More than 300,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year. Roughly 9 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims die before they get to a hospital -- partly because they do not get CPR
With roughly 3% of CPR actions actually doing anything useful, it's no wonder most cardiac arrest victims die. Even with CPR you're only going to save a tiny fraction of them.
Every once in while, CPR makes me think of all the half-hearted measures we introduce into our legal system - on the premise of "well, if it saves ONE life it's worth it". We spend an awful lot of time and money teaching CPR to people, and it almost never does any good. Thanks to TV and the movies, the average person actually thinks CPR is a fairly successful procedure - they get (sometimes violently) angry when you tell them the actual success rate.
Ah well, anything that improves it is a plus, I guess. Now only 8.88889 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims will die;)
Believe it or not, you can actually find this info within 2k - just not easily. I only discovered this myself a couple of months ago.
Buried rather deep in the typically obscure registry are some keys with the results of the PCI bus scan. You'll still have to do the lookup yourself to find out just who manufacturer 87655 is, but I was amazed that in 6 years of product existence, this wasn't one of the FIRST tips on how-to sites.
Just figured I'd mention this before you got flamed with the usual "but but but regular users will never use an OS where they have to use a command line!!!". To me, the registy is just like CLI, only more annoying.
He's got a point though - Dapper is supposed to be the big "supported for years" release. My new Powershot A710IS is supported by libgphoto, yet I had to hunt around for a while to get the damn thing working in Dapper as the version available from the repositories is ANCIENT. Add dozens of newer camera models and it's a mess. You do know that not all cameras work as a mass storage device, right?
Thankfully at least I didn't have to compile from source, which is what one of the howtos suggested. Hooray for destroying package management!
Besides the fact that this has nothing, I repeat NOTHING to do with Linux at all.
My laptop runs Windows XP and ATI's drivers work for shit with multi-monitor support. I can spend a lot more than 2 days trying to make it work, and it will randomly stop working months later without cause.
Every story in the past few months has people saying "why is everyone claiming there are PS3s sitting around? I didn't see any at the one store I checked!".
Middle of the week, middle of the evening, local Costco. ie: long after they were put on the floor, just so no one can claim "but they probably sold within 15 minutes!". I've seen the same volume on the floor at a local Best Buy.
It has nothing to do with things being demeaning, or "mental hang-ups", whatever you think those might be.
It's about wasting time and energy trying to scrape that last $500 out of a salary, and demonstrating to your boss that you're the type to nickel and dime over everything. If you're being compensated adequately, why play games?
Maybe you've had issues being offered what you're worth - I've never had to stoop to negotiating tactics to get a damn good salary.
But, if your attitude is constantly "me vs the Man who's trying to screw me with every opportunity", then I can see how you'd think this way. I feel sorry for you that your workplaces have always been such a combative environment.
Believe me, the people being joked about on the back nine tend to be the ones who feel so proud of that extra 0.1% salary they got, all while completely missing the big picture. Mostly because they insist on telling the world about how shrewd they are. Much like people getting excited about saving $25 on a used car.
I am aware that I could just get up an hour early and try to convince everyone else that I have to deal with to do the same, but DST accomplishes that.
Absolutely. Never mind the fact that if we all shifted our schedules by an hour twice a year, then every single store sign displaying their hours would have to be changed twice a year, bus schedules would all have to be re-printed twice a year, hell ANYTHING with times on it would have to be changed twice a year. With DST we retain the same schedules, but you have to change your watch to match. Going to UTC only works if you never ever leave your timezone - or else you'd have to be making on-the-fly calculations every time you tried to remember what time the movie is at, or when the store closes, or what have you. Having a common time reference point means never having to worry about "hmm, when exactly is 5pm now that I'm on the other coast?".
I've never understood why people think DST is "complicated". Shift your clocks twice a year (takes me all of 10 seconds as the computers take care of the rest). That extra hour of daylight after work is seriously awesome. Everyone, after about a day, adjusts and retains the same 24 hour cycle we run on - office hours are typically 9-5, at midnight odds are it will be pitch black out, that sort of thing.
Honestly, if getting up an hour earlier for one day in April (now March) messes with your internal clock THAT much, I shudder to think what life would be like when you have children.
Sometimes, it's not all about nickel and diming your way to the absolute maximum possible salary. Sometimes, it's actually possible to be fairly compensated without resorting to psychological games with your employer.
If I'm happy and the employer's happy, it makes for a far more plesant salary negotiation than imagining my employment contract to be akin to haggling over a used car.
After having just gone through the 5 minute "please fuck off and die with your extended warranty LIES" last night, I really wish I could mod this up to +100. $99 warranty on a $350 camera? How do these people sleep at night?
This time it was:
the manufacturers warranty is actually only good for 30 days, even though they claim it's 12 months
the warranty is voided if you ever travel outside of the country for any reason with the camera
this particular camera has a failure rate of nearly 50% in the first 6 months
but no, we're not selling shoddy merchandise
you'll automatically be upgraded to the next model up, the warranty is THAT GOOD
Plus, I got told that my existing SD card wouldn't work (they've changed the standard somehow), my older NiMH batteries might not work, and I need a special "protective" case because older cases contain fabric that destroys the lens (even though the camera has an automatic lens cover).
Oh yeah, and these morons STILL claim they're not working on commission. Yeah, they just like to push all this horseshit on you out of the goodness of their hearts.
I wish we would just replace most retail with fucking vending machines. I don't need salespeople, EVER.
Devil's advocate, but perhaps the fear is not what the wording SAYS RIGHT NOW, but how it's going to be interpreted.
Didn't places like Olympic Paints get sued in Atlanta a few years back? Sure, they may have EVENTUALLY won - after the Oly folks cost them tens of thousands in legal bills...
It may not be exact, but I distinctly remember dozens of long-time busienss in Atlanta being threatened/sued. Most if these places had been around for years, if not DECADES before the Olympics ever came to town.
Folks, if you want to see cool robotics, check out that video. Nearly every robotics achievement always seems to blah when you finally see what these robots can do. Yes, on a technical level, we've made a hell of a lot of progress (I've never managed to make a robot dynamically walk more than 2 or 3 slow steps myself, so I can appreciate just how hard this is), but on an asthetic level, they look so.. robotic. Even Asimo leaves something to be desired.
Check this BigDog video out, it's quite amazing. It looks as close to a real animal as anything I've ever seen. Watch how it reacts when the guy tries to kick it over!
The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water.
Without taking a side on the issue, does every natural event have to be compared against the global warming checklist now?
It's like when there's a gas leak (or something equally trivial) in someone's house. The news immediately has to comment that "at this time, authorities say there is no reason to suspect terrorism".
They sent him a threatening letter for connecting to me using OpenVPN (we found the easiest way to play SNES roms online was to bridge him onto my LAN). The bandwidth we used on that session was minimal, but just the connection to 1194 pissed them off, I changed ports for him.
He got a letter complaining that he was using a specific OUTBOUND port?
Rogers are a bunch of idiots, and I've seen some pretty stupid things come from them, but I find this very hard to believe. What was the nature of the complaint? From your write up it's not that your brother was running a server on that port (the usual complaint). Rogers specifically wrote to tell him that connecting to port 1194 is forbidden?
For the record, your brother isn't a good example of broadband in Canada. Yeah, Rogers can be one of the worst, but even with them I've never heard of anyone being chastised for using "a few gigabytes" per month. Most (and by that I mean pretty much all) DSL and cable providers in Canada don't start with the notices until you're into the hundreds of GB - if they even send letters at all.
Is it possible that he has some sort of "cable lite" plan with extremely low speeds and bandwidth caps?
You should look into switching your insurance carrier. The vast majority will pay even if you forget to set your alarm.
Contrary to popular myth, insurance companies don't spend every last waking moment trying to find a way to screw you out of your coverage based on some technicality. You only hear about the (rare) coverage denials, you never hear about the other thousand claims paid out to some moron who fell asleep while cooking, smoking in bed, or leaving the tub running because an important play happened in the football game.
Another scenario: you order the DVD box sets from Amazon but a few weeks later (after the return window), you realize that you got charged too much for the purchase. Amazon refuses to refund the overcharge. Is Amazon right or wrong?
Amazon is perfectly right. That's why you get a sales receipt, email confirmation, the actual money leaving your hands, or whatever. Nothing irritates me more in this world than people who think this should be possible to do. All of this "but but but I found it 20 cents cheaper down the street a week later, and you promise to match prices" nonsense is the end result.
I don't understand why retail commerce is so damn difficult for people. Store sets price, you either agree to pay it or you do not. Once a transaction has taken place, it's DONE. After-the-fact negotiating of price is childish and pointless. Note that I don't have an issue with returns due to defective merchandise or what have you.
Seriously, all of this "well you should have known you were getting too good of a deal" is ridiculous. I can't possibly be expected to know what a "reasonable" price is on every single consumer good out there. If I see what looks like a deal when I'm shopping online, I'll take it. If it's not stolen goods, I don't understand how anyone in their right mind could argue that coming back weeks later to re-negotiate the price can possibly be justified. Have I been overcharged for things because the store mislabelled something? Absolutely. Did I go back and whine because I'm too stupid to have noticed in the first place? Hell no.
Pick your product, check its prices, and when you complete a transaction (ie: exchange money for goods and services) make sure you actually give it some thought. This goes for both buyers and sellers.
Considering what a bandwidth pig Google Earth can be, I'd be amazed if many work environments don't have an outright ban and block on it anyway. I know mine does...:(
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More than 300,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year. Roughly 9 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims die before they get to a hospital -- partly because they do not get CPR
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With roughly 3% of CPR actions actually doing anything useful, it's no wonder most cardiac arrest victims die. Even with CPR you're only going to save a tiny fraction of them.
Every once in while, CPR makes me think of all the half-hearted measures we introduce into our legal system - on the premise of "well, if it saves ONE life it's worth it". We spend an awful lot of time and money teaching CPR to people, and it almost never does any good. Thanks to TV and the movies, the average person actually thinks CPR is a fairly successful procedure - they get (sometimes violently) angry when you tell them the actual success rate.
Ah well, anything that improves it is a plus, I guess. Now only 8.88889 out of 10 cardiac arrest victims will die
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How come Slashdot death rumors don't make the news? :(
Believe it or not, you can actually find this info within 2k - just not easily. I only discovered this myself a couple of months ago.
Buried rather deep in the typically obscure registry are some keys with the results of the PCI bus scan. You'll still have to do the lookup yourself to find out just who manufacturer 87655 is, but I was amazed that in 6 years of product existence, this wasn't one of the FIRST tips on how-to sites.
Just figured I'd mention this before you got flamed with the usual "but but but regular users will never use an OS where they have to use a command line!!!". To me, the registy is just like CLI, only more annoying.
Did it by chance take you 15 minutes to copy a 1MB file?
He's got a point though - Dapper is supposed to be the big "supported for years" release. My new Powershot A710IS is supported by libgphoto, yet I had to hunt around for a while to get the damn thing working in Dapper as the version available from the repositories is ANCIENT. Add dozens of newer camera models and it's a mess. You do know that not all cameras work as a mass storage device, right?
Thankfully at least I didn't have to compile from source, which is what one of the howtos suggested. Hooray for destroying package management!
Besides the fact that this has nothing, I repeat NOTHING to do with Linux at all.
My laptop runs Windows XP and ATI's drivers work for shit with multi-monitor support. I can spend a lot more than 2 days trying to make it work, and it will randomly stop working months later without cause.
Every story in the past few months has people saying "why is everyone claiming there are PS3s sitting around? I didn't see any at the one store I checked!".
I've posted this before, and I'll post it again.
Middle of the week, towards closing time. Busy local Costco. Those babies sat for weeks...
The Rockies, arguably North America's most well-known mountain range, are mostly sedimentary. Limestone and shale, baby!
How did the parent get modded up, exactly?
I know everyone else claims they are sitting on store shelves, but I've yet to see one
Middle of the week, middle of the evening, local Costco. ie: long after they were put on the floor, just so no one can claim "but they probably sold within 15 minutes!". I've seen the same volume on the floor at a local Best Buy.
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You should learn about the jokes.
Thanks.
It has nothing to do with things being demeaning, or "mental hang-ups", whatever you think those might be.
It's about wasting time and energy trying to scrape that last $500 out of a salary, and demonstrating to your boss that you're the type to nickel and dime over everything. If you're being compensated adequately, why play games?
Maybe you've had issues being offered what you're worth - I've never had to stoop to negotiating tactics to get a damn good salary.
But, if your attitude is constantly "me vs the Man who's trying to screw me with every opportunity", then I can see how you'd think this way. I feel sorry for you that your workplaces have always been such a combative environment.
Believe me, the people being joked about on the back nine tend to be the ones who feel so proud of that extra 0.1% salary they got, all while completely missing the big picture. Mostly because they insist on telling the world about how shrewd they are. Much like people getting excited about saving $25 on a used car.
I am aware that I could just get up an hour early and try to convince everyone else that I have to deal with to do the same, but DST accomplishes that.
Absolutely. Never mind the fact that if we all shifted our schedules by an hour twice a year, then every single store sign displaying their hours would have to be changed twice a year, bus schedules would all have to be re-printed twice a year, hell ANYTHING with times on it would have to be changed twice a year. With DST we retain the same schedules, but you have to change your watch to match. Going to UTC only works if you never ever leave your timezone - or else you'd have to be making on-the-fly calculations every time you tried to remember what time the movie is at, or when the store closes, or what have you. Having a common time reference point means never having to worry about "hmm, when exactly is 5pm now that I'm on the other coast?".
I've never understood why people think DST is "complicated". Shift your clocks twice a year (takes me all of 10 seconds as the computers take care of the rest). That extra hour of daylight after work is seriously awesome. Everyone, after about a day, adjusts and retains the same 24 hour cycle we run on - office hours are typically 9-5, at midnight odds are it will be pitch black out, that sort of thing.
Honestly, if getting up an hour earlier for one day in April (now March) messes with your internal clock THAT much, I shudder to think what life would be like when you have children.
Sometimes, it's not all about nickel and diming your way to the absolute maximum possible salary. Sometimes, it's actually possible to be fairly compensated without resorting to psychological games with your employer.
If I'm happy and the employer's happy, it makes for a far more plesant salary negotiation than imagining my employment contract to be akin to haggling over a used car.
This time it was:
Plus, I got told that my existing SD card wouldn't work (they've changed the standard somehow), my older NiMH batteries might not work, and I need a special "protective" case because older cases contain fabric that destroys the lens (even though the camera has an automatic lens cover).
Oh yeah, and these morons STILL claim they're not working on commission. Yeah, they just like to push all this horseshit on you out of the goodness of their hearts.
I wish we would just replace most retail with fucking vending machines. I don't need salespeople, EVER.
Devil's advocate, but perhaps the fear is not what the wording SAYS RIGHT NOW, but how it's going to be interpreted.
Didn't places like Olympic Paints get sued in Atlanta a few years back? Sure, they may have EVENTUALLY won - after the Oly folks cost them tens of thousands in legal bills...
It may not be exact, but I distinctly remember dozens of long-time busienss in Atlanta being threatened/sued. Most if these places had been around for years, if not DECADES before the Olympics ever came to town.
If they could simply open it up, everybody would love them.
Everybody but the customer.
Folks, if you want to see cool robotics, check out that video. Nearly every robotics achievement always seems to blah when you finally see what these robots can do. Yes, on a technical level, we've made a hell of a lot of progress (I've never managed to make a robot dynamically walk more than 2 or 3 slow steps myself, so I can appreciate just how hard this is), but on an asthetic level, they look so.. robotic. Even Asimo leaves something to be desired.
Check this BigDog video out, it's quite amazing. It looks as close to a real animal as anything I've ever seen. Watch how it reacts when the guy tries to kick it over!
The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water.
Without taking a side on the issue, does every natural event have to be compared against the global warming checklist now?
It's like when there's a gas leak (or something equally trivial) in someone's house. The news immediately has to comment that "at this time, authorities say there is no reason to suspect terrorism".
Have we finished jumping at shadows yet?
something caused Britney Spears' hair to fall out
An electric shaver? Are you thinking maybe it was a Genetically Modified electric shaver?
Is Britney about to rip of a photo of the Genetically Modified Pope now?
They sent him a threatening letter for connecting to me using OpenVPN (we found the easiest way to play SNES roms online was to bridge him onto my LAN). The bandwidth we used on that session was minimal, but just the connection to 1194 pissed them off, I changed ports for him.
He got a letter complaining that he was using a specific OUTBOUND port?
Rogers are a bunch of idiots, and I've seen some pretty stupid things come from them, but I find this very hard to believe. What was the nature of the complaint? From your write up it's not that your brother was running a server on that port (the usual complaint). Rogers specifically wrote to tell him that connecting to port 1194 is forbidden?
For the record, your brother isn't a good example of broadband in Canada. Yeah, Rogers can be one of the worst, but even with them I've never heard of anyone being chastised for using "a few gigabytes" per month. Most (and by that I mean pretty much all) DSL and cable providers in Canada don't start with the notices until you're into the hundreds of GB - if they even send letters at all.
Is it possible that he has some sort of "cable lite" plan with extremely low speeds and bandwidth caps?
You should look into switching your insurance carrier. The vast majority will pay even if you forget to set your alarm.
Contrary to popular myth, insurance companies don't spend every last waking moment trying to find a way to screw you out of your coverage based on some technicality. You only hear about the (rare) coverage denials, you never hear about the other thousand claims paid out to some moron who fell asleep while cooking, smoking in bed, or leaving the tub running because an important play happened in the football game.
I run a small business (actually it is the spouse business)
Sir, I suspect you could do a thriving business here on Slashdot!
Moreso if you occasionally have a "buy one get one free" offer on these "spouses" that you sell.
Another scenario: you order the DVD box sets from Amazon but a few weeks later (after the return window), you realize that you got charged too much for the purchase. Amazon refuses to refund the overcharge. Is Amazon right or wrong?
Amazon is perfectly right. That's why you get a sales receipt, email confirmation, the actual money leaving your hands, or whatever. Nothing irritates me more in this world than people who think this should be possible to do. All of this "but but but I found it 20 cents cheaper down the street a week later, and you promise to match prices" nonsense is the end result.
I don't understand why retail commerce is so damn difficult for people. Store sets price, you either agree to pay it or you do not. Once a transaction has taken place, it's DONE. After-the-fact negotiating of price is childish and pointless. Note that I don't have an issue with returns due to defective merchandise or what have you.
Seriously, all of this "well you should have known you were getting too good of a deal" is ridiculous. I can't possibly be expected to know what a "reasonable" price is on every single consumer good out there. If I see what looks like a deal when I'm shopping online, I'll take it. If it's not stolen goods, I don't understand how anyone in their right mind could argue that coming back weeks later to re-negotiate the price can possibly be justified. Have I been overcharged for things because the store mislabelled something? Absolutely. Did I go back and whine because I'm too stupid to have noticed in the first place? Hell no.
Pick your product, check its prices, and when you complete a transaction (ie: exchange money for goods and services) make sure you actually give it some thought. This goes for both buyers and sellers.
Considering what a bandwidth pig Google Earth can be, I'd be amazed if many work environments don't have an outright ban and block on it anyway. I know mine does... :(