I guess that firefox 2 RC2 is far from ready because it crashes on my macbook and xp box quite often.....
Maybe it's because Firefox 2 isn't in Release Candidate stage. What you have is "beta 2". You really should pay more attention to what you download and run.
Dish Network owns EchoStar. Does this mean all the Dish customers are screwed as well? I'm all for justice, but disabling all the existing customer's devices seems a bit overkill to me. -Aaron
That's exactly it means. Nearly all of their DVR's must be rendered essentially useless within 30 days unless Echostar can negotiate a licensing deal with Tivo. Though the judge didn't find that Echostar acted in bad faith, what I've followed of their various lawsuits leads me to disagree. Maybe not to the letter of the law, but it seemed to me that they were essentially using the expensive and lengthy legal process to try to bully a smaller and more innovative competitor out of existence by bankrupting them with legal costs and starving them of market share.
IMHO, Echostar got what they deserved. It's a shame their customers may have to suffer for it, but that's the price of protecting the inventors.
I've had similar problems with D-Link routers. The upside is that their customer services is very easy to deal with. The guy I talked to listened to my problem, then basically said, "Yup. It's broke. Send it to us, and we'll send you a new one."
No, 15Mbps. 15,000,000 bits per second is a good. 0.015 bits per second is not good, unless you're measuring the speed of an IP over Avian Carrier network.
Even if you only look at Life Expectance at age 65, the US has been continuously improving for the last 100 years, and certainly has been higher than the four score and ten that you mention.
Quite true. Even as recently as the advent of the social security system in 1935, the average life expectancy of the working male was considerably under the 65 years of age set as "retirement" when they passed the Social Security Act. They weren't actually expecting most people to live long enough to draw benefits from the social security system. Only as the adult population has gotten older and older has the social security system become in danger of becoming insolvent.
My problem is not with ads, but with the ton of scripts and *annoying* ads that many sites use. Sometimes the page simply wont because an adserver somewhere is bogged down. That earns an adblock.
What you need is Firefox with the NoScript extension. Its default is to disallow all javascript, and you can selectively whitelist sites allowed to execute Javascript, without allowing the advertisers on that site to run their scripts. All the annoying pop-ups and pop-under ads are now gone.
I bet within 5 years of the wireless system being implemented you'll hear someone in office suggest that we should tag the mentally ill homeless so they can be located and retrieved when they wander from shelters.
And you'll have justified the reason they wear tinfoil hats, as the paranoid suspicion that the government is implanting tracking devices in their bodies will have come true.
I could be way off base but I seem to remember that cranial decelerations were survivable up to ~50g, and torso decelerations survivable up to ~150g.
I don't have the exact g-force numbers, but I do know that I've seen patients come out of high speed accidents relatively neurologically intact, but still manage to partially tear the aorta. Those that openly tear their aortas don't live more than a few seconds after impact. It's kinda hard to get volunteers to do a study on this...
The brain can take a pretty fair bit of contusing before it kills you.
The 1918 flu didn't kill very many people directly. What killed was secondary infections such as pneumonia.
While that's true for most flu seasons, the 1918 pandemic strain was unusual. A fair number of deaths occured from primary influenza infections in 1918. At first, scientists had assumed that the bacterial Haemophilus influenza was the cause of the pandemic (later implicated as one of the more common causes of bacterial meningitis in children).
After the influenza virus was discovered, many still believed that it only killed because it allowed secondary infections. As it turns out, the 1918 pandemic strain had many clinical features similar to SARS as well as influenza (bloody sputum, hemorrhagic pneumonia, overwhelming inflammatory response, and disseminated intravascular coagulation) from influenza alone. The most dangerous of the secondary infections was (and remains) Strep pneumoniae.
Besides, we don't have an entire generation of young men who were exposed to poison gas this time around.
Poison gas had little to nothing to do with influenza deaths in 1918. The majority of influenza deaths among the American military occurred in state-side barracks before they even had a chance to be shipped to Europe.
Do these sites provide a section for the doctor to respond?
Doesn't matter if they do. Unless the patient signs a release of medical information waiver which specifically waives any sanctions under the HIPAA, the doctors can't respond in public. Even before HIPAA, most doctors wouldn't have responded under the principle of patient confidentiality. So essentially, it's a name-calling game where only one side is allowed to shout epithets, and the other side is required by law to keep silent.
In other words, older doctors are less likely to rigidly follow practices exhorted in medical school, and instead do what they think is best. Which apparently seems to be some sort of heretical idea, at least where younger doctors (or Harvard Medical School) is concerned.
I think you're interpreting this incorrectly. What is more the case is that older doctors are very carefully following what they were taught in medical school.... 30 years ago. What was current and good practice 30 years ago isn't necessarily so today. In fact, a lot of practices common 30 years ago have since been proven to be ineffectual or even harmful. Medical knowledge and treatment changes over time, and if you don't keep up with it you're going to be left behind (anyone feel like bloodletting is still a good treatment for cholecystitis, please raise your hand).
They had a very new van (rental looking) full of stuff, I mean full. A dog, cat, looked like everything they had...
Dude, it's California. Do you know how many "van people" I have parked outside my house that match that exact description with out of state plates? Lots of people seem to live out of their vehicles in California, b/c the weather's so good.
They had the cash to pay for the gas to get all the way to California in a van, and they want a free $100 tent? I don't buy the story, but then again I'm pretty cynical and jaded.
Even more importantly, they let Galveston become a cute little tourist town
Having lived there, I've heard Galveston called a lot of things. I've never heard it called "cute". The prevailing nickname for many of us was "Galvetraz".
We used to... until JCAHO decided that it was a violation of confidentiality.
It was my understanding that JCAHO's regulation allowed such lists as long as they were not available to the general hospital staff and was restricted to the treating physicians in the ER. One hospital I worked at fairly recently still kept such a list on a corkboard in the physician break room. We didn't even have to compile the list ourselves since the state Dept of Health sent out a letter to all physicians who had treated patients who filled a suspicious number of controlled substances prescriptions. I wish the state where I live now did that.
1. He gave prescriptions to people across the US even though he's only licensed in NJ.
This is not illegal. Not only is it legal, in fact it's quite common, and not being able to do so would make life difficult for those who live and work in small states or in cities on the border of two states. I have called in prescriptions for relatives in other parts of the country on multiple occasions without even giving a thought to it.
Guess I'll have to take a trip back to the old alma mater some day to take a look at this thing. Back when I was there, Flawn Academic Center was still called the "Undergraduate Library", though it was already undergoing the early stages of this transition. The UGL (nicknamed the "UGLy") was the least user-friendly of the libraries on campus, and people tended to hang and study in the larger and more cozy PCL. The FAC was then transitioning to more computer labs and such.
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IMHO, Echostar got what they deserved. It's a shame their customers may have to suffer for it, but that's the price of protecting the inventors.
EchoStar must disable DVRs, judge rules
Or sarin gas. This is like rock/paper/scissors. Something's always going to destroy the next choice.
I've had similar problems with D-Link routers. The upside is that their customer services is very easy to deal with. The guy I talked to listened to my problem, then basically said, "Yup. It's broke. Send it to us, and we'll send you a new one."
Better yet, "Windows Took Forever". The acronym is better, too.
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What you need is Firefox with the NoScript extension. Its default is to disallow all javascript, and you can selectively whitelist sites allowed to execute Javascript, without allowing the advertisers on that site to run their scripts. All the annoying pop-ups and pop-under ads are now gone.
Damn, no mod points today, but that was funny as umm... shit.
I don't have the exact g-force numbers, but I do know that I've seen patients come out of high speed accidents relatively neurologically intact, but still manage to partially tear the aorta. Those that openly tear their aortas don't live more than a few seconds after impact. It's kinda hard to get volunteers to do a study on this... The brain can take a pretty fair bit of contusing before it kills you.
Probably about as long as an African swallow can carry a coconut.
You'd think that with the recent Sid Meier interview, more people would get the Civilization reference.
While that's true for most flu seasons, the 1918 pandemic strain was unusual. A fair number of deaths occured from primary influenza infections in 1918. At first, scientists had assumed that the bacterial Haemophilus influenza was the cause of the pandemic (later implicated as one of the more common causes of bacterial meningitis in children).
After the influenza virus was discovered, many still believed that it only killed because it allowed secondary infections. As it turns out, the 1918 pandemic strain had many clinical features similar to SARS as well as influenza (bloody sputum, hemorrhagic pneumonia, overwhelming inflammatory response, and disseminated intravascular coagulation) from influenza alone. The most dangerous of the secondary infections was (and remains) Strep pneumoniae.
Poison gas had little to nothing to do with influenza deaths in 1918. The majority of influenza deaths among the American military occurred in state-side barracks before they even had a chance to be shipped to Europe.You're thinking of Sabrina Lloyd, I think. She was adorable in Sliders. She was later a regular on Sports Night for a while.
Doesn't matter if they do. Unless the patient signs a release of medical information waiver which specifically waives any sanctions under the HIPAA, the doctors can't respond in public. Even before HIPAA, most doctors wouldn't have responded under the principle of patient confidentiality. So essentially, it's a name-calling game where only one side is allowed to shout epithets, and the other side is required by law to keep silent.
I think you're interpreting this incorrectly. What is more the case is that older doctors are very carefully following what they were taught in medical school.... 30 years ago. What was current and good practice 30 years ago isn't necessarily so today. In fact, a lot of practices common 30 years ago have since been proven to be ineffectual or even harmful. Medical knowledge and treatment changes over time, and if you don't keep up with it you're going to be left behind (anyone feel like bloodletting is still a good treatment for cholecystitis, please raise your hand).
Dude, it's California. Do you know how many "van people" I have parked outside my house that match that exact description with out of state plates? Lots of people seem to live out of their vehicles in California, b/c the weather's so good.
They had the cash to pay for the gas to get all the way to California in a van, and they want a free $100 tent? I don't buy the story, but then again I'm pretty cynical and jaded.
Having lived there, I've heard Galveston called a lot of things. I've never heard it called "cute". The prevailing nickname for many of us was "Galvetraz".
It was my understanding that JCAHO's regulation allowed such lists as long as they were not available to the general hospital staff and was restricted to the treating physicians in the ER. One hospital I worked at fairly recently still kept such a list on a corkboard in the physician break room. We didn't even have to compile the list ourselves since the state Dept of Health sent out a letter to all physicians who had treated patients who filled a suspicious number of controlled substances prescriptions. I wish the state where I live now did that.
This is not illegal. Not only is it legal, in fact it's quite common, and not being able to do so would make life difficult for those who live and work in small states or in cities on the border of two states. I have called in prescriptions for relatives in other parts of the country on multiple occasions without even giving a thought to it.
Guess I'll have to take a trip back to the old alma mater some day to take a look at this thing. Back when I was there, Flawn Academic Center was still called the "Undergraduate Library", though it was already undergoing the early stages of this transition. The UGL (nicknamed the "UGLy") was the least user-friendly of the libraries on campus, and people tended to hang and study in the larger and more cozy PCL. The FAC was then transitioning to more computer labs and such.
I wasn't talking about you, but about the guy who was baiting you on this thread.