Posted 11/21/2009 at 12:48:02pm

As a person who was with my fiance for about 9 years, who later was diagnosed with bi-polar, borderline personality disorder and OCD (just to start, at least) i was informed several times that it takes, on average a good 8 years to get both a proper diagnosis and be issued the proper medication for the disorder...at least for bi polar. I was told this several times by professionals in the field... i mean locally workign psychiatrists and accredited councilors. 8 years.

Interestingly enough I was told that one of the problems that lengthens the time frame is with the medication taking time to introduce into the persons system so that you can properly tell its effects - which were measured in months for each particular drug.

If yours was figured out within a year and a half you were luckier than she was... and i was... she is now my ex of about 2 years. Life is quite a bit less stressful without her. I hear her's is not goign so well, however, 2 years in.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 12:41:30pm

a lot of evidence that 2+2=5 for certain values of 2. Just saying. Nothing is for certain and at the rate of diagnosis for depression, even the psychology mag's are screaming foul. Look up 'Psychology Today'. I read it semi-regularly... they are so certain that depression is nearly as promenient as the diagnosis' for it are, for example.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 12:38:03pm

Technically its an 'art' as oppossed to a science. - why you get a BA in Psychology. Psychiatry i believe is an 'art' as well... much like philosophy. however, Psychiatrists are able to prescribe drugs. Sigmond Froid (no sure how to spell his name at the moment) for example was a psychiatrist who at a penchant for prescribing now illegal narcotics for everything...wiki him some day.

Posted 11/21/2009 at 12:32:40pm

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Posted 11/21/2009 at 12:28:06pm

Vista Server! Oh wait.. lol maybe they should ditch deadlines all together and worry about making something great rather than focus on when they can recoup money on the development cycle.

 The other thing i should note is that MS's technical CEO type guy was very much interested in pushing a 'cloud' OS in a Wired article this year. That could very well be it. 

Want an OS that is in the Cloud? If I read it correctly the article suggested that it is fully functional if on the internet (and your up to date on your monthly payments) but gimped if not. Interesting step but I would not be so interested to go in that direction myself...

Posted 11/16/2009 at 01:23:08pm

For a while now there has been a major debate for how to best do huge projects like trying to better understand how to predict traffic (and how it would change if you build a street in a majorly busy area...before laying down the green), for example.

There was a time that all thought the supercomputer/mainframe was dead... to the point that IBM renamed their newest at the time to T-Rex (i believe it was still in the big blue product line). The mainframe killer was thought to be the server-farm. It's now looking like there is a shift back. maybe because of the cloud mentality.

Just because you can't figure out what to do with that kind of computing power doesn't mean the rest of us enthusiasts don't drool at that kind of power.

p.s. --obligatory: 'will it play crisis?'

Posted 11/15/2009 at 06:24:49pm

what do you think they would gain by pushing physical media into extinction?

 Wanna watch a movie? well if you buy a physical copy they can only hit you once for the price of the media. If you do not own the media they can hit you each time you want to view it. They also have the ability to change the price on percieved demand of the movie you want to watch.

Nothing really new to see here.

Posted 11/15/2009 at 05:41:16pm

It may improve the quality of journalism... or am I getting to hopeful?

Posted 11/15/2009 at 05:37:19pm

when almost every single hardware piece of your puter is cheaper then the OS there is a problem with pricing, imho. To think that just about everything in my new box is cheaper than the fragile and less tangable OS at the wheel... i dunno, man, i dunno.

Posted 11/15/2009 at 05:33:37pm

It's like they are encouraging us to nab a torrented version (which also has the side benefit of not giving us upgrade or even patching/wga issues. Hell, then we don't even have to type in the key...)