SAM and LEE-FREE.
As native Detroiters, one phone number that most of us remember from TV is TY8-7100 -- and we associate its Mr. Belvedere with aluminum siding.
Oh, and a few more things that turn into ethanol quite readily. .... ....
4. Sugar Beets
This is potentially great news for local farmers who are quite worried about foreign sugar producers dumping (cane) sugar onto the US market due to "free trade".
Otherwise the only thing that will be left growing in Michigan will be piles of Canadian garbage.
This sounds like it's worse than living next to an airport.
But will it drive away Godzilla?
here goes some karma, but
In Soviet Russia, Tivo watches you.
and
Someone set us up the boob.
The information is collected by states and forwarded to a database in Florida, where a private company, Seisint Inc., builds and manages the database.
So what's to prevent this company from selling the information to the highest bidder? Glad I don't live in Utah...
Like state government already does with motor vechicle and driver's license records?
If your training leads you to a career that can be done from offsite, that same carreer is in danger of being offshored.
Radiologists have already been replaced by offshore labor. An article in Business week about IT outsourcing to India also noted that Wipro was reading CAT scans for the Mass General Hospital.
Bye bye radiology. Bye bye pathology. But don't go into IT, it's worse. If you want to go into CS, get a PhD. That will give you respect in the eyes of academics who don't think much of MDs. (One of my late friends who worked at Walter Reed always put his PhD first on his signature line.)
The latest communication feed has just arrived. Strangely, the only imformation transmitted is:
Will I dream?
You might find it interesting that WP 5.1 WAS ported to UNIX.. unfortunately, it is not available anymore and would probably require a fair bit of modification to get running on anything modern (back to the source code issue).
IIRC, Word Perfect came *from* Unix. LLAIAGFA, there was a CP/M program called "Perfect Writer" which looked like a clone of EMACS. I'm fairly certain Word Perfect inherited itself from that. I also remember seeing and using native WP on Unix and Xenix. If you look at even the earliest WP 3.x documentation, you will see references to a generic keyboard lay out, ie {meta key} + {some other key}.
Why not just run native Linux/Unix/BSD apps?
When you consider the radical changes that have taken place between the standards for 66, 77, 90, 95 and proposed for 2000, I bet the format turns out to be Fortran.
The IBM OS/390 and Z/OS operating systems, which run on most IBM mainframes, are both 31-bit.
They're actually 32-bit platforms but only are addressable by 31 bits. I believe they do arthimetic on 32 bits...
Yes, the IBM 360/370 series has always had 32 bit arithmetic, but a common "hack" on these systems was using 24 bit (perhaps now 31 bit) address mode instructions to do calculations, something like using LEA on the 80x86 series.
Software rollovers cropped up on that hardware before Y2K, for example on MTS (Michigan Terminal System) see http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/cal.html
You have to admit, this is the most innovative thing Microsoft has done. Ever
Consider that Microsoft last produced a COBOL compiler in the 80s, then went on to re-badge Micro Focus products.
Standard "engulf and devour" tactics.
The obvious question that I have, immediately after reading this story, is how exactly an average Joe-sixpack goes about obtaining a sufficient quantity of liquid nitrogen?
Believe it or not, it's probably easy to obtain in rural areas. When I was at the Univ of Wisconsin, we used it to snap freeze samples for research. Got our supplies from a local animal breeder who had a surplus when he was done freezing bull semen.
oops. Perhaps TIA accurately describes the mental state of those who proposed this program. TIA = transient ischemic attack, otherwise known as a miniature stroke.
old 50's or 60's sci-fi movie back when I was in grade school, where idiot scientists drilled a hole down to the earth's mantle and all hell broke loose
"Crack in the World", 1965 see
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059065
Dr. Steven Sorenson (Andrews) plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampian (Moore), Dr Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
IIRC, at the end of the movie, the crack circles back on itself and forms a plug which when ejected relieves the building pressure and sends a new moon into orbit.
ministry of information?
"Why not a show about engineers?"
Go out and rent Apollo 13. It has some of the best engineers as hero scenes on film - complete with computers & slide rules.
Remember the scenes where they have to power up the frozen command module without going over budget on amperage? Yes, software development is sometimes like that - with severe constraints, painstaking work and testing - and rewarding results.
I wish I could find a reference to it, but about 20 years ago, a hilarious memo circulated on what appeared to be official state letterhead in Wisconsin announcing the "pecker tax". Complete with tax forms and a tax schedule, based on length, it warned taxpayers to not to "request an extension."