Up till a few years ago, most cases that came with turbo buttons did just that. I believe the turbo switch was originally shorting a pin on the mobo that sped something up, but a side effect was that it would change your LED so that it would report the new clock speed.
I'm not sure when chipsets stopped supporting whatever it was that "turbo" did, but case manufacturers continued to include the turbo switch. I remember when I built my P-166 tower in a case I bought from Dalco a few years back... I set the LED so it said '166', but when you toggled the Turbo switch, the first digit disappeared and it just said 66. Heh.
The debate over MPD boils down to two camps of psychiatrists/psychologists: those who belive it's its own diagnosis, and those who believe that MPD patients, in fact, have the dilusion of having multiple personalities. The result was that when DSM-IV was realeased, MPD (which was its own diagnosis in DSM-III) was folded into a diagnosis called DID, or Disassociative Identity Disorder. MPD patients, of course, insist it's the real thing. Meanwhile, the position of the DSM authors is that it's impossible for more than one person to exist in a body, so MPD is not possible.
It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry. Whether soap operas choose to call their loony, contrived characters "MPD", "DID", or ~shudder~ "schizophrenic" doesn't matter, because it doesn't change the reality that there are people walking around who either have, or think they have, multiple people inside their heads. So while there's no clinical proof of MPD (as it was classified in DSM-III), all experts agree that *something* is causing these people to behave as if they were different people.
All that aside, neither of these diagnoses are related to schizophrenia, which you point out is a psychotic break, not a personality split.
So bottom line is, no matter how you scratch it, anyone who uses the word "schizophrenic" to mean "multiple or split personality" is using what has become the common, though incorrect, usage of the word.
interestingly enough, it sounds like you may be able to help me. I'm a student at Hopkins, and I am an OSX user having issues with Hopkins' wireless (although using a Cisco card instead of an Airport). What department do you work for?
If you get a chance, email me: (you'll have to decipher the address)
Actually, yes. Typically, a "click" (pop your tongue against the top of your mouth) is represented as an X. For example, there is an African language known as Xkosa, pronounced click-kosa.
(The only reason I know this is because my Natural Language Processing professor spent most of the first lecture in September using Xkosa an example.)
That would be engineering, not architecture. Architects design the shape and look of a structure; engineers (specifically, civil and structural engineers) decide how to build them.
Until you know what IS and ISN'T architecture, you should probably refrain from making authoritative claims on what constitutes common sense in that field.
Remember those high-school lunchtimes, back in the day, when you and your computer-nerd friends would hang out by the Krunch Korral
My high school lunchtimes were either spent eating lunch, joking around with friends, doing homework or going off-campus to smoke pot with friends. Incidentally, none of my friends were computer nerds; I was pretty much the only computer nerd in my class (it was a small school, about 100 people per class). I never let computers define me... it was a hobby. Had I let my life revolve around computer (games|systems|hacking|programming), I probably would have found I had nothing in common with anyone at my school.
On the other hand, I think it would have been cool to have a couple geek friends in high school.
This was obviously a little off-topic, but I have tons of karma and that quip from the story topic made me think about it.
Ya, I just didn't try real hard to find the developer's site, thats all. the first few hits on Google were from Versiontracker and something similar, and hey I'm a busy man. Thanks for the link though, it's in my bookmarks now:)
I'm pretty sure I reached the karma cap a long time ago (of course I may not have, in which case it further demonstrates that I could not care less about my karma). Anyway, sorry I offended you by correcting my original broken link. If I was a moderator, I wouldn't have modded me up for EITHER post, but they did, and I have no control over that.
That was very clever. Of course, I noticed my mistake right away and immediately corrected it by replying to my own message. But you're a troll, so you don't actually *read* anything on this site.
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A company named Winegard already makes products like this. Check out their mobile dish units.
cheers
she's a MAN, baby! yeah!
Microsoft and Apple sell cars?
(couldn't resist)
remember the old slogan from StarOffice, "Do Everything in One Place" ?
Sounds a bit like that.
If you have a Palm, you may want to try Due Yesterday, found at No Sleep Software. Designed specifically for tracking assignments.
Up till a few years ago, most cases that came with turbo buttons did just that. I believe the turbo switch was originally shorting a pin on the mobo that sped something up, but a side effect was that it would change your LED so that it would report the new clock speed.
I'm not sure when chipsets stopped supporting whatever it was that "turbo" did, but case manufacturers continued to include the turbo switch. I remember when I built my P-166 tower in a case I bought from Dalco a few years back... I set the LED so it said '166', but when you toggled the Turbo switch, the first digit disappeared and it just said 66. Heh.
Erik Baard writes " The NY Times (reg. blah) is currently an article on robotic inchworm drills.
Welcome to Slashdot. Verbs are optional.
It doesn't sound like you read the article. Their papers weren't computer-generated, they were just nonsensical.
The debate over MPD boils down to two camps of psychiatrists/psychologists: those who belive it's its own diagnosis, and those who believe that MPD patients, in fact, have the dilusion of having multiple personalities. The result was that when DSM-IV was realeased, MPD (which was its own diagnosis in DSM-III) was folded into a diagnosis called DID, or Disassociative Identity Disorder. MPD patients, of course, insist it's the real thing. Meanwhile, the position of the DSM authors is that it's impossible for more than one person to exist in a body, so MPD is not possible.
It has nothing to do with the entertainment industry. Whether soap operas choose to call their loony, contrived characters "MPD", "DID", or ~shudder~ "schizophrenic" doesn't matter, because it doesn't change the reality that there are people walking around who either have, or think they have, multiple people inside their heads. So while there's no clinical proof of MPD (as it was classified in DSM-III), all experts agree that *something* is causing these people to behave as if they were different people.
All that aside, neither of these diagnoses are related to schizophrenia, which you point out is a psychotic break, not a personality split.
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So bottom line is, no matter how you scratch it, anyone who uses the word "schizophrenic" to mean "multiple or split personality" is using what has become the common, though incorrect, usage of the word.
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I think you mean Muliple Personality. Unless Bruce fights evil because "the voices in his head tell him to do it", he's probably not schizophrenic.
interestingly enough, it sounds like you may be able to help me. I'm a student at Hopkins, and I am an OSX user having issues with Hopkins' wireless (although using a Cisco card instead of an Airport). What department do you work for?
If you get a chance, email me: (you'll have to decipher the address)
brian AT acm DOT SPAMjhu DOT SPAMedu
Actually, yes. Typically, a "click" (pop your tongue against the top of your mouth) is represented as an X. For example, there is an African language known as Xkosa, pronounced click-kosa.
(The only reason I know this is because my Natural Language Processing professor spent most of the first lecture in September using Xkosa an example.)
Opera is closed-source.
Which is just common sense architecture
That would be engineering, not architecture. Architects design the shape and look of a structure; engineers (specifically, civil and structural engineers) decide how to build them.
Until you know what IS and ISN'T architecture, you should probably refrain from making authoritative claims on what constitutes common sense in that field.
... my girlfriend will be somewhat correct when she calls me a pig.
Or maybe the pot hat a bigger effect than he thought? 30 real people and 70 which kept melting whenever he tried to talk to them
heh, I smoked POT, not angel dust.
My high school lunchtimes were either spent eating lunch, joking around with friends, doing homework or going off-campus to smoke pot with friends. Incidentally, none of my friends were computer nerds; I was pretty much the only computer nerd in my class (it was a small school, about 100 people per class). I never let computers define me... it was a hobby. Had I let my life revolve around computer (games|systems|hacking|programming), I probably would have found I had nothing in common with anyone at my school.
On the other hand, I think it would have been cool to have a couple geek friends in high school.
This was obviously a little off-topic, but I have tons of karma and that quip from the story topic made me think about it.
The books on that site are good if you're studying for your Ph.D&D.
Ya, I just didn't try real hard to find the developer's site, thats all. the first few hits on Google were from Versiontracker and something similar, and hey I'm a busy man. Thanks for the link though, it's in my bookmarks now :)
Both VideoLan Client and the MPlayer OSX port will let you play DivX files under OSX without having to doctor the file first. Sound works too!
I'm pretty sure I reached the karma cap a long time ago (of course I may not have, in which case it further demonstrates that I could not care less about my karma). Anyway, sorry I offended you by correcting my original broken link. If I was a moderator, I wouldn't have modded me up for EITHER post, but they did, and I have no control over that.
That was very clever. Of course, I noticed my mistake right away and immediately corrected it by replying to my own message. But you're a troll, so you don't actually *read* anything on this site.
erm, that should have been:
www.sastk.org
darn typos.
I wonder how long till The Slackware Administrators' Security Toolkit will have an 8.1 version.
Anyway, go Patrick!
Same with Covad.