But it truely was excessive amounts of time. Essentially what had happened was I threw one one of my knees vaccuuming the inside of my car (twisting my legs funny trying to get all the corners under the seats and all. Anyhow, because of that, my left leg was put into an immoblizer. So I basically couldn't walk very well, or very much. So I sat in my chair, almost the entire day for about a week while my knee healed.
During that week, my right leg just hanged down off the edge of the chair all the time. Eventially I noticed it started to swell by my caff, and it hurt real bad. After a few days it was the size of one of them long watermellons, and deep purple colored. I went to the doctors, and sure enough it was a fairly large blood clot logged under my knee (where my leg was bent on the chair all day). The impaction from sitting at the chair all day caused the blood circulation to slow, resulting in a clot forming. It's a lot like a snowball effect, a little clot forms, and more and more platelets attach to it.
Once the doctor did an ultrasound on my leg and confirmed it was a blood clot, I was in the hospital for about 5 days with an IV drip of blood thinners. They came in about every 3 hours to take blood from me to make sure my platelet level was fine (don't want to thin the blood too much.) After the 5 days I went home to bed rest for about 6 weeks. During that 6 weeks I had to transition myself off the IV blood thinners to a pill called Coumadin. The only way to transition were shots of the stuff in the IV about twice a day in my stomach. Not very fun. I had a nurse come by the house once a day to take blood to check to make sure the levels were good.
During that time, the doctors kept telling me that if I felt in pain in my head, chest, or trouble breathing to call 911 immediately. Blood clots are very serious. If it breaks away and moves through the blood stream, it can clog somewhere in my body causing a heart attack, stroke, or pulminary embalism. It was funny, because the first night I was home, the nurse told me all about that, and kept saying, "And if you don't call 911 immediately you could die!!!" in this real strict voice. Then she took my blood pressure. "Your blood pressure it too high!!!" My father pointed out she had just scared the hell out of me hehe.
Anyhow, after the 6 weeks, I pretty much had to learn to walk again since my muscles were very weak. I had to wear funny stockings on my leg to make sure it keep my circulation good, and had to continue taking coumadin for about a year and a half. I had to wear a special medical alert bracelet because if I were in a car accident, it would alert EMTs that I'm on Coumadin, meaning any bleeding injuries wouldn't clot themselves anymore because of my thin blood.
It takes a very long time for the body to absorb a blood clot, so during that year and a half I had to make sure I paid attention to any chest pains, and not passed them off as heart burn. Also, during that year and a half, I had to go into the doctors office twice a week and have blood drawn to check my platelet levels. Not very fun, I looked like a drug addict from all the needle marks.
So, safe to say, I pay attention to how long I'm sitting, and how my legs are. I occastionally stand up and take 10 minute walks when I'm at work. I try and tap my food, or move my leg when sitting to keep blood flowing down there. My doctor also told me to pick up some horse chesnut extract. Apparently its been shown to help increase blood circulation. Due to the severe swelling in my leg, its now bigger than the other one pretty much perminately. The veins are also noticably bigger when I exercise. Also, the type of chair you sit in plays a big role. I make sure the chair I'm sitting in has plenty of padding and comfortable around the under paid of my knees, and that my legs don't hang off the edge, rather I'm low enough my feet touch the ground and support my leg.
The only good thing I say I got out of this I had plenty of time when I was in bed to learn C.:)
There are a lot more important and used things then just regular POTS lines. Heck, just down the street from me they replaced a hunk of old copper with fiber. Sucks for anyone wanting to get DSL over there though.
This is college. The student is paying for it. If he wants to fuck off and browse the web instead of listening to lectures and taking notes, fine. As long as he's not distracting other students, let him waste his money. He'll only have to pay again to retake the class he failed.
Bulk pickup day is also a good day to go diving. I scored a number of usable monitors that can do 800x600 SVGA. I still use one of them to switch between my little server farm in my computer room.
Also, it doesn't hurt to say you are a college student looking for hardware to practice on. I got a guy to go back in his house and give me to stuff he wasn't planning on trashing.
My girlfriend's Windows 2000 machine was hacked about a month ago by script kiddies exploiting one of the recent exploits in a Microsoft product. They then installed 2 apps, a ghosting app that hides any application from the Taskbar and Tasklist, and mIRC with hacked up startup scripts to allow remote control when connected. They used the ghost app to hide itself and mIRC. Whenever she turned on her computer, it would load mIRC, hide it, then connect to EFNet. Then shortly after someone who would see it connect, would use it to mass-ping hosts in an attempt to DoS someone.
Needless to say, for the week this was going on, I noticed serious network problems at home. And pinpointed them to every time she turned on her computer, the network would lag to a stop. Finally after researching it I discovered what was going on.. I found the channel these guys hung out in, and she wasn't the only victim. They had a few hundred hacked users they could control.
So when I see reports like this, I suddenly get a whiff of steaming horse shit.
Mod up. He's absolutely correct. Thats one of the problems with verifying memory. Did I actually remember the event? Or do I remember someone telling me about the event and then remembering it as if it were from my point of view.
For example, one of my "earliest" memories is learning to talk. I remember my mom trying to get me to say what I had to eat for dinner. She'd say "Chinese" and I'd say "Chi-nee". Then my mom and dad would laugh and they'd say "Apple" and I'd say "Appee".
But in reality, I don't really remember this. My mom used to record me trying to talk because it was 'cute'. I've heard those recordings so many times my brain actually thinks I remember that. It's possible my brain creates a link from a partial part of the real memory and the information supplied by tapes and 2nd party stories.. but who knows. The brain is a vastly complex organ that we will never fully understand.
I agree. But not because you were moderated up for it. I took the time to browse some of the image archives at Burning Man.
I came to this conclusion. It is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Granted some of the pictures are interesting, and some of the "art" is creative, the vast majority of it doesn't make any sense to begin with. For example, there's a picture of some guy dressed only in tin foil. Another guy wearing an oversized Campbells Soup can. Then the vast naked women with their naked bits painted with creative designs. Some of the people are dressed up like they've seen Mad Max one to many times. I mean, to me all this looks like is a huge college party.
You can't try and slap some spiritual meaning or inner understanding to this "party". It's plain and simply a huge ass co-ed college party. Sex, drugs, things done for shock value. Thats it. I don't see anyone writing a book about me if I go running around naked outside with shit painted all over me. But when 25,000 people get together and do it, it's awe inspiring. Bullshit.
Haha funny you say that, I remember my grandfather getting into an argument about some baseball cards he owned as a child. Some Mickey Mantle cards to be exactly. I do beleive it went along the lines as you wrote.. Good thing he didn't take the advice your spewing out..
Yeah, a 40 dollar DVD is a highrisk investment, I sure hope he doesn't lose his house over it.
But why continue to throw money into toilet? It's already started flushing man, get out while you can. When a company begins a downward spiral like this, the first instinct it to start throwing some money into it, putting out fires here and there. However the damage is too much and without a huge investment, and I'm talking more than the Slashdot community could ever raise, its going to continue all the way down.
A second point to be made in this is Mandrake is a company. When they start begging for money like this to save the company, I want to see a plan. I want to know how my money is going to help. What they have is way to vague.
Our current cash needs are approximately 4ME ($4M USD). This level of cash infusion would resolve outstanding debts, cover the expenses needed to become profitable, plus secure an extra amount to satisfy the needs of future growth.
What kind of outstanding debt? Is my money going to pay for those 1,500 dollar Aeron chairs the executes who are already being paid 6 digit salary are sitting in? Is it to cover "corporate meetings" held at the Sheraton or some other overly expensive restraunt? Those are the things that bother me the most. I'd be more than glad to help a company that is going under due to the pressure of the market, but I want to know why they got to where they are now. Is it because of a sincere inability to raise profit and lower required expenses? Or is it because the executives demanded fresh squeezed juices while they sit back in an Aeron chair.
I'm not saying Mandrake is like that, but I know plenty of companies that are to be overly cautious about investing any money into a company about to go bankrupt.
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Yep, who are we to question science and the truth. I for one still believe the Earth is flat, and I'll be damned if I surcome to the thinking that WE revolve around the Sun, for clearly you can see the Sun revolving around US.
Hmm, you can't really use it to get leads either. Any evidence that comes from inadmissable evidence is inadmissable itself.
For example, say I illegally search a house. I find a note, the note has the name of someone involved in the crime I'm investigating. I go find the guy with that name, he confesses.
His confession, the fact we know him, and the note itself are all inadmissable because it was the fruit of an illegal search. However, we're human, the court can't erase that from memory. So we know 'who' did it, but now we have to go link them another way. That of course is a simple example and not legal fact. Thats why they pay lawyers tons of money.
Then the telephone companies turns around and sells the telemarker a method of by-passing the Telezappers, and the cycle continues. If I'm not mistaken someone finally caught onto these shenanigans and filed a lawsuit.
The point isn't to enact some kind of law or regulation forcing spammers to pay $0.05, it's to setup a way for reputable spammers (oxymoron I know) to pay for their advertisement space to you personally. In theory it would be a good idea, but so many things are good ideas in theory and no in practice..
We all know how well threatening and writing letters to Microsoft works. Microsoft doesn't care much about the individual consumer, what they care about is the corporation using Microsoft products. And I don't know about you, but I can't go write letters on the behalf of my company threatening to stop using Microsoft products.
This is why there are laws against forming monopolies. However we've passed that threshold. Microsoft isn't "becoming" a monopoly that we can stop, Microsoft is and has been a monopoly that those laws were suppose to prevent in the first place. Now it's going to take a lot longer to rid them of the monopoly than it would have been to prevent it from forming about 8 years ago.
"People are not doing things that require speed, so that is something of a red herring as a selling point,"
Yeah. It never bothered me when it took somwhere around 45 seconds to 2 minutes to load a webpage I needed to go to. Granted I'm what those people would call a "Power User", even my father who doesn't work in the industry (he's a Truck Fleet Manager), loved Broadband over Dialup. When he finally got a cable modem he was very pleased with webpage loading times, especially because where he lives the copper lines in the area are poorly done and seriously old. The maximum modem connect he could manage was 21600.
In other news Mustang owners say they don't really notice much of a difference with their 320hp vs. the 120hp Escort that costs much less.
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But it truely was excessive amounts of time. Essentially what had happened was I threw one one of my knees vaccuuming the inside of my car (twisting my legs funny trying to get all the corners under the seats and all. Anyhow, because of that, my left leg was put into an immoblizer. So I basically couldn't walk very well, or very much. So I sat in my chair, almost the entire day for about a week while my knee healed.
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During that week, my right leg just hanged down off the edge of the chair all the time. Eventially I noticed it started to swell by my caff, and it hurt real bad. After a few days it was the size of one of them long watermellons, and deep purple colored. I went to the doctors, and sure enough it was a fairly large blood clot logged under my knee (where my leg was bent on the chair all day). The impaction from sitting at the chair all day caused the blood circulation to slow, resulting in a clot forming. It's a lot like a snowball effect, a little clot forms, and more and more platelets attach to it.
Once the doctor did an ultrasound on my leg and confirmed it was a blood clot, I was in the hospital for about 5 days with an IV drip of blood thinners. They came in about every 3 hours to take blood from me to make sure my platelet level was fine (don't want to thin the blood too much.) After the 5 days I went home to bed rest for about 6 weeks. During that 6 weeks I had to transition myself off the IV blood thinners to a pill called Coumadin. The only way to transition were shots of the stuff in the IV about twice a day in my stomach. Not very fun. I had a nurse come by the house once a day to take blood to check to make sure the levels were good.
During that time, the doctors kept telling me that if I felt in pain in my head, chest, or trouble breathing to call 911 immediately. Blood clots are very serious. If it breaks away and moves through the blood stream, it can clog somewhere in my body causing a heart attack, stroke, or pulminary embalism. It was funny, because the first night I was home, the nurse told me all about that, and kept saying, "And if you don't call 911 immediately you could die!!!" in this real strict voice. Then she took my blood pressure. "Your blood pressure it too high!!!" My father pointed out she had just scared the hell out of me hehe.
Anyhow, after the 6 weeks, I pretty much had to learn to walk again since my muscles were very weak. I had to wear funny stockings on my leg to make sure it keep my circulation good, and had to continue taking coumadin for about a year and a half. I had to wear a special medical alert bracelet because if I were in a car accident, it would alert EMTs that I'm on Coumadin, meaning any bleeding injuries wouldn't clot themselves anymore because of my thin blood.
It takes a very long time for the body to absorb a blood clot, so during that year and a half I had to make sure I paid attention to any chest pains, and not passed them off as heart burn. Also, during that year and a half, I had to go into the doctors office twice a week and have blood drawn to check my platelet levels. Not very fun, I looked like a drug addict from all the needle marks.
So, safe to say, I pay attention to how long I'm sitting, and how my legs are. I occastionally stand up and take 10 minute walks when I'm at work. I try and tap my food, or move my leg when sitting to keep blood flowing down there. My doctor also told me to pick up some horse chesnut extract. Apparently its been shown to help increase blood circulation. Due to the severe swelling in my leg, its now bigger than the other one pretty much perminately. The veins are also noticably bigger when I exercise. Also, the type of chair you sit in plays a big role. I make sure the chair I'm sitting in has plenty of padding and comfortable around the under paid of my knees, and that my legs don't hang off the edge, rather I'm low enough my feet touch the ground and support my leg.
The only good thing I say I got out of this I had plenty of time when I was in bed to learn C.
Gorvernment officials banning something they don't understand? Shocker.
Now I have to worry about if the guy behind me on the bus isn't actually kicking the back of my seat...
There are a lot more important and used things then just regular POTS lines. Heck, just down the street from me they replaced a hunk of old copper with fiber. Sucks for anyone wanting to get DSL over there though.
Maybe they're realizing people don't want to submit DNA samples to fix incorrect information regarding their domain name.
This is college. The student is paying for it. If he wants to fuck off and browse the web instead of listening to lectures and taking notes, fine. As long as he's not distracting other students, let him waste his money. He'll only have to pay again to retake the class he failed.
Bulk pickup day is also a good day to go diving. I scored a number of usable monitors that can do 800x600 SVGA. I still use one of them to switch between my little server farm in my computer room.
Also, it doesn't hurt to say you are a college student looking for hardware to practice on. I got a guy to go back in his house and give me to stuff he wasn't planning on trashing.
uh. No, she never had mIRC installed to begin with. They got in using the NetBIOS exploit.
My girlfriend's Windows 2000 machine was hacked about a month ago by script kiddies exploiting one of the recent exploits in a Microsoft product. They then installed 2 apps, a ghosting app that hides any application from the Taskbar and Tasklist, and mIRC with hacked up startup scripts to allow remote control when connected. They used the ghost app to hide itself and mIRC. Whenever she turned on her computer, it would load mIRC, hide it, then connect to EFNet. Then shortly after someone who would see it connect, would use it to mass-ping hosts in an attempt to DoS someone.
Needless to say, for the week this was going on, I noticed serious network problems at home. And pinpointed them to every time she turned on her computer, the network would lag to a stop. Finally after researching it I discovered what was going on.. I found the channel these guys hung out in, and she wasn't the only victim. They had a few hundred hacked users they could control.
So when I see reports like this, I suddenly get a whiff of steaming horse shit.
Mod up. He's absolutely correct. Thats one of the problems with verifying memory. Did I actually remember the event? Or do I remember someone telling me about the event and then remembering it as if it were from my point of view.
For example, one of my "earliest" memories is learning to talk. I remember my mom trying to get me to say what I had to eat for dinner. She'd say "Chinese" and I'd say "Chi-nee". Then my mom and dad would laugh and they'd say "Apple" and I'd say "Appee".
But in reality, I don't really remember this. My mom used to record me trying to talk because it was 'cute'. I've heard those recordings so many times my brain actually thinks I remember that. It's possible my brain creates a link from a partial part of the real memory and the information supplied by tapes and 2nd party stories.. but who knows. The brain is a vastly complex organ that we will never fully understand.
I'm not going to try and lecture you or come up with some kind of witty retort.
Simply stated:
It's a video game. If it pisses you off, turn off the computer, go outside and take a walk.
I agree. But not because you were moderated up for it. I took the time to browse some of the image archives at Burning Man.
I came to this conclusion. It is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Granted some of the pictures are interesting, and some of the "art" is creative, the vast majority of it doesn't make any sense to begin with. For example, there's a picture of some guy dressed only in tin foil. Another guy wearing an oversized Campbells Soup can. Then the vast naked women with their naked bits painted with creative designs. Some of the people are dressed up like they've seen Mad Max one to many times. I mean, to me all this looks like is a huge college party.
You can't try and slap some spiritual meaning or inner understanding to this "party". It's plain and simply a huge ass co-ed college party. Sex, drugs, things done for shock value. Thats it. I don't see anyone writing a book about me if I go running around naked outside with shit painted all over me. But when 25,000 people get together and do it, it's awe inspiring. Bullshit.
Haha funny you say that, I remember my grandfather getting into an argument about some baseball cards he owned as a child. Some Mickey Mantle cards to be exactly. I do beleive it went along the lines as you wrote.. Good thing he didn't take the advice your spewing out..
Yeah, a 40 dollar DVD is a highrisk investment, I sure hope he doesn't lose his house over it.
But why continue to throw money into toilet? It's already started flushing man, get out while you can. When a company begins a downward spiral like this, the first instinct it to start throwing some money into it, putting out fires here and there. However the damage is too much and without a huge investment, and I'm talking more than the Slashdot community could ever raise, its going to continue all the way down.
A second point to be made in this is Mandrake is a company. When they start begging for money like this to save the company, I want to see a plan. I want to know how my money is going to help. What they have is way to vague.
Our current cash needs are approximately 4ME ($4M USD). This level of cash infusion would resolve outstanding debts, cover the expenses needed to become profitable, plus secure an extra amount to satisfy the needs of future growth.
What kind of outstanding debt? Is my money going to pay for those 1,500 dollar Aeron chairs the executes who are already being paid 6 digit salary are sitting in? Is it to cover "corporate meetings" held at the Sheraton or some other overly expensive restraunt? Those are the things that bother me the most. I'd be more than glad to help a company that is going under due to the pressure of the market, but I want to know why they got to where they are now. Is it because of a sincere inability to raise profit and lower required expenses? Or is it because the executives demanded fresh squeezed juices while they sit back in an Aeron chair.
I'm not saying Mandrake is like that, but I know plenty of companies that are to be overly cautious about investing any money into a company about to go bankrupt.
Yep, who are we to question science and the truth. I for one still believe the Earth is flat, and I'll be damned if I surcome to the thinking that WE revolve around the Sun, for clearly you can see the Sun revolving around US.
Yeah, like I said it's a little more complicated than my example. It's really up to the judge what is an isn't admissable.
Hmm, you can't really use it to get leads either. Any evidence that comes from inadmissable evidence is inadmissable itself.
For example, say I illegally search a house. I find a note, the note has the name of someone involved in the crime I'm investigating. I go find the guy with that name, he confesses.
His confession, the fact we know him, and the note itself are all inadmissable because it was the fruit of an illegal search. However, we're human, the court can't erase that from memory. So we know 'who' did it, but now we have to go link them another way. That of course is a simple example and not legal fact. Thats why they pay lawyers tons of money.
Then the telephone companies turns around and sells the telemarker a method of by-passing the Telezappers, and the cycle continues. If I'm not mistaken someone finally caught onto these shenanigans and filed a lawsuit.
For ever user of GNU/Linux? I don't think RMS has that kind of money.
The point isn't to enact some kind of law or regulation forcing spammers to pay $0.05, it's to setup a way for reputable spammers (oxymoron I know) to pay for their advertisement space to you personally. In theory it would be a good idea, but so many things are good ideas in theory and no in practice..
We all know how well threatening and writing letters to Microsoft works. Microsoft doesn't care much about the individual consumer, what they care about is the corporation using Microsoft products. And I don't know about you, but I can't go write letters on the behalf of my company threatening to stop using Microsoft products.
This is why there are laws against forming monopolies. However we've passed that threshold. Microsoft isn't "becoming" a monopoly that we can stop, Microsoft is and has been a monopoly that those laws were suppose to prevent in the first place. Now it's going to take a lot longer to rid them of the monopoly than it would have been to prevent it from forming about 8 years ago.
What's it good for? Choice.
:)
If we didn't have a choice in languages we'd all be programming in our respective processors assembly.
Long Live mov!
We know exactly whats happening with that, just like we did with the Ozone. Damn hippies. ;)
"People are not doing things that require speed, so that is something of a red herring as a selling point,"
Yeah. It never bothered me when it took somwhere around 45 seconds to 2 minutes to load a webpage I needed to go to. Granted I'm what those people would call a "Power User", even my father who doesn't work in the industry (he's a Truck Fleet Manager), loved Broadband over Dialup. When he finally got a cable modem he was very pleased with webpage loading times, especially because where he lives the copper lines in the area are poorly done and seriously old. The maximum modem connect he could manage was 21600.
In other news Mustang owners say they don't really notice much of a difference with their 320hp vs. the 120hp Escort that costs much less.