Re:DSV IV criteria for ADHD
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Working with ADHD?
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Sounds like standard behaviour for any healthy kid who's a bit bored and wants to go running around with his friends, getting covered in mud, falling out of trees etc.
Alternatively, reading it again, it sounds more like someone who doesn't get enough exercise and enjoys sports more than office work. i.e. 99% of all office workers.
Could it be our bodies haven't adapted to our office/TV/car dominated lifestyle?
Yeah, I'll admit the number was pulled out of my arse and was supposed to represent some very large but unknown number. But....
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:V20jhxVLok gJ:business.cisco.com/prod/tree.taf%253Fasset_id%3 D88844%26ID%3D48297%26public_view%3Dtrue%26kbns%3D 1.html+car+development+cost+ford&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8
Interesting bit:
Thwaite says: âoeE-feasibility has enabled us to save at least $27 million on the development cost of the new Fiesta alone. That level of saving will increase over time and help us to improve the quality of the final product, contributing to customer satisfaction.â
Sounds like they cost quite a bit to make assuming $27 million doesn't represent a 99.95% saving.
Anyway - my point was it's much easier to offer someone elses hard work & effort for free than your own. My boss certainly thinks so...
Maybe, but if copying cars was as easy as copying music you'd probably have paid $15 billion for it. I don't know what the development cost for a car is but I'm pretty sure if Ford thought they had a market of one, then the price would be higher than it is.
Nice idea but what would be the best way of enforcing it? Once they have your cash there's very little reason for them to do anything for your benefit. Short of paying a year later once you're satisfied they've complied, I can't see how.
Even if they broke it and you had a legal case, would you bother persuing it?
So I guess remaking something you like just because you can must be some kind of teen geek ritual.
Not just teens. I work with a guy who rewrites stuff all the time and it's really fucking annoying. Halfway through a project you find out he's achieved nothing because he's taken it upon himself to rewrite something that worked fine but he didn't understand. Once done, it breaks everything and he then goes on to protest how much better it is than what was there before. Now we're late and broken.
Sorry - that's totally o/t but I suppose my point is some people never grow out of it. I wasn't having a go at your star trek game at all. Just those that do it at work.
"Please explain how this extraordiary expensive Gallileo system would have stopped US action in Iraq."
That's not what I said (or at least meant). The gist of it is that any country having a monopoly on something quite important like GPS is bad. When the owner of that monopoly then goes its own way, or at least against the way of a significant number of other countries then it makes sense to remove any reliance on whatever that thing is. Pretty simple really.
Yeah - I don't see it quite as significant as you make out I do but it's a step in the right direction. To use more common/. terms, think of it more like installing a Linux server in a MS shop - some sort of fallback should the bad guy of your choice turn and try to bite you on the arse.
I liked the bit about the information autobahn. Nice one.
The UN is the closest thing there is to a world decision making body. For all it's uselessness and buracracy, that is what it is there for. If you're a member, you should stick with the decisions made not select those that suit at the time. Isn't that democracy? Either the US should quit the UN or accept it.
(disclaimer - in my opinion the UN is the most useless and ineffective organisation ever).
Regarding your comments on Germany, French and Russians - that may be so, but it's an admission of not learning from history. (I forget the relevant quote that appears on/. at times like this).
The book is fascinating and well written. I'd recommend it to anyone even vaguely interested in this stuff. The TV program was a great and faithful adaptation. My g/f enjoyed it and she's not really into science.
I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but the US really showed it's true colours in this last war. They rode roughshod over every international organisation when the consensus didn't go their way and ultimately staged an invasion rather than liberation. I think under these circumstances the world needs another option.
I worked in a bar in Peru for a bit and fake Peruvian notes there were a big problem. (Relatively of course - not too much non-local forgeries I shouldn't think!) You could tell through the feel but mostly they would wear away along a centre fold in a way quite different to real notes. We had a checker though so whatever the age of the note the serial numbers would show up black on the fakes and florecent on the real deals.
This is Australia for god's sake!! If you can't find a spare 1000 m^2 in Australia you really are not looking very hard! How about doing something like that airplane park out in Nevada? Build a shed, cover it with Kangaroo repellant, stick everything in there and deal with it later.
And they can take the antique POS I use at work there when they do it.
Re:I fail to see the use.
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Floppy the Robot
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Just because you don't get anything out of it doesn't mean it's not fun for someone else. The only reason any OSS stuff gets done is because it takes someone's fancy. Some people would argue that writing code and not getting paid for it could be considered a non constructive realm. However that much mentioned itch is getting scratched by somebody. Don't bag something just because it's not your thing.
Given the surprising number (i.e. >0) of missions that have failed because of mixing up the units, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this list was taken directly from NASA's project guidelines.
Rollback is not an advanced option. It's essensial for any non read-only database. When you have a typical OO or other modular system you often ask a particular function to do something without it being aware of the wider context. Something in that wider context may well decide something is wrong. Without rollback (and commit) life becomes a royal pain in the arse and/or your data becomes rat shit.
Replication is useful for keeping things going 24/7 and allowing intensive off-line reports etc.
Lets not confuse "advanced" or "bloated" features with "features I don't use".
[the user's username backwards]. Heh heh. Reminds me of a friend telling someone to use this. Bad advice aside, imagine him saying this as he simultaneously realises that the user's name is Lana.
Are you seriously suggesting that using "debuggers and IDEs" automatically means you can't program? Presumably using vi and printf automatically makes you a programming god?
Sheesh. If you believe that you're doing it the hard way.
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Sounds like standard behaviour for any healthy kid who's a bit bored and wants to go running around with his friends, getting covered in mud, falling out of trees etc.
Alternatively, reading it again, it sounds more like someone who doesn't get enough exercise and enjoys sports more than office work. i.e. 99% of all office workers.
Could it be our bodies haven't adapted to our office/TV/car dominated lifestyle?
In Soviet Russia, my pants would shit yours!
Yeah, I'll admit the number was pulled out of my arse and was supposed to represent some very large but unknown number. But....k gJ:business.cisco.com/prod/tree.taf%253Fasset_id%3 D88844%26ID%3D48297%26public_view%3Dtrue%26kbns%3D 1.html+car+development+cost+ford&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:V20jhxVLo
Interesting bit:
Thwaite says: âoeE-feasibility has enabled us to save at least $27 million on the development cost of the new Fiesta alone. That level of saving will increase over time and help us to improve the quality of the final product, contributing to customer satisfaction.â
Sounds like they cost quite a bit to make assuming $27 million doesn't represent a 99.95% saving.
Anyway - my point was it's much easier to offer someone elses hard work & effort for free than your own. My boss certainly thinks so...
Maybe, but if copying cars was as easy as copying music you'd probably have paid $15 billion for it. I don't know what the development cost for a car is but I'm pretty sure if Ford thought they had a market of one, then the price would be higher than it is.
Phones with stupid ring tones and owners that don't answer them?
Nice idea but what would be the best way of enforcing it? Once they have your cash there's very little reason for them to do anything for your benefit. Short of paying a year later once you're satisfied they've complied, I can't see how.
Even if they broke it and you had a legal case, would you bother persuing it?
MS are great. Linux is crap.
Now simply ride the flames that come out the back of that.....
Sorry - that's totally o/t but I suppose my point is some people never grow out of it. I wasn't having a go at your star trek game at all. Just those that do it at work.
24-36-24? Whoh!
I just tried that. Look at all that porn!
Relax - when it hits it'll be no bigger than a Chihuahua's head.
"Please explain how this extraordiary expensive Gallileo system would have stopped US action in Iraq."
That's not what I said (or at least meant). The gist of it is that any country having a monopoly on something quite important like GPS is bad. When the owner of that monopoly then goes its own way, or at least against the way of a significant number of other countries then it makes sense to remove any reliance on whatever that thing is. Pretty simple really.
Yeah - I don't see it quite as significant as you make out I do but it's a step in the right direction. To use more common /. terms, think of it more like installing a Linux server in a MS shop - some sort of fallback should the bad guy of your choice turn and try to bite you on the arse.
I liked the bit about the information autobahn. Nice one.
The UN is the closest thing there is to a world decision making body. For all it's uselessness and buracracy, that is what it is there for. If you're a member, you should stick with the decisions made not select those that suit at the time. Isn't that democracy? Either the US should quit the UN or accept it. /. at times like this).
(disclaimer - in my opinion the UN is the most useless and ineffective organisation ever).
Regarding your comments on Germany, French and Russians - that may be so, but it's an admission of not learning from history. (I forget the relevant quote that appears on
The book is fascinating and well written. I'd recommend it to anyone even vaguely interested in this stuff. The TV program was a great and faithful adaptation. My g/f enjoyed it and she's not really into science.
I'm sure I'll get blasted for this, but the US really showed it's true colours in this last war. They rode roughshod over every international organisation when the consensus didn't go their way and ultimately staged an invasion rather than liberation. I think under these circumstances the world needs another option.
or at least Gates does. I remember seeing a program on it. There's an entire department dedicated to giving away something like $1BN p/a.
I worked in a bar in Peru for a bit and fake Peruvian notes there were a big problem. (Relatively of course - not too much non-local forgeries I shouldn't think!) You could tell through the feel but mostly they would wear away along a centre fold in a way quite different to real notes. We had a checker though so whatever the age of the note the serial numbers would show up black on the fakes and florecent on the real deals.
This is Australia for god's sake!! If you can't find a spare 1000 m^2 in Australia you really are not looking very hard! How about doing something like that airplane park out in Nevada? Build a shed, cover it with Kangaroo repellant, stick everything in there and deal with it later.
And they can take the antique POS I use at work there when they do it.
Just because you don't get anything out of it doesn't mean it's not fun for someone else. The only reason any OSS stuff gets done is because it takes someone's fancy. Some people would argue that writing code and not getting paid for it could be considered a non constructive realm. However that much mentioned itch is getting scratched by somebody. Don't bag something just because it's not your thing.
Given the surprising number (i.e. >0) of missions that have failed because of mixing up the units, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this list was taken directly from NASA's project guidelines.
Also applicable in Soviet Russia!!!
Rollback is not an advanced option. It's essensial for any non read-only database. When you have a typical OO or other modular system you often ask a particular function to do something without it being aware of the wider context. Something in that wider context may well decide something is wrong. Without rollback (and commit) life becomes a royal pain in the arse and/or your data becomes rat shit.
Replication is useful for keeping things going 24/7 and allowing intensive off-line reports etc.
Lets not confuse "advanced" or "bloated" features with "features I don't use".
[the user's username backwards]. Heh heh. Reminds me of a friend telling someone to use this. Bad advice aside, imagine him saying this as he simultaneously realises that the user's name is Lana.
Are you seriously suggesting that using "debuggers and IDEs" automatically means you can't program? Presumably using vi and printf automatically makes you a programming god? Sheesh. If you believe that you're doing it the hard way.