I've been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. According to the sleep lab, I stopped breathing 62 times per hour average. That's once a minute. My wife has told me that I've screamed at the wall, talked with her about problems with my code, and have actually punched her in the face twice. I have absolutely no memory of any of this.
I've lost jobs because I fall asleep at work, because I don't get any rest when I sleep at night. My marriage ended because my wife was afraid that I'd do something to her or to the kids while I slept. My health is in the crapper, and treatments I've taken for this hasn't had any affect. I've slept 14 hours and still felt tired when I woke up.
The article doesn't quite fully describe how hard this is on the patients. You are told that you do things at night, and you have no memory of any of it. I have accused my wife of lying to me when she told me I screamed at the wall for two hours one night. Things are happening, you are told you do things, and you have absolutely no control because you don't even know you do any of it.
My doctor is close to recommending that I undergo another surgery to try to take care of this. I've already had my tonsils and adnoids removed. Now, he's recommending a surgery that would actually scar the tissue in my throat, causing it to tighten up and open the airway.
then you deserve to get spam. That's what Hotmail is for. Gives you a free address that you don't care about, and soaks up bandwidth that Microsoft has to pay for. It's a win-win.
I have had 2 drives fail well within the warranty period, and did not return them for just this reason.
When my IBM Deskstar 75GXP gave out, I didn't have a problem returning it to IBM. Since it was only 1/4 of a 4 disk RAID0 array, anything they recovered, they'd only get 1/4 of it. Besides, I never keep stuff like credit card numbers or bank info on the PC. That's what my Palm is for, and we all know how secure the encryption is on those.
This is meant to be an insightful troll, moderate it as such.
The world is not Linux. The world is not free. Why is it automatically assumed by members of this site that everything should be free?
Disney Corp wants to keep control of it's very identifiable mascot, Mickey Mouse. And why shouldn't they? What would Walt Disney think if some 40 years after his death, somebody with a computer and an internet connection was making porn cartoons with the characters he created? And nobody could do anything about it.
How would you feel if, after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive. Somebody could take your house, move themselves in, and there was nothing you could do about it. In fact, the police would come to insure that you could not prevent them from moving in.
If you want to create something, create something original. Don't depend on the work somebody else did decades ago to be your only creative outlet. It's still legal to get inspiration from other works. And until they take that right away from us, use it. There are still original ideas being created every day.
Stop crying about how this is so damaging to the public good. How in the hell does Disney making money off of Mickey Mouse cartoons really matter? Is it so wrong to make money off of things? This is not the Socialist States of America (at least not yet), and I cannot work for free? If you want to program for open source free software projects, then so be it. That's your choice.
Is this post rambling on for no reason? Hell yes! I've been up all night and I'm tired. I just had to vent about the narrowmindedness of people that frequent this site complaining that they can't get something for free. Henry Ford started building cars almost 100 years ago. Does that give me the right to go down to my local Ford dealer and take a free 2003 Excursion off the lot? Then why do you have the right to make Mickey Mouse cartoons?
Flame away, I'll probably be asleep and won't read them anyway:)
Do you have ANY idea what that would do to your lap?
Yeah, burn my penis off. Been there, done that, got the bandages. It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.
Yes, we call it "having sex". It's an amazing cloning technique that nature gave us that allows one to combine traits and create "clones". If you really want purity, incest might be in order: Some sisterly love and you'll have a virtually perfect family clone.
This is Slashdot, mind you. Most of us are closer to being able to clone ourselves with ordinary household items then we are to having sex with another person.
I've been trying to clone myself for years. I guess jacking off into a paper towel just wasn't the proper medium to propogate life, eh?
I find the $30 a month I spend on Netflix to be a far better deal than anything I could ever watch on broadcast TV.
Between Netflix and internet access, I've got on-demand 24 hour news. Coverage of any sporting event I could ever have interest in. No commercials (except banner ads and pop ups, and there's software to eliminate those). A much bigger variety of movies than I could ever hope to see on cable (especially in older movies).
I do miss The Simpsons and Babylon 5 reruns. But now that both shows are coming out on DVD, I'm set. I do miss vegging out in front of the tube at 4am, but I do get alot more reading, writing and coding done now.
All I want is my car alarm to scream out, ala James Brown "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY"
My phone's ring is The Liberty Bell March, also known as the theme to Monty Python's Flying Circus. It came built in to my phone. I don't confuse my phone ringing with anybody elses, and I get a secret little geek thrill every time my phone rings.
I live in Suburban Maryland. Considering how people drive in this area, I certainly wouldn't be riding around town on a 17mph target. I have enough problems riding around on my Triumph.
God, I hope so. The thought of a treehugging hippie dying in complete silence is just to mime-ish. Gotta have at least some bloodcurdling screams, breaking bones, and maybe some chainsaws revving.
Hey, someone start submitting stories with links to riaa.org.
Why the automatic assumption that the riaa is a scam? They support the development and careers of many talented musicians. All they are doing is rightfully protecting their own copyrighted interests, in the name of protecting the earnings of the hard working artists and musicians. The RIAA and MPAA's only goal is the advancement of the arts.
Oh, wait.
[engage Slashdot filter] KILL THEM ALL!! MAKE THEIR SCSI DRIVES BLEED!! THE RIAA AND MPAA ARE AS EVIL AS MICROSOFT AND CONGRESS!! ALL INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!
[disengage Slashdot filter]
When I got out of MtG, I had over $500 in cards. This was several years ago, lots of original alpha, betas, 1st ed, Arabian Nights, and Antiquities (probably would be worth over a grand nowadays).
Sold them to a friend for $500 in cash. Combined it with his collection easily worth $1k at the time. Three days after he bought them from me, had his entire collection stolen from his car.
Didn't know a human could turn that many shades of purple that rapidly.
Would you like to play a D&D game where you get +3 swords just by slipping the DM a $20?
Well, I always found that the DM could be bribed with Mt Dew and a pizza. And as he's in a grease and caffiene induced stupor, whisper in his ear "The ranger really could use a Vorpal Sword +4."
Well, it worked for me. But the fact that I was nailing the DM's younger sister seemed to insure my untimely demise occured more often than any other players did. It was a fair trade. She was worth a few resurrection spells.
The circular pipe is available in diameters (OD or ID, doesn't state) up to 144 inches. Now, I'm taller than average (6'2") but with a floorspace of, say, 1 ft for plumbing, electrical, and the obligatory Cat5. That would leave 11 ft of height. That would feel like being hobbit size walking around in Bag End.
Now, the other thing to deal with is your local building code. Would they let you live in what is, essentially, sewer pipe?
It would make a pretty cool bomb shelter/computer room.
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I've lost jobs because I fall asleep at work, because I don't get any rest when I sleep at night. My marriage ended because my wife was afraid that I'd do something to her or to the kids while I slept. My health is in the crapper, and treatments I've taken for this hasn't had any affect. I've slept 14 hours and still felt tired when I woke up.
The article doesn't quite fully describe how hard this is on the patients. You are told that you do things at night, and you have no memory of any of it. I have accused my wife of lying to me when she told me I screamed at the wall for two hours one night. Things are happening, you are told you do things, and you have absolutely no control because you don't even know you do any of it.
My doctor is close to recommending that I undergo another surgery to try to take care of this. I've already had my tonsils and adnoids removed. Now, he's recommending a surgery that would actually scar the tissue in my throat, causing it to tighten up and open the airway.
I've got a ass pimple popper made out of Legos and running under Linux. I can be on Slashdot!
then you deserve to get spam. That's what Hotmail is for. Gives you a free address that you don't care about, and soaks up bandwidth that Microsoft has to pay for. It's a win-win.
BTW, isn't it ironic that the acronym for I Am Not A Lawyer is I Anal??
When my IBM Deskstar 75GXP gave out, I didn't have a problem returning it to IBM. Since it was only 1/4 of a 4 disk RAID0 array, anything they recovered, they'd only get 1/4 of it. Besides, I never keep stuff like credit card numbers or bank info on the PC. That's what my Palm is for, and we all know how secure the encryption is on those.
If it's good enough for Doogie Howser, it's good enough for me.
The world is not Linux. The world is not free. Why is it automatically assumed by members of this site that everything should be free?
Disney Corp wants to keep control of it's very identifiable mascot, Mickey Mouse. And why shouldn't they? What would Walt Disney think if some 40 years after his death, somebody with a computer and an internet connection was making porn cartoons with the characters he created? And nobody could do anything about it.
How would you feel if, after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive. Somebody could take your house, move themselves in, and there was nothing you could do about it. In fact, the police would come to insure that you could not prevent them from moving in.
If you want to create something, create something original. Don't depend on the work somebody else did decades ago to be your only creative outlet. It's still legal to get inspiration from other works. And until they take that right away from us, use it. There are still original ideas being created every day.
Stop crying about how this is so damaging to the public good. How in the hell does Disney making money off of Mickey Mouse cartoons really matter? Is it so wrong to make money off of things? This is not the Socialist States of America (at least not yet), and I cannot work for free? If you want to program for open source free software projects, then so be it. That's your choice.
Is this post rambling on for no reason? Hell yes! I've been up all night and I'm tired. I just had to vent about the narrowmindedness of people that frequent this site complaining that they can't get something for free. Henry Ford started building cars almost 100 years ago. Does that give me the right to go down to my local Ford dealer and take a free 2003 Excursion off the lot? Then why do you have the right to make Mickey Mouse cartoons?
Flame away, I'll probably be asleep and won't read them anyway :)
This one sounds cool, but I prefer traditional style coasters.
Yeah, burn my penis off. Been there, done that, got the bandages. It could be worse. A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car.
I'm glad it doesn't work out like that. My parents are fricking idiots.
This is Slashdot, mind you. Most of us are closer to being able to clone ourselves with ordinary household items then we are to having sex with another person.
I've been trying to clone myself for years. I guess jacking off into a paper towel just wasn't the proper medium to propogate life, eh?
Does your phone vibrate? Eh, know what I mean know what I mean nudge nudge know what I mean say no more.
Actually I do have the vibrate on. I feel so dirty now!
I find the $30 a month I spend on Netflix to be a far better deal than anything I could ever watch on broadcast TV.
Between Netflix and internet access, I've got on-demand 24 hour news. Coverage of any sporting event I could ever have interest in. No commercials (except banner ads and pop ups, and there's software to eliminate those). A much bigger variety of movies than I could ever hope to see on cable (especially in older movies).
I do miss The Simpsons and Babylon 5 reruns. But now that both shows are coming out on DVD, I'm set. I do miss vegging out in front of the tube at 4am, but I do get alot more reading, writing and coding done now.
All I want is my car alarm to scream out, ala James Brown "HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY"
My phone's ring is The Liberty Bell March, also known as the theme to Monty Python's Flying Circus. It came built in to my phone. I don't confuse my phone ringing with anybody elses, and I get a secret little geek thrill every time my phone rings.
I live in Suburban Maryland. Considering how people drive in this area, I certainly wouldn't be riding around town on a 17mph target. I have enough problems riding around on my Triumph.
Don't be blaming Steelers fans. It's those incestous bastards in Cleveland!
God, I hope so. The thought of a treehugging hippie dying in complete silence is just to mime-ish. Gotta have at least some bloodcurdling screams, breaking bones, and maybe some chainsaws revving.
Why the automatic assumption that the riaa is a scam? They support the development and careers of many talented musicians. All they are doing is rightfully protecting their own copyrighted interests, in the name of protecting the earnings of the hard working artists and musicians. The RIAA and MPAA's only goal is the advancement of the arts.
Oh, wait.
[engage Slashdot filter]
KILL THEM ALL!! MAKE THEIR SCSI DRIVES BLEED!! THE RIAA AND MPAA ARE AS EVIL AS MICROSOFT AND CONGRESS!! ALL INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!
[disengage Slashdot filter]
There, that makes sense now.
When I got out of MtG, I had over $500 in cards. This was several years ago, lots of original alpha, betas, 1st ed, Arabian Nights, and Antiquities (probably would be worth over a grand nowadays).
Sold them to a friend for $500 in cash. Combined it with his collection easily worth $1k at the time. Three days after he bought them from me, had his entire collection stolen from his car.
Didn't know a human could turn that many shades of purple that rapidly.
Does the game allow one-armed men?
Well, I always found that the DM could be bribed with Mt Dew and a pizza. And as he's in a grease and caffiene induced stupor, whisper in his ear "The ranger really could use a Vorpal Sword +4."
Well, it worked for me. But the fact that I was nailing the DM's younger sister seemed to insure my untimely demise occured more often than any other players did. It was a fair trade. She was worth a few resurrection spells.
ooooh, if I only had some mod points!
The circular pipe is available in diameters (OD or ID, doesn't state) up to 144 inches. Now, I'm taller than average (6'2") but with a floorspace of, say, 1 ft for plumbing, electrical, and the obligatory Cat5. That would leave 11 ft of height. That would feel like being hobbit size walking around in Bag End.
Now, the other thing to deal with is your local building code. Would they let you live in what is, essentially, sewer pipe?
It would make a pretty cool bomb shelter/computer room.
Well, these are Trekkies we're talking about. To some, that's a reason to lock themselves in the bathroom with the water running.
You still have alot of that stuff? Looking to unload any of it anytime soon?? I'm looking for desktops, servers, possibly laptops.