my physician's best guess is that my body slows down so much when I'm asleep that I don't get enough oxygen
Sound a bit like
Sleep apnea altough it would give you HIGH blood pressure, not low... You might want to ask your physician about that...
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Often, sleep loss coincides with stress
SO true...
Loss of sleep (and Oversleeping) are symptoms of Anxiety and/or Depression. I know. I suffered from it... Somedays I could sleep 14h strait... a week later, I would get 14h of sleep in 3 days... Not fun...
But simple insomnia is also a chronical problem. If it really is a problem, I suggest seeing a doctor. He can probably point to some group or clinical study.(if he doesn't just gives you pills)
I know that the University of Montreal has a kind of 'Sleep clinic' where they study big problem, but I can't find any information on them.
It keep a journal file of last modifications (ie "Replacing node 37827 with node 5279867....replaced")
One the modification is done, it erases the entry.
After a crash, the system only need to look in the journal file to know which file 'might' be corrupted and restore the old version of each...
like a nuclear war to wipe out all of this knowledge.
Sure... A dead tree edition could be cool, but I think the Nuclear war thing is a bit unprobable. A server crash is a more probable and Backups is what you want... in as many country as possible... a sort of distributed server farm... like google... or a bit like the net itself...
Anyway, everyone know that encyclopedia backups are going to be the basis of knowledge if the bombs drops... knowledge distributed by some brotherhood in power armor after we come out of the vaults... or something...
Then, why don't they do it in Montreal or Toronto?
Bigger cities mean better access with possible lower priced rentals, Hotels, trains, planes, bus, pubs, clubs, etc..
Was there a particular reason why it's in Ottawa?
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Stupid marketing newspeak.
Marketing likes buzzword... it confuses the hell out of anyone... which may makes more sales...
Hahaha! This stuff is WAY too geeky for any average person to even care about.
Think about it for a second, it's all computer stuff AND lawyer details... As geeks, we all know it's mostly garbage-claims, but we still NEED Groklaw to clear things up.
Unless Linux get more mainstream press (something other than hype) you won't see this. Main press is more interested in hype stuff (like the lastest Ipod model or how's going to be the next American Idol,etc..) than actual more boring facts...
still, you can try
news.google.com for SCO news in the main press...
They should say in large bold letters "This ATM will charge you for usage".
Here in Montreal, some shops have a sort of 'generic' ATM machine (using the Inetrac association network). They charge you 2.50 Can$ for each transaction. But you have to agree before. Something like:
2.50$ seront chargé pour cette transaction. Voulez-vous accepter ces frais?
2.50$ will be charge for this transaction. Do you wont to accept these charges?
-Oui/Yes
-Non/no
if you say 'no' the machine just cancel the transaction and gives you a receipt for it.
2.50 per 20.00 is a bit of a stiff fee, but these machine are bound to be found almost anywhere espacialy if there is no Bank around and they take any debit or credit card (thanks to Interac)
I don't use them cuz any ATM can still give you money from any Bank and they charge less for inter-bank...
"Your big Mac is going to be late. We had to clear the W32.StuffIT.AA virus out of it..."
And if this ever captures the market, I'm sure someone will pattern the idea of the 2 headed Brahmin From the Fallout games... "Twice the head, Twice the stomachs, Twice the storage! At the same Low Low Price!"
I have the feeling that every comment on this story is going to be anything except Serious...
Translate that headline in French and it give you something like Tibco doesn't want you to use the word "meeting" or "appointment"
What's more Ironic, is that "Rendez-vous" could be interpreted differently if taken as the Verb+pronoun as opposed to the Noun.
Altough Google translation prefer to translate with the Noun, It could be seen as:
se rendre: to surrender, give oneself up
So "Rendez-vous!" COULD be interpreted in french as "Surrender yourselves!"
Can they SLAAP Google to stop referencing sites wich critisise them? - yes
Reminds me of a Case with 2600.com and an Airplane company that didn't want bad critism after it had a plane crash in the Everglades, and it's website site hacked after the company name changed... Of course with the help of the DCMA they have changed the Result of Google Search
It would not help AirTran Airways to know that they were Valujet
Thanks to the DMCA it even affects google.ca, or google.co.uk or... you get the point...
they should patent the process of getting a lame-assed patent.
No,no,no...
Patent the idea of "Security 'backdoor' by Buffer-Overflowing" And "Obscure Enhanced Security System" and Voilà!
I'm SURE they are plenty who are 'guilty'...
But If I was REALLY greedy, I would find a way to sue the Gouvernement... It can't go Bankrupt!
It worked in Belgium but I doubt it would work in North America...
The biggest problem of drugs is their connection to organized crime. They have little or no moral and are only interested in porfit and making yuo addicted to the thing... If we accepted the fact that people DO take drugs on a daily basis and that we should help them, things would change. But because of the NIMBY problem people just want the problem to 'go away'...
Someone proposed to open centers (Forgot the English term) where you could come get clean stereilized needles and medical care to take you drug... The argument being that if you don't help those in trouble, they will STILL take the drug with old (infected) needles...
It got a wave of protestation because poeple didn't want this around... In the mean time infections continu to spread and the problem doesn't solve itself...
Of course, the best way would be to legalize every drug, to restric possetion to REALLY small doses and to restric the sales to the Gourvenement... If you don't follow thoses rules, you get fined, and not 5 years prison like in the US...
Of course, i'm just dreaming in technicolor(c) here...
It is, but there is an once of truth in it. The default behavior.
By default, Windows Xp Home runs me as admin, and I had remove permissions for it the be secure...
By default, Mandrake runs me as user. I had to learn to change to root.
But I think the best behavior is with OS X (which I don't own). It prompt you with a password windows each time you need admin access. To me the says: 'STOP! think about what you are doing! Are you sure, you know what you are doing?'
Kinda like the way my sister caught Sircam.exe but when the thing poped-up in ZoneAlarm, she got the reflex to click 'No': "I don't know this application, And everything seems to work OK without it, so there...". She was infested all right, but it didn't spread... (and didn't clog her dial-up line). And off, I did have the "AAAHH! VIRUS!" Reaction when I saw the same pop-up on her computer... Now she google for the file when she don't know... I'm soo proud of my sister, growing up before my very eyes *snif*
Education, can go a long way, but if people can't know they have problems, we can't help them... Default install would go even further... If would force so people to think...
Windows isn't the problem, Ignorance is the problem. Education is the solution.
I know the parent post was meant to be funny, but if you could make a palm virus, it could potentially be devastating. Don't know of any phone that runs PocketPC OS (Although i'm sure there are some...),but I know PalmOS runs on Phones (Like the Treo 600...). Any virus that could spread by calling could cause A LOT of trouble... like long-distance calls at random...
But unlike the Pocket PC OS, Palm OS is mutli-threaded, single-task OS. You would have to trick the OS into making the virus a new Thread of the current process... Not impossible but a bit harder to do...
I see to remember a article that compared the Pocket PC OS with PalmOS, stating that, while PalmOS was inferior, It was better designed for the job (it did not try to do everything)... I don't have the link (I'm at work)
The same thing is true in Canada. Only those who have a degree in engineering and are licensed by the provincial engineering association are allowed to call themselves engineers.
Quebec's OIQ is trying to put an end to the title MCSE.
Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about Canadians Engineering. I'm actually Member of the OIQ (student section).
But thanks for the link, I did not have time to search for it...
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my physician's best guess is that my body slows down so much when I'm asleep that I don't get enough oxygen
Sound a bit like Sleep apnea altough it would give you HIGH blood pressure, not low... You might want to ask your physician about that...
Often, sleep loss coincides with stress
SO true...
Loss of sleep (and Oversleeping) are symptoms of Anxiety and/or Depression. I know. I suffered from it... Somedays I could sleep 14h strait... a week later, I would get 14h of sleep in 3 days... Not fun...
But simple insomnia is also a chronical problem. If it really is a problem, I suggest seeing a doctor. He can probably point to some group or clinical study.(if he doesn't just gives you pills)
I know that the University of Montreal has a kind of 'Sleep clinic' where they study big problem, but I can't find any information on them.
(abomination) of one Melinda French . . . now Melinda Gates.
The basic idea was good (ie Computing based on task instead of application)
But the implentation was pretty awful... At least Mircosoft had the sense to scrap the project... Some company would simply fall with it...
It keep a journal file of last modifications
(ie "Replacing node 37827 with node 5279867....replaced")
One the modification is done, it erases the entry.
After a crash, the system only need to look in the journal file to know which file 'might' be corrupted and restore the old version of each...
At least, that's how I understand it...
Jimmy is a dreamer. What he dreams is an Utopia,but we enough people like him, we can get there!
Keep up the good work Jimmy!
Of course,He can't do it alone...
Uncle Jimmy need YOU!
Contribute!
like a nuclear war to wipe out all of this knowledge.
Sure... A dead tree edition could be cool, but I think the Nuclear war thing is a bit unprobable. A server crash is a more probable and Backups is what you want... in as many country as possible... a sort of distributed server farm... like google... or a bit like the net itself...
Anyway, everyone know that encyclopedia backups are going to be the basis of knowledge if the bombs drops... knowledge distributed by some brotherhood in power armor after we come out of the vaults... or something...
Is it all that hard to add a 'print reciept' option to all of these voting machines?
Because that would be the logical thing to do... and you don't want tracable logical things when power and money is involved.
When there's not even a standard paper ballot for the whole 'voting' thing i'm not supprised paper trails and receipt are NOT priorities...
RBC,eh?
I wonder If their computer problems had anything to do with it...
(can't find the original story link, sorry)
Then, why don't they do it in Montreal or Toronto? Bigger cities mean better access with possible lower priced rentals, Hotels, trains, planes, bus, pubs, clubs, etc..
Was there a particular reason why it's in Ottawa?
Stupid marketing newspeak.
:)
Marketing likes buzzword... it confuses the hell out of anyone... which may makes more sales...
something like:
Tactically Demand-Responsive Tele-Uncompromising Power-Contemporary Market-Connected Platform-Independant Process-Free Vendor Unimpaired Ressource Communicating Device.
Yeah, I just got this buzzphrase generator for palm... work like a charm
Maybe, but like any worker's union, this association DOESN'T work for the worker, but work for itself... and profit...
Main Press?
Hahaha! This stuff is WAY too geeky for any average person to even care about.
Think about it for a second, it's all computer stuff AND lawyer details... As geeks, we all know it's mostly garbage-claims, but we still NEED Groklaw to clear things up.
Unless Linux get more mainstream press (something other than hype) you won't see this. Main press is more interested in hype stuff (like the lastest Ipod model or how's going to be the next American Idol,etc..) than actual more boring facts...
still, you can try news.google.com for SCO news in the main press...
Here in Montreal, some shops have a sort of 'generic' ATM machine (using the Inetrac association network). They charge you 2.50 Can$ for each transaction. But you have to agree before. Something like:
if you say 'no' the machine just cancel the transaction and gives you a receipt for it.
2.50 per 20.00 is a bit of a stiff fee, but these machine are bound to be found almost anywhere espacialy if there is no Bank around and they take any debit or credit card (thanks to Interac)
I don't use them cuz any ATM can still give you money from any Bank and they charge less for inter-bank...
Can't wait till my hard drive gets mad cow.
Or the other wait around...
"Your big Mac is going to be late. We had to clear the W32.StuffIT.AA virus out of it..."
And if this ever captures the market, I'm sure someone will pattern the idea of the 2 headed Brahmin From the Fallout games...
"Twice the head, Twice the stomachs, Twice the storage! At the same Low Low Price!"
I have the feeling that every comment on this story is going to be anything except Serious...
<quote>I think I saw a webpage about that once...</quote>
Must have been:
_________
< cowsay! >
---------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
And I'm Sure it had super Cow powers.. Moo!
Translate that headline in French and it give you something like Tibco doesn't want you to use the word "meeting" or "appointment"
What's more Ironic, is that "Rendez-vous" could be interpreted differently if taken as the Verb+pronoun as opposed to the Noun.
Altough Google translation prefer to translate with the Noun, It could be seen as:
se rendre: to surrender, give oneself up
So "Rendez-vous!" COULD be interpreted in french as "Surrender yourselves!"
I don't think you can run OSX on x86 using any emulator/vm yet
:(
PearPC
If you do a little search, someone (on OSNews.com I think) managed to install OS X...
It's not perfect (yet), but it's better than nothing!
On a side note: checking their webpage, one of the Dev died of an Accident on July 2.
23 Years old. I guess only the good die young
Can they SLAAP Google to stop referencing sites wich critisise them?
- yes
Reminds me of a Case with 2600.com and an Airplane company that didn't want bad critism after it had a plane crash in the Everglades, and it's website site hacked after the company name changed... Of course with the help of the DCMA they have changed the Result of Google Search
It would not help AirTran Airways to know that they were Valujet
Thanks to the DMCA it even affects google.ca, or google.co.uk or... you get the point...
they should patent the process of getting a lame-assed patent.
No,no,no...
Patent the idea of "Security 'backdoor' by Buffer-Overflowing" And "Obscure Enhanced Security System" and Voilà!
I'm SURE they are plenty who are 'guilty'...
But If I was REALLY greedy, I would find a way to sue the Gouvernement... It can't go Bankrupt!
Or even better: sue THE USPO!!!
It worked in Belgium but I doubt it would work in North America...
The biggest problem of drugs is their connection to organized crime. They have little or no moral and are only interested in porfit and making yuo addicted to the thing... If we accepted the fact that people DO take drugs on a daily basis and that we should help them, things would change. But because of the NIMBY problem people just want the problem to 'go away'...
Someone proposed to open centers (Forgot the English term) where you could come get clean stereilized needles and medical care to take you drug... The argument being that if you don't help those in trouble, they will STILL take the drug with old (infected) needles...
It got a wave of protestation because poeple didn't want this around... In the mean time infections continu to spread and the problem doesn't solve itself...
Of course, the best way would be to legalize every drug, to restric possetion to REALLY small doses and to restric the sales to the Gourvenement... If you don't follow thoses rules, you get fined, and not 5 years prison like in the US...
Of course, i'm just dreaming in technicolor(c) here...
This is blatant FUD.
It is, but there is an once of truth in it. The default behavior.
By default, Windows Xp Home runs me as admin, and I had remove permissions for it the be secure...
By default, Mandrake runs me as user. I had to learn to change to root.
But I think the best behavior is with OS X (which I don't own). It prompt you with a password windows each time you need admin access. To me the says: 'STOP! think about what you are doing! Are you sure, you know what you are doing?'
Kinda like the way my sister caught Sircam.exe but when the thing poped-up in ZoneAlarm, she got the reflex to click 'No': "I don't know this application, And everything seems to work OK without it, so there...". She was infested all right, but it didn't spread... (and didn't clog her dial-up line). And off, I did have the "AAAHH! VIRUS!" Reaction when I saw the same pop-up on her computer... Now she google for the file when she don't know... I'm soo proud of my sister, growing up before my very eyes *snif*
Education, can go a long way, but if people can't know they have problems, we can't help them... Default install would go even further... If would force so people to think...
Windows isn't the problem, Ignorance is the problem. Education is the solution.
I know the parent post was meant to be funny, but if you could make a palm virus, it could potentially be devastating. Don't know of any phone that runs PocketPC OS (Although i'm sure there are some...),but I know PalmOS runs on Phones (Like the Treo 600...). Any virus that could spread by calling could cause A LOT of trouble... like long-distance calls at random...
But unlike the Pocket PC OS, Palm OS is mutli-threaded, single-task OS. You would have to trick the OS into making the virus a new Thread of the current process... Not impossible but a bit harder to do...
I see to remember a article that compared the Pocket PC OS with PalmOS, stating that, while PalmOS was inferior, It was better designed for the job (it did not try to do everything)... I don't have the link (I'm at work)
Any Palm dev/coder out there that could comment?
What do you call the people who drive trains? :P
I still call em Engineers but officialy they are "Railwayman" (Railwaymens?)
The same thing is true in Canada. Only those who have a degree in engineering and are licensed by the provincial engineering association are allowed to call themselves engineers. Quebec's OIQ is trying to put an end to the title MCSE.
Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about Canadians Engineering. I'm actually Member of the OIQ (student section).
But thanks for the link, I did not have time to search for it...