The accuracy of the human eye is such that you can only distinguish ~4000 pixels in a line while still being able to see the whole picture.
One thing I think people consistently underestimate is the subjective effect of being able to lean in to a print and see finer detail. When viewing really large prints in galleries, this is what makes them truly impressive to me.
I also agree about the correlation, but I'm pretty sure that they have it backwards. There's no doubt that our son was autistic from a early age. Among many other things, he seemed to experience the world as a constant assault on his senses, right from about 4 weeks old.
It wasn't too far into his life when we found that simple moving images (like the Baby Einstein videos) were one of the few things that could engage and comfort him.
And before anybody starts berating me for letting TV do the parenting: back off. After many years of intensive work at home and at school, he's a bright, engaging, smart (but still autistic) boy. TV was an important tool, not the root of all evil.
Except for pointing out things he never calls them by name.
The good news is that, if he is pointing things out to you, he's engaging in social interaction. That's an important diagnostic tool for infants and toddlers, and it indicates that you 2 year old is not autistic. But if you have suspicions that there is a problem, don't ever hesitate to go to a professional. If they find a problem, and you catch it early, you get to save your child years of trouble. If they look at your child and say "Everything's OK here," then you get to breath again.
They allow servers, but not on port 80. Even the business level service from OOL sucks. They have the same ambiguous bandwidth capping. Really there is no difference except for the TOS.
I had a business account with them, but eventually cancelled it and went back to consumer service. After a month or so, I got a call from one of their business account reps asking why I cancelled.
Me: "Because I got capped. If you will tell me what the usage policy is, I can comply with it, but if you won't tell me, then the extra money is buying me nothing." Account Rep:"Yeah, we get that a lot."
Switching from hand to hand is good. So is switching from one kind of input device to another.
On my main workstation, I have a traditional optical scroll-mouse, a trackball, and an iGesture from FingerWorks. None of these is stress-free, but they all stress my hands differently.
When I'm getting pain using one, I switch to another for a while. Variety is the spice of health. Er... Something like that.
BTW, the iGesture works great. I use it as a track-pad that has right-click. It can do more than that, but I haven't really bothered to memorize the other gestures.
(they said that pdf isn't a complete programming language, and more of a powerful rendering layer, so its more optimized and maybe a little less powerful than display postscript).
Actually, the fact that PDF is not a full language is kinda the point. On NextStep, security was a nightmare because you could cause the mail program (or just about anything else) to render arbitrary postscript, which could open files, call arbitrary functions and generally cause havoc. At a NeXT shop where I worked back in the day, we used to send hand-crafted emails that would reverse the direction of mouse movement, just for fun.
PDF does a good job of describing graphics without handing over the keys to your system!
a strict classroom environment, with clearly defined and enforced behavioral boundaries but also positive reinforcement and praise, can really help these supposedly autistic kids.
Well, the best environment for a really autisic kid is, in fact, one with clearly defined boundaries and positive reforcement, etc.
When an autistic person gets the care they need, in the right kind of environment, they can do quite well. That doesn't mean they're not autistic. It just means they are getting what they need.
After all, if an epileptic gets the proper medication they very rarely have seizures. Would you say that that means they weren't "really" epileptic to begin with?
That was originally refered to as the "refrigerator mother" theory of Autism. It has been COMPLETELY debunked by good, solid research. It is also, BTW pretty damn insulting to those who are raising Autisic children, and giving it their all.
While I certainly agree with you about "stylish" diagnosis, it's important to remember that the backlash can cause just as much harm as the over-use of the label.
There are some kids out there who are really different, who are in need of special care and special education. They need our understanding in order to survive and prosper.
When the pendulum swings back to the unpopular side, some kids are going to be missed just because the doctor is afraid to use a "debunked" term.
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One thing I think people consistently underestimate is the subjective effect of being able to lean in to a print and see finer detail. When viewing really large prints in galleries, this is what makes them truly impressive to me.
It wasn't too far into his life when we found that simple moving images (like the Baby Einstein videos) were one of the few things that could engage and comfort him.
And before anybody starts berating me for letting TV do the parenting: back off. After many years of intensive work at home and at school, he's a bright, engaging, smart (but still autistic) boy. TV was an important tool, not the root of all evil.
The good news is that, if he is pointing things out to you, he's engaging in social interaction. That's an important diagnostic tool for infants and toddlers, and it indicates that you 2 year old is not autistic. But if you have suspicions that there is a problem, don't ever hesitate to go to a professional. If they find a problem, and you catch it early, you get to save your child years of trouble. If they look at your child and say "Everything's OK here," then you get to breath again.
They allow servers, but not on port 80. Even the business level service from OOL sucks. They have the same ambiguous bandwidth capping. Really there is no difference except for the TOS.
I had a business account with them, but eventually cancelled it and went back to consumer service. After a month or so, I got a call from one of their business account reps asking why I cancelled.
Me: "Because I got capped. If you will tell me what the usage policy is, I can comply with it, but if you won't tell me, then the extra money is buying me nothing."
Account Rep:"Yeah, we get that a lot."
On my main workstation, I have a traditional optical scroll-mouse, a trackball, and an iGesture from FingerWorks. None of these is stress-free, but they all stress my hands differently.
When I'm getting pain using one, I switch to another for a while. Variety is the spice of health. Er... Something like that.
BTW, the iGesture works great. I use it as a track-pad that has right-click. It can do more than that, but I haven't really bothered to memorize the other gestures.
Actually, the fact that PDF is not a full language is kinda the point. On NextStep, security was a nightmare because you could cause the mail program (or just about anything else) to render arbitrary postscript, which could open files, call arbitrary functions and generally cause havoc. At a NeXT shop where I worked back in the day, we used to send hand-crafted emails that would reverse the direction of mouse movement, just for fun.
PDF does a good job of describing graphics without handing over the keys to your system!
Well, the best environment for a really autisic kid is, in fact, one with clearly defined boundaries and positive reforcement, etc.
When an autistic person gets the care they need, in the right kind of environment, they can do quite well. That doesn't mean they're not autistic. It just means they are getting what they need.
After all, if an epileptic gets the proper medication they very rarely have seizures. Would you say that that means they weren't "really" epileptic to begin with?
That was originally refered to as the "refrigerator mother" theory of Autism. It has been COMPLETELY debunked by good, solid research. It is also, BTW pretty damn insulting to those who are raising Autisic children, and giving it their all.
While I certainly agree with you about "stylish" diagnosis, it's important to remember that the backlash can cause just as much harm as the over-use of the label. There are some kids out there who are really different, who are in need of special care and special education. They need our understanding in order to survive and prosper. When the pendulum swings back to the unpopular side, some kids are going to be missed just because the doctor is afraid to use a "debunked" term.
Something like:
sox -v `sox foo.wav -e stat -v` foo.wav -t wav - copy | <favorite mp3encoder>
(Those are back-quotes.)