I don't know. Back when I was a pre-med, I kept my MD aspirations (mostly) a secret because I didn't want to be associated with all of the hopeless, pathetic jackasses who called themselves pre-med.
Pre-meds at my school weren't getting laid so much as socially shunned.:-)
Agreed. Looking back on things, everyone _and their mother_ was "pre-med". Whatever that meant. If I could do it again I would have picked English or History. I've had so much biology by this stage it makes my head spin.
Sterile people are made all the time. Babies in the womb are sterile.
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I paid for Opera 7.5 and can use the 8+ series without paying for an upgrade (it's considered an upgrade to 7.54 since there was no 7.6) but I am having a hard time living without a nice adblock utility and therefore use firefox 99% of the time.
Use Privoxy - I've used it for a year or two and don't bother with browser solutions. Works very well. And apparently in windows too.
At least Mensa(of which I am not a member) bases admission on tests which don't require intensive study.
You my friend need to understand more of what medicine is. It is not creative. At all. It requires you to learn huge amounts of information that initially don't make complete sense. It's not as much about being smart as being willing to put in the time. O.k., so the tests are long and grueling. So are the hours. Believe me - there are few things probably as difficult as making important decisions after tearing around chaotically for 32-36 hours with hardly time to eat. You need to know the information cold - you're not going to be able to figure out crap on the spot then.
The number of doctors is limited by congress because they're the ones that foot the bill for the residency training.
I don't know about the rest of you people but I still use Mozilla as my 3rd browser behind konqueror and firefox.
I'm sure other people have found similar things. It remains the only browser that opens most of those silly Javascript sub-windows. I can only imagine the other browsers don't do this because the javascript is some broken hack - but whether it is or isn't, sometimes you just need to open these things.
Here's my stance towards Tivo. I'd love to support that company - I like what they did originally and understand they have pressures these days so that things may be less than ideal.
But I always knew I'd be moving towards HD, so I didn't jump the bandwagon when it first came out. Now I have two options:
1. Buy a HD Tivo for more than $1000 and then pay a monthly fee of something like $13.00, or 2. Get Adelphia's HD DVR for (get this) free for 5 months, then $4.95 per month.
O.k. So Tivo might be better. But it isn't that better. And, as I never had one of the originals, (as most people ) I don't know the difference.
Tivo, in its current form, without liscencing from Cable Companies, is dead. It's only time.
So now we (the peanut gallery) are bad because we criticized him for all these self-diagnosis. I'm happy he finally guess right with the infective endocarditis. But that's a far way from this sulfur actinomycosis he was originally claiming...
Gosh - all the guy has to point to is the US's current Bioterrorism research. You know, the large amounts of money that are put into "developing" various strains of germ warfare to better "prepare us" in case "someone else" uses them against us??
I don't really know if it's Physics' image or the image in America. The one thing that struck me when I spent some time in Germany was that I suddenly realized why their so amazing at math and physics - everyone is bloody studying it. It got to the point that I was a bit surprised when someone _wasn't_ studying math or physics.
Just a different mentality. Everyone in America wants to go into Business. But everyone can't be in business - someone has to be creating the product behind it.
When redhat ditched their normal desktop product in favor of this "Fedora" thing it struck me as a critically stupid move.
Redhat got to the height it did because of one thing, namely mindshare. Today the people I know who need to use linux for business normally use Redhat. Why? Because other business products are certified against it.
But while RH retains that gravity, it's loosing it's momentum simply because it is loosing mindshare. Why? My guess is that they've diluted things with this Fedora Project. It's not "RedHat" per se any more.
So they've closed the door on those coming in from the ground floor. And what happens? Other distributions spring up. I started using redhat at version 2.2 back with kernel 1.2.13 but I've now tried other ways of doing things - non RPM based distributions and I'm telling you I wouldn't go back. Gone are the days I need to go culling through freshrpms for some PACKAGE-connectiva.i386.rpm substitute for RPM Hell. Things are happy here now.:)
1. You bought a $700 PC 2. You tried to upgrade your little box-o-crap 3. You assume that your individual circumstances are a) interesting and b) globally apply to Compaq
So this leads us inescapably to the following conclusions:
1. You are an idiot 2. You should be banned from ever owning or operating a computer ever again, as you are clearly the kind of person who drives nice, helpful, computer-literate people completely insane, and we need more of them
You've got a lot of issues dude.
(And not that it matters to me, but writing device drivers for SGI back in the heyday strikes me as an element of "computer literacy". But perhaps this is nothing compared to your Leet Skilz.)
Well I haven't been all that pleased recently with Compaq. My apartment is built on an ancient Indian Graveyard and so electrical equipment related or of my computer routinely dies. As I got finally sick of going through the motions of building a new system and as my time was very short, I picked up a Compaq Presario S6500NX. I know - a noob machine, but it had what I needed, a 3Ghz Athlon XP, and plenty of everything else for like 699 US.
Everything has worked fine, but I have since (after 3 trips to the computer store) tried upgrading ye old GeForce3 Ti 200 to a 6600 GT AGP.
Turns out the motherboard (which is this ASUS orphan board that ASUS won't even admit to making only for Compaq) has some dumbed down BIOS. So there's some BIOS setting somewhere I just can't get to (presumably) which prevents the BIOS from even booting when the new card is in. (I've tried various cards and powersupplies.
My question is, what the heck is the point?? Why dumb something down like this? Most people couldn't even get *into* the BIOS. What are they hiding from me and why??
You know - of all the things I've learned in medicine and in life in general, there's always a price. The orientals had so much right with their yin and yang idea.
There was a time a few years ago where I was at this incredible ball/party and had the time of my life - it was such a high. The next day I was strangely a bit mellow and depressed. Perhaps all of the neural cascades that had let me have that high the night earlier were now a bit depleted.
I have this espresso machine which I love and the drinks give me this lovely little warm feeling inside - but if I drink too many, when the effect is gone I feel cold and tired.
Same thing for narcotics. We all know about the highs of some of those drugs - which are invariably followed with lows that force people to do anything to spare that.
O.k., so you take a drug that makes you concentrate a bit better. What happens later? Are you a bit dumber for a while afterwards? I respect Cephalon's attempts to stave Parkinsons' but be careful about other "enhancing" drugs.
For every action there's always a reaction. Just live a healthy life - eat well and exercise.
I have to keep Mozilla around because there are somethings that firefox or konqueror still don't do well. Javascript for instance. And the place I work seems completely enamoured with SurveyMonkey.com - which doesn't work on those two either....
Read the article, seriously. He's covered all the hospitals he's been to and doctors he's seen. He's not expecting some doctor to just prescribe him medicine; he's looking for a doctor who MAY have a clue as to what his illness might be. He's grasping at straws here, trying to find out what the problem is exactly (even if he thinks he has a good idea) and any subsequent treatments. In essence, this has gone on far too long and it's starting to get much, much worse, and every ER (there have been multiple visits to multiple hospitals) he's visited as well as multiple doctors have given conflicting diagnoses, with no treatment doing anything to help Patrick along. If you read the article, you get a much better picture of what he's asking for. Don't just assume he's asking for a script.
O.k., fair dues. I read through it. But I still don't see anything of decently-sized medical centers. Just mining towns in Montana or clinics elsewhere.
Sometimes odd diseases take a while to expose themselves - like a hand of cards where you get to just see one card at a time.
One of the deservedly most-celebrated ID doctors in the world is Ralph Feigin at Baylor/Texas Children's. He eats these weird problems for lunch. Maybe he should try getting an appointment with someone in the ID department at Texas Children's? They'd have a pretty direct line to Ralph if it was thought necessary.
Not all of it, no. But it doesn't matter. If the ER he's gone to doesn't admit him and he thinks they're wrong, he needs to go to the ER of a hospital where they're not going to brush him off if he's not a run-of-the-mill disease. And if a place like that doesn't exist in Podunk North Dakota, he needs to go to a real hospital.
I don't know any doctors who would implicitly trust someone's internet self-diagnosis.
Surely someone from the hordes of Ximian or other people in Boston can spot him a bed so he can go to Mass General or something similar in New York.
Prescribing any medication for someone over the phone - especially for an infection refractory to initial medical care is wrong and will do more to hurt Patrick than help him. Believe me. There are proper protocols for this and they work well. Get him to a hospital where weird stuff is regularly seen (any large medical center) and get him into the ER.
Not all of it, no. But it doesn't matter. If the ER he's gone to doesn't admit him and he thinks they're wrong, he needs to go to the ER of a hospital where they're not going to brush him off if he's not a run-of-the-mill disease. And if a place like that doesn't exist in Podunk North Dakota, he needs to go to a real hospital.
I don't know any doctors who would implicitly trust someone's internet self-diagnosis.
Surely someone from the hordes of Ximian or other people in Boston can spot him a bed so he can go to Mass General or something similar in New York.
Prescribing any medication for someone over the phone - especially for an infection refractory to initial medical care is wrong and will do more to hurt Patrick than help him. Believe me. There are proper protocols for this and they work well. Get him to a hospital where weird stuff is regularly seen (any large medical center) and get him into the ER.
Good lord - this guy's gone a little bit loonie. He needs to get medical treatment - not post email messages.
And that's from an MD. No - I'm not going to prescribe high-dose antibiotics for the guy over the phone. Jesus - does that not make sense to anyone? Go to a hospital and get evaluated. They'll do the proper tests and get him plugged in and probably on the proper antibiotics.
Besides, this isn't a third-world country where you need to pull strings to get people into a hospital. Go to the ER and get seen there. If he needs to be admitted they'll do it from there.
Dude - hate to spoil it here for you people. But some people (such as myself) work well more than 100 hours a week, sometimes 36 hours at a stretch straigh, with no break, and people's lives in our hands. And I make about 39 grand a year before taxes.
I know the hours suck and you get worn out. But you've got to pull back the covers and try and live with it. Or around it, or what not. Make the game, try and enjoy it. And know that no one's going to die if you screw up something.
Well I don't know about everyone here, but I was suprised last night when I right clicked under windows on a sxw file in xp (with adobe acrobat 6.0 pro) installed and got a "convert to pdf" thing. And it worked perfectly. I would assume this didn't happen without some effort by someone at adobe...
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I don't know. Back when I was a pre-med, I kept my MD aspirations (mostly) a secret because I didn't want to be associated with all of the hopeless, pathetic jackasses who called themselves pre-med.
:-)
Pre-meds at my school weren't getting laid so much as socially shunned.
Agreed. Looking back on things, everyone _and their mother_ was "pre-med". Whatever that meant. If I could do it again I would have picked English or History. I've had so much biology by this stage it makes my head spin.
Sterile people can be made in theory.
Sterile people are made all the time. Babies in the womb are sterile.
I paid for Opera 7.5 and can use the 8+ series without paying for an upgrade (it's considered an upgrade to 7.54 since there was no 7.6) but I am having a hard time living without a nice adblock utility and therefore use firefox 99% of the time.
Use Privoxy - I've used it for a year or two and don't bother with browser solutions. Works very well. And apparently in windows too.
At least Mensa(of which I am not a member) bases admission on tests which don't require intensive study.
You my friend need to understand more of what medicine is. It is not creative. At all. It requires you to learn huge amounts of information that initially don't make complete sense. It's not as much about being smart as being willing to put in the time. O.k., so the tests are long and grueling. So are the hours. Believe me - there are few things probably as difficult as making important decisions after tearing around chaotically for 32-36 hours with hardly time to eat. You need to know the information cold - you're not going to be able to figure out crap on the spot then.
The number of doctors is limited by congress because they're the ones that foot the bill for the residency training.
I work in the medical field and I've had the opportunity to meet a few of medicine's really bright people.
And none of them seem to want or need other people patting them on the backs telling them how smart they are.
I don't know about the rest of you people but I still use Mozilla as my 3rd browser behind konqueror and firefox.
I'm sure other people have found similar things. It remains the only browser that opens most of those silly Javascript sub-windows. I can only imagine the other browsers don't do this because the javascript is some broken hack - but whether it is or isn't, sometimes you just need to open these things.
Here's my stance towards Tivo. I'd love to support that company - I like what they did originally and understand they have pressures these days so that things may be less than ideal.
But I always knew I'd be moving towards HD, so I didn't jump the bandwagon when it first came out. Now I have two options:
1. Buy a HD Tivo for more than $1000 and then pay a monthly fee of something like $13.00, or
2. Get Adelphia's HD DVR for (get this) free for 5 months, then $4.95 per month.
O.k. So Tivo might be better. But it isn't that better. And, as I never had one of the originals, (as most people ) I don't know the difference.
Tivo, in its current form, without liscencing from Cable Companies, is dead. It's only time.
So now we (the peanut gallery) are bad because we criticized him for all these self-diagnosis. I'm happy he finally guess right with the infective endocarditis. But that's a far way from this sulfur actinomycosis he was originally claiming...
Just a thought.
Gosh - all the guy has to point to is the US's current Bioterrorism research. You know, the large amounts of money that are put into "developing" various strains of germ warfare to better "prepare us" in case "someone else" uses them against us??
I don't really know if it's Physics' image or the image in America. The one thing that struck me when I spent some time in Germany was that I suddenly realized why their so amazing at math and physics - everyone is bloody studying it. It got to the point that I was a bit surprised when someone _wasn't_ studying math or physics.
Just a different mentality. Everyone in America wants to go into Business. But everyone can't be in business - someone has to be creating the product behind it.
When redhat ditched their normal desktop product in favor of this "Fedora" thing it struck me as a critically stupid move.
:)
Redhat got to the height it did because of one thing, namely mindshare. Today the people I know who need to use linux for business normally use Redhat. Why? Because other business products are certified against it.
But while RH retains that gravity, it's loosing it's momentum simply because it is loosing mindshare. Why? My guess is that they've diluted things with this Fedora Project. It's not "RedHat" per se any more.
So they've closed the door on those coming in from the ground floor. And what happens? Other distributions spring up. I started using redhat at version 2.2 back with kernel 1.2.13 but I've now tried other ways of doing things - non RPM based distributions and I'm telling you I wouldn't go back. Gone are the days I need to go culling through freshrpms for some PACKAGE-connectiva.i386.rpm substitute for RPM Hell. Things are happy here now.
Listen carefully as I lay it out for you:
1. You bought a $700 PC
2. You tried to upgrade your little box-o-crap
3. You assume that your individual circumstances are a) interesting and b) globally apply to Compaq
So this leads us inescapably to the following conclusions:
1. You are an idiot
2. You should be banned from ever owning or operating a computer ever again, as you are clearly the kind of person who drives nice, helpful, computer-literate people completely insane, and we need more of them
You've got a lot of issues dude.
(And not that it matters to me, but writing device drivers for SGI back in the heyday strikes me as an element of "computer literacy". But perhaps this is nothing compared to your Leet Skilz.)
Chill out.
Well I haven't been all that pleased recently with Compaq. My apartment is built on an ancient Indian Graveyard and so electrical equipment related or of my computer routinely dies. As I got finally sick of going through the motions of building a new system and as my time was very short, I picked up a Compaq Presario S6500NX. I know - a noob machine, but it had what I needed, a 3Ghz Athlon XP, and plenty of everything else for like 699 US.
Everything has worked fine, but I have since (after 3 trips to the computer store) tried upgrading ye old GeForce3 Ti 200 to a 6600 GT AGP.
Turns out the motherboard (which is this ASUS orphan board that ASUS won't even admit to making only for Compaq) has some dumbed down BIOS. So there's some BIOS setting somewhere I just can't get to (presumably) which prevents the BIOS from even booting when the new card is in. (I've tried various cards and powersupplies.
My question is, what the heck is the point?? Why dumb something down like this? Most people couldn't even get *into* the BIOS. What are they hiding from me and why??
You know - of all the things I've learned in medicine and in life in general, there's always a price. The orientals had so much right with their yin and yang idea.
There was a time a few years ago where I was at this incredible ball/party and had the time of my life - it was such a high. The next day I was strangely a bit mellow and depressed. Perhaps all of the neural cascades that had let me have that high the night earlier were now a bit depleted.
I have this espresso machine which I love and the drinks give me this lovely little warm feeling inside - but if I drink too many, when the effect is gone I feel cold and tired.
Same thing for narcotics. We all know about the highs of some of those drugs - which are invariably followed with lows that force people to do anything to spare that.
O.k., so you take a drug that makes you concentrate a bit better. What happens later? Are you a bit dumber for a while afterwards? I respect Cephalon's attempts to stave Parkinsons' but be careful about other "enhancing" drugs.
For every action there's always a reaction. Just live a healthy life - eat well and exercise.
I have to keep Mozilla around because there are somethings that firefox or konqueror still don't do well. Javascript for instance. And the place I work seems completely enamoured with SurveyMonkey.com - which doesn't work on those two either....
Read the article, seriously. He's covered all the hospitals he's been to and doctors he's seen. He's not expecting some doctor to just prescribe him medicine; he's looking for a doctor who MAY have a clue as to what his illness might be. He's grasping at straws here, trying to find out what the problem is exactly (even if he thinks he has a good idea) and any subsequent treatments. In essence, this has gone on far too long and it's starting to get much, much worse, and every ER (there have been multiple visits to multiple hospitals) he's visited as well as multiple doctors have given conflicting diagnoses, with no treatment doing anything to help Patrick along. If you read the article, you get a much better picture of what he's asking for. Don't just assume he's asking for a script.
O.k., fair dues. I read through it. But I still don't see anything of decently-sized medical centers. Just mining towns in Montana or clinics elsewhere.
Sometimes odd diseases take a while to expose themselves - like a hand of cards where you get to just see one card at a time.
One of the deservedly most-celebrated ID doctors in the world is Ralph Feigin at Baylor/Texas Children's. He eats these weird problems for lunch. Maybe he should try getting an appointment with someone in the ID department at Texas Children's? They'd have a pretty direct line to Ralph if it was thought necessary.
Did you even RTFA?
Not all of it, no. But it doesn't matter. If the ER he's gone to doesn't admit him and he thinks they're wrong, he needs to go to the ER of a hospital where they're not going to brush him off if he's not a run-of-the-mill disease. And if a place like that doesn't exist in Podunk North Dakota, he needs to go to a real hospital.
I don't know any doctors who would implicitly trust someone's internet self-diagnosis.
Surely someone from the hordes of Ximian or other people in Boston can spot him a bed so he can go to Mass General or something similar in New York.
Prescribing any medication for someone over the phone - especially for an infection refractory to initial medical care is wrong and will do more to hurt Patrick than help him. Believe me. There are proper protocols for this and they work well. Get him to a hospital where weird stuff is regularly seen (any large medical center) and get him into the ER.
Did you even RTFA?
Not all of it, no. But it doesn't matter. If the ER he's gone to doesn't admit him and he thinks they're wrong, he needs to go to the ER of a hospital where they're not going to brush him off if he's not a run-of-the-mill disease. And if a place like that doesn't exist in Podunk North Dakota, he needs to go to a real hospital.
I don't know any doctors who would implicitly trust someone's internet self-diagnosis.
Surely someone from the hordes of Ximian or other people in Boston can spot him a bed so he can go to Mass General or something similar in New York.
Prescribing any medication for someone over the phone - especially for an infection refractory to initial medical care is wrong and will do more to hurt Patrick than help him. Believe me. There are proper protocols for this and they work well. Get him to a hospital where weird stuff is regularly seen (any large medical center) and get him into the ER.
Good lord - this guy's gone a little bit loonie. He needs to get medical treatment - not post email messages.
And that's from an MD. No - I'm not going to prescribe high-dose antibiotics for the guy over the phone. Jesus - does that not make sense to anyone? Go to a hospital and get evaluated. They'll do the proper tests and get him plugged in and probably on the proper antibiotics.
Besides, this isn't a third-world country where you need to pull strings to get people into a hospital. Go to the ER and get seen there. If he needs to be admitted they'll do it from there.
I realize that your pizza-delivery job might seem to be a life-or-death struggle, but it really isn't. Take some time off.
Dude - if I don't get these Pizza's out the Terrorists win!
But do you do it every week? 50 weeks out of the year? If so, why?
Yes - for 3 (and for some people signifigantly longer) years. Why? Because that's the name of the game. It's a whole lot of experience to pack in.
Dude - hate to spoil it here for you people. But some people (such as myself) work well more than 100 hours a week, sometimes 36 hours at a stretch straigh, with no break, and people's lives in our hands. And I make about 39 grand a year before taxes.
I know the hours suck and you get worn out. But you've got to pull back the covers and try and live with it. Or around it, or what not. Make the game, try and enjoy it. And know that no one's going to die if you screw up something.
"I suppose we've always suspected this to be true, but IT Manager's Journal reports
Isn't this something like the 3rd or 4th article we've had in the last 2 days from IT Manager's Journal?
Is something going on?
"the Linux edition of Doom 3 has been released by ID Software."
Who cares about Doom?! I've been playing Duke Nukem Forever here on GNU Hurd for months!
Well I don't know about everyone here, but I was suprised last night when I right clicked under windows on a sxw file in xp (with adobe acrobat 6.0 pro) installed and got a "convert to pdf" thing. And it worked perfectly. I would assume this didn't happen without some effort by someone at adobe...