"And are these the same guys that make bar code scanners?"
I'm not entirely certain I'm answering the right question here, but, I used to work for Teklogix, in the 70s and again in the 90s. Teklogix invented the hand held barcode scanner. I wrote the barcode decoding software. And you know that thing where in UPC and EAN you can't tell 1's from 7's ad 2's from 9's? I found a way around that. it was basically an improvement to the IBM edge to edge detection technique. I wrote it up and told my boss we should patent it and he just sat on it till it was too late to patent it. AFAIK those are the only termials that have this, it was to fix Brown Shoe's one in a million scan error problem, and did. That patent would have been valuable to motorola, certainly more valuable than not having one. So, kids, if you hand in something like this to your boss an tell him to patent it, nag him till he does.
In the 70s Teklogix automated the postal plants and did special effects hardware for camera stuff. We had PDP-11's and Dave Conroy worked at the next desk from me and this is where he wrote his C compiler, which became DECUS C which became gcc.
That's because they're domesticated animals - we created them. There's no such thing as a "wild" dairy or beef cow. What there is is the cape buffalo, as close as we get to the ancestor of a cow. These are the most vicious mean spirited bastards in Africa, and hold a grudge and kill more people than anything this side of hippos. Oh and they stalk hunters and have incredibly strong bony head protection so if you shoot it you'd damn well better kill it on the first go.
Cows are just captive animals that eat and sleep and not much else Sort of like married men, except cows to breed well in captivity.
"I have skimmed the various publications for a couple of decades as they come out... general consensus I glean is that the primary effects are attributable to suppression of inhibitory centers - under the influence you are less likely to care that what you are doing is weird, unusual, socially unacceptable, etc."
Try only reading about "orgasm" and offering an opinion on it.
"From TA "Many prodigies like painter Van Gogh, author Jack Kerouac and mathematician John Nash had displayed self-destructive behaviors, and it is unclear as to why humans have evolved this trait. " Many people who *aren't* prodigies display self-destructive behaviors *all the time*."
Because all progress relies on the unreasonable man.
A better analogy would be a marginal power supply sometimes makes memoy and thinking not work right. On a good day when it's on spec and stable, it just freakin blazes.
So very very true. In order to avoid fixing their lives, patients often go to extreme lengths with grandiose plans to help other people with the exact same problem they have. Not that they know how to do that of course.
One woman, a college professor who was the most profoundly bipolar person I've ever met thought a travelling dog dancing circus would be the way to fix everyone with a mental problem. This was the same person who once bought 3 pairs of blue blocking sunglasses for everyone in a town in Alabama for $30,000 because she thought blue light was making them insane.
Wow. And that's what's wrong with modern psychiatry, which has made no progress in 50 years and whose sole focus now it to make new drugs that turn you into a zombie with less and less lethal side effects.
Medicine has been married to the dopamine hypothesis for decades now, too low and you're schizophrenic, too high and you have parkinsons, so they elevate the dopamine levels in schiz patients so they're near to parkinsonian levels then try to deal with the fallout from that with side effects ranging from disfigurement to death. The "new class" of "atypical antipsychotics" was invented to mitigate some of the side effects of old school antipsychotics, but in reality, they're worse.
An alternative hypothesis is the adrenochome hypothesis which states that in some individuals, they rapidly oxidise adreneline into adrenochrome (and related androlutins). This acts like LSD (with a profound post-depressive effect) which explains the hallucinations. The seminal work in the area of "lets try every psychadelic" by a couple of biochemist/psychiatrists was Hoffer and Osmond in the 50s and it was they that noticed the similarity bewteen LSD and adrenochome. A case of a kid using an old asthma inhaler and going instantly crazy revealed the adreneline has aged and turned pink, oxidised into adrenochome, which would instantly make anyone nuts who tried it.
This and other notable modalities of the disorder such as: schiz patients have a high pain threshold, seldom get cancer (even though many chain smoke) and are perfectly normal during an infection/inflammation are not explained by the dopamine hypothesis but are explained by the adrenochome hypothesis.
Methamphetamine induces adreneline. That, or any stimulant are the worst things you can do to anyone with problems like this.
Schizophrenia isn't an disease of unknown origin. It's a symptom, like scurvy. It can be induced in anyone by depriving them of B3 (google pellagra) and the reason all white flour is "enriched" is to prevent this symptom on a widespread basis after losing tens of thousands of lives a year to this in the 20s. It's felt if the amount of b3 added was 10 or 100x higher it would make a serious dent in the worldwide rate of schizophrenia, currently running at about 1.1% (twice that in Ireland and Serbia) and consistant from the Arctic to Australia suggesting a genetic origin older than 70,000 years when the lang bridge to Australia sank.
I leave you with this quote. This is a long and complicated yet fascinating subject and I'd love to go on but have moles to whack, so I leave you with this:
"On October 27, 2000, King County in Washington State, by a vote of 11 to 1, passed a very unusual ordinance. This directed psychiatrists working in the state mental health systemto make their patients well and to report annually on how successful they had been in achieving this goal. The ordinance defined exactly what was to be considered a mental health recovery. Such a former patient had to be able to meet four criteria. They must have become well enough to engage in volunteer work, or be employed full or part-time, or be engaged in culturally appropriate activities, or be pursuing educationalor vocational opportunities. Secondly, a recovered mental patient had to be living independently or in supported housing. Thirdly, they must have been discharged from the county’s publicly funded mental health system or, at most, be receiving only infrequent maintenance services. Lastly, when tested they must be able to score 81 or more on the Global Assessment of Function Scale. This scale measures such things as aggression, ability to communicate, and level of personal hygiene.
It is now some 3 years since this ordinance was passed and the required initial report on the efficacy of the system has been issued, covering the period January 1 through December 31, 2001. King County, Washington is not a rural backwater. It is one of the most progressive counties in the US, the location of Seattle. So what did the residents of King Count
Let me expand on this point a bit. In the 19th century in England they came up with the bright idea they should sterilize the insane, overall, society would benefit. When they did their due diligence they found if they'd done that in the past 300 years half the geniuses would never have been born. Statistically, genius and madness run together. Some say the secret, or one of them is the COMT4 gene. Other suggest it's a nutritional deficiency causes by a shortage of b3 and b6, which there's a good body of evidence for.
If nothing else b6 is at minimum in the body and is required for the synaptic make/break reaction... when you feel your brain is tired and you just can't think any more that's not low blood sugar, that's low b6.
We get 1/5 the vitamins and minerals cavemen did, and these are essential for mood control and acuity of thinking. Look around you, this sound like anyone you know (ie, most of facebook?)
"The article angers me in some ways, actually, because it contributes to some myth that mania and psychosis are somehow beneficial"
David Horrobin's book "The Madness of Adam and Eve" is based exactly on this premise based on lipid chemistry and chaging diet over the past 100K or so years. He makes a rather compelling case.
"If the bulk of them are IPv4, they are going to consume a lot of the residual IPv4 addresses out there."
dear noob; we get it you didn't get any ip addresses before 95. please stop whining. invent something better (and i've seen better and it doesn't look like v6)
If you were to freeze the configuration of the V4 core network right now, everything would work just fine. All our stuff talks to our other stuff. We're not running out of addresses that are already deployed and running the core network, it's only the edges of the network where more addresses are needed. So use whatever you want there and as long as it rides over the stable V4 core, you're fine. Pretty much fucked though if your new protocol doesn't do that well.
Let us know how your parallel network builds out, maybe we'll use it as an I/O device one day when you're done building it.
The thing to keep in eye on this IPV6 day is not what V6 links work, but what parts of the V4 core they break. Like last year when Hurricane Electric broke the V4 link to ISC. Talk about irony-in-a-can. Talk about broken. Talk about didn't notice. Talk about H.E. got unplugged.
Please please please don't break the net again this year. Kashpureff went to jail for disruptions an order of magnitude less than this.
I put together a porn website out of material on Wikipedia. Sort of. I did stick everything I could find on one page with thumnails. NSFW, duh.
I think you'd be hard pressed to call most of this "porn". There does seem to be more male dangly bits than anything else, by far, and I suspect this is is the source of republican *cough*closeted*cough* objection in the first place.
is the best laptop lcd brightness calibration image I've ever seen. It's a pig working on a bunch of things and wondering "are these gonna be too bright for the mac guys or too dark for the PC guys" and most images you can't tell if they're a bit off or not if the screen is tilted wrong and god help you.
But if you can see this properly then you can adjust the brightness pretty accurately. Thanks!
What happened to the picture? There used to be a picture,,, it was the best page ever for throwing a link at somebody and telling them to look it up in Wikipedia.
Native phone apps were a wash and the future of apps on phones and tablets is no apps, it's html5+js from here out.
Opera has something IE, chrome and Safari do not: infrastructure dedicated to the browser. Plus, Opera rules phone. It'a actually a perfect fit since FB's phone app is so pathetic. Are they even trying there?
I've used Opera since the beginning and there's a couple of reasons why it is the fastest (if yours isn't yer doin' it wrong) and why it's the only one that handles forms correctly, but, it does BADLY need Google V8 js engine. Good luck there boys...
I can see ways where this is good for Opera: simply double the staff, leave it in Norway, and have half to FB stuff and half keep on doing Opera.
"How expensive were other personal computers when the Apple ][ was released?"
What other personal computers? There really wern't any.
There were hobby kits like S-1000 systems and for $2500 more you could get something like color graphics, 256x256x8 or somehting and a command line based CP/M. Some guys had LSI PDP's thathad been cast off, with RT-11 or something. There were other kits, products, but nothing else really looked and felt like a consumer product, that's sorta the point.
And I say that as somebody loathed them, but you can't deny their impact.
Slashdot Mirror
"And are these the same guys that make bar code scanners?"
I'm not entirely certain I'm answering the right question here, but, I used to work for Teklogix, in the 70s and again in the 90s. Teklogix invented the hand held barcode scanner. I wrote the barcode decoding software. And you know that thing where in UPC and EAN you can't tell 1's from 7's ad 2's from 9's? I found a way around that. it was basically an improvement to the IBM edge to edge detection technique. I wrote it up and told my boss we should patent it and he just sat on it till it was too late to patent it. AFAIK those are the only termials that have this, it was to fix Brown Shoe's one in a million scan error problem, and did. That patent would have been valuable to motorola, certainly more valuable than not having one. So, kids, if you hand in something like this to your boss an tell him to patent it, nag him till he does.
In the 70s Teklogix automated the postal plants and did special effects hardware for camera stuff. We had PDP-11's and Dave Conroy worked at the next desk from me and this is where he wrote his C compiler, which became DECUS C which became gcc.
That's because they're domesticated animals - we created them. There's no such thing as a "wild" dairy or beef cow. What there is is the cape buffalo, as close as we get to the ancestor of a cow. These are the most vicious mean spirited bastards in Africa, and hold a grudge and kill more people than anything this side of hippos. Oh and they stalk hunters and have incredibly strong bony head protection so if you shoot it you'd damn well better kill it on the first go.
Cows are just captive animals that eat and sleep and not much else Sort of like married men, except cows to breed well in captivity.
"I have skimmed the various publications for a couple of decades as they come out... general consensus I glean is that the primary effects are attributable to suppression of inhibitory centers - under the influence you are less likely to care that what you are doing is weird, unusual, socially unacceptable, etc."
Try only reading about "orgasm" and offering an opinion on it.
Bipolar/schiz often have a very high sex drive; they fuck like rabid mink.
"From TA "Many prodigies like painter Van Gogh, author Jack Kerouac and mathematician John Nash had displayed self-destructive behaviors, and it is unclear as to why humans have evolved this trait. " Many people who *aren't* prodigies display self-destructive behaviors *all the time*."
Because all progress relies on the unreasonable man.
A better analogy would be a marginal power supply sometimes makes memoy and thinking not work right. On a good day when it's on spec and stable, it just freakin blazes.
So very very true. In order to avoid fixing their lives, patients often go to extreme lengths with grandiose plans to help other people with the exact same problem they have. Not that they know how to do that of course.
One woman, a college professor who was the most profoundly bipolar person I've ever met thought a travelling dog dancing circus would be the way to fix everyone with a mental problem. This was the same person who once bought 3 pairs of blue blocking sunglasses for everyone in a town in Alabama for $30,000 because she thought blue light was making them insane.
Never a dull moment.
Wow. And that's what's wrong with modern psychiatry, which has made no progress in 50 years and whose sole focus now it to make new drugs that turn you into a zombie with less and less lethal side effects.
Medicine has been married to the dopamine hypothesis for decades now, too low and you're schizophrenic, too high and you have parkinsons, so they elevate the dopamine levels in schiz patients so they're near to parkinsonian levels then try to deal with the fallout from that with side effects ranging from disfigurement to death. The "new class" of "atypical antipsychotics" was invented to mitigate some of the side effects of old school antipsychotics, but in reality, they're worse.
An alternative hypothesis is the adrenochome hypothesis which states that in some individuals, they rapidly oxidise adreneline into adrenochrome (and related androlutins). This acts like LSD (with a profound post-depressive effect) which explains the hallucinations. The seminal work in the area of "lets try every psychadelic" by a couple of biochemist/psychiatrists was Hoffer and Osmond in the 50s and it was they that noticed the similarity bewteen LSD and adrenochome. A case of a kid using an old asthma inhaler and going instantly crazy revealed the adreneline has aged and turned pink, oxidised into adrenochome, which would instantly make anyone nuts who tried it.
This and other notable modalities of the disorder such as: schiz patients have a high pain threshold, seldom get cancer (even though many chain smoke) and are perfectly normal during an infection/inflammation are not explained by the dopamine hypothesis but are explained by the adrenochome hypothesis.
Methamphetamine induces adreneline. That, or any stimulant are the worst things you can do to anyone with problems like this.
Schizophrenia isn't an disease of unknown origin. It's a symptom, like scurvy. It can be induced in anyone by depriving them of B3 (google pellagra) and the reason all white flour is "enriched" is to prevent this symptom on a widespread basis after losing tens of thousands of lives a year to this in the 20s. It's felt if the amount of b3 added was 10 or 100x higher it would make a serious dent in the worldwide rate of schizophrenia, currently running at about 1.1% (twice that in Ireland and Serbia) and consistant from the Arctic to Australia suggesting a genetic origin older than 70,000 years when the lang bridge to Australia sank.
I leave you with this quote. This is a long and complicated yet fascinating subject and I'd love to go on but have moles to whack, so I leave you with this:
"On October 27, 2000, King County in Washington State, by a vote of 11 to 1, passed a very unusual ordinance. This directed psychiatrists working in the state mental health systemto make their patients well and to report annually on how successful they had been in achieving this goal. The ordinance defined exactly what was to be considered a mental health recovery. Such a former patient had to be able to meet four criteria. They must have become well enough to engage in volunteer work, or be employed full or part-time, or be engaged in culturally appropriate activities, or be pursuing educationalor vocational opportunities. Secondly, a recovered mental patient had to be living independently or in supported housing. Thirdly, they must have been discharged from the county’s publicly funded mental health system or, at most, be receiving only infrequent maintenance services. Lastly, when tested they must be able to score 81 or more on the Global Assessment of Function Scale. This scale measures such things as aggression, ability to communicate, and level of personal hygiene.
It is now some 3 years since this ordinance was passed and the required initial report on the efficacy of the system has been issued, covering the period January 1 through December 31, 2001. King County, Washington is not a rural backwater. It is one of the most progressive counties in the US, the location of Seattle. So what did the residents of King Count
Oblig example: Philip L. Dick, who was profoundly schizophrenic.
An hour?
You got off way too easy. Stay away from 27slash6 or whatever it's called, that 7 legged spider thing. It's good for 3 lost days.
Point, set, match!
Let me expand on this point a bit. In the 19th century in England they came up with the bright idea they should sterilize the insane, overall, society would benefit. When they did their due diligence they found if they'd done that in the past 300 years half the geniuses would never have been born. Statistically, genius and madness run together. Some say the secret, or one of them is the COMT4 gene. Other suggest it's a nutritional deficiency causes by a shortage of b3 and b6, which there's a good body of evidence for.
If nothing else b6 is at minimum in the body and is required for the synaptic make/break reaction... when you feel your brain is tired and you just can't think any more that's not low blood sugar, that's low b6.
We get 1/5 the vitamins and minerals cavemen did, and these are essential for mood control and acuity of thinking. Look around you, this sound like anyone you know (ie, most of facebook?)
"The article angers me in some ways, actually, because it contributes to some myth that mania and psychosis are somehow beneficial"
David Horrobin's book "The Madness of Adam and Eve" is based exactly on this premise based on lipid chemistry and chaging diet over the past 100K or so years. He makes a rather compelling case.
Selected excerpts here: http://rs79.vrx.net/works/books/Bionutrition/refs/madness/
"If the bulk of them are IPv4, they are going to consume a lot of the residual IPv4 addresses out there."
dear noob;
we get it you didn't get any ip addresses before 95. please stop whining. invent something better
(and i've seen better and it doesn't look like v6)
If you were to freeze the configuration of the V4 core network right now, everything would work just fine. All our stuff talks to our other stuff. We're not running out of addresses that are already deployed and running the core network, it's only the edges of the network where more addresses are needed. So use whatever you want there and as long as it rides over the stable V4 core, you're fine. Pretty much fucked though if your new protocol doesn't do that well.
Let us know how your parallel network builds out, maybe we'll use it as an I/O device one day when you're done building it.
The thing to keep in eye on this IPV6 day is not what V6 links work, but what parts of the V4 core they break. Like last year when Hurricane Electric broke the V4 link to ISC. Talk about irony-in-a-can. Talk about broken. Talk about didn't notice. Talk about H.E. got unplugged.
Please please please don't break the net again this year. Kashpureff went to jail for disruptions an order of magnitude less than this.
I put together a porn website out of material on Wikipedia. Sort of. I did stick everything I could find on one page with thumnails. NSFW, duh.
I think you'd be hard pressed to call most of this "porn". There does seem to be more male dangly bits than anything else, by far, and I suspect this is is the source of republican *cough*closeted*cough* objection in the first place.
http://rs79.vrx.net/interests/computers/net/wikiporn/
(post additions here if you feel like it, I'll check)
"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sexual_intercourse_with_vaginal_lubricative_fluid.jpg"
is the best laptop lcd brightness calibration image I've ever seen. It's a pig working on a bunch of things and wondering "are these gonna be too bright for the mac guys or too dark for the PC guys" and most images you can't tell if they're a bit off or not if the screen is tilted wrong and god help you.
But if you can see this properly then you can adjust the brightness pretty accurately. Thanks!
What happened to the picture? There used to be a picture,,, it was the best page ever for throwing a link at somebody and telling them to look it up in Wikipedia.
"How do you get yourself into a state where you have 40 dead a weekend and consider it a normal week?"
Corn whiskey.
Native phone apps were a wash and the future of apps on phones and tablets is no apps, it's html5+js from here out.
Opera has something IE, chrome and Safari do not: infrastructure dedicated to the browser. Plus, Opera rules phone. It'a actually a perfect fit since FB's phone app is so pathetic. Are they even trying there?
I've used Opera since the beginning and there's a couple of reasons why it is the fastest (if yours isn't yer doin' it wrong) and why it's the only one that handles forms correctly, but, it does BADLY need Google V8 js engine. Good luck there boys...
I can see ways where this is good for Opera: simply double the staff, leave it in Norway, and have half to FB stuff and half keep on doing Opera.
Nobody has asked the question "do we actually want the rest of those yobbos on the net in the first place" ?
Are you sure (y/n) ?
Just think of the revenue opportunities for selling V6 addresses.
Do you really wonder why those who are pushing it so hard do that?
Follow the money. Keep an eye on those I-99s.
"This is an incredibly stupid post - who ever bothers remembering any IP addresses - be it v4 or v6?"
8.8.8.8 ? 8.8.8.4? 192.168.1.10?
So, I'll only agree with half of the quoted remark.
If you need that many words to explain how simple something is, you've already lost.
"IPv6 is for when you want to talk to someone who isn't part of your home network."
Or anyone else's, really.
"How expensive were other personal computers when the Apple ][ was released?"
What other personal computers? There really wern't any.
There were hobby kits like S-1000 systems and for $2500 more you could get something like color graphics, 256x256x8 or somehting and a command line based CP/M. Some guys had LSI PDP's thathad been cast off, with RT-11 or something. There were other kits, products, but nothing else really looked and felt like a consumer product, that's sorta the point.
And I say that as somebody loathed them, but you can't deny their impact.