I think it was George Carlin, and I disagree with the idea. What has happened is that the condition has moved from gross recognition into a well-described psychiatric diagnosis. It's the same thing that's happened with pretty much every other disease ever recognized. We no longer call AIDS the "gay disease", so why should different rules apply here?
This is a point which is often brought up when discussing PTSD. It's absolutely true that automobile accidents are the foremost cause of PTSD, but (and IANAPsychiatrist, I'm just repeating information related to me by the ones I've seen) most cases of PTSD from accidents are acute, not chronic. Long-term PTSD seems to be dominated by combat veterans, police officers, coasties, and the like.
Again - just what I've been told. If anyone knows of any studies confirming or disproving this, I would love to read them. I suffer from severe, chronic PTSD, and I am always interested in learning more about it.
This is a very helpful diagnostic tool as there is still a stigma associated with any sort of mental disorder, particularly in the military. Some subsets handle it better than others; while some groups are more in the mindset of "get it treated" the idea of "malingerers" still holds true in some places. Self-diagnosis lags when there's a stigma attached.
This is the truth. The Army provides "Combat Stress" teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, both on a regular rotation to the different patrol bases and FOBs, and after any direct-fire engagement or enemy action resulting in the loss of life. In my experience early in the Iraq war, these teams of councillors(sp?) were visited mostly by support - mechanics, S2 guys, etc. The guys who (arguably) needed it most, because of their repeated exposure to the worst of war, only rarely visited. We needed it most (subjective, I know, but we lived outside the wire while it was still a shooting war) and we blew it off.
Why? Because it was an admission of weakness. Because you didn't want to be labelled "crazy". Because when life gets hard, you put on your game face and complete the mission. Because if you've got an owie, you rub some dirt in it and drive on. Because if you can't sleep, you just have more time to get your shit wired for the next patrol. Because you're there for your battle buddy, and if you've lost friends before you'll be damned if you lose one again. Because if you get a shit sandwich, you just pour on two scoops of hooah and start chewing.
The stigma attached to mental health problems in the military, especially in combat arms, is a big reason PTSD doesn't get diagnosed early, and anything that can help soldiers, Marines, airmen, or sailors avoid slipping through the cracks before they ETS is solid gold.
( I am in no way disparaging the experience of non-combat arms SMs. We can't fight a war without you guys, and believe me when I say we appreciate you, but we'll always have a chip on our shoulder because of the job we do. That's just the way it is.)
I'm with you. It has only been five years for me, but a more objective assessment would have helped me a great deal.
I had a four-year fight with the VA to get service-connected for PTSD. After indisputable records of many, many combat stressors, four years of the VA mental health clinical team regularly putting full, five-axis PTSD diagnoses in their chart notes, and my career devolving from well-paid Solaris systems engineer to unemployment, my claims and appeals were denied by bureaucrats who had never seen me in person.
I did finally get the service connection, but the years of bureaucrats telling me I had no problems made my symptoms worse, and my life is a shambles because of it. This technology could have been a near-literal life-saver for me; I hope it proves to be so for future veterans.
p.s. - if you haven't already, try a symptom management group with the VA. The class I attended was very helpful for me. The seven or eight Vietnam vets and the two WWII vets in the class said the same after the last session.
City streets are a government-provided service, funded by the public and built for the public good. While your streets may very well be shitty, you have legal rights and recourse to make the government un-shitty your streets. No such luck in dealing with a corporation, even when their approach of squeezing every penny out of customers and neglecting to actually support services they are selling causes unreliable access to a bona-fide public service, 911.
AT&T's bottom-line mentality is what is irresponsible here.
They think of it as something that is subsidiary to their role as caretakers, when it's actually central to it, as it is in pretty much any industry and they are completely in denial of that fact
This attitude from IT is exactly why the doctors are so obstinate. The constant barrage of geeks claiming that IT is the core of everything is the cause of most of the bad reception IT gets from doctors and other professionals.
You think IT is central to health care, and just as important as physicians? Well, there were hospitals and doctors long before there were computers. It's HEALTH CARE, and the central idea is to make sick people better. If the integrated systems or individual applications can't make a doctors job easier or more efficient, they will not be used. The problem isn't that doctors are stubborn jerks, it's that you aren't offering good enough products.
This kind of bullshit is one of the reasons I recently left IT after thirteen years as a software and systems engineer. For medicine, ironically enough, considering the topic.
Bah! I had to rebuild the boot archive on my trucks crashed FBCB2 in the middle of a firefight.
Lesson learned: if you're in the infantry, never admit you know anything about computers. You never know when some jackass is going to need tech support.
Niagara-generation SPARC CPUs are open source. Anyone with an idle fab laying around can go ahead and start churning out UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors. Fujitsu has an interest in the architecture not dying, since the SPARC Enterprise server line is actually Sun/Fujitsu and the SPARC64-V PRIMEPOWER is all Fujitsu.
That doesn't get you very far without compatible hardware to plug the CPU into, but Sun being bought and shut down by the likes of MS doesn't necessarily mean SPARC will go bye-bye.
Many soldiers get sent to the battle field also suddenly become more pious.
The inverse is also true. Having been a combat infantryman, I can tell you from experience that saints and atheists are made in foxholes in equal measure.
That doesn't really matter as much as how Sims 2 is using Quicktime. If they are sticking to the published API and an update broke the game, then, yeah, Apple screwed up. But if they are using an undocumented macro, function, or method, then Apple isn't at fault.
FWIW, I have a few apps written against QTKit that have worked unmodified for some time now. So at least some of the API is stable. Who knows what arcane corners Aspyr is delving into, though?
Because mom's diary is not the foundation of this country, which includes these very important sentences:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I would do it. Screw my place in history - I'd happily be recorded as Astronaut Ian Paul Freeley - it would be worth it just for the experience of getting off this rock and planting my feet on an honest-to-jebus other planet.
There's no greater opportunity for an explorer at heart. I think NASA/ESA/whoever would have more of a problem picking the perfect applicant than just finding them in the first place.
They're shutting down for maybe six WEEKS to do a whole lot of bugfixing and gameplay tweaks all at once, without having to worry about spending the extra development time to make sure every incremental change is (probably) going to work on (most) beta testers' machines. You don't even have to read more than the article summary to understand that!
I don't think it's a big deal. EA/Mythic doesn't have an obligation to ensure that I can play the beta 24 hours a day, every day until launch without interruption. They have an obligation to use the feedback they get from beta testers and the load testing on their servers to improve the game so that the final product is fun to play.
I suppose this wouldn't be Slashdot, though, if a lot of people who aren't playing the beta and didn't RTFA refrained from spouting off with ill-informed rants that don't add anything useful to the discussion.
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I actually ran into this problem when I first started using TextMate. However, once you get used to having the snippets available they become indispensable. Instead of thinking through problems in code, line by line, you learn to think them through in a more abstracted, sparser manner. I don't have to think at all about my if/for/foreach/while/new/etc. syntax as I'm typing, I just do a quick for-tab, and worry about what's important - the condition, and the functional code. The end result is far fewer keystrokes and a much more compact mental model of the file I'm working on. TextMate ftw.
From TFA: "The online manual clocks in at 97 very terse pages (print-previewed as-is in Internet Explorer) while the book is 193 pages. Despite the 100+ page difference, the online manual is intended for the hardcore geek and covers much more detail with less hand-holding."
There is an online manual which has a much greater information density than the dead-tree book. So, you can find what you're looking for, in a concise format that doesn't waste disk space. I believe the paper book is not meant to be a reference; it is essentially a detailed user manual to get you up and running and familiar with the editor. Most of the time when you are using a reference, you are already comfortable with the application - you just need a refresher on a particular feature, and have no need at all for the hand-holding of the original introduction.
You're absolutely right; Microsoft had me start posting on Slashdot years ago (about Oracle on Linux, no less), just so they could build up excellent karma to get the +1 bonus that would allow me to effectively astro-turf for Vista. You're skeptical that there may be OS polyglots, here, on Slashdot? You may be surprised to encounter a Mac & Linux user with good things to say about Microsoft, but only if you're a l33t l1nuX d00d, or one of those people who have to type "M$" at least once every post.
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I think it was George Carlin, and I disagree with the idea. What has happened is that the condition has moved from gross recognition into a well-described psychiatric diagnosis. It's the same thing that's happened with pretty much every other disease ever recognized. We no longer call AIDS the "gay disease", so why should different rules apply here?
This is a point which is often brought up when discussing PTSD. It's absolutely true that automobile accidents are the foremost cause of PTSD, but (and IANAPsychiatrist, I'm just repeating information related to me by the ones I've seen) most cases of PTSD from accidents are acute, not chronic. Long-term PTSD seems to be dominated by combat veterans, police officers, coasties, and the like.
Again - just what I've been told. If anyone knows of any studies confirming or disproving this, I would love to read them. I suffer from severe, chronic PTSD, and I am always interested in learning more about it.
This is a very helpful diagnostic tool as there is still a stigma associated with any sort of mental disorder, particularly in the military. Some subsets handle it better than others; while some groups are more in the mindset of "get it treated" the idea of "malingerers" still holds true in some places. Self-diagnosis lags when there's a stigma attached.
This is the truth. The Army provides "Combat Stress" teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, both on a regular rotation to the different patrol bases and FOBs, and after any direct-fire engagement or enemy action resulting in the loss of life. In my experience early in the Iraq war, these teams of councillors(sp?) were visited mostly by support - mechanics, S2 guys, etc. The guys who (arguably) needed it most, because of their repeated exposure to the worst of war, only rarely visited. We needed it most (subjective, I know, but we lived outside the wire while it was still a shooting war) and we blew it off.
Why? Because it was an admission of weakness. Because you didn't want to be labelled "crazy". Because when life gets hard, you put on your game face and complete the mission. Because if you've got an owie, you rub some dirt in it and drive on. Because if you can't sleep, you just have more time to get your shit wired for the next patrol. Because you're there for your battle buddy, and if you've lost friends before you'll be damned if you lose one again. Because if you get a shit sandwich, you just pour on two scoops of hooah and start chewing.
The stigma attached to mental health problems in the military, especially in combat arms, is a big reason PTSD doesn't get diagnosed early, and anything that can help soldiers, Marines, airmen, or sailors avoid slipping through the cracks before they ETS is solid gold.
( I am in no way disparaging the experience of non-combat arms SMs. We can't fight a war without you guys, and believe me when I say we appreciate you, but we'll always have a chip on our shoulder because of the job we do. That's just the way it is.)
I'm with you. It has only been five years for me, but a more objective assessment would have helped me a great deal.
I had a four-year fight with the VA to get service-connected for PTSD. After indisputable records of many, many combat stressors, four years of the VA mental health clinical team regularly putting full, five-axis PTSD diagnoses in their chart notes, and my career devolving from well-paid Solaris systems engineer to unemployment, my claims and appeals were denied by bureaucrats who had never seen me in person.
I did finally get the service connection, but the years of bureaucrats telling me I had no problems made my symptoms worse, and my life is a shambles because of it. This technology could have been a near-literal life-saver for me; I hope it proves to be so for future veterans.
p.s. - if you haven't already, try a symptom management group with the VA. The class I attended was very helpful for me. The seven or eight Vietnam vets and the two WWII vets in the class said the same after the last session.
City streets are a government-provided service, funded by the public and built for the public good. While your streets may very well be shitty, you have legal rights and recourse to make the government un-shitty your streets. No such luck in dealing with a corporation, even when their approach of squeezing every penny out of customers and neglecting to actually support services they are selling causes unreliable access to a bona-fide public service, 911.
AT&T's bottom-line mentality is what is irresponsible here.
They think of it as something that is subsidiary to their role as caretakers, when it's actually central to it, as it is in pretty much any industry and they are completely in denial of that fact
This attitude from IT is exactly why the doctors are so obstinate. The constant barrage of geeks claiming that IT is the core of everything is the cause of most of the bad reception IT gets from doctors and other professionals.
You think IT is central to health care, and just as important as physicians? Well, there were hospitals and doctors long before there were computers. It's HEALTH CARE, and the central idea is to make sick people better. If the integrated systems or individual applications can't make a doctors job easier or more efficient, they will not be used. The problem isn't that doctors are stubborn jerks, it's that you aren't offering good enough products.
This kind of bullshit is one of the reasons I recently left IT after thirteen years as a software and systems engineer. For medicine, ironically enough, considering the topic.
Bah! I had to rebuild the boot archive on my trucks crashed FBCB2 in the middle of a firefight.
Lesson learned: if you're in the infantry, never admit you know anything about computers. You never know when some jackass is going to need tech support.
Niagara-generation SPARC CPUs are open source. Anyone with an idle fab laying around can go ahead and start churning out UltraSPARC T1 and T2 processors. Fujitsu has an interest in the architecture not dying, since the SPARC Enterprise server line is actually Sun/Fujitsu and the SPARC64-V PRIMEPOWER is all Fujitsu.
That doesn't get you very far without compatible hardware to plug the CPU into, but Sun being bought and shut down by the likes of MS doesn't necessarily mean SPARC will go bye-bye.
http://www.opensparc.net/
I do, with VMWare Fusion. :)
Many soldiers get sent to the battle field also suddenly become more pious.
The inverse is also true. Having been a combat infantryman, I can tell you from experience that saints and atheists are made in foxholes in equal measure.
Metallica Rocks, Pirating is wrong, and You suck.
Lars?
Right you are. My mistake.
The rarest two sentences on Slashdot. Bravo. ;)
That doesn't really matter as much as how Sims 2 is using Quicktime. If they are sticking to the published API and an update broke the game, then, yeah, Apple screwed up. But if they are using an undocumented macro, function, or method, then Apple isn't at fault.
FWIW, I have a few apps written against QTKit that have worked unmodified for some time now. So at least some of the API is stable. Who knows what arcane corners Aspyr is delving into, though?
Why do I never have mod points when I read a post that's well thought-out and clearly explained? Mod parent up!
Because mom's diary is not the foundation of this country, which includes these very important sentences:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
I mean, it's not like we invented the Olympics or anything...
I didn't realize that the UK had such a big hand molding the games in ancient Greece. Thanks for clearing that up! I didn't know that!
-Just another stupid American
(tongue firmly in cheek, for the humor impaired)
I would do it. Screw my place in history - I'd happily be recorded as Astronaut Ian Paul Freeley - it would be worth it just for the experience of getting off this rock and planting my feet on an honest-to-jebus other planet.
There's no greater opportunity for an explorer at heart. I think NASA/ESA/whoever would have more of a problem picking the perfect applicant than just finding them in the first place.
Damn, where is the "+1, Great Sig" mod option when you need it? A flower for your sweetie would also have been acceptable.
I think you meant, "the beginning of an extremely bright period, followed by a really dusty period, followed by Mad Max"
I wish I had mod points. That made me spray pad thai all over my (employers) LCDs. Good on ya. :)
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They're shutting down for maybe six WEEKS to do a whole lot of bugfixing and gameplay tweaks all at once, without having to worry about spending the extra development time to make sure every incremental change is (probably) going to work on (most) beta testers' machines. You don't even have to read more than the article summary to understand that!
I don't think it's a big deal. EA/Mythic doesn't have an obligation to ensure that I can play the beta 24 hours a day, every day until launch without interruption. They have an obligation to use the feedback they get from beta testers and the load testing on their servers to improve the game so that the final product is fun to play.
I suppose this wouldn't be Slashdot, though, if a lot of people who aren't playing the beta and didn't RTFA refrained from spouting off with ill-informed rants that don't add anything useful to the discussion.
I actually ran into this problem when I first started using TextMate. However, once you get used to having the snippets available they become indispensable. Instead of thinking through problems in code, line by line, you learn to think them through in a more abstracted, sparser manner. I don't have to think at all about my if/for/foreach/while/new/etc. syntax as I'm typing, I just do a quick for-tab, and worry about what's important - the condition, and the functional code. The end result is far fewer keystrokes and a much more compact mental model of the file I'm working on. TextMate ftw.
From TFA: "The online manual clocks in at 97 very terse pages (print-previewed as-is in Internet Explorer) while the book is 193 pages. Despite the 100+ page difference, the online manual is intended for the hardcore geek and covers much more detail with less hand-holding."
There is an online manual which has a much greater information density than the dead-tree book. So, you can find what you're looking for, in a concise format that doesn't waste disk space. I believe the paper book is not meant to be a reference; it is essentially a detailed user manual to get you up and running and familiar with the editor. Most of the time when you are using a reference, you are already comfortable with the application - you just need a refresher on a particular feature, and have no need at all for the hand-holding of the original introduction.
You're absolutely right; Microsoft had me start posting on Slashdot years ago (about Oracle on Linux, no less), just so they could build up excellent karma to get the +1 bonus that would allow me to effectively astro-turf for Vista. You're skeptical that there may be OS polyglots, here , on Slashdot? You may be surprised to encounter a Mac & Linux user with good things to say about Microsoft, but only if you're a l33t l1nuX d00d, or one of those people who have to type "M$" at least once every post.