IAXM as well (though that doesn't really apply here...), but this argument oringally came from Army psychologist Lt Col David Grossman, who has been the flag-carrier for the whole anti-violent video game movement, if you want to call it that. He says that games like DOOM are murder simulators (and I paraphrase here) because the games teach the same killing techniques that the military does.
There was a school shooting, can't remember exactly where, where the kid shot and killed like 7 out of 8 of the students that he aimed for using the same methods that soldiers are taught. Witnesses said that while he was shooting, he had a blank expression, stood in one place with a sturdy stance, and fired exactly one shot at each target. This from a kid who had never touched a gun in his life prior to that morning. Grossman went on to say that this was how first-person shooters like DOOM and Quake teach one how to play: you stroll around corridors armed to the teeth, cleaning out room after room and firing at absolutely anything that moves.
This sounds a little chilling to a master Quake player like myself, but a little critical thinking dispells this entire notion. First, like the parent post mentions, sighting a 3D target and pulling the trigger on a gun is absolutely nothing like training your crosshairs on a demon in a 2D window and pressing the mouse button. Second, no FPS that I'm aware of lets you kill an enemy with one shot. (Exceptions: Quake when you happen to grab the Quad and Unreal when you aim for the head with the sniper rifle.) Third, in every FPS game out there, standing still and living are mutually exclusive.
The age is 17, and it is not yet illegal in the U.S. to play a game which is rated for an age group above your own.
Many stores (Toys R Us was the first) will not allow kids to buy M-rated games if they are below 17 and are not accompanied by an adult. It is not a law, and thus would not stand up as a valid argument against a lawsuit. The rating exists only so that parents can evaluate whether the game is fit for their children or not. It has no legal standing whatsoever.
I wish I had the exact statistic on hand, but just after after the columbine shootings, a survey revealed that something like 60% of parents pay no attention to the packaging or ratings on the games that they buy for their children. I think that if you want to sue a video game company for inciting your child to kill someone, then the burden of proof is upon you to show that the company in question secretly and knowingly snuck into your house and placed a copy of the extremely psychologically-damaging game into your child's video game collection.
I've been using MoinMoin for around 2 years now as a second brain. I have an absolutely horrible memory so anytime I run across any little bit of info that might be useful in the future, it gets tossed in the wiki. I have 167 pages now and most of them are linked to from the front page, so pretty soon it's going to be time to sort them out yahoo-style.
My biggest want with this system would be an easy way to store and manage technical documentation somehow with the wiki. I have a crapload of electronic books, articles, howtos, etc on a variety of topics but there's a multitude of different formats to deal with. There's a way to attach files to wiki pages, but that's not good enough. I want a system. I want to be able to say, "hmm, my knowledge of SSH tunneling is lacking, I'd better brush up on that" and then with a few clicks of the mouse and perhaps a few keystrokes, I'd get a list of everything in the database that pertains in some way to SSH tunneling.
I've tossed around the idea of writing my own database and frontend (possibly web-based) for this, and I've now got a pretty good idea of the overall framework, but I don't think I'll ever get the time to even start it.
This is pretty much what I do. I have a file server with the 1 OS drive (to boot and run from, obviously), 1 NFS export drive (for all of my important data), 1 drive that mirrors the previous drive, and 1 more drive to hold backups of the/home directories on the other couple of machines on the network.
This solution has worked like a charm for me. The real workhorse is rdiff-backup, which when thrown into a crontab, does automatic daily incremental backups of everything mentioned above without any intervention at all. Quick tip: you can use hdparm in Linux to literally turn off drives that are only used once a day to help save some wear and tear on them, plus electricity.
That's what I thought too, so I waited until it was dark and then went outside to view the stars... Too bad the Walmart half a mile away had a generator. Their bright parking lot lights illuminated half the sky, making stargazing futile.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec 1681-1681u www.ftc.gov) says that a person is entitled to request one free credit report every twelve months if:
unemployed and plan to seek employment within 60 days
report is innacurate due to fraud
That first one is always your best bet if you just want a free report. Even if you are employed, I wonder if they have any way of knowing? You might be able to claim that you were just laid off last week, for instance.
I am in the military and I can say that this is mostly true. (Actually, all military members *did* get their very own serial number, but that was changed at some point to the SSN to make paperwork easier. I'm sure that the change was before identity theft became as big an issue as it is today.)
Stolen identities are rampant in the military partly for the reasons the parent described but also because the identity thieves wait until the victim is overseas to pounce since it's impossible to correct the situation until the member gets back home. Those with families are especially vulerable since they rely on that member's income and credit for their day-to-day living.
The Air Force now strongly suggests that members place bank accounts and bills in their spouses' names and put some kind of temporary hold on the use of their credit cards while they are away.
One note to those who would follow the advice of the parent post: Be extremely careful about soldering wires and contact to batteries. You shouldn't even try to solder anything to button cells. Batteries can and will explode when they get too hot. This is why they say not to toss them into a fire. (Yes, they solder battery contacts together to form packs in a factory, but something tells me they know a little bit more about the process than your average Joe Blow wielding a soldering iron.)
very cool but can I make my own plane and then play with the wingfoil design (and see how quickly I crash)?
Yes.
Anyone know the format or what is used to create the 'aircraft design data' that gets processed real-time? I'm assuming it requires a high-res model of the plane and a fancy windtunnel simulator.
I'm not sure what you mean by "format", but X-Plane comes with its own aircraft editing program. And it's not limited to fixed-wing either, you can design just about anything that goes into the air (helicopters, blimps, gliders, RC aircraft). One thing about X-Plane is that you only design the plane once. X-Plane uses the information you provide to the plane editor to both model and plane in 3D and work out its flight characterists inside the sim. There's no way, for example, to put 6" wings on a 747 and then tell the sim that those wings will generate 9 million pounds of lift at 300 knots.
Check out the X-Plane demo at http://www.x-plane.com. It's identical to the full version except that your joystick gets disabled after 6 minutes or so. All of the various editors (plane, airfoil, scenery) come with it as well.
Heh. News outlets, anti-virus vendors, and bloggers spring up today and announce this new, devestating new Microsoft worm.
I've been dealing with the damn thing for the better part of a month now. It sucks just a wee bit to pull multiple 130k attachments through my dialup connection every time I simply want to check my email. Linux users are NOT immune. They just can't further propagate it.
I do. Well, I don't download and build every single release (I'm on dialup, after all), I'll build a new release if I'm putting Mozilla on a new machine or overhauling my desktop. Why? Anti-aliased fonts. Once I downloaded (and got used to) the free Vera fonts, I like Mozilla's fonts far better than IE's. Mozilla still doesn't have a prebuilt version linked against Xft. Yeah, I could do Dropline GNOME or one of the like, but I don't want to step into dependency hell.
Unfortunately, I lost the notes that I used to use to guide me through the build process, so I guess I'll have to rebuild them by spending a few hours with 1.4.:P
First, you have to realize that the Apple tax is completely different from the Microsoft tax.
With the Microsoft tax, you pay an extra $90 for the operating system on top of the cost of the hardware and the price markup of the retail vendor. I consider it a "tax" because I neither want nor use Microsoft's software yet I must pay for it if I want to buy the manufactured machine. If you actually use Windows on the new computer, then fine, $90 is actually a discount compared to the $200 retail version of Windows, plus it's already installed for you. But to people like me, it's a tax.
The Apple tax is different. People don't buy Macs because for the same reason they buy a Wintel machine. The reasons vary wildly of course, but some of the common ones are that they like the features, the physical design of the machine, the operating system, ease of use, or they just like Apple's public image. Whatever the reason, these people are willing to pay a premium for their Macs. This premium is the Apple tax. There's only one company that makes them, and Apple takes full advantage of this by pricing their machines far above the average Wintel machine with nearly equivalent performance and features. The Apple tax is different from the Microsoft tax in that it scales with the overall price of the machine: the bigger the hardware, the larger the tax.
To combat the Microsoft tax, I build my own machines. Every last one. I put free operating systems on them because I'm more comfortable with Linux and FreeBSD than with either Windows 2000 or XP. There's currently no good way to get around the Apple tax, save piecing together your own from spare parts (which is apparently illegal for the parts distributors). But I sure wish there were, because I would love to give OS X a shot one of these days. I secretly covet one of those sexy 17" Powerbooks, but they are well outside of my price range and probably will be for decades to come.
The following project is close to what you describe.
http://www.ipcop.org
While I haven't yet put it into production use, I've played with it a bit and am extremely impresed. It has the following features:
* all of around 20MB in size
* does everything iptables can do
* controlled through a slick web interface (or ssh, if enabled)
* plays well with modems
* web proxy
* VPN
* checks for updates on its own (but won't download them)
* NTP
* intrusion detection (Snort)
* backup configuration to floppy
The biggest disadvantage is that it must be installed to a hard disk. This is probably because with all those features you either have to have a hard disk or a whole lot of memory. The hard-disk route enables lower-end machines (like my P166 with 48M of memory) to run IPCop. To ease the pain, installation is an absolute cinch.
I'm imagining that it wouldn't be too difficult to patch IPCop such that whenever the CD is booted up AND there's a configuration floppy in the drive, IPCop would automatically reinstall itself per the configuration on the floppy and reboot to a working system. It wouldn't surprise me too much if it already does this.:)
I've seen this exact same scenario play itself time and time again. Not in the open-source community (who aren't usually prone to whining anyway), but in the emulation community. Console and computer emulator authors often tend to be some of the brightest programmers on the planet, but unfortunately, they also seem to be some of the most immature. Back when I was big into the emulation scene, I would see about one exciting and promising project every few months come to a screeching halt because the authors grew sick of all the rom requests, disrepect, insults, or what have you.
I don't know where Mr. Cinege gets off insulting his users because he didn't have the foresight to figure out a way to make money from his efforts. But I can say one thing, this Linux Router Project will be the last open-source effort he'll ever spearhead. People are going to remember this and he, in particular, will be remembered for his actions. It's one thing to put up a page declaring the end of a project that you can't support anymore or have grown tired of, it'a quite another to lambast your users and the whole open-source community in general. Those who do the latter tend to fade into obscurity and not come back.
Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT buy any rom collections. Almost without exception, anyone that you might find selling emulator roms is doing so illegally. Especially the dimwits on eBay. Full and complete MAME romsets are available on the net if you look hard enough. There are several highly active newsgroups where complete romsets are posted regularly for almost every system imaginable. I know of at least one IRC channel where a few weeks' worth of downloading can get you just about every game released for every console, computer, and arcade game that existed. (Even a few newer ones like PSX, Dreamcast, and PS2.)
If spending all of your free time downloading isn't your style, then you might look for someone who will burn you a copy of their collection. This is especially prevalient within the online MAME community.
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I myself only took Ritalin a few times, and I hated the way it affected me.
I had a similar experience when I was in the 10th grade. At the time, I was doing horrible in school (hey, it was boring and the people there all sucked) and my divorced mother and I had a mutual hate for each other. She'd nag and yell at me constantly and I would break things. So she made me go see a psychiatrist. A bad one, at that. After about 3 hours of tests and ridiculous open-ended questions (spread out over 3 weekends) he came to the novel conclusion that I had ADD, as it was called at that time, and prescribed to me ritalin.
Hooboy, that was fun stuff. Hard to describe what it felt like... the effect didn't last very long, maybe only about an hour and a half. I remember that my first class in the morning was economics or something. Without Ritalin: The normal routine was for the teacher to read the chapter for the day out loud to the class directly from the book and then give us the homework assignment which usually took the rest of class to complete. With Ritalin: I would totally ignore the class by reading one of my computer books instead and when the homework was assigned, I'd do that in all of 5-10 minutes and sit there for the rest of the class period admiring the trees outside or the periodic table of elements on the wall.
Pretty weird stuff. I stopped taking it after a week and half because a) it seriously started freaking me out and b) my scores on my economics homework were starting to approach the F side of the scale. I've never met anyone who had the quite same experience with Ritalin that I did, but most of all I'm glad that I figured out for myself that the psychiatrist was a crackpot and that I do not have, and have never had, ADD or any of its forms.
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If you download Samba 3, (or any of the rc's, like I did), then you don't need to "get" it, it's already there.
If musicals have taglines the way movies do, the tagline for this one should be:
"Bring out your dead!"
How else are they going to get ticket sales?
IAXM as well (though that doesn't really apply here...), but this argument oringally came from Army psychologist Lt Col David Grossman, who has been the flag-carrier for the whole anti-violent video game movement, if you want to call it that. He says that games like DOOM are murder simulators (and I paraphrase here) because the games teach the same killing techniques that the military does.
There was a school shooting, can't remember exactly where, where the kid shot and killed like 7 out of 8 of the students that he aimed for using the same methods that soldiers are taught. Witnesses said that while he was shooting, he had a blank expression, stood in one place with a sturdy stance, and fired exactly one shot at each target. This from a kid who had never touched a gun in his life prior to that morning. Grossman went on to say that this was how first-person shooters like DOOM and Quake teach one how to play: you stroll around corridors armed to the teeth, cleaning out room after room and firing at absolutely anything that moves.
This sounds a little chilling to a master Quake player like myself, but a little critical thinking dispells this entire notion. First, like the parent post mentions, sighting a 3D target and pulling the trigger on a gun is absolutely nothing like training your crosshairs on a demon in a 2D window and pressing the mouse button. Second, no FPS that I'm aware of lets you kill an enemy with one shot. (Exceptions: Quake when you happen to grab the Quad and Unreal when you aim for the head with the sniper rifle.) Third, in every FPS game out there, standing still and living are mutually exclusive.
The age is 17, and it is not yet illegal in the U.S. to play a game which is rated for an age group above your own.
Many stores (Toys R Us was the first) will not allow kids to buy M-rated games if they are below 17 and are not accompanied by an adult. It is not a law, and thus would not stand up as a valid argument against a lawsuit. The rating exists only so that parents can evaluate whether the game is fit for their children or not. It has no legal standing whatsoever.
I wish I had the exact statistic on hand, but just after after the columbine shootings, a survey revealed that something like 60% of parents pay no attention to the packaging or ratings on the games that they buy for their children. I think that if you want to sue a video game company for inciting your child to kill someone, then the burden of proof is upon you to show that the company in question secretly and knowingly snuck into your house and placed a copy of the extremely psychologically-damaging game into your child's video game collection.
Then you might have a case.
I've been using MoinMoin for around 2 years now as a second brain. I have an absolutely horrible memory so anytime I run across any little bit of info that might be useful in the future, it gets tossed in the wiki. I have 167 pages now and most of them are linked to from the front page, so pretty soon it's going to be time to sort them out yahoo-style.
My biggest want with this system would be an easy way to store and manage technical documentation somehow with the wiki. I have a crapload of electronic books, articles, howtos, etc on a variety of topics but there's a multitude of different formats to deal with. There's a way to attach files to wiki pages, but that's not good enough. I want a system. I want to be able to say, "hmm, my knowledge of SSH tunneling is lacking, I'd better brush up on that" and then with a few clicks of the mouse and perhaps a few keystrokes, I'd get a list of everything in the database that pertains in some way to SSH tunneling.
I've tossed around the idea of writing my own database and frontend (possibly web-based) for this, and I've now got a pretty good idea of the overall framework, but I don't think I'll ever get the time to even start it.
Some more that I've noticed:
apache.org
k-meleon.com
Several European OpenOffice.org sites
fvwm.org
The Slackware and KDE sites are also supposedly taking a part in this, but their pages are still up at of 9:15AM EST.
This is pretty much what I do. I have a file server with the 1 OS drive (to boot and run from, obviously), 1 NFS export drive (for all of my important data), 1 drive that mirrors the previous drive, and 1 more drive to hold backups of the
This solution has worked like a charm for me. The real workhorse is rdiff-backup, which when thrown into a crontab, does automatic daily incremental backups of everything mentioned above without any intervention at all. Quick tip: you can use hdparm in Linux to literally turn off drives that are only used once a day to help save some wear and tear on them, plus electricity.
That's what I thought too, so I waited until it was dark and then went outside to view the stars... Too bad the Walmart half a mile away had a generator. Their bright parking lot lights illuminated half the sky, making stargazing futile.
Additionally:
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec 1681-1681u www.ftc.gov) says that a person is entitled to request one free credit report every twelve months if:
That first one is always your best bet if you just want a free report. Even if you are employed, I wonder if they have any way of knowing? You might be able to claim that you were just laid off last week, for instance.
I am in the military and I can say that this is mostly true. (Actually, all military members *did* get their very own serial number, but that was changed at some point to the SSN to make paperwork easier. I'm sure that the change was before identity theft became as big an issue as it is today.)
Stolen identities are rampant in the military partly for the reasons the parent described but also because the identity thieves wait until the victim is overseas to pounce since it's impossible to correct the situation until the member gets back home. Those with families are especially vulerable since they rely on that member's income and credit for their day-to-day living.
The Air Force now strongly suggests that members place bank accounts and bills in their spouses' names and put some kind of temporary hold on the use of their credit cards while they are away.
One note to those who would follow the advice of the parent post: Be extremely careful about soldering wires and contact to batteries. You shouldn't even try to solder anything to button cells. Batteries can and will explode when they get too hot. This is why they say not to toss them into a fire. (Yes, they solder battery contacts together to form packs in a factory, but something tells me they know a little bit more about the process than your average Joe Blow wielding a soldering iron.)
I'm not familiar with Sun hardware, but perhaps try 'IMPS/2' for the mouse type in XF86Config.
very cool but can I make my own plane and then play with the wingfoil design (and see how quickly I crash)?
Yes.
Anyone know the format or what is used to create the 'aircraft design data' that gets processed real-time? I'm assuming it requires a high-res model of the plane and a fancy windtunnel simulator.
I'm not sure what you mean by "format", but X-Plane comes with its own aircraft editing program. And it's not limited to fixed-wing either, you can design just about anything that goes into the air (helicopters, blimps, gliders, RC aircraft). One thing about X-Plane is that you only design the plane once. X-Plane uses the information you provide to the plane editor to both model and plane in 3D and work out its flight characterists inside the sim. There's no way, for example, to put 6" wings on a 747 and then tell the sim that those wings will generate 9 million pounds of lift at 300 knots.
Check out the X-Plane demo at http://www.x-plane.com. It's identical to the full version except that your joystick gets disabled after 6 minutes or so. All of the various editors (plane, airfoil, scenery) come with it as well.
From headline:
'70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There'
That's just a rough estimate, right?
[bada-bing.]
FYI and completely OT...
Stinky Wizzleteats (probably not his real name) who performed the Happy Happy Joy Joy song on Ren and Stimpy.
That's right, I'll TEACH ya to be happy! I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
Heh. News outlets, anti-virus vendors, and bloggers spring up today and announce this new, devestating new Microsoft worm.
I've been dealing with the damn thing for the better part of a month now. It sucks just a wee bit to pull multiple 130k attachments through my dialup connection every time I simply want to check my email. Linux users are NOT immune. They just can't further propagate it.
It can't just be me who considers the mom joke to be the height of humor...Can it?...Anyone?
Mom jokes. Height of humor. Right, then. Now if you'll just stand there for a moment, this will be painless for the both of us.
[A gunshot strikes the damp night and its echos fade quickly.]
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I do. Well, I don't download and build every single release (I'm on dialup, after all), I'll build a new release if I'm putting Mozilla on a new machine or overhauling my desktop. Why? Anti-aliased fonts. Once I downloaded (and got used to) the free Vera fonts, I like Mozilla's fonts far better than IE's. Mozilla still doesn't have a prebuilt version linked against Xft. Yeah, I could do Dropline GNOME or one of the like, but I don't want to step into dependency hell.
Unfortunately, I lost the notes that I used to use to guide me through the build process, so I guess I'll have to rebuild them by spending a few hours with 1.4.
First, you have to realize that the Apple tax is completely different from the Microsoft tax.
With the Microsoft tax, you pay an extra $90 for the operating system on top of the cost of the hardware and the price markup of the retail vendor. I consider it a "tax" because I neither want nor use Microsoft's software yet I must pay for it if I want to buy the manufactured machine. If you actually use Windows on the new computer, then fine, $90 is actually a discount compared to the $200 retail version of Windows, plus it's already installed for you. But to people like me, it's a tax.
The Apple tax is different. People don't buy Macs because for the same reason they buy a Wintel machine. The reasons vary wildly of course, but some of the common ones are that they like the features, the physical design of the machine, the operating system, ease of use, or they just like Apple's public image. Whatever the reason, these people are willing to pay a premium for their Macs. This premium is the Apple tax. There's only one company that makes them, and Apple takes full advantage of this by pricing their machines far above the average Wintel machine with nearly equivalent performance and features. The Apple tax is different from the Microsoft tax in that it scales with the overall price of the machine: the bigger the hardware, the larger the tax.
To combat the Microsoft tax, I build my own machines. Every last one. I put free operating systems on them because I'm more comfortable with Linux and FreeBSD than with either Windows 2000 or XP. There's currently no good way to get around the Apple tax, save piecing together your own from spare parts (which is apparently illegal for the parts distributors). But I sure wish there were, because I would love to give OS X a shot one of these days. I secretly covet one of those sexy 17" Powerbooks, but they are well outside of my price range and probably will be for decades to come.
The following project is close to what you describe.
http://www.ipcop.org
While I haven't yet put it into production use, I've played with it a bit and am extremely impresed. It has the following features:
* all of around 20MB in size
* does everything iptables can do
* controlled through a slick web interface (or ssh, if enabled)
* plays well with modems
* web proxy
* VPN
* checks for updates on its own (but won't download them)
* NTP
* intrusion detection (Snort)
* backup configuration to floppy
The biggest disadvantage is that it must be installed to a hard disk. This is probably because with all those features you either have to have a hard disk or a whole lot of memory. The hard-disk route enables lower-end machines (like my P166 with 48M of memory) to run IPCop. To ease the pain, installation is an absolute cinch.
I'm imagining that it wouldn't be too difficult to patch IPCop such that whenever the CD is booted up AND there's a configuration floppy in the drive, IPCop would automatically reinstall itself per the configuration on the floppy and reboot to a working system. It wouldn't surprise me too much if it already does this.
I've seen this exact same scenario play itself time and time again. Not in the open-source community (who aren't usually prone to whining anyway), but in the emulation community. Console and computer emulator authors often tend to be some of the brightest programmers on the planet, but unfortunately, they also seem to be some of the most immature. Back when I was big into the emulation scene, I would see about one exciting and promising project every few months come to a screeching halt because the authors grew sick of all the rom requests, disrepect, insults, or what have you.
I don't know where Mr. Cinege gets off insulting his users because he didn't have the foresight to figure out a way to make money from his efforts. But I can say one thing, this Linux Router Project will be the last open-source effort he'll ever spearhead. People are going to remember this and he, in particular, will be remembered for his actions. It's one thing to put up a page declaring the end of a project that you can't support anymore or have grown tired of, it'a quite another to lambast your users and the whole open-source community in general. Those who do the latter tend to fade into obscurity and not come back.
Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT buy any rom collections. Almost without exception, anyone that you might find selling emulator roms is doing so illegally. Especially the dimwits on eBay. Full and complete MAME romsets are available on the net if you look hard enough. There are several highly active newsgroups where complete romsets are posted regularly for almost every system imaginable. I know of at least one IRC channel where a few weeks' worth of downloading can get you just about every game released for every console, computer, and arcade game that existed. (Even a few newer ones like PSX, Dreamcast, and PS2.)
If spending all of your free time downloading isn't your style, then you might look for someone who will burn you a copy of their collection. This is especially prevalient within the online MAME community.
Happy hunting!
Workaround: use IE for pr0n.
I myself only took Ritalin a few times, and I hated the way it affected me.
I had a similar experience when I was in the 10th grade. At the time, I was doing horrible in school (hey, it was boring and the people there all sucked) and my divorced mother and I had a mutual hate for each other. She'd nag and yell at me constantly and I would break things. So she made me go see a psychiatrist. A bad one, at that. After about 3 hours of tests and ridiculous open-ended questions (spread out over 3 weekends) he came to the novel conclusion that I had ADD, as it was called at that time, and prescribed to me ritalin.
Hooboy, that was fun stuff. Hard to describe what it felt like... the effect didn't last very long, maybe only about an hour and a half. I remember that my first class in the morning was economics or something. Without Ritalin: The normal routine was for the teacher to read the chapter for the day out loud to the class directly from the book and then give us the homework assignment which usually took the rest of class to complete. With Ritalin: I would totally ignore the class by reading one of my computer books instead and when the homework was assigned, I'd do that in all of 5-10 minutes and sit there for the rest of the class period admiring the trees outside or the periodic table of elements on the wall.
Pretty weird stuff. I stopped taking it after a week and half because a) it seriously started freaking me out and b) my scores on my economics homework were starting to approach the F side of the scale. I've never met anyone who had the quite same experience with Ritalin that I did, but most of all I'm glad that I figured out for myself that the psychiatrist was a crackpot and that I do not have, and have never had, ADD or any of its forms.
You know, flame all you want but we all know everyone started in this programming language.
I didn't.