Look on the bright side. If they don't save Hubble, maybe taco bell will do their space junk promotion again like they did for Mir and we can win a free taco?
I liked the part where Sony told the EU is was a computer so it woulnd't have to pay the import duty on it as a game console, but now they told the court it was a console and that modding it to make it a computer is wrong. Which one is right, Sony?
After having bad reactions to both Adderall and the Concerta, I went looking for alternate treatments. I have a very low tolerance for stimulants, and didn't sleep for days on the drugs. Looking back I handled the problem myself with high doses of caffeine in high school, but had quit a few years ago and my symptoms of ADD had progressed to the point that my wife noticed them.
My doctor was very happy that I was drug free when I began my eeg feedback treatments. Some parents are reluctant to discontinue the drugs because they are what keeps the kids in control, but its bad to fix the problem from both angles. How can you tell what is actually working?
I was very skeptical when I began, and was asked if I noticed any improvement after every treatment. I tried very hard not to just report every good thing that happened that may or may not have been the result of the eeg.
The part you want: the results... The doctor started looking for significant improvements after the 20th treatment of 30 minutes twice a week. But, as I was starting treatment as a 28 year old adult and not a 14 year old child, I ended up needing more treatments. Around treatment 25 we did a review of my symptoms and we noticed that my right brain disorders were under control but my left brain issues needed more work, so instead of 15 minutes each half we skewed it to 21 minutes left and 9 minutes right. Things got a lot better, but I was having serious difficult waking in the morning, so we went back to 15-15.
The treatments themselves are kinda boring. The 'videogames' are only interactive on a stop-go system. ADD people have not enough 'calmly focused' brain activity and sometimes too much 'hyperfocused', so when the eeg levels are proper the game progresses, but yawn/fall asleep or get too excited and wiggle around and the game stops. My favorites were Space Race and Chomper.
When I was determining how real this was, I felt better that my health insurance paid for 92% of the treatments, so my per treatment cost was around $8.
I have noticed that some symptoms have improved, but it is not a fix everything solution. Lifestyle changes have helped a lot, too. My palm pilot helps me remember to do things when I hyperfocus on other tasks and forget to go to meetings, etc. ADD sufferers thrive in routine, so I make sure I have a checklist of things I do every day before I leave the house. I drink one glass of sweet tea with caffeine in the morning with breakfast, but that is the most stimulant I take. The combination of things seems to have helped make me less annoying to others. I have been myself my whole life and understand what its like. Others don't understand.
My EEG doctor has had success treating many different disorders, like PTSD and chronic migranes. I would encourage people to check out the web sites already mentioned and try it. It may or may not work for you, but its not a life-sentence to drugs and you can quit the treatments if they aren't working. I would be patient, though, and not look for an overnight total solution.
This is the beginning of a really bad precedent. It is bad enough that M$ makes bad software and takes too long to fix it, but this just makes it okay to keep doing that. M$ will know that now they don't even HAVE to fix it. Just wait and let the open source community do it. THEN, when multiple patches start conflicting because of reasons already mentioned above, M$ can blame open source as the problem. Heck, they might even 'embrace' open source for a time, then use this as justification that it open source doesn't work.
I can't speak for all Christians, but the ones I know are pretty sure that if God created us, he has the power to create other life forms, too. Omnipotent means All-powerful, not just powerful in our galaxy.
Quoth the article:
The Intel Corporation is planning to do to digital television what it has already done to computing.
Or maybe add a serial number like the Pentium 3 so the advertisers know who is watching the ads? Let's hope Intel and Microsoft don't team up and make a DVR that WONT let you fast forward through commercials.
However bandwidth is a scarce commodity. If one safety deposit user punched through to the other boxes and started using their space don't you think the bank would kick that person out?
However, the ISP needs to have listed what it will take to have your acount cut.
This is flawed. I'm not using other people's safety deposit boxes just because I use mine all the time. The bank is selling access to 100 boxes when they only really have 75. Some people don't use their's the whole month, but when everyone uses their box, the bank runs out.
You forget, the 'bank' sold me use of a box, like Comcast sold me 1.5Mb down and 256k up. I can't get more than I'm capped. This isn't the user's problem, just because they want to use what they've been sold. The whole business model for ISPs is to oversell capacity. They buy 1.5Mb and then sell 10 people 1.5Mb and hope they don't use it all at once (which usually they don't).
When the Airlines do this, they customer who is bumped is reimbursed. Maybe we need a law to make ISPs do that?
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Sometimes you have to look on the bright side.
I liked the part where Sony told the EU is was a computer so it woulnd't have to pay the import duty on it as a game console, but now they told the court it was a console and that modding it to make it a computer is wrong. Which one is right, Sony?
After having bad reactions to both Adderall and the Concerta, I went looking for alternate treatments. I have a very low tolerance for stimulants, and didn't sleep for days on the drugs. Looking back I handled the problem myself with high doses of caffeine in high school, but had quit a few years ago and my symptoms of ADD had progressed to the point that my wife noticed them.
My doctor was very happy that I was drug free when I began my eeg feedback treatments. Some parents are reluctant to discontinue the drugs because they are what keeps the kids in control, but its bad to fix the problem from both angles. How can you tell what is actually working?
I was very skeptical when I began, and was asked if I noticed any improvement after every treatment. I tried very hard not to just report every good thing that happened that may or may not have been the result of the eeg.
The part you want: the results... The doctor started looking for significant improvements after the 20th treatment of 30 minutes twice a week. But, as I was starting treatment as a 28 year old adult and not a 14 year old child, I ended up needing more treatments. Around treatment 25 we did a review of my symptoms and we noticed that my right brain disorders were under control but my left brain issues needed more work, so instead of 15 minutes each half we skewed it to 21 minutes left and 9 minutes right. Things got a lot better, but I was having serious difficult waking in the morning, so we went back to 15-15.
The treatments themselves are kinda boring. The 'videogames' are only interactive on a stop-go system. ADD people have not enough 'calmly focused' brain activity and sometimes too much 'hyperfocused', so when the eeg levels are proper the game progresses, but yawn/fall asleep or get too excited and wiggle around and the game stops. My favorites were Space Race and Chomper.
When I was determining how real this was, I felt better that my health insurance paid for 92% of the treatments, so my per treatment cost was around $8.
I have noticed that some symptoms have improved, but it is not a fix everything solution. Lifestyle changes have helped a lot, too. My palm pilot helps me remember to do things when I hyperfocus on other tasks and forget to go to meetings, etc. ADD sufferers thrive in routine, so I make sure I have a checklist of things I do every day before I leave the house. I drink one glass of sweet tea with caffeine in the morning with breakfast, but that is the most stimulant I take. The combination of things seems to have helped make me less annoying to others. I have been myself my whole life and understand what its like. Others don't understand.
My EEG doctor has had success treating many different disorders, like PTSD and chronic migranes. I would encourage people to check out the web sites already mentioned and try it. It may or may not work for you, but its not a life-sentence to drugs and you can quit the treatments if they aren't working. I would be patient, though, and not look for an overnight total solution.
This is the beginning of a really bad precedent. It is bad enough that M$ makes bad software and takes too long to fix it, but this just makes it okay to keep doing that. M$ will know that now they don't even HAVE to fix it. Just wait and let the open source community do it. THEN, when multiple patches start conflicting because of reasons already mentioned above, M$ can blame open source as the problem. Heck, they might even 'embrace' open source for a time, then use this as justification that it open source doesn't work.
I can't speak for all Christians, but the ones I know are pretty sure that if God created us, he has the power to create other life forms, too. Omnipotent means All-powerful, not just powerful in our galaxy.
Or maybe add a serial number like the Pentium 3 so the advertisers know who is watching the ads? Let's hope Intel and Microsoft don't team up and make a DVR that WONT let you fast forward through commercials.
This is flawed. I'm not using other people's safety deposit boxes just because I use mine all the time. The bank is selling access to 100 boxes when they only really have 75. Some people don't use their's the whole month, but when everyone uses their box, the bank runs out.
You forget, the 'bank' sold me use of a box, like Comcast sold me 1.5Mb down and 256k up. I can't get more than I'm capped. This isn't the user's problem, just because they want to use what they've been sold. The whole business model for ISPs is to oversell capacity. They buy 1.5Mb and then sell 10 people 1.5Mb and hope they don't use it all at once (which usually they don't).
When the Airlines do this, they customer who is bumped is reimbursed. Maybe we need a law to make ISPs do that?