The social part of the disorder is a small piece of it. The genes that are deleted also cause problems with Elastin production, which leads to connective-tissue abnormalities and cardiovascular disease. In addition vision and auditory issues, as well as dental issues are very common.
Also no social fear means they will happily sit on santa's lap or go for a car ride with the nice man who "lost his puppy" at the park.
My daughter has Williams Syndrome. She is 3 and has monthly EKGs, is on a calorie intense diet (because of her extremely small and underweight size). She also has severe dental problems.
all that being said, she has perfect pitch (can emulate any sound (within reason) she wants to even without hearing it right before (she can pull sounds up from long term memory). She also has a measurably more sensitive sense of hearing (i.e. you can whisper in the other room and she will hear it). She is different, and markedly so, but I cannot say that this is the direction in which all human evolution will flow.
This is a spontaneous mutation meaning it is not necessarily passed down from parents, although people with WS are 50% likely to pass it on to each child. It is a partial genetic deletion.
People with WS tend to have Elvish or Pixie features. The disorder was formerly referred to as Pixieism, and is thought (quite convincingly) to be the origin of that type of folklore: Whimsical people who are extremely talented in music, are not socially afraid of anyone and tend to have a "cocktail party personality" in that they can speak to you for hours and not actually get into an "in-depth" conversation.
My daughter may not have racial bias, but she also does not have stranger-danger... would gladly hug the nice homeless man who is yelling at god and drinking a paper bag.
It is hilarious/annoying as hell when you get an older "C" level executive who uses the corporate IM like this:
Bossman: Are you there?
Me: yes
*phone rings*
I usually answer their questions, which are always about *impossible to say verbally* statistics within the IM window, even while they are talking on the phone... Kind of as a way to Passive-Aggressively say "hey you know all that licensing money you pay to Microsoft for this nice IM solution? it would work better than the phone if you would just use it.
It seems you have forgotten the other common user behavior... sharing passwords.
One of my reporting users had direct SQL access to a replicated and sanitized (no sensitive data) copy of our Database. He is an advanced user with plenty of reporting knowledge and we required ad-hoc reporting that did not damage/slow production.
during a security audit, I was required to expire his password.
the next day we had 9 tickets from 9 different users: "My access was taken away"
I like to list my disabilities as super powers, so, I have independent vision, which is actually Strabismus, but distinct from a "lazy eye". I have 20/20 vision in each eye, but they do not work in constant binocular mode. I can focus on two objects at once, and at will I can change eye dominance. I have been to many (4) optometrists and the consensus is that it is neurologically sourced(I have other well-known neurological issues), and not muscular (or perhaps muscular but well compensated), or that since I have conscious control over it, that the surgery (to tighten the muscles) would likely cause harm or unpredictable effects.
3D movies take great conscious effort, and are therefore less enjoyable in general, but this does not completely exclude the category, it just doesn't count as a selling point, but as an "also ran" additional feature.
All you have to do is google "cheap game gold"
you will come up with a pretty good list of games in which people will actually pay money to other people in order to have computers play a game for them.
have you ever worked in a cubicle next to a sales person? When they "rightsized" our department they relocated us to in-between a call-center and a sales floor. It was pure hell people yammering on at the telephone alllll day. Now add to that everyone also yelling shit at their computers, and see how much productivity you gain.
If it won't work for business, it will never catch on.
Now how about voice control for home? Will it work while I watch a movie? because I never game without a movie or at least loud music playing in the same room...
If it won't work for games, it will never catch on.
The holy grail for user interface MUST be silent or close to it, in order to catch on fully. This is why people keep trying stupid alternatives, because the reality is that the "obvious" ones are actually just as bad as the "silly" ones.
"shaking your fist at an outrageous story" should be done UNDER the desk.
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3D movies again? Really? didn't that trend die out in 1955?
Touch screen displays? Really? Those sucked in the early 1990s when they were all the rage.
"cloud computing?" Oh brother... didn't we ditch the mainframe/terminal model in the 80s/90s?
World of Warcraft? yeah, I remember when it was called everquest and it sucked, nobody wants an MMO
Remember 1996 when FPS games got boring and old... why do we need Modern Warfare 2, nobody is gonna play it.
(hint, there is nothing new, just better executions of old ideas.) Sometimes it takes balls to go after something that was stigmatized beyond feasibility due to early missteps.
jailbroken iPhones can run pandora streaming in the background while doing other stuff (including email, web, etc)... the same as the iPod background mode. Honestly that was my number one reason to jailbreak.
I can tell you that I don't go into places that blast classical music because it bugs the shit out of me. When I am subjected to most classical music I get more and more frustrated until I leave. In my case they would miss out on revenue, not graffiti if I won't go to their store.
besides don't the kids these days carry their iPod everywhere? They could easily replace whatever crap is being piped in with whatever they want on their earbuds.
The pc port was actually pretty good, few bugs that bothered me, but one gigantic, huge, blaring flaw...
It was really really really really super easy. It was the exact same gameplay as the PS2 version (which I also owned) but mouse+keyboard is so far superior to the console, that every single gun might as well have been "the golden gun" from goldeneye. I am serious, those super hard missions where you had to take out 900 guys and you had to try 1000 times on PS2 and still you just barely pass it after breaking a controller or two.. cakewalk when you can actually aim.
The hellicopter mission, where you are taking passes on the mob base, with a tinfoil hellicopter... That mission was the bane of the ps2, finishing with more than 5% of the chopper health was a feat of god... On PC, 99% health was like oops, LOL I should not have made pizza rolls while playing that mission.
It really opened my eyes to the common notion at the time that the gap was narrowing between console fps/3ps and PC, it was just not the case. Still isn't, because a controller will never (barring comprehensive design changes, and I am not sure motion control will ever quite cut it)have enough precision and reaction.
It was really weird having a pretty nice port that was totally useless, and it really turned me off of the PS2 version, made it seem like "Nintendo hard" Hard because of gimped controlls not because of good design/creativity.
yeah, but it is not like the US employer sponsored healthcare is magic either. My employer pays ~400 a month (at least that is what they claim on their taxes) and I pay about $520/month 610 if you count dental too. My medicare tax paid is also $120/month. I also have a flex spending account that usually pays for all of my out of pocket, this costs me 375/month.
I support a family of 6, with NO MEDICAL PROBLEMS, just the usual bumps bruises, sprains, colds, cuts, scrapes, etc.
My annual MINIMUM medical costs and medical taxes in the US are: $18,060. My income tax PLUS health insurance + social security = 45% of my pay. Show me a first world country where I would pay significantly more in their omg horrible evil overtaxing for socalist medicine system.
The money is already being spent in the U.S. it is just being spent on large corporations with huge margins and plenty of incentive to stay expensive. I would love to pay my 45% and stop having to fight with AETNA for every fucking sniffle. I would love for my 45% to be helping my neighbor instead of paying a 25 million dollar execvutive bonus for AETNA.
Hello, my name is Netsavior, and I am already taxed at 45%, I live in the U.S. and I have shitty health care.
It is so stupid that everyone ignores Runescape
The number two MMORPG, and of course the number one free to play one. Free to play version is kind of like a starter and indeed is missing many of the functions you want, however the full version ($5 monthly) has most.
It has been around since 2001 and is developed in England. The pay version still has weekly updates.
Runescape is a skill based MMO (where every skill is trained semi-independantly), there are no character classes, every skill is open to every player.
Thieving: most NPCs can be pickpocketed, thieving is a skill that can be leveled. Only in a few scenarios can you actually steal from other players though. Looting: Runescape still has a very harsh death tax. In PvM, if you die you lose all but the 3 most expensive items you are holding (there are modifiers to this of course, you have 5 minutes to retrieve your corpse, unless a party member "blesses" your gravestone.) On PvP worlds, you lose all but your 1 most expensive item, and on certain worlds all of your gear is dropped as loot, but not every time. Griefers don't get a full loot drop, cerial noob killers get hardly any drop at all. Player housing: There is a skill called "Construction" which you use to modify and improve your house... adding things such as a wardrobe (can store certin kinds of clothing without taking up bank space), repair bench(discounting the cost of repairing high level gear), teleport room (access to many "free" teleports if you have the magic level to build them), combat room (where you and your friends can have friendly, safe fights for fun). Player owned housing is instanced, unlike UO, so it is not as "epic" since there is not limited real-estate, but the housing is more useful, especially for Clans and group trips (imagine meeting in one place, where you can resupply, buff, etc then one guy teles the whole group to the action)
All that being said, Most MMOs are "barely 3D" at best, and RS is only really 3D in polygon terms... There is no need to jump, there are plenty of multilevel dungeons and things like that, but terrain usually doesn't matter and targeting is very simplistic... like most mmorpgs, but RS wears it on the sleeve a bit more, and it is 3rd person perspective.
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The social part of the disorder is a small piece of it. The genes that are deleted also cause problems with Elastin production, which leads to connective-tissue abnormalities and cardiovascular disease. In addition vision and auditory issues, as well as dental issues are very common.
Also no social fear means they will happily sit on santa's lap or go for a car ride with the nice man who "lost his puppy" at the park.
My daughter has Williams Syndrome. She is 3 and has monthly EKGs, is on a calorie intense diet (because of her extremely small and underweight size). She also has severe dental problems.
all that being said, she has perfect pitch (can emulate any sound (within reason) she wants to even without hearing it right before (she can pull sounds up from long term memory). She also has a measurably more sensitive sense of hearing (i.e. you can whisper in the other room and she will hear it). She is different, and markedly so, but I cannot say that this is the direction in which all human evolution will flow.
This is a spontaneous mutation meaning it is not necessarily passed down from parents, although people with WS are 50% likely to pass it on to each child. It is a partial genetic deletion.
People with WS tend to have Elvish or Pixie features. The disorder was formerly referred to as Pixieism, and is thought (quite convincingly) to be the origin of that type of folklore: Whimsical people who are extremely talented in music, are not socially afraid of anyone and tend to have a "cocktail party personality" in that they can speak to you for hours and not actually get into an "in-depth" conversation.
My daughter may not have racial bias, but she also does not have stranger-danger... would gladly hug the nice homeless man who is yelling at god and drinking a paper bag.
yeah, meetings are significantly worse than doing actual work... if you do not think this, then you should not be doing the job that you are doing.
which is code for "calls me all the damn time to ask the same question over and over again"
It is hilarious/annoying as hell when you get an older "C" level executive who uses the corporate IM like this:
Bossman: Are you there?
Me: yes
*phone rings*
I usually answer their questions, which are always about *impossible to say verbally* statistics within the IM window, even while they are talking on the phone... Kind of as a way to Passive-Aggressively say "hey you know all that licensing money you pay to Microsoft for this nice IM solution? it would work better than the phone if you would just use it.
It seems you have forgotten the other common user behavior... sharing passwords.
One of my reporting users had direct SQL access to a replicated and sanitized (no sensitive data) copy of our Database. He is an advanced user with plenty of reporting knowledge and we required ad-hoc reporting that did not damage/slow production.
during a security audit, I was required to expire his password.
the next day we had 9 tickets from 9 different users: "My access was taken away"
I like to list my disabilities as super powers, so, I have independent vision, which is actually Strabismus, but distinct from a "lazy eye". I have 20/20 vision in each eye, but they do not work in constant binocular mode. I can focus on two objects at once, and at will I can change eye dominance. I have been to many (4) optometrists and the consensus is that it is neurologically sourced(I have other well-known neurological issues), and not muscular (or perhaps muscular but well compensated), or that since I have conscious control over it, that the surgery (to tighten the muscles) would likely cause harm or unpredictable effects.
3D movies take great conscious effort, and are therefore less enjoyable in general, but this does not completely exclude the category, it just doesn't count as a selling point, but as an "also ran" additional feature.
I think you have to be drunk for it to be a valid test.
All you have to do is google "cheap game gold"
you will come up with a pretty good list of games in which people will actually pay money to other people in order to have computers play a game for them.
have you ever worked in a cubicle next to a sales person? When they "rightsized" our department they relocated us to in-between a call-center and a sales floor. It was pure hell people yammering on at the telephone alllll day. Now add to that everyone also yelling shit at their computers, and see how much productivity you gain.
If it won't work for business, it will never catch on.
Now how about voice control for home? Will it work while I watch a movie? because I never game without a movie or at least loud music playing in the same room...
If it won't work for games, it will never catch on.
The holy grail for user interface MUST be silent or close to it, in order to catch on fully. This is why people keep trying stupid alternatives, because the reality is that the "obvious" ones are actually just as bad as the "silly" ones.
"shaking your fist at an outrageous story" should be done UNDER the desk.
3D movies again? Really? didn't that trend die out in 1955?
Touch screen displays? Really? Those sucked in the early 1990s when they were all the rage.
"cloud computing?" Oh brother... didn't we ditch the mainframe/terminal model in the 80s/90s?
World of Warcraft? yeah, I remember when it was called everquest and it sucked, nobody wants an MMO
Remember 1996 when FPS games got boring and old... why do we need Modern Warfare 2, nobody is gonna play it.
(hint, there is nothing new, just better executions of old ideas.) Sometimes it takes balls to go after something that was stigmatized beyond feasibility due to early missteps.
jailbroken iPhones can run pandora streaming in the background while doing other stuff (including email, web, etc)... the same as the iPod background mode. Honestly that was my number one reason to jailbreak.
you still have to pull the action back for the first shot, which a 3 year old can't do.
but a S&W semi-auto .380 does.
I can tell you that I don't go into places that blast classical music because it bugs the shit out of me. When I am subjected to most classical music I get more and more frustrated until I leave. In my case they would miss out on revenue, not graffiti if I won't go to their store.
besides don't the kids these days carry their iPod everywhere? They could easily replace whatever crap is being piped in with whatever they want on their earbuds.
The pc port was actually pretty good, few bugs that bothered me, but one gigantic, huge, blaring flaw...
It was really really really really super easy. It was the exact same gameplay as the PS2 version (which I also owned) but mouse+keyboard is so far superior to the console, that every single gun might as well have been "the golden gun" from goldeneye. I am serious, those super hard missions where you had to take out 900 guys and you had to try 1000 times on PS2 and still you just barely pass it after breaking a controller or two.. cakewalk when you can actually aim.
The hellicopter mission, where you are taking passes on the mob base, with a tinfoil hellicopter... That mission was the bane of the ps2, finishing with more than 5% of the chopper health was a feat of god... On PC, 99% health was like oops, LOL I should not have made pizza rolls while playing that mission.
It really opened my eyes to the common notion at the time that the gap was narrowing between console fps/3ps and PC, it was just not the case. Still isn't, because a controller will never (barring comprehensive design changes, and I am not sure motion control will ever quite cut it)have enough precision and reaction.
It was really weird having a pretty nice port that was totally useless, and it really turned me off of the PS2 version, made it seem like "Nintendo hard" Hard because of gimped controlls not because of good design/creativity.
"Youtube.com is inaccessible from your country."
Error 1942 - Fascist exception overflow. Please disable Axis powers and reload the page.
haha 50%, you are so generous. 99% of everything in print, on the internet, on tv, comming out of people's mouths, etc... is total crap.
yeah, but it is not like the US employer sponsored healthcare is magic either. My employer pays ~400 a month (at least that is what they claim on their taxes) and I pay about $520/month 610 if you count dental too. My medicare tax paid is also $120/month. I also have a flex spending account that usually pays for all of my out of pocket, this costs me 375/month.
I support a family of 6, with NO MEDICAL PROBLEMS, just the usual bumps bruises, sprains, colds, cuts, scrapes, etc.
My annual MINIMUM medical costs and medical taxes in the US are: $18,060. My income tax PLUS health insurance + social security = 45% of my pay. Show me a first world country where I would pay significantly more in their omg horrible evil overtaxing for socalist medicine system.
The money is already being spent in the U.S. it is just being spent on large corporations with huge margins and plenty of incentive to stay expensive. I would love to pay my 45% and stop having to fight with AETNA for every fucking sniffle. I would love for my 45% to be helping my neighbor instead of paying a 25 million dollar execvutive bonus for AETNA.
Hello, my name is Netsavior, and I am already taxed at 45%, I live in the U.S. and I have shitty health care.
oh did I mention it is straight up Java, so it runs on Linux, Mac, Windows...
It is so stupid that everyone ignores Runescape
The number two MMORPG, and of course the number one free to play one. Free to play version is kind of like a starter and indeed is missing many of the functions you want, however the full version ($5 monthly) has most.
It has been around since 2001 and is developed in England. The pay version still has weekly updates.
Runescape is a skill based MMO (where every skill is trained semi-independantly), there are no character classes, every skill is open to every player.
Thieving: most NPCs can be pickpocketed, thieving is a skill that can be leveled. Only in a few scenarios can you actually steal from other players though.
Looting: Runescape still has a very harsh death tax. In PvM, if you die you lose all but the 3 most expensive items you are holding (there are modifiers to this of course, you have 5 minutes to retrieve your corpse, unless a party member "blesses" your gravestone.) On PvP worlds, you lose all but your 1 most expensive item, and on certain worlds all of your gear is dropped as loot, but not every time. Griefers don't get a full loot drop, cerial noob killers get hardly any drop at all.
Player housing: There is a skill called "Construction" which you use to modify and improve your house... adding things such as a wardrobe (can store certin kinds of clothing without taking up bank space), repair bench(discounting the cost of repairing high level gear), teleport room (access to many "free" teleports if you have the magic level to build them), combat room (where you and your friends can have friendly, safe fights for fun). Player owned housing is instanced, unlike UO, so it is not as "epic" since there is not limited real-estate, but the housing is more useful, especially for Clans and group trips (imagine meeting in one place, where you can resupply, buff, etc then one guy teles the whole group to the action)
All that being said, Most MMOs are "barely 3D" at best, and RS is only really 3D in polygon terms... There is no need to jump, there are plenty of multilevel dungeons and things like that, but terrain usually doesn't matter and targeting is very simplistic... like most mmorpgs, but RS wears it on the sleeve a bit more, and it is 3rd person perspective.
250k employees here, we migrated to [b]IE7[/b] from IE6 LAST WEEK.
yeah this is from 1988, how did it surface again (that's what she said)
Actually they are quite small, you can burn thousands on to a single disc.