In Manhattan, you're surrounded by people and cars ALL THE TIME, even at 4AM, and at any moment someone could step in front of your car and you could kill them instantly. As such, you drive *very* carefully.
That may be true for the visiting tourist who might be taken aback by the sensory overload. But most New Yorkers eventually tune out alot of their surroundings.
Then there is the pressure of the New York buisness day. Everyday I see people trying to smoke/eat/use the phone/change CD's/apply makeup all while driving a moving three thousand pound projectile.
If I had a nickel for every accident I witnessed while my ambulance was parked at a major intersection because the offending driver did something incredibly stupid, I would have had several steak dinners by now.
The funniest thing is that sometimes, I notice right before the "accident", this stupid look on the drivers face --something between being in pain and being constipated-- that instinctively lets you know that they are aware that they're about to commit to something that will cause someone injury and property damage, but think they might get away with it anyway.
My 2 pet peeves:
1.Cab drivers that will stop anywhere, abruptly from any speed, and at all sorts of angle to pick up a fare.
2. People who follow me (light/sirens) down side streets, then when I have to block said street (to narrow for them to get by) they honk and yell as if I should go aroung the block to let them by. But hey, it's not their mom I'm going to treat.;)
It's actually a moving violation (as per the NYC VTL) to go down a side street when you see a parked ambulance with it's lights on, regardless if there is room for you to go by.
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How about Fujitsu's mini-tx form factor for the Pentium M proc. Runs passive (huge heatsink, but passive nonetheless) and uses less electrons.
Not everyone who goes to medical school is in it for the money. Are there misguided fools who only dream of making quick cash? Sure there are, but you'll find that in any field.
I have been researching a few medical schools as of late, because I wan't to get my DO (doctor of osteopathy) which is the same as an MD.
I hear there has been a shift in the last 10 to 20 years as far as what medical schools are looking for from applicants. They want people who know exactly why they want to be physicians.
I know several fellow paramedics who have just been accepted into medical school with average MCAT scores and are over the of 25.
They understand that these individuals (not just medics, but nurses, EMT's, physican assistants, and people with MBA's who have something to do with medicine) know why they are going to saccrifice their time and effort.
And there are plenty of doctors that I know that don't make that much money. A few general practitioners who work poor urban areas. They do see some patients for free; the equivalent of pro bono work I guess.
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
People go (or in my case, get dragged) to see live orchestras because it is music being played by actual musicians. That is what differentiates the experience from merely listening to the songs on a stereo.
But even a home stereo recording is a recording of living breathing musicians.
On top of that, do you think that the sound of a wood instrument can be replicated by computer? Simply, no.
And you know what happened after the crackdown? Average ordinary convenience stores took up the slack. You'd go to buy your six-pack of beer, but not after walking down an aisle lined with porno magazines and sometimes even tapes and DVD's.
And as this is New York City, there's no need for plain brown paper wrappers to conceal what these magazines are all about. We're not talking about Penthouse or Playboy, but covers that show closeups of ass-to-mouth and animal sex action.
And this is where kids go to get their candy, soda-pop, and ring-dings. I don't know about you, but I was spared the image of a woman going down on a dog until I was well into adulthood. I happen to think that this was a good thing. But today, we're talking about kids of all ages being exposed to this kind of shit.
Fucking hilarious! Instead of having all the city's porn concentrated in well-defined areas like Times Square, Guiliani succeeded in accelerating its spread throughout all of the city's neighborhoods.
Then again, what would you expect? These are the same wizards who brought us the war on drugs.
You, my man, are so full of shit.
Here, in NYC --that's even if you are really a resident-- won't find bestiality displayed, that's Federal crime we are talking about. You won't find that in a public bodega/shop. Even the most ignorant immigrant bodega store owner knows to keep his ponographic wares somewhat in hidden view. He knows that the majority of his customers are not regular purchasers of porn.
They make more money on loose cigs and Lotto than they do on porn.
I do live in the Bronx, and the majority of the porn is brown paper wrapped, and placed up high where kids can't see it, and that's also applies to some of the shittiest dump-of-a-bodega that I've seen in the South Bronx where I used to work.
This was way before Guiliani had anything to do with New York. And as far as your bestiality remarks, again your full of shit. You really have to go out of your way to find that. Laws concerning animals and abuse are far too severe, sometime more so than the equivalent human infraction.
Anybody have more info as to why the last machine was compromised in 45 seconds?
Anybody know of a guide for the Linux beginer on how to secure (shutting down services not needed for a desktop machine, in an easy to understand way)a out-of-the-box desktop system??
Yup, he's right. It's on our New York State checkout list, right next ot NYS State cert. card, penlight and trauma shears. Analog watches for EMT's and Paramedics are mandatory.
My TAG Heuer Formula 1 has taken one shit kicking after another; stills ticks away like a champ at work.
I don't think the digital plastic equivalent would hold up. --
If I eat enough fiber, I generally don't need to use toilet paper.
Maybe one square for a spot check, that's about it. Decreases you chances of diverticular disease too.
A smooth poop is a good poop.
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Re:SCO brings a "sharpshooter" to a Darlnote...
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When SCO Group chief executive officer Darl McBride appeared at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in November to deliver a keynote speech at CD Expo, the company brought a sharpshooter along for protection.
Bullshit. Only law enforcement can do that. And I don't think Darl is all that important for them to waste their time. He might have a few bodygaurds, but that's it.
Open eh? It asks that you either have Quicktime, Realplayer, or Windows media player to watch the commercial. Even though I have mplayer setup for such tasks, it still gives me ther error that the "proper" plugin is not installed.
There is the ASCCI ART(?) version available:
Open on Linux boy, close-up on his face, while you hear Ali's voice. Cut to boy sitting in front of old black and white television with old Mohammed Ali fight footage playing.
Male voice: Never. Never make me no underdog. And never talk about who's gonna stop me. Well, there ain't nobody gonna stop me. I must be the greatest. I shook up the world. (Inaudible background voices) I shook up the world. I shook up the world. I shook up the world.
You hear the television being turned off. Cut to Mohammed Ali sitting across from Linux boy.
Ali: Shake things up.
Cut to Linux boy face. Cut to full screen shot of Ali and boy. Cut to shot behind boy, facing Ali.
Ali: Shake up the world.
Cut to Linux boy, slight smile.
Title: Linux The Future is Open IBM
Re:Why today...
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They seem to work hard at losing money, they don't need the help of Sunday whatsoever.
That must be one company where everyday of the week is a case of the Monday's.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything,
A bit OT, and have some karma to burn, but where exactly do you live that's so important that Portland can't be the epicenter for anything? And what does that comment have anything to do with a tech story? If your "not sure" then don't type it.
Some people forget that even Torvalds came from the igloo cubicles of an obscure University.
Disclaimer: I have never and currently do not own a mac.
I happen to notice that the G5 (when I saw it at Best Buy) had the power supply at the bottom of the case spread along the length. I bet you it uses the bottom of the aluminum case as some sort of heatsing, obviating the need for one more case fan.
In my opinion, the ATX power supply should go out the window. There's no reason to be cramming 500 watt power supplies in such a cramped box.
Several ideas:
Borrow from Apple, make the power supply longger and use the case as a heatsink. Spread the heat out.
Female molex connector jacks. Right now you have a whole bunch of wires in the anticipation that everyone has a RAID array, 2 cdroms, and video card that needs auxially power. The unused connectors have to be rubberbanded and bunched somewhere.
Gives us jacks on the PS unit so that you ony have the minimum amount of wires needed in a case.
By the way, Antec is soone releasing a tottaly silent psu. No fans whatsoever, just big aluminum heatsinks on all sides, rated at 350 watts for now. The Inquirer had a photo from CES.
Why? I'm sure they keep count of the linux driver downloads. If they see a boost in the numbers, maybe we will get quicker updates.
I have an ATI card, but that won't stop me from buying an NVIDIA card in the future if they provide some serious 3d support ala Windows.
Does this sound dumb? I know it's fudging the numbers, but with computers and software there is always that chicken and egg problem we have seen so many times before.
In some states it's called ambulance chasing, even if you are really an ambulance. Medics and EMT's call it "buffing jobs".
There are many people in (here in NYC) this service that carry their own portable radios that have select frequencies programmed in.
They listen to both --the EMS dispatcher because they have to-- and NYPD citywide for all the "hot jobs".
They take it upon themselves to rush to these hot jobs without being dispatched (usually there is another ambulance dispacthed, the closest one as per the EMS dispatch computer), and then tell the dispatcher they were "flagged down" by a bystander. Then they have to cancel the other ambulance, because technically you made patitent contact at that point.
It's happens daily here in NYC, and you can get into alot of trouble. If your flying lights and sirens to that "hot job" lights and sirens, without being officialy on that assignment --and say-- you hit a bystander, or god forbid a child crossing the street, you can pretty much count on never ever touching another patient in any healthcare field ever again. That doesn't include criminal charges as well.
You realy should be dispatched by M.A.R.S, mutal aid radio system. The municipal agency overseeing EMS in your county will give your volunteer squad a radio, or maybe just give your dispatcher a ring on the landline phone when they need you. This way everything is documented and copasetic.
Can your crew still listen to the police frequencies? Sure, if you know how to go about it without anybody getting screwed:
If you hear some call that you might think is "hot", you can always drive over in non emergency mode and get flagged for the job.
If you think you have a better ETA than the unit that was assingned, then tell the dispatcher that you are closer. They usually have to give you the call for the benefit of the patient.
In the end though, you need to change they way your unit(s) get dispatched. Get the chief of the vollie squad to negotiate a M.A.R.S. arrangement. Some vollied even sign out a police radio for the precinct. You'll have to speak to the captain about that arrangement.
Doesn anyone know if any of these distrubutions can run entirely in ram disk?
Many of the newer dual DDR system that sell today have 1 Gig of ram or more.
Having a live CD that can run eniterly from RAm would be sweet. I have to keep reminding friends that the I just gave them runs slow because...{insert tech jargon here}
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In Manhattan, you're surrounded by people and cars ALL THE TIME, even at 4AM, and at any moment someone could step in front of your car and you could kill them instantly. As such, you drive *very* carefully.
;)
That may be true for the visiting tourist who might be taken aback by the sensory overload. But most New Yorkers eventually tune out alot of their surroundings.
Then there is the pressure of the New York buisness day. Everyday I see people trying to smoke/eat/use the phone/change CD's/apply makeup all while driving a moving three thousand pound projectile.
If I had a nickel for every accident I witnessed while my ambulance was parked at a major intersection because the offending driver did something incredibly stupid, I would have had several steak dinners by now.
The funniest thing is that sometimes, I notice right before the "accident", this stupid look on the drivers face --something between being in pain and being constipated-- that instinctively lets you know that they are aware that they're about to commit to something that will cause someone injury and property damage, but think they might get away with it anyway.
My 2 pet peeves:
1.Cab drivers that will stop anywhere, abruptly from any speed, and at all sorts of angle to pick up a fare.
2. People who follow me (light/sirens) down side streets, then when I have to block said street (to narrow for them to get by) they honk and yell as if I should go aroung the block to let them by. But hey, it's not their mom I'm going to treat.
It's actually a moving violation (as per the NYC VTL) to go down a side street when you see a parked ambulance with it's lights on, regardless if there is room for you to go by.
How about Fujitsu's mini-tx form factor for the Pentium M proc. Runs passive (huge heatsink, but passive nonetheless) and uses less electrons.
Coudn;t find a link though, sorry.
Reminds me of a old joke:
Two cannibals eating the corpse of a clown.
One cannibal looks at the other and asks,
"Hey, this meat taste funny to you?"
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You mean 64 bit sampled cow bell.
Sincerly,
Bruce Dickinson
P.S. Yes, the Bruce Dickinson
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which one will the FPS gamer want?
Bluetooth mouse, WUSB mouse, or standard wireless mouse??
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But I would really like to see IBM announce and open hardware platform based on the PowerPC chips.
I'd like to see instant on Linux desktops, and S3 suspend-to-ram states that are 99.99% reliable.
BTW, can any mac user tell me: how well does the ACPI equivalent on MAC work?
You're lucky that people only jam your cell phone calls, if it was up to me, I'd stab you in the face with a soldering iron.
A red hot ill tempered soldering iron?
P.S. If a soldering iron was not available, would a firm fleshed fish --such as a sea bass-- do in a pinch?
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Step 1: learn what the apostrope is and how to use it.
I'm a good speller, but a bad typist. But at least I know how to spell apostrophe
you pedantic prick.
Now go get you fucking shine box.
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Not everyone who goes to medical school is in it for the money. Are there misguided fools who only dream of making quick cash? Sure there are, but you'll find that in any field.
I have been researching a few medical schools as of late, because I wan't to get my DO (doctor of osteopathy) which is the same as an MD.
I hear there has been a shift in the last 10 to 20 years as far as what medical schools are looking for from applicants. They want people who know exactly why they want to be physicians.
I know several fellow paramedics who have just been accepted into medical school with average MCAT scores and are over the of 25.
They understand that these individuals (not just medics, but nurses, EMT's, physican assistants, and people with MBA's who have something to do with medicine) know why they are going to saccrifice their time and effort.
And there are plenty of doctors that I know that don't make that much money. A few general practitioners who work poor urban areas. They do see some patients for free; the equivalent of pro bono work I guess.
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
People go (or in my case, get dragged) to see live orchestras because it is music being played by actual musicians. That is what differentiates the experience from merely listening to the songs on a stereo.
But even a home stereo recording is a recording of living breathing musicians.
On top of that, do you think that the sound of a wood instrument can be replicated by computer? Simply, no.
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for all the Slashdot geeks. They can take pictures of all the girls they could have hooked up with.
Hell, they can even look at each other range finders to see who actually got the closest to a girl.
Not only that, but it's costing them more to do this; more programmers, debugging, testing etc.
The r&d costs for XP home and professional have long since been recouped.
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And you know what happened after the crackdown? Average ordinary convenience stores took up the slack. You'd go to buy your six-pack of beer, but not after walking down an aisle lined with porno magazines and sometimes even tapes and DVD's.
And as this is New York City, there's no need for plain brown paper wrappers to conceal what these magazines are all about. We're not talking about Penthouse or Playboy, but covers that show closeups of ass-to-mouth and animal sex action.
And this is where kids go to get their candy, soda-pop, and ring-dings. I don't know about you, but I was spared the image of a woman going down on a dog until I was well into adulthood. I happen to think that this was a good thing. But today, we're talking about kids of all ages being exposed to this kind of shit.
Fucking hilarious! Instead of having all the city's porn concentrated in well-defined areas like Times Square, Guiliani succeeded in accelerating its spread throughout all of the city's neighborhoods.
Then again, what would you expect? These are the same wizards who brought us the war on drugs.
You, my man, are so full of shit.
Here, in NYC --that's even if you are really a resident-- won't find bestiality displayed, that's Federal crime we are talking about. You won't find that in a public bodega/shop. Even the most ignorant immigrant bodega store owner knows to keep his ponographic wares somewhat in hidden view. He knows that the majority of his customers are not regular purchasers of porn.
They make more money on loose cigs and Lotto than they do on porn.
I do live in the Bronx, and the majority of the porn is brown paper wrapped, and placed up high where kids can't see it, and that's also applies to some of the shittiest dump-of-a-bodega that I've seen in the South Bronx where I used to work.
This was way before Guiliani had anything to do with New York. And as far as your bestiality remarks, again your full of shit.
You really have to go out of your way to find that. Laws concerning animals and abuse are far too severe, sometime more so than the equivalent human infraction.
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2 questions:
Anybody have more info as to why the last machine was compromised in 45 seconds?
Anybody know of a guide for the Linux beginer on how to secure (shutting down services not needed for a desktop machine, in an easy to understand way)a out-of-the-box desktop system??
this could actually be a useful case mod.
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Yup, he's right. It's on our New York State checkout list, right next ot NYS State cert. card, penlight and trauma shears. Analog watches for EMT's and Paramedics are mandatory.
My TAG Heuer Formula 1 has taken one shit kicking after another; stills ticks away like a champ at work.
I don't think the digital plastic equivalent would hold up.
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If I eat enough fiber, I generally don't need to use toilet paper.
Maybe one square for a spot check, that's about it. Decreases you chances of diverticular disease too.
A smooth poop is a good poop.
--
When SCO Group chief executive officer Darl McBride appeared at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in November to deliver a keynote speech at CD Expo, the company brought a sharpshooter along for protection.
Bullshit. Only law enforcement can do that. And I don't think Darl is all that important for them to waste their time. He might have a few bodygaurds, but that's it.
Bloody fiction writers.
Open eh? It asks that you either have Quicktime, Realplayer, or Windows media player to watch the commercial. Even though I have mplayer setup for such tasks, it still gives me ther error that the "proper" plugin is not installed.
There is the ASCCI ART(?) version available:
Open on Linux boy, close-up on his face, while you hear Ali's voice. Cut to boy sitting in front of old black and white television with old Mohammed Ali fight footage playing.
Male voice: Never. Never make me no underdog. And never talk about who's gonna stop me. Well, there ain't nobody gonna stop me. I must be the greatest. I shook up the world. (Inaudible background voices) I shook up the world. I shook up the world. I shook up the world.
You hear the television being turned off. Cut to Mohammed Ali sitting across from Linux boy.
Ali: Shake things up.
Cut to Linux boy face. Cut to full screen shot of Ali and boy. Cut to shot behind boy, facing Ali.
Ali: Shake up the world.
Cut to Linux boy, slight smile.
Title: Linux
The Future is Open
IBM
They seem to work hard at losing money, they don't need the help of Sunday whatsoever.
That must be one company where everyday of the week is a case of the Monday's.
But don't say that to loud around Lawrence.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything,
A bit OT, and have some karma to burn, but where exactly do you live that's so important that Portland can't be the epicenter for anything? And what does that comment have anything to do with a tech story? If your "not sure" then don't type it.
Some people forget that even Torvalds came from the igloo cubicles of an obscure University.
[end rant]
Disclaimer: I don't live in Portland.
Disclaimer: I have never and currently do not own a mac.
I happen to notice that the G5 (when I saw it at Best Buy) had the power supply at the bottom of the case spread along the length. I bet you it uses the bottom of the aluminum case as some sort of heatsing, obviating the need for one more case fan.
In my opinion, the ATX power supply should go out the window. There's no reason to be cramming 500 watt power supplies in such a cramped box.
Several ideas:
Borrow from Apple, make the power supply longger and use the case as a heatsink. Spread the heat out.
Female molex connector jacks. Right now you have a whole bunch of wires in the anticipation that everyone has a RAID array, 2 cdroms, and video card that needs auxially power. The unused connectors have to be rubberbanded and bunched somewhere.
Gives us jacks on the PS unit so that you ony have the minimum amount of wires needed in a case.
By the way, Antec is soone releasing a tottaly silent psu. No fans whatsoever, just big aluminum heatsinks on all sides, rated at 350 watts for now. The Inquirer had a photo from CES.
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I am going to download the drivers anyways.
Why? I'm sure they keep count of the linux driver downloads. If they see a boost in the numbers, maybe we will get quicker updates.
I have an ATI card, but that won't stop me from buying an NVIDIA card in the future if they provide some serious 3d support ala Windows.
Does this sound dumb? I know it's fudging the numbers, but with computers and software there is always that chicken and egg problem we have seen so many times before.
Discuss.
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In some states it's called ambulance chasing, even if you are really an ambulance. Medics and EMT's call it "buffing jobs".
There are many people in (here in NYC) this service that carry their own portable radios that have select frequencies programmed in.
They listen to both --the EMS dispatcher because they have to-- and NYPD citywide for all the "hot jobs".
They take it upon themselves to rush to these hot jobs without being dispatched (usually there is another ambulance dispacthed, the closest one as per the EMS dispatch computer), and then tell the dispatcher they were "flagged down" by a bystander. Then they have to cancel the other ambulance, because technically you made patitent contact at that point.
It's happens daily here in NYC, and you can get into alot of trouble. If your flying lights and sirens to that "hot job" lights and sirens, without being officialy on that assignment --and say-- you hit a bystander, or god forbid a child crossing the street, you can pretty much count on never ever touching another patient in any healthcare field ever again. That doesn't include criminal charges as well.
You realy should be dispatched by M.A.R.S, mutal aid radio system. The municipal agency overseeing EMS in your county will give your volunteer squad a radio, or maybe just give your dispatcher a ring on the landline phone when they need you. This way everything is documented and copasetic.
Can your crew still listen to the police frequencies? Sure, if you know how to go about it without anybody getting screwed:
If you hear some call that you might think is "hot", you can always drive over in non emergency mode and get flagged for the job.
If you think you have a better ETA than the unit that was assingned, then tell the dispatcher that you are closer. They usually have to give you the call for the benefit of the patient.
In the end though, you need to change they way your unit(s) get dispatched. Get the chief of the vollie squad to negotiate a M.A.R.S. arrangement. Some vollied even sign out a police radio for the precinct. You'll have to speak to the captain about that arrangement.
Good Luck, and for God's sake, be careful.
NYC EMS Paramedic since 1996
Doesn anyone know if any of these distrubutions can run entirely in ram disk?
Many of the newer dual DDR system that sell today have 1 Gig of ram or more.
Having a live CD that can run eniterly from RAm would be sweet. I have to keep reminding friends that the I just gave them runs slow because...{insert tech jargon here}
Then they lose interest....