If you type the command as shown, complete with pound sign, it won't do anything (under the usual bourne shell). That's pretty much what DRM does for you, right?
...And it'd better not be another *red* Fairlane.;) How come no one ever paints them blue or green?
BTW, just to keep this vaguely on-topic, I've used boa for the remote upload / setup interface server in my home-brew car mp3 player since 1998. "A new webserver", bah.
Fist, find out what city the compay (or division of the company) you're complaining about is in. You can probably do that from the bbb's site, which is http://www.bbb.org/.
On the BBB's website, there's a complaint resoution form that's pretty easy to fill out. The only advice I have for you is to be sure to present your argument in as porfessional of a tone as possible. If you start to sound incendiary or otherwise agressive, it hurts your argument. Present the facts and only the facts, and something wil probably get done fairly quickly. No company wants poorly-resolved BBB problems associated with them.:)
Then, make sure that you follow up with the BBB regarding whether or not the problem was satisfactorily resolved.
OK, I did some more research. Apperently, mobile telephone service providers are required to support portability by November 2003. So, we're almost there...
My Nextel bills have a "number portability fee" every month. I assumed that the reason for that was that the mobile numbers were now portable to other carriers. I'm pretty sure that I'd read something about a new law requiring such a thing. Then, I could be confused...
According to http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html, cell providers shouldn't charge that fee unless all carriers in the area support portability, so apperently central IL has that service (or Nextel is screwing me)...:) Check with your provider, it's possible that your number is portable.
I had to turn to the BBB with Sprint. In a nutshell, I fulfilled my 1 year contract (had the phone for 14 months). When I decided to switch carriers, as requested that my sprint phone be bumped down to the lowest service level for one month, so I could still get voice mail and whatnot from the people that I forgot to inform of my new mobile number. When I tried to cancel the sprint service, I found out that the phone drone had clicked through some screen that said I agreed to a new one year contract. It took 4 months of calling and arguing with people of varying "Engrish" ability before I complained to the BBB. A high-level manager called me the very next day to apologize and straighten things out.
So, I dislike Sprint too. The service, as another poster said, is either "on" or "off", and the customer service is abysimal. The phones are cool and the phone service rocks, when it works, though.:)
Bah, *you* don't have an article in the New York Times. Maybe if you get this "extensible markup language" idea covered by a national media source, then we'll take you seriously. Until then, let the professionals deal with device-independent information presentation.
I'll love it when they give me free channel listings over the dish and a good user interface.:) Is there a Tivo with dual tuners?
The new dish PVR is linux-based too, BTW. A review is here. I'm not sure there's a tivo unit that compares. I'm at the point where I'm either going to switch services ro renew with Dish, so maybe it'd be good for me to look into that...:)
Actually, it's like investing $3000 in subs and amps for the stereo in a $1000 car, then forgetting that there's some very important sound in the "over 500 Hz" range (and that a vibrating trunk will overpower even the cleanest bass outside of that POS car, making the passers-by who are supposed to be impressed actually think that you only spent $50 on a crappy buzzy stereo).
Most places that require student status recognize that you're still a student over the break between semesters, including over summer break. I'm pretty sure that I remember signing up for fall courses at the end of the spring semester, anyway, so I *was* enrolled in classes during summer, but they didn't start until fall...:)
I love my dish network PVR, but I hate that I can't get local channels because my local affiliates are jerks who won't allow it. If I move to DirecTV, I can get those channels, but I lose my PVR in favor of one that costs extra to get channel listings (and I'd lose some of the channels that I actually like). Boy, it'd sure suck if those companies got together and offered all of the service that I want at a price that still has to remain competitive with cable. Oh, wait, I guess they don't compete with cable.
A satelite monopoly is not a TV monopoly. Why don't the boneheads in gov't realize that? Make them share their bandwidth like the phone companies if that's what they feel compelled to do, but damn, they don't need to be duplicating effort.
Oh, yay. One free 50 foot length of coax, some random screws, and someone to put both into your house. I sure couldn't handle doing that myself. But since Joe Everyman apperently can't handle moving the dish around until the TV beeps fast, *I* have to partially subsidize the "free" install and "free" install labor. That's right - you're paying for the install, it's not "free". The programming cost and equipment cost rolls up whatever amount of money the company pays out to the installers.
Indeed they are. It's about time they get rid of more anime crap. Maybe there can be some other channel that shows "we worked for three year on just this frame and still only managed a half-arsed representation of a huma" cartoons, saving time on cartoon network for cartoons that focus on entertaining plots.:)
Not that animated semi-nudity or three-day fight sequences are bad, but I sure don't like having to think to enjoy TV...
Since you asked, yes, I have seen a lab report before. This is an incomplete report. I'll try anyway:
A CBC is: Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, RBC, WBC, Differential Platelet Count
A BMP is: Glucose, Calcium, Sodium, Potassium, CO2, BUN, Creatinine
A Liver Profile includes : GGT, AP, AST, ALT
These tests can vary by institution, but a CBC always includes the RBC value. This person is vomiting blood. It might be nice to know what color the blood is, the hemoglobin, and the RBC values.
Glucose can be ordered separately, but not with a BMP because it's part of the BMP. Must've been a beginning med student typing there, because they obviously didn't know that.
What about the patient history? Where is that? The last lab report I looked at had the patient's history included. I'm thinking this is a possible gall bladder disease. His potassium is low because he has been vomiting. His other electrolytes are probably low as well. It might be a good idea to check those out. The high protein levels can also be attributed to the vomiting. I'd call the lab and have them test the electrolytes. After that, I'd order a CT scan and an ultrasound.
My guess is that the CT scan will show that the gall bladder is a somewhat thicker than it should be and that the ultrasound will show an enlarged gall bladder. Since we don't have all of the information here, that's just a guess, though.
Next time, check out a microbiology or hematology lab report. The micro report will have a diagnosis and the antibiotic to treat it with. The doctor just reads the paper.
Is it my turn to come up with something tough? My wife graduated with a degree in CLS (clinical lab science). Four years of education. She came up with "gall bladder" in the time it took to read the scenario. I'll pass along some hematology scenarios if you want.
Doctors are better trained than you give them credit for.
That's likely because there are so many doctors who manage to be complete morons despite having gone to school for so many years. Aside from surgeons, "doctors" don't do much beyond advanced nursing anyway - it's the people in the labs that diagnose and prescribe, while the doctor just tells people what the lab told them.
One day I need to get a job where I can get paid heaps of money just to pass along information and remember basic anatomy...:)
Hooray for moderating questions that are plainly answered in the article as "insightful". The moderator(s) and poster *both* neglected to read it. Sigh.
For the benefit of all the other readers who *also* won't read it...:)
The program initially is set up with about 70% online learning and about 30% clinical experience. That clinical time is spent at a hospital or participating school. After the first couple of years, the emphasis shifts to clinical study, with 70% of the time now being spent in clinical rotations and 30% online learning.
Oh, on a side note, Franklin university has some very nice online programs that are real, regionally accredited programs. I'm finishing my last CS course there while I work full-time, and have generally been pleased with the system in comparison to the other schools I'd previously attended. http://alliance.franklin.edu/ for info.
My guess: They don't. Anyone using that many drives will either have a) bought an ATAPI RAID controller (like the awesome ones from 3ware) or b) have gone with SCSI drives from the start. B's the more likely choice.
As an aside, I have a machine with dual Athlon XP 2200+'s, all the expansion slots filled, three very large DDR DIMMs, and 6 ATA133 Maxtor drives hooked up in one system next to my desk. The drives are all set to master, so they all spin up at the same time (slaves wait a moment before spinning up). It not only sounds cool, but works just fine. The power supply is a 500W Enermax (maybe it's 530 or 560, I forget - it's pretty nice, though). It's not melted, nor do I expect it to ever do so. I could add another 6 drives in slave mode and still not worry about the supply dying, IMHO.
That's clearly a troll - but either way it should be pointed out that the engine control computer doesn't really do much of anything that would put anyone at "risk". The steering and brakes are, at their core, not reliant on the computer to function. That's because other things (like dead batteries and running out of gas) could also disable the computer. No one's gonna "blow anything up" by tweaking the car computer - unless they're doing something else as well...
My point is that going around the kernel-provided filesystem access methods is bad. Dump's *implementation* is a bad one. If there's data stored that can't be read using standard utilities and the standard filesystem interface, then it shouldn't need to be backed up.
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If you type the command as shown, complete with pound sign, it won't do anything (under the usual bourne shell). That's pretty much what DRM does for you, right?
Hey, George Carlin posts to Slashdot! :)
Mmmm, "napalm and silly putty"...
...And it'd better not be another *red* Fairlane. ;) How come no one ever paints them blue or green?
BTW, just to keep this vaguely on-topic, I've used boa for the remote upload / setup interface server in my home-brew car mp3 player since 1998. "A new webserver", bah.
Fist, find out what city the compay (or division of the company) you're complaining about is in. You can probably do that from the bbb's site, which is http://www.bbb.org/.
:)
;)
On the BBB's website, there's a complaint resoution form that's pretty easy to fill out. The only advice I have for you is to be sure to present your argument in as porfessional of a tone as possible. If you start to sound incendiary or otherwise agressive, it hurts your argument. Present the facts and only the facts, and something wil probably get done fairly quickly. No company wants poorly-resolved BBB problems associated with them.
Then, make sure that you follow up with the BBB regarding whether or not the problem was satisfactorily resolved.
Have fun!
OK, I did some more research. Apperently, mobile telephone service providers are required to support portability by November 2003. So, we're almost there...
My Nextel bills have a "number portability fee" every month. I assumed that the reason for that was that the mobile numbers were now portable to other carriers. I'm pretty sure that I'd read something about a new law requiring such a thing. Then, I could be confused...
l , cell providers shouldn't charge that fee unless all carriers in the area support portability, so apperently central IL has that service (or Nextel is screwing me)... :) Check with your provider, it's possible that your number is portable.
According to http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.htm
I had to turn to the BBB with Sprint. In a nutshell, I fulfilled my 1 year contract (had the phone for 14 months). When I decided to switch carriers, as requested that my sprint phone be bumped down to the lowest service level for one month, so I could still get voice mail and whatnot from the people that I forgot to inform of my new mobile number. When I tried to cancel the sprint service, I found out that the phone drone had clicked through some screen that said I agreed to a new one year contract. It took 4 months of calling and arguing with people of varying "Engrish" ability before I complained to the BBB. A high-level manager called me the very next day to apologize and straighten things out.
:)
So, I dislike Sprint too. The service, as another poster said, is either "on" or "off", and the customer service is abysimal. The phones are cool and the phone service rocks, when it works, though.
Bah, *you* don't have an article in the New York Times. Maybe if you get this "extensible markup language" idea covered by a national media source, then we'll take you seriously. Until then, let the professionals deal with device-independent information presentation.
Like the U Force and ROB? I don't think there's much you can do with either... :)
Well, if you can get dual tuners and free service with the movie channels (that I get anyway), that'd be OK. I'll have to look into it, then. Thanks.
I'll love it when they give me free channel listings over the dish and a good user interface. :) Is there a Tivo with dual tuners?
:)
The new dish PVR is linux-based too, BTW. A review is here. I'm not sure there's a tivo unit that compares. I'm at the point where I'm either going to switch services ro renew with Dish, so maybe it'd be good for me to look into that...
Actually, it's like investing $3000 in subs and amps for the stereo in a $1000 car, then forgetting that there's some very important sound in the "over 500 Hz" range (and that a vibrating trunk will overpower even the cleanest bass outside of that POS car, making the passers-by who are supposed to be impressed actually think that you only spent $50 on a crappy buzzy stereo).
How's that for a run-on sentence?
Most places that require student status recognize that you're still a student over the break between semesters, including over summer break. I'm pretty sure that I remember signing up for fall courses at the end of the spring semester, anyway, so I *was* enrolled in classes during summer, but they didn't start until fall... :)
I love my dish network PVR, but I hate that I can't get local channels because my local affiliates are jerks who won't allow it. If I move to DirecTV, I can get those channels, but I lose my PVR in favor of one that costs extra to get channel listings (and I'd lose some of the channels that I actually like). Boy, it'd sure suck if those companies got together and offered all of the service that I want at a price that still has to remain competitive with cable. Oh, wait, I guess they don't compete with cable.
A satelite monopoly is not a TV monopoly. Why don't the boneheads in gov't realize that? Make them share their bandwidth like the phone companies if that's what they feel compelled to do, but damn, they don't need to be duplicating effort.
Oh, yay. One free 50 foot length of coax, some random screws, and someone to put both into your house. I sure couldn't handle doing that myself. But since Joe Everyman apperently can't handle moving the dish around until the TV beeps fast, *I* have to partially subsidize the "free" install and "free" install labor. That's right - you're paying for the install, it's not "free". The programming cost and equipment cost rolls up whatever amount of money the company pays out to the installers.
I hope you watched it before the price went up: amazon.com
:)
vote here to get Disney to re-release it...
Indeed they are. It's about time they get rid of more anime crap. Maybe there can be some other channel that shows "we worked for three year on just this frame and still only managed a half-arsed representation of a huma" cartoons, saving time on cartoon network for cartoons that focus on entertaining plots. :)
Not that animated semi-nudity or three-day fight sequences are bad, but I sure don't like having to think to enjoy TV...
Yes, blackhole all of Korea (North and South). That cut a bunch of spam out of *my* mail servers...
Since you asked, yes, I have seen a lab report before. This is an incomplete report. I'll try anyway:
A CBC is: Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, RBC, WBC, Differential Platelet Count
A BMP is: Glucose, Calcium, Sodium, Potassium, CO2, BUN, Creatinine
A Liver Profile includes : GGT, AP, AST, ALT
These tests can vary by institution, but a CBC always includes the RBC value. This person is vomiting blood. It might be nice to know what color the blood is, the hemoglobin, and the RBC values.
Glucose can be ordered separately, but not with a BMP because it's part of the BMP. Must've been a beginning med student typing there, because they obviously didn't know that.
What about the patient history? Where is that? The last lab report I looked at had the patient's history included. I'm thinking this is a possible gall bladder disease. His potassium is low because he has been vomiting. His other electrolytes are probably low as well. It might be a good idea to check those out. The high protein levels can also be attributed to the vomiting. I'd call the lab and have them test the electrolytes. After that, I'd order a CT scan and an ultrasound.
My guess is that the CT scan will show that the gall bladder is a somewhat thicker than it should be and that the ultrasound will show an enlarged gall bladder. Since we don't have all of the information here, that's just a guess, though.
Next time, check out a microbiology or hematology lab report. The micro report will have a diagnosis and the antibiotic to treat it with. The doctor just reads the paper.
Is it my turn to come up with something tough? My wife graduated with a degree in CLS (clinical lab science). Four years of education. She came up with "gall bladder" in the time it took to read the scenario. I'll pass along some hematology scenarios if you want.
Doctors are better trained than you give them credit for.
That's likely because there are so many doctors who manage to be complete morons despite having gone to school for so many years. Aside from surgeons, "doctors" don't do much beyond advanced nursing anyway - it's the people in the labs that diagnose and prescribe, while the doctor just tells people what the lab told them.
One day I need to get a job where I can get paid heaps of money just to pass along information and remember basic anatomy... :)
Hooray for moderating questions that are plainly answered in the article as "insightful". The moderator(s) and poster *both* neglected to read it. Sigh.
:)
For the benefit of all the other readers who *also* won't read it...
The program initially is set up with about 70% online learning and about 30% clinical experience. That clinical time is spent at a hospital or participating school. After the first couple of years, the emphasis shifts to clinical study, with 70% of the time now being spent in clinical rotations and 30% online learning.
Oh, on a side note, Franklin university has some very nice online programs that are real, regionally accredited programs. I'm finishing my last CS course there while I work full-time, and have generally been pleased with the system in comparison to the other schools I'd previously attended. http://alliance.franklin.edu/ for info.
My guess: They don't. Anyone using that many drives will either have a) bought an ATAPI RAID controller (like the awesome ones from 3ware) or b) have gone with SCSI drives from the start. B's the more likely choice.
As an aside, I have a machine with dual Athlon XP 2200+'s, all the expansion slots filled, three very large DDR DIMMs, and 6 ATA133 Maxtor drives hooked up in one system next to my desk. The drives are all set to master, so they all spin up at the same time (slaves wait a moment before spinning up). It not only sounds cool, but works just fine. The power supply is a 500W Enermax (maybe it's 530 or 560, I forget - it's pretty nice, though). It's not melted, nor do I expect it to ever do so. I could add another 6 drives in slave mode and still not worry about the supply dying, IMHO.
I bought that CD. I'm a sucker, too, so it seems.
That's clearly a troll - but either way it should be pointed out that the engine control computer doesn't really do much of anything that would put anyone at "risk". The steering and brakes are, at their core, not reliant on the computer to function. That's because other things (like dead batteries and running out of gas) could also disable the computer. No one's gonna "blow anything up" by tweaking the car computer - unless they're doing something else as well...
My point is that going around the kernel-provided filesystem access methods is bad. Dump's *implementation* is a bad one. If there's data stored that can't be read using standard utilities and the standard filesystem interface, then it shouldn't need to be backed up.