Ummm, you woudn't just drop dead if your pacemaker was disabled. Most people with pacemakers have them to augment their normal SA node pacemeaker, account for skiped beats. Other are combination defibrillators/pacemakers that help quell superventricular tachycardias, or speed up theur hearts during periods of bradycardia.
Very few people walk around with a pacemaker as their soul rhythm generator. These are the people that generally get heart transplants.
What's to prevent IBM from releasing an all in one Linux desktop solution? Linux + IBM Power PC + a IBM reference desktop motherboard? Something with AGP, built in sound, USB 2.0 and firewire.
Why woudn't IBM want to do this. Could mass adoption of these chips drive their prices down and make them competetive with INtel and AMD chips?
Yeah, I'm looking foward to mail carrier stuffing even more copies of AOL into my mailbox.
I wonder how many carriers have been forced into early retirement/disability as a result of those multiplying-faster-than-two-humping-bunnies silver shiny wonder discs?
If I get too fat, I die. If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die.
Maybe one hundred years ago. Today you can get really fat, have a massive heart attack, and your chances of survival are still good thanks to technology.
The ambulance will come pick you up, start treating you with drugs, then your transported to a state of the art facility where they'll rotor router you so you can go out and eat more Wendy's burgers and shakes and still sit on your fat ass while pos... exuse me for a sec, got ketchup on my keyboard.. yeah, where was I? Fat asses. They don't die off anymore thus helping evolution along.
Same thing with driving way too fast:
Seat belts,airbags, side impact protection, state of the art trauma centers, advanced rehab and physical therapy.
Nick, wait 'till your favorite distro is out (64 bit Debian) before you spend your hard earned cash. The prices will have come down a bit, the 1.0 bugs will be out and hopefully fixed, and your favorite motherboard maker (Tyan) will be out with a nice non-overclocker but extremley stabel and quiet 64 bit motherboard solution.
Here are some of the vehicle traffic laws as they pertain to emergency vehicles here in New York State, other states are mostly similar.
Only police department vehicles are allowed to proceed through red lights without stoping.
EMS and Fire trucks have to make a full stop at every red light while going lights and sirens to a job, regardless of the priority. In reality, I slow down significantly and roll through at a cool 3-5mph.
Lights and sirens for EMS and fire are a courtsesy. The guy in front of you is in now way obligated to blow a red light for you if he feels it's unsafe for him to proceed. Oh, and btw, if a medic or emt gets on the P.A. and tells you to cross a red light, and you get into and accident, the medic is at fault for the acccident.
Going down one way streets and driving on the opposite side of the road are allowed, with the understanding that you do so at reduced speed and with extreme caution, any accident in this situation is all on your shoulders.
Here in Manhattan, slow and steady is the best way. You can't justify injuring bystanders for someone who is already sick. And with critical patients in the back, you'll drive even slower to the hospital 'cause there's alot of things that we need to that can't be done if you're bouncing around the back cab like a virgin's first visit to some Panamanian wha wha rumphouse.
These device have been mentioned here in the city, and it was agreed that it would cuase more confusion and possibly more liability for the city than it's worth.
A new Linux distrubution, one aimed at including the most efficient programs currently being developed: Blackbox, Thunderbird, Firebird, Dillo, etc. Debian C3?
A 2.6 kernel running on these things so they're more desktop resonsive, work on swsup to be stable enough that the computer will always be instant-on available, thus never needing a reboot.
Start a project that aims to develop extremely efficient programs designed to run very well with slow procs like these. Hell if you can web browse on a C64, this can be done.
If word of this can get out, then more people will question the Intel and Microsoft monopoly.
This could give a whole new meaning to the blue screen of death. I sure hope they're not using Winbloze on a critical piece of life support.
I don't think the OS is the major issue. Poor GUI designs in all types of devices are rampant.
From my experience, the Lifepak 12 Defibrillator leaves alot to be desired as far as the user interface is concerned. It's nice to have fancy GUI (oohh shiny things!), but if it's clunky in it's excecution and you have to spend 30 seconds to do simple things like synchronized cardioversion then....
I would love to see and Apple desgined defibrillator. It would probably only have 4 buttons and you could work any function in less than 5 seconds.
Course I don't have a floppy disk on my Mac and have to walk across campus (with wailing student in tow-"I need this for class or I'll fail!") to the Mac lab and then spend 5 more minutes (that I could be surfing pr0n or taking over the world in SMACX) explaining that the print button on the tool bar really does do the same thing on a Mac, and yes, it is pretty, just print your friggin' paper, you overpaying, coddled, mama's child!
Isn't that mama's child paying for your porn surfing bandwith? If you have to handhold the newbies, I hope you have the common decency to wash your dominant hand.;)
Can we get Charlton Heston to be the new Vi spokesman? I just wanna see him go to computer conferences, hold up the Vi source code printed on old style dot matrix printer paper and say "From my dead cold hands"
When that rogue nation ICBM hits in a town near you, and the EMP wipes out all your ethernet purchased "eeeemusic" from your "peeceees", I'll be warm in cozy in my bomb shelter with a can of spam and my vinyl records -thank you very much.
Tell that to the forward-thinking, range-extending, hardware-tinkering, soldering-iron wielding, woman-fearing, microsoft hating, RIAA loathing, SCO bashing, tinfoil hat-wearing, troll-posting, penguin-loving, overlord-welcoming, beowulf-clustering, and russia-sovieting slashdot reader of the future, who happens to be living in said desert, accidentally punctures your so called non-corroding, nuclear waste containing, no harm, buried in said desert container with his home-brew whiz bang self contained 2"x3" fission reactor, for his Linux kernel 9.3 beowulf mame cluster that needs underground desert radiant cooling pipes!
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BSD is always dying, and now the Tux has hit rock bottom on sex and hard drugs?
Linux must be a fan of the Sex Pistols.
"Wow, I wonder what they'll say when they realize why some computer cables ends are called male and female."
Wait 'till you tell them said cables are being used on a computer running a "stoned beaver" OS kernel!
I'm still trying to figure out all its modes of operations, but it's a classic still.
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Ummm, you woudn't just drop dead if your pacemaker was disabled. Most people with pacemakers have them to augment their normal SA node pacemeaker, account for skiped beats. Other are combination defibrillators/pacemakers that help quell superventricular tachycardias, or speed up theur hearts during periods of bradycardia.
Very few people walk around with a pacemaker as their soul rhythm generator. These are the people that generally get heart transplants.
What's to prevent IBM from releasing an all in one Linux desktop solution? Linux + IBM Power PC + a IBM reference desktop motherboard? Something with AGP, built in sound, USB 2.0 and firewire.
Why woudn't IBM want to do this. Could mass adoption of these chips drive their prices down and make them competetive with INtel and AMD chips?
Would that make sense? If not, why so?
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The other day I found an old pic of me tearing the wrapping off Mandrake 7.2, which was a refreshing change...
/chants/ We're not worthy, we're not worthy.....
You take pictures of yourself unwraping the latest Linux distro? My GOD man, you are a ture Geek!
IBM should release specs for a reference G5 motherboard that you can run linux on.
I can dream, can I not?
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Yeah, I'm looking foward to mail carrier stuffing even more copies of AOL into my mailbox.
I wonder how many carriers have been forced into early retirement/disability as a result of those multiplying-faster-than-two-humping-bunnies silver shiny wonder discs?
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If I get too fat, I die. If I drive way too fast, I have an accident and die.
Maybe one hundred years ago. Today you can get really fat, have a massive heart attack, and your chances of survival are still good thanks to technology.
The ambulance will come pick you up, start treating you with drugs, then your transported to a state of the art facility where they'll rotor router you so you can go out and eat more Wendy's burgers and shakes and still sit on your fat ass while pos... exuse me for a sec, got ketchup on my keyboard.. yeah, where was I? Fat asses. They don't die off anymore thus helping evolution along.
Same thing with driving way too fast:
Seat belts,airbags, side impact protection, state of the art trauma centers, advanced rehab and physical therapy.
In Soviet Russia, Affirmative Defenses number you?
The one's that spy on me and show me advertisments?
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Nick, wait 'till your favorite distro is out (64 bit Debian) before you spend your hard earned cash. The prices will have come down a bit, the 1.0 bugs will be out and hopefully fixed, and your favorite motherboard maker (Tyan) will be out with a nice non-overclocker but extremley stabel and quiet 64 bit motherboard solution.
Thanks.
Here are some of the vehicle traffic laws as they pertain to emergency vehicles here in New York State, other states are mostly similar.
Only police department vehicles are allowed to proceed through red lights without stoping.
EMS and Fire trucks have to make a full stop at every red light while going lights and sirens to a job, regardless of the priority.
In reality, I slow down significantly and roll through at a cool 3-5mph.
Lights and sirens for EMS and fire are a courtsesy. The guy in front of you is in now way obligated to blow a red light for you if he feels it's unsafe for him to proceed. Oh, and btw, if a medic or emt gets on the P.A. and tells you to cross a red light, and you get into and accident, the medic is at fault for the acccident.
Going down one way streets and driving on the opposite side of the road are allowed, with the understanding that you do so at reduced speed and with extreme caution, any accident in this situation is all on your shoulders.
Here in Manhattan, slow and steady is the best way. You can't justify injuring bystanders for someone who is already sick.
And with critical patients in the back, you'll drive even slower to the hospital 'cause there's alot of things that we need to that can't be done if you're bouncing around the back cab like a virgin's first visit to some Panamanian wha wha rumphouse.
These device have been mentioned here in the city, and it was agreed that it would cuase more confusion and possibly more liability for the city than it's worth.
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Since I can't bring the PC into the bathroom, someone should approach Mr. Larson about producing some Far Side wallpaper.
Then again, can one poop and laugh at the same time??
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Things I would like to see.
A new Linux distrubution, one aimed at including the most efficient
programs currently being developed: Blackbox, Thunderbird, Firebird, Dillo,
etc. Debian C3?
A 2.6 kernel running on these things so they're more desktop resonsive, work on swsup to be stable enough that the computer will always be instant-on available, thus
never needing a reboot.
Start a project that aims to develop extremely efficient programs designed
to run very well with slow procs like these. Hell if you can web browse
on a C64, this can be done.
If word of this can get out, then more people will question the Intel and
Microsoft monopoly.
Any other suggestions?
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Please help us fight 'tool piracy'.
The only tool piracy crime being perpetraed is that the lawyers in that company are able to procreate without supervision.
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This could give a whole new meaning to the blue screen of death. I sure hope they're not using Winbloze on a critical piece of life support.
I don't think the OS is the major issue. Poor GUI designs in all types of devices are rampant.
From my experience, the Lifepak 12 Defibrillator leaves alot to be desired as far as the user interface is concerned. It's nice to have fancy GUI (oohh shiny things!), but if it's clunky in it's excecution and you have to spend 30 seconds to do simple things like synchronized cardioversion then....
I would love to see and Apple desgined defibrillator. It would probably only have 4 buttons and you could work any function in less than 5 seconds.
Medics can dream, can't they?
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fish heads, roley poley fish heads, eat 500 more, yum. :)
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Course I don't have a floppy disk on my Mac and have to walk across campus (with wailing student in tow-"I need this for class or I'll fail!") to the Mac lab and then spend 5 more minutes (that I could be surfing pr0n or taking over the world in SMACX) explaining that the print button on the tool bar really does do the same thing on a Mac, and yes, it is pretty, just print your friggin' paper, you overpaying, coddled, mama's child!
;)
Isn't that mama's child paying for your porn surfing bandwith? If you have to handhold the newbies, I hope you have the common decency to wash your dominant hand.
Can we get Charlton Heston to be the new Vi spokesman? I just wanna see him go to computer conferences, hold up the Vi source code printed on old style dot matrix printer paper and say "From my dead cold hands"
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Give me 699..no wait... for free, whenever, wherever, I'll give you this: Oooo /
Right up your ass ( )
How;s that sound Darl? )
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as the Sci-Fi channel aren't exactly in the documentary business
fuck no, look who's hosting the "documentary", Bryant Gumbel!
I want Angelina Jolie, with her big pouty lips, telling me about fiery penetrating objects on dark stormy nights.
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When that rogue nation ICBM hits in a town near you, and the EMP wipes out all your ethernet purchased "eeeemusic" from your "peeceees", I'll be warm in cozy in my bomb shelter with a can of spam and my vinyl records -thank you very much.
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Tell that to the forward-thinking, range-extending, hardware-tinkering, soldering-iron wielding, woman-fearing, microsoft hating, RIAA loathing, SCO bashing, tinfoil hat-wearing, troll-posting, penguin-loving, overlord-welcoming, beowulf-clustering, and russia-sovieting slashdot reader of the future, who happens to be living in said desert, accidentally punctures your so called non-corroding, nuclear waste containing, no harm, buried in said desert container with his home-brew whiz bang self contained 2"x3" fission reactor, for his Linux kernel 9.3 beowulf mame cluster that needs underground desert radiant cooling pipes!
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I can't believe how short sighted and obtuse this articles is. But you know what really burns my ass? A flame about this /points at buttocks/ high!
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