Ditto, but my price point is $100. Of course, running a measly 500 PIII is going to leave me in the dust anyway.
Hence my purchase of an N64 (and probably a PS2 in another year). It was cheap, I can play it on a 35 inch screen from my couch (my desk chair is comfy, but nothing like my couch). Things rarely crash (weird problem with Gauntlet Legends). I can buy tons of cheap games on eBay and at FuncoLand.
Did I mention that it's cheap and I can play on a big screen?
Hey, I love PC games. I got a Voodoo II VERY early. But spending $1000 per year on upgrades is nuts. I've got too many hobbies to keep up this computer upgrade business (ever seen the NOS prices on old Honda motorcycle parts?)
If that is your thing, by all means, go for it. But as for me, I'll be excusing myself from the party now.
Letter sent to the school board (all members but one, who does not have an email address) (Thanks for the linkage):
It has recently come to my attention that a young student's science fair experiment has been pulled, ostensibly due to concerns of racial insensitivity. I would submit that the teachers and administrators should be admonished, for their actions have achieved nothing positive.
The reasons for the removal of the report on the experiment, gleaned from press reports, was that the report on the experiment was that it was inappropriate and out of context.
No. It was not. It seems that the experiment was well documented, with proper controls and so forth. While not of super high level interest, it seems that the young girl has, at the very least, learned something of the scientific method. By charting and properly carrying out her experiments, she has provided context. The next logical step, from a scientific viewpoint, would be larger samples, different modes of dress (how would the results for the adults have been skewed had the dolls been wearing dashikis for example).
From an educational and societal standpoint, there are even greater grounds for expansion. Why not use this as an opening salvo in a class or school discussion? "What do these results mean?" In an era where education is supposed to be multi-disciplinary, this simple experiment opens up possible lessons in: science, math, social studies, and history.
Educators have chosen to blame the science and the measurement, rather than what was measured. It should be understandable, by a learned panel such as yourselves, that platitudes and grand discussions are without merit unless backed by proof of efficacy. The current model of discussing feelings and ideas about race and race relations seems not to have taken hold. Rather than confront the problem, you have chosen to shoot the messenger.
Burying our collective heads and avoiding issues is one of the great wrongs in the United States today. The main goals of discourse should be the realization of common ground and common goals. Unfortunately, the prevailing wisdom is that it is more important to avoid offending someone, or even the possibility of offending someone.
When that is the goal, you offend all of those with free will, and those who have fought and lived to support the right to excercise it.
This is not a question of merit based testing, school performance, racial insensitivity, or any of the plethora of problems facing educators today. This is the result of being shown that society is not colorblind, we are collectively afraid of it, and can think of nothing to do but hide our flaws.
Have the girl's project examined on its scientific merits. Laud her (or chastise, as the case may be) for them. And use the results, flawed or not, to spark an open, honest discussion. If you fail to do this, I am afraid that the open, honest discussion will center around whether or not the school system is working in the best interests of the intellectual growth of the children, or the furtherance of the careers of the board members, teachers, and administrators.
BTW, I've got this great idea for a round device. You put a stick thru the middle of it and you can easily move things around. Any ideas on how to improve it?
I don't know anything about crypto. But look at it this way: you have a stream coming into the reader. You should be able to set up a man in the middle routine. Intercept the streams going both ways. The stream going into the reader should be decryptable (crackable) because you can go into Borders, buy a book, or just copy a few pages.
Unlike music, you should be able to get an exact copy of what the output should be (unless the display is like a pdf, instead of just parsing the raw text).
Again, I'm no crypto expert, but, as they say in math, given the above, the proof is obvious (or, I think should be, given the amount of data you have to work with.)
The real question about e-books (and the reason my mother rarely uses hers) is why does it cost so much more for an e-book than a hardcover? It's much more likely that I will loan my hardcover novel to 5 people than it is to send them a copy of an e-book. (Similar to e-music: why spend $3 a piece for a single, when I can spend $12 or so for the CD and have a transferrable medium?)
Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: WIPOSUCKS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: GATE.TELLURIAN.NET
Name Server: NS1.INFOLOOK.COM
Updated Date: 05-aug-1999
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:19:21 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
I work for a 7 person primary care group in the United States, and we have addressed many of these issues.
First, as has been stated elsewhere, is security. I don't think it needs to be expanded upon. If you haven't already grokked this point, stop everything else.
Second is money. I'm not sure what you specialty is, your payer mix, your clinical setting, or anything else, but each of these affects how much money will be available to you. Most of the commercial solutions are big money with big service contracts and big maintenance requirements.
I cannot stress this enough: beware the vendors! I started work here after the EMR had been pronounced 'live' by the vendors. To tell the truth, it wasn't live until at least 15 months after I started working.
Your idea for computers in every exam room is a good one. We found that they were much cheaper than wireless solutions, and are proving much more sturdy in the long run. Most important to our head of medicine, they are MUCH faster. You just can't compare 100Base-T to 802.11. There's also the fact that the wires are more secure (IMNSHO).
Hire a lawyer. Look into the legality of sending patient emails. This is beyond security. The laws are vague. Imagine this scenario (places made up): you live in Ohio. Your practice is in West Virginia, and that is where you are licensed. Your patient lives in Pennsylvania. You sit at home at night and compose an email telling Ms. Smith that her strep culture was positive and that she should continue taking the amox. You send the email from your machine in Ohio, it uses the SMTP server in your practice in WVa., gets bounced through a router in Va, and winds up in Pennsylvania.
While you and I, and the rest of slashdot think nothing of this, the district attorneys in Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania can now sue you for practicing medicine in their state without a license. There is not really any merit to the case, but that might be over the heads of: the DA, the judge, and the jury of your 'peers'.
Rather than full pt. access to charts, I would think to implement a fax back system. IOW, Mr. Jones wants to see his last three cholesterol test results. He emails/web-forms a request. This goes into your system, and the machine emails or faxes back the requested information to whatever email or fax address Mr. Jones has on file. This must be filed in person, in writing. Mr. Jones must also sign a waiver saying that by having this service (faxback of results) available to him, there is the possibility of this information falling into the wrong hands. IANAL, but this is the view that my practice has taken.
Beware IM's. First is the possibility of hijacking a nick. Second, if a patient IM's you instead of calling your answering service, you will be more liable if his chest pains are a heart attack, and not indigestion. Opens up a world of liability.
If you must email, insist upon crypto. It's the only chance of being sure of identities (both ways).
Back to the money question: while video conferencing might be nice, how many of your patients will have access to DSL/cable? How much time will be spent doing that, when you can spend some time doing a flesh and blood visit? Which has more value to the patient? Can you code a visit for a teleconference? Can you get reimbursed, even if you pick the correct code?
Much of this is directed to primary care, but that's where I work. Naturally, you'll have to answer a lot of these questions for yourself. Unfortunately, the technical answers are the easiest to get, yet they are the most trivial. What you need most is legal and business help. Most of the legal concerns would be zero if you used a telephone or letter. But many aspiring young ADAs are trying to catapult themselves into the limelight with computer cases. And don't forget that all of these toys must pay for themselves in one way or another. The best people to ask are not techies who want to play with cool new toys. The best ones to ask are your patients.
And they will surprise you. In our office, the oldest, least educated are often the most interested in having a computer in the exam room. They have been more patient with working bugs out.
Above all, keep this in mind: do it to improve patient care. That must be the end result. If it is not, your are wasting your time.
Good idea, but with some problems. All spelled with $$$.
Yes, it seems to everyone that doctors are rich SOBs who hardly work for a living. I have that opinion, and I work with 7 of them:) But seriously, profit margins are very tight amongst primary care doctors, especially in CA and MA. The money is barely there to hire competent physicians, and there is even less to hire competent computer folks.
Now, if patients (or, often as not, their insurance companies) would pay a reasonable rate for services rendered, this would be possible. Unfortunately, the trend over the past five years, and into the forseeable future, is for less money to be paid to doctor's.
Take a normal cold/flu visit. Takes about 15 minutes. Charge (in this office) is $45. Sounds like a lot, but that is only $180 per hour. That has to pay for insurance, staff, rent, and the doctor's salary. Still, after figuring overhead, it winds up in the neighborhood of around $100 for the doc. Except that no doctor (primary care, mind you, in the US) ever sees more than about $130. It's the insurance company cap on what they will pay (this is MD, folks. Might be better or worse elsewhere). But the costs didn't go down. Now the doc is taking home around $50 per hour.
Now, let's here from all the consultants (computer) who would do that. Better yet, let's take $25 per hour (probably not a terribly capable and/or competent computer type) to run the doc's computers. Now the doc is making $25 per hour. Time to go sell shoes.
Not to blast you, but rather the US medical system. Computers do help (we are on the slow march to a completely electronic record) and the long term costs are LOWER with computers. But getting over that short term hump is a serious pain.
Not only are you good to want this, but there is an extra twist (in the US). A doctor cannot divulge information to a third party that would indicate that the patient is in fact a patient. Heavy fines, possible jail time, etc. if this is not met.
Yet another PTO article. Why not spend some of the money on the/. buyout to start USPTOdot? We get the point already. The USPTO does many, many, many stupid things.
Here we have the umpteenth article this month alone, while ignoring Opera'sannouncement that they will be releasing Opera browser for free (as in beer) for Linux and the Mac OS this year.
Christ, no wonder so many posts these days are by folks in the 200000+ UID range (no offense. I'm just saying that CT et al. seem to have pissed off at least 150000 people).
Funny. The ad banner is one of those demotivators: "Blame: The Secret to Success is Who to Blame for Your Failures"
All those whiners who asked for slashcode were the ones who turned it into a spaghetti mess.
Why stick around? Slashboxes are a good thing. Time to go remove USPTO from my prefs, as it's just wasting bits at the rate CT posts the stupid things.
Could we please have some hard facts? There is no real reporting at the newsforge link. At least not a scan, or a verification of the letter. Hello, when I want unsubstantiated rumours, I'll just read/. It appears newsforge just copied the text from the Storm discussion boards.
Now, I'm not saying that Storm is going into the crapper; I'm just saying that as of yet, all I've seen is two copies of the same letter typed in by some yabo on the internet (I'm sure there is a good chance you are legit, so don't bother flaming. But until I see a scan with the DeLoitte and Touche stationary, I'll keep holding my breath.)
Was listening to NPR (or maybe PRI) on the way home, and caught a snippet wherein the Prez claimed that he would, as part of his educational initiatives, try to do something about all of the students who are in fear of going to school.
Thank god, I thought. Finally, someone is going to do something about those asinine jocks and their cohort.
Then I remembered: He meant he would be doing something about the people who get picked on and then retaliate with semi-automatic weapons.
If Loki would port games that I am interested in, I would buy them. And NO, I will not buy any old game to show support for Linux games. If I buy the FPS, then they will make more of them. I don't want more of them. I want them to make RollerCoaster Tycoon, C&C, etc. Then I will buy those games.
Until then, it's dual boot (well, actually, unplugging the monitor from the linux box and hooking it up to the Win box.)
Sounds like when I returned from.ca last year (after honeymoon).
"Do you have any illegal weapons?"
"Do you have any illegal drugs?"
Duh.
It's probably to allow for an additional charge (lying to an immigration officer or some such crap) during a possible prosecution.
Of course I answered truthfully. Only a moron would screw around with these people. Like a story I read in a motorcycle magazine: guy wanted a Canada only bike to bring into the US. He was a smart ass at customs, and got to wait another day because some of his paperwork wasn't in order. My guess is that if he had been pleasant and not flippant, he had a good chance at going through, even if he didn't dot all his 'i's and cross all his 't's.
You can modify your rc.* scripts to talk to the graphical boot program. Or, you can switch to an alternate console to read the entire message set (default install puts traditional messages on/dev/tty2).
I installed it last week (patched against a 2.2.17 kernel, BTW. Why not 2.2.18? I have to patch for reiser and ide, and couldn't remember where the ide patches are/were) and it worked fine. It flows quite nicely into XDM.
It's a fun little thing. I'm waiting for a MacOS (Circa 6.0.7) startup screen. Instead of adding those little text messages, add some marching icons.
Atari followed the "let anybody build a game" philosophy, and got some serious trash games. Far more than what is available on today's systems. Having a gatekeeper seems to have worked well on modern (post-Atari 2600) consoles.
First, Shakespeare was more appropriately a playwright than an author (as I would define them).
Second, having not only read the Dickens I was forced to, but having read other books by him, I fail to see why he was so great. Ditto Hemmingway, Salinger, and Faulkner.
There actually are people who are showing remarkable resilience to AIDS, having been infected and contagious for many years, while still being asymptomatic.
Slashdot Mirror
Ditto, but my price point is $100. Of course, running a measly 500 PIII is going to leave me in the dust anyway.
Hence my purchase of an N64 (and probably a PS2 in another year). It was cheap, I can play it on a 35 inch screen from my couch (my desk chair is comfy, but nothing like my couch). Things rarely crash (weird problem with Gauntlet Legends). I can buy tons of cheap games on eBay and at FuncoLand.
Did I mention that it's cheap and I can play on a big screen?
Hey, I love PC games. I got a Voodoo II VERY early. But spending $1000 per year on upgrades is nuts. I've got too many hobbies to keep up this computer upgrade business (ever seen the NOS prices on old Honda motorcycle parts?)
If that is your thing, by all means, go for it. But as for me, I'll be excusing myself from the party now.
If it's so critical, they can release the games I want to play, not yet another FPS.
Hence the reason I broke down and bought a console.
If they won't make the games I want, why should I 'save' them?
Got one bounced address:
jpa@pfymed.com
FYI.
Letter sent to the school board (all members but one, who does not have an email address) (Thanks for the linkage):
It has recently come to my attention that a young student's science fair experiment has been pulled, ostensibly due to concerns of racial insensitivity. I would submit that the teachers and administrators should be admonished, for their actions have achieved nothing positive.
The reasons for the removal of the report on the experiment, gleaned from press reports, was that the report on the experiment was that it was inappropriate and out of context.
No. It was not. It seems that the experiment was well documented, with proper controls and so forth. While not of super high level interest, it seems that the young girl has, at the very least, learned something of the scientific method. By charting and properly carrying out her experiments, she has provided context. The next logical step, from a scientific viewpoint, would be larger samples, different modes of dress (how would the results for the adults have been skewed had the dolls been wearing dashikis for example).
From an educational and societal standpoint, there are even greater grounds for expansion. Why not use this as an opening salvo in a class or school discussion? "What do these results mean?" In an era where education is supposed to be multi-disciplinary, this simple experiment opens up possible lessons in: science, math, social studies, and history.
Educators have chosen to blame the science and the measurement, rather than what was measured. It should be understandable, by a learned panel such as yourselves, that platitudes and grand discussions are without merit unless backed by proof of efficacy. The current model of discussing feelings and ideas about race and race relations seems not to have taken hold. Rather than confront the problem, you have chosen to shoot the messenger.
Burying our collective heads and avoiding issues is one of the great wrongs in the United States today. The main goals of discourse should be the realization of common ground and common goals. Unfortunately, the prevailing wisdom is that it is more important to avoid offending someone, or even the possibility of offending someone.
When that is the goal, you offend all of those with free will, and those who have fought and lived to support the right to excercise it.
This is not a question of merit based testing, school performance, racial insensitivity, or any of the plethora of problems facing educators today. This is the result of being shown that society is not colorblind, we are collectively afraid of it, and can think of nothing to do but hide our flaws.
Have the girl's project examined on its scientific merits. Laud her (or chastise, as the case may be) for them. And use the results, flawed or not, to spark an open, honest discussion. If you fail to do this, I am afraid that the open, honest discussion will center around whether or not the school system is working in the best interests of the intellectual growth of the children, or the furtherance of the careers of the board members, teachers, and administrators.
George Howell
Archie plus apache plus *ftpd plus Linux/*BSD
BTW, I've got this great idea for a round device. You put a stick thru the middle of it and you can easily move things around. Any ideas on how to improve it?
I don't know anything about crypto. But look at it this way: you have a stream coming into the reader. You should be able to set up a man in the middle routine. Intercept the streams going both ways. The stream going into the reader should be decryptable (crackable) because you can go into Borders, buy a book, or just copy a few pages.
Unlike music, you should be able to get an exact copy of what the output should be (unless the display is like a pdf, instead of just parsing the raw text).
Again, I'm no crypto expert, but, as they say in math, given the above, the proof is obvious (or, I think should be, given the amount of data you have to work with.)
The real question about e-books (and the reason my mother rarely uses hers) is why does it cost so much more for an e-book than a hardcover? It's much more likely that I will loan my hardcover novel to 5 people than it is to send them a copy of an e-book. (Similar to e-music: why spend $3 a piece for a single, when I can spend $12 or so for the CD and have a transferrable medium?)
[root@ranger /proc]# whois wiposucks.com [whois.crsnic.net]
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: WIPOSUCKS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: GATE.TELLURIAN.NET
Name Server: NS1.INFOLOOK.COM
Updated Date: 05-aug-1999
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:19:21 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
I work for a 7 person primary care group in the United States, and we have addressed many of these issues.
First, as has been stated elsewhere, is security. I don't think it needs to be expanded upon. If you haven't already grokked this point, stop everything else.
Second is money. I'm not sure what you specialty is, your payer mix, your clinical setting, or anything else, but each of these affects how much money will be available to you. Most of the commercial solutions are big money with big service contracts and big maintenance requirements.
I cannot stress this enough: beware the vendors! I started work here after the EMR had been pronounced 'live' by the vendors. To tell the truth, it wasn't live until at least 15 months after I started working.
Your idea for computers in every exam room is a good one. We found that they were much cheaper than wireless solutions, and are proving much more sturdy in the long run. Most important to our head of medicine, they are MUCH faster. You just can't compare 100Base-T to 802.11. There's also the fact that the wires are more secure (IMNSHO).
Hire a lawyer. Look into the legality of sending patient emails. This is beyond security. The laws are vague. Imagine this scenario (places made up): you live in Ohio. Your practice is in West Virginia, and that is where you are licensed. Your patient lives in Pennsylvania. You sit at home at night and compose an email telling Ms. Smith that her strep culture was positive and that she should continue taking the amox. You send the email from your machine in Ohio, it uses the SMTP server in your practice in WVa., gets bounced through a router in Va, and winds up in Pennsylvania.
While you and I, and the rest of slashdot think nothing of this, the district attorneys in Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania can now sue you for practicing medicine in their state without a license. There is not really any merit to the case, but that might be over the heads of: the DA, the judge, and the jury of your 'peers'.
Rather than full pt. access to charts, I would think to implement a fax back system. IOW, Mr. Jones wants to see his last three cholesterol test results. He emails/web-forms a request. This goes into your system, and the machine emails or faxes back the requested information to whatever email or fax address Mr. Jones has on file. This must be filed in person, in writing. Mr. Jones must also sign a waiver saying that by having this service (faxback of results) available to him, there is the possibility of this information falling into the wrong hands. IANAL, but this is the view that my practice has taken.
Beware IM's. First is the possibility of hijacking a nick. Second, if a patient IM's you instead of calling your answering service, you will be more liable if his chest pains are a heart attack, and not indigestion. Opens up a world of liability.
If you must email, insist upon crypto. It's the only chance of being sure of identities (both ways).
Back to the money question: while video conferencing might be nice, how many of your patients will have access to DSL/cable? How much time will be spent doing that, when you can spend some time doing a flesh and blood visit? Which has more value to the patient? Can you code a visit for a teleconference? Can you get reimbursed, even if you pick the correct code?
Much of this is directed to primary care, but that's where I work. Naturally, you'll have to answer a lot of these questions for yourself. Unfortunately, the technical answers are the easiest to get, yet they are the most trivial. What you need most is legal and business help. Most of the legal concerns would be zero if you used a telephone or letter. But many aspiring young ADAs are trying to catapult themselves into the limelight with computer cases. And don't forget that all of these toys must pay for themselves in one way or another. The best people to ask are not techies who want to play with cool new toys. The best ones to ask are your patients.
And they will surprise you. In our office, the oldest, least educated are often the most interested in having a computer in the exam room. They have been more patient with working bugs out.
Above all, keep this in mind: do it to improve patient care. That must be the end result. If it is not, your are wasting your time.
Good idea, but with some problems. All spelled with $$$.
Yes, it seems to everyone that doctors are rich SOBs who hardly work for a living. I have that opinion, and I work with 7 of them:) But seriously, profit margins are very tight amongst primary care doctors, especially in CA and MA. The money is barely there to hire competent physicians, and there is even less to hire competent computer folks.
Now, if patients (or, often as not, their insurance companies) would pay a reasonable rate for services rendered, this would be possible. Unfortunately, the trend over the past five years, and into the forseeable future, is for less money to be paid to doctor's.
Take a normal cold/flu visit. Takes about 15 minutes. Charge (in this office) is $45. Sounds like a lot, but that is only $180 per hour. That has to pay for insurance, staff, rent, and the doctor's salary. Still, after figuring overhead, it winds up in the neighborhood of around $100 for the doc. Except that no doctor (primary care, mind you, in the US) ever sees more than about $130. It's the insurance company cap on what they will pay (this is MD, folks. Might be better or worse elsewhere). But the costs didn't go down. Now the doc is taking home around $50 per hour.
Now, let's here from all the consultants (computer) who would do that. Better yet, let's take $25 per hour (probably not a terribly capable and/or competent computer type) to run the doc's computers. Now the doc is making $25 per hour. Time to go sell shoes.
Not to blast you, but rather the US medical system. Computers do help (we are on the slow march to a completely electronic record) and the long term costs are LOWER with computers. But getting over that short term hump is a serious pain.
Not only are you good to want this, but there is an extra twist (in the US). A doctor cannot divulge information to a third party that would indicate that the patient is in fact a patient. Heavy fines, possible jail time, etc. if this is not met.
-George
Here we have the umpteenth article this month alone, while ignoring Opera's announcement that they will be releasing Opera browser for free (as in beer) for Linux and the Mac OS this year.
Christ, no wonder so many posts these days are by folks in the 200000+ UID range (no offense. I'm just saying that CT et al. seem to have pissed off at least 150000 people).
Funny. The ad banner is one of those demotivators: "Blame: The Secret to Success is Who to Blame for Your Failures"
All those whiners who asked for slashcode were the ones who turned it into a spaghetti mess.
Why stick around? Slashboxes are a good thing. Time to go remove USPTO from my prefs, as it's just wasting bits at the rate CT posts the stupid things.
And here I thought it was an operating system!
With khttpd, it's both. Now if only it were an axle lubricant and a dessert topping...
Could we please have some hard facts? There is no real reporting at the newsforge link. At least not a scan, or a verification of the letter. Hello, when I want unsubstantiated rumours, I'll just read /. It appears newsforge just copied the text from the Storm discussion boards.
Now, I'm not saying that Storm is going into the crapper; I'm just saying that as of yet, all I've seen is two copies of the same letter typed in by some yabo on the internet (I'm sure there is a good chance you are legit, so don't bother flaming. But until I see a scan with the DeLoitte and Touche stationary, I'll keep holding my breath.)
Good letter. Only thing I noticed is that I believe it was Earl Warren (or another Supreme) who said "I know pornography when I see it."
Small nit.
Was listening to NPR (or maybe PRI) on the way home, and caught a snippet wherein the Prez claimed that he would, as part of his educational initiatives, try to do something about all of the students who are in fear of going to school.
Thank god, I thought. Finally, someone is going to do something about those asinine jocks and their cohort.
Then I remembered: He meant he would be doing something about the people who get picked on and then retaliate with semi-automatic weapons.
Fuck. Same shit, different elected official.
Considering how reluctant paper is to disappear down the hole with our lousy 1.5 GPF toilets, I seriously doubt the computer would go anywhere.
GPF=Gallons per Flush
If Loki would port games that I am interested in, I would buy them. And NO, I will not buy any old game to show support for Linux games. If I buy the FPS, then they will make more of them. I don't want more of them. I want them to make RollerCoaster Tycoon, C&C, etc. Then I will buy those games.
Until then, it's dual boot (well, actually, unplugging the monitor from the linux box and hooking it up to the Win box.)
Sounds like when I returned from .ca last year (after honeymoon).
"Do you have any illegal weapons?"
"Do you have any illegal drugs?"
Duh.
It's probably to allow for an additional charge (lying to an immigration officer or some such crap) during a possible prosecution.
Of course I answered truthfully. Only a moron would screw around with these people. Like a story I read in a motorcycle magazine: guy wanted a Canada only bike to bring into the US. He was a smart ass at customs, and got to wait another day because some of his paperwork wasn't in order. My guess is that if he had been pleasant and not flippant, he had a good chance at going through, even if he didn't dot all his 'i's and cross all his 't's.
You can modify your rc.* scripts to talk to the graphical boot program. Or, you can switch to an alternate console to read the entire message set (default install puts traditional messages on /dev/tty2).
I installed it last week (patched against a 2.2.17 kernel, BTW. Why not 2.2.18? I have to patch for reiser and ide, and couldn't remember where the ide patches are/were) and it worked fine. It flows quite nicely into XDM.
It's a fun little thing. I'm waiting for a MacOS (Circa 6.0.7) startup screen. Instead of adding those little text messages, add some marching icons.
Atari followed the "let anybody build a game" philosophy, and got some serious trash games. Far more than what is available on today's systems. Having a gatekeeper seems to have worked well on modern (post-Atari 2600) consoles.
Fair enough.
No bite on my anti-Hemmingway troll?
:)
(Actually, that was one of the topics at Christmas dinner. Weird family.)
Two quick points:
First, Shakespeare was more appropriately a playwright than an author (as I would define them).
Second, having not only read the Dickens I was forced to, but having read other books by him, I fail to see why he was so great. Ditto Hemmingway, Salinger, and Faulkner.
Better link.
Have to get this one.
You may want to ask them: your number one guy left, and now you are going to fire your number two guy? How smart is that?
I think you have some serious negotiating room.
There actually are people who are showing remarkable resilience to AIDS, having been infected and contagious for many years, while still being asymptomatic.
Not many, but some. (Kinda like Captain Trips)