To use your "real world" model, Windows is not analagous to a locked car sitting on the street in a relatively nice neighborhood. Windows is analagous to a car with all its doors open and a key in the ignition, sitting in the middle of downtown Gotham City.
It's *going to* get stolen (hijacked) unless you do something about it.
I'm all for putting this guy in jail. But at the same time, it's unrealistic to expect hackers to stay away from a computer whose OS is full of vulnerabilities, from which they stand to profit.
You say you want to give users what they ask for....what all MY users are asking for, primarily, is "not to be bothered with this bullshit virus stuff," and the best way to make that happen at this point, IMHO, is to make it far more difficult to gain access to their computers.
Sure, you can make an example of this guy, but I don't think that's going to stop the tidal wave of virus attacks. Instead of relying on the courts to enforce things like this, I'd much rather see an increase in computer security. Just give all your users personal firewalls (the RL equivalent of locks on their car doors)....something really simple like Zone. Software that DOES make things comfortable and obvious for the user.
And when the problems go away, they will remember that security, not the court system, solved the problem.
Admittedly my systems are different from yours (all AMDs, all relatively fast compared to a P2). But for me, the *difference* between Firefox's render and IEs render of the/. home page is about 50ms, or 1/20th of a second (so yes, Firefox is slower, but not enough to notice or complain about). If I render 20 random web pages in each browser, I lose 1 full second with firefox, which, with IE, I would have spent closing a pop-up window.
PS: Mozilla comes in way later....about 200ms slower than Firefox. This difference is noticable, and mildly annoying.
Oh, and Karnal...there's a little write-up here about blacking out the "white" area of the color wheel on an InFocus X1 (my new toy) and why it's a bad idea:
http://members.shaw.ca/technut/x1faq/
My thinking goes as follows: in an LCD projector, light passes through the red LCD, the blue LCD, and the green LCD and it comes out some strange color...say "mango" which is not one of the colors the screen reflects. The components of the "mango" color will be the pure RGB wavelengths...but (I don't know enough about optics) when you mix these together to form the final color, do you actually get a new wavelength? If so, it would seem that this color would not be reflected.
In a DLP projector, however, as stated above...the red, blue, and green are projected as *pure* Red, pure green, and pure blue...with slight temporal separation (a few ms, designed to fool your brain into integrating the colors itself...the reason some people see 'rainbow effects' with DLP projectors). These pure reds, greens, and blues should be reflected for sure....at least, if Sony gives us wide enough margins of error on their band-pass "species filters" (wtf is a "species" filter, by the way?) that my projector's "red" matches their screen's idea of "red."
Anyway...does anybody know enough about LCDs to tell me if they're going to work with this screen?
I Just ordered my very first DLP projector yesterday night (and since I've got DLP, I've got nothing to worry about in terms of screen compatibility). Then I woke up to find this article on/. this morning. Could not be happier. =)
Oh dear God, not the BSDs...not for a newbie.
Go for Mandrake, Redhat, or Fedora. SuSE's installer gave me some trouble, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to change the screen resolution.
Good luck.
--Bucky
Though flattening of emotions is one symptom of schizophrenia, it is by no means the main one...nor is it one that a relatively young schizophrenic is particularly likely to exhibit.
Schizophrenia is described in most psych texts as a disease of "disordered thoughts" (that exact phrase pops up a lot) and has symptoms that can be divided into "positive" ("things schizophrenics do that 'normal' people don't") and "negative" ("things that 'normal' people do but schizophrenics don't") categories.
The typical progression in schizophrenia is from predominantly positive symptoms at first to predominantly negative ones later.
Common positive symptoms (things schizophrenics have or do that differentiate them from the majority) include:
Hallucinations (~90% of which are auditory... "hearing voices"). Neurochemically, hallucinations are usually triggered by too much serotonin (evidence: LSD works by imitating serotonin). This is a bit odd, as schizophrenia is thought to be primarily concerned with another neurotransmitter, dopamine (evidence: virtually all anti-psychotic drugs affect the dopamine system). So the cause of the hallucinations is somewhat of a mystery. Equally mysterious is the fact that most of them are auditory. With recreational drugs, most hallucinations are visual....we don't know how auditory hallucinations are produced.
Strange looping associations, often pun-like. Oddly, very loosely-associative schizophrenics seem to be able to tickle themselves. This indicates some loss of the idea of "self," since the premise of tickling is that it has to surprise you.
Literal, concrete interpretations of speech/writing (typically detected using a proverb test in which the patient is asked to explain a proverb or phrase like "loose lips sink ships")
Paranoia - "they can hear my thoughts"
Delusions - "I made these shoes" (pointing to Nikes)
Negative symptoms, on the other hand, are 'normal' characteristics that are often lacking in schizophrenics:
Social inhibitions/withdrawal - often stems from effects of positive symptoms - if you thought everybody could hear your thoughts, would you go interact with other people?
Flattening of emotions, loss of drive - stop caring/stop wanting to go on
As stated above, the typical schizophrenic progressing through these symptoms starts with predominantly positive symptoms in early stages of the disease, and moves toward predominantly negative symptoms later in life.
That said, the best advice I can give you is to read up like crazy. Knowing the disease is half the battle...and the experiences of others, combined with a good working knowledge of what's going on in terms of disease causes/progression/symptoms, can help prepare you for whatever happens next.
Also, please take what's said on/. with a heaping pile of salt. I'm a premed with a speciality in cognitive neurosci, so I do know a little about the topic...but I'm by no means an expert. I have a feeling other folks posting here aren't experts either, with (of course) some exceptions. And I think that's a good thing with regard to understanding the disease from a layperson's perspective...even though this question is a little odd for slashdot, this isn't a bad place to ask, IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
Or 378*2 = 756 times.
Admittedly that was slightly more than one feature-length film, but still.
--B
uhh...freezing things causes them to contract, not expand.
To use your "real world" model, Windows is not analagous to a locked car sitting on the street in a relatively nice neighborhood. Windows is analagous to a car with all its doors open and a key in the ignition, sitting in the middle of downtown Gotham City.
It's *going to* get stolen (hijacked) unless you do something about it.
I'm all for putting this guy in jail. But at the same time, it's unrealistic to expect hackers to stay away from a computer whose OS is full of vulnerabilities, from which they stand to profit.
You say you want to give users what they ask for....what all MY users are asking for, primarily, is "not to be bothered with this bullshit virus stuff," and the best way to make that happen at this point, IMHO, is to make it far more difficult to gain access to their computers.
Sure, you can make an example of this guy, but I don't think that's going to stop the tidal wave of virus attacks. Instead of relying on the courts to enforce things like this, I'd much rather see an increase in computer security. Just give all your users personal firewalls (the RL equivalent of locks on their car doors)....something really simple like Zone. Software that DOES make things comfortable and obvious for the user.
And when the problems go away, they will remember that security, not the court system, solved the problem.
--B
Admittedly my systems are different from yours (all AMDs, all relatively fast compared to a P2). But for me, the *difference* between Firefox's render and IEs render of the /. home page is about 50ms, or 1/20th of a second (so yes, Firefox is slower, but not enough to notice or complain about). If I render 20 random web pages in each browser, I lose 1 full second with firefox, which, with IE, I would have spent closing a pop-up window.
PS: Mozilla comes in way later....about 200ms slower than Firefox. This difference is noticable, and mildly annoying.
Oh, and Karnal...there's a little write-up here about blacking out the "white" area of the color wheel on an InFocus X1 (my new toy) and why it's a bad idea: http://members.shaw.ca/technut/x1faq/
So then will you *need* a DLP projector?
/. this morning. Could not be happier. =)
My thinking goes as follows: in an LCD projector, light passes through the red LCD, the blue LCD, and the green LCD and it comes out some strange color...say "mango" which is not one of the colors the screen reflects. The components of the "mango" color will be the pure RGB wavelengths...but (I don't know enough about optics) when you mix these together to form the final color, do you actually get a new wavelength? If so, it would seem that this color would not be reflected.
In a DLP projector, however, as stated above...the red, blue, and green are projected as *pure* Red, pure green, and pure blue...with slight temporal separation (a few ms, designed to fool your brain into integrating the colors itself...the reason some people see 'rainbow effects' with DLP projectors). These pure reds, greens, and blues should be reflected for sure....at least, if Sony gives us wide enough margins of error on their band-pass "species filters" (wtf is a "species" filter, by the way?) that my projector's "red" matches their screen's idea of "red."
Anyway...does anybody know enough about LCDs to tell me if they're going to work with this screen?
I Just ordered my very first DLP projector yesterday night (and since I've got DLP, I've got nothing to worry about in terms of screen compatibility). Then I woke up to find this article on
Oh dear God, not the BSDs...not for a newbie. Go for Mandrake, Redhat, or Fedora. SuSE's installer gave me some trouble, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to change the screen resolution. Good luck. --Bucky
Schizophrenia is described in most psych texts as a disease of "disordered thoughts" (that exact phrase pops up a lot) and has symptoms that can be divided into "positive" ("things schizophrenics do that 'normal' people don't") and "negative" ("things that 'normal' people do but schizophrenics don't") categories.
The typical progression in schizophrenia is from predominantly positive symptoms at first to predominantly negative ones later.
Common positive symptoms (things schizophrenics have or do that differentiate them from the majority) include:
Hallucinations (~90% of which are auditory... "hearing voices"). Neurochemically, hallucinations are usually triggered by too much serotonin (evidence: LSD works by imitating serotonin). This is a bit odd, as schizophrenia is thought to be primarily concerned with another neurotransmitter, dopamine (evidence: virtually all anti-psychotic drugs affect the dopamine system). So the cause of the hallucinations is somewhat of a mystery. Equally mysterious is the fact that most of them are auditory. With recreational drugs, most hallucinations are visual....we don't know how auditory hallucinations are produced.
Strange looping associations, often pun-like. Oddly, very loosely-associative schizophrenics seem to be able to tickle themselves. This indicates some loss of the idea of "self," since the premise of tickling is that it has to surprise you.
Literal, concrete interpretations of speech/writing (typically detected using a proverb test in which the patient is asked to explain a proverb or phrase like "loose lips sink ships")
Paranoia - "they can hear my thoughts"
Delusions - "I made these shoes" (pointing to Nikes)
Negative symptoms, on the other hand, are 'normal' characteristics that are often lacking in schizophrenics:
Social inhibitions/withdrawal - often stems from effects of positive symptoms - if you thought everybody could hear your thoughts, would you go interact with other people?
Flattening of emotions, loss of drive - stop caring/stop wanting to go on
As stated above, the typical schizophrenic progressing through these symptoms starts with predominantly positive symptoms in early stages of the disease, and moves toward predominantly negative symptoms later in life.
That said, the best advice I can give you is to read up like crazy. Knowing the disease is half the battle...and the experiences of others, combined with a good working knowledge of what's going on in terms of disease causes/progression/symptoms, can help prepare you for whatever happens next.
Also, please take what's said on /. with a heaping pile of salt. I'm a premed with a speciality in cognitive neurosci, so I do know a little about the topic...but I'm by no means an expert. I have a feeling other folks posting here aren't experts either, with (of course) some exceptions. And I think that's a good thing with regard to understanding the disease from a layperson's perspective...even though this question is a little odd for slashdot, this isn't a bad place to ask, IMHO.
Best of luck to you.
-Bucky