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PCOS "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
I stumbed upon this while looking for "paint" to spray on the part of my scalp where the hair is a mere shaddow of its former glory. :( It looks like these girls suffer with many of the symptoms that the Intersexed do, and Male Pattern balding. In short they have far too many Androgins. So, not really knowing much about medicine, I am wondering if this is just a form of being Intersexed. The incidence is very high; about 1 in 10 women, and I wonder if some day things like this will help our society to get away from the binary gender model?
Khadija
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Oh, that PCOS!
Oh!
When I read the title I wondered why you were writing about a really, really old computer operating system:
http://www.z80ne.com/m20/index.php?argument=sections/pcos/pc...
Kris
(Sorry, it's the geek in me.)
Reality is a nice concept - but it doesn't hold up to close examination.
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
Circa 1980?
Careful now, 1980 does not seem like that long ago to me. :)
I was the first one in a company of about 1000 people to have one of these. We started out with 123 and later graduated to Symphony. The first spread sheets were not reliable at all. I was working on once and found that when I finished with one screen and moved to another area, when I returned some numbers would be different. They concluded that it was an error on one of the memory chips. Why am I not a super geek today. Not the right stuff, I suppose.
Khadija
But...
It *is* incredibly old in terms of computer life. I mean in the span of ten years we've gone from "Oh 25 gigs is more than enough hard-drive space" to "What? This computer only comes with 500 gigs? I need a terabyte -- at the very least!"
Non-computer people:
There are 1024 gigabytes in a terabyte. The are 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte. If that doesn't help: Your average song (of 3 to 4 minutes) is around 3 MB (or megabytes), mine tend to range from 5 to 8 on average. This works out to around 300 songs that can fit in one gigabyte (depending on the quality of the song). Now multiply this number by one thousand. That's a lot of music on your terabyte hard drive and *that's* how big they've gotten in just ten years not compared to the thirty years that is 1980.
I remember I use to joke with my friends how excessively large hard drives were getting, about how we couldn't imagine *ever* needing a terabyte. Now, I find I'm rapidly running out of space on my computer of 500 gigs.
Oh, how the world changes...