I should have added that there is a reason Doctors and pyschiatrists are required to spend years and years in medical school.
Just because someone reads a simple summary of the disease and sees themselves in that summary, it doesn't mean they actually have the disease.
Actually, such people may have a medical condiation known as hypochondrism.
Just because a majority of these hypochondriacs see themselves in that summary, doesn't mean the disease itself doesn't exist. (or in your words is a 'made up' disease.)
I think you can say this only because you've never met someone who actually has the disease.
It always amazes me how cruel and simplistic people can be when an idea they don't like surfaces.
Nothing is black and white. Would you claim autism doesn't exist? If not, then why can't someone suffer from what some have called a mild form of autism?
Far be it from me to not take a cheap shot at this story...
But this research does serve a useful purpose in Autism/asperger syndrome.
Folks with asperger syndrome commonly have an inability to detect sarcasm and read facial, social cues.
>>By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naiveté, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context.
Read full definition here
I've been using Macs since about 85 and I can easily remember a dozen times or more where the supply of chips couldn't meet demand. If I recall, there had been problems obtaining enough G5 chips when they initially introduced those machines.
No one says that by marketing new computers with Intel chips that suddenly your existing Mac will stop working.
The only difference here would be that new machines would run on Intel chips. Applications might need to be upgraded, but most of my applications had a very nominal upgrade fee when I purchased a mac using Power PC 601 chips, rather than 68040 chips.
Because Apple can get a better supply of chips from Intel than from IBM.
How many times in the last two decades has Apple had a hit computer that had huge demand, but couldn't meet the demand because Motorola or IBM couldn't produce enough chips?
This just makes sense to me. Plus it should have an AWESOME increase in performance for Windows emulation software (not having to emulate the x86 hardware would make for a huge boost). (I'm assuming that Microsoft won't continue to make Virtual PC for Mac/Intel).
Plus, the old Nextstep OS always had Intel support built in. Nextstep is basically OS X. There's no reason not to do this.
I agree with you. My guess is that a large number of those complaining about this didn't read the Times regularly anyway.
I work in NYC, so for me it's my hometown newspaper. I read it on the train every day on my way to work. Even if it were possible for me to read blogs on my PDA or whatever, I would still look to the Times for my morning read.
The fact that the Times actually wants to make some money on it's content is understandable. They pay very good money to their writers and editors. For those who don't want to pay for it, then just don't. But as with the print edition of the paper, there are many people who will.
Just as I have a large choice of newspapers in this region to choose from (not just NYC, but the large suburban papers -- Newark Star Ledgar, Bergen Record, Asbury Park Press, etc), I also have a choice about what content I am willing to pay for online.
The Times will be one source I am willing to pay for because it has QUALITY content I can't get elsewhere.
Some people are happy driving Ford Pintos. Other people would rather drive a Mercedes.
Just as some folks are ok with getting their information from any old source (trustworthy or not). I would rather trust the New York Times for my news.
Well, your post misses the point that Red Hat is a distributor of Linux. It doesn't own it. If Microsoft purchased Red Hat, you could still download and install linux from a number of other distributors.
I think the issue is slightly different as the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Christmas is a national holiday -- not the same as people calling in sick so they can watch a movie.
It seems ludicrous to me that workers are still expected to give 'notice' to their employers in this new era of labor relations.
The entire concept of giving notice harkens back to a day when companies showed some loyalty to workers, providing job security, retirement benefits, etc. You commonly went to work for a company when you were young and frequently didn't leave that job until retirement.
Those days, as we all know, are over -- except for the increasingly small number of workers covered by union contracts.
Today, if a company decides it can save money by laying off 10 percent of its work force, it does so and then commonly proceeds to have security escort the worker(s) from the building -- all in the same day.
Practically, I know that folks are worried about being able to use the job as a reference. So people think they should still give notice.
But it really does seem an anacronism this whole 'notice' concept.
The two week notice rule is a vestige from the days when companies showed some level of loyalty to their workers.
Those days are over.
I think employees ought to show the same level of loyalty to employers that those companies now show their workers.
WiMax potentially would give anyone with access to it the ability to surf the web wirelessly within a 30 mile range of the antenna.
WiMax will be WiFi on steroids. Plus it allows you to surf while traveling at relatively high speeds. Your kids could be surfing the web in the backseat of your car as you travel down the highway.
Comparing it to ADSL or any other wired broadband internet service misses the point of the technology.
Quite honestly, you're confusing two separate issues.
1) You are correct that the small members need the AP to cover state house bureaus, governor's mansions, etc.
That is the main reason small papers take the AP.
Yes, AP repurposes stories from members to run on the state wires. But these are not the same stories covering the before mentioned state houses and governor's mansions.
AP provides their own reporters to cover the state capital and major cities. That's why small papers subscribe to AP. Rather than have one small paper pay to have a state house reporter, that cost is spread among several small papers.
The other state stories that are 'picked up' by the AP are taken by members. But the reality is there's no tail wagging the dog here.
It's not likely that The Record of Hackensack in New Jersey is going to just allow the Salem Sunbeam (small south jersey paper) which is owned by the Newhouse chain to run a story which originally appeared in it's pages.
That's mainly because the tiny little Salem Sunbeam (circulation 9,000) is a sister publication to the giant Newark Star Ledgar (a major competitor to the Record.)
Having AP repurpose these stories allows newspapers to fill news holes that they couldn't do themselves in an economically feasible way.
I just checked your web dictionary definition. The definition is vague, at best. It wouldn't rate a D in a college freshmen political science test.
It tries to define it as any political movement or stance resembling Mussolini's. Well, what exactly is that? (It doesn't say)
If you go back to my original post, that WAS Mussolini's position. There are entires political science papers devoted to showing how Mussolini hated Hitler's racial/ethnic policies. As the weaker partner in their alliance, he went along with it. But it had nothing to do with his core views. He's actually quoted as saying Hitler was an idiot.
What exactly is the meaning of "right-wing?"
Once again, the popular usage of the term is far different than what was meant to be right-wing then. Based on today's standards, John F. Kennedy would be 'right-wing.'
Kennedy was a cold-warrior who single handedly built up America's Special Operations units. (If you don't believe me, take a trip to Ft. Bragg, Carolina and look at all the Army Special Forces buildings named after him. Heck, the Headquarters of American Special Forces is "The John F. Kennedy Special Operations Center."
>>Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The word fascism (uncapitalized) has come to mean any political stance or system of government resembling Mussolini's, as further discussed below.
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Actually, I do know a little something about how kids get diagnosed. The norm isn't even close to what you discribe.
I should have added that there is a reason Doctors and pyschiatrists are required to spend years and years in medical school.
Just because someone reads a simple summary of the disease and sees themselves in that summary, it doesn't mean they actually have the disease.
Actually, such people may have a medical condiation known as hypochondrism.
Just because a majority of these hypochondriacs see themselves in that summary, doesn't mean the disease itself doesn't exist. (or in your words is a 'made up' disease.)
You're kidding, right?
A web poll is your source for your statistics?
Well, that would explain your misunderstanding of the disease.
Something sounds buggy with your OS/Machine.
I've never had the problems you describe with your machine.
I use both platforms, by the way.
As for the file system, well, Does Windows XP support HFS or HFS+?
Apple at least offers some ability to read NTFS drives. It would be nice if you could read AND write to NTFS formatted drives.
Where exactly do you get your statistics?
Do you know anyone who has been diagnosed with AS?
If not, how can you claim such a number?
In any event, I'd love to see a publication where someone claims 76 percent of the population has AS.
I think you can say this only because you've never met someone who actually has the disease.
It always amazes me how cruel and simplistic people can be when an idea they don't like surfaces.
Nothing is black and white. Would you claim autism doesn't exist? If not, then why can't someone suffer from what some have called a mild form of autism?
But this research does serve a useful purpose in Autism/asperger syndrome.
Folks with asperger syndrome commonly have an inability to detect sarcasm and read facial, social cues.
>>By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naiveté, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context. Read full definition here
I think you're probably right. Maybe offering Xserves with Intel processors. That would be a logical first step.
Please.
I've been using Macs since about 85 and I can easily remember a dozen times or more where the supply of chips couldn't meet demand. If I recall, there had been problems obtaining enough G5 chips when they initially introduced those machines.
You need to read more of the Mac Press.
No one says that by marketing new computers with Intel chips that suddenly your existing Mac will stop working.
The only difference here would be that new machines would run on Intel chips. Applications might need to be upgraded, but most of my applications had a very nominal upgrade fee when I purchased a mac using Power PC 601 chips, rather than 68040 chips.
The codebase for the OS is already done. Nextstep, currently known as OS X, has always run on Intel chips.
As for the developer base, it's a trivial matter to port native (cocoa, not carbon) applications to Intel from PowerPC
You would need to recompile it. But that is not a huge matter for someone who has programmed their application in cocoa.
Because Apple can get a better supply of chips from Intel than from IBM.
How many times in the last two decades has Apple had a hit computer that had huge demand, but couldn't meet the demand because Motorola or IBM couldn't produce enough chips?
This just makes sense to me. Plus it should have an AWESOME increase in performance for Windows emulation software (not having to emulate the x86 hardware would make for a huge boost). (I'm assuming that Microsoft won't continue to make Virtual PC for Mac/Intel).
Plus, the old Nextstep OS always had Intel support built in. Nextstep is basically OS X. There's no reason not to do this.
Really?
Did you know that the typical writer at the New York Times makes more than $100,0000?
How many ad clicks would you have to get on a story to make that work?
I agree with you. My guess is that a large number of those complaining about this didn't read the Times regularly anyway.
I work in NYC, so for me it's my hometown newspaper. I read it on the train every day on my way to work. Even if it were possible for me to read blogs on my PDA or whatever, I would still look to the Times for my morning read.
The fact that the Times actually wants to make some money on it's content is understandable. They pay very good money to their writers and editors. For those who don't want to pay for it, then just don't. But as with the print edition of the paper, there are many people who will.
Just as I have a large choice of newspapers in this region to choose from (not just NYC, but the large suburban papers -- Newark Star Ledgar, Bergen Record, Asbury Park Press, etc), I also have a choice about what content I am willing to pay for online.
The Times will be one source I am willing to pay for because it has QUALITY content I can't get elsewhere.
Some people are happy driving Ford Pintos. Other people would rather drive a Mercedes.
Just as some folks are ok with getting their information from any old source (trustworthy or not). I would rather trust the New York Times for my news.
Well, your post misses the point that Red Hat is a distributor of Linux. It doesn't own it. If Microsoft purchased Red Hat, you could still download and install linux from a number of other distributors.
Like I said before. I've lived in NYC just about my whole life and I have NEVER heard anyone refer to soda as 'pop.'
Well, New York City is in a Blue state and people call it coke here...
I think the issue is slightly different as the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Christmas is a national holiday -- not the same as people calling in sick so they can watch a movie.
It seems ludicrous to me that workers are still expected to give 'notice' to their employers in this new era of labor relations.
The entire concept of giving notice harkens back to a day when companies showed some loyalty to workers, providing job security, retirement benefits, etc. You commonly went to work for a company when you were young and frequently didn't leave that job until retirement.
Those days, as we all know, are over -- except for the increasingly small number of workers covered by union contracts.
Today, if a company decides it can save money by laying off 10 percent of its work force, it does so and then commonly proceeds to have security escort the worker(s) from the building -- all in the same day.
Practically, I know that folks are worried about being able to use the job as a reference. So people think they should still give notice.
But it really does seem an anacronism this whole 'notice' concept.
The two week notice rule is a vestige from the days when companies showed some level of loyalty to their workers.
Those days are over.
I think employees ought to show the same level of loyalty to employers that those companies now show their workers.
Just as I thought. The post about Tolkien was wrong.
See this link for story about Lewis' conversion:
CS Lewis and Christianity
Odd if that is true. Lewis was a member of the Church of England.
You're comparing apples and oranges.
WiMax potentially would give anyone with access to it the ability to surf the web wirelessly within a 30 mile range of the antenna.
WiMax will be WiFi on steroids. Plus it allows you to surf while traveling at relatively high speeds. Your kids could be surfing the web in the backseat of your car as you travel down the highway.
Comparing it to ADSL or any other wired broadband internet service misses the point of the technology.
Yes. Yahoo has been a paying customer of the AP for years.
Quite honestly, you're confusing two separate issues.
1) You are correct that the small members need the AP to cover state house bureaus, governor's mansions, etc.
That is the main reason small papers take the AP.
Yes, AP repurposes stories from members to run on the state wires. But these are not the same stories covering the before mentioned state houses and governor's mansions.
AP provides their own reporters to cover the state capital and major cities. That's why small papers subscribe to AP. Rather than have one small paper pay to have a state house reporter, that cost is spread among several small papers.
The other state stories that are 'picked up' by the AP are taken by members. But the reality is there's no tail wagging the dog here.
It's not likely that The Record of Hackensack in New Jersey is going to just allow the Salem Sunbeam (small south jersey paper) which is owned by the Newhouse chain to run a story which originally appeared in it's pages.
That's mainly because the tiny little Salem Sunbeam (circulation 9,000) is a sister publication to the giant Newark Star Ledgar (a major competitor to the Record.)
Having AP repurpose these stories allows newspapers to fill news holes that they couldn't do themselves in an economically feasible way.
I just checked your web dictionary definition. The definition is vague, at best. It wouldn't rate a D in a college freshmen political science test.
It tries to define it as any political movement or stance resembling Mussolini's. Well, what exactly is that? (It doesn't say)
If you go back to my original post, that WAS Mussolini's position. There are entires political science papers devoted to showing how Mussolini hated Hitler's racial/ethnic policies. As the weaker partner in their alliance, he went along with it. But it had nothing to do with his core views. He's actually quoted as saying Hitler was an idiot.
What exactly is the meaning of "right-wing?"
Once again, the popular usage of the term is far different than what was meant to be right-wing then. Based on today's standards, John F. Kennedy would be 'right-wing.'
Kennedy was a cold-warrior who single handedly built up America's Special Operations units. (If you don't believe me, take a trip to Ft. Bragg, Carolina and look at all the Army Special Forces buildings named after him. Heck, the Headquarters of American Special Forces is "The John F. Kennedy Special Operations Center."
>>Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The word fascism (uncapitalized) has come to mean any political stance or system of government resembling Mussolini's, as further discussed below.