Take a chill pill man. Television shows in Sweden are often the same thing as the American version - undubbed with subtitles. He probably watched the Simpsons on his local television station in English.
That said he does speak very good English. Congratulations. If only the average American could speak a foreign language so well.
It's all about difficulty, if you're using Ritalin to get high you'll run through a perscription which should last half a year in a week. If you go back to the doctor and request another perscription a week later they'll turn you in for drug abuse.
If you go to your friendly speed dealer and ask for twice the dosage two days later they'll happily give it to you and you'll die from a heart attack. I don't see why it should be necassary to have that be a risk parents should consider might be available on the corner Walgreens. Education on such matters is in my opinion completely hopeless, I've seen too many intelligent well informed people die or ruin their lives over drug abuse. They knew roughtly (no worse than a government sponsered program would have done them) what they were getting into but still couldn't really grasp it until it was too late.
Ritalin is also a therapeutically effective drug - it has different effects in people with actual ADD than those without ADD. Namely in those with ADD it is actually a downer not an upper. It helps them calm down.
In your and your little brother's cases it sounds like you were perscribed Ritalin by an overzealos Physchiatrist and that abuse I agree needs to be controlled. In my opinion anyone with ADD should themselves first seek treatment and then perhaps get a perscription for Ritalin, it should never be "suggested" by parents.
From your post:
If you look at the chemical structure of the various neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine, and compare them to the amphetamine class of stimulants, they're virtually identical as a whole.
They are not virtually identical. Between the four neurotransmitters the only commonality is that they all center around a carbon pentagon. Ontop of that the site you quotes is either wrong or very selective in what they decide to leave out, such as the four OH groups in noradrenaline.
Well I guess you're right in a way, most molecules are pretty similiar when you choose to ignore half their components!
The chemical structures of Norepinephrine, Serotonin and Dopamine are completely different than the Amphetamine class of stimulates. Amphetamine's are designed to prevent the re-uptake, or destruction, of Dopamine - they are not a direct dose of Dopamine are are therefore chemically completely different! (C6H3(OH)2-CH2-CH2-NH2 vs. C14H19NO2)!
Just for a little example of how drugs with only small difference in chemical effect have completely changes the potential for abuse of a drug compare Vioxx and Oxycotin. One is an arthrits drug for little old ladies and the other is a morhpine subsitute which is now referred to as Hippy-Heroine and now a favorite for painkiller addicted Hollywood personalities.
Except a five milligram dose of Ritalin is also effective for an adult and the dosage never needs to be increased. The dosage of "speed" on the other hand must grow pratically exponentially because it's not being used to treat a medical condition, it's being used to get high and the brains dopamine receptors can only take so much abuse.
Really though it has to do with strength, Methamphetamine is a much stronger drug than Methylphenidate and therefore has a more prominent effect on mood. That's why people take it to get high - it makes the feel good. Yes you can take a very large quantity (fifty to one hundred times the thereaputic dose) of Ritalin to get the same effect as one hit of speed, but it's pretty impractical and a big waste.
Following your faulty logic one could just as easily conclude that Vioxx and OxyCotin (Rush Limbaugh's fix) are exactly the same thing because they're both COX-2 inhibitors. Sadly drug company bashing is in vouge right now so researched and reasonable responses will usually fall to the wayside.
When Microsoft abuses their position by threatening to increase vendor's Windows licensing costs if the Vendor offers competing products then that is user lockout and abuse of monopoly power.
Except when your non-recalled engine fails you don't effect anyone else, your car just stops working. When a pirates copy of Windows becomes infected with worms and viruses it effects their friends, coworkers and every legitamite user of Windows as their machine is now a hotbed for viruses and worms. In the same vein it would cost Microsoft nothing extra to keep pirated copies of Windows updated as Windows is not a material object which requires actual work to fix.
Untop of that your analogy makes no sense. When someone steals a car from GM they have stolen a material object which then cannot be sold to anyone else. If someone pirates a copy of Windows it in no way reduces Microsoft's ability to sell further copies of Windows. Indeed piracy is probably a large boon to Microsoft as it keeps those who would otherwise consider free alternatives (Linux, BSD) firmly part of the Windows software market.
I do agree with you that Microsoft has the right to do this. I just think it's monumentally stupid and absolutely not in the interest of their legetimate customers.
Those benchmarks are hardly realistic. Who plays UT2004 at 1280x1024 with a Geforce 6800?
I think Anandtech's review was a bit more realistic. That said the Pentium-M does offer surprising performance, even if it does cost nearly twice an equivalent Athlon.
Both GamePC and Tom's hardware also compare an overclocked Pentium-M 750 to unoverclocked Pentiums and Athlons. That doesn't make much sense as one of the primary advantages of both the Athlon FX and Pentium EE series are their unlocked multipliers - overclocked their performance improves at about the same rate as the Pentium M. The cost of the Pentium-M 770 including the adapter is about equal to an Athlon FX-55, about $800.
Except millions of computers users DON'T want Linux!
Right, they want an operating system that will run Solitaire, the Internet and Office. Whether that underlying is Linux, OSX or Windows the could care less.
I think his point was it's a bit hypocritical to complain that the govt. is restricting your freedom via DMCA, but then support restricting the freedom of MS executives through anti-trust laws.
The difference being that Microsoft's alleged actions as a monopolist infringe upon other's right to enjoy a fair and level playing field. Of course by stopping a monopolist you are curtailing what could be considered their "rights" but only so that others might enjoy a greater range of rights and equality. Government plays exactly this role of deciding the balance between one man's rights and another's.
In a similiar vain you could say that the Government stopping a serial sexual pedophile by putting him in prison is revoking what he sees as his "right" to take advantage of the innocent - on the other hand such a predator infringes upon the rights of his victims to life and security.
The general Slashdot hostility to the DMCA is grounded in exactly this reasoning. The DMCA expands the right's of recording industry at the expense of the consumer's right to enjoy their purchased content as they see fit.
In the end,/.ers in general aren't interested in freedom or fairness. They are only interested in what benefits them the most. Just look at support for GPL enforcement but hatred towards RIAA for their copyright enforcement.
You must be new here! Let me be the first to welcome you to the human race, I trust you'll feel right at home.
"As a business owner, I understand ethics pretty thoroughly."
And we all know the paragon of Ethics the business world is.
Honestly though, you may very well be an ethical person, but your status as a businessman is hardly related to such.
"However, most OSS zealots have no clue. Most OSS zealots are more than happy to side with the gov't when they think it's somehow at their advantage (anti-trust against MS), and slam the gov't for it's stupid laws when it's at their advatage to do so (DMCA, IP laws, etc.). It's completely arbitrary and generally pretty damned uninformed."
So, in your world one must either agree with everything the government does or disagree with everything it does?
Perhaps someone could believe in the enforcement of fair trade and the maintenance of a level playing field (one aspect of government) while still being in favor of curtailing the government's ability to intrude upon a person's privacy. You seem like an intelligent person though so I won't go on, suffice it to say that people's actions wouldn't seem as arbitrary if you took a minute to understand their motivations and beliefs.
The Slashdot community is not an amporphous mass with perfectly identical interests - outside of course the mutual interest in computers.
Just because a few people don't like Firefly, Babylon 5 or other shows does not mean the majorty of the community does not. The same person posting those "Babylon 5 Sucks!" comments might very well be the loudest champion of Firefly.
It might seem Slashdotters want only to talk shop because that is the one thing they do all agree on. They all have different interests of course but these interests are not all the same.
I believe the deeper point of this article is that society as a whole does not give childern credit for their intelligence or abilities. My brother was programming C in fourth grade and completed what was essentially a Wolfenstein 3D clone in the summer of fifth grade with the help of an older friend.
Younger childern indeed have impressive analytical abilities, they only need to be honed by a person who understands this and knowes how to take advantage of their pre-existing interests.
The largest cost was doubtless making the coffee actually taste of something deserving Wolfgang Puck's name. Masking the taste of various preservatives lending the freshly reheated coffee a pleaseant taste was seomthing that was doubtless not easy.
Ever tried reheating month-old coffee and experienced it's achrid taste?
All of the highspeed trains reach about the same speed. The top speed for the German ICE is actually higher though, at 410km/h unloaded. ICE is also being adopted by a number of other European countries such as Spain as it has proven itself a very good technical solution.
Right now the highest top speed for any train-like device is actually held by the German Mag-Lev
Transrapid.
Whether people actually need to get places at 500km/h is another question.
I've never had a problem with either the 64bit or 32bit Nvidia kernel or Nvidia GLX ebuilds.
Besides, it's not Nvidia's job to maintain ebuilds as ebuilds are nothing more than a packaging system like RPM (albeit one which involves compiling but it's still about the same thing). In my opinion Nvidia is great.
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Yes, sadly China is paranoid enough to "make a list of a few people and try to filter them out" out of the millions of visiting tourists every year. This is especially apparant in the case of Falun Gong where foreign citizens are currently being held without trial for speaking out against the wrongful treatment of their fellow practitioners.
American citizens such as human rights activist Dr. Charles Li have been arrested and dissapeared into the black hole which is the chinese justice system never to be seen again.
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Take a chill pill man. Television shows in Sweden are often the same thing as the American version - undubbed with subtitles. He probably watched the Simpsons on his local television station in English. That said he does speak very good English. Congratulations. If only the average American could speak a foreign language so well.
You seem pretty arrogant to reach conclusions about an article you obviously never even read.
I suppose that would explain why Windows NT is largely based on VMS and uses code from FreeBSD. Oh wait, it doesn't.
It's freedom from the consequences of your speech that is being debated.
And under Slashdot law the consequence of that comment is death.
Like heading a corporation?
If you go to your friendly speed dealer and ask for twice the dosage two days later they'll happily give it to you and you'll die from a heart attack. I don't see why it should be necassary to have that be a risk parents should consider might be available on the corner Walgreens. Education on such matters is in my opinion completely hopeless, I've seen too many intelligent well informed people die or ruin their lives over drug abuse. They knew roughtly (no worse than a government sponsered program would have done them) what they were getting into but still couldn't really grasp it until it was too late.
Ritalin is also a therapeutically effective drug - it has different effects in people with actual ADD than those without ADD. Namely in those with ADD it is actually a downer not an upper. It helps them calm down.
In your and your little brother's cases it sounds like you were perscribed Ritalin by an overzealos Physchiatrist and that abuse I agree needs to be controlled. In my opinion anyone with ADD should themselves first seek treatment and then perhaps get a perscription for Ritalin, it should never be "suggested" by parents.
From your post: If you look at the chemical structure of the various neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine, and compare them to the amphetamine class of stimulants, they're virtually identical as a whole.
They are not virtually identical. Between the four neurotransmitters the only commonality is that they all center around a carbon pentagon. Ontop of that the site you quotes is either wrong or very selective in what they decide to leave out, such as the four OH groups in noradrenaline.
Well I guess you're right in a way, most molecules are pretty similiar when you choose to ignore half their components!
Just for a little example of how drugs with only small difference in chemical effect have completely changes the potential for abuse of a drug compare Vioxx and Oxycotin. One is an arthrits drug for little old ladies and the other is a morhpine subsitute which is now referred to as Hippy-Heroine and now a favorite for painkiller addicted Hollywood personalities.
Except a five milligram dose of Ritalin is also effective for an adult and the dosage never needs to be increased. The dosage of "speed" on the other hand must grow pratically exponentially because it's not being used to treat a medical condition, it's being used to get high and the brains dopamine receptors can only take so much abuse. Really though it has to do with strength, Methamphetamine is a much stronger drug than Methylphenidate and therefore has a more prominent effect on mood. That's why people take it to get high - it makes the feel good. Yes you can take a very large quantity (fifty to one hundred times the thereaputic dose) of Ritalin to get the same effect as one hit of speed, but it's pretty impractical and a big waste. Following your faulty logic one could just as easily conclude that Vioxx and OxyCotin (Rush Limbaugh's fix) are exactly the same thing because they're both COX-2 inhibitors. Sadly drug company bashing is in vouge right now so researched and reasonable responses will usually fall to the wayside.
As do I. Also, what is lacking interoperability? Every single monitor works with every single video card. Sounds like a bunk reason to me.
Oh yeah, Pepsi actually did sue Coke for exactly that reason and won.
Untop of that your analogy makes no sense. When someone steals a car from GM they have stolen a material object which then cannot be sold to anyone else. If someone pirates a copy of Windows it in no way reduces Microsoft's ability to sell further copies of Windows. Indeed piracy is probably a large boon to Microsoft as it keeps those who would otherwise consider free alternatives (Linux, BSD) firmly part of the Windows software market.
I do agree with you that Microsoft has the right to do this. I just think it's monumentally stupid and absolutely not in the interest of their legetimate customers.
Those benchmarks are hardly realistic. Who plays UT2004 at 1280x1024 with a Geforce 6800?
I think Anandtech's review was a bit more realistic. That said the Pentium-M does offer surprising performance, even if it does cost nearly twice an equivalent Athlon.
Both GamePC and Tom's hardware also compare an overclocked Pentium-M 750 to unoverclocked Pentiums and Athlons. That doesn't make much sense as one of the primary advantages of both the Athlon FX and Pentium EE series are their unlocked multipliers - overclocked their performance improves at about the same rate as the Pentium M. The cost of the Pentium-M 770 including the adapter is about equal to an Athlon FX-55, about $800.
Right, they want an operating system that will run Solitaire, the Internet and Office. Whether that underlying is Linux, OSX or Windows the could care less.
The difference being that Microsoft's alleged actions as a monopolist infringe upon other's right to enjoy a fair and level playing field. Of course by stopping a monopolist you are curtailing what could be considered their "rights" but only so that others might enjoy a greater range of rights and equality. Government plays exactly this role of deciding the balance between one man's rights and another's.
In a similiar vain you could say that the Government stopping a serial sexual pedophile by putting him in prison is revoking what he sees as his "right" to take advantage of the innocent - on the other hand such a predator infringes upon the rights of his victims to life and security.
The general Slashdot hostility to the DMCA is grounded in exactly this reasoning. The DMCA expands the right's of recording industry at the expense of the consumer's right to enjoy their purchased content as they see fit.
In the end, /.ers in general aren't interested in freedom or fairness. They are only interested in what benefits them the most. Just look at support for GPL enforcement but hatred towards RIAA for their copyright enforcement.
You must be new here! Let me be the first to welcome you to the human race, I trust you'll feel right at home.
"As a business owner, I understand ethics pretty thoroughly."
And we all know the paragon of Ethics the business world is.
Honestly though, you may very well be an ethical person, but your status as a businessman is hardly related to such.
"However, most OSS zealots have no clue. Most OSS zealots are more than happy to side with the gov't when they think it's somehow at their advantage (anti-trust against MS), and slam the gov't for it's stupid laws when it's at their advatage to do so (DMCA, IP laws, etc.). It's completely arbitrary and generally pretty damned uninformed."
So, in your world one must either agree with everything the government does or disagree with everything it does?
Perhaps someone could believe in the enforcement of fair trade and the maintenance of a level playing field (one aspect of government) while still being in favor of curtailing the government's ability to intrude upon a person's privacy. You seem like an intelligent person though so I won't go on, suffice it to say that people's actions wouldn't seem as arbitrary if you took a minute to understand their motivations and beliefs.
The Slashdot community is not an amporphous mass with perfectly identical interests - outside of course the mutual interest in computers.
Just because a few people don't like Firefly, Babylon 5 or other shows does not mean the majorty of the community does not. The same person posting those "Babylon 5 Sucks!" comments might very well be the loudest champion of Firefly.
It might seem Slashdotters want only to talk shop because that is the one thing they do all agree on. They all have different interests of course but these interests are not all the same.
I believe the deeper point of this article is that society as a whole does not give childern credit for their intelligence or abilities. My brother was programming C in fourth grade and completed what was essentially a Wolfenstein 3D clone in the summer of fifth grade with the help of an older friend.
Younger childern indeed have impressive analytical abilities, they only need to be honed by a person who understands this and knowes how to take advantage of their pre-existing interests.
The largest cost was doubtless making the coffee actually taste of something deserving Wolfgang Puck's name. Masking the taste of various preservatives lending the freshly reheated coffee a pleaseant taste was seomthing that was doubtless not easy.
Ever tried reheating month-old coffee and experienced it's achrid taste?
And if it's legal for chemical companies to sell chlorine gas to Saddam Hussein? Business leaders like private citizens should follow their morals.
It's no secret that many of the Americans calling Indian support centers know more than the supposed "support" personal they are calling.
That's why it's perfect that these Americans have lost their Job, now they finally have the time to talk the Indians through their old job!
Right now the highest top speed for any train-like device is actually held by the German Mag-Lev Transrapid.
Whether people actually need to get places at 500km/h is another question.
Ever heard of the Radeon X300 (I'll give you a clue: It's latest generation hardware slower than a 9800 Pro)?
Jeesh!
I've never had a problem with either the 64bit or 32bit Nvidia kernel or Nvidia GLX ebuilds.
Besides, it's not Nvidia's job to maintain ebuilds as ebuilds are nothing more than a packaging system like RPM (albeit one which involves compiling but it's still about the same thing). In my opinion Nvidia is great.
American citizens such as human rights activist Dr. Charles Li have been arrested and dissapeared into the black hole which is the chinese justice system never to be seen again.