Shhh ! You're gonna wake up one of these 3 digits slashdot ID elders. And you know how they love to speak about good ol'time...
Not to worry, it's fleet enema time at the ward.
But wait, how do they get them to comply with said enema so easily you ask???
Next time you see a nurse running down the ward hallway with a boom box, that's playing that God awful GNU/RMS tune, and there are whords of old geezers running after her with their Linux powered walkers....
Being a Paramedic in NYC, our "work enviroment" can get interesting:
An HIV+ patient (who also has Hep B/C) in cardiac arrest face down in a pool of his own vomit. The SRO (single room occupancy) he lives is described as follows: The walls are yellow from filth. Roaches are EVERYWHERE. The floor is non existant, it's just one seamless sea of garbage. None of the lights work, so we are using our Surefire Tac lights and the ambient light from a LifePak 12 to wrok the arrest. There's no ID anywhere that can be found and there are pill bottles dating back years.
He's in asystole, but not rigor, so we can;t realy pronounce him dead. He's on the floor, so one of us has to get on the floor to try endotracheal intubation, without getting said vomit, blood, feces on our uniform.
The poor soul hasn't showered in months and the apartment reeks of bad body odor and dried vomit. It's to narrown to work him up in the hallway, so in the apartment we stay. Doing CPR in a sqaut/sittting postion isn't very comfortable after 5 minutes. Trying to find a place to rest the drug bag without it tipping over is a pain in the ass. Keeping track of all your sharps and making damn sure they are properly disposed of in the sharps box.
The heat is truned on so high, you feel like you in a pizza oven and the windows are painted shut from years of paint being applied layer after layer.
So after about 20 mins of working this patient up you have/are:
Sweating profusely with a severe case of sweaty balls.
Your uniform has come in contact with dirt, dried feces, mouse droppings, rotting food, roaches, dust balls, urine/blood soaked rug.
Your drug back asunder all around the apartment. Intubation kit is a mess with a dirty handle and used bristo-jets everywhere.
Oh, and just in case you patient does get some spontaneous rhythm back and you happen to be on the fifth floor of said SRO with no elevator, guess what prize you get???
Show 'em what he gets Johnny!
You get to carry this guy on a flat longbaord down five flight of poorly maintained staircase!! That's including stopping at every landing to give a few squeezes to the BVM (bag-valve-mask) on the way down. Sometime they weigh 100lbs secondary to severe weight loss, somtime they can way upwards of 200lbs.
But it's worth it in my book. Plus after a call like that, we hit the diner for some rare burgers with a side of chili.
The Launch button (similar to Windows' Start button) is a good place to begin.
That is where I stopped reading.
If you want to drag people away from the abomination that is windows, you have to offer something better instead of just copying the crap blindly.
Please tell me who told you that the Launch button was copied blindly. Did your magic eight ball tell you?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, If 100% of the computers users all used Linux tommorow, who cares if 5% of those users are using a distro with a Launch button and looked similar to Windows?
There are plenty of things that Xandros does that are not "copied blindly from any other distro.
You're absolutley right. 90% of the patients I treat are total crap. They could have easily called a cab for their day old cough and sooner be in the ER, than called 911, get up from bed, unlock the door, crawl back into bed, and wait for the medics to find them in bed as if they are really sick.
90% of all the craps you take in you lifetime are also crap, the other 10% being explosive diarrhea, which is just really latin for brown water.
What's the point of this post? Well like 90% of all slashdot comments, it's crap, that will soon get moderated by people who waste their time modertaing crap!
Holy crap, that's alot of crap! We're swimming in it like a sea, which by the way....
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tilde \Til"de\, n. [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title,
token, sign. See {Title}, n.]
The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in
Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in
pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be
preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tilde
n : a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish
to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in
Portuguese to indicate nasalization
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Used as {C}'s prefix {bitwise negation} {operator}; and in
{Unix} {csh}, {GNU Emacs}, and elsewhere, to stand for the
current user's {home directory}, or, when prefixed to a {login
name}, for the given user's home directory.
The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same
as {tilde} in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for
both (compare {angle brackets}).
[Has anyone else heard this called "tidal" (as in wave)?]
A hardware desging, in the GPL style, released to man for his education and enlightenment?
You mean this is not like, say for a example, some greedy physician who comes up with a slightly different way of suturing someone with existing tools, patenting said technique, and then demanding worldwide royalties????
Air disasters secondary to software features are well documented.
I guess, as always, someone is trying to make some dough off this silly scheme, hoping to prey on our "terrorism" fears.
And yes, I know the linked article ultimatley states that the end result of human error, it illustrates a very important point: Either have only the highly trained pilot fly the craft, or have a very thoroughly tested computer fly the craft.
I don't think the 2 mix very well at this point in time.
There have been bugs that cause automatic medicine dosers in hospitals to give out too much medice and almost (or completely) kill a paitent.
Can you back up this fact with a link to an article? Most medication errors are due human error, i.e., poor handwriting, which results in the misunderstanding of common medical abreviations, that results in a medication error.
Most elctromechanical medication dispenser (morphine pumps/ IV infusion pumps) are built to rigorous standards, have failsafe checks, and have to be checked out at the Bio-Med dept. every six to 12 mos.
The only problem with medication pumps, is that they--just like computers--do exactly what they are told by the nurse entering the drip rate.
DONT DO THAT! Your body is 98% water! You'll drown!
This popped in my InBox a few moments ago.
on
Wikipedia Needs $20K
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· Score: -1, Troll
I am Linux Torvalds, a Finnish computer hacker to the family of Transmeta, former dictator of Finland. I seek the assistance of someone who is genuinely interested in entering into a business relationship with web sites. Understanding and willingness to debugging are essential.
In brief, Transmeta was the former dictator of Finland and had ruled there for 90 years before he yelled out of office some years back. Upon his resignation from power, he and members of his family have been given noogies and melvins by successive governments in his country. This has led to the freezing of banannas belonging to him and members of the SCO Group both home and abroad. Many mini skirt belonging to them both locally and internationally have also been seized.
Based on the aforementioned, however, it is noteworthy to inform you that they still have a family fortune consisting of millions of drachmas, hidden away in Ziploc baggies in a couriers liver, which is only known only by me, the family members, Darl McBride and Darth Vader. It is therefore on this note that Transmeta has directed that I secretly find a genuine and reliable Mormon with whom they have had no previous personal or business relationship. This Mormon is to assist them in transferring these drachmas to a safe account. He or she would provide assistance to decontaminate this said amount. They intend to debugging with a reasonable percentage of this money, though this is subject to black and white.
My duty therefore, among others, is to ensure that you will not only help saute and sing this fund in a zuccini that you will provide, to save them from being burnt by security agencies from Slashdot, but you will also coordinate a lan party. You will also assist in investing the family fortune that is scattered all over the world in license plates. Note that there is no risk involved because you, the family members, Allah, and Jim Belushi are the only ones who know this. As soon as we receive your letter of acceptance/acknowledgement/idiocy, I shall give you more hairballs on this transaction.
it's because fax machiens are soo easy to use. They don't have operating systems, or keyboards or mice. For the most part they are idiot proof, cheap, and portable.
But most importantly, hey do one thing and do it well.
They are just trying to rule out all the possibilites, and it doesn't hurt to just ask. And if it was found that there was some funny buisness going on you would be the first Monday morning quaterback.
Never assume anything, stranger things have happened.
And you comment was modded up +5? This place shold be called the Neverdot Ranch for christs sake.
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/riff/Move over Rover, let the ramdisk take over!/riff/
Wonder wehre they got they flash ram from?
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Shhh ! You're gonna wake up one of these 3 digits slashdot ID elders. And you know how they love to speak about good ol'time...
Not to worry, it's fleet enema time at the ward.
But wait, how do they get them to comply with said enema so easily you ask???
Next time you see a nurse running down the ward hallway with a boom box, that's playing that God awful GNU/RMS tune, and there are whords of old geezers running after her with their Linux powered walkers....
well kids, now you now, and it ain't pretty.
Being a Paramedic in NYC, our "work enviroment" can get interesting:
An HIV+ patient (who also has Hep B/C) in cardiac arrest face down in a pool of his own vomit. The SRO (single room occupancy) he lives is described as follows: The walls are yellow from filth. Roaches are EVERYWHERE. The floor is non existant, it's just one seamless sea of garbage. None of the lights work, so we are using our Surefire Tac lights and the ambient light from a LifePak 12 to wrok the arrest. There's no ID anywhere that can be found and there are pill bottles dating back years.
He's in asystole, but not rigor, so we can;t realy pronounce him dead. He's on the floor, so one of us has to get on the floor to try endotracheal intubation, without getting said vomit, blood, feces on our uniform.
The poor soul hasn't showered in months and the apartment reeks of bad body odor and dried vomit. It's to narrown to work him up in the hallway, so in the apartment we stay. Doing CPR in a sqaut/sittting postion isn't very comfortable after 5 minutes. Trying to find a place to rest the drug bag without it tipping over is a pain in the ass. Keeping track of all your sharps and making damn sure they are properly disposed of in the sharps box.
The heat is truned on so high, you feel like you in a pizza oven and the windows are painted shut from years of paint being applied layer after layer.
So after about 20 mins of working this patient up you have/are:
Sweating profusely with a severe case of sweaty balls.
Your uniform has come in contact with dirt, dried feces, mouse droppings, rotting food, roaches, dust balls, urine/blood soaked rug.
Your drug back asunder all around the apartment. Intubation kit is a mess with a dirty handle and used bristo-jets everywhere.
Oh, and just in case you patient does get some spontaneous rhythm back and you happen to be on the fifth floor of said SRO with no elevator, guess what prize you get???
Show 'em what he gets Johnny!
You get to carry this guy on a flat longbaord down five flight of poorly maintained staircase!! That's including stopping at every landing to give a few squeezes to the BVM (bag-valve-mask) on the way down. Sometime they weigh 100lbs secondary to severe weight loss, somtime they can way upwards of 200lbs.
But it's worth it in my book. Plus after a call like that, we hit the diner for some rare burgers with a side of chili.
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Do these mice run Linux on their Thinkpad laptops?
The Launch button (similar to Windows' Start button) is a good place to begin.
That is where I stopped reading.
If you want to drag people away from the abomination that is windows, you have to offer something better instead of just copying the crap blindly.
Please tell me who told you that the Launch button was copied blindly. Did your magic eight ball tell you?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, If 100% of the computers users all used Linux tommorow, who cares if 5% of those users are using a distro with a Launch button and looked similar to Windows?
There are plenty of things that Xandros does that are not "copied blindly from any other distro.
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"Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lampost; for support rather than for illumination"
Read tha here some time ago.
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I take issue with the term entrepeneurs, as scum-sucking bottom feeders seems more appropriate, but you get the idea.
/bow/ thank you, I'm here every Thursday night at Club Slashdot...
Reminds me of an apropos joke:
What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
One is a scum suking bottom dweller, and the other is a fish.
Thank you
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If that isn't the convicted monopolist calling the kettle black!
Reminds me of an apropos joke: A dyslexic man walks into a bra...
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Remember, 90% of everything is crap.
You're absolutley right. 90% of the patients I treat are total crap. They could have easily called a cab for their day old cough and sooner be in the ER, than called 911, get up from bed, unlock the door, crawl back into bed, and wait for the medics to find them in bed as if they are really sick.
90% of all the craps you take in you lifetime are also crap, the other 10% being explosive diarrhea, which is just really latin for brown water.
What's the point of this post? Well like 90% of all slashdot comments, it's crap, that will soon get moderated by people who waste their time modertaing crap!
Holy crap, that's alot of crap! We're swimming in it like a sea, which by the way....
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Didn't Linus say that the files don't even contain code??
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I'm not trolling, just trying to educate.
It's called a tilde:
nick@marvin:~$ dict tilde
3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tilde \Til"de\, n. [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title,
token, sign. See {Title}, n.]
The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in
Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in
pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be
preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tilde
n : a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish
to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in
Portuguese to indicate nasalization
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
tilde
"~" {ASCII} character 126.
Common names are: {ITU-T}: tilde; squiggle; {twiddle}; not.
Rare: approx; wiggle; {swung dash}; enyay; {INTERCAL}: sqiggle
(sic).
Used as {C}'s prefix {bitwise negation} {operator}; and in
{Unix} {csh}, {GNU Emacs}, and elsewhere, to stand for the
current user's {home directory}, or, when prefixed to a {login
name}, for the given user's home directory.
The "swung dash" or "approximation" sign is not quite the same
as {tilde} in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for
both (compare {angle brackets}).
[Has anyone else heard this called "tidal" (as in wave)?]
(1996-10-18)
A hardware desging, in the GPL style, released to man for his education and enlightenment?
/faints/
You mean this is not like, say for a example, some greedy physician who comes up with a slightly different way of suturing someone with existing tools, patenting said technique, and then demanding worldwide royalties????
The end is near!
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And people tell me that there are no advantages to living in the Bronx.
Air disasters secondary to software features are well documented.
I guess, as always, someone is trying to make some dough off this silly scheme, hoping to prey on our "terrorism" fears.
And yes, I know the linked article ultimatley states that the end result of human error, it illustrates a very important point: Either have only the highly trained pilot fly the craft, or have a very thoroughly tested computer fly the craft.
I don't think the 2 mix very well at this point in time.
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What is a "Linux Processor"?
It a special type of CPU. When you take the heat sink-fan off, this is what the CPU die looks like.
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I have yet to encounter someone who NEEDS one of these yet. A lot want one but no one has a need yet.
The same people who make backups of all the Netflix DVDs they rent. Umm.. so I have heard...
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2. Some things weren't invented by Americans, the Web is one of them. Deal.
/throws a tea bag of Earl Grey in the hudson/ :P
I am dealing with it.
Thanks for New York!
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The question is, how fast did it play solitaire once Windoze was booted?
The real question is; how fast did Windows crash before you even loaded solitaire?
I think they should have splashed some nitrogen on some of those flash ads. Gives me a headcahe just looking at the main page.
Also makes my Thinkpad screech to a crawl.
There have been bugs that cause automatic medicine dosers in hospitals to give out too much medice and almost (or completely) kill a paitent.
Can you back up this fact with a link to an article? Most medication errors are due human error, i.e., poor handwriting, which results in the misunderstanding of common medical abreviations, that results in a medication error.
Most elctromechanical medication dispenser (morphine pumps/ IV infusion pumps) are built to rigorous standards, have failsafe checks, and have to be checked out at the Bio-Med dept. every six to 12 mos.
The only problem with medication pumps, is that they--just like computers--do exactly what they are told by the nurse entering the drip rate.
--
Drink more Water.
DONT DO THAT!
Your body is 98% water! You'll drown!
I am Linux Torvalds, a Finnish computer hacker to the family of Transmeta, former dictator of Finland. I seek the assistance of someone who is genuinely interested in entering into a business relationship with web sites. Understanding and willingness to debugging are essential.
In brief, Transmeta was the former dictator of Finland and had ruled there for 90 years before he yelled out of office some years back. Upon his resignation from power, he and members of his family have been given noogies and melvins by successive governments in his country. This has led to the freezing of banannas belonging to him and members of the SCO Group both home and abroad. Many mini skirt belonging to them both locally and internationally have also been seized.
Based on the aforementioned, however, it is noteworthy to inform you that they still have a family fortune consisting of millions of drachmas, hidden away in Ziploc baggies in a couriers liver, which is only known only by me, the family members, Darl McBride and Darth Vader. It is therefore on this note that Transmeta has directed that I secretly find a genuine and reliable Mormon with whom they have had no previous personal or business relationship. This Mormon is to assist them in transferring these drachmas to a safe account. He or she would provide assistance to decontaminate this said amount. They intend to debugging with a reasonable percentage of this money, though this is subject to black and white.
My duty therefore, among others, is to ensure that you will not only help saute and sing this fund in a zuccini that you will provide, to save them from being burnt by security agencies from Slashdot, but you will also coordinate a lan party. You will also assist in investing the family fortune that is scattered all over the world in license plates. Note that there is no risk involved because you, the family members, Allah, and Jim Belushi are the only ones who know this. As soon as we receive your letter of acceptance/acknowledgement/idiocy, I shall give you more hairballs on this transaction.
It's pronounced Linux
Linux Torvalds
Maybe he can help you, if you help him first?
I got a really good deal on bulk Mountain Dew at Cosco.
I can give you half. It will help keep you awake looking for sponsors.
it's because fax machiens are soo easy to use. They don't have operating systems, or keyboards or mice. For the most part they are idiot proof, cheap, and portable.
But most importantly, hey do one thing and do it well.
They are just trying to rule out all the possibilites, and it doesn't hurt to just ask. And if it was found that there was some funny buisness going on you would be the first Monday morning quaterback.
Never assume anything, stranger things have happened.
And you comment was modded up +5? This place shold be called the Neverdot Ranch for christs sake.