If you know you are going to miss the last 3-4 minutes of a show, you might be less likely to TIVO it.
1. Add minutes to end of shows 2. Decrease TIVO usage 3. More viewers see more commericals 4. Profit.
It makes perfect sense.
The other thing that people forget is that TBS has been doing this for a while. If you are "kept" at one channel for 5 minutes longer, you are going to miss the beginnings of the "hooker" beginner part of shows on other channels.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of C-reactive protein (CRP) elevation compared to erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), leucocyte count and thrombocyte count in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE). It was designed as a prospective study of suspected episodes of IE in adults in tertiary care at a university-affiliated department of infectious diseases. In 89 episodes of IE, CRP was available from the start of treatment. Median age was 66 years, 45 were men and 44 women. Median CRP concentration was found to be 90 (range 0-357) mg/l with only 4% normal values. Episodes involving native valves had higher CRP than episodes occurring with prosthetic valves. Staphylococcal origin, short duration of symptoms, short duration of fever and highest recorded temperature all correlated to higher CRP levels. The CRP response was also prominent among patients > 70 years old. Among non-responders, a few cases with simultaneous cirrhosis were noted. ESR was less sensitive than CRP, with a normal level in 28% of the episodes. It was concluded that CRP determination is superior to erythrocyte sedimentation rate, leucocyte count and thrombocyte count in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
Those are very kind words... and I appreciate them greatly.
One of the reasons I stay in a teaching hospital is so I will not be pressured by the marketplace to see X number of patients per day.
Sometimes I see 4 in a morning... sometimes I see only one or two patients. I am in a unique position.
By the average person allowing HMOs, insurance, and the government to try to control medical costs... the system is now completely broken. Fossils like me hide out in teaching colleges where, for now, we have some insulation from the marketplace.
You describe a major problem in medicine today... I call it the "acute care" syndrome.
People get sick (usually with a viral illness), they go to the doctor and want a quick fix. The doctor is given two choices...
1. "It's a virus." No antibotic and educate the patient as much as possible. 2. "It's an 'infection'" and get the patient out with an antibotic.
So if doctors do the right thing and do #1, then the patients are unhappy. Doctors get tired of fighting for no reason and get bitter. This happens everyday in every "acute care" center in the US.
Now think of this in relation other common diseases that doctors can't fix. They can either prescribe different medications or they can try to educate the patient.
The only time education is appreciated and believed is when it comes from a physician that you know and trust. But who has a doctor (dentist, lawyer, mechanic, etc.) that they personally know anymore?
Pat doesn't need _another_ doctor. He has had multiple physicians already see him, order labs, radiographis and do H&Ps. He says he visited Mayo. He says he has seen an internal medicine (and maybe an infectious disease) physician. He needs to figure out which of those physicians he trusts... and stick with one.
If I were to see him and if I were to decide that he didn't have some horrible medical illness... would he believe me?
I would likely be included as one of those damn, nonbelieving doctors in his next posted update. Neither he nor I would gain anything from that.
Look, I can appreciate how important this guy is. I respect all of his accomplishments and the things that he has done to help the linux movement. When his story was first posted on slashdot, several of the hospital network gurus came up to me and asked me about it in our CIS meeting.
I assumed that this was posted (like everything else) on slashdot to generate discussion and comments. I did so. If you don't like my opinion, you can set me as your foe and choose to ignore my future posts.
If you were to reread my post, I wasn't giving advice. I was just giving my opinion of his situation.
I'm a doctor at a teaching hospital so we see wierd stuff all the time. I'll give you my sideline quarterbacking of the situation.
First, you have a patient who is trying to diagnosis and treat his own condition. A good analogy would be a newbie blindly editing his/her registry. I know its the "hacker" way, but hacking your own body can be dangerous. It's difficult to reboot or reformat the body as a system.
Second, you can't have pulmonary "pops." If you pop a bleb, you develop a pneumothorax... and you are sick as poo. This can be seen on a chest X-ray and typically would need a chest tube to prevent respiratory failure.
He talks about going to Mayo... and multiple ERs. Doctor-shopping raises multiple red-flags.
His sedimentation rate (ESR) is normal. It is very, very difficult to have an infection or inflammatory process with a normal sed rate.
Obviously, I have not examined this guy. He might have a new disease that completely goes against science as we know it. But people come to us for rare medical problems all the time... we love it. When we find something rare, we jump around giving each other high-5s. We spend tons of research and government money trying to figure out these rare case. However...
Induction of hibernation has a much more practical purpose here on earth -- organ transplant.
If we could force an ex-planted organ into hibernation, then we wouldn't have to rush around trying to get organs into people within 6-12 hrs (it is different for each organ type).
Hiberation may also inhibit the reperfusion injury that often complicates transplant as well.
That's just the obvious use of medical hiberation. We already know that somebody can not be declared dead until they are "cold and dead." This is because the many cases of people appearing to be brain dead --especially children-- who have a complete recovery after warming. (So if you are going to drown, please do so in a very cold lake.)
Imagine the day when people who are dying at home get placed into hiberation until they can be brought to the hospital and worked up. Instead of blindly trying treatments in the field, one could slow down the dying process until a cause of injury is found.
It has always amazed me that so many animals hiberate, but we can figure out how to translate that into humans.
At tech-recipes.com we have customized a version of php-nuke. Like most large systems like this, we have found a ton of security problems and navigation issues.
On of the very first things we did was to redirect those horrible navigation urls. That alone was key in allowing to google spider the site better. (Redirection doubled our google traffic... so get rid of those horrible argument-based urls!)
php-nuke, post-nuke, and similiar systems will get a lot of bad rap here. I never understand that. They are open source, they are free. Is it piece-meal? Of course, what large software packages are not? I don't know how anybody can knock a project that obviously thousands of people have put volunteered huge amounts of hours...
Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Are there large gaping security holes? Certainly. Put these problems are found and fixed very quickly... (I hope.)
Sorry for being a php-nuke fan-boy or whatever the current derogatory term is... I just find the need to defend something that has saved us so much in time and money.
Microsoft last year granted AOL a seven-year royalty-free license to use IE technology in its products. The license was one of many concessions that Microsoft offered AOL as part of a $750 million settlement in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Netscape in January 2002.
However, one source familiar with the new software said the Microsoft settlement and IE license did not play a factor in AOL's decision to develop its own browser.
Yeah, right...
Evil A + Evil B = More evil!
They are scared of google. If you can find your email and web searches easily, why do you need AOL's portal? You don't.
Google is going to release a browser that is just AOL for free. Pretty content filling the screen all over the place making the daily news, email, messaging free and easy for everybody.
AOL and microsoft-- they both know this. This is their answer.
Actually doesn't all windows software designers other than microsoft lose money on this deal?
At the same time, piracy is also fairly extensive in Russia. A study released by the Business Software Alliance and IDC in July said 97 percent of the software in Russia is pirated, a figure bested only by China, Vietnam, Ukraine and Indonesia. Critics, however, often assert that BSA figures tend to be on the high side.
If you are supplying a cheap OS to a large market who are known pirates... Will programmers for that OS not expect more pirating of their software?
The sad thing about this is Microsoft's goals. If it were to make money from their support services (the red hat model), I could tolerate it. However, this is just to get people "used" to their software. Flood the market with cheap goods and run the rest of the competition out of town.
These cards are being produced at this price and this speed for one reason -- they run doom 3 at an appropriate speed.
They are cheaper because they are not the fastest possible thing on the market; however, they make it where you can run doom iii with all the bells and whistles enabled at a decent resolution.
They are attacking the mid to high gamer market.
Brillant marketing move... if Doom 3 becomes the next standard.
If something else is the next standard and these cards don't run up to par with that game, then this line will circle downward very quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
I am much of an anti-Microsoft person as anybody...
:)
But, guys... this is a release candidate. It designed to test out in your test environment... Even the evil overlords say:
We advise against installing and evaluating beta software on any production computers.
When they don't fix the problems we find before they release the final version... that's when we should start the griping.
Thosed that are divided with be conquered?
...will be conquered?
Sorry, coffee is not kicking in yet.
Thosed that are divided with be conquered?
They should play pretty until they knock off more of the Microsoft market.
Dumb!
Sorry... obviously I mean...
:)
Latitude and Longitude
I hope I know programming better than geography.
The XML requires latitude and altitude...
Does anybody know a way to translate that for common locations?
+1 insightful
Because A happened after B doesn't mean that B caused A.
I don't know why...
They only do great things!
If you know you are going to miss the last 3-4 minutes of a show, you might be less likely to TIVO it.
1. Add minutes to end of shows
2. Decrease TIVO usage
3. More viewers see more commericals
4. Profit.
It makes perfect sense.
The other thing that people forget is that TBS has been doing this for a while. If you are "kept" at one channel for 5 minutes longer, you are going to miss the beginnings of the "hooker" beginner part of shows on other channels.
Quote: "One can have that without elevated ESR."
:)
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I completely agree... thanks for clearing that up. I'll even support your clarification for you.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?c
The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of C-reactive protein (CRP) elevation compared to erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), leucocyte count and thrombocyte count in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE). It was designed as a prospective study of suspected episodes of IE in adults in tertiary care at a university-affiliated department of infectious diseases. In 89 episodes of IE, CRP was available from the start of treatment. Median age was 66 years, 45 were men and 44 women. Median CRP concentration was found to be 90 (range 0-357) mg/l with only 4% normal values. Episodes involving native valves had higher CRP than episodes occurring with prosthetic valves. Staphylococcal origin, short duration of symptoms, short duration of fever and highest recorded temperature all correlated to higher CRP levels. The CRP response was also prominent among patients > 70 years old. Among non-responders, a few cases with simultaneous cirrhosis were noted. ESR was less sensitive than CRP, with a normal level in 28% of the episodes. It was concluded that CRP determination is superior to erythrocyte sedimentation rate, leucocyte count and thrombocyte count in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.
Those are very kind words... and I appreciate them greatly.
One of the reasons I stay in a teaching hospital is so I will not be pressured by the marketplace to see X number of patients per day.
Sometimes I see 4 in a morning... sometimes I see only one or two patients. I am in a unique position.
By the average person allowing HMOs, insurance, and the government to try to control medical costs... the system is now completely broken. Fossils like me hide out in teaching colleges where, for now, we have some insulation from the marketplace.
You describe a major problem in medicine today... I call it the "acute care" syndrome.
People get sick (usually with a viral illness), they go to the doctor and want a quick fix. The doctor is given two choices...
1. "It's a virus." No antibotic and educate the patient as much as possible.
2. "It's an 'infection'" and get the patient out with an antibotic.
So if doctors do the right thing and do #1, then the patients are unhappy. Doctors get tired of fighting for no reason and get bitter. This happens everyday in every "acute care" center in the US.
Now think of this in relation other common diseases that doctors can't fix. They can either prescribe different medications or they can try to educate the patient.
The only time education is appreciated and believed is when it comes from a physician that you know and trust. But who has a doctor (dentist, lawyer, mechanic, etc.) that they personally know anymore?
Yeah, it's sad for us too...
Pat doesn't need _another_ doctor. He has had multiple physicians already see him, order labs, radiographis and do H&Ps. He says he visited Mayo. He says he has seen an internal medicine (and maybe an infectious disease) physician. He needs to figure out which of those physicians he trusts... and stick with one.
If I were to see him and if I were to decide that he didn't have some horrible medical illness... would he believe me?
I would likely be included as one of those damn, nonbelieving doctors in his next posted update. Neither he nor I would gain anything from that.
Look, I can appreciate how important this guy is. I respect all of his accomplishments and the things that he has done to help the linux movement. When his story was first posted on slashdot, several of the hospital network gurus came up to me and asked me about it in our CIS meeting.
I assumed that this was posted (like everything else) on slashdot to generate discussion and comments. I did so. If you don't like my opinion, you can set me as your foe and choose to ignore my future posts.
If you were to reread my post, I wasn't giving advice. I was just giving my opinion of his situation.
Okay, I send my best wishes... but I am worried.
I'm a doctor at a teaching hospital so we see wierd stuff all the time. I'll give you my sideline quarterbacking of the situation.
First, you have a patient who is trying to diagnosis and treat his own condition. A good analogy would be a newbie blindly editing his/her registry. I know its the "hacker" way, but hacking your own body can be dangerous. It's difficult to reboot or reformat the body as a system.
Second, you can't have pulmonary "pops." If you pop a bleb, you develop a pneumothorax... and you are sick as poo. This can be seen on a chest X-ray and typically would need a chest tube to prevent respiratory failure.
He talks about going to Mayo... and multiple ERs. Doctor-shopping raises multiple red-flags.
His sedimentation rate (ESR) is normal. It is very, very difficult to have an infection or inflammatory process with a normal sed rate.
Obviously, I have not examined this guy. He might have a new disease that completely goes against science as we know it. But people come to us for rare medical problems all the time... we love it. When we find something rare, we jump around giving each other high-5s. We spend tons of research and government money trying to figure out these rare case. However...
I'm just not buying in this case.
Not clear what they are monitoring?
What am I missing? Couldn't somebody just install the program and sniff the information out of the packets?
Gesh, this is slashdot...
Gesh... I need coffee...
Edit:
Look at how they think and your google traffic will increase.
While waiting for the update to their image search, everybody should optimize their web pages... google-style.
s -i ndex-nearly-doubles.html
For those of you that don't believe that having keywords in your URLS... just use google's own story, for example.
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/11/google
"Google Index Nearly Doubles" is in the url and the first header. Look at how they do thinks... and your google traffic will increase.
sorry...
Corrections...
- Can not be declared dead until they are "warm and dead."
- It has always amazed me that so many animals hiberate, but we can not figure out how to translate that into humans.
Trying to watch Ole Miss vs Auburn, UNC vs Miami, and type on slashdot all at one time.
Induction of hibernation has a much more practical purpose here on earth -- organ transplant.
If we could force an ex-planted organ into hibernation, then we wouldn't have to rush around trying to get organs into people within 6-12 hrs (it is different for each organ type).
Hiberation may also inhibit the reperfusion injury that often complicates transplant as well.
That's just the obvious use of medical hiberation. We already know that somebody can not be declared dead until they are "cold and dead." This is because the many cases of people appearing to be brain dead --especially children-- who have a complete recovery after warming. (So if you are going to drown, please do so in a very cold lake.)
Imagine the day when people who are dying at home get placed into hiberation until they can be brought to the hospital and worked up. Instead of blindly trying treatments in the field, one could slow down the dying process until a cause of injury is found.
It has always amazed me that so many animals hiberate, but we can figure out how to translate that into humans.
At tech-recipes.com we have customized a version of php-nuke. Like most large systems like this, we have found a ton of security problems and navigation issues.
On of the very first things we did was to redirect those horrible navigation urls. That alone was key in allowing to google spider the site better. (Redirection doubled our google traffic... so get rid of those horrible argument-based urls!)
php-nuke, post-nuke, and similiar systems will get a lot of bad rap here. I never understand that. They are open source, they are free. Is it piece-meal? Of course, what large software packages are not? I don't know how anybody can knock a project that obviously thousands of people have put volunteered huge amounts of hours...
Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Are there large gaping security holes? Certainly. Put these problems are found and fixed very quickly... (I hope.)
Sorry for being a php-nuke fan-boy or whatever the current derogatory term is... I just find the need to defend something that has saved us so much in time and money.
I'm wondering when Michael's post will show up on slashdot.
:)
10/19/04 7:26 eastern time?
Microsoft last year granted AOL a seven-year royalty-free license to use IE technology in its products. The license was one of many concessions that Microsoft offered AOL as part of a $750 million settlement in an antitrust lawsuit filed by Netscape in January 2002.
However, one source familiar with the new software said the Microsoft settlement and IE license did not play a factor in AOL's decision to develop its own browser.
Yeah, right...
Evil A + Evil B = More evil!
They are scared of google. If you can find your email and web searches easily, why do you need AOL's portal? You don't.
Google is going to release a browser that is just AOL for free. Pretty content filling the screen all over the place making the daily news, email, messaging free and easy for everybody.
AOL and microsoft-- they both know this. This is their answer.
God help us all.
WOohoo... Microsoft cometh... ... and bringth the spam.
If wiki's were not getting polluted enough, here comes microsoft into the mix.
Actually doesn't all windows software designers other than microsoft lose money on this deal?
At the same time, piracy is also fairly extensive in Russia. A study released by the Business Software Alliance and IDC in July said 97 percent of the software in Russia is pirated, a figure bested only by China, Vietnam, Ukraine and Indonesia. Critics, however, often assert that BSA figures tend to be on the high side.
If you are supplying a cheap OS to a large market who are known pirates... Will programmers for that OS not expect more pirating of their software?
The sad thing about this is Microsoft's goals. If it were to make money from their support services (the red hat model), I could tolerate it. However, this is just to get people "used" to their software. Flood the market with cheap goods and run the rest of the competition out of town.
Sad.
These cards are being produced at this price and this speed for one reason -- they run doom 3 at an appropriate speed.
They are cheaper because they are not the fastest possible thing on the market; however, they make it where you can run doom iii with all the bells and whistles enabled at a decent resolution.
They are attacking the mid to high gamer market.
Brillant marketing move... if Doom 3 becomes the next standard.
If something else is the next standard and these cards don't run up to par with that game, then this line will circle downward very quickly.