The AED does all of that on its own. It tells you (in clear, simple instructions, which are always the same no matter the model) where to put the pads. If you are off too far, then it tells you to move them. Then it reads the patient and decides if and when to shock. The user just has to listen for it to say "resume CPR" and do it if necessary.
>> Ok, so EQ doesn't work on standard WINE- but the folks at TransGaming have done a fantastic job. It's running at a higher framerate under RedHat 9 (latest stable kernel) than under XP....until this week. Unless I'm mistaken, the move to DirectX 9 for EQ just ended its WineX support. (PLEASE tell me if I'm mistaken. I hope I am.)
Note that I use Xandros. Free as in beer isn't that important to me. Free as in "I'm free to switch to another distribution if I start to dislike Xandros, and my apps will still work" is what matters to me. If CrossOver Office starts to bug me, then I can go to WineX and it will work about the same.
Next up, Tom Wickline put together a presentation about getting applications to run. Tom has worked quite a bit with Wine and CrossOver Office and had some tricks for getting things to work. The key to just getting something to run seems to be using native Windows DLL's. He has a copy of Windows 98 to copy things to and from. Generally he starts with CrossOver Office and adds the following things in this order:
* Internet Explorer
* DCOM98 (as opposed to DCOM95)
* MDAC.Type
* MS Scripting update (SCR56.exe)
Lately he's even added native DirectX 8.1 to the mix. Some form of this combination will get Wine to run about 85% of the applications and games he's tested.
That's cool and all, but DirectX 8.1 is outdated. EverQuest, for example, upgraded to DirectX 9 this week, breaking support for anyone who ran it in Linux.
I was about to move completely to Xandros 2.0 on a home machine, knowing that, if the included CrossOver Office wouldn't run EQ, WineX would. Now I'm comtemplating a dual-boot machine. But that doesn't work as well since our home file/print server is being booted into a new OS.
Unfortunately, most people only play the latest and greatest when it comes to games.* And to keep people centered on Linux when it comes to gaming, latest DirectX support needs to be a top priority.
* (Me, still playing EQ five years after its release, being an obvious exception.)
George Westinghouse wanted to bring electricity to the country. So he hired Nikola Tesla and gave him (and a lot of other people) the money to build the Niagra Falls power plants and the necessary distribution system.
Mr. Westinghouse didn't invent anything, or build anything with his own hands. He provided the money to make it possible.
From the definition of initiative: # [adj] serving to set in motion;
Mr. Westinghouse took initiative to create the power grid by setting in motion (via cash) the people to do so.
Gore did about the same with the internet, but he's a politician not a businessman. Thus, he did it with other people's money, not his own.:)
(And of the 100s of other people who also voted for it, any and all of those that were convinced to vote for it by Gore ADD to his initiative, they don't take away from it.)
Did they just store the information to figure out how many times people watched the breast shot, then delete it all right away?
Or, will they keep the information around a while, in case they want to go back and analyze it more for other things?
If they keep it around, what stops a prosecutor from getting a subpoena to see your viewing habits? If TiVo collects and stores the data for any amount of time, a judge can issue an injunction to stop them from deleting it if there is reasonable cause to believe that it can affect a criminal investigation.
And, with the unPatriot Act, forget about that judge and subpoena bit. Any federal agent can call Tivo and find out if you decided to watch "The Crucible" on PBS instead of the superbowl. That would immediately put you on the watch list as unAmerican!
(Disclaimer: I don't have a TiVo, I have a DishDVR which is not connected to a phone line. Does the TiVo privacy policy say how long they store the data, and if the data is stored with any numbers that could track it back to the original user? "Not pass along" data makes me assume that they do store the data.)
When I lived in Austin I was pretty happy with Time Warner. Sure, they are expensive, but the cable and internet service was pretty good.
A few years ago we moved to Pflugerville, where the service is from Cox Cable. Cox sucks! (No pun intended.)
We had horrible problems with the internet service. They moved to two-hour IP leases. Each time it renewed we'd get kicked offline, which doesn't work when you play online games. Plus, we had ~50% upstream packet loss, which they had no intentions of helping us fix. I couldn't upload things to shutterfly.com or to my hosting service without ftp timing out. SBC DSL is much better and MUCH faster. (I had both for a week and timed everything.)
For cable service, Cox sucked too. It cost $65 a month for their digital service (required to get TechTV) with two receivers, and all but 5 of the channels were still analog. We switched to Dish Network Top 100, have all digital now, get all the same channels, pay only $20 a month for the first three months, have two receivers, and oh yeah, got a FREE DVR out of it. And for the first three months we have HBO and Cinemax, from which I'm recording (courtesy of DVR) all the movies from the past year I missed but might someday watch. When the three months are up, I'll cancel HBO/Cinemax, and just pay like $45 a month.
The only big downside is that VH1 Classis, where they still play videos, isn't available except on the Dish Network 150 plan. Of course, it wasn't available from Cox at all, so I've gotten used to this.
My wife and I have *maybe* 80 CDs. But I sure as heck don't listen to her musicals, and she doesn't listen to my classic rock.
With 4-5 years of patient work, we also have a good MP3 collection that covers almost everything we want but is only about 3 gig. That includes 160 kbps rips of the CDs that we want to listen to any more. We've switched now to iTunes for MP3s (via burn and rip) when they carry what we want, and we're quite happy.
All that said, my wife wants the full-sized iPod for her birthday this week anyway./shrug
Had you followed the link, you would see that the Bush administration didn't trust the report of Clinton's Counter-Terrorism Security Group chief Richard Clarke because it was done during the Clinton administration. They didn't dismiss him, but they made him redo his report after having meetings with people in the new administration, who made him water down his recommendations for immediate action.
It is not in all cases that the incumbent's administration is better situated to deal with issues. I only referred to this change of command because Clinton was so demonized by this administration that they wouldn't listen to his staff's calls for immediate action against Al Qaeda.
That idea doesn't really work. We give patents for things *because* we want them to be published and improved upon by others. If we strip patents as soon as someone improves on them, no one would publish their patents.
Consider the classic example of the automobile. Let's say you invent the automobile. It might take you years to build up a business where you can be profitable. Your cars have a manual transmission, but they run great.
After you have been building cars for six months, you are still in debt from your factory. Someone else invents an automatic transmission. Under your proposal, now the new person can build cars with automatic transmission. It's a definite improvement on your design. But your design was also new and novel. You deserve the time it takes to recoup the rewards from your patent. No, you can't build cars with automatics because you don't own that patent. But the other person can't build cars at all, unless you two work out a deal.
If you knew before you started that, as soon as someone improved on your idea you would lose it, would you invest the money in the first place, putting your family in debt, or would you just say "screw it" and let the idea die with you?
Patents can be problems today, yes, but that it mostly because big companies that acquire patents can enforce them for too many years, while small folks with patents might take years to build capital to produce a product, and then have their idea stolen without enough money to fight for it back. In my opinion, the problem lies in the big companies.
>> 911 would have happened whether Gore won or not, planning for it was in progress for years before the actual event.
... and intelligence organizations were gathering information about it for a year or more as well.
Read up a bit on the hand off of security issues from the Clinton to Bush administrations, and consider whether the Gore administration would have dropped the ball so badly when they would have been the same people continuing with their work, instead of a brand new team.
I suppose all the little children of nobles that lost their heads weren't civilians?
>> Founding Fathers
Did the British government own that tea we tossed overboard? Destruction of civilian property to support political goals is terrorist activity, whether it's blowing up a house or chunking tea overboard.
>> The biggest complaint many people have with Microsoft and Windows, is that its proprietary nature stiffles any innovation.
No, the biggest complaint about Microsoft and Windows is that their monopolistic nature stifles innovation. Proprietary isn't inherently bad. Lack of interoperability is bad.
With Xandros, you are running Debian Linux. Sure, there are some non-open source bits in there, but if Xandros hacks you off too much, move to another Linux distros. They are all Linux, and they are all basically interoperable. And if you want something new and spiffy for Linux and you use Xandros, no problem - apt-get works great! And if you want something new and spiffy for Windows and you use Xandors, no problem - with Crossover Office you have a good chance that it will work already.
I'm quite pleased with Xandros and what it has done for me in the month or so I've used it. In short, it is easy to set up, easy to keep secure, easy to navigate, and less buggy than Windows.
The downside? OpenOffice and Mozilla 1.4 take way to long to open. But that is true on any machine, Windows or Linux. I could install Word and Excel and IE or Firebird in Xandros and I wouldn't have this problem.
They put off EQ2 because support for the original EQ has remained stronger than they expected. They continue to put out expansions for the original as people still buy them.
Still, Gates of Discord sounds like the precursor to the Era of Discord that EQ2 is supposed to take place in. Maybe this will be the last one...
...not that I care. I still play EQ with friends, but I will move on to WoW, not another SoE game, ever. (Maybe that's why they haven't released? Too many folks addicted to current game but sworn off the company?)
>> Also in galeon if the browser crashes (usually due a page with flash) then on restarting it lets you either reopen all the URLs or keep them as bookmarks.
Anyone know if this is on the list for Firebird to implement? I lost a window with a dozen tabs yesterday. This makes so much sense that I don't see why it hasn't been done.
(Of course, it should be possible to disable this, if you don't want files with the sites you visit on the PC.)
>> You can directly order bags of just one kind of basic brick from them, for example, and many of the LEGO stores have bins of parts so one can just fill a cup or a bag with parts, as in a candy store.
Yes, you can, but they are still incredibly overpriced. Remember when they used to sell buckets of bricks in stores? I mean buckets that just had bricks, not the ones with a mix in them now. Those were much cheaper.
I, and a few other people, bought those buckets by the hundreds. We broke them down into component parts, and sold them via auction on websites. (No, not eBay. The first folks that did this with their Auczilla site predate eBay by several years.)
LEGO Direct is a create thing for most of the LEGO pieces that they sell, but they have actually raised the price of basic bricks substantially versus the older price, even factoring in the value adding resellers who sorted and sold.
I was actually thinking about Real Networks this morning, as I read the article about TIVO suing Echo Star (makers of the fine DVR in my living room) concerning TIVO's supposed patent on "pausing and rewinding TV" while the live data continues to stream to disk.
Now, at the basic level, live TV is simply a video stream delivered over a network.
RealVideo streams are also, at a basic level, video streams delivered over a network. And I know that I have been able to pause and rewind video streams on my computer while the stream continues to buffer at the end of the file for quite some time.
So does Real Networks' video streaming technologies predate TIVO's? Do you think TIVO will go after you guys next?
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The AED does all of that on its own. It tells you (in clear, simple instructions, which are always the same no matter the model) where to put the pads. If you are off too far, then it tells you to move them. Then it reads the patient and decides if and when to shock. The user just has to listen for it to say "resume CPR" and do it if necessary.
>> Ok, so EQ doesn't work on standard WINE- but the folks at TransGaming have done a fantastic job. It's running at a higher framerate under RedHat 9 (latest stable kernel) than under XP. ...until this week. Unless I'm mistaken, the move to DirectX 9 for EQ just ended its WineX support. (PLEASE tell me if I'm mistaken. I hope I am.)
it's not even free-as-in-beer-window$-emulation
Note that I use Xandros. Free as in beer isn't that important to me. Free as in "I'm free to switch to another distribution if I start to dislike Xandros, and my apps will still work" is what matters to me. If CrossOver Office starts to bug me, then I can go to WineX and it will work about the same.
And to keep people centered on Linux when it comes to gaming, latest DirectX support needs to be a top priority.
Of course, I mean for the Wine folks. For the rest of the Linux community, getting developers to release native Linux games is more important.
Next up, Tom Wickline put together a presentation about getting applications to run. Tom has worked quite a bit with Wine and CrossOver Office and had some tricks for getting things to work. The key to just getting something to run seems to be using native Windows DLL's. He has a copy of Windows 98 to copy things to and from. Generally he starts with CrossOver Office and adds the following things in this order:
* Internet Explorer
* DCOM98 (as opposed to DCOM95)
* MDAC.Type
* MS Scripting update (SCR56.exe)
Lately he's even added native DirectX 8.1 to the mix. Some form of this combination will get Wine to run about 85% of the applications and games he's tested.
That's cool and all, but DirectX 8.1 is outdated. EverQuest, for example, upgraded to DirectX 9 this week, breaking support for anyone who ran it in Linux.
I was about to move completely to Xandros 2.0 on a home machine, knowing that, if the included CrossOver Office wouldn't run EQ, WineX would. Now I'm comtemplating a dual-boot machine. But that doesn't work as well since our home file/print server is being booted into a new OS.
Unfortunately, most people only play the latest and greatest when it comes to games.* And to keep people centered on Linux when it comes to gaming, latest DirectX support needs to be a top priority.
* (Me, still playing EQ five years after its release, being an obvious exception.)
>> If you even remotely think Gore had anything to do with "inventing the Internet"
I don't. RTFP. I use "take the initative" which is what he said. "Invent" and "take the initative" are completely separate things.
George Westinghouse wanted to bring electricity to the country. So he hired Nikola Tesla and gave him (and a lot of other people) the money to build the Niagra Falls power plants and the necessary distribution system.
:)
Mr. Westinghouse didn't invent anything, or build anything with his own hands. He provided the money to make it possible.
From the definition of initiative: # [adj] serving to set in motion;
Mr. Westinghouse took initiative to create the power grid by setting in motion (via cash) the people to do so.
Gore did about the same with the internet, but he's a politician not a businessman. Thus, he did it with other people's money, not his own.
(And of the 100s of other people who also voted for it, any and all of those that were convinced to vote for it by Gore ADD to his initiative, they don't take away from it.)
They already have:
u 24.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/140945_acl
Did they just store the information to figure out how many times people watched the breast shot, then delete it all right away?
Or, will they keep the information around a while, in case they want to go back and analyze it more for other things?
If they keep it around, what stops a prosecutor from getting a subpoena to see your viewing habits? If TiVo collects and stores the data for any amount of time, a judge can issue an injunction to stop them from deleting it if there is reasonable cause to believe that it can affect a criminal investigation.
And, with the unPatriot Act, forget about that judge and subpoena bit. Any federal agent can call Tivo and find out if you decided to watch "The Crucible" on PBS instead of the superbowl. That would immediately put you on the watch list as unAmerican!
(Disclaimer: I don't have a TiVo, I have a DishDVR which is not connected to a phone line. Does the TiVo privacy policy say how long they store the data, and if the data is stored with any numbers that could track it back to the original user? "Not pass along" data makes me assume that they do store the data.)
When I lived in Austin I was pretty happy with Time Warner. Sure, they are expensive, but the cable and internet service was pretty good.
A few years ago we moved to Pflugerville, where the service is from Cox Cable. Cox sucks! (No pun intended.)
We had horrible problems with the internet service. They moved to two-hour IP leases. Each time it renewed we'd get kicked offline, which doesn't work when you play online games. Plus, we had ~50% upstream packet loss, which they had no intentions of helping us fix. I couldn't upload things to shutterfly.com or to my hosting service without ftp timing out. SBC DSL is much better and MUCH faster. (I had both for a week and timed everything.)
For cable service, Cox sucked too. It cost $65 a month for their digital service (required to get TechTV) with two receivers, and all but 5 of the channels were still analog. We switched to Dish Network Top 100, have all digital now, get all the same channels, pay only $20 a month for the first three months, have two receivers, and oh yeah, got a FREE DVR out of it. And for the first three months we have HBO and Cinemax, from which I'm recording (courtesy of DVR) all the movies from the past year I missed but might someday watch. When the three months are up, I'll cancel HBO/Cinemax, and just pay like $45 a month.
The only big downside is that VH1 Classis, where they still play videos, isn't available except on the Dish Network 150 plan. Of course, it wasn't available from Cox at all, so I've gotten used to this.
My wife and I have *maybe* 80 CDs. But I sure as heck don't listen to her musicals, and she doesn't listen to my classic rock.
/shrug
With 4-5 years of patient work, we also have a good MP3 collection that covers almost everything we want but is only about 3 gig. That includes 160 kbps rips of the CDs that we want to listen to any more. We've switched now to iTunes for MP3s (via burn and rip) when they carry what we want, and we're quite happy.
All that said, my wife wants the full-sized iPod for her birthday this week anyway.
I didn't imply that at all.
Had you followed the link, you would see that the Bush administration didn't trust the report of Clinton's Counter-Terrorism Security Group chief Richard Clarke because it was done during the Clinton administration. They didn't dismiss him, but they made him redo his report after having meetings with people in the new administration, who made him water down his recommendations for immediate action.
It is not in all cases that the incumbent's administration is better situated to deal with issues. I only referred to this change of command because Clinton was so demonized by this administration that they wouldn't listen to his staff's calls for immediate action against Al Qaeda.
That idea doesn't really work. We give patents for things *because* we want them to be published and improved upon by others. If we strip patents as soon as someone improves on them, no one would publish their patents.
Consider the classic example of the automobile. Let's say you invent the automobile. It might take you years to build up a business where you can be profitable. Your cars have a manual transmission, but they run great.
After you have been building cars for six months, you are still in debt from your factory. Someone else invents an automatic transmission. Under your proposal, now the new person can build cars with automatic transmission. It's a definite improvement on your design. But your design was also new and novel. You deserve the time it takes to recoup the rewards from your patent. No, you can't build cars with automatics because you don't own that patent. But the other person can't build cars at all, unless you two work out a deal.
If you knew before you started that, as soon as someone improved on your idea you would lose it, would you invest the money in the first place, putting your family in debt, or would you just say "screw it" and let the idea die with you?
Patents can be problems today, yes, but that it mostly because big companies that acquire patents can enforce them for too many years, while small folks with patents might take years to build capital to produce a product, and then have their idea stolen without enough money to fight for it back. In my opinion, the problem lies in the big companies.
>> 911 would have happened whether Gore won or not, planning for it was in progress for years before the actual event.
... and intelligence organizations were gathering information about it for a year or more as well.
Read up a bit on the hand off of security issues from the Clinton to Bush administrations, and consider whether the Gore administration would have dropped the ball so badly when they would have been the same people continuing with their work, instead of a brand new team.
>> French Resistance
I suppose all the little children of nobles that lost their heads weren't civilians?
>> Founding Fathers
Did the British government own that tea we tossed overboard? Destruction of civilian property to support political goals is terrorist activity, whether it's blowing up a house or chunking tea overboard.
Where are my mod points when I need them? Why did I blow them all modding up pr0n posts as funny. (Just kidding.)
So far I have had fewer instances of lost service (0) with Dish Network that I previously had with Cox (2) during bad weather.
Yes, my cable service would go out in really bad storms.
I use DSL so can't comment on the internet service of Dish Network. Cox's internet service sucked.
Yeah, so blog comments are "coverage"?
Maybe fark.com's "coverage" is just a link back to the slashdot forums....
>> The biggest complaint many people have with Microsoft and Windows, is that its proprietary nature stiffles any innovation.
No, the biggest complaint about Microsoft and Windows is that their monopolistic nature stifles innovation. Proprietary isn't inherently bad. Lack of interoperability is bad.
With Xandros, you are running Debian Linux. Sure, there are some non-open source bits in there, but if Xandros hacks you off too much, move to another Linux distros. They are all Linux, and they are all basically interoperable. And if you want something new and spiffy for Linux and you use Xandros, no problem - apt-get works great! And if you want something new and spiffy for Windows and you use Xandors, no problem - with Crossover Office you have a good chance that it will work already.
I'm quite pleased with Xandros and what it has done for me in the month or so I've used it. In short, it is easy to set up, easy to keep secure, easy to navigate, and less buggy than Windows.
The downside? OpenOffice and Mozilla 1.4 take way to long to open. But that is true on any machine, Windows or Linux. I could install Word and Excel and IE or Firebird in Xandros and I wouldn't have this problem.
They put off EQ2 because support for the original EQ has remained stronger than they expected. They continue to put out expansions for the original as people still buy them.
...not that I care. I still play EQ with friends, but I will move on to WoW, not another SoE game, ever. (Maybe that's why they haven't released? Too many folks addicted to current game but sworn off the company?)
Still, Gates of Discord sounds like the precursor to the Era of Discord that EQ2 is supposed to take place in. Maybe this will be the last one...
Sorry, I should have been more specific.
A "brick" is a LEGO piece that is the standard, approximately 1/2 inch high. Three "plates" equal the height of a "brick".
Thus, when I say that they don't have buckets of just bricks anymore, I mean that they don't sell sets like this one:
2184 Basic Bucket
Instead, they sell sets like this one:
4278 Blue Tub
This set has bricks, plates, slopes, etc., all mixed together, and sells for a lot more than they used to sell basic brick buckets alone.
They discontinued buckets of pure bricks, only bricks, nothing but bricks, when they came out with the LEGO Direct online brick ordering.
>> Also in galeon if the browser crashes (usually due a page with flash) then on restarting it lets you either reopen all the URLs or keep them as bookmarks.
Anyone know if this is on the list for Firebird to implement? I lost a window with a dozen tabs yesterday. This makes so much sense that I don't see why it hasn't been done.
(Of course, it should be possible to disable this, if you don't want files with the sites you visit on the PC.)
>> You can directly order bags of just one kind of basic brick from them, for example, and many of the LEGO stores have bins of parts so one can just fill a cup or a bag with parts, as in a candy store.
Yes, you can, but they are still incredibly overpriced. Remember when they used to sell buckets of bricks in stores? I mean buckets that just had bricks, not the ones with a mix in them now. Those were much cheaper.
I, and a few other people, bought those buckets by the hundreds. We broke them down into component parts, and sold them via auction on websites. (No, not eBay. The first folks that did this with their Auczilla site predate eBay by several years.)
LEGO Direct is a create thing for most of the LEGO pieces that they sell, but they have actually raised the price of basic bricks substantially versus the older price, even factoring in the value adding resellers who sorted and sold.
I'm not a networking expert (as everyone who corrects me will probably point out), but couldn't you do something like:
1. Make the customers use Webmail or equivalent when traveling. The mail still originates with your servers.
2. Make the customers VPN to your domain when traveling. The mail is then handled by your servers.
AOL basically does the second, if you connect to them via another service (like AOL High Speed stuff).
I know neither of those are as convenient as "free mail, anywhere, anytime, no questions asked", but that system is too open to abuse.
I was actually thinking about Real Networks this morning, as I read the article about TIVO suing Echo Star (makers of the fine DVR in my living room) concerning TIVO's supposed patent on "pausing and rewinding TV" while the live data continues to stream to disk.
Now, at the basic level, live TV is simply a video stream delivered over a network.
RealVideo streams are also, at a basic level, video streams delivered over a network. And I know that I have been able to pause and rewind video streams on my computer while the stream continues to buffer at the end of the file for quite some time.
So does Real Networks' video streaming technologies predate TIVO's? Do you think TIVO will go after you guys next?
Just curious.