Personally, I prefer to lay the greater blame on the patients. First, for not using the antibiotics as instructed by someone whom they should trust about such matters. And secondly, for rushing to a doctor over trivialties and demanding uneccesary treatment.
If that was the content of the discussion, then yes your doctor is in fact, correct.
Viruses, we can help alleviate the symptoms, but to date are unable to combat the cause. The common cold for example, is caused most often by one variation or another of the Rhinovirus or the Coronavirus. Such viruses, an antibiotic cannot affect. The only way we have to combat such viruses at the present time is through prevention, most commonly via a vaccine.
Vaccines are often composed of small doses of weakened, dead, or undamaging versions of the disease. Your body then produces anti-bodies to combat this invasion which then linger in your blood to combat future infections of the same virus.
You do know that you can pay for medical care in Canada if you want to, right? The government does not force you to accept its handout. If you want to waive government assistance and ask for a hospital bill, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO.
What you do NOT have a right to do, is pay money to jump the queue and receive treatment before others who also need it. That is simple fairness, you do not deserve preferential treatment for the same thing as someone else because you desire it and have money in your pocket.
Yes I agree that the system in Canada has problems, but at least no one in our country will ever slip through the cracks of not being able to afford it, the opportunity to live a healthy life is a right in this country, not a privilidge of the wealthy.
Thank you, and I must say I am disgusted by the comment disparaging Canadian health care. Someone also has no concept of how our health care system works.
First off, claiming that Canadian hospitals will leave you in the emergency room to secure funding is complete bull. Individual hospitals are not even funded in such a manner, they are not entitled to more money if people have to wait. In fact, Canadian doctors are paid by how many people they treat, which has major flaws but if doctors want more funding they do not treat fewer patients! In addition, he seemingly has no concept of the fact that our hospitals ARE overworked and underfunded, which is one reason a new deal was reached just days ago to provide billions more to the system. Personally, I know an ICU nurse who works at a Winnipeg hospital, and in addition my own mother is an x-ray technologist. These people do not, as you put it, *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room. They are working to save lives, and in doing so they are overworked and underfunded to be able to deal with our population.
I think this fellow needs to learn respect and reality before spouting off with that s***.
I'm 21, still finishing my university education, and my question is, which of these titles have you read? The following is my list, and for the most part I've enjoyed reading them all.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling 8. Forever by Judy Blume 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine 22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers 32. Blubber by Judy Blume 37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard 46. Deenie by Judy Blume 47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (one of my favourites) 53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) 55. Cujo by Stephen King 56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest 62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (another favourite) 77. Carrie by Stephen King 83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King 84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford 96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Uh, minutes is a valid measurement of distance. Its used in measuring fractions of a degree on the surface of the globe... so may I be the first to say that you have one hell of a huge closet.
Seriously though, why should they? GeForce is an established brand name for NVidia, its recognized world-wide, why would they want to throw that away?
Its like saying: Coca-cola, has been original, 'new', classic, etc, but couldn't they call it something else? They've been making the same line of product for over 100 years now!
Fast typing is not a detriment to good design as you seem to be inferring. Because someone can type faster than they can really think, doesn't mean that they don't.
Myself, I'm not a super typist, somewhere between 40 and 80 wpm depending on what I'm doing. But I'm quick enough that the bottleneck on my typing is how fast my brain can compose. This does not mean that I don't spend just as much time as anyone else in the design phase, its simply a very useful asset to not have to continuously cycle ideas inside my head and remember where I am because my fingers cannot keep up.
"When a person types on a computer, the bottleneck in accomplishing most tasks is not the bandwidth through the keyboard (typing speed) but the latency introduced by other elements of the system. Specifically, the speed of the user's reading comprehension and the speed of the user to make decisions and mentally transform ideas and concepts into text dominate typing IO for most tasks."
A valid point, but remember that if you have to look down at your keyboard everytime you want to type something in, it slows the user's comprehension as they will be continuously searching for the correct keys to press, and have to look up and re-evaluate the screen and their position on it. The simple ability to produce input while keeping your concentration on the screen IS a timesaver.
Its a good thought, burning fuel in a more 'pure' environment, however the difficulty is that in pure oxygen, the spark will cause the fuel to burn hotter and more fiercely, which can cause damage to your engine if the explosions get too powerful.
Depends on the aircraft, but the general rule of thumb is : not very. The primary advantage of aircraft (well, besides speed that is) is that they are mass transit systems. When you have 100-200 people on an aircraft, despite the fact that it gets poor mileage, it is amortized simply by the number of people using it.
See, what you need to do is what we here in Canada just did, elect a minority government. That way it is impossible for a single party to push through changes that it wants made, without the support of other parties. It puts an amazing number of checks and balances against any one party being able to do something stupid that the people do not want to have happen.
Oh wait... yes, America... that's right. The whole 'infallability of the president' approach, and two party system. You guys badley need a major electoral overhaul.
Are you saying that your annual budget for kitchen supplies like pots and pans outpace the amount you spend on tips and the part of your bill the goes to pay restaurant employees?
The point is irrelavent. You cannot negate the need for the existance of a good by replacing it entirely with services. Amend that, you CAN, however to do so in most cases results in a product that is significantly more expensive, and has far less worth in the long run. You can only viably do this if you rich, or at least what our society considers 'rich' to be. Until every one of us is rich enough to pay others to perform such services (and coincidentily enough, rich enough not to have to get a job performing such services for others), there will always be a demand for the tangible product.
True, if you can't search space efficiently, adding more won't help. However, 16MB vs 8MB of cache that is on a similar order of magnitude as RAM in terms of speed, even if you have to search twice as much space as an 8MB cache, is still blazingly faster than HD read speeds.
The real question though is how often do we read multiple times from a file location that is in the most recent 16MB accessed from a harddrive, but is not in the most recent 8MB accessed? A larger cache does start to become less efficient when we store more information that we never use. You can only pre-cache so much information, but there will come a point where you will not go back to a specific sector, but it will remain in cache for some time. Thus it will contribute to slowing the time taken to search the cache, but will not contribute to speeding up disk accesses.
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People admire her because it is an amazing feat of human stamina. 'Stunts' like this show us that as humans, we can accomplish things thought to be impossible, or beyond our ability to endure. That is what makes it admirable, not the fact she isn't hurting anyone and doing this for herself. It helps inspire us to push the limits, do things that have never been done before and as a result advance ourselves as a species. Just because she has chosen to accomplish a physical feat instead of a mental innovation, does not make it any less of an accomplishment than it is. We do still live in a physical world, and physical ability is still necessary for our survival. We have not yet advanced so far that we can live by brains alone, though many of us do.
Actually, email has fewer legal protections than shouting across a room. Hate slogans, racial slurs, sexual comments if shouted can constitute verbal assault and/or sexual harrasment. Doing so in a private email could get you fired from your job, but it won't get you hauled off to a police station.
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Personally, I prefer to lay the greater blame on the patients. First, for not using the antibiotics as instructed by someone whom they should trust about such matters. And secondly, for rushing to a doctor over trivialties and demanding uneccesary treatment.
If that was the content of the discussion, then yes your doctor is in fact, correct.
Viruses, we can help alleviate the symptoms, but to date are unable to combat the cause. The common cold for example, is caused most often by one variation or another of the Rhinovirus or the Coronavirus. Such viruses, an antibiotic cannot affect. The only way we have to combat such viruses at the present time is through prevention, most commonly via a vaccine.
Vaccines are often composed of small doses of weakened, dead, or undamaging versions of the disease. Your body then produces anti-bodies to combat this invasion which then linger in your blood to combat future infections of the same virus.
Thats what his other 12 hours were spent doing.
You do know that you can pay for medical care in Canada if you want to, right? The government does not force you to accept its handout. If you want to waive government assistance and ask for a hospital bill, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO.
What you do NOT have a right to do, is pay money to jump the queue and receive treatment before others who also need it. That is simple fairness, you do not deserve preferential treatment for the same thing as someone else because you desire it and have money in your pocket.
Yes I agree that the system in Canada has problems, but at least no one in our country will ever slip through the cracks of not being able to afford it, the opportunity to live a healthy life is a right in this country, not a privilidge of the wealthy.
Thank you, and I must say I am disgusted by the comment disparaging Canadian health care. Someone also has no concept of how our health care system works.
First off, claiming that Canadian hospitals will leave you in the emergency room to secure funding is complete bull. Individual hospitals are not even funded in such a manner, they are not entitled to more money if people have to wait. In fact, Canadian doctors are paid by how many people they treat, which has major flaws but if doctors want more funding they do not treat fewer patients!
In addition, he seemingly has no concept of the fact that our hospitals ARE overworked and underfunded, which is one reason a new deal was reached just days ago to provide billions more to the system. Personally, I know an ICU nurse who works at a Winnipeg hospital, and in addition my own mother is an x-ray technologist. These people do not, as you put it, *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room. They are working to save lives, and in doing so they are overworked and underfunded to be able to deal with our population.
I think this fellow needs to learn respect and reality before spouting off with that s***.
Yes, but it did come to mind that no one ever said to fill 640K of storage you would need to boil the oceans...
Anyone else find that analogy just a little bit odd?
I'm 21, still finishing my university education, and my question is, which of these titles have you read? The following is my list, and for the most part I've enjoyed reading them all.
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (one of my favourites)
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
62. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (another favourite)
77. Carrie by Stephen King
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Anyone else?
Uh, minutes is a valid measurement of distance. Its used in measuring fractions of a degree on the surface of the globe... so may I be the first to say that you have one hell of a huge closet.
They did : GeForce FX ##00/##50
Seriously though, why should they? GeForce is an established brand name for NVidia, its recognized world-wide, why would they want to throw that away?
Its like saying: Coca-cola, has been original, 'new', classic, etc, but couldn't they call it something else? They've been making the same line of product for over 100 years now!
First step towards doing so... Remember that Canadian addresses do not have zip codes!
They are postal codes, and they are a completely different formatting than the US zip.
Fast typing is not a detriment to good design as you seem to be inferring. Because someone can type faster than they can really think, doesn't mean that they don't.
Myself, I'm not a super typist, somewhere between 40 and 80 wpm depending on what I'm doing. But I'm quick enough that the bottleneck on my typing is how fast my brain can compose. This does not mean that I don't spend just as much time as anyone else in the design phase, its simply a very useful asset to not have to continuously cycle ideas inside my head and remember where I am because my fingers cannot keep up.
"When a person types on a computer, the bottleneck in accomplishing most tasks is not the bandwidth through the keyboard (typing speed) but the latency introduced by other elements of the system. Specifically, the speed of the user's reading comprehension and the speed of the user to make decisions and mentally transform ideas and concepts into text dominate typing IO for most tasks."
A valid point, but remember that if you have to look down at your keyboard everytime you want to type something in, it slows the user's comprehension as they will be continuously searching for the correct keys to press, and have to look up and re-evaluate the screen and their position on it. The simple ability to produce input while keeping your concentration on the screen IS a timesaver.
I thought they were clearly indicated by the unhealthy green glow emanating from the passenger compartment.
Its a good thought, burning fuel in a more 'pure' environment, however the difficulty is that in pure oxygen, the spark will cause the fuel to burn hotter and more fiercely, which can cause damage to your engine if the explosions get too powerful.
Depends on the aircraft, but the general rule of thumb is : not very. The primary advantage of aircraft (well, besides speed that is) is that they are mass transit systems. When you have 100-200 people on an aircraft, despite the fact that it gets poor mileage, it is amortized simply by the number of people using it.
Bestbuy doesn't, they accept photocopies of the UPC for rebates.
And no, I'm honest enough not to scam a business that way.
See, what you need to do is what we here in Canada just did, elect a minority government. That way it is impossible for a single party to push through changes that it wants made, without the support of other parties. It puts an amazing number of checks and balances against any one party being able to do something stupid that the people do not want to have happen.
Oh wait... yes, America... that's right. The whole 'infallability of the president' approach, and two party system. You guys badley need a major electoral overhaul.
Are you saying that your annual budget for kitchen supplies like pots and pans outpace the amount you spend on tips and the part of your bill the goes to pay restaurant employees?
The point is irrelavent. You cannot negate the need for the existance of a good by replacing it entirely with services. Amend that, you CAN, however to do so in most cases results in a product that is significantly more expensive, and has far less worth in the long run. You can only viably do this if you rich, or at least what our society considers 'rich' to be. Until every one of us is rich enough to pay others to perform such services (and coincidentily enough, rich enough not to have to get a job performing such services for others), there will always be a demand for the tangible product.
True, if you can't search space efficiently, adding more won't help. However, 16MB vs 8MB of cache that is on a similar order of magnitude as RAM in terms of speed, even if you have to search twice as much space as an 8MB cache, is still blazingly faster than HD read speeds.
The real question though is how often do we read multiple times from a file location that is in the most recent 16MB accessed from a harddrive, but is not in the most recent 8MB accessed? A larger cache does start to become less efficient when we store more information that we never use. You can only pre-cache so much information, but there will come a point where you will not go back to a specific sector, but it will remain in cache for some time. Thus it will contribute to slowing the time taken to search the cache, but will not contribute to speeding up disk accesses.
People admire her because it is an amazing feat of human stamina. 'Stunts' like this show us that as humans, we can accomplish things thought to be impossible, or beyond our ability to endure. That is what makes it admirable, not the fact she isn't hurting anyone and doing this for herself. It helps inspire us to push the limits, do things that have never been done before and as a result advance ourselves as a species. Just because she has chosen to accomplish a physical feat instead of a mental innovation, does not make it any less of an accomplishment than it is. We do still live in a physical world, and physical ability is still necessary for our survival. We have not yet advanced so far that we can live by brains alone, though many of us do.
True, I exaggerated slightly, but any such communication would put you in just as tight of a spot if it were communicated verbally.
However, sending hate based email to a friend of like-mind is clearly not on the same level as shouting the same message across a crowded room.
Actually, email has fewer legal protections than shouting across a room. Hate slogans, racial slurs, sexual comments if shouted can constitute verbal assault and/or sexual harrasment. Doing so in a private email could get you fired from your job, but it won't get you hauled off to a police station.
Yup, or do what most of us do anyway, rip the CD to a hardrive and burn the tracks we want with tracks from our other cds.
I prefer to mix my own music cds from the collection I have.