Thanks for posting your experience with MH, which is every anethesiologist's nightmare. I know, because I'm an anesthesiologist. Obviously, it's critical that everyone like you with a strong family history of this disease, tell their anesthesiologist before any surgery!!
At the risk of being off-topic, I also wanted to say that people like you can be safely anesthetized without triggering an MH episode. I just had a patient like you last week with a similar family history. At our hospital, we have a special vapor-free anesthesia machine, which supplies only oxygen and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), which are both safe. We use muscle relaxants that are known to be safe (succinlycholine is NOT safe) and in my case last week I ran infusions of propofol and alfentanil for the six-hour lumbar spinal fusion (patient in prone position). The young man (37 y/o) did fine and woke up with no memory of the surgery and relatively little post-op pain. The patient had an epidural catheter for post-op pain control, using morphine by continuous drip.
I guess us Mac users are too busy experiencing our "vast social lives" to bother with virus writing. Unfortunately mine didn't come with a manual and I'm not having much luck getting to it to work, and you know what Apple is like with returns.
I am so sorry your social life did not come with a manual. Mine did not either, but I have managed getting it to work out. Good luck with that return. Keep trying!!
"I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
Guaranteed personality"
(The Clash, 1979)
I think this crapware has only a faint chance of ever becoming universal. An earlier post said, 'eventually a huge hit will have an encrypted track' that will leverage DRM software/hardware into all of our systems.
But think about it: there are very few 'must have' discs from year to year, for each of us, and some of them are huge bands like U2 and DMB, and others are are smaller, but going somewhere. Why on Earth would a band in either group allow DRM on their CD?
The major acts like U2 have some control over their discs, and would probably not wish to offend their worldwide fan base. Bono would ask himeself, "Why would I want to piss off 20 million people who like my music and pay me money?
The up-and-comers would fight to the death to NOT allow DRM on their disc, because someday they want to have 20 million fans too.
We all know about the tactics of the RIAA labels, and we've read Janis Ian's stuff here for a few months now, so maybe I'll be proven wrong by some new scumbag RIAA tactic (like mandating it for all releases of all artists?? God help us...and them!), but I think DRM is starting to smell like DNR, as in Do Not Resuscitate. Let it die.
The Supremes (as in Court) need to render judgment on Fair Use and other DMCA issues relating to buying an object, with an attached 'license.' It can't happen soon enough, IMO.
Like others have commented before me, I can't see how treating your paying customers like criminals is a viable business model.
Tonight, I thoroughly enjoyed streaming some great REM in a Windows Media Player format from an off-shore site, playing on my Gentoo box, through my (fully registered) copy of Crossover. In fact, I liked it so much that afterward I went online and bought two CDs of the music I listened to. (Before someone slaps DRM on those discs.)
Just to reinforce and expand the previous reply by ChrisKnight: 100% oxygen at 2.0 atm or higher is lethal to humans because most people so exposed will SEIZE , generally to death, unless the partial pressure of oxygen is immediately brought down and the patient treated medically. We don't put people in hyperbaric chambers using 100% O2 except at lower pressures (1.4 atm) and for short times.
One professor at a Medicine of Diving course I took said that a seizure under water is essentially 100% fatal. Nitrox, Tri-mix are for use by trained divers to avoid oxygen toxicity and decrease nitrogen toxicity. Check this out:
http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/ScubaMed/may 00_oxygen.asp?theID=1227
Humans exposed to 100% oxygen at 1.0 atm for more than about 24-48 hours, e.g., on a ventilator in an ICU, will develop ARDS and will die of pulmonary toxicity of oxygen.
Just a friendly chemisty refresher on redox reactions:
OIL RIG
Oxidation is Loss (of electron)
Reduction Is Gain (of electron)
Anything atom or molecule that gives up an electron in a reaction is an oxidizer.
Anything that gains or takes an electron is a reducer/reducing agent. They're paired reactions.
Oxygen can be either a reducer or an oxidizer, depending on the reaction and its starting oxidation state.
Thank goodness for B. Perens and the post right above his debunking this 'breakthrough' chemistry as high school chemistry lab exercises.
I was beginning to worry that I would have to do it myself, and they did it much better.
Whoa, Dude! Javascript is obviously meeting the needs of the corporation in question, and the programmer who posted above is most *definitely* not hurting people, so why not just let him be?
You may have a reasonably informed opinion (OK, I'm being generous), but you really don't further your argument by posting "You fscking Nazi." No one on Slashdot is a Nazi. (They all get really bad karma and leave.)
Big companies are free to use JS exclusively, and we are free to turn JS off in our browsers. They'll learn eventually. Why don't you help them to do so?
The name of the Staphylococcus you are talking about is S. aureus, from the Latin for 'golden,' due to the faintly yellow color of the colonies of this bacterium.
Your 'strep pneumo' does not refer directly to pneumonia, but rather is medical slang for Streptococcus pneumoniae, a species which of course causes pneumonia.
No medical person would refer to S. aureus as "Staph A", but perhaps someone with your training would. (In the taxonomic nomenclature of Linnaeus, the genus (Staphylococcus) is always capitalized, even in abbreviations, and the species (aureus) is always in lower case and is never abbreviated (outside of slang usage); either you use it or you don't.
Using 'henceforth' when you should have used 'hence' was another giveaway.
You almost had me thinking you knew what you were talking about...and you almost do.
Marcus
Repressed sexual issues? Sheesh, where did that come from? This guy is just a Dad trying to do the right thing for his kids. You on the other hand, choose to slam him with some off-the-wall baseless comments. What's your agenda? Should all of us make baseless accusations against you regarding your obvious pedophilia? So there. KMA/.
I agree that unsupervised children in the library are a problem. My kids are young enough to need 100% close supervision at this point, so I would not consider letting them amuse themselves there alone. I can just imagine the destruction...
Your point is a good one, and having read the court's decision, I have to agree with it: right now 100% sensitive (can filter out all inappropriate sites) and 100% specific (filters out only inappropriate sites) software does not exist. (And who defines inappropriate, anyway?!) Likely such software won't ever exist. That being the case, the government should not force an ineffective solution that will restrict access to protected speech. So I agree with the court. But I take issue with people who disparage me or others trying to be responsible by looking out for the best interest of our children.
Our Milwaukee, Wis. public library has a huge children's wing, as well as a separate Young Adults area, both with computers, that are supervised by library employees. Those are the first two steps, (separate section and employee supervision) toward reasonable, constitutional internet access at the library. In addition, MPL has a detailed policy about use of their computers here: http://www.mpl.org/FILES/New/compuse.htm
Nowhere in this document does it mention filtering software, and in fact it states the opposite, that internet access is not restricted.
"MPL does not monitor, has no control over, and does not accept responsibility for material in other sources on the Internet. At their own discretion, library users access the Internet and are responsible for the results of their searches."
Also, the document stresses parental supervision, which is crucial. I've visited this library many times with my kids, and the children's computer area is busy, quiet and well-run, and we've never had a problem. What I am worried about is that in light of this recent court case, the Library may be pressured to give up its supervisory role over access to inappropriate websites by children. I don't want to see that. Do you?
Hey, lighten up, karlmiller. I also have a 3 yr old inquisitive girl who loves our public libraries. Try not to demonize parents who wish to protect their children from bad inluences. Your directive to Dunkirk to 'not look' is ludicrous, based on a three-year-old's propensity to stare.
This is a complex case of balancing competing rights. If the balance must be tipped to wide-open access to porn in public libraries, I too will have to see if I can continue to take my three kids to the library at all. That's sad, and I don't appreciate your minimizing that as some triviality.
Your gratuitous insertion of 'suck' and 'fellate' into your post reveals a lot about you as a person. See, I know what those words mean; I just don't want my three year old to find out just yet.
I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad, and unexpectedly got a 'free' promotional Lexmark color printer with it. It did not print, because the black cartridge was empty. I took the cartridge to an Office supply store, and the 17-yr old behind the counter shook it, and actually said, "I've never seen one this empty." So I had to pay for the ink cartridge for my free printer, which I didn't need and which didn't print. It was just a paperweight. My Question: Was this the super-economy ink cartridge from Lexmark?
Marcus
Great stories, I enjoyed reading it...
The only part you left out was that back in the day you no doubt uploaded and downloaded UPHILL BOTH WAYS!
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Hey Moderators,
I think you should moderate this post up. If these examples are true, they give a little bit more insight into the increasingly desperate, and now even comical, lengths that M$ will go to, in order to tighten its grip on users everywhere, even in (or especially in) government. Thanks.
I agree with cxvx. I run Gentoo linux (kernel 2.4.19-gentoo) and compiled KDE3 optimized for my humble processor, a Pentium II 400 on an ASUS P2B board. Lots of RAM, 392 MB, but otherwise not a flashy box.
My experience is that KDE3 on that machine runs about as fast as IE 5.5 on my PIII/800 MHz did. If you saw it, you'd agree that speed was not a problem.
Maybe you could recompile your version of KDE3 with a few optimizations for your particular processor?
Kudos to cxvx for outlining the step-by-step for Gentoo, a fast bird indeed.
Re:Some of the other books are interesting too....
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You were the one who brought up 'indirect ratio', and now it's suddenly direct ratio?
Nothing like changing the terms of your argument and continuing to argue your point, as if you were right all along.
Your argument about minutes, and hours is completely specious and off point to boot.
BTW, the 'length of time of a heart beat' is called the cardiac cycle length, measured usually in milliseconds.
But I love it when you call me 'honey.'
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You really need to put the crack pipe down before you start expositing on ratios here on Slashdot. Some of us know what Steven Gould was talking about; on the other hand, you mistakenly belive a human convention (seconds, minutes, hours)has something to do with the biological relationship of heart beats to lifespan. Indirect ratio? Try inverse ratio, buddy. I think we are all dumber now, having read your post.
This may not apply to your system, since I don't know all the relevant details, like what kernel you are running, but did you by chance enable dual processor support when you compiled your kernel? If not, Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) might need to be enabled via a recompile to let you take advantage of your dual-proc system.
Did you check the bogomips on each processor to see if one is working a lot harder than the other?
Here's a link with more info on dual processor systems: http://www.lugu.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO-3.html
Marcus
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At the risk of being off-topic, I also wanted to say that people like you can be safely anesthetized without triggering an MH episode. I just had a patient like you last week with a similar family history. At our hospital, we have a special vapor-free anesthesia machine, which supplies only oxygen and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), which are both safe. We use muscle relaxants that are known to be safe (succinlycholine is NOT safe) and in my case last week I ran infusions of propofol and alfentanil for the six-hour lumbar spinal fusion (patient in prone position). The young man (37 y/o) did fine and woke up with no memory of the surgery and relatively little post-op pain. The patient had an epidural catheter for post-op pain control, using morphine by continuous drip.
Marcus
You may 'preach about speach' but I'm yelling about spelling.
Marcus
But think about it: there are very few 'must have' discs from year to year, for each of us, and some of them are huge bands like U2 and DMB, and others are are smaller, but going somewhere. Why on Earth would a band in either group allow DRM on their CD?
The major acts like U2 have some control over their discs, and would probably not wish to offend their worldwide fan base. Bono would ask himeself, "Why would I want to piss off 20 million people who like my music and pay me money?
The up-and-comers would fight to the death to NOT allow DRM on their disc, because someday they want to have 20 million fans too.
We all know about the tactics of the RIAA labels, and we've read Janis Ian's stuff here for a few months now, so maybe I'll be proven wrong by some new scumbag RIAA tactic (like mandating it for all releases of all artists?? God help us...and them!), but I think DRM is starting to smell like DNR, as in Do Not Resuscitate. Let it die.
The Supremes (as in Court) need to render judgment on Fair Use and other DMCA issues relating to buying an object, with an attached 'license.' It can't happen soon enough, IMO.
Like others have commented before me, I can't see how treating your paying customers like criminals is a viable business model.
Tonight, I thoroughly enjoyed streaming some great REM in a Windows Media Player format from an off-shore site, playing on my Gentoo box, through my (fully registered) copy of Crossover. In fact, I liked it so much that afterward I went online and bought two CDs of the music I listened to. (Before someone slaps DRM on those discs.)
Marcus
One professor at a Medicine of Diving course I took said that a seizure under water is essentially 100% fatal. Nitrox, Tri-mix are for use by trained divers to avoid oxygen toxicity and decrease nitrogen toxicity. Check this out: http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/ScubaMed/may 00_oxygen.asp?theID=1227
Humans exposed to 100% oxygen at 1.0 atm for more than about 24-48 hours, e.g., on a ventilator in an ICU, will develop ARDS and will die of pulmonary toxicity of oxygen.
Sorry this got off topic.
Marcus
OIL RIG
Oxidation is Loss (of electron) Reduction Is Gain (of electron)
Anything atom or molecule that gives up an electron in a reaction is an oxidizer. Anything that gains or takes an electron is a reducer/reducing agent. They're paired reactions.
Oxygen can be either a reducer or an oxidizer, depending on the reaction and its starting oxidation state.
Thank goodness for B. Perens and the post right above his debunking this 'breakthrough' chemistry as high school chemistry lab exercises.
I was beginning to worry that I would have to do it myself, and they did it much better.
Marcus
"All your boxen are belong to us."
MUAHAHAHA
You may have a reasonably informed opinion (OK, I'm being generous), but you really don't further your argument by posting "You fscking Nazi." No one on Slashdot is a Nazi. (They all get really bad karma and leave.)
Big companies are free to use JS exclusively, and we are free to turn JS off in our browsers. They'll learn eventually. Why don't you help them to do so?
Marcus
The name of the Staphylococcus you are talking about is S. aureus, from the Latin for 'golden,' due to the faintly yellow color of the colonies of this bacterium. Your 'strep pneumo' does not refer directly to pneumonia, but rather is medical slang for Streptococcus pneumoniae, a species which of course causes pneumonia. No medical person would refer to S. aureus as "Staph A", but perhaps someone with your training would. (In the taxonomic nomenclature of Linnaeus, the genus (Staphylococcus) is always capitalized, even in abbreviations, and the species (aureus) is always in lower case and is never abbreviated (outside of slang usage); either you use it or you don't. Using 'henceforth' when you should have used 'hence' was another giveaway. You almost had me thinking you knew what you were talking about...and you almost do. Marcus
Repressed sexual issues? Sheesh, where did that come from? This guy is just a Dad trying to do the right thing for his kids. You on the other hand, choose to slam him with some off-the-wall baseless comments. What's your agenda? Should all of us make baseless accusations against you regarding your obvious pedophilia? So there. KMA/.
Your point is a good one, and having read the court's decision, I have to agree with it: right now 100% sensitive (can filter out all inappropriate sites) and 100% specific (filters out only inappropriate sites) software does not exist. (And who defines inappropriate, anyway?!) Likely such software won't ever exist. That being the case, the government should not force an ineffective solution that will restrict access to protected speech. So I agree with the court. But I take issue with people who disparage me or others trying to be responsible by looking out for the best interest of our children. Our Milwaukee, Wis. public library has a huge children's wing, as well as a separate Young Adults area, both with computers, that are supervised by library employees. Those are the first two steps, (separate section and employee supervision) toward reasonable, constitutional internet access at the library. In addition, MPL has a detailed policy about use of their computers here: http://www.mpl.org/FILES/New/compuse.htm Nowhere in this document does it mention filtering software, and in fact it states the opposite, that internet access is not restricted.
Hey, lighten up, karlmiller. I also have a 3 yr old inquisitive girl who loves our public libraries. Try not to demonize parents who wish to protect their children from bad inluences. Your directive to Dunkirk to 'not look' is ludicrous, based on a three-year-old's propensity to stare. This is a complex case of balancing competing rights. If the balance must be tipped to wide-open access to porn in public libraries, I too will have to see if I can continue to take my three kids to the library at all. That's sad, and I don't appreciate your minimizing that as some triviality. Your gratuitous insertion of 'suck' and 'fellate' into your post reveals a lot about you as a person. See, I know what those words mean; I just don't want my three year old to find out just yet.
Steve Taylor, I Predict 1990! And you thought no one would recognize this great line! Way off topic, but Jim Morrison's Grave is another awesome tune!
I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad, and unexpectedly got a 'free' promotional Lexmark color printer with it. It did not print, because the black cartridge was empty. I took the cartridge to an Office supply store, and the 17-yr old behind the counter shook it, and actually said, "I've never seen one this empty." So I had to pay for the ink cartridge for my free printer, which I didn't need and which didn't print. It was just a paperweight. My Question: Was this the super-economy ink cartridge from Lexmark? Marcus
Great stories, I enjoyed reading it... The only part you left out was that back in the day you no doubt uploaded and downloaded UPHILL BOTH WAYS!
Hey Moderators, I think you should moderate this post up. If these examples are true, they give a little bit more insight into the increasingly desperate, and now even comical, lengths that M$ will go to, in order to tighten its grip on users everywhere, even in (or especially in) government. Thanks.
I agree with cxvx. I run Gentoo linux (kernel 2.4.19-gentoo) and compiled KDE3 optimized for my humble processor, a Pentium II 400 on an ASUS P2B board. Lots of RAM, 392 MB, but otherwise not a flashy box. My experience is that KDE3 on that machine runs about as fast as IE 5.5 on my PIII/800 MHz did. If you saw it, you'd agree that speed was not a problem. Maybe you could recompile your version of KDE3 with a few optimizations for your particular processor? Kudos to cxvx for outlining the step-by-step for Gentoo, a fast bird indeed.
You were the one who brought up 'indirect ratio', and now it's suddenly direct ratio? Nothing like changing the terms of your argument and continuing to argue your point, as if you were right all along. Your argument about minutes, and hours is completely specious and off point to boot. BTW, the 'length of time of a heart beat' is called the cardiac cycle length, measured usually in milliseconds. But I love it when you call me 'honey.'
You really need to put the crack pipe down before you start expositing on ratios here on Slashdot. Some of us know what Steven Gould was talking about; on the other hand, you mistakenly belive a human convention (seconds, minutes, hours)has something to do with the biological relationship of heart beats to lifespan. Indirect ratio? Try inverse ratio, buddy. I think we are all dumber now, having read your post.
This may not apply to your system, since I don't know all the relevant details, like what kernel you are running, but did you by chance enable dual processor support when you compiled your kernel? If not, Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) might need to be enabled via a recompile to let you take advantage of your dual-proc system. Did you check the bogomips on each processor to see if one is working a lot harder than the other? Here's a link with more info on dual processor systems: http://www.lugu.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO-3.html Marcus