I used to have obstructive sleep apnea. No matter how much sleep I had I still woke up tired. I was pretty overweight and sleeping next to me was like sleeping next to a chainsaw. In 2000 my oldest daughter was born and since I was already suffering from severe sleep apnea the first two weeks with her at home almost drove me over the edge. I was falling asleep at work, while driving, and even while talking a few times. I started to develop narcolepsy and even had a couple of hallucinations. When I finally went to the doctor and had a sleep study done they said that I was waking up 72 times an hour! I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. The doctor tried a few different pressures and types of breathing machines and determined that I would be best suited with a bypap(sp?) machine. The bypap is has a different pressure for inhalation than it does for exhalation.
At first the bypap(sp?) machine seemed like a huge pain in the butt. I had to wear that stupid mask at night and listen to the machine, but my snoring had stopped, which my wife assured me was reason enough to use the machine. For the first two weeks I really didn't feel any different I was tired all of the time and missing out on my young daughters early antics. Then one morning I woke up and realized that I wasn't tired anymore. It was unbelievable. I used the bypap machine for 6 months before the inside of my nose became so raw that sleeping with it became almost impossible. I often had nightmares that someone was going to take the bypap away and my life would go back to what it was before.
In the 6 months that I was on the bypap I lost 30 lbs and was enjoying life in a way I had not been able to since I was a teenager. Since sleeping with the bypap machine was beginning to become unbearable I decided to see a doctor about having some kind of surgery, so I would not have to sleep with a machine for the rest of my life. They scheduled me for surgery and a short time later I had widened sinus passages, no adenoids, no tonsils, and much less of a palette in the back of my throat. The two weeks after the surgery really sucked, I couldn't even drink water for 4 days. I was constantly coughing up blood and required an IV and home health to administer the much desired pain medication. After two weeks I was feeling much better and had lost another 20 pounds. It didn't take long to lose 10 more and become a bit more active. I've bounced around a bit since then, but I've never gained more than 20 pounds of the weight back and since I've started exercising it looks like I might drop another 10 - 15 pounds.
My life has never been better, I'm not tired, I don't fall asleep, and my wife doesn't have to elbow me at night as much anymore. If the cpap didn't help you sleep you should give it another shot. I say it will be at least two weeks before your body and mind recover from sleep depravation. I'm sure you also know the consequences of ignoring sleep apnea, which include increased risk of heart attack, increased risk of stroke, and narcolepsy.
I thought pretty much as you did that the sleep cycles that I had were just normal for me, but believe me you don't know what you are missing with a regular sleeping pattern. I was an all night gamer and worker. The only time I could stay awake was when I was really focused on something like programming or video games. Now I can still game all night and sleep late if my wife lets me...err I mean if I want too, but I also have the benefit of being able to live an alter, happy, and somewhat normal life.
Very interesting... I work in the automation industry where many of the programming tools are already visual. The programming tools are designed to represent objects that engineers are already familiar with and allow them to put together some decent and effective logic.
Many software developers already make use of flow charts, UML diagrams, and such. How much more of a leap would it be to have some visual basic style of programming in a flowchart style format?
Ignorance is bliss isn't it?
I don't know, you tell me.
I work in the U.S. oil industry and based on how much we just pull out of the gulf of mexico 200 million bbls is drop in the bucket.
Besides these estimates are also based on a product in its infancy. I'm sure it will become more effeicent over time.
But since this is all speculation anyway, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Uhh... No matter what form of transport you use, be it public or private, It still needs to be powered by something, not to mention your home, workplace, favorite resturant. Unless of couse we jump in with the luddites and get rid of all of the evil electical things we own.
I read an interesting article at Discover.com. Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year.
I think this is a huge step in the right direction, I'll be very interested to see what happens once the plant is online.
Here is a great article about thermal depolymerization.
Apparently they opened a plant in May. I'll be interested to see how successful they are in a few months.
If you have not ready 1984 here is where you can download an digital copy.
I highly recommend this book, however if you have a paranoid nature you may not really want to read it.
Programming / Hacking is neither and art or a science and yet it is both. If you don't program you probably would not understand, but if you've ever implemented your own b-tree in an application, you'll probably agree. Most likely, whether or not you agree depends on what type of software you have written in the past.
Art and science are probably closer than most people believe. Leonardo da Vinci painted some of the most astounding scenes ever painted; yet, he also studied science, literature, and the Christian bible. Many mathematicians would say that math is an art, heck there are probably some artists that believe art is a science.
Knuth says that computer programming is an art, but I dare you to read his books and claim they are devoid of science.
This is nothing new. My dog tastes my chilren's colors all of the time. It usually makes a big mess that I have to clean up. Oscar, my dog, then usually gets very sick and I have to clean that mess up too.
I'm just curious about what you believe should have been done.
Iraq lost a war of aggression against their neighbors. As part of their surrender they agreed to stop manufacturing WMD and destroy what they had left in their arsenal.
Intelligence says they have not done so. We have already seen missiles that Iraq and the U.N weapon inspectors claim did not exist.
Crap, Iraq is even arming children and sending them into battle while using their mothers as shields. Do you actually think that as soon as Sadam believed he was strong enough he would not again assume the role of aggressor?
Actually I didn't argue the point that hydrogen is a storage medium I was trying to point out that there are other sources of energy that don't require mining, drilling, or pumping.
I think if you examine other research grants that the U.S. government doles out you'll find that 1.2 billion is quite a lot of money.
I don't think that Bush is so much interested in getting rid of "wepons of mass desctruction" [sic] as he is interested in ousting Sadamm.
I don't agree with subsidies and I think that the U.S. government guiding our eating habits by providing subsidies is quite an unrealistic stretch. Don't you think that the U.S. government provides subsidies to keep the farmers from going under?
That's interesting. That would be like mandating the use of computer driven cars by the end of the decade. We'd all be stuck not being able to go anywhere.
The technology is there, but it is not ready for prime time or its not practically implementable. Just like Hydrogen.
Actually extraction of hydrogen from water can be performed without mining, drilling, or pumping. It's just a matter of time before other methods are efficient enough.
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I used to have obstructive sleep apnea. No matter how much sleep I had I still woke up tired. I was pretty overweight and sleeping next to me was like sleeping next to a chainsaw. In 2000 my oldest daughter was born and since I was already suffering from severe sleep apnea the first two weeks with her at home almost drove me over the edge. I was falling asleep at work, while driving, and even while talking a few times. I started to develop narcolepsy and even had a couple of hallucinations. When I finally went to the doctor and had a sleep study done they said that I was waking up 72 times an hour! I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. The doctor tried a few different pressures and types of breathing machines and determined that I would be best suited with a bypap(sp?) machine. The bypap is has a different pressure for inhalation than it does for exhalation.
At first the bypap(sp?) machine seemed like a huge pain in the butt. I had to wear that stupid mask at night and listen to the machine, but my snoring had stopped, which my wife assured me was reason enough to use the machine. For the first two weeks I really didn't feel any different I was tired all of the time and missing out on my young daughters early antics. Then one morning I woke up and realized that I wasn't tired anymore. It was unbelievable. I used the bypap machine for 6 months before the inside of my nose became so raw that sleeping with it became almost impossible. I often had nightmares that someone was going to take the bypap away and my life would go back to what it was before.
In the 6 months that I was on the bypap I lost 30 lbs and was enjoying life in a way I had not been able to since I was a teenager. Since sleeping with the bypap machine was beginning to become unbearable I decided to see a doctor about having some kind of surgery, so I would not have to sleep with a machine for the rest of my life. They scheduled me for surgery and a short time later I had widened sinus passages, no adenoids, no tonsils, and much less of a palette in the back of my throat. The two weeks after the surgery really sucked, I couldn't even drink water for 4 days. I was constantly coughing up blood and required an IV and home health to administer the much desired pain medication. After two weeks I was feeling much better and had lost another 20 pounds. It didn't take long to lose 10 more and become a bit more active. I've bounced around a bit since then, but I've never gained more than 20 pounds of the weight back and since I've started exercising it looks like I might drop another 10 - 15 pounds.
My life has never been better, I'm not tired, I don't fall asleep, and my wife doesn't have to elbow me at night as much anymore. If the cpap didn't help you sleep you should give it another shot. I say it will be at least two weeks before your body and mind recover from sleep depravation. I'm sure you also know the consequences of ignoring sleep apnea, which include increased risk of heart attack, increased risk of stroke, and narcolepsy.
I thought pretty much as you did that the sleep cycles that I had were just normal for me, but believe me you don't know what you are missing with a regular sleeping pattern. I was an all night gamer and worker. The only time I could stay awake was when I was really focused on something like programming or video games. Now I can still game all night and sleep late if my wife lets me...err I mean if I want too, but I also have the benefit of being able to live an alter, happy, and somewhat normal life.
Get to work bud. You've found the need now all you have to do is take advantage of it...
However, as long as you sit and complain things will only stay the same.
Yes, because under no circumstances would a programmer ever want to allocate memory and pass it out of a program's scope.
</sarcasm>
Oh and by the way warnings as errors is an option for most compilers AND it is almost NEVER correct to use the word NEVER.
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I'm 100% sure that PC/104 does not refer to a type of keyboard. This comment kind of lays it out.
Very interesting... I work in the automation industry where many of the programming tools are already visual. The programming tools are designed to represent objects that engineers are already familiar with and allow them to put together some decent and effective logic.
Many software developers already make use of flow charts, UML diagrams, and such. How much more of a leap would it be to have some visual basic style of programming in a flowchart style format?
Hehe... true true, however I was talking about agricultrual waste in general. The plant in the article just happens to process turkey.
Ignorance is bliss isn't it?
I don't know, you tell me.
I work in the U.S. oil industry and based on how much we just pull out of the gulf of mexico 200 million bbls is drop in the bucket.
Besides these estimates are also based on a product in its infancy. I'm sure it will become more effeicent over time.
But since this is all speculation anyway, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
I'm pretty sure that the oil industry in the U.S. produces more than .2 billion barrels annually.
Uhh... No matter what form of transport you use, be it public or private, It still needs to be powered by something, not to mention your home, workplace, favorite resturant.
Unless of couse we jump in with the luddites and get rid of all of the evil electical things we own.
Anything Into Oil Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year.
According to the above article the U.S. could end its dependancy upon foreign oil and not have to worry about EVER running out.
Discover has an interesting article on how current waste products are begin turned into Texas lite crude. Too good to be true?
Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
Here is the company's link.
I read an interesting article at Discover.com. Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year.
I think this is a huge step in the right direction, I'll be very interested to see what happens once the plant is online.
Here is a great article about thermal depolymerization. Apparently they opened a plant in May. I'll be interested to see how successful they are in a few months.
I previewed the above post 3 times and still missed my eror. Go figure.
;P
If you have not ready 1984 here is where you can download an digital copy.
I highly recommend this book, however if you have a paranoid nature you may not really want to read it.
Programming / Hacking is neither and art or a science and yet it is both. If you don't program you probably would not understand, but if you've ever implemented your own b-tree in an application, you'll probably agree. Most likely, whether or not you agree depends on what type of software you have written in the past.
Art and science are probably closer than most people believe. Leonardo da Vinci painted some of the most astounding scenes ever painted; yet, he also studied science, literature, and the Christian bible. Many mathematicians would say that math is an art, heck there are probably some artists that believe art is a science.
Knuth says that computer programming is an art, but I dare you to read his books and claim they are devoid of science.
In short... It's all depends on the application.
This is nothing new. My dog tastes my chilren's colors all of the time. It usually makes a big mess that I have to clean up. Oscar, my dog, then usually gets very sick and I have to clean that mess up too.
:P
I'm just curious about what you believe should have been done.
Iraq lost a war of aggression against their neighbors. As part of their surrender they agreed to stop manufacturing WMD and destroy what they had left in their arsenal.
Intelligence says they have not done so. We have already seen missiles that Iraq and the U.N weapon inspectors claim did not exist.
Crap, Iraq is even arming children and sending them into battle while using their mothers as shields. Do you actually think that as soon as Sadam believed he was strong enough he would not again assume the role of aggressor?
It certainly has its limitations and isn't really even close to a viable solution, but I think that it illustrates what the future will hold.
Actually I didn't argue the point that hydrogen is a storage medium I was trying to point out that there are other sources of energy that don't require mining, drilling, or pumping.
I think if you examine other research grants that the U.S. government doles out you'll find that 1.2 billion is quite a lot of money.
I don't think that Bush is so much interested in getting rid of "wepons of mass desctruction" [sic] as he is interested in ousting Sadamm.
I don't agree with subsidies and I think that the U.S. government guiding our eating habits by providing subsidies is quite an unrealistic stretch. Don't you think that the U.S. government provides subsidies to keep the farmers from going under?
That's interesting. That would be like mandating the use of computer driven cars by the end of the decade. We'd all be stuck not being able to go anywhere.
The technology is there, but it is not ready for prime time or its not practically implementable. Just like Hydrogen.
Gee... I guess since you didn't read the article I posted you don't have a clue what I'm talking about. water + catalyst + ENERGY.
Actually extraction of hydrogen from water can be performed without mining, drilling, or pumping. It's just a matter of time before other methods are efficient enough.
Every heard of the catalyst rubippy?