I'd also be really interested in hearing more about this. I have a son who has been diagnosed with ADHD. He's 8. He is a very difficult child to deal with. We've tried medication, psychotherapy, etc etc but nothing really seems to help.
Incidentally, I also have a daughter who is 10 and another son who is 4, neither of which have ADHD.
I used to wonder if it wasn't just a parenting issue, but after seeing 3 kids go through the same parenting and only one "getting" ADHD, I'm not so sure.
The major problem with these types of conjoined siblings is not necessarily blood loss, but the sharing of the major blood vessels inside the cranium. Simply severing the vessels down the middle is not a safe route because you have to be sure that each of the conjoined brains is receiving enough blood flow.
The patients are put through a major battery of tests to map out the shared veins and arteries, sometimes to the point of creating physical 3d models for the surgeons to study. However, in the months that it takes to put all of the tests together, new vessels can (and do) form and the surgeons basically discover them as they are cutting through them.
Then, the issue becomes more about how to map out and repair these new vessels in real time. Perhaps this new therapy could be applied beforehand, so in the event that new blood vessels are accidally severed they can be repaired with minimal blood loss.
Yeah legos are a wonderful toy. I remember having competitions with my friends to see who could build the shape which could withstand the highest drop without breaking apart.
I was thinking about this too. Im guessing that Google will want to keep the quality of its search results high and not open the system to sloppy programming, even if it were to only affect a select number of local installations.
Also, I can see a whole new class of spyware taking advantage of that functionality. Imagine a piece of spyware or a virus that is able to access the Google Desktop Search application and create all sorts of fake documents on the users system. No matter what they searched for, they'd find microsoft word documents trying to sell them penis enlargement pills or viagra.
Thats not to say that someone wont hack the GDS application anyhow, but keeping the system closed might be a good way to keep the quality of service high, even if that means that your favorite document format might not be indexed.
Dont get me wrong, I'd love it if I could hack together some code to allow my trillian chats to be archived. I guess I could write an application that would take all my chat logs and convert them to word documents.
Everything else aside, the Google Desktop Search application really is a kick ass tool. I must truly be a uber-geek because when I see screenshots of web sites I visited or listings of my emails mixed right in with the google search results, I get that old "I love you Google" feeling all over again:)
I was looking through my homeowners insurance policy when I bought my house. One of the things that it covers is spacecraft hitting the house. That, missiles and nuclear explosions.
Not that it has anything to do with current laws, but it's kind of interesting nonetheless. I guess they dont figure it is much of a threat (yet).
I know this is totally off topic, and posting about it will probably kill my already miserable karma, but I think this slashdot article is a perfect example of how not to use hyperlinks.
There are three links: One links to the actual article (good) One appears to link to something detailing the new FCC Decency rules, but actually links to a mostly unrelated story that happens to briefly mention the new FCC rules. The last link presumably points to Richard Dreyfus' statement, but instead links to his IMDB biography.
Am I the only one who is against the wanton use of hyperlinks?
This is really great news. I know I'm about a week late on this subject, but I felt it was worth commenting on anyhow.
I played Tribes 1 when it first came out and for a couple of years afterwards. In fact, it was the first online game I ever got into, and haven't really gotten into any in the same way since. Tribes, IMO, had a combination of amazing graphics (even now they are pretty good) and awesome team-centric gaming. Even from the first Doom, it was always so much more enjoyable to experience something, compared to deathmatch style killfests.
That's to say nothing of the networking code, which is to this day some of the best I have ever experienced. I remember playing games with wide open maps and a couple dozen players (many times with a dozen or so in my line of sight) on a 28k modem. And it was playable! I tried that with Return to Castle Wolfenstein a year or so ago and it was not even worth trying to play.
Several other posters have mentioned it, but there are an aweful lot of modded servers out there. I stay away from them like the plague. Even back in the day when Renegade first came out I wanted nothing to do with them. Sure, some people will rave about it, but there was something so pure and balanced about the native, untouched game that couldn't be bested. I don't want one-shot kill sniper guns. Sure, the lasers can be pretty deadly even from across an entire map (I used to love playing as a sniper), but the sniper rifle wouldn't kill someone in one shot unless they were already damaged. If you're stupid enough to stand out in the open long enough to get shot twice from the same person, that's too bad.
I could go on and on about the merits of Tribes. The physics model was great too (you could ski down the hillsides and gain incredible speed if you you what you were doing). I know that was unpopular with people too, so you can't really do it in Tribes 2. Im just really thrilled that they are choosing to re-release these games. It's hard enough just getting those older games to run on a new system. Like some of the other posters, I'm hoping that it will rejuvenate the tribes community.
Nowadays, if you try to get in on any game that is more than a month old, you're going to get owned by all the veterans who never stopped playing in the first place. Hopefully we will see some newer players to balance out the skill levels and make the game fun to play for newbies and those of us just returning to the game after a long break.
"what will be the best trick is for people to set up garbage throwers to make the damned thing give so many false positives that it is deemed useless..."
Yes, but how do you then separate the wheat from the chaff for "legitimate" file sharing programs? I would love to be able to stick it to the MPAA that way, but it seems to me that if you set up these garbage throwers or rot-13'd everything, it would make it near impossible for real people to find what they were looking for
It would be kind of like all those garbage MP3's that the RIAA pollutes the P2P networks with.
Now, if we could only get our hands on this "open source" software...
With MMOG's, you still run into the exodus the author writes of with regards to the Original Gamers. Most of us just don't have the time to spend on those time-leeching games. I find it hard enough to find time to play a few rounds of a fast paced game, much less devote hours a day to an Everquest-like game.
Several of the people in my neighborhood who are in their mid to late 30's do spend a lot of time playing the MMOG's, and surprisingly enough they are still married. Everytime the subject gets brought up in front of their wives, you can tell from the look in the wives eyes just how pissed they are that their husbands spend all this time playing a stupid game than cleaning the kitchen or fixing the toilet. It used to be that you could play a game of Tetris for 10 minutes to let your mind unwind a bit. Spending 10 minutes in an MMOG would be pointless.
Any way you look at it, as we get older, we have less time to play these games. You can argue about it until the cows come home, but if you are over the age of 20 and spending all your free time playing games, you are leading a shallow, unfulfilling life.
Personally, I always hear about all these new, cool online games that are supposedly in the works. By the time any of them actually get around to being made, I'll probably be a grandfather sitting back in my rocking chair with a block of wood and a whittling knife.
As cool as I find the idea of some of the newer MMOG's out there to be, I also find the idea of supplanting reality for long periods of time with a contrived version of it to be highly alarming. Think about it: do we really want our kids growing up immersed in these types of video games?
When I have kids, I certainly wont want them to spend hours a day playing video games - or sitting in front of a computer for hours, for that matter.
Microsoft can charge $500 for Office 2003 Professional. It's completely absurd. When an employee can buy it for $50, it makes you wonder how much of that profit margin goes towards underhanded dealings such as this one.
One one hand I can believe that Microsoft would do something like this. On the other, they would have been stupid to believe that something this big wouldn't have gotten out somehow.
I just finished reading Snow Crash, and this makes it sound like we might not be so far away from such things as the digital librarian or the "You Are Here" function.
Do these ghosts have any kind of rudimentary AI? Can you ask them to find out the nearest pub or if a certain book is in stock at the student bookstore, for instance? Would be pretty cool if you could ask them things they weren't specifically programmed to process. Interesting too, to see what kind of emergent behavior might evolve.
[Scene: Initech. Bob Slydell and Bob Porter are interviewing Tom.] Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers? Tom: That, that's right. Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh? Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with customers. Bob Slydell: You physically take the specs from the customer? Tom: Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax. Bob Slydell: Ah. Bob Porter: Then you must physically bring them to the software people. Tom: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes. Bob Slydell: Well, what would you say you do here? Tom: Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but you made the mistake not once, not twice, but THREE times. This denotes an actual misunderstanding, as opposed to a simple lapse of grammatical analitiy (if I may be allowed to coin a word).
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I'd also be really interested in hearing more about this. I have a son who has been diagnosed with ADHD. He's 8. He is a very difficult child to deal with. We've tried medication, psychotherapy, etc etc but nothing really seems to help. Incidentally, I also have a daughter who is 10 and another son who is 4, neither of which have ADHD. I used to wonder if it wasn't just a parenting issue, but after seeing 3 kids go through the same parenting and only one "getting" ADHD, I'm not so sure.
I'm visualizing you repeatedly drinking from your Pepsi can, reading the funny comment in question and finally shooting said Pepsi out of your nose.
:)
Surely you cannot fit the entire contents of the can in your mouth at once?
Holy Carp!
The major problem with these types of conjoined siblings is not necessarily blood loss, but the sharing of the major blood vessels inside the cranium. Simply severing the vessels down the middle is not a safe route because you have to be sure that each of the conjoined brains is receiving enough blood flow.
The patients are put through a major battery of tests to map out the shared veins and arteries, sometimes to the point of creating physical 3d models for the surgeons to study. However, in the months that it takes to put all of the tests together, new vessels can (and do) form and the surgeons basically discover them as they are cutting through them.
Then, the issue becomes more about how to map out and repair these new vessels in real time. Perhaps this new therapy could be applied beforehand, so in the event that new blood vessels are accidally severed they can be repaired with minimal blood loss.
"Power outages considered harmful"
Yeah legos are a wonderful toy. I remember having competitions with my friends to see who could build the shape which could withstand the highest drop without breaking apart.
I guess I was born a geek.
I was thinking about this too. Im guessing that Google will want to keep the quality of its search results high and not open the system to sloppy programming, even if it were to only affect a select number of local installations.
:)
Also, I can see a whole new class of spyware taking advantage of that functionality. Imagine a piece of spyware or a virus that is able to access the Google Desktop Search application and create all sorts of fake documents on the users system. No matter what they searched for, they'd find microsoft word documents trying to sell them penis enlargement pills or viagra.
Thats not to say that someone wont hack the GDS application anyhow, but keeping the system closed might be a good way to keep the quality of service high, even if that means that your favorite document format might not be indexed.
Dont get me wrong, I'd love it if I could hack together some code to allow my trillian chats to be archived. I guess I could write an application that would take all my chat logs and convert them to word documents.
Everything else aside, the Google Desktop Search application really is a kick ass tool. I must truly be a uber-geek because when I see screenshots of web sites I visited or listings of my emails mixed right in with the google search results, I get that old "I love you Google" feeling all over again
I was looking through my homeowners insurance policy when I bought my house. One of the things that it covers is spacecraft hitting the house. That, missiles and nuclear explosions. Not that it has anything to do with current laws, but it's kind of interesting nonetheless. I guess they dont figure it is much of a threat (yet).
Hey, at least give credit to George Carlin for that one...
Hopefully their spam firewall is more robust than their web server.
I know this is totally off topic, and posting about it will probably kill my already miserable karma, but I think this slashdot article is a perfect example of how not to use hyperlinks.
There are three links:
One links to the actual article (good)
One appears to link to something detailing the new FCC Decency rules, but actually links to a mostly unrelated story that happens to briefly mention the new FCC rules.
The last link presumably points to Richard Dreyfus' statement, but instead links to his IMDB biography.
Am I the only one who is against the wanton use of hyperlinks?
You sound like the timecube guy :)
Haha, to this day I still say "Shazbot!"
This is really great news. I know I'm about a week late on this subject, but I felt it was worth commenting on anyhow.
I played Tribes 1 when it first came out and for a couple of years afterwards. In fact, it was the first online game I ever got into, and haven't really gotten into any in the same way since. Tribes, IMO, had a combination of amazing graphics (even now they are pretty good) and awesome team-centric gaming. Even from the first Doom, it was always so much more enjoyable to experience something, compared to deathmatch style killfests.
That's to say nothing of the networking code, which is to this day some of the best I have ever experienced. I remember playing games with wide open maps and a couple dozen players (many times with a dozen or so in my line of sight) on a 28k modem. And it was playable! I tried that with Return to Castle Wolfenstein a year or so ago and it was not even worth trying to play.
Several other posters have mentioned it, but there are an aweful lot of modded servers out there. I stay away from them like the plague. Even back in the day when Renegade first came out I wanted nothing to do with them. Sure, some people will rave about it, but there was something so pure and balanced about the native, untouched game that couldn't be bested. I don't want one-shot kill sniper guns. Sure, the lasers can be pretty deadly even from across an entire map (I used to love playing as a sniper), but the sniper rifle wouldn't kill someone in one shot unless they were already damaged. If you're stupid enough to stand out in the open long enough to get shot twice from the same person, that's too bad.
I could go on and on about the merits of Tribes. The physics model was great too (you could ski down the hillsides and gain incredible speed if you you what you were doing). I know that was unpopular with people too, so you can't really do it in Tribes 2. Im just really thrilled that they are choosing to re-release these games. It's hard enough just getting those older games to run on a new system. Like some of the other posters, I'm hoping that it will rejuvenate the tribes community.
Nowadays, if you try to get in on any game that is more than a month old, you're going to get owned by all the veterans who never stopped playing in the first place. Hopefully we will see some newer players to balance out the skill levels and make the game fun to play for newbies and those of us just returning to the game after a long break.
"what will be the best trick is for people to set up garbage throwers to make the damned thing give so many false positives that it is deemed useless..."
Yes, but how do you then separate the wheat from the chaff for "legitimate" file sharing programs? I would love to be able to stick it to the MPAA that way, but it seems to me that if you set up these garbage throwers or rot-13'd everything, it would make it near impossible for real people to find what they were looking for
It would be kind of like all those garbage MP3's that the RIAA pollutes the P2P networks with.
Now, if we could only get our hands on this "open source" software...
I remember that you could put it in your pants.
Put leisure suit larry on it and you can expect worldwide domination.
With MMOG's, you still run into the exodus the author writes of with regards to the Original Gamers. Most of us just don't have the time to spend on those time-leeching games. I find it hard enough to find time to play a few rounds of a fast paced game, much less devote hours a day to an Everquest-like game.
Several of the people in my neighborhood who are in their mid to late 30's do spend a lot of time playing the MMOG's, and surprisingly enough they are still married. Everytime the subject gets brought up in front of their wives, you can tell from the look in the wives eyes just how pissed they are that their husbands spend all this time playing a stupid game than cleaning the kitchen or fixing the toilet. It used to be that you could play a game of Tetris for 10 minutes to let your mind unwind a bit. Spending 10 minutes in an MMOG would be pointless.
Any way you look at it, as we get older, we have less time to play these games. You can argue about it until the cows come home, but if you are over the age of 20 and spending all your free time playing games, you are leading a shallow, unfulfilling life.
Personally, I always hear about all these new, cool online games that are supposedly in the works. By the time any of them actually get around to being made, I'll probably be a grandfather sitting back in my rocking chair with a block of wood and a whittling knife.
As cool as I find the idea of some of the newer MMOG's out there to be, I also find the idea of supplanting reality for long periods of time with a contrived version of it to be highly alarming. Think about it: do we really want our kids growing up immersed in these types of video games?
When I have kids, I certainly wont want them to spend hours a day playing video games - or sitting in front of a computer for hours, for that matter.
How many penis enlargements does that equate to?
Yeah, he's probably got some SCO code in his DNA or something :)
Microsoft can charge $500 for Office 2003 Professional. It's completely absurd. When an employee can buy it for $50, it makes you wonder how much of that profit margin goes towards underhanded dealings such as this one. One one hand I can believe that Microsoft would do something like this. On the other, they would have been stupid to believe that something this big wouldn't have gotten out somehow.
Just think how hard it would be to browse the pRon sites with one of these things. Guess I need to practice my ambidexterity :)
I just finished reading Snow Crash, and this makes it sound like we might not be so far away from such things as the digital librarian or the "You Are Here" function. Do these ghosts have any kind of rudimentary AI? Can you ask them to find out the nearest pub or if a certain book is in stock at the student bookstore, for instance? Would be pretty cool if you could ask them things they weren't specifically programmed to process. Interesting too, to see what kind of emergent behavior might evolve.
[Scene: Initech. Bob Slydell and Bob Porter are interviewing Tom.]
Bob Slydell: So what you do is you take the specifications from the customers and you bring them down to the software engineers?
Tom: That, that's right.
Bob Porter: Well, then I gotta ask, then why can't the customers just take the specifications directly to the software people, huh?
Tom: Well, uh, uh, uh, because, uh, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
Bob Slydell: You physically take the specs from the customer?
Tom: Well, no, my, my secretary does that, or, or the fax.
Bob Slydell: Ah.
Bob Porter: Then you must physically bring them to the software people.
Tom: Well...no. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
Bob Slydell: Well, what would you say you do here?
Tom: Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!! I have people skills!! I am good at dealing with people!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!!!!!!
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but you made the mistake not once, not twice, but THREE times. This denotes an actual misunderstanding, as opposed to a simple lapse of grammatical analitiy (if I may be allowed to coin a word).
:)
The correct spelling would be anality