While I think that this is most definately over-diagnosed, I do believe that this can be a real problem for both the child and the parents of the child. My sister is very, very ADHD. She cannot sit still for anything, not even dinner. It is just a physical imposibility for her to stay still for twenty seconds. This is nearly impossible for my mother to deal with she can never get my sister to do anything to completion. She is a very bright little girl who, when interested in something intensly can focus on it as long as it involves constant input. Drawing for example. Ive seen her sit for 2 hours drawing (because she is constanly interacting with the page). However ask her to sit still and watch TV or eat or any of the things you and I take for granted and she just cant do it. Medication and therapy have allowed her to excel in school and generally do mch better. At the beginning of the year she could barly read. Since starting therapy she has moved to the top of her class in reading and can generaly deal better with all situations.
The man is absolutely correct to put up a warning. When you see friends that basically had their shit together, go to not having a job and getting evicted every month, a warning is only fair. I've seen a good number of people I considered my friends either lose everything or start selling just to support their habit. I'm honestly not sure whose better off either, the friends that do 1000$ a week or the friends who have nothing. All I can say about cocaine use is be ever vigilant. You can use it and have no problems but if your not paying attention one day you definitely stand the possibility of waking up and realizing: You Fucked Up.
Quoth the Dept of Housing at UF
Servers
Sometimes it can be difficult for students to determine whether a program is allowed on DHNet. Our enforcement policy is actually very simple; we do not allow any programs that act as servers. A server is a program that listens for other computers to connect to it.
In general, server software is accessed by corresponding client software of the same (or similar) name. For example, you are accessing our web server with your web browser. You probably check your email using email client software like Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, Eudora or Hotmail (via the web). If you are playing an online game hosted by another person or company then your computer is acting as a game client. Client software like this is completely OK to use on DHNet. P2P Filesharing applications are NOT client software - in general P2P software acts as both a client AND a server (hence the term 'peer to peer' or P2P). Also there are obvious legal concerns with P2P applications at this time. As a result all non UF-provided P2P filesharing applications are strictly forbidden on DHNet.
We cannot tell you what software you may or may not install on your computer. However, if you ever run server software on DHNet, even if it runs in the background or is password protected you will likely be caught by the ICARUS system. As such, we strongly urge students to completely uninstall any server software they have on their computer, to avoid having their internet access restricted by ICARUS. Many times, server software can be started automatically without your knowledge or be accidentally reinstalled during a system restore. ICARUS cannot determine when this occurs and must treat all users identically.
There are three main reasons that we do not allow students to run servers on DHNet. In no particular order, they are:
Security: Any time a computer is accepting unrequested traffic from other computers, this creates a potential security hole, as attackers can send information to that computer in an attempt to slow it down, crash it, or even gain control of it. Since there is no practical way for us to view each student's computer to verify it has been set up safely to thwart attackers, we cannot allow servers.
Bandwidth: DHNet is primarily intended for educational purposes. By running a server and generating traffic, you are reducing the amount of bandwidth available to other students, who need their connections for legitimate school use such as online classes.
Legal Issues: For privacy reasons, we do not monitor content on DHNet. Without monitoring the content potentially being distributed from a student's machine, we have no way to ensure that the content does not expose either the student, or the University, to legal ramifications. As it is the goal of the University to educate the residents rather than expose them to direct litigation, we have taken an aggressive stand regarding unregulated content distribution.
I can understand exactly where they are coming from in fact many isps have the "no server" rule that we all break everyday. Just because some one came up with a way to enforce that, I dont think they are doing anything wrong. I often wondered in the dorm (i lived there) how we got away with hosting games on the network since this was clearly a violation of the TOS. Im not happy the dormers cant play their games and share their music but it appears the Dept. of Student Housing is trying to be fair. They have a network graph on their site showing a 70Mbps peak at around midnight. This is now, without p2p enabled I cant imagine the amount of bandwidth they were pulling when we were there. I know for a fact I at least would download constantly. They also make a point of saying that they are not monitering content only serving. I think this should clear up any privacy concerns. They dont wanna know what you are doing as long as you are not acting a a server.
Background:
I'm in web development ( full microsoft environment ) using C#, SqlServer2000, WinXP
Pros:
Great documentation (ala MSDN) for extensive, helpful base classes
Very flexible and readable
XML comments integrate with the Visual Studio.Net IDE to create developer time tooltip documentation
Its very easy to create and manage many layers of abstraction such that any layer can be changed without needing to alter much code elseware.
Very easy IO using the System.IO name space base classes. Great objects that are arranged fairly standardly that just take the frustration out of alot of the repetitive work.
While I generally dont know the implementation of a base class object (see con 1), They do seem to be very well implemented in most cases
While not useful to everyone, It has very good SqlServer classes in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace. The syntax used is standard, well documented, easy to pickup, fairly powerful, and very flexible. I deal with a decent sized database and there tools for every purpose, it seems.
Because of the excellent auto-complete and tooltip comments, its a pretty quick language to pick up with just Visual Studio Help(MSDN) and the IDE.
The property is a great addition to the standard syntax of the language. It allows the getter, setter functions to be treated a public variable. I think this helps realize a truly object based system a little better.
Cons:
As far as Ive found there is little documentation on the inner workings of the base classes
Its from Microsoft who I generally consider money grubbing, domineering whores
All.Net apps need the.Net Runtime in order to be run. This creates compatability issues even amongst older versions of windows (as the vast user base doesn't see the need to patch (ie older members of family))
Its native source control (Visual Source Safe) is a pain in the ass to use, and I found it somewhat unreliable.
Im not a terribly big fan of VSNet's HTML designer. To be objective about it though I must admit that after changing its default view to HTML instead of design, Ive never flipped back so I have very little experience with it.
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While I think that this is most definately over-diagnosed, I do believe that this can be a real problem for both the child and the parents of the child. My sister is very, very ADHD. She cannot sit still for anything, not even dinner. It is just a physical imposibility for her to stay still for twenty seconds. This is nearly impossible for my mother to deal with she can never get my sister to do anything to completion. She is a very bright little girl who, when interested in something intensly can focus on it as long as it involves constant input. Drawing for example. Ive seen her sit for 2 hours drawing (because she is constanly interacting with the page). However ask her to sit still and watch TV or eat or any of the things you and I take for granted and she just cant do it. Medication and therapy have allowed her to excel in school and generally do mch better. At the beginning of the year she could barly read. Since starting therapy she has moved to the top of her class in reading and can generaly deal better with all situations.
The man is absolutely correct to put up a warning. When you see friends that basically had their shit together, go to not having a job and getting evicted every month, a warning is only fair. I've seen a good number of people I considered my friends either lose everything or start selling just to support their habit. I'm honestly not sure whose better off either, the friends that do 1000$ a week or the friends who have nothing. All I can say about cocaine use is be ever vigilant. You can use it and have no problems but if your not paying attention one day you definitely stand the possibility of waking up and realizing: You Fucked Up.
Quoth the Dept of Housing at UF
Servers Sometimes it can be difficult for students to determine whether a program is allowed on DHNet. Our enforcement policy is actually very simple; we do not allow any programs that act as servers. A server is a program that listens for other computers to connect to it. In general, server software is accessed by corresponding client software of the same (or similar) name. For example, you are accessing our web server with your web browser. You probably check your email using email client software like Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, Eudora or Hotmail (via the web). If you are playing an online game hosted by another person or company then your computer is acting as a game client. Client software like this is completely OK to use on DHNet. P2P Filesharing applications are NOT client software - in general P2P software acts as both a client AND a server (hence the term 'peer to peer' or P2P). Also there are obvious legal concerns with P2P applications at this time. As a result all non UF-provided P2P filesharing applications are strictly forbidden on DHNet. We cannot tell you what software you may or may not install on your computer. However, if you ever run server software on DHNet, even if it runs in the background or is password protected you will likely be caught by the ICARUS system. As such, we strongly urge students to completely uninstall any server software they have on their computer, to avoid having their internet access restricted by ICARUS. Many times, server software can be started automatically without your knowledge or be accidentally reinstalled during a system restore. ICARUS cannot determine when this occurs and must treat all users identically. There are three main reasons that we do not allow students to run servers on DHNet. In no particular order, they are: Security: Any time a computer is accepting unrequested traffic from other computers, this creates a potential security hole, as attackers can send information to that computer in an attempt to slow it down, crash it, or even gain control of it. Since there is no practical way for us to view each student's computer to verify it has been set up safely to thwart attackers, we cannot allow servers. Bandwidth: DHNet is primarily intended for educational purposes. By running a server and generating traffic, you are reducing the amount of bandwidth available to other students, who need their connections for legitimate school use such as online classes. Legal Issues: For privacy reasons, we do not monitor content on DHNet. Without monitoring the content potentially being distributed from a student's machine, we have no way to ensure that the content does not expose either the student, or the University, to legal ramifications. As it is the goal of the University to educate the residents rather than expose them to direct litigation, we have taken an aggressive stand regarding unregulated content distribution. I can understand exactly where they are coming from in fact many isps have the "no server" rule that we all break everyday. Just because some one came up with a way to enforce that, I dont think they are doing anything wrong. I often wondered in the dorm (i lived there) how we got away with hosting games on the network since this was clearly a violation of the TOS. Im not happy the dormers cant play their games and share their music but it appears the Dept. of Student Housing is trying to be fair. They have a network graph on their site showing a 70Mbps peak at around midnight. This is now, without p2p enabled I cant imagine the amount of bandwidth they were pulling when we were there. I know for a fact I at least would download constantly. They also make a point of saying that they are not monitering content only serving. I think this should clear up any privacy concerns. They dont wanna know what you are doing as long as you are not acting a a server.
I'm in web development ( full microsoft environment ) using C#, SqlServer2000, WinXP
Pros:
Cons: