I don't understand how SMS is different than email, other than mobile carriers are big fans of non-interoperable systems because such systems fit their business model.
You realize that SMS is a standard, don't you?
if you and your friend were both sending email from a phone presumably you'd send the same sort of short messages you would if you were using SMS.
There are no mobile email applications that have the ease-of-use and ease-of-entry of even crappy text message applications. Users don't care about the underlying tech, they just want it to be easy -- with text messaging they don't
have to set up any account information; it's just there.
There's often no "To:" field to deal with, and there's no "Subject:" -- fewer blanks to burden the mind with. You pick who you want to send a message to and you send it. Or you reply, and don't have to think about what to quote and what to remove. Text message interfaces are built for streamlined back-and-forth between participants; email interfaces are not.
Again, I'm talking about interfaces -- the underlying technology doesn't matter. The tech is just a codec for what the user's saying.
(My bona fides: geek married to a geek for 8 years, in the relationship for 10.)
You still have to be a man and she still has to be a woman, otherwise there is no difference between you, and there is no polarity of attraction, and sex and romance will disappear completely.
What does this even mean in the absence of socially defined gender roles? Please. To use your later example -- in my relationship, sometimes I'm the crazy one and she's the rock, and vice versa. Sometimes we're both a little crazy -- and that's problematic, but we both always know that it will pass.
Your woman may often act crazy--she is testing you and she wants to feel your masculine ability to be a solidly dependable rock who can stand there and still love her.
This may be true for you, but it is not a generally true fact. Of course, I'm self-selecting against this kind of behavior -- anything like the "relationship testing" that this describes is purely disingenuous, and I believe that dishonesty of this sort is one of the most likely causes of relationship death.
I was diagnosed with ADD the year I turned 25. I was a straight-A student until high school, where I finally got a B. Then I did relatively well in college. My mental function is not a symptom of the educational system.
You only say this because you have not experienced the cognition-halting static that sometimes goes along with it, or the scattered thinking that can lead to thinking about, well, anything else during sex, or the loss of 8 hours because you were too focused on something, or the experience of physical pain while standing in a long line.
It is frustrating that anyone, anywhere, thinks that ADD is about attention, or that it's a deficit of anything, or that it's a disorder. It's about a lack of the ability to consciously control your thought processes that most of the people in the world take for granted. It is just how my brain works, and it can be useful or it can be harmful. It just doesn't fit with how our social structures are set up.
(I focus on the attention-oriented aspects above because these are the ones that people have a hope of understanding. The impulsivity is by far the worst symptom, but it's hard to explain in a way where people don't immediately jump to "Well, just don't do that," as a response.)
I am right there with you on the "I should really be able to concentrate on having sex" point. It's frustrating on a level that cannot be imagined by people who haven't experienced it.
I just don't want something that takes a while to 'build up'. I more or less want to be able to say "this is a concentration day" pop a pill in the morning and concentrate at work, and on the weekends be able to do my own thing.
This is exactly how both my wife and I use meds to help manage our ADD. There are some days where the ADD effects are honest-to-gods useful, and we don't want to clobber that.
You want either Adderall (an amphetamine blend), Ritalin (methylphenidate, technically amphetamine-derived but more like cocaine in its chemical action), or some other stimulant therapy. You do not want Strattera or any other SNRI, and you probably don't want Wellbutrin (which they might try to prescribe though last I knew it was technically off-label). Adderall works best for me (a combination of extended release and short-action), and Ritalin works best for her. I'm not personally familiar with any other stimulant therapies and haven't researched it in a while, so there may be other things out there.
Both Adderall and Ritalin are short-acting -- the extended release Adderall wears off after 6-8 hours for me, and about half that time for the non-XR version.
What you are asking for is speed, aka amphetimines. Your doctor wont give it to you, but get it and it will have the effect you're after.
Wait, what?
I've had a number of legal prescriptions for straight amphetamine. I've had more for dextroamphetamine, and still more for an amphetamine/dextroamphetamine blend (Adderall). We eventually went to the Adderall because I had serious focus crashes when the straight stuff wore off -- there's a much calmer come-down on the blended form.
"probably wasn't influenced at all by Rogue/Nethack/whatever" is a bit farfetched. Especially given that there are items in the game that directly reference Nethack (cf. Worthless Piece of Violet Glass).
If you have something like windows where security is bolted on after the fact, and OS that was never meant to be a multi-user OS connected to the internet (all these were added as features later on and done poorly)
This is mostly wrong. XP/Vista/Win 7 are NT derivates. NT was "designed from day one to be [a] networked multi-user OS". Whether they were done poorly or not is a different issue, and not a question that can be factually answered.
So Long had a wildly different feel from the rest of the series, but was the best of all of them. Do people just bash it because of the change in tone? (Though I'll admit that the radio series were better then So Long.) I'd even say that So Long comes close the the Dirk Gently books in both tone and quality.
he said he lives in the midwest. I don't see ice being THAT big of a problem there.
Your comment displays either a serious lack of knowledge about USian geography and the weather thereof or an addiction to heavy drugs. Assuming it's the first, let me inform you:
What is generally called "the midwest" in the US extends from essentially Canada in the north down to Kansas or Nebraska in the south (eh, and maybe Missouri, but that's stretching, in my mind), and from the Dakotas in the west to Ohio in the east. One interesting nugget of information here is that at least some of the midwest is north of New York.
It's a pretty broad span of land, and so the weather isn't really consistent across it, but it gets pretty darn icy across at least Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska in the winter. This is speaking from personal experience. I'm sure that if you wanted to do a little bit of data mining (at NOAA, for example), you could find data backing my statement up. Or you could go watch Fargo, which is set in Minnesota (which is part of the midwest). That's a pretty icy movie.
It was a social commentary on consumerism and corporatism, not environmentalism.
It might not have been intended to be a social commentary on environmentalism (nor, quite frankly, did I think it was particularly a commentary on environmentalism regardless of the intent), but there's no way anyone could convince me that it's not a particularly violent commentary on consumerism and corporatism.
What creates the trash? People buying and disposing of stuff.
Who's the apparent ruler of the world who screwed it up? The CEO of an (obviously) massive corporation.
What's keeping the remaining humans lazy and in bondage to the robots? The past order of that CEO.
The humans aren't even human anymore in the movie until they stop feeding at the teat of the Evil Corporation.Wall*E contains a very serious anti-corporate, anti-consumer message. I cannot believe that it was unintended.
I fall in the "real" camp. I don't think there's any non-supernatural way to explain her teleportation at the climax of the film, so we have to see the chalk-doors as magic.
I think.
Pan's Labyrinth (to pick a movie at random from the review) was way better.
Right, but it doesn't really fit the qualifications of being a movie from this year. Admittedly, the original quote was "Second best movie I've seen all year behind Iron Man," not "Second best new movie. ..," so you might have a point.
But if that were what you meant, I'd expect you to pick something really fantastic, like Alone in the Dark.
Beyond that, it has to be tested time and again to make sure there are NO errors.
Well, no, not really. It's far more economical to ensure that the system can recover from serious errors and that errors are fixable, rather than try to assure zero errors. Mainly because the former is possible and the latter isn't.
If you computer at home freezes, you hit reset. Trying pushing the reset button on a Mars rover--let me know how that works out for you.
This is addressed in TFA -- the watchdog timer takes care of it; they're ubiquitous in high-reliability embedded systems.
<quote>Neither math nor D&D impress many of the chicks I know.</quote>
You know the wrong chicks, then, quite frankly. There are shockingly many women out there who enjoy math (or are at least impressed by it) or play D&D (or even both).
I'm not quite sure where the "chicks don't dig geeks" thing comes from, 'cause it just isn't true.
Motorola hasn't delayed the release of the phone, it's just delayed showing and announcing the phone. From the several articles on the subject that I've read, Motorola doesn't in fact appear to be "irked" and they have not in any way "criticized" Apple.
In fact, from the AP article on the subject, Motorola seems to be agreeable to the decision: "'We were doing it (the announcement) the old way,' Zander said."
Alias777 probably should have read the article.
There's some exaggeration about how difficult the transflash is to remove. . . it's a little smaller than a SIM card, and a little more difficult to handle, but it's not really that bad.
And there are SD adapters for transflash cards that make them usable in any SD reader (just pop the transflash into the adapter and it behaves like a normal SD card).
Horizontal whitespace may be cheap on monitors, but it's a pain in the ass when doing parellel diffs (e.g., for inspections) or you have a borky 80 column console.
78 columns, or you should be stabbed in the eyes.
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I don't understand how SMS is different than email, other than mobile carriers are big fans of non-interoperable systems because such systems fit their business model.
You realize that SMS is a standard, don't you?
if you and your friend were both sending email from a phone presumably you'd send the same sort of short messages you would if you were using SMS.
There are no mobile email applications that have the ease-of-use and ease-of-entry of even crappy text message applications. Users don't care about the underlying tech, they just want it to be easy -- with text messaging they don't have to set up any account information; it's just there.
There's often no "To:" field to deal with, and there's no "Subject:" -- fewer blanks to burden the mind with. You pick who you want to send a message to and you send it. Or you reply, and don't have to think about what to quote and what to remove. Text message interfaces are built for streamlined back-and-forth between participants; email interfaces are not.
Again, I'm talking about interfaces -- the underlying technology doesn't matter. The tech is just a codec for what the user's saying.
(My bona fides: geek married to a geek for 8 years, in the relationship for 10.)
You still have to be a man and she still has to be a woman, otherwise there is no difference between you, and there is no polarity of attraction, and sex and romance will disappear completely.
What does this even mean in the absence of socially defined gender roles? Please. To use your later example -- in my relationship, sometimes I'm the crazy one and she's the rock, and vice versa. Sometimes we're both a little crazy -- and that's problematic, but we both always know that it will pass.
Your woman may often act crazy--she is testing you and she wants to feel your masculine ability to be a solidly dependable rock who can stand there and still love her.
This may be true for you, but it is not a generally true fact. Of course, I'm self-selecting against this kind of behavior -- anything like the "relationship testing" that this describes is purely disingenuous, and I believe that dishonesty of this sort is one of the most likely causes of relationship death.
I was diagnosed with ADD the year I turned 25. I was a straight-A student until high school, where I finally got a B. Then I did relatively well in college. My mental function is not a symptom of the educational system.
You only say this because you have not experienced the cognition-halting static that sometimes goes along with it, or the scattered thinking that can lead to thinking about, well, anything else during sex, or the loss of 8 hours because you were too focused on something, or the experience of physical pain while standing in a long line.
It is frustrating that anyone, anywhere, thinks that ADD is about attention, or that it's a deficit of anything, or that it's a disorder. It's about a lack of the ability to consciously control your thought processes that most of the people in the world take for granted. It is just how my brain works, and it can be useful or it can be harmful. It just doesn't fit with how our social structures are set up.
(I focus on the attention-oriented aspects above because these are the ones that people have a hope of understanding. The impulsivity is by far the worst symptom, but it's hard to explain in a way where people don't immediately jump to "Well, just don't do that," as a response.)
Worst case scenario is sex.
I am right there with you on the "I should really be able to concentrate on having sex" point. It's frustrating on a level that cannot be imagined by people who haven't experienced it.
I just don't want something that takes a while to 'build up'. I more or less want to be able to say "this is a concentration day" pop a pill in the morning and concentrate at work, and on the weekends be able to do my own thing.
This is exactly how both my wife and I use meds to help manage our ADD. There are some days where the ADD effects are honest-to-gods useful, and we don't want to clobber that.
You want either Adderall (an amphetamine blend), Ritalin (methylphenidate, technically amphetamine-derived but more like cocaine in its chemical action), or some other stimulant therapy. You do not want Strattera or any other SNRI, and you probably don't want Wellbutrin (which they might try to prescribe though last I knew it was technically off-label). Adderall works best for me (a combination of extended release and short-action), and Ritalin works best for her. I'm not personally familiar with any other stimulant therapies and haven't researched it in a while, so there may be other things out there.
Both Adderall and Ritalin are short-acting -- the extended release Adderall wears off after 6-8 hours for me, and about half that time for the non-XR version.
Good luck.
What you are asking for is speed, aka amphetimines. Your doctor wont give it to you, but get it and it will have the effect you're after.
Wait, what?
I've had a number of legal prescriptions for straight amphetamine. I've had more for dextroamphetamine, and still more for an amphetamine/dextroamphetamine blend (Adderall). We eventually went to the Adderall because I had serious focus crashes when the straight stuff wore off -- there's a much calmer come-down on the blended form.
You've assumed that Nethack is part of the popular culture, which is an assumption that I don't think would be borne out as correct.
"probably wasn't influenced at all by Rogue/Nethack/whatever" is a bit farfetched. Especially given that there are items in the game that directly reference Nethack (cf. Worthless Piece of Violet Glass).
I don't have to be tolerant of the belief in Zeus. I can see flat out, it is bunk. There is no god Zeus, and no one will be offended.
Except the Hellenic reconstructionists.
Over two thousand days of consecutive uptime?
s/consecutive/cumulative
Software can be made secure at the expense of functionality.
The only computer that is guaranteed to be secure is one that is encased in concrete and dropped to the bottom of the ocean.
So I guess you're right.
If you have something like windows where security is bolted on after the fact, and OS that was never meant to be a multi-user OS connected to the internet (all these were added as features later on and done poorly)
This is mostly wrong. XP/Vista/Win 7 are NT derivates. NT was "designed from day one to be [a] networked multi-user OS". Whether they were done poorly or not is a different issue, and not a question that can be factually answered.
GSM uses TDMA to share spectrum; 3G uses WCDMA.
CDMA doesn't use time slots (which cause the rapid turning on/off that you describe), so you don't get the buzzy interference.
So Long had a wildly different feel from the rest of the series, but was the best of all of them. Do people just bash it because of the change in tone? (Though I'll admit that the radio series were better then So Long.) I'd even say that So Long comes close the the Dirk Gently books in both tone and quality.
Mostly Harmless was truly crap.
You don't need much more than a library/internet and the right mindset to get a PHD, no matter how bad or good your teacher is.
I get email every day that tells me so, so it must be true!
he said he lives in the midwest. I don't see ice being THAT big of a problem there.
Your comment displays either a serious lack of knowledge about USian geography and the weather thereof or an addiction to heavy drugs. Assuming it's the first, let me inform you:
What is generally called "the midwest" in the US extends from essentially Canada in the north down to Kansas or Nebraska in the south (eh, and maybe Missouri, but that's stretching, in my mind), and from the Dakotas in the west to Ohio in the east. One interesting nugget of information here is that at least some of the midwest is north of New York.
It's a pretty broad span of land, and so the weather isn't really consistent across it, but it gets pretty darn icy across at least Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska in the winter. This is speaking from personal experience. I'm sure that if you wanted to do a little bit of data mining (at NOAA, for example), you could find data backing my statement up. Or you could go watch Fargo, which is set in Minnesota (which is part of the midwest). That's a pretty icy movie.
It was a social commentary on consumerism and corporatism, not environmentalism.
It might not have been intended to be a social commentary on environmentalism (nor, quite frankly, did I think it was particularly a commentary on environmentalism regardless of the intent), but there's no way anyone could convince me that it's not a particularly violent commentary on consumerism and corporatism.
The humans aren't even human anymore in the movie until they stop feeding at the teat of the Evil Corporation.Wall*E contains a very serious anti-corporate, anti-consumer message. I cannot believe that it was unintended.
Vixie claims that "Everything we thought we knew was wrong"...
Oh really. Looks like you made another straw man, and you use quotes as if he'd actually said that. I call B. S.
RTFA. He did actually say that. (Though I agree with most of what you said.)
I fall in the "real" camp. I don't think there's any non-supernatural way to explain her teleportation at the climax of the film, so we have to see the chalk-doors as magic. I think.
Pan's Labyrinth (to pick a movie at random from the review) was way better.
Right, but it doesn't really fit the qualifications of being a movie from this year. Admittedly, the original quote was "Second best movie I've seen all year behind Iron Man," not "Second best new movie. . .," so you might have a point.
But if that were what you meant, I'd expect you to pick something really fantastic, like Alone in the Dark.
hundreds of lines of code, usually spanning 8 months of more of development.
Well, that's why they always met their schedules.
Beyond that, it has to be tested time and again to make sure there are NO errors.
Well, no, not really. It's far more economical to ensure that the system can recover from serious errors and that errors are fixable, rather than try to assure zero errors. Mainly because the former is possible and the latter isn't.
If you computer at home freezes, you hit reset. Trying pushing the reset button on a Mars rover--let me know how that works out for you.
This is addressed in TFA -- the watchdog timer takes care of it; they're ubiquitous in high-reliability embedded systems.
<quote>Neither math nor D&D impress many of the chicks I know.</quote>
You know the wrong chicks, then, quite frankly. There are shockingly many women out there who enjoy math (or are at least impressed by it) or play D&D (or even both).
I'm not quite sure where the "chicks don't dig geeks" thing comes from, 'cause it just isn't true.
Motorola hasn't delayed the release of the phone, it's just delayed showing and announcing the phone. From the several articles on the subject that I've read, Motorola doesn't in fact appear to be "irked" and they have not in any way "criticized" Apple. In fact, from the AP article on the subject, Motorola seems to be agreeable to the decision: "'We were doing it (the announcement) the old way,' Zander said." Alias777 probably should have read the article.
There's some exaggeration about how difficult the transflash is to remove. . . it's a little smaller than a SIM card, and a little more difficult to handle, but it's not really that bad.
And there are SD adapters for transflash cards that make them usable in any SD reader (just pop the transflash into the adapter and it behaves like a normal SD card).
Horizontal whitespace may be cheap on monitors,
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80 column console.
78 columns, or you should be stabbed in the eyes.
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