It's more common than you thought and it affects a great number of folks that are nerds and folks that use computers.
Depression, obesity, obsessive compulsive disorder are also common among folks that use computers. I agree that an "ask slashdot" such as this doesn't apply to slashdot. There isn't anything asked about technology, science or computers.
However, I do find the topic interesting and I'd like to see a 'slashdot' spin put on it. I work at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford Hospital. We work with schizophrenic patients to find structurally what is different in their brains than in control subjects, using fMRI. Some of the research is very interesting, and so are the subjects.
How would one recover the other side of it? Once Windows is recovered by re-writing the MBR, how can Fedora be booted? I'm asking because I had the same problem when I installed Fedora core 2 last night. I got Windows to work, but now I have an inaccesible linux partition.
I've got a recommendation... Fix the grub error. That is the most important feature of any installation in my opinion. The fact that boot loaders still have bugs in them after years of work amazes me. I installed Fedora Core 2 last night. Everything went well during the install, then when it rebooted itself... Grub error. can't boot anything. can't boot Windows, can't boot linux. can bearly read the screen because of artifacts. Fedora is a great product, but if you can't boot into it, its useless.
This should be interesting. I hope this is as good as the original. If george lucas really did envision 9 total movies, then he should already have the scripts ready. The last two star wars movies seemed like he was just thinking it up on the spot, and letting the plot follow the special effects. I hope this movie has more plot.
I'd like to see more eye-tracking software available to people for use with games. For quadralegics or for people with limited mobility of their extremities, eye-tracking would be pretty useful. I did some work with eye-tracking in college.
I love it. Nothing like screwing a scammer. I nearly fell for something like that about 5 years ago, although in reverse. Someone advertised a computer for sale for a really low price. I knew little about internet fraud at the time, so I beleived that because they advertised this computer for a low price, it must be true... otherwise they'd be lying, which people couldn't do! (duh)
So I emailed the person to express my interest in buying the computer. He writes back with a long description of their 'operation'. They hacked into 'major computer makers' and re-routed shipping containers to me because they felt that computer makers were overcharging, etc. They were doing it for the good of the public; stealing from rich computer makers to give to the public.
I almost fell for this, until I started to think about it. What if it was a scam? I couldn't contact the police, because I would have knowingly bought stolen goods. Wait! it must be a scam then!
Scammers come up with incredibly diverse kinds of scams, because someone will eventually fall for one of them.
Things have changed since the days of DOS 3.3. It ran on one platform. It had no GUI, networking, and no utilities besides basic file handling and a BASIC compiler.
Although, a trimmed down version of Fedora Core X would be very useful. Possibly a version where you could install just the base OS and GUI and then you could download all the extra packages you want. Sort of like the Mozilla install.
My favorite thing at the car dealer is the "conveyance fee" that is pre-printed on the invoice for a car. They say "it's necessary, everyone has to pay it. It's state mandated." Of course none of it is true, but people will pay anyway, because they're not being told the whole truth.
It's not illegal, but its very sneaky. It's something that most people will miss, and when most people dont know they are being ripped off, then the government can take a closer look at it.
Computers were absent from my grade school years, but as the years passed, computers became more pervasive. By college, my major was computer science & engineering. The only things that I learned from computers were how to program and how to use a computer to get things done.
Computers did not teach me how to interact with other people. They did not teach social or moral skills. They provided a fraction of the education I needed. Computers will never be able to replace the social education that every person needs.
There are many places out there for cheap books, including the used book section of Amazon. Hamilton books is a great place for discount books. Some of their medical textbooks are 90% off. Also do a google search for "books" and you'll find many websites that find the lowest price for a particular book.
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We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!!
Heave the "baby" out with the bathwater. Spyware is called spyware because of what it is. There's no mistaking a legitimate program that user chooses to install. In my opinion, if the user knows its being installed than its not spyware. If the user doesn't fully know whats being installed than it is spyware, and that type of software should be chucked out with the bathwater.
The same can be said for Windows. Unless Sun is going to compete with a Windows or Linux data-center, Sun doesn't have much of a chance. The idea of an extremely powerful workstation is no longer relevant since x86 architecture is just as fast and stable as Sun.
Sun had better follow the ways of HP, IBM and the like, and move toward more current technologies, instead of focusing on what they've done well on in the past, but is no longer in demand. If they move on, they will succeed. If they try to control the marketplace by telling people they need Sun hardware and Sun software instead of listening to what customers want, they wont do well.
You have a point there. It's not only to mimick what people are used to, but Microsoft has spent years and millions of dollars doing research to find what GUI most people will accept.
A linux desktop should look like Windows not only because its what people are used to, but its what most people have proven to be able to use.
Stress is what we feel when our current abilities are being challenged
That is true, but when you feel your stress is going toward something worthless, the stress gets worse, because there is no sense of satisfaction that you've done something worthwhile.
For some people shoveling data from one database to another and processing it in between is worthwhile, for others it is not.
Medical school is stressful, possibly just as stressful as working 80 hour weeks at a software company to get the product out on time (although no one really does this anymore, its all been outsourced:) ) Some people would find working for no money and learning how to help the sick is more rewarding and therefor more worth the stress than getting paid a lot and producing something you dont feel is worthwhile.
I used to work for an insurance company as a programmer. With a bachelors degree I was one of the most educated people there. I was NOT challenged to use my education. The stress came from office politics and the boss saying "whats your status." every hour. To produce reports for management, this just wasn't worth the stress. It paid well, but not worth all the stress.
So I recently moved on to a new job. It pays a lot less. The stress now comes from being challenged to do something that I feel is more worthwhile.
Your choice of how much stress you endure is related to what you think of as good stress or bad stress. When ever I'd complain about something at my previous job, a coworker would always say "It's just a paycheck.. It's just a paycheck"
Get a new job. A less stressful one. Chances are if your stressed out over what you are doing, you dont actually like what you are doing. If the stress bothers you that much, its time to look for something else.
I've noticed in IT jobs, the more you talk and interact with your coworkers in a positive and joking way, the less stressful the job is. When you sit there and stew over what your boss might say next, it gets stressful.
You might actually enjoy working as a web developer, but perhaps not at the company you are at now. Having fun with your coworkers can make the day go by a lot faster and be more enjoyable. Look elsewhere!
Thats some damn complicated stuff, there! I hope the technicians who fix the ATM machine know about phuton criptography. I may know how to program with code, but damned if i know how futons work!
If you are in the Northeast US, you can expect around $40,000. This is of course if you qualify for the position your applying to. Chances are if the company needs a programmer, they are going to spend a set amount and know they can get a certain set of skills. Anything below that amount and they can't expect to reliably get good candidates.
When group projects came around in college, someone always had a Visual C++ 6.0 CD available for people to use. Since most of the students used windows at home, it was the easiest way for people to have a common development environment. Especially if the project had GUIs, etc.
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It's more common than you thought and it affects a great number of folks that are nerds and folks that use computers.
Depression, obesity, obsessive compulsive disorder are also common among folks that use computers. I agree that an "ask slashdot" such as this doesn't apply to slashdot. There isn't anything asked about technology, science or computers.
However, I do find the topic interesting and I'd like to see a 'slashdot' spin put on it. I work at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford Hospital. We work with schizophrenic patients to find structurally what is different in their brains than in control subjects, using fMRI. Some of the research is very interesting, and so are the subjects.
How would one recover the other side of it? Once Windows is recovered by re-writing the MBR, how can Fedora be booted? I'm asking because I had the same problem when I installed Fedora core 2 last night. I got Windows to work, but now I have an inaccesible linux partition.
I've got a recommendation... Fix the grub error. That is the most important feature of any installation in my opinion. The fact that boot loaders still have bugs in them after years of work amazes me. I installed Fedora Core 2 last night. Everything went well during the install, then when it rebooted itself... Grub error. can't boot anything. can't boot Windows, can't boot linux. can bearly read the screen because of artifacts. Fedora is a great product, but if you can't boot into it, its useless.
Can someone post pictures of this event? I'd really like to see these t-shirts.
This should be interesting. I hope this is as good as the original. If george lucas really did envision 9 total movies, then he should already have the scripts ready. The last two star wars movies seemed like he was just thinking it up on the spot, and letting the plot follow the special effects. I hope this movie has more plot.
I'd like to see more eye-tracking software available to people for use with games. For quadralegics or for people with limited mobility of their extremities, eye-tracking would be pretty useful. I did some work with eye-tracking in college.
Damn it!!! Lesbians will have a leg up on these games to start.
So will men who know what they're doing.
I love it. Nothing like screwing a scammer. I nearly fell for something like that about 5 years ago, although in reverse. Someone advertised a computer for sale for a really low price. I knew little about internet fraud at the time, so I beleived that because they advertised this computer for a low price, it must be true... otherwise they'd be lying, which people couldn't do! (duh)
So I emailed the person to express my interest in buying the computer. He writes back with a long description of their 'operation'. They hacked into 'major computer makers' and re-routed shipping containers to me because they felt that computer makers were overcharging, etc. They were doing it for the good of the public; stealing from rich computer makers to give to the public.
I almost fell for this, until I started to think about it. What if it was a scam? I couldn't contact the police, because I would have knowingly bought stolen goods. Wait! it must be a scam then!
Scammers come up with incredibly diverse kinds of scams, because someone will eventually fall for one of them.
Things have changed since the days of DOS 3.3. It ran on one platform. It had no GUI, networking, and no utilities besides basic file handling and a BASIC compiler.
Although, a trimmed down version of Fedora Core X would be very useful. Possibly a version where you could install just the base OS and GUI and then you could download all the extra packages you want. Sort of like the Mozilla install.
My favorite thing at the car dealer is the "conveyance fee" that is pre-printed on the invoice for a car. They say "it's necessary, everyone has to pay it. It's state mandated." Of course none of it is true, but people will pay anyway, because they're not being told the whole truth.
It's not illegal, but its very sneaky. It's something that most people will miss, and when most people dont know they are being ripped off, then the government can take a closer look at it.
Computers were absent from my grade school years, but as the years passed, computers became more pervasive. By college, my major was computer science & engineering. The only things that I learned from computers were how to program and how to use a computer to get things done.
Computers did not teach me how to interact with other people. They did not teach social or moral skills. They provided a fraction of the education I needed. Computers will never be able to replace the social education that every person needs.
It may be a ripoff, but where can I download it? I'd like to see the source code. If I can install Pagemaker 7 in linux, I will be very happy.
There are many places out there for cheap books, including the used book section of Amazon. Hamilton books is a great place for discount books. Some of their medical textbooks are 90% off. Also do a google search for "books" and you'll find many websites that find the lowest price for a particular book.
Sunday! SunDay! SUNDAY!
We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!!
Heave the "baby" out with the bathwater. Spyware is called spyware because of what it is. There's no mistaking a legitimate program that user chooses to install. In my opinion, if the user knows its being installed than its not spyware. If the user doesn't fully know whats being installed than it is spyware, and that type of software should be chucked out with the bathwater.
I agree. I thought it would be funny too.
That is because array indexes start at 1 instead of zero. So it's really 41 years if you start from year one.
The same can be said for Windows. Unless Sun is going to compete with a Windows or Linux data-center, Sun doesn't have much of a chance. The idea of an extremely powerful workstation is no longer relevant since x86 architecture is just as fast and stable as Sun.
Sun had better follow the ways of HP, IBM and the like, and move toward more current technologies, instead of focusing on what they've done well on in the past, but is no longer in demand.
If they move on, they will succeed. If they try to control the marketplace by telling people they need Sun hardware and Sun software instead of listening to what customers want, they wont do well.
You have a point there. It's not only to mimick what people are used to, but Microsoft has spent years and millions of dollars doing research to find what GUI most people will accept.
A linux desktop should look like Windows not only because its what people are used to, but its what most people have proven to be able to use.
Stress is what we feel when our current abilities are being challenged
:) ) Some people would find working for no money and learning how to help the sick is more rewarding and therefor more worth the stress than getting paid a lot and producing something you dont feel is worthwhile.
That is true, but when you feel your stress is going toward something worthless, the stress gets worse, because there is no sense of satisfaction that you've done something worthwhile.
For some people shoveling data from one database to another and processing it in between is worthwhile, for others it is not.
Medical school is stressful, possibly just as stressful as working 80 hour weeks at a software company to get the product out on time (although no one really does this anymore, its all been outsourced
I used to work for an insurance company as a programmer. With a bachelors degree I was one of the most educated people there. I was NOT challenged to use my education. The stress came from office politics and the boss saying "whats your status." every hour. To produce reports for management, this just wasn't worth the stress. It paid well, but not worth all the stress.
So I recently moved on to a new job. It pays a lot less. The stress now comes from being challenged to do something that I feel is more worthwhile.
Your choice of how much stress you endure is related to what you think of as good stress or bad stress. When ever I'd complain about something at my previous job, a coworker would always say "It's just a paycheck.. It's just a paycheck"
Get a new job. A less stressful one. Chances are if your stressed out over what you are doing, you dont actually like what you are doing. If the stress bothers you that much, its time to look for something else.
I've noticed in IT jobs, the more you talk and interact with your coworkers in a positive and joking way, the less stressful the job is. When you sit there and stew over what your boss might say next, it gets stressful.
You might actually enjoy working as a web developer, but perhaps not at the company you are at now. Having fun with your coworkers can make the day go by a lot faster and be more enjoyable. Look elsewhere!
I meant fotons! not futons.... woops!
Thats some damn complicated stuff, there! I hope the technicians who fix the ATM machine know about phuton criptography. I may know how to program with code, but damned if i know how futons work!
If you are in the Northeast US, you can expect around $40,000. This is of course if you qualify for the position your applying to. Chances are if the company needs a programmer, they are going to spend a set amount and know they can get a certain set of skills. Anything below that amount and they can't expect to reliably get good candidates.
When group projects came around in college, someone always had a Visual C++ 6.0 CD available for people to use. Since most of the students used windows at home, it was the easiest way for people to have a common development environment. Especially if the project had GUIs, etc.