It's my lock screen button, and when I press it my screen locks and then I use my Pocket app to place my phone in a secure location while I drive. Sometimes I get a text message while it's in there, and I just use my Wait app to, well, wait, until I get somewhere that I'm stopped and able to respond.
Seriously though - no technology can, or should try, to prevent you from using your phone. You should be smart enough to know what is and isn't unsafe to do while driving, and if you don't then you shouldn't be driving - maybe that'll happen on it's own, maybe it'll take you, a loved one, or a stranger being seriously injured. I don't know how I feel about scare campaigns a la "It Can Wait" etc, but I think people need to be educated on the basics of being distracted while driving. If a phone is enough to distract someone, you're probably dealing with someone who eats/reads/does origami while driving already, and the problem goes beyond texting.
And there in lies the rub: comparing Surfaces to any other tablet on the market is silly because most tablets want to be tablets. Surfaces aren't sure what they want to be - like a college dropout with no direction in life. Kind of want to be and do desktop things, kind of want to do and be an on-the-go and simple tablet things. Their biggest selling point, "It does the Windows stuff you're used to!" is also their biggest problem.
I do prefer Postgres, but damn was Oracle fun (mostly) to work with, mainly because listening to the DBAs explain things felt like I was being imparted with some ancient wisdom.
Bingo, my friend. As soon as I read the headline last night, my heart sunk, and my hopes for Oculus died. I want nothing to do with Facebook owning them or their technology - the moment Zuck & Crew become a part of my gaming experience, I'm moving on. I don't mind Candy Crush - I get it, Facebook integration is a big part of what they do. I don't mind it in many other phone games. I do not link my FB to Call of Duty, GTA, or anything else on a console or that doesn't run in a browser (and mostly don't otherwise anyway). The last thing I want while wearing a VR headset is to reach a new stone in Skyrim and find out that it's got ads on the outside - "Find single Orcs in your area now! Like this stone for 30 credits!"
Windows 7 sure has a better working and cleaner UI
Eh, maybe? If I turn off all the Aero or whatever and make it look like 9x, I can live with that. The translucent borders, Big Button start menu and "pins," the god-awful switcher...7 is probably my only choice for Windows moving forward, if I have to have it, but it won't look like it does after a fresh install for very long.
In what environment is it an advantage to be slow to understand new information?
An extreme case, for sure, but: an abusive environment. An environment where learning faster or figuring things out can and often is detrimental to one's safety. An environment where you're forced to be quiet and where you're essentially ignored. This is an environment where being smarter will only help you if you have a means of escape, otherwise it's best to either keep those brains under wraps or to just give in and let the people around you tell you how to live your life, as it's your best chance to avoid violence.
"lewts?" Yes, that's some darn good gaming journalism there. Nothing like spelling a word incorrectly and adding Internet lols unnecessary plurals to really drive home the point. Sorry, "bluesnews," but that's an immediate turn off and I won't be visiting your site ever.
They buy apple because their rich friends did. Often, such people aren't very intelligent when it comes to technology, or even basic concepts like reason and logic, because, frankly, they haven't had to be in order to survive..
Funny, I bought Apple because I was given a 3GS to use for a few months and loved it. I bought a 4 shortly thereafter, and finally gave in to buy a 5c on discount several years after that. I've used Android and I hate it - I hate it to the death. Yes, I can do anything I want with it, as long as I'm willing to do a lot more than I feel is necessary. On iPhone, I can wait several months for a Jailbreak if I really want to, or just be happy that it's damn stable and lets me do what I need to do on a phone - make calls, send texts, take pictures of my dogs, and play games. Android doesn't deserve all the hate - the carriers haven't helped it much and tend to hurt it more so that they can push unnecessary upgrades (my wife's old Xperia X10 ran Jelly Bean just fine and it was made some 4 or 5 years before now). I just don't care for the lack of built-in privacy controls that are at all granular and no, I don't want to have to get an app for that. I explicitly can say who does and doesn't get access to my contacts, photos, location, without it affecting my ability to use the app in general.
Most everyone I know who has an iPhone is not technically challenged, is certainly not rich (nor has "rich friends"), and are some of the most logical/reasonable/intelligent people I know. Same for Android - I just hear those friends cursing at their phones a lot more.
As a counterpoint: I'm on TWC and any time the modem itself has rebooted, I've gotten a new IP. The router can sit and spin and reboot all day and get the same WAN IP from the modem, but once the modem lights flash off and back on, I've got to go update my DNS entry for my not server that I'm not running from my not home.
Bummer that this isn't modded higher, and double bummer that I have no mod points.
I don't mind jQuery, I have to use it at work, but when I have a choice I'm usually off somewhere else. I'm even attempting to pick up work on Sencha's abandoned "Ext Core" library because I prefer the clarity and simplicity. I find that I can easily write the code I need without the framework getting in the way. With jQuery, option #1 is always "Find a Plugin," but then we end up modifying it or trying to get it to play nice and eventually chucking it, and that far down the line our only other option is to find a new plugin. It's syntax is also a little weird when you first get started, especially if you're used to other languages where get* and set* methods are clearly defined, and not sitting together:.setStyle(key, value) and.getStyle(key) vs the jQuery way of.css(key, value) to set and.css(key) to get. It's neat, but it also obscures the functionality unnecessarily.
Finally, jQuery always seems hacky, even if it isn't. Jumping into most projects I've worked on, the jQuery isn't structured in any meaningful way, and per-page one-offs are the general way to go about things. I certainly can't blame jQuery for this directly, but it doesn't help their case when it feels like it's the PHP of the Javascript world.
I upgrade all of mine all the time... That's like saying no one upgrades their cars or even bothers to fix them. Overly broad assumptions got you a -1 flamebait:D
I've replaced the logic board in my G4 laptop twice. A piece of red stripe box keeps it alive. I've replaced everything BUT the logic board on my Intel MacBook either for necessity (optical drive) or convenience (RAM). And I haven't had a single PC hold up as long or reliably
And finally hurr durr Linux runs on Macs so yay! Safety! Security! Updates!
Sure, but you can still put Linux on that old hardware and it's SNAPPY! ElementaryOS on my 2007 MacBook is a million times better than my 4-5 year old AMD tower with twice the RAM, same OS.
Here's another anecdote (it may just be one): I'm still using an '07 MacBook and until a year or two ago I was using a G4 laptop. Not out of any kind of love for product other than it still "felt" usable. It only hits me that I'm 7 years behind when I try to play games. I prefer it over my ThinkPad because the screen is superb, I use Linux on it because I forgot where I was going with this - damn you/. mobile!!!
Anyways, the coming and going all look like crap ATM - until a game I HAVE to play comes out that isn't on a console I own (only 2, and no one is making Atari games...), I'll probably not think about a new PC or even parts for my existing server.
Everything else, even if it's possible, would void the warranty.
And every PC from every manufacturer I've worked with has a sticker or note or bit of tape that says "Warranty Void if Removed/Broken/Etc" - your point? If you plan to do something internally yourself, you're probably going to have to give up the warranty.
Another diagnosis would be along the lines of "periods of psychosis," happening more than once, for an extended amount of time. Tack on some emotional bits for the "schizoaffective" aspect. A diagnosis of anything can and has been used for all sorts of nefarious reasons, but just because someone fakes a cold to get out of work, it doesn't mean that all people sneezing and coughing are liars.
Presumably, but we don't know much about who they were or what their treatment was like. Where they locked up in padded rooms for the vast duration of their lives? There isn't much incentive to do more than sedate them. Were they actively working with a therapist and psychiatrist? Then they'd probably have more access to antipsycotics. Were they plain untreated? Knowing the sample would be very helpful...even in the "treated" population you have a wide array of tools that more often combat symptoms, not just the diagnosis: Ambien for sleep, Seroquel for knocking out the hard stuff, antipsychiotics to keep the hard stuff at bay on normal days, antidepressents and mood stabilizers to keep you level, vitamins to help supplement what your body doesn't absorb, etc etc etc. Some medications lower your body's ability to intake nutrients, or flat-out destroy your reproductive system. Celiac and other diseases generally compliment SZ. People suffering from SZ tend to be smokers, so throw some cancer treatment into that group.
Schizoaffective sucks - if you need a good place to go, message me (if there's a way to do that?). There are plenty of good communities, and I know one that's been very helpful for friends of mine.
To add to the biological component, some study has attempted to link Celiac Disease in the mother to underdevelopment of key brain areas in the infant that lead to disorders such as schizophrenia. Makes sense, too, since the mother's body is busy "fighting" gluten and thus fighting it in the developing fetus as well, or so I understood it.
Not at all - in fact, it's made things worse. The term "schizophrenic" generally means something it isn't to most people - it's aligned with MPD and other disorders which really don't have anything to do with it. Thanks for sticking up for it:) Most people here will just go on there way misunderstanding it based on the name.
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It's my lock screen button, and when I press it my screen locks and then I use my Pocket app to place my phone in a secure location while I drive. Sometimes I get a text message while it's in there, and I just use my Wait app to, well, wait, until I get somewhere that I'm stopped and able to respond.
Seriously though - no technology can, or should try, to prevent you from using your phone. You should be smart enough to know what is and isn't unsafe to do while driving, and if you don't then you shouldn't be driving - maybe that'll happen on it's own, maybe it'll take you, a loved one, or a stranger being seriously injured. I don't know how I feel about scare campaigns a la "It Can Wait" etc, but I think people need to be educated on the basics of being distracted while driving. If a phone is enough to distract someone, you're probably dealing with someone who eats/reads/does origami while driving already, and the problem goes beyond texting.
Choose whichever suits your purpose.
And there in lies the rub: comparing Surfaces to any other tablet on the market is silly because most tablets want to be tablets. Surfaces aren't sure what they want to be - like a college dropout with no direction in life. Kind of want to be and do desktop things, kind of want to do and be an on-the-go and simple tablet things. Their biggest selling point, "It does the Windows stuff you're used to!" is also their biggest problem.
I do prefer Postgres, but damn was Oracle fun (mostly) to work with, mainly because listening to the DBAs explain things felt like I was being imparted with some ancient wisdom.
Need I remind you: common table expressions? It's rare that the need for one arises, but boy have I been sore a few times from MySQL lacking them.
Bingo, my friend. As soon as I read the headline last night, my heart sunk, and my hopes for Oculus died. I want nothing to do with Facebook owning them or their technology - the moment Zuck & Crew become a part of my gaming experience, I'm moving on. I don't mind Candy Crush - I get it, Facebook integration is a big part of what they do. I don't mind it in many other phone games. I do not link my FB to Call of Duty, GTA, or anything else on a console or that doesn't run in a browser (and mostly don't otherwise anyway). The last thing I want while wearing a VR headset is to reach a new stone in Skyrim and find out that it's got ads on the outside - "Find single Orcs in your area now! Like this stone for 30 credits!"
Windows 7 sure has a better working and cleaner UI
Eh, maybe? If I turn off all the Aero or whatever and make it look like 9x, I can live with that. The translucent borders, Big Button start menu and "pins," the god-awful switcher...7 is probably my only choice for Windows moving forward, if I have to have it, but it won't look like it does after a fresh install for very long.
In what environment is it an advantage to be slow to understand new information?
An extreme case, for sure, but: an abusive environment. An environment where learning faster or figuring things out can and often is detrimental to one's safety. An environment where you're forced to be quiet and where you're essentially ignored. This is an environment where being smarter will only help you if you have a means of escape, otherwise it's best to either keep those brains under wraps or to just give in and let the people around you tell you how to live your life, as it's your best chance to avoid violence.
no shortage of lewts to grab
"lewts?" Yes, that's some darn good gaming journalism there. Nothing like spelling a word incorrectly and adding Internet lols unnecessary plurals to really drive home the point. Sorry, "bluesnews," but that's an immediate turn off and I won't be visiting your site ever.
They buy apple because their rich friends did. Often, such people aren't very intelligent when it comes to technology, or even basic concepts like reason and logic, because, frankly, they haven't had to be in order to survive..
Funny, I bought Apple because I was given a 3GS to use for a few months and loved it. I bought a 4 shortly thereafter, and finally gave in to buy a 5c on discount several years after that. I've used Android and I hate it - I hate it to the death. Yes, I can do anything I want with it, as long as I'm willing to do a lot more than I feel is necessary. On iPhone, I can wait several months for a Jailbreak if I really want to, or just be happy that it's damn stable and lets me do what I need to do on a phone - make calls, send texts, take pictures of my dogs, and play games. Android doesn't deserve all the hate - the carriers haven't helped it much and tend to hurt it more so that they can push unnecessary upgrades (my wife's old Xperia X10 ran Jelly Bean just fine and it was made some 4 or 5 years before now). I just don't care for the lack of built-in privacy controls that are at all granular and no, I don't want to have to get an app for that. I explicitly can say who does and doesn't get access to my contacts, photos, location, without it affecting my ability to use the app in general.
Most everyone I know who has an iPhone is not technically challenged, is certainly not rich (nor has "rich friends"), and are some of the most logical/reasonable/intelligent people I know. Same for Android - I just hear those friends cursing at their phones a lot more.
As a counterpoint: I'm on TWC and any time the modem itself has rebooted, I've gotten a new IP. The router can sit and spin and reboot all day and get the same WAN IP from the modem, but once the modem lights flash off and back on, I've got to go update my DNS entry for my not server that I'm not running from my not home.
Bummer that this isn't modded higher, and double bummer that I have no mod points.
I don't mind jQuery, I have to use it at work, but when I have a choice I'm usually off somewhere else. I'm even attempting to pick up work on Sencha's abandoned "Ext Core" library because I prefer the clarity and simplicity. I find that I can easily write the code I need without the framework getting in the way. With jQuery, option #1 is always "Find a Plugin," but then we end up modifying it or trying to get it to play nice and eventually chucking it, and that far down the line our only other option is to find a new plugin. It's syntax is also a little weird when you first get started, especially if you're used to other languages where get* and set* methods are clearly defined, and not sitting together: .setStyle(key, value) and .getStyle(key) vs the jQuery way of .css(key, value) to set and .css(key) to get. It's neat, but it also obscures the functionality unnecessarily.
Finally, jQuery always seems hacky, even if it isn't. Jumping into most projects I've worked on, the jQuery isn't structured in any meaningful way, and per-page one-offs are the general way to go about things. I certainly can't blame jQuery for this directly, but it doesn't help their case when it feels like it's the PHP of the Javascript world.
I was in Home Depot last weekend and noticed that the Service Desk computers where still running WinXP Professional.
So are most ATMs...
Someone arguing you got Flaimbait, why not you?
I upgrade all of mine all the time... That's like saying no one upgrades their cars or even bothers to fix them. Overly broad assumptions got you a -1 flamebait :D
I've replaced the logic board in my G4 laptop twice. A piece of red stripe box keeps it alive. I've replaced everything BUT the logic board on my Intel MacBook either for necessity (optical drive) or convenience (RAM). And I haven't had a single PC hold up as long or reliably
And finally hurr durr Linux runs on Macs so yay! Safety! Security! Updates!
Got a dual CPU G4 PowerMac and a G5 PowerMac if you're interested :D
Sure, but you can still put Linux on that old hardware and it's SNAPPY! ElementaryOS on my 2007 MacBook is a million times better than my 4-5 year old AMD tower with twice the RAM, same OS.
Here's another anecdote (it may just be one): I'm still using an '07 MacBook and until a year or two ago I was using a G4 laptop. Not out of any kind of love for product other than it still "felt" usable. It only hits me that I'm 7 years behind when I try to play games. I prefer it over my ThinkPad because the screen is superb, I use Linux on it because I forgot where I was going with this - damn you /. mobile!!!
Anyways, the coming and going all look like crap ATM - until a game I HAVE to play comes out that isn't on a console I own (only 2, and no one is making Atari games...), I'll probably not think about a new PC or even parts for my existing server.
Everything else, even if it's possible, would void the warranty.
And every PC from every manufacturer I've worked with has a sticker or note or bit of tape that says "Warranty Void if Removed/Broken/Etc" - your point? If you plan to do something internally yourself, you're probably going to have to give up the warranty.
The hard part is making something that humans will like.
No it's not - add titties. Game of the Year right there.
If food induces memory loss, then our obesity problem in America is two-fold!
Another diagnosis would be along the lines of "periods of psychosis," happening more than once, for an extended amount of time. Tack on some emotional bits for the "schizoaffective" aspect. A diagnosis of anything can and has been used for all sorts of nefarious reasons, but just because someone fakes a cold to get out of work, it doesn't mean that all people sneezing and coughing are liars.
Presumably, but we don't know much about who they were or what their treatment was like. Where they locked up in padded rooms for the vast duration of their lives? There isn't much incentive to do more than sedate them. Were they actively working with a therapist and psychiatrist? Then they'd probably have more access to antipsycotics. Were they plain untreated? Knowing the sample would be very helpful...even in the "treated" population you have a wide array of tools that more often combat symptoms, not just the diagnosis: Ambien for sleep, Seroquel for knocking out the hard stuff, antipsychiotics to keep the hard stuff at bay on normal days, antidepressents and mood stabilizers to keep you level, vitamins to help supplement what your body doesn't absorb, etc etc etc. Some medications lower your body's ability to intake nutrients, or flat-out destroy your reproductive system. Celiac and other diseases generally compliment SZ. People suffering from SZ tend to be smokers, so throw some cancer treatment into that group.
Schizoaffective sucks - if you need a good place to go, message me (if there's a way to do that?). There are plenty of good communities, and I know one that's been very helpful for friends of mine.
Best of luck to you!
Best attempt at a joke on a mental illness thread I've seen here, ever. At least you understand something about schizophrenia.
To add to the biological component, some study has attempted to link Celiac Disease in the mother to underdevelopment of key brain areas in the infant that lead to disorders such as schizophrenia. Makes sense, too, since the mother's body is busy "fighting" gluten and thus fighting it in the developing fetus as well, or so I understood it.
Not at all - in fact, it's made things worse. The term "schizophrenic" generally means something it isn't to most people - it's aligned with MPD and other disorders which really don't have anything to do with it. Thanks for sticking up for it :) Most people here will just go on there way misunderstanding it based on the name.