Although it creates a new process, the DLLs that IE uses (which contain all controls that IE uses, including HTML parsing) _are_ loaded when Windows starts. With MFC/VC++ I can create an app that uses those same controls. If you use the MFC classes CInternetSession, CInternetConnection (or CHttpConnection) to download files in an application (which simplifies it quite a bit), if IE is locked up, those _system_ functions (atleast wrapped by the system, they are in "\winnt\system32\browseui.dll" and other similar dlls) will block your app forever.
As far as the "quick" loading of Microsoft Office, take a look at the startup group of the system. That "Microsoft Office" icon _is_ the preloading of Office. It loads the DLL(s) as soon as you boot (or log in if you're running NT).
And IE's "excellent" CSS2 support does not abide by standards. As a web developer, I know this. It does things similar to what it does to HTML, it's not as strict as it should be and allows you to do things that are _wrong_, for instance, using "font-style" to turn on bold when you should use "font-weight". It looks fine in IE but when you open the same page in Netscape 4.x/6 it does not. The developer thinks and says that Netscape is at fault. The developer is at fault, and IE is at fault for not adhering to the CSS2 spec.
I'm certainly not denying that Netscape 4.x was/is poorly written.;)
I'm replying in the hope that you read responses to your posts on your user page... As I said, crediting the author and quoting ("citing") their work is not illegal. My reply was not about DeCSS (and this article and this thread are not about DeCSS!), the question was "Should html linking not be treated (legally) in the same way as references and citations are in printed books and journals?" The answer to this question is no. HTML linking does not relate in any way to having a reference to another text (e.g. "see I.P. Freely's Yellow Rivers, pp. 132-190 for more information."). This is not telling you where to get the book, but where in the book you will find it. Perhaps telling a person "you can find it on slashdot.org, under/comments.pl?sid=Microsoft" would be the same, but this is not a link.
Re:Tax is necessary - direct taxation very bad?
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Is it have everyone in the country pay the same amount of taxes, based on the amount of goods they buy, or is it better to take 30% of the middle class person's income, 1% of the rich person's income and -40% of the poor person's income? That's right, the poor people get "taxes" back from the government in the US.
I heard once that the IRS cost the country $6 billion to collect $5 in taxes one year. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that a sales/use tax is MUCH cheaper to administer that a direct income tax. Everyone has to prove how much they made and the IRS has to confirm it, calculate how much tax the person has to pay based on THOUSANDS of factors, most of them completely irrelevant as to how much the person costs the country. In addition, 1 out of 6 people do not report taxes becaus they are 'illegal aliens' or are criminals. With a sales tax, those people are taxed when they buy things. Because local municaplities already collect taxes for things sold in that state/county/city, vendors would not have any extra work, they would simply break up the amount and send a check to the federal gov. in addition. Because it requires no work on the part of the consumer, it would eliminate a whole lot of money the government spends enforcing the tax laws on the consumer side. Check out the web sites devoted to the general sales tax. You will see what I'm talking about. Of course, paying $5-6 for gas is quite high (and an exaguration on your part), but when you pay 33% of your income, how much is $2 for gas really?
True, when you think about it--if the data travels across the state, they certainly are taxing the company that own the fiber and equipment. You're absolutely right. If it doesn't use the road or polute the air or do any of the other things that the state needs to fund/fix, why should they charge a tax for it? Hopefully they won't propose (or approve) something as shortsighted as that.
Well, not just protection. Police, roads, utilities (which are gov-funded in part in the US atleast), telephone regulation (keep prices down, keep competition up), the very thing that the DoJ is doing with Microsoft and did with AT&T, these are all provided by the government in the US.
I assume that there are equivalent services that the governments provide in the EU that need to be funded. A tax is not the only way to make money, but is certainly the least evil way. Can you imagine the goverment getting money solely from running businesses? Conflicts of interest would quickly come about when a commercial competitor gets in trouble.
Direct taxation (such as the IRS in the US) is a very bad thing. Governments need money to run. We need governments to protect us. (Assuming they are doing their job.)
If all of the sales are being made online, the government(s) need to do something to get revenue. Lack of tax is NOT why I buy things online, I look for the selection, ability to price things (and get price quotes from more than one place), and the large inventory (inherent for a company that sells online-they keep all the stock in one "place").
Even going to the local supply house (Graybar, for instance), they don't have half of the stuff I need and they have it shipped from other locations. I generally have it the next day.
My conclusion: Taxes are necessary, and will not harm the online economy.
I simply don't have time to respond to your points, but I want to point out that all of your concerns have been addresses in previous articles. Simply go to the "Older Stuff" link on the navigation bar and look for recent Microsoft related articles.
You mean like referring to another (legal) publication? No. Providing a link to an illegal copy of a copyrighted work is not the same as citing part of the work and giving credit to the original author, or telling the reader to look up another publication. I assume this is what you mean. IANAL.
Also, don't forget that in the MPAA lawsuit, they were asking the judge to make it illegal to link to a site that links to decss. I'm too lazy to find the document now, but it was something like:
"Instead of clicking twice to get to it, the person has to click twice, and click twice again."
Apparently the lawyer is one of those lusers who double-clicks on everything, including links. Anyway, what they are trying to do is make it illegal to link to a site that links to decss. This would _not_ include search engines, unless the link to the engine includes the search string in the URL. A site only one click removed from the actual download would be in legal trouble for making decss available.
This is obviously scary in and of itself. Think about the legal precedent being set if they win...
DeCSS cannot be used to copy DVDs. Once you have decrypted the information stored on the disc, if you put the MPEG onto a disc, no DVD player will play it. DeCSS can, however, be used to get a digital copy of the MOVIE off of the disc. This can be done by other means, all of which lower the quality of the movie. However, since you must compress the movie to get it to fit on a VCD or to be downloaded, the quality is lost in that stage instead. DeCSS does not make it easier to copy or pirate AT ALL. Although this is a matter of semantics, I think that those of us that write about this need to make this clear in our writings. Don't forget that the press does occasionally read slashdot.
True, GCC and MSVC are not considered the very best compliers, but they are by far the most popular compilers. Also, while run-time optimization can improve performance quite a bit, so compile-time optimization should improve it. It's very interesting to me how run-time optimization in some cases actually worsened performance.
I use Ortronics jacks for termination, but there are at least a dozen brands. Check out the Graybar catalog (their online catalog sucks).
a) Category 5 cabling, pick your color. Comes in 1000 ft boxes. Also, if you will be running the cable in ductwork (such as return air or hot air ducts), building code may require that you use Plenum cable, which is about twice as expensive. Don't laugh, apparently it's fire resistant and smokes less.
c) A patch panel. Again, Ortronics and many other companies make them, and you don't have use the same brand as the jack ends (as long as they have the same standard pinouts).
That's really all of the supplies. As far as tools, diagonal cutters for the cable and a punch-down tool for termination. And a drill, etc. for the house.
I bought a CHEAP 8-port 10Base-T hub over a year ago for $37 from CDW, now you can get a 10/100 8-port hub for $90. Depends on what you want--but I suggest 10/100 NICs so that you can upgrade cheaply in the future. No reason not to.
Read the Motorola press release. My biggest gripe with software modems is the processor time they use, platform compatibility aside. Hell, a Cisco 675 DSL-to-Ethernet modem isn't that expensive, my phone company gives 'em away with a 12-month ($39/month) contract (including ISP and half-T1 speed).
Go back and read the article. Symlinks are new to W2K, but a system that USES the symlinks is new technology. It looks for identical files and stores only one copy of the file, linking to it. If one of the files is changed, it de-links it and creates an actual file for it. It's a good idea because of the way dlls are spread across the system, making way for identical libraries to be stored more than once. I'm not sure that this would be useful in a *nix environment because of the way libraries are stored in one or more specific location(s) in the first place. I'm a Linux advocate, but atleast I READ THE ARTICLE and understand what it is before I cite it as more Microsoft crap.
Re:It just looks bad to extroverts
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I agree. When I was in school, computer use was considered antisocial. I don't recall now at what point it stopped being antisocial and it became impressive. Now if someone finds out I 'work with' computers, they always have a question for me and want to chat for extended periods of time. But I haven't seen less of my friends/family because of it (until Q3A came out;). But I always miss being with a computer and think, "I could look that up on ______ site..." every time I get into an interesting conversation. Oh ya, and all of the 'interesting' conversations involve computers and/or the Internet. But I go camping (without my laptop sometimes) and help out at church and renovate my house as well. But hell, that's just me...
"e-Network" translation: electronic network Holy shlt!! Can't people come up with something that doesn't start with e or i!?!!?! This is getting mind-numbing! The marketing departments don't have a clue what they are naming, and PHBs buying the stuff don't know what they are buying. But if it says "e" in front of it, it must be "high-tech". Back to that commercial for ITT Technical Institute: "Have you ever worked with anything... high-tech?" Me: "You mean like a phone?"
Don't forget.net as well. There has been a proliferation of domains using the.net TLD for blatantly commercial non-Internet service related sites. Perhaps combining meta-tags and a category-defining and perhaps enforcing orginization would be a good thing. Directories would categorize pages using the category, and a person could search excluding or within categories. This would eliminate pornography sites from "family-friendly" searches, and make it easier to find pr0n for those who are looking for it. TLDs are part of this solution, but are being abused and really aren't specific enough to categorize sites. Also, a domain may contain multiple web servers, each containing a different category of information, and each server may contain pages fitting in multiple categories.
If anyone is interested in starting this, I'm definitely interested in helping. It would _have_ to be OS.
I reviewed the cnet article, which is pretty good in most respects. My notes: - There is considerable focus on the processer clock speed, without mentioning the fact that it morphs instructions to run them. This reduces the number of instructions, and therefore clock ticks to complete the same amount as a 'traditional' x86 processor. - They make no mention of the fact that the processors aren't necessarily competitors only in the x86 market. They can run many other processor's instruction sets. - Interesting that they didn't mention the Linus/Linux link to Transmeta and the fact that Linux has already been written specifically for the platform. Also, that the 5400 will run Windows but is not yet in production. Interesting.
When he mentioned BellLabs, he mentioned Unix being good! When he mentioned the PC, he said IBM, Apple, and Amiga. But he didn't say anything about Microsoft or DOS. When he said the electric hand dryer, I thought "WTF", but then I realized: It saves trees, reduces waste (probably reduces energy used/wasted as well), it's supposed to be cleaner than towels (since you don't touch anything). But everyone (including myself) hate them! Let's get some conscience.;)
...Intel's latest Coppermine PIIIs have high clock speeds plus a 256KB on-chip secondary cache--and this addition to the PIII design is responsible for supercharging Microsoft Office apps. What does this mean!?!? No other apps are supercharged by it? Only the Coppermine P3 supercharges M$Office?
First quarter: 800-MHz AMD Athlon Second quarter: 800-MHz Intel Pentium III Late second quarter: Intel 64-bit Itanium processors for workstations and servers Late second quarter: Intel Timna for bargain PCs, Via chips for bargain PCs Fourth quarter: 1-GHz AMD Athlon, 1-GHz Intel Willamette Does it strike anyone else as odd that Intel is a quarter behind AMD now but they are promising the 1 Ghz processor at the same time? Sure, they could catch up, but I don't think they will so quickly.
Me, I'll stick with AMD. They make the upgrades I'm putting into my old systems, and they are making the Socket 7 processors that are inexpensive as hell. How about $160 to replace a motherboard and put in a 400Mhz K6-2!!! Not a gamer's box, sure, but one hell of a system for my home office users to check e-mail and browse the web!
...a mental disorder is a physical disorder. Scientific studies have shown this. No scientific study has proven conclusively that we are nothing but meat. Believe it or not, most people believe that they are spiritual beings, not a body. They want to go to Heaven when their body dies. Almost every religion in every culture has some form of that belief.
Other studies have shown, for example, that people with ADD cannot properly activate the part of the brain that is associated with concentrating. No study has ever proven even what part of the brain does what. The scientists who study the brain haven't a clue what part does what, and some aren't afraid to admit it.
Would you say that people with diabetes or high blood pressure just need to change the way that they they think? Actually, many doctors do just that. People who meditate or do similar things frequently help chronic illnesses.
...a conscious effort to do this on their part will certainly help with their recovery. If you believe all that you say, then why would a conscious effort help at all?
Slashdot Mirror
I can see your code!! ;)
Although it creates a new process, the DLLs that IE uses (which contain all controls that IE uses, including HTML parsing) _are_ loaded when Windows starts.
;)
With MFC/VC++ I can create an app that uses those same controls. If you use the MFC classes CInternetSession, CInternetConnection (or CHttpConnection) to download files in an application (which simplifies it quite a bit), if IE is locked up, those _system_ functions (atleast wrapped by the system, they are in "\winnt\system32\browseui.dll" and other similar dlls) will block your app forever.
As far as the "quick" loading of Microsoft Office, take a look at the startup group of the system. That "Microsoft Office" icon _is_ the preloading of Office. It loads the DLL(s) as soon as you boot (or log in if you're running NT).
And IE's "excellent" CSS2 support does not abide by standards. As a web developer, I know this. It does things similar to what it does to HTML, it's not as strict as it should be and allows you to do things that are _wrong_, for instance, using "font-style" to turn on bold when you should use "font-weight". It looks fine in IE but when you open the same page in Netscape 4.x/6 it does not. The developer thinks and says that Netscape is at fault. The developer is at fault, and IE is at fault for not adhering to the CSS2 spec.
I'm certainly not denying that Netscape 4.x was/is poorly written.
I'm replying in the hope that you read responses to your posts on your user page... /comments.pl?sid=Microsoft" would be the same, but this is not a link.
As I said, crediting the author and quoting ("citing") their work is not illegal.
My reply was not about DeCSS (and this article and this thread are not about DeCSS!), the question was "Should html linking not be treated (legally) in the same way as references and citations are in printed books and journals?" The answer to this question is no. HTML linking does not relate in any way to having a reference to another text (e.g. "see I.P. Freely's Yellow Rivers, pp. 132-190 for more information."). This is not telling you where to get the book, but where in the book you will find it. Perhaps telling a person "you can find it on slashdot.org, under
Is it have everyone in the country pay the same amount of taxes, based on the amount of goods they buy, or is it better to take 30% of the middle class person's income, 1% of the rich person's income and -40% of the poor person's income? That's right, the poor people get "taxes" back from the government in the US.
I heard once that the IRS cost the country $6 billion to collect $5 in taxes one year. I don't know if that's true, but I do know that a sales/use tax is MUCH cheaper to administer that a direct income tax. Everyone has to prove how much they made and the IRS has to confirm it, calculate how much tax the person has to pay based on THOUSANDS of factors, most of them completely irrelevant as to how much the person costs the country. In addition, 1 out of 6 people do not report taxes becaus they are 'illegal aliens' or are criminals. With a sales tax, those people are taxed when they buy things.
Because local municaplities already collect taxes for things sold in that state/county/city, vendors would not have any extra work, they would simply break up the amount and send a check to the federal gov. in addition. Because it requires no work on the part of the consumer, it would eliminate a whole lot of money the government spends enforcing the tax laws on the consumer side.
Check out the web sites devoted to the general sales tax. You will see what I'm talking about.
Of course, paying $5-6 for gas is quite high (and an exaguration on your part), but when you pay 33% of your income, how much is $2 for gas really?
Gotta run.
True, when you think about it--if the data travels across the state, they certainly are taxing the company that own the fiber and equipment.
You're absolutely right. If it doesn't use the road or polute the air or do any of the other things that the state needs to fund/fix, why should they charge a tax for it? Hopefully they won't propose (or approve) something as shortsighted as that.
Well, not just protection.
Police, roads, utilities (which are gov-funded in part in the US atleast), telephone regulation (keep prices down, keep competition up), the very thing that the DoJ is doing with Microsoft and did with AT&T, these are all provided by the government in the US.
I assume that there are equivalent services that the governments provide in the EU that need to be funded. A tax is not the only way to make money, but is certainly the least evil way. Can you imagine the goverment getting money solely from running businesses? Conflicts of interest would quickly come about when a commercial competitor gets in trouble.
Direct taxation (such as the IRS in the US) is a very bad thing. Governments need money to run. We need governments to protect us. (Assuming they are doing their job.)
If all of the sales are being made online, the government(s) need to do something to get revenue. Lack of tax is NOT why I buy things online, I look for the selection, ability to price things (and get price quotes from more than one place), and the large inventory (inherent for a company that sells online-they keep all the stock in one "place").
Even going to the local supply house (Graybar, for instance), they don't have half of the stuff I need and they have it shipped from other locations. I generally have it the next day.
My conclusion: Taxes are necessary, and will not harm the online economy.
I simply don't have time to respond to your points, but I want to point out that all of your concerns have been addresses in previous articles. Simply go to the "Older Stuff" link on the navigation bar and look for recent Microsoft related articles.
You mean like referring to another (legal) publication? No.
Providing a link to an illegal copy of a copyrighted work is not the same as citing part of the work and giving credit to the original author, or telling the reader to look up another publication.
I assume this is what you mean. IANAL.
Also, don't forget that in the MPAA lawsuit, they were asking the judge to make it illegal to link to a site that links to decss. I'm too lazy to find the document now, but it was something like:
"Instead of clicking twice to get to it, the person has to click twice, and click twice again."
Apparently the lawyer is one of those lusers who double-clicks on everything, including links. Anyway, what they are trying to do is make it illegal to link to a site that links to decss. This would _not_ include search engines, unless the link to the engine includes the search string in the URL. A site only one click removed from the actual download would be in legal trouble for making decss available.
This is obviously scary in and of itself. Think about the legal precedent being set if they win...
DeCSS can be used to copy DVDs
DeCSS cannot be used to copy DVDs. Once you have decrypted the information stored on the disc, if you put the MPEG onto a disc, no DVD player will play it. DeCSS can, however, be used to get a digital copy of the MOVIE off of the disc. This can be done by other means, all of which lower the quality of the movie. However, since you must compress the movie to get it to fit on a VCD or to be downloaded, the quality is lost in that stage instead.
DeCSS does not make it easier to copy or pirate AT ALL.
Although this is a matter of semantics, I think that those of us that write about this need to make this clear in our writings. Don't forget that the press does occasionally read slashdot.
True, GCC and MSVC are not considered the very best compliers, but they are by far the most popular compilers.
Also, while run-time optimization can improve performance quite a bit, so compile-time optimization should improve it. It's very interesting to me how run-time optimization in some cases actually worsened performance.
I use Ortronics jacks for termination, but there are at least a dozen brands. Check out the Graybar catalog (their online catalog sucks).
a) Category 5 cabling, pick your color. Comes in 1000 ft boxes. Also, if you will be running the cable in ductwork (such as return air or hot air ducts), building code may require that you use Plenum cable, which is about twice as expensive. Don't laugh, apparently it's fire resistant and smokes less.
b) Jacks. I use Ortronics Series II modules, which has RJ11, RJ45, Coax, Fiber, S-Video and a boatload of other options (see http://www.ortronics.com/ product_main/workstation/21.html)
c) A patch panel. Again, Ortronics and many other companies make them, and you don't have use the same brand as the jack ends (as long as they have the same standard pinouts).
That's really all of the supplies. As far as tools, diagonal cutters for the cable and a punch-down tool for termination. And a drill, etc. for the house.
I bought a CHEAP 8-port 10Base-T hub over a year ago for $37 from CDW, now you can get a 10/100 8-port hub for $90. Depends on what you want--but I suggest 10/100 NICs so that you can upgrade cheaply in the future. No reason not to.
Cripes, the link worked even in the preview. Do they install beta versions of Slash overnight?
? ticker=mot&script=410&layout=7&item_id=865 82
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml
Read the Motorola press release. My biggest gripe with software modems is the processor time they use, platform compatibility aside. Hell, a Cisco 675 DSL-to-Ethernet modem isn't that expensive, my phone company gives 'em away with a 12-month ($39/month) contract (including ISP and half-T1 speed).
Go back and read the article. Symlinks are new to W2K, but a system that USES the symlinks is new technology. It looks for identical files and stores only one copy of the file, linking to it. If one of the files is changed, it de-links it and creates an actual file for it.
It's a good idea because of the way dlls are spread across the system, making way for identical libraries to be stored more than once. I'm not sure that this would be useful in a *nix environment because of the way libraries are stored in one or more specific location(s) in the first place.
I'm a Linux advocate, but atleast I READ THE ARTICLE and understand what it is before I cite it as more Microsoft crap.
I agree. When I was in school, computer use was considered antisocial. I don't recall now at what point it stopped being antisocial and it became impressive. ;). But I always miss being with a computer and think, "I could look that up on ______ site..." every time I get into an interesting conversation. Oh ya, and all of the 'interesting' conversations involve computers and/or the Internet.
Now if someone finds out I 'work with' computers, they always have a question for me and want to chat for extended periods of time.
But I haven't seen less of my friends/family because of it (until Q3A came out
But I go camping (without my laptop sometimes) and help out at church and renovate my house as well.
But hell, that's just me...
"e-Network" translation: electronic network
Holy shlt!! Can't people come up with something that doesn't start with e or i!?!!?!
This is getting mind-numbing! The marketing departments don't have a clue what they are naming, and PHBs buying the stuff don't know what they are buying. But if it says "e" in front of it, it must be "high-tech".
Back to that commercial for ITT Technical Institute: "Have you ever worked with anything... high-tech?"
Me: "You mean like a phone?"
Don't forget .net as well. There has been a proliferation of domains using the .net TLD for blatantly commercial non-Internet service related sites.
Perhaps combining meta-tags and a category-defining and perhaps enforcing orginization would be a good thing. Directories would categorize pages using the category, and a person could search excluding or within categories.
This would eliminate pornography sites from "family-friendly" searches, and make it easier to find pr0n for those who are looking for it.
TLDs are part of this solution, but are being abused and really aren't specific enough to categorize sites. Also, a domain may contain multiple web servers, each containing a different category of information, and each server may contain pages fitting in multiple categories.
If anyone is interested in starting this, I'm definitely interested in helping. It would _have_ to be OS.
I reviewed the cnet article, which is pretty good in most respects. My notes:
- There is considerable focus on the processer clock speed, without mentioning the fact that it morphs instructions to run them. This reduces the number of instructions, and therefore clock ticks to complete the same amount as a 'traditional' x86 processor.
- They make no mention of the fact that the processors aren't necessarily competitors only in the x86 market. They can run many other processor's instruction sets.
- Interesting that they didn't mention the Linus/Linux link to Transmeta and the fact that Linux has already been written specifically for the platform. Also, that the 5400 will run Windows but is not yet in production. Interesting.
Overall, a pretty good article.
When he mentioned BellLabs, he mentioned Unix being good! ;)
When he mentioned the PC, he said IBM, Apple, and Amiga. But he didn't say anything about Microsoft or DOS.
When he said the electric hand dryer, I thought "WTF", but then I realized: It saves trees, reduces waste (probably reduces energy used/wasted as well), it's supposed to be cleaner than towels (since you don't touch anything). But everyone (including myself) hate them! Let's get some conscience.
I'm a dumbass. When I posted this, my mod points were undone. GRRR!!
Sorry, I ran out of points when I moderated UncleOrson up in a previous post. I marked it with a funny, but it didn't take it.
-Robin
...Intel's latest Coppermine PIIIs have high clock speeds plus a 256KB on-chip secondary cache--and this addition to the PIII design is responsible for supercharging Microsoft Office apps.
What does this mean!?!? No other apps are supercharged by it? Only the Coppermine P3 supercharges M$Office?
First quarter: 800-MHz AMD Athlon
Second quarter: 800-MHz Intel Pentium III
Late second quarter: Intel 64-bit Itanium processors for workstations and servers
Late second quarter: Intel Timna for bargain PCs, Via chips for bargain PCs
Fourth quarter: 1-GHz AMD Athlon, 1-GHz Intel Willamette
Does it strike anyone else as odd that Intel is a quarter behind AMD now but they are promising the 1 Ghz processor at the same time? Sure, they could catch up, but I don't think they will so quickly.
Me, I'll stick with AMD. They make the upgrades I'm putting into my old systems, and they are making the Socket 7 processors that are inexpensive as hell. How about $160 to replace a motherboard and put in a 400Mhz K6-2!!! Not a gamer's box, sure, but one hell of a system for my home office users to check e-mail and browse the web!
...a mental disorder is a physical disorder. Scientific studies have shown this.
...a conscious effort to do this on their part will certainly help with their recovery.
No scientific study has proven conclusively that we are nothing but meat. Believe it or not, most people believe that they are spiritual beings, not a body. They want to go to Heaven when their body dies. Almost every religion in every culture has some form of that belief.
Other studies have shown, for example, that people with ADD cannot properly activate the part of the brain that is associated with concentrating.
No study has ever proven even what part of the brain does what. The scientists who study the brain haven't a clue what part does what, and some aren't afraid to admit it.
Would you say that people with diabetes or high blood pressure just need to change the way that they they think?
Actually, many doctors do just that. People who meditate or do similar things frequently help chronic illnesses.
If you believe all that you say, then why would a conscious effort help at all?