If it's anything like the last xps 13 then it will be fucking awesome. I love everything about this laptop. It's incredibly thin and light. The screen is vivid. It runs everything I want it too and never hesitates on me. Plus with the solid state Hard drive it wakes up from sleep in about 2 - 3 seconds.

Mr. Universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_characters#Mr._Universe

Thank you for posting this. It sucks that the general population doesn't understand what it's like to have this. I used to play warhammer 40K and I would stay up for hours into the night painting miniatures and meticulously crafting terrain to display them on. Many kids with ADD do well in individual sports too, I was a good enough gymnast to take state. I loved tumbling and doing giant swings on the high bar. These things were rewarding to me.

Put a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird in front of me at the age of 14 and ask me to read it and think about the underlying messages. Fuck that. I couldn't see any satisfaction in doing that and I had no motivation to WANT to do it so of course my attention is going to wander easily to something more interesting.

This has been going on for almost 20 years now. I had ADD as a kid and when I was 11 my parents sent me to a biofeedback clinic where I would sit in a dentist chair and concentrate on a pac-man. If my brain waves were in the ideal range the pac man would move through the maze and I would gain points. The speed at which he moved accelerated so the longer I was able to 'focus' the faster he would go through the maze and I'd get a higher score.

I'm sure the technology must be much more precise these days and the games have probably gotten a lot more interesting to look at but they all essentially are based on the same principle.

The problem is that most kids that age don't care about wanting to learn how to focus better. They just have fun being who they are naturally. These kinds of programs work really well for adults and younger people with a great deal of motivation to change / practice their 'focusing' ability but as an 11 year old, I got really bored doing this and eventually I started falling asleep in the chair half way through every session. Program was a wasted on me but I applaud my parents for wanting to try to help me without medication.

Interesting how this journalist figured out that 'one thousand percent' sounds a hell of a lot bigger than 'tenfold' or 'ten times as many.' Hope he's getting paid the big bucks.

Thank you for this. It puts things into correct perspective. The safeway in the town I grew up in used to have 7 check-out stands. Between 3 PM and 6 PM every one of those check-out stands had an unskilled laborer working behind it. 3 years ago they tore out 3 check stands to put in the 'self checkout' terminals which only require one person on duty to make sure kids arn't buying alcohol and people arn't neglecting to scan things they may think they don't need to pay for. I don't know if the the two people who used to work 2 of those registers actually lost their jobs. But the management would never have implemented a self checkout system if they didn't think it would save them money in the long run. So I would assume they felt they could save one 8 hours of labor (2 people doing 4 hours of labor each at rush hour every day of the week). Not to mention that during the slow hours they only need to have one active checker and one person to watch the self checkout. The whole purpose of it is to spend less money on paying people to do the work when you can have a machine that never calls in sick (breaks down less often) and only needs a one time payment to get started which will save a hundred thousand dollars for the store in 5 years (based on a $20,000 income for 8 hours of labor every day for one year) Plus you never have to pay machines overtime. They sure as hell don't need medical benefits and the company doesn't have to help contribute to their 401K for the day the machine is retired. Technology may create more skilled jobs. But I see unskilled labor getting more competitive every day.

First someone will have to sue chevron for NOT putting a warning label on it. Hot McDonalds coffee anyone? anyone?

No, desomorphine does not rot flesh. It's the impurities that are left when people simply throw the ingredients together and "cook it down" and inject the left over crap.

Something needs to be made clear. Desomorphine itself does not rot flesh. With a little extra work the solution can be purified and there are users that DO take the time to do this. It's when the solution is simply thrown together and 'cooked down' that health problems occur. Street level users making it on their own don't take the time to purify it.

Do I need to specify a specific child? Maybe if I were writing a scientific paper on the topic but it should be this simple. The people involved in shadow banking are controlling trillions of dollars assets. I ask you, who needs a trillion dollars worth of assets? Personally I mean. What individuals could possibly need so much wealth? The 'shadowbankers' for lack of a better term are indifferent to the deaths of the 100 million children in the world who are starving. If they were not indifferent, the children would not be starving. Money would be invested in helping developing areas. Evil actions are to be feared. But indifference is what we should fear the most. The indifference of the one's who carry this wealth is what's killing people. It is the non-action of the shadowbank that makes it an evil entity.

Off the top of my head? How about the people who live in the year 2013 who are still living in poverty? How about the children who died this year from preventable and curable disease that couldn't get the treatment they needed because their area doesn't have money to afford things like clinics and hospitals that the developed world takes for granted.

Does anyone know if they are actually going to bring the rover up the mountain or just put-put around the base?

When I was 13 ADD was causing significant problems in my academics and social life. We did the ritalin thing for a bit but my mother wanted to try something else to help since the drug didn't seem very effective.

The program involved me sitting in a dentists chair while I had electrodes on my head. I played a dumbed down version of pac-man with my mind.

The basic way it works is when your brain is creating the ideal waves for 'focus' the pacman moves through the maze. The idea is that the child will focus on the pacman moving and through practice will learn to move the pacman through the maze without stopping.

Eventually we ended the program because it just made me so tired I would fall asleep in the chair. Booooring as shit. I suspect something like this would probably work better for an adult who cares more and has the focus to do it. I think I was too young at the time to really care to put more effort into it.

Do it better. Do it faster. Work longer hours. Bullshit. Kiss ass. Draw a firm line when everyone is so dependent on you that they can't survive without you. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sabotage the competition. Don't ever settle. Sue. Keep your heart on your sleeve at home. Nail people to the cross in business. Cheat. Lie when you can get away with it. Bend the rules until they break.

Warfarin, originally used as rat poison, is still the number one anti-coagulant. However it requires regular monitoring (blood tests) to ensure therapeutic levels are being taken or there is a risk of embolism or internal bleeding.

When Plavix came out ten or so years ago the major draw for a lot of patients was that it required no regular monitoring which is a pain in the ass for users of warfain. Unfortunately because Plavix works by a completely different method of action it can't be used as a universal anticoagulant like Warfarin (the method of action for Warfin has been well understood for a long time now.)

Conditions like Factor V Leiden mutation are still being treated with Warfarin with very low or no side effects where as with Plavix you run the risk of Severe Neutropenia and unlike Warfarin, who's effects can begin to be negated with a vitamin K injection, there is no antidote for Plavix.

It makes me wonder how much of an improvement in treatment was really made. Maybe it was worth it to some people to not have to get blood drawn every month. But for all that research to be done and have it not work for all conditions and have many more unpredictable side effects (even if they may be in low occurrence) tons of people have switched from paying $3 a month for warfarin to $60 for plavix, which, if you don't have health insurance, is about the same price if not more expensive than getting a simple blood test.

Geeze the more I talk about it the more I imagine a hamster running around in a wheel.

Even chemotherapy treatments these days haven't changed too much. Methotrexate and Vincristine are still among the number one chemo drugs used in leukemia and lymphoma treatment regimens after almost sixty years.

The difference these days is that we know what doses are better for treatment and we know what drugs to use in combination with them to ensure a better prognosis