Others are currently investigating this--try googling "ultrasound thrombolysis." Ultrasound can, under some conditions, help to break up clots, especially in combination with drugs like rt-PA. This is being applied to stroke treatment as well as deep venous thrombosis therapy.
Added to the Newsforge story is a new item suggesting that the Slashdot story is wrong:
Updated - CIO requests clarifications
Pete Collins, CIO of the City of Office, contacted NewsForge today after being beseiged with calls about this story. He wanted to clarify two inaccuracies in the story: that the pilots are complete and that 80% of the city's desktops can be migrated to OpenOffice.org.
Collins says that the installation of OpenOffice.org on some 300 seats in his department (Communications Technology Management) does not mark the end of the pilot phase and the beginning of a migration. He told us "What's going on is that we've almost completed the first phase of our pilot. We will be looking at the information we've gathered over the months in different uses of Linux within the city."
He added "I've been using OpenOffice on my desktop for a couple of months, and it has worked quite well." He also said that another assessment would be done at the end of the second phase.
Collins stressed to us that "The intent is not to replace the entire city with OpenOffice at this moment in time." His major concern is that our story was misleading the public into thinking "the results are totally in, because they are not."
Johnson and Johnson, the huge medical/health conglomerate, had all of its employees running Windows 95 on their desktops until last year. It was a painful thing for us, living with that OS' instability (which led to rules like 'you must reboot your business computer every day'), but their policy is to keep all desktops standardized among the many J&J companies. (All our business PCs are IBM, which also says something about our conservative IT policies.)
They rolled out Windows 2000, during 2002 and 2003, with a lot of thought, using its administration features for IT to gain much more control over individuals' machines--Administrator access to one's own PC is now a rare privilege. At least our desktop computers are less wonky now.
There's no way the company will "upgrade" to XP; probably we will migrate to Windows 2005 in 2008 or so, if there is some compelling reason to do so.
Well, according to SCO, the 2.2 kernel series is non-violating. So if anyone is paranoid enough to switch to a SCO-approved distribution, all they need to do is backtrack a bit. Of course, if enough folks did that, SCO would manage to "find" new evidence that they also own 2.2, 2.0, 1.2, etc. etc. . . .
Nah. The livers were exposed for "only a few minutes." Laser surgery is a very slow way to treat large volumes of tissue, so probably a small fraction of the mouses' livers were cooked. You can lose a lot of liver tissue (like a whole lobe) and live indefinitely, assuming that your liver is functioning normally and that you didn't lose much blood when the liver tissue was removed.
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Others are currently investigating this--try googling "ultrasound thrombolysis." Ultrasound can, under some conditions, help to break up clots, especially in combination with drugs like rt-PA. This is being applied to stroke treatment as well as deep venous thrombosis therapy.
Added to the Newsforge story is a new item suggesting that the Slashdot story is wrong:
Updated - CIO requests clarifications
Pete Collins, CIO of the City of Office, contacted NewsForge today after being beseiged with calls about this story. He wanted to clarify two inaccuracies in the story: that the pilots are complete and that 80% of the city's desktops can be migrated to OpenOffice.org.
Collins says that the installation of OpenOffice.org on some 300 seats in his department (Communications Technology Management) does not mark the end of the pilot phase and the beginning of a migration. He told us "What's going on is that we've almost completed the first phase of our pilot. We will be looking at the information we've gathered over the months in different uses of Linux within the city."
He added "I've been using OpenOffice on my desktop for a couple of months, and it has worked quite well." He also said that another assessment would be done at the end of the second phase.
Collins stressed to us that "The intent is not to replace the entire city with OpenOffice at this moment in time." His major concern is that our story was misleading the public into thinking "the results are totally in, because they are not."
Johnson and Johnson, the huge medical/health conglomerate, had all of its employees running Windows 95 on their desktops until last year. It was a painful thing for us, living with that OS' instability (which led to rules like 'you must reboot your business computer every day'), but their policy is to keep all desktops standardized among the many J&J companies. (All our business PCs are IBM, which also says something about our conservative IT policies.)
They rolled out Windows 2000, during 2002 and 2003, with a lot of thought, using its administration features for IT to gain much more control over individuals' machines--Administrator access to one's own PC is now a rare privilege. At least our desktop computers are less wonky now.
There's no way the company will "upgrade" to XP; probably we will migrate to Windows 2005 in 2008 or so, if there is some compelling reason to do so.
Well, according to SCO, the 2.2 kernel series is non-violating. So if anyone is paranoid enough to switch to a SCO-approved distribution, all they need to do is backtrack a bit. Of course, if enough folks did that, SCO would manage to "find" new evidence that they also own 2.2, 2.0, 1.2, etc. etc. . . .
Nah. The livers were exposed for "only a few minutes." Laser surgery is a very slow way to treat large volumes of tissue, so probably a small fraction of the mouses' livers were cooked. You can lose a lot of liver tissue (like a whole lobe) and live indefinitely, assuming that your liver is functioning normally and that you didn't lose much blood when the liver tissue was removed.