I read a while back that hiccups are simply a stray signal sent down the phrenic nerve that causes the diaphragm to spasm. Stimulation of the phrenic nerve often relieves the hiccups and that is why some of the sipping and gulping water techniques are employed (and also why hiccups are often triggered by gulping food or beverages). It's easier just to manually massage the phrenic nerve. It lies on the right side of the windpipe, deep in the muscle groove and is easiest to access just above the collar bone. I've used this technique on myself and others with only one or two failures over the last several years.
How is it insightful to think that 85% of/. users don't know what a browser is? Perhaps this post was so modded because of the insightful use of higher mathematics - 85 + 5 = 90 on a yes/no question....
Do you know what a browser is? (Yes/No) Yes 5% No 85% I use IE 10%
And we wonder why IE centrics can't get their pages right?
That's where Wal-Mart happened to get it's initial growth, but you can find them in such backwater locations as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas....
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Or maybe he has his own oven....
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You don't know that the woman is the culprit, yet you choose to look down on her anyway. She could have chosen to allow her teenage son to remain an anonymous coward after blowing jolt cola through his nose into the laptop after reading some of the adolescent tripe on/. and deciding that baking the moisture out was a good idea. Perhaps I should look down on you for not reasoning out the possibility that this was an accident not of her making before posting your ill-formed opinion. She may be a ditz and deserving of blame, but without the proper info you seek to judge a person on the basis of sheer speculation?
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Takes a cookin' and keeps on bookin' (or iBookin')?
Who's gonna play the part of John Cameron Swayze(sp)? I want see the one where they strap a laptop to a boat prop....
Yes, I'd agree about _some_ websites. However, I've seen enough that cause me trouble to say that that freedom is a bad thing.;).
I don't know about that. That freedom allows some folks to cobble something together in such a way that when you first bring up one of their pages you can say, "Whoa! What's this bozo trying to do here?!" and not waste any time on their site.
Hypocricy isn't exclusive to religion. Not recognizing the difference between guilt and innocence in you example might be considered a hypocritical position by some.
The holocaust wasn't caused by religion EXCLUSIVELY. Hitler may have used religion at times, but his was a thoroughly secular regime. As for religion being the 'greatest cause of death in history', I would refer you to Stalin, Pol Pot and other secular or even anti-religious regimes.
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That's what I get for falling asleep at the keyboard. Just mod this redundant as I failed to 'pre-use' the remaining 'sub-missiles'.
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Well, take the word 'malapropism' that was highlighted in this review. It's find learning what it means, but if you rattle along to its dictionary.com entry you find out it comes from the word 'malaprop'. Digging further, you can learn what this really means.
The word was actually taken from the name of a fictitious character, Mrs. Malaprop which was indeed derived from the French mal à propos. Learning root meanings used to be an important part of elementary education. I don't think that's the case any longer.
There's even a word in that book for a pubic wig. I never even conceived of a need for such a thing. Perhaps for nudists undergoing chemotherapy or something.....
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The easiest way to tell which side of a person's brain is dominant is to throw them an orange. Left brained people will catch it with their right hand and vice versa.
Is it the color that brings out this response? Would tossing an apple have a different effect? I know I would tend to catch a Mac with two hands....
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The myth about males and women having communication problems because of different ways of thinking sounds like just theory to me
....try working out and maybe you won't need so much comfort for your butt.
Exercise is not the cure for bad ergonomics. Would you buy a car with an metal bar and a piece of plywood behind the wheel (instead of a contoured seat)? No amount of jogging makes sitting on a bad seat more comfortable.
Buy-in isn't going to be a problem. IBM is already shipping AIX5L (the 'L' is for Linux). This is basically the latest version of AIX with some level of Linux compatibility on board. The old AIX 4.3.3 will be de-supported soon and customers will find themselves with a product that integrates more and more Linux as you follow the upgrade path.
As others have pointed out, it will take far less time to bring Linux up to speed than it will to make AIX run on all of the platforms Linux already runs on (and IBM sells).
Excellent point. While IBM has historically been hardware centric, the move over the last several years has been to services (even sending their CE's to school to learn to work on Sun and other platforms).
The old model of selling software in order to generate hardware sales is still in use though. Tivoli (TSM anyway) helps IBM sell tape libraries. IBM's suggested configurations of that product helps sell bigger libraries and more tapes and more disk space.
I mostly use smit to get the command line syntax to put into shell scripts. I can customize the shell scripts to use variables for the few things we actually tamper with (as opposed to the myriad options we leave alone) and it's much faster than smit (even with the FastPath options) and can be run from cron.
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I read a while back that hiccups are simply a stray signal sent down the phrenic nerve that causes the diaphragm to spasm. Stimulation of the phrenic nerve often relieves the hiccups and that is why some of the sipping and gulping water techniques are employed (and also why hiccups are often triggered by gulping food or beverages). It's easier just to manually massage the phrenic nerve. It lies on the right side of the windpipe, deep in the muscle groove and is easiest to access just above the collar bone. I've used this technique on myself and others with only one or two failures over the last several years.
How is it insightful to think that 85% of /. users don't know what a browser is? Perhaps this post was so modded because of the insightful use of higher mathematics - 85 + 5 = 90 on a yes/no question....
Do you know what a browser is? (Yes/No)
Yes 5%
No 85%
I use IE 10%
And we wonder why IE centrics can't get their pages right?
Not me! I run twenty five miles with a 50lb backpack while wearing spiked boots (with the spikes on the inside!) in order to shop....
That's where Wal-Mart happened to get it's initial growth, but you can find them in such backwater locations as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas....
Or maybe he has his own oven....
You don't know that the woman is the culprit, yet you choose to look down on her anyway. She could have chosen to allow her teenage son to remain an anonymous coward after blowing jolt cola through his nose into the laptop after reading some of the adolescent tripe on /. and deciding that baking the moisture out was a good idea. Perhaps I should look down on you for not reasoning out the possibility that this was an accident not of her making before posting your ill-formed opinion. She may be a ditz and deserving of blame, but without the proper info you seek to judge a person on the basis of sheer speculation?
Takes a cookin' and keeps on bookin' (or iBookin')?
Who's gonna play the part of John Cameron Swayze(sp)? I want see the one where they strap a laptop to a boat prop....
Graduate? You're kinder than you let on....
Yes, I'd agree about _some_ websites. However, I've seen enough that cause me trouble to say that that freedom is a bad thing. ;).
I don't know about that. That freedom allows some folks to cobble something together in such a way that when you first bring up one of their pages you can say, "Whoa! What's this bozo trying to do here?!" and not waste any time on their site.
Hmmm. Examining both your post and the parent I'd say that quotes neither make the argument valid nor the spelling correct.
Well, when you deal with irregularity everything makes you cranky.....
Hypocricy isn't exclusive to religion. Not recognizing the difference between guilt and innocence in you example might be considered a hypocritical position by some.
The holocaust wasn't caused by religion EXCLUSIVELY. Hitler may have used religion at times, but his was a thoroughly secular regime. As for religion being the 'greatest cause of death in history', I would refer you to Stalin, Pol Pot and other secular or even anti-religious regimes.
That's what I get for falling asleep at the keyboard. Just mod this redundant as I failed to 'pre-use' the remaining 'sub-missiles'.
Well, take the word 'malapropism' that was highlighted in this review. It's find learning what it means, but if you rattle along to its dictionary.com entry you find out it comes from the word 'malaprop'. Digging further, you can learn what this really means.
The word was actually taken from the name of a fictitious character, Mrs. Malaprop which was indeed derived from the French mal à propos. Learning root meanings used to be an important part of elementary education. I don't think that's the case any longer.
There's even a word in that book for a pubic wig. I never even conceived of a need for such a thing. Perhaps for nudists undergoing chemotherapy or something.....
The easiest way to tell which side of a person's brain is dominant is to throw them an orange. Left brained people will catch it with their right hand and vice versa.
Is it the color that brings out this response? Would tossing an apple have a different effect? I know I would tend to catch a Mac with two hands....
The myth about males and women having communication problems because of different ways of thinking sounds like just theory to me
You're not married are you?
....try working out and maybe you won't need so much comfort for your butt.
Exercise is not the cure for bad ergonomics. Would you buy a car with an metal bar and a piece of plywood behind the wheel (instead of a contoured seat)? No amount of jogging makes sitting on a bad seat more comfortable.
Buy-in isn't going to be a problem. IBM is already shipping AIX5L (the 'L' is for Linux). This is basically the latest version of AIX with some level of Linux compatibility on board. The old AIX 4.3.3 will be de-supported soon and customers will find themselves with a product that integrates more and more Linux as you follow the upgrade path.
Try man pages.
As others have pointed out, it will take far less time to bring Linux up to speed than it will to make AIX run on all of the platforms Linux already runs on (and IBM sells).
Yeah, where's AIX's 'Reader Rabbit' so, uh......
Server? What's that?
Excellent point. While IBM has historically been hardware centric, the move over the last several years has been to services (even sending their CE's to school to learn to work on Sun and other platforms).
The old model of selling software in order to generate hardware sales is still in use though. Tivoli (TSM anyway) helps IBM sell tape libraries. IBM's suggested configurations of that product helps sell bigger libraries and more tapes and more disk space.
I mostly use smit to get the command line syntax to put into shell scripts. I can customize the shell scripts to use variables for the few things we actually tamper with (as opposed to the myriad options we leave alone) and it's much faster than smit (even with the FastPath options) and can be run from cron.