So, would SCO fall under "illness" or "preexisting condition" in this context? I'm looking forward to not having techical decisions obstructed by a noisemaker with no facts.
The company I work for got "the letter" from SCO, and we have now had a second linux-based project shot down due to SCO's FUD working. This is frustrating, to say the least, when the appropriate technical situation is being held hostage by SCO.
If we could buy insurance against the near-zero chance that SCO could be successful, we might be able to get these projects going in the direction that makes technical sense, and stop worrying about (insert rant about McBride and company here).
I think you'd have a hard time convincing anyone (the FDA included) that ionizing radiation to indirectly measure blood pressure is somehow better, cheaper, safer, or more reliable than pumping a cuff up around someone's arm and measuring it directly.
Sure, we can measure flow non-invasively, MRI is excellent for this (lay down a saturation pulse, wait (n) milliseconds, take an image & see where the pulse in the blood has moved to). That's fine for how fast it's moving, and where it's moving to, but still doesn't give pressure.
I'm not sure that an xray would be able to see any difference between a blood pressure of 120 systolic and 150 systolic - that peak pressure is only there for a dozen milliseconds or so; synchronization would be a problem, even if you could trigger the system fast enough I'm not sure that there's enough - or indeed, any - radiological differentiation between a blood vessel at 120mm of Hg vs. 150mm of Hg.
In other words, might work, but it's a lot of screwing around compared to inflating a cuff around someone's arm.
Temperature and heart rate should be easy - infrared pyrometers are used in industry to measure, with accuracy, the temperature of a surface, no reason it shouldn't work to point it at a person & get a number. Heart rate - several optical ways, no problem, or a directional microphone and appropraite sound processing - again, nothing too complicated.
Blood pressure, though...since BP is measured by finding the two points where (1) the pressure in the cuff blocks all flow, and (2) the pressure in the cuff blocks no flow, I can't see an easy way to get that without actually blocking and unblocking said flow.
Non-inavsive blood pressure systems work by "listening" to the pulse with a pressure transducer & working some fairly mundane math to get the numbers, but I just can't see a way to find out how much pressure it takes to occlude a blood vessel without...occluding that blood vessel.
...the difference between the "turbo" and the "standard" engine is a software patch and $20 in parts.
Gee, and here I thought it would be the presense of a _turbocharger_. Second post already that thinks a turbo is a piece of software rather than hardware. I don't know of anyone marketing a car as being turbocharged who isn't using a physical device called a turbocharger.
I used to work for GE Medical Systems, and there was a similar case there. There is (or was?) a company out there doing third-party servicing of CAT and MRI scanners, place called "R-Squared". They took GE to court saying that we should share with them our service tools, because by not doing so it was unfairly excluding them from competing with us.
Ended up having to make it possible for the competition to get our service tools, but I don't remember that we were required to make them available cheaply or quickly. Not sure how things are there today; knowing GE they probably would solve the problem by buying out the competitor.
This really isn't much different than open-source vs closed-source though, is it...if the person selling it wants to lock you out of the internals, well, your choices include not buying from them.
Linux Journal: With the end of the road for Intel's 80XXX series chips in sight (although at least a few years away), what chip or hardware platform would you like to see Linux ported to?
I didn't see this as him saying we wouldn't be on Intel, I read it as "80386 and 80486". He was already talking about the Pentium supplanting the 486 in the rest of the article.
Er, yeah, OK, like I said, glad you enjoy it and all that. Oh, and if you don't know the difference between using a tool, and abusing a tool, well, let's just say I won't be lending you any tools.
I've used someone else's Leatherman before, it was an actual Leatherman, the regular Super Tool. The screwdrivers were nowhere near as strong,
Apparently we have seen different tools.
and were twisted or dinged up around the edges. He also cut himself pretty badly right when he was trying to get a screwdriver out, too.
I'm trying to understand this, I really am. I just did this on a coworker's super-leatherman, and can't imagine how one could do such a thing. I mean, it's a knife, right, but unless you're doing this behind your head or something, keeping your fingers off the sharp bits isn't complicated.
I have seen other genuine Leathermans with pliers tips and screwdrivers simply broken off.
Any brand of tool will break if abused.
Anyway, I'm glad you're happy with your Gerber and all that, but blaming the tool because some friend abuses his and because he cuts his finger on the sharp parts is kind of silly. The bits are anything but flimsy, and the only thing even vaguely worn on mine are the file and knife's edge (which I leave dull intentionally).
Leatherman? Bah. They try to fit too much into it, and all the tools end up being too flimsy.
I've been carrying a Leatherman for about 10 years now, and I can't see any possible way that anyone who as used an actual Leatherman would characterize it as "flimsy".
The Philips driver isn't a flat silver but is a true Philips cross-point driver. I'm not sure what you looked at but sounds like it was an imitation. Your comment about the knives folding out and cutting you if you aren't paying attention also implies that what you inspected was someone's low cost interpretation of a multitool, not an actual Leatherman.
We just got E-Pubs and with it pages of documentation on how to burn a CD using WinXP. If they went to Linux we'd have major problems.
The clueless users having problems with the application layer are so far separated from the OS as to make it completely irrelevant to them. By giving them a system that they can't accidentally screw up (they're users, not administrators, right?) by downloading the virus-of-the-week or installing the spyware of the day, you reduce their opportunities to screw up the system.
My data is way more important than squeezing a bit extra out of an 80 dollar drive. Interesting idea and all that, but this isn't like in the old days of the "punch a new hole to make your 5-1/4 inch floppy double sided", where if you screw up, you lose only a disk worth of data - with this, if you screw up, you lose a _disk worth_ of data.
If I need more space, I'll buy a bigger drive, they keep getting cheaper and faster and bigger all the time anyway.
How come both this post and this last one end in a snooty remark about switching to DirecTV?
Probably because/. posters tend to be fairly vocal, and fairly opinionated. I'm both. I'm also a directtv subscriber and a tivo owner, and wouldn't even *consider* a lesser unit than a tivo for my PVR.
This seems like a great opportunity to tell the people playing bullshit little games with packages and pulling channels that you don't want to help them play their little game. For whatever reason that I don't care about, DirectTV isn't messed up in this regard and their service doesn't suck. In fact, I called their helpdesk last week, and it was probably the most helpful helpdesk I've talked to in years. Their offerings are reasonable, their price is reasonable, and they're not playing bullshit little games with their lineup over some disagreement with whomever.
Feel free to call me a shill if you'd like but a shill generally doesn't have a posting history going back as far as mine, I would think.
Some of these "mad" people probably aren't mad at all.. they're just rather odd but that oddity gives can give them brilliant insight!
That, is brilliantly insightful.
Look at musicians. The most brilliant of them have always had a few screws loose - many if not most of the classical composers, the whole dead 60's rocker collection (Janis, Jimi, Jim, etc etc etc), lots of these folks were just plain strange. I don't know, though, that one causes the other (odd vs. talent), or if it just happens that these particular wierdos became successful and known, rather than the equally strange guy on the streetcorner who doesn't have the talent, and is never noticed or known.
There does seem, however, to be a higher than normal percentage of whack-jobs amongst talented artists. But, we're veering way off the topic of electrostimulation of the brain, so I'll ramble about this some other time or place, or - oh look, shiny thing.
ev1servers doesn't own or otherwise partner with Rackspace, do they? I've got a couple of servers at Rackspace and would hate to know that some of my money was going to SCO.
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So, would SCO fall under "illness" or "preexisting condition" in this context? I'm looking forward to not having techical decisions obstructed by a noisemaker with no facts.
The company I work for got "the letter" from SCO, and we have now had a second linux-based project shot down due to SCO's FUD working. This is frustrating, to say the least, when the appropriate technical situation is being held hostage by SCO.
If we could buy insurance against the near-zero chance that SCO could be successful, we might be able to get these projects going in the direction that makes technical sense, and stop worrying about (insert rant about McBride and company here).
I think you'd have a hard time convincing anyone (the FDA included) that ionizing radiation to indirectly measure blood pressure is somehow better, cheaper, safer, or more reliable than pumping a cuff up around someone's arm and measuring it directly.
Sure, we can measure flow non-invasively, MRI is excellent for this (lay down a saturation pulse, wait (n) milliseconds, take an image & see where the pulse in the blood has moved to). That's fine for how fast it's moving, and where it's moving to, but still doesn't give pressure.
I'm not sure that an xray would be able to see any difference between a blood pressure of 120 systolic and 150 systolic - that peak pressure is only there for a dozen milliseconds or so; synchronization would be a problem, even if you could trigger the system fast enough I'm not sure that there's enough - or indeed, any - radiological differentiation between a blood vessel at 120mm of Hg vs. 150mm of Hg.
In other words, might work, but it's a lot of screwing around compared to inflating a cuff around someone's arm.
The point was "non-contact", not merely "non-invasive".
If you weren't an AC I'd spend time on your other points.
Temperature and heart rate should be easy - infrared pyrometers are used in industry to measure, with accuracy, the temperature of a surface, no reason it shouldn't work to point it at a person & get a number. Heart rate - several optical ways, no problem, or a directional microphone and appropraite sound processing - again, nothing too complicated.
Blood pressure, though...since BP is measured by finding the two points where (1) the pressure in the cuff blocks all flow, and (2) the pressure in the cuff blocks no flow, I can't see an easy way to get that without actually blocking and unblocking said flow.
Non-inavsive blood pressure systems work by "listening" to the pulse with a pressure transducer & working some fairly mundane math to get the numbers, but I just can't see a way to find out how much pressure it takes to occlude a blood vessel without...occluding that blood vessel.
...the difference between the "turbo" and the "standard" engine is a software patch and $20 in parts.
Gee, and here I thought it would be the presense of a _turbocharger_. Second post already that thinks a turbo is a piece of software rather than hardware. I don't know of anyone marketing a car as being turbocharged who isn't using a physical device called a turbocharger.
I used to work for GE Medical Systems, and there was a similar case there. There is (or was?) a company out there doing third-party servicing of CAT and MRI scanners, place called "R-Squared". They took GE to court saying that we should share with them our service tools, because by not doing so it was unfairly excluding them from competing with us.
Ended up having to make it possible for the competition to get our service tools, but I don't remember that we were required to make them available cheaply or quickly. Not sure how things are there today; knowing GE they probably would solve the problem by buying out the competitor.
This really isn't much different than open-source vs closed-source though, is it...if the person selling it wants to lock you out of the internals, well, your choices include not buying from them.
Linux Journal: With the end of the road for Intel's 80XXX series chips in sight (although at least a few years away), what chip or hardware platform would you like to see Linux ported to?
I didn't see this as him saying we wouldn't be on Intel, I read it as "80386 and 80486". He was already talking about the Pentium supplanting the 486 in the rest of the article.
Er, yeah, OK, like I said, glad you enjoy it and all that. Oh, and if you don't know the difference between using a tool, and abusing a tool, well, let's just say I won't be lending you any tools.
I've used someone else's Leatherman before, it was an actual Leatherman, the regular Super Tool. The screwdrivers were nowhere near as strong,
Apparently we have seen different tools.
and were twisted or dinged up around the edges. He also cut himself pretty badly right when he was trying to get a screwdriver out, too.
I'm trying to understand this, I really am. I just did this on a coworker's super-leatherman, and can't imagine how one could do such a thing. I mean, it's a knife, right, but unless you're doing this behind your head or something, keeping your fingers off the sharp bits isn't complicated.
I have seen other genuine Leathermans with pliers tips and screwdrivers simply broken off.
Any brand of tool will break if abused.
Anyway, I'm glad you're happy with your Gerber and all that, but blaming the tool because some friend abuses his and because he cuts his finger on the sharp parts is kind of silly. The bits are anything but flimsy, and the only thing even vaguely worn on mine are the file and knife's edge (which I leave dull intentionally).
Leatherman? Bah. They try to fit too much into it, and all the tools end up being too flimsy.
I've been carrying a Leatherman for about 10 years now, and I can't see any possible way that anyone who as used an actual Leatherman would characterize it as "flimsy".
The Philips driver isn't a flat silver but is a true Philips cross-point driver. I'm not sure what you looked at but sounds like it was an imitation. Your comment about the knives folding out and cutting you if you aren't paying attention also implies that what you inspected was someone's low cost interpretation of a multitool, not an actual Leatherman.
When you absolutely, positively, have to stick it to Microsoft.
You, sir, are a genius. (tip of the hat).
We just got E-Pubs and with it pages of documentation on how to burn a CD using WinXP. If they went to Linux we'd have major problems.
The clueless users having problems with the application layer are so far separated from the OS as to make it completely irrelevant to them. By giving them a system that they can't accidentally screw up (they're users, not administrators, right?) by downloading the virus-of-the-week or installing the spyware of the day, you reduce their opportunities to screw up the system.
True, but I read his comment as "does run" rather than "can run". I can see how it could be read either way.
oh wait, Mac runs Linux. OK! fine with me.
Er, for values of the word "Linux" which equal "FreeBSD". Not the same thing, but if you can talk to one, you can talk to the other.
My data is way more important than squeezing a bit extra out of an 80 dollar drive. Interesting idea and all that, but this isn't like in the old days of the "punch a new hole to make your 5-1/4 inch floppy double sided", where if you screw up, you lose only a disk worth of data - with this, if you screw up, you lose a _disk worth_ of data.
If I need more space, I'll buy a bigger drive, they keep getting cheaper and faster and bigger all the time anyway.
How come both this post and this last one end in a snooty remark about switching to DirecTV?
/. posters tend to be fairly vocal, and fairly opinionated. I'm both. I'm also a directtv subscriber and a tivo owner, and wouldn't even *consider* a lesser unit than a tivo for my PVR.
This seems like a great opportunity to tell the people playing bullshit little games with packages and pulling channels that you don't want to help them play their little game. For whatever reason that I don't care about, DirectTV isn't messed up in this regard and their service doesn't suck. In fact, I called their helpdesk last week, and it was probably the most helpful helpdesk I've talked to in years. Their offerings are reasonable, their price is reasonable, and they're not playing bullshit little games with their lineup over some disagreement with whomever.
Probably because
Feel free to call me a shill if you'd like but a shill generally doesn't have a posting history going back as far as mine, I would think.
Some of these "mad" people probably aren't mad at all.. they're just rather odd but that oddity gives can give them brilliant insight!
That, is brilliantly insightful.
Look at musicians. The most brilliant of them have always had a few screws loose - many if not most of the classical composers, the whole dead 60's rocker collection (Janis, Jimi, Jim, etc etc etc), lots of these folks were just plain strange. I don't know, though, that one causes the other (odd vs. talent), or if it just happens that these particular wierdos became successful and known, rather than the equally strange guy on the streetcorner who doesn't have the talent, and is never noticed or known.
There does seem, however, to be a higher than normal percentage of whack-jobs amongst talented artists. But, we're veering way off the topic of electrostimulation of the brain, so I'll ramble about this some other time or place, or - oh look, shiny thing.
if your paranoid enough
See, that's where you're making a mistake - misspeelings in a resume are always a reason to immediately bin them.
What's a href and why are you yelling?
Besides, that should be an href.
They could do with some _diagrams_ on the webpage, it's about as vague as I've ever seen.
I've been demonstrating this stchick coin toss hoax for years. I would flip a coin and make it land heads 100 times in a row.
Wow, I bet you're a blast at parties with that one...
Gee, that's a nice data center full of penguins you got dere. It'd be a shame if anything would, y'know, happen to it.
ev1servers doesn't own or otherwise partner with Rackspace, do they? I've got a couple of servers at Rackspace and would hate to know that some of my money was going to SCO.
A clarification - I just checked out the gentoo page, and they talk about support for Sun Ultra, not SunSparc.
A Sparc5 is different than an Ultra5... I'm going to try it on one of the Ultra5's I have sitting around and see how it goes.
It will be nice to upgrade it from the RedHat 5.2 that it currently is running, all things considered.